#cozcat

Months after Effie comes back to District 12, months after the war ends and they're halfway to something resembling living again, Haymitch finally musters the courage to ask why she chose to come here when she could have gone anywhere she wanted. There's several ways she could answer that – she could say it was just for the kids (because Haymitch's girl and Effie's boy need someone to keep them from falling apart and Haymitch is barely equipped to keep himself in one piece most days), or because the Capitol doesn't feel like the home it once did so many years ago (in truth it hadn't since the first year she was involved with the Games), or simply because she didn't know where else to go (that's not entirely true, though, and she'd promised herself she would never lie to the only three people in the world she loves). So all she says instead is "I came back for you," and the way Haymitch's face softens in the way it only does for her and their kids tells her he feels for her exactly what she does for him.

2. Go to your AO3 "Works" page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for "Additional Tags." What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits? Well, my top five are: Family, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Pregnancy, Family Angst, Angst. Which, yeah, I'd say that represents my writing habits alarmingly accurately 😅.

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t any more? Hm, not particularly? I think all my trope likes have been pretty consistent since I really started reading/writing fic (we don't need to discuss how long ago that was, though).

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason? I've gotten some...very strange comments lol, but I think one of the ones that has most stood out is someone pointing out parallels I hadn't even intentionally written into my Sweeney Todd fic.

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write? Usually computer, but I'll jot down notes in the notes app in a pinch. I think I definitely write more...cohesively? on the computer and I absolutely have to edit on the computer.

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

"Angst" "Smut" "Oneshot" "Slow Burn"

Yeah that's... pretty accurate, actually.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

I would LOVE to talk about the character dynamics in 'ganz besonders' because it's one of the things I'm the proudest of—I approached that fic with the most canon approach I could and with the thought of "What, genuinely, would make these two characters even consider having a sexual relationship with each other" and I think the answer is in the fic—they are two desperately, wretchedly lonely people who are both obsessed and fascinated with Rebecca and how her absence shapes the story, and I think they initially (in the fic) approach each other that way. I really just wanted to think through why they'd get together because canonically, of course, they would never.

27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.

Sticking with 'ganz besonders' I wrote the first draft in a fevered haze over like... a week in February 2020. With 'ganz unerwartet'... yeah I'm still working on finishing it.

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

I prefer to write for longer sessions on my computer, though I'll jot down notes and scenes on my phone and have written longer scenes on there though it hurts my hands after a while. I also own a Freewrite Traveler though I mainly use that for professional writing (although occasionally fic too.)

I cant believe the two asks I got were both the same questions 😂 thank you for asking me things though!!

I’ll give you another for 12 - books that disappointed me: The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill. I really wanted to like this, but I just… didn’t. ALSO, Close Knit by Lærke Bagger. It looked like such a cool craft book, but it wasn’t at all cohesive or well-written. 

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

Ooh I actually have a few!

Once again my goal is set to 100 books - I think it fits in nicely with the other goals I have for my life, and when my schedule is running smoothly, two books a week is very achievable. I want to get back into my daily walk followed by book + tea + snack time, and if I do well at that, my goal should be easy to hit! I’d like to not frantically read eight books in the last few days of the year like I did in 2023. 

I want to actually make notes on every new book I read! I dont need to write a full review, but I’d like to do better at actually putting my thoughts into words, and making sure I actually save them. There are quite a few books on my 2023 list that I know I had thoughts on but I never went back to add them to my review because they werent complete yet, and then I forgot to ever do it and have lost any idea of how I felt! I definitely did better at it in 2023, but I want to set a definite goal of doing it for every new book. 

I want to give storygraph a fair chance, so I’m going to be using it alongside goodreads! I’m not importing in my shelves this time, since it went so badly the first time - I’m just going to add the books I read as I read them. The social aspect is one of the most important parts of goodreads to me, so I’ve been unsure about trying storygraph, but I do want to see what its like and see how I feel about the stats and such.