#deihiru

Seeing my reflection do something that I’m not doing, or something that isn’t there when I look back, but is in the mirror, is the big spoopy thing that scares the absolute shit out of me. The classic spoop, if you will. 

Oh my okay. Awesome. Thank you! Whoo! Obviously this is all going to be She-Ra themed. Here we go:

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like).

I’m honored to say I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback on a lot of things I’m proud of - I’m picking this one in particular for technical reasons. It’s the following from Any Order You’d Like:

I had this (obnoxiously complicated, also obnoxiously quick) mental picture in my head and it was absolute HELL to figure out how to put it into words. Especially in a way that communicated the image while still, y’know, retaining the drama. I like to think I managed it.

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

I have no idea why is this one so hard why did I do this ask post. I like to write dialogue and I like to write hijinks and I like to write conflict, and I spend a lot of time on the internal lives of the characters I’m writing about. I think I’m funny? I hope my writing is accessible, even if I do somewhat abuse thesaurus.com, which happens to be the most important entry in my browser’s bookmarks bar. A fairly large contingent of my sentences are too long. I like italics.

To part 2 of this question: I have no idea and do in fact wish I knew.

10. How would you describe your writing process?

Methodical chaos.

11. What do you envy in other writers?

Speed. Concision. That weird ineffable thing some people can do where they put a perfectly normal set of words in a magic order that somehow has a perfectly calculated direct line to my gut. Those are just the repeat offenders, though; I’ve never met a writer who doesn’t have something to be jealous of (though I prefer to call it admiration).

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

So many. I am not going to mention every scrapped version of everything I’ve written, because it’s a lot. But here are what I consider the greatest hits (from the spop fics, because they’re really the only ones long and plotty enough to have alternatives):

Learning Curve had an early version wherein Geoda (whose purpose in the story is to flirt with Catra) was actively sinister and trying to seduce -  maybe even blackmail - Catra into leaving the Etherian party/Best Friends Squad. I scrapped it very very early because the essay that is hiding under that fic’s trenchcoat is much, MUCH better served by a perfectly normal young woman who saw a hot girl and wants to get into her pants. (Geoda is #relatable and I do hope she finds a nice date who doesn’t come with an irate 7ft tall magic warrior girlfriend. Maybe she and Ondine hook up. Yes, I did just start shipping my own fic extras. Is this how one acquires OCs?)

Any order you’d like for a long time had an ending wherein Glimmer conned the space pirates into giving the Best Friends Squad all the tech they needed, then the BFS went on their merry way and left the pirates adrift in space where no one could hear them scream. This did not feel in keeping with the spirit of the show, and inspired the bit at the end where Catra thinks about how she would have defeated the pirates vindictively vs how Glimmer instead turns them into a sideways kind of friends. There was also a bit I had to cut where the BFS got pulled over by space traffic cops for a broken taillight, which I may still use somewhere else because it cracks me up.

Catra is, in theory, She-Ra (in theory being that she’s touched the sword twice in the entire time she’s had it and roundly rejects the idea of being a hero or having a magical destiny).

deihiru replied to your post: every time i see the Canadian bagged milk...

Colombian here, not Canadian. But we place the bag in a container and leave it in the fridge.

1. things that inspire you

Ridiculous over the top extreme metal, movie sets and art with interesting settings, stories with interesting villains/anti-heroes/anti-villains who don’t do what you expect.

42. do you plan or do you write whatever comes to your mind?

I write whatever comes to my mind and it eventually congeals into some kind of plan.

44. do you write linear or do you write future scenes if you feel like it?

Almost always linear.

49. writing advice

Answered.

I haven't been able to find this one, but I wanted to know: Do Ange, Dorothy and Chise give Beato weird advice to take down the other girl?

Hi, could you please do one with Dorothy reaction/opinion to the AngexCharlotte interactions she's seen on the show?

“What do you think of A and Princess?” The words traveled through the books in L's low voice, the library's shelf providing a wall to hide him from Dorothy’s sight.

Furrowing her eyebrows, she stared at the titles before her as she composed her answer: “The princess being on our team has given Ange plenty of time to study her mannerisms, and she has successfully pretended to be her around other nobles more than once already. As for the princess herself, she has proven invaluable to some of our missions, and she works well with the others.”

“Princess has been with your team for a while now. Has A become attached to her?”