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bonus question: have you ever had a line from someone else’s fic resonate so deeply that you just can’t forget it? (—avatraang 💛💛💛)

Thank you for the ask! You are an angel coming in with all these ffwfs! 🙏

So, to be entirely self-indulgent, one of my favorite lines I've written comes at the end of chapter 16 in I'll Be Seeing You. To put it in into context, you know when little kids ask adults "how much?" and then the adult stretches their arms out wide and says "this much".... So (spoiler alert) when Toph asks Sokka how much he'll miss her, my favorite line is simply, "My arms don't stretch that far."

I suppose I was proud of finding a way for him to express how much he'll miss her without saying it outright. That chapter is one of the angstiest, but also one of my favorites as writing it felt like a bit of gut-punch, but oddly therapeutic for me.

Now, for the bonus question, I have to give a well-deserved shoutout to my friend @cats-and-metersticks, who by the way has never written a bad fanfic in her life. Seriously, all her work is phenomenal, and though I'm biased, I have to say I particularly enjoy her Tokka fics. She seriously nails the characterization, the dialogue, the pacing, the sentence structure. Just an exceptional writer all around, and I've learned a lot from her.

But anyway, I'll never forget the first time I read The Quest is a Metaphor and I literally gasped out loud when I got to this line (spoiler alert):

What tags do you filter while searching for new fic to read? Is there something that you absolutely won't read?

happy super late ffwf!!

Hello dear Starry! She Was Pretty came from a few places so I’ll try to list them here.  1. I was not particularly sympathetic or kind to Lavender in Iustitia & Prudentia which was my first fic. I think it fits, but I also wanted to imagine what she would look like to someone who loved her and give her a chance to have a happy ending.  2. She Was Pretty took its name from the 2015 K-drama. Again, plot-wise it doesn’t resemble the fic at all, but it’s partly about the main lead dealing with the idea that the person she was has not become the person she imagined she would. “She Was Pretty” is as much something people say to her as she says to herself. And I think it’s a very interesting process for someone to go through.  3. All my Drarry is set like, 5 - 10 years down the line. I have always been generally more interested in what happens to periphery characters right after the War because they are unlikely to be as caught up in the central workings. They are trying to live their lives in the aftermath. The writing process for SWP was pretty straightforward which is surprising for me! I wrote it start to finish in a few days and most of the edits were elaborating on certain passages with my betas’ guidance or tweaking words here or there. Usually I kind of let things languish for a while but this was two weeks and then out the door. My favourite passage is: 

Her mother offers her pity mostly, raw and cloying. But there is love there too. She clucks at her the second day Lavender is home after a month spent in hospital. “They didn’t braid your hair tight enough, Lavvy. Come here.” Mum sits Lavender at her vanity in the master bedroom, with its charmed lights and array of perfume oils. She spends time with detangling potions, fingertips and comb, brushing out the fairy knots that have formed at the crown of her head and the nape of her neck. Mum braids her hair, even though she has arthritis in her hands and has been sending her to Auntie Yasmin to have her hair done since she was eight. She seals the end of each braid with a charm.

Oh boi ✨

Well i just love Zuki. so much.

And there's very little on them despite the fact that their chemistry is outstanding. I fell in love with that pair while reading the comics, and while I don't wanna make Sokka sad by taking Suki from him, I get my kicks where I can. (in my AUs, that is to say).

Now, in Heave Ho it had to be that way, because I was writing from Sokka's POV.

Happy FFWF!

I think my favourite metaphor would be from my Celestial Irondad AU Of War And Starlight, where Peter struggles with the quiet because it reminds him of the time he was abandoned in wild space before Stark found him. Describing the way Stark used his voice to create war in general was heaps of fun in that part, but the finishing line of “Stark had perfected his voice into a weapon of war, but for his son, and only for his son, it became a shield.” was by far the line I was most proud of!

Thanks so much for the ask and I hope you have a great day!

Happy FFWF! My first multi-chapter fic broke 2,000 hits today, which is a big deal for this baby FFW. In celebration, here are the two scenes that I wrote the whole fic for:

Scene One:

Steve hauled himself upward, ignoring a new string of profanities from Tony, who moved quickly to brace Steve's shoulder and hold him upright. Steve ran his eyes quickly around the room. Luckily, HYDRA’s hideout was not up to code, because the overhead lighting was connected to a circuit breaker through cables of exposed wiring. Steve gestured toward the wall.

“How fast could you rig those up to electrocute me?”

“You did not just ask me that, Rogers, I swear to God –”

“Tony! How fast?”

“30 seconds.”

“Do it. Tony! Listen to me.” He clenched his jaw around a fresh wave of agony. “We just need enough of a current to fry the explosive without cooking my brain. The device could blow any second, and then I won’t be able to get you out.”

“Get me out?! Get yourself out, you bastard –” Tony tried to interject, but Steve kept talking over him determinedly.

“We’re both going to get out. You’re going to shock me, you’ll short out the chip, and then you’ll bring me back.”