#grembospeak

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for a fic title? One fic per line, 'A' and 'The" do not count for 'a' and 't. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

I counted 499 published works on ao3, but some of those are snippets collections I now regret doing (meaning multiple fics/ficlets in one work) and there my be an accidental repeat or two. okay definitely at least one as i'm going through. also, at least one of those is hidden, so there's that. (not included on this list obviously)

i have so many options i tried to spread it out among fandoms, for fun. but sometimes i just chose a fic i liked better, i won't lie.

A - and i'm alone now (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

B - back again (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

C - cain's lament (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

D - dreams of falling (House MD)

E - emotionally compromised (Star Trek: AOS)

F - falling for you (oops) (Ted Lasso)

G - gunpoint (Now You See Me)

H - hypothetically, (The Dresden Files)

I - it's a flipping paradox (Miraculous Ladybug)

J - julian our (yes, our, as in collectively) boyfriend (Instinct)

K - killer kiss, indirect kiss (Sonic Movies)

L - live out his days (The Librarians: the Next Chapter)

M - minotaur (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

N - notes12674550.xlsx (Ted Lasso)

O - of rube goldbergs and weather machines (The Mysterious Benedict Society)

P - paid in full (Sanders Sides)

Q - questions (Watson)

R - roses & lilies (Instinct)

S - suffer the feathers for the song (Ted Lasso)

T - to be soft and small (Ted Lasso) (i was gonna put my professor layton fic here out of an abundance of fics starting with t, but alas, that one's t is a the)

U - unburied (Ted Lasso)

V - vita nova (Ted Lasso)

W - won't let you fall (Instinct)

X - THE ONLY ONE I DON'T HAVE!!!!! (unless we're counting "exercising restraint" which I can only assume we're not) NOOOOOOOO

Y - you are not your own (Shadowhunters)

Z - zugzwang (Ted Lasso)

THAT'S 25/26!!! FUCK!!!!! SO CLOSE

I've got like two fics that are almost finished and I genuinely considered rushing to get them done and naming them something to start with "X" but it wouldn't be honest.... 😔

thank you @ragecndybars for the tag sorry im so late

1. How many works do you have on ao3?

On my current account, 402. I had a cringe mostly teen phase of starting new accounts when I got embarrassed though so there's more out there, inactive. Also I didn't understand how pseuds worked then lol

2. What's your total word count?

On my current account (and with a few things messing up the stats I won't lie)... 1,133,134.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

My top 5 are probably Ted Lasso, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and Shadowhunters, and lately, Now You See Me and Watson. But I've written for a hell of a lot more than that. Some of which even got posted!

4. Top 5 fics by kudos?

Just assume from now on anything I'm mentioning ao3 stats wise is current account. In this case:

1) Ted Lasso Kisses Trent Crimm On The Mouth (1880 kudos), 2) semaphore (1346 kudos), 3) the songbird and the blade (1103 kudos), 4) Bill Cipher Calls a Temporary Truce for Girl's Night????????? and other notes that Ford will HATE to read in the Journal later (1073 kudos), and 5) off the handle (985 kudos).

That would be Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso, Shadowhunters, Gravity Falls, and Ted Lasso respectively.

5. Do you respond to comments?

I really should, but generally I only respond if I have something to say other than the same variation of "thank you im so glad you liked it <333" because while I really do mean that it feels hollow and awkward when it's the exact same response for all of them and I start overthinking it. But I usually respond or try to respond to longer detailed comments, and I answer questions if any are presented. (Also, I have so little spoons all the time it feels like, so I don't always just have the energy to respond :( I'm sorry everyone!! I promise I read and treasure them all!!)

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

You know, I'm not sure. I think generally when I write sad/ambiguous endings I am intentionally leaving it in such a way that the fic ends there, but the story will end happily later. You know? So while I have fics that are probably objectively sadder/more tragic, what comes to mind is "It's by design, valentine" because even if there's a sort of implied future happyish ending of like canon eventually coming around, the actual thing happening in the story with this OC is more ostensibly just... an unhappy ending. You know? It's kind of a bullshit answer though because I definitely have fics with sadder endings than that. The "cassandra of troy" series and a lot of my MBS s2 works are like that, the "best laid plans" series similarly just... I haven't written the happy ending part yet 😭 so it's kind of hard to say

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

See, this one's hard because I love happy endings. And also are we saying "happy ending" as in direct contrast to an otherwise sad fic, or would an exceedingly fluffy and happy fic that's through and through happy count? Because I've got a shit ton of both, but especially the second, and I'm not sure which is happiest. I'm overthinking this, I know.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I have before, yeah. Not particularly frequently, and usually in past fandoms (especially Shadowhunters) but it happened often enough.

9. Do you write smut?

hehe. yea

10. Do you write crossovers?

Yes, but I often don't end up posting them, because I don't end up finishing them, because they're so vague and "I'm rotating this in my brain" coded

In fact, so far I think the only one I've posted (other than one or two on a completely different website from when I was literally like 12-14 which I will not be sharing) is this one, which is between The Mysterious Benedict Society and Gravity Falls, due to a shared actress and a few parallels

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Usually it's gifs, or occasionally posts/fic ideas that weren't full fics yet but were specific enough for me to feel it counts as "stolen" (ie not just 'tattoo/flower shop au were [x] is the tattoo artist' or something) but yes, I've had a fic stolen a few times. Not for a while, though

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Only a few times, and it's been a while, but it's happened.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I've been asked, and I kind of regret saying no because it could have been a learning experience, but I think I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my fic ideas/plots/etc and I've never been eager to try. But then, I've helped develop fic ideas/had people help me develop my ideas, through bouncing stuff back and forth! Just not a proper actual writing a fic together collab.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Don't know if I can pick. Childhood nostalgia wants to say River/Doctor, teens/early twenties nostalgia wants me to say Malec and recency bias wants me to say Ted/Trent. And then all the others clamor in my brain for attention. I'm not good at picking one single favorite...

15. What's the wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh, there's so fucking many

16. What are your writing strengths?

I'm really good at crack/humor and snappy dialogue in that context

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Where is everybody...wehre are their limbs how are they standinghow are they moving in a 3d space AAGGHHHH

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

Super rad and awesome, I am bad at it

I don't wanna do a google translate thing and I also don't have anyone to ask or resources to hire a translator, so I usually "translate" to English in italics or avoid it somehow ("The woman said something in Russian") which feels lazy, but better than google translate. so.

19. First fandom you ever wrote for?

Uh, superwholock. I think Doctor Who specifically. My first smut was really godawful Destiel smut that thankfully never saw the light of day, though. The earliest fic I remember writing was scribbling in a little green notebook my super self-inserty Doctor Who fic with River and 11, but I do also remember not too long after writing fics about Q (Star Trek: TNG), Zuko and Sokka, Cecilos, and Sherlock.

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

I haven't the foggiest.

tagging: anyone who wants to because i am LAZY

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