#jaimehwatson

For spotify top 100 fic meme! (Still taking these!) A little under 500 words. Warning for mentions of suicide, alcohol.

Hum Hallelujah by Fall Out Boy

And one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster

Augustine finds him on the roof, standing near the edge and humming a song he can't make out.

They're still adapting to living under this… dome of flesh and bone. There's not much to see outside, so he didn't expect him to be out here, in the dark that stinks like a slaughterhouse. When Augustine realized, sometime past midnight—so they'd been drinking for at least twelve hours—that he couldn't see John, he'd gotten worried. He'd looked everywhere in the facility, his beer-hazy panic growing slowly, until he tried the roof.

John turns around slowly as Augustine walks in his direction. His hummed song ends abruptly as Augustine gets closer, and Augustine stops with a few metres between them.

Even in the dark, John's eyes are bright.

"I needed some air," he says, before Augustine can say anything. Augustine exhales.

@jaimehwatson waah thank u!!

19: what are some books or authors that influenced your style the most?

i feel like the most obvious influence on my writing is homestuck like... i learned SO MUCH about character voice and story development just from reading it. genuinely the writing advice i am most embarrassed to give when people ask but also believe in most strongly is Read Homestuck Critically with an eye to what works and what doesn't and why. you will learn things you never in a million years expected to.

formative strong influences would be along the lines of eoin colfer (i devoured SO MANY of his books as a kid/teen not just the artemis fowl series), howl's moving castle (favourite book as a kid LOATHED the movie), and babysitters club (i love a strong ensemble) and more recently it would be the locked tomb and murderbot series', and tj klune's books. also not his written works bc they are unfortunately 99% total ass (reading the bestiality scene in the hippopotamus when i was like 16 was. uh. sure an experience) but i get a lot of my love for wordplay from stephen fry. oh and i get a lot of my sense of humour from growing up watching red dwarf (again tho Not The Books they suck)

funnily the authors ive heard most comparisons to are douglas adams and terry pratchett and ive only ever read 1-2 books from each of them when i was a kid and neither grabbed me 🤷‍♂️

41: what is the weirdest story idea you’ve ever had.

oh man when i was like 15 i wrote a fanfic entirely from the pov of a rock on the path watching the characters grow up as they passed by over the years & another one where one character ate a tomato & got obsessed with how his crush's lips were the same colour

was also featured on godawful fanfiction once for an mpreg fic where a characters hormones were so bad he had a meltdown and accidentally magically exploded his entire house which i am HEARTBROKEN i deleted (also heartbroken the gaff thread is long gone bc a person compared it to someone else's fic where a character got a fertility potion on his nose and got nose pregnant & then sneezed out a baby which i yearn with every fibre of my being to read again if anyone has a link to the nose mpreg sneeze baby fic please GOD hook me up)

i used to basically just write Fucking Anything back in the day and slap it up unedited i think i have about 80 fics on ff.net lmao

thank youuuu!!!

18. if you keep them, share a deleted sentence or paragraph from a published fic

oh man there was a whole ass scene i deleted from ccma entirely because i just could not make it work right - i think its from around chapter 9 or so? but i was sad to lose some fun rumination on the idea of trolls having little alien noises as sort of part of their communication system & this was a loose snippet (more than one paragraph soz)of karkat & kanaya explaining it to roxy

6 ⧽. if you were to write a part two/sequel to a fic, what fic would you want to write it for?

Hm, not counting anything I have current plans to write a sequel for.... I don't know what happens after the end of it, but prize (book Raybins, Stebbins uses his wish to save Garraty's life) is a fic I wrote for 3 sentence ficathon, and the possibilities of what happens next are really interesting. don't let me hit the ground (movie Gavries, they escape the Walk together) also has intriguing possibilities, but I wrote it so long ago and got so fixated on the book in specific that I don't think it's likely I'll go back to it.

13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?

HA. DO I EVER. I am still working a lot on Quantum Entanglement part two (I need to put it in a series to make it clear it's a part one lol) and that's really the main one. I think at this point I've made it through the majority of the plot, minus a few scenes, and and once I finish my current sidequest I'll go back to that and try to get to the end so I can edit it as a whole. I'm hoping it will be an easier process than I had with part one, which I finished at the end of November and started posting in April, lol.

Other than that, I have a 50k Danganronpa draft that I finished in October 2023 and for a variety of reasons wasn't able to go back and edit at the time, and I'm hoping to publish that too; a friend is working on a beta, but I'm not feeling super rushed about it. Ideally I'd like to start posting it before 2x2 drops, but we don't even have a release date yet so that's not much time pressure.

oooh only two uses, but in the same paragraph!

ccma chapter 24

thank yuouuu!!!

19. What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

ohhhh this is hard bc im on a real big davekat tear atm hmmm

dance au has blackrom rosemary as a secondary pairing and i DO rly wanna do more with that just in general - i was somewhat disappointed when they got together in canon ngl because i had shipped them blackrom up til that point and i didn't love them just kind of falling into the like. Classy Lesbians archetype, i felt like a lot of their dynamic got watered down. so ye would like to play with that a bit more

30. Biggest surprise while writing this year?

writing this year???? like At All? it's been Y E A R S since i really had any fic in me and the last year or so has been a bad time for me writing anything At All, so it was jarring as fuck when suddenly my energy was BACK and FOCUSED and i can happily just sit down and pour out a fuckin. 13k fic in a week???? i used to be like this in my teens and i havent been able to do it for SO LONG so its been a real pleasant shock to be ABLE to write so much. ccma is the longest thing ive EVER written (will probably be around 100k once its finished) and thats SO SURREAL in the ebst way