Hi! You’ve mentioned several times in interviews that you have a fanfic-writing background. Are you happy to tell your fans where we can find you on AO3, or do you prefer to keep your Real Life Writing and fandom pseud separate, never the twain shall meet?
Not at all, I’ve admitted this to crowds of nonplussed people! I’m pretty open about the fact that I wrote in Homestuck fandom as urbanAnchorite, and I am not ashamed of anything I did there except for the time I tried to convince Monster of Elendhaven author Jennifer Giesbrecht to do a story with me where Jade was having Nepeta and Equius’ baby.
I have written elsewhere on the Internet and my very old stuff is still out there on fanfiction.net, but it was all just me doing unbelievably earnest Final Fantasy epics. I’m not precisely ashamed, but my brother still calls me up and quotes choice lines from it to me.
I’m a fandom knucklehead from old times and I am very glad we currently live in the age where you can be open about it. I remember in the early 2000s it was absolutely fucking verboten to mention you’d ever written any of it in case you got sued within an inch of your life, or if people didn’t take you seriously as an artist. I realised the other day that I’d actually read and adored some of N.K. Jemisin’s fanfiction when I was younger, and I welled up with all manner of emotions.
