#krjsten

1. What made you want to start writing fanfic?

Uhhhh my older sister wrote fic (actually both of them, I think, and I’m pretty sure my mom did too), and I thought it was neat, so I tried my hand at it. I fell out of it for a long time between Pokemon and RvB, but Emo Phase Wrath needed an outlet and fanfic was convenient (especially the whole getting-reviews-from-non-family-members bit)

4. Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?

JEEZ SO MUCH. I never used to plan stories (and it showed). I bought into the whole “said is dead” thing for way too long. I used to be (believe it or not) way more grimdark

5. You’ve posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you’d written it?

I’ve been told my dialogue has a poetic cadence, but I think the real giveaway is my favorite grammatical construction, “verbed gerunding” (as in, “fell tumbling into the dark” or something similar). Also probably the sheer volume of “fuck”s interspersed through the dialogue

10. What’s a theme that keeps coming up in your writing? 

Mmmmm probably victims returning to their abusers. Or just abuse in general (even when I’m trying not to write it)

11. What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?

Complicated ones

13. Name three favorite characters to write.

Still gotta give a shoutout to my ol’ mainstay N//ilesy from the why-oh-jeezcast. Michael of course, a delight and a treasure. Is it weird to say Satan?

Aw man totally thank you for asking!

https://open.spotify.com/user/diamondstarxp/playlist/71FdnQzSfTFgM4XssUoXvU

this particular playlist is also a combination of a lot of the songs wrath has reblogged for the fic so some credit to them as well!

also if your interested a friend of mine made another playlist so il add that in as well for posterity

https://open.spotify.com/user/kalgalen/playlist/5SI0UYto1rZkC1grxF6Qyh

SUM SUM

It sounds like your little brother helped you discover your natural tendencies, and there’s nothing weird about that. It’s really cute that you two would stim together! I’m sorry you don’t get to do that anymore. 

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

I really like the lovable snark type of character (e.g. Nick from Zootopia), but I can’t seem to pull it off because I’m Too Serious.

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

There will be no Dead Lesbians.

5. Share one of your strengths.

I guess I’m pretty good at dialogue?

6. Share one of your weaknesses.

Action. I’m bad at action. And I have a nasty habit of moralizing, as well as falling into the same narrative tropes over and over :P

7. Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

Everything was bathed in silver starlight, which poured down from overhead in sheets and curtains, and where the world was not silver it was black, and everything grew sharper and sharper until he felt certain he was looking not at natural desert but at paper cut-outs of an arid setting in some elaborate scale-model.

This is from the one and only Dr Who fic I ever wrote, back in the far-off year of 2010, but I still love this bit because it’s just so pretty.

8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“What makes you think I did?”

I worked on that fucking scene about twice a week for over a month, fixing it and fixing it and fixing it until it was juuuuuuuuuust the right amount of creepy and all the characterizations lined up with Future Plans. Damn if it wasn’t worth the work, though.

27. How do you feel about collaborations?

I am ..... super bad at them. Too much of a control-freak.

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

And I quote: “FUCK YOU, FUCK YOUR CARTOON POOLBOY HUSBAND, FUCK HIS CAT MASK AND HIS BAND OF VILLAINS, BLOCKED.” I think about that every goddamn day :’)