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6. What’s your favourite piece of dialogue you wrote this year?

8. Which fic this year was most fun to write?

HI LEE thank you for the ask!! :3 Putting answers under a cut because the quotes got a bit long,

ohhhhhh my god these are so good. thank you!! i'm gonna answer 10 first bc i'll put part of my answer to 8 under a cut.

10. Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

several!! i was just that talking about attempting yuri beyondlaw, and i would really like to do that. i've considered fem!L x Wedy or Aiber, too. i would like to attempt L more often in general, really. on top of that, i have in my drafts Halle x Gevanni (also yuri) and. believe it or not. Rester x reader. i'm not even into him like that but on principle it's insane to me that the #1 beefcake (aside from maybe mogi) gets no love in the x reader scene!!!

8. What is your favorite line/section from bury us both?

this one is tough omg. which makes it a great question. chapter 12 is overall my favorite and the last 3 sections are imo some of the most effective of the whole fic, but i mostly find them impactful bc they're together. my favorite section otherwise is probably from chapter 10, below the cut :')

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10. Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

31. What fic meant the most to you to write?

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Hi, thank you!! <3

10- Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?

I don't think so! Pretty much anything and anyone we'd love to write for, we've already tried our hand at. We do want to eventually get around to completing a Mello POV fic that isn't "Mello introject from sweet atonement" (who's kind of a special beast by virtue of his circumstances); technically we have written some of that for throw me into life, but that's on the backburner right now (we'll get back to it once we're done drafting to escape an empire).

WAIT NO I LIED BY FORGORSSION. I'm not erasing the above because we put thought into it, but we do want to write at least one Near/reader fic eventually lol.

31- What fic meant the most to you to write?

pretender (from sweet atonement verse). Not going into our personal system lore on main (though we'd be happy to elaborate in private if you'd like to hear it!), but the tl;dr is this: we pulled this piece out of some deeply personal places. Writing it helped catalyse and crystallise a number of things important to us that had been left hanging for years and years.

Hi, yes absolutely thank you for asking!! :3

9- What song(s) fit the vibe of your favorite character? !! That's a DIFFICULT one, actually. We have plenty of shippy songs lined up, but stuff that reminds me of Near on his own…? Hmm. I got nothing with lyrics. That said, I think he'd be really into experimental/contemporary classical stuff like this album (Spotify link | YouTube link), which, I hope is a satisfying type of has his vibes? :D

(I am also taking this opportunity to share our headcanon that Mello would be REALLY into Heilung, like this or this or this or this, because we've been thinking about that for LITERAL WEEKS.)

Hi!!!! Thank you for the ask!!! <3 :3

O - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of

Really popular question tonight dfhgsd hold on while I shuffle our library once again

Frost by Clark Powell which does not have any lyrics, but it is Homestuck, and that + the vibes of the song remind me of. I don't know if John/Dave (is it still called hammertime?) counts as an OTP when we don't ship it by default, it only really works for us if the AU compels us into it, but, ANYWAY. Whatever John and Dave had going on in strider's edge by paraTactician? That's what this song reminds me of

X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms

Mello/Near (Death Note)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Senua/Thorgestr (Hellblade) (seriously the other two we blog about more often, but we have SO MANY Hellblade brainworms and about half of them are about these two. They're such compelling enemies to friends/allies in canon, and then the transformative potential for "to lovers" is INSANE. They would be so, so good together. I will die on this hill btw.)

hi these are delightful, thank you!

H - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series

HMMMM. i feel like... looking historically for what i've written, i skew towards anime more than live action, with a few notable exceptions :3c

W - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

using "fandom" a little loosely for some of these:

Chrissy from Stranger Things

Near from Death Note

Hinata from Naruto

Patty from Dinner In America

Old Dolio from Kajillionaire

HONORABLE MENTION: Alma from Phantom Thread <3 also I'm realizing immediately that I kind of disproved my own above answer lmfao I guess I prefer to write for animated series characters but I still definitely have live action blorbos...!