#myliobatis

A bat ray (Myliobatis californica) off the coast of Los Angeles, California

trope game

🪽wing fic🪽: Grade A

me, breathlessly, wing fic

impossible for me to be objective, because as you said, myliobatis, the nostalgia. that was such an absolute staple of fandom when I was younger and it’s so cherished to me because of that.

I do think there’s a lot of potential - growing the wings as body horror, which can be done straight (it’s actually happening) or mindfucked (or is it???) and lends well to being a metaphor for lots of things but especially queer narratives.

As well WING TOUCHING. Do people who are newer to fandom know about this? My god, the number of times I read a man come untouched from having his wing stroked. TIME WELL SPENT.

I like how you can do this trope as real or fantastical as you want. I did real world wingfic when I wrote it in bandom and I always had this even realer world version of that story floating in my head (a teenager working at a Mexican chain restaurant in a mall where the magic had the same rules as Brendon’s wings in Shimmer) and I actually still think about that sometimes. So quite a few layers of nostalgia for me.

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23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

Mmmh I’ll go with Unethical Consumption / 痴!

My favorite thing to do in fic is to have plot elements interact with canon elements in inexplicit ways. As a reader I get a lot of insider communal joy when I see this in fics, so I try my best to do it myself~

So XXC gives SL his own eyes (without consent!) and then leaves, right? In this fic, through my favorite plot element of ~cannibalism~ they get to have that argument: XXC wants to cut off his arm to feed them both and SL gets to explicitly communicate the fact that he in no way wants XXC to sacrifice his own body for SL’s gain.

Navel-gazey but, I do hope this is establishes more than foreshadowing. Fan works are transformative works, right? Through thinking of plots like this, I get to see songxiao’s possibilities get fleshed out (through cannibalism haaaaah)! They have full lives beyond their short narrative tragedy; their character arcs exist beyond Yi City and its aftermath. Hopefully readers get the same feeling~

ALSO I got to write angry!XXC and fighting words are so much fucking fun to write :D :D :D 

31. What’s the nicest thing someone has ever said about your writing?

oh god fandom has spoiled me completely rotten TTTTTTT YOU included!!!!! I feel like it’s because I have fandom that I can be self-critical y’know? People are so fucking nice, I get this safety net of readers who are here to enjoy themselves, who have such generosity of spirit that they’re seeing all these good things about my writing. I believe very hard in having faith in my readers, so every. single. compliment is taken to heart. I’m absolutely enamored with every analysis people do, every connection people make, every time someone tells me they laughed at my sTUFPID FUCKING SEX FICS JNDFKDJFNKD

but anyways, the nonexhaustive list: the person who just leaves a series of sweat emojis on all my porn, the person who comments one line that drags me on a fic-specific basis, the people who indulge my sex crack, the people who read my fics & comments within like the hour of publishing, people who take days but always circle back, people who tell me they’ve been saving my fics to read, people who tell me i sold them on a character they weren’t sure about before, people who like my porn lololol, people who like my cute stuff, people who copypaste all their favorite lines, people who flip out in the comments, people who wrote me essays, people who says it got personal for them, people who remember my fics, people who like my language, people who tell me they trust me as an author to write about less normative stuff, more emotionally stressful stuff....

aaaaah i’m getting weepy just thinking about it lolol <3 <3 <3 <3 literally anyone who’s even given my fic a passing try, god fucking bless.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

oh shit! pacing, probably? It’s the thing I edit the most—but huh, that might be because it’s the thing that requires the largest scale of editing lolol. characterization is something i gotta be constantly aware of? grammar?

!!! mixing metaphors. I love me some metaphors but it’s been a concerted effort on my part to be more consistent about them within the same fic lololol.

it’s so hard for me to tell bc it’s filmed here… my sister has gone to the diner they use for pop’s