definitely for your football and social issues posts!

I MEAN all my fic is usually time hopping so there isn’t strictly a ‘before’ but have some WWI AU??

"You’re in the army,” Phil says, chin stuck stubbornly out in a manner that reminds Gary oddly of himself. “I don’t see why I can’t go.” 

“It isn’t a fucking game, Phil,” Gary hisses. He is tired and his fingers are calloused and there is blood on his hands that there shouldn’t be. “People die out there. You could die out there.” 

@neyvenger? ive literally never heard of this person……….sorry

ok but seriously though Julija, i’ve been lucky to get to know some great people through this place and it kinda blows my mind that out of all of them it’s you, the absolute warmest, kindest human around, that i have the chance to actually see and hang out with from time to time. before we first met in person i was so nervous that it would be awkward or you’d discover how incredibly uncool i am and not like me but you made me feel so completely at ease and i had the best time!!! and then you made me pancakes and we watched the football and it was lowkey my dream evening. you have the best presence and all i can do is revel in it and be grateful to whatever forces conspired to put you in my life😘other important things: you give the best hugs and tea recommendations, you briefly fell asleep while leaning on me when we were watching the football and i want u to know it was honestly The Best™, and i connect deeply with your love of breakfast food 💖

OK ITS VERY LONG I'm soz <3 

send me a fanfic question

1. What is your favorite fic you have under your belt?OK UM. lmao okay my best writing, i think, comes in my liv fics (TRAGIC) but for the idea and the weight of emotion and, y'know, the way thinking about retiring footballers makes my heart shatter into a million pieces, on the horizon across the field (U KNO THIS). I think it’s also bc it’s very United and Gary centric and looking back at the stuff I’ve written, I don’t really do that a lot?? I prolly should tbh. But that image of Gaz back in OT for possibly the last time, imagining himself - not even on the field again, but there as a boy again, that was Very Emotional TM to me. 

5. What’s your favorite headcanon you use in fics?Ok I have three? The first is Gaz and pasties bc that came from like 2 tweets and I don’t even know if that’s his favourite food (he said once it was Chinese but Butty also said ‘everything’ and I trust Butty) but somehow that’s become almost accepted everywhere which is hilarious to me. The second is Phil and frogs bc that was literally a joke from me trying to think of how to fit ‘lords a’leaping’ into a fic BUT IT BECAME A THING and it still makes me giggle. And finally it’s Scholesy’s catchphrase ‘don’t be [insert joke here]’ bc I like to think that’s as close to his ridiculously cutting one liners I’m ever going to get.

6. What’s the detail you wait on bated breath for readers to notice?well!! I do like to put little things in here and there, depending on the fic; mostly little references to actual events or things that you might only know if you knew the players or the club or w/e very well (although I do usually explain these in the notes). for example, in beville’s dust and bones and fairy tales, Gaz mentions the Boro game in ‘98, and if you didn’t know United you probably wouldn’t have known that it was the last game they played and lost before they won the treble, but later on by knowing that it sort of gives it a poignancy since Gaz is dying and that’s…idk…what he thinks of?

How much do you like symbolism in your fics?I LOVE SYMBOLISM, I probably don’t usually do it very well but I do. I think the clearest example of symbolism was Gerlonso’s boat in softly, fiercely, I set myself on fire, because they never actually got the boat but it was always something there? for them? to have. also symbolism in this rly old beville 2.0 fic with the sweets and broville. I prolly also use a lot of symoblism regarding clubs and what they mean without really thinking about it?? bc clubs!! and things you can’t really say in words!! 

What’s a fanfic idea you haven’t done yet?I have…around 10 pages of fic ideas I need to write LMFAO. one day…sobbing as I drag my hands down my face… what I really want to do is xabifips or thomasxabi though bc I’m so interested in that and Sabs and I have been talking about it a lot and it gives me feelings!!!! but I need to do more research on bayern first. ALSO ALSO I DESPERATELY want to do a redders character study because he’s so maligned and misunderstood!!! just bc he’s so bad at punditry everyone disses him but have you seen him play?? he was so good. he was fucking incredible. and his injuries are made fun of a lot but no one ever thinks of how absolutely shattering it must have been for someone who was that good to be copped out just because he broke a lot, through no fault of his own. and all this pent up wasted potential and being seen as a bit of a silly sod but still??? being such a good?? person?? the way he loves on all of his ex-teammates, the way he puts all of his guests at ease by including them and talking to them, how he treats everyone the same even though it’d be easy for him not to given his background and pedigree. I HAVE A LOT OF REDDERS FEELINGS OK ;—–; 

Give us a snippet of something from your WiPs!hmmmm - I’ve had this beville wip in my drafts for more than a year and idk what it was supposed to be about - I think it was supposed to be how becks always comes back to gaz and there was supposed to be something about colours and things and I didn’t really know how to string it all together buT it started off nice?? 

Red When David is five, he falls down and scrapes his knee. It’s as red as the Coppell jersey on his back. 

Red, again When David is fourteen, he gets another scrape. This one has soft eyes and calls himself Gary. 

AND THAT’S AS FAR AS I GOT after that it all sort of descends into sentimental blandness that I’ve written again and again and ughhhhh idk what to do with it