Coming in immediately after shaming me into writing with something like this, how dare.

I’m gonna say...Stiles.

There wouldn't be so much hate from the antis if there wasn't so much canon Sheith this season.

Bahaha, right? “Have you ever had an OTP” like my friend. My pal. I have several hundred works on AO3 dedicate to this concept. The short answer is yes; the long answer will discover Tumblr’s text limit.

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites. 

*sighs*

On the one hand, I feel like I should go with some characters people might not realize I’m into. On the other hand, I’m insanely tempted to go with the “Oh look M has a type“ contingents.

Since I’m pretty sure everybody knows who I would pick for “dark-haired bearded dude who is amazing at his chosen profession and an absolute goddamn dumbass with romantic relationships” and “angsty blond whose life gets fucked over by an extremely powerful older man,” let’s go with type three: “snarky ball of chaos with a fairly flexible definition of the phrase ‘moral code’”!

Or, to shorten it a bit: tricksters. :-D

First up:

Stiles Stilinski, Teen Wolf

Stiles “I define lying as ‘reclining your body in a horizontal position’” Stilinski is half the reason I joined this godforsaken website in the first place.

His very first scene in the entire series is him showing up at Scott’s house to ask Scott to go look for a dead body. When Scott’s front door is locked, Stiles’s response is to scale the house and break in through a window. His method of dealing with kanima!Jackson is to chain him up in a stolen police van. When Scott expresses concern that making a copy of the card to the evidence locker is worse than stealing it, Stiles stares at him blankly for a moment before answering “It’s smarter.”

Stiles is funny, outstandingly loyal, and the only character who voluntarily dives into the supernatural world with both feet despite being a wholly breakable human. He fast became my favorite character in the entire series.

Next up:

Puck, Gargoyles

I feel like I should’ve suspected that I would absolutely adore Puck, but I did not (or at least, I did not think I would love him this much). So, well, here we are.

Puck is the trickster, and he’s also the only one on this list who isn’t on the side of the heroes. Watching him fuck with Demona’s requests in The Mirror is hilarious, as she doesn’t bother making her requests specific enough and there are loopholes large enough for him to leap through. “Did you say ‘that human’ or ‘that human’? Oh, never mind, I’ll figure it out.” The result is a night of absolute chaos across Manhattan and it’s one of my favorite episodes, and I’ve probably rewatched it 7 or 8 times at this point.

I really, really can’t wait to see more of him.

And finally:

Toph Bei Fong, Avatar: The Last Airbender

I...love Toph with all my heart. Along with Uncle Iroh, she’s my favorite character in this series. I’m so glad this gif existed in the search because this scene was immediately where my mind went upon thinking of a third trickster character. “Let’s break some rules!” *destroys a wall for the hell of it*

Toph has always been underestimated and she has had to become very crafty because of it. She sneaks away to fight in an underground rockbending competition and she’s the undisputed champion. She lies to Team Avatar about running away from home. She’s gleeful about playing the Melon Lord. There’s an entire episode devoted to her running scams on a town. She milks people’s assumptions about her for all they’re worth. She is just. So much fun.

I am intensely amused that I got two asks for the same questions. XD

What’s your personal favourite thing you wrote this year?

Oh gosh. It’s hard to pick because I enjoyed so many of the fics I wrote this year for a variety of reasons, but I think I’d have to go with Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind. Between the initial brainstorming back in late February/early March and the final posting to AO3, that fic was an unexpectedly huge part of my year. Not only am I extremely proud of how it’s written, not only is it a style I’ve never tried before, and not only was it extremely cathartic to write, but it’s also indelibly tied to so many major life moments from this year. I’m very proud of it.

Which fic this year was most fun to write?

It is probably a toss-up between Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be and A Parental Predicament.

The latter is a Castlevania meet-the-parents AU entirely from Dracula’s POV as Alucard is bringing his new boyfriend (Trevor) home for dinner, and let met tell you, that was a delight to write. The former is a Gargoyles fake dating AU where Elisa and Xanatos have to fake a relationship and that was equally delightful to write for very different reasons. XD

I just posted a snippet here, so I’ll tell you a little bit about this WIP: it’s one of two WIPs on my list that’s from a prompt for Comfortween. Specifically, this ficlet is for the day 3 prompt “It’s Not Just a River in Egypt,” where you have one character comforting another who’s denying anything is wrong.

Obviously the moment I saw that prompt, I knew I had to do Barnaby and Kotetsu because if there is any character who will adamantly deny anything is wrong with him despite all mounting evidence to the contrary, it is Kotetsu T. Kaburagi.

The “plot” I wrote out for it is “it's the anniversary of Tomoe's death and Kotetsu is having a bad day,” but we’ll see how it actually shakes out.

goddammit painted

You send me this as I’m finishing screaming about this show, I see what you’re doing.

go clothes shopping with, go to ikea with, go grocery shopping with

Clothes shopping: Xanatos, because dude’s clearly got style, he’d charm everybody helping us so I didn’t have to talk to people, and his commentary would be hilarious Ikea: Owen. I’ve never been inside one of these stores but they’re massive and I’m 90% sure I’d manage to get lost; Owen would prevent that from happening and also would be able to find exactly what we needed in like 30 seconds flat. Probably all while on the phone with someone on the other side of the world, closing a business deal. Grocery shopping: Elisa. I know she knows how to cook so we’d be able to exchange recipes, and she also seems like she’d grocery shop kinda like I do, so there wouldn’t be a clash there.

ok first of all you’re welcome, and second of all I LOVE BARNABY AND KAEDE remind me which of your fics this is, nevermind I need to read/re-read all of them anyway

Ahahaha you enabler, you.

And the fic is A Thousand Moments! Aka “Kotetsu gets hurt and Barnaby and Kaede handle it very poorly.”