#palamedessextus

Thanks so much!

6 What character do you have the most fun writing?

Daniel LaRusso, baby! What I really love about this fandom is that I've seen so many different takes on his character, some of which seem diametrically opposed when compared side by side, but which all ring true for me in the right contexts. I personally enjoy writing him as someone who is both deeply conflicted and deeply repressed about that confliction, and it's so much fun to play around with all those layers.

25. What part of writing is the most fun?

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

As you, friend, know, I have just put together most of the pieces for a first draft of a novel I started last year. I have made a couple attempts at novel-length original fiction in the past and not been successful. This project feels like it has potential. I am terrified of it. The plot is shaky, I'm locating it in a time and place I have little experience with, I feel like a giant fraud about the whole thing.

Am I looking forward to getting into it again and trying to produce a second draft? Surprisingly, yes.

I also have a Punisher fic based loosely on the plot of The Bodyguard which I will be very excited to finally finish in the year 2086.

17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

It took me a bit of time to figure out how to even begin to answer this question. Not that I think I'm an open book, necessarily, but I don't think I'm doing anything writing-wise that is out of step with how I operate as a human. Certainly since my return to fandom in 2015 I have developed as a writer (and, crucially, as a human). Some of the themes in my work have become more subtle as I've worked through Issues in my real life.

A few years ago I would have answered this question differently because I was a lot more invested in writing darkfic, and embedded in a group of people who were also doing that. So there was a sense that there were people in fandom who were hostile to that creative avenue and it was one's duty to push back against them using a common set of talking points. I stand by most everything I wrote at that time that's still posted, but as I've refined my writing I note that I feel less strongly about performing an identity as, let's say, a specifically transgressive fan writer. I think there are things I write that are definitely complex and not for everybody. There are themes that I still need to address for myself in the things that I write. I am more confident in my ability to work those into a story and defend them, if necessary, without needing to participate in a particular fandom conversation about them.

I also spent four years working in a job where I was brought into close proximity to some extremely challenging questions about harm, influence, violence, intervention and suffering. That was not only an experience that helped me refine my writing, but also made me question how I approach certain themes and how I want to do so in a way that honours my personal ethics and tells a story that might be of some value to other people.

This was a gift of love for some dear friends of mine who adore the 6th house, and now that they recieved it I can finally share it here! “Six for the Truth, Over Solice in Lies”

From @tazmuir 's Gideon the Ninth 💀🖤