Wildflowers of the Heart 

My fic for @palavapeite for the @jsamnfandomtributefest based on two of their fics!

When strange things begin to happen, Childermass consults his cards and learns he must return to Starecross before it is too late

Thank you, friend! I had to think about these you went TOUGH!!

7 - Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

AHHH I don't know!! I love adding in little details but I'm also not very good at remembering them. Am I allowed to say "most of The Echoes Resound"? Because I had such enormous fun writing that fic and most of that was down to brainstorming and teasing out the little details about what the world of JSAMN would be like by the 1990s.

ACTUALLY I would also like to say, as it is the season, that I am still incredibly proud of The King and the Snow from the December chapter of the measure of the year, especially since so many of you yelled at me about it afterwards. I'm pretty proud of that.

23 - What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

Oh I honestly don't know about this one! I don't tend to think about "i want to write this particular trope etc", I just tend to go with what's pulling at me at any particular time.

I DO however really want to continue on with the Reality TV OFMD AU we discussed in the discord a while back, it keeps nudging a bit at my subconscious. And to be honest any of the AUs we've discussed in the discord because I always have such fun chatting about them.

37 - Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

Ahhh I don't know! I feel like I don't have quite enough fics for a true deep cut. I think maybe A Lily on Thy Brow for JSAMN because I'm pretty proud of how it turned out - it was a bit of an experiment that worked out well.

I'm gonna chuck Clitoral Attaché out here, too, because even though I haven't dared reread it after the fever-dream of writing it, I thought given the apparent strength of the Murray Gets Pegged lobby it would have gained a bit more traction.

Belated Valentine’s Day Art 2/8

AND THEN THEY KISS. ON THE BEACH.

AHHHHHHH this is such a tiny moment but i am so pleased with it and i felt so clever when i thought of it??

I HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS!

I just think (it could be wishful thinking) Childermass would’ve been rather pleased with this?

“ooooh I’m so sorry sir it seems this Johns fella has undone all my hard work guess there will be more magicians in England after all I sure hope none of them are supportes of the Raven King that would be truly terrible sir”

(yes he absolutely would say “ooooh”)

I AM HAVING SEVERAL THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS. obviously Childers would want to sit down and have a chat with our friend Jeremy, but would they be friends or enemies? because I could see both happening.

11. If you could only write angst, fluff, or smut for the rest of your life, which would it be?

This is a shitty question because no fic is ever pure fluff or pure angst (pure smut on the other hand, sure). I’d never pick smut anyway. Imo the best fluff and best angst fics have some of the other in it as well - it’s not very effective storytelling otherwise? If everything is just angst all the time, the angst doesn’t hit as hard, and vice versa. so with that in mind....I’d probably go with fluff. Because there’d always be angst anyway, and (atm anyway) I’d prefer my starting point to be from the point of fluff than from the point of angst.

13. Is there a trope you wouldn’t write if it was the last trope on earth?

A/B/O. you couldn’t pay me to write this.

21. What is the one fic that got away?

As in a wip I started and never finished? Hmm. Many years ago I wanted to write a fic in which JARVIS wanted to be human, and Tony worked to make it happen - a bit like in that Robin Williams movie. I did start it, but it never went anywhere, and then in the MCU JARVIS turned into the Vision (well, sort of) and I just gave up on it altogether. 

Ngl though, my first thought when I saw this question was a fic I wrote for a prompt-claim fest some years back, and the prompter treated the fic as if I’d written the fic for them, personally, as a gift. I’m still salty about it and it rather soured me off prompt-claim fests. If I didn’t explicitly write it for you, even if I used a prompt you created, it is not for you, and it is not yours, and you do not get to claim any kind of ownership over it. I don’t care if that pisses people off. It’s not yours. It’s mine. (This is incidentally part of the reason why I like gift exchange fests - for those I am actually creating something for another person and it doesn’t matter who else likes it or doesn’t like it, so long as my recipient likes it.)

23. If you had to remix one of your own fics, which would it be and how would you remix it?

I’ve never considered this actually. Usually, when I finish writing a fic I’m done with it and don’t really feel like revisiting it in any form. One thing I sometimes think about is Astoria and Ruby in the vegas fic, and how I’d love to write (or just read, tbh) their story of getting together and emotional journeys etc. Especially from Astoria’s point of view because the thing about her in that fic is that she presents a very bubbly and carefree front, but in reality she’s struggling a lot with expectations and pressure and figuring out what she really wants. I didn’t give her a lot of page time because it’s a H/D fic, but I wanted to at least give the impression that she was more than a plot device and I came to really care about her as a character in the process. Ruby is an OC (and is really just a plot device), however, so I think even if I did it wouldn’t be well received in fandom as there seems to be general hostility towards character/OC fics in HP fandom. so I’ve sometimes thought about taking that basic premise and writing an original f/f novel or novella about them instead and fleshing Ruby out more as well. Don’t know if I ever will, though. 

I am, thank you! :)

19. What’s a change you want to keep when self isolation is over?

A lot of people in my country are waking up to the first time about how poorly things have been run by the government, and how different they could be literally overnight.  So I’m hoping that if nothing else, this really grows some social and political movements for change.

24. What food do you wish you had right now?

I miss Mango Tree, the best Indian restaurant here– coconut chicken, coconut rice, garlic naan, and lassi.  And an orange cardamom mocha from my coffee shop.

32. When was the last time you drank water?

A couple of hours ago with breakfast, actually! I am pretty good on water since getting a labeled bottle and taking it as a personal challenge.

48. New shows you’ve discovered?

THANK YOU. I am well organized and know what each document contains. 👀 

on ekstasis: Segundus needs to do some sort of ecstatic magic but he has problems figuring out how? he tries a bunch of things with silly and/or poor results before realizing that maybe he just needs Childermass to blindfold him on the moors. 👀 👀 👀 👀