34. what's your book/tv/movie guilty pleasure?

I HAVE TOO MANYYY but ouat. it's a trainwreck and it's notttttt good esp in the later seasons (eye twitch) when they just shoehorning in d1sney halloween costumes instead of doing something creative ? and try to balance being corny and mishandling serious topics . something about it always brings me a lot of comfort bc of when i got into it though

37. what’s an uncommon/specific /obscure topic you’re interested in?

this is hardd i'm trying to think of just 'obscure' ones... the first one that comes to mind is the 7 sins!!! it's kind of hard to articulate it in words bc like it's not something you can really heavily research but they're like infinite pattern recognition dopamine and i love analyzing them and associating things with them i have 10 essays written in my head..

Ahhh thanks so much for this, anon! I'm sorry it's taken me a few days to get caught up on replies but I so appreciate your interest!

I'm especially interested in the other folks in the Artists, Writers & Poets collection. Arthur's encounters with other artists in the game are some of my favorites. I think he feels drawn to them and is amused by their eccentricities and maybe feels a kind of kinship that he isn't fully aware of. Like how in another life they might have been contemporaries, but in this one they are people inconvenienced with nails and have found in Arthur, a hammer.

Like I'm convinced Maud and Richard absolutely have a Thing going on. A best-friends-to-lovers-and-they're-also-a-little-competitive-about-their-craft kind of thing. And I also imagine that they would both be facing distinct challenges navigating whatever the publishing world looked like in 1899, as a woman and a Black man. I would want to do a lot of careful research and enlist beta readers to make sure I do the idea justice.

@fleurdelucienne pointed out that Laurence here is NOT holding the instrument correctly at all, which leads me to the hysterical conclusion that he's a total fraud and has probably found himself mired in some shenanigans because of it and is willing to pay Arthur a handsome sum to help him get out. I could see this piece being a more light-hearted one-off instead of a multi-chapter, but who knows!