Thanks @luvwich!! From the Mix & Match Writer Requests...

8. Which of your fics did you spend the most amount of time writing?

Of my published fics, No One's Gonna Love You. I started writing it March '21 and finished it that December. I worked on it pretty regularly during that time, with only a couple of moments where I got stuck/couldn't write.

For the unpublished, the Corpo AU is the one I've put the most time into. It's 25% longer than NOGLY and it's maybe.. 2/3 done?

a. What is something you wish more people noticed about it?

looool I'm so happy you asked this because I don't know if anyone has ever noticed this at all, and I spent some time planning it out so it occurred in the "middle" of the fic, and by middle I mean the middle of chapter four out of seven chapters, not by word count. Anyway, I switched the main POV character from Val to Mitch in the middle of a sentence.

As Panam stops the truck, the door to the Coyote opens and Mitch climbs out, one long leg then another then finally the rest of him and her stomach flips when his eyes find hers. His pace is slow yet deliberate and she follows his movements until his handsome face and beautiful eyes are in the window and he’s smiling at her—smiling, not smirking—and there’s something in the smile, the crinkle of his eyes that makes her heart flutter. Mitch leans in and it’s déjà vu like that time right before Mikoshi when she couldn’t breathe and he’d held her hand and she closes her eyes as his lips meet hers and she’s the best thing he’s ever tasted and it doesn’t matter how long this headache lasts as long as it means V smiles at him that way. After a long moment Mitch opens his eyes and pulls back, and V licks her kiss-swollen lips, her look disappointed as it dips to his mouth. Nice to see she missed him too. Her messages said she did, but nothing like a kiss for confirmation. “Shall we get the fuck out of here?” he asks, beaming at her.

I know you've read that chapter, @luvwich. You've referenced it to me for other, smutty reasons. :3

Also, the chapter name made me very happy: "The Strangest Thing".

1. Which of your fics is your favorite?

Are you kidding? You want me to pick between my children?? 😭

It really depends on the day, and today I'd have a tough time choosing between "Blaze of Glory" and "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)", but based on the follow-up question, I decided to go with "Blaze of Glory". (Of course, my fave is really NOGLY but for the sake of the game we'll pretend it's not.)

b. What is something you would do differently if you were to rewrite it?

I would spend a lot more time on Mitch's feelings. It was my first time really digging into writing him and I shied away from some of the things that I did get into later with NOGLY, like his grief over Driss Scorpion's death.

I'd also spend more time with Mitch and Scorpion together. It's been a looong time since I wrote it but I had only just started to explore the idea of Mitch and Scorp being lovers. I didn't really know how they would handle the situation so I did what I do best: gloss over it with sex.

Thanks for the ask @themightiestpotato! From the WIP Game Ask

"Making the call"

This is something of a prequel to my longfic No One's Gonna Love You. NOGLY starts with V waking up in Panam's truck. No Johnny, just her alone. She didn't call anyone from the roof, which was not true of my first playthrough where I did in fact call Judy, and immediately fell in love with Mitch. When I started writing NOGLY, it was very soon after finishing the game for the first time, maybe March '21. I barely knew who V was, and she didn't even have a real name until later that fall. I specifically started where I did because I didn't want to write Johnny. As little as I knew her, I felt I knew Johnny even less, or where their relationship fell. I want to do a NOGLY rewrite at some point because the first few chapters are weak in characterizing her, and I think this scene is a crucial step in my own understanding of her mentality.

She paces on the rooftop, cigarette pinched between her fingers, drags punctuating every turn. Her mental finger hovers over Judy’s number. She should call her. At least tell her what she’s about to do; she deserves that much. Another spin on her heel and she paces back toward Johnny who pulls on his own cigarette. No reason to call River— she ghosted him, dressed silently under cover of his soft snores, crept through the trailer before Ross or the kids could catch her, never answered his messages. A coward.

Gonna ghost her, too? Him, sure. Liked her, at least.

“Not helping,” she growls, aloud. She flinches and turns on her heel.

Judy, who just lost Evelyn to suicide, and what is this mission but suicide?

Not true, and you know it.

“No, I don't, and you don't either. Going against Arasaka again. Hasn't worked out well for either of us.”

Then don't call. Not like you've been a good output.

“Fuck you, Johnny,” she says, stabbing at the air. “Like you're one to talk.”

'xactly why I can say it. Was a shitty input, to more'n Alt or Rogue. If Rogue hadn't been on that last op to Arasaka Tower, think I'd've called her?