#queenofbaws

QUEENIE!!!

This is such a good ask, omg,,,

I’d say back in the day I was like sooooo obsessed with Chrashley, but these days I’m actually not as interested in the ships (unless I’m exploring a dynamic we don’t see as much). I like Emily WAY more than I did the first time I saw her. I also don’t like Chris nearly as much as I used to (😬). I think back in the day I also tried to likeeee cover-up their flaws more? Whereas now I love and accept how messy they are (I’m the #1 Sam Giddings is a bitch truther!!!)

😭😭😭 queenieeeeeeeee, this is so kind!!! trust me, i am ALSO thinking very hard re: true love waits in haunted houses...at least whenever work isn't throwing me into a total clusterfuck scenario, lmao

I WOULD SAY...a lot of the behind-the-scenes thinking or tidbits i'm most proud of are difficult to talk about without getting into ~spoiler~ territory, LOL. but something unique that i did for this fic specifically was draw up a complete outline -- like, literally draw it, by hand:

my ass sat down in the park for three hours scribbling in a notebook, something i have done neither before nor since, LMFAO. i ended up transferring most of this content into the google doc where i do all my writing (spread out across...many, many subtabs), but this is where it all began :^) i think even from this page alone (the full outline runs to about...four and a half pages?) you can identify a couple of interesting points:

i did rework the title slightly, with apologies to radiohead

some imagery or ideas came immediately ("bedsheet walls like hospital bedspreads", the Bride's look and general vibe -- even if she didn't have that moniker from the beginning), some were a matter of sudden inspiration mid-hashing out the details (see "music! piano puzzle!" in the margins, lol), and some came to me literally halfway through writing a chapter (most notably the mannequins/"sculptures?" becoming anatomy models)

also, many of the things which are simple bullet points here (e.g. "Angela with the knife" or "finds the revolver") got fleshed out into whole scenes, which is part of why the chapter counts DEFINITELY do not match what i have in my outline, LMAO

and some things either didn't make the cut since they didn't flow well (the flower shop, Mary and Laura having a longer initial interaction in the apartments) or I just couldn't find an excuse to put it in (the Bible verse on the bathroom wall)...which isn't necessarily to say they won't show up in some fashion later 🤔

annnnnnnd, since this ask really brightened my day...here is a very small sneak preview of a section to come :)c

Ooh hoo hoo! Thank you for sending this in Queenie!!

Five fav fics that I've written would have to be:

It's Not Christmas Without You (one of my secret santa gifts from last year)

Fuck 'em all, but us (which I need to write the final chapter of still oops)

you will be safe in my arms (I once saw someone made art inspired by it)

A Midsummer's Nightmare (the amount of research that went into this one)

The Outsiders: Johnny's Story (my first fic I ever wrote)

thank you bb!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

best introduction... I'm gonna go with probably Fingerpaint Card, the Spiderverse fic I wrote after watching Across. I reread it recently and there are some things I'm gonna tweak lol but for the most part, I think it covers most themes that I like in my fics: angst, humor, sarcastic POV, repairing relationships, and post-canon peacetime of "okay we won, how do we deal with the emotional fallout of what comes after something super traumatizing."

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

maybe soulmate AUs? I'm still not a huge fan and don't see myself ever craving them, but I'm less likely to dismiss them automatically nowadays especially if it's from an author I like or it comes recommended.

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

amnesia! for obvious angst reasons lol. also i'd like to one day write a mystery or more suspenseful longfic. i've had various ideas I liked for longfic in Mass Effect or Three Houses where the cast has to solve a big mystery, but none have ever really gotten off the ground.

lucky for u queenie u get BOTH :DD

when u have to explain to ur sibling they cant chop their own head off "in the name of science"

I can handle this, Varric had thought. It’s no big deal. So the only room available is a single; that’s what we get for showing up at 2am with no reservation. Besides, this is part of roadtrips, isn’t it? Gas station bathrooms, diner food, and shitty motel rooms?

They’d shared rooms before and it had been fine -- actually fine, because there was nothing they hadn’t seen of each other and no boundaries to cross that hadn’t been crossed in the comfort of their own homes.

This was different. This was...risky.

“Are you alright?” came Hawke’s voice from a few inches behind him. Varric startled, which made Hawke jump too.

“What?” he asked.

“You’re so tense I can feel it from the other side of the bed.”

“Sorry,” he said, wishing Hawke was just a tad less good at reading his body language, even if it meant the two of them would win fewer card games. “I’m not used to sharing a bed, so I’m worried I’ll roll over and punch you in the face in my sleep.”

Hawke stifled a laugh.

“Oh please, I shared a bed with Carver for a year. He used to try and murder me in my sleep. Sometimes he’d be asleep too.”

Despite himself, Varric chuckled.

“Well I’m also worried you’ll smother me.” He grinned at Hawke’s indignant gasp.

“Rude! If that’s how you’re going to be maybe you should sleep on the floor.”

P - invent a random AU for any fandom

Okay so this is really random but I love Pride and Prejudice and this just came to me, imagine

Elizabeth Bennett - Sam

Mr Darcy - Josh

Lydia Bennett - Jess

Mr Wickham - Mike

Jane Bennett - Ashley

Mr Bingley - Chris

Can't decide whether Emily should be Kitty or Mary

Am v sad I can't think of anyone for Matt

Georgiana Darcy now has a twin - Hannah and Beth

Mr Bennett - Jack Fiddler - I mean can you imagine! Jack Fiddler as an English gentleman with 5 daughters, that shit would be hilarious!

And omfhh replace Catherine De Bourgh with Dr Hill!!!!

Sorry, I got a little carried away there 😅

L - say something genuinely nice about a character who isn't one of your faves

Mike has some of the funniest, most iconic lines and I love that about him even if he can be an asshole.

O - choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

Not random at all but...

Turning Page by Sleeping at Last for jossam

(not at all because it's in a future chapter of my fic Rome Wasn't (Re-)Built in a Day *wink wink)

T - do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending