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thank you for the ask!! Number 1 I have answered here

thank you so much for the ask!!

7. Did you read through an author's entire work? - I don't think so... even though I tend to go through an author's works once I read something and liked it, most authors usually write either for fandoms, pairings or write certain tropes I don't want to read next to the things I enjoy.

16. Were your comments coherent or mostly screaming? I always leave coherent comments, I don't see the appeal in scream-comments. I like to tell what I liked in detail, or if I don't have time/energy for that I at least write that I liked the fic in a real sentence

9. How do you find new fic to read?

As I more or less have already read all old fics which interest me for my ships, I mainly rely on my customized rss.feeds I have for Jalec, Malace, Jagnus and Yalex which always show me newly posted fics for these pairings. Sometimes I browse the tags for the ships, as the feeds don't pick up on fics posted from drafts. 13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

Mmh, maybe the "one partner is so helpless and needs constantly to be rescued/saved/helped/guided by their partner", though it's not a real trope I guess. But I read too many of those fics, I prefer the partners to be more equal (not the same, but equal)

24. By the end of this year, you want your fandom to think of you as “that author who _______.”

14: thankfully not! I write mostly in google docs and so far nothing has been lost there. I might try out Scrivener, but so far I opened it once, found it too complicated and closed it again - so google docs it is

24: this is really a hard one, so I just go with "that author who wrote great fics" (don't we all)😂

Hey! 10 - What work was the quickest to write? This is not that easy to answer, but maybe Winner's Choice, my very first Ilya Rozanov/Shane Hollander fic from the book Heated Rivalry. I wrote it after a huge slump and then I started this fic and suddenly the words started to flow again and it felt SO good.

19 - What's one pairing you want to explore next year? I definitely want to write a lot more for Hollanov (Ilya/Shane), I have quite a few ideas. In general I want to write more hockey related fics, let's see about the pairing(s) and in which direction that might go.

thank you so much for your asks!

25. do you frequent your local library? Yes, but not as much as I used to. I prefer to read in English, and the selection there is very small therefore I end up buying the things myself.

34. do you read more than one book at a time? Usually not. The only time I do it is when I struggle with the first one, like when the content is very heavy or I am in a boring passage but still want to finish. A little Life I had to read with breaks in between e.g. The last time it happens was with Shadow Returns from Nightrunners, it was just a tad boring

67. Do you prefer prompts and challenges, or completely independent ideas?

68. What, if anything, do you do for inspiration?

77. Do you have a favorite scene you’ve written from Blood and Guns?

Thank you so much for the asks 💙

67: oh that is a difficult one... I really like to participate in fandom prompt events or challenges like recently bingo or spyfest after dark, but I also have completely independent ideas. Usually those independent ideas are longer, multichapter ones.

2. What’s the best time of day for reading fic? Why?

5. What character that fandom loves are you just kinda “meh” about? Why?

9. What show did you really try to watch, but you just couldn’t?

Hello, thank you so much for the ask!

2. any time you're supposed to do something else but can't stop reading - the hint of guilt just adds to the experience 😂

5. for Alex Rider it's both Ian and John, though I'm not sure how much love there is in general. John I full-heartedly dislike, whereas Ian I just find not really interesting. For Shadowhunters I'd say Simon and Raphael, both alone and also as couple are just bland to me.