#reginalds

Thank you for the ask!💙💙💙

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

One fic i’m particularly fond of is Once More, With Feeling which I wrote for Kinkfest earlier this year. I had fun exploring a kinkier side of Scorbus, but somehow i still managed to make it super fluffy and awkward 😁

26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?

I always, always leave it to the last minute, and i’ll either pick a song title that kind of fits or, more recently, I’ll ask one of my fandom wives to help me (thank you my lovelies! @lettersbyelise @quicksilvermaid and @diligent-thunder 😘😘😘)

30. What inspires you to write?

hmmmm. Mostly, I write for fests so I let other people’s prompts inspire me, then I channel my scorbus or Drarry head canons and try to let them tell me what shape the story should take.

“potentially the most important bit of the globe’s much ado that i…”

tell me more pls i live for the pop up globe and everything related to it

!!!!! this production is the entire reason i’m alive thank u for letting me gush (also i’m moving back down to melbourne again soon and i am v hype about the pop up globe Look Out)

look at these production photos. i want to glue them directly onto my eyeballs 

it was set during the mexican revolution which the director said was mostly an aesthetic choice but idk i thought it was really present?? there’s a little prologue at the beginning entirely in spanish of everyone huddled on top of each other on the train, drinking and singing and bickering over the campfire, and then a MAN WITH A WOUNDED LEG GETS CARRIED SCREAMING THROUGH THE AUDIENCE ON A STRETCHER etc etc. the cast was almost entirely poc and at the end they sang a revolution anthem and the stage was lit up in the colours of the mexican flag

but ya the aesthetic was gr8. traditional dance and dress, a lot of the singing was in spanish and the music was performed by a lil mariachi band on top of the train carriage set. the whole thing was just really energetic and colourful and joyous

like ‘sigh not so’ starts out really weepy and traditional and then balthazar and claudio break into this really upbeat dance number, i’m pretty sure someone does a cartwheel at some point, and then they just. go right back to it. ‘siiiigh not soooo’

don john was donna juana!! which i thought was interesting bc there’s a lot more to be said about a bitter woman knowingly inflicting that kind of ruination on another woman than a bitter man just out here for shits and gigs, but we didn’t really get to go into it that much. hearing the ‘let me be that i am’ speech from a woman really had me feelin some kind of way tho

also antonio was antonia and she was a huge lesbian with her gf ursula

this really isn’t relevant to anything but don pedro had the biggest, toothiest grin that he was constantly flashing around the stage and it’s so vivid in my mind it is Vital that you know this information

benedick is shooting cans off the top of the train when claudio is telling him how much he loves hero only one of the cans fell forward onto the stage and distracted claudio so he just paused mid-speech like ‘hey nice one’ ‘yeah’

later margaret has a go and misses every shot (‘BOLLOCKS,’ she says, in the most cockney accent ever) and then hero takes the gun from her and hits every one

they never show pedro and claudio at hero’s window the night before the wedding; you go into intermission with hero singing ‘desperate kingdom of love’ (which they kind of used as hero’s theme) which was honestly just as devastating bc she’s so young and sweet and u just Know she’s about to get rekt. that being said she was absolutely seething with heartbreak and rage after the wedding which was refreshing

dogberry and verges. oh my god. dogberry was a clueless white american filmmaker and ‘speaking spanish’ was just him using a dreadful cockney accent that a very weary verges had to keep correcting whilst the rest of the cast just looked at each other in dismay. sometimes i get very tired very quickly of shakespeare’s fool shenanigans but this was just a really fun and creative way to do it that worked with the context of the setting i loved it

uh rip but ben/bea are truly my fav characters/fav couple…. Ever so like. here’s a whole separate bit for them bc i struggle to describe the ~~Vibe~~ in a way that does them justice but uhh. they were very very good

benedick was so?? funny??? he hides in the train carriage and when he hears that beatrice is in love with him the window BURSTS OPEN and he looks out with the biggest >:O face. he walks on at iii.ii all clean-shaven and dressed up smoochin a photo of beatrice which he IMMEDIATELY STUFFS INTO HIS MOUTH when pedro and co. walk in and does the rest of the scene with a wad of paper stuffed in his cheek. ‘i have the toothache’

when he was writing his shitty sonnets he said ‘the only thing that rhymes with senorita is…… well all i’ve got is healthy eater’ and someone in the audience clapped as they laughed and he GLARED at them and snapped ‘oh don’t applaud that, come on’

this is what he does when he decides to court beatrice (‘love meeeee!!!! why, it must be requited!’) and he does it again at ‘i was about to protest that i loved you’ ‘then do!!!! with all thy heart’ because he’s a giant dweeb

SPEAKING OF DWEEBS. beatrice calls claudio ‘civil as an orange’ and she LAUGHS and says ‘civil orange!! geddit?? seville orange??’ and everyone just stares at her blankly and she throws her hands up and yells ‘JESUS why do i BOTHER’, bc she’s fierce and sharp and snarky but more than anything else just absolutely spilling over with life and love. even after the fallout of pedro’s proposal she still runs off laughing, which i thought was really interesting

beatrice, pouring tequila shots before the masquerade: ‘one for hero’ [hero takes a shot] ‘and one [shot] for [shot] beatrice [shot]……. [shot]’ what an icon

i couldn’t 100% swear to it but i Think she says ‘you always finish with a jade’s trick- and too soon’ or something along those lines much to ben’s outrage so like…… they banged

beatrice comes in at v.ii wearing a bullet belt over each shoulder, a truly iconic look that changed me as a person. also at ‘for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?’ benedick climbs and swings off a ladder on the side of the carriage in the most ridiculously flirty way he’s DUMB

when they’re reading each other’s letters at the end benedick is genuinely touched by what she’s written while beatrice is kinda laughing and nudging him like ‘seriously?’ and he pulls a face like ‘oh yeah it’s pretty bad huh’. then she frowns and says ‘healthy eater??’ and benedick’s snatches it back like ‘ok that’s enough now’ 

ily 🥺💙

7. What’s the last thing you read that made you cry?

Bold of you to assume I read.

Gosh, I don’t really know? I got a bit teary-eyed while reading some parts of Novae because it’s just so lovely, but it wasn’t full-on crying—it actually takes a lot to push me to that! 😅

15. Post the last line you wrote without context.

A place he likes to get lost in, never looking for a particular book and letting himself be found instead.

19. What’s your favorite character headcanon?

This one’s a bit random, but I love the idea of Astoria being obsessed with flying. Her grandfather Hyperion was a broom manufacturer, her earliest birthday presents were custom-made brooms, and she’d barely learned how to walk before she was already whizzing about, crashing into hedges and chasing the gnomes in the garden. Obviously that led to an obsession with Quidditch as well (her favourite team is the Holyhead Harpies and she had a massive crush on Gwenog Jones and this is 100% canon because I say it is), and if it hadn’t been for her illness and the war and everything I’m sure she would’ve ended up playing for Slytherin (or maybe not, considering who was on the team, but she would’ve wanted to). She just loves the freedom that comes with flying and how it lets her be a little bit reckless, which is something she really needs.

Thanks for asking!! 💙

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

I’m excited about all of my current WIPs, but one of the things I’m looking forward to the most is writing about Albus’ friendship with Neville in Bloom (aka the Kiki AU). Neville’s a Squib in this fic, he’s content living a quiet life in his cottage in the woods with his plants and paintings, and he ends up being a great comfort to Albus because he understands his struggles better than most people: his feelings of inadequacy, his fear of disappointing others, his uncertainty regarding who he wants to be and whether he’s enough... I can’t wait to write that 🥺

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

Newt gives her a flickering smile and offers his hand to her. On his palm lies a handsome pink and purple feather, its tip sharpened so it can be used as a quill. Leta stares at it, uncomprehending.

“Madeline McLaggen snapped your peacock quill three weeks ago,” Newt says abruptly, the words rushing out of him like a waterfall, like he’s been keeping them in for too long. “And you’re using eagle quills now, but I know they bother you because they’re too big. But Fwooper feathers are very narrow, you see, so this quill will fit the shape of your hand better. They’re also very resilient, so no one will be able to break it, and it’ll last for much longer.” He demonstrates by bending it. “And I know you must like purple because you wear it so often—all of your scarves are in different shades of it. So I… I thought you might like it.” He’s looking at her with wide eyes, waiting for her to react.

(from A Proper Pair of Misfits)

This excerpt isn’t that special, but it kind of sums up why I wanted to write this fic, which is what I’m really proud of.

Leta’s such a desperately lonely character, she’s weighed down by an intense sadness and guilt, she’s spent most of her life feeling unwanted and unloved. She’s never had a friend, not until Newt comes along. And Newt has a good heart, but he’s not good with people, he’s blunt and unmindful, and yet he cares about Leta. And I wanted to explore how these two things would interact: Leta’s loneliness and self-hatred, and Newt’s own particular way of being kind (which is heartfelt but very awkward and hard to pick up on). And I really like how it turned out.

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

Astoria, of course 💙 Writing her is effortless, I never have to worry about her being out of character because she’s just... the way she is. And she’s such a fun character too, so witty and charming and unapologetically herself and relentlessly, stubbornly positive. I find her very inspiring. And her banter/flirting with Draco is probably my favourite thing to write!

25. What part of writing is the most fun?

(The part where I actually have time to do it and can focus on WIPs and plots without feeling immensely guilty because I’ve got exams/paperwork/Stressful Stuff looming on the horizon 🙃)

Probably the most fun part is when I’m outlining a fic or doing research and I start to make connections and things start to fall into place in unexpected and interesting ways and I go !!!!!!!! and my excitement multiplies by about a thousand ✨ I decided to make Scorpius a wandmaker in one of my WIPs just to try out something new and I was looking up wand woods and what I discovered ties in beautifully with not one but two plot points and it’s probably the best thing that’s happened to me all year.

Thank yoooouuuuu, ily so much 💙💙💙