16,34,35 (or if that’s too much just do one lol sorry) for the fic thing!!!!!!
16. Any guilty pleasure trope(s)?
HUGE slut for found family and h/c. cannot get enough of them.
34. Copy and paste an excerpt you’re particularly fond of.
this is such a nice question omg!! imma do a (long) throwback because i am still very fond of the prologue of A Hundred Golden Suns:
On an island, on the very top of the oldest volcano, one-hundred years past the time of Sozin, a child stood up for his countrymen.
He was right to, you see- the old man shocked by his insolence should have been more shocked at his own ability to throw away lives like so many burnt-up embers- but he paid the price all the same, when the same old man demanded he fight for his honor.
And when the child stood up to defend his actions, bathed in Agni’s light and allowing his prayer shawl to slip from his slight shoulders unimpeded, he found not the old man, but his father, who had intended to give up his countrymen as piglet-lambs for the slaughter, a sacrificial offering the spirits never asked for, and did not want.
“Stand,” his father said. “Stand, and fight.”
And the child did not hold himself in the regard that he held his countrymen.
And the child fell to his knees and begged mercy.
And the child, still swathed in the gold light he had been granted at birth, received no such succor.
“Please, Father, I am your loyal son-”
“You will learn respect, and suffering will be your teacher.”
35. Ramble about any fic-related thing you want!
OH MWAH! okay i am a MASSIVE sucker for fics that just have...layers to them. fics you want to peel back and dissect on every single level, until you fully understand the author’s intent, the story by itself, and how the story fits into the greater narrative as a whole. Just. fics that feel like puzzles, you know? i try as hard as I can to always be improving my writing. Like, writing intentionally. Because I want to write like this! I want my stories to be worth essays! you know?
