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12. favorite flowers?

BIG FAT PINK ROSES

20. sweetest romantic memory?

okay so like. 3 years ago me and cait were in dallas for christmas. we get to the hotel and im just. sick. idk what, i think it was just a little cold, but im sweaty and sneezy and miserable. so cait puts me to bed and tells me she’ll go down and try and get me some cold medicine or something (which was a tall order bc it was literally christmas eve in downtown dallas and everything was closed). i just fall the fuck asleep and wake up when cait gets back-- not only did she manage to get me some tylenol so im not feverish and miserable, she got me garlic bread from this little takeout place that was next to the hotel!! i was just so in love and so happy.

21. favorite dating sim (and favorite character)?

i know you asked this bc i love dating sims but i. 

im not a gamer.

ive played, strictly, one dating sim, and it was dream daddy and i did love it a whole lot and joseph owns my whole heart. i did his route first and i KNOW hes married and i KNOW hes awful but!!!! i love him. 

fanfic end of the year asks (READ TAGS) | answered: 1, 12, 15, 21, 22

1. favorite fic you wrote this year

I’m bad at picking just one, so here are five in no particular order:

Swapped - I’m really proud of myself for coming up with this idea and sticking with it for this long! it’s the longest fic I have, and I already have a sequel (or some kind of spinoff?) for it

Shambles - this is incredibly self-indulgent and I wanna do more with this ot3 some time! I still think about it a lot

Iterum - OH, THIS ONE WAS MY FIRST ALL-ANGST FIC and I’m really proud of how it came out. I remember getting the idea before bed and frantically writing it down

French Chef & His Loving Rat - baby’s first acesan 🥺 it has a special place in my heart bc of that fact

I’m sorry that you have to have a body (filled with infection) - I Love how this one came out, I heard this song and wanted to write something based off of a scene from Dressrosa, and it’s so. soft

12. favorite character to write about this year

ACE. ACE. ACE. ACE. I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH, HE’S REALLY FUN TO WRITE. I love exploring both his goofy laid-back vibe as well as his Angst

15. something you learned this year

hm... I think I had to re-learn that shorter fics are okay. in the previous fandom, I wrote a lot of shorter fics, but then I started writing for OP and things got longer. so when I saw the post about ao3 being your archive, I felt comfortable again to post things that are even only 100 words long

21. most memorable comment/review

I’ve gotten So Many nice comments and I’m so grateful for all of them. some people go as far as to write essays of comments and I cry happy tears

but. I do think about this one on compliments to the chef a lot

the comments I get on my doflacroc fics are also always so good

22. events you participated in this year

FRobin Autumn 2020

I did a single piece for 10 Days of LawLu 2020

First impression Didn’t necessarily have much of one, tbh. Cute, though strange without his hat. I read out of order, so it took me some time to read the Drum Island arc.

Impression now I love him. Drum Island is tragic. His backstory, and that ever pervading image of snow blossoms falling from the sky in winter.

Favorite moment: I just love how gullible he (and Luffy) are. That he would have gone with fake Robin, and could not recognise Usopp as Sogeking.

Idea for a story I wrote one with Chopper. Riffing from his inability to be able to differentiate similar things, he’s talking with Law at Wano, and gets Law’s Jolly Roger mixed up with Doflamingo’s, and that leads to a discussion about how you can get a Jolly Roger mixed up with the symbol for poison.

Unpopular opinion I don’t think I have one for Chopper. I like his pre-timeskip hat better, but I think that’s a fairly common opinion.

Favorite relationship: We’ll go brotp here. Law and Chopper, Zoro and Chopper, Usopp, Luffy and Chopper, Any of the Strawhats and Chopper. He is their doctor.

Favorite headcanon: The three doctors (Law, Marco and Chopper) all doing their good work in a hospital AU, or on the fields of Wano would be great.

Character ask meme.

end of the year fic writer ask meme | answered: 1, 2, 3, 10  

1. What’s your personal favourite thing you wrote this year? oh man, I wrote so many things, so I’m gonna pick a few

sleeping was the first drabble I did, and I’m really proud that I was able to capture both characters’ personalities in 100 words. plus, who wouldn’t want Law and Chopper being friends?

French Chef & His Loving Rat bc AAAA MY FIRST ACESAN FIC ;w; it’s my baby and I remember giggling while writing it bc of one of the references

I am so, so proud of Swapped bc it’s the longest fic I’ve written and I have an ending in mind (I still have chapter to write before that), as well as a series to go off of it! I’m really happy that I’ve been sticking with it 

is it cheating to say the series I have planned for this month

10. What, if anything, are you going to try to do differently in your writing in the new year? I really wanna explore different ships along with the main ones I already write, as well as different tropes! I think exploring outside of my comfort zone would be a cool exercise

Nice one! Thanks, @scratchmenapoo!

Okay, here goes for my favourite phoenix.

favorite thing about them:

I like that he seems to be really laidback and easygoing with a good sense of humour. It’s just as well for me that I didn’t read too many Marco fics before I started writing him, cos’ it’s not how he’s usually perceived. Haha.

least favorite thing about them:

There is nothing not to like about Marco. He’s fab. Guess I would have preferred for Oda to make his age a little closer in age to the Worst Generation (so we can all feel good about our shipping likes), but it makes sense that he is the age he is, and a mighty fine 45 year old he is too.

favorite line:

Maybe the one chapter 992. Ah, it’s pretty important, I think, so I won’t spoil it for you. Just to say, I think it gives a nice insight and confirmation of the kind of relationship the Whitebeard Pirates had with Whitebeard. Also love his interaction with Nekomamushi

brOTP: Marco and the various members of the WB crew, I have Marco and Robin, and Marco and Zoro getting along in my fics, cos’ they’re good friends with Law. In my fics, he’s closest with Izou and Vista, but I wrote them before I knew that much about them. From canon we can absolutely see he’s good friends with Izou, Neko and Inu, and a whole bunch of characters you haven’t met yet, so exploration of that time of his life leading into the present is interesting.

Oh, of course I like a platonic Marco and Law as well as as a ship. Three Doctor Fics and art is cool too, so throw Chopper in there as well.  OTP:

MarLaw...haha. Yeah, I like it as a ship. Two smart, collected, intelligent and sexy men with sharp senses of humour. Blame the fanartists, like I said on my character thing for Law.

Ace is usually canonically not alive in my MarLaw fics, so there’s usually background MarAce. It’s not my OTP, but there’s background LawLu for Law too. People have pasts. Neither ship is treated disrespectfully.

Anyone’s fine with Marco, actually. He’s magical, but I also think he’s a bit of an everyman.

nOTP: I don’t have one for Marco.

random headcanon:

I think this is actually canon, but all of the characters who can transport characters physically—Luffy, Law, Marco—don’t give a rat’s arse about their passenger’s comfort. This is seen by 

—how badly everyone travels and lands when Luffy lassos them, 

—how Law lands on top of his travel companion (Caesar) during Green Bit, and Sanji lands ingloriously on the deck. Law’s okay though.

—when he’s transporting everyone on Zou, nearly everyone ends up tits over arse except for him. I think Robin remains steady.

—Marco unceremoniously dumps his travel companion in Wano (lands on his head). I won’t let you know who it is, though you’ll find out if you go through my blog, and tells him to quit complaining.

I think it all ties into my fic, Devil Fruit Drivers, actually. :-) So I’ll just self-promo here 😁

unpopular opinion:

Not unpopular, but I think fandom might be glossing over the fact that Marco states in chapter 909 (sorry) that his regenerating power only has a small effect on others. I mean, he was the WB doctor and all, so I’m sure he heals with more than his powers, but there is a limit to the healing capabilities of them.

I also think Oda said in an SBS there was a limit to how much he could regenerate and heal himself. Of course it’s fun to run with the healing stuff though. I have him and Law working in conjunction with their powers, and I’ve seen others utilise his powers in really beautiful ways in some fics.

song i associate with them:

"(c’mon baby),  light my fire” ?  

Okay, I’ll edit in the pics. I have some canon or related to canon faves. Gonna edit some into the Law one too.

This one (bar the thick neck!)

Kid Marco

Fashion Marco

And of course there’s always tsute’s commissions of Marco and Law which I adore:

Thanks for the ask. Law, Tashigi, Usopp, Zoro, Luffy, Marco and Kid are completed!  Chopper is lined up.

Ask away:

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4:Favorite Arc?

I think it would be Punk Hazard, and parts of Dressrosa and I’m loving Wano. I adore Wano. I get something from all of them eventually.

5:Favorite Devil Fruit?

Oh yay! I got an ask! I didn't think I would!

1. If you’re an author, how many WIPs do you currently have? (Be honest!)

Technically 3, if we're only counting things that have actually been started. I've got notes for about 10 more ideas lurking, but idk if I'll actually write those or not.

15. Post the last line you wrote without context.

"Ace, wait up! What sort of training are you talking about?" He hurries after the other man, desperate to find out what sort of chaos he's going to cause this time.

18. Do you have a fic reading/writing routine?