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So extremely proud of this! and so incredibly grateful to @moonstonemagic13 for commissioning me for @sharkmartini ‘s birthday present! 

Fanon pic again! When the lovely and talented @sharkmartini was entertaining the idea of writing a Simon-saves-Baz-from-captivity fanfic, I told her that, if she wrote it, I would draw a scene from it. (In large part because we are both huge “Gran Hotel” fans and love that scene where Julio saves Alicia from her cell in the caves. So good.)

Please welcome writer Winnie/@sharkmartini the Golden Days zine! Here is a preview of her anticipatory piece, 💞

Find Winnie’s magickal works everywhere ✨ Tumblr // AO3 

Winnie read Carry On at the recommendation of her sister who knew she would vibe with it. Sometimes she writes about it.

ONE SHOTS

WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE? | T, 2k+ | Time Loop AU

They say that whoever you're with on New Year's Eve will be in your life for the rest of the year. Baz knows this better than anyone.

AN ACADEMIC OFFENSIVE | T, 19k+ | UNI AU

In which Simon and Baz share a room at the top of a tower, hate each other's guts, and reluctantly form a truce.

STAY UP WITH ME | E, 16k+ | Multiverse AU

In which Simon Snow falls asleep as the Chosen One, Saviour of the World of Mages- and wakes up as a normal.

FALL FLING | G, 1k+ | UNI AU

Working the Fall Fling kissing booth is no way to spend a Friday evening.

THE NEXT SIX WEEKS | M, 1k+ | Technically canon-compliant

Shower wank.

CHAPTERED FICS

NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT | E, 34k+ | Time Travel AU

Time-based magic has always been against the law. So it's a good thing the only people who know about this are Penny, Simon, Simon and Baz.

I CAN’T LET YOU GO | E, 10k+ | UNI AU, Incompleted

Simon and Baz meet for the first time during their first year at uni.

COLLABS & EVENTS

2019 Carry On Round Robin

EVERY STEP YOU TAKE | T, 2k+ | Prompt: Stalking Baz

How do you learn to trust someone you feel like you don't even know?

PWPs

PET | E, 5k+ | Vampire Porn

Most vampires can agree that humans are good for two things. Baz is disgusted. Simon is intrigued.

AGAIN, WITH FEELING | E, 2k+ | Interlude set during ‘No Time’

The heart wants what it wants- at eighteen and at twenty-five.

THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED | E, 6k+ | Toys & First Time

Omg hitting me with the hard ones, as if I know what I’m doing, 😂

20: What’s a common writing tip that you almost always follow?

Good question... I wonder if there is anything! I know there are a lot of things I should do, like read a lot, write every day, outline, etc... But I don’t really do anything in particular. I read shamefully little (Carry On is the first book I read in years), I write when the mood strikes, I only hold my outline in my head... Oof. Is “chase your bliss” a common writing tip? I hope so, 😂 That’s all I do.

21: What’s a common writing tip that you mostly ignore?

I guess I ignore all of them, given my previous answer l-lol... Though I actively ignore “said is dead” and “don’t use filler words” (such as “like”, “really”, etc). My vocabulary is almost entirely filler words, so I gotta work with what I’ve got!

27: What is the best writing advice?

Chase 👏 your 👏 bliss!  👏 Be happy with what you’re writing, even if you think nobody else will be. (Besides, there will always be someone out there who is thrilled you wrote the thing they’ve wanted desperately to read.)

Thank you, my love! 💞

Yeah! Since I knew how the story would start and how it would end, I needed to do a lot of planning to figure out all the middle bits. It’s actually the only fic where I wrote out my outline! (I only do mental outlines for everything else.) There were lots of, um, moving parts to keep track of, 😂

I followed the outline most of the time. One notable exception is Chapter 4: originally Simon was going to try fingering himself and be like “I have no idea what you’re on about, Baz, that was crap” and Baz was going to be like “you’re an idiot, get on the bed”. But the dildo-flying-at-Simon’s-face scene wrote itself, so I just went with it.

The final chapter also differed from the outline in regard to the sex bits. I was going to make it more tender and awkward at first, but pretty quickly decided to let them have more fun with it.

Thank you, my darling, my love 💞💞💞

Answered 4 and 8 here

Answered 8 here also

But hell, let’s answer 8 one more time because that’s how I roll:

8. What is a scene you wrote that you are most proud of?

I’m strangely proud of the entirety of chapter 1 of “5 Times They Half-Arsed It” because I let myself write the closest thing to PWP I could ever manage. I just said to myself “I want to write gratuitous, no-homo ass eating”, and I did. Without, like, getting crazy bogged down in a more realistic set-up. Instead, I added more and more ‘character realism’ throughout, to keep it interesting—and to slake my need for everything to ‘make sense’. But I’m proud of myself for jumping in with both feet and going buck wild!

3. How do you know if your writing is “in character”?

Ha……… I have no idea. I try to keep canon in mind at all times, I guess…? I think about what the characters have said or done in certain situations and do my best to extrapolate how they might react to other things given that. Obviously, there’s only so “correct” you can get this sort of thing since everyone’s going to interpret and filter the text in their own way—and add their own experiences and desires and traumas and etc on top of it, too. There’s such a charm to that! There are a lot of possibilities, and so long as I’m not actively going against something in the books, I let myself relax. What Stays and What Fades Away wound up being completely off-base in terms of their lives and characterisations post-Carry On, which I’m now retroactively disappointed about… But I think it holds up as something that could have happened??? Maybe? Who knows, 🤷‍♂️ (Not me.)

7. What fic of yours makes you the most emotional?

Hmm… I don’t get any emotional response when reading my own stuff, though I can get pretty invested while writing—just having a hard time remembering which fics actually made me emotional… I probably got a bit choked up with Simon’s text message word-vomit to Baz in Limit Break and also when writing Simon’s speech stuff in I Choose You.

I might have to give it to 5 Times, though! That fic is an emotional rollercoaster of smut, humour, angst, and fluff, and I completely chased my id on that one.

Thank you, Winnie my love 💞