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I am so glad you like it! And also very happy to be reminded that there was a playlist?? I had honestly forgotten that. The masterpost for the fic can be found here - there is a link to the playlist, but also to all the amazing art done for it as a part of the hobbit big bang 2015 and since. there is some phenomenal art connected to the fic, and it would be lovely if that got some attention too! 

Hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to group all your asks into one answer :)

The last thing that made me laugh was DEFINITELY through a window softly, the Wangxian musician AU of everyone’s dreams. WWX’s voice in this is TO DIE FOR, he’s hilarious and relatable, oh boy, ever so relatable.

2. What’s next on your ‘to-read’ list? (Fan fiction or otherwise)

Fanfic wise, I’m gearing up for Upon Our Silver Bridge - the wordcount is over 300k on this baby, so I’m really just picking out a good day or five to stay in bed and read it all in one go, because as previously stated, my brain is incapable of doing anything else, you know, like pacing itself. My brother recently gifted me The Mistborn Trilogy, so I definitely want to give that a shot too, but perhaps when there isn’t so many good fics to inhale at the speed of light...

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

OKAY SO WHERE DO I EVEN //BEGIN//. There’s one I’ve been workshopping with @acutebird-fics, lovingly titled ‘Cottagecore Xicheng’ in my Google Docs. Don’t wanna give too much away, since I’m probably going to end up actually writing it, but it’s a nondescript modern AU (shocker!), wherein JC moves in to his parents’ old empty house, and LXC, also alone in a big empty house (but with a much nicer garden, if he does say so himself) suddenly has a gloomy neighbor he can’t seem to stop running into. Conversations about grief are had, bees are kept, casseroles are baked, cute baby nephews are admired... :D

(Then there’s one called ‘JC Dreamland’, wherein Jiang Cheng gets a very inconvenient sex dream, which is the very last thing he needs, and things spiral from there, and that one will be written, too, but it takes itself infinitely less seriously than anything else I’ve got planned :D)

Already did 1 and 3! :)

8. Do you listen to music while you write? If so, share a song that’s been inspiring you lately.

I usually listen to instrumental music to drown out any other noises, but yeah I tend to have a song or three or half a dozen to go with each ongoing story... Right now, I listen to Sketches of Summer by Roo Panes every time I need to get In The Mood for writing Welcome to Gusu :)

18. What is a line/scene you’re really proud of? Give us the DVD commentary for that scene. 

Since you mention Love-In-Idleness, I gotta mention their super sappy reunion, with the boxers and the flip-flops and the snow... I always knew I wanted something incredibly tropey turned on its head for them, and!!! IT WORKED. It was SO much fun to write, shooting silly lines back and forth, Thorin freezing his literal ass off... Comedy gold.

25. Which idea came to you first in Love in Idleness? And First Impressions? 

For LII, it was inspired in its entirety by those delicious pictures of The Globe’s production of Midsummer, and the rest of it grew around those very organically :D For First Impressions, there was a tumblr text post with the exact same premise, I believe, and I wrote that short thing in one go, I think, it was amazing and a lot of fun.

AmnesiaUndercover in a gay barSomeone has a babyForced to share a bed/fake relationshipGenderswap

Gosh! OK let’s go (I’m gonna answer these all in one message).

1) Arranged marriage I have never read this trope! Because I read mainly slash this would imply to me an AU of some kind so perhaps that’s why.

2) Amnesia: I can definitely see myself being into this. I like SPN stories where the boys have been separated for some reason and then something has happened to one of them and the other is horrified to discover it when they meet up again (lbr I like hurt!Sam especially so for example there’s one set after Free to be You and Me where Dean is in End!verse for months instead of just a day, and when he comes back he finds that something bad has happened to Sam [gen]), so I can see amnesia working in that scenario. OH and I read a really really great Reverse Bang recently called Into Oblivion [NC17 Wincest, be warned] which has Dean slowly losing his memory. (I highly recommend this one!)

3) Undercover in a gay bar: This just makes me think of John and Sherlock on Sherlock’s stag party, haha! I mean this would be fine as a trope I suppose but it’s a bit silly so probably in the context of crack rather than anything serious.

4) Someone has a baby: I basically just read slash so this is the same as MPreg which I already answered here. Oh wait except I’m into the idea of Soulless!Sam getting someone pregnant during his year of screwing around, and having to deal with it some time later: but the best fic I’ve found about that takes the form of this post and its tags. Maybe that is one I would write one day tho.

5) Forced to share a bed/fake relationship: well I suppose the first one is the starting point for many a Wincest fic (esp teencest ‘oh we are on the road living in motels and we are always sharing a bed together’) so I have read approx 1 billion of them! Fake relationship I would class with ‘undercover in a gay bar’ as funny but cracky.

6) Genderswap: I’m not normally into this but I have read a couple of fics that make it work including this one, 'Not Time's Fool' by FayJay [also NC17 Wincest! be warned!], where Dean is cursed and turned into a girl but he is still extremely Dean throughout (it’s told from his POV). (The Sam in it is super sexy so that might be why I like it hahaha!)

when/ if I started shipping it: i’ve shipped Sastiel for almost 2 years, which is around how long i’ve been watching the show

my thoughts: they make sense because they’re simliar. they’re both kind and both misunderstood. they both feel like they don’t deserve anything but they’re also very selfless. Sam used to be aw struck in Castiel’s presence, now he defends him whenever possible. Castiel would do basically anything for Sam.

What makes me happy about them: their interactions are usually lighthearted, and when they’re not, it’s usually about defending each other or working together.

What makes me sad about them: Sam seems to have lost some of his aw for Cas. i think he’s over the fact that he’s an angel and might actually still feel strange about the whole Leviathan thing and guilty for the crazy wall thing…

things done in fanfic that annoys me: TOO MUCH WINGS TOO MUCH FLUFF AND WATCHING DISNEY MOVIES TOGETHER.

things I look for in fanfic: praying, dub con, bottom Sam, religious stuff

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: i would obviously be okay with Sam and Dean, and Castiel with Meg, or someone else who loves them

My happily ever after for them: Castiel approaching Sam and telling him he’s one of the two most important people in history, that he’s worthy and that he loves him and wants to show him what that means. and Sam actually accepting that and explaining to Castiel that he’s just as important and worthy, and he’s surprised, but they try to start a life together. (honestly i prefer dubcony/rough/aggressive sastiel but i’m trying to picture canon right now heh)

who is the big spoon/little spoon: Cas tops, but Sam is the big spoon, even when Cas turns in toward him and they sleep facing each other

what is their favorite non-sexual activity: saving people and angels, hunting things…

How I feel about this character: John is one of my favorite spn characters. he’s so strong and ready for justice to happen. he loves passionately, and he’s the driving force of the series. he’s the reason Sam and Dean are who they are. they’re heroes because of John. NOT everything was perfect, but he loved Mary, he loved Sam and Dean, he had amazing friendships with Bobby and Rufus and Ellen and all those psychics and priests and others who stepped up to help the boys when they needed it. because they were John’s boys. 

All the people I ship romantically with this character: Dean, Mary, Bobby, Sam, random side characters 

My non-romantic OTP for this character: i actually don’t know what this means :S like best friend? Bobby…

My unpopular opinion about this character: that he was a great man

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: i wish he would come back one more time. it would wrap up the show a little bit and we’ve seen Mary and Bobby come back a few times now. the writers were saying they’ve wanted him back as well but there’s always scheduling conflicts! 

my OTP: fanonly it would be John/Dean but canonly i would have to say John/Mary

my cross over ship: oh um….i guess i don’t have one ;__;

a headcanon fact: John died doing the absolute best he could do. he went out protecting his family. he sacrificed his life for his wife and children. he’s a hero