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23. least favorite story you’ve ever written

the real answer is probably the very first fic i ever wrote, back in middle school, for the OG Roswell. Liz comes back to town for her wedding to [some guy I made up]...but Max is still in love with her...and she's still in love with him!!! it was very subtle, very emotional stuff, i assure you.

as for things i've written as an adult - i will go with this little New Year's Eve bughead pre-relationship fic, kaleidoscopes. it's not bad, it's fine, it's just very meh.

48. three spoilers for (insert story title)

here's what i'm gonna do. i'm gonna give you 1 spoiler for each of these 3 stories, but i'm not gonna say which is which. :D

Ethel Muggs is in a bunker.

Jughead helps Betty move into a group house.

Betty & Jughead take a boat out to the middle of a lake.

Day #2 @riverdalepromptathon art post is from @sullypants fic Betty Cooper, Girl Reporter. 

"I don’t have a bad take to share"—that is because i've never seen you have a bad take in your life so, i mean. that tracks.

but also you're too kind to me?🥺

i have nothing to offer in return except my thanks and my favorite internet picture:

omg hi, what a lovely question, i am so flattered to receive such an ask! Admittedly, this is a very challenging question for me to answer without knowing what you're after, because i've written everything for different reasons, in different genres to stretch myself, going through genres and styles like Veronica goes through jewel-toned suit jackets.

Based on what I know of you, I would recommend A touch of Melbourne Magic. It is the only story that I have written in this comic-style. It's light and breezy, a bit campy, a holiday core 5 with bughead being unhinged yet adorable. This fic is really close to my heart and I had a lot of fun with it.

Most of my other stuff is explicit with a capital E. I once tried to write an M story and just failed miserably, upped the chapter count and just wrote porn to save my soul.

Otherwise. Probably not my best in terms of writing, given it was my first ever novel length completed fic, but my personal favourite, is The Inevitability of Betty Cooper, which comes with accompanying Jughead POV 'drabbles'. Betty is trying to work undercover without being too thirsty for sad sack gang leader. meditationonbaaal described this once as 'canon in reverse' and it kind of is in a way because psycho FBI Betty needs to learn how to play nice with others <3 Look, i love it, but it's not for everyone: dark themes, a metric fucktonne of tension and just so many lies.

Notes about the other stories are under the cut :) Thanks so much for asking and taking an interest! Choose whichever adventure takes your fancy (if any)! And of course, happy to talk about whatever else you want to know before you try (if you want)!

Donna Watches is the sequel to Bret Watches/second chapter of a larger fic that includes the two, and both are them watching the bughead sex tape, except they watch different portions because I'm convinced that that tape caught them having sex multiple times. Sad to say both have aspects of dom!Jughead/sub!Betty, but only because Bret wants Jughead to rail him and Donna wants to dominate Betty, so that's what would titillate them, and therefore that's what's in the fics. I'd actually intend for there to be a third chapter that's Ethel watching the tape before she realizes who's in it, and that one would actually be romance focused because that's what she wants, and also it would probably end abruptly and guiltily when Ethel realizes who's in it. Idk, they're all kind of excuses to write porn but also kind of explore the respective POV characters' approach to sexuality and romance. Anyway, there's barely anything in the Donna doc:

Thx love! So I have a couple in that doc that are too precious to give away but here’s one I’m willing to tease 👀😜

Betty and Jughead go home to Riverdale with Charles one year after college graduation to help Betty’s mom clean out the rest of the house so she can finally sell it. Polly refuses to help.

7. Do you rate the books you read?

Not really. I don’t read ratings either, mostly because, when I browse for titles, it happens within a bookstore, rather than online. I do have Strong Opinions, of course! It’s not really rating, but books usually fall into one of two categories:

1. every single one of my friends must absolutely read this book / hey! look what I got you for [insert suitable occasion], now READ IT, because there will be a quiz at the end [offers book and biscuits with a manic smile]

2. other  

25. How often do you go to the library?

Under normal circumstances I spend at least half the week at a library. Can academia exist without frequenting one after all? That being said, did you ask this to make me crumble into a sobbing mess? We’re in a second lockdown since the beginning of November… ALL Libraries are closed … I look at my library pass the same way mid-18th-century maidens contemplated their beloved’s likeness in painted miniatures. Leave me alone in my misery …

To lift the mood, here’s Jughead getting some books from Riverdale Public Library and a quote from Pratchett!

“The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.”

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music