#the-picayune

Huge, huge, HUGE thank you to @the-picayune for being such an amazing super-human for organizing the @mlbforblm event! It would have been impossible without 1. her incredible idea in the first place (duh!) and 2. all of the time and effort she put into designing, organizing, and even working as a contributor herself.

you really just waltzed into my inbox and threw down a gauntlet, huh!

get randomly assigned as your lab partner for a whole semester: sandboy adrien, he can be my real live lab rat

get trapped with on a broken elevator for ten hours: malediktator chat cause he's a Real Cat and would probably enjoy the box, unlike poor clawstrophobic real chat :(

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

OOF probably coming up with titles.  I can bs a summary without too much trouble

39. What is you greatest strength as a writer?

Definitely dialogue lol. If I don’t get to write characters saying stupid things then what’s the point am i right

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

Describing simple actions like people walking or picking things up or remembering that people only have 2 arms haha

1. who is the hardest character for you to write?

oof, for ML, definitely Luka. I always try to keep my characterization as true to canon as possible, but just find him so hard to grasp 😩it’s difficult to figure out what makes him tick because i feel like the writers kind of changed his personality over the course of the show :/

2. who is the easiest character for you to write?

marinette! cause she’s an awkward disaster so much of the time and i relate lol

6. What has been the hardest fic for you to write?

second chance ... because it’s lukagami and, as I have established, luka is really hard to write. which is the reason i have,,,failed to update it 😶(i’m such a fool for even starting a multichap, especially one that’s not love square...i really should have seen this coming lol)

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

hmm if by emotional we mean sad then i guess Real ? because senti!adrien and angst and drama, etc. (with a happy ending cause i can never not have a happy ending lol). but tbh writing angst doesn’t hurt me that much cause I’m sort of emotionally detached when i write. (reading angst? different story. im a wimp lol). 

if by emotional we mean any emotion then lucky makes me smile bc it was like 900% self-indulgence kjfalskjf

i can’t... believe... you would do this to me... DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE!!!!

4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?

i definitely regret getting as emotionally invested in harry potter as i was. i missed out on a lot of things because i was so obsessed with harry potter for such a long time that everything else fell to the side

23. Name a fic you’ve written that you’re especially fond of & explain why you like it.

i don’t have a published fic i’m especially fond of but i have some wips that are so, so close to my heart. no spoilies but the emotional angst is gonna be delicious in them!!!

28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?

one of the aforementioned wips!!! adrien and marinette sharing an apartment “platonically”

or, you know, adrien in a belle époque outfit

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

This was an illustration I did as part of an art trade with @berryartistic, requested as a gift for @the-picayune’s birthday! 

It was a lot of fun to work on, and definitely a lot of hard work, since I typically work in watercolors and traditional media rather than digital. But, I’m really proud of it, and I’m honored to have been included in the beautiful gift that @berryartistic created.