#three-plums

10. What is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

I guess 3 years? I started an Ed/Izzy OFMD fic in 2022 and half-heartedly finished it up earlier this year when I was actively trying to finish off old stuff. My Carmy/Richie fic was also part of this but that was probably only 2 years rotting away, maybe slightly more!

12. A trope you’re really into right now

Again my understanding of where tropes end and kinks/tags/concepts/warnings begin is very fuzzy. Probably "consent issues"? Past abuse? Power dynamics? I genuinely don't know if these are tropes. Something that I feel confident is a trope: hurt/comfort!

23. Pick three keywords that describe your writing

Hmmmmmmm. Obsessive, descriptive, empathetic. (I hope?)

25. Besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

Reading, drawing, walking, biking, looking after my creatures, film, film photography. Learning Spanish & dabbling in Latin, Welsh, and various other languages just for fun rather than fluency. I love the theatre but I rarely manage to go.

Unsure if this is us having really similar thematic interests or you knowing how much I (over)use light and dark in my writing but regardless... 💌

At Summerhall, heat shimmers and rises like dust from the courtyard flagstones. The afternoon is bright and clarifying: perhaps the last spell of fine weather before the autumn takes hold and the stormlands remember the oath of fealty sworn to their eponym. Aerion likes these clear days when the sky is turquoise blue and as tempting to dive into as a cool body of water, likes the heat of the sun burning away bad dreams. He takes after his father in complexion, skin scorched red and blotchy by noontide, but he tells himself he does not mind. It is a kind of fire, he tells himself, that rises from somewhere within him to greet the warmth and burns his thin skin on the way up.

10. What is the longest amount of time you’ve let a draft rest before you finished it?

In terms of actual finished drafts that are complete? Like a day? I edit so obsessively that I need to get rid of that shit

Edit: wait I misread!! I've come back to drafts after 3 years before finishing them... But I have much older drafts that I still have hope of completing T_T

25. Besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

These questions always make me feel like I'm doing icebreaker games lmaoo it's so embarrassing how boring I am! Reading, walking, films, film photography (severely lapsed), bird-watching, life drawing, regular drawing, lino cuts (severely lapsed), forum rp (on semi-hiatus), crying, looking after my creatures, talking about my cringe fandom interests online <3

30. Share a fic you’re especially proud of

forgot I queued this, I thought I would be done with more fics than I am lol

11. fandom you enjoyed writing for the most this year

For a myriad of reasons I have to say Gladiator II. I haven't felt this invested in writing for years (since before I got too ill to... live much of a life) and somehow... SOMEHOW... writing fic for this awful film got me there. It was a good place to start writing historical fic for one because the bar was so low I just had to have fun with researching but not worry too much about every detail being accurate. I enjoyed the community and felt like I could write whatever I wanted to. I definitely levelled up some aspects of my writing during that first half of the year too!

24. favourite fic you read this year

tremens

30. favourite fandom to read fic from this year

unleeeeeess........