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Hey there! Thanks for the ask :)

12. A trope youre really into right now

Can regency be a trope? I've been reading the captive prince series and watching The Serpent Queen and outlining a potential rewrite of a pynch royalty au i wrote so ive kinda had a one track mind there 😅😅

23. Pick three key words that describe your writing

That's a tough one... probably detailed, chatty, and meticulous

ok so this one is about 7k of almost entirely dialogue and vague stage directions but the gist is that it's a no magic au where they all meet in college and uhhh they fall in love etc

here's a very unpolished snippet:

Adam nodded back towards the group and said, “Who’s your hot friend?” 

“Hm? Who, Ronan?”

“Ronan!”

“No, of course, you know Ronan. Shit,” Gansey swore uncharacteristically. “Forget I said that.”

“You think Ronan is your hot friend? He’s the first person you thought of?”

“There’s no way to dig myself out of this one, is there?”

“I’m afraid not. I guess I can’t say I’m surprised, though. I thought you were together when I first met you.”

“You did? Jesus.”

“Can you blame me? Neither of you are exactly poster children for heterosexual platonic friendship.”

“Dear God. I have been made aware of the rumors, but et tu, Adam?” 

2: What scene did you first put down?

Do you know, this is one of those very rare stories where I wrote the entire damn thing from start to finish? Man, I’m trying to remember what it was like to have free time like that. Insane. Though I’m pretty sure the scene I started with mentally was the Reno falling out a window scene, so I knew that was going to be about midway in there, and once I hit it, that would be leading to the second half of the story and Cloud giving in/up.

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

"I don't care." Cloud savagely pushed his stick into the fire and several logs collapsed in a shower of sparks. He sat back and stared into the embers. "Is all Turk courtship this fucked up?"

Vincent mulled it over.

"In my day, it involved more guns and rubber hosing," he finally said.

(Probably the line about Reno owing Elena money is the runner up. But my personal head canon is that post-FF7, Vincent spends a lot of his time repeatedly passive-aggressively negging Tseng about what the Turks are like now as opposed to when he was in them. Just a nonstop series of, “So that's how you do things now. Hmm," shady comments and raised eyebrows. )

11: What do you like best about this fic?

I like it when I can actually pull off fics that move quickly and have short sections to them. I feel like those flow more naturally than my usual “oh no we’ve spent eight pages on the same scene.” I love reading and writing long fic and epics, but keeping things short and getting your point and/or action across in less words is a real skill that I, uh, am still working on.

I also like that I think I managed to make it reasonably funny but also a little bit emotionally heartwarming. Balancing between those two things is the sweet spot I’m usually aiming for. I love angst and fluff and horror and everything, but in the end, humor will almost always win in terms of my favorite thing to try and write. Mostly because I think it’s hard to do.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

Ha, see, the thing is, Reno is one of those characters that has such a wide fanon interpretation (which is good! people should enjoy the spectrum) and I have this super specific take on him where-- listen, I have my issues with Advent Children, but one of the things I thought they got right was Reno. He is totally that specific ridiculous yakuza who somehow repeatedly fails upwards. My personal fanon is that every night, no matter what’s happened, he falls asleep (or passes out) feeling victorious. He never interviewed for a job as a Turk; he just kept showing up and they couldn’t get him to leave. He has personal vendettas against vending machines. He can fight, sure, but he’s also just, like, chain-smoking chaos in a winkled suit that somehow turns incompetence into victory.

And then you have Cloud who’s saved the world multiple times and has so much trauma and so little self esteem to the point where he basically had to re-imagine his entire life and personality and become his best friend, and he’s just way too aware of everything that’s brought him to where he is now. My two favorite character types are people who are incredibly bad at being themselves, and people who are incredibly good at being themselves, and one of my favorite dynamics is then putting them together and seeing what happens. And it kinda feels like that would be why they’d be a good match, post-game. Reno just has no fucks to give about anything normal or noble, and that would make him impossible to offend or let down, which I think would be a big thing for Cloud.

Aww, thank you! <3

9. Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Probably “A SOLDIER’s Congratulations” which I started about a year ago and which is still not posted because I’m just having the hardest time getting myself to edit it. It’s a longer PWP with all five of the ASGZC and tbh it’s probably more porn than I personally want to write/read and yet for some reason I wrote it anyway. ^^; It’s getting to the point that I’m considering just saying “screw it” and doing a basic typo edit and unleashing it upon the world as is.

10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?

Technically my Rokka no Yuusha ficlet, which was only 273 words. Though, for actual fic-sized stuff I’d probably say A Beautiful Relationship since that one flowed really smoothly and was fun to edit afterwards. 

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Probably the time travel fic that I’ve been working on in the background, if for no other reason than it has an actual plot. XD For fics actually published, I’d probably go with Two Holes Polyamory since that’s a fic that actually has a lot doing in it and isn’t just all inner thoughts and two-person dialogue. Seeing Zack run around trying to get everyone’s PHSes before they see is dirty porn link would be amusing for sure.

20. Describe your perfect writing conditions.

Sure!

A different shipping meme

lowkey otp: Leario

highkey notp: LauraxRiario

[softly] don’t notp: VanessaxLorenzo

highkey otp but i’m scared of saying it because it’s not a very popular choice: ZoxVanessa

Woo-hoo! I am here to cheer you on! ��

Hey there! Thanks for asking :)

bonfire - describe your dream house.

Been thinking about this a lot lately. So, I really like Halliwell Manor from the original charmed series as well as the Owens' house in practical magic. So, I'd really like a big, old house like that, one that I could really put some work into and restore. I'd like a bay window and a parlor that I could use as a craft/art studio. The main thing is that it's got to be in at least minor disrepair so I can fix it up. My sisters and friends keep making fun of the "for sale" houses I send them because they're the house equivalent of a roller car. (side note: I also want a roller car to build out.)

moonlit - are you a neat or messy person? Is your room / house orderly?

Currently (and for the last several years tbh) i've been staying in my car, and despite desperately trying to keep it organized it's messy. It's the clothes. I HATE folding clothes. Very tempted to throw away everything but the 5ish outfits I'm currently wearing to make space, but I did that once and found myself having to buy new stuff when the season changed.

When I kept an apartment it was mostly what people would describe as "lived in" but nothing too terrible. I'm just a project person and that kind of sprawls whenever I'm given enough space to sprawl lol.

amber - share an unpopular opinion that you may have.

About TRC... Oh I know one that I think everyone on my dash disagrees with!

Though unpleasant, I do think that Adam working for a shadowy government agency falls in line with his character's core motivations.