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I've now talked so much about my posted fics that I have a decent number of director's commentary posts. So I figured I'd make a list for them, since I sometimes make the blog unsearchable, and stick it in my pinned post. I think I probably missed some because I'm bad about remembering to tag, but oh well. This is a good sample.

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4- What's a ship that you really want to write for but haven't yet and why?

Joyce/Bob. They were so sweet together and he was such an interesting addition to the family dynamic and I think it's outrageous that there's so little porn with this guy, but, I dunno, I just got kind of locked into my Jonathan ramblings. I made it about 300 words into a fic about them once before I got distracted. It's in the folder somewhere with the rest of them.

I'd say Joyce/Karen, too, since I've started a few stories for them but have yet to finish or make significant progress on any of them, which is unfortunate because I'm very into those two. Same reason. I got busy and tired and my interests narrowed over time.

12- Do you have any WIPs that you know you'll never finish? Why won't you finish them?

LOL, yeah, well, what can I say. I get a lot of ideas, with perhaps a surprising level of variety in my interests, and I have very little focus or stamina (or writing time, frequently). Actually, I have WIPs about almost every ST character, if I dig deep enough in the folder, but I'm especially fascinated by the dynamics in the Byers family, so that's often what I'm most inspired to write.

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14- Which fic or scene was the hardest for you to write?

I don't know about hardest, but Blood, Wine, & Roses was really tricky to arrange in a satisfying and effective way because it has a strange story structure. I was trying to do a very specific thing.

15- What's the weirdest thing that's inspired you to write a fic?

Off the top of my head, I'm thinking whatever inspired Going Somewhere was probably pretty weird, seeing as it's a really bizarre little fic (that also led to this blog's title, fun fact). I don't remember what it was. Though I suppose this might also fit the bill: Stitches on the Radio, the sad little Jonathan & Joyce fic where they get financially ripped off and socially humiliated, was inspired by a throwaway joke someone made about my mum that pissed me off and dredged up a lot of memories that, uh, you could say made me particularly empathize with the Byers family's social plight.

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1- Which fic of yours is your favorite?

My all-time favorite is probably Daybreak (a very dark MCU fic that I think maybe three people following this blog have read, lol), but for Stranger Things? I think it's a tie between From Umgluck with Love and Dear Whoever You Are (with remember who held you and were you named in your father's will?--also Will stories--pretty high up there, too). I really enjoy writing Will and feeling out his place within and understanding of the family dynamic, and I find gen fic especially satisfying to write. Dear Whoever You Are in particular was pretty experimental for me, and I'm proud of how it came out. That's the one with the premise that Will learns that Lonnie had a kid in Indianapolis, and, lonely in California, Will writes (but does not send) letters to the version of this half-sibling he's conjured in his imagination, using each letter like a diary entry. I played with the form a bit. There's a... not twist, but a part that recontextualizes everything before it, and I think it succeeds with what I was trying to do.

10- Which of your WIPs is your favorite, and which do you like the most?

Operation Barb. Hands down, it's my favorite WIP and the one that I would love to snap my fingers and discover a fully realized story. It's fun, a little sad, and has what I think is a really great character arc for Nancy. And it's got a ten-year-old Will looking for frogs in the woods with his brother. What more can you ask for?

I'm afraid the distinction between my favorite and the one I like the most is a bit fuzzy to me, so instead I'm just gonna mention this WIP I found recently and had forgotten about: Jonathan dies saving everyone and the story picks up a couple years later, well into the fallout, when Mike (the only witness to his "death") starts seeing Jonathan's ghost and has to figure out what's going on, what he's going to do about it, and how to tell the Byers family and Nancy, none of whom have emotionally recovered in any way, really, even though on the surface, they've moved on with their lives. I wimped out of actually killing him because it made me too sad, but for most of the story, everyone's certain that he's dead. Mike is not emotionally equipped for any of this, and it's got a lot of Mike & Jonathan interaction, which I've always wanted to write more of, and Mike and Will reconnecting as young adults.

16- What's your guilty pleasure when reading?

I wouldn't say I have any guilty pleasures, in the sense that I'm comfortable with the things I'm into or curious about. But I will say that I'm not above reading (and enjoying) a melodramatic, unrealistic hurt/comfort story all about my fave's feelings, possibly even including a trauma reveal.