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thank you for asking!! i answered 21 and 38 here. i love that many people wanted to know those :)

33. what is your favorite line from vhs dream?

thank you for asking because i was proud of the prose in this story and i feel like some of it was a little different for me. i honestly loved the first paragraph because i couldn't figure out how/where to start at first and i tried that and it felt so much better than anything before. and i liked the phrase "a ship's bell of a thought." "everything felt very literal now" is a sentence i have wanted to use since getting into this mess and i was glad to finally use it. and FINALLY... to me the thesis of the whole story is "of course we get away, it's our movie"!! when i realized that it was a mic drop moment in my mind lol...

thank you my friend :) i do my best!!! i got a very nice comment recently that said "you're not afraid to go where it hurts." i like that!! i mean i wouldn't know where else to go. human beings make art and consume art for purposes of primal emotional catharsis...! that's why we are here. it means a lot to me that it has resonated with you!!

these were some hard ones to answer... and i'm skipping 27 because i couldn't think of anything!! anything i want to answer at least :)

21. what is something no one has caught about one of your fics?

i sometimes will use turns of phrase that are direct lyrical quotations from songs especially if they are thematically relevant in some way or if i feel like the characters might know them. i was very excited that i used the phrase "in the mouth a desert" (the pavement song) in a recent fic and somebody caught it. in the barrel there is a sneaky line from "good morning captain" by slint. i also often feel like my absolute favorite lines from my stories are not necessarily or at all the ones that stand out to others... like whatsoever!

38. fic idea you're most excited to get into?

oh man thank you my friend :) it means a lot to me that you have been reading my work for that long!! you have definitely seen me grow a lot as a writer. now i'm working on a book that actually feels commercially publishable maybe, so we will see!! i'm trying :)

32. out of all your fics, what is your favorite title

i don't really think i'm very good at titles, i have always just named most things after songs. not to continually toot the horn of this fic but i did think the g-spot was inspired as all of the nirvana the band episodes are named with words beginning with B... but those are about Boys... and in this version they are Girls... i also like harmonic oscillator, theme from an imaginary western, a metal-eating flower (though that one is from brautigan)

40. happy endings or sad endings?