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[phoenixfalls]

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sanguinity , thank you! No clue who might want to take part so I'm not tagging anyone, but I promise, if you want to share then I want to read!

 

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

92, 10 of which are collections of multiple ficlets

2. What's your total AO3 wordcount?

163,717

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I don't really have a fandom I consider myself "in" right now; I've been struggling to write anything at all for a couple years, so any fandom that I have a solid idea for I'll try to see if I can get some words out. Most recently I've completed fics for Vorkosigan Saga, Criminal Minds, and D.K. Broster's Flight of the Heron; I've started but not completed fics for Stargate: Atlantis, White Collar, and Teen Wolf.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

A Lonely, Lost Thing, MCU, Rhodey & Tony MIT gen/pre-slash

500 mL, MCU, Bruce/Tony watersports PWP

The Floor Under Our Feet Whispers, Teen Wolf, Sheriff/Derek fluffy get-together

The Tender Solemn Dawn-Time, MCU, Rhodey & Tony MIT fluffy pre-slash

Three Decades, Three Proposals, MCU, Rhodey/Tony sappiness

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try. I've failed a lot at it, though I do still intend to respond to all comments I haven't previously responded to. You know. Someday.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't write very much angst in general, and certainly don't write very many angsty endings! But I do have two breakup fics in my catalog:

my tired soul on fire, My Dearly Beloved Detective, Shirley Holmes/Jane Watson

Annul a Want, MCU, Melinda May/Natasha Romanov

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

This was a surprisingly hard question to answer! I think the majority of my fics are happy, overall, but I don't think of them as having happy *endings* because I don't actually picture them as having discreet endings at all. Much of what I write is sort of snapshot-like, deliberately constructed in a way that hopefully the reader leaves the fic with a sense of the world outside/before/beyond it.

So here, have the fic I've written that makes *me* happiest:

Get Their Good Tidings, MCU, Rhodey/Tony landscape porn reunion fic

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I don't think I've ever gotten anything I'd outright categorize as hate, luckily; I've gotten a couple fics where people objected to a narrative choice I made in a way that made it clear they felt it was morally objectionable, but they were reasonably polite about it.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Heck yes, it's what I consider my comfort zone as a writer. I particularly like kink fic, because I love smut that also serves as insight into the characters, and kink fic is GREAT for that. Plus I just like kink! Not all of my smut is cerebral, plenty of it is just designed to be hot.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Not really. I've written a couple fusions, but the only true crossover I've written is this ficlet:

Joan Watson & Annalise Keating, HS AU

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I have. It was a weird experience. It happened here on tumblr! Someone let me know anonymously that they had seen someone post one of my fics as their own, in a different fandom (so all they had done was change the characters' names). I went to the person's tumblr, verified that it was mine, messaged the person asking them to take it down and messaging the few people that had reblogged it letting them know that it was stolen. (It had less than 20 notes at the time, I think.) I went back to the thief's blog later and they had deleted the post and then posted a bunch of text posts talking about how they were spiralling emotionally. Which. . . yeah, I still don't know what to do with that.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! My Elementary ficlets (those that existed in 2019) were translated into Russian, here. Which, of course, I can't read, but it's deeply flattering!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

sanguinity  and I have a joint project. Like she said in her post, it's great fun and I also hope we finish it one of these days!

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Nope.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

All of them! Not only am I in this multi-year slump, even before that I had a terrible record of picking projects back up and finishing them once I initially set them down.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Characterization and the telling detail.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Plot. Generally making things happen, creating a sense of forward momentum.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I've never written a character where it was necessary for me to develop thoughts on writing dialogue in another language. Which is nice, because I have no doubt that I would completely overthink it!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

MCU/Iron Man movies

20. Favourite fic you’ve written?

Also nope. Look, I just don't really do favorites. Everything has its pluses and minuses, my favorite is totally dependent on mood and how I'm defining "favorite" in that particular moment.