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[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"

[merlyybird]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

I was tagged by @ferditheas ! Thanks for giving me a chance to ramble about my new favorite hobby hehe.

Just gonna chuck this at some of my other writer friends @mikaelmoviesandmore @bardic-bard @kksizzle @user-kanra @rashomonic and a couple fic writers I know from the Sonic fandom @mintenby @swirlyblast @funkyfandomlover . Zero pressure to do this btw!! I never do tag games, this particular one just appealed to me.

Questions under the cut! ❤️

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

18! Among that number I have some poetry, 2 unfinished longfics and 1 unfinished series, so it's not the most impressive number. Still, I only made my Ao3 about a year ago, so maybe I should be a little easier on myself haha.

2) What’s your total AO3 word count?

120,655. Wowza!

3) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Case of the Missing Helmet (first entry in my Team Chaotix series)

Dressing a Wound (Espio-centric post-Metal Virus angst)

what sad eyes you have (my Marihilda longfic featuring Demonic Beast Marianne)

day 5- memory (short, conceptual prequel to my Chaotix series)

The Case of the Swamp Creature (second entry in my Chaotix series).

It's crazy to see these statistics after wseyh dominated for so long. Team Chaotix is giving it a serious run for its money!! I guess this speaks to my interests and audience changing focus a little bit. I'm glad people seem to like the detective goobers as much as I do.

4) What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly Sonic and FE3H. I just feel like those two are the most inspiring (although I could have recency bias with Sonic). I've written the occasional Zelda fic, but they don't tend to come as easily to me.

Everyone needs to watch their backs, though, because one day I'm gonna snap and write a multichapter Mariokart fic. Like, there's no "if." It will happen.

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

I was so shy when I first started out---I didn't want to commit some kind of Ao3 etiquette faux pas, so I haven't responded to many of the comments on my older fics, just acknowledged my broad appreciation for them in the notes (I've had some regular commenters and essay-length comments that I think about all the time, but I totally haven't responded to them directly. Love you guys!!!).

I'm trying to ensure I reply to the all comments I get now, though. Reading takes a degree of time, commitment, and attention, even if it's just for a stranger's fanfiction on the internet. So if someone takes the time to read, enjoy, and comment on my work? That means a lot to me! And I want to show commenters that appreciation the same way they've shown it to me. Plus, maybe it'll encourage even more people to comment and start a conversation.

6) What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably this one where Marianne kills Hilda in battle LMAO

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I don't think anything I've written has ended with a comedy-level resolution, but the entries in my Chaotix series tend to end in a happy kids-cartoon sort of way, and this one I just posted to Tumblr ends on just a pure cute note.

8) Do you get hate on fics?

Not to my face. In fact, so far, people on both Ao3 and Tumblr have been nothing but sweet and supportive!

9) Do you write smut?

Nah, not my thing. This is also a personal preference, but I like to keep my fics tonally consistent with canon even when they deviate plot-wise, and since I usually write about video games with General to Teen audiences, that's where my writing skews, as well. It just helps me with maintaining voice.

10) Do you write crossovers?

Not yet, but I would actually love to. Being a fan of Sonic and the Black Knight has made me want to put that hedgehog in a situation. Or maybe I'll put Team Chaotix in a situation. God can you tell they've taken over my brain

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware. I'd be genuinely shocked if that were the case.

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13) Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

I've co-written original stuff outside of Ao3. I've also done prose-style rp (both fandom and original) before, if that counts. I will say that @battry-acid and I have considered working on a FE3H fic together, if I'm not mistaken...

14) What's your all-time favorite ship?

I actually don't know if I have an OTP anymore, which almost feels sad to say. In terms of stuff I like, though: Marihilda has kind of become my bread and butter ship. In fact, any ship that involves Marianne gets a thumbs-up in my book (I actually wrote a little pre-Bernianne fic a while ago if that interests anyone 👀 I'm proud of how it turned out but it also kinda fell through the cracks lol). In terms of mlm FE3H pairings, Casphardt still takes the cake, I think. Basically I'm a FE3H multishipper who likes pretty much anything if you make a case for it, but I don't have any crazy strong feelings, if that makes sense.

I also don't really have any Sonic ships. Closest thing to a relationship I'm actually invested in is Team Chaotix found family (shocker!!). So if we're counting platonic or familial relationships, I'm definitely the most obsessed with them right now.

Oh wait I forgot about Alphyne. Yea that's my OTP nvm case closed

15) What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

For the record, I'd like to return to all my longfics that are on hiatus, but right now progress on taking back time (Sonic '06 au) feels a little up in the air. Maybe one day I will be struck by the inspiration I need to write more, but for now it's just gotta sit tight while I work on other stuff. I'm sorry Shadow the Hedgehog fans!!

16) What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm pretty good at naturalistic dialogue that fits character voices. I also think I'm good at both dramatic, angsty descriptions, and little moments of comedy. I enjoy writing all of those things the most, anyway. Some people have also recently told me that I'm good at writing kids, so that too, perhaps ?

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't think I'm very strong at writing mysteries even though it's like the only thing I write. I hate planning out long-term mystery arcs and always worry that things will get too confusing/feel like a Lost-style "mystery box" that will inevitably disappoint everyone. My writing also tends to be either a little too sparse (not enough interiority) or a little too bloated in pacing. Lastly? I'm garbage at coming up with titles. Titles are my mortal enemy.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I haven't encountered this enough to comment on it.

19) First fandom you wrote for?

Oh, god...Harry Potter technically, several years ago 😖 But I was a kid, didn't get very far and also didn't publish it. My catalyst for seriously writing fanfiction was actually Zelda---more specifically the first draft of rerun, my Majora's Mask one shot.

20) Favorite fic you've ever written?

wseyh is very long, unfinished, and probably not perfect, nor is it even what I'm most enthusiastic about at the moment, but it also holds a really important spot in my heart, among my friends, and in my history as a fic writer. Like, I made an Ao3 just so I could start posting it. It has more than earned a place in my personal Fanfiction Hall of Fame.

However, if you wanna read something that I will get really excited about right now, like right this moment? Chaotix series. Who would have guessed?

[elbiotipo]

pro-tip: don't ever use the sentence "thousands of years" in your worldbuilding unless you really know what a thousand years is like

[teaboot]

I love that I share my house with one of the most efficient apex predators millions of years of evolution could produce. I love that two of nature’s most prolific machines met and were like “hmmm. We should lay around and do nothing together”. Now we’re both fat and happy and full of meat. The hedonism of it all

[darlingofdots]

"gay or european" also goes for middle-aged women btw. that lady with short hair no makeup and sneakers isn't a lesbian she's just german

[cryptotheism]

X

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[monstermonger]

~3 months traveling in my wife’s home-country -> 100 journal pages

[snowspot]

hecate 🔪

[nutmargaret]

macarons

[asly-y]

Soul of her

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[sabertoothwalrus]

I've had this headcanon rattling around in my head for a while

[redstonedust]

it turns out a lot of people are actually on the same page about whether or not they'd work if they didn't have to earn money, we just all seem to have wildly different definitions of what counts as work. i'll see one person say "of course i would, i'd still want to create art and volunteer in my local community" and another say "hell no i wouldn't, i'd quit work and just create art and volunteer in my local community" and then they look at eachother like they said something incomprehensible.