#(jon makes a grab for agency and his love for martin ruins it)

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20 and 21 for the fanfic writer ask game?

20. What feedback makes you the happiest to hear?

probably when people say things like, 'i've never thought about this ship/trope/concept before but now I'm obsessed' (especially when the ship in question is jonsasha, i LIVE to spread jonsasha propaganda)

i also get really happy when i get feedback from people who have read and enjoyed several of my stories. especially comments about common tropes and themes i use in my writing that they really liked. my favorite comment ever is this gem that i found in the Little Black Bird bookmarks:

("If I had a knickle for every time i read a forest creature jon! Gets turned into a human to be jonah magnus' husband fic, i would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice, and i really hope it'll happen again cuz they both rocked. Edit: holy fuck theyre by the same author!")

I have never laughed so hard at a comment. i look at this whenever i'm feeling down and am just like, yeah i sure am the queen of this hyperspecific trope!

21. Is there an idea you’ve always wanted to write, but haven’t yet?

I've got a few, but in honor of the TMA finale anniversary, let me tell you about my idea for a somewhere else fic:

so martin makes it to somewhere else, and the very first person he meets up with is somewhere else!gerry. obviously gerry has no context for the Fears, but he witnesses martin coming through the rift along with a collection of horrors, so it doesn't take much to convince him that martin is telling the truth about alternate universes and whatnot. he lets martin crash on his couch for awhile, and they end up forming a ghost-busting team to try and protect people from the Fears

so where's jon in all this, you ask? ummmmmm he's dead. really. actually. he's dead. his only presence in the fic is as a corpse and in martin's memories. the entire first section of the fic is just gerry awkwardly trying to be sympathetic while martin is nearly catatonic with grief. (and then when martin has recovered a bit it's gerry awkwardly trying to figure out how to respond to, "yeah my dead boyfriend [from an alternate universe] would have been really excited to meet you, he was basically in love with you")

and like. this isn't a martin salt fic in any way (because i love martin with all my heart), but it does address the thing that most bothered me about the finale, which is the way none of the characters (except jon my love) seem to really consider that releasing the fears into alternate universes would do,,,,,, a lot of harm to the people in those universes, and i want martin to have to face the consequences of that choice

anyway, this was the very first fic idea that popped into my head after the finale, and i love it, but i haven't written it yet and maybe never will because jon is my fave and i would miss him :( (also no one wants a somewhere else fic where one of the boys just fucking dies)