#40 Questions

[rmd-writes]

2, 5, 28, 38! xoxo MJ

Of course you fucking did 😒

2. Is there a trope you’ve yet to try your hand at, but really want to?

Answered this one here!

5. Share one of your strengths.

I’m good at helping other people brainstorm for their fics.

28. Share three of your favorite fic writers and why you like them so much.

This one is also rude. In the interests of making this slightly easier, multi-fandom slut that I am, I’m sticking to RWRB fic writers, seeing as that’s our current primary shared fandom.

@indomitable-love has an incredible way of seeing to the heart of a character and making their emotions leap off the page in a very real way. I’ve learned a lot from living in her gdocs!

@everwitch-magiks creates worlds that feel so complete, even in a short one shot, and I really envy her ability to do that.

@clottedcreamfudge is funnier than I’ll ever be and her fics have so much heart, no matter how hot and horny they are

38. Talk about a review that made your day.

So, so many fic comments have made my day, I really love them so much. But I have two to share - one that made me actually lol and one that made me Very Emotional™️

This one from @bestwisheswarmregards (who isn’t active on tumblr but I’m tagging her anyway on the off chance she sees this):

And this, from @dustratcentral which makes me cry every single time I read it 💖(this is just part of the comment, for spoiler reasons):

[virtie333]

On the ask game....4 & 10.

Did my original three requests get to you? (1, 3, &40) It's not showing up as "your ask was sent" on my notifications.

Thank you, @jewelsrulz again!

4. How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Care to share one of them?

I always have ideas floating around in my head, and daydreams that develop into full stories as time goes one. But right now I just have two actual fic ideas (other than the one I'm currently writing, of course).

One is the Moon Knight fic I've talked about before. I really want to explore Layla and Marc's relationship post-series, and of course how it impacts Steven and Jake (who they have yet to get to know). Is it a way for me to write a polyamorous/reverse harem story without actually writing one? Maybe.

The other is another Damerey Modern AU, and it's one I've been wanting to write for a long time, but it had a very serious premise and starts off as a one-night-stand, something I've never written about, so if and when I get to it, I'm going to have to tread carefully. I'll probably do another canonical story before I even attempt this one, because I like to alternate. Toying with a Poe-dealing-with-PTSD type story, because you know he has to have it after the events of the first two movies!

10. Which fic has been the easiest to write?

The one I'm writing now (Caer del Cielo) has been the easiest long fic for me! It's just been cruising along, with only a few moments of 'dead air.' However, before I started it, El Halcón had been the easiest. It didn't hurt that I had been playing with that story in my head for literally years, so I knew almost every inch of it before I wrote it down (though a couple of chapters surprised me).

Anyone else want to ask me stuff? Now is the time!

[tanith-rhea]

Ei bebê :)

⏳ 🦥 🤎 📜 responda com carinho kkkkk <3

Irei u.u

⏳ What would you change about your life? No momento, estou bem na hierarquia de necessidades de Maslow. No entanto, não machucaria achar alguém especial (ou alguém especial que corresponde os meus sentimentos e não uma deusa que nem sabe que eu existo haha (cada ha uma lágrima))

🦥 Things you do with friends. Além de incomodar, trocar tiktoks, ler junto, piquenique, correr, tocar violão, assistir séries/filmes, fazer chamadas de áudio de umas seis/sete horas (nas quais a gente quase não fala, só segue o dia em uma pseudo companhia)

🤎 Biggest turn-on (romantically) Psicólogos digam o que quiserem, mas todas as linguagens do amor são as minhas linguagens do amor (eu tenho um relacionamento distante com as pessoas que me criaram, parcialmente culpa minha por me afastar). Então qualquer gesto vai surtir efeito comigo, eu percebo tudo e sou irracionalmente grata quando acontece.

📜 Do you have or want any tattoos?

No momento, não, mas estou com planos de fazer uma dessas:

[firesoulstuff]

1 and 13?

Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Definitely some type of kid-fic. I really like the trope of accidental baby acquisition, but I think I've written more pregnancy fics than I have accidental acquisition. Either way I find it so entertaining to write characters adapting their lives to deal with a kid. The arc for me usually goes find kid (or find out about kid), deal with some world-ending crap, figure out how to handle kid.

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

If you're ever stuck with writers block, look back about three sentences from where you are. Often the problem is in what has led up to where you're stuck.

[awritingcaitlin]

23. If you were to revise one of your older fics from start to finish, which would it be and why?

Well, I know it's not Three Rivers, a story about a girl going off to a magic school. Eventually I may redo that and revisit that world. But my heart's not in it anymore.

Someone mentioned Roll For Initiative to me today, a story I'd written about a girl who joins D&D Club after a track injury takes her out of the season. I think it might be fun to go back to that one and fix it up. Not to query with, though. Just as a different project.

Thank you for the ask!

Ask Game!

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[jesuistrestriste]

Sage hear me out...

Divorced dilf art who calls his younger gf mommy

art stays cooped up in the house all day—everyday—when you’re out at your hot new job.

he thinks about all the guys your age who probably ogle you and try to make passes at you, not knowing that you’ve got a man pushing 40 waiting at home for you with dinner and a pair of warm, strong open arms.

sigh.

when you do get home, he’s there to greet you (as always). he walks over and holds you close; kissing your cheek, and then your lips and your neck. each one soft and sweet and attempting to wipe your mind of any flirtation from younger men that you may or may not have endured throughout the afternoon.

“hi,” he whispers, and you slide your fingertips down his lower back, making him tremble like a wet kitten.

“hey, baby,” you hum in return. you’re shorter than him, and so when he leans his weight into you his forehead naturally falls into your shoulder. he smells like warmth and outdated cologne and need.

he mouths at your neck in the next moment, his hands sliding to lovingly cup your waist, “i missed you so much.. can i have you now?” he breathes out, his voice shaking and pleading. you feel something thick and warm press into your hip from inside his sweatpants.

and you chuckle and shake your head. he bites his bottom lip to stifle a petulant whimper.

“i missed you too,” you nip at his ear, “but i need you to use your manners if you want something from me.”

he stiffens for a moment before he stumbles forward a bit, taking you with him and gently pushing your back up against the door. “i’m sorry.”

the apology spills from his lips with an earnest desire to make his obedience known. he’d never want to disappoint you. you’re all he has these days.

“can i… can i please have you now?”

a breath. a shake of your head. a rock of his hips against your body followed by a sorrowful, begging moan.

“no?” he shifts against you, his body aching for yours.

“you’re forgetting something, Art.”

it only takes a moment for him to process your words before he’s mumbling a slurry of “i’m so sorry”s into your neck. but apologies only go so far, don’t they? he needs to correct his behavior. he needs to show you that he knows what you want from him.

“please…” he whispers, “please, mommy..”

the honorific rolls off his tongue like honey, heavy and sweet. it hangs in the air between you two and then you let out a low chuckle, “much better.”

“mommy,” he breathes out again, his erection involuntarily pulsing against your body through his clothes, “mommy, mommy, mommy—ngh“

his tone grows more desperate with each mumbling of the word; higher in pitch and more urgent. your hands move up to stroke his short blonde hair, and then you whisper into his ear.

“what do you want?”

god, what doesn’t he want? he wants your hand down his pants, your perfect cunt wrapped around his unworthy cock, your mouth, your lips, your tits. everything.

but he knows you. he knows that this is a trick question. you’re phrasing it like you’re going to give him something, a treat—a reward, but it’s a bit of a trap.

there’s a right and a wrong answer here. pick the wrong one, and he’s in for a night of painful orgasm denial (coupled with a ruined one to end the evening).

but luckily, art is smart. he knows what you want to hear.

“i.. i wanna eat mommy out.”

you pull back gently from him; and judging by the look that spreads over your face when he says that, he picked the right response.

you smile, and then your hands slide from his hair to his shoulders. in an instant, art finds himself being pushed down to the floor in front of you. he can’t help but scoot forward and shove his boner against your ankle, rutting himself into your soft skin as he dribbles precome in his briefs.

you lean back against the door, hiking up your skirt, before you’re looking down to him expectantly.

“don’t make me do all the work, baby,” you practically purr.

art’s hands scramble up your thighs to your panties, which he peels off of your sticky core with wide eyes, letting the thin fabric garment fall to pool at your heels. you giggle.

you kick them off to the side, feeling your boyfriend’s hands clutched around your legs. you sling a leg over his left shoulder, spreading your folds for him to see, and he wastes no time in parting his lips and engulfing your heat with his mouth.

you groan, letting your head loll back, and you move your fingers wander to the back of his hair once more to push his face further against you. you grind on his eager tongue, feeling him flick it over your clit as he whimpers and suckles. what a slut.

his baby blues look up to you with weighted lids, lapping at your cunt like it’s something he’s been starved of for years. his pupils dilate intensely as he stares up at you like you’re a god; something holy and unreal. and when you shake over his mouth’s ministrations, getting close, he lets out a long, drawn-out whine into your core.

he’s murmuring something that sends vibrations up your spine from the coil deep in your gut. it’s hard to make anything out when he’s drowning in you and loving it, but you can decipher bits and pieces.

“please, mommy”

“come in my mouth, mommy”

“give it all to me, mommy”

“i can take it, mommy”

you’re everything he’s ever dreamt about. you bend his perception of time and space and reason and logic. how could a sweet, beautiful, young thing like you ever want a washed-up, older athlete like him?

he prays that you don’t only like him for his money, and then he closes his eyes and mouths at your sensitive bud. he drools all over it like a sick dog, his brows pinching up as he moans out incoherent pleas for you to finish.

and holy fuck, you come hard.

a strangled cry jolts out of you as your back arches, mixing with a helpless sob from art, and then you absolutely soak his tongue with your juices. it gushes all over his face and he swallows as fast as he can; hell, he nearly chokes on it.

“ffffuck! art! oh my god, good boy, good boy, such a good boy!”

you rock over him until your orgasm recedes, and you pull his head back from you shakily by your tender hold on his hair. strings of your slick cling to the lower half of his face and the tip of his nose; a lewd squelch echoing out as he’s forcefully disconnected from your body. a dazed smile graces your lips and you peer down to watch as art’s hips shake against the hardwood floor and a dark stain appears at the front of his sweats. it’s a pathetic sight, really.

but you watch him moan softly and keep his gaze trained on you as he wipes his chin messily with the back of his hand.

“was i good?” he whispers, like he’ll cry if you say no.

he needs to hear you say it when he’s not lost in the throes of your climax.

your chest is still heaving while you try to slow your labored breaths, but you lean down anyways and meet his lips with yours. you taste yourself on his tongue. he shudders and winces.

you pull back, your bottom lip brushing his.

“so good, baby..”

art kisses the corner of your mouth softly, just once. he’s melting into you.

he loves you. but he swallows that down for now. he opts to murmur out something that’ll sum up everything he feels in a more palatable manner. something that makes him seem less desperate to keep you all to himself for as long as you can tolerate him.

something that he’s earnestly dying to say.

something that he knows you deserve to hear.

“thank you.”

[smellingofpoetry]

37?

37. Talk about your current wips.

Wich one of them? 😅

Alright, let's see. I'll talk to you about these two wips I'm dealing with. I had started writing them a while ago, but then for some reason, I lost myself.

The first one is set at the begging, more or less, of season 8. So, Dean went to Purgatory and all of that, and then there is the reader, who's trying to figure out what happened to Dean. I can't say much more without involving a lot of spoilers.

The second one is a smut one. It's something that I never wrote about before, which is no surprise. I'm pretty new to smut, so everything is a challenge for me. This one started in a way and then the story took control of everything and went in another direction. I'm stuck at the moment, so I'm hoping to be able to get past writer's block sometime soon.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. 🖤

40 Questions — Meme for Fic Writers

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Heroes of Millennium (HoM) AU

Act 1: What was left behind. - Part 1 (page 1-5) -here- -> Part 2

[rmd-writes]

RMD!! RMD!! Lemon’s here and I’ve got questions for yoooou 😈

16. If you only could write one pairing for the rest of your life, which pairing would it be?

22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).

29. If you could write the sequel (or prequel) to any fic out there not written by yourself, which would you choose?

Lemon, I’m not answering the first one 😂 I’m a multi-fandom girlie and I refuse to be otherwise.

22. Choose a passage from one of your earlier fics and edit it into your current writing style. (Person sending the ask is free to make suggestions).

You know, I went back to some of my first fics and I don’t think my style has really changed much? Maybe because I’ve only been writing for a couple of years but beyond general improvements, I don’t think my writing has changed much stylistically.

I answered 29 here! But if I was going to choose a Tarlos fic, I think it’d be fun to play in @orchidscript’s tailor!TK universe.

[virtie333]

1, 3, 13, 40....on the 40 questions ask game.

*rubs hands together* Let's do this!

Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Oh, definitely friends-to-lovers with a whole lot of angst, but a very happy ending. I don't even need smut if the emotional content is superb.

3. Is there a trope you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole?

I've never really been into Crack Fics. Don't really like reading them and could never write them. Of course, I never thought I would enjoy Soulmate AUs, but I not only really like some, but have written one!

13. What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

Ooof. That's a hard one. I can think of two pieces of advice that have helped me. The first one is to never stop reading. When I first got back into writing during the pandemic, I stopped reading for a while, then I started reading other people's fanfiction, and now I'm back to reading books again, too, and the writing is easier than it's ever been. The other one is to stop writing/take a break in the middle of the scene, when you know where it's going. This makes it easier to pick it up again when you get back to it.

There's also the 'write on a computer without internet.' I'm sure if I was writing as a career, this is something I would do, but not now. LOL

40. Write an alternative ending to [insert fic title] (or just the summary of one).

Oh, crap. Uhm... Oh! How about this alternate ending for Blind Faith? @marieziffer will appreciate this. Rey has the surgery and it is a success and she can see again. She and BeeBee go on to the able-bodied Olympics. But do they win the gold? Cliffhanger ending! LOL

Thank you so much, and obviously this is a 'yes' to your question in the other ask which I will get to soon!

40 Questions for Fic Writers

[egophiliac]

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY, THE NEXT BOOK 7 UPDATE FOR THE JP SERVER IS SET FOR MARCH 1ST.

HOW WE FEELIN LADS!?!?!

AHHHHHHHH NOOO I'M NOT READY, I thought we'd be getting the fourth anniversary first and then Sebek's birthday and then maybe some more episode 7, I didn't -- I didn't think it'd be Friday --

oh god and they're rerunning the story cards, they didn't say this was the final part but it feels like...maybe the penultimate chapter? could the end of episode 7 finally be looming in the distance?! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO

[firesoulstuff]

Number 11 and 15

11. Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?

Look I don't like using words as dramatic as "passion" but it is definitely my passion. I have been doing it nearly every day since I was 13, so that's half my life, and it is easily when I feel most in-tune with myself.

15. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

Oh see this is a tough one, because there are some of my fics that I know are better much written than others, but there are some which I think would translate a LOT better visually.

I'm going to go with As The Tide Turns because I really swung for the fences with the scope of that one, and it's definitely one of the ones which I'm not thrilled with all the writing, but I don't think it's bad. It would just be better visually. I used the Season 3 team of Legends, along with a lot of past Legends, and the ending was a huge battle scene. Plus the majority of the story takes place in an RV/in places the RV travels to.

[awritingcaitlin]

5. Share one of your strengths.

Dialogue is always one of my big strengths and I will never not talk about it! I think I'm pretty darn good at capturing pauses in conversation, in sentences, and a real feel of how talking flows.

Thank you for the ask!

Ask Game!

[muffinlance]

Wait, what’s going on with Embers???? That fic has been on my read later list since 2021, what’s happened with it???

Brief overview, then I'm likely never touching this topic again, because this is not a Drama Blog:

Context: Embers is a super old AtLA fic that was written during the early fandom days, read widely at the time, and was the origin of the widely-used fanon name of "Wani" for Zuko's ship (kind of by default that it was one of the first popular fics to give his ship a name, I think?), even though most fic writers don't seem to realize it's from there anymore.

"What's Going On": I used to include a link in all my stories to it, because I believe in crediting other writers for borrowed elements, and I was using "Wani" in all my fics. But BOY did I not want to be sending readers that way anymore, so I've adopted a new name for Zuko's ship, and removed all Embers links.

None of the criticisms about Embers itself are new; I'm assuming they date back to when the fic was being written, because this isn't an "it aged badly" thing, this is an "actually yeah this gets worse the longer you think about it and I shouldn't have ignored my bad feelings just because some of the worldbuilding was interesting" thing.

An Incomplete List of Why I Made the Change:

I don't actually like the story that much anymore, and don't want to rec it

I tried to re-read it recently to see if some things were as bad as I remembered and it turns out they were So Much Worse Oh Yikes. More specifically, the treatment of Katara and Aang and their respective cultures has... rather a lot going on. One example: The Fire Nation and Air Nomads are both given multiple backstory elements in an attempt to make the average Fire Nation soldier's participation in the genocide/war in large part the fault of the Avatar and the Air Nomads themselves, and also fully justified from the Fire Nation perspective. And I do mean fully. One of its core tenants is "People from the Fire Nation (and only people from the Fire Nation) who don't follow orders Literally Die, therefore murdering pacifists and babies and continuing the war (and their regularly scheduled war crimes) is the only thing it is physically possible for them to do". I cannot emphasize enough how literal that is.

Also the name "Wani" means "Alligator" and is... objectively a pretty lame name for Zuko's ship? Where's the personality, where's the deeper meaning, where's the resonance with Zuko's themes? @tuktukpodfics initially thought I was calling the ship "Wanyi", and that's what I've switched to, because it is Objectively So Much Better. In their words: “Wànyī (萬一): Literally ‘one in ten thousand,’ ‘perchance.’ Used grammatically in Chinese to mean ‘what if’ or ‘just in case.’ I think a ship called ‘The Perchance’ is perfect for a boy clinging to false hope.”

TL:DR; I don't rec Embers anymore, because I don't actually like the story anymore, and there are things about it that get worse the more I think on them. I've removed links to it and renamed Zuko's ship to "Wanyi" ("The Perchance") because our boy deserves a ship name that reflects his character arc.