#Also before anybody gets any ideas from this post. I actively hate the MCU.

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I want his gender

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I saw this in my feed and since I was pretty bored and FINALLY free from the said boredom, figured I could do this one. I generally enjoy question based tags, especially if they relate to art/writing/fandom/are some general things about favorite colors, music, foods, things about your home country etc.

(basically, you can tag me in stuff similar to listed above things and I’ll probably do them if I see them/have time lmao)

Fic Writer Questions!

How many works do you have on AO3? 

44 total. I used to have more but I’ve deleted an old Bleach one I knew I’d never continue to write, and two bnha ones for the same reason (those two were also at the very beginning stages so nobody missed a lot anyway)

What's your total AO3 wordcount? 

4 269 068......wow. It’s even MORE than I even imagined. Over 4 million words. 

....Someone take my writing tools away from me lmao

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

 Three. I started with MCU, moved on to Bleach and now I’ve done most ofr BNHA

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 

Crossroads - 3069 

Family Secrets - 3015 

Reanimate - 1534 

The neighbor - 809 

Espada and Fraccion - 782

.....Admittedly this list surprised me. Not the first three but the last two. The fifth is an one shot for Bleach that I wrote AGES ago. I also for some reason expected this list to match the bookmark list more lmao

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I always try to respond to every comment I get, but often times when it’s just one word or a heart emoji I don’t really know what to say, so I might not reply to those. I do appreciate every comment I get, and read every single one, even if I don’t respond

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? 

I don’t do angst endings typically, but Family Secrets is probs the most obvious choice, given what happens at the end. 

- and its not even the real end, because I couldn’t help myself and made two more stories for the AU that was like “hey! this character I made you all love so much actually DIDN’T die, he just had unfinished business back home” lmao

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you've ever written? 

Rarely, typically they’re between my own fics (the story that crosses the paths of Crossroads and Family Secrets AU’s, literally titled Crossover, creative name I know OTL I was out of ideas) 

Or between me and other people’s fics. Currently there’s two, both with Crossroads: one with Theteapotofdoom’s fic Something Good, and another with leontheneon’s fic Here with you. Both stories are basically a two part series that is non canon to actual Crossroads. The first story is finished, second one has two chapters left...that...I uh...struggle to write it seems OTL

(not tagging either person into this because Tea is very busy IRL right now so I don’t want to bother her, and Leon hasn’t been around in ages, IDK if they even use tumblr anymore)

Have you ever received hate on a fic? 

Not really no? I can only remember one time with somebody kind of demanding me to completely rewrite one fic in the past. It wasn’t really hate, more just...kinda unreasonable in my eyes? This was years ago by now.

While I did understand their side and the particular struggle they had (once they actually explained it, the first comment at the time came off pretty rude and demanding), I still feel them wanting me to re-write an entire multi-chapter fic just for them is a bit unreasonable, like said.

Like it wasn’t just couple of grammatical errors that was their issue, we’re talking weeks and even months long process of completely reworking multi-chapter story, because the grammar wasn’t tip top perfect. (I’m not a native speaker so there’s bound to be some mistakes; pointing out small occasional things is one thing - asking me to rewrite an entire multi-chapter story is another)

You can imagine that is not exactly high on my priorities list with IRL responsibilities and being more focused on the actual content of what I write, the ongoing stories I’m updating. This fic isn’t even finished yet either, so...yeah. Like after they explained their side of the story I was a bit more understanding, but its still....a bit ridiculous and unreasonable in my eyes to ask somebody to do such a massive overhaul when the story isn’t even finished yet?? Like maybe once its done and I have time I can go and edit it, but not when I haven’t even finished it lmao

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Nah. I don’t care about smut a whole lot personally. I much more enjoy writing emotional scenes, character interactions and mystery. Plot over porn basically lmao 

Have you ever had a fic stolen? 

I don’t...do people actually do this? It feels like such a weird and pointless thing to do. It’s fanfic. stuff you write for fun and for free, for people to read for free. I’d also imagine its pretty easy to get caught given AO3 shows when you first posted your story. 

Have you ever had a fic translated?

 Yes, a couple of times. In Russian and I think other one was Chinese?

Have you ever co-written a fic before? 

Writing the crossovers was kinda that? Like I asked feedback from Tea and Leon on how to write them. there was also actually third crossover story that was supposed to happen (only I wasn’t going to be the one to write it) but this project has been shelved as the other person had to drop majority of online activity due to some IRL health related things. (I’m just glad they recently contacted me to inform they were doing better)

What’s your all time favorite ship? 

Right now it’s..probably pretty obvious its Shigadabi, but I can never really say any ship is my all time fave, as it always changes depending on the fandom lmao. 

I guess my favorite character x proper sleep/emotional stability/happiness will always be the OTP

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Oof. I always try to finish every single one, and if I absolutely know I won’t, I tend to just delete them. Thankfully I’ve only done it thrice. Which I guess is still a lot, but compared to how much I write, in context not really? 

What are your writing strengths?

From what I’ve gathered of feedback, its typically emotional moments/character dialogue and interaction/character arcs and so. Mystery plots too. Or maybe that last one is just me lmao

What are your writing weakness?

Personally, while I tend to get positive feedback on both, sometimes I feel like I struggle to choose a good pacing for a fic, and fight scenes are always a pain. Namely, I might struggle with making the pace too long-winded and slow sometimes. Ironically, my IRL update pacing is probs a bit too fast in turn. (To add another layer of irony, I got an update ready for Unravel that I’ll post after making this tag)

Also writing shorter stories. I’ve been trying to write one-shots more (like the Spinaraki series thing) to kinda try and get myself to pack up my stories better and not let them always spiral out of control haha

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I did try to do that once with a fic I deleted, I had a native speaker help me with the canadian french bits. This person is no longer active on tumblr, and I deleted that fic because I realized I’d never finish it. 

Technically tho, as a non-native English speaker, EVERY word is in other language to me lmao. I could only add Finnish as an extra one easily, and it rarely makes sense to do so anyway.

What was the first fandom you ever wrote for? 

MCU. It’s what I originally made my AO3 for, as I felt brave enough to post things. I also can’t remember writing fandom related stuff before that, it was typically more oc related. Writing fics has helped me learn a lot about world-building, character consistency and all that stuff, without having to make everything from scratch (tho I do enjoy doing that as well of course). I feel like my original work writing has improved too thanks to my fic writing shenanigans in a way lmao. Tho that might just be me, IDK

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? 

Oooof. This changes a lot depending on the time. I can never really pick just one either: my current favorites are Stringmaster, The neighbor and Family Secrets

Stringmaster because I love building the Steampunk AU, and Tomura’s relationship with Dabi and his Sensei, The neighbor because I personally think the romance build up in that one is probably one of the best I’ve done so far (the character dialogue in that is among my favorites I’ve written as well) and FS, because it taught me a lot about character building through writing a character like Hisashi.

 Plus I just really like Hisashi. 

And baby Izuku and little Tenko are super adorable. 

And Inko is the best mum.

 Also the fact the whole story is so ironic in a sense its still kinda funny to me. 

The only writer I know that might be around rn is @nightlilly0110 soo...I guess I’ll tag them if they want to do this! Anybody who’s a writer can snatch this too of course ;)

[whatthefoucault]

OK, more fandom/fanfics asks for you - 6, 17, 27, 32, 40, 44 and 47 (well, you asked for more, didn't you? ;) )

Okay!  Let me put my thinking hat on:

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

Each fandom ever?  Is this only fandoms I’ve actively done stuff in, or just things I’ve lowkey binge-watched and creeped on google to see if anybody’s written fanfic of it, because we may be here for a while.  Right, possibly not in order:

Star Trek, all of it: Wesley/his ugly sweaters

Star Wars, all of it: Finnpoe with a side of Lando/Lobot as of the past couple weeks when I made the mistake of reading the Lando comics and got ~feelings~

Buffy: Tara/life

Nathan Barley: toss-up between Dan/Jones and Dan/Jonatton.  I’m guessing that maybe two people following this blog will have any idea what I’m on about, if that.  FUN FACT: I was accepted to a film production program at a major university in New York City on the merit of a Dan/Jonatton fic that I filed the serial numbers off of and adapted as a film treatment.

Doctor Who: (classic) Ace/girls girls girls; (non-televisual media) Eight/Charley, before everything went horribly sad; (post-2005) whouffaldi

MCU: Stucky

Marvel Comics: Hawkeye Squared

17. Who was your first OTP and are they still your favourite?

I had a few Marvel ships before I fell down the rabbit hole of Stucky, but nothing that UTTERLY CONSUMED MY ENTIRE BEING in the way that those two star-crossed lovers do.

27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?

Titles, ugh.  Summaries, I’m happy to either be matter of fact (Sam goes to Whole Foods and runs into an unexpected friend next to the wall of hummous) or just steal a chunk of prose from the story itself (He found himself almost overwhelmed by the dizzying array of shades and flavours before him - beetroot, roasted garlic, lemon and coriander - that he hardly noticed the soft hand curling itself around his bicep.  “You should try the one with harissa,” whispered a familiar voice.)  Titles, though.  The worst.

32. Do you listen to music when you write or does music inspire you? If so, which band or genre of music does it for you?

MAN.  My stories almost always have soundtracks.  I’ll play them on repeat while going about my day to get my head into the right space to think about and tell the story.  Sometimes a story will start germinating in my head because of a song I’ve heard, or a lyric that stands out to me; sometimes I’ll hear something on the radio and just drop it into a playlist for later because I think it might be useful for something but don’t have a story home for it yet.  They tend to come together really organically, really - either a scene will demand I drop a certain song behind it, or a song will demand I write a scene for it.  Here’s one for something super secret I’m working on right now.  If I’m any sort of judge of my own shit, it’s gonna be intense as heck and really good.

40. What do you struggle the most with in your writing?

My own utter lack of confidence?  My nonexistent attention span?  My executive dysfunction?  (No really, when I have specially allocated Writing Time, nothing happens - but if I’m meant to be doing something else, suddenly I NEED TO WRITE and will get loads of writing done by way of procrastinating when I’m meant to be doing something else.  *whispers*  I’M DOING IT RIGHT NOW)

44. What is your all time favourite fanfic?

Oh jeez, this is actually really hard, man.  I’ve been in fandoms so long and there have been so many.  I’m also really terrible at bookmarking stuff.  There are so many.  There’s so much goodness out there.

47. Do you leave reviews when you read fanfiction? Why/Why not?

Heck yeah!  I love when I get comments -  it honestly makes my day more than anything.  It’s the least I can do to return the favour.