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You say Leo is your fave right? How much angst is there to be expected in your fics for him? I honestly love your writing and I’ve binged though all of it

Also random but who do you hc as the older twin?,

Welcome to my fanfics and thank you! ♥♥

There is always liable to be at least a little bit of angst, though not in the way of fics deliberately marked as Angst-- I love those, but I don't think I could write them very well. If you've been through my work already that's a pretty good indicator of the kind of angst I write. I tend to put characters through a physical wringer with some emotional side effects rather than the other way around. With Rise, I try to keep the tone of the series (or closer to the movie actually, which is a bit darker than the series but still keeps the crack etc) so deep dives into any serious angsty territory are unlikely to happen.

Assuming you've read NRFTW, Donnie's great spaghettification and the need to rebuild himself from scratch and the resulting identity trauma from that is the kind of thing I will definitely write and have fun with. The sequel builds further on that given it was left open-ended, but if you're looking for Leo-specific...

...well, that's also coming, but telling you the nature of it would be incredibly spoilery at this point. Suffice to say, there will almost always be angst, but it will kind of correlate to plot points and not be the plot, if that makes sense? And, of course, I only deal in happy endings, so if anything awful happens, I can guarantee we'll find a way through to the other side. Hope that helps!

As for older twins, there are two wolves inside me. One is definitely of the opinion that Donnie is the older twin. The other is like "oh heck no, the older twin is whoever is funnier at the time, they trade that around." Both work extremely well for me, rofl.

Nice to meet you, anon! Have a great day <3

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NGL, nonnie, I saw this after four hours sleep and squinted at it and tried to zoom in because my sleepy brain honest to god thought it was some kind of weird inbox attachment...

...and then I remembered the WIP meme. Eventually.

📄What’s a WIP you never finished that you would like to go back and revisit?

The Legacy! (See, this being asked multiple times means I can talk about multiple WIPs.) My actual first entrance into published TMNT fic before I got distracted writing Underdark instead, and then everything else that followed. This is another fic with a lot of moving parts and it's a whole bunch darker than some of mine, because anyone who's reading it will note I'm racking up a body count of the Lost Season acolytes. You see, the Lost Season irritated me for a variety of reasons. For one, we went from four seasons of "ninjas in the shadows/outcasts" to "glowy markings DRAGONS WOO" and they were so fixated on telling a big epic story that... there weren't any real character moments in it for anyone? And everyone glowed and turned into dragons and there was a Tribunal etc, and with the passage of time I'm a bit more tolerant about it, but the fact remained that season 5 had such a different feel to 1-4, which I appreciated much more.

Anyway. Lost season also brought us demon!Shredder and a too trite wrap-up (Karai and Chaplin holding hands and walking off into the sunset? Really?) and also an interesting plot point left unaddressed that, despite all my disappointment with the season in general, niggled at me and said "what if".

And thus with great irony did I go "this is the worst season**. Imma write a whole epic following on from that THANKS BRAIN--" but at least I can have fun upping the stakes and playing with demons and necromantic rituals and possession and, yeah, murdering a bunch of otherwise harmless and likable NPCs for a good cause (everyone else's suffering). This one's fully outlined and involves overseas vacations, my favourite tropes, turtles dressing like Foot Elite and somehow getting away with it, and a Leo v Mikey cage match which I am going to give no context for. If I can get my brain going for this one it will be a lot of fun, and really, as per all my WIPs, I've made headway into a new chapter, so. Wish me luck. <

** was the worst season. I'll take a dozen Lost Seasons over whatever BTTS was.

Thank you! <3

WIP meme questions here.

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fanfic guessing game: krang/kraang >:3

WELP I won't bother checking those other fandoms then!

The word Krang is used eight times in the next chapter of Infinite Richochet thus far! Mainly in conversation. So rather than spoil the entire thing, here's the most egregious example:

“I remember being attacked by a sentient coat hanger, and I suppose it being Krang-related could inspire some sort of flashback. But I feel fine now. Absolutely nothing wrong, I do not feel the need to join the Krang hivemind and take over the world. In case you were wondering.” “Well, now I’m suspicious. That sounds exactly like what someone taken over by the Krang hivemind would say.”

Send me a word and I'll give you the sentence from my WIP that contains it! (or a selection if it appears, you know, fifty times--)

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WIP guessing game: Time?

Good pick, anon! Picking up from all over my fandoms:

Not for the first time, Misao cursed Sumitomo for being so efficient. "Properly awake this time?" "There should have been guards stationed outside of the showers.  Instead, your men were taking time that they hadn't earned to do... what was it?  Oh yes.  Socialise.  On duty." “Your feline tactics do not work on me! Go sit on Raph instead while I get mother-henned a second time.” By the time he surfaced a scant ten minutes later--mostly clean, his sopping, darkened mask bunched in one hand and his swords in the other--she was at the table with two coffees and the laptop up and running, and had steeled herself enough for the bad news that she was able to smile. A really awesome one, and he didn’t tell Mike about it until he handed the helmet over to put on Dad’s shelf of Shreddiness (hah), and so he’s torn between admiration and a little hurt and indignation that he didn’t get any time to hang out with Nightwatcher at all!

Bless <3

Send me a word and I'll give you the sentence from my WIP that contains it! (or a selection if it appears, you know, fifty times--)

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I had your fics recommended to me. I wanted to ask even though you are a Leo fan. I was wondering did you liked raph before his rise counterpart? Or is rise the first time? I ask because I noticed ya didn’t write his other iterations much.

I gotta admit, anon, this ask confused me. Raph has a lot of space in my fics that aren't specifically other-character related (ie Underdark, in which it's focused on only two of the guys, or the one where Leo and Mikey go to visit/stalk Usagi and Gen respectively) - my other long!fics are ensemble and, granted, aren't finished yet (two of them are only teasers) but even in Legacy the one with the most legwork so far is actually Raph, and if you read the last chapter of that you might gather he's going to have a heck of a lot more, given I literally just dumped a dead friend on his head.

From a writer's perspective, I know just how much he's gonna get written. From a reader's perspective, given you can't see into my head, I can see why this would be different. So let me reassure you that I think Raph is an amazing character and I have grown up loving him almost as much as Leo, and he will take focal roles in both Court of Miracles and Desperation (the teasers do not have him, but those are teasers taken from events during the story and you can bet Raph will have a lot to say and/or bleed about in these fics).

(Ironically, Rise Raph is a lot more difficult for me to grapple with as a character and it took me a while to warm up to him. I think in this case it's a matter of my fics not being updated for a while, and then I wrote my one Rise fic full steam ahead, so that skews things a bit.)

Tl;dr I have a lot of plans for Raph and he cannot escape my fondness for picking on my characters. I enjoy writing ensemble most of all. Leo being my absolute fave just means he gets to bleed more on average. (Lucky him.) Hope that helps!

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Hi, hello.

I just finish reading “no rest for the weary” and I just want to say that it was amazing!

Words actually aren’t enough to describe how much I love it!

With each chapter I would just sit there and think about the plot and the characters and how well written everything was!!

And then I would spend some more time just admiring your writing style and your wording for the screens, and I have to admit everything was so fascinating that it felt like I’m watching a movie rather than reading!

It was an amazing roller coaster ride! And I will most likely ride it again and again in the future! Coz your story hands down is one of my top three most favorite of all times!

Anon, I am very tired and worn out today, so your message is perfectly timed, bless ♥♥♥ Very happy my fic had this much of an impact. You have a great week!

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Crying and sobbing cause it’s so hot outside rn😭😭😭

Aw, I'm sorry anon. I'll send you some of my cold air, it's currently 6C where I am. (42.8F for you?) Run yourself a cool shower or some such, getting cool even temporarily helps.

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(Same anon) sorry for my ask confusing you. I was trying to ask without coming off like omg you hate this character because you do not write them sorta way. It was my dumbass trying ask your opinion on a character without being straight forward about it. I get nervous asking fandom famous people questions oof.

Ahaha, don't worry about it anon! I figured I was potentially losing something in translation, so you're fine. To clarify further on that, I love Raph-- love all of them, really. He makes a great and necessary foil for Leo in any incarnation, but that's only a small part of why I love him-- guy's all heart and passion and temper (and secret softness, lmao). Definitely reiterating I have Plans for him in a lot of my upcoming fics ♥♥

(Also if it helps, I love answering questions and I only kinda accidentally stumbled into being 'fandom famous' with one story, so I still blink a bit owlishly at that label and shuffle about being awkward myself. You can ask me directly about anything, I promise I don't bite. Have a good weekend!)

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43?

43. Do you take a sadistic joy in whumping your characters, or are you more the "If you hurt them I would kill everyone and then myself" kind of person?

This is because of the Blood and Injury/Kidnapping/Hurt/Comfort thing isn't it...

Middle of the road. There's not a lot of sadistic joy involved. I shy away from your standard torture porn fics that always seem to start with a shadowy figure knocking someone out and cackling and saying now the fun begins because you know exactly what you're getting at this point, it's literally just an author being horrible to a character, and I'm not here for it. I mean-- more power to people who like that kind of thing! There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not to my taste.

But I am a lover of good whump; I'm just more of a lover of a good story to go with it. There has to be a reason. I'm not a fan of excess. And I'll read a Bad Ending one if it's a short one shot but not if it's a long fic, because if it's a long fic I want the character to get home and wrapped in blankets, because I like hurt/comfort, not just hurt. So... basically, when I get around to crafting a story, I'm usually not coming at it from an "I wanna hurt this character, how do I get there" kind of way but rather a "I have a great idea for a story, who do I hurt along the way? And how do I wrap them in blankets afterwards?"

So...basically my whump usually comes up in the action/adventure type way and I'm never gonna write torture porn, and most of my whump victims usually either rescue themselves or hold their own until they can get help, so. I like the struggle. I don't like beating on a helpless victim.

Interesting question ♥

I feel the need to point out that my volume of work does include random fluff and comedy and action without whump, lmao. It's just...look, everyone has a vice okok.

Get to know your fic writer here!

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Just curious, how many pages are there in No Rest For The Weary right now?

It's... /opens up and counts

...huh. 217 pages! Not including the next chapter, which will put the count up to around 240. (And to think chapter 1 was only 6 pages long...)

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"visionthing"? enticingly vague title

One of my brief forays into SPN fanfic aka another foray into "muse? muse will you please wake up will you-- no? fine."

In which Sam's visions come back with a vengeance ten years after they stopped, which would be basically because Azrael was still infecting infants all the way up to the end of Season 1, minimum...which means those infants have grown up enough that when the first of them starts getting into massive demonic-related strife and their power kicks in, Sam gets one doozy of a vision about it and goes What The Fuck. In which Sam and Dean realise there's a bunch of very confused kids out there who are on the verge of hitting puberty and who knows where they are but they can at least start with This One Child, because god maybe the migraines will go away then (and also Sam's a bleeding heart and would help anyway and would jump at the chance to offer support and experience to this new batch). It was meant to be an open-ended one shot, but I never got further than one scene. I was... too tired. |D But I may round back to this one day.

--------- She lost it.  Or Sam did.  He couldn’t tell them apart for far too long, eyes caught by those teeth and the sudden explosion of agony, white hot, that made the earlier spike seem laughable in comparison, and he heard screaming.  A man.  Maybe it was him.  He hoped it was the demon but—

“Sam!” 

No, no, that was Dean.   A blurry Dean, on his knees in front of Sam on the kitchen floor, hands bracing his shoulders which at least stopped him from faceplanting into china shards.  Only problem was, he was in the way.  “Dean—“

“You okay?”

“No,” he gasped.  “Move.”

For a wonder, Dean didn’t question it.   His grip vanished as he slid back out of reach, and Sam listed forward to throw up on the linoleum.

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what is misconduct7 *chinhands* the fact that it ends in 7, just like legacy, gives me great hope for such a promising title

Bwaha. If a WIP has a number attached at the end it's a chapter, so Legacy and Misconduct are both sitting on ... 6 published chapters each?

Misconduct is my foray into the FFVII universe. Specifically, I played Crisis Core and that made me fall down the rabbit hole proper (and got me into RP, actually). Misconduct is an AU set 5 years before the original game (and thus near the end of Crisis Core) based on the premise: what if Shinra saw value in retaining Zack as a SOLDIER? Like...literally at that point in Crisis Core, their big three SOLDIERs have all kind of gone mad, committed mass scale murder, etc etc ... that has to be a huge hit to Shinra's credibility with the public because those three in particular are very, very popular with their own fanclubs. So what do they do?

They recover Zack from Nibelheim, this golden retriever friendly all rounder who's already popular with a lot of Midgar residents, and bill him as the hero who saved Nibelheim. And the board smiles and nods at him, and Tseng tells him urgently that listen, remember nothing, just smile and nod, and so Zack gets to go home and tread water in the viper's den that is Shinra, pretend he doesn't know what really happened in the reactor or what set Sephiroth off, and so he gets to be. A hero. It's just what he always wanted! Pity it's based on a lie. Oh, and Cloud apparently died at the reactor. Because... that's what happened, right? Cloud died? That's what Shinra and Tseng say, so why does Zack have memories of Hojo carting him off?

Tl;dr Zack gets to go home and Hojo only has one new experiment to play with, which is both terrible and good news for Cloud, because (a) he doesn't have Zack to help take the heat off and keep him sane, but (b) Zack works it out and you can bet he's coming back to Nibelheim real soon. And the AU unfolds from that branch in the road. I really enjoy this one so I'll definitely be rounding back to finish it at some point!

...so here's a snippet from the creepiest character in all of existence. ---------

The guards were not the only ones who needed to learn from this little misadventure.  And he had further tests to run; he could accomplish both at the same time, even if that meant his methods were far less sophisticated.  He didn't acknowledge the man's salute or his exit but continued his paperwork with meticulous care.  

He was still writing when two of them dragged in the boy.  

He didn't bother to look up, but he noted with satisfaction the uneven breathing of his test subject, his feet scrabbling for purchase on the ground.  Still fighting the drugs off, then, though that he was this aware was impressive.  The boy was already afraid, and he supposed that was pure common sense, given their relationship thus far. 

That he let the silence draw out while he finished his work-- well, he could admit there was some malice to it.  

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hi! if you're still answering questions...I think you mentioned you found a life partner without dating. as a person who is thinking they might be asexual but might still want a life partner... I was just curious about how that happened for you. (please feel free to ignore if this is too personal!)

Ah, man. First, no, it's not too personal! I just delayed long enough to check in with my housemate to make sure he didn't mind me talking about this.

But for us it just- sort of happened naturally. I've known my housemate for 27 years at this point and we met when he was a customer at the RPG store I ran. Then at some point I joined a game of his and then he joined a game of mine and we started talking as more than customer-manager? And then he joined the people I took home with me at night (I hated going home to an empty house so I was constantly bringing guys home with me lmao, I don't know WHAT my neighbours thought but they were legit only coming over to hang out and play more games) and then I realised he literally lived on my route home and I started knocking on his window at 2am on my way home from work and hanging out with him there for a bit, and then we went from friendly acquaintances to actual friends, and then "that friend I will ring when I'm having a bad day, pls come over and bring me something to eat" and then he wanted to move out of home and I could no longer afford living on my own and had bounced around homeless a bit and so we rented a house together. Which was rough as hell to begin with because I do not play nice with people in my living space and so I nearly moved OUT again, but by the nature of struggling to run a business and having no money we ended up living together long enough we got used to each other's rough edges and then. Then we just KEPT living together. And a lot of life happened and we just got used to living with each other, and we've always been just friends-- I mean when we first moved in, I was still dating! We didn't even know asexuality was a thing back then. (Or at least I didn't, he might have. It didn't come up. For me, I was still engaged in "fake it until you make it???" which is the fun game of the asexual when you don't realise you're asexual.) But over time it became-- well, still friends but kind of like married friends, because we just knew each other too well and could balance each other out. When I finally was introduced to the concept of asexuality (I was 35 by that point jeez) I was so relieved I just settled right into the concept of living with my best friend for the rest of eternity. And he's also ace (or Chris Hemsworth-sexual as he puts it) and we're just... comfortable together. And know each other's minds to a very startling degree, the amount we're in sync is hilarious sometimes. Last year we bought a house together, so that cements we're just gonna live together forever. I kept this as brief as possible because you would not believe how many times I wanted to go off on tangents about the kind of incredibly decent man I live with. I have no sexual attraction or desire for intimacy of any kind, but I love him all the same. He's like a best friend/brother/something other. And... there was no plan to it, it all happened naturally. Which is probably not helpful to you I'm afraid-- we didn't plan to avoid dating and go straight to life partnering, it just happened. But all I can say is to wish you well, anon, and to also say: aces and aros tend to gather together. When I realised I was ace, I discovered a great many of my friends were also ace, because... like recognises like, I guess. And that means that if you're ace, the chances you're just gonna gravitate naturally to other aces and have a chance of just progressing into something warm and long term with one of them is a lot greater than zero. I hope for all the best for you. ♥

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Got anything fun you're reading?

At the moment, I am slowly trying to trawl my way through my Marked For Later list on AO3, which is about 8 pages of TMNT fics and 11 pages of The Untamed! I've mostly read TMNT lately, but yes. Fanfic wise UHHH god I have read so many lately that I'm drowning. Ones that I specifically look forward to updates for:

Last Grain of Sand in the Hourglass by (@last-hourglass)

The Collector by @dawntreaderflynne

I May Be Invisible But I Still Look Good by @dandylovesturtles New Hardware by @west-brooke All The Ashes In My Wake by @asummersday

This is not the be all and end all, it's a really small subsection of Stuff I Enjoy. Non-fanfiction-wise I really need to settle down and read Sabriel and reread The Fionavar Tapestry, as I found replacement books for those and it's been a while! Early Guy Gavriel Kay is my jam (not so much his later stuff, too unfocused, but delicious historical fantasy nom nom nom).

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Do you have a favorite trait you like to give original characters? Do you have any original works to share/talk about?

...that is a good question. On traits-- mostly I like cunning characters who think outside the box, so I think that's the one that tends to travel the most. The only time I've ever come up with a stupid character is when GMing, and even then that was a, uh. Very clever person masquerading as a very stupid person. Aheh. I LIKE SMART PEOPLE I GUESS?? I do have a novel I have attempted to write on and off for literal decades at this point, though like most of my fanfic writing the majority of this got written in the late 2000s and it has languished since then, but I do really enjoy the plot. Sadly, now we're in the 2020s, one of the driving tropes of the novel is now EVERYWHERE. Like in the 80s "a normal person finds his/her way to mysterious magical land" was a popular fantasy trope but nowhere near as much as it is now (I have grown to hate the term isekai, honestly), so it will probably never get finished. Plot is basically: girl meets "imaginary" friend when she's five, grows up talking to him, learns to hide him when people look at her funny. When she's 13, he vanishes, only to return two years later all panicked and tells her to run. Stuff happens, trauma happens, she wakes up years later having lost her memory and any recollection of such friend, puts her life back together, and in her 20s uncovers a book her mother once wrote (and published) about her daughter's imaginary friend. Remembers everything, packs up for a trip and vanishes into the great wild unknown trying to find what happened to her friend, magical stuff happens and she ends up embroiled in a war in an entirely different world that she doesn't care about, she just wants to find her friend >:| There's a lot more to it than that obviously but I am very tired and that's what I can remember off the top of my head. I wrote about 25k words for it for NaNo back in 2008 which was about the last time I touched this one. But I have a soft spot for it and if I ever get the motivation I will at least finish it for myself. (I always wanted to publish a novel and get Rich and Famous, but with the state of the writing world these days I think that's probably impossible.) Otherwise, I am occasionally tempted to write an anthology of all the dark-fae-type dreams I tended to have when my brain worked better, in which I'd dream up a full plot and go "...huh. Write that down immediately." I wrote those all up on LJ back in the day, but I'll go hunt them up if anyone has an interest.

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Curious anons you say? It is I, a sunglasses-bespectacled curious anon! You do not know who I am. I am the epitome of mystery and intrigue. My identity is one of the top ten questions science cannot answer. And I am curious! I am curious to know: what is your official opinion on marshmallows

Marshmallows were an integral part of the Great Gamer Tea Ceremony back in the 90s, when we all hung out in 24 hour cafes in trenchcoats at 3am and tried to out-horrify each other by the sheer amount of sugar we were packing into our hot chocolates, of which marshmallows and little choc bits were amazing, and it's a miracle the very tolerant staff never threw out a bunch of gamers in the middle of their 24th sugar rush that month honestly-- I MEAN. Actually for the most part I don't have much of a sweet tooth, horrifyingly sweet cocoas for shits and giggles aside, but marshmallows still held their place. They are sadly now completely out of my diet due to the aforementioned diabetes, which I am sure I did not bring on myself from extremely bad habits in my youth. Cough. Please have my share for me, I mourn their loss. And thank you, oh random curious anon who is very clearly anonymous and I did not pick immediately ☕☕☕