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#but also this au spans ~7 years of actual plot and 50 years of timeline at its most conservative
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so i’ve been pondering the sonic triple threat au again (sonic underground au i’ve been working on about ~a year now that lives in my brain but i always forget to record) and incorporating movie stuff where i like it,, but honestly nothing tops the two year gap where sonic disappears into the wilderness after his foster parents get backstoried and then shows up out of nowhere at uncle chucks with a whole little brother and absolutely no explanations
#the most important thing about this au is Tails Is Everyone’s Little Brother#everyone loves him this kid could get away with murder#but also this au spans ~7 years of actual plot and 50 years of timeline at its most conservative#it is SPRAWLING i just need to actually get it all written down again instead of just scattered across discord#team chaotix is in it. the babylon rouges are in it. manic and sonia are main characters. sonia and amy are dating#amy is a time traveler who is unaware she time traveled bc she comes from a village on little planet#she’s secretly from the future. silver and gold are from the past and aware of it#but gold is missing and silver is desperately trying to hide why he’s here to look for her#sally and sonia were childhood friends. mighty and ray help redeem metal sonic into shard#sonic breaks his arm and it is a deeply traumatizing experience where he nearly murders his best friends#but also sonic is the lead of a famous band and that’s how they meet amy#the freedom fighters do exist but they’re all so exasperated by the fact the kids able to channel almost infinite power are all untrained#and too traumatized to actually do it#tikal is here and she is basically a force ghost/avatar spirit and the only person to successfully maintain a superstate#this au is EVERYTHING and i love it to bits#yet i will never find the time to actually do anything with it bc i am forgetful and busy#but whatever sorry i just wanted to gush about my nonsense#laid awake for so long thinking about how i’m rewriting knux based on. the movie last night and now i’m remembering EVERYTHING#MARIA IS ALIVE AND SHES TWINS WITH HOPE. MARIA GOT TO LIVE BC OF SOMETHING SHADOW DID BEFORE HE GOT TUBED AND ITS MY FAVORITE PART#SHE REUINTES WITH HOPE KINTOBOR AND THEY GO TO COLLEGE TOGETHER#before the world ends bc this is a post apocalypse/rebellion kinda story#BUT THEN 50 YEARS LATER SHE GETS TO REUNITE WITH SHADOW WHEN SONIC N FRIENDS FIND HIM IN YHE HUNT FOR THE EMERALDS. HE THOIGHT SHE WAS DEAD#FOR SO LONG BUT SHE GETS TO BE THERE FOR HIM!!!#i love this au so much it’s my baby. i traumatize and comfort these kids in equal amounts agshdjdk#anyway. i’ll stop. to all two people reading this ty for your time#sonic triple threat#untitled sonic au#sonic
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For the writing ask (you don’t have to answer all of them since I probably picked too many, sorry!): 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 19, 20, 26, 30, 31, 32, 36, 38, 39, 40. (Thanks 💜)
I did it, I answered all of them!! (Yes, it took me a couple of days aha.) Thanks for asking anon! 😘
1. Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?
Generally speaking I would rather die than rewrite anything ever, and most of the stuff I’ve written I can look back on and be like “nice”. I did recently reread a few bandom fics I wrote and felt mildly horrified by the fact that some of the writing was so spare that the dialogue sections were like reading a screenplay, so I’d have to say those would come the closest. Like I wouldn’t actually ever rewrite them, but were I to write them today they would read very, very differently.
2. Anything that you’d like to write but feel like you’re unable to?
Honestly I read soooo much Hydra Trash Party stuff and would love to vibe with Bucky’s sexual trauma in fic more but I feel like I’d really struggle to write that kind of background given my usual writing style. That’s the kind of super iddy thing I usually do in chatfic, but unfortunately I don’t have anyone to do that with in this fandom, so I’ll just keep whining internally about the lack of HTP Sam/Bucky while doing absolutely nothing to address that glaring lack.
Rest of the answers behind the cut!
7. Your favourite ao3 tag.
I cruise the Bottom Bucky Barnes tag like a 50s kid dragging Main.
8. How slow is a slow burn?
HERE’S THE THING. So if I ship something super hard, like hard enough to write or read fic about it, then I have already interpreted the canon itself as a slow burn because presumably they haven’t kissed yet, and I’m writing or reading fic because I’m ready for the kissing to be happening. I also don’t tend to read a whole lot of long fic. So basically I’m gonna need kissing by at least the 15k mark unless it’s like, masterfully written.
10. Top three favourite fic tropes.
You know, I’m honestly not usually drawn to stuff that’s very traditionally tropey! I don’t write it too often either, usually with fic I’m just a simple gal who wants to look at canon and then figure out a way to get them to acknowledge they want to kiss each other. I do love fake relationships though!
19. Share a snippet from a wip without giving any context for it.
“There’s more than one Loki,” Sam is disturbed to tell him. “A bunch more. One of them is a good guy now.” Actually, Strange had described him as ‘moderately helpful and uncomfortably sincere’. “Another one, uh, broke time, and now there are multiple timelines that have created different universes.”
“Got it,” Bucky says, in the tone of someone who in no way has it.
20. Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?
I usually have a couple of things going at once that I bounce between until I decide that I’m Going To Finish Something, Dammit and force myself to focus on just one. It’s generally fine because I’d rather have too many ideas than none at all, though I’ll sometimes inadvertently cannibalize myself and have to edit out things I’ve used in two different WIPs.
26. What would you describe as OOC?
I’m honestly pretty forgiving about that, having been trained to suspend my disbelief by liking really dark fic hahaha. One weird thing that tends to throw me in not-dark fic is a lack of humor in the dialogue. I tend to like fandoms with pretty funny characters or people, so I like to see their sense of humor reflected in fic. Sam and Bucky in particular are really funny characters in their own ways - gimme the banter, please!!
30. Describe a fic that almost happened, but then it didn’t.
In so many fandoms I’ve had visions of an OTP epic spanning years and years, and in zero of those fandoms have I ever completed one of those stories.
31. What was the most difficult fic for you to write (but in the end you made it)?
There is a point where every fic feels like the most difficult thing I’ve ever written. Something particularly cute that I do, which I love, is writing very intensely up to the sex scene, and then getting shy about it and wandering away and not working on it again for a little while, despite the fact that usually the whole point of the fic is that I want to get to the sex scene!!!
32. Do you have a word/expression that you always use in your writing?
I’m sure I have plenty of things like that!! I try to edit repetitive things like that out because when I’m reading a lot of a writer’s stuff little phrasing quirks always stand out to my copyeditor brain. That said, I know when I’m doing it and still tend to huffily be like “well that’s the best way to phrase that action!!” so, whatever.
36. How do you come up with fic titles? What’s the one you’re most proud of?
I either have a title from the jump or I’m combing my music library for a lyric snippet I can use like ten minutes before I post the fic. I’m pretty fond of This Is A Song About Fucking in that I committed SO deeply to jacking myself off there; it’s a phrase that Brendon Urie used to say to introduce Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off during the Nothing Rhymes With Circus tour (I had to look that tour name up. Thank GOD I had to look that tour name up) and I used it for a 5SOS group sex fic posted a cool eight years after that tour (which I went to multiple dates of, oh god) ended.
38. “This never happened” fix-it fics or “this happened but” fix-it fics?
Definitely the latter, when a canon makes a lousy choice I’m usually like well here we are, let’s talk about where we go from here. But I don’t really look for anything with the fix-it tag in general, once the canon breaks something I loved I’m usually so moody that I just abandon ship and stop reading fic haha.
39. Wildest AU scenario you have written?
I verrrry rarely write AUs for posting, but have chatficced some truly bonkers nonsense in my time. My old writing partner in bandom and I used to get weird with Brendon/Ryan - the satyr/fairy and fisherman/selkie days were really something.
40. Write a 9-word fic.
I’m too invested in the thing I’ve written 5k words of these week to think of anything new, so here’s a snippet from that instead.
“Come here,” he chokes out, and the helpless hope on Bucky’s face in response nearly undoes him completely. He sits up to meet Bucky halfway, grabs at his shirt the moment he’s within reach and drags him close, Bucky climbing onto the bed all long limbs and graceless need. The kiss is a surprise only in how rough it is, a hard press of lips like Bucky’s greedy to touch Sam any way he can, like this is just another way for them to collide.
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