#f0xfordcomma

[northerngoshawk]

Tag Game

Tag 9 people you'd like to know more.

thanks for the tag @itsmoonpeaches!

Last song: Akuma no Ko, the ending for Season 4 Part 2 of AOT (no i don't watch it, it's a cool song)

Currently watching: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and My Hero Academia (idk why i'm even watching MHA lol the storytelling is mediocre at best)

Currently reading: fanfiction, but i've recently just read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!! so good

Current obsession: ATLA (still, surprisingly), FMAB, Inscryption, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba

Tagging (no pressure!): @flameohotwife @f0xfordcomma @shrinkthisviolet @thinkingisadangerouspastime @justoceanmyth @benwvatt @shameaboutthedilettantism @thebakingqueen5 and anyone else who would like to do it!

[flameohotwife]

happy ffwf

Let's talk AU's. Any that you've written that you love? Any that you've read? Any that you really WANT to write? Or, what kinds of AU just floats your boat?

Happy (very belated) FFWF, friend!!! Ooooooh AU's! I have not written any AUs, though I would if the right idea struck me. I am, however, beta-reading for @a-d-curtis's AMAZING "Prince Aang" AU, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, in which the Fire Nation finds Aang in the iceberg and... a lot of dark things happen. It's really an amazing story so far, full of intrigue and twists and even some sweet kataang fluff, although the next few chapters about to be published are full of PAIN.

I also really, really love YOUR AU, foxford!!! I'm really excited to see what you have in store next for Realign :)

A couple modern AUs that I really enjoyed have been The Gaang Takes Ba Sing Se University (unfinished), and Apartment 3E. I love @thinkingisadangerouspastime's boba shop AU, and @penguinsledder's councilwoman Katara and Hamilton AUs. I also ADORED Break Up With Your Girlfriend I'm Bored and Flashbulbs, Fake News, and Fallacies before both authors left the fandom abruptly and unexpectedly (the first was forced out by a stalker, the second I believe was dealing with a lot of things after their mother became ill). OH I'm also loving EGOT at the moment, where Aang is a pop star with hopes of achieving an EGOT and Katara is his Broadway tutor. Basically, I will read Aang and Katara falling in love in any and every universe as long as their characterizations feel right to me. Thanks for the ask!

[peachcitt]

happy ffwf! Do you have any wildly specific headcanons for a minor/ obscure character? Or! Have you ever written about/ thought about writing about a lesser known character? If so! Feel free to share a bit of your hc/ fic/ whatever :)

thank you!!

and yes actually i do! i have very specific ways that i like to portray bridgette and félix - bridgette as a character from the miraculous pvs and félix being adrien’s cousin from the show.

i honestly don’t write them very often, pretty much just as side characters such as in bone tea or one of my drafts that ive been working on (except for that time i did a féloe oneshot), but my rules for portraying them are as such -

félix:

canon is wrong and he can be pleasant

most of the time i don’t write him as adrien’s cousin, rather who he was in the pv

he’s generally snooty but he’s got a soft spot that he likes to keep hidden - once you’ve softened him up though, he takes down his walls

bridgette:

she is not in canon so i can do whatever i want

but mostly i like her as a bubbly, intuitive, and empathetic sort of girl

she’s the kind of person who makes friends easily, takes care of people, and gets shy or guarded people to open up. i love her

thank you so much for asking!! <3<3

[a-d-curtis]

happy ffwf!!

what's your writing schedule like? How often do you write, for how long? Are you a routine kind of person or a ~whenever I get a free moment~ kind of person?

also, because nobody can stop me from making this a two-fer, share the last sentence you wrote (no context, just sentence!)

okay go! <3

Thanks for asking @f0xfordcomma!

When it comes to writing multi-chapter fics, I like to keep myself to a pretty strict upload schedule. Every week, same day, I upload another chapter. Because of this, I find it necessary to write a good chunk in advance, because real life doesn't always make room for me to pump out a chapter a week (although that is my goal).

Writing ahead also gives me time to consult with my amazing Beta @flameohotwife and incorporate her insightful direction and suggestions. Not to mention it gives me a chance to go back and change some details in earlier chapters that I haven't posted yet to better foreshadow or just build up to what will happen next.

Wish I could report that I am a fast writer, but I absolutely am not. I'm super slow. And I'm super picky. I also have distraction problems, so I need concerted, uninterrupted time to be able to write anything at all. So I admittedly spend a LOT of time each week working on the next chapter.

This is why I swore off long fics, because keeping the schedule is important to me, but it consumes my existence, LOL! (However, I clearly can't keep a promise to myself, since I'm in the middle of a long fic now, haha!)

...

And for the two-for:

This is the last line I think I wrote (it's from chapter 10 of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle)

“Yes,” Ozai said confidently. “I’d expect nothing less.”

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[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

happy ffwf!!

whats the ~weirdest~ place you've worked on a fic? Or do you have any crazy fic writing experiences/ stories?

If not, what is your typical fic writing set up?

happy ffwf!! i've honestly worked on fics wherever i can 😂 here's some of the weirder ones (i think? less typical, at least):

- the car (note: i was not the one driving adshkajks)

- in class (especially in middle school)

- a variety of relatives' houses ("what are you working on?" "... a story")

- sitting on a towel on my driveway

- probably a party or two

i think handwriting fics helps enable me to write wherever i want 😂

[foxy-knowledgeseeker]

hi!!

sorry this is SO late!

do you have any fandoms that you read a lot of fic for, but have never written for? and/or that you'd like to eventually write fic for but haven't yet?

happy ffwf! <3

Hello! Happy ffwf! Oh I love this question! Boy do I ever!

So far, I have only written ATLA fanfiction (although I have a few Luca fics in the wings right now). And, while I mostly read ATLA fanfiction, I read a lot of Percy Jackson fic and *some* Harry Potter fic as well (although admittedly MUCH LESS of the latter since JK decided to do the thing™ last year). I have also saved a lot of SPOP, The Dragon Prince, and HTTYD fanfiction because those are fandoms I have been eyeballing a little bit but haven't broken into yet.

I have thought about writing The Dragon Prince, HTTYD, and Percy Jackson fanfiction before (and was even thinking of trying my hand at smut writing with a Percabeth oneshot), but I don't think I'll ever write Harry Potter fanfiction at this point.

Thanks for the ask!

[theclockworkmonk]

Author Self-Interview

tagged by @cats-and-metersticks

Name: There might be a day where I answer that, but not today.

Where do you post: AO3 and fanfiction.net. I've also tried to make an account on SIYE, but it always glitches out. I don't really see a reason to not post to multiple sites, so if there are other fanfic sites I should get an account on let me know.

Most popular multi-chapter fic:

My multi-chapter with the highest number of Kudos/favs is The Morning After, my "hangover episode" of ATLA that I started back in 2013 and only finished last year. (Tokka, Kataang, Maiko)

My multi-chapter with the highest ratio of kudos to hits is The One with the Photograph, my first ever HP fic, so I guess I peaked early. I originally wrote it as a one-shot, but that spiraled into three follow-up chapters connected to the central idea. (Hinny)

Most popular one-shot:

By number of Kudos/favs, it's Desire and Will, in which Zuko, trying to get Aang to let loose with his firebending, asks the seemingly random question "Have you ever kissed a girl?" Most of the story is Katara's rambling, panicking internal monologue. (Kataang)

By ratio of kudos to hits, it's actually Fool in the Rain, which is pretty funny and probably just highlights that this isn't a great metric. It's a short songfic I through out one afternoon back in 2014, both as a way to try out songfics (I haven't done another one since), and to fix one of the MANY things I hated about The Promise (I've since accepted that the Gene Yang comics are beyond saving with fix-it fics so instead I just ignore them). (Maiko)

Favourite story you’ve written so far: "The Morning After" will always be special to me, just because it's the longest, so it proves to myself that I'm capable of finishing a project of that scope, even if I did drop it for six years, and that's a good source of inspiration to my ADHD brain.

I also really like "The Other Runaway," simply because I think it's unique. With the show being done for 13 years, basically everything that could be written about it has been written, multiple times. But I had never seen anyone make that connection between Aang and Toph, how they're kindred spirits in a way. (Kataang, Aang/Toph friendship)

Fic you were nervous to post: .....I don't think any of them? I haven't ever really written about anything serious enough to warrant people getting upset. There's no heavy topics. I mostly write comedy, so even if people hate it, there's not really material for them to leave a long, scathing comment about WHY they hate it. They either find it funny, or they don't.

How do you choose your titles: I don't think about it too hard, to be honest. I usually pick it immediately before posting, just picking a word or phrase that appears in the text that's emblematic of what the work is about.

Do you outline: The only time I've written a full, structured outline is for "The Morning After." I had to, it's a murder mystery so you need to plan out the planting and payoff of the clues. With everything else, I make notes, but nothing as organized as an actual outline.

Complete fics: All of them except three:

"Out of the Mouths of Babes," an ongoing fic that spiraled from a prompt from @clarensjoy's Hinny Fic Fest last May. The penultimate chapter is written and being beta'd

There's also two works that I posted one chapter of in 2014 and then immediately abandoned, "Baby Brother," which was supposed to be a series about Ozai and Iroh's childhood, and "The Siren," an HTTYD fic that has kind of been rendered obsolete by now.

Do you accept prompts: I'll take part in prompt events if they pull me in, but I won't force it if nothing comes to me. And I have WAY too many ideas that I'll probably never be able to get to to accept random prompts on tumblr

Upcoming story you’re most excited to write: I've been meaning to revisit "Baby Brother," and there's more thematically connected multi-chapters in the same vein as "The One with the Photograph" and "Overprotective" I have ideas for

Stories you’re most excited to read: Most of the stories I've been into are on long hiatuses right now, so I won't post about them to put pressure on the writers. I have been meaning to read "Not from Others" by @floreatcastellumposts, but I know that once I start I likely won't be able to stop until I finish the whole thing in one day, so I've hesitated taking that plunge lol

Thanks for the tag! tagging @a-d-curtis, @theresthesnitch, @flameohotwife, @starlingflight, @shameaboutthedilettantism, @f0xfordcomma, @northerngoshawk

[flameohotwife]

@f0xfordcomma 👀

6 hour workday maximum i’m not kidding, if it can’t be done in that timeframe it doesn’t need doing.

[northerngoshawk]

last line game

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote and tag as many people as there are words.

tagged by @chocomd. ty friend!

from chapter 2 of my demon slayer au:

Uncomfortable with Sokka’s expression, Aang turned back to Katara. “So… what are you gonna do now?”

tagging: @f0xfordcomma @thebakingqueen5 @the-last-cuddlebender and anyone else who wants to do it! everyone else i wanted to tag was already tagged... 😅

[flameohotwife]

happy ffwf!!

have you ever showed any of your fics to people you know irl? Which fic(s)? Why or why not?

okay go!

happy (late) ffwf, friend! I HAVE NEVER. NO. NUH-UH.

Funny story though, a couple of my sisters are pretty into atla and one of them reads fanfic (although I'm not sure she reads atla fic or for some other fandom), so it's possible that they've read my stuff... but I don't know that for sure and I don't wanna know. Nope. No thanks. Especially given what I've written... Yeeeaaaahhhh I'll just keep that to myself and my anonymous internet friends, haha. Thanks for the ask!

[peachcitt]

Happy FFWF!

Is there a particular scene in any of your fics that was ~inspired by~ events in your own life? If so! Share the scene/ the story/ whatev!

YES. SO MUCH ALL THE TIME

off the top of my head are:

- hey, you

the entire premise of the fic (adrien beginning to think differently about marinette after having a dream where he was dating her) is based off of. the fact that about a week before i wrote the fic i had a dream that i was dating a close friend. yeah. the stages adrien goes through of “just because you have a dream about them doesn’t mean you like them!!” to “okay so maybe that was wrong-” is in fact based on real life

- bloodsucker

there’s a frat party scene where sokka and zuko dance along to mr. brightside by the killers and was in fact based on the single frat party i attended and actually thoroughly enjoyed; the crowd was mostly girls and all the music was 2010s party music. they played mr. brightside and it was absolutely gorgeous.

- bone tea

this fic was written spanning about two tumultuous years of my life, so honestly i can’t even begin to pinpoint how much of myself went in there. BUT the easiest example i can think of is when luka confesses to marinette - he’s completely fine with being rejected and kind of expected it, but marinette feels SO guilty and terrible about it. in high school, i was in luka’s shoes and confessed to a close friend with the intention of just getting my feelings out in the open so i could deal with them faster. i never expected him to reciprocate and i kind of didn’t even want him to because i valued his friendship, but he felt TERRIBLE. he kept saying how he wished he could make me happy and wished that he could be that guy for me, and i was like dude? chill it’s not that big of a deal. anyway i remembered how ridiculous that entire situation was and was like! cool im projecting this onto marinette now<3

- pride and participles

since in this fic, félix is tutoring chloe, i needed there to be something tangible for them to actually be studying, and obviously i needed for there to be something chloe complains about. my first thought was participles because i took four years of latin and i could not tell you what participles are if you begged on your knees for it. the worst part is? we talked about them all the time in class and my poor teacher had explained them to us over and over again, and neither me nor my classmates ever remembered what the heck they were. im so sorry i was a terrible student darrell. maybe one day i’ll understand participles but that day is definitely not today

so yeah! honestly there’s probably so much more - anything interesting happens in my life and im like OH this would be a fantastic fic concept or i need just a little detail and end up including something that i know in real life. im simple like that

thank you so much for asking!!<3

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

happy ffwf!!!

is there a particular fic you remember reading that you can point to as a major inspiration for getting you into writing fics? If so! Feel free to link it and gush about it :)

Or if you're more of a writer than a reader, a headcanon/ prompt/ idea that inspired you to furst start writing fics.

happy ffwf!! i can tell you what inspired me to write fics, although it wasn't a story: it was a person! she was my neighbor and we met bc we shared a bus stop for the same middle school (she was in eighth grade and i was in sixth). i was talking to her about teen titans one day, and she eventually introduced the concept of fanfiction and fanfiction.net to me. it was lowkey a lightbulb moment like 😂 "writing about these characters is something i can do?" and honestly i haven't looked back

[foxy-knowledgeseeker]

happy FFWF friendo!

Is there a particular scene in any of your fics that was ~inspired by~ events in your own life? If so! Share the scene/ the story/ whatev!

Hello! Happy ffwf, even if a week late!

Oh gosh I wish scenes from my fics were based on real life. I would have a much more exciting life then. haha

To be honest, (so far) I have only written Avatar fanfiction, the vast majority of which has had some romantic focus. So as someone who doesn't live in a beautiful fantasy world and who has never been in love, I gotta say, exactly 0% of what I write is based in any kind of personal experience.

Can't wait for the day I get to answer this kind of question with a yes, though!

Thanks for the ask! This was fun!

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

Get to Know Meme

thank you for the tag @f0xfordcomma!! 🥰💛

rules: tag nine people you want to know better

three ships: joe x allison, spideyflash, sarahmay (bonus: maizutaraang)

last song: either “Soulmate” by Natasha Bedingfield or “Around Here” from 9 to 5: The Musical (time is a lie so i don’t know which one i listened to last, lmao, and i wasn’t signed into youtube on the tv so i can’t check my history 😂)

last movie: uhhh maybe Black Widow? i think that’s the most recent movie i saw, lmao

currently reading: do my class syllabi count 😂 i refuse to start anything rn bc the semester is about to begin which means my free time is about to vanish, lol

currently watching: rewatching Monk and random episodes of Medium (see? not starting anything 💀😭)

currently consuming: well, im about to get some coffee. i will put a little bit of vanilla creamer in it

currently craving: an omelette. don’t ask me why

tagging: if you see this on your dash, i am tagging you! yes, you! i would like to get to know you better, so feel free to do this game if you like 💕

Get to Know Meme

Thanks for the tag @foxy-knowledgeseeker

rules: tag nine people you want to know better

three ships: kataang, ml lovesquare, bubbeline

last song: Listening rn to Honey, I by Wes Reeve. Its such an adorable lil song, just randomly added it to one of Spotify playlists and its a total bop!

last movie: I watched Princess Mononoke this week... please don't shame me please don't shame me please don't shame me... for the first time ever... it was SO GOOD!!!!!!! and I absolutely understand the hype and ajasjhfvahfasugf I'll probably watch it three more times in the next month because we don't love things by half measures over here, oh no.

currently reading: Just started Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson! Hubs has been trying to get me to read /anything/ by him for as long as we've known each other and I was super daunted by just the sheer quantity of Brandon Sanderson out there for me to read so I've been putting it off.... but finally started reading recently and I'm digging it!

currently watching: Tower of God on Crunchyroll. Started this one recently and not fully in love with all the characters yet but the world is SO COOL! I'm hooked.

currently consuming: a *zambia bing cherry* flavored bai ~antioxidant infusion~ juice. I am obsessed with these things.

currently craving: Shortbread cookies. Just always shortbread. It is the greatest invention of humanity and I will take no criticism on this.

Tagging: gah! nine people is a lot of people!! Feel free to play if you want :) @itsmoonpeaches @vanillabutspicy @flameohotwife @thinkingisadangerouspastime @6doodlaang14 @thatcroissantgurl @waterbearwaltz @peachcitt @midnightstarlightwrites

[northerngoshawk]

happy ffwf!!

i don't have a creative question for today so just tell me about your current wip! what inspired it? what do you love about it? what do you hate abou it? a little snippet of it that gives you the ~ i write good~ feelings and that you can't wait to unleash upon the world?

Happy FFWF!

I'm... I'm sorry 😭 I don't have a WIP in the works right now 😭😭 All of my writing time has to be devoted to essays bc school and my future and yeah😭😭😭

SO since I have literally nothing to offer you, why don't I talk about upcoming ideas I have for fics? :)

The prequel to The Dishonored Blade - This is a fic that I'm definitely going to write sometime in the future. If you haven't read "The Dishonored Blade"... well... all I'll say is that this will be a nice... aangsty supplement to TBD >:)

Kataang: The Artists' Collection - Not really an idea, it's just I've been thinking of supplementing (non-NSFW) Kataang artworks with ficlets. I've done a lot for @lanjunlazy and did one for @6doodlaang14, but I'm hoping to expand and diversify this collection with more artists' works. If you have any artists' works to rec, feel free to lmk!

Whumptober 2021 - Ha. Ha ha ha. Ha. Whumptober is ongoing right now, but due to my aforementioned... inability to write right now, I don't think I'll be able to tackle any of the rest on time 😭 BUT. I can write some afterwards, so be on the lookout for them 😉 (or not. depending on what you prefer.)

Anyways, I'm sorry I can't add more, Foxford 😭 I'm disappointed too.

But thanks for the ask!

[flameohotwife]

Hotwife!!

For the ask game 👀

I want #3 and #28 ??? 🧡🧡🧡

F0xford!!! I'm so glad to see you around again <3

3. favorite line/scene you wrote this year: ooooof this is hard. I just spent an embarrassing amount of time looking over my fics to try to decide and I still can't really pick. I think I'm going to say the conversation between Aang and Katara the night after the comet in Safe Harbor. I really enjoyed playing with how those feelings might come out while still knowing they had MONTHS (I know, right??) before the kiss on Iroh's balcony. This section in particular:

She rested her head on his chest and listened to the soft thump-thump of his heart. The sound was like the glue where his earlier hug had been the clamp; her heart felt whole in places she hadn’t realized had been broken, before.

28. longest fic you read this year: Definitely the Spirits trilogy by kuaishu on ffn. Book 1 has over 130k, Book 2 has almost 152k, and Book 3 (sadly still unfinished BUT complete enough to feel like the main part of the story is wrapped up) is a whopping 225k. It's dark, angsty, there's mystery and intrigue, a teensy bit of well-placed and plot-supportive spice, drama, and more. It's heartbreaking and there is some graphic violence (which I don't usually read), but it's very well done. Thanks for the ask!