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2022 fic writer's interview

Thanks to @thisdivorce, @energievie, @vintagelacerosette for the tags!

1. How many works do you have on AO3

59--but quite a few are compilations, which would basically double it.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

460,173

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Meet the Neighbors (I'm coming back to it soonish I swear)

Eighty-Seven Percent (Anatomy of a Heart)

Marriage, Mickey, and Milk of the Gods

Being His Baby Don't Make Me a Bitch

In Case of Emergency

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Sometimes. I go through phases of trying to be better about it, but my brain is also weird and I start to feel conceited if I keep saying thank you😅 I always massively appreciate them though, it makes me so happy!

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't think any, except for maybe a couple of galladrabbles like this one

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

They have to end to have a happy ending lol, but basically anything that's done.

7. Do you write crossovers?

I'm never sure what can be classed as a crossover, but I've done 911 (In Case of Emergency), Jurassic Park (Tooth and Claw), sort of X-Men, sort of Star Wars (with ideas for a full fic that may or may not come to be), and probably some I'm forgetting.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Just once I think, and it was just someone who really doesn't like Vee's nickname being spelled with more than one letter.🤣

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yes, and I'm way too proud of it lol. It's mostly way too wordy and flowery language abounds because that's also the only way I can read it😂 I've got a collection of ficlets here from when I first started to write NSFW by request, and other assorted works.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, but that would be really cool!

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Calli (@ianandmickeygallavich1) and I have been playing around with one (very slowly on my part) that you can find under the tag #arrow&calli write

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

I phase in and out of quite a few but right now Gallavich

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

I refuse to say I won't finish anything I've started posting lol, but there are a couple things in an old doc that will probably never see the light of day.

15. What are your writing strengths?

I usually say description, but I've been struggling with it lately. Funnily enough, I think dialogue has been working best for me even though I've traditionally been uncomfortable with it.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Overcomplicating things: the plot, the sentence structure, everything. If I can overdo something I will.

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

I've done it once and I think it worked out ok, but I avoid it in general because I don't want to screw it up.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Shameless! Pretty much the only, too.

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

Good Omens and Our Flag Means Death, both of which I've previously planned things for but never followed through on. I'd be open to a pretty wide range of others but haven't had specific inspiration.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

I'm gonna not limit myself on this, because I haven't felt like I like any of it lately but I was looking through my own stuff for these questions and honestly had forgotten so many I'm kinda proud of? So...

My first fic, because it got me here: F*ck the Stars

My latest fic, because I enjoyed writing for the first time in a while: Countdown to Christmas

My zine fic and my spicy collab fics, just because it was so cool to be part of the group: One hundred hours (without you here) and Show me (to) your garden

And my experiment with a short magic AU from a different of POV, because it was fun if a bit haphazard: Methods of Magic

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I know this has gone around a bit already, but I'll tag @celestialmickey @abundanceofnots @iansfreckles @sweetbee78 @whatthebodygraspsnot @wehangout @sickness-health-all-that-shit just in case🥰

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Hej hej, it took me too long to get this done, but here it is!

Tagged by @my-space-and-all-within Thank you so much!! 

Forewarning these answers might be kinda long; I’ve only gotten to talk to like one person that isn’t family or a coworker in the past few days. Which means not much music talk, since I don’t want to overwhelm one friend with that (I want them to keep being my friend lol) and family and coworkers just don’t want to hear me chatter so...yeah. 

1. Your favourite metal band/singer. 

Just one? I...I can’t choose. I can however give a top 7 (aka 7 is where I made myself stop adding bands lol.) 

Avatar, Ghost, Type O Negative, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Dethklok/Brendon Small and various others, Behemoth, HIM (I always considered them gothic metal, though I admit some other tracks fall into more gothic rock.)

And to be honest, as I discover more bands and make up for the lost years where my family kept me from the music I loved, this list tends to rotate every now and again. Doesn’t mean I love these bands any less of course, just means I’ve got too many favorites to listen to all at once--and if you did that very literally, could you imagine the cacophony?...actually hold up ya’ll I gotta try something...

That was...an interesting ear sound. Not the worst thing at some points, but definitely sounds like I put all of them on one stage that was much too small for everyone and told them they’d all been scheduled for the exact same time slot, and no we could not move anyone or have anyone play at a later time and so they just fuckin’ went for it.

 Hey, if you want to make your ears go ???!!!?? like mine just did, here’s the playlist: Venus Doom-HIM, Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer-Behemoth, I Ejaculate Fire-Dethklok, Healing Through War-Fleshgod Apocalypse, Black No.1-Type O Negative, Year Zero-Ghost, and Hail the Apocalypse-Avatar. 

Played all at once. Just open up those seven tabs of Youtube and let it happen.

Go forth and hear some good music, but maybe not in the best way possible lol.

2. My favourite non-metal artists/bands.

This list is not as long as it used to be, but I still have a few mainstays. Another top 7 then: 

Gorillaz, A$ap Rocky, The Mountain Goats, Frank Ocean, Cab Calloway, The Decemberists, and Lana Del Rey. 

Remember how I said my music taste could be a bit varied at times? This is what I meant. No one will ever hand me the aux cord :(

3. Favourite singer/band from my own country.

My Chemical Romance are still my dudes, broken up or not. Dethklok could also fit here though. So, one goth rock option and one metal option for this one. 

4. 3 favourite songs.

Oh dear. Um. I’m going to try and keep this short. I mean it, really. Y’know what, let’s make me choose 3 favorites out of the seven from the first question. That might help. So then, that’s still kind of impossible but I will make myself choose lol: 

-Black Waters-Avatar--could listen to this one on repeat for hours and never once feel like changing to a different song. Have done so before, to be honest. 

-Year Zero-Ghost--I mean, how can I not have this one as a favorite of theirs. Is it possible to hate this song as a Ghost fan? Maybe, but not that I’ve seen. 

-Black No.1-Type O Negative--they have a shit ton of good songs, but this is the one that introduced me to this band (at the time played for me by a best friend I was crushing so hard on in middle/high school when we were a bunch of baby goth/metalheads-and she really did dye her hair black to match the scene lol. She’s left the scene and married some guy who listens to country; they’ve since moved hours away. I miss her sometimes, but the memories associated with this song are nice enough to have, since us meeting up again now would probably be a disaster.) 

5. In your opinion, an overrated band/singer.

Oof. Don’t want to start any shit, so again, this is just my opinion which means nothing lol. 

This didn’t specify metal or not, so I’m going to say that Shawn Mendes kid (is that how his name goes? I’m not sure.) I literally can’t turn on the radio without hearing his shit. He sounds good enough, but I grew up in the era of boy bands--my standards for whiny pop are higher than whatever the standards are currently, though let’s be real here that’s also a lotta fuckin’ nostalgia influencing my opinion. 

But he’s also a tiny thing at 19, so hopefully he’ll experiment more with his sound and topics. Better for him then, as well as better for my ears whenever I have to listen to the radio with my family. 

6. In your opinion, an underrated band/singer.

Oooh--Avatar introduced me to Old Kerry McKee since he opened for them for part of this last tour cycle. He reminds me of some of my favorite folk artists, but he’s got his own edge to that sound, and I really like it. Like I struggle to find that style of music that I consistently like enough to buy an artist’s music or listen to it more than once or twice, since I’m picky with my acoustic shit, but his was an instant love. 

Anyway, long story short, go buy Old Kerry McKee’s music and I think he was working on a merch store to be up at some point in the future? So look for that too. Give him some love and support, he deserves it. 

7. Artists that remind you of your childhood.

My Chemical Romance, The Used, HIM, Fall Out Boy, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Poison, Motley Crue, Backstreet Boys, and N’Sync. Guess which I listened to at which ages in my childhood and which my mum got me into lol. 

8. An artist that you used to love but now hate:

A few come to mind that I dislike, but none that I straight up hate. Some that I don’t listen to anymore because they turned out to be nasty fucking people. That’s about as much as I’m gonna say on this one I guess. Said acts are associated with fragile memories that I don’t really want to dredge up at 8 PM on a Sunday night. 

9. Did you enjoy the challenge?

I did! This was fun, and I really do love doing these. I feel like I reblog ask memes and tag games too often, but I can’t help it--I love sharing and talking about music like this. 

10. Tag 3 people

Okay, going with my followers/folks I interact with that I know listen to metal lol. 

@pblbak @feathers-andflesh and @black-metal-hermit (if you all are feeling up for it of course--no obligation if this isn’t your thing!) 

Also if any of you try my experiment from Question 1, I humbly request you blog about your reaction and tag me in it. I wanna see who else has experienced the weird magic lol.