⁕ Happy (belated) Birthday...
↬JELENA CHARKOVA
ᓚᘏᗢ February 8th ᓚᘏᗢ
The OG queen of this blog is back! Now, time to assess the dilemma of whether I want to make my posts about her in German or English XD Because she's from an originally English-language fandom that was continued in German and her original canon version is a German creation. I guess I could pick the language that I've written fics for her in but guess what, I've written for her in both languages. In the end, it's a German fandom and the fics I write from now on will definitely be German BUT I might still ramble about her in English so that I can infect other people with the Jelena virus :)
Anyways - Moin, Kollegen! Ich hab's ja neulich schon erwähnt, aber mein alter Jelena brainrot ist back und ich hab mir Gedanken darüber gemacht, wie ich mein altes, verstaubtes Auxiliary AU wieder auspacken und verbessern kann. Vor allem will ich den accidental ableism beseitigen, weil der mich schon länger daran stört. Aber das ist nicht Sinn und Zweck von diesem Post - dafür gibt's nochmal einen separaten :) Ich war ja ziemlich lange weg, aber nehmt ihr mich wieder ins Fandom auf?
(Also look at this divider. This might be the most detailed one I've made thus far...)
Taglist: @starcrossedjedis @oneirataxia-girl @daughter-of-melpomene @sehr-wohl-die-herrschaften - let me know if you’d like to be added or removed!
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Tell us some more about Jelena! She seems great!
Well thank you! That's very kind of you~ Let's see... I'm the eldest of two girls. I'm a quarter Japanese and do my best to respect my heritage taught to me by my grandmother. I was born in the United States though, Pennsylvania specifically. Then my family moved to London when I was five, almost six. Currently, I'm a librarian in the Great Library, and my husband, William, works as a supervisor in Dispatch. I really, really love to cook and bake, especially for other people. I can also make clothes, blankets, kerchiefs, toys, anything with fabric, thread, and yarn, really. If you ever need someone to talk to, a safe place to go with good food and a warm hug at the ready, then just find me! I'm always happy to help someone else out!
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Fanfic Writer Questions
Alright so, @optiwashere tagged me in this question thingy, how fun! I was looking for an excuse to discuss this stuff.
Oh, and I will be tagging @zawazawanightmares, @modusoperand1 and @trygrievousbutgirl-blog, though ya'll are under no obligation to participate if you don't want to.
1. How many works do you have on AO3?
Twelve, though that number is a bit misleading because one of those has 15 chapters and has been getting sporadic updates since December of last year.
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
115,036. Which seems about right, I tend to get wordy.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
I started with Baldur's Gate 3 but pretty quickly expanded to Chainsaw Man, which is mostly where I hang my hat these days. I'm also planning on writing for Kakegurui eventually, and maybe Dead by Daylight and Warhammer if the mood strikes me.
Oh and I wrote one fic for Werewolf: The Apocalypse that wasn't very good, but I'm probably not returning to that universe anytime soon.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
In descending order:
Stress Relief, In Lust and In Leaf (E-rated Karlach/Shadowheart/Tav feat. recreational drug use)
Through You (E-rated Power/Kobeni, chapter-based longfic)
A Matron's Mercy (E-rated Minthara/Tav with lots of gender affirmation)
Underdark, Under Pressure (M-rated Shadowheart/Tav, the first fic I ever published!)
Waning Moon, Not A Moment Too Soon (E-rated Shadowheart/Tav, ball-slapping sex in a broom closet)
5. Do you respond to comments?
All of them! Though it occasionally takes me a while because of things like time zones and me needing time to think of decent responses. I love getting comments!
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I don't really do angsty endings, I keep that stuff to the beginning and middle when it comes up at all, but by default this one probably goes to Would You Still Love Me if I Was Several Worms? because the ending is only very hopeful that things will work out alright instead of outright confirming it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Oh, hm... It's kinda hard to rank them, but I guess probably Hearts of Fire and Darkness, Eye Enough for Both, though there's no fic of mind that'd refer to as having an "unhappy" ending per se.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
Nope! Not yet at least. I'm sure there's at least one person out there who hates my guts and thinks my work is trash, but so far they've been cordial enough to keep it to themselves.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Yup! I like to think of it as pretty character driven, I always try to keep track of the characters' emotions and mental state during the intense gay sex.
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?
None yet, but I definitely want to write one for BG3 and Chainsaw Man eventually (as in, some time before the heat death of the universe). Both fandoms have a basically immortal lesbian and they deserve to meet eachother.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not to my knowledge!
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Again, not to my knowledge.
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I've definitely had writer friends of mine look over sections of fics I'm working on to provide feedback and criticism, but nothing quite so involved.
14. What's your all time favorite ship?
This is going to sound so stupid, but it's actually an OC x OC ship. See, once upon a time I joined a Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition roleplay server on discord. I played a terrifying, gay monster woman with way too much shit on her shoulders, and she ended up becoming the girlfriend of a blood-curdling, bisexual monster woman with a machete and a vicious streak. The scenes we wrote together there were beautiful and romantic and did wonders for my mental health. I am never going to forget those characters. Valerie and Jelena forever.
15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I wanted to write a novel that was basically just me throwing a bunch of mine and my friends' OCs into an angsty high school AU. It was going to be an attempt at a complex exploration of queerness, mental health and being born into a privileged but deeply abusive household. I gave up after chapter 2 because barely any of the people I showed it to for feedback got back to me, and I got demoralised. Now I write fanfiction and get feedback all the time.
16. What are your writing strengths?
Apparently, transfem rep and hurt/comfort. Which I guess I can kinda see, I'm good at hurting characters but I can never stand to see them in pain for long, hence copious amounts of comfort to compensate.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I'm bad at writing male characters and just flat out can't write hetero romance. Also, I'm slow as fuck.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I just don't do it, unless using Japanese honorifics when writing in English counts. If I need to have a character speak in Russian or Infernal or whatever, I just write "they said in X language" or something like that.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Technically there's a very shitty, unfinished, first-draft, collaborative Hotline Miami fic sitting somewhere in my google docs that's probably the first if I were to check the dates. It's never going to get published or finished, but one OC I made up for it still keeps cropping up in the stories I come up with in my mind, and if I ever go professional they'll see the light of day eventually.
20. Favorite fic you've written?
I technically answered this question here! But the TL;DR version is: Through You and Another Way share the top spot, passion projects that make me a little emotional to think about.
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For the Mind Palace event:
Jelena with 6: cold weather, that might also mesh well with 9: stealing clothes (from Justus or Lys maybe?)
~ sehr-wohl-die-herrschaften
Jelena: I'm from Siberia, I don’t get cold.
Also Jelena, not even five minutes later: *freezing, condemned to wearing the sweater she mocked her Erster for the day before*
I am a firm supporter of the theory that Justus, who canonically wears colorful patterned shirts every day, should also wear colorful sweaters. And since the Auxiliary AU takes place in the late 90s, I took that as an invitation.
This might honestly be my favourite expression I've ever drawn. That is peak Jelena annoyance right there!
Reference image under the cut!
Found here
Also, before you ask where Jelena's feet are: I ate them. - No, really, I'm glad that she even has legs at all, I was struggling...
Taglist: @starcrossedjedis @oneirataxia-girl @daughter-of-melpomene @bravelittleflower @box-of-bats @sehr-wohl-die-herrschaften (also tagging @maxwellshimbo who had to listen to me commentate my drawing process over on Discord) - let me know if you’d like to be added or removed!
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Sibi I want to ask you what's the hottest moment of MV!Yoongi in your opinion?
For me it's these 2:
when he used his creator voice and chopsticks on Jimin
when they were running away from werewolves and he said "I was carrying my woman".
I GNAWING AT MY OWN ARM FNADSFNA those two moments are so unexplainably and insanely hot I am going inSANE FADSNFN
I don't think that I could ever choose just two moments because this man just has to breathe and I'm already out here dry-heaving for his dick HAHAHHA sorry jfasdjf I'm ovulating today JFAJD
But if I had to choose okay listen, the ones you picked are already on my toptier list but two moments which did it to me are:
when he told Jelena “I was trying to teach you. You were a reckless girl. It wasn’t my fault that I had to discipline you.” JFAJDSJF that part just did things to me and I don't even know why fajdjfa
when he helped OC in the game of poker NFANDNF
Those two moments did things to me I am clawing at the walls like a rabid cat JFJADFJ
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