#other candidates for the 'interesting topic' one include SQL injection cyberattacks and the effects of a lightning strike on the human body

[ohhgingersnaps]

for the fix writing asks: 7, 12, 19, 25, 29 :)

7. your preferred writing fonts

Usually Palatino, because it's Scrivener's default! I'm also a pretty big fan of Crimson Text for typesetting.

12. a trope you're really into right now

This one's a little difficult (so many tropes!), but I will admit, I have been really into band AUs recently! I also love a good Only One Bed fic and Mutual Pining, but that's less of a "now" thing and more of a "general" thing haha

19. the most interesting topic you've researched for a fic

I was about to bring up the time I used my own Real Life Pneumonia as fic research, but actually, the answer to this is probably "mid-2000s Japanese middle school curricula." (Specifically because it led me to Run, Melos!, and I ended up looking up the original text and dusting off my very rusty Japanese to translate it. It was a fun deep dive, and given that the short story itself had some fortuitous parallels to the themes of the fic, it ended up serving as a useful narrative tool, too!)

25. besides writing, what are your other hobbies?

Answered here!

29. how easy is it to come up with titles?

My titles are all borrowed from song lyrics, and I draw heavily from songs for fic inspiration, so usually it's pretty straightforward! The most difficult case is when there are multiple lyrics I want to use, or when the song inspo for a given chapter doesn't have a line that fits (e.g. the first chapter of STSAE was originally titled "I'm Just A Kid, And Life Is A Nightmare" because a) that song was fully the inspiration for the beginning montage of Sebastian's Regular Workday, and b) it sets the stage for his FOMO in the rest of the fic... the line itself didn't really capture the vibes I was going for, so I ultimately replaced it).