#parasol protectorate

[cricketnationrise]

20 questions for fic writers

Thanks to @cha-melodius, @kiwiana-writes, and @happiness-of-the-pursuit for the tags!

How many works do you have on ao3?

253

What's your total ao3 word count?

481,635

What fandoms do you write for?

RWRB, Check Please!, Tortall, verrrry occassionally The Parasol Protectorate

Top five fics by kudos:

Going Platinum - camboy!Alex AU

Burnin' Through the Sky - speed dating meet-cute

Set in Platinum - camboy!Alex sequel

warm from the inside out - some stuff happens under a desk 😉

Downburst - In The Shadow of Two Gunmen/West Wing AU

Do you respond to comments?

I have responded to every comment so far!

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't tend to write angsty endings. That being said, this Check, Please! ficlet I wrote for @shygryf is very angsty: Hotel Room, Mar. 1 (I did fix it with a later ficlet, but on it's own...)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Most of them tbh. I'm an unrepentant happy ending lover.

Do you get hate on fics?

Nothing that comes to mind--I've been extremely lucky. I've gotten some baffling ones and some with a strange tone, but I think that's more down to English not being their first language, not hate.

Do you write smut?

Yes.

Craziest crossover:

I tend toward fusions/AUs rather than actual crossovers. Although there are Check Please! easter eggs in the Going Platinum universe.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of, although I would hope that any translator would have let me know so that I can flail in overwhelmed gratitude.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not yet, although there's one that's been sitting for a year-ish that I'm gonna be really excited to finally get to.

All time favorite ship?

I won't choose and you can't make me.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Not right now. All the wips I've got that are more than just like, one line or a title, I'm really excited about writing and sharing.

What are your writing strengths?

Immersive descriptions, humor, and metaphors. This bitch loves a metaphor.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Action scenes. I'm getting better, but any time I have a particularly big action scene I beg on my knees for @cha-melodius to get into the doc.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Only If I feel confident about the translation. I'll usually get a native speaker to check it over if it's more than an easy phrase I already know/can google, especially if it's a whole conversation.

First fandom you wrote in?

Check, Please!

Favorite fic you've written?

You're so mean to me making me pick. Le sigh, fine.

Check, Please!: How Delightful if that Were True - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society AU (100% homegrown epistolary baybee)

RWRB: More Than Brick and Mortar - sentient Brownstone AU, magical realism

Tortall: i'll rise up in spite of the ache - hockey AU of First Test

Parasol Protectorate: No Small Matter - 5+1 pranks on Conall that I wrote for @homobiwan

(narrowing these down was absolute agony, btw. hope you're happy.)

Tags under the cut, but if you wanna do this, who am I to stop you? Aka consider this your open tag.

@celeritas2997 @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @inexplicablymine @leaves-of-laurelin @anincompletelist

@firenati0n @missanniewhimsy @montrealmadison @doggernaut @parvuls

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

[rebuke-me]

being in obscure fandoms that have been largely dead be like *three fics for a main ship* *two fics for a ship you cannot even fathom happening* *crackfic from 2015 that includes some sort of not typical drug use* *everything is unfinished* *two fics that are actually good* and thats it. u scroll through one page and ur two years back.

[best-childhood-book]

My fantasy book suggestions:

The Parasol Protectorate by Gail Carriger

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones

The Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente

Added them all!

[forthehonor0fgreywhales]

I recently started re-reading the finishing school books because I cleaned my room and finally found my copy of Etiquette and Espionage. Bean is having lots of fun chewing on the cover and pouncing on the pages whenever I try to turn them!

[googleyfish]

If anyone has read The Parasol Protectorate books and the Custard Protocol books and wants to talk to me about the please do I’m begging you I have no one to talk to about them

[colorsandwords]

I understand the appeal of erotica in werewolf novels, okay? We’re all monsterfuckers here. But I am asexual and sometimes want my werewolves without the smut.

The Parasol Protectorate and Finishing School series by Gail Carriger are really good, I think they have some of the most interesting takes on transformation and pack dynamics. But I finished the first, am almost finished with the second, and my local library doesn’t have much of the other related series.

So does anyone have recommendations for other werewolf books that aren’t just smut or weird, straight omegaverse?

[evapillar]

My blorbos are immortal supernatural beings living in London.

They are a canon gay couple, but their love story was left unresolved in the original.

Years later, the author wrote a follow-up focused on their romance that feels exactly like fanfic.

Oh, did you think this post was about Good Omens? Sorry, it’s actually about these guys:

[homobiwan]

feel like pure shit i just want her back (conall affirming alexia’s self worth and beauty in face of her family who have made her feel inferior)

[reviewsthatburn]

Alexia Tarabotti is a spinster in her mid-twenties, mostly content to spend her time at home, in libraries, or with her friend Ivy who has unfortunate taste in hats. She’s also soulless, a preternatural whose touch can temporarily revert any supernatural persons to their formerly mortal state.

Alexia and the London werewolf Alpha, Conall, have chemistry built on mutual annoyance. He enjoys someone who will surprise and stand up to him (a limited commodity when one is the Alpha of a pack of werewolves), and she seems surprised when annoying him for fun turns into something more. Professor Lyall is his Beta, a competent and unassuming older werewolf who is a quiet, steady presence. Ivy, Alexia’s hat-obsessed friend, is one of my favorite characters but this isn’t yet the book where she shines. Lord Akeldama is a flamboyant and well-informed vampire who is utterly delightful.

Full Review at Link

[heyheyitsgrace]

I need urban fantasy and paranormal romance book recs!!

I'm on the last book of the Agent of Hel series and I need to figure out what to read next! What are some of your favorite urban fantasy or paranormal romance books?

I'd prefer a finished series and I really don't want to read anything that contains sexual assault or a major character death. Other than that I'm pretty open!

I'm going to tag this with some books/series and authors I like. Feel free to reply to this or reblog with your suggestions!

Thank you!!

[rebuke-me]

sometimes a family is a bubbly lady who was raised by an eccentric gay vampire, her french engineer lover, a practical minded lesbian, a werelioness with an affinity for tassels, an academic redhead who gets pegged, and a female doctor with an assassin mother.  plus the bubbly lady's cousin who tried to kill her and his trans woman interpreter/spy wife

[lawofcollage]

A cute little parasol (Because I love Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate)

[desdasiwrites]

A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

– Gail Carriger, Soulless  

[ghost-inacup]

Would anyone be interested in a gail carriger's books' discord server?

please tell me cause i dont want to put in more effort than i have to before exams

[azurahearthborne]

For those reading the Parasol Protectorate...

Does the class difference ever get any better? Does Alexia ever stop referencing the season of clothing her sister wears, or how horribly poor her lifelong friend is?

I wasn't raised rich, or well-off, or even comfortable tbh. So that type of talk is turning me off to the entire series as a whole. Any chance it'll change?