Fanfic Writer Asks
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1) How many works do you have on AO3?
33
2) What's your total AO3 word count?
113,822 words
3) What fandoms do you write for?
Currently writing for Final Fantasy XIV, have previously written for Borderlands, Fallout 4, and Critical Role.
4) What are your top five fics by kudos?
Only A Thought Away (Critical Role) - 182 kudos
This Is Home (Critical Role) - 169 kudos
I Will Endure (Critical Role) - 127 kudos
Forgiveness (Critical Role) - 118 kudos
Boy, Oh Boy (Critical Role) - 104 kudos
5) Do you respond to comments?
I try to, yes! I will respond in the same energy as whatever the comment is given in. And now that we have the block function, I have no compunction of simply taking commenting privileges away. Manners matter :)
6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
Extinguishing the Last Light (FFXIV) is the bad ending AU where the Scions don't succeed in defeating the newly formed Lightwarden after the events of Mt. Gulg, and Estinien gets called to the First. it continues to haunt me and I ended up gposing a scene from it.
7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Probably This Is Home.
8) Do you get hate on fics?
Not yet, but I have gotten a couple of the "moar plz/when are you gonna updaaaaate?" type comments. See above commenting privileges policy.
9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
I have exactly one E fic (An Owl In Limsa) that has been published, but the HW fic will also be explicit pretty much right out the gate. I have far, far more smut pieces that are just for me and some friends.
So far, it's just been a single hookup. That's been published. There's. A variance. In my word docs. Some may see the light of day, some may not, only time will tell.
10) Do you write crossovers? If so, what's the craziest one you've written?
Eh, not really my thing. It veers a little to close to crack for my tastes.
11) Have you ever had fic stolen?
Not as far as I know. It may sound self deprecating, but I don't think any of my work is good enough to be worth stealing, and certainly none of it is big enough in the fandom to catch the eye of scammers who sell fic on Amazon or whatever.
12) Have you ever had a fic translated?
Again, not to my knowledge, though if someone were interested I would be happy to discuss!
13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I have, at least once, yes! I was part of a small group doing a Critical Role AU where Mollymauk was a lost de Rolo child, and we were all taking turns puppeting the M9 and VM with their official character sheets. I kinda miss it sometimes but we all just kinda drifted. Very very fun though, would highly recommend it.
14) What's your all time favourite ship?
I don't really do the whole "this is my Only Ship Ever" thing. I'll have a preferred ship per fandom, but especially since getting into XIV I have fully embraced the motto of "learn to multiship like an adult".
Some favourites include; Caleb/Essek, Caleb/Mollymauk, SoSu/Hancock, Krieg/Maya, Beau/Yasha
15) What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
My canon divergent Borderlands 2 AU. Every now and again I'll think about it, and I do have the original outline I wrote for it (past me really did me a solid there) but the fandom drift has hit so hard I really just lost all momentum on it. I don't want to orphan or abandon it because What If Some Day I get back to it, but that day is looking pretty far off.
16) What are your writing strengths?
Characterisation, use of tension, descriptions, call and response/motifs, Show Don't Tell
17) What are your writing weaknesses?
Combat sequences, movement, adverbs, endings? beginnings??? middle?????
18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
So I haven't had this problem yet, but it will definitely be happening a lot once I start writing Stormblood stuff, because Kitali speaks fluent Doman as well as Dazkar Xaela, and will be switching between those and Eorzean common quite a bit.
Personally I'm not a fan of having a different formatting for each language (plain for the main language, bold for one, italics for another, underlined for another, etc) and would rather just have a dialogue tag stating what language is being spoken, with a new one each time the language switches.
I also am not a fan of having footnote translations in the author's notes, and would rather just have the actual translation instead of having to either scroll back and forth (annoying and I lose my place) or remembering what was said when and with what context (I have memory problems).
19) First fandom you wrote for?
Borderlands 2
20) Favourite fic you've written?
Of the ones I've published, I think I have to go with Extinguishing the Last Light. It's the one I think about the most often, it's the most evocative (imo) emotionally, and it tells the story it needs to tell in several concurrent layers.
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1. How many works do you have on AO3?
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
3. What fandoms do you write for?
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
5. Do you respond to comments?
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
8. Do you get hate on fics?
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
14. What's your all time favorite ship?
15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
16. What are your writing strengths?
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
19. First fandom you wrote for?
20. Favorite fic you've written?
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