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i spent my birthday doing nothing but sitting in bed and reading fanfic for a solid 12 hours. my ideal day lol

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20 questions, Writing Edition

Tagged by @retiredficwriter <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

five rn!

What's your total AO3 word count?

11,111 (i did not realize this before omg i'm never posting a fic again /j)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Family Ties (and all of their strangeness)

three in the morning (be in the moment)

All I Feel is Free Now

hood over your head (keep your eyes down)

butterflies with girls hit different

What fandoms do you write for?

just bnha and bloodlines at the moment, but i've written for several others in the past

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i try to, if i don't it's because i don't know what to say but i am eternally grateful lol

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

it's /hood over your head (keep your eyes down)/ but from writing this i learned that i am not good at angst, i hate this fic and i consider orphaning it every day skjdhfl (this was definitely an instance of too much telling and not much showing)

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

hmm idk, a lot of them are bordering on crack, but i'd say All I Feel is Free Now is the most happy in a hopeful sense?

Do you get hate on fics?

no? one person told me i should have written my fic differently but i don't think it was hate lol

Do you write smut?

nope, i am the rare ace person that cannot write smut at all

Do you write crossovers?

i think crack crossovers are so funny but i could never write one lol

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i don't think so

Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no but it sounds fun

What's your all-time favourite ship?

oh gosh i have no idea lol; if i had to pick i'd say tododeku, sydrian, or solangelo

What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

my assclass magical fic. maybe my aizawa-centric super angsty grief fic. both of these are long and i am not a longfic girlie. luckily all of my bloodlines ideas/wips are short so i will not give up on any of them :)

What are your writing strengths?

i'm good at inner thoughts and i love to get into the heads of the characters i write

What are your writing weaknesses?

i can't write angst, and also i need to work on showing more than telling. i have a hard time drawing out scenes because i don't "show" very much. i use way too many commas. also i've gotten a lot better at this one over the years but i used to change tenses every sentence without even realizing lmao

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

can be super cute, but can also just be random

First fandom you wrote for?

i think it was vampire academy actually! up until 2024, emailing myself was my primary form of "posting" fics for some reason?? i still have most of the emails and it cracks me up that there are So Many of them and none will never see the light of day

Favourite fic you've ever written?

i love Family Ties (and all of their strangeness) because it made me laugh and i had the time of my life writing it, but i also love All I Feel is Free Now because i have so many ideas on how to continue it in a series of little oneshots :)

Tagging anyone who wants to do this! (re: anxiety)

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last night i had a dream that combined writing fic with my worst intrusive thought atm. so. this might hinder my fic fight progress slightly -_- i will try my best though

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Deku may have grown up to be a full-fledged pro hero, but he hasn't grown out of the reach of All Might's hair ruffle

It's All Might birthday! Happy birthday to the greatest hero of all time!

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hatsume Mei/Yaoyorozu Momo Characters: Hatsume Mei, Yaoyorozu Momo Additional Tags: Quirk Shenanigans (My Hero Academia), First Kiss, Humor, Pre-Slash Series: Part 1 of be crime do gay (fic fight 2025! team villain) Summary:

For JajaLala's prompt: "Inconvenient quirk effect that can only be removed by a kiss" :)

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happy pride everyone

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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

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FIC FIGHT TIMEEEEEE!!

could not write today because i played a random trio tournament of a certain video game and that went. interestingly.

tomorrow i shall start writing though!

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it is decided that i will be on team villain this june. you could say i have turned to vill-annie >: ]

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i am freed from the clutches of academics and june shall be my writing month (yay fic fight!)

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i had to write a short play for an assignment and my professor said my last line was really good and recast the whole story in a different way that added more dimension and that she didn't predict at all and i am thrilled :)

i almost deleted it too and i'm so glad i didn't because she predicted the main "twist" of my play but the last line got me 100% because she enjoyed it so much (!!!)

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one more week of the semester and then i can pour my writing braincells into fanfiction and not academic essays (just finished essay 2 of 6 send help)

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how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

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title: full of surprises

rating - teens and up audiences

word count: 972

Sydney witnesses a kind gesture from the Alchemist assigned to look after her.

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

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my laptop is finally back from the dead and i'm ready to write mwahaha

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april showers