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“was there a fic that was really hard on you to write, or took you to a place you didn't think it would take you?”
(Moment of silence for my brain, since I can’t look at this emoji without pairing it with 🕯️👻💚 in honour of Bev 😂)
I think the toughest fic was Crows Feet (my Merry Month of Cohen fic from a few years back)
It focussed on chronic illness and media othering through Hugh’s experience as an xB.
I’d read Memento Mori by @song-spero and it changed me, that story does such beautiful and heartbreakingly tender things with grief, trauma, and belonging, that the canon couldn’t even dream of!
That fic featured a line about Hugh wanting to keep his scars and get crows feet beside his eyes after his reclamation, and I KNEW I needed to expand on that.
It’s a love letter to song-spero’s fic, to Hugh, and (hopefully🤞) to people who saw something of their own chronic illness experience in how Picard (season 1) portrayed the xB’s.
It’s one I’m really proud of, and I hope people get out of it the same kind of catharsis that I got from writing it :)
#I’m proud of that one!#regionalpancakewrites#(or rather regionalpancake thinks about writing)#asks answered#thanks for asking!
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For the fic writer ask: 💝🎙and also: 💌, because you *say* it feels like forever since you wrote, and I'm sure that's true, but I know that you *have* been writing and you deserve to celebrate that ;)💗
💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?
This one answered here :)
🎙️which one of your fics would you like someone to make a pod-fic of?
I have been BLESSED that @thelaithlyworm has made SIX of my stories into podfics! Obviously I recommend them all, BUT if you need a pick-me-up on a bad day, then the podfic of Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) is just what the EMH ordered! Thimble's skillfull weaving of the music through the story always leaves me with a goofy smile on my face and wanting to dance!
[PODFIC] Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight), by Regionalpancake
[PODFIC] Raffi-Seven DOWNTIME Drabbles, by Regionalpancake
[PODFIC] You Want It Darker, by Regionalpancake
[PODFIC] Observational Truth, by Regionalpancake
[PODFIC] What Spring Does With The Cherry Trees, by Regionalpancake
[PODFIC] Some Strange Cargo, by Regionalpancake
As for a fic I'd like to see a podfic of in the future? Any transformative work makes my heart sing! But if I had to choose, I think it would have to be Crow's Feet, because that fic is so dear to my heart!
💌share something with us about an up-and-coming work (WIP) that has you excited!
You're so sweet for how you worded this ask! <3
Here's a look at Rios, after the end of season 2, having a conversation in his head with a friend he'll never see again. (Roll on the Merry Month of Cohen!)
Rios lifted the coffee, and somewhere in between the morning quiet and the coffee's steam he muttered.
“I need your help, Raf.”
“If you wanted my advice you shouldn’t have relocated to the Dark Ages.”
The seat next to him was still empty. He imagined Raffi sipping her coffee. He did the same.
“Y’know this is your own goddamn fault?” She said.
“I know.”
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#thanks for asking!#ask meme#podfic rec#regionalpancakewrites#(or rather regionalpancake thinks about writing)
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💝what is a fic that got a different response than you were expecting?
Oh! Easily Downtime, my collection of Picard drabbles! I've loved drabbles for as long as I've read fanfic, there's something wonderful about fitting in a scene or an emotional beat into that exact word count. But it other fandoms I've been in drabbles got little readership, and were very much seen as 'less-than' compared to the 100k+ word works. So I wasn't really expecting anyone to read them when I started putting them on AO3. I'm still amazed people gave them the time, and now it's my work with the highest hits at over 10,000 (I'm shocked, astounded, and so so grateful!)
Hopefully I'll have the brain space to start adding to it again now that season 3 is done <3
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For the Ask meme:
💞what's the most important part of a story for you? the plot, the characters, the worldbuilding, the technical stuff (grammar etc), the figurative language
Characters for sure, though I am a sucker for background worldbuilding, and when they're both together? A dream!
I learned from the best - and one of my fav examples of character and worldbuilding coming together beautifully is your fic Poor Tom!
I think I've got a bit of both going on too in Companions:
I love that fanfiction gives us the space to have characters that have never met in canon, meet and have the edges of their stories bleed together. Having Hugh and Kestra talk circles around grief is how I did it in companions. And shout out to @curator-on-ao3 for having Raffi and Janeway fall for each other in The Monster (a perennial favourite!)
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🦋what are you most insecure about when you post a fic?
🎈describe your style as a writer; is it fixed? does it change?
Most insecure about? Oh ABSOLUTELY it’s spelling… and grammar, and syntax, and-
I love telling stories, and it’s something that verbally I can do really well (I’m told I’m a good DM for D&D!) but I’m also dyslexic and so getting the story on the page is something that can be a challenge for me.
Thankfully I’ve got an excellent beta who helps with the word wrangling, and I think I’m getting less worried or self-conscious about making mistakes.
My style as a writer! This makes me feel very professional 🧐✨I think it’s changed, in that I’m more aware of style then when I started. But the general vibe is almost always some combination of ‘healing through found family’, ‘hurt/comfort’, and emotional intimacy (platonic or otherwise) expressed through friendly banter. Which is almost certainly why Raffi&Rios are my catnip ✨
#thanks for asking!#ask meme#this is fun 🥳#and making me think Deep Thoughts about writing#regionalpancakewrites#(or rather regionalpancake thinks about writing)
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🌈 for the fic ask meme!
🌈is there a fic that you worked *really fucking hard on* that no one would ever know? maybe a scene/theme you struggled with?
YES! It was Out of the Game, my entry for last year's Merry Month of Cohen. I was writing for the fest while Season 2 was airing. I really struggled with losing the Motley Crew, as well as making sense of a lot of the character choices. Every week I would try to write something... and every week the canon made me metaphorically crumple my work up and toss it in the bin.
When the Agnes and Borg Queen plot was developing I started writing a fic called Shadows - 'As the Borg Queen seeks control over Agnes, she walks through Agnes’ memories of the last year. Of La Sirena, of found family, and of Rios.' Which I stopped working on when the canon got too sad for me.
Then I started writing Raffi breaking the news to the holos (or at this point holo, singular) that Rios wasn't coming back:
“You’ve looked better.”
Raffi startled at the familiar voice, and looked round to catch the last prismatic shiver of a hologram activating.
“Emmet?”
“Roughly,” The holo shrugged, looking instead at the open crate, at the books, at the mementos, then at Raffi’s sad eyes.
But I couldn't get my head round Seven's canon choice to merge the holos, so that one cos scrapped.
So then I started Night Sky With Exit Wounds, a Seven/Raffi fic where Seven is struggling with the sensory impact of losing her implants:
“Y’know you’re pretty quiet,” Raffi trailed off and followed Seven’s gaze up through the glass of the roof. The night sky glittered in the dark of the French countryside at night.
“The stars look beautiful out here, huh?”
“Where, exactly?” Seven’s head moved slowly, eyes scanning the sky above.
“You’re kidding me? Right there, y’know those twinkly things,” Raffi wiggled her fingers playfully. There was no response from the xB and Raffi let the gesture fade, “you might have heard of them since you wrote the books on astrometrics.”
Seven squinted at the night sky through the glass. Cold points of light burned back. Like light through cheap fabric. Like dead pixels.
“That’s just communication satellites.” Seven said, uncertainty creeping into her voice, as she struggled to remember constellations. “They’re not,”
The realisation weighed cold and heavy in her chest.
“I didn’t even recognise them.”
And then THAT got scrapped, or indefinitely put on the back burner.
Then there was the confrontation with the Borg Queen on La Sirena and I started writing Traveling Light, a fic from Seven's POV while she's bleeding out:
The thing that isn’t Agnes is talking to itself.
It’s voice flitting in and out of bargaining tones. You try to listen closer but blood rushes in your ears instead.
After all those half finished attempts, I finally settled on a theme; Raffi recording a message to Rios, about his choices, that she'll never deliver.
It's a fic I'm proud of, but it took some getting there! Maybe I'll get back to finishing and posting some of the stories I started for that fest. But your ask really reminded me that although I submitted about 1000 for my entry... the behind the scenes word count (and fic count!) was a lot higher!
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#thanks for asking!#ask meme#regionalpancakewrites#(or rather regionalpancake thinks about writing)#long post#HOO BOY this was a long one!
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💘 for the fanfic ask meme!
💘Is there any posted fic you want to rework/re-edit/re-write?
Oooh such a good question! I think Hospitality, my entry for @startrekpotluck from last year could have stood a little tweaking. But I sometimes know better than to write At The Same Time as running the event, and managed to resit the temptation!
There's also some of my first fics that don't stand up to how I'd write the same characters now, but I'm getting better at seeing that difference as what it is - which is making progress, rather than thinking the work isn't good enough :)
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🎉💞 for the fic writer asks please.
🎉how often do you celebrate completing & posting a work? how often do you give yourself the credit/validation that you seek from others when you post? (if you don't, you should!)
Oh ABSOLUTELY not enough 😅 Though it's something I'm working on (with the help of some lovely folks, like yourself and @procrastinatorproject)
I think the next step is to be ok posting something that I think is ok, rather than *exactly* how I wanted it.
If M'Talas can have studio backing for his terrible OC self insert baby!fic, then I can post things that aren't perfect (as if any creative endeavour is)
💞this one answered here :)
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