Author Interview
Thank you for the tag @galadrieljones!
1. how many works do you have on AO3?
111 (I wrote a lot of one shots back in the day)
2. what's your total AO3 word count?
1,226,141
3. what fandoms do you write for?
I have written for Dragon Age, Resident Evil, Red Dead Redemption 2, ASOIAF/GOT, and recently Baldur's Gate. Also, the The Mirror Visitor book series, and another certain video game fandom that we now don't talk about, heheh.
4. what are your top five fics by kudos?
-Love Song on Sapphire Isle, Jaime x Brienne, GOT/ASOIAF
-In Waking Dreams, Cullen x Quiz, DAI
-The Sweetest Sorrow, RDR2, Arthur x Charlotte,
-Voila, Leon x Ada, Resident Evil
-Our Immortal Longings, Connor x OFC, DBH
5. do you respond to comments?
As much as I can! If someone leaves me a string of comments in succession I'll usually reply to the most recent.
6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
There was a one-shot where I explored the Inquisitor losing Cullen, and nothing will top that. However, in my small series Leon and Ada fics there tends to be a note of sadness in each one, even if the main fic has a happy ending.
7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Most of my longfics have happy endings, but I find it doesn't ring true to life if everything is happyhappyjoyjoy. It probably also depends on what your definition of happiness is. Probably Love Song on Sapphire Isle because Jaime and Brienne get married and literally have a pack of children and travel the world--the ending written solely to say Fuck you to the GOT writers for doing that to Jaime and brienne, and at this point I can't count on GRRM for a happy ending for them.
I mean that's what I want, so I would say this ending. (I'd prefer 2/3 kids however, LOL.)
8. do you get hate on fics?
I've been fortunate but I've had a few frankly very stupid comments over the years. One person claimed I was a fetishist because I noted Cullen and Lydia gain weight when they retire but they still think each other is hot. It's more accurate to say I've received unsolicited concrit, which I'm sorry, is and forever will be annoying when you don't ask for it. concrit is helpful, but don't give it when the author doesn't ask. Trust me, we will ask when we want it from people we trust.
9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?
I used to write a lot...and I used to enjoy it a lot, but frankly at this point in my life I find I don't enjoy writing it as much unless there's a character exploration to it or something else beneath the surface. I joked a while ago that falling for an IRL man killed my smut writing career, but I think it's more accurate that as I started writing original fiction again I learned to be more purposeful with sex.
10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?
No, but there is a scene in In Waking Dreams that is an homage, if not outright rip off of my favorite scene in one of my favorite movies, That Hamilton Woman. It's the scene before he gives her the coin when they're staying at in inn
11. have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I'm aware of!
12. have you ever had a fic translated?
Also not that I know of. I'd honestly love it!
13. have you ever co-written a fic before?
No
14. what's your all-time favourite ship?
Cullen x Inquisitor for getting me into writing again, but it honestly fluctuates.
15. what's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
I am quite proud of myself for finishing most of the fics I've begun. The one fic though I'd love to finish would be my Morrigan x warden fic simply because it's not a ship I see often. At this point however I'm not going to say I am done with fanfic, but my priorities have shifted.
16. what are your writing strengths?
I have been told it's lyrical, poetic writing and characterization.
17. what are your writing weaknesses?
I like to rely on dialogue and my descriptions tend to me minimal. There is a fine line of course, too much description will bog a story down.
18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
Should be used sensibly and sparingly and you should know what you're doing. Read a book fairly recently where the characters were bilingual, Spanish and English, and as someone who grew up with a lot of Spanish speakers it rang hollow to me.
19. first fandom you wrote for?
Dragon Age
20. favourite fic you've written?
Why is this so hard? I like them all to a certain degree. There's just something about my one shot Leon and Ada fic Barcelona though. I hadn't even been in the city yet and I still think I got it down so well. The utter helplessness, the slight angst, the longing, the pinning. It reminds me of a version of me that I can't go back to, a version of me so etched in that certain point in time, and yet you wouldn't know it unless you were me. You'd just read it and say "yes."
tagging @myreia @verai-marcel @fiannans @wintersongstress and anyone else!
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