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thevagueambition · 3 years

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1) how many works do you have on AO3?

2) what’s your total AO3 word count?

207,828

3) how many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Let me go count 😂 I tend to write oneshots for random things then never write more for that fandom (when it even has what can be called a fandom lol)

Hmm, something like 24?

Les Mis and Harry Potter are definitely what I’ve written for the most. I’ve written a fair bit of Star Wars stuff as well, but most of that is unpublished wips.

4) what are your top five fics by kudos?

Oh god, I don’t like the first two anymore

1. Mr. Harry Potter, a trans guy!Harry ficlet (this was originally just a headcanon post)

2. Practice, a B99 bi trans guy!Jake ficlet

3. Aching for You, MDZS Wangxian porn with plot (that novel blue balled me lmao)

4. Just Like That, Disco Elysium Harry/Kim (I still really like this one, it was one of the first in that tag too)

5. Handsome as ever, Doctor Who fic where Thirteen and her companions meet Jack Harkness (written before his canon reappearance)

5) do you respond to comments? why or why not?

Usually, yeah. Not if it’s just a heart of a single word comment, though. Not that I don’t appreciate those comments, there’s just not really anything to respond to. If someone does it on every chapter of a longer fic, I might go like “thanks for taking the time to comment!” on one of them to show that I appreciate it.

6) what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Hmm, I’m more of a hurt/comfort than outright angst sort of guy... particularly in terms of endings, I really like things to be really angsty but then end on that note of “things are going to be okay”?

That said, it’s probably In Other Circumstances, a fic based on the movie Joyeux Noël, which is already fairly angsty, given the subject matter (that time during WW1 opposing armies celebrated Christmas together). That, or the Dumbledore fic To Be At Peace.

7) do you write crossovers? if so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

Not really. I do have a little bit of a Les Mis/Order of the Phoenix mash-up where Dumbledore’s Army do a student activism after Dumbledore is sacked (Lamarque is dead!) lying around somewhere, but I think that’s about it. God, that was a good idea though. I should get back on that some day.

8) have you ever received hate on a fic?

I think I once got one from a terf on that trans!Harry one but it was pretty vague lol

9) do you write smut? if so what kind?

Yeah, occasionally. I have a lot of kinks in the bdsm area of things, so that’s always pretty apparent in the smut I write. I just think power dynamics are sexy lmao

A lot of the smut I’ve written is original work stuff though, so that’s not up in the same place as my fanfic.

10) have you ever had a fic stolen?

Doubt it

11) have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, Just Like That was translated into Chinese.

I’ve also personally translated a Odin/Loki fic I wrote in Danish into English. Fun fact, it’s way harder to translate than if I’d written it in English in the first place. I like to write fic in Danish where it makes sense to, though.

12) have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope. I’ve partcipated in events where I’ve drawn and the other person written, but never co-written. Frankly I’m not even sure how that works.

13) what’s your all-time favourite ship?

Gah, idk. All-time, huh? I shift between fandoms too much for that.

Obviously I ship Enjolras/Grantaire a lot and have for a long time, but then I’m also super particular about what I want that to look like lol.

I still really love Sirius/Remus even after all these years. Disco Elysium’s Harry/Kim deserves mention here as well, although that’s a lot newer, so it’s difficult to talk about in an “all-time” sense.

Despite not really caring about any aspect of Marvel anymore, I also still really love Matt/Foggy from the Netflix version of Daredevil.

14) what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

A lot of unposted stuff 😂 Maybe once I finish Elysium I’ll pick one of those up again... If it’s a wip I care about, I won’t start posting it till I have a good sense that I’ll continue being able to update.

15) what are your writing strengths?

Hmm, I think I’m good at inserting myself into the mindset of the protagonist. This is also why I practically never write alternating pov, I’m filtering everything through that protagonist so shifting around would be harder. Dialogue tends to come easily to me as well.

16) what are your writing weaknesses?

Descriptions, moving characters around in space in particular. On a more meta level, plotting things out to the right degree where I still actually want to write it but I’m also going in a particular direction. Just... plot, in general, really.

17) what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Generally speaking, if my character speaks the language in question, the dialogue will be rendered in the same language as the rest of the text with a dialogue tag like “he said in German” or w/e. If they do not, the dialogue will be rendered in the actual language being spoken.

Of course this is also hugely guided but what languages I personally speak. I will never use google translate for something like that because I personally find it infuriating when people do that lmao. It’s like saying “Hey, you, who actually speak this language? This isn’t for you. Fuck you. This is just here for flavor. Surely no-one who actually speaks this language will ever come across this.” I’m sure that’s not what most people who do that are thinking, but that’s what it feels like to read. So I won’t do that.

I can’t recall if I’ve done this in anything that’s up anywhere, but if I wanted to include a foreign phrase I would either use Danish, use triple checked German or ask someone I know who speak a given language about the phrase in that language. Or, you know, just use an established quote.

An exception is Latin, particularly for Les Mis fic, where I follow the brick’s habit of rendering Latin untranslated, despite the pov character understanding it (but again, these are always established phrases).

If I wrote something in Danish taking place in the modern day, I would render English untranslated as well, since that is just how young Danes talk and I can assume that 99.99% of potential readers will be able to understand it either way (this, I think we can assume, is also what was going on with Latin at the time Hugo was writing).

18) what was the first fandom you wrote for?

Probably Harry Potter. That, or Avatar: The Last Airbender. I don’t really remember. The first thin I put on FFnet was certainly Harry Potter, though.

19) what’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Predictably it’s On the Path to Elysium. As I’ve mentioned before, I wasn’t really able to write long things before Elysium. Most of my fics are oneshots and while I really like oneshots, I had long been frustrated that I never managed to get any of my longer ideas off the ground. Elysium represents a lot of growth for me as a writer.

Apart from that, like I said, I’m still very fond of Just Like That, if nothing else then because I wrote it in an emulation of how the game itself is written.

I tag @thebearmuse @teddy-stonehill @antirococoreaction (no pressure ofc, just if any of you think it looks fun)

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elftwink · 4 years

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also time 2 ramble about my dnd characters for a bit. this got very long so to summarize it’s a bunch of paragraphs where i talk about playing an already established fiction character in dnd rather than creating one

i found it much harder than i anticipated to find a read on peter’s character that i liked today partially because mcu spidey is fairly distinct from other versions of him (or at least the ones i’m familiar with) and i knew we were just sort of doing a mish mash of comic and movie stuff so it wasn’t critical to get mcu peter down to a t (i mean it wouldn’t be anyway since we’re just friends hanging out but like it’s nice to lean in to the roleplay) but i was still a little caught between characterizations and i kept finding that whenever i tried to lean into mcu version a little more i ended up falling into reef, my sorcerer that i also play with this group

and at first i was irritated w/myself cos i was like “what you can only play one character? huh? just one dude is all you can do?” since reef and peter are very different people but then i realized they’re specifically similar in one way, and that is being a teenager in a party of adults who you respect and look up to. and specifically i think both [mcu] peter and reef are in a constant state of trying to prove to other people and themselves that they are supposed to be here and they are a valuable team member and they don’t need extra help. but while reef almost always does this through combat (and occasionally, a well-placed charisma roll), for peter it was more investigation based. which sucked because my investigate/perception mods were not good (they were fine but when you have a +11 to something a +3 stops being anything) and we just left most rolls to the person with the highest mod but i had a good roll or a useful insight here and there and that was like. oh yes this is what peter wants to be doing. you know when you’re so tuned in to a character that you can sense what they want to do like they’re standing in front of you and telling you? mhm

i also did NOT expect to feel this much internal pressure to be in character but i think its because like basically nobody can tell if reef is ooc because i made him up and i play him. they have no point of reference. the only characterization of reef that exists is my characterization of him. extremely not true with peter parker. plus i KNEW everyone else was more familiar with marvel than i was and it was super clear from the outset that they really GOT the people they were playing and i didn’t feel that way about playing peter at all. and like again i knew it would not matter absolutely no one was gonna take me aside and be like “well that wasn’t very peter of you :/” even if they thought it and i also know these people well enough that if they wanted to take me aside and give me notes i would be like actually yes please tell me. but rsd is a liar and a fraud.

i also didn’t expect it to be that hard? i am pretty proud of my ability to pin down a character. it is a skill i picked up from fic that is almost never useful outside of fic. but dnd is so much faster than writing fic where i have time to think about it and go back and double check something but obviously i couldn’t do that today since we were bouncing back and forth but it makes me feel better to know i was just a little slower rather than not being able to apply that very specific skill at all

i think it was good though (good as in good for me as a creative skill, i KNOW it was great in terms of how much fun i had). it was an exercise in forcing myself to stay on top of things. no ability to get hung up on the perfect line if someone else would interject if you were silent for a long time. need to keep moving to maintain the momentum of the scene. i fumbled a couple times imo but i was starting to get it later in the game and once you start finding that beat it’s like getting into a groove writing fic where i didn’t even have to think about characterization cos i was so involved with the scene and so confident i knew what the character wanted next

anyway. all that aside one of the players at the end was just like “and i feel like everyone understood their character so well!!” so the moral of this story is that i still have an anxiety disorder. never doubt yourself.

#good idea generator

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