20 Questions For Fic Writers
I was tagged by @marley-manson, thank you!
I’m tagging @topshelf2112-blog @summerreign4077 @quordleona03 @frankwormseatsburns @blue-ravens @major-charlie @ofmd-alsaurus and whoever else writes fic and would like to respond. Please tag me in your reply so I can read your answers!
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
40 works, 30 of which are fanfic and 10 of which are podfic
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?
1,388,454 words
3. What fandoms do you write for?
MASH, Our Flag Means Death, Pirates of the Caribbean, Police Academy, and Inglourious Basterds on AO3
On ff.net I also have works for Monk, Big Bang Theory, Pokemon, The Green Mile, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Little Nemo, and Pokemon
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
Blackbelt, The Catch, Cardinals, A Boston Exchange, and Cold Comfort
5. Do you respond to comments?
Yes! Always!
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I’d say Fate and Frank Burns, then The White Coatus.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Most of my fics have happy endings. I enjoy the ending of An Understudy In The Wings, Police Academy 8, Police Academy 9, and Blackbelt, but really, I think the majority of my story endings are happy.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
I did a bit on my Poldark Ossie-torture fic, but it is very heavy subject matter.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
I have written smut, though I don’t think I’m the best at writing it.
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
I wrote two crossovers, The White Coatus, a crossover between MASH and The White Lotus, and Police Academy 8: Police and Prejudice, a crossover of Police Academy and Pride and Prejudice. I wouldn’t call either crazy, because I used plot points from one story and characters from the other story in each.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not as far as I’m aware.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Nope. Although I did have someone voluntarily make their own fan art for my Green Mile fic on ff.net! So flattering!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
No.
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
That is really hard. I enjoy Stede Bonnet/Ed Teach, Charles Winchester/Hawkeye Pierce, and Charles Winchester/Margaret Houlihan. I also like my Police Academy Thaddeus Harris/OC ship, and Cutler Beckett/Elizabeth Swann.
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
My Our Flag Means Death fic on my Amymimi AO3 account called Our Brand Means Love. Now that the second season has happened, this post-s1 fic has nowhere to go. Also, a sequel to my Inglourious Basterds fic over on ff.net that has been stuck for years, along with a Monk fic.
16. What are your writing strengths?
I enjoy writing realistic dialogue and capturing the characters’ voices and motivations. I will often speak the dialogue aloud as a character to see if it fits. I also think I have a good sense of humor that comes across in my stories, and good timing/flow.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
I would say, that I get let down very easily if I don’t get any engagement on my stories. Most of the time, I try to ensure I am very far ahead in chapters before I go posting the story, because a lack of comments/kudos really kills my drive to keep going. I’ve had a couple of stories take more than a decade to finish over on ff.net because not only I but my readers lost interest. It’s bad to be so heavily influenced by engagement and I should “write for myself” but I can’t help but get down and lose the drive when it happens. I envy the people that are internally driven.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
I have done it before, with German and French in my Inglourious Basterds fic and in Portuguese in my Pirates of the Caribbean fic. I actually had two Brazilian Portuguese friends of mine help me with the Portuguese translations!
19. First fandom you wrote for?
Pokemon—I was a huge rocketshipper (Jessie and James)!
20. Favorite fic you’ve written?
Honestly, it’s a toss up between An Understudy In The Wings, Face The Music, Blackbelt, and A Boston Exchange.My stories are my babies and I write what I want to see happen, so they are all custom-tailored for me.
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A YEAR IN THE POLDARK KITCHEN....1785 in 2023...A New Year?
It's true, we will be celebrating a new year and with new years, typically comes new resolutions. I love a New Year's resolution and often participate in them. This years resolution of mine will be going back in time...Poldark time. I am a new fan of the series Poldark, Downton Abbey and the Gilded Age. For me, that period in time, in this case 1785, was all about survival. I've always wondered if I could have survived in that time. If we run out of milk today, we have several options: 1) We can hop into our cars and go pick up a gallon. 2) We can stay in our cars and have the store employee bring it out to us or 3) Probably the most foreign to Poldark's day, we can have the store deliver the milk to our home. Sounds insane when I think about how the Poldarks and other villagers of Cornwall survived the winters waiting for a shipload of fish! I recently purchased, The Unofficial POLDARK Cookbook. As with Downton Abbey, I am curious what they are eating with no Kroger nearby as a safety net. Everything is either grown or killed in which I can do neither.
One of my favorite movies is Julie and Julia. Julie Powell took one year to cook every recipe in Julia Child's cookbook, The Art of Mastering French Cooking. So taking a page out of Julie Powell's book, I thought it would be fun to work my way through the Poldark cookbook. There are 85 recipes in the book, to my husband's delight, so my challenge will be one recipe a month for one year! (If I am surviving, I'll soldier on through 2024) Can I survive? Follow along with me on this journey beginning Jan 1st and let's go back to 1785 in 2023!
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This morning, all of my Poldark video montages were removed from YouTube due to copyright infringement.
I was not making any money from these videos. I had simply created and posted them to share my love for the series, and contribute to the joy of this beautiful fandom. These videos, which took hours and hours to make, were a way to express my creativity, learn, and build my skills.
My videos were not the only ones that were removed. Many other creators had their Poldark fan videos deleted too.
This action taken by Poldark’s copyright team is incredibly disheartening to me. These videos weren’t made to take the focus away from the show itself, or claim it as our own. These were made to celebrate the depth of the characters, the beautiful scenes, and the emotional storytelling. These videos were made out of love.
I can’t sit here and be silent, pretending like it never happened. Because it pains me to think that fan creativity is being muted like this. This is not ok.
Celebrate the shows, the movies, and the characters that you love. Be creative. Post your work. These are the things that bring fandoms to life.
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