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Officially lost track of where I am with these *flails*

21: Sequels: Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?

OH THE GUILT. I swear I have been putting this question off because there should have been a sequel to A Prayer Before Birth like a year ago and I am a bad person. After Merlin Horror and Merlin Mpreg fest I'm gonna do it (except When the Road Runs Out needs another chapter, and I have to finish my Humans fic and my abo fic and oh nooooo)

22: Have you ever participated in a fest or a Big Bang? If so, write about your favorite experience in relation to one. If not, are there any you've thought about doing? And if not, why not?

Does Merlin Writers' Tropes Bingo count as a fest? If so, I did and it was fabulous. I think I doubled the amount of Merlin fics I've written and it was an brilliant experience. Summer Pornathon was also awesomely fun, and thanks to that I can say I pretty much have no NOTPs in the Merlin fandom anymore...

But the best fest experience was this year's ACBB. Because that's how I started going on Chatzy and actually talked to people in the Merlin fandom, and then Mushroom agreed to collab with me, and literally my whole experience of fandom has completely changed in the last few months and it's been really amazing. Like a little gap has been filled that I didn't know was missing. /end gush



23: When you post, where do you post to? Just your journal? Just an archive? Your own personal site?

AO3, and occasionally FF.net for sentimental reasons.

24: Betaing: How many betas do you like to use to make sure there aren't any major flaws in your fic? Do you have a Beta horror story or dream story?

I've only ever had one beta! It was for ACBB and she was grand :) But I find having someone beta your work quite a nervewracking experience. I should do it more though because I went on an old fic the other day and found I wrote 'peaked his interest' instead of 'piqued his interest' and I was FILLED WITH MURDEROUS RAGE.


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May as well just resign myself to doing these in chunks, I am so rubbish!

15: Warnings: What do you feel it most important to warn for, and what's the strangest thing you've warned for in a fic?

Definitely rape, graphic violence, suicide etc. I'd rather overwarn than underwarn nowadays, even at the risk of being spoilery.

And my strangest warning would have to be for Arthur having sex with an eight inch tall fairy...


You'll be pleased to hear this is not the fairy Arthur has sex with

16: Summaries: Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

They're mostly fine, and then sometimes they just DO NOT WORK. The summary for Gentle, Gentle needs to go die in a hole. And my ACBB one sounded a bit like a bad film trailer but oh well.

17: Titles: Are they the bane of your existence, or the easiest part of the fic? Also, if you do chaptered fic, do you give each chapter a title, or not?

I really like coming up with titles! I mainly use lines from poems, play titles or song lyrics. A Prayer Before Birth was called something entirely different for the first chapter, because it got to like 6am and I couldn't think of a decent title so I just slapped some rubbish placeholder in. I also remember having extreme trouble naming The Tulip Thief.

I usually give each chapter a title too. I have a Sherlock fic where all the chapters are play titles, for no reason whatsoever...


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Wow, I suck at keeping up with this! Have three more.

9: Pairings: For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?

The O.C. - never wrote any but it probably would have been Ryan/Seth, I think they were my first real slash pairing... Summer/Seth is also good, and then Ryan/Taylor too (sorry Marissa :/ )

Veronica Mars - Logan/Veronica was my main ship, but lowkey warm for Cassidy/Logan as a dark ship. I never wrote Veronica/Mac but I wish I had because I ship it HARD



Sherlock - Only wrote Sherlock/John but I wouldn't be averse to a bit of Sheriarty, or any ship involving Sally Donovan, who is queen of the world and my heart.

Merlin - Merthur is top ship, I don't think I'll ever get tired of writing them. I always love a bit of Morgwen and am slowly building up more fics with them (I think I'm on 4 now). I've only done one fic with Arthur/Elyan/Merlin but they are my OT3 and I really loved writing them, so I think that'll be my third.


10: Pairings: Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write, or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?

I really like Merdred but I haven't done a successful one of them yet! Flycatcher was technically Merdred but you couldn't exactly call it romantic... So, yeah, I need to give that ship a go.

I'm writing Elena/Mithian atm and I'm a bit nervous about that! Because I definitely ship it but I chose Mithian as the POV character and honestly I think I would have had a better handle on Elena...

I don't think I would write a pairing I didn't like! Unless I was up for an extreme challenge (some people were talking about the challenge of writing Uther/Arthur fluff in Chatzy the other night, but I don't think that's one I'll be taking up...)


11: Genre: do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

Hurt/comfortttttt. Give me all of it, there can never be enough!

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I was in the suffering dome yesterday so here are 5 and 6 together!

5: If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?

Mordred insinuated himself quite far into a fic I wrote recently called Happy Hour, to the point where it almost became a Merdred fic. WHICH I AM TOTALLY COOL WITH. But I kind of wanted it to be a gen fic so I had to give him a gentle rap on the nose and tell him to return to his assigned seat.



6: When you write, do you prefer writing male or female characters?

When I write non fandom stuff in RL, I vastly prefer writing women. Almost all of my other stuff is very woman orientated. But my fanfic is overwhelmingly male and I've been thinking a lot about why recently. Smarter people than me have spoken on why we're drawn to men and male perspectives in fan culture so I'll simply say that I'm trying to expand my horizons a little and leave it at that!

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3: For each of the fandoms from day two, what were your favorite characters to write?

The O.C. - ha I'm sorry it's just hilarious to be reliving my time as an OC fangirl. I would say Ryan, because I always tend to cleave to the most vulnerable character on any given show...

Veronica Mars - again Logan for the vulnerable thing, but I'm sad I never got to write more Veronica perspective because she's probably one of my all time fave characters. She'd be really interesting to characterise I think, because there's so many layers. Plus, she's the Queen of Snark and that's my jam.

Sherlock - I am unrepentant Moriarty trash, god rest my soul. As long as he is a character on that show, I will probably continue to watch it, no matter how far Moffat tests my patience... Anyway his speech patterns are a lot of fun to write, and you have the bonus of reading them out loud in his accent, which is always enjoyable ;)

Merlin - it's hard to choose between Merlin and Arthur, although sometimes I feel like you can put a more original spin on Arthur's characterisation because canon left so many gaps wide open. My Arthur is usually slightly damaged in some way, and needs looking after (see above: most vulnerable character wins my undying affection).

I've also been writing Elyan recently which has been awesome, even if I'm still trying to settle on his characterisation. He's coming out quite whimsical at the moment, which is a bit unexpected... but not necessarily unwelcome.

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I saw this on agenttrojie's LJ and it looked fun! I keep meaning to use my LJ for more fandom stuff, so here goes...

1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

Other than an early and traumatic Mary Sue sex fic that thankfully stayed offline, my first fic that made it on the internet was for The O.C. five years later (ah, The O.C.) and it's still a WIP, oops. Sorry Seth and Ryan, your fate hangs in the balance to this day :/



As for why fandom pulled me in... I stayed for the people, of course :)

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