Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

ghostdog401 asked: F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

This conversation, from this untitled Sam/Steve/Bucky friendship ficlet.

“It’s Captain America, Barnes,” Clint said, a laugh hidden beneath the deadpan.  “He doesn’t need taking care of.”

Bucky stopped and gave the plane at large a pitying sort of look. “You poor sonsabitches, you fell for it. You fell for the spiel.  Let me tell you somethin’, when I say I left for five minutes, I mean five goddamn minutes.  I turn my back on this little shit, last time I’m gonna see him before I go off and get my ass shot at by a bunch of dickless Nazis, and he runs off and signs up to be a guinea pig for Stark.  I wasn’t even out of the city, I was a hundred yards away.”

“So compared to that, this seems like a much better plan, don’t you think?” Steve asked, grinning. 

BECAUSE I FELT LIKE BUCKY NEEDED TO GET THAT OFF HIS CHEST, AND I AM PROUD TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF IT.  

I’m also very proud of literally all the dialogue in this untitled Rogue/Remy ficlet, but I couldn’t pick a favorite bit.

Anonymous asked: for the fanfic ask game, how about H, R, and S?

Woo, people are doing the thing!  From this post.

H: How would you describe your style?

Too many fucking commas.  

Seriously, though, I’m not sure how I’d describe my style, since I tend to vary it depending on how I want the story to feel.  Something like things we lost in the fire, my Les Mis Avatar AU, is supposed to feel very different from, like, this, my First Order Rey AU.  I guess my style is very character-driven–I perceive my characters (and other people’s characters, in fic) as very real people, so I try to model the feeling of the story after the way the POV character thinks.  Which is how I end up with things like the Hamilton Star Wars AU, which has A LOT of commas and run-on sentences because…Alexander Hamilton.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) who you consider an influence?

Oh buddy.  Oh buddy buckle up.  First and biggest nod goes to Robin McKinley (GO READ HER STUFF IMMEDIATELY), who I aspire to be when I grow up.  Robin McKinley taught a very scared and very lonely kid who had just been told that she was too old for playing pretend that there was still magic in the world, and I’m always going to owe a massive debt to her for that.  If this was a ‘pick one’ sort of question, it would be her.  JK Rowling, obligatory honorable mention, Lions for the Cup.  PC Hodgell, who is better at sweeping world-building and not-cliche battles between Good and Evil than anyone I can think of off the top of my head (see my rant about her tragically unknown series here).  Neil Gaiman, who balances the creepy with the daily with the mystical in a way I desperately envy.  The innumerable mediocre authors I trucked through in my school libraries, who taught me what NOT to do, which is just as important as what to do.  For fic authors… @notbecauseofvictories, because her Tumblr fics showed me that it was okay to be messy and wild and just…happy about what I was writing at a time where I kind of needed it.  @determamfidd because Sansukh was, like, fucking life-changing, buddy, I am living a post-Sansukh life right now.  The author of the first fic I ever read (no idea who it was, but it was a Buffy fic with a rewrite of Season 3, and I was PRETTY CONCUSSED at the time, so the fact that I even remember the plot should earn me brownie points, it was a great fic and I should find it again).  Um…I can think of maybe twenty more people, published and otherwise, off the top of my head, but I think this massive block of text is long enough, yes?

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Um…many.  I’m a sucker for soulmate AU’s, I really am.  I am also pathetically weak for mutual pining, particularly the whole “X person will never love me back and it’s okay I’ll just sit here and quietly pine away because I WANT THEM TO BE HAPPY” thing.  It’s probably a good part of the reason I like Enjolras/Grantaire so much, the Enjolras/Grantaire tag on AO3 is here for you and all your pining needs.  Those are probably the two biggest ones, although I’m also weak for size difference because I’m FIVE GODDAMN FEET TALL and everyone I could hypothetically date is a fucking giant.

charmingcatastrophe asked: Lemons and music

Let’s see, let’s see, let’s see.

Well, for just lemons, here’s a totally random fact: I love lemons and eat them raw when given the chance.  This works out great because my dad doesn’t like sour things much so he gives lemon slices and lime slices to me whenever we go to restaurants.

For just music: I’ve had the song Ra Ra Rasputin stuck in my head for an hour now and it’s…oddly soothing, because the chorus loops perfectly.

For the two of them together: I deeply loathe barbecues.  I just don’t like them, probably because of the people I associate them with.  I’d rather do literally almost anything else.  (For how I ended up there: lemons and music -> lemonade and music -> sunlight and lemonade and music -> barbecues)

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A: What do you write?  Fanfiction, original fiction, nonfiction, articles, songs, poems, essays, plays, what?

B: How often do you write?

C: Who is your favorite character of your own?  Who is your favorite character created by somebody else?  Why?

D: If you had the choice of going without writing forever or going without dinner forever, which one would you choose?

E: Have you ever participated in National Novel Writing Month or any of its variations?

F: What’s your favorite book? Favorite author?

G: What’s your least favorite book?  Least favorite author?

H: How long have you been writing?

I: What grades do you/did you get in English class?

J: What does writing mean to you?

K: Share an old, embarrassing work?

L: What advice would you give to other writers?

M: How do you feel when somebody gives harsh yet constructive criticism?

N: Which writing blogs and writing help blogs do you follow?

O: What motivates you to write?

P: What are your goals for things to happen to your writing? (Getting published, getting a good review, having a fandom, etc)

Q: How do you get through writer’s block?

R: What genre do you write in?

S: Would you let a stranger off the streets read your first drafts?

T: What’s your favorite part of the writing process?  Why?

U: What’s your least favorite part of the writing process?  Why?

V: What do you listen to when you write?

W: What’s your biggest pet peeve in writing?

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Y: How would you describe the perfect prose?  How would you describe your own prose?

Z: How often do you read?

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So send me asks about:

• fuck, marry, kill
• ask my top 3 of anything
• make me choose between two things
• send me celebrities for hot or not
• would I ship _______ with _______ ? 
• headcanons
• who you ship me with
• tell me stories about you or your day
• ask me for advice
• ask me questions about things you want to know
• literally whatever you want!

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