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More Christmas adverts are landing, including John Lewis which always seems to be the one everyone waits for. It's my favourite of theirs for a few years, and I actually found myself feeling sorry for a plant. I also enjoyed the one from Amazon, which is very simple and at first I wasn't that fussed, then the end happened and what a lovely feel-good ending. Otherwise, there seems to be a lot of focus on food this year, with Asda's ads featuring Michael Bublé who keeps popping up and singing in various situations.

badfalcon posted this fanfic meme, and as I'm actually writing words atm, I decided to give it a go.

1. How many works do you have on ao3? 170.

I've other stuff out there written for The Sentinel and Mutant X, but I have no intention of ever finding them and posting to A03.

2. What's your total ao3 word count?

1,346,512

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Right now, Ted Lasso, The Musketeers, some winterhawk MCU. In the past, my biggest fandom was bandom by a huge amount, but also, popslash was a biggie.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

The Sexth Sense 905 The Umbrella Academy
Everything Has Come Undone 753 The Umbrella Academy
Like a Bunk and Cramped Sleeping -- 729 Bandom Gerard/Frank. I still can't believe this is my most popular bandom fic because it's not a favourite pairing of mine at all.
And the Painted Ponies 505 Mikey/Frank bandom ( I still love this, supermodel Mikey and the bodyguard who loves him )
Blurring the Truth and the Lies 365 Mikey/Pete bandom ( nurse Mikey and the popstar he falls for. I love this one too )




5. Do you respond to comments? I do, sometimes life happens, and they get answered late, but I always try to respond.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Questions like this always makes me laugh as it reminds me of the bandom fic I wrote which ended with Bob critically injured and being rescued from a deserted island -- as you do -- with the rest of MCR and I was going to end the story there because they'd been saved, surely that was a good ending? At which point my beta, themoononastick put her foot down and went, no! Write more.

I honestly don't know, I've written stories focussed on the afterlife for both bandom and popslash so I guess that would count as angsty, but oh! I know, it'll be the picfor1000 where Mikey loses him memory and can't remember Gerard at the end. Angst to the extreme!

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I think most of them have pretty happy endings, but the one that is coming to mind is Blurring the Truth and the Lies, which is a huge angst fest and ends with a simple scene with Pete showing Mikey heart hands and I still love that.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully, no. The worst probably the comment 'eww het' on a The Umbrella Academy fic, but even then it made me laugh not be upset. Because of what I write at times I'm sure comments have been made that are not favourable, but I've never seen them.

9. Do you write smut?

I do on occasions but it's certainly not my favourite thing to write, and I'll swerve it if possible.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've ever written?

On occasions, but again, they're not my favourite thing to write. I guess the craziest is due to intoabar which was Ted Lasso/Hawkeye, though thankfully, only one assigned character from each was needed.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Someone reposted When Day Is Night Alone to another fic site. Thankfully, someone else saw and kicked up a fuss on my behalf and let me know. Last time I looked, it had been taken down.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yep a few, and I tend to say yes if asked.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

I have, one with sperrywink and one with someone who will be nameless as they scrubbed their bandom stuff off the internet.

14. What's your all time favourite ship?

That's a hard one to answer, especially as I tend to be a OTC person and not OTP. But, if pushed, I'll say bandom and Mikey/Frank. They're a comfort pairing and one that just feels right when I'm reading/writing.

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Oh man, shame here. I started a follow-up story to a bandom story and made the mistake of posting what I had. I never write WIPs but somehow did in this case and I really shouldn't have as it's never going to be finished even though I kept getting comments asking about it. I would have said Musketeers in Space, but that's actually done now! Of course, will probably now take me years to edit the thing.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I guess I like to word build, my dialogue can be okay. Not sure what else.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm terrible at writing endings. I know this and have trained myself to try to improve them before sending to beta, but sometimes I'll still get comments back saying, this needs a much more extensive ending.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Nope, and I wouldn't even try.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The Sentinel, the first ever fic was a terrible little thing for castalie then I joined a Sentinel beta group where starwatcher got her hands on me and taught me that it wasn't the thing to post solid chunks of words with no paragraphs—yep, I was that green. I really do credit The Sentinel fandom and the people in it for getting me writing. For example, I was in a Sentinel angst mailing list where you had to post dues -- ie, ficlets, at certain times to stay in it. So, that got me writing regularly. Was it good? Heck no, but did it help me with lots of practice? Yep.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I think it's impossible to pick. So I'm going to take the easy answer and say the last one I posted which was the Roy is a werewolf Ted Lasso story, Where Can I Go When I Want You Around. Simply because it was the first time in a while I've enjoyed writing and the words flowed, plus it went over well, which is always a plus.

But there are so many more that I could pick, especially for bandom.