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youhideastar!
1. how many works do you have on ao3?
between my two accounts, it 213! which sounds like a lot until you realize that the earliest one was published in january of 2006, so that’s almost 18 years worth of fic….
2. what’s your total ao3 word count?
lirazel: 603,445
komoonyoung: 686,952
total: 1,290,397
3. what fandoms do you write for?
HAHAHAHA. at any given time, i tend to have one main fandom (from 2000-2005 it was [redacted–if you know, you know], from 2006-2007 it was harry potter, from 2008-2011 it was btvs, from 2012-2014 it was kpop, from 2020-now it’s the untamed)
but! i do a lot of one-offs or two-offs from much smaller fandom, mostly (but not always) from the many exchanges i participate in. i’ve been participating in yuletide since 2009, for instance, and this year i think i’ve done four different exchanges? so it adds up.
4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?
use the wood brought in by the tide cql, wangxian featuring the jiang family [no surprise there–cql is by far the largest fandom i’ve ever been in and it’s arranged marriage fic]
with intent cql, wangxian
so slip your hand inside of my glove the handmaiden, sook-hee/hideko, a yuletide fic
all the rooms of the castle the raven cycle, gansey/blue/adam/ronan(/noah)
on hairpins the queen’s thief, a yuletide fic
5. do you respond to comments? why or why not?
almost always. sometimes if they’re in a foreign language, i think, “oh, i’ll reply later when i can plug this into google translate” and then i end up…not doing it. but i do try to reply to every comment, even if it’s just with a <3
mostly i just want to encourage more people to comment. comments fuel my writing and i want readers to know how incredibly appreciated they are.
7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
i mean, i mostly write happy endings. i love angst, but i want it to be happy at the end! i really couldn’t possibly say!
instead, i’ll say that my…least happy ending is probably i have always confused desire with apocalypse, simply because it’s happy on the surface, but is super unsettling once you dig deeper and leaves the status quo of the dystopian world in place.
8. do you get hate on any fics?
shockingly, not really? when i get negative feedback, it’s mostly pretty passive-aggressive.
9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?
i would not say i write smut, since i define smut as “exists to titillate the reader.” i do occasionally write explicit sex scenes, though, but i have no interest in whether the reader finds it hot or not. i did write quite a few explicit fics during my kpop time, but that was more me as an ace person relishing the challenge of writing about sex when i’ve never had it (i’ve been told it was pretty good). but i quickly tired of that. nowadays, most of the fic i write is of the m-rating or lower variety.
HOWEVER. i am currently working on a fuck-or-die fic and that will contain fairly explicit sex by nature of its plot.
i would say that when i do write explicit sex scenes, it’s character-driven. i am not interested in the sex itself, only it what it does (or does not) communicate between the characters–how it develops their relationship, what it reveals about who they are and how they relate to each other and what they think about the relationship.
10. do you write crossovers? what’s the craziest one you’ve written?
i sure do! well, if you define crossover by “taking characters from one world and putting them in another world,” then i write things like star trek aus, etc.
for crossovers where characters from one canon meet characters from another, i used to do that when i was part of the choco-cherries writing community on livejournal, but i don’t anymore really.
11. have you ever had a fic stolen?
i think some of my kpop fics are reposted over on asianfanfics with the names all changed…
12. have you ever had a fic translated?
yes, multiple times, and it’s always such a thrill!
13. have you ever co-written a fic before?
back in the buffy days, angearia and i did this thing where i’d write a line and she’d write a line. the result was profoundly silly, but it was fun!
14. what’s your all time favorite ship?
i couldn’t possibly choose. as fran lebowitz says, favorites are for children. but the one i have the most feelings about right now is wangxian.
15. what’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
i have like 1.5k words of a fic where kamet and costis are both slaves who fall in love and run away, but i doubt i’ll ever finish it. still, i like what i’ve written!
16. what are your writing strengths?
emotions? the occasional really good turn of phrase.
17. what are your writing weaknesses?
PLOT. wordiness.
18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
like youhideastar, i don’t ever do dialogue, but i do try to use the original word if there’s not a handy english-level translation–i am always going to use hyung or sunbae or jiejie or whatever as opposed to struggling to come up with a translation that doesn’t really convey with the meaning is. people who have been in a fandom for a while will have picked those things up, and people who are new to the fandom can look them up–and will need to, if they intend to stay in the fandom for long! i didn’t know those words before i joined the fandom either.
19. first fandom you wrote for?
star wars expanded universe
20. favorite fic you’ve written?
NO NO NO. i do not have a favorite child! i will say the fic that fills me with the most pride is shoot to kill (my heart is a smoking gun) simply because it was the first novel-length fic i ever wrote. i had not thought myself capable of that, but i did it and people loved it and i’m proud of it!
this was fun! if you want to do this meme, consider yourself tagged!
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What a fun meme.
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Isn't it fun? I had fun doing it!
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Yes, this is... I would say 95% true for me when I write. The other 5% is that there are some things that are close to bulletproof kinks for me in fic, so there is some inherent interest there in the absence of specific characters. Then again, a lot of those things are about interpersonal dynamics anyway, and figuring out how these particular characters would inhabit those dynamics is what I care about. Like, I think it's accurate to say I am generally interested in D/s, but "how would these people do D/s?" is the question that actually motivates me to write something.
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This makes sense to me!
My brain just shuts off during sex scenes that could be any two characters. If they aren't specifically about these two characters and how they would really be together, I have no interest!
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this approach to writing smut makes it the most enjoyable for me to read (and write); one of my dw friends once used the term 'psychosexual depravity' and i was like !!! that is my philosophy les prose erotique
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