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tellshannon8151. Which of your fics is your pride and joy?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/963730 Probably this one about Chaff and Haymitch the last night before the Quarter Quell.
2. What are your top three most commonly used tags on AO3?
Time Travel, Alternate Universe are my most used ones
3. What’s something you learned while researching a fic?
Who came second in the World Series in 2004 (not something I'd usually follow, but there's a specific Lost reference around who won, and it came up in a fic). Also some German Christmas traditions.
4. Is there a character or ship you’d love to write for, but haven’t yet?
For the benefit of those who haven't known me that long (if you've known me a while, you may well know) I will seriously try anyone once, in fact I do try to write as many characters as I can, especially the ones who don't get much attention (focusing on the same old characters has been my pet peeve for years). I'd like to do Claire from School Spirits, spend a bit more time with the Doppler family on Dark, Yellowjackets Lottie, Akilah and Mari.
5. What makes a fic ‘successful’ in your opinion?
When I'm happy with what I've ended up with.
6. What makes you happiest? New fic comments, kudos, bookmarks, user subscribers, story subscribers, or Tumblr asks?
Just generally getting good feedback. That was something that had made me particularly happy on an old Vampire Diaries fic for an exchange back in 2012 which I didn't think was any good due to family stuff going on at the time but I'd stubbornly refused to default.
7. Does anyone you know in real life know you write fanfiction?
No, and at this point I don't think I'm ready to change that. Let's just say I have this one relative who loves to get a reaction (things like spending half of Boxing Day Googling my ex from university, banging on about my cousin allegedly crying about the lack of crocodiles in Crocodile Dundee although the jury's still out on whether that really happened, spamming everyone he knows with right wing memes on Whatsapp, and he doesn't know when to shut up) - if he ever saw anything I'd written, he'd be reading it out to get a big laugh at the Christmas dinner table, probably 20 years on.
8. Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?
I never have so far.
9. What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?
It's a rewrite of School Spirits Season 2, where Mr Martin chooses Emilio to possess instead and how that ends up impacting on Charley and Yuri.
10. Do you ever prep your fics with outlines or warmups before you start writing, or do you just dive right in?
I tend to dive right in. Sometimes I wonder if I should do an outline, but sometimes I find it gets away from anything I had in my head. Saying that, I have tried to work out something for the above School Spirits plot (don't want to get to the point of my Dark series where I was a few chapters in and then realised I hadn't factored in Noah).
11. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
It can be a few minor edits.
12. A character you enjoy making suffer.
I can't say I "enjoy" making any suffer per se, but for me it's not always avoidable. If I actively dislike the character, I just don't write them.
13. A character you want to protect.
Dark's Mikkel Nielsen. Unfortunately, given the timeline, this isn't the easiest.
14. What is your favorite fic to get comments/messages on?
Pretty much any, although I still dread it a bit on the one that got thoroughly trolled in 2019 by what I now know was a known troll.
15. What fic took you the longest to write?
I keep saying I will finish this Lost fic, although I haven't touched it since 2010. Basically the idea was that instead of ending up in 2007 when the Ajira flight crashed, Sun ended up joining her friends in 1977 and was reunited with Jin in the DHARMA Initiative. I got as far as where Ben is shot, and then canon decided to kill off Sun and Jin. (Yes, Smokey McSmokeFace, you are still dead to me.) After having lost heart to continue it at the time, I keep saying I'll go back to it. After that it's probably Caught Somewhere In Time, which I'm about half way through the last chapter of after having started towards the end of 2023. Note to self: trying to change the already complicated timeline on Dark may not be the best idea in the world...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/963730 Probably this one about Chaff and Haymitch the last night before the Quarter Quell.
2. What are your top three most commonly used tags on AO3?
Time Travel, Alternate Universe are my most used ones
3. What’s something you learned while researching a fic?
Who came second in the World Series in 2004 (not something I'd usually follow, but there's a specific Lost reference around who won, and it came up in a fic). Also some German Christmas traditions.
4. Is there a character or ship you’d love to write for, but haven’t yet?
For the benefit of those who haven't known me that long (if you've known me a while, you may well know) I will seriously try anyone once, in fact I do try to write as many characters as I can, especially the ones who don't get much attention (focusing on the same old characters has been my pet peeve for years). I'd like to do Claire from School Spirits, spend a bit more time with the Doppler family on Dark, Yellowjackets Lottie, Akilah and Mari.
5. What makes a fic ‘successful’ in your opinion?
When I'm happy with what I've ended up with.
6. What makes you happiest? New fic comments, kudos, bookmarks, user subscribers, story subscribers, or Tumblr asks?
Just generally getting good feedback. That was something that had made me particularly happy on an old Vampire Diaries fic for an exchange back in 2012 which I didn't think was any good due to family stuff going on at the time but I'd stubbornly refused to default.
7. Does anyone you know in real life know you write fanfiction?
No, and at this point I don't think I'm ready to change that. Let's just say I have this one relative who loves to get a reaction (things like spending half of Boxing Day Googling my ex from university, banging on about my cousin allegedly crying about the lack of crocodiles in Crocodile Dundee although the jury's still out on whether that really happened, spamming everyone he knows with right wing memes on Whatsapp, and he doesn't know when to shut up) - if he ever saw anything I'd written, he'd be reading it out to get a big laugh at the Christmas dinner table, probably 20 years on.
8. Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?
I never have so far.
9. What’s a story you’d love to write but haven’t even started yet?
It's a rewrite of School Spirits Season 2, where Mr Martin chooses Emilio to possess instead and how that ends up impacting on Charley and Yuri.
10. Do you ever prep your fics with outlines or warmups before you start writing, or do you just dive right in?
I tend to dive right in. Sometimes I wonder if I should do an outline, but sometimes I find it gets away from anything I had in my head. Saying that, I have tried to work out something for the above School Spirits plot (don't want to get to the point of my Dark series where I was a few chapters in and then realised I hadn't factored in Noah).
11. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
It can be a few minor edits.
12. A character you enjoy making suffer.
I can't say I "enjoy" making any suffer per se, but for me it's not always avoidable. If I actively dislike the character, I just don't write them.
13. A character you want to protect.
Dark's Mikkel Nielsen. Unfortunately, given the timeline, this isn't the easiest.
14. What is your favorite fic to get comments/messages on?
Pretty much any, although I still dread it a bit on the one that got thoroughly trolled in 2019 by what I now know was a known troll.
15. What fic took you the longest to write?
I keep saying I will finish this Lost fic, although I haven't touched it since 2010. Basically the idea was that instead of ending up in 2007 when the Ajira flight crashed, Sun ended up joining her friends in 1977 and was reunited with Jin in the DHARMA Initiative. I got as far as where Ben is shot, and then canon decided to kill off Sun and Jin. (Yes, Smokey McSmokeFace, you are still dead to me.) After having lost heart to continue it at the time, I keep saying I'll go back to it. After that it's probably Caught Somewhere In Time, which I'm about half way through the last chapter of after having started towards the end of 2023. Note to self: trying to change the already complicated timeline on Dark may not be the best idea in the world...
