thanks for the ask! Should have trusted you to go angst hehe *hugs*

13. Has a fic ever made you cry?
Oh yeah, several, though usually it’s just blinking back tears. The only fic I can think of which actually made me sob, like full on uncontrollable crying, was a Harry Potter fanfic called Family Night. I have never forgotten it and I have actually read it more than once. If I ever need to cry, it does the job every single time. I’m not sure what gets me about it but I just bawl.

Wait a minute! I forgot @worryinglyinnocent‘s Value for a second. Ok I take it back – that one! Bloody that one! I was probably trying to block it from my mind because that hurt, that really hurt.

14. What tropes/elements/scenarios get you the worst?
Get me? What like make me cry? Or upset me? I don’t know. I have trouble with angst in general to be honest because I think I over-empathise and I get really bad anxiety. I’ve had to stop reading more than one fic because it was making me feel really sick.

This is really making me think. I suppose it’s when the character can’t see a way out, so it’s like there’s no light. I need to know it’s going to be ok. I need to be able to see how it can be fixed, or at least feel reassured that it will be fixed. I don’t mean fixed fixed necessarily, but just that even if they are still having to deal with stuff that they CAN deal with it. I’m not sure that makes sense.

I’m a bit of a wimp to be honest. It’s like with sci-fi, I like mine a bit cheesy, saving the world and cracking jokes at the same time. Sure it can get a bit dark but it’s not doom and gloom.

15. Do you mind when characters cry?
I want to hug them – metaphorically at least. I don’t do hugging in real life, I’m very much don’t touch me, but I’m forever going “somebody give them a hug” when characters cry. I like to make it better I guess. I suppose whether I mind them crying depends on the circumstances. If it’s fake-crying to manipulate someone then I hate that! Otherwise sometimes people just need to cry, it’s a release and hopefully the character feels better for it.

16. How do you feel about character death in fic?
Hate it. Won’t read it.

Well you know what I mean. I won’t ever read the characters I love dying, but side characters? one’s I don’t like to fill the plot? Sure. I don’t think of that as character death though.

17. Any characters who you can’t stand to see in pain?
Anyone I like? No seriously I have a very low threshold for angst. I like to fix things and make characters happy. Temporary pain is ok I guess? But I’ve never been down with the whole ‘hurts so good’ thing.

Also by temporary and happy, I don’t mean some kind of fake unicorn world. Some hurts don’t go away but it’s about being able to cope I guess. So even if life is still a struggle sometimes for the character, they are in a good place and have people that care about them. There are no such thing as happy endings but I like characters to have a good life.

18. Favorite angst fic?
None of the above.

I know, I’m sorry, but favourite and angst really don’t go together. Plus I’m not 100% sure what constitutes an angst fic. I tend to think of it as ‘break them and then fix them’ but I have trouble reading that kind of sustained misery even if the ending is happy.

I’m going to say All of Me I think by @mariequitecontrarie because that has some very angsty moments but it’s mixed in with a lot of love and support. It’s like up and down, rather than just down down down. It’s a journey, with bright spots and dark spots, it’s not unrelenting but it’s real. It’s very good.

#in which sam is a major wimp

thank you so much for the ask! 🙂

1) Do you like crossovers, and if so, which is your favorite?
I do and I don’t. Sometimes they are extremely good fun but reading them is a bit hit and miss. I suppose it’s about how we all have our own pictures of characters in our heads, and crossovers imo are more prone than most fics in making the characters act weird.

My favourite type of ‘crossover’ are fusions. Where they aren’t crossovers as such because the characters from the two universes don’t usually meet, it’s putting one set of characters into another universe.

2) Which your favorite multi-chapter fic that you’ve written?
Ooof now you are asking. Although it would be a lot harder if some of the verses weren’t made up of multiple oneshots. I suppose it’s between Conspiracy Afloat and Fall All Over Again and the reason is probably the same for both – potential. Although that is in different ways.

Fall All Over Again could have two different kinds of prequels, or a sequel and I have the plot points for it. I’ll never write it but that doesn’t matter, just knowing the edges are fuzzy is enough to make me love it. Plus I liked what I did with Lacey, in that I really hammered home the ‘we are both’ thing, and I do love Lacey, she is such fun to write.

Conspiracy Afloat was rushed imo and should have been novel length. It could be expanded a fair bit and maybe one day I will.