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.
@sarashouldbestudying are you a mind reader? Just yesterday I was contemplating making a page for my blog so I could gush over my ships. I didn’t in the end because I figured that would turn into gushing over shows generally and that it would get long and boring with me just going “ahhhh I love it!” a lot 🙂 *rolls eyes at self*
Anyway this is the excuse I’ve been looking for *cracks knuckles* and just like you, I’m going to stick to one per show or I’d go over five. Although … maybe not? There are different levels of ships or more accurately levels of obsession on my part.
Rumbelle (Rumple and Belle, Once Upon a Time)
^^ the moment I started shipping them, especially with how awkward they were afterwards! I mean Rumbelle is just a given on this list right? Over 500k on AO3 says I have a *cough* minor obsession. It’s just there’s so many layers, and variations, and incarnations, and it’s still all just them because true love.
Evlynn (Flynn and Eve, The Librarians)
My latest obsession, oh merlin they are perfect. She’s tough, no nonsense and organized. He’s a little crazy, reckless and absolutely definitely doesn’t need her help. They clash as she wants to plan and he just dives in but they accept each other. It’s like ying and yang, two halves that separately struggle but combined are unstoppable. Librarian and guardian. I’m not doing them justice. I think Charlene said it best in the very first episode with “you’re perfect” because yeah, the chemistry is off the charts.
“I love you more than learning itself.” “Kissing you is exactly how I’d want to spend eternity” and lets not forget “there you are” as they true loves kiss twice in one episode.
Come back alive Librarian!
Fitzsimmons (Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons, Agents of Shield)
The perfect embodiment of best friends to lovers, who are still best friends and don’t forget that because they are also in love. It was a slow journey as Fitz loved Jemma first, and Jemma just had him in the ‘best friends box’ and it took a season for her to think actually I have always loved him, he will always be my best friend but he could be more. That transition was believable and then they went through the true love test.
I’m talking constant, painful separations but they always find each other. They dove through a hole in the universe for each other. Fitz literally to another planet, and Jemma into a virtual world. Nothing, not time, not space, can keep them apart. They are stronger together.
Jack and Irina, Alias
I don’t talk about them much because Alias ended what back in 2005? But I rumbelled their relationship in Between Two Fires. Basically KGB agent Irina Derevko went undercover to seduce CIA agent Jack Bristow so she could spy on him longterm. The one thing she didn’t count on – falling in love with him.
It ended badly of course. She faked her own death as an extraction but twenty years later despite everything he still loved her too. It was painful, there was no possible happy ending really because too much had happened. They worked against each other more often than they worked together but that bond of love never went away.
Jefferlynn (Jefferson and Lynn, Black Lightning)
Divorced, still friends, co-parents and very much in love. They separated because it was a bit like there were three people in the relationship. Jefferson, Jefferson’s hero work and Lynn. It wasn’t that Lynn didn’t want to share, it was that she was scared. He came back hurt and she thought it was going too far. He started off going after big targets in Freeland, doing what the police couldn’t, but then he didn’t stop and it took over.
It’s one of those relationships where they are both right and they are both wrong. It’s about fear more than anything and that’s not always logical. Lynn was scared of losing him so she walked away. It’s really well done and nuanced on the show. They could have turned Lynn into a villain but they didn’t. They fleshed it out showing that everything she did came from a place of love.
Are any of your characters based on real people? No. Now if the question was “are any of your characters inspired or influenced by other characters”? Then yeah absolutely! I’m not talking about the fact that it’s fanfic and therefore based on characters either. Take Between Two Fires for instance – hello Jack and Irina from Alias. The Price We Pay morphed into something else eventually but I had Mia from The Princess Diaries in mind originally. Still rumbelle of course but there’s scenarios and facets from others in there too.
What’s a pairing (romantic or platonic) that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind? Erm wow this ones hard. Exposure to pairings have made me love them more but I don’t know if I’ve ever changed my mind completely. My opinions usually just get reinforced. That isn’t always the case with everything. Tumblr has persuaded me to give entire shows a second look (Farscape being a case in point) but I don’t think that’s happened with pairings.
Colors I’m currently wearing: Khaki chinos, black socks, grey t-shirt and navy zip-up sweatshirt.
Last band I saw live: Well you’d have to go back to 2004 to the one and only concert I have ever been to – Westlife.
Last song I listened to: Well I just put iTunes on shuffle and it’s playing “World Go Boom” by DJ Earworm.
Lipstick or chapstick: Neither if I can help it, though occasionally I’m made to use chapstick when my lips totally dry out.
Last movie I watched: Avengers: Age of Ultron last night. I wanted to watch the party scene again.
Last 3 TV shows I watched: Agents of Shield, The Librarians and Countdown.
Last YouTube video I watched: I honestly don’t remember. Probably a Draw with Jazza video.
3 characters I identify with: Parker from Leverage because of her social issues, Rumplestiltskin from Once because of his self-loathing and self-esteem issues. Maybe Tony Stark a little because of how he feels he never does enough, or how whatever he tries just blows up in his face.
Books I’m currently reading: Nada. I love books, I love reading, hell normally my answer to this would be fanfic but lately? I read what I beta for my friends and very little else because I constantly just feel so tired. My TBR list is looking at me very sadly right now, all ten feet tall of it heh.
1. Character in my fandoms that I think I’m most like. Tricky. People on TV are a lot more put together than I am. They are good looking, cool and they have endearing quirks rather than annoying tendencies. Possibly the closest is Parker from Leverage.
I have her inability to understand people and situations. I too take things very literally and just plain don’t get it and often say things others consider odd. Unfortunately I don’t have her confidence – or at least her outward confidence. On the surface it seems like she doesn’t know, or care, how different she is. I’m not sure that’s true but it definitely isn’t true for me, I know how odd I am.
8. Dream crossover? Now you are talking my language! I love mashing stuff up 🙂
I once wrote a four-show multi-crossover fic in two days. It was like 15k and I had so much fun. This was *cough* at least a decade ago. It was supposed to be a part one and I ended it on a cliffhanger but when I went to write part two I realised I’d written myself into a corner. Multi-show crossovers are hard! It’s really difficult to make it reasonable that these characters interact and try as I might, I couldn’t think of a way to keep all four shows involved moving forward.
That fic was for Alias/CSI:NY, Numb3rs and Without a Trace. So it wasn’t too ‘out there’ because that was two FBI shows, a police and then the spy game. I did pretend Numb3rs was set in New York rather than Los Angeles because the location didn’t have any bearing in the show, and putting everything in the same city made it easier. I started another crossover fic for Alias/NCIS once, which again same sort of playground with federal agents and spies.
Anyway you asked me about my dream crossover! Not about some stupid fic I wrote a decade ago. I’m just prefacing my answer with this background to try and explain that it’s important to me that the crossover makes sense.
Well I think all roads lead to Agents of Shield these days.
Can you imagine a crossover with Black Lightning? Where the greenlight was triggering potential Inhumans but their transition was unstable. So Jemma and Fitz have to stabilise all the meta-humans and they are fascinated by Jefferson and his family because they are stable and Jennifer and Anissa didn’t have to go through the mist to gain their powers.
Come on Thunder and Quake team-up, am I right?
How about Agents of Shield and Stargate? I know, I know, impossible because Shield = Marvel and so we’ve been to space and there are no stargates, or hyperdrives for that matter. They had those waygates that ships bounced through in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Also the Asgard are waaaaay different.
So alternate reality, one where history played out very differently. Imagine fifty million years ago when the Alterans (Ancients) left their home galaxy to avoid a civil war with their brethren (who became known as the Ori) and rather than inventing Stargates on that trip, they invented the waygates. Rather than the re-origination machine on Dakaara, they became the titans that forged the six infinity stones that basically did the same thing.
Stargate crossed over with alternate realities many many times. They were always fairly close to the reality we recognised but they had hints of very different ones through the reality mirror. Not going to lie I kinda just want to see Jemma and Carter work together
I could do this all day but I think you kinda get the picture 🙂
17. A show you used to love but eventually hated or vice-versa.
Hated is such a strong word. Sure I fell out of love with Without a Trace. I felt after the first couple of seasons something happened, the characters weren’t quite themselves and after season 4 I stopped watching. The same happened with New Tricks. It started off so strong but then the writers forgot continuity and turned the characters almost into caricatures of themselves.
I think the award might have to go to Star Trek though. I’ll do Enterprise first.
^^ confession had it right. Although I would have been fine if they’d just stayed friends. T’Pol and Trip I think were my first absolute NoTP and forcing that relationship basically ruined the characterisation of Archer and T’Pol. I enjoyed the first season of Enterprise very much, and the second was ok but the third and fourth were like a trainwreck.
Then we come to Star Trek: Discovery. Oh boy. I was disappointed from the outset because in the two-part premiere they killed off the female Captain (Philippa Georgiou) so then it was yet another male Captain in the form of Lorca. However, I stuck with it because I utterly fell in love with Culmets (Paul Stamets and Hugh Culber).
I also thought they were doing something interesting with Ash Tyler and PTSD, and with Lorca and the slippery line in times of war. What did we get? Culber killed off for shock value, an uncomfortable romance shoved down our throats with Ash Tyler and Burnham, with then the reveal that Tyler was really Voq (a klingon infiltrator) and Lorca was from the evil mirror universe.
Like really? A subtle, understated story exploring the realities of mental health and the shades of grey of war would have been amazing. Instead everything was made simple, flashy and shallow.
Rules: answer the twenty questions and then tag twenty people you want to get to know better!
Name: Samantha (Sam)
ZodiacSign: Taurus
Height: 5’ 2”
Languagesspoken: English (I know I’m terrible)
Nationality: British
Favourite Fruit: Raspberries probably (so hard to choose)
FavouriteScent: Coconut
FavouriteColor: Blue
FavouriteAnimal: None
Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Coffee
Favouritefictionalcharacters: Wow so many but how about my absolute favourite?
There can be only one.
DreamTrip: Sailing around on a yacht anywhere that doesn’t have things that want to kill me, which unfortunately rules out most of the really gorgeous clear ocean, golden sand places.
Whenblogwascreated: May 2nd 2016
LastMovieSeen: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
Songsyou’ve had on repeat: So many but today it was Dark Side by Kelly Clarkson
Favourite Candy: Dairy Free Choc-Coconut Bar (it takes like warm bounty bar icecream, so amazing)
Favourite Holiday: NaNoWriMo (what do you mean it’s not a holiday? It’s a creative holiday! Hehe)
I’m going to take this as being “what I can’t stop listening to right now” as opposed to what the top 10 most played songs are.
Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin (Thor: Ragnarok still heh)
Is she really going out with him – Joe Jackson
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson (Princess Diaries feels)
I Lived – One Republic
Help! – The Beatles
Dream On – Christian Falk
Put Your Hands Up – Matchbox Twenty
When in Doubt – Thousand Foot Krutch
Nobody can save me – Linkin Park
High School – Superchick
Although to be honest quite often I put iTunes on shuffle. I usually have music playing constantly while I’m awake, so this list was only the songs I’ve looked up lately to actively listen to because otherwise it would be 800 songs long…
I got an ask! Yay 🙂 Sorry it’s been ages on account of how I’ve not produced anything in forever. Thank you so much anon 🙂
Do I have a fic I look back at and cringe?
Seriously I could fall over laughing because like oh man SO MANY!
In the interests of my self-esteem I’ll only look through my current masterlist. There are some fics in my past that are just beyond the pale (I know I was 11 but what was I thinking??)
As always I’ve gone on a bit *eyeroll*
The List:
Pretty much all my smutty fics. I wanted to add “smut writing” as a tool for my writers toolkit. It also feels like the rumbelle fandom loves their smut and I wanted to join in and be part of the “cool kids club” but I have buyers remorse on that decision tbh. It would probably be easier to list the ones I think are ok-ish, but that might get confusing. So cringe ones:
All We Are
Story as old as video
Hands all over (this also killed my desire to finish the actual WIP as its a future fic – seriously what was I thinking?)
The smut in Brighter Days (I rather enjoyed pointing out Young’s deficiencies though)
Highway to Hell
The Quest (at least this finished me as a smut writer so I’m grateful for that)
More than a feeling
Trouble Sleeping
Last Friday Night
This Afternoon
Once Upon a Lifetime
Sweet Masquerade
The smut in The Auction
Happy Anniversary
Swim to the Stars. (Sweet and fluffy? Yes. In character? Not so much imo)
Learning Curve.
Broken Apart (just badly written imo)
I probably should cringe at Wizard Love or Never Let the Pirate Babysit Alone but I rather enjoy the silliness. There is nothing wrong sometimes with just having a laugh.
Also (because I can never leave anything alone) the smut fics I accept on my masterlist without cringing are: Fall All Over Again, What Makes You Different, To Be Loved and The Beauty and the Tragedy because I feel like the smut adds something, rather than it just being ‘smut’ with no actual story or an unnecessary addition.
Ultimately however while I cringe and wish I had a back button so I could make it like it never happened – I learned something.
I learned what matters to me as a writer and what drives me to put pen to paper. I learned that I really should learn to just say no. The number of fics I’ve written only because I was asked, and the number of fics I’ve never written because they would be self-indulgent… why is that a bad thing? Who am I trying to make happy here. The answer should be me.
That is a thought I’m going to try and hold in my head as I go on. I’ll probably forget and have to relearn the lesson because I feel guilty writing what I want, as opposed to writing what I think others will like. I’m going to try though because those stories that burn in my veins, the ones I ignore to try and please others – those are mine and nobody else will tell them.
