Thank you so much for the ask, Edu! 🥰

30: Do you write down all of your ideas? How do you decide which to write into a full fic?

I do not! Actually, I’d rather not since it often seems to me like once I started writing them down, they’re out of my head and I stop working on them. That was my problem with Vacation actually. As I said before, I started writing that one sometime last year and I got the first 1k words down and then I stopped for the day because I was getting tired and then I never picked it back up. When the Big Bang came up I thought it was a good opportunity to finish it and the rest you know.

There are still a few WiPs I started one day and never got around to work on again, especially for South Park, my big fandom before Sanders Sides. And there are still moments where I think about them and kinda want to work on them but I never manage to sit my ass down and do it.

Long projects are hard for me, to keep my motivation. I want to create but can’t bring myself to. I really need to find a system to help me with that soon 🤔

36: Which fanfic of yours has the symbolism your most proud of?

Do I use symbolism? Can you think of a fic where I used symbolism?! ‘Cause I can’t… At least not intentionally… Did I??? I honestly don’t know 😅😅😅

32: What story do you think showcases your style the most?

Again, do I even have a style? If so, it’s not intentional. I just write how it comes into my head, honestly. I very rarely edit, too. So I guess, you’d have to check Vacation, since it’s the longest story I ever got done (outside of my dark years writing in German… I had a lot of growing up to do then 🙈).

Sorry for my half-assed answers, I sat here the entire day trying to think of an appropriate answer but I just couldn’t think of anything 😅 Thanks again for the questions though, @edupunkn00b 💙💙

My dad met an author once. I’ve now forgotten the author’s name. He became an author because, in the story he told my father, he mentioned to an author named Somerset Maugham that he wanted to write. And then he went to stay with Maugham for a couple of weeks. And Maugham locked him in his bedroom with a large pile of blank paper and wouldn’t let him out each day until he’d pushed his pages under the door.

His book was published, he became a moderately well known author in the 1930s, and when he told the story to my father, in the late 1950s, he still hadn’t forgiven Somerset Maugham for locking him in the spare bedroom.

And the moral I take from that is that people will write or not write when they are ready. And some people don’t want to break the perfect thing that they have in their heads by making the imperfect thing that they will have to turn it into by bringing it into this world, and that either way, you are probably better off not locking them in your bedroom to write.

I’d say I loved writing Janus vulnerable. We are so used to seeing him try and keep up his sassy and sneaky persona, the one in control. But I think certainly with Virgil, there’s a decent amount of care and vulnerability that Janus tries to conceal.

The scenario of Virgil leaving the Dark Sides is a pretty interesting prompt to work with, and I really liked exploring how I could show that in this fic. May have ended up rushed near the end, but the (angst) potential with Janus and Virgil is just so intriguing to be. So that was cool to write about :)

Thanks so much for the ask! I appreciate it <3