“distance” aka the ldau that, aside from my massage therapist au, is probably my longest running rwby fic!

🔦-Did you learn anything while writing it? About yourself? Writing? 

for this one, big time. though it really has nothing to do with the fic itself and moreso to do with the fact that… well. everything ELSE surrounding the circumstances of this fic. i got hung up on writing it for a l o n g time because there were a lot of personal issues surrounding this fic in particular – and it took me a long time to detach myself (and my writing) from those interpersonal issues.

this fic very much started out as a labour of love for a couple people whom i used to consider very close friends, but, well, lots of shit happened around about after finishing up the first chapter and i had to put it on the backburner to sort through everything

after that, it was really hard to come back to this fic. it was painful, remembering the people i started it for. but, in time, i did learn to love the story again, if nothing else because *i* enjoyed it and *i* loved it – and, at the end of the day, that i was the one in control of this story, and i was the one writing it, for myself and no one else. and no one could take that away from me.

it’s an issue that has cropped back up again to a lesser degree, but at the end of the day – what i fucking create is *mine*. and not a single fucking person can take that away from me. end of.

💁- Did readers influence change any part of this story? 

“readers” did not, no. no one did, in a sense. again like i said earlier, i was inspired by ex-friends and their relationship, but it wasn’t like they directly influenced the story. after things fell out, then it became something i did for myself, and that was all.

🎢- Were there any scenes you were nervous about? For audience reception or otherwise? 

(wow chelsea, it’s like you’re asking these SPECIFIC questions for a reason skfshkshg almost like you knoooow what the history is with this fic XP)

there really wasn’t anything specific that i was nervous about – but again, with the personal history made me extremely anxious to even post the first chapter. it was the only time i’ve ever turned on comment moderation, so if certain people were going to yell at me in the comments abt nothing that had to do with the story, i could just catch that and delete it.

thankfully, however, A) nothing like that happened (though i got at least one strange comment that i remember that felt like an uncalled for dig at my writing) and B) i havent had to turn comment moderation on since then for my other chapters, and the rest of my fic was well received

“is your world just a broken promise” aka yang&raven angst ft maiden!yang

⛰️-  What was the hardest part? 

ummm actually nothing really? angst has always been my forte, for better or for worse, so i just kinda fell into this one-shot pretty naturally really!

🎵- Did you have a playlist/piece of music that went with this story?

most of the time for my fics, especially recently, there usually is one song that will either stand out to me while i’m writing (like i’ll put on a specific playlist to fit the Mood of the fic – if i dont already have one – and then pick a song from there)

this one in particular, the title came from “let it burn” by red, and the following line (is your love just a drop of rain) inspired the torrential rainstorm in that fic

the playlist that the song came from was called “sad red hours” XD that playlist always got me feelin some kind of melancholy even though i made it myself XD

🔦-Did you learn anything while writing it? About yourself? Writing? 

someone asked me to write this fic for them honestly, so it was very much a spu of the moment, literal one-shot and quick read over for edits n grammar n such. so honestly no, nothing i didn’t know before XP that i can take a prompt and turn it into something fairly suitable (when the mood strikes, which isn’t often it seems :P)

🪐- how many aus do you have rn? Do they have names? 

Many. sekfhsefkhaek that’s the short answer. but i do have a couple of Main AUs i can easily talk about that i might be more “well known” for

• the massage au / title: i can’t heal your body, but maybe i can mend your soul
• the long distance au (LDAU) / title: distance (which may also expand into a series called “digital flowers”)
• my trans blake series / series title: give my new body a chance
• i’ve also got some fics for polychromatic polaribees (polypole - the ot5 between bees/ilia/pyrrha/weiss / series title: yours, mine and ours

i’ve also got some unposted AU wips like the pirate rivals au, the polypole princess bride au, a frozen au, a trucker au (neither of those have been worked on in AGES but they exist XD) as well as a nuts and dolts au that existed prior to v7 and the “penny was rebuilt” reveal - which was basically v3 angst cranked to the max where penny lived long enough for ruby to try and get her somewhere safe, only to have to say goodbye anyway

🎶- do you have music that fits the mood of what you are writing?

totally! i used to just write to whatever music i thought fit the mood of the fic best, had to be stuff i was mostly entirely familiar with though so i wouldnt get thrown off as i wrote. but then i made One Playlist for the massage au and well, whoops i never went back on making them. for bigger fics now i’m always making them, but even for one-shots (like my recent secret santa fic exchange one-shot and my catmeleon one-shot) i found myself making playlists for them too!

i’m particularly attached to making playlists now, it almost feels more rewarding to have a playlist to write to while writing that specific fic it was made for!

✍️- how often do you title your fics? Is it hard to title? 

gods it’s….. a toss up for me i guess? for something like the massage au, that title came to me literally out of nowhere while i was at work (fitting, of course XD). there was no rhyme or reason as to how that line popped into my head, it just did.

but for example, for my bumbleby big bang (both versions of her aka shameless plug) i struggled with that damn title for a g e s. i mean i had the “wip” title of both versions of her from basically the beginning of the fic but it never sat “right” with me – and even now it really kinda doesnt. but it is what it is, and for the content of the fic, it is a good title for it. im just not really attached and i have no idea why XD

🥰- rec a friends/mutual(s) fic 

DOOT DOOT READ @patchodraws STUFF!!!!! DOOT DOOT DOOOOOOOOT she writes some really awesome stuff for crosshares, schneekos, schneewood forest and bees too ofc!

i really love her cyborg au in particular (These Moving Parts Inside Of Me), there’s just all this angst and mystery and intrigue as you read about a future where all this bad shit has gone down in the past and people being presumed dead and slowly peeling back the layers and trying to figure out how it all went so so wrong aaaaaAA

i don’t have much written for it at all BUT basically blake ends up on a dusty highway bc she ran away from adam in the middle of the night and she’s looking to hitch hike. yang’s a truck driver (like one of those long-haulers) and pulls over to help her out.

“hey, where are you headed?”

“anywhere but here. please.”