lunabee34 asked: "What fandoms are you reading fanfic in right now?"

I've been reading mainly MCU for the last few years, but I'll follow a link, and I'll give authors I like a chance when they post in a new fandom. When I'm actively writing, I tend to be pickier and more easily distracted, and I've been writing a ton since AoU offended me to my fucking core. I have some stories I've subscribed to that I really want to finish, so I can read them. I chronically plunder Thassalia's AO3 bookmarks, and when I read in a fandom I tend to go by authors and their bookmarks to find my way to the good shit.

Currently, I've been tearing through the Ankh-Morpork stories of Discworld--I'd saved a few, squirreled away for a rainy day.

nanslice asked a few questions: "What do you hate most about fandom at large and what do you love most?"

I hate that we're shaped by the platforms we use, instead of the other way around. I love that I grew up with the fandom attitude that storytelling, art, tech, community, these are all things that we inherently own and can build for ourselves.

"What are some of your favorite fic tropes and why?"

I really love deep character work, no matter the story mechanics of how it's achieved. When one person looks at another and the penny drops, and they have this sudden lens-changing understanding of that person--that's hard to do as a writer, you have to not only do the work but also have a mutual trust with your subconscious. I loooove that shit.

"What do you miss most about your earlier time in fandom? (examples: geocities, yahoo!groups, fansites)."

I miss community. The Scullyfic email list did an annual spring retreat which was this awesome pajama party in a cabin, with mini golf and nature walks and snacks and we did swaps, little stupid delightful gifts for each other. I miss talking Farscape and not-Farscape in the bar of the Burbank Hilton. I miss getting to know people, and meeting them, and sharing the love of these stories and characters and integrating that into the rest of life, into friendships that had deeper soil to grow in.

st_aurafina asked: "Favorite recipe? Or, idk, food? (wine? bee, maybe? There's lots of kinds of bees as it turns out...)"

I love tea, I really do. Black tea, with milk. I've been drinking puer types lately, because I adore the deep forest floor funk of them, and I like that I can just keep adding hot water and re-steeping. Wine-wise, I can't drink reds generally but I still love port.