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1. What's the last movie you watched, and how did you like it?

I'm not sure.

I think the last movie I watched in theater was Haifaa al-Mansour's Mary Shelley (2017). As the title suggests, it is a biopic of Mary Shelley. I found it quite interesting and I liked the photography a lot.

If not, it was Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) which is a movie about a young queer girl being sent to conversation therapy in the 90s. It is fucking brutal, but it's very well done.

2. Do you listen to music while you draw?

Yes and no. I tend not to listen to music when I do my daily evening drawing because I do those last minute before going to bed (or post last minute in a few cases, as I've sat up in bed several times going FUCK MY DRAWING I FORGOT). Otherwise, yes I listen to music when I draw. But then I'm pretty much always listening to music.


3. Sunlight or moonlight?

Moonlight.


4. What's more important to you in a story, the characters or the plot?

Both. Which isn't a cop-out, let me explain. I can like the characters all I want, if the plot doesn't grab me/moves too slow I will be bored and drop it (ex: Sense8). If the plot is interesting but I'm not attached to the characters, I will watch it but not come back (ex: Game of Thrones, which I dropped between seasons).


5. Do you have a favorite poem?

I have a poetry tag! Of the poems in it, I like Anjela Duval's Karantez Vro and José-Maria de Heredia's La Trebbia best.

I like to learn and recite poetry to myself while swimming and I return most often to Georges Brassens' Supplique pour être enterré sur la plage de Sète (Plea to buried on the beach of Sète), which (a) I should try my hand at translating one day and (b) is technically a song, I GUESS, but if Bob Dylan can be fucking literature, then BRASSENS IS GODDAMN POETRY.


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1. What is your favorite saying/expression from French?

"Âme damnée". It translates to "cursed/dmaned soul" and is basically a fancy way of saying "top henchperson". Darth Vader is Palpatine's âme damnée, for example.


2. What cat color(s) do you like best?

All cats are best cats.


3. Which art medium makes you happiest?

Watercolours. I find them very soothing. But basically I love art a lot? Drawing and painting/pastelling/etc pretty much always makes me happy. And all medium have different "feels" so sometimes I am in a pastel mood and sometimes in an oil painting mood (it is a trap, I fail at oil forever). But yeah, whenever I don't know what medium to use and/or what something simple/relaxing, it's watercolours all the way.


4. If you could visit any one city, all expenses paid, in the winter, where would you go?

Any current city? Because if not, CARTHAGE HERE I COME. As for current cities, I think I'd like to go back to Seoul. I had an amazing time there.


5. Favorite Phoenician figure (historical or mythological)?

Elissa | Dido. I've talked about why at length here, but the short version is: she's so smart? And kind? and I LOVE HER. She was done mega dirty by the Aeneid though, like whoa.

Runner up mythological figure is Tanith. (There are a few sources that interpret Dido as an avatar of Tanith.) I find Tanith fucking fascinating. She's a goddess of fertility, war and FUCK YOU, (look at her symbol. This is not the symbol of a goddess who has any fucks to give).

Historical runner up is Hannibal Barca -- much tl;dr abounds. Short version: He's smart and that thing with him crossing the Alps was pretty baller. Also Cannae is a fucking work of art.


Can give questions to anyone who wants, just say so.
dhampyresa: (Epic shit happening on the internet)
No, seriously, I have. Every time I think it can't get any more awesome, it does.

First there was me managing to write 8 fics, despite everything (including the one I wrote on the plane): 1 assignment, 6 full-length treats and 1 madness treat. (Speaking of which, I will write a fic for anyone who guesses right about which fic(s) I wrote.)

Then there were my yuletide gifts, of which I got A LOT. (Presented here in alphabetical order/grouped by fandom.)

In "Carthaginian mythology" alone, I got three (3!) and to think this was the fandom I thought was the least likely to be written. I got basically every single permuation of the Dido + Tanith relationship possible. I got a fic where Tanith was waiting for Dido to arrive, I got a fic where Tanith followed Dido to Carthage and I got Dido/Tanith femslash. YES.

The foundations of Carthage (1731 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dido | Elissa (Carthaginian Mythology), Tanith (Carthaginian Mythology)
Additional Tags: Rituals, Sacred Marriage, Rain
Summary: When Dido's ship scraped the sand at her new city, She was there, waiting for them. When the rains were needed, She came at Dido's asking, giving the gift of life to the new city, the City that belonged to Tanith.
TANITH/DIDO FEMSLASH. It's so great.

The Scent of the Sea (2059 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Summary: Leaving is only hard if you have nowhere to go: Elissa knows her destiny is waiting beyond the walls of Tyre, she just has to go out and seek it.
It's got Elissa and Hanna and I love love the relationship between them as painted here and the ending is PERFECT. PERFECT, I SAY.

The Tanith Cycle (4287 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Carthaginian Mythology
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Tanith/Ba'al, Dido/Sychaeus
Characters: Tanith, Ba'al, Dido, Sychaeus, Anna, Mot, El
Additional Tags: Ugaritic Mythology, Middle East Mythology, Yuletide Treat, Yuletide 2015, Decapitation, Dehanding, Wading in Blood, Death, Over the top revenge, Misses Clause Challenge, Female POV, Female Friendship, Female Character of Color
Summary: A god could not be respected if she did not have a palace. Tanith was done sitting at the edge of El's table waiting for respect.
If Dido promised her a palace, then Tanith would go with her and do all that was in her power to help her.
I really love the relationship between Tanith and Dido in this one, Tanith's hunger for war against Dido's measured peace and the trust between the two. It's also fix-it fic! (And the Tanith/Ba'al relationship is really sweet.)


Y'all should go and read all my Carthaginian mythology fics because they're all awesome! But you should also read my Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers) fics too, because they are ALSO awesome. I got notifs for two (2!) such fics in the main collection. I got Gwen!Hawkeye with MJ!Black Widow and I got Sorcerer Supreme Gwen Stacy on Battleworld.

Better From A Distance (1008 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Spider-Gwen (Comics), Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Gwen Stacy/Mary Jane Watson
Characters: Gwen Stacy | Hawkeye (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Yuletide Treat, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary: "A bow and arrow," the Infamous Black Widow says, "I didn't realize we'd traveled back in time to the era of the caveman."
"Paleolithic," Gwen corrects instinctively. “I looked it up.”


MJ!Black Widow and Hawkeye!Gwen: superheroes by night! In a band, presumably also by night!

See the Blazing Skies Before Us (2049 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), Marvel Secret Wars Battleworlds
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s)
Characters: Gwen Stacy | Dr Gwenge (Secret Wars #3 Gwen Variant Cover), Victor von Doom
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, LUDICROUS HOLIDAY NONSENSE
Summary: One night in the depths of winter, meditating atop the ramparts of Castle Doom, the Sorceress Supreme senses an intruder. She attempts countermeasures.
This is Sorcerer Supreme Gwen Stacy as God-Emperor Doom's right hand! And I would read entire comic runs of this, no lie. I love love the narration in the style of Jack Kirby.


I was so happy about all these fics, but then Madness opened and I got another fic!

#It'sRainingGwen (666 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), Spider-Gwen (Comics), Marvel (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwen Stacy
Additional Tags: Unconventional Format
Summary:

12:41 PM ET
“I don’t know why this is happening. I promise I’m trying to fix it.”
— Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Cyclops. Other Gwens have echoed this sentiment, including Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Black Widow and Gwen Stacy A.K.A. Wolverine.


The New York Times liveblogs the #Gwenpocalypse.

THE TITLE IS A PUN and the whole fic is basically delightful.

You'd think my yuletide couldn't get anymore awesome, because it's not like I was going to get more fic, was it? But WRONG! I did get more fic! (It was gifted to dhampyresa on ao3 instead of sevenofspade which is why I found it late.)

The Uncanny X-Gwen (7163 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers), X-Men (Comicverse)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Gwen Stacy, Gwen Stacy | Gwen Storm (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenclops (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwencrawler (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenolossus (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Dagwen (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Scott Summers, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Ororo Munroe, Piotr Rasputin, Kurt Wagner
Additional Tags: Mutant Powers, Multiple Selves
Summary: Gwen Stacy is on a high school trip to Oscorp's science division when she unexpectedly acquires superpowers. Not spider powers, but the X-Men's mutant powers. All of them. Now, if only she can pull herself together...

IT'S 7K OF SUPERPOWERED GWEN AND IT'S AMAZING.

So that's my yuletide. I got seven (7!) fics and I wrote eight (and all of them have been well-received so far), so yes, I have won yuletide, because not only did I get SO MANY FICS, all the fics I got are amazing.

dhampyresa: (Epic shit happening on the internet)
Dear writer,

Clearly you have excellent taste! Thank you for writing for me. I'm sure whatever you write me will be wonderful. (I may not be able to read and/or comment on your fic right away, but be assured that I will do so at the earliest possible opportunity!)

Feel free to poke around this journal or my Ao3 account (username: sevenofspade) if you want to.

I have three Do Not Wants: incest, rape and child abuse. When these are canon, please don't focus on them. I'd also prefer is you didn't dwell on any suicidal ideation or prolonged descriptions of grief. I would also prefer not to have to deal with people losing things important to them and toxic living arrangelents, be that family or roomates. Thank you.

On the other hand, there are a lot of things I do want. Here’s a partial list. (I obviously don’t expect you to stick all of these in one story, that would be impossible.)

I will now proceed to go massively TL;DR in your general direction. You can pick and choose from my prompts and if you don't feel like any of them work for you, that's okay too. It's more important to me that you enjoy your yuletide. Besides, I will love anything (ANYTHING!) in these fandoms.

General likes )

There be spoilers and walls of text beyond this point. I want you to know that I love, love, love all of these fandoms and would be utterly delighted to get fic for any of them.


Carthaginian Mythology (Any: Dido | Elissa (Carthaginian Mythology), Tanith (Carthaginian Mythology) )

Carthaginian mythology )


Gwen Variants (Marvel Comics Covers) (Any of: Gwen Stacy | Black Gwidow (Black Widow #19 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Black Widow (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Brian Michael Gwendis (Ultimate End #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Capgwen (Captain America & the Mighty Avengers #9 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Captain America (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Dagwen (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Doctor Spectrum (Squadron Sinister #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Dr Gwenge (Secret Wars #3 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | G.W.E.N.D.O.K. (S.H.I.E.L.D. #7 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwen Fury (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwen of Thunder (Thors #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwen Storm (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwen the Duck (Howard the Duck #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenclops (X-Men ’92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwencrawler (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwendusa (Inhumans: Attilan Rising #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gweneto (Magneto #19 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwengela (1602 Witch Hunter Angela #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenolossus (X-Men '92 #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenom (Guardians of Knowhere #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenpool (Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwenverine (Old Man Logan #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Gwoot (Groot #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Hawkeye (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Hulk (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Hyperion (Squadron Sinister #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Iron Gwen (Armor Wars #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Iron Man (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Nighthawk (Squadron Sinister #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Speed Demon (Squadron Sinister #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Spider-Gwen 2099 (Secret Wars 2099 #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Spider-Man (Ultimate End #2 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | The InGwenible Hulk (Future Imperfect #1 Gwen Variant Cover), Gwen Stacy | Thor (Secret Wars #4 Gwen Variant Cover) )

Gwen variants (Marvel comics covers) )

Locke & Key (Dodge (Locke & Key), Kinsey Locke)

Locke & Key )



Loki: Agent of Asgard (Loki | Goddess of Stories (Agent of Asgard), Verity Willis (Agent of Asgard))

Loki:Agent of Asgard )


Punic Wars RPF (Hannibal Barca (Punic Wars RPF), Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major)

Punic Wars RPF )


신의 | Faith | The Great Doctor (Any of: Choi Young, Hwa Soo In, Jang Bin, Yoo Eun Soo )

The Great Doctor )


In conclusion, please have the best possible yuletide! Any fic you write will be amazing.

[Edited October 31 for clarity.]

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