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(1/2) Your elysium black sails fic, i can’t remember the title right this second but i wanted to tell u this thought while it’s still in my brain. It’s hard for me, esp in the beginning to picture Flint in mcgraw’s body, miranda 10 years younger, and poor war-torn Silver back in his young body. But that’s such a good thing i feel??? I think it rly fits the struggle the characters themselves have in reconciling their future/past selves w/ now. And it’s getting easier to picture them young

(2/2) but with truly world-weary souls . I feel as it gets easier for them to accept and live with and take advantage of the opportunity they’ve been given, the more comfortable they become with this reconciliation, the easier it is for me to reconcile the characters i know w/ who we have in your fic and i love it a lot it’s beautiful and an incredible experience. Experiencing their frustration and growing comfort as my own is truly unique.

*blinks* *smile gets wider* This is legit the first time that anyone’s done anything meta-ish about one of my fics and I love it so much! *hugs enthusiastically* I am so, so, so happy to hear that my character development is so solid and that it works so well, because I’ve spent this entire fic biting my lip and wrangling the characters behind the scenes and trying to get in everyone’s heads to know what’s going on in there! And you’re absolutely right – up until about Chapter Five I was picturing Flint in my head, especially, instead of James, whereas sometime in Chapter Six or Eight, he turned back into James in my mental picturing of the scene, which is fitting since that section is a big turning point for him. It’s interesting because Miranda is sort of going through the opposite transformation, which is to say that while James is slowly getting comfortable in his own skin again with who he is outwardly, Miranda is busy realizing that she can’t turn into Lady Hamilton again and has to figure out who she is now that she’s aware of just how deep the betrayal ran and how angry she is about it. By comparison with those two, John just has to remember that he’s not missing a leg anymore and figure out how he feels about a James who isn’t interested in punching anyone anymore unless they’re really, really asking for it. Oh, and of course he has to figure out how Thomas plays into the whole thing now that he’s figured out that he’s not actually World’s Worst Bastard™. It’s an odd, odd day when John Silver is the most straightforward of your characters, let me tell you! 

To The Upper Air is everything to me i want u to know that. i love how u write everyone, and Thomas is especially fun . i have so many thoughts about it that i can’t organize them !! i love it a lot tho it’s one of my favorite black sails fics

*hugs forever* Thank you! That is so incredibly awesome to hear and I’m so glad you love it so much! They all deserve happiness so very much and if the show won’t and can’t give me what I want for them all, then I’m more than willing to write the happy ending myself! 

I started your Elysium fic yesterday and i’m on ch 13 now and i just wanted you to know that it is both everything i never knew i needed and all of my dreAms come true at the same time i love it Very Much

Thank you so, so much! I am so glad that you love it because I’m having such fun writing it! I had no idea it was going to turn out to be this long when I started – honest to gods it was going to be just a quick, happy little fix-it fic and now it’s a 16 chapter epic and counting. I’d blame @shirogiku, but she requested hilarious crack fic wherein James Flint is back in his own past and can’t stop swearing at inopportune moments and got this instead.

4) favorite character you’ve written 5) character you were most surprised to end up writing 16) are there any characters who haunt you? For the ask the writer. (Sorry it’s so late.)

ooh, thank you! *flexes fingers* 

4. The favorite character is a tough one, as I’m torn between the ones that come flowing off my fingers without any real effort at all and the ones that drive me right round the twist but are complicated and take effort. In the end, I’d have to say that I have several, starting with Miranda and Thomas Hamilton, who are always a delight to write, but I have a definite soft spot for Admiral Hennessey, with his sort of exasperated fondness and utter bullheadedness to rival Flint’s under the right circumstances.

5. I had absolutely no idea I was going to end up writing Abigail into To the Upper Air. She wasn’t part of the plan except in a peripheral sense, and then she just kind of showed up and started doing her own thing much to my surprise. Similarly I was not expecting to end up writing anything from Hornigold’s perspective, ever, and yet there he is in Chapter 6 of They That Sow the Wind, providing eyes on a scene. The same is true for Woodes Rogers in Anger of a Gentle Man – I really don’t like him as a person (although he’s growing on me a bit in Season 4), so having him be part of a scene at all was kind of weird. 

16. Hmm. Characters that haunt me. Are we talking characters that stand at the edge of my consciousness, stories cut too short, demanding to know why I don’t write more about them, why canon treated them the way it did? Because the answer to that is Miranda Hamilton and, to a lesser degree, Thomas, mostly because he’s far too considerate to spend too much time demanding anything. Ask me about him and his haunting habits again when I finally get to writing a Whitechapel crossover, as I’m going to end up doing at some point. Miranda, though – gods, if anyone were ever going to leave an angry, disruptive, very heart-rending ghost it would be her. The version of her that lives in my head is so very, very upset a lot of the time, and I keep trying to write her a solution to her troubles. It’s odd, because there are so very many characters I’ve been fond of that deserved better from canon and yet she’s the one that won’t be placated, at least not yet. 

hi! I was just curious, what ships do you ship in Black Sails? Obviously you ship flint with the hamiltons based on your awesome fic, but I was wondering if you ship anything else?

Hmm. I’d say that I ship most of the canon ships with a couple of notable exceptions, which is to say that I’m not actually fond of Vane/Eleanor or really any of the canon pairings involving Eleanor. I’m not sure who I do ship her with, but none of the relationships she’s had so far have really struck me as good for either party, although she and Rogers could potentially be good together with a little more development. I do ship Silverflint – particularly during Season 3, after they’ve stopped lying to each other. Max/Anne is adorable, as is Anne/Jack. Vane/Billy could have been/is a good pairing in a lot of ways, as is GunnBones. SilverMadi has potential but I’d rather see them as bffs. Oddly enough I’ve been known to ship Silver/Thomas. They’re more alike than I realized once I started writing both of them – like separate sides of the same coin, and of course they could co-president the “protect James at all costs” club!

Hey, I’ve been reading your Black Sails fix it fic (you published right after I finished binging it- so thanks!). Do you intend to have James rescue Billy again somehow? I’d hate for him to remain indentured… also wouldn’t mind if he crossed paths w/Abigail again! Maybe that’s just me.

Haha, spoilers! Let’s just say that the Billy situation is in good hands and that you’ll see! As to Abigail – I’m not sure if she’ll be making an appearance in this, although she might get a peep in – I’m honestly conflicted about one part of the story right now (I keep kicking it around like a slightly less-than-optimally inflated ball hoping that eventually it will shape up into something that will roll. I suspect it needs some air first!)