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jaina
1. You're a handsome devil. What’s your name?
Rashaka. Or Rashaka Eos. But mostly Rashaka. I've used this name forever for everything fannish since like 8th grade. I would be 8so* easy to identify by online serial killers/
2. Ever write under any other name?
Eos Rashaka, but that's just switching the order and doesn't really count I think.
3. Look around you. How the hell did you end up here?
I am lame and type on my computer all day, even in college.
4. Are you nice like me?
Generally I think so. A little uncaring of people's little problems that don't matter in my opinion, but I'm nice, yeah.
5. Have you ever had to explain fanfiction to someone in real life?
Yes. I try not to have to, though, because there's only a few stock reactions you get from people and all of them make me nervous on some level. Except this one great moment when I mentioned fanfiction to my cousin, and then tentatively offered to explain it if he didn't know what it was. He said, "It's kind of self-explanatory, isn't it?" I :heart: my cousin.
6. Have you ever co-written anything?
No. But I might be soon, withjaina and fadingmembers
7. How far have you gone to research a story, baby?
Not very far. I go to the dictionary and encyclopedia and the internet. Sometimes I ask people random questions. The rest I get from canon or make up.
8. Which character that you write are you most like?
I relate to Faye of CB a lot. Not in the sense that I like to rob or seduce people or that I have such an amazing self-confidence, but more that I can understand the reasoning behind her decisions, and how she vascillates from bravery to cowardice. And I identify with Roy Mustang's idealism.
9. Which character that you write are you least like?
Well I'm positively nothing like Vegita in any way, shape, form, or time.
10. Any original characters?
I had two Sailor Moon mary sues. Let's just forget about them. Um... beyond that, can't think of any right now.
11. Did you ever name an original character after someone you know in real life, and then one day you mention it in passing because it's funny for some reason at that moment, and (s)he gets all freaked out about it, because, look at what you write--?
(answer stolen fromjaina) That's an awfully weird, specific question. Nope.
12. What’s your favourite line from the last story you wrote?
It was a good laugh, a laugh made for fathers and uncles and lovers. -Memoria
This was a pretty short fic so it was hard to pick a line.
13. Favourite line from the last story you read that was not your own?
" You’re so busy hating and distrusting the entire male population that you can’t see passed that blown up self-righteous sense of moral indignation that you hide behind because you can’t stand the thought that maybe…just **maybe**…you might be wrong in your assumptions!”
-Vash to Meryl, Ohayou, My Dear by Chiruken
14. Favourite line from the song you're listening to right now, or last listened to?
"Can you feel my heart beating?"
- Boom Boom Ba, by Matisse
15. What's the last movie you saw that inspired something ficcish in you?
Castle of Cagliostro
16. Is there a character you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Anyone from Fight Club. I want to write them-- why can't I write them? Because they're awesome and beyond me.
17. We all hate favourite questions, I know, but-- who's your favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
Reading
BtVS: Spike
FMA: Roy
DLM: George
Trigun: Vash
HP: Luna Lovegood
Naruto: Kakashi
Writing:
BtVS: Spike and Buffy
Fruits Basket: Kyo
FMA: Hughes
Trigun: Vash and Meryl
HP: Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter
Naruto: Naruto
18. Who's your least favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
Reading
BtVS: Angel
FMA: Rose - boring!
Trigun: Midvalley -- okay, maybe I just don't think much of his character in general
HP: anyone not Harry or Luna or Hermione
Naruto: Sasuke
Writing:
BtVS: Xander
Fruits Basket: Akito - I'm afraid I fall back on the "evil" bit and can't take the character anywhere more interesting
FMA: Edward - I can't get into his head at all and this saddens me
Trigun- Milly, Midvalley. I can't write either of them well.
19. Is there a story you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Chapter fics. Dude, chapter fics! I have no sense of stick-to-it-ive-ness. I would like to get some real discipline and finish a chapter fic already. And I'd like to write a real horror fic and finish that. I'd also like to write the NC-17 slash fic I wanted to write for Narutoverse, but I can't write it because I'm too chicken to write the sex scenes.
20. What's a title you've always wanted to use, but haven't had the opportunity yet?
With Up So Floating Many Bells Down, from the e. e. cummings poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town", because it's an awesome line and I would love to write a story that fits it.
21. What was the first story you ever completed, and what do you think of it now?
I don't remember. I was very young.
22. What was the last story you completed, and what do you think of it now?
This Too Will Pass, a two-part drabble for Naruto fandom. Actually, I'm still rather proud of it. I wuv my babyninja.
23. Where do you do most of your writing?
Primarily on my computer, but sometimes I make notes or plot outlines on napkins or on school papers in the middle of class. Sometimes I write whole paragraphs in my head that come to me during mundane chores, like washing dishes.
24. Do you have any fic taboos?
Real Person fic. I just... I don't understand it. It feels like lying. And what's the point of writing a story about someone who's alive and living their own story? It's boring because it doesn't mean anything.
25. What made you start writing fic? Were you filled with creative juices, or was it a random act of plot correction?
I was like 12 and it was Sailor Moon fanfic... I think I just had to put the words onto paper and out came a really really badly written fic, before I even knew what fic was. Bad and full of sparkles and flowers--- I had not yet been introduced to angst.
26. Who has influenced your style the most?
Douglas Adams for his quirky sense of the absurd (not unlike Terry Pratchett's style of humor, though I did find Douglas Adams to be funnier) and his success at writing (and making funny) the lamest and most dorky anti-hero ever written in an adventure story.
Probably Stephen King a lot too, though his influence is a little more hard to identify.
I don't know if any one particular fic writer has influenced me-- I've read so much by so many now that I couldn't even guess.
27. What is the sexiest word?
I can't possilby answer that.
28. What is the least sexy word?
"excrement"
29. What's the word you use too much/often?
"look" - there's just not enough synonyms for the damn thing.
30. You're a writer. By definition you are plagued and pursued by images. So what image is burned into your brain right now?
Susannah Dean sitting on a bench holding a small figurine of a turtle in her hands.
31. If you were going to write professionally under an assumed name, what would that name be?
Oooh... hard. I kind of like my own name. But if I were to use one... Linn Wolfwood. Because I've said for several years now that if I ever joined the witness protection program I'd pick Wolfwood as my last name. Because even taken out of the fandom context, it's a pretty fucking cool last name. And Linn is my middle name.
32. If you'd made out this survey, what question would you have asked that I didn't?
"What's your favorite chapter title of fics you're written (or are planning to write)? "
jaina1. You're a handsome devil. What’s your name?
Rashaka. Or Rashaka Eos. But mostly Rashaka. I've used this name forever for everything fannish since like 8th grade. I would be 8so* easy to identify by online serial killers/
2. Ever write under any other name?
Eos Rashaka, but that's just switching the order and doesn't really count I think.
3. Look around you. How the hell did you end up here?
I am lame and type on my computer all day, even in college.
4. Are you nice like me?
Generally I think so. A little uncaring of people's little problems that don't matter in my opinion, but I'm nice, yeah.
5. Have you ever had to explain fanfiction to someone in real life?
Yes. I try not to have to, though, because there's only a few stock reactions you get from people and all of them make me nervous on some level. Except this one great moment when I mentioned fanfiction to my cousin, and then tentatively offered to explain it if he didn't know what it was. He said, "It's kind of self-explanatory, isn't it?" I :heart: my cousin.
6. Have you ever co-written anything?
No. But I might be soon, with
jaina and fadingmembers7. How far have you gone to research a story, baby?
Not very far. I go to the dictionary and encyclopedia and the internet. Sometimes I ask people random questions. The rest I get from canon or make up.
8. Which character that you write are you most like?
I relate to Faye of CB a lot. Not in the sense that I like to rob or seduce people or that I have such an amazing self-confidence, but more that I can understand the reasoning behind her decisions, and how she vascillates from bravery to cowardice. And I identify with Roy Mustang's idealism.
9. Which character that you write are you least like?
Well I'm positively nothing like Vegita in any way, shape, form, or time.
10. Any original characters?
I had two Sailor Moon mary sues. Let's just forget about them. Um... beyond that, can't think of any right now.
11. Did you ever name an original character after someone you know in real life, and then one day you mention it in passing because it's funny for some reason at that moment, and (s)he gets all freaked out about it, because, look at what you write--?
(answer stolen from
jaina) That's an awfully weird, specific question. Nope.12. What’s your favourite line from the last story you wrote?
It was a good laugh, a laugh made for fathers and uncles and lovers. -Memoria
This was a pretty short fic so it was hard to pick a line.
13. Favourite line from the last story you read that was not your own?
" You’re so busy hating and distrusting the entire male population that you can’t see passed that blown up self-righteous sense of moral indignation that you hide behind because you can’t stand the thought that maybe…just **maybe**…you might be wrong in your assumptions!”
-Vash to Meryl, Ohayou, My Dear by Chiruken
14. Favourite line from the song you're listening to right now, or last listened to?
"Can you feel my heart beating?"
- Boom Boom Ba, by Matisse
15. What's the last movie you saw that inspired something ficcish in you?
Castle of Cagliostro
16. Is there a character you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Anyone from Fight Club. I want to write them-- why can't I write them? Because they're awesome and beyond me.
17. We all hate favourite questions, I know, but-- who's your favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
Reading
BtVS: Spike
FMA: Roy
DLM: George
Trigun: Vash
HP: Luna Lovegood
Naruto: Kakashi
Writing:
BtVS: Spike and Buffy
Fruits Basket: Kyo
FMA: Hughes
Trigun: Vash and Meryl
HP: Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter
Naruto: Naruto
18. Who's your least favourite character (a) to read? (b) to write?
Reading
BtVS: Angel
FMA: Rose - boring!
Trigun: Midvalley -- okay, maybe I just don't think much of his character in general
HP: anyone not Harry or Luna or Hermione
Naruto: Sasuke
Writing:
BtVS: Xander
Fruits Basket: Akito - I'm afraid I fall back on the "evil" bit and can't take the character anywhere more interesting
FMA: Edward - I can't get into his head at all and this saddens me
Trigun- Milly, Midvalley. I can't write either of them well.
19. Is there a story you'd like to write, but can't-- and why the hell can't you?
Chapter fics. Dude, chapter fics! I have no sense of stick-to-it-ive-ness. I would like to get some real discipline and finish a chapter fic already. And I'd like to write a real horror fic and finish that. I'd also like to write the NC-17 slash fic I wanted to write for Narutoverse, but I can't write it because I'm too chicken to write the sex scenes.
20. What's a title you've always wanted to use, but haven't had the opportunity yet?
With Up So Floating Many Bells Down, from the e. e. cummings poem "anyone lived in a pretty how town", because it's an awesome line and I would love to write a story that fits it.
21. What was the first story you ever completed, and what do you think of it now?
I don't remember. I was very young.
22. What was the last story you completed, and what do you think of it now?
This Too Will Pass, a two-part drabble for Naruto fandom. Actually, I'm still rather proud of it. I wuv my babyninja.
23. Where do you do most of your writing?
Primarily on my computer, but sometimes I make notes or plot outlines on napkins or on school papers in the middle of class. Sometimes I write whole paragraphs in my head that come to me during mundane chores, like washing dishes.
24. Do you have any fic taboos?
Real Person fic. I just... I don't understand it. It feels like lying. And what's the point of writing a story about someone who's alive and living their own story? It's boring because it doesn't mean anything.
25. What made you start writing fic? Were you filled with creative juices, or was it a random act of plot correction?
I was like 12 and it was Sailor Moon fanfic... I think I just had to put the words onto paper and out came a really really badly written fic, before I even knew what fic was. Bad and full of sparkles and flowers--- I had not yet been introduced to angst.
26. Who has influenced your style the most?
Douglas Adams for his quirky sense of the absurd (not unlike Terry Pratchett's style of humor, though I did find Douglas Adams to be funnier) and his success at writing (and making funny) the lamest and most dorky anti-hero ever written in an adventure story.
Probably Stephen King a lot too, though his influence is a little more hard to identify.
I don't know if any one particular fic writer has influenced me-- I've read so much by so many now that I couldn't even guess.
27. What is the sexiest word?
I can't possilby answer that.
28. What is the least sexy word?
"excrement"
29. What's the word you use too much/often?
"look" - there's just not enough synonyms for the damn thing.
30. You're a writer. By definition you are plagued and pursued by images. So what image is burned into your brain right now?
Susannah Dean sitting on a bench holding a small figurine of a turtle in her hands.
31. If you were going to write professionally under an assumed name, what would that name be?
Oooh... hard. I kind of like my own name. But if I were to use one... Linn Wolfwood. Because I've said for several years now that if I ever joined the witness protection program I'd pick Wolfwood as my last name. Because even taken out of the fandom context, it's a pretty fucking cool last name. And Linn is my middle name.
32. If you'd made out this survey, what question would you have asked that I didn't?
"What's your favorite chapter title of fics you're written (or are planning to write)? "
