In honor of one year of writing in the Six of Crows fandom this February, I’ve decided to make a masterlist of my writing. 💕 Thank you for all of your encouragement this past year. Thanks to so many of you, I have been able to reconnect with something that brings me so much joy!
Kanej 💕
Ghost Girl’s Guide to Ketterdam (11K words, rating: M) - Wandering through the streets of Ketterdam, Inej Ghafa haunts Kaz Brekker ― a ghost story told in three parts.
Sankta Margaretha and Other Tales of Sorrow (18K words, rating: T) - When his daughter was stolen from beneath his nose on the outskirts of Os Kervo, Samir Ghafa lost his faith in the saints. After a letter arrives, his hope is rekindled.
Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices (18K, rating: T) - In the moments after the birth of his son, Kaz Brekker reflects on what it means to be a father.
That’s the Laugh (1K, rating: T) - Tumblr exclusive. It took two weeks for Inej to finally summon the courage to ask Kaz the question that had been plaguing her since that morning at Fifth Harbor.
Handbook for the Haunted (WIP, T) - Mourning the death of his brother, Kaz Brekker thinks he understands what it means to be haunted. But when he starts catching glimpses of a girl long dead, he realizes how very little he understands about life and death. Companion piece to Ghost Girl’s Guide to Ketterdam.
Wesper 💕
Sleep No More (WIP, rating: T) - Modern AU. When Jan Van Eck’s attempt to murder his own son fails, Wylan must learn to disappear into the the streets of the city that never sleeps. But Jesper Fahey doesn’t plan on letting Wylan fade away quite so easily.
Found Family & Gen 💕
Musée des Beaux Arts (25K words, rating: T) - Six portraits of life and death in Ketterdam featuring the interwoven stories of Wylan Van Eck and Kaz Brekker.
The Language of the Waves (1K works, rating: G) - When Inej returns to the shores of Ravka to spend a summer with the Caravan, she makes an odd request.
Escapology (2K words, rating: T) - Modern AU. The Crows sign up for an escape room. That’s it. That’s the fic.
“Cosmic latte” refers to the average color of the universe as determined by a team of astronomers led by Karl Glazebrook and Ivan Baldry. In 2002, they conducted a study to determine the color of the universe by combining light from over 200,000 galaxies.
After analyzing the spectral data from these galaxies, the researchers calculated the average wavelength of light and determined that the color of the universe, when viewed as a whole, is a pale beige or light brown. They humorously named this color “cosmic latte” due to its resemblance to the color of milky coffee.
The color was arrived at by combining the light emitted by stars of different ages and colors in the observed galaxies. It represents a composite color that takes into account the distribution and intensity of light throughout the universe.
The discovery of the cosmic latte color provides an interesting perspective on the overall composition of the universe. It indicates that the combination of stars and galaxies across vast distances creates a uniform hue when viewed from a distance.
While the term “cosmic latte” is not an official scientific term, it has gained popularity in popular science discussions and has become a recognizable way to describe the average color of the universe. It serves as a playful and relatable way to conceptualize the vastness and complexity of the cosmos.
One thing I enjoy about how Kaz is written is the way his fixation with money is very specifically in a poor people way. He isn’t greedy like a ceo he’s greedy like someone who doesn’t want to be homeless (again) and gets twitchy about it. Having More is appealing specifically because he used to have nothing. You know. It’s a very distinct vibe the author executed very well imo
Plus there are cultural ideas that run pretty deep just from being Kerch even though he isn’t religious about it it’s still, like.. in his head. Underlying ideology is much harder to shake than worshipping a god in itself & it shows in the way he thinks
17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic?
One time I spent hours researching horse racing in the 18th-century for one throwaway line in Sankta Margaretha and Other Tales of Sorrow. But more recently, I have learned a ton about the artwork and furniture in Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of NYC, because of Sleep No More. While I have taken some significant liberties with the layout of the mansion, it really does have three fences, a bee problem, a tromp l'oeil marble floor, and maybe some secret tunnels that were used by smugglers in colonial America.
11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics?
While I can’t listen to music with words while writing, there is a channel on Youtube, lil nobody, that makes excellent character-themed playlists that I listen to while I write. I have linked a few of my favorites below:
I, also, have a few playlists with words that I listen to while editing. These have been my go-to Six of Crows playlists recently. The Jesper one in particular is EXCELLENT:
15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters?
Strangely enough, most of the time, I start with the title before writing anything else in the story. This is true of People of the Air, Between the Lightning and the Lightning Bug, Ghost Girl’s Guide to Ketterdam, Ten Minutes in the Life of a Pear, and Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices. In fact, I have vivid memories of pacing my studio apartment in NYC at the height of the pandemic with only the title Ghost Girl’s Guide to Ketterdam and nothing else. I liked the way the title felt in my mouth.
(Of course, there was more to it than that, but that is another whole essay.)
Anyway, I think the “title-first” tendency stems from the fact that I tend to daydream about Six of Crows characters while reading poetry, and then the stories grow from there. Here are some of the titles are allusions to poetry:
The title for Love’s Austere and Lonely Offices is a reference to “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden.
Musee des Beaux Arts is a reference to a poem by W.H. Auden (and a painting by Brueghel)
Sleep No More is a reference to Macbeth (and In a Station of a Metro by Ezra Pound plays a huge role in that fic as well)
1. Share a song that makes you think of [fic title] 2. Do you read/reread your own fics? 3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written? 4. How many WIPs do you have right now? 5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write? 6. Are there any fics from others you reread all the time? 7. How many ideas for fics do you have right now? 8. What project(s) are you currently working on? 9. Do you write every day? If you wrote today, share a sentence of what you’ve written! 10. Is there a fic that got a different response than you were expecting? 11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics? 12. Do you have a playlist for your current WIP(s)? Share it! 13. How much planning do you do before writing? 14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick? 15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters? 16. At what point in the process do you come up with titles? 17. What’s something you’ve learned about while doing research for a fic? 18. What’s one of your favorite lines you’ve written in a fic? 19. Give us a small teaser from one of your WIPs. 20. What’s a favorite title for a fic you’ve written? 21. Have you ever deleted an entire scene after spending hours laboring over it? If so, why? 22. Do you know how your fic will end before you start writing? 23. How do you choose where to end a chapter (if you have multi-chapter works)? 24. Share a moodboard for (one of) your current WIP(s). 25. Have you ever upset yourself with your own writing? 26. Is there something you’ve written that you would never want your family to see? 27. Is there a fic you were nervous to post/share? Why? 28. Have you ever tagged a fic “Dead Dove: Do Not Eat”? 29.
Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut
from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a
random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.) 30. Ask anything!
Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there’s like 500
