This is my interview with ImaginationRobber

They have 92 followers at the moment and 2 published works including a book of Gryles oneshots with 311 reads.

1. Why did you first decide to make your Wattpad account?

I think it was to read a friend's fic honestly, they'd been telling me about their writing on here for a while but I'd never really fully wrapped my head around making an account or anything to read any of it, which is a shame because it was so lovely when I finally did and I could've been enjoying the loveliness before but oh well I got there eventually.

I don't really understand why I couldn't understand making an account or anything since Wattpad isn't that tricky to figure out but I'm assuming it's because I was used to reading on AO3 or anything else so this just confused me which doesn't make sense to me now but hey I must've had some explanation back then.

But anyway they wrote this sort of crack fic about Mikey Way and his tambourine and their explanation of it made me so hysterical I had to make an account and of course I wanted to read their other things but that tambourine fic was what it all came down to.

I sort of lurked around for a bit though, I had virtually no grasp on how to make inline comments or how to search for things so I only really used this to read their works in the beginning.

After a while they started linking me to other people's fics and I felt bad being a bit of a ghost and just reading and not doing anything else like commenting or interacting because with my friend I could frantically yell about their works with them on instagram or something but I couldn't do that with other people so I figured it out eventually.

I didn't start writing on here for ages though, I was writing just in docs and planning out ideas but I never really wanted to post what I'd done until recently well not really recently it's been a bit of a while now but yeah I just lurked and read.

I still have no idea why it took me so long to work it out and wrap my head around this but I got here somehow so I'm counting that as a success.

I'm getting a bit rambly already this is earlier than I expected my rambles to come on but apparently they're here oops.

I hope this is alright I will make an effort to keep my rambles in check I guess we'll see how well that works out.

2. Where do you get your inspiration to write from?

Honestly I'm not sure, it's sort of like everywhere but not really, it depends, like a lot of it is from just chatting with friends and ending up with headcanons that I want to write so badly that I have to have a go, but then some of it is just sort of a bit random like I'll be in Tesco's or somewhere and then somehow I'm thinking of Harry getting hard in a shop and Nick fucking him in the bathroom and then it just gets out of control and I've got backstory and whatever in the pasta aisle so anywhere really.

Also somehow I tend to get inspiration from pictures like pictures of the people. I don't know if I can include pictures in this but there's one of Harry like in a car but like he's drinking water but it looks like he's giving it a blowjob and then all of a sudden I've got a plot for something.

(I found the photo for you El)

I promise not all of my ideas are porn, most of them are, but not all.

Has this even answered the question I don't even know anymore I got lost in succ but all in all I get it from anywhere but mostly friends hitting ideas at each other for a simple answer.

3. You mostly write Gryles, so how did you first get into that ship?

My memory's so bad I can't fully remember but I think what happened is that I heavily relied on people linking me fics for ages because fuck me if I knew how to search for myself back then, and at the time I shipped Frerard and Ryden and everything like that and essentially I'd ran out of everything I'd been sent so I tried to go on a fic hunt myself on AO3 and somehow ended up finding Larry fics.

Don't ask me how because quite frankly I wish I knew, but somehow that happened and I wanted some long angsty fic to take my mind off things and I found a Larry that seemed like exactly that and I was so desperate I just went for it and like it surprised me how much I enjoyed it given I was like fully emo and not particularly fond of 1D.

So then I explored Larry fics a bit more and on this one fic one of the side pairings was Gryles and I just loved them both so much like I loved Nick before I found Gryles but never thought to ship him with anyone and then after growing to love Harry from all the Larries I'd started to read I just thought they were the perfect pair.

And then my love progressed over time and I started listening to 1D and got a better idea of them in real life and started following them then and keeping up with Gryles events and everything like that and I never looked back honestly.

4. Do you have any other ships you enjoy but haven't written about yet?

I do fuck I have so many ships I'd love to write, well I have so many fics in general I'd love to write but I'm struggling on that front, that's not the point though wow I get off topic so fast but Zarry I really want to write some Zarry.

Their dynamic is one of the best things because like Harry's just so eager and needy and such a love and then Zayn's just an absolute dom, like there's no other way to word it, he is literally walking sex and it would make Harry a disaster and it makes me one too.

Essentially Zayn tying Harry down and fucking him really hard is too good not to want to write.

Like Zayn would take care of Harry and he'd be so good and hot and Harry would be a mess and I think I'm repeating myself but apparently once I'm lost in the smut then there's no stopping me.

Also though like even though Zayn is like ultimate sexy in control all of that, Harry makes him soft and smiley with his silliness and that's so lovely, it's like a lovely drop of soft to make the smuttiness that little bit better and all consuming.

Whenever I look for Zarry fics a lot of them are like top Harry and bottom Zayn and I do not understand and I want to write them if not for me then to bring more top Zayn into the world because he is a dom and I am there for that.

I have so many ideas for them but like they're all smut and I don't object of course but I find it hard enough focusing on writing already let alone when you add Zayn in the picture. It's impossible but I am determined and I will stop going on about Zayn and this before I never stop.

Also though Zarry aside I'd love to write a Larry, I feel like there's more of a range of ideas that fit in better with Larry, and I just want to try I don't know, I'm not sure if that's actually true or if it's just me but I really do feel like their dynamic could fit into certain ideas easier than say Gryles or Zarry so I'd love to have a go with them too.

Also it sounds a bit random but I'd love to write a Ryden idk why but like I have so much left over love for them from my emo times and I just love them both and I'd love to write with them maybe I don't know. I mean I doubt it'll ever happen considering how buried in Gryles and Harry whatever I am but I would like to.

5. What is the hardest part about writing for you?

I think it's trying to get my thoughts out in a coherent manner and not ramble on too much, which I think I'm demonstrating here rather wonderfully with my inability to stop before my rambles get out of hand.

And I've got some problems processing things and thinking things through so when I attempt to write a lot of the time it usually just ends up as jumbles that aren't really very readable and that would be okay because I can edit of course but I very rarely tend to be in a mood where putting that much thought into something is achievable.

I feel like I'm giving a bit of a round about answer but what I think I'm trying to say is that a lot of the time my head isn't quite up for writing even though I've got plans and so much I want to write. It's just a bit of a slow process that I don't really manage very often but I enjoy it so much when I do.

So I guess that's two things really, they sort of connect though like not being able to really think things through too easily doesn't help the whole rambling thing and then the rambling doesn't help thinking it through, I don't know if I'm making sense but yeah that's the hardest part for me I think.

6. Do you have any pet peeves concerning Wattpad or things you dislike about posting on here?

Wattpad always feels a bit glitchy like not properly saving drafts and having dodgy notifications and I dislike that a lot, I don't know if that counts as an answer because I doubt anyone really likes the glitches, so like besides that I'm not the biggest fan of searching for fics like it just doesn't feel like I can ever find anything easily.

I can't actually remember the last time I tried to search for fics because there's just not a good way to find things, the tagging system just needs to be a bit better maybe I think, I don't know. Maybe I'm just shit at searching which is a real possibility but yeah I'm not Wattpad's biggest fan on that front.

Also the messaging system bothers me a bit like how it doesn't give you notifications, unless that's just me being silly with my settings and I've not got it setup properly or something I'm not sure but whatever it is I'm not that keen on it. It'd be a bit better with like being able to send photos and have the notification thing all good.

I had something else but I'm blanking on it, I do like Wattpad though in general, like the things that bother me about it aren't big enough for me not to use it. The community on here is lovely though like if I didn't know people then I most likely wouldn't use it all that much but I like being able to comment along while reading and everything so yeah there's some things that bother me but not enough to ruin it.

7. I know as an author sometimes I write a line or a paragraph that I'm especially fond of. Do you have one of those?

I'm not actually sure honestly, I don't think I've written anything that I'm particularly attached to yet, I mean everything that's up on my profile is just smutty one shots so I've not really ventured into the feelings type of angsty writing that I usually get really fond of so I don't think I've got anything like that but I'll have a look maybe I'll find a line about Harry's dick I'm particularly fond of, you never know, but nothing immediately jumps to mind.

Nick called Harry a horny beast one time.

That can be my favourite line.

I would say I'm not this ridiculous normally but honestly I am.

Oh no wait I found a better one here we go Nick said "you can't wank while Jools Holland is on the tv, that's just wrong."

There we go.

My favourite line.

I'm so sorry for this honestly.

8. If you could be one of the characters you've written for a day who would you choose and why?

Harry in any one of my Zarry drafts so then I can get fucked by Zayn.

I'm trying to think of a better answer and quite frankly I'm not sure if I have one, being fucked by Zayn is all I want.

Well I mean to be fair being Harry in any of the Gryles one shots I have up would be lovely too because then I'd be dicked down by Nick and I'm all for that.

All I've written is porn I'm a mess, my fic attempts have so far been unsuccessful so the scope of what I've got to go on isn't great.

You know what is great though...

Being Harry so I can be fucked by Zayn.

Okay I'm moving on.

9. Has your experience with Wattpad helped you grow or change at all as a person?

Definitely yeah, I can't say how much was directly from Wattpad but I do think it's made a difference, I think I'm more like inclined to put whatever I'm doing out there if that makes sense like I feel like it's alright if I write something to just stick it up and I won't dwell on it for ages or worry about it, well I probably will still just not as much as before and that's impacted like some of my art too like if I do something I feel more alright about putting it out there.

I mean I've not been able to write in ages but you know what I mean like if I were then I'd feel alright putting what I'd written or did or whatever up. Is that self confidence I'm not sure, I'm not thinking properly but in that aspect yeah I've grown.

And in the sense of who I've met through this that's been a part of it too. Before any of this I never really spoke to people, I'm not getting out into the world or whatever since my health's a bit up the shoot so I get all my interaction online and I'm so glad I do otherwise fuck knows what I'd be doing.

I'm not sure how much of that is directly from Wattpad since some is through twitter and other social shit but I guess Wattpad provided the platform to interact through writing and everything like that so I think that counts maybe.

I'm sure I'm missing out on something I wanted to say but yeah I do think this was part of what changed me as a person.

Wow look at that I've answered a question without mentioning anything smutty, I'm so proud.

10. What has been your best moment on Wattpad so far?

Oh god I don't know. I don't think I've had a specific best moment that I can recall, it's sort of been like best bits maybe.

I don't know like it was great to put my first one shot up that was a lovely moment and knowing such lovely people is a lovely moment so I don't know.

Starr letting me yell for hours in his comment sections time and time again is one of the best moments, technically that's more like several moments, but it's one of the best things so I'm counting it as an answer.

This was a lovely moment too I've had a lovely time answering all these, I'm sorry I rambled on rather a lot I hope it's vaguely alright and everything.

Also this took me a ridiculously long time to finish these answers up so thank you Starr for being so lovely about it, I'm extremely sorry, the way time passes is silly.

Thank you for doing this and sending me questions and all of this I really enjoyed myself xxxxxxx

I hope you enjoyed my interview with the lovely ImaginationRobber

Update: ImaginationRobber has deleted their account.

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Love you all xxx

- starr