#PERSONAL LOGS: about

[unitlead]

SENSES & OTHER SPECIFIC HEADCANONS.

tagged by: @ellevenie ( I'm sorry. I'm so sorry ) also I should mention a lot of this I discussed with @strtravels beforehand so i'd like to thank her for listening to me babble on. :))) tagging: no one. this got so far away from me !!! I'm not making anyone else read this just steal it if you want idk.

WHAT DOES KATE SMELL LIKE?

She tends to favour fragrances with fresh, more citrus scents and a hint of jasmine than anything else. She's not one for heavy amber or overly floral perfumes. For everyday wear, her favoured fragrance is L'Occitane's Jasmin & Bergamote. ( Top notes are Bergamot, Petitgrain and Mandarin Orange; middle notes are Egyptian Jasmine and Jasmine; base notes are Cedar and Sandalwood. ) For more special occasions, gala's and public events as well as date nights, etc her go to's are either Dolce's light blue ( Top Notes: Granny smith apple - Sicilian cedar - Bluebells. Heart Notes: Jasmine - White rose - Bamboo. Base Notes: Cedarwood - Amber - Musks.) or Armani's acqua di gioia ( Top notes: Amalfi Lemon and Mint; middle note is Water Jasmine; base notes are Virginia Cedar, Brown sugar and French labdanum ) In terms of how she applies it? She definitely abides by the old fashioned rule of dabbing it on your pulse points rather than spraying it on everywhere, Always a less is more kind of gal.

WHAT DO KATE HANDS FEEL LIKE?

Pre 2025: soft and french manicured. Nails kept short, occasionally paints them, always red when she does. She takes a certain amount of pride in her appearance and definitely abides by her skin care routine. Pre 2025 she does have a scar across her right palm, an injury sustained in 2015 while trying to save a group of new trainees from an invasion attack on HQ. Post 2025: work in the vulpreen camp, in addition to the torture she endured during that time has left her with callouses on both hands and two deep gashes over the length of her left wrist that have never healed completely over. she did manage to lessen the damage over time with treatment.

WHAT DOES KATE USUALLY EAT IN A DAY?

god she loves her meal prep sm. She learnt to cook from her mother. and later on, after she reconciled with her father, Doris taught her a thing or two too.

Breakfast: She sticks to the same schedule she's had since 1995, never changes and makes the kids follow it too. Something about consistency being good for them, and yes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.The day's rotate, but the menu stays the same. Either marmalade on toast, yogurt with muesli and some sliced fruit ( usually bananas, peaches or strawberry. ) porridge with a drizzle of syrup ( yes there were tantrums when the kids were younger, yes she endured them calmly. ) or pancakes with fruit and a drizzle of honey. Saturday's are more of a sleep in day, so there's no real routine there, she'll normally make toast and the kids will have whatever they want. Sundays however, was a traditional uk breafast kind of day, a little tradition of her ex-wifes more than anyone else, that she still continues to this day.

Lunch: depends on what she had for breakfast. if she had toast she's not having a sandwich, you get the point. usually, she'll always take a packed lunch, loved to eat it on the bench overlooking the Thames. Usually a salad of some sort or either egg and cress, cheese and tomato or chicken lettuce and mayo sandwiches on rye. Or soup on a cold day. Occasionally leftovers too. It's a much easier option too on days where she has to stay at her desk. However it should be noted that these habits definitely started to change a little after her and & Ed started seeing each other, as he likes to make sure she has a chance to get out of the office. At least once/twice a week they'll go to the nearby cafe and try to get their favourite table before the tourists flood in.

Dinner: While she was with Siobhan they tried to keep a roster, that included the kids helping out,however, as the UNIT restructure became more and more demanding, Kate would often not make it home for dinner. Usually, she'd get home close to 11pm, at which point it was too late to eat anything. If she was staying behind at the office with someone, and that person ( usually Ed lbr ) asked, then yes, she would order takeaway with them. These days she usually makes it home for dinner, and it is very much a whole family affair or it's just her & her husband if Moira is busy and /or Gordy's not coming over. She's a very adventurous cook, She's picked up recipes from all over as being head of UNIT requires her to travel. But she still loves her staples, pasta, shepherds pie, stews, soups, roast on a weekend.

Takeaway: it pains me very much to say it, but her guilty pleasure is curry on chips.Other than she loves a good english fish and chips. If we're talking Asian cuisine then her go to is sweet and sour chicken or Kung Po Pork for Chinese takeaway and a lamb bhuna for indian. ....her taste in takeaway is completely apart from all other tastes in food. She is British so we will forgive her choices !!!!

DOES KATE HAVE A GOOD SINGING VOICE?

She can carry a tune, but wouldn't by any means call herself the next undiscovered talent.

DOES KATE HAVE ANY BAD HABITS OR TICS?

occasional stress smoker. Only in rare instances though and more to keep her hands from shaking than anything else. the situation has to be incredibly tense obviously, usually she's calm in a crisis. After so many years at UNIT, putting everything into her job and into the rebuild and eventual maintenance of that, she finds it somewhat difficult to hold conversations and ongoing relationships with people outside of work ( save for old relations and friendships ) .Because of this she can often come across as either awkward or cold.

also, is stubbornness a bad habit? I think it is.

WHAT DOES KATE USUALLY LOOK LIKE / WEAR?

Overall & signature items: Her look is understated, quietly fashionable. There are some things that carry through in her looks no matter the occasion, one of these is jewellery. She tends to favour simple sterling silver pieces that are nevertheless unique, coming from a handful of private jewellers in London that she has shopped at for a number of years now. For more decadent occasions she has pieces like teardrop pearl earrings and bracelets inlaid with opal. Another staple, unless she's at home, is her kitten heels and her many many scarves. Both are sourced from everywhere from luxury brands to market stalls she found on holiday. She definitely follows the old fashion rules to a tee, esp re: block colours and prints.

Work: She's most at home in trousers. For work, especially you will most likely see her in a sensible pantsuit in varying shades of blue or black lmao, nice satin or cotton blouse depending. Otherwise it's grey/black/brown/tan trousers, a cotton long sleeve in winter and a trench coat over that. Home: or at least, off work, it's a much more casual look, jeans ( ik ik, who is she ) crew neck sweaters, flannel shirts, turtlenecks, boots, corduroy or fleece lined jacket if it's cold. At home she tends to favour comfort over look.

Other occasions: sadly, there are moments where she has to swap trousers for one of the dresses she has banished to the back of the closet.Like every fashion girlie. She definitely has the little black dress, hers is quite tame, a knee length velvet number with a sweetheart neckline, but it is form fitting. In addition to this she has another, more casual, cotton, blue mid length dress, more for outdoors, garden parties etc and another wool number in a similar shade for more upscale events. There are also a few state dinner/gala dresses,also in varying shades of blue and black. By her standards they're more extravagant. By everyone else's, they're simple. understated.

IS KATE AFFECTIONATE? HOW MUCH? HOW SO?

Outside of work? Yes absolutely. And prior to working for UNIT she definitely was more openly affectionate with everyone in general. Not so much in a physical sense, she's never been overt like that in public. But certainly the way she communicates with people has changed, as well as how she will treat her partner in public.This job required her to be a whole lot more professional than she was before, and she adjusted to that. With Ed she's a little different. while they are absolutely professional at work ( she is still his boss after all ) there has been the occasional hand holding etc in times of stress.

Away from UNIT she is a very different person in her family life. Extremely affectionate towards the kids and partner. She knows her job is hard on them and tries hard to make up for the time she's away.

WHAT POSITION DOES KATE SLEEP IN?

usually, on her side. Easier to slide out of bed that way if she has to grab her phone or head off. Sometimes she will sleep more towards the middle of the bed, depends.

COULD YOU HEAR KATE IN THE HALLWAY FROM ANOTHER ROOM?

sometimes. if she's angry, or laughing. She's very embarrassed about her laugh, it's very loud, and very pronounced, she's forever trying to stifle it.

[unitleada]

tag dump. I took this too srsly I know. leave me to my brainrot.

[akanemnon]

We didn't even get an answer, and we never will (at least it's not determination)

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

one thing i think is so Neat about atla is how all the main bender characters have an arc that corresponds to their "opposite" element. zuko's arc is about the capacity to change yourself and your worldview, and the culmination of his arc is learning a move inspired by waterbending. katara is all about passion and drive, wanting to become a great waterbender and fight for what she believes in, and over the course of the show she comes into her power. toph's arc involves getting free of her restrictive family and connecting with a community, and aang's arc is about learning to stand fast in his beliefs and confront difficult issues head-on. it's a beautiful bit of symmetry that reinforces the show's point about the illusion of separation

[hyunpic]

DAILY HYUNJIN GIFS UNTIL HIS BDAY: love you and all your little things - everything is better when laying down

[kiran-wears-science-blues]

Dal gets some family 💜

finally, someone at the Soong family reunion who won't be played by Brent Spiner

[blueberryspyder]

Listening to Rusty Quill Gaming holiday episodes has me like

I’ve gotten into some niche shit before, but this? This is a bit much even for me

[avatarquake]

Proud member of the 'my non-canon ships make better sense than the canon ones' club.

[our-transmasculine-experience]

sorry it's been a while everyone.

bunch of family stuff. not to get too heavy but my conservative parents found my journal with every little detail of my life since 6th grade and for personal reasons, things got a bit heavy.

i'm back, however! my askbox is incredibly daunting, but i'm going to start going through them. askbox is open btw!

thanks for being patient

[unitlead]

tags.

[spitblaze]

Listen. Listen to me. Having privilege in one form or another, even situational and conditional privilege, doesn't de facto make you a bad person. A transmasc that applies to a job with their chosen name, whether or not that transmasc passes otherwise, will have privilege over a transfem applying to that same job, because of societal sexism. That doesn't suddenly mean that transmasc is a violent asshole putting transfems at risk, it just means that as a transmasc you gotta be more cognizant of how you navigate the world. It doesn't mean you don't experience oppression. It doesn't even mean you don't experience oppression unique to being transmasc! What it DOES mean is that whether you like it or not, your relationship to women and non-men are inherently different than they would be if you were a woman. And you're gonna have to reckon with that. You can't stop women you don't know from viewing you as a potential threat, but you can use what privilege you may have if you're stealth or pass to advocate for women, and trans women, and other trans men, and to. Y'know. Check yourself once in a while and make sure you're not falling into the toxic masculinity and patriarchal mindset so many of us have already suffered at the hands of.

[shithowdy]

realized a drawing i'm doing rn is almost identically posed to one i did 8.5 years ago of a different oc, except the old drawing was instantly tainted by one of the players featured messaging me asking if i could take it down because their abusive, possessive rp partner saw it and got jealous of them "roleplaying behind their back" and i said "nah" and it became a whole Thing that i should have walked away from at that exact moment but didn't and the 6 months that followed contained some of the most truly condensed batshit i have ever witnessed in an rp community already well-known for its batshittery.

... anyway i love my friends. so happy to accidentally redeem the pose.

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

the gaang, ranked in order of who got the best sex ed to the worst

1. katara. kanna taught her how to deliver a baby and also where babies come from and just generally gave her a thorough education. and if that wasn't enough, she then got trained as a healer. katara could teach sex ed, and she probably does.

2. suki. raised by a bunch of queer women on Bisexual Woman Island. she knows a Lot

3. aang. was taught the basics by the monks as a natural part of life, but monks don't have sex and he was 12 so he probably didn't get the full education

4. sokka. technically got the same level of education as katara but wasn't really paying attention bc he was still in his sexist phase. still knows WAY more than -

5. zuko. iroh tried to teach him but it was couched in metaphor and heteronormative so zuko barely understood it and wouldn't have found it useful even if he had. he knows some stuff from overhearing the sailors on his ship but that's not exactly an education. he knows to use a condom at the very most

6. toph. you KNOW the beifongs were like "our daughter is too delicate and fragile to learn about such things!" like zuko, toph probably overheard stuff (at earth rumble) but she's younger than him so she's had less time to learn. she's lucky she has katara and suki to be her older sisters. (i guess technically that means toph gets great sex ed but you know what i mean. before joining the gaang she had NOTHING)

[mitskiluvr]

replaying mystic messenger is so crazy because why am i gentle parenting these grown men and teaching them how to handle their feelings

[talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla]

Its k/s day! Ever been like wow amok time is so gay dis they do that on purpose?? I just did a semi deep dive and I want to talk about specifically theodore sturgeon, the original writer of amok time.

So theodore sturgeon is a famous sci-fi writer, but I want to talk about one short story he did called "The World Well Lost". Short version is its about 2 male space explorers who realize theyre in love. This story was controversial, his publisher rejected it AND sent out letters to OTHER publishers urging them to reject it without reading because of its positive portrayal of homosexuality. (He wrote another story too but this is the important one)

Heres a brief description of its two main characters.

"Rootes is the Captain of the team. He is an arrogant, loquacious womanizer. Grunty serves under the Captain. He is a hulking, taciturn poet, so-named because he grunts rather than speaks. Despite their radically different personalities, the two friends are famed in space travel circles for their teamwork and efficiency. They refuse to travel with any other spacers."

So we have a brash captain and their intellectual strong man first officer. Sounds REAL familiar dont it. It's not a 1 to 1, but there's definitely similarities there, and this was written about 15 years before star trek.

So theodore sturgeon is known for sympathetic queer characters in sci fi, cool. I also find it HILARIOUS that there's ONE other episode of star trek he's written

SHORE LEAVE

Ya know

The one with the back rub scene

He didn't just give birth to slash fan fiction, he's been doing it for years