#random klingon number 4

[curator-on-ao3]

Ten Random Lines

Rules: Pick any ten of your fics, scroll roughly to the midpoint, pick a line (or three) and share it. Then tag ten people.

I was tagged by @starrybouquet. 💕 Thank you so, so much for tagging me in this super-fun game!

1. Boots That Touch at the Toes (Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike, T)

Heat cracks like fire across her hand, sharp and searing as numbness gives way to life, Chris’ breath hot on her skin, his exhalations steady, even as she shudders.

His lips brush her palm, pain fading as quickly as it started. 

And her throat sticks with thank you and oh my God and don’t go.

2. Hello, Again (Una Chin-Riley/Jack Ransom, T)

“Captain,” Una turns toward Chris, all business, “I can recreate the solution Starfleet Academy devised to correct for the temporal imbalance in the planet’s atmosphere, which also explains the trouble we had with transport. It should take about a week to refit the transport ionizers, plus run a few tests.”

“I can help.” Jack flexes a bicep that didn’t need flexing. “Double Number One fist-punch to the problem.”

Is Una chuckling? Jack’s joke wasn’t that funny. Not compared to some of the really funny stuff Chris says. 

3. The One That Is You (Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike, M)

“Yeah, I’m going to go back in time.” My toes nudge her ankle monitor. Not enough for the metal to dig into her skin, but enough to remind us both of the present. “Someone once told me that she refused to believe there isn't another way. I listened. Now she’s in prison and I’m trapped in a war that the Klingons say could have been avoided if I’d met my fate. So, yes, I’m going to go back in time and convince my younger self to do what’s right, not what’s convenient.”

4. Hold My Hand and We’re Halfway There (Kelly Grayson/Ed Mercer, G)

“Hey there,” Kelly holds up a bottle of wine, “I wasn’t sure if this was business or pleasure, so I brought a red blend.”

“Because, ‘Sometimes being a little blended is the best way to enjoy all the cultures that blend to form the Union,’ right?” 

He expects her to chuckle. 

But her head tilts, light catching her hair and playing across her cheekbones. “Did you just quote my father?”

5. Chrysalis (Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike, E)

“What?” Chris pulls away just enough to look at her, confusion and pride chasing each other across his face. “One of the Talosians said that you … you fantasize about me?”

How is it possible to be more embarrassed the second time? Her cheeks warm, not even the distraction of irritation at an alien probing her mind available to save her.

6. Synchronous Orbit (Kathryn Janeway & Tom Paris, G)

“I remember what you said about wanting my help to find the Maquis.” He forces his hands to rest on his lap, fingers splayed, useless. “But we both know you could have gotten that information and not taken me along for the ride. This has been the best seven years of my life and … before I go … I want to know why.”

Her chair, always so quiet when the ship pulsed with activity, creaks again. He swivels and the captain is the same size she’s always been, yet also somehow smaller.

“Looking back can be dangerous, Mr. Paris.” She glances toward the viewscreen, then at him. “Sometimes the best course is forward.”

7. The Haze (Una Chin-Riley/Christopher Pike, T)

There’s a rustling from his darkened alcove, then quiet again. “I’m glad not knowing your past is pleasant for you, Una.”

Maybe he’s not listening well because he’s very tired and having trouble falling asleep. 

“The haze is pleasant. Not knowing my past can be confusing. I like when you explain things so I can understand.”

There’s more rustling. “Is that why you didn’t want to go into your quarters? You didn’t want to be by yourself without someone there to explain things to you?”

8. Gotta Admit, It’s Pretty Sweet (Churrolivia/Jack Ransom, T)

Jack is about to ensure his irritation is clear in his voice, but he remembers just in time — he promised Olivia he would try to be more patient with the ensigns. So Jack’s pecs rise with a deep, calming breath and he calls out as cheerfully as he can, “Come on in, Ensign Mariner.” 

She waltzes in like she owns the place, sits crooked in a chair as if she’s Captain Riker or something. “Hey, do I smell cinnamon?”

9. The Melody of You (and Me) (Una Chin-Riley/Seven of Nine, T)

There’s a chuckle from Seven.

“This,” Seven squeezes Una’s hand, “isn’t solely your affections. You’re worried about me tripping and falling with my ocular implant low on power. I’m all right.”

10. City Lights (Seven of Nine/Liam Shaw, T)

He sits heavily in the chair across from her, all clean scents of soap and shampoo. “Look, Hansen, my buzz is nearly gone and I’m not exactly in the habit of entertaining mesmerizing company as yourself, so —” 

Mesmerizing? The captain is a lot of things, but he’s not a liar or a flatterer.

Her cheeks go warm, both from the unexpected compliment and from the frustration that balls her fists and hardens her voice. 

“So why don’t you call me by my damn name?”

As always, I love being tagged but my tag anxiety keeps me from tagging others. If you’re reading this and want to play, please consider yourself tagged! 💕

[saving-word-crawls]

Trouble with Tribbles Crawl

By: schweinsty

Hey, first time making a crawl, so I hope this is useful for y’all.

Y

ou are on board the USS Enterprise, currently en route to Deep Space Station K7. First, choose your field of specialty:

Security/Engineering (Red Shirts): You’re excited to take part in this mission; however, as the casualty rate for your fellow red shirts is abnormally high, you’re going to play it safe with a low-key typing speed today in order to complete this one.

Science/Medicine (Blue Shirts): Logically, you’ve determined that your optimal speed for this mission lies in the middle of the road; you won’t burn out, but you’ll get plenty of words down.

Helm/Command (Gold shirts): Warp factor six and full speed ahead! You’re going for the gold today, asking your typing fingers to give you all they’ve got–and then some.

Stardate 4523.3: You’ve just received a distress signal from Station K7, hurtling through space to reach them at warp 6 while preparing for possible battle with the Klingons. Fly carefully!

Red Shirts: Write 150 words in 10 minutes to reach Station K7 safely, phasers ready.

Blue Shirts: Write 300 words in 10 minutes to reach Station K7 safely, phasers ready.

Gold Shirts: Write 500 words in 10 minutes to reach Station K7 safely, phasers ready.

On Station K7, you have to guard several tons of quadrotriticale, a high-yield, perennial, wheat-rye hybrid which is the only grain that will grow on Sherman’s Planet.

Red Shirts: Do a 5-minute sprint to guard the grain.

Blue Shirts: Do a 10-minute sprint to guard the grain.

Gold Shirts: Do a 15-minute sprint to guard the grain.

While eating at the Station bar while on break, you run across a man selling tribbles, the sweetest creatures known to man.

Red Shirts: Write 400 words to haggle him down to 4 credits.

Blue Shirts: Write 600 words to haggle him down to 6 credits.

Gold Shirts: Write 800 words to haggle him down to 8 credits.

Suddenly, while you’re taking care of your tribble, who’s begun to reproduce after consuming grain, a Klingon warship approaches the station!

All Personnel: Do a Fifty-Headed Hydra 21 (or as close as you can!) to go to red alert!

Federation personnel and the Klingons have agreed to keep the peace while on the station. However, while in the bar, a group of Klingons do the unthinkable–insult the Enterprise in front of Lt. Commander Scott. A fight ensues.

Red Shirts: Word war with someone or sprint for 15 minutes to defend the honor of your ship.

Blue Shirts: Word war with someone or sprint for 30 minutes to defend the honor of your ship.

Gold Shirts: Word war with someone or sprint for 1 hour to defend the honor of your ship.

The tribbles have taken over the ship! They’ve reproduced so much that they’re eating all your supplies and taking up all your space. If you don’t get them off the ship, you’ll be hip deep in them. Use a random number generator (such as this one 16) for your next task).

Red Shirts: Complete a word count between 100 and 500 words to get the tribbles off your ship.

Blue Shirts: Complete a word count between 250 and 750 words to get the tribbles off your ship.

Gold Shirts: Complete a word count between 500 and 1000 words to get the tribbles off your ship.

Realizing that the tribbles have likely gotten into the quadrotriticale, you find yourself buried in an enormous tribble pile while checking on the storage compartments.

Red Shirts: Write to the nearest 500 in your word count to extract yourself from the pile!

Blue Shirts: Write to the nearest 1000 in your word count to extract yourself from the pile!

Gold Shirts: Write 1000 words to extract yourself from the pile!

All the tribbles that ate the quadrotriticale are dying! You realize the grain must have been poisoned by an undercover Klingon and decide to expose him using a tribble.

All Personnel: Complete a Three-Digit Challenge to expose the Klingon assassin.

You’re almost done with the mission, but before you go, you’ve got to get the remaining tribbles off your ship and somewhere safe.

All Personnel: Finish up with a Fifty-Headed Hydra 21 to beam the tribbles onto the Klingon’s ship.

Congratulations on successfully completing your mission! You can go back to your five-year mission of exploration. Fly safely, and keep a sharp eye peeled for stray tribbles in the vents!

[mystery-star]

The Biggest Compliment – Spock

Pairing: Spock (AOS) x gender-neutral reader

Warnings: none

Words: 3944

Please do not repost my work on other sites or platforms!

-

Of course everyone in the 23rd century knew about Starfleet. But while you were certain that you would never join them, you had not believed that you would need to work together with their Academy one day. You hadn’t known what they wanted of you, when you had been told that your designer talent was needed. First you thought they might want to have new uniforms but probably a tailor would be better for this. Then you speculated over the possibility that they wanted a new logo. Or maybe it just was something like an advertisement for new recruits or so.

The thing they needed your help with, however, turned out be a test. Well, a simulation, to be exact. They wanted to animate the whole thing new. And not just animate, as you heard also the coding hat been redone, for whatever reason. After they had shown you what the old simulation looked like, you were introduced to your co-worker; the one who had written the new coding. It was a Vulcan and you didn’t know what to think of that. Not because he was not human but because you had never seen a Vulcan ‘close-up’ but hat heard a lot of, not so good, things about their race. As it seemed, also the instructor who was showing you around didn’t seem to be a big fan of him and leant closer to you before he left you in your new office.

“Don’t mind him, he can get pretty prissy sometimes” he whispered to you before he wished you good work and then left, leaving you alone with the man you’d spend the next weeks with. You looked at him for a while and didn’t know what to say.

“May I see what you have?” he asked. It was the first time you heard his voice and you had to admit, it sounded quite good.

“What do you mean, what I have?”

“I am certain you have already prepared something” he said it with such a certainty that made you feel bad that you had, in fact, nothing.

“No?” he raised an eyebrow “Look, I literally heard what they want from me half an hour ago. Before, they only told me that they needed my as a designer and I had no idea what it was” he remained silent and you didn’t like that “All I have are a few notes. I’m sure you couldn’t have made drafts beforehand if they just called you to their office for making a new code without telling you what it was about first”

“That is not quite correct. I have asked to reprogram the test myself and therefore have arrived to the meeting sufficiently prepared” you rolled your eyes

“Well as I said, I only took a few notes during the simulation I watched”

“May I see those?” he held out his hand to you

“It’s just the basics, like what notes what it is about. Because I was told that you would tell me exactly what you need” he still didn’t move his hand, so you sighed “Fine, here you go” you pulled out your PADD and placed it on the table. Because you didn’t want to give it into his hand if he behaved like that. He had a look then pointed at the title.

“The simulation is called Kobayashi Maru, not Cobrayoshi Moru”

“Well excuse me for understanding it wrong” he didn’t reply and continued

“What do you mean by ‘good ship’?”

“The ship, this Kobayashi Maru that is in distress”

“Then please describe it accordingly

“As I said” you hissed “this are only first notes”

“Besides, I already have defined the amount of the Klingon warbirds to five, so your note that reads ‘ca. 4-5 enemy ships’ is inaccurate”

“I counted them on the screen of the simulation I watched. And apparently that wasn’t good or else you wouldn’t have reprogrammed it, right?”

“I have solely noticed inconsistencies in the coding. The animation itself was not much flawed”

“Okay” you took a deep breath “How about we sit together and you tell me exactly what you want, so that I can get working on it?”

“For now, I solely need one of the animated warbirds”

“But that’ll take hours to make. I could make a sketch in 5 minutes or so”

“I need a three-dimensional model of it”

“Well, I don’t have one right now. The only ship that I can offer you as a model of a cruise ship. Or no, maybe we also have one of a science fiction starship somewhere”

“I do not need a cruise ship or a random starship” he explained that he needed the actual ship that would be used in the simulation so that he could finetune the programmed movements with the animation.

“Good then give two hours and you’ll have a draft-model. I can still change it later on when you have calibrated it”

“Very well” he gave a nod and you sat down at the desk that had been prepared and started unpacking your stuff before you got working on some sketches. Suddenly, you noticed that someone was standing behind you and you turned around.

“Please don’t do that”

“What are you referring to?”

“Looking over my shoulder. It’s distracting. I can’t work like that” he raised an eyebrow but left you alone.

-

About half an hour later you were ready to present him your three drafts of the ships.

“I only requested one”

“Yes, but I made three versions. Drafts”

“I have not asked for drafts, especially multiple ones”

“Do you have any idea how design works? Obviously not or you’d have done the damn animation yourself” you muttered the last part “I always make drafts for a client after they told me what they need, which you didn’t even do, so sorry if I don’t get it quite right on the first try.”

“I have informed you that I need to have a model of a Klingon warbird”

“And here you have three drafts” you pointed at three models “Which one do you like best?”

“I do not like them” you had to bite back a sigh and a part of you just wanted to smack him right in the face.

“Good” you said, taking a deep breath and picking up your stylus “Then what would you like instead?”

“I would have preferred if you had invested all your time into one model instead of three”

“Look, I will put more work into one of them, just tell me which one is the best”

“They are all flawed” at least you now totally understood what this other man had meant with that he could get prissy.

“Well it are only drafts” you explained “Don’t Vulcans do drafts?”

“We do not prepare several different versions if only one is needed since it would be a waste of time”

“Good speaking of wasting time; just tell me which model you want me to edit and make it perfect”

“No matter how much work you will put in it, it will always stay an animated model and therefore will never be perfect”

“Which. Ship?!” you hissed gesturing at your PADD.

“This one” he pointed at the second draft “However….” You had to fight not to roll your eyes. Of course you knew there was a ‘but’ coming. You did your best to not become upset when he told you what mistakes you had made on your draft, while you made notes on the most important points. A part of you wondered how long you could take it before you just broke his nose, cut off his ears, ripped off his bangs or rammed your stylus in his eye. Or all together.

-

While you started to get working on the chosen model, Commander Spock took the draft to link it with his coding, while you tried to make the starship as authentic as possible which was not so easy without an accurate source or idea how it looked like except for the description you had gotten. When you left for the day, your client seemed to be a bit disappointed that you could not finish the model already. For that reason you decided to come an hour earlier the following day but to your dismay, the Vulcan was already there

“Did we not agree that you may start at 0830 hours?” you had been in the office for three seconds and already were pissed off by him again although you had tried not to be anymore.

“Yes but since I didn’t come as far as I wanted yesterday, I decided to come earlier today. The sooner I get the animation done the better” because it meant, among other, that you would be rid of him. Luckily, you didn’t need to talk to him that much today. But then he requested you to get a second model for the second ship. “Give me a second”

“I doubt you can create an accurate model in a second”

“Just watch and see” you tapped on the model you were already working on and duplicated it “there. Took me a little under two seconds”

“You cannot just duplicate the model”

“Oh but I can. I can also centuple it” you glared at him, tapped the model again, called up the settings and set the number of duplicates to 100 and when you returned, the whole screen was filled with ships “There. That should occupy you for a while”

“As I already said, there are only five ships that I need for the simulation. Besides, I cannot use these duplicates. If you wish to copy your models, you need to use a template”

“Well okay” you said “But that’ll take me a couple of minutes” he gave a nod “Why thank you, (Y/N)” you muttered to yourself “Thank you for your co-operation and withstanding my coldness”

-

Because he wanted all ships to be visually different, you decided to change minor details on them before you gave him the new model. Once you had prepared all ships, even the Kobayashi Maru, you needed to take care of the surroundings for which you designed the space, of course in the dimensions that Spock had told you. Then you set your models into it and adjusted their positions so that they more or less corresponded with the coordinates that Spock had programmed for them. When he had a look at the model he raised an eyebrow

“What now?” you asked, knowing that something did not please him at all.

“The positions of the Klingon warbirds one, three, four and five need to be adjusted slightly” At least he was now calling the ships by numbers and not the stupid model names he had given them in his code. It had taken you almost two days to get him do that and you had just written his model name onto the according ship in ugly red letters so that you knew which one he was talking about. “Move ship one 2.3 millimeters to the left and 1.8 millimeters down, ship two….”

“Woah wait… I never heard anyone saying decimals of millimeters. This model doesn’t even accept them. I can give you half millimeters but not point three or point eight. Besides, no one can actually know if the ship is perfectly aligned when they do the simulation. And if we align the weapons right they will still hit the ship if they enter the coordinates of the ship”

“I know but I wish that it is as accurate as possible. Speaking of accuracy” he explained that the surroundings were not accurate either because the constellations were wrong and did not look like this ad the place the simulation took place

“In other words you want me to fucking re-align every single star correctly?”

“It does not need to be completely accurate, yet I do ask you to adjust their positions so that it does have more similarities with the coordinates where the simulation occurs”

Well, in contrast to you I don’t have a fucking stellar map saved in my brain” he walked away and then handed you a PADD, explaining that it would turn into a 360° stellar map if you opened the correct program and entered the coordinates you wanted.

-

So you just spent the following three days on redoing the whole surroundings, this times even with micrometers as unit so that you could adjust the ships perfectly as he wanted. At times you found it easier to agree to what he wanted and have more work instead of discussing with him, which would result in you doing as he wanted anyway. You hadn’t even been able to make it clear to him that sometimes you need to be polite and say please and thank you, to which he replied that such formalities were illogical since they did not change anything about the request and that he would never say please in an order to subordinates.

Since it was a bigger project, it took up several weeks of collaboration with Spock and somehow the thing that bugged you most about working with him was the fact that you had to admit to yourself that, despite everything he did or said, your stupid, illogical heart had managed to develop romantic feelings for the Vulcan. You didn’t know if that just was because of his appearance or if it also was his almost dominating behavior that made you feel that way. One thing was for certain; the more you worked with Spock the stronger these feelings got. So, you were a little relieved when the semester started again and he wasn’t around all day but spent a great part of his time teaching classes. But at times that also brought problems because you had learnt that sometimes it was better to just ask him if he was okay with something sooner rather than later because if he wanted you to change many things about it you’d have more work later on. So you would just leave your office and go looking for him instead to show him what you had done. He had forwarded you his timetable so that you knew where to find him at which time. If you found the correct classroom, of course.

“Spock, I think I finally could make the final….”

“Can you give me three minutes?”

“Fine but then don’t complain that we’re three minutes behind in schedule” you muttered

“There is no such detailed schedule. I even do not have a fixed date on which we need to be finished but rather a time interval”

“So that means we don’t just have one more month but two in total?”

“Yes” you gave a nod

“Good then I’ll let you finish your stuff”

-

One thing you always loved about your work was to see it in action. In that case that was, when everything was finished so far that some test people could make the simulation to see how everything was working. It was mainly to test the simulation itself, to see if the coding worked but you had been asked to be there as well so that you could have an eye on the animation and make sure everything happened in life time and correctly. You were quite proud when you noticed that almost everything was working perfectly fine and that there only were a few details you had to change. As well as some details on the ships themselves because Spock still was not perfectly happy with them.

“And?” you asked after four goes at the simulation

“What do you wish to know?” Spock asked

“Well what you think of it”

“I have noticed that there are a few instances that you will need to go over” you crossed your arms

“What?” you couldn’t believe that this was his answer and to your dismay he started listing up some flaws.  “Stop” you growled, making him raise an eyebrow “I know that there are some imperfections but I’m sorry that I’m not as perfect as you”

“I never claimed that I was perfect. I am a being and all beings are flawed”

“Wow that I got you to admit that”

“To claim that I am perfect would be a lie and highly illogical”

“You and your stupid thinking in code”

“The assumption that I think in ‘code’ is not correct”

“But logical. You think logically, as a Vulcan. Coding is pure logic”

“I see, yet the conclusion is still incorrect” you sighed

“Wow, you’re never ever gonna compliment me or my work, huh?”

“It would be illogical to point out points that do not need modification anymore. Therefore I only tell what you will need to work on again”

“Well but I’m human and we sometimes need reassurance that what we did is good!”

“As you can derive from my statement, your work can be considered as good, when there is nothing that I ask you to change about it”

“You don’t get my point, do you?”

“I do but I do not think it is necessary to point…”

“Just one compliment about my work. I stood your behavior for weeks now”

“Four weeks, five days and 3.6 hours to be exact”

“See, even worse. You have to be so precise and perfectionistic every fucking time”

“However, if you had a problem with something you would have addressed it”

“No. Because humans don’t always do that. But I am complaining now”

“Very well. What do you wish me to change?”

“Well you could make just one simple compliment or something that you like about the way I work on this project” he raised an eyebrow and was silent “Or are you just as fed up with me as I’m with your behavior?”

“You work highly focused” you let out a huff

“Well at least something”

“Besides” he added a bit more quietly and after a pause “I find your hands and fingers to be pleasingly shaped and they move gracefully”

“Okay that was hella unexpected” and even a little creepy “Did you pay that much attention to my hands?”

“When you were showing me something, yes I was at certain times” you frowned. How could he still have noticed so many flaws in your work then if he had just stared onto your hands?

“That is a little weird, don’t you think?”

“No”

“No?”

“Hands hold a different value on Vulcan” he explained that their hands were extremely sensitive and often were something like a symbol of love in their culture.

“So if you told that another Vulcan… what would happen?”

“Usually, Vulcans will only compliment their bondmate’s physiology”

“Hm okay. Are bondmates something like a spouse?”

“Or what you call fiancés”

“But back to my question, what would happen?”

“I cannot say because some might react emotionally in such a situation”

“So you’re saying that you’re not acting emotionally? Like never?”

“We are sentient being so we all will act emotionally at times, whether we want it or not”

“Okay. But what do you want to do, now that you told me how much you like my hands?”

“I have never stated that I like them” you frowned

“That sounds like something is bothering you”

“It is of no consequence”

Come on, tell me. You already told me you like, no wait you… whatever, find my hands pleasing or how you’d want to formulate it. And now something is bothering you”

“I was wondering… whether you would let me touch you”

“And you ask that?” you just took his hand in yours and ran your fingers of the other hand over the back of it. His hands were softer than you had imagined but also colder. When you looked up at him, you saw a slight green blush on his cheeks and smiled “Suddenly so flustered, huh?”

“Touching hands is something rather intimate in Vulcan culture”

“Oh” you let go of him “I-I’m sorry. I didn’t know that” but maybe you could have thought about it, considering what he had told you about the meaning of hands on Vulcan.

“I did not tell you, therefore you could not know” he said “You do not need to reproach yourself” you gave a nod and were surprised when he continued “In fact, I have found it rather pleasing” you smiled. For some reason you just held out your hand to him again and he actually took it. Well not really, he more or less just traced his fore- and middle finger over your skin, making you shudder a little

“You’re right that feels nice” he raised an eyebrow and placed his other hand at your back and pulled you closer, then lifting your head and leant down until your lips were inches apart

“Do you mind?”

“Not at all” you breathed and then his lips were on yours. For some reason you could not really say what you were feeling and you wondered if it was right to do this, you were working with him after all, at least for now. Contrary to what you had imagined, he was a pretty good kisser and his fingers still were stroking yours and while you liked the feeling, you wondered if it felt even more sensual to him. When you felt him pull you closer, you thought that this probably was the case and felt yourself smiling into the kiss. You placed your free hand at the base of his neck and pressed your whole body against his. He didn’t seem to mind but some seconds later you parted, looking at each other

“Perhaps we should not have kissed”

“We should” you corrected and leant up to do it again and he responded immediately. This time, the kiss came to a more abrupt end when suddenly the door opened. You let go of each other and quickly stepped apart. While Spock turned to the visitor, one of the people that had tried out the simulation, you touched your lips which were still tingling from the kiss, making you smile

“I’m sorry, if I interrupted something or came at an inconvenient time I can just go and well… leave. We can discuss it later”

“I will be with you momentarily” Spock said and told him to go to a briefing room. You awkwardly played with the hem of your shirt, not sure what to say.

“Well, I should get working on my faulty animation then”

“It is not faulty, (Y/N)” was there a difference in how he said your name now? You had had a long time until you got him to call you (Y/N) instead of his formal for of addressing you with your surname and he had allowed you to just call him Spock in return.

“Was that just another compliment?”

“If you wish to take it as one” he replied and you gave a nod, wanting to return to your workstation, but he took hold of your wrist

“Huh?” you asked

“I do not know what humans will do after such occurrences but on Vulcan, the logical conclusion is that the two individuals will start a relationship”

“You’re asking me for a relationship?”

“If you approve of it”

“I…” you looked down but then found yourself nodding “Yes. I think so”

“Very well” you didn’t know if there was something like a tiny curl in his lip that may have been a little smile. This made you smile as well “I suppose that the discussion will take up the rest of my time at work. Would you be amendable to accompany me to dinner later?”

[saritaadam]

I was tagged by the amazing @plays-with-shadows (and im doing this soooo late!)

nickname: Saritaa is kinda my nickname, but just used by really few people

hogwarts house: hufflepuff

zodiac: libra

last thing I googled: the publishing date of the first harry potter book

song stuck in my head: Menswear by the 1975

number of followers: A little less than 300

amount of sleep: I must be at 3 or 4 hours of sleep for the last month, because I need to go to work at 4 a.m. but I can't fall asleep before midnight

lucky number: 22

dream job: I'm trying to go back to school so I can be ecobiologist and, hopefully, finally having a job who keep me busy mentally as well as physically, and let me have enough time for my hobbies

wearing: a bright red crop top and a denim jean

favorite song: I've been going out of my way to listen to @marlinspirkhall The Ballad of Sulkar The Slut as much as possible for the past months, so I'm gonna say this one

favorite instrument: guitar because I'm a basic bitch

aesthetic: cozy sit, hot tea and old book

favorite animal noise: Just bird noises in general. Like most of them are prey, so they should be quiet and not attract unwanted attention, but no they are talking all the time just because they can and I love it!!!!

random fact: I'm, once again, trying to learn spanich and japanesse, and I'm also learning klingon but this one just for fun because I wanted to see what it looks like, and I'm not seriously trying to be fluent in it

tagging: @princessparadoxical @thebestdisappointment @realbrofu @pambwitch @lejoursobre

[haveuseenmylife]

@bick-mac tagged me, tysm <3  

1. NAME: charlie

2. NICKNAME(s): charlie chaplin, prince charles

3. ZODIAC: pisces

4. HEIGHT: ~5'11

5. LANGUAGES: german, english, bit of elvish and klingon

6. NATIONALITY: austrian

7. FAVORITE SEASON: winter

8. FAVORITE FLOWER: don’t really have one, forget-me-not??

9. FAVORITE ANIMAL: sloths?? dogs?? dunno

10. FAVORITE SCENT: petrichor

11. FAVORITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER: bruh idk jo taylor, alyssa greene, nicole haught, moritz stiefel?? and a lot more

12. COFFEE TEA OR HOT CHOCOLATE: coffee. sometimes tea

13. AVERAGE SLEEP: 4 hours

14. FAVORITE COLOR: a really dark shade of blue that almost looks like it’s black

15. DOGS OR CATS: dogs (even though i have a cat lol)

16. NUMBER OF BLANKETS: 1-3, depends

17. DREAM TRIP: iceland, norway, sweden, finland, canada ig

18. BLOG ESTABLISHED: 2019?? dunno

19. RANDOM FACT: i’m in a vc right now, listening to the jlp obcr with a pal

20. GENDER: non-binary

21. SEXUALITY: queer

22. HARRY POTTER MORAL COMPASS: ravenclaw (slytherin tendencies tho)

23. WHERE ARE YOU FROM: austria

24. WHY DID YOU START THIS BLOG: @bick-mac told me to

25. MOST RECENT ALBUM PLAYED: Jagged Little Pill - Original Broadway Cast Recording 

tagging: @thoughtsandmusicals @caliform-i-a @ilovebarrettwilbertweed @t00-gay-to-function

[goryfluff]

I was tagged by @rayytoro , thank you so much! <3 name: -->

nickname: isa

zodiac sign: leo (i know, i’m sorry)

height: 1.69m, that’s like 5′5?

languages: german, english and I used to be pretty good at japanese but I haven’t spoken any in about 5 years :/

nationality: german

favorite season: autumn...it gets cold and rainy and there’s this tiny forest close by where all the trees‘ leaves turn exclusively bright yellow, and that’s so sick

favorite flower: all sorts of wildflowers

favorite scent: burnt out candles, cinnamon & apple tea, honey, mango

favorite color: red, but i love color combinations!! esp loud combinations with purple are great. neon yellow/orange/bright green + purple...i love those!

favorite animals: otters, bears, snakes

favorite fictional character: never really had one only, but since i’m re-reading it rn, i’d say that marko and alana from saga are easily two of my favorites!

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea! tea!! i am sitting here with three cups of tea, i want to try all the flavors of tea known and not yet discovered

average hours of sleep: around 4

dog or cat: you can’t make me pick one

number of blankets you sleep with: one...but it’s a winter blanket all year

dream trip: iceland! i’m desperate to learn icelandic and i absolutely want to travel there!

blog established: july 2013

followers: ah i actually kinda like that tumblr generally doesn’t show this, so i’ll keep that one a mystery

random fact: uh, i really love languages but am stupidly impatient to try something new, so i rarely ever learn to actually speak one, and at university i did take lessons for swedish, finnish, italian, french, russian and studied klingon and sindarin for a while :/ if you haven’t done this one already, I tag @urmeline and @theoneandonlycowboy also everyone who wants to do this just go ahead, really!

[daily-klingon]

New Mathematical Terms

The following new terms can now be added to the corpus of Klingon mathematical terminology.

botlh median [of a group of numbers] (n)

Dop be negative (literally be opposite) [wej Dop minus three or negative three; compare 'u' Dop mirror universe] (v)

ghIl be the mean, be the average [arithmetic mean] (v)

ghIqtu' mathematical or chemical formula [representation in symbols] (n)

Haw be random, arbitrary, unpredictable, fortuitous [For random numbers, as when throwing dice, use the verb 'al float (v) instead of Haw. mI' 'al (a) random number; 'al mI' the number is random. Du'Hom mI' random number (literally garden number) is slang] (v)

Hut'on byte [This is a computer term.] (n)

loch be a fraction of, make up a portion of, constitute part of [wej loch cha' 2/3; vagh loch wej 3/5; loS loch jav 6/4. In theory, if appropriate in a mathematical discussion, one could say wa' loch wej three one-ths. (Though perhaps a little grammatically aberrant, this would not be {wa' luloch wej})] (v)

nger theory [in the scientific sense] (n)

Saghan billion [1,000 times one million] (num)

San'on bit [This is a computer term.] (n)

wItte' mathematical equation (n)

'ob be curved, arced (v)

[brooklynislandgirl]

Answer 21 Questions & Tag 21 People you’d like to get to know better.

01.    NICKNAME  : D, Turtle, Taen, 

02.    REAL  NAME  :  D--- nuh-uh ;)

03.    ZODIAC  :  Pisces sun and Pisces moon and a Pisces ascendant. I think you can see why I don’t actually consider myself a real person and more just a very vocal figment of your imagination.

04.    HEIGHT  : 5’ 8”

05.    WHAT  TIME  IS  IT  ?   10:22am

06.    FAVOURITE  MUSICIANS  /  GROUPS  :  Not enough room to do this justice, really, but: Pearl Jam, 80s hair rock, 60s/70s rock, grunge, Matchbox 20, Smashmouth, Imagine Dragons, Daughtry, George Strait, Garth Brooks, The Jolly Rogers, The Musical Blades, Johnny Hollow...

07.    FAVOURITE  SPORTS  TEAM  :  Hook ‘Em Horns {University of Texas Longhorns}, Notre Dame Fightin’ Irish, the Baltimore Ravens, the San Francisco 49ers, {{the Ionath Krakens/OS1 Orbiting Death <--- serious points and all my love if you get these two teams}}

08.   OTHER BLOGS : Riley, Quothe, Mad Sweeney

09.    DO  I  GET  ASKS  ?  :  by a few of my die-hard loves, although I could always get more.

10.    HOW  MANY  BLOGS  DO  I  FOLLOW  ?  : Quite a few ;).

11.   ANY  TUMBLR  CRUSHES  : Yup.  

12.    LUCKY  NUMBER  :  3/13/19

13.    WHAT  AM  I  WEARING  RIGHT  NOW  :  Ice blue coloured tank top, blue tie-dye maxi skirt, knee high socks, and my thick grey fuzzy paisley patterned robe because it’s cold. Also, glasses.

14.    DREAM  VACATION  :  a tall ship and a star to sail her by, a cruise down the Donau river.

15.    DREAM  CAR  :  Basically, Sally. {black/chrome 65 Mustang, only I would want mine to be convertible.}

16.    FAVOURITE  FOOD  :   The Pastrami Sub from Dion’s Pizza, Fettuccine Alfredo 

17.    DRINK  OF  CHOICE  :  Coffee.  and Irish breakfast tea. Diet Mt. Dew

18.    LANGUAGES  :  Please narrow this down, I read in a LOT of languages. Also: Klingon, Sindarin Elvish. Don’t Judge.

19.    INSTRUMENTS  : I used to play electric bass guitar

20.    CELEBRITY  CRUSHES  :  Sean Bean, and really, have you NOT seen my dash?

21.    RANDOM  FACT  :   Angel sharks can ambush their prey in one-tenth of one second.

Tagged by: @whosxafraid, @untamedgoodoleboys

Tagging: Everyone!

[firejugglinghobo]

*  ANSWER  TWENTY - ONE  QUESTIONS  !

tag  twenty - one  people  you’d  like  to  know  better.

some questions may be ‘ ??? ‘ instead of answered.

01.    NICKNAME  :  Feu

02.    REAL  NAME  :  ~wouldn’t you like to know?~

03.    ZODIAC  :  Scorpio

04.    HEIGHT  : 5'5″ish

05.    WHAT  TIME  IS  IT  ?  : 5:16pm

06.    FAVOURITE  MUSICIANS  /  GROUPS  : Switchfoot, Harry Gregson-Williams, Sleeping At Last, John Mark McMillan, Porter, Citizens, 2CELLOS, Blanks, Colony House, Fall Out Boy, The Gray Havens, Rupert Gregson-Williams, Thomas Newman, Michael Giacchino, just to name a few!

07.    FAVOURITE  SPORTS  TEAM  : never heard of them

08.   OTHER BLOGS : @mercury-and-mars is my main blog

09.    DO  I  GET  ASKS  ?  : not a ton

10.    HOW  MANY  BLOGS  DO  I  FOLLOW  ?  : 157

11.   ANY  TUMBLR  CRUSHES  : i mean obiwannaomi bc we’re irl bffs but she doesn’t know i have this blog nobody tell!

12.    LUCKY  NUMBER  :  5

13.    WHAT  AM  I  WEARING  RIGHT  NOW  :  blue sweater, grey checked leggings, favorite socks with massive holes in the heels

14.    DREAM  VACATION  :  Tahiti

15.    DREAM  CAR  :  a sky blue Beatle convertible

16.    FAVOURITE  FOOD  :  the concepts of sushi, tacos, and extremely fresh fruit

17.    DRINK  OF  CHOICE  :  water, honestly.  but if we’re talking alcoholic, either a pineapple mimosa or a mojito

18.    LANGUAGES  :  in order from fluent to i can say three sentences: English, French, Bislama, Spanish, Koine Greek, Latin, Arabic, Klingon

19.    INSTRUMENTS  : cello and piano

20.    CELEBRITY  CRUSHES  :  Zachary Quinto, Paul McGann, Paul Bettany, Brett Dalton, Tom Hiddleston, Lee Pace, Hugh Jackman, Karl Urban, depending on the day

21.    RANDOM  FACT  : i love watching low pressure cooking and baking competitions.

TAGGED BY: @amarexestxanimas

TAGGING: steal it from me!

[enygma0710]

20 Questions Tag

RULES: Answer 20 questions, then tag 20 bloggers you want to get to know better.

Tagged by @adecila

1. Name: just call me Nick...

2. Nickname: Many, Nick, Niki, Nicodemus, Batgirl, that bish right there...lol

3. Zodiac sign: Cancer baby!!

4. Height: 5′7″

5. Languages: English and a little Spanish. Does Klingon count? LOL

6. Nationality: Afro Americana

7. Favourite season: summer

8. Favourite flower: I don’t have one, I’ve never really received flowers before

9. Favourite scent: sandalwood

10. Favourite colour: blue

11. Favourite animal: Honey Badger and Owl’s 

12. Favourite fictional character: I have too many but number one is Batman

13. Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: Tea.Earl Grey.Hot

14. Average sleep hours: 5 to 6, I have bad insomnia

15. Dog or cat person: I like Turtles lol

16. How many blankets you sleep with: one, but I burrow underneath it

17. Dream trip: Japan

18. Blog established: 2010 I think? started as a Doctor Who blog

19. Followers: 200 something? The randomness of my blog keeps me under the radar

20. Random fact: Years ago I was in a lifeguard training video. I think it’s still out there on the internet. I was like a unicorn at the time, black woman lifeguard....What?!?! LOL

I’m late on this, but I see everyone has been tagged, if you see this and wanna particpate just call think of this as me tagging you. 

[salmonthestoryteller]

21 Questions

Tagged By: @mr-dr-riverstein

Rules: Simply answer the following 21 questions and tag 21 people (or more!) you’d like to get to know more!

Name / Nickname: Salmon

Sign: Aries

Height: 5’4"

Hogwarts House: I’m not in the fandom, but have been told Hufflepuff before.  I finally took a quiz and still got told Hufflepuff.  So that’s apparently confirmed.

Last thing I Googled: Song Lyrics

Favorite musician/s: I don't really have an answer for this.  I like individual songs and certain genres (country is my biggest one). The last time I was really into a band was probably Arashi, which is a Japanese boy band, but I haven't actually listened to their latest music either?

Last song I listened to: Here for the Party by Gretchen Wilson

Song stuck in my head: Same

Followers: 164

Following: 200

Do you get asks: I have gotten some recently and they make me super happy!

Amount of Sleep: Yah, usually like 4 hours til I crash for about… 10? Occasionally 12? Yah, I know, not healthy.

Lucky Number: 9!

Dream job:  How about Parapsychologist?

What I’m Wearing: Blue tiger-striped loungewear

Dream Trip: Austria, because my grandfather was born there. Alternatively, any ghost tour anywhere.

Favorite Food: I'm a steak and potatoes girl.

Instruments: Percussion.  Years ago.  I probably couldn't do a paradiddle now.

Languages: English and Bad English? A handful of phrases in Chinese and Spanish.  Same in Japanese and French, to a lesser degree.  And a few words of German and Klingon.

Favorite Song/s: 19 Somethin' by  Mark Wills. Cowgirls Don't Cry by Brooks and Dunn. Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benitar. Always a Woman by Billy Joel.

Random Fact: I horde legends, folktales, myths, and ghost stories and love learning new ones. 

Aesthetic: I once told a friend that ownership of my person involved a house in a place with all four seasons and a lifetime supply of malt balls. I also used to say my goal was to be the old lady with the giant old house on the hill everyone in town thinks is a witch.  But at this point, I think I would like said house as far from other people as possible. In the woods works. I totally get why Granny lives in the woods.  Granny gets it.

Tagging: Anyone who hasn’t done this recently.

[heavensong]

Rules: Answer 21 Questions and then tag 21 people you want to know better Tagged by @chatnchew sort of but not really!

Nickname: Uhhh well my name is only 4 letters so I usually don’t get it shortened. Sometimes Kernal? I get called Karen and Carol by customers a lot tho lmfao that should count

Zodiac: Pisces

Height: 5′8″

Last Movie Saw: Secret of Kells!

Last Thing Googled: swagbucks lmao i need money

Favorite Musicians: Flogging Molly, Blink 182, Elvis, The White Stripes, Caravan Palace, +34985734 more lol

Song stuck in my head: Party Rock lmfao I probably heard a sound bite on fb or something and it’s just been on loop without me noticing until just now

Other blog: I have several rp accounts that I barely use but right now @captainboomrang is my personal fav haha go interact! <3

Do I get asks: Like, once in a while? Mostly to clarify about posts I’ve reblogged or if I’m open for commissions, but that’s pretty rare.

Blog following: 3,698 someHOw?! Some of these....are probably bots or abandoned accounts....but bless u all....

Amount of sleep: it’s my day off but I still woke up early so I think I got like 6.5 hours? Decent.

Lucky number: 10! I also really like 3.

What I am wearing: Wine red tank and black shorts

Dream job: Character designer and story lead for an animated series/movie of my own!

Dream trip: Australia! I would also love to go back to Paris someday ahhhh OR omg just kayaking and picnicking somewhere here in FL with friends! I love achievable goals haha

Favorite food: Chocolate! Tomato sandwiches lately are my JAM and I will always always want eggplant parmesan or golden curry.

Play any instruments: Piano since I was 5 but I stopped lessons maybe 6-7 years ago because I moved out QwQ Also I played xylophone and drums in marching band?

Languages: English, a widdle german, a widdle spanish, currently learning klingon and polish on duolingo haha VEEEERY slowly

Favorite songs: “Reckless Abandon” - Blink 182, “Two Birds” - Regina Spektor, “Wonderland” - Caravan Palace, “Hopeless Wanderer” - Mumford & Sons, “Spaceman” - The Killers, “Still Breathing” - Greenday, “Hills of Connemara” - Gaelic Storm, etc etc

Random facts: I’m a cyborg and my pancreas is on the outside! Also I have a cat named Burger and she’s amazing.

Favorite movies: Les Miserables (2012), The Mummy (1999), Tarzan (Disney), there’s so many more but omg have 3 off the top of my head

tagging:  @tsukikoneko @decepticonfetti and @danvssomethingorother if y’all wanna fill this out!

[iliveonmylaptop]

Twas tagged by @cruisingheightswithdragons​ tanks bean

1: Nicknames- Laptop, or GymJedi on most gaming things

2: Zodiac Sign- Aries

3: Height- lololol 5′7

4: Hogwarts House- Ravenclaw!

5: Last thing I googled- Centurylink Speed Test because my internet is the worst

6: Favorite musicians- It changes depending on my mood but I’m a fan of the 80′s in general

7: Song stuck in your head- Ready Now by dodie

8: Following- 259 

9: Followers- 95

10: Do I get asks?- uh no

11: Amount of sleep- 6-8 usually

12: Lucky number- 77

13: What am I wearing- star wars t shirt and black leggings because no one else is gonna see me today

14: Dream Job- Author, voice actor, artist?

15: Dream Trip: Let me go to Iceland dammit

17: Instruments- HAHAHA I’m a band kid. Voice, piano, trumpet, tuba, sousaphone, flute, pennywhistle, baritone, percussion, trombone 

18: Languages- English and German from my family, conversation ASL and Spanish, a smattering of French and I’m determined to learn Klingon

19: Favorite song- I’m an indecisive bastard

20: Random Fact- When I was 10, I ran the kid version of the IronMan triathlon, placed 3rd in my state, went to nationals in Florida and placed 7th worldwide for my age group.

21: Aesthetic- Hopepunk

I tag uhhh @liveandletrain and @sailing-winterfrost and UHHH @cinna-lery and @gwalleyv there

[ursulaismymiddlename]

21 Questions!

I was tagged by @ceridwenofwales to answer some Get to Know You Questions!  Thanks!

Nickname: It’s hard to pick just one... Fungus, when I was in high school

Height: 5′4"

Last movie I saw: In theaters: Venom, at home: A Goofy Movie

Last thing I googled: an incident location for work

Favorite musician: I love too many to pick a fave

Song stuck in my head: Love Lies by Khalid and Normani 

Other blogs: 4-5, there’s my Omega blog, my merman-seb blog, and a couple secret ones hahaha

Do I get asks: occasionally

Following: 1327

Amount of sleep: nowhere near enough

Lucky number: nada

What I’m Wearing: t-shirt and sweats

Dream Job: accomplished, but reclusive writer

Dream Trip: Everywhere

Favorite Food: Sushi and American breakfast

Play Any Instruments: Nope nope nope

Languages: Colloquial English and a smattering of German and Klingon

Random Fact: I don’t have a sense of smell

Describe yourself as aesthetic things:  Bog Witch, Kitchen Witch, Mom Friend, Monsterfucker

[demerite]

Tagged!

Thanks for the tag @tribbleclefs ! 

Rules: Answer 22 questions, tag 22 people you would like to know better.

Nickname/s: Funny story though; Demi isn’t actually my name! It’s just a nickname I ended up with on here! 

Zodiac sign: Aquarius! (The Water Carrier; Inventor, Reformer, Rebel). 

Height: 164cm (short enough to wear heels and not tower over everyone). 

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw, apparently. 

Last thing I googled: ‘what channel is gogglebox on’ because I’m the idiot who can’t remember. 

Favourite musician/s: Dodie! (Well, today at least). 

Last movie I saw: Infinity War (with my stepsister so we could quote memes through the pain). 

Song stuck in my head: Dream A Little Dream Of Me (because it’s the title of a soulmate AU I’m working on). 

Following now: Idk like 500ish I think? 

Followers: Not as many as people seem to think. 

Do I get asks: Not as often as I’d like! 

Amount of sleep: Not enough (generally around 5-6 hours). 

Lucky number: 6!

What I’m wearing: Blue jeans and a green and white flannel (full disaster lesbian mode). 

Dream job: I’m assuming Starfleet Captain doesn’t count, so teacher. 

Dream trip: I wanna go back to Vietnam tbh. 

Favourite food: today its sushi, but yesterday it was pizza sooo....

Instruments: Recorder, viola, flute (and alto flute and bass flute), guitar, ukulele, piano/keyboard, voice. 

Languages: English and German to a functional level, passable in Italian and Vietnamese, and I can swear in all of those plus French, Spanish, Russian, Klingon, Elvish, Latin, Vulcan, ASL, and AUSLAN. 

Favourite song/s: Today’s is A Million Dreams, from The Greatest Showman, but specifically the cover that P!NK did with her daughter. 

Random fact: No-one on my university campus has seen my natural hair texture in the entire 4 and a half years I’ve been studying there. 

Aesthetic: Space gay. 

Tagging: Okay there’s no way I can think of 22 people so if you see this, even if we’ve literally never interacted, PLEASE consider yourself tagged! (Also tagging @aishahiwatari because I’m mean). 

[art-of-a-diffrent-color]

21 Questions Meme Game

Having FINALLY got all the papers written that needed to be done I can now get around to doing this. I was tagged weeks ago on my main (shout out to @actuallyfeanor​, thanks for the tag <3). I’ve never done one of these before but it looks like fun so here I go!

Nickname: Louie (short for Louise but literally no one calls me that, and please, don’t start. I like my name, but it makes me feel like a grandma sometimes)

Zodiac: Leo (and because it is so close to the Chinese new year I want to put in my chinese zodiac sign too), Ox.

Last movie I saw: The 1999 version of The Mummy ans I quoted along to the whole thing. If there are any ancient curses like the ones from the movie lingering at the dig site i study at, we haven’t found them yet, but someone would totally be like Evie and read aloud from the book that has warning on he cover.

Last thing I googled: Inches to Cm. Because, yah, I’m and American and we don’t put as much emphasis on the metric system until it is almost too late to learn the darn thing. (I will fail as an archaeologist if I don’t learn it though so...)

Favorite Musician: AC/DC and John Williams because Back in Black gives me life and Hedwiges Theme is childhood joy. (I do love Disney music, but you spend a year working as a Princess at birthday parties and that love definitely gets put to the test)

Other Blogs: my main/any random thing that is not Lord of the Rings (most of the time) is @knitordeath​. My other blog is a secret ; )

Do I get asks: No, but I would love to! Writing prompts, art requests, random thoughts, anything would be cool and would bring me so much joy!

Following: 95, mostly LOTR and art blogs, but there are a few others in the mix that never fail to spice things up.

Followers: 24 on my main, 30 on this one and 3 on my other one. And I love and cherish each and every one. Seriously, y’all are great and I can’t believe that I have been blessed with your presence.

Amount of Sleep: Ha, right, sleep. My job has two locations and if I am at the first one I get around 6-8 hours a night. The other place is open till midnight and if I work there I get 3-5 hours (But I do get free Pizza which is nice).

Lucky Number: I...don’t have one. But if I had to pick I would say 4.

What I am Wearing: Jeans, Green Black and White paisley shirt, non slip work shoes, glasses, and my Soldier 76 leather jacket. My hair is in a stupidly short ponytail.

Dream Job : ARCHAEOLOGIST! (Specifically a medievalist and/or a teacher. I am on my way to achieving this dream and it both inspires and terrifies me in equal measure)

Dream Trip: Road trip where I go camping in every single National Park America has to offer, where I sleep in the canvas tee-pee that my family used to do Rendezvous reenacting in. No electronics, totally primitive. Hikes every day, the occasional spelunking adventure, and just getting away from the cities.

Favorite Food: Apples. No question about it.

Play any Instruments: Piano (sort of), I used to play trumpet, the didgeridoo (that one is a bit of a long story), guitar (again, sort of). I sing more then anything else (I’m good too!) and up until 7 months ago I was totally self taught. A shout out to my voice coach Mindy  who has been working on breaking the bad habits I have developed over the last 17 years!

Languages: English - first language. Spanish, I sound like a four year old that can only talk about things in the present tense but I can hold a conversation. Learning Irish, which is fun because the phonology is nothing like English.( I can sing all of Cailín na Gaillimhe, and I know what I am saying so that’s fun!)

Favorite Songs: Prophets Song by Queen (which totally got eclipsed by Bohemian Rhapsody, but that song is amazing so...). Danzon No. 2 as  conducted by Arturo Marquez.

Random Fact: I once rejected a guy in Klingon.

Describe Yourself as Aesthetic Things: The smell of black powder, old paper books and a hot cup of tea, paint and graphite smeared on hands, the energy of an orchestra getting into tune, Cowboy hats and oil cloth jackets and mud caked boots, the smell of burning peat, a perpetual motion machine, the stillness of the woods in the morning.

I tag @therealdealanswers, @irresponsible-black-unicorn, @personification-of-anxiety, and anyone who wants to do this! (This is totally optional if you don’t want to do this, so no pressure!)