#sonsofmahal

[lotrmusical]

I just came here to say that after following you for a full year and seeing how much you love to the LOTR musical … I just bought tickets to go to Chicago to see it!! I’m SO EXCITED 🥹

BEST NEWS EVER i hope you have a magical time!!!

[mercurygray]

hi Merc! I’m curious if you know anything about the canvas/duffel bags we see the boys carrying when they’re heading to the planes for missions in MOTA? what kind of stuff might they have inside them? no worries if you don’t know/it’s not your lane, but you seem like the kind of person who might have background knowledge like that :)

It just so happens I *do* know what it is! A freind of mine is an 8th Air Force reenactor and we were talking about these bags recently at an event. It is an AN 6505-1 AVIATOR KIT BAG.

The bag was meant to carry your parachute, but could also be used to stash your jacket once you landed the plane safely. You can read more at The Rigger Depot, a movie and reenactor supplier. (My friend uses his to bring his WWII gear to events. They're really roomy.)

Several places online sell repros of this bag - Eastman Leather, and At The Front are two, but there are also a number of originals on ebay as well.

[athenasdragon]

I've seen a fair amount of theater with @sonsofmahal and truly some of my most treasured memories of our long friendship have been walking out of an absolutely atrocious show we were both excited to see and going. Well. What did YOU think.

[numberoneheroallmight]

hi hi hi! I hope all is as well as can be with you in these strange times! <3 I have a very specific question – I'm in the middle of my yearly re-obsession with Hornblower, and I'm looking for a gifset that I know I've seen around of all the times Archie makes Shakespeare references in the series, but I can't find it anywhere. Since you are the resident Archie stan on my dash, I was wondering if you happen to have a link to it?

i know exactly the one you mean! just reblogged it for ya! there can never be enough shakespeare nerd archie content 💖

[windsweptlassie]

🍇🍇🍇 (:

Grapes 🍇: I wish we were better friends!me too actually! im just so bad at reaching out!

(send me a fruit)

[oatflatwhite]

just wanted to say I love your blog and also all of your writing!! have been eating up your fic for various fandoms for the last few months, v excited for the indianapolis sequel when it's ready :)

aw thank you so so much!! also sorry for just following u now i swear i already was but i guess i wasn't ;_;

anyway this is TOO kind and hopefully u enjoy the indianapolis sequel!! it's about 14k and maybe two thirds of the way done?? i'm hoping to get it finished by the end of the month but we'll see lmao!

[athenasdragon]

@sonsofmahal has been my beta and cheerleader since I first wrote Star Trek fic in high school and I owe a lot of my stories to her! ❤️❤️

And @laurelsofhighever has given so much positive feedback on Reunion that inspired me to keep writing, that story is complete because of your encouragement!

If you see this, message a reader and tell them what story they helped you write

As a cheerleader, as a beta, or as a sounding board - they’re the person you did it for. Share the love and let them know!

[foxnonny]

Hello hello! I hope it's not weird to be sending you this message out of the blue, but I'm best friends with athenasdragon and she recently recommended I read Heart Says Go, which led to me binging the whole thing in a day (instead of doing my stage management paperwork ahhhh it was a bad rehearsal but it was so worth it). Anyways the point of this just to say how much I absolutely loved the fic, I still think about my favorite parts of it all the time and I love your Marion + Garrett (1/2)

and how you incorporate all the other characters + various Canadian-isms + your crazy experiences in film (which has made me really interesting in potentially moving to Van & working in the industry after I graduate, but anyways that's a different story). Basically everything about your fic is amazing and I just wanted to hopefully send you a bit of encouragement and say how much I adore your writing! Sorry if this message was A Lot™, I'm just very excited and I love your fic okie byeeeeee (2/2)

Oh gosh I’m so sorry it took me so long to reply to this, thank you thank you thank you so much!! Athenasdragon is such an amazing and lovely human and has been wildly encouraging and sweet about HSG so any friend of hers is a wonderful being in my eyes

[bbcphile]

Oops sorry this is a lot but 2, 4 , 5, 11, 20, 24, 28, 34, and 40 for the dig deeper asks?

I’m honored you want to know so much about me!

2: Would you prefer to live in the country or the city?

City. Definitely city. I’ve been living in a more rural area for the last three years, and I’m thrilled that I’m moving to my favorite city in the US in the morning!

4: Do you drink your tea or coffee with sugar?

Coffee, yes. Tea, only if it’s black. And, since I don’t drink black tea anymore–I’m a rooibos or ginger tea person–the answer is usually no.

5:  What was your favourite book as a child?

It depends on the age. As a baby, I LOVED Pat the Bunny. As a kid, I loved the first book in the Dark is Riding series, Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, A String in the Harp by Nancy Bond, Redwall by Brian Jacques, the Ramona books by Berverly Cleary, and Matilda by Roald Dahl. There are probably more, but those were some of my favorites. 

11: Who is a mentor to you?

I have some good mentors for my former career and a few in the career I’m about to join. In terms of mentors for life itself, I’m still working on it.

20: What can you see outside your bedroom window? 

A pretty stone wall and our neighbor’s/landlord’s house. Sometimes I can see two groundhogs!

24: Do you keep a diary or journal?

Nope! I’ve never been able to keep that up, sadly.

28: What would you want your legacy to be?

Hmm. I guess to be a good friend and mentor and to have written some good stories that make people’s lives better?

34: Do you address older people by their first or last name?

Usually first name.

40: If you had to have a tattoo, what would it be and where would you get it?

Either a compass or a musical note, and probably on the top of my foot.

[culpers]

I just want to say god bless you for posting all these photos and making all these gifs, you are basically carrying the Turn fandom through this trying time and I thank you for it

this is just about the sweetest message ever?! ❤️😭  you’re so very welcome, but really, it’s you guys carrying me through all of this because losing this show is going to be so hard.

[birdthatlookslikeastick]

update: the pun that I just messaged you was literally reblogged from you omg so sorry

That’s OK! Pun re-sharing is the second-highest form of flattery.

[athenasdragon]

THIS WAS EXACTLY MY EXPERIENCE. @sonsofmahal and I spent the first few episodes like “wait, is something supernatural afoot? Ah wait no it was just X. AH SHIT WAIT”

Everyone who's ever mentioned The Terror to me told me "Oh, it's a dramatization of the lost Franklin expedition" so when a CGI monster started killing everyone I was just as surprised as the people on the ships

[mercurygray]

dear Merc - I am desperately searching for a lil thing you wrote which was a Pacific WW1 AU with you Eugene Sledge after the war ended - but bc tumblr has a garbage search system these days, I cannot find it. might you know what I’m talking about/be able to point me in the right direction?

I absolutely do! You are looking for this.

“Well, well, well.” There was young woman crossing the lawn, looking him over with a slightly predatory crook to her smile, resplendent in steel gray silk that clicked a little with beadwork every time she moved, skirts fashionably cut off just below the knee to display beautiful party shoes. “Look at what I found. Seems I can’t go anywhere without Sid Phillips telling everyone who will listen the wildest stories about Eugene the Sledgehammer and Belleau Wood.”

(Slightly less likely because you mentioned Sledge, but you could be looking for this.)

The World War One AU tag (which is a thing I have, yes, next) is below for your convenience!

[athenasdragon]

@sonsofmahal : hey why is everyone posting about vanilla extract

Me, who logs onto tumblr every day like it’s my job: yeah hang on I’ll send you the post

[numberoneheroallmight]

gahh you all are too fricking sweet!! thank you so much :')

[never-a-clever-username]

Tomorrow I move back into school and @sonsofmahal and I are sharing an apartment and I'm so fuckin excited.