#the white haired character is an oc as the interviewer lmao

[svampira]

For Brooklyn and Elias, n.35, what inspired you to create them?

(Asking bc their designs are literally so cool. I would love some insight on that cause I am OBSESSED)

ask game (🥺)

Hiii ty for the question

This is interesting because out of all my ocs they're the ones where I'm less sure about where my inspo came from🤔 especially when it comes to Elias he very much developed as my art improved 👇 here's his earliest design (tw old art...)

By drawing him over and over and using blueish tints over my art all the time he got pinker and pinker and he ended up getting a design that's a little more sleek and cohesive. My main inspos for him were the vtmb toreador fledgling (because he used to be my toreador pc until i decided i liked him being a fledgling too much and changed it so he's the childe of the og toreador fledgling) and with time i ended up getting more and more inspired by other media, for example mahito from jjk, someone's nsfw oc that will go unnamed lmfao, and i started referencing irl people when drawing him to get a feel for proportions and to make his design more consistent. My main inspo is fernando lindez (though they rarely end up looking very alike) and what I try to replicate in Elias are his eye shape and his general facial proportions, i like how all of his features are close together in a way that feels kind of feminine and pretty.

When it comes to Brooklyn instead my inspos are more clear though her design kind of came naturally with me just messing around while practising how to paint darker skin tones. She is also a vtmb fledgling redesign (this time the malkavian one) and one of their clan stereotypes is that they usually get heterochromia. I didn't like the idea of just giving her different eye colors (though that's what ended up happening LMAO) and i looked into like. Pretty pictures of eye trauma😭 examples down here nothing graphic imo

This is not exactly what i had in mind at the time but it's similar so. Just kind of randomly evolved into her whole eye being white as i messed up painting. When it comes to her general design I wanted an excuse to draw lots of fun hairstyles without going against vtm canon (vampires are stuck w the same appearance forever) and whenever I design characters i like to steer kind of minimalistic, so i often end up with making the eyes and hair the same colours because I dont want them to get too busy or overwhelming. I can't even point out specific inspos for her because it's just a very common trope (tempest, yue from atla, 5000 different ocs) but when it comes to irl influences i was inspired by Anok Yai because I'd seen her in an interview and fell in love with her + a lot of other dark skin black super models. That's the main thing with brooklyn she has to give supermodel and very put together which kind of contrasts with her personality being. Completely unhinged. Anyways I don't really reference her much anymore because Brooke's features just kind of fit very nicely with my same face syndrome but here's Anok Yai for fun ^^

[residentquirksupport]

A More Organized Actor AU post-

(From Left to Right)

All For One/??? Shigaraki - Takahiro Miyazaki

- Has been in the industry for a WHILE. His parents have been in showbiz (mother an idol, father a director) and he met his wife through a film when they were both child actors. Unfortunately, she died a little while after Michiko turned 3.

- Doing quite well for himself as a single father and as an actor. He wasn't gonna force his children into the industry but is overjoyed at being able to act alongside them (even if he IS the villain).

- 11/10 very good dad! Love love LOVES his children to bits and is always cheering them on in the background.

- Takahiro is the same actor for AFO as the one in BnHA, so he and Toshinori go back! He may have been Toshi's wingman with Sato's actor!

- Has some directing experience and has directed a few of the eps of KnHA

- Best part about being in this show: Getting the chance to act with his children!

- Will ALWAYS apologize whenever he hurts someone for a scene.

- While he wears heels/platforms to give himself the extra foot, he's genuinely kind of tall and imposing irl. Once you get to know him though, he's an absolute softie.

-Would 100% punch his character in the face

-Any scenes where AFO shows a more "empathetic" side isn't really acting at all.

-Is happy to assist other actors and give them tips!

-There is one thing he has in common with his character and that’s the fact he’s almost always in a suit—

Michiko Shigaraki - Kaori Miyazaki

-Her first big break! While she's acted before, she's mainly done side characters, so this is her first role as a major character.

-Plenty of her scenes have been ab-libbed, she's her character without the daddy issues.

-Was studying to be a chef if acting didn't work out. Michiko's culinary prowess was adapted because Kaori wouldn't stop making treats for everyone.

-Part of the "5 minutes on Makeup" Squad! The most she has to have done is covering her freckles and adding the spade (even then the changing card suits are primarily added post production)

-I stand by my earlier statement, she can drink everyone under the table. Takahiro has no idea where she got it from.

-Best Part about working with KnHA: Meeting and Befriending her fellow actors!

-Can keep a straight face even with shenanigans happening but the second the director says “CUT!” she will burst into laughter.

Tomura Shigaraki/Tenko Shimura - Masaru Miyazaki

-another BnHA migrate! He wasn��t supposed to appear in KnHA but when he found out it was his sister’s first big role, he HAD to ask if he could at least cameo. Then people liked this version of Tomura so much he ended up appearing more through the season.

-He doesn’t appear much though since he’s also still filming BnHA + his side career as a musician.

-Looks up to Miss Me’s actress as a singer and lost his shit when he first saw her on set

-KnHA Tomura is another case of character like the actor, and a ton of the additional details is adapted from Masaru himself. For example, he has his own makeup line so any product he uses in scenes are from his own.

-Kinda looks like a Kpop Star! Coincidentally, he studied in Korea for a few years and is fluent in the language.

-has made faces behind the camera trying to get the actors to break character.

-best part about working in KnHA: Less time on the makeup chair because he doesn’t need to look so crusty! No joke, he cried when he realized this.

-The Cast’s cool older bro and he helps out a lot with makeup.

[flydotnet]

I have way too many pieces I forget to post online... It’s also the first year since 2017 where I’ve been able to piece together one of those with (mostly) finished pieces, so that’s kinda cool. (A shame, that October sketch looks so cool lmfao).  I tried to diversify the characters shown but still ended up repeating two of them. Woops.

List of pieces used (without links because Tumblr is Tumblr); full pieces under the cut (only exception is October, since it’s still a .csp file):

January: concept art for adult Tachimukai for my Inazuma personal canon/TC Extended Universe, since they use the same headcanons anyway. Character featured: Yuuki Tachimukai (Inazuma Eleven)

February: HaruTachi Matryoshka. Character featured: Haruna Otonashi (Inazuma Eleven).

March: a chibi college-age Tachi I drew for a plush commission that I ended up not sending to the plush maker. (I didn’t have actual finished art for March, oof). Same character as January.

April: the Haruna part of my HaruTachi fill for the interview ship meme that was popular on Twitter back in November 2020. Same character as February.

May: “White Queen”, the first piece I made with my current tablet and based on both a metaphor I wrote into “Regalia” and a drawing I had made inspired by it. Character featured: Anna Mikado (Inazuma Eleven).

June: The IoTsumu part of the food-inspired piece I made for the three main TCEU ships, based on vanilla and cinnamon. Character featured: Tsumugi Takanashi (IDOLiSH7).

July: “Kyriaki”, a piece meant to be the first of six. I actually never finished it since I forgot to give Derek his hair texture. Oops! Character featured: Derek Stiles (Trauma Center).

August, September and November: Art made for a tarot-themed collection of playlists I’ve got on Spotify. They make up most of the art I made last fall, so they feature here a lot. Characters featured: Jeanne Mouchon (OC), Serena (Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V), Angela (OC).

October: A ChereBeru drawing to be my October piece, themed around pumpkin spice. I ended up not finishing it in time, but I may finish it in 2022. That sketch looks too good to be wasted. Character featured: Bianca (Pokémon).

December: A panel from a three-page redraw of a chapter of the original Captain Tsubasa manga because I caught serious brainrot for one (1) tertiary ship while watching the newest series. Character featured: Hikaru Matsuyama (Captain Tsubasa; 2018 anime design).

2021 was the most productive art-wise year I’ve had since.. 2015, I’d say? 2016 at the latest. That felt good and is in no little part thanks to me finally caving in and buying myself a new tablet after using the same hunk of,plastic for 4 years (it was a present from my parents for surviving my 1st year of college, so I still have mad respect for it). I hope 2022 can be as good, even if job life is about to bite my ass and yeet me to oblivion, lmao

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August & September

October: N/A

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[mountain-ash-and-rusted-iron]

this is an oc masterpost of all my haf-formed ocs languishing on pinterest with their messy aesthetics and unedited blurbs, in roughly chronological order of their creation, plus sorted by fandom. this post is only asoiaf, harry potter, hunger games, and riverdale, cos i have tooooooo many original characters otherwise and the post was getting incredibly long. (note that i love my ocs but these one’s are not polished or even the final versions of their characters, i just wanted to post them lol)

under a read more, if you’re on mobile start scrolling i guess, sorry,,,

Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire:

Laeya Targeryen: (child of Rhaella and Aerys Targaryen, born 280 AC - three years older than Danaerys) 

Fearful of her impending marriage, Laeya is eleven when she takes her younger sister and flees across the sea to Dorne, hiding herself and Dany with dyed hair and badly controlled magic. As Leia and Dani Sand they learn to live normally. At 15 Leia joins the Royal Guard and secures Dany work as a tailor's apprentice. When she is 17, an assassin tries to kill her in front of the Dornish court and everything changes...

- so laeya straight up has magic, which im considering an extension of the dragon thing dany has - she can control flame and for the disguise uses her ‘inner fire’ to make her eyes white-blue like super hot flames, cos the purple eyes are super distinctive. and then she’s discovered and suddenly politics are happening. honestly she’s entirely a way for me to remove the child marriage bits of the targaryen storyline (stop marrying off your twelve-year-old baby sister viserys u asshole) - in terms of meta/basics, laeya doesn’t have a fc cos most of my early ocs don’t, and bcs i picture her as emilia clarke with faked dark hair and blue eyes lol

and a quick aesthetic below:

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Kyrra Snow: (child of Robert Baratheon and Maery Snow, birthdate ???)

Kyrra Snow is the eldest natural-born child of Robert Baratheon, current King of Westeros, and daughter of Maery Snow, a Southron (but Northern-born) merchant woman. After her mother realises Kyrra was growing up a little too much like her father in looks and needed to leave the far South before she caught the wrong sort of attention, Kyrra was sent off to travel with her aunt and cousins. She is 17 and heading further north, to Winter Town, when Jon Arryn dies.

- kyrra’s another child of everyone’s favourite asshole king, and she’s got a lot of people after her head, but she just wants to travel and continue her work as a simple peddler. (riiip poor girl) honestly she’s not that developed but yolo -

aes:

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Brynn Stark: (child of Catelyn and Eddard Stark, Robb’s twin sister)  

Brynn believes in honour and family, and she is loyal to Winterfell and the North above all else. Likes - archery, embroidery and weaving. Betrothed to [some young Northern lord] to keep the bonds between the Norther families strong.

-i basically made brynn as a contrast to sansa’s pro-southnness and excessive femininity and arya’s anger and desire for swords (relatable mood tho lmao). so brynn is here to mediate, extoll the virtues of both needlework and weapons, make a decent marriage to someone she likes, if not loves, and hold down the fort in the North while shit gets increasingly messier in the South. and a possible faceclaim is Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey - 

aes:

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Rosienne Lannister: (child of Joanna and Tywin Lannister, born 273 AC)

Rose is looked at by the realm with dismissal, a consolation prize for her father, a spare daughter only useful for matchmaking, but at least able-bodied and pretty, unlike her brother. After a long betrothal, Rose is married to Willas Tyrell at the age of eighteen, cementing her role as the next Lady of High Garden...

- Rosie/Rose is a bonus Lannister, bcs why not. likes cyvasse and the harp, soft and kind and maternal, powerful in her own way. originally she was from a minor divergence where joanna survives tyrion’s birth and goes on to have another kid, but not sure if i’ll keep that aspect, so for now she’s tyrion’s twin -

and her aes (yes that quote is cropped, no i don’t care rn):

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honourable mentions to my other got underdeveloped got/asoiaf ocs who need more effort before i post properly about them:

Tamlen Storm, a rookery apprentice (working for the Maester of House Tully, managing the ravens) who may or may not be a reincarnated si-oc trying to save westeros, 

and an unnamed northern huntress who stumbled into the plot somehow and wants her normal life back (entirely inspired by Keira Knightley as Gwyn in Princess of Thieves, when she’s doing archery stuff and looking v butch).

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Harry Potter:

Taurus ‘Ara’ Lestrange:  (child of Bellatrix and Roldolphous Lestrange, born 1978) 

Raised by the Goblins after a legal mix-up following her parents' imprisonment in Azkaban, Taurus is good with a sword and aiming to be the next Minister of Magic. She attends Hogwarts with the other magical kids her age, under the fake identity Ara Burke, unknown cousin of a minor half-blood family. When the Potter brat’s drama starts destroying her change at an education just as her fourth year, her OWL prep year, begins, Ara intervenes.

- im tangentially aware that as bellatrix’s kid she’s almost occupying the place of whats-her-name from the cursed child, but considering that i know nothing about the cursed child and don’t care about it anyway, i have elected to ignore this. her actual parent might turn out to be some smitten half-blood from a minor branch of the Greengrass family, or it might actually be Rodolphous, who knows. slightly inspired by the fic ‘Harry Crow’ (by robst on ff.net) where harry is raised by the goblins -

messy aes:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerian Potter: (child of Lily and James Potter, born 1980)

After the Potter twins’ parents are murdered by Voldemort, they’re dumped on the doorstep of Number 4, Privet Drive. Dealing with two traumatised magical orphans, Petunia and Vernon Dursley turn to violence and neglect to stay in control, acting far more harshly than expected. With the arrival of two Hogwarts letters, life gets complicated incredibly quickly. (Self-sufficient and scarred from abuse, Val and Harry are immediately Sorted into Slytherin). 

- val’s fic is basically an angst fest, okay,,, -

aes:

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and shout-outs to: holly addison potter, a half-baked reincarnation si-oc (i love that concept a lot, can u tell) and my fav girl thea dursley, who already has her own fic and so isn’t getting a proper spot in this post 

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The Hunger Games:

Asher: (District Two, age 18) 

[rip no blurb for asher]

-asher is a career from two, who wins the 70th games. mostly im focusing on her recovery and how the games function in two, with training volunteers and mentoring and collecting sponsors, plus eventually the rebellion. lots of the D2 headcanon i have is inspired by @/lorata but i defintely made a distinct effort to have my own stuff, cos where’s the fun in plagiarism -

aes for Asher’s Games:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Rowan Everdeen: (District Twelve, age 19)

Rowan will do anything to protect her family. This extends to going to Head Peacekeeper Cray on a cold winters night, charging the most she can get for her virginity.  It extends to Reaping Day, when she steps out in front of the crowd and says “I volunteer as tribute” in the steadiest voice she can muster.  It extends to clawing her way out of the Arena, bloody and exhausted, with blades in her hands and violence kept tucked behind her teeth. It extends further, to a simple ‘Yes, President Snow’ when he coldly, carefully implies her family might meet with an accident if she doesn’t play the good little Victor (and fuck the people who pay the Capitol for her company). It extends to joining the Rebellion, to looking President Coin directly in the eye and agreeing to be a Mockingjay, a symbol for the people to rally around.

- another everdeen kiddo! as the big sister, rowan volunteers for prim, and goes through the Games - she’s a healer and a hunter, and a decent enough actor that she can manage interviews and a camera presence, unlike katniss. rowan also pairs well with a minor au i have, where the reapings are spaced out over a week and official training is a longer, giving the capitol a nice, long buildup to get excited and place bets, etc., and giving the poor, underfed tributes from the outer districts a better chance, which makes for more interesting television and better Games -

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Adrasteia Crane: (The Capitol, age 28) Unlike her big brother, Adrasteia doesn’t want to be a Gamemaker. Instead, she wants to create clothes, artwork, to enrapture the Capitol. She wants to be a Games stylist. After years of design school, of working her way up the ranks, first a PA’s assistant, and then fetching and carrying for Twelve’s prep team, and then eventually on a prep team for the dull tributes from Six, Adrasteia Crane finally has what she wants - the position of stylist for District Three’s male tribute in 74th Hunger Games. 

- tbh adrasteia is only seneca crane’s sister because i couldn’t think of a suitable last name for her lmao. i think i’d actually prefer her to be unattached to any major canon players. however, his death is a good motivation for her to join the rebellion, so we’ll see. she’s got a bit of the capitol fashion thing going too, with soft pink hair and diamond-effect skin on her face and shoulders -

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also bonus hunger games content: another oc, Sarsaparilla Verran, from District Eleven, fifteen and alone when she goes into the Games. An orphan, her siblings lost to the Community Home system years ago, her relatives dead or uncaring. So, Rilla is a wee lonely bab tbh. she did not want this, unlike most of my other hg ocs, and she’s not excited for weeks of murder. she just wants her family back, but since that isn’t possible, she’ll build a new family instead. and uuhhhhh,  spoiler alert, she dies before she can have this ://///

and my hunger games aus - a canon divergence where katniss joins the careers instead of peeta, her desire to go home to her family outweighing her reactive hate for the concept of training/volunteering to kill other teens, and a fem!Haymitch au where she’s a little wiser to the dark side of the capitol before she commits acts of rebellion (she still rebels anyway tho, just smarter).

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Riverdale:

Cat Cooper: (middle child of Alice and Hal Cooper) Cat Cooper (17) is the black sheep of the Cooper family. Her piercings, brightly dyed hair and connections to the Southside Serpents make her the odd one out among her sisters and constantly at odds with Alice Cooper. Cat’s life is occupied with her Serpent friends, work at a local coffee shop, and training - martial arts, supplemented with cross country, gymnastics and swimming. Until her older sister is shipped off to places unknown and her baby sister starts getting caught up in murder investigation with the absent Serpent heir... 

- haven’t decided between Catelyn or Catherine for Cat’s full name lmao. she used to be Kit, actually, but I changed it cos i prefer Kit to solely be my divergent oc (kit serafim). Cat is an ADHD disaster who loves her sisters and her friends and wants to get the hell out of Riverdale on a sports scholarship (she does either boxing or karate mainly, need to figure that bit out) -

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Georgie Andrews: (child of Mary and Fred Andrews)

Georgie likes soft drinks, cheerleading, and hanging out with the Blossom twins and Polly Cooper, their closest friends and a welcome distraction from their own problems. After Polly and Jason vanish, Georgie’s support system is almost gone, and they has to deal with everything they’ve been bottling up, just in time for Fred Andrews to get shot.

- also just angst ngl.  so georgie’s gender is basically ???, they enjoy cheerleading and not much else. they spend half their time dealing with depression, by trying to ignore stressful/hard topics and focus on the good side of everything. this isn’t a great long-term coping mechanism and has the fun side effect of pissing of the people around him when she seems unable to be serious or empathetic to someone else's pain (bcs she’s too busy deflecting for the sake of her own fragile mental health), so it gets fun when fred is shot and archie starts getting in too deep with the lodges -

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Sera Thornstone: (parents ???) Southside Serpent. Going to the Riverdale Community College and running errands for FP Jones. And secretly meeting up with her Ghoulie lover down by the Sweetwater where nobody goes. 

- everything about sera is vague and undecided lmao. but she has a ghoulie gf/bf/nbf? and they’re hiding that they were down by the river on the 4th of july, cos a serpent is an immediate suspect. going to community college to work on getting general credits before saving up for fancy school for law or journalism. the aes isn’t entirely accurate cos sera’s built from the remains of another serpent oc who i scrapped (she does have a baseball bat tho) -

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and honourable mentions to jen johnson and octavia blossom-murphy, my other riverdale ocs who actually have content, plus an in-development unnamed oc who gets adopted from the soqm by the Muggs family and growsup with Ethel. and my riverdale role reversal au, which i will never write but have some nice aesthetics for under the tag wip: bughead role reversal au.

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all my mini-aesthetics here are unsourced images/from pinterest. any similarities to other people or characters, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 

alrighty that’s it. now i have to tag this behemoth argh

[spacetimewraithwrites-archive]

OC Interview Tag Game

Guess what time it is???? and guess who I’m blaming now????? lmao it’s @timetravelingpigeon again

Rules: Pick a character from your WIP and have them answer these fifteen questions, then tag fifteen people.

I'm gonna switch it up a bit, if you lay your eyes on this and have the time/energy to do this, you are now morally obligated under the code of human decency to fill this out. it’s fucking anarchy in here now folks

1. What is your full name?

Before we even begin...can I just demand that he be violently thrown out of this interview, please? I don’t even like him. Be sure to kick his ass, throw in a few solid knocks to the face for good measure.

[She points to Guetry, who’s lurking behind the camera. He grins creepily at her.]

Ew. Alright, fine, hi, my full name’s Alectura Wu.

2. What does your full name mean?

I don’t even think my parents know that.

[“It means ‘beautiful Chinese flower.’”]

You mean like how “Guetry” means “farty French surrenderer?”

[Guetry laughs loudly.]

3. What are your nicknames/other names?

Alec. And that’s what you’re gonna call me from now on if you know what’s good for you. You too, Guetry, don’t think I didn’t notice that you called me Alectura in your interview.

4. What’s your gender?

I’m a girl. I think I would’ve preferred the pronoun question but I get where you’re head’s at.

5. What’s your sexuality?

Oh goodness, I like girls a lot. Always have, always will. They’re soft and pretty and also strong and warriors and they can be gross but they’re so hot. God. Girls, G.

[Guetry emits a noise of emphatic agreement.]

6. Where are you from?

Actually I was born here on the Consortium Node.

[“She’s my little Node Baby.”]

Western Division, in the shitty city of Tranquil. Means my parents were wealthy but not wealthy enough to, y’know, not live in Tranquil.

7. How old are you?

I just turned twenty-nine!

[She and Guetry simultaneously clap and throw a complicated but well-practiced hand signal at each other.]

8. What is your magic form/what species are you?

Mm. Think I could get away with being a silhou?

[“If you’re willing to get silver contacts and make your hair a different shade of blonde every two hours, yeah, I think you could do it.”]

Sadly, I’m human.

9. What does your human form look like?

...Can’t you see me?

[“Way to forget about the visually impaired, idiot.”]

Okay, jeez. I’ve got long hair that’s currently pure white with bangs to my eyes, which are brown by the way. I’m Chinese as you probably already know thanks to Guetry, and I’m a little small but also packing some poundage where it counts, naahhmean? Basically, I love food and I’ve got no motivation or real reason to work out so I’m owning it.

...And I wear a lot of white and neon colors.

10. What’s your aesthetic?

Like...a rave, I guess. I love neon and bright stuff. I’m a shut-in but I also adore the whole industrial club scene, like the underground shows in the Southern Division. The raw and real of it all.

11. Who’s your best friend?

I hate that I can’t even get revenge on you by telling them your middle name. You ruin everything, I swear to god!

[Guetry shrugs. “Sucks for you.”]

Jackass.

12. Would you ever get a piercing/tattoo?

I’ve got a couple of tattoos, just tiny ones, and I wouldn’t mind getting more. I don’t really do piercings. I’ve got a phobia of needles, I think.

13. When are you happiest?

Guetry took my answer.

[“Be fucking original, Alec!”]

Stop yelling at me!

[“You started it!”]

Damn right.

If I’m either singing, drumming, or a combination, I’m happy. I also love my day job, I get no better thrill than knowing the life of a starship is in my hands. The engine room is my second home. And I’m a pretty happy person, generally.

14. What’s your biggest secret?

Well, I’m married. Not a lot of people know that because I keep it to myself. Not for any reason, just don’t need to talk about it all the time. Parys and I have been married for about four years now. She makes me happy, too.

[She smiles.]

15. What was your first impression of [Warren]?

He’s a big ol’ bucket of insecure, I could tell that almost instantly when we met. Well, after I got over the sight of two historical figures standing at my front door like they just happened to be in the neighborhood. He’s very nice, really funny. I felt bad for him in a way. I can’t imagine what it’d be like to wake up so far away from my own time.

[“We give him extra loves.”]

Gotta gobble those up with milk. No genuine affection for you, Warren, just overwhelming pity.

[She and Guetry both laugh.]

No, he’s a good guy. A good guy with a good heart. I may have closed him off a few times but I can’t help it, I’m not a very open book. Sorry, Warren! I’m trying!

[soap-brain]

Writer Interview Tag

I was tagged by @gracieminabox! Thank you!

1) What made you start writing for the first time? I honestly can’t remember, but I was in second grade and I was just dicking around with my mom’s lovely turquoise macbook (It had a handle and even an internet browser! The early 2000s were an incredible time.), and I wrote two stories. One about what I’d do if I could fly (more of a list, really) and one about, er, hatted witches. There was only one and she had a lot of hair and pretty much everything she could wish for.  I’m still kinda proud of those today, because together they only had two spelling mistakes; one of them was 6 year old me misspelling sushi as susi, but I put a footnote explaining how you had to pronounce it. I was such a little shit.

2) If you could only write about the ocean, the forest, or the desert for the rest of your life, which one would you pick? Oh man. Can I choose space? If not ... I’d probably choose the forest. Don’t know why, really... but ocean sounds cool too. And the desert could have dragons! Eh, I don’t think I can decide. 3) Would you ever write a memoir? About what? My life isn’t that interesting lmao. 4) Do you like writing by hand, or writing with a computer? I do quite like writing by hand - for example I’d rather take notes by hand. But writing stories? Definitely on computer. It’s just so much faster and you can just copy paste to publish them. Also you can just backspace if you made a mistake, there’s spell-checking and you don’t have to type them all out again if you want to have them on your computer. Also platforms like Google Drive make it really easy to work on your stuff wherever, while with handwritten notes you have to bring that notebook along. 5) Would you rather be popular among many readers, or unpopular, but loved by critics? Oh, definitely rather be popular among many readers! Since I only write fanfiction, there aren’t even any real critics; also, readers are what give stories meaning, not critics. Writing something and knowing that it resonates with a lot of people is so much more empowering than some somebodies nutting over how stellar your writing is and what parallels there are to other writers etc.

6) Do you listen to music while you write? What is the best writing music? Most of the time I do, yeah! What I listen to depends though. Sometimes it’s a 24hr white noise of the Enterprise’s bridge video. Sometimes it’s rain noises. ATM it’s a Spotify playlist with only Imagine Dragons. Sometimes I also need quiet. It totally depends though :p 7) Do people you’ve met find their way into your writing? Hmm. Considering how I have roughly 0 OCs (not quite true, but they’re so minor that they probably didn’t show up in any of my published writing yet and just exist in the cosmos), I mostly just gently morph some of my traits onto the characters (ever wonder why they’re all horse girls? Yeah ...). But I just don’t make enough OCs to actually project the people I met onto them :p

I tag @greetings-from-the-suffer-puppet, @logicallythyla, @logicheartsoul, @vulcankirkspock and @gumballgladiator and whoever else wants to do this!