#works from the stars

[letters-and-fallen-stars]

welcome

hello! name's lara. i'm from aotearoa new zealand. i collect rocks, spend too much money on books, procrastinate assignments, and sometimes act. i write poetry, fiction, plays, fanfiction, a little bit of everything.

im currently working on various fics, Recollections (fantasy webcomic), and Lavender Menace (poetry collection)

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tags:

#lara rambles: my thoughts, maybe self promo of publications

#publications: i've been published

#works from the stars: my writing

#ask tag: self explanatory

My work has been published:

‘Between the Lines’, Out on the Shelves Rainbow Zine 2020

'Silenced Angel’ and 'Rose By Any Other Name’, Bare: A Pop Opera Fanzine 2020

’Lesbophobia is Homophobia With a Side Order of Sexism’, Sunstroke Magazine 2020

'Blasphemy’, Overcommunicate Magazine 2021

'Daisy, Daisy’ The Jupiter Review 2021

'Blasphemy’ Messy Misfits Club: Issue 2, May 2022

’Re: Still Being Referred to as My Parents’ Daughter’ and 'A Look at My Relationship With Gender’, Powders Press: Issue 3, June 2022

'Burning Everything’, Catchwater Magazine: Issue 4, August 2022

'Spores', Ship of Horrors, 2022

'The Wheel of the Year', Versions Tuatoru, October 2022

'If', Livina Press: Issue 3, January 2023

'A Conversation Between Two Hedonists', Rat World Magazine's R18 Valentine's Zine, February 2023

'The Lament for Icarus', bad apple, August 2023

'Hypotheticals With My Younger Selves', Messy Misfits Club: Issue 5 (digital edition), October 2023

'Blasphemy' and 'A Conversation Between Two Hedonists', Perfumed Pages: Forbidden Fruit (Issue 4), September 2023

'Prophetics', Portland Project, upcoming 2024

'Garden Etudes' and 'Baking Etudes', Versions Tuarima, upcoming 2024

[qrbits]

gaming at the office 😎

[nem0-nee]

"Forgiving who you are, for what you stand to gain Just know that if you hide, it doesn't go away When you get out of bed, don't end up stranded Horrified with each stone on the stage, my little dark age"

Shameless twitter plug

[themaninyourcomputer]

Star Trek IV is so funny because the writers were like 'what if we set these fools loose in 1980's San Francisco and have them break every single Star Fleet regulation, wouldn't that be funny.' And it was. It was the best movie to come out of the entire franchise.

[secretly-a-trekkie]

"I can't not hate you for that, a little"

[graye]

Rumors say this is what tipped Anakin to the Dark side.

[jayrockin]

In the Shess region of the centaur homeplanet, a popular kind of hand-to-hand combat sport is ngthan, which is often held for inter-clan tournaments as well as intra-clan duels. Ngthan combatants have elaborately carved mouth guards that cover a large portion of the face and jaw and usually feature brightly painted, exaggerated teeth and snarls.

The fighters are otherwise nude except for a band around their rear waist that has flags tucked into it. The goal of the battle is to grab all of the flags off of your opponent. Ngthan fights are generally held in late spring in dedicated amphitheaters, as they attract large crowds. Radio coverage of these events (and after first contact with other aliens, streaming) is extremely popular.

PATREON | Runaway to the Stars

[heartorbit]

figure skating set right now please. thanks

[commsroom]

the u.s.s. horrible unending nightmare 💥 (once again from the incredible @hehearse)

[stealingpotatoes]

In Skywalkers Apart:

Why doesn't Anakin go overthrow the Emperor sooner? (since it appears that the Empire is still in power around the Rebels time period)

What do Anakin and Sabine think of each other? Bc I think they'd get along quite well 😉💣

What does Anakin think of Chopper and AP-5?

anakin & sabine would get on GREAT (especially bc this is ultimate girldad au anakin) but uh. on the first point. i think you're overestimating anakin a little like you've gotta think abt that matchup

[spartanfoxart]

Just some suitless!Vader as Emperor for the soul.

[a-most-beloved-fool]

There's a fic I've been (slowly) working on that features Kirk being just about the Only person on the ship who can read Spock's expressions, simply because he Likes Spock (not even romantically at first, he just sees Spock and goes, 'friend-shaped <3'.) and therefore pays attention, where he winds up being like. a Spock-interpreter for everyone else. (Captain, is he mad at me?? Captain, are my questions annoying him? Captain, did he like my joke? Captain, I feel like Spock hates me. etc.)

and the reason I bring this up is because I think there's a lot of potential in a Different version of this, where Kirk is still the only one who can read Spock's emotions, but this time, it's because they managed to spontaneously bond like. immediately. and neither of them realize this for a good while, because what are the odds that you're So Compatible with someone that your minds just Instantly glue themselves together? They're astronomical, that's what they are.

Except, a year or three into the mission, Spock discovers the bond. and panics. and blocks it. Of course he does! It's an egregious breach of telepathic etiquette! (Or, it would be, if he'd done it on purpose.) He has No Idea how long it's been there - he assumes it must be new. And, once the bond is blocked, by a Spock who is absolutely swamped with shame that he could let that happen to his own captain and dear friend, Kirk suddenly. cannot read Spock's emotions. And then he panics, because ohmigod i can't read him is he mad at me what did i do does he hate me???? (everyone else on this ship is baffled. they're like 'his face has literally not changed?? what do you mean you can't read him now??)

and eventually, they figure out what happened, and that they love each other, and then restore the bond to its original state and kiss and what not. but they angst about it for a bit first, and possibly have to get their heads slammed together by bones before that happens.

[ahhrenata]

the screencaps that inspired these doodles

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[ashleys-doodle-corner]

ACT 2 "You're... me?" "That's right, stardust!"

You know I've been drawing Loop as their Siffrin form so much that it's got me thinking. I've read and seen so many fics and artworks of Loop eventually getting back to looking like their old self, but I don't think I've seen any so far of Loop already being a mirror copy of Siffrin. So uh, yoink?

ISAT AU where the game plays out the same way (plot-wise at least) but Loop looks like Siffrin the whole time and while Siffrin is extremely perplexed that there's another him, he's still gotta accept their help because how else are they supposed to escape the loops? Good ol' Loop is here to help, helpful friendly Loop!

Siffrin is going through it still but Differently.

[secretly-a-trekkie]

"Oh good show, sir. For a moment, I was afraid you'd had a rational thought"