#aadarshinah

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query: how does one find a tattoo artist? the thing I want is super simple (the atlantis stargate address on the inside of my elbow) but idk how to actually go about it?

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I was tagged in this thing by @shitlinguistssay 

Rule #1: Always post the rules.

Rule #2: Answer the questions from the person who asked, then write eleven new ones.

Rule #3: Tag eleven people and link them to the post.

Rule #4: Tell the person that tagged you that you’ve answered their questions.

1. What’s the last television show you’ve seen?

Well, I’m currently (as in while typing this) watching the last episode of Jessica Jones, so...Jessica Jones.

2. Who’s the last fictional character you cried over?

Probably Tony Stark because I’ve been reading almost exclusively Marvel fanfiction for the past while.

3. How many languages do you speak?

I’m fluent in one, conversational-ish in one, and can order from a menu in one (English, Japanese, and French respectively).

4. What’s your least favorite trope?

Probably the ‘man has dubiously consensual sex with woman to get her to be less upset/to change her mind’ trope. There’s a reason I stopped reading most het romance novels.

5. What’s your favorite genre?

Fantasy. I really like urban fantasy especially.

6. If you could have any animal shrunk to the size of a cat, what would it be?

Uh...I don’t know. I’m not really an animal person, but maybe a large bird. Or a large fish. I like fish.

7. What’s one show you watched as a kid you wish they would reboot?

I didn’t actually watch a lot of television as a kid. We had gotten our TV from the World Trade Center, and after those went down we didn’t have anything except for the basic channels, which I really only watched on Saturday mornings (and for like 20 minutes in the morning while I was using a nebulizer, because ah, the good old days, so happy I don’t need that anymore), so I guess the answer is that I don’t really have one.

8. What’s your current obsession?

I’ve been obsessed with the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the past couple of years (like so obsessed I wrote a 12k word paper about it with an 8k word appendix for my big sophomore year research class), so I guess that. I’m actually wearing a Captain America/Bucky Barnes t-shirt right now.

9. How done with school/work are you right at this second?

I finished my last final and my internship today, so in a literal sense, I am done.

10. How bad were my questions?

Not bad.

11. If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?

Hmm. It’s hard to say, partly because I would pick Harry Potter, but I’ve spent so much time reading meta posts (and talking) about all of the screwed up parts of the world, so maybe Harry Potter once they reform a lot of their laws (which might have happened by 2015).

I’m tagging: @clevergirlhelps , @aadarshinah , @featherofeeling, @softdomme (I don’t know if this tagging is working), @queersleuths, @booksandhotchocolate , @itsonlythefirstdraft, @its-a-writer-thing, @thekingofwinter, @englishproblems, @englishmajorhumor. No one has to, of course!

My questions:

1. Who was the last person you texted/talked to on Facebook with/communicated with online?

2. Do you want to be published/have you been published?

3. Who do you most want to talk to right now?

4. If you could go anywhere in the world and do anything, with money being no option, where would you go and what would you do?

5. What alignment are you (lawful neutral, chaotic evil, etc.)?

6. How many siblings do you have?

7. Who is your favorite person?

8. If you have a choice, would you change your name (first or last)? 

9. What is your favorite genre to read?

10. What is your favorite genre to write?

11. (Because I like this question) If you could live in any fictional world, which would it be?

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Advent Drabble 6 - Home

For @aadarshinah. 

Oliver’s room could be an archeological dig. His wardrobe settled in layers of sediment. As you dug through them, you could chart his developmental phases, the places where bumblebees gave way to chameleons, where skeletons gave way to the nervous system, where autopsies gave way to surgeries and then back again. Sometimes John thought they ought to clean it out. But then Oliver would come home from school, almost unrecognizable, except for the knowledge that this newest layer was resting on top of all of the old familiar ones, and John left everything about Oliver’s room exactly as it was.

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aadarshinah replied to your post “As is apparently frequently the case, I went back to read an old WIP...”

Perhaps Jennifer travels around Pegasus planets, doing humanitarian missions? You know, spends like a month teaching some group healthcare things and vaccinating them and pulling abscessed teeth and the like? She could be on one of these.

That is sort of what she ends up doing in the post-canon tie-in novels and it’s a good idea that I may use. It feels kind of like a cop-out, but at this point, changing all the Carson scenes to Jennifer would totally change the tone of those scenes. I think I’ll worry about getting the whole first draft finished and typed and turned into a second draft and figure it out when I rewrite for the third draft. I haven’t actually written Carson into a fic in a while, since I came back around to Keller. I guess in those stories he stays on Earth? Which he might after the whole dying/illness thing. I kind of like the idea of him returning to Pegasus with the city and heading up a genetics department. That’s really more in his wheelhouse anyway; Keller is much more of GP than he is (though I think she’s a surgeon? idk SGA wasn’t super great about specifying medical specialties).

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aadarshinah replied to your post “aadarshinah replied to your post “Did you get anyone to beta?”Sorry!...”

I would love to beta it! Just send me the link when you're ready. (And you're right. I really don't like betaing hard smut. I get caught up in trying to figure out where all the limbs are and it just doesn't work.)

Good to know, thanks! It might be a little while (the first draft is maybe... half done? I wrote the back half first, so I know where I’m going, which is helpful, so now I have to figure out where I’ve been).

And yeah, I actually have that same problem writing smut. I mean I have that problem not in smut because ugh blocking is hard but few people want to read long meandering dialog fics composed solely of witty banter so.

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aadarshinah replied to your post “Did you get anyone to beta?”

Sorry! I've only *just* gotten to Shaw. Otherwise I would have volunteered.

IIRC you prefer not to beta hard smut anyway, which this was. (But you’ll probably be at just the right point to do my next one when I finish it (if you like, of course), which is an early season three Reese/Finch fic) Thanks though!

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aadarshinah replied to your post “okay anyone want to beta read my 500 word poi angst drabble? ”

I'll do it. I'm not post season three yet but I've read so much fanfic I think I've been spoiled already. You have my info.

That tag was there specifically because I thought you’d volunteer. : ) Thanks!

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Alright, for your ask me anything.... any Star Wars couple... All the Star Wars couples.

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT

For a somewhat loose interpretation of “couple”: Padme/Anakin/Obi-Wan:

Drinks all of the coffee

Padme. She’s got a lot of late nights and early mornings and she will CUT A BITCH if they get in the way of her caffeine fix

Brings up adopting a pet

Anakin wants to take home literally every stray animal he sees. Padme’s cool with it, but she’s not cleaning up after it. Anakin is Qui Gon Jinn: professional stray adopter 2.0 as far Obi-Wan is concerned and he spends a lot of time gently dissuading Anakin from whatever animal he’s got his heart set on. (”…What the–” “How’d you sleep? I adopted 32 cats and dogs. Do you want pancakes?” is basically how I see that going down.)

Kills the bugs

All of them probably. They can all pretty much take care of any bugs.

Cooks the meals

They eat a lot of take-out tbh. Obi-Wan isn’t allowed in the kitchen, Padme barely remembers to feed herself, and Anakin only cooks when the mood strikes him, which isn’t often.

Starts getting into holidays way before they should

ANAKIN. 

Initiates the couple selfies

Anakin.

Forgets the birthdays and anniversaries

Obi-Wan probably. Padme is that perfect mix of organized and sentimental and Anakin is just straight up sentimental. 

Always ends up with too much junk food after grocery shopping

Anakin.

Nicknames the other

Padme uses normal pet names. Anakin uses ridiculous pet names in addition to the regular ones, one of which made Obi-Wan straight up leave the house for about four hours.