#ahnjunae-blog

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akasanata said:  The more I know about you, the less I feel I actually know you, if that makes sense                          

...it’s the tomato thing, isn’t it. So much for my blending-in-with-humans disguise. :D :D

kernezelda said:    I like your random facts, and I would trust you to save me if I were drowning, and I would not feed you tomatoes, not even delicious fried green ones. And oooh, Neil Gaiman!                          

...I would absolutely rescue you! And then we can have a tomato-less celebratory meal. And Neil is very lovely and a very good sport! That was the same conference where - so there’s a tradition of having creative writers submit 2-minute short plays and people perform them on the final night, usually silly or humorous, all for good fun, and obviously we’re academics and authors, not actors! - anyway, Neil, being an excellent sport, agreed to perform in three of them. I have pictures somewhere of Neil menacing academics on stage with a...I think it was a toy squirt gun? I think he was being a bank robber?

ahnjunae-blog said:   I’m jealous you got to meet @neil-gaiman I guess that’s why I love your work so much!      

...so my Neil story is, at the aforementioned conference, I was - being a grad student - being the volunteer/unpaid labor, and running around Doing Things all day. And I kept running into Neil. Sometimes while working - like, if I was checking on a room set-up, and he came in, which happened a couple of times - and obviously when he did his talk and signing, but also just randomly so much. On an escalator. In the hotel coffee bar. Outside a restroom. In a hallway after a panel. Finally - this was after like...maybe the tenth time, and as I recall I was leaving a conference room as he was coming in and we encountered each other in the doorway...I did the nervous laugh thing (still a baby grad student!) and said something like, “We’ve got to stop meeting like this!” To which Neil said, “I think at this point we’re practically married!” and I just about fainted. And then other people walked in. And that is my Neil Gaiman story, which he probably doesn’t even remember, but I definitely do.

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ahnjunae-blog If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let’s get to know the person behind the blog 🍀 

...more! Okay, let’s see...

1. I once drank some wine that came out of a jug with a rattlesnake in it (this was in China. other people drank it too. we were young and reckless.)

2. I used to be on a competitive roller dance skating team (not roller derby; dance. like ice skating but on roller skates. I don’t actually entirely know why I was put into roller skating lessons as a child. I think my parents, being Very Young Parents in the seventies, were very into it. but it was kind of fun, so, why not? and then I just sort of kept doing it...only went to Regionals a few times, not ever Nationals, I tended to come in second/third/fourth a lot. I think the judges could tell I wasn’t as passionate as some people, just kinda there because it was fun and I was good *enough*. somewhere there are pictures of me in little sparkly outfits with sequins and tiny ruffly skirts and matching skate covers.)

3. I got to meet/assist the legendary Ray Bradbury at one of his last public appearances and he signed my book even though they had cut off the signing line and he was tired and, like, ninety-plus years old, and he was so kind (as usual at academic conferences, grad students serve as volunteers/unpaid conference labor; he was the guest of honor, and I ended up being one of the people bringing him water and such. and I’d been carrying my really nice copy of The Martian Chronicles around all day because they’d said he would do a short signing, and he did, but they cut the line off at like 50 people and I was working and couldn’t get in line anyway, which. kinda sucked, but okay, I got to meet him and get him water and a pen and stuff. but then as we were getting ready to get him off the stage, he saw my bag and my book in it and asked if I wanted it signed, and I made squeaky little “I’m honored, thank you!” noises and said yes please, and he did. and that’s my Ray Bradbury story.)

Yay random facts! :D

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ahnjunae-blog said:  Which story?                            

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The first sex scene of the Character Bleed sequel. Because Leo’s diving into the sex-with-a-man thing with enthusiasm, apparently.

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ahnjunae-blog said:                                                                                                  He sounds like a fun guy. I wish him a safe trip and return.                            

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I feel like you should all also be aware that, after binge-watching the new Dark Crystal series, he and I spent like an hour before going to sleep last night debating Gelfling anatomy, the accepted presence of same-sex couples (as seen with Deet’s fathers), how reproduction even works in this universe, and whether, for instance, a Gelfling transitioning to female would then grow wings, possibly magically-assisted.

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ahnjunae-blog said:                                                                                                                            This going to bee on AO3                            

It already is, at least everything so far! Up here. :-)

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ahnjunae-blog replied to your post “I'm just incredibly frustrated on top of it because I found out when I...”

It's becoming more and more a chore to be there

seriously. I almost walked out today. I was so frustrated from trying to do two dm jobs and getting pulled 27 directions because nobody knows how to problem solve and needing to babysit everyone so they actually do work. and I can’t get mad or annoyed with them cause it’s my job to be there for them but for the love of GOD just fucking DO SOMETHING

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ahnjunae-blog said:                                                                                                                            I wanna see TOO                                                        

angelycdevil said:                                                                                                                            WHAT WHERE OMG PLEASE                            

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It is, or will be, or something...the sequel to this fic. Which is still one of my favorite things I’ve ever written. I think maybe I should put up chapter one of this sequel tonight...

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ahnjunae-blog said:                                                                                                                            I loved that fic… Actually I pretty much adore all your works both individual and collaborative… Add that to the fact you’re a published author gives me the urge to start writing again. Never too old to try I guess LOL. Thanks for all the joy you give with your work.                            

THIS IS THE LOVELIEST THING AND YOU ARE FABULOUS <3333

And there is no such thing as being too old! If you’ve got a story to tell, then tell it - no one else is you, and no one else will tell it and love it and shape it the way you can, whenever and however you do so. (I mean, like, obviously advice and editors and so on are nice and helpful and can be very good things! But the heart of it is still you - it’s going to be your heart in the words, all shimmering and dancing and delighted at being brought into existence.)