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10 things for (almost) 10 people you’d like to know more about

thanks for the tag @poppinelle !!

last song: if i needed you emmylou harris and don williams

last book: an empire far and wide mark leuchter (currently rereading braiding sweetgrass by robin kimmerer)

last movie: everything everywhere all at once (yeah i know but look everything happens so fast)

last tv show: watched the pilot of Going Dutch

sweet/savory/spicy: yes (savory i guess)

relationship status: married, kiddos

last thing i googled: mary chapin carpenter's new album

current obsession: getting my garden put in by The Old Farmer's dates/ the next story in devilverse

looking forward to: the woodland natives i've ordered for the front garden

i'm terrible at tagging, so anyone who'd like to tell me what they're up to of late make sure you tag back!

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tagged by @flightofthefaeriedragon @wrathoscribbles and @faejilly a while back for the ten gifs of movies without naming-

i think everyone i follow has been tagged but if not, feel free!

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2, 27, and 30 for the ships ask? Aedan and/or any OCs of your choosing?

2. How important is your OCs relationship(s) to their story? Would it still make sense without it? Or is their connection to this other character integral to their development?

oh good one. honestly, as much as i enjoyed playing Aedan as a character, there wouldn't be stories for me to write without her romantic relationship with Kaidan because fills for that, little things to make it personal, was where i started with her. the first time she shared something "not military related" but personal, the reaction to sort of meeeting his folks, the places where her exterior mask cracked to let him in that just weren't in the game. Now, she very much developed a life of her own and i have stories to tell that *aren't* the romance but the romance is integral to the stories i share.

27. Is there a particular "trope" for relationships that you especially enjoy - e.g. enemies to lovers etc - and is this something that you set out intending to explore?

not...really. i do tend, one way or another, end up writing "this one person is special" sort of romances, "no one understands me like you do" and some of it has to do with the fact that i write characters sort of on the aro spectrum and, more or less, who see people as *duties.* Aeryn Hawke deeply loves her family and her friends, but romantically? Only Sebastian manages to make it work in that he refuses to let her categorize him as a protection job. Lust is easy, love is *hard.* Aedan, like Aeryn, has things like her career to care about but she got no early lessons in love- duty, sure but not *love* and she has so much healing to do that she's in her twenties before it even occurs to her that it's a thing she's *capable* of. And, again, it's because Kaidan won't let her see him only as "someone under my protection."

30. What advice do you have for someone considering creating a ship for their character? Or for someone unsure about writing relationships and/or sexual scenarios?

porn without plot is a thing, relationships don't have to be healthy/unhealthy to be interesting but ask yourself, "what does this reveal, what does this gift the character, what does this burden the character with" Love is a weakness as much as a strength and you need to be willing to reveal both. in the au devilverse, you can see a couple of moments when Aedan's body is clearly making different trust choices from her head and it reveals a lot about how uncertain she is in *this* when she's wholly confident on any other field.

if you're unsure about it, fade to black is an option. you can set up a scene that is absolutely sexy and have no sex at all. what is compelling in sex scenes you've seen/read. would your character do that? would they have a different reaction? write that

Thanks for asking!!!

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18 & 29 offing you please 🥺

i did 18 here 29.     five most recent received text messages -sent you the edition of the asari architecture examination that explains what ianya was meaning about the curled edges of the settlers' cottages on thessia's upper continent, look forward to your thoughts!!! -found the new location of that pop up restaurant that does the short rib buns, come keep me company kahlee said you were looking thin - next drop? -david needs to get out of his office so i've sent him a sad little note about you looking thin, please take him out to lunch -bored

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Ooh, 9, 18, and 28 for Aedan please?

:D:D:D thanks for asking 09.     “junk” drawer.

Aedan doesn't exactly have enough stuff to have a junk drawer...or a place to have one, really, lol. She has her antique sniper rifle case, though. and in *there* she's got some old green birthday candles and a pack of matches, a little data stick with one song, and (in one 'verse) a small stuffed hanar with a goose hat.

18.     “secret” hiding spot. well, the gun case is the place she keeps anything vaguely sentimental, but she's got knives stashed in shaft and heel of her boots, a lockpick set in the sleeve of her jacket, and a couple of "getaway" stashes of papers and funds on Omega and the Citadel? 28.     five most recent sent text messages  -okay (sent to Gerte) -see you there (sent to Anderson) -GXE 143.997 x GXT 8.324 -(•_•)(^///^) -a pic of some freckled cleavage and a flash of blue lace

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tagged by @dandenbo, thank you! (i already did the remix playlist one but for funsies i took all these off my Earthborn/Aedan Shepard playlist :D )

RULES: write one song for every letter in your url and then tag as many people as there are letters in your url

S- Sabotage: Beastie Boys H- How Deep is Your Love- Calvin Harris/Disciples A- Alabama Cold Cock- Black Pistol Fire D- Destroyer- Phantogram O- O Children- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds E- Eat Sleep Rave Repeat- Fatboy Slim D- Drive- The Cars S- Sour Times- Civil Wars E- Eat Your Young- Hozier P- Paint It, Black- Ciara T- Tick Tick Boom- The Hives M- Many Shades of Black- The Raconteurs B- Born Alone Die Alone- Madalen Duke R- Runaway- Aurora

That's 14, lol. as i tend to shorten it to sept, howabout - @pastelroyce @laelior @fallowhearth and @korblez and then feel free to feel tagged! <3

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playlist meme

@laelior tagged me! Thanks! tagging @jellisdraws @onionjuggler @theoriginalladya @daisywalletchains and anyone else who hasn't been

shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals <3

so my favorite playlist right now is my Bad Things playlist, which started out as "songs played on True Blood" but has just sort of morphed into "that sound what i like and folks being naughty"

Crooked Still -Ain't No Grave

CRMNL- Bad Side

Turnpike Troubadours- Before the Devil Knows We're Dead

The Decemberists- Burying Davy

Chris Isaak- Black Flowers

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15 questions for 15 friends

tagged by @dandenbo Thanks, it was fun! <3

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: not my first name but my middle name was my maternal grandmother's as well

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: not really a crier...maybe a year ago or so when i realized that my oldest child was healing up and recovering from a couple things that happened.

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: two

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: organized, i guess just swimming and some diving when i was a little bit. other than that, tennis

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: quite a lot, actually

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: body language, usually- closed or open, tense or relaxed that sort of thing

WHAT'S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: gray- tends to pick up what i'm wearing

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: happy ending, i guess. the only scary movies i watch have vampires

ANY TALENTS?: solid writer, good voice

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: out west somewhere, like a tumbleweed

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: bit of this, bit of that- i'm a dabbler. writing, gardening, knitting right now

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: not currently, considering another cat after the death of my last a couple years ago

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5'5"ish

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: all of it- physics in hs

DREAM JOB?: had it for a while, was a librarian in a technical setting and briefly in an archive

throwing this to the wind, who wants to answer some questions? tag me and let me know!