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[makesometime]

“I’m glad you were here with me.” with Trevor and whoever it makes you happy to write with Trevor.

The prompts were supposed to be soft right? Yeah! This is soft. It’s definitely soft and not really painful :)

(thank you for the prompt lovely!)

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“I’m glad you were here with me.”

Trevor looks up from the fire at the woman sat across from him, frowning at the unexpected speech. Sypha’s been near-mute since they left Lindenfeld, answering questions with one word answers and sleeping for as much of their journey as she can. 

He knows that sort of pain. He’s lived it. 

He hates it for her.

“Of course. Nowhere else I’d be.”

She catches his eye, and he can see the tear tracks on her cheeks. Doesn’t mention them, because he’s lived that life too, got too good at silent crying.

“You and I know that’s not true.” She says.

With a huff, Trevor gets to his feet, dragging the threadbare blanket along with him as he rounds the fire. He sets himself down next to Sypha and she leans into him almost immediately, which is enough to make a ball of emotion form in his throat. He hadn’t realised how much her easy way with tactility had got under his skin until it wasn’t there anymore.

“It is true.” He murmurs into her hair, tugging the blanket around them both. “It’s you and me, til the end.”

He feels her exhale against his chest, her palm sliding cool against his stomach. “I wish that was enough.”

“It’s enough for me.”

Sypha shivers, pressing in closer. “And me. But it didn’t help those poor children.”

If the fucker wasn’t already dead, Trevor would’ve killed him a hundred times over for daring to take what little light Sypha has managed to hold onto in this shithole of a world.

“That’s why we’re going back, right? Three heads are better than two.”

“God I hope he’s okay.” She breathes, disappearing even deeper into the warmth of his embrace.

He doesn’t say he will be because he’s learnt better than that now. But at least if they’re all together, they might have a chance.

[andhumanslovedstories]

11. An older book that you have only just read.

I read The Cater Street Hangman by Anne Perry which first came out in 1979. My mom suggested it because she thought I’d like the central relationship between Charlotte and Thomas, which I did, and then I fell down the rabbit hole of the author’s backstory which was a doozy and made me spend a good afternoon wondering about what I expect from people who committed violence in their past. You know, really examined my own moral preconceptions and values. Then I started the second one and I was like “this is boring” and that’s the end of my journey.  

[colubrina]

E - Childhood Books and F - do you DNF?

E. What was your relationship with books like as a child?

I read non-stop.  I carried books with me everywhere. I walked while reading. I got in trouble for reading during class. I got in trouble for reading at summer camp. I was a lonely, misfit only child whose mother used the public library as after school care for several years.  Me and books were a love affair.

F. Are you the type of person who will read a book to the end whether you like it or not, or will you put it down straight away if you’re not feeling into it?

I used to feel a compulsion to finish, but I don’t anymore.  Life is so short, and there are so many books, and it’s supposed to be enjoyable.  If I don’t like it, I stop.

from new bookish asks

[aquilaofarkham]

Your blood and honey tag is making me feel things

this is for u

[headspacedad]

Color/colour (for the is it in your WIP ask game)

from here

(okay you get more than a paragraph since, astute or prophetic as you are, you asked the word for an entire short fic I’m doing)

The humans don't understand color.  They can't hear it and what it says and they look at it with dull eyes.  Unenlightened eyes.  Perhaps it is because they cannot even see a majority of the color spectrum but one would think that such a thing would make the few hues they can recognize that much more precious too them.  It is not so.

They do not seem created to be Gifted with an understanding of Color.

I am a scientist.  And I have made humans, so newly discovered, my subject of interest.  For all their lack of Color understanding, they are still a lively species and, as their sudden appearance and the resulting tumult of the entire universe that came because of it, they have shown themselves to be very worthy of study.  Perhaps dangerously so. 

[breakingthewordcages]

truthhoneyandashes replied to your post “There are a lot* of things I dislike about A Good Man Goes to War, but...”

meeeeee toooooooo - like there are good ideas in it - including that having a baby in the tardis will affect the baby - but it was wrapped up in so much "oooh i'm so clever" + the CREEPTASTIC forced pregnancy thing that it turned me right off. It was one of the last episodes of Who I watched. I think Iheld on until the wedding episode and then got so mad about the retconning of fixed point in time plot point that I gtfo. But the forced pregnancy was the start of the end.

I literally just watched it and I still don’t know if Melody would have naturally been able to regenerate, or if that’s something that her captors did to her by building on her altered dna. 

If the former, than you could have totally had an interesting half season without the creepy forced pregnancy aspect! (Or even condensed it down to one episode considering the Doctor ran off and had 200 years of procrastinating adventures in the second half of the season--what’s seven months to that?) Build on what was happening around the Silence episode, with Amy not being upset about being pregnant but worried that her time travels would affect the baby, and you’ve got a lot of interesting questions to answer. Even if Melody hadn’t been able to regenerate just from being conceived in the time vortex, growing up in the tardis has got to mess with you in interesting ways. You’d have to change River’s background (and I’m not sure how you’d fit Mel in there) but hey, time travel. 

(Seriously though, why did Moffat feel the need to reset the universe so many times?) 

[ignitesthestxrs]

4) favourite character you get have written.

I MEAN it’s jasmine, she is my protag, but it has actually been a four year journey to reallly...come to love her as much as i do now. when i started out writing her i didn’t find her especially relatable or likeable and was very worried about how she was coming across. i don’t think she’s actually changed that much over the years? i have just learnt how to write her better.

bonus answer: reynaud dacre, her dad, actual nightmare human being and the hottest nerd alive.

[ladyhallen]

7

when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

It’s something of a well-known thing in my family and circle of friends that I write, they’re all there for the process. (My insomnia, my irritation at writer’s block and the coffee addiction.) So nope, no shame.

What embarrasses me is when they follow up the question with, “where do you write and can I read it?” Because complete strangers reading my work is fine, but close friends are….another thing entirely.