I was tagged by the lovely @ratracechronicler, thanks so much hun! I’m in total agreement, last line tags are due for a serious comeback 💖 I’m admittedly bad at doing them but they’re my favorite!
Here are... uh, several lines (I couldn’t pick just one, sorry!), from Ocean:
Our habit was lovingly ingrained, the pattern worn smooth: twice a week, Ana made her way from the university over to the firm, where she harassed her mother—one of the firm's partners (Vicente was never wrong, and nepotism was far from dead)—and then to my office to harass me. Ana and I had been friends before birth: I remember a photo of our mothers, laughing, bellies equally round. When her mother pursued law school and her father was in and out of the hospital, rapidly balding 20 years early, Ana stayed with us. When my mother died, I stayed with them.
When it came to my father—well, chemotherapy couldn’t salvage the butcher-knife shaped hole in his gut.
Tagging (feel free to ignore) @ally-thorne @whataremetaphor and anyone else who wants to join in!
Holy crap, I haven’t done one of these in what feels like a lifetime! I was tagged by @whataremetaphor and @possibledreamswriting, thanks lovelies! 💖
Not tagging anyone because I don’t know who to tag anymore haha, sorry! But if anyone wants to join in, please do (and be sure to tag me so I can see)!
1. What’s your eye color? Dark brown
2. Who’s your favorite person in the world? Me? My younger brother 💖
3. What’s your favorite snack? Is coffee a snack? Coffee should def count as a snack. Otherwise, it’s a toss-up between bittersweet chocolate or ube rolls!
4. Following? I’m currently following 469 (lol) people.
5. Writing Motto? “Fuck you, spellcheck, I know what I’m about, even if that sentence does have seven unnecessary commas.” [Sorry, I don’t have a real motto.]
6. Favorite TV Shows? Archer, Bob’s Burgers... Hannibal is probably my all-time fave though!
7. What’s your favorite fairytale? Beauty and the Beast?
8. Favorite Song? This kind of changes like, hourly tbh, but long-term might be The Chain by Three Days Grace.
9. Languages I’m fluent in? English and bad English. That’s a Fifth Element reference i’m sorry
10. Languages I can count to ten in? English, Spanish, Tagalog.
11. Top 5 Mythical Creatures, in order? (1): Nagas (2): Imps (3): Ingkantos (4): Basilisks (5): Hellhounds
12: What’s your favorite sport? To watch/favorite on a professional level? Basketball, for sure. To play? Volleyball.
13: Favorite Musical Character? Erik/The Phantom from Phantom of the Opera. No one else even comes close to my obsession with him tbh.
14: Favorite TV Character? Hannibal Lecter, as played by Mads Mikkelsen.
15: Favorite Book Character? This question hurts my heart but honestly it’s probably Calder from Joe Abercrombie’s The Heroes/ the First Law series. Or Glokta, from the same. Or basically any of Abercrombie’s characters. All of them. Did I mention this is a hard question?
16: Are you a dog or a cat person? A dog person, for sure (although cats are great)! But unfortunately I’m allergic to both dogs and cats, so I don’t get to be around them very often. 😭
17: Favorite Genre? Grimdark fantasy, soft scifi, and literary fiction are my faves! But TBH I’m not very picky, I’ll read anything so long as I enjoy the prose.
18: Who is/are the best teachers you’ve ever had? Ahh... My parents, honestly. I grew up in a poor/shitty school district so, while I had some teachers I enjoyed, it was always my parents who taught me the most--not just in life but also academically. But I did really like my high school chem teacher!
19: Favorite Fanfiction (authored by someone else)? Honestly, this is such a hard question. I wrote fanfic for years. You would not believe how much of it I read. I guess... Turn (Harry Potter: Draco/Harry) and The Road Delivered Us Home (The Hobbit: Thorin/Bilbo) are the ones that I love and are well-written... But out there somewhere in the void is this fic titled In Too Deep (Legend of Zelda: Ghirahim/Link) which is probably my real favorite but the author took it down a couple years ago. Something about that fic always managed to stick with me and completely destroy my heart. When I was like, 13 and unbelievably depressed I used to steal some liquor and then I’d binge-read the fic in a matter of hours and then I’d send these super dramatic emails to @trash-fragments about the fic and I mean, this happened a lot, and now that whole thing seems super surreal and I’m genuinely upset that I can’t relieve those days anymore.
20: Favorite original story (authored by me)? Kinda hilarious (read: sad) b/c I’m not actively writing it right now--it’s been temporarily shelved b/c I need to sort some serious plot issues out with it--but Eosophobia is absolutely my favorite. It’s got biopunk, it’s got a post-apocalyptic world, it’s got a lot of varying immoral characters all out to get each other, it’s got slow burn romance, it’s got angst, it’s got found family, it’s got blood family, it’s got a lot of blood in general, it’s got engineered superviruses, it’s got sass, it’s literally got everything I could possibly ever want and it kills me that I can’t translate it onto the page yet.
21: What’s your favorite comic series on Webtoons? I’m highkey surprised that I remembered an answer for this, but I really like the series My Giant Nerd Boyfriend!! I don’t keep up with it tbh but I binged my way through a lot of it a couple months ago and it’s just super cute haha.
List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox of the last 10 people w̶h̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶b̶l̶o̶g̶g̶e̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶. on your dash (lol i'm lazy!) Spread the positivity! 🖤
I’m fine with lazy positivity (I’m going to go a step lazier and just tag people though)!
I’m at a happy moment in my life for the past few days so my 5 should be easy!
1) I got a brand new thermos that keeps my tea too hot to drink for about 5 hours! It’s amazing!
2) My love, who I left snoring this morning, sleeping in the whitest fluffiest blanket. They are so soft and so supportive of me and I do not deserve them in the least
3) The STEM Discord server, where I have built some amazing friendships with other fans of The Evil Within. They are all so wholesome and deserve such good things and have helped me out so much!
4) That moment when you realize that 3 hours have passed and you look at your wordcount and it’s over 3,000 words! I had that last night (for a lemon, the easiest thing to write) and after so long of struggling with writing it was just really nice!
5) Messages! They give me big anxiety! I’m so scared someone’s going to be mad at me, but it’s so rare that they actually are! I just want to interact with people more!
I know! Part of my brain feels like I have nothing else to do with my time, but the rest knows that I have a bunch of other projects waiting for attention :D
