Figured it was about time I create a masterpost to pin on my blog.
Name: Kogarashi, Amanda, "hey you"
Editor, (fandom) writer, freelance artist
Multifandom geek and generally crafty jack-of-all-trades (master of none)
~ I Draw ~ I Write ~ I Craft ~
Outside links here, but the most relevant is probably my Archive of our Own page.
You can buy me a cocoa (Ko-fi) if you want to throw a tip my way, and you can buy things with my art on Redbubble (slowly adding to inventory).
I also have a side blog for reblogging art I like, and now a side blog for reblogging other people's fiction.
I have a tag list for things like tag games. Want on (or off) the list? Just leave a comment on the linked post.
Fandoms, collected posts, commission info, etc. below the cut to keep this shorter on my page.
Quick links to my OCs:
Castelin Cousland | Aelinn Hawke | Tyria Lavellan | Saadrah Mercar
There are a lot of fandoms I'm in (or at least consider myself a part of, even if mostly on the sidelines). The biggest three would probably be:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Dragon Age
Mass Effect
But you'll find me posting things from other fandoms from time to time. If you followed me for one specific fandom but it seems like my hyperfixation has shifted, if you stick around long enough I'm sure it'll shift back.
I've got some sets of posts where I've put together a masterpost to link them all in one place, or have a collective tag for useful things. You can find them here:
Writing Tips (mine specifically; you can find more under the tag "writing advice")
Art Resources (I may not have every resource post properly tagged for this one, but I did my best)
My fandom headcanons
Yes, I do take commissions for both art and writing. If you don't see a type of commission listed below that you're interested in, you can always send me a message to ask.
OCs or canon characters (or both)
No NSFW
I find mechs difficult but I'm willing to give it a fair go
Digital delivery
Payment will be handled through Ko-fi (if you don't see an option on Ko-fi, message me), or you can send me a DM to discuss alternate payment methods.
What you Get:
High-res digital copy of your commission
Limited personal-use print rights (no re-selling, but you can get it printed on media/merchandise of your choice for your own use)
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I know hosting an event can be hard and there's a ton of work involved. I don't want to discredit everything you're doing because it is huge.
But this response doesn't encourage people to participate. You never know when an event is someone's first ever foray into fandom or first event. They may not even know there is an FAQ.
The person asking even asked as an anon - likely nervous.
It can be frustrating to answer the same questions over and over again. I know. I get it. It drives me up a wall some days.
But this response would have scared me away when I was new in fandom.
Okay, this one definitely looks fun (I'm impressed with all the options!).
make this picrew and put your name in the incorrect quote generator!
Thanks for the tags, @sandcastlekings, @genjyoandgojyoandhakkai, @serialsforbellara, and @jellyeliart! I loved seeing what you guys got for your quotes. 😂
No long braid option that I could see, so loose hair it is! And after Vilz pointed it out, I couldn't pass up Sonic-related options.
And that...is actually something I could see myself saying.
You know, things are going a bit too smoothly. Let's fix that. 😈 Featuring some new Enemies, but also a rogue Rook's canonical pocket full of firecrackers.
Dum Lux Est, Spes Est(where there's light, there's hope)
Chapter 4: Enemies
Rating: T
Words: 1,461
Snippet:
Minrathous nights near the markets were not at all sleepy, Saadrah determined, walking back to her rented room in the Hanging District after another long day of work. Her muscles burned with the not-so-pleasant ache of hard labor, and she was sure her calluses had calluses by this point, but it was also payday, and she could feel the comfortable weight of coin thumping against her thigh as she walked. All around, she could hear the sounds of the district’s night life. Different in turns from that in the other districts, but also quite the same. Music and cheers in the taverns. Conversation on the street corners. Merchants still calling out their last-minute wares, promising discounts for the late hour.
People living.
The air was warm and smelled like fried foods and cheap beer and a salty wash of the sea. Not home, but not terrible either.
Almost a year in the city, and Saadrah was finally starting to see how it could grow on a person.
Like a fungus, sometimes, but still.
A routine planetary mission to collect a few caches goes awry when the Hammerhead is shot down. Shepard finds herself falling back on her N7 training to get herself and Garrus through their unfortunate predicament, with more than a few bones to pick with Cerberus about their idea of "field-ready."
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
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I tagged anyone who may be interested. I decided to go through with it. This is a sideblog where I'll be posting music I like. That's it. Just music. I don't tend to share much about my preferences but I always adored music. My taste tends to be all over the place, so I hope you like at least some of the stuff I find. (99% of it is on youtube btw)
This is the account: @lapsed-alto
Feel free to share it to anyone who may be interested. I'll be making a few posts for the vibe.
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(sees results) do you people not have traditions? I'm not even a traditional type but... is this a location thing? In my country, everyone is named after a grandparent. EVERYONE.
I'm going to guess location thing. While there are traditions of naming people after family, in the US at least, a lot more people will go with original names they like (whether from media or just something they heard or something they made up or whatever) for first names, at least. In my personal experience, you're more likely to find the family names as middle names, unless it's considered a more "timeless" one.
For example, I mentioned in my tags that I'm technically named after a waitress, because my parents liked the name they saw on a waitress's nametag while I was still in utero. My middle name is the traditional name, and comes from both of my grandmothers (because they had the same middle name as each other).
My husband, meanwhile, has a unique first name (I don't know if it came from somewhere), but his middle name comes from one of his grandfathers.
So when we were having kids, we picked names we liked for their first names and then all of them got family names for their middle names (oldest two have their grandmothers' first names as their middle names, while the younger two have my middle name and my husband's middle name as their middle names).
Similarly, two of my sisters have "traditional" names (next-oldest has my mother's middle name as her middle name, and my youngest sister has my dad's initials but not any of his names), but my other two sisters don't. Some of their kids have traditional names (mostly middle names, at least one first name pulled from family several generations back), but some don't. It really depends on what the parents want.
And given that I had a friend in high school who had a "traditional" name that she really hated, I don't mind that it isn't a widespread guarantee. I'm not the biggest fan of many of the names in my family tree (they work for their generations, but not so much mine), and I probably would have mutinied if I'd been named Agnes or Phyllis.
And of course, take all of this with a grain of salt, because I don't claim to speak for the entire US, just what I've seen in my own experience.
(sees results) do you people not have traditions? I'm not even a traditional type but... is this a location thing? In my country, everyone is named after a grandparent. EVERYONE.
I'm going to guess location thing. While there are traditions of naming people after family, in the US at least, a lot more people will go with original names they like (whether from media or just something they heard or something they made up or whatever) for first names, at least. In my personal experience, you're more likely to find the family names as middle names, unless it's considered a more "timeless" one.
For example, I mentioned in my tags that I'm technically named after a waitress, because my parents liked the name they saw on a waitress's nametag while I was still in utero. My middle name is the traditional name, and comes from both of my grandmothers (because they had the same middle name as each other).
My husband, meanwhile, has a unique first name (I don't know if it came from somewhere), but his middle name comes from one of his grandfathers.
So when we were having kids, we picked names we liked for their first names and then all of them got family names for their middle names (oldest two have their grandmothers' first names as their middle names, while the younger two have my middle name and my husband's middle name as their middle names).
Similarly, two of my sisters have "traditional" names (next-oldest has my mother's middle name as her middle name, and my youngest sister has my dad's initials but not any of his names), but my other two sisters don't. Some of their kids have traditional names (mostly middle names, at least one first name pulled from family several generations back), but some don't. It really depends on what the parents want.
And given that I had a friend in high school who had a "traditional" name that she really hated, I don't mind that it isn't a widespread guarantee. I'm not the biggest fan of many of the names in my family tree (they work for their generations, but not so much mine), and I probably would have mutinied if I'd been named Agnes or Phyllis.
And of course, take all of this with a grain of salt, because I don't claim to speak for the entire US, just what I've seen in my own experience.
And that's probably what it is, then. If most of the people answering have middle names that are from family but first names that are from wherever, and the poll's asking about first names, that'd skew things.
Oh, fun fact, at least two of my niblings (children of my siblings/sibs-in-law) are named after characters from popular media. Meanwhile, one of my kids is named after one of my college roleplaying characters.
(sees results) do you people not have traditions? I'm not even a traditional type but... is this a location thing? In my country, everyone is named after a grandparent. EVERYONE.
I'm going to guess location thing. While there are traditions of naming people after family, in the US at least, a lot more people will go with original names they like (whether from media or just something they heard or something they made up or whatever) for first names, at least. In my personal experience, you're more likely to find the family names as middle names, unless it's considered a more "timeless" one.
For example, I mentioned in my tags that I'm technically named after a waitress, because my parents liked the name they saw on a waitress's nametag while I was still in utero. My middle name is the traditional name, and comes from both of my grandmothers (because they had the same middle name as each other).
My husband, meanwhile, has a unique first name (I don't know if it came from somewhere), but his middle name comes from one of his grandfathers.
So when we were having kids, we picked names we liked for their first names and then all of them got family names for their middle names (oldest two have their grandmothers' first names as their middle names, while the younger two have my middle name and my husband's middle name as their middle names).
Similarly, two of my sisters have "traditional" names (next-oldest has my mother's middle name as her middle name, and my youngest sister has my dad's initials but not any of his names), but my other two sisters don't. Some of their kids have traditional names (mostly middle names, at least one first name pulled from family several generations back), but some don't. It really depends on what the parents want.
And given that I had a friend in high school who had a "traditional" name that she really hated, I don't mind that it isn't a widespread guarantee. I'm not the biggest fan of many of the names in my family tree (they work for their generations, but not so much mine), and I probably would have mutinied if I'd been named Agnes or Phyllis.
And of course, take all of this with a grain of salt, because I don't claim to speak for the entire US, just what I've seen in my own experience.
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A routine planetary mission to collect a few caches goes awry when the Hammerhead is shot down. Shepard finds herself falling back on her N7 training to get herself and Garrus through their unfortunate predicament, with more than a few bones to pick with Cerberus about their idea of "field-ready."
Posted to the Shakarian Mini-Bang 2026 collection on the AO3.
Going to see children and adolescents dance badly, play ball badly, sing badly, play recorder badly because they are young: YES! YOU ARE LEARNING! INCREDIBLE!
People are so rude about going to watch the children in their lives do stuff shittily. “Ugh toddler dance recital,” “ugh tee-ball weekend again,” “ugh nativity play.”
That guy learned what skipping is this year and now he’s playing the piano the worst I’ve ever seen but the best he’s ever done! AREN’T YOU CAPTIVATED BY THEIR ABILITY TO DO A LITTLE BIT WHEN PREVIOUSLY THEY COULD DO NOTHING? Be filled with wonder and joy!
Went to my little cousin’s first band concert recently, in which she had a trumpet solo. After playing it, she looked over at where we were all sitting and looked so pleased and proud of herself. I want to remember that moment for the rest of my life.
