#abigailspinach

As many ideas as I can type in two minutes and maybe one will spark joy

- undercover at a circus and hijinks ensue on the trapeze

- vampire werewolf witch AU (Jo is not the witch)

- two gossiping and having snacks while the third repairs a broken space engine and shoots death glares

- together as force ghosts in the after life watching the chaotic order 66 padawans like a soap opera (not now, my stories are on.)

- modern day AU at the college coffee shop / laundromat : weird guy out back selling weed

- hard boiled noir space detectives AU

- mimosa on the beach 🏖️

- Calvin and Hobbes style art 🖼️

- running away from a carnivorous gelatinous cube

- daemon AU …. Everyone needs an animal sidekick

Emily of New Moon

Favorite line or favorite outfit

I struggled for ages to think of a single outfit Emily wears and couldn't remember one 😅 So favourite line it is!

“I am important to myself,” cried Emily proudly.

You tell them Emily!

All children (people) are important to themselves and deserve to be treated as such.

14, 15, or 29?

Since I have already answered 15 and 29:

14. what's a hobby you'd like to get into?

4 8 or 20

Please and thanks!

4. if you could do anything at all today, what would it be?

I wish I'd had time to pet the MSPCA kitties today. That would have been nice.

8. favorite month of the year and why?

October! Not too hot, not too cold, not too dark, and it's got my anniversary on the 1st and Halloween on the 31st.

20. what do you wish someone would ask you?

What I'm doing tomorrow.

Does this involve Noodle????

i am intrigued by all the WIPs. Ian helping with Franny's arrival sounds adorable (and stressful)

So this one is a very silly idea for a short fic that is basically just a retelling of Gideon the Ninth in the style of the kid's book Funnybones. So alas, no Noodle.

The idea came from my eldest kid, when he was 3/4 finding my copy of Gideon the Ninth on the shelf and asking if "it's like Funnybones for grown ups?" I was so charmed by this notion I wrote the following:

This is how the story begins. In a dark dark system, there was a dark dark planet. On the dark dark planet was a dark dark city. In the dark dark city was a dark dark barracks. In the dark dark barracks there was a dark dark staircase. Down the dark dark staircase there was a dark dark room. In the dark dark room, some skeletons lived. There was a necromancer skeleton, a cavalier skeleton, and a metaphorical skeleton in the closet. One night, the cavalier skeleton sat up in bed. She scratched her not-yet-painted skull-face. "What shall we do tonight?" she said. The necromancer skeleton said "Let's take the shuttle for a ride to the first house. And frighten somebody!" "Terrible idea!" said the cavalier skeleton. But she agreed to it anyway, because reasons.

12 or 18 for LMM (Emily or Anne books)

thank you for playing!!!

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Dean Priest, please see the rest of my blog for details.

Not to repeat myself, though, I guess I'll nominate Paul Irving. I never thought he was unpopular until the Anne of the Island book club, but he did catch a lot of heat. I do get it from a certain point of view--he's in this awkward position of being an Anne-adjacent figure, but since we're seeing him in the second degree, he's much less charming than we find Anne herself. Nevertheless, there's a weird Victorian charm about him that offers an interesting glimpse into the kind of book Maud thought she was writing in her early days, before she embraced her more edgy style (though I don't only want to blame her early-career style for creating Paul. She did much the same with Little Elizabeth many years later). She refined Paul's prototype much more in her later books in the form of Walter (and in a way, Emily), but a lot of similarities are there.

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

Gertrude Oliver!! I will be a Gertrude Oliver fan for LIFE. This is largely because this most recent Rilla reread convinced me she's got all of my favorite Maud characteristics in one: fey (like Emily), clever and cynical and a good mentor (like Mr. Carpenter and Dean Priest), bitter about the rough hand she got dealt by life (like Katherine Brooke), has striking looks but isn't conventionally good-looking (basically all her heroines). She is such a bold presence on the page, yet she's such a minor character. If I am going to write any Anne-world fic, I will probably write it about Gertrude Oliver.

Or

Top five songs on your Barisokha playlist

Or

Top five breakfast foods

Babu Frick, I am not immune

The Rancor is not small but the puppet is, and it’s hella scrunky

I just love that there were five dudes puppeting Jabba

I’m calling BB8 a puppet, smooth but scrunky

Specifically the now erased Phantom Menace Yoda puppet, gone but not forgotten.

Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) which I just added is heavy in my playlist now

Doing It to Death is great for getting me into a mood

I don’t know if anyone else sees the vision but Let’s Go by Stuck in the Sound is just such an Ahsoka song to me

Party and Bullshit in the USA is a masterwork mashup, it just works

The Perfect Kiss just feels like the gayest song of all time, I love the 9 minute version

Sugary cereal and then using the milk in my coffee

Any pastry with almond paste, I’m a fiend for it

Just like a poker hand of those gross McDonald’s hashbrown cakes

Chicken and waffles

Surprise cat in the inbox 📨

AH I ALMOST DIDNT SEE THIS :D HELLO SURPRISE KITTY !!! <3 here is my surprise kitty back :3c