💖 What made you start writing?

💞 Who's your comfort character?

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It did indeed arrive twice! Tumblr always being tumblr...

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

I always seem to be commenting on the weather and the seasons in my fics. This isn't intentional, it just happens. Especially the signs of the seasons! Leaves turning, crocuses in bud, different birds at different times of year etc. I am very aware of these myself so maybe that's why? Since I can't stop myself putting it in, I try to make it meaningful and fitting in the chapter, but without being so pat that it tips over into cliché. This is a tough balance and I'm not sure I always hit it!

In terms of themes, I think at the moment I always seem to be thinking about work, and what it means to find one's work meaningful. That's now pretty consistent across multiple fics in multiple fandoms, so I think that's enough for it to count as common!

💖 What made you start writing?

I honestly think I always have, ever since I could hold a pencil. I still have a journal from when I was six!

Both my parents were constantly telling stories. Mum read with us every night, and Dad used to make up stories for us. These either starred his own original characters, or occasionally it would basically be fanfiction of our favourites from books (mostly the continuing adventures of Postman Pat). He used to incorporate all our suggestions, no matter how wacky. So my first experience of making up stories was probably even before I could write, in collaboration with my family, and then once I could write writing my stories down along with my journal entries and poems seemed natural enough. I think my first stories were all absolutely terrible Narnia fanfiction.

💞 Who's your comfort character?

hehe, thanks!

1. Who would you rather swap aesthetics/outfits with for a day?

They're all wearing school uniforms, so it's hardly going to make much odds. I'll take the gentian blue edition as that always sounded nice.

2. Who do you team up with in a 2v2 volleyball match? Which side wins?

Con. We can both be hopeless at it together and let the other two win so then we can get on with chatting about writing fantasy or historical fiction.

3. If each of them got one million dollars, who would waste/spend their money the fastest?

Margot. The others would both definitely spend a little, buy gifts for their large family and then put the rest away. If one of them was going to do something wild with it, it'd be Margot. I'm not sure what though, because $1 million in Chalet School terms is a LOT.

Mind you, Len might found a scholarship for the school if she's left it. Maybe that's the most likely way for one of them to use it up sooner.

(Also, Joey would not approve! XD)

4. Who would die first in a horror movie? Who would be the survivor?

Margot would die first. If anyone's going to run off from the group or do the thing that you've been told not to go, or go to the place, it's going to be Margot.

Len surviving with the other two dead would be the most actual horror this scenario can conjure, so she'll have to sacrifice herself to make sure Con gets out.

Con will sleepwalk and writes horror novels ever after in this disturbing AU :-(

5. They're all on the run from the law! What crimes did each commit and who is most likely to get caught?

I don't mean to keep blaming Margot, but I strongly suspect that she's committed the crime and the other two are refusing to say which of them committed the crime and all on the run together to protect their fellow triplet.

Nice!!! I think the references to partying, sex, and bad decisions work particularly well for (early) Scanan, too:

“Might get your friend to drive, but he can hardly see/ We'll end up painted on the road/ Red and chrome/ All the broken glass sparkling/ I guess we're partying” 

In a completely different vein, this song was also sent in for Caleb & Nott!

Rogues!! Perhaps because much like Nott, I, too, am an accidental one. And also because thieves and assassins are some of my favorite character archetypes. You could sell me on a piece of fiction purely by telling me there are heists and/or assassins involved.

Clerics! They’re so incredibly versatile, and I love the ways that all of the different domains give you a lot of different themes to play around with. None of the clerics we’ve seen in Critical Role have been even remotely alike in how they play their class and I love it so much.

Bards! (I think i may just really love support classes?) Storytellers with the power to change reality with their stories? Music as magic? Being able to persuade people at disadvantage after making an Objectively Bad Argument, just because you literally leak Charisma out your pores? Sign me the fuck up. (I am already signed the fuck up.)

I’d really love to play a Druid because I’ve always been drawn to elemental- and nature-oriented characters and stories. But also it seems very daunting.

Monks—similar to clerics, I really like the thematic versatility built in with them. But I’m not necessarily drawn to melee classes generally, and I tend to like casting classes. (Though Sorcerers and Warlocks scare me)

Ahhh thank you!! Hmm, okay, five things:

- my cats

- my future wife

- pizza

- people who interact with fanfiction

Thank you so much for the ask! This was a surprisingly tough one to answer - I think all the bits of my current WIP that I like the most are the metafictional ones where Dot is thinking about what would happen in a detective story, but of course those are kind of plot-critical and I don't want to reveal them here! Instead, have some (rather sad) character development for her:

One kind, funny Mathematics Scholar had kissed her in her bathers at Parsons Pleasure and made vague noises about introducing her to his people. Said people having been clergy, he’d been stuffed full of ideas about Doing One’s Bit as a youth and had signed up the moment it had become clear where things were headed. Dead now, of course. Drowned in a training exercise before the first shot was fired. Dot had cried her eyes out when she’d heard the news, although in fact there hadn’t been much to it beyond a handful of kisses and a mutual drifting apart. Even when she’d heard the news, she could remember little about him beyond a few silly puns and a nice smile. Later she’d realised she had been crying for the waste.

I was tagged by @elennare​ (thanks!)

Share ten different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media, in no particular order, then tag ten people. 

I’ve done this before, so probably not too many surprises:

1. Spooks | MI5 - Ruth Evershed

(RUTH MY DARLING fave of faves.  this has some bonus Tom Quinn and is from one of my all time fave eps of anything, too.)

2. Sapphire & Steel - Silver

(with some bonus Sappire and a grumpy Steel’s hand to complete the perfect ot3)

3. Doctor Who - Seventh Doctor

(Doctor Who is VERY hard only to have one fave, and of course, in the end it must be the Doctor, and Seven remains my favourite Doctor.)

4. Blake’s 7 - Vila Restal

(I think I usually put Servalan, but B7 is also hard and I usually end up going for Vila or Servalan, so today, let’s have Vila.)

5. Legends of Tomorrow - Zari Tomaz | Zari Tarazi

(LoT is fun, but either Zari has been my runaway fave ever since she turned up.  Er.  Both of her.)

6. Department S - Annabelle Hurst

(She’s so matter of fact but she feels things a lot, and also is great at sending up Jason.)

7. Press Gang - Lynda Day

(Formative fave. <3)

8. The Librarians - Jenkins

(I love everybody in this bar magic library, but Jenkins most of all. <3)

9. Adam Adamant Lives! - Georgina Jones

(I love Adam too, and they obv go together, so have both, but Georgie = <3)

10. Public Eye - Frank Marker

(I’ve been talking about Public Eye/Enemy at the Door/Mr Palfrey lately, so that was a reminder, and Frank remains such a great character, so wonderfully played.)

ahaha, I suppose that is only fair, @elennare!

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most)

Like you, probably Nell and Hilda, and maybe Nell the most.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped)

I'm not sure I have one. Let's just say the Robin. Canon says she is the cutest and gives the best hugs, so let's go with it, why not? She does seem pretty sweet, and having to go be a nun because of TB is unfair. (Which, yes, when Elinor was young was believed to be hereditary & was still often thought of as such right up until the Tirol period, but isn't. So she doesn't need to be a nun! Still,at least she doesn't have to marry a doctor...)

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave)

Hilary Burn, maybe? I'm always annoyed that we missed her terms as head girl!

Plus, Rosalie Way, who was going to be another author and be in a ship with Tom Gay, who just gets sort of... forgotten. Or Elinor can't remember what her surname is after about 2 books.

A lot of love for Gisela, too, who doesn't reappear later, unlike most of the other main originals.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week)

I feel I must have plenty of these, given the nature of the series, but at the moment, I'm the furthest from a re-read I've ever been in my life. Katherine Gordon, maybe? I read The Wrong Chalet School as one of the first few I owned, and so she seemed like a major character and then... really isn't.

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave)

Grizel! I love her so much, and she does genuinely do some bad stuff, if for understandable reasons. (I understand the meow meow should actually have at least tried to commit murder, but this is the CS. I think the only person who did that for real was Deira, of Grizel, in a fit of rage. Probably.)

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason)

Do you mean, throw off the side of a mountain for their personal betterment, meme? Because clearly all of them get this in canon. XD

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell)