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hiii, friend <3

15. a song that is covered by another artist

ooh, i mean, "wait so long" covered by motion city soundtrack and originally by trampled by turtles is one of my all-timers. i've loved that song for a long time.

a cover that's more recently come into my life and generates a similar amount of joy is "spin" covered by the front bottoms and originally by bad bad hats.

17. a song that would sing a duet with on karaoke

i assume this question wants me to pick a song i would sing as a duet for karaoke, but i'm taking it to mean i'd pick the song as my duet partner to sing a third song because that kind of personification appeals to me.

anyway, the answer is "more than it hurts you" by the front bottoms. all around pal, great karaoke partner i'd reckon.

for a legit duet, i feel a deep connection with "coney island" by taylor swift and that's, like, comfortably in my range. i've never done adult karaoke so i don't have any go-tos, but i think i could avoid embarrassing myself too hard with that one.

you remembered independently of me posting about it this year. 🥺 i'm already quite fond of you (you're one of maybe two or three blogs i go to directly when i'm making time to scroll, which is not very often these days) but this was a friendship level-up moment. you're never getting rid of me now.

hiii 💙

4. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?

honestly? i have a morbid and niggling (if passive) interest in the 'fuck or die' trope. partly because i read this witcher fic at the height of my witcher interest and it lodged permanently in my brain and partly because i'm intrigued at how the darkness of the trope might intersect with my largely bubbly writing style. sex being a fun and silly expression of a particular relationship dynamic being something so prevalent in my work makes me interested in how i could lodge that into such a starkly violating trope. idk.

9. tell us about a wip/idea that you're excited about!

seeing as i brought it up just last night, i'll take the moment to say more about 'emotions, stumble, commotion', the [kinda] sequel to hot air balloon. even the concept is incomplete at the moment (or, three times Devi and Ben treat the principal’s office as couple’s therapy and the one time they…) but so far i'm kinda smug about how well ethan's section of the prologue came out, especially considering i had to rewatch a select few of his scenes to remember what the fuck that kid even sounded like.

An excerpt -

The last person Devi is expecting to run into at the Martin Pollard Branch Library is known degenerate Ethan Morales. He’s sitting on the bike rack outside, but still.

“Damn.” She stops in her tracks when their eyes meet. “You got pretty.”

He gives her a once-over. “You got snackable thighs.”

She opens her mouth, then snaps it shut again. Says, “How come you can make unhinged horny observations out loud, and it sounds cool? When I do it, I get asked to leave In-n-Out.”

Ethan laughs. “I think it’s the growth spurt.”

“Yeah,” Devi says, letting her eyes tumble down the length of him. “I can see that.”

“Excuse me.”

Devi glances over her shoulder at the harried mother trying to usher her kids into the library. “Oh,” she says, shifting out of the entrance. “Sorry.”

“Coulda just gone around her,” Ethan points out, then flips the woman the bird when she sneers at him.

“Damn, you don’t need to do all that,” Devi says, grabbing for his finger. “Put that thing away.”

He hooks it around hers, though, and bites his lip. “What if I like having it out?”

She blinks. “O-okay.”

“Wanna makeout?” he asks.

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top 5 snacks (at the moment):

been all about guacamole

dill pickle spears!!!!

easter egg shaped reese's

cold cuts

one (1) naval orange

top 5 comfort movies:

work it (2020) - yes, still. 😔

life partners (2014)

then came you (2018)

idk, surely others but nothing is coming to mind

number 20 answered here!

72. What order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?

chronological as much as possible, though i mentioned my brain working faster than my ability to write, so often the bottom of my doc is littered with scene snippets or clever pieces of dialogue i didn't want to forget. almost never do these snippets end up connecting to the fic as they were written down, but it still helps my sense of forward momentum to have them as a promise to fulfill.

3. name five things that are NOT going to happen next

HM this is fun! ok so the things that are not going to happen next: Tim is not going to relax, Bruce isn't going to notice, nobody is going to have a direct conversation with Tim about taking some time off (or should they??), the OC he's working on a class project with isn't going to cut him some slack, and his shoulder isn't going to get better. :)

11. what’s going through each character’s head in this moment?