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What is your wildest headcanon?

I have a few.

MCU: Sam Wilson was a band kid in high school.

Stargate Atlantis: There’s something a little off about John Sheppard. While he’s very good at pretending to be normal, sometimes, when things are getting real and lives are on the line, the mask slips just a bit. Just a little uncanny valley for anyone lucky enough to survive the next few minutes. (It does kind of explain the in-canon luck, and the body count)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “The monks made her out of me” – Dawn Summers was Buffy’s daughter; specifically, Buffy was pregnant when the monks made the Key into human form… and that microscopic embryo was taken and aged and given memories through magic, and shoved into Buffy’s life as her little sister, not her daughter.

And I kinda always thought Buffy knew that.

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What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

Worldbuilding: Inevitable – especially in levelling-up Anita’s powers through the Bokor Majeur, and everything about the London vampires and Elsa in particular.

Relationships: Child of the Wolf – Everything about this fic just snaps into place with Stiles as the centre of everything, with Scott and Derek and the pack and with Allison and Lydia and his dad, as well as the Avengers side of things as well. Even though it took me seven years to finish (and even that was inspired by MCU-motivated spite) I really like it how it rounded out into a nice fic. Which, of course, I then blew apart in Hour of the Wolf, but it wouldn’t have hurt so much if Allison hadn’t had so much to lose.  

Overall presentation: Hands of Clay. Considering the domestic AU nature of the story, it could have turned out kinda lame, but I think that the real life nature of things really played out well, and the relationships that develop between the four members of the eventual Buck-Rogers Barnes-Rogers family made for a really interesting story. Writing Bucky’s PTSD was hard, ngl, but also slightly cathartic.

Also, a word on endings. One of the things I always regretted about Inevitable was ending is so abruptly – it was what it was, but I always sort of felt that the emotional weight of what was happening didn’t land as I had intended. With Hands of Clay, I really, really wanted to wrap things up where Bucky and Steve (and Natasha and Clint) all got their happily-ever-after, especially after everything Natasha went through in the latter chapters.

So we got the outtakes. Clint getting his dog. Natasha asking Steve to adopt her. Steve’s hilarious attempt at proposing. And then the final chapter: the wedding, and Bucky getting to have everyone in his life in one room, with some good food, watching him getting married to the love of his life.

Not bad, even if I do say so myself :)

time loop: A+++++. i love it. i love them. i eat them. they are the right texture. despair. temporary character death. guilt. laughter. mystery solving for forever. how much do you trust the people beside you. how do you get out. can you get out. love it mua mua muah.

eldritch: B. i don't go out searching for them and it depends on the author. I like writing it a lot but reading it really depends heavily on the author and fandom. I am almost always down for weird little eldritch kids who are loved immensely, though. it's the undiagnosed childhood autism in me.

gods/spirits: B again. largely the same as eldritch, but now with more of a power fantasy. I love a good 'now you fucked up' moment in these.

Thank you so much!! I’ve never considered myself particularly good at “world-building”, as it were, so over the months it’s been super shocking/lovely to hear y’all enjoy my meandering take on Konoha and its politics :D 

12 Talk about a new friend you made this year

making friends is hard at any time, and this pandemic has been grinding away at things, you know? part of me is happy I haven't lost every friend I have. maybe that can be a 2023 new year's resolution, to try to meet at least one (1) new person in a social context.

18 A memorable meal this year?

I have a few! Mostly memorable because I took pictures and as they say, pictures or it didn't happen.

Memorable food: in June, I went to the Vancouver Art Gallery with a good friend and we had a really interesting conversation about AI, as there was an exhibit on the history of Artificial Intelligence, then after we went to Hawksworth (one of those swank places that is too pretentious for people who have to work for a living) for lunch because why not play into the stereotype of ladies who lunch. I got the beef wellington because if i'm going to pretend i may as well go hard, and blew my restaurant budget for the month but it was actually worth it. Also, a raspberry gelato that was perfectly sweet and tart, as a good raspberry do.

Memorable conversation: in April, a group of us went to the Cannibal Cafe, a Vancouver punk standby) and I had the below burger and while the burger wasn't all that memorable (it needed more sauce) one of the attendees spent some time detailing Willem Dafoe's, uh, prodigious filmography. At length.

Memorable presentation: the time my mother cut a cake like this:

24 Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

the only one I really kept was my promise to myself to stop stressing myself to death over my email, which I achieved through a poor man's inbox zero - ie create a folder called "2022" and, when an email comes in, triage this way:

IF it can be replied to right away and I feel like it, THEN reply and file.

OR IF it needs to be dealt with later, or it has a longer runway, THEN make a note in a OneNote called DEAL WITH THIS SHIT and then file the email

OR if I can delete it i delete it

I have 6,423 emails in the 2022 folder at this point which is kind of gross but at least I know that I only dropped seven balls this year, not 6,423.