#lukedykewalker

You absolutely can! And I am rooting for you!

Hrrm... sort of? There’ve been a few ‘John retires’ fics floating about, but the only one that could be considered recent was... personally I found it deeply unsettling, weirdly intensely sexual in places (I’ve always wanted a massage scene in a Chief fic but NOT LIKE THAT, it wasn’t even a ‘happy ending’ thing it was just SO WEIRD) and it was quite short, but I can link you to it if you wanna risk it.

My go-to for ages was My Neighbour Is A Spartan, which was often ooc or otherwise unsatisfactory between the glimmering moments that made me feel warm inside-- until it was rewritten later. It’s definitely much improved, though the end is a bit rushed (I don’t blame them, they were on that fic for YEARS) and though the overall story is much better most of those glimmering moments that kept me coming back are gone. Still, definitely a well-crafted fic that I still periodically come back to and more than worth a read!

Another I read through was A Spartan’s Peaceful Heartbeat which I don’t think of as fondly, but not because it’s bad. It’s a similar premise except there’s a lot more disruption from the press who manage to get Chief’s civvie ID, and that consistent invasion made me uncomfortable reading it because I empathised so much with poor John’s desire to be left alone. At one point he reflexively crushes a news camera and gets taken to court for property damage as the reporter tries to push for ‘threatening behaviour’ as well. It’s uncomfortably realistic in a frighteningly mundane way and that’s never a sentence I thought I’d type.

Honestly though, there’s not a lot. And people tend to have such wildly incorrect varying headcanons for John that it was probably a matter of time before I gave in and finally wrote something myself lmao

As of right now I’m about a dozen pages away from finishing the inks

but I got delayed because I learned last week that I got taken off the waitlist for TCAF and now have a table, so most of my energy has been put into getting last minute merch ready for early May haha.

11. what you have for breakfast on an average day?

at home cereal or an egg sandwich, in montana biscuits and gravy or nothing.

24. favorite crystal?

that’s such a hard question man, probably malachite

49. what saying or quote do you live by?

7: Have tattoos?

yes! i have one on my wrist & want a few more.

i want rainbow dots behind my ear, an assassins creed one either on my forearm or on my other wrist, the double venus symbol on my inner ankle, and probably a few more. the one i have now is the “i love you” handsign on my inner wrist

15: Favorite movie

my go to response to this is heathers, but also into the spiderverse!

39: My favorite ice cream flavor

halo top’s oatmeal cookie is to die for