#marlinowl

If you search for Stephanie Lawrence or Lesley Garrett on Youtube, you’ll get two studio recordings with completely original cadenzas.

13. Handcuffed

are we talking like, two dumb people accidentally getting handcuffed to each other and promptly becoming ridiculously aware of every time their sleeves brush, or are there more bedposts involved

i mean, either way i am all for it but it’s good to make sure

23. Someone has a baby

oh man tbh all of my favorite characters are mentally five years old, this would not work out well for the baby

ONE EXCEPTION would be acd!holmes grumpily putting up window screens on his sussex cottage so the bees don’t get near watson’s baby and watson just laughing at holmes as the baby starts chewing on his pile of monographs

favorite tense (past/present/future)

Present! There are wonderful, brilliant stories told out there in other tenses; I can't write them. Everything else just seems disingenuous as I'm writing it. 

what inspires you to write?

Everything would be a crap answer, wouldn't it? Let's see... I've written a Sherlock mind palace piece based on imagery from a Snow Patrol song I had stuck in my head... LTAS started because there wasn't enough phone sex fic in the Sterek tag... the office!AU was shamelessly ripped off of my own life experiences. The royal!AU was a prompt. Whatever sticks in my head and refuses to leave, I guess. 

Unless you want the floofy, hand-wavy answer, which is that I had things to say and a need for people to hear them. 

thoughts on critique

My life is a weird study in contrasts at the moment. There are things going on that make me absolutely giddy with joy, including lifelong dreams getting closer to reality, but then there are things so dark and awful and shameful they don't bear too much thought.

I sometimes miss having a big family. Thanksgiving is a bad time for that.

I would be mostly content with the idea of foregoing sex or relationships for the rest of my life, but there are beautiful fat girls I want to make out with, and also Richard Armitage.

I am procrastinating on tonight's writing to write this. :)

Two of the most satisfying things in the world for me to do are to finish the draft of a story or novel, and to solve a code problem for a website. I am unimaginably lucky to get to do both on a regular basis.

I've been without cable or satellite tv for over two years, and haven't missed it in the slightest.

I got arrested Thanksgiving weekend, 1999, on the way to a funeral--handcuffs and all. Now it's one of the funniest stories I have to tell--and it requires face-to-face telling for full effect. :)

My mother discovered that I knew how to read when I was four, and I announced randomly that the store we were driving past was open 24 hours, because the sign said so. I have no idea HOW I learned to read.

I took second place in a district-wide spelling bee when I was in eighth grade. The guy who took first has been married to my best friend for twenty years. (Or maybe I took first and he took second. I can't remember now.)

It seems like my askbox was lagging, because I woke up to six new messages all dated between last night and last week! o_O

I'm flattered that three of you sent them to me but I'm really terrible about coming up with new random facts about myself, especially since I used all the good ones for this list on my blog.

The feeling’s mutual, dear! Hahaha I was just worried that you’d already watched it is all. Thought I would have to go all by myself.