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LMAO that's my modern au monkleya fanfic. It's actually a spin-off to my 'Cinta Legs it Out a Window' (which is velcinta, of course), following Kleya as she gets invited to Leida Mothma's 18th birthday party.

I feel I might have posted this excerpt before, but it still makes me laugh whenever I look at it, so... Behold!

hi sarah ! i have some velcinta just for u! this was actually my first time writing them... i hope u enjoy!

"You're nervous." For a moment, Vel thinks about lying. About denying it and saying No I'm not, I have faith in them. But she can't lie to Cinta. She would catch it immediately, with the way that Vel's leg is bouncing (a nervous habit she thought she'd gotten rid of), and really, Vel has never really been all that great at lying in the first place, she always tends to give it away without meaning to. Besides, she can't lie to Cinta when Cinta's looking at her like that. Big, brown eyes sharp and focused, but Vel can see the fondness in them. Vel runs a hand through her hair. "Yeah, I am," she agrees, since there's no point in lying. "These Ghorman rebels don't know what they're doing. Someone's going to get hurt if they're not careful." Cinta hums. She reaches out, cupping Vel's face. Vel leans into the warmth of her touch. "They have to start somewhere. They're ready, Vel." Vel isn't too sure about that. She's not sure what it is, but she's got this…feeling that something isn't quite right. Cinta must see the doubt written on her face. "We've gone over it dozens of times," Cinta reassures. A small, selfish part of Vel wants to stay in this moment forever. Just the two of them, and no rookie Ghorman Front to worry about. But the Rebellion comes first. It always has, it always will. Cinta's thumb brushes her cheek, a softness that Vel wishes she could melt further into, and three words threaten to spill past her lips. Three words that are long overdue, but she can't say. Not now, not yet. When this is over. So instead, she settles for: "Kiss for luck?" Cinta looks at her a moment, the ghost of a grin tugging at her lips, before rolling her eyes fondly and indulging her. Vel doesn't believe in luck or the Force or any of those things, for that matter, but she believes in this Rebllion, and more importantly, she believes in Cinta Kaz.

top 5 episodes of tv

i am so bad at differentiating between episodes of tv in a season, but here are a few that come to mind:

every season finale of hacks has made me want to go out onto my balcony and scream so loudly that it detaches from the foundations and collapses and i die in a pile of rubble

definitely at least one episode of severance, i think if i’m picking a specific one it would be 2.07 chikhai bardo or 2.10 cold harbor (i really debated picking the s1 finale instead but i think that one is best with the two episodes before it)

alias 2.13, phase one. iykyk

going on record as a liker of the bear 2.06 fishes

agatha all along 1.07 death’s hand in mine!!!!!!

the sextina aquafina abortion episode of bojack horseman

THE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS PILOT

the black sails series finale

killing eve 1.05 and 3.08

that's more than five but i didn't think i'd be able to come up with any, so i'm not cutting it down

top 5 recent reads (i'm answering this as top 5 from this year so far)

the likeness by tana french

evenings & weekends by oisin mckenna

the seven year slip by ashley poston

perfume & pain by anna dorn

Oooh i love this, even though i struggle so hard with callsigns

I wanna say Vel’s is just Rebel (even in an au she’s the “everyone has their own rebellion” character). And I’m thinking something like Dagger for Cinta, but if I use that I have to ignore how all the pilots are called daggers in the second movie’s big mission. Well who am i kidding, I have to ignore a great many things any time I even think about writing top gun stuff lol

HE DOES. The lore behind it will SHOCK YOU (he says he can't remember why he posted it or where it came from but "Chances are that someone chatted shit and got banged over the years")

Also this is the quote I've been using to pitch this book to people (Chapter 2)

totally random but this is my first time answering asks on my laptop instead of mobile in a while (i guess??) and the emojis........look so cute wtf.

anyway..........god what to say. i know i see your posts and i'm always like "man why is sarah so right about everything" so big brain moves there dude. and like!!! seeing tidbits ab your job is insane to me like. i'm very much in like minded career uh people but hearing about what you do is wiiiiiild. SO cool!!