#ruinconstellation

so, back at the dawn of time in 2002 a friend sent me a livejournal invitation (back when you needed a friend to invite you) and I wanted to create a new alias - at the time I had a few, that I was using on various forums, but time for a change etc.

At the time (and somewhat unrelated) I was on a bit of a theology kick, and for reasons that are better explained in person I thought I'd use "Malachi' as my livejournal alias... only it was taken. So I started adding letters until I got to something that wasn't taken, and landed on Mhalachai. When I started posting fanfic in 2004, it was the name I used, and 22 years later, it's still my nom de plume.

My mom was in town over the weekend, so we a) planned our big summer trip, and b) went to a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant run by a local Muslim family, which has truly excellent gyros, falafel, baklava, etc. Which caused me to remark, as I do periodically, that I truly cannot understand why you would ever want America to be a horribly boring place of only white people, strip malls, and McDonald's. The only thing that has ever made it great in any description is people from all over the world coming here, WANTING to come here, and sharing their cultures/cuisine/experience. So like... yeah. Yeah.

Thank you all so much!

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19 Who is the easiest/hardest character for you to write about? Why? 

Bucky Barnes is both easy and hard. Partly because I based my early Bucky (in Widow’s Tale) on the comics version, then tried to shoehorn that character to fit the MCU characterization. (Note to self: Never do that. MCU has butchered a number of characters over the course of the movies’ run, Bucky being key among them.) I finally managed to get a good handle on Bucky in Hands of Clay (domestic modern dad guy)... only to run up against a wall to try to forget all of that when writing Hour of the Wolf (traumatized time travelling werewolf). 

But does that stop me? No.  

23 If you had to remix one of your own fics, which would it be and how would you remix it? 

I did a bit of this with Dawning Light back in the day, played around with what it would be like for Dawn to have fallen through the portal into the Supernatural world (first and second). Dean Winchester as a surprised adoptive dad to a hyper-smart five-year-old would have put a very interesting twist on things.  

But for other fics... it would be interesting to remix Hands of Clay to have Steve be Natasha’s dad, and Bucky having adopted Clint. Or in Hour of the Wolf, to have a few different scenarios - such as Allison going back in time to when she was eight years old and Kate about to kill the Hale family (this story, of course, gets the delightful moniker of Tween Wolf), or in the original story Chris finding out about Allison’s real lineage when Allison was a year old and dropping her on the closet available doorstep (the Stilinskis’, obviously) so Allison and Stiles could grow up as real siblings (making what Allison did to Derek in the future So Much Worse for everyone involved). 

I can write fanfic of my own fanfic any day of the week. 

I do, i super-duper do, but for the life of me, nothing ever lands. Either the characters are great but the plot is pancake thin, or the plot’s great and the characters refuse to work. That’s why I’m thinking about that Mycroft as Moriarty Sherlock Holmes thing – at least I know that I could hook into some better characterization, and now that the entire Sherlock canon is in the public domain, I could call that legit, right?

But what I would like to write is fiction, long-form, toss in some mystery, supernatural tinged, more on the hopepunk side, if that makes any sense. given the time and motivation, i'm sure I could make it work... right?

Otherwise, we’ll see how things go.