#sequestering

- sequestering <3

Just for you, I picked the one occurrence that isn't from the first few scenes

hey friend!! thanks for the ask! 🥰 ok these questions are fun:

💀 if you had to write an alternate ending to the low tide how would you end it?

I wrote the low tide for the pens rarepair fest last year, and due to the time constraint there were a couple of things that didn’t make it in that I wanted to throw in. the ending is not one of those things— i’m very happy with it, so i’m a little loathe to imagine changing it. but if i had to then i think it would’ve dealt with sid and nate’s conflict and its resolution more explicitly. maybe i’d have expanded on the flashback.

in the middle, there’s this flashback that nate has of him and sid happy and in love during the christmas offseason in 2020. it’s not explicitly stated anywhere in the fic, but that’s supposed to have been the last evening before everything went to shit and sid and nate ended up breaking up. the original plan was to have a second flashback where they have the actual fight after nate asks to move in together and sid freaks out and asks for some time spent apart— which then leads to them being in this sort of silently broken-up unhappy place at the start of the fic. so i guess the alternate ending would’ve given more insight into sid’s end of things as he makes the reconciliatory conversation happen, that he’s also a little bit of a neurotic control freak who’s fucked up and needs to work hard at relationships. it definitely could’ve made a nice contrast to the slight hero-worship 19-year-old nate saw sid with— as opposed to the more down-to-earth, hard-earned love that 25-year-old nate has for him after they were already together and broken up and are now trying to figure their shit out again. I kinda wanna say it’d go something like this:

“I’m not gonna say I shouldn’t have done that,” Sid looked the same as when he was in the middle of a bag skate; Nate was the focal point of putting the work in. “I needed the space, and I needed to freak out. But I fucked it up. And I don’t want to fuck it up again.”

Now that Nate was looking again, he could see everything. Nate knew the fear behind Sid’s eyes and the determination on his tongue and the trembling love in his mouth. Nate knew Sid. It was ridiculous that Sid had ever felt far away from him at all. “I want to be better.” Sid said, and his voice caught around the hope bubbling between them, clear and see-through for both of them to see each other through it. “I want to be better for you.”

Nate knew the feeling. He reached out and brushed his knuckles behind Sid’s ear, down his throat, and pressed the pad of his calloused thumb to the corner of Sid’s jaw. “You will be.” He had never felt surer of anything in his life; not Shattuck, not the draft, not playing hockey. The thing he still believed in the most in all the world was Sid. Though it wasn’t only Sid any more. “We’ll both be.” He uncurled his fingers and let them settle around the curve of Sid’s neck, and Sid sighed and closed his eyes, relief written into every line of his body. Nate leaned into him.

😨 describe in FULL detail the first fic you wrote (yes i’m talking about the wattpad shit we all did it).

hahaha, ok so it wasn’t wattpad because im too old for that, but it was on fanfic dot net, and it was the only fic i posted on there. i don’t remember much about writing it, but i just looked it back up and here’s what i’ll admit to: it’s a super cringy songfic for buffy the vampire slayer set during season 7, it’s from spike’s angsty little pov, and of all the inexplicably unfitting songs to use, i used 2010’s mediocre teen pop boyband ballad all time low by the wanted. miraculously, i couldn’t find any grammatical errors in it apart from a missing space typo.

hey there friend! :DD thank for the ask! from this ao3 wrapped ask game

17. your favourite character to write this year?

I always love writing Sid from another person’s perspective, especially when he’s at his jock-horniest, hahaha, the way he is in Black Sex Latex and rearrange. i also had an unexpected amount of fun writing a bratty-horny auston matthews in fuck me twice, say goodnight. i guess the common denominator is: horny people are fun to write.

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

this is kind of interesting because I barely ever reread after I hit post, but I reread OBSESSIVELY during the editing process. anything you see posted (that‘s over 1k words) i’ve probably reread at least two dozen times during the editing process. it would probably be easier for me to pinpoint what i’ve reread least. that said, if i had to guess, the most is probably Black Sex Latex, which i reread a LOT during the editing process (i overhauled it a couple of times) because there was a really specific couple of character dynamic points i wanted to hit and i wanted to make sure i got them right.

30. Biggest surprise writing this year?

thanks for the ask! ☺️☺️ did 🧠 already but i’ll answer the other one!

👻 What is one WIP you think you may never pick back up?

Congress is off this week, and lawmakers are back home in their districts, doing town halls and meeting with constituents. What makes this congressional break a little more newsy than others is that the sequester cuts are due to hit March 1. These cuts are big and broad, and many senators and representatives think they could do great harm to their states. Virginia Democrat Mark Warner sits on the Senate Budget Committee and he says that the sequester plan is "the most stupid option possible." The cuts, should they happen, will be across the board without any regard to what programs are more valuable than others. Every budget will be affected equally from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Food and Drug Administration, and cuts to the Defense Department will hit hard in Virginia, which is Sen. Warner's home state.

The looming sequester will cut military spending across the board, and will cost Virginia about $48 million in federal funds for pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade education, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine told educators Friday in Alexandria. Speaking to local school officials and state education advocates at the Campagna Center in Old Town, Kaine, a Democrat, said the cuts would also eliminate 7,000 Head Start slots in the state. If the March 1 sequester goes through, 10,000 teacher jobs would be at risk nationwide, as well as funding for up to 7,200 special education teachers, aides and staff, according to Kaine’s office.

Fish in Laundry baskets.