#simon--spooks

Samus: I'm going this Sunday.

Simon: How about now?

Samus: I said this Sunday.

oh hi there!

8. What are your current goals?

Get a new job (someone please hold my feet to the fire on this, I will pay you a recruiter's fee for real); submit grant proposal for a research project on microplastics in my local salt marsh; reintroduce the Nantucket serviceberry and various native orchid species to NYC; buy a kayak

16. Would you get a tattoo?

they're not for public consumption (meaning: they're on my hips) but I have two tattoos. would I get another one? almost definitely not, that was incredibly painful because I did it kind of on impulse (unprepared) and directly over my hipbones. I bit the inside of my arm to stop from yelping so hard that I had self-inflicted arm hickeys. so. no.

20. What was the last thing you cried for?

Hello friend! Thank you for the lovely ask! 10) Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

Well, for me, anything I see as 'cringe' haunts me as a writer. When I first started writing fanfiction, I wrote some pretty weird shit. I would also post directly on the message boards I would frequent, updating them in separate posts (oh God, you've aged me with this question). Those fics are lost in time, so I'm so thankful for that. There was one fic that I kept on FF.net, that was especially cringe, but I deleted it. I couldn't stand the memories. I still have some old fics on FF.net from my Criminal Minds days that I've been meaning to move to AO3, but never got around to.

22) How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

Notebooks, notebooks, NOTEBOOKS. I have an eff-ton of notebooks where I keep notes and ideas and plot points. I'll write a vague idea out and slowly develop it over time, always writing in the notebook. Then, once I have enough details, I type the outline onto GoogleDocs, and keep it as a reference to where I'm going with a story. Sometimes, I'll be writing out a story, and an idea for a future scene that alludes to what I've just written will pop in my head, and I'll include a note in the comments of my doc. I will also do the annoying thing, where I'll spam my friends on WhatsApp with ideas, and then copy those ideas onto another GoogleDoc. I'm a bit of a hot mess.

24) How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

A stupid amount. I overplan and overplan, and I want to pack as much detail as possible into every outline I come up with because I am terrified of my story not making any sense. The problem with that is my brain will sometimes go a lot faster than my ability to make sense of what I'm thinking, so I'm left with these massive convoluted stories with 50 subplots and no cohesive plot. That's what was happening with my COBB, and I needed to take a step back and make sense of these million-and-one-ideas and pick which ones I could actually execute.

Thank you for the lovely ask! I super appreciate you!

WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON

Hard Feelings/Loveless

who would you dedicate this song to?

my best friend <3 she knows who she is

what is home to you?

soft touches and warm blankets :~] somewhere where you feel safe and comfortable to be yourself

fav type of candle?

lavender :D

fav type of flower?

ooh that's tricky :o i love forget me nots and hydrangeas!

what little things have you let go of recently?

that. maybe the people who've hurt me won't apologise and i dont want to have it on my head to make them. i had my time to be angry and now i think i can calm down.

do you believe that the millennials generation is loveless?

mm. no. i personally am not a millennial! but from the music they make and the poetry they write, i don't think they can be loveless

wait... i think youre right actually lmao i totally forgot wack came from wacky