#warp6

5. favourite song in your native language?

There’s not a lot of west flemish music and even this isn’t my particular dialect but I guess I like this one: In de fik - Flip Kowlier

Also guilty pleasure Bluf Me Je Fikn - Preuteleute 

And this isn’t all that west-flemish but still fun Boeren Van Vroeger (they have an actual cow on stage that should make it worth whatching)

As for your regular Dutch aka my official native language:

There is no doubt for a fave: Mia - Gorki

I sung that live once it was the best feeling ever

But also this one very much!!: Chaos - Bazart

Don’t get me started on music is the lesson here

11. favourite native writer/poet?

I’ve honestly never read any Dutch writers/poets other than the ones presented in Dutch class. so I don’t rlly have any

How I feel about this character

Oh Michael! <3 I love her, I’m fascinated by her, I think there are so many dimensions of her still yet to explore, and also she deserves as many hugs as she wants.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I don’t have any major ships for Michael, and in fact I haven’t particularly been drawn into shipping the Disco characters together generally (Philippa/Afsaneh doesn’t count because only one of them is actually in the show!) Perhaps that will change with time? I don’t mind her and Ash, and I think there’s a lot of potential to explore there given that they’re both children of two worlds in their ways, both sometimes feeling torn between a culture of origin and a culture that they’ve lived in. (Although for Ash it’s unclear which is which and where the lines are). So yeah, I think there are interesting things to be done there, but I felt like S1 needed another episode or two to establish their chemistry, it felt a little rushed to me.

I’m also not averse to Michael/Tilly but I’m more into it as a friendship.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Oh gosh, so many?

I LOVE LOVE LOVE her and Philippa together. I understand why they didn’t give us seven years on the Shenzhou (even if I don’t 100% agree) but I would have watched that show SO HARD. Michael getting less scared of her emotions, slowly realising that sometimes the human way is pretty effective. Philippa learning to accept that Michael is her own person, and a stubborn one at that, and that sometimes her Vulcan way of doing things really is the right way for her even if Philippa doesn’t totally get it. The gradual way Philippa begins to trust Michael with more and more responsibility... GAH, it could have been so beautiful.

But then I’m also really intrigued by where they’re going to take Michael’s relationship with Emperor Philippa. Like, there are a LOT of layers there to explore, so much baggage on both sides, such interesting tension.

Also I just love Michael and Sylvia, like, I think they’re so good for each other and I’m really glad they found each other. I think Michael really, really needed Sylvia’s hopefulness and goodness at that moment.

Also she and Stamets are the BEST GRUMPY SCIENCE BUDS.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don’t think I have any! At least not that the sensible corners of fandom that acknowledge her greatness would consider unpopular. (Oh wait you know what this only just barely counts but I don’t really like the Alice books and I wish they’d picked something else, even though I can see why they went with that because it works so well with the overarching themes and motifs.)

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I can bake bread. No it’s not difficult at all but every time I do it makes me Feel Good and proud that I can do it

I can absorb and memorize facts and trivia very quickly

At this point I can more or less communicate in four languages (English is still the foreign language I know best though)

I’ve accepted the fact that I spend most my free time writing (or staring at the laptop screen wishing I could write) and honestly I don’t know why between ages 15-27 I pretended that it wasn’t worth doing it? I feel so much better now. Like, I don’t even need to post the stuff I write anywhere I just feel better by typing something

this is the first message i looked at this morning and i feel it is an omen for a delightful and confusing day!

Eee, I love that! Yes, I use My Characters to differentiate between characters I love (Leia, Janeway, Roslin, Dutch) and characters I relate to on a spiritual level, that I recognize, that just are mine (Padmé, B’Elanna, Kara, Pawter….and tbh Aneela). And I talk about this so much and so often that friends now point them out to me, which is the best! 

I totally remember writing that but am having a hard time finding it (must have been a tumblr ficlet I failed to transfer to ao3), but anyway here you go:

“I’m not dead, though.  I’m fine. I’m right here.”

Kathryn wraps around Chakotay’s back, hands coming to rest against his heart, feeling the unevenness of his breath catching with each resisted sob.

“I’m not, though.  I’m not fine, Kathryn.  Do you have any idea how many times I’ve had to face you ‘being dead’?  Any idea how every time I’m pretty sure this is going to be the time I just can’t get up again because you won’t?”