The Bluemeany

Wrote a letter of recommendation to allow the first (and only) Ferengi to join Starfleet

Had the first (and only) Klingon in Starfleet as his Commander. AT THE TIME that it seemed very likely the Federation and the Klingons were about to go to war.

Pulled strings to keep the first (and only) openly Augmented Officer in Starfleet from losing his commission and kept him on as his Doctor even though he was illegal. ALL WHILE never once mentioning that Bashir had lied to him for five years.

Had the only Changeling in the quadrant as his Chief of Security. AT THE SAME TIME as there was a mass-panic about Changelings and the Federation were at war with them. AND never once suggested Odo try and become more humanoid…

the only way to truly and genuinely prevent harm is by first acknowledging that all human beings are capable of causing harm to others if given the right circumstances, including u

u genuinely must first understand and accept that if given the right circumstances u personally would harm others and that the only way to prevent that is to be constantly checking ur own behavior and making sure there are safeguards in place to protect people against harm. none of us are immune to propaganda, neither are we immune to causing harm

Alexander Siddig as Yousef in The Big Battalions, Episode 1 (1992)

Thanks for @conceptadecency for tagging me. I’m going tag @damnhardwork @syaunei, @alphacygni-8 and @agrippaspoleto plus anyone else who’d like to do this.

How many works do you have on AO3?

Eight.

What’s your total AO3 word count?

88878

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1.      In Times Of War

2.      The Chameleon & The Magpie

3.      Bad Dreams (still a WIP though, sequel to In Times Of War)

4.      Garak’s Letter Back

5.      My Friend

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes. I tend to write back unless life and work has gotten super busy. It’s always nice to chat to people and talk about ideas.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Garak’s Letter Back. More bittersweet than angsty though.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Chameleon & The Magpie. DS9 but with His Dark Materials style animal daemons.  

Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve ever written?

A Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead/ DS9 crossover called Incredible Tales. Basic plot: Bashir and O’Brien realise they’re actually characters in one of Benny’s stories and try and fail to change the course of events from In The Pale Moonlight. It’s definitely a crazy trip…

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Depends on the definition of hate. 99% of people in the fandom are lovely, generous, and kind.  I’ve received a couple of comments from people who one aspect of my writing was problematic ( basically I described Bashir as ‘the Englishman’ and that was taken to somehow to be whitewashing? Apparently you can’t be English and not white or something… I dunno, it was baffling.)

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

No.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes. Someone asked ages ago if they could translated into Russian for a Russian fic website. I said yes, it’s all cool and stuff.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I’ve had a lot of help from other people though in terms of ideas and plot points for my fics, but nothing where we wrote it together.

What’s your all-time favourite ship?

Depends on what I’m writing to be honest. I don’t really focus on the ships.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I have one WIP in progress at the moment which is Bad Dreams. It’s been a while but I’m sure I’ll finish it. I write slowly and usually only one fic at a time, but I do always eventually finish stuff I’ve started. 

What are your writing strengths?

Structure, ideas, jokes.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Writing speed. I write very, very slow. It takes me literal years to finish a multi-chapter fic. Also description of movements, people getting from one place to another in a scene, Really struggle with that. I have discovered from beta editors that I don’t know how to correctly use semi-colons (does anyone?) Also sometimes because I’m more used to writing or editing scripts for work, I forget to put in a character’s internal dialogue, emotions and thoughts when writing prose. Sort of figure ‘well it’s the actors job’ and then am like ‘oh no, wait – this is a story, there’s no actor’.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I was going to say DS9, but I *did* write a story for a Big Finish Doctor Who submission when I was about eighteen that got rejected, so I turned it into a fic and put it on fanfiction.net. Then there was a 10 year gap before I got into fanfic proper with DS9.  

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Christopher Eccleston: Why my Doctor had to be northern

“If you’re an alien how comes you sound like you’re from the north?” Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler asked The Doctor ten years ago – now Christopher Eccleston has finally revealed why his Time Lord had a northern accent.

“Lots of planet have a north” the Doctor told Rose way back then, but Eccleston (who returns to our TV screens in ITV’s new thriller Safe House on Monday April 20th at 9pm) gives a rather different answer in this week’s edition of Radio Times.

“I wanted to move him away from the RP (received pronunciation) for the first time because we shouldn’t make a correlation between intellect and accent” he says, “although that still needs addressing”.

The self-described working-class actor also says that cultural inequality is “much more pronounced” in Britain than it used to be, and that it would be difficult for a young actor with his background to succeed in the industry today.

“You can’t blame Eddie Redmayne or Benedict Cumberbatch but inequality will lead to a milky, anodyne culture. To an extent that’s already happened,” he argues.