12) favorite character to write about this year

XD I feel like you know the answer is Garak lol He is a joy and I can’t wait to write more stories about him.

15) something you learned this year

ooo hmmm How to start writing again? I think I’m getting better at just letting the words out and then going back and fixing them. And that I can just write what I want and ppl will like it or not, not to worry so much about mass appeal. Also damn it is nice to have a beta! Thanks @elodee!!

17) fics you’ll continue next year

I don’t like making promises mostly bc the minute I say I am going to write something, my ability to write that thing dissolves. But I have a number of wips which may or may not ever get finished and posted. XD Some of them are partially written and some only exist im my head

1) favorite fic you wrote this year

oh gosh. I cannot choose between my children! But if I must, probably “Pull Me from Myself Again” which coincidentally has gotten the highest number of kudos. Second is probably “Never Seen that Color Blue”.

14) a fic you didn’t expect to write

Hmmm I suppose honestly “Light and Heat” being that it was the first fic I had actually finished in years and I wrote the majority of it in four hours after work one day XD

24) favorite fic you read this year

Ohhhhhh oh gosh. This fandom is so talented! We have such gorgeous fics!! How about a Top Five? In no particular order:

This is a gorgeous heart-wrenching au that just made my heart sing and also cry.

Yes this a classic but I read it for the first time this year and in case any of you haven’t read it, here you go! A gift for you.

This is a series, but it reads like one long fic. It’s just lovely and emotional and honestly informs some of my hc, I cannot lie.

A post-canon Cardassia fic with a non traditional format. I just love it. The world building!

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention this absolutely gorgeous and devastating fic. The ending b r o k e me. I am still getting emotional thinking about it. I knew it was coming and yet!!!

And just so we end on a lighter note XD This thing is just hot as fuck and def on a list of fics I never expected to read but??? This fandom has changed me XD

do you have a collection of cool rocks?

I do not! Which is sad. But I do have a collection of cool coins that I got from my grandpa. There are domestic (American) coins and foreign coins, some of which I cannot identify. I don’t get to add to it often, but I do take them out and look at them from time to time. I will likely give them to my son eventually.

an unusual song that’s your favorite?

Oh Idk! I think most of my music tastes are pretty basic XD I know! I can use this to plug the trans woman musician I follow on twitter. She has some excellent stuff on Bandcamp and Spotify. Her name is Mel Stone, and here is a link to her latest Bandcamp Friday post:

pepsi box blue or cheetos bag orange?

Ahh! Hmmm well I generally prefer blue as a color over orange, but I like cheetos much more than pepsi.

an earliest obsession you remember?

Oh gosh!!! You know it’s funny bc if I go way way back there was an Amer football player I weirdly decided I loved when I was like six?? I liked the Minnesota Vikings because they wore purple. And I loved the Detroit Tigers baseball. So, I guess, sports? Unless you want to count like Mr. Rogers.

Had to google him too. I just don’t know ppl unless they are in a thing I like. He has a nice face! I like his hair and he has pretty eyes. HE’S FROM SAGINAW! THAT’S LIKE SO CLOSE TO ME! THAT’S SO COOL! Michigan so often births awful celebs. (Yes, Kid Rock, I AM LOOKING AT YOU) But anyway.

Oh he was King George in Hamilton! I liked him XD (y'all can judge me for that. go ahead.) Overall, seems cool. Extra points for being a fellow Michigander who doesn’t suck.

Andy!! 😍😍 I mean he seems like such a sweetheart and highly intelligent and obv an excellent actor and writer. ….I forgot what the ratings were supposed to be in the meme but Andy gets highest marks anyway. Plus he is so fricken CUTE omg

John Finnemore: I had to google him. He seems cool? Looks like he has made a lot of British comedies. Wikipedia says he is co-writing Good Omens s2 which is quite a credit imo. He has a cute sorta goofy face. Seems like he would be cool to hang out with.

Thanks for the ask! You are becoming the one person I can count on to send one and that is sweet of you.

“Genghis Khan” by Miike Snow

Which is hilarious bc have you seen the video? It would have to be a cracky holosuite adventure fic.

Garak talks Julian into letting him take the lead this time. They inevitably find themselves in a situation in which Garak has to choose whether to sacrifice Julian to save himself. (For real or just in the story? Depends how much angst you want in your crack)

Pure Fun: Julian is in no real danger, but Garak still can’t bring himself to let Julian get “hurt” or “killed”. Julian gets to tease him endlessly for this before, after, and during fucking his brains out.

Angst: Garak sacrifices Julian believing this is fiction, but realizes nearly too late that Julian is in genuine peril and sacrifices himself to save him. (Not to death, just perhaps seriously injured)

Lol I just wrote a whole Kelas hc post, but I think one of my favorite facts might be that during a dinner with Garak, Jean-luc Picard, and Beverley Crusher, Kelas, watching Garak out of the corner of their eye, called Meditations on a Crimson Shadow, “A repulsive book, a fantasy of eternal and permanent Cardassian conquest” which Garak considered to be quite unfair.

(quote from The Fall: The Crimson Shadow by Una McCormack)

I will admit I have never had their chicken. Maybe it really is that good. But it frustrates me that like there seems to be this idea that people need these dupe recipes to placate them so they will consent to avoid Chik-fil-a. Like the fact that they fund conversion therapy and other queerphobic practices and policies is not enough for people. We gotta assure them they can still get that one specific taste of chicken? It’s chicken. I do not understand the attachment, I guess.

My real issue is that we don’t seem able to just tell people to not eat there and why. We have to offer alternatives. We have to be like “we know it’s hard to resist the bigoted chicken, so here’s how you can still almost have it!” Why is it not enough to say, “This company hates us. If you care about us and don’t want to support their hate, buy your chicken somewhere else.”