Interview Meme

[lunabee34]

possibly_thrice asked me the following questions:


1. Do you write/plan to write original fiction? Why or why not?

Yes! I currently have a story out right now that I hope will be accepted. *crosses fingers* I will not forget you little people when Kelly Link chooses my story to begin The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology. LOL

2. Are you near-sighted or far-sighted?

So very very very nearsighted. Very.

3. Do you have a pet or pets? TELL ME MORE.

We have two cats. Tweek is black, 11 years old, and was a foundling. She had had her tail eaten off by something and so now all she has is a little stump that she wags like a dog. She's Josh's girl all the way. Electra is a tortoise shell, 10 years old, very skittish, and possibly the dumbest animal I've ever encountered. So sweet, but dumb as shit. Her face is half black and half orange just like that episode of TOS. She's so neurotic; she was on Prozac for awhile until she and Tweek broke into the stash, ate all her meds, and slept for three days straight. She expresses a distinct preference for women; her favorite pastime is to rub her face on some unsuspecting woman's chest. Oh, Electra, your party fouls are numerous. She also used to just lick the carpet in our old apartment for no reason we could discern. This has led to some ingenious nicknames, let me tell ya.

4. What was the last book you read and really, really liked?

Patrick Rothfuss Name of the Wind. So freaking good. It's the first of a trilogy and I'm really excited for the next installments. It's fantasy--magic and the whole nine yards--but somehow reads as fresh to me even after a lifetime of immersing myself in that genre.

5. Name a smell or other sensory perception that comes wrapped up with memories for you.

Oh gosh. It's music. Always. The other day I heard Eve 6 on the radio and for just one second, I was squished in Lisa's car with Crystal and Sian and Jennifer and we were drinking Route 44 cherry limeades with the windows rolled down on Hardy Street. I get so damn nostalgic. I think it's my default setting, especially in the fall.

Who wants me to ask them something?

Comments

Re: Answering here because I am too lazy to post and also I am running out of questions to ask other

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Joke is made of awesome!

It is Discworld that first united us, my dear. Far be it from me to regret its intrusion into any conversation.

:)

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Kirk/Lorraine. Totally doable.

Your squicks are interesting. I actually have a huge fondness for awkward sex scenes in fic. Particularly when there's tons of affection between the characters.

Narrative kinks means storytelling tropes that really freaking do it for you (not necessarily in a sexual way but that you find satisfying to read). so for example, my bulletproof narrative kinks are amnesia fic (I love love love seeing what remains and what doesn't translate when people don't know who they are or who the people around them are), ANGST!, canon compliance, outsider POV, peripheral characters, APOCALYSPE!!!!!

Re: Answering here because I am too lazy to post and also I am running out of questions to ask other

[possibly-thrice.livejournal.com]

Discworld? Really? I thought Discworld second united us. :'D

See, I don't mind awkward sex scenes if they're not so awkward they're utterly miserable for everyone involved. Abject humiliation is probably the best term.

AHA. Okay, um, narrative kinks: hurt/comfort and/or capture/rescue (WOW THAT WAS A LOT OF SLASHES), peripheral characters also, hahaha, and, hm, I need to think about this some. Does 'hilarious space shenanigans' count as a storytelling trope? :'D

Re: Answering here because I am too lazy to post and also I am running out of questions to ask other

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm. I can't remember. It's all the wine.

Our first interaction that I can clearly remember is commenting on a Sam Vimes fic you wrote. But maybe I found that through Trek? IDK! Anyways, it is a match made in Heaven. LOL

Hilarious space shenanigans is probably the most important storytelling trope that exists. Besides Chekov gets it on.

You need to read this: http://captanddeastar.livejournal.com/tag/stbigbang

fantastic!

Re: Answering here because I am too lazy to post and also I am running out of questions to ask other

[possibly-thrice.livejournal.com]

I think you arrived through that first Pike/Kirk story, WERE HOOKED BY VIMES, and stuck around for the rest out of laziness. :'D And yes. Yes it was. In which Heaven I couldn't say.

HELLO SHINY REC. *click click click*

Re: Answering here because I am too lazy to post and also I am running out of questions to ask other

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Yes! That's the way it happened. :)

That story is so good. I don't know how you feel about kid fic, but this is some of the best I've read in that genre.