Someone wanted to know me better!

@yaoiputin, this is me talking about me!  Enjoy some complimentary illustrations!

Name: wouldn’t you like to know

Nickname(s): thursday, plaid for the more formal

Zodiac sign: the dragon and virgo

Orientation: I think I’m facing east right now but my compass is a little wonky

Nationality: American (although my dad’s family is Canadian)

Favorite fruit: watermelon

Favorite season: fall

Favorite book: Jane Eyre/Paradise Lost/Scarlet Letter/Book of Mormon

Favorite flower: peony

Favorite scent: mint or maple sausage

Favorite color: probably currant, something in that area

Favorite animal: pugs and raccoons

Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: cocoa

Average hours of sleep: 8 without insomnia, hysterical laughter with insomnia

Cat or dog person: dog

Favorite fictional character(s): Jane Eyre, Arsene Lupin

Number of blankets you sleep with: two, one for the feet and one for everything else. I have a thing where I have super low blood pressure and my extremities tend to be perma-freezing.

Dream trip: any historical trip, places with guided tours, cemeteries, and guided tours of cemeteries

When was this blog created: I don’t even know, three or four years ago now?

Current number of followers: 1137 (hello beautiful darlings, sorry I don’t have more about floriography and historical women)

punishandenslavesuckers:

Game Concept: You the player are some terrible god-like force and you pick an NPC at random to possess as the Player Character. All NPCs in-game react accordingly to the sudden possession depending on who you pick. You can pick any character with each fresh play through.

Example: You possess the mayor’s son and his family is grateful and humbled to have one of their bloodline chosen as Hero of the Land. If you pick the farmer’s daughter as the PC, her dad will be a game-long companion and come with you trying futilely to help/save his possessed daughter. You pick the town new comer and literally no one will try to help you at all except the farmer’s daughter who, in the play through, is not possessed and is very kind to you.

You still go on and fight the big bad as normal, but 99% of the drama is based around the interpersonal fall out of this small town tolerating you as a a weird spirit thing possessing someone they know in order to save the kingdom. 

Lin-Manuel Miranda to play lamplighter in film sequel “Mary Poppins Returns,” promises to have an even worse accent than Dick Van Dyke

jewishdragon:

modmad:

salamandertoast:

“If they didn’t like his, they’re going to be furious with mine,” Miranda says. “I intend to represent a corner of London with my accent that has not yet been invented. I’m going to have the worst accent in the history of English accents—I’m going to sound like I’m from another planet.”

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as a lamentably 100% English person I am absolutely delighted

I’m ready

tenthcorner

the only thing i “didn’t like” was that it was The End. 😉 it was sad to leave that world and the characters, but everything turned out great when i found your tumblr and all the wee doctor side stories. (rereading WD a bunch of times helps too ;D)

Thank you so much!  I appreciate it!  I’m glad you enjoyed it so much, I hope the original series will help take care of your further Wee Doctor needs.

I LOVED Bantam Wars’ conclusion!!! The buildup to the climax was a bit touch and go (I think you got it in one with “too much showing, not enough telling”), but the ending was like…put on some dramatic triumphant orchestra music with tears to my eyes kind of bittersweet. It was the best possible ending I could conceive of??

Thank you so much for being so cool about sticking with me and Wee Doctor for so long, it feels weird that its years now.  I’m glad you liked the end, that means so much.  I wanted to leave it on that quiet hopeful, bittersweet moment and I’m glad the end worked for someone.  All the best!

So you’re tellin’ me, honest to god, people DIDN’T like the end of Bantam Wars? Good god, someone call Owen Wilson because I need like a hundred exasperated wow’s stat. That is so ridiculous. Plaid, it was lovely, it was genius, it was thrilling, it was basically every word synonymous with wonderful you can think of. I apologize on behalf of every single unkind person who made you feel that you need to please, and not just enjoy your own story. As always, take care, dear, you rock. <3

@jokerteeth That’s so sweet and lovely of you!  I really appreciate it, I was really upset about it for a while, but at this point I’ve mostly moved past it as one should.  It always means so much when someone loves something I write, I appreciate you sending such a wonderful message to me!

P and S and also: 1. Would you want to turn one of your works into a graphic novel? 2. Would you like them to be read as podfic or audiobooks? If yes, would you prefer to record them with your own voice? :) Thanks.

P: I’d like to be able to make enough money writing that I don’t have to worry about doing anything else and I’d like to keep getting published.  I’d really enjoy, eventually, one of my stories being part of school curriculum, if only because I love my stuff being analyzed.   I think having a fandom would be cool too because it would mean that my writing improved people’s lives somehow.  I’m pro fanworks as long as they don’t involve the sort of morally repugnant stuff like romanticizing abuse and pedophilia.

S: Depends on the first draft.  Some of them sure, some of them no.  It would be hard for me more because of my cultural background than because of self-doubt – although that would factor.  If I left a first draft somewhere and someone read it I’d be fine with that.  If I had to approach someone, bother them by asking, and then bother them further by trying to get them to write than probably not. 

Bonus Questions!

1: Yes!  I love graphic novels and I tend to be more visual anyway.  I’d probably be an awful pain to work with.  I’d love to turn Cost of Living into a graphic novel, and probably some other stuff.  I don’t know if I’d want to do the Wee Doctor series as a graphic novel though, its very much inside people’s heads and I don’t know if it would work.

2.  Accessibility is very important to me and so I’d love someone turning my stuff into audiobooks or podfic.  I don’t know if I’d want to do it myself necessarily.  I have aphasia which gives me all sorts of fun audio processing hiccups.  Editing podcasts I’m in is a real treat, let me tell you friend.  That doesn’t mean I have anything against doing it myself.  If anyone wanted to record my stuff I only ask that I know about it, mainly because I want to promo it for them.