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A short story I felt like posting here; constructive criticism is always welcome and encouraged! While this has nothing to do with my actual novel wip, I had to get this idea out of my handwombs <3
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Elmira, Elmira, Elmira. The way her sunlit hair gently swayed with the rest of her body, her frame small and thin. Her light footsteps rapidly tapped the stairs on her way through the halls of Princeton. Such a strong name for a weak girl. Light of the dearest star, how she sparkled in my wandering eyes so wonderfully bright. I let my vision- and vision only- follow whilst my feet stood as still as roots under me.
She stood out amongst the crowd- shorter than most, sloppily dressed but still presentable, moving fast and free as air. Her eyes of olive green shone brightly against the harsh university lights. Her noticeable eye bags under her lower lashes without even a hint of mascara, small blemishes visible on her skin even from afar. Her posture hunched over, whether from long nights spent pouring over her work or only for pure comfort- I cannot say. Her voice as she sang well past two in the morning, viola and beautiful voice together- more melodic than a lullaby could ever hope to be.
I leaned against the wall, waiting for her to see me- dressed in my favorite maroon turtleneck and black blazer, a gold ruby-encrusted pomegranate necklace glinting off my chest. She never gave me the time of day, even as I care for her more than a friend ever would. She can’t even remember to eat. Stupid. She’s just so busy, busy, busy, bu-sy, never a single goddamned moment to spare. I took a deep breath, feeling my lungs expand as if they tripled in size, my chest rising with them. I exhaled, looking down at my feet while my cheeks flamed with reddened heat. I looked back up as Elmira caught my gaze, giving me only a small wave and walking straight past me in her pretentious academic superiority. All there was left for me to do was leave, given that she didn’t even show me a smile. Shame. Her delight would outshine all others, that I’m very sure of- not that I’ve ever seen it.
My footsteps echoed through the cold fall evening, almost tapping against the sidewalk like a local performance. Two children- neither could’ve been older than nine- were walking on the sidewalk in front of me, joyful as children in jolly December. I’ve always particularly loved children. “Curse these loud shoes,” I hissed, talking to no one in particular, watching as my words and warm breath summoned frosty wisps of air on this dark, chilly evening. Elmira was staying late once again in the university library as, I can assume. I made my way to her home. I fumbled with her doorknob, my cold hands no longer nimble. I reached under the carpet for her spare key- one that I’ve seen her grab many times before.
Barely even minutes later, my body entered her living room- no longer within my control. Oh dear, oh dear, what am I about to do? My heart flails in my chest, pounding so loudly I feared the neighbors would hear it. Still, I couldn’t stop moving. I had to feel her beneath my greedy hands. I did not move gently into her room during this good night, the air full of silence and angered lust, with the faint scent of sweet pomegranate lingering throughout the room- likely from her red-stained bowl sitting plainly on her desk.
I sat down on her bed, waiting in thrilling trepidation. As the minutes passed, I stood still as I always was, letting the grandfather clock across from me fill my ears with passing time. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, hear me when I say that my body isn’t mine anymore- maybe my mind isn’t mine either.
Once- and only once I’ve felt her skin, soft and smooth as roses and redder than her beloved pomegranate beneath my fingernails, once the feel of her skin has met my fingertips will I have known true bliss. Once she has stained my hands and dirtied my nails will I know love’s grasp on the mind.
god it's less than a week to christmas. ok cool. yeah. great. all right.
i am. what have i been doing??? i don't know. I've sewn several things-- most notably a pair of leggings-- and the house renovations have progressed to the point that we're getting final measurements for counters tomorrow. I'll put pictures behind the cut. We painted the ceiling ourselves, as paint isn't included in the remodel.
I don't remember what I last posted pictures of. IDK there's a floor now, I didn't take pictures of that yet.
ok i was wrong i do have one photo of the floor but it's in-progress, max is in the background wedging it in between the cabinets.
[image description: an awkward angle looking down standing in the side door entryway, with the blue-washed gray side of a new cabinet facing me, some of the plywood subfloor exposed coated in glue, mottled gray fake stone tiles laid out and the hunched form of a man in a gray sweatshirt kneeling on the floor in the background with his head hidden behind the cabinet. Listen I wasn't trying to be creepy.]
it's fake stone vinyl tiles. i know, not normally my aesthetic, and it's probably the thing that'll look most dated in a little bit, but there was no point trying to do anything wooden or wood-look because the rest of the house has original hardwood from 1950 and anything new wouldn't match. (the hardwood badly needs refinishing, let's not contemplate that right at this juncture...)
Max is from Elmira, btw, and only moved to Buffalo a year ago-- just in time for the blizzard to absolutely destroy his first apartment here and wreck most of his stuff. It was a bit of a harsh welcome to the city. He's soft-spoken and extremely polite and doesn't really know how to talk to me, not the way Jim the installer (fiftysomething and very experienced) does. He did gently laugh at me when I left yesterday and then immediately had to come back to get my keys, which I had locked inside the house (but of course as he was still there the other door was still unlocked). "I grew up in the kind of place where you don't bother locking doors," I said, and he was like "lol same".
(I know Elmira because Middle-Little went to college there. It's a sort of dire little place in the Southern Tier-ish region of NY, a couple hours away. The region is fairly economically devastated, alternating crushing rural poverty with Tourism Dollars; Elmira itself boasts a college, a prison, and precious little else.)
Anyway-- painting the ceiling over the weekend, I discovered that the real life hack for painting a ceiling is for at least one member of your party to be six feet three inches.
[image description: my dude, a tall thin white man in an uncharacteristic ball cap he's only wearing to avoid paint splatter (it is embroidered with the HTML tags <head> on the front and </head> on the back, and was a gift to him in like 2002) is standing on the cardboard-and-sheet-draped floor of the kitchen using a paint roller on the ceiling, which he can reach easily; in front of him the cabinets are all draped in old sheets as well and there's a random light bulb sticking out because the installer wired that in for us to use as a work light since the electricians haven't installed the ceiling lights yet which was why it was an ideal time for us to paint said ceiling.]
Anyway it's going great. The counters won't go in until January sometime, but early January. The electricians plan to come the day after Christmas and I won't be there until the afternoon so I'm going to check in with Jim today about what they'll need.
Meanwhile, I remembered that I hadn't set myself the goal of crafting anything for Christmas except I bought a bunch of scarf blanks from Dharma Trading to dye as gift wraps and gift components and my basement is all torn apart and I don't dare make that kind of mess in my mother-out-law's basement so I need to work out how to get that done so I'm really kind of slogging through that, a bit.
OH i just went to look at what the last pictures I posted of the kitchen were and the answer is LIKE NONE so omg sorry here's before we painted the ceiling, where you can see what it's gonna look like!
[image description: This is View A, from the side door toward the front of the house. Along the left of the photo is a line of cabinets, a set on the ground and then another mounted up on the wall; in the middle of that will be the sink, and then farther down a dishwasher (!!!) and beyond that the stove, all along that north wall of the house. The middle of the photo is the big bay window we had installed, and there are cabinets along the front of it: the countertop will extend out from those, and will form a seating area. To the right of the window, the front door is now visible, that little wall having been removed and now being a wide-open space into the entryway. The right of the photo is the interior wall of the kitchen, now transformed into a built-in pantry space with a fridge hole in the middle, where the extra flooring tiles are currently stacked.]
[image description: this is View B, from the front door into the kitchen. The foreground is the big open space where the wall was removed; the bay window is just out of frame to the right, and the far wall shows the empty space (now containing buckets of floor glue and a roll of cardboard) where the stove will be, and above it will be an extractor hood (no more Everything Smells Like Salmon!!), and the empty space (now filled with a rolling garbage can the contractors are using) for the dishwasher, and then the little window right above the sink-- this is a detail we've kept from the old kitchen, that's where the sink was and that's where the window, but the window seems bigger because the cabinets aren't packed so tightly around it now-- and you can see the side door there, and then the left of the photo shows the edge of the pantry unit where the fridge will go.]
It's a much more open space, both of us can be in there, someone doing dishes while you cook is no longer the world-ending inconvenience it historically has been, and also now you can talk to someone in the living room while you're in the kitchen without needing to holler.
Yeah the gray cabinets are-- well they're pale wood washed with dilute blue, is what they are, and all the hard fixtures are in neutral shades like that, grays and gray-blues, and the countertops will be white with tiny sparkles, and the idea is that the big wall to the west and the little bits of wall around the windows will be painted some bold color we'll match with like throw rugs and hot mats and other changeable fixtures, so the kitchen can get "redecorated" with a new coat of paint and not clash with the hard fixtures. This job cost five figures, we're not re-redoing it during our lifetimes.
On this account? 8. Total across every fandom (hi, yes, I get paranoid about bothering people from old fandoms with new content so I make new names like a dork), 74. Wow, that is So Many.
2. What's your total AO3 word count?
In Hellcheer, 237,256. Across everything, 1,311,715.
3. What fandoms do you write for?
Currently just Stranger Things, but past fandoms were LoTR, a brief dabble in the MCU, X-Files, RPF which shall not be named, and uh... Dawson's Creek. Yes, I am old.
4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?
Only looking at Hellcheer fic:
to get my soul known again
If She Lived in Space, Man, I’d Build a Plane
Trudge on Home to Celebrate
crimson & clover pulling overtime
model citizen; zero discipline
5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?
Yes! I love interacting with people, and I figure if they're kind enough to leave a comment, I ought to be kind enough to respond. That said, I'm way behind on Kinktober comments.
6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
I have never written an angsty ending in fic, because fic is my happy place. I have written some bittersweet ones, though.
7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
Happiest? Damn. I mean, I haven't actually ended a Hellcheer longfic yet but Soul is absolutely a HEA.
8. Do you get hate on fics?
People have been surprisingly kind throughout my fic history. There have been some trolls and dickheads, but for the most part everyone has been super generous.
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
Yes! Usually kinky stuff, which is where I have the most interest. I find vanilla stuff kind of boring, so there's usually some power dynamic or another in there to pique my interest and keep me inventing weird stuff for them to do.
10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?
I wrote an X-Files/LoTR crossover in high school but that's not that weird.
11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?
Not that I've been made aware of.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
Yes!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
I have, with my best friend. We wrote together in high school, and in some early fandoms. I really enjoyed it and would love to do it again, but it's a funny alchemy to find someone who fits your vibe and who you bounce off correctly and who wants to tell the same story you're telling.
14. What's your all-time favorite ship?
Radu/Elmira. There's a deep cut.
15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?
There's one in another fandom that is legitimately my only unfinished work in that fandom and it makes me sad. I do have a lot of half-started WIPs in draft that I haven't posted, so I guess those count. Maybe the western AU?
16. What are your writing strengths?
I think I am decent at dialogue and description, and that I am better than some writers but worse than others. This is as close as I am legally allowed to come to complimenting my own work, thank you for understanding.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
Literally everything else.
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?
I would absolutely either have someone else help me, or I would write it in English and italicize it to indicate it's in another language.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
X-Files.
20. Favorite fic you've written?
I genuinely love Soul and am so proud of it, but I don't know that it's my favorite. I don't even know that I have a favorite, because I love them all for different reasons and get sad when the ones I am excited about don't hit as hard as the ones I'm 'meh' on.
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My probably more popular tag LMAOOO. My DA worldstate follows through from the beginning with my warden, Elmira Aeducan, to lastly with the 3rd game, my inquisitor, Shahnoza Lavellan.
Some of the lore pertaining to my worldstate, is not 100% canon to the DA universe. I take a lot of creative liberties in terms of conceptualizing the worldbuilding elements for DA, but as well as with the characters in the games themselves.
My DA worldstate, utilizes a lot of elements from Central Asian cultures, whether that is in the clothing, language, character designs, or in its storytelling.
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3 ships: Hellcheer, Ronance, whatever Luke Skywalker + Mando is called
First ship: Mulder and Scully, or Radu/Elmira on Space Cases. How's THAT for a throwback, pals?
Currently consuming: Coffee
Last movie: Barbarian. Jesus CHRIST.
Last song: I had a Laura Marling playlist on, so something from that
Currently watching: Just finished Wednesday. Currently making my way through the latest season of Mythic Quest and rewatching 30 Rock.
Currently reading: I just read the Colleen Hoover books because I figured if I was going to look at a bunch of snarky takedowns I ought to at least see what the fuss was all about. They're... certainly books. Now I'm reading a romcom that got recommended to me but isn't that good. I need some meat, and I have the Elena Ferrante novels on my Kindle, so I might jump there next.
Currently craving: a sub sandwich, because I'm watching Good Mythical Morning and they're eating subs.
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