Ill Met By Moonlight

[Ill Met By Moonlight]

fictionalred asked:

16, 17 & 18?

• 16)  A Netflix series that’s your favorite?

I just rewatched all three seasons of Santa Clarita Diet.  I think it was really well made and such a shame that it was cancelled on a cliffhanger ending.

• 17)  An earliest obsession you remember?

Hmm, probably My Little Pony.  I had a bazillion of the dolls, mostly hand me downs from neighbors and older kids, and I loved the movie.

• 18)  Do you play video games?

Periodically.  I started with Atari, then later NES and SNES.  My brother had an N64 - we’ve always been a Nintendo family.  I still enjoy the classic games, but as the systems got more advanced, the games started to trigger my motion sickness.  I have games on my iPad, but those are more the time filler kind of games.  Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii is probably the best game I’ve ever played.

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fictionalred asked:

3 associations: the colour purple, animal care and Damar's ass

Right on all 3 counts, though I would have also accepted Damar’s lips and Damar’s shoulders.

Those shoulders…

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fictionalred asked:

1, 7, 15 & 36?

1) What’s your favorite way to dress?

As the God damn powerful sorceress that I am.  Vamp, goth, temptress.

7) What song is your aesthetic?

Liquid Diamonds by Tori Amos comes to mind.

15) Do you prefer space or the ocean?

I’m not sure I understand this question - like, do I prefer them in what sense?  Exploration?  Aesthetics?  What???  To me this is totally apples and oranges and not comparable at all.  Despite my love of Star Trek, I have almost zero interest in space and despite my love of animals and wildlife conservation, I have zero interest in scuba-diving and exploring the deepest depths of the ocean.  If you place me on a beach, I will be unable to look away from the water.  If you place me in an empty field beneath a starry sky, I will be unable to look away from the vastness of space.  Awe is awe, and it would be impossible to choose between to such different sources of natural beauty.

36) Do you have any impulsive movements? (twitches, ticks, flapping, etc.)

I have lots, but I consider them more compulsions: tapping my thumb and middle fingertips together in rapid succession, popping my wrist, cracking my neck, blowing raspberries, deep sighs, running my tongue over my teeth… Just to name a few.

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fictionalred asked:

Zatara 🔥 & 💎?

Is your OC known for having temper tantrums?  If not, what gets them really angry?  What makes their blood boil?  Is there any way to calm them down or are they unstoppable?  What are they like when they’re angry?  Do they take it out on their loved ones?

Not temper tantrums exactly, but you definitely don’t want to be on her bad side.  She has largely internalized the hatred her own people have for those with her genetic condition and says it doesn’t bother her, which is not untrue.  Sometimes she doesn’t even notice anymore.  But it can take its toll and you don’t want to be around when it does.  She is reasonably good at controlling her impulse towards violent outbursts publicly, but can be pushed into action when she’s had enough.  As a general rule, though, she knows the importance of maintaining a certain image of placidity and will instead take her revenge on those who have wronged her more subtly.  She once killed three lowly enlisted Cardassians on Terok Nor when it got back to her that they were criticizing Damar for taking her to bed because of her appearance and made it look like an engineering accident.  Her justification was that it was dangerous for people to even suspect they were sexually involved (as she was using him to get information to smuggle back to the Federation at the time - it’s complicated), but deep down she was angry and hurt by their words about her, plain and simple.

Does your OC collect anything?  Is there a reason?  When did they start and is it beginning to turn into a little bit of a hoarding issue?  What do they do with their collection?

You know, she really doesn’t.  If anything, I would say she tends to hoard food (as in, we can’t eat this, we need to save it just in case), but that comes from food scarcity and living on the streets when she was very young.

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fictionalred asked:

L, N & O for the fandom ask meme

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves:

Hmm… I guess I would say that Data is well performed by Spiner if nothing else.

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom:

More bisexual representation (or at the very least, less erasure), more post-canon Cardassia not exclusively focused on Garashir/Garak becoming leader, and more acknowledgement that Casey Biggs is a God damn stud.

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of:

Psycho Killer by Talking Heads = Garak, of course.

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fictionalred asked:

💙Beverly Crusher: Have you ever taken a class in first aid?, ❤️Wesley Crusher: What is something that you were exceptionally good at as a child? 🧡Geordi La Forge: How skilled are you with technology?

Beverly Crusher - Have you ever taken a class in first aid?

Not specifically, though in high school we were required to learn how to perform CPR and a few other basics.  However, the bulk of my family is in the medical field, and I was myself for a number of years, so I do know a bit on the subject.

Wesley Crusher - What is something you were exceptionally good at as a child?

Singing, any school subject, getting away with murder.

Geordi La Forge - How skilled are you with technology?

AH HAHAHAHAHAHA.  Not at all.

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fictionalred asked:

I AM NOT A COWARD. FROM WHAT AGE TO WHAT AGE DO YOU HAVE A STORY READY FOR ZATARA? AT WHAT AGE/TIME IS IT THE MOST INTENSE/FORMATIVE? DO YOU HAVE OLD ZATARA STORIES? WHAT'S HER INFLUENCE ON CARDASSIAN SOCIETY? TELL ME

AHHHHHH!  I HAVE SO MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT ZATARA!

So, I haven’t actually sat down and written her stories out because I figured no one would really be interested, BUT I have everything pretty much mapped out from before her mother gave birth to her to her late life.

Long story short, her parents don’t want her because of the shame associated with her genetic defects, so they abandon her when she is a small child.  Those years are probably some of the most formative because the streets of Cardassia City are a brutal training ground - but it lays the important groundwork for skills that come in very handy with the Obsidian Order, and it’s the very reason she comes to Tain’s attention in the first place. 

I DO have old concepts for Zatara, including her initial biography/character sheet, which is really interesting to go back to now because I initially conceived of her as a companion for Garak.  I was thinking of writing a Garak/Bashir fic where they had a child and they needed someone to function as their living incubator.  So, a very special relationship was required: enter Zatara.  However, the more I got to know her and the more I worked with her as a character, the more she took on a life of her own and her story changed.  I certainly never planned for her to fall in love with Damar, but damn if that isn’t what happened!

Her influence on Cardassian society is twofold: early on she certainly influenced things, though unknowningly to the Cardassian public, as she was the principal scientist responsible for the development of several neurotoxins and chemicals that were used by the Obsidian Order.  Her influence later in life is a little more direct.  When Damar - a very public figure - marries her a few years after the war, he forces the Cardassian people to face their prejudices… And she certainly whispers in his ear about policy once he is made Castellan.

I could go on and on.  She’s amazing.  And devious.

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fictionalred asked:

blooming tea & sugar?

Blooming tea:

Spider lilies for appearance and honeysuckles for scent.

Sugar:

Honestly, I can’t even recall who exactly my first crush was… And does this question mean, like, my first celebrity crush or my first real life crush?  I always liked older men, so my crushes were David Bowie in Labyrinth, Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music, and Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady - just to name some of the earliest ones.  I realized as an adult that I had a HUGE crush on this wonderful woman named Karen who was in several musical theatre productions with me when I was a child.  She was amazing: kind, funny, beautiful, and with an incredible singing voice.  I’ve actually run into her a few times once I was grown, oddly enough, and she hadn’t changed a bit.  Pretty sure she’s straight though.

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fictionalred asked:

32, 34, 42, 44

32: What’s the worst place you have ever been to?

New Mexico springs to mind. Very bad energy as soon as I crossed the border.  My car also broke down there on the highway for no apparent reason.

Oh wait!  It’s LA for sure.  What a hellhole.

34: Most attractive singer of your opposite gender?

42: Do you like the smell of gasoline?

I did when I was a Tiny V, but somewhere along the line, my opinion changed.  I don’t HATE it now, but it’s not a scent I enjoy.

• 44: What was the last film you saw?

I watched the Muppet Christmas Carol for the bazillionth time two nights ago.

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fictionalred asked:

Bit late for the ask meme but here I am: 2 & 15 pls?

2) What was you favourite toy as a child?

Hmm…  I had a pretty extensive collection of My Little Pony and Teddy Ruxpin was pretty cool.  But like a favorite toy… Nothing really springs to the forefront of my mind.  I just liked to imagine things.

15)  Do you think your teachers liked you in school?

I was one of those students that teachers either really liked or really hated with every fiber of their beings.  I had more than one try and sabotage me academically.