Tag: about me

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Name: Kate

Middle name: Evelyn

Zodiac sign: Leo

Height: 5′5

Language: English fluently, can understand some Telugu

Favorite fruit: mango! 

Favorite scent: cloves

Favorite color: red

Favourite fictional character: Hold you hats cuz I got a lot. Mutsuki Tooru, Armin Arlert, Illumi Zoldyck, Killua Zoldyck, Alluka Zoldyck, Hisoka Morow, Chrollo Lucilfer, Kurapika, Soma (Kuroshitsuji), Nora (Noragami), Dabi, Todoroki Shouto, Kurama (YYH), Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Alexei Kirilov (Dostoyevsky’s Demons)

Favourite candy: sour gummy worms 

Favourite holiday: Christmas!

Songs on repeat: Currently it’ “Boxes” by the Goo Goo Dolls 

Average hours of sleep: 7 hours

How many blankets sleep with: seven, at a minimum 

Dream Trip: Cambodia 

Dream job: published novelist! 

Grab the nearest book, page 23, line 17:

My books are all packed right now (moving tomorrow) so I cannot do this one. 

Have you ever had a song or poem written about you?

I can’t remember!  

What’s a sound you hate and a sound you love?:

Hate: erasing a chalkboard (shivers, tho I don’t mind fingernails on a chalkboard?), love: thunder

Do you believe in aliens?: No evidence for it or against it so I don’t really care. 

Do you drive?: Yep.

What’s the last book you read?: Do mangas count? Yu Yu Hakusho, then! 

Any current obsessions?: Hisoillu & Kurokura! 

Do you hold grudges against those who wronged you?: Not generally unless it was like, a continuing problem I can’t escape from. I had a hard time forgiving an ex once? But that was because we worked together and he was passive aggressively trying to antagonize me until I left. Once I moved away it didn’t matter anymore. 

Reason for url: Hamlet + Juliet (Romeo & Juliet!) I’m a Shakespeare nerd. 

Tagged by @mikotofubar; thanks friend!

One Insecurity: I am a very passionate person which I wouldn’t necessarily change but I think it can drive people away. I need to learn how to think before I speak and be less intense. Lol. 

Two Fears: snakes and blood. i’ll panic. 

Three Turn-ons: long hair, compassion, philosophical conversations. bring up dostoyevsky and let’s date. 

Four Goals: publish a novel, develop better boundaries, find mutual romantic love, be a mother. yes, i want to be a mom more than anything. *shrugs* 

Five Things I Like: music, tea, fruit, screwball comedies, reading metas

Six Weaknesses: Chocolate, caffeine, mojitos, angst and fluff as a combination in a fanfiction, enemies to friends to lovers as a trope, personality tests

Seven things I Love: friends and family, writing, reading/watching good stories, traveling, thunderstorms, star filled night skies, OTTERS

Eight tags: @mercyandmagic @tinfoilchan @lazysense @polly-chan @aspoonofsugar @sentrakk @piyo-nii @milese333

How do you outline your fics or stories?

In a draft document on my gmail with the fuel of hot tea and chocolate and if I’m lucky wine. 😛 

I generally start brainstorming because of a particular development I would like to see a character undergo, be they an original character or for a fanfic, and/or I want to explore a trope or twist and see what that would do to their development. Usually I have one specific scene/scenario in mind that I desperately want to write, and so I craft the story around that one scene, learning what brought a character to that point and figuring out where they’ll go afterwards. This scene is usually towards the end of a story so I can dangle it in front of me when my dedication to writing starts to wane. It is the “dessert” scene that I will slog through the vegetables to get to. (I love vegetables but like. I also look forward to cake.) 

Anyways, I start with that scene + specific ideas I know I want to incorporate from those scenes. Here’s my jumbled list of ideas I wanted to incorporate into Chain Reaction:

I couldn’t spell Tserriednich’s name and you don’t even want to know how I pronounce it in my head. Also it’s really like jotted notes; I know what they mean but they aren’t coherent at all. They really just exist to trigger thoughts on what I hope to do with it when I actually get to outlining. 

I then specifically outline by chapters. Again, here’s the beginning of my outline for Chain Reaction:

It’s not hard and fast as a rule though; like I put brief summaries of what will go down in each chapter, but sometimes I wind up splitting an outlined chapter into multiple chapters, or realizing it’s too soon for a particular development and moving it around. For example Illumi threatening Chrollo got moved to like two chapters later in writing it. 

For stories with multiple POVs, I identify whom I want to narrate a specific part of a chapter. Like for Freighted with Memories and Dreams of Time:

Sometimes I actually forget and assume a certain part will be through a different POV than I initially wrote down. Again it isn’t a hard and fast rule and I can change, but actually trying to remember why I initially planned for a particular section to be narrated by one character makes me think more about what I was planning to say thematically in that section, so it works out for me.

Also, as you can tell, I’m not always very specific. I can’t outline every last thing I plan on doing because the characters can be little shits and don’t do what I want or will say something I didn’t have planned. Often as I’m writing a line I know I will have to include, etc, will occur, and I put it in a note at the bottom of the document. 

That is probably way more detail than you wanted, lol. But yeah. There you go XD

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• Favorite smell – Jasmine.

• First job – Dunkin’ Donuts while in high school! I actually loved it, except for the time they made us stay open until midnight in a blizzard and my coworker and I were like “I am not dying working at Dunkin’ Donuts, it’s not worth it” and shut down anyways XD

• Zodiac sign – Leo

• Favorite pizza – Mushroom! Or any veggie pizza lol. 

• Favorite dog – SHIBAS. Also corgis, leonbergers, and German shepherds. 

• Favorite foot attire – Sandals!

• Favorite roller coaster – I don’t have one but I used to really love them.

• Favorite candy – Chocolate, or sour gummy worms!

• Favorite ice cream – Coffee usually!

• Pet peeves – I probably still remember all the times my teachers did not fully erase the white or chalkboards. 

• What are you listening to right now – Mako, “Smoke Filled Room”

• Color of your vehicle – I use public transport, but I used to own a silver car.

• Color of eyes – Blue

• Favorite holiday – Christmas! I love the entire season.

• Night owl or day person – Neither… it really depends! I’m no night owl though I’m a grandma. 

• Fave day of week – Friday!

• Tattoos – I don’t have one but I want one of a verse in Telugu and a small butterfly. That is, if I can stomach the pain haha. 

• Like to cook – Nope. I can cook some good Indian dishes and some Italian ones but I don’t enjoy it.

• Beer or wine or neither – I like sweet wines. I don’t like beer very much.

• Can you drive a manual transmission – Nope. 

• Favorite color – Red, and also purple.

• Do you like vegetables – I love them. 

• Do you wear glasses – I am supposed to… 

• Favorite season – Summer! I’m like actually allergic to the sun but I love it. 

I tag… @aspoonofsugar @midnight-in-town @mercyandmagic @tinfoilchan @sentrakk @mikotofubar @sesshomarusoryuha @volkitotibirgi and anyone who wants to do this!

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Rules: tag 9 ppl I might know on this site

Colour(s) I’m currently wearing: orange, green, gray… purple socks also?

Last band shirt I bought: I don’t have one

Last band I saw live: I actually don’t remember

Last song I listened to: Smoke-Filled Room by Mako

Lipstick or chapstick: both

Last movie I watched: Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Last 3 TV shows I watched: BNHA, TG:re, Hunter x Hunter (2011)

Last 3 characters I identified with: Mutsuki, Kaneki, Amon

Book I’m currently reading: Medaka Box & rereading Hunter x Hunter

Who am I tagging?: @mercyandmagic @tinfoilchan @aspoonofsugar @lunaamatista @hotchocolatelover @saffrin7 @volkitotibirgi @sesshomarusoryuha

I was just wondering what your favorite animal is, you post Otters a lot now that I think about it haha. They’re kinda cute but all their whiskers are kind of meh.

WHISKERS MAKE THEM EVEN CUTER

Jk lol. But no actually. Yes, otters are my favorite animals. I adore them. I need to hug one at some point in my life.

But I also really, really love red pandas:

And penguins

But if we’re talking animals that I can actually legally own as a pet, my faves are cats.

Hey, three of four have whiskers 😉

Hey ham, I was wondering what philosophy do you follow if you follow any, and I’m also just wondering your opinion on Utilitarianism.

Ohh, cool ask, thank you! So I consider myself a Christian existentialist (not shockingly, this worldview is very much present in Dostoyevsky’s works, and existentialism is present in TG). In a nutshell I believe that God is love and also that choices matter, and that our choices define our existence. 

I’m ehhhh on utilitarianism. I like some parts of it–like that you can measure the ethics of something by its consequences, which I do agree with in principle I suppose. If you look at the fruit of an action or a behavior and its reaping good, then I don’t see how it’s wrong. If your actions are hurting someone or yourself, well. But the thing is… that’s more complicated than it seems, and I’m uncomfortable determining what’s right/wrong based on a standard of hurting the least people/being best for the majority. I also think it’s somewhat reductive in that you can’t predict the future, and so we can’t always know the consequences of our actions ahead of time. There’s something about reducing human lives to numbers and their uses for society as a whole that doesn’t sit well with me. 

Also I should state my introduction to utilitarianism was Dickens’ Hard Times, which is, like, a scathing view of the philosophy. 

Once you get this, you have to say five things you like about yourself, publicly. Then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)

Ummmm this is a hard one. Lol.

1) I like listening to people and empathizing

2) I like traveling and learning new things

3) I think I’m a decent writer. Obviously can still improve lots though.

4) I like my hair; it’s Merida hair

5) My roommate and I were talking last night about how much we’ve changed since we were 18 (we’re 25 now) and we both realized that we liked ourselves and who we were a lot more now. I think I like the fact that I’ve changed.

Tagged by @captainhunterman

Name: Kate

Nicknames: Kate is my nickname, but my students used to call me Kajal which I’m totally going to say is after Kajal Agarwal and not because I wear a lot of eyeliner

Height: 5′5

Orientation: idk

Nationality: ‘Murican

Favorite Fruit: mango, custard apple, mangosteen

Favorite Season: summer!

Favorite Flower:  red roses

Favorite Animal: OTTERS red pandas and penguins

Favorite Color: red

Favorite Scent: cinnamon

Coffee, Tea or Hot Chocolate: I can’t choose I love them all.

Average Sleep Hours: 7 hours

Dog or Cat person: I love both but probably cats if I had to choose. I do own one (Hamlet).

Favorite Fictional Character: Mutsuki Tooru, Eren Jaeger, Finn (Star Wars), Alexei Kirillov

Number of Blankets You Sleep With: 6-7

Dream Trip: Japan (going in April whoot!), Italy (land of my ancestors), Cambodia, France to visit @trashyhumanespresso and Greece to visit @our-mathematical-universe

Blog Created: December 2015

Number of Followers: 844

Random Fact: I lived in India for just under two years and can speak decent Telugu.

Tagging… @trashyhumanespresso @our-mathematical-universe @mercyandmagic @midnight-in-town @lunaamatista @arvendell @sentrakk @mikotofubar @ladywongs @animeboy2296