Xiaq on A03. EL Massey for published work.
my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"
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Anonymous asked:
I read a fic a while ago and I Cannot find it any more. I know you’re not a fanfic finding blog, so feel free to just delete this ask, but I just wanted to ask somewhere because it’s been bugging me. It was a drarry fic* where harry retired from being an auror because he’d been turned into a werewolf and the auror office just wanted to use him for publicity. He went to a tiny town in America, which just so happened to be where draco was living after he had been stripped of his magic, like many other children of ex-death eaters. It turned out that being stripped of your magic meant a whole host of genetic illnesses coming out, and they started a media campaign to give everyone back their magic, and in dracos case physical contact with harry kept the illnesses at bay because of draco’s distant veela ancestry and harry’s werewolfness. There was a whole bit with a pet snake being misconstrued as a courting gift, and visiting narcissa in france. If you or your followers do know what this is, or know a better blog to direct my query, i would be most grateful.
*yes i know, i hate jk rowling, but it was a good fic
olderthannetfic answered:
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Oh, that’s mine! It’s Way Down We Go and it’s part of a series called “Fuck you Joanne” so you can rest assured that we do not support JK Rowling in this house.
olliefloats asked:
hello! i was gone from tumblr for a while and when i came back, you were blogging about paramotor(ing?)! if you're willing, could you answer a) what exactly is it? b) how did you get into it? c) how could one (me or others) potentially get into it? it looks really fun!
hope you're doing well, and your libraries are always dream goals
xiaq answered:
I’ve been getting more questions about flying recently so I’m going to make this one public to refer to in the future.
A) It’s basically turning yourself into a human kite with a 2stroke engine + propeller on your back. Mine is 80ccs since I’m smol but most folks have 185cc engines. Here’s a breakdown/voiceover of what goes into a flight:
B) I got into it because I’d heard about it a decade ago and was fascinated by the idea but never thought I could afford it. Now that I live in CO, have a good job, and live within an hour of one of the best trainers around, I saved up for a year and got started.
C) If you’re interested in getting into it, I’m happy to talk to you about it offline—but I’d look for a trainer or school in your area and spend time with them first. Maybe do a tandem. They’ll coach you through both the skills and gear necessary to get you in the air. Fair warning, you’ll spend quite a bit of time on the ground first, and you’ll need to take some written (online) tests as well. (But yes, it’s SO fun. Please come fly with me).
D) You didn’t ask this, but other folks have. Start up costs are hella expensive and you want to invest in good equipment since poor equipment means death. You’ll need $3-5k for training and then your motor, wing, reserve, and helmet will be anywhere from $8k to $15k depending on if you can find them second-hand or not. Maintenance costs are basically nothing aside from gas/oil unless you need to repair gear, though, which is nice. My startup cost was just over $11k all in with training.
So. Like I said. Not cheap. But if you’re in a DINK situation like me, willing to sacrifice some things, (and have a supportive partner who said “hey, we’re down to one car and your thrifting probably saved us more than that last year”) it’s doable. And so worth it. I literally can’t describe the euphoria of flying. I mean. It’s flying
Oh and this is what the engine/prop looks like. Mine has a little engine and a big prop (130cm) since I’m flying at higher elevations. You can get two or three blade props. And I’ve never used a full tank of gas, but 4 liters will let me fly for 2+ hrs.
I hope everyone has friends as good as mine.
Working on a new macrame project this afternoon and Deacon commandeered my dowel rod. “Is lorg stick. Is mine.”
My mama and I did our nails in high Christmas style (they’re stickers!). Guess which hands are mine and which belong to my red-headed blue-eyed mother 😂.
This is the third fic of mine that these folks have emailed me, via my author email, about. 🙄
Still baffling to me that I made this room in my house. It’s mine. I can just go sit in it whenever. Wild.
Well. It’s officially mine–or, in the process of being mine anyway. In even more exciting news, they’ll renovate the unit before I move in so it will have a black tile/grey cabinet/black granite counter aesthetic rather than the dark brown it is currently. They let me look at an identical unit that’s available now so I could see what it will look like and I’m pretty jazzed. I just need to sell my current place now. Nbd.
