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Questions from ilyena_sylph

1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

I feel like yena really tailored these questions to me and i appreciate that.

1. What fictional universe would you most want to find a portal to?

Me over here having the somewhat hilarious reaction of "oh god I love y'all but I wouldn't touch most of you with a ten foot pole" while looking at my Sandboxes.

Unironically probably the universe of Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic series, preferably to Emelan. I have been enamored by craft magic since Sixth Grade Me met Sandraline fa Toren and her found family.

2. You have an unlimited development budget and all the connections you need, what property do you try to get an adaptation for?

Unironically also Circle of Magic lol. Look it will never happen otherwise and so few others understand the craft magic thing!!!

3. What craft would you most like to get into next/do you wish you could do?

see i know this one it tailored to me.
I'd love to do more with metals tbh but for health reasons I probably never will. So like, Ideally smithing. On a practical level, my next almost-entirely-new craft will probably be tatting.

4. Which famous writer or artist would you like to sit down to dinner with?

Only because I've already done so with Tamora Pierce when I was in high school but the answer is K.A. Applegate.

5. Any landmarks you would really like to visit?

Currently? Niagra Falls! It helps that I have a friend in that area who's been hyping it up, especially the Canadian side. (with bonus Friend.)

Written for philomytha  on Fic_promptly, for the prompt a cultural passion for things that go boom.


There was a wide lawn in Vorbarr Sultana's biggest park, where every year at the Emperor's Birthday, there were Fireworks. Of course, they never got to sit out there, with all the various families of the city from the lowest classes up to the Vor. But that was too big a security risk for a Lord Auditor and his family, not to mention a Count and his heirs, so they were stuck at the Imperial palace, a much less crowded view was to be had.

Somehow, that didn't stop Alex and Helen, Ekaterin always sighed as she recovered her children, from being convinced that is was somehow a less impressive view. Every year, they tried to sneak out of the Palace. Invariably, these efforts were thwarted by someone's Armsman (and not, to Pym's dismay, always a Vorkosigan one) and they were dragged back to her, presented to their seats within two minutes of the start of the show.

But they were always back by the time it started, along with the younger children.

This year, Ekaterin grimaced as she counted the minutes. By now, the Palace staff and all Armsmen present were dutifully warned, and so they should be fine. They should be just safe.

She grimaced as the first shot lit the sky and her children were still not present. Well, there was no point spoiling the show for the younger ones, she thought as her face lit with red and a small smile. She'd just have to trust that her children were in safe hands. Surely any vile ones would be just as distracted by the display, and this shared cultural passion for things that go boom.

Sure enough, a staff member had found them, this time slightly too late, causing them to miss the show completely. Next year, Ekaterin hoped, they'll have learned their lesson. She stayed prim and pointedly let them stew in their own displeasure, as Taurie rubbed it in that they missed the fireworks completely.