#hard as a kid like was that my imaginary friend my good imaginary friend kaz of bastard of the barrel fame real?

[inejswag]

the thing is that i absolutely cannot see kanej becoming parents because i do think their respective Traumas will rule out the possibility of ever having biological children And even though adoption is always an option older!kanej to me are a hot mess at any age and definitely not like. people with their lives together enough in the conventional sense to consiously make the decision to adopt & raise a child BUT all that being said i absolutely absolutely absolutely adore the idea of inej saving a preteen boy from a slaver ship who has already learned to steal & be quiet to survive and has developed some seriously sticky fingers and so she has no choice but to train him in espionage and acrobatics to be a spider of his own and him looking up to her as a cooler older sister and meanwhile in ketterdam kaz is breaking into a rich merchant’s house late at night and runs into a little merchling girl kinda like in the beginning of crooked kingdom but instead of a child he can terrify right out of her wits by simply being Dirtyhands he finds a bird of a feather in the face of a seven year old whose Weird Little Girl phase is in full swing and she is immune to Dirtyhands because she fully believes in morbid supernatural forces but is very nonchanlant and unphased about it all. if anything it turns out she’s very good at understading the adult world especially the merchers’ buisness and she and kaz form an unlikely alliance where she tells him about the comings and goings in her house in a very matter-of-fact telling this new adult friend i just made about my day way without like. being Fully aware that kaz is a dodgy character/she’s giving away sensitive information she shouldn’t be but clearly something is Up with this child and she knows not to tell anyone about kaz but she also trusts him without a second thought. verious shenanigans lead to the girl spending more time in the slat/around kaz - either the good old capturing her for ransom razzle dazzle or she gets lost in the city and found by kaz or simply a neglecting governess. he denies feeling any sort of affection for the girl to everyone even jesper even though he very clearly enjoys her presence and how they can exchange deadpan one-liners in a way that shows they’re the only two people in the world who truly Get the other until inej’s ship rolls in for the first time in a while and she’s being tailed by this bright-eyed boy who looks up to her like she’s the coolest person alive and they both sneak up on kaz who is probably playing an unneccessarily complicated chess-like game of their own creation with the girl and/or telling her a horror bedtime story except they’re taking turns weaving the story until she or both of them fall asleep. like on that moment he kinda has to admit to inej Yes i missed you its been so long also i see youve made a new friend. i must admit i might have made one too.

[gaylortruther]

[11/11/11/ TAG] 

RULES: ANSWER 11 QUESTIONS, ASK 11 QUESTIONS, TAG 11 PEOPLE

[thanks to @bookenders​ for tagging me! i loved your questions, and also, i love your url! i’m putting this under a read more because i talk a lot NDJKFNKSFK]

[Q. 1] WHAT KIND OF STORIES ALWAYS GET YOU RIGHT IN THE FEELS? WHAT MAKES U CRI EVRYTIEM?

[a.1] HSJFSJSFJ the bold makes this question look very intimidating! i always fall for the sympathetic villain. NOT the severus snape, personally, but more the draco malfoy. i’m into the sun/moon dichotomy; when the characters are two sides of the same coin, i die instantly. i fall for regina mills and emma swan, clarke griffin and lexa kom trikru, kaz brekker and inej ghafa, partners who compliment each other. i also get weak in the knees for rivals who can tear each other down or build each other up given the chance.

[Q. 2] DO YOU KEEP NOTES AROUND FOR YOUR STORIES? HOW DO YOU ORGANIZE THEM?

[a.2] i keep a journal full of everything, but it’s not organized at all bhjbsjhshf, and other than that i use the notes app on my phone or text my coauthor and screenshot the texts and i keep those in a folder

[Q. 3] WHAT’S THE NERDIEST TRINKET/SWAG/ITEM YOU OWN?

[a.3] oh, god, a lot! i’ve gotten rid of a lot of my nerd stuff lately but ummm i still have a sonic screwdriver i think hahaha and i still have my dan and phil plushies and a full size camp half blood tapestry and a lot of fan themed jewelry! oh i also have two pygmy puffs one is pink and one is purple and they’re named arnold one and two, and i have the raven cycle tarot deck DDKDFSBFD i said it was a lot! but i used to have more

[Q. 4] WHAT’S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU’VE EVER WRITTEN?

[a.4] HAHAHAHAHAHAH i was like 12 so idk if it counts but it was like. fanfiction of pjo where i basically copied rachel’s character exactly and made her get with percy and made both annabeth and rachel get jealous :/ 

[Q. 5] WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE STORY/KIDS BOOK WHEN YOU WERE LITTLE? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF IT NOW?

[a.5] the secret garden by frances hodgson burnett!! tbh i had to look up who wrote it because i haven’t read it in years and i didn’t care who it was by when i was a kid FSDNKJNS but i used to love it so much! i should reread it

[Q. 6] DO YOU HAVE A “WRITING OUTFIT?” 

[a.6] omg no, i just write in whatever i’m wearing when inspiration strikes lol, that sounds like a good plan to do more laundry tho KSFFNKD

[Q. 7] WHAT BOOK (THAT YOU’VE READ) WOULD YOU SAY WAS YOUR FAVORITE TO IMPRESS SOMEONE? WHAT BOOK WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR FAVORITE TO A YOUNG KID? 

[a.7] this is such a good question! to impress someone i would probably say the song of achilles and to a kid i would say percy jackson because the kid has probably read percy jackson and if they haven’t they should

[Q. 8] HOW DO YOU BOOKMARK PAGES IN A PHYSICAL BOOK? DOG EAR? ACTUAL BOOKMARK? RANDOM NEARBY ITEM?

[a.8] usually just something nearby! right now it’s a string bracelet i never tied, but i also do have an actual bookmark i use when it resurfaces 

[Q. 9] DO YOU REREAD YOUR FAVORITE BOOKS/STORIES?

[a.9] i try to! i used to do it a lot, but it’s hard for me to stay focused now with my impairments. i want to reread grishaverse soon though because i need to read king of scars and i don’t remember enough of grishaverse SFKJBSJKFS

[Q. 10] DO YOU READ LITERARY MAGAZINES?

[a.10]  i don’t read any magazines lmao but if i were to read a magazine it would be a literary magazine

[Q. 11] DO YOU LIKE GRAPHIC NOVELS/COMICS? WHICH ONES?

[a.11] nope! could never get into them

[MY QUESTIONS]

[1] HAVE YOU EVER HAD A WRITING JOURNAL BEFORE? IF SO, IN WHAT WAYS DO YOU THINK IT HELPED YOU IMPROVE?

[2] HAVE YOU EVER DONE NANOWRIMO OR CAMP NANOWRIMO? 

[3] WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CONCRETE OC EVER LIKE? 

[4] DID YOU HAVE IMAGINARY FRIENDS AS A CHILD?

[5] HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WRITING? HOW LONG DID YOU WANT TO WRITE BEFORE YOU STARTED?

[6] STYLISTICALLY, WHAT WRITER DO YOU ADMIRE THE MOST?

[7] HAVE YOU HAD A MENTOR THAT HAS INFLUENCED YOUR WRITING?

[8] WHAT WEATHER IS THE BEST FOR WRITING?

[9] WHAT IS THE BEST NAME YOU HAVE EVER GIVEN AN OC?

[10] SPOIL SOMETHING INCONVENIENT ABOUT YOUR WIP. IS IT REALLY INCONVENIENT? 

[11] HOW DO YOU WRITE? ON A LAPTOP, A TABLET, A PHONE...?

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