in the black hills, the badlands, the calloused east

[shadow_shimmer]

Got Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, by Max Boot for a little, light bedtime reading.

Also, a meme stolen from nycscribbler1. Comment to this post with the name of a character that I have written in fic. Or geeked out about

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[horizon_greene]

Steve! And Melo too, please, if I may request more than one :)

[thorne_scratch]

Peirsol? Failing that, Xander. Hey, those two should totally hang out.

[shadow_shimmer]

1. My swimming obsession started at the logical place with Ian and Michael. Then, though, I discovered Aaron and he really became my favorite swimmer write. I loved the way he looked more than any of the other boys, but more than that, well. With him, I felt like I was writing summer -- if that that makes any kind of sense.

2. Aaron's best trait is his easy going nature/sense of humor. I managed, of course, to eliminate both when I wrote him, but there you go. ;)

3. N/A. Kidding. I guess his worst trait -- although not from a writing standpoint -- is how I always kind of envisioned him as being easy to take advantage of. Kind of a push over, vulnerable.

4. I found it very easy to write Aaron, and more than that, it made me happy to write him.

5. I wrote Aaron a lot of ways, but I think the truest was this (also the last): “You don’t turn me on just laying there, Ian,” Aaron enunciated slowly. “Do you have your phone?” -- "Change Your Latitude"

Otherwise, this: The murmur of a stilted conversation flowed past him and Michael