About me: I'm 31. I live with my husband, father, and two cats in (sometimes) frigid Minnesota. By day I'm a public safety officer. I spend my free time playing cello & violin, taking pictures, working out, binge-watching Netflix, wasting time on the internet, hanging out with friends, listening to music, reading, writing, cooking and gaming.

About my writing: You can find my fanfiction here and on AO3. I float between a wide variety of fandoms. I also have a lot in the Baldur's Gate fandom archived on The Attic, under username "Fantysm." I was very active there between 2001 and 2005-ish. I write original fiction as well, most notably in the month of November, for National Novel Writing Month. You can find me on Nanowrimo under username "indeliblecello."

Favorite quotes:
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." (from "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" by Douglas Adams)

"When you love someone as much as that, you don’t believe they can die. You think your love protects them.” (from “The Wine of Solitude” by Irène Némirovsky)

"When we take seriously that all of us are mortal, we may love not less but more, with greater rather than smaller consideration and attentiveness. We try to put the very best of ourselves into the lives of those we love. This is one of the spurs of mortality. Knowing that death will one day part us all provides a powerful motive to treat each other's interests, concerns, well-being, and happiness with devotion. Such devotion does not reflect a morbid preoccupation with death, but the courage to love with depth of heart despite death's heartbreak. Those who cannot or do not love fully and well may seem to risk less to death, but in fact lose more. For their days are emptier, and they are left in the end unable to say, 'I tried to give the best of myself to you.'" (from "Character & Cops" by Edwin J. Delattre)

"'Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch." (from "'Tis a Fearful Thing" by Judah Halevi)

"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love." (William Sloane Coffin)

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." (Confucius)

"You'll never find a cup of tea deep enough or a book long enough to suit me." (C.S. Lewis)

"Peace, or the appearance of it, is often a prelude to war." (from 01x15 "Too Short a Season" of Star Trek: TNG)

"The universe is vast, and we are so small. There is really only one thing we can ever truly control: whether we are good or evil." (from 05x21, "Meridian" of Stargate SG-1)

"You are only as old as you believe yourself to be." (from 08x18, "Threads" of Stargate SG-1)

"There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not: everything eventually ends. As much as I've looked forward to this day, I've always disliked endings. The last day of summer. The final chapter of a great book. Parting ways with a close friend. But endings are inevitable. Leaves fall. You close the book. You say goodbye. Today is one of those days for us. Today we say goodbye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We're moving on. But just because we're leaving, and that hurts, there are some people who are so much a part of us, they'll be with us, no matter what. They are our solid ground, our north star, and the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us . . . always." (Alexis Castle's graduation speech from 04x22, "Always" of Castle)

"You shouldn't let something terrible happen because you were too scared to do the right thing." (from episode 03x10, "Bad Blood" of Robin Hood BBC)

"We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us." (Edward Lewis)

"The truth is never the truth because someone says it is. The truth is only the truth because it's the truth." (from The LSAT Trainer)

"We do what we can to step toward what is right. That must be enough." (Sister Petrice from Dragon Age 2)

"Protect what matters with everything you have, or you'll have nothing, and deserve it." (Aveline from Dragon Age 2)

"Doubt is the path one walks to reach faith. To leave the path is to embrace blindness and abandon hope." (Tallis from Dragon Age 2)

"There's no such thing as fiction; just non-fiction written in the wrong parallel universe." (from Welcome to Night Vale)

"Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. This is what love is." (from Welcome to Night Vale)

"Confused? Unsure what to do? Wow, sounds like you're human. Good luck." (from Welcome to Night Vale)

"When life seems dangerous and unmanageable, just remember that it is and you can't survive forever." (from Welcome to Night Vale)

"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." (from Welcome to Night Vale)