*hugs* It isn’t fair, and it’s not OK. Is it so hard for everyone to either mind their own damn business and/or treat each other decently regardless of gender, identity, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality so that we don’t have to worry about that sort of thing??
Maybe the part that irritates me the most about tonight is that, even as I walked, I couldn’t help thinking that – should something happen to me – the police or whoever heard about it would very likely be quick to ask why I was out so late in the first place. Because clearly a young woman has no right to expect safety while walking her dog because it’s late at night and you should be home with the doors locked.
I walk my dog sometimes at 9 or 10 at night and usually it’s okay but one time somebody pulled up in a truck and wanted to know directions. So I stood like 6 feet back with my dog between us because I sure as hell wasn’t going to get close.
I definitely know that feeling! When I’m walking alone in town or wherever (I did this on campus at university, too) I often take out my cell phone and have pretend conversations. It’s not the best deterrent, but if someone were to have unsavory intentions towards me, they might be less inclined to act if they think there’s a “witness” on the other line.
But then the flip side of that is you don’t want to look like a distracted target either.
*hugs* It isn’t fair, and it’s not OK. Is it so hard for everyone to either mind their own damn business and/or treat each other decently regardless of gender, identity, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexuality so that we don’t have to worry about that sort of thing??
Maybe the part that irritates me the most about tonight is that, even as I walked, I couldn’t help thinking that – should something happen to me – the police or whoever heard about it would very likely be quick to ask why I was out so late in the first place. Because clearly a young woman has no right to expect safety while walking her dog because it’s late at night and you should be home with the doors locked.
I walk my dog sometimes at 9 or 10 at night and usually it’s okay but one time somebody pulled up in a truck and wanted to know directions. So I stood like 6 feet back with my dog between us because I sure as hell wasn’t going to get close.
4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?
I admire anyone brave enough to write fic and post it for others to read! I also admire everyone in the shjwwriterscircle that I’m so happy to be a part of. If I have to name names I’ll go with merindab for the sheer speed at which she writes awesome things, and themadkatter13 because we are both terrible perverts and she writes things that push all of my buttons simultaneously.
5. How many words can you write if you sit down and concentrate intensely for an hour?
I am often a slooooow writer. If I’m on a real roll though, probably 1500-2000.
11. Weirdest thing you’ve ever written/thought about writing/etc.?
Aahahahahaha. So many things. My search history is a scary, scary place. Probably just the weirdest in general, if you try to explain it to people outside of the Sherlock fandom, would be Ensnared – my fawnlock fic in which Sherlock is mute and injured and John is nursing him back to health. This one is objectively weird and involved a lot of research into sedatives.
