Anghraine

Challenge #1: Pets of Fandom— Loosely defined! Post about your pets, pets from your canon, anything you want!

I would have gone for a pet in a canon, but I recently visited my parents and was enthusiastically greeted by the beloved family dogs. Tisha in particular, the older dog, is now ~13 years old and one of her eyes has gone from kind of hazy to entirely clouded over, but she has medication that makes her life comfortable and seemed very happy to snuffle at my hands and get her paw petted (imperiously holding forth her left paw to be stroked has been her weird princess behavior from puppyhood) and receive scritches and chatter at me in her crotchety old German Shepherd talk.

This was Tisha as a puppy in January of 2013:



This was Tisha taking the then-new kitten under her wing (almost literally) back in December of 2019, about six years ago:



This is Tisha as of just a few months ago, with the same feline protégée/partner in crime (they're definitely the Machiavellian geniuses of the two dogs and two cats of the family):

I was tagged by incognitajones in a meme! Thanks :)

Favorite color: red or deep blue. It’s really hard to choose.

Last song you listened to: I thiiink it was the instrumental version of “Descendant of the Sun” by Two Steps From Hell. Most of my playlists are some mix of TSFH/Audiomachine/Epic Score and that track is particularly suitable to my current project. :)

Favorite musicians: Queen!

Last film you watched: The Rise of Skywalker, I think. Sure was a movie!

Last TV show you watched: in its entirety, The Mandalorian, which I loved. The last TV thing I watched was “The Venom of the Red Lotus” from Legend of Korra, which I also love (Korra and the airbenders taking down the most aggravating of her villains! and there’s actual focus on its impact and consequences!)

Favorite original character: My favorite of my original characters in fanfic is probably … well, I have a bunch of technically-not-OCs whose personalities I completely made up, but for pure OCs, it might be Azruphel of Númenor, a King’s Men partisan whose loyalties are gradually chipped away until she becomes a stealth agent of the Faithful. I’m also fond of F-2VA/Tuvié and LX-3/Ellex from my f!Luke fics, who are two of Vader’s overhauled personal droids that get assigned to supervise Lucy. For original fiction, it has to be a bossy, self-absorbed, and short-tempered (and also just short :P) fire mage who nevertheless has a wide streak of kindness and good intentions.

Spicy, savory, or sweet: Spicy! I do like a lot of sweet things, though.

Sparkling water, tea, or coffee: I hate both sparkling water and coffee, and drink a lot of tea (…if it has enough milk and sugar in it).

Pets: I have a grumpy and high-strung grey cat.