talking meme, day 14

[rivendellrose]

mekare asked "From Star Trek Disco: Who would you invite into your home, who would go have drinks with and who would you take to your favourite, out of the way, secret spot (e.g. in a park, a strip of beach, what have you)?"

Oh my gosh, this is so hard to decide! So many things to think about (and probably overthink, because, hey, this is me)!



Invite into your home: Assuming Michael is not allergic to cats and I have enough time to clean (like, a lot), I think I would want to have her over to my place. This was tough for me because my apartment is smallish and not terribly fancy -- we have some art and we have a lot of books, but neither my husband nor I have really gone in for decorating seriously since we hope to buy a house and move out someday... and also because we have two cats who make Having Nice Things kind of difficult, and our hopes of having a baby would make Having Nice Things even harder. Like, I've wanted to replace our couch for literally years (a furniture store employee tricked The Boy into believing that an off-white microfiber couch would be practical and easy to clean, back before I moved in with him... Yeah. Ask me about how that's going now, ten years later...), but every time we talk about it it's kind of like "...Yeah, but the cats and potential!baby will just ruin the new one, so maybe we should wait?" What I'm trying to say is, I had to get over the "Oh god but there's no way Michael isn't a Vulcan-raised neat freak, I cannot possibly invite her into my apartment." But... I think she'd appreciate my anthropology books, and she's not really the drinking sort or (at least in the climate where I live) the outdoorsy-hiking sort. So, here we go.

Go have drinks with: Captain Philippa Georgiou. No, don't tell me she's dead, I don't care, this is already a fantasy completely detached from reality in so many ways, including the fact that I have literally had one glass of wine in the last more-than-a-year. Let me dream. The trick, here, is finding the right place to go for drinks. Believe it or not, Seattle's cocktail culture is almost more perfectionistic than our coffee culture (which, we're sorry to the rest of the world for exporting probably our worst coffee). My favorite neighborhood spot with really great cocktails is not the level of fancy or dive-y that I'd feel comfortable exposing Philippa Georgiou to, but I think she might find Rhumba in my old Capitol Hill neighborhood charming. If that gets too loud, the bar at Hotel Sorrento not too far away has a great atmosphere for intimate drinks. ...No, I'm not getting ahead of myself, why do you ask?

Take to your favorite, out of the way, secret spot: This spot almost went to Michael (and I clearly also sort of answered it with Philippa, too, because I can't resist getting specific), but I didn't really feel like, having been raised on Vulcan, she would appreciate Seattle's natural climate, humidity, and tendency to be damp or drizzly eighty percent of the time. Fortunately, I know for a fact that Ash Tyler is accustomed to this climate, because he freaking grew up in the same town I did, roughly 40 minutes outside downtown Seattle. And he sails, which (growing up here) means that he's fine with getting rained on and blustered at and all the other stuff a lot of people hate about our weather. Given he grew up in Issaquah, I assume we hiked a lot of the same trails growing up, but my favorite spot, now, is one that a lot of people outside the city don't know about, so I'd take him out there. It's only a half hour or so's walk from my apartment to get to the beginning of the park, but there's lots of wooded trails and a big lawn, a wild meadow, and then more trails going down to a beach -- everything great about our hometown all in one condensed package, and a nice place to just walk and clear his head.

Comments

[mekare]

Aww I love your answers! Btw, I totally meant to include non-alcoholic drinks in the drinks option (I’m not much for alcohol myself). I had totally forgotten where Ash is from and I’m happily imagining the landscape you described.

Hehe, taking Georgiou to a nice intimate hotel bar is a good choice.

[rivendellrose]

Thank you, I'm glad they amused you! I used to like a drink every now and then, but we've been trying to get pregnant again, so it became easier to just abstain completely than try to do the "is it safe at this particular moment?" calculus all the time.

It's a very pretty place, and I think Ash would like it. Not quite as densely wooded or nearly as big as the trails where we grew up, but very nice.

Re: Georgiou... I couldn't resist. XD

[monanotlisa]

Ohh, I love the idea of you taking Ash there. Sigh. <3

[rivendellrose]

Me too, believe me. Poor guy could use a break.

I've thought a few times of writing a totally self-indulgent plotless fic where Ash takes Michael hiking. Maybe I should do that after all...