#3905

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AG: Now what do you make of these 8lank white eyes of mine? What do you think THAT could mean, hmmmmmmmm? GT: i don't know. aliens usually have big spooky eyes, don't they? […] AG: […] normally, we have 8right orange eyes, with gray irises. They fill in with our 8lood pigment as we get older.

Badass. Now I’m picturing an adult Karkat with solid red eyes, or an adult Kanaya's eerie emerald gaze drifting toward her victim's neck.

Also, was Mindfang a lot younger than I thought, then? I guess we don't know how long it takes a troll's eyes to change, but hers haven't even started filling in...

...oh my god, you ridiculous fucking 8itch. You were like... twenty-two, tops, weren't you? You were a baby.

AG: So you don't remem8er anything a8out the game at all, then? The destruction of your planet? 8ringing your ancestor 8ack to life as a clown woman? AG: Putting a huge flaming ocean out with your magical wind? Jack Noir? Dying, resurrecting, and possi8ly dying again? Is any of this tickling your sponge? […] GT: nope. sounds cool though.

He doesn’t remember Nannasprite, but he does remember the wall scrawlings, even though he saw them after he met Nannasprite?

John’s recollection is all over the place, here. I suppose Earth's world champion of repression would take the longest to awaken suppressed memories.

AG: Fuck, I cannot 8elieeeeeeeeve how cold it is on this planet. How can any species possi8ly 8e a8le to survive somewhere like this?

Well, you've got a point, Vriska.

It is awfully hard to survive Earth's winter alone...

GT: yeah, i thought you looked pretty cold out here. GT: so i brought you this jacket.

...so it’s a good thing you’re not alone.

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#3905 ＠ 沖縄県那覇市具志

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3905 Chicago, IL 09/09/2024

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why are you as a woman rushing to the aid of another woman. with a gun

[damnfandomproblems]

When the author/translator misgender a character that is obviously and intentionally written as trans

[montavillanews]

Eastport Food Center Empties Out

As of August 1st, all vendors have left the Eastport Food Center cart pod, and the business appears to have closed permanently. The owner of the 23,000-square-foot dining destination at 3905 SE 82nd Avenue listed the business for sale in 2022. In May, the location’s website went offline, and carts began moving off property in significant numbers last month. Now, the facility is closed without a…

[pesterloglog]

John Egbert, Vriska Serket

Act 5, page 3905-3919

GT: so.

GT: it seems that you are, in fact, an alien. with horns and everything.

GT: huh.

AG: Yes, John. Horns and all. That totally proves I am an alien 8eyond a shadow of a dou8t!

AG: Now what do you make of these 8lank white eyes of mine? What do you think THAT could mean, hmmmmmmmm?

GT: i don't know. aliens usually have big spooky eyes, don't they?

AG: Humans have literally the dum8est extraterrestrial lore. Weren't those supposed to 8e aliens on one of your posters?

GT: haha, you mean mac and me? yeah, even i can admit that movie was indefensible.

AG: Well if you want to know, normally, we have 8right orange eyes, with gray irises. They fill in with our 8lood pigment as we get older.

AG: Also, normally I have this one goofy eye with seven pupils 8ecause I'm kind of a weirdo. 8ut I guess that's gone now that I'm dead.

AG: Not that you 8elieve me, 8ecause you just refuse to remem8er anything.

GT: i can accept that you are an alien, but come on. meeting an alien who is also a GHOST in my front yard is a bit much to believe.

GT: it is almost too awesome.

AG: So you don't remem8er anything a8out the game at all, then? The destruction of your planet? 8ringing your ancestor 8ack to life as a clown woman?

AG: Putting a huge flaming ocean out with your magical wind? Jack Noir? Dying, resurrecting, and possi8ly dying again? Is any of this tickling your sponge?

GT: hmm...

GT: nope. sounds cool though.

AG: Fuck, I cannot 8elieeeeeeeeve how cold it is on this planet. How can any species possi8ly 8e a8le to survive somewhere like this?

GT: yeah, i thought you looked pretty cold out here.

GT: so i brought you this jacket.

AG: Oh.

AG: Ok.

GT: hey, your clothes switched suddenly.

GT: was that some kind of alien wardrobe warpifying technology?

GT: such as a warpdrobe, if you will?

AG: Sure, John. Let's just say that's what it was.

GT: you look pretty cool in more normal clothes. not that your space boots and pixie outfit weren't neat.

AG: Thanks.

AG: So, is this how humans 8egin an earth d8?

AG: With simple acts of flattery and kindness?

GT: um, i don't know about that, really.

GT: it just seemed like the nice thing to do.

GT: is...

GT: is this a date?

AG: No. I've decided this definitely will not 8e a d8.

AG: Not until you remem8er something, at least.

GT: ok, that's probably for the best.

GT: i would probably be pretty nervous on a date with a normal girl, let alone on a...

GT: DATE WITH AN ALIEN SPACE GHOST!!!

GT: heheheheheheh.

AG: Now that you mention it, me too, pro8a8ly. Your goofy awkwardness is a 8it contagious, frankly.

AG: So now what do we do?

GT: well...

GT: since i am presuming you are new to the planet...

GT: i could show you around the place.

GT: this is my green slime ghost pogo ride, in all its glory.

GT: in my childhood, it was hours of fun, and hundreds of painful injuries.

AG: Hey........

AG: This thing isn't slimy at all! What the hell.

GT: nope.

AG: I've noticed humans don't seem to keep any slime around the hive. And yet you are strangely cavalier a8out your open display of certain........ receptacles.

AG: What's the deal with that? Is it that you're just that ashamed of your secretions as a species?

GT: um.

GT: not... really?

GT: humans just don't really have much use for slime, i guess.

GT: honestly, i can't think of a single practical use for slime, other than to be gross!

AG: So 8izarre.

GT: anyway, this thing is kind of a death trap, and i haven't ridden it for years.

GT: i think my dad had it installed as one of his ridiculous ways of making a man out of me.

AG: Sure.

AG: My custodian had her ways of making me tougher too.

GT: yeah.

GT: parents, right? haha.

GT: anyway, that's my back yard. pretty damn boring, sorry.

GT: i would show you inside, but i don't think my dad would take too kindly to bringing an alien inside.

GT: or, just yet. i would need to brace him for it.

AG: That's fine.

AG: What else can you show me?

GT: i could show you around my neighborhood, if you want.

AG: Sounds gr8.

GT: these are my neighbors, who live in a lot of same looking houses as mine.

GT: i never see them. i think they're all really busy people with a lot of serious business to attend to.

GT: hey, look.

GT: the snow is melted over here.

GT: it's really warm suddenly. weird.

AG: Does your planet usually have these kind of temper8ture swings?

GT: no, this is pretty unusual december weather.

GT: guess i'll take my coat off.

GT: i can take yours back, if you want.

AG: No thanks. I think I'll keep it on.

GT: there is not really much to see in this town...

GT: but there are these lakes.

GT: this lake here did not used to be a lake. a long time ago, before i was born, there was a factory here.

GT: my dad says there was a huge explosion. he was walking by with my nanna when he saw it.

GT: then a little later, my nanna died. my dad never told me how, except that it involved a big joke book.

GT: i never knew her, which is too bad. she sounded nice.

AG: I know what happened.

AG: I saw it.

GT: you did?

AG: Yes.

AG: Do you want to know?

AG: It might jostle your memory.

GT: ok!

AG: I 8elieve this lake is where Jade landed. You landed a little ways over there, a8out where your hive is now. You clo88ered your nanna to death with the aforementioned joke 8ook. 8ut it wasn't your fault. You were 8oth just little wigglers, riding meteors from the future.

AG: You cre8ted yourself, your nanna, Jade, her grandpa, not to mention Dave and Rose and their guardians, all in a la8 using paradox slime, and sent them 8ack in time as the silly gru8s with arms and legs you call 8a8ies. And here you were dou8ting the usefulness of slime!

GT: wow, really?

AG: Yes, a8solutely.

AG: I paid close attention to all this, 8ecause I thought it might give me some clues a8out us and our ancestors, who were made the same way.

AG: Any of this familiar?

GT: hmm.

GT: that all sounds incredible if true, but i don't have even the foggiest memory of that happening!

AG: Yeah. I figured as much.

AG: Since you seem 8ent on staying in your dream 8u88le coma, why don't I continue the tour?

GT: the tour... of earth?

AG: Sort of.

GT: what's happening?

AG: We are going on an adventure.

GT: where?

AG: Through your memories.

AG: Through mine too.

AG: This would 8e a really fun thing to do on a d8, I think!

AG: If we actually were on a d8, which we're not.

GT: how is this happening?

GT: is this through the advanced alien technologies?

GT: like holograms, or teleportations?

AG: If that's what you want to think to keep you comfy in your stupor, sure.

GT: where are we?

AG: This is my home planet 8efore it was destroyed.

AG: It's called Alternia.

GT: oh, cool.

GT: and what's that, over there?

AG: That is my hive, which is a thing that you refer to as a house.

AG: It's where I grew up.

GT: it's a castle!!!

AG: No shit!

AG: It is 8ig and fore8oding and ostent8ious, just the way I wanted it.

AG: As a 8lue8lood, I was entitled to 8uild such a home. Something to set me far apart from the commoners.

GT: you built it?

AG: Of course not. Ro8ots 8uilt it for me when I was very young.

AG: 8ut I was allowed to dict8 instructions. Expected to, in fact.

GT: oh gosh.

GT: so rad.

AG: Really?

AG: I still find it interesting what sort of mundane facts humans tend to 8e impressed 8y.

AG: Anyway, my design kind of got 8oring as I got older. A huge castle hive sounds great, 8ut it starts feeling pretty cavernous and lonely after a while. There were so many 8locks I never even used!

AG: Your tastes change, 8ut you get stuck with growing up in a place suited to your earliest, most juvenile inclin8ions.

AG: No8ody tells you that when you're a kid though.

GT: i think i know what you mean.

GT: i feel like a long time ago, i might have given my dad the impression i really liked clowns?

GT: and now there are clowns everywhere, his stupid collection just keeps growing and growing, and it drives me CRAZY.

AG: John........

AG: That 8arely compara8le example is so cute, I don't even know what to say.

GT: heheh.

AG: This was my custodian.

GT: 8O

AG: She was hurt in an accident.

AG: I killed her myself to put her out of her misery.

GT: :(

GT: holy shit, look at these glittering space riches!

AG: Yeah. I was really into treasure hunting for a while.

GT: What's with the broken eight balls?

AG: Never mind those!

AG: This was my respite8lock.

AG: From kind of an em8arrassing memory, actually.

GT: haha, more eight balls!!!

GT: you sure do like to smash them.

AG: John, addiction is a powerful thing. You pro8a8ly wouldn't understand.

GT: what are you wearing?

AG: Just a fairy dress.

AG: I wore it for this stupid thing I did once.

GT: is that a rocket car stuck in the web over there?

GT: what's that about?

AG: Don't worry a8out it! Man, this would 8e such an awkward moment on a d8. Again, if it was one.

GT: there's something really familiar about that rocket...

AG: Let's keep going.

GT: what's happening?

GT: are we back on earth?

AG: You tell me.

GT: it's my house again. why are we here?

GT: i was having fun seeing your planet!

AG: I don't know, John. They're your memories.

GT: this is my dad's room.

GT: but...

GT: i have never been inside of it.

GT: so why do i recognize it?

AG: Shrug!!!!!!!!

GT: i think...

GT: there were some birthday presents for me in here.

GT: but i can't recall which birthday that was.

AG: It was your 13th.

GT: but i'm 12!

GT: oh yeah.

GT: i remember this.

GT: there were these imps all over my house, acting all rambunctious.

GT: but... why?

GT: it's all so hazy.

GT: where is my dad?

AG: Sounds like some things are coming 8ack to you.

AG: Any chance you remem8er me yet?

GT: no.

GT: sorry.

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[lomotunes2008]

Ok folks! Here's a list of every Kerr Stuart narrow gauge engine I could find!

It was a struggle (most of these had basically zero info on them other than very, very basic stuff) but I tried my best! I've also included photos of each just for fun ^_^

Tattoo:

1284 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

1288 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

2395 - Current location: Apedale Valley Railway

4047 - Current location: Talyllyn Railway

Winston 17 - Current location: Corris Railway

Unknown - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

Skylark:

742 - Current location: Red Cliffs Railway

813/814/1360* - Current location: Mauritius

1281 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

4389 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

Sirdar:

652 - Current location: Walvis Bay Station, Namibia

685 - Current location: Beaconsfield Heritage Centre

1158 - Current location: Amerton Railway

Wren:

1015 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

1194 - Current location: Santa Catarina, Brazil

2387 - Current location: Pattaya, Thailand

2388 - Current location: Falkland Islands

2392 - Current location: Falkland Islands

3114 - Current location: Vale of Rheidol Railway

3128 - Current location: Statfold Barn

4031 - Current location: Sandstone Steam Railway

4250 - Current location: Amerton Railway

4256 - Current location: Leighton Buzzard Railway

4260 - Current location: Leighton Buzzard Railway

Hunslet 3905 - Current location: Unknown

Hunslet 3906 - Current location: Kew Bridge

Brazil:

886 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

926 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

1049 - Current location: Great Whipsnade Railway

1179 - Current location: Santa Catarina, Brazil

1314 - Current location: Carribbean Islands

3024 - Current location: Cavan & Leitrim Railway

3025 - Current location: Private

4219 - Current location: Sittingbourne Railway

Hunslet 1842 - Current location: Statfold Barn

Hunslet 3756 - Current location: Statfold Barn

Hunslet 3902 - Current location: Stratford Barn

Darwin:

4063 - Current location: Sandstone Steam Railway

Joffre:

2405 - Current location: West Lancashire Railway

2442 - Current location: Richmond Light Railway

2451 - Current location: L&B Railway

3010 - Current location: Statfold Barn Railway

3014 - Current location: Apedale Railway

Unknown - Current location: A. Schweitzer Hospital

Haig:

3117 - Current location: Teifi Valley Railway

4183 - Current location: Western Springs Railway

4185 - Current location: Western Springs Railway

Huxley:

2383 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

4141 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

4393 - Current location: Nam Tu Mine Railway

Matary:

4034 - Current location: Great Whipsnade Railway

4193 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

4404 - Current location: Welshpool Railway

Unknown class:

98 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

668 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

847 - Current location: Chennai, India

848 - Current location: Puri, India

928 - Current location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

1244 - Current location: Alagoas, Brazil

2417 - Current location: Pernambuco, Brazil

4077 - Current location: Antofagasta, Chile

4315 - Current location: Vizinagaram, India

4316 - Current location: Visakhapatnam, India

4408 - Current location: Visakhapatnam, India

Unknown - Current location: Oruro, Bolivia

*Unsure of works number. Numbers listed are speculative and may not be accurate.

Hope someone finds this useful :)

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Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. Tonight, Gotham, We Are LIVE! (3905 words) by Sparky441 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Batman - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, Damian Wayne, Harleen Quinzel, Pamela Isley, Edward Nygma, Jonathan Crane, Oswald Cobblepot, Harvey Dent, Selina Kyle, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Chaotic Batfamily (DCU), Tired Parent Bruce Wayne, Crazy Gotham City, Inspired by Six the musical, Crack Treated Seriously, Life in Gotham City (DCU), Gotham City Rogues, It's Halloween Folks, Dick and Harley are on the same wavelength, Chaotic Harleen Quinzel, Chaotic Dick Grayson, Jason Todd Being a Little Shit, bat kids being little shits, Dick Grayson Being a Little Shit, Stephanie Brown Being a Little Shit, Tim Drake Being a Little Shit, Duke Thomas is a Batfamily Member, Duke Thomas Being a Little Shit, Damian Wayne is a Little Shit, Cassandra Cain Being a Little Shit, BAMF Barbara Gordon, chaotic selina kyle, I'd love to say, no beta we die like robins, but there was actually some beta so-, some beta we come back like robins

Summary: Dick bursts into the room. “I’ve just had the Greatest Idea for a group costume this year!!!”

Jason glances over from where he’s holding Damian’s katana out of reach. “Will it fuck with Bruce?”

Dick grins widely. “Of course!”

The assembled bat kids all share a maniacal grin. ”Say no more. We’re in.”

–🦇–

Meanwhile, across Gotham:

Harley bursts into the room. “I’ve just had the Greatest Idea for a group costume this year!!!”

Ivy looks up from the plant she was tending to. “Will it fuck with the bat?”

Harley grins widely. “Of course!”

The assembled rouges all share a maniacal grin. “Say no more. We’re in.”

–🦇–

Meanwhile, in the Batcave:

Bruce shudders as a sudden chill runs down his spine. He brushes it off and turns back to the case file he’s working on. It must be the normal coldness of the cave.

Surely not something else.

Summary:

Dick bursts into the room.

“I’ve just had the Greatest Idea for a group costume this year!!!”

Jason glances over from where he’s holding Damian’s katana out of reach. “Will it fuck with Bruce?”

Dick grins widely. “Of course!”

The assembled bat kids all share a maniacal grin. ”Say no more. We’re in.”

–🦇–

Meanwhile, across Gotham:

Harley bursts into the room.

“I’ve just had the Greatest Idea for a group costume this year!!!”

Ivy looks up from the plant she was tending to. “Will it fuck with the bat?”

Harley grins widely. “Of course!”

The assembled rouges all share a maniacal grin. “Say no more. We’re in.”

–🦇–

Meanwhile, in the Batcave.

Bruce shudders as a sudden chill runs down his spine. He brushes it off and turns back to the case file he’s working on. It must be the normal coldness of the cave. 

Surely not something else.

[karliahs]

fic writer interview!!

tysm @plusultraetc for the tag!! <3

How many works do you have on AO3?

50 exactly!

What's your total AO3 word count?

234,906, almost half of which (110k) was written/posted this year. insane!!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

darken your door (12,832)

walk a mile (5642)

swan dive (4857)

rescue (3905)

something else to pretend (3,572)

there's a theme here and it's bnha fics i wrote in 2019/2020

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

yes!! with several asterisks i'll get into in a minute. i try to respond to every comment i get because:

i genuinely really appreciate that anyone takes the time to tell me they liked a fic when they could just consume it and say nothing with 0 consequences, so i want to say thank you

some comments have a rly big impact on me - change the way i feel about stuff, contain phrases i remember for a really long time, make me cry, etc - and just like how if someone writes a fic that impacts me then i want to tell them, i want to tell people how much their comment mattered

i often only figure out why i did something or made certain choices in a fic until someone prompts me to talk about it. it's such a useful exercise for understanding my own work better

i genuinely adore rambling about my fics, it's arguably more fun than writing them in the first place

it's really nice getting to chat to commenters and get to know people!

however. there is a 3-4 year period where i didn't reply to any comments at all because i got overwhelmed and then felt like it was too late to try and catch up. this still haunts me a little bit because i got some really lovely impactful comments in that era but it just feels too weird to reply literally like 5 years late 😭

2nd asterisk is some fics i feel kind of embarrassed about and so don't reply to comments on, 3rd is that i'm bad at managing my comments inbox so i'm sure i miss people out by accident sometimes, and 4th is that if i don't have anything nice to say then i won't respond...i get almost no comments i think are intentionally meant to be rude, but sometimes i get ones that rankle for one reason or another and i won't reply if i'm just gonna be tetchy bc again, i don't think they're meant badly

so very much a yes in theory but not in practice 😂

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

bargaining chips i think. the funny thing about that series is that in some ways i think things would ultimately turn out better than in canon (there's a reason the 2nd fic has akechi promise to contact ren if he does survive, a thing that would have paid off in the 3rd fic i never finished). but as of bargaining chips it's very much...this is the POV of a person who thinks the only power they have left in the world is to hurt people

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

my usual ending is like bittersweet and/or hopeful, so for example i feel a lot of things about the cathertic (for me at least) endings for redux and something else to pretend and unwanted, but idk if they can exactly be called happy.

going to my pure silly fluff fics instead where we pretty much start happy and end happy: to work, to rest which ends with the gang being happy about stickers, or class pets which ends with class a getting three (3) cats

Do you write crossovers?

nope!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not really! probably the closest was someone commenting on pathologised with just "WHERE IS YUSUKE?" in all caps 🙄 "why isn't my fave dude in your fic" is not a genre of comment i enjoy, though it's usually phrased more politely than that at least

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

nope!

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i'm aware of, though it's apparently fairly rampant in bnha fandom with those "what if deku [x]" youtube videos. i think those are reserved for fics with actual plots though

Have you ever had a fic translated?

i think i've been asked for permission for people to do so before, but i don't think i've ever actually seen anything posted...someone did translate a little section of one fic into spanish in a bookmarker comment once, which was very fun because i remember little bits of spanish from school & years of sporadic duolingo

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

no but i think it would be so fun 👀

What's your all-time favorite ship?

mannnn i just cannot care about romantic ships the way that seems to be so ubiquitous in fandom. even when i try and write romance it ends up as like ambigious tenderness or Friendship With Vibes. the few times i've even written kissing it's been just a build up to a kiss after which the fic immediately fades to black, which is really funny in retrospect like...buddy, is that because you stop caring about what's happening once the kissing starts?

i am fond of erasermic, jontim and shindeku, though i enjoy them as platonic dynamics pretty much the same amount

What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

it mostly doesn't bother me to have tons of unfinished WIPs, i don't really put that expectation that everything i start will or should get finished/posted.

so the only one that genuinely bugs me is the third fic in seen and not heard, because i feel like i kind of promised it to people and then didn't deliver, and because it would have properly concluded a series i know a few people really connected with...and because the draft got to like 80% done but i could just never finish it off in a way i was happy with. maybe someday though

there's also a more recent bnha fic draft that i am really fond of in some ways, but i just could not take the discourse i think it would inspire. i might finish it just for me someday

What are your writing strengths?

cribbing all these from comments honestly but i think i'm pretty good at real-feeling emotional responses to situations. emotional realism, maybe? and writing introspection/people thinking and feeling things in general.

my characterisation gets complimented a fair bit, which is funny bc i think i actually take a lot of liberties with canon characters, but i guess i'm decent at couching those liberties in a way that makes it pass muster most of the time. like passing off a counterfeit watch as genuine

i'm somewhat good with grounding things in sensory detail, but that's one of those things i think i'll always be trying to get better at

What are your writing weaknesses?

i've never met a plot in my life and i don't want to. i also can't write longfic. in real-world terms i'm a short story writer and not a novelist - all those structural narrative things people do to make a long-form story work are just mystifying to me. part of that is just driven by what interests me though - i don't read a lot of plotty longfic either

i'm also still working on improving syntax and flow in my prose in general, but that's another one of those endless projects i think

oh also having more than two people in a prolonged dialogue scene is wildly difficult to me

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

i have no thoughts on this matter!

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

merlin! i wrote probably bad merlin fic on ff.net back when i was like 15/16. it's actually the reason i joined tumblr in the first place, bc my fave merlin fic writer had a tumblr and i got curious

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to?

i'd like to write more about my silly little video game OCs. i've dabbled in it a bit before but i've never really invested in it because i know no one would read it/care. but i'm getting better at writing for myself and it is really fun to have records of these OCs that i love, so i hope i can write some stuff about the protag i make for new dragon age that i'll inevitably get deeply attached to

it's also kind of wild to me that i've never written for homestuck or dangan ronpa given the impact those two things had on my psyche

What's your favorite fic you've written?

my answer to this changes depending on the day but right now...something else to pretend my beloved

wow that got long. not tagging anyone but if you'd like to do it, consider yourself tagged!

[ellenya]

One day, one rhyme- Day 3905

To measure them out is a job;

Colorful jelly grizzly mob-

Measured in mugs in seven pairs:

Fourteen cups full of gummy bears.

[ao3feed-tf2ships]

thrifty

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/58609165

by tanyart

There are eight knives that need sharpening this time. Sniper gets on it.

Words: 3905, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Team Fortress 2

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Sniper (Team Fortress 2), Spy (Team Fortress 2)

Relationships: Sniper/Spy (Team Fortress 2)

Additional Tags: Same Team Relationship, Face-Fucking, Blow Jobs, coworkers with benefits, Mutual Pining, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Sex for Favors

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/58609165

[existentialcrisistime]

New fic time! My first fic of 2024!

In From the Cold

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 3905

Fandom: Star Trek AOS

Rating: Teen

Relationships: James T. Kirk/Leonard “Bones” McCoy

Additional Tags: Academy Era, Pre-Relationship, Miscommunication, Arguments, Hypothermia, Huddling For Warmth, Sharing a Bed, Hurt James T Kirk, Sick James T Kirk, Jim is a bedraggled wet cat of a man

He’d just closed his eyes again when he heard it – a faint knock on the door. Who the hell could it be this late? Cursing under his breath, Leonard got to his feet and opened the door to see –  Jim, bedraggled and cold, looking the picture of patheticness in his doorway.

After an argument between them, Jim arrives at Leonard’s dorm room sick and afraid he won’t be let in. Leonard, of course, takes care of him anyway.

READ IT ON AO3