#I also have another one of those fic trope book pins for Mike

[ensrensage]

I’ve already progressed to crisis about Mike Crew bag but here goes nothing re: the Gerry bag???

Top down...

Suit of Wands: in Tarot, wands symbolize creativity and will (our Gerry is canonically an artist and lbr his life probably involved a lot of willpower). Wands are also interchangeably element of fire or air, and. Well.

Watership Down: the quote paraphrased in the pin is “All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.”

Suit of Swords: in Tarot, swords symbolize reason. Also as mentioned above, interchangeably fire or air.

Candle: this pin is literally called “burning the candle at both ends”. Enough said.

Mothman: the man is certifiably a cryptid up until Jon meets him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dinosaur (and matching mate) : the reunion outfit from Two Ships Passing by @gerrydelano, which haunts my dreams because I want 1) to write that poignantly, 2) that dinosaur button-up, and 3) to be able to pull off red/pink eyeshadow

Kingdom Hearts Blue Sea Salt ice cream: Gerry (RIGHTLY AND DESERVEDLY) does get a little salty in MAG111: Family Business

Slow Burn fic trope book: ... c’mon... it’s a book... that says slow burn on it... I think this speaks for itself

Don’t Burn Yourself Out: aka “How Many Fire Puns Can Lyx Make” and also “Where Was A Reasonable Person To Tell Gerry This”

Corvid skull: the bone book from MAG035: Old Passages

Persist: kind of the name of his whole game (also gave me feels about one of tumblr user gerrydelano’s OCs, Tazia, who is a friend of Gerry’s, so I had to)

Eye filler: one of two (2) Eye motifs that found its way here. The simplicity of the design is how I tend to doodle Gerry’s tattoos.

Hello, I’m Tired nametag: if you were hunting Leitners, Leitner himself, and also being haunted by your banshee of a mother, you would be exhausted too.

Intuition: the other Eye motif! Gerry’s Beholding powers!

Nonbinary Gang cosmo (daisy? Idk what this flower is?): to quote tumblr user gerrydelano without tagging him again “gerry's commitment to this look just confirms there's no way he's cis tbh.” (The other option was a trans flag colored ice cream cone) (I headcanon Gerry as gnc and tme if this was not clear)

They/Them planchette: directly related to the above, this is the pronoun pin that I got myself when I first started wearing a pronoun pin. Simple, delightfully pretty, and occult themed. Suits a he/they adult goth, methinks!

The claws: this pin is called Solve et Coagula, a phrase from alchemy that embodies the concept that something must be broken down before it can be built back up. It’s also the title of a song by Mudvayne, which is a metal band. One Gerry would listen to? Who knows!

I have maybe ONE pin picked out for my Mike inspired bag, and that’s because I, an Ocean!Vast stan who grew up on the pacific ocean, do not have a lot of Sky or Space pins. I am never changing these coordinations once they’re done.

maybe if my brain chills out a little I’ll do a rundown of the pins I put on my Gerry bag before my vaporwave cloud bag gets here and I have a crisis about putting my Mike bag together

[pyroweasel]

First of 90 💕 89, 80 (how about an OC of yours), 69, 63, 39, 2.

Back at you on 90 💕

Someone got to 89 before you - so that answer is just before this one!

So -

80) 'Character I Project Onto' - Honestly, all of them to some extent! None of my OC's are me entirely, but almost all of them have something of mine. Although they generally do it better or worse than I do. For example, I have some problems with repressed anger - and I explore those concepts in characters like Mike and Trep. I have pretty bad anxiety, so I explore those in more sensitive characters or through whump/comfort. There are plenty of small things, too, although I'm having trouble thinking of one off the top of my head. But small characteristics - like favorite books or movies or smaller fears - are almost always based on my own. I will say, I usually project /more/ onto favorites. I also have a personal OC named Kas who has been with me since I was like, 11. She has a *lot* of traits that are either like my own or what I wish I could be.

69) 'AUs or Canon-Compliant?' That definitely depends on the Canon! I'm not opposed to either. I think I typically write more AUs though. I will say I generally try to keep things canon-compliant otherwise, though. For example - I may be taking 100% liberty with how imps work or why the humans are in space, but I check those damn Skeld/Polus maps religiously to make sure I'm getting the small details right. In FNAF stuff, if I was using something from the past that stayed canon-compliant (phone calls, for example) I looked that thing up and down to be sure it was accurate.

63) '“Biggest fan” in your tumblr activity?' Oh gosh - I'm a little nervous to answer this one. So I'm going to be vague because I don't want anyone feeling called out and don't know who would be okay with being tagged. Firstly, if you've liked something of mine more than like once, I definitely recognize you. But there are a handful of you that I see like/reblog/interact with almost everything - and I see you. B) And appreciate you all so very, very much.

39) 'Languages you speak?' Fluently - just English, unfortunately. I know a smattering of German, though. I took like two years in high school so it's a very small smattering, especially since it's been so long.

2) 'Favorite Fic Trope' - I knew someone would ask. I adore so many of them, and everytime I think I've found a post with my favorite, I'll find another I forgot about. Enemies/Rivals to Lovers is way up there though. It's so malleable and so good - and honestly, the more tension between them, the better. Sword fights where someone ends up at the point of the sword? Fights where someone ends up pinned to the floor or a wall? Phew. Sign me up for all of it. Enemies that become not only lovers but really, really soft for each other - especially if it comes from one of them (bonus for the hardest one) being injured or mentally hurt? Good shit. Enemies that become lovers but retain some level of kinder animosity? Also good. I love it all.