#THIS IS A TOTALLY SELF INDULGENT AU

[lion-buddy]

roadtrip drawings yay <3

[pollyna]

86!Mav would be feral over 22!Ice in all the good ways he can think about. Maybe a timetravel au where 22!Mav reaches the breaking point in space and time and 86!Mav wakes up in his place instead, and he doesn't know where he is, but he knows that the man sleeping to his side is someone important for him, someone that makes his chest hurt in all the good ways and make him cuddle against his back because it feels right to be there.

And maybe after, when the whole situation is clear, Ice gets a little self-conscious. He already is with his Maverick, but it's different because his Mav got to grow with him and has his own sign of the time that passed, but this Maverick? This Maverick is twenty-four and as beautiful, if not even more, as Ice fondly remembers him, and he feels old. Old, scarred, and not something that should be watched as Mav does. So Ice hides behind scarves, sweaters, and blankets because he knows if he has enough patience, his Mav will come back, and he will be able to relax. But 86!Mav won't have it, and really, he doesn't get how his present self doesn't spend every second of his life touching Ice and kissing him. So he votes, in front of the mirror in their bathroom, that he's going to make Ice understand how he's still so sexy and beautiful that Mav burnt his hand making pancakes because he took his eyes away from the pan and he saw Ice reading his journal, glasses on and the whole thing reduced Mav's brain to no brain activity. And then he's going to write a letter to his present self to beg him to do a better job of remembering his husband how beautiful he is.

[ldshadowdoodles]

[256] More Blacksheep!Lizzie, this time digital! I’m really proud of her design :D (also, we still need a codename for her, so leave your suggestions in the rbs or comments!)

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[shalomniscient]

i promise i’m working on the rahu fic but HEAR ME OUT: YUKONG X READER PACIFIC RIM AU

jaded ex-ace pilot yukong who lost her drift partner, caiyi, and has never set foot in a jaeger since. she’s content to live out her days of retirement until an abomination (kaiju) wrecks her neighbourhood, an attack in which she barely escapes alive alongside her daughter. some friends of her aren’t as lucky. the kaiju destroys two other jaegers before it’s finally put down by a jaeger barely clinging to life. they name the kaiju calamitas, for the calamity it inflicted. it is fitting.

the situation is terrible. bad enough, that the general of the defense corps comes to see her personally. general jing yuan bows to her on his knees, and begs for her return. she wants to say no—how could she ever drift with anyone else—but in the end, her weakness is her daughter. in that moment of righteous fury, qingni looked like the stunning image of her mother.

so she goes. she follows jing yuan in his helicopter as they make their way to the base. it has hardly changed over the years, a dome made of iron and steel, sweat and blood. there are ghosts in every corner here, nestled so closely amongst the living they are almost indistinguishable. a part of her naively hopes that she might turn a corridor and see a familiar head of brown hair and ears.

they go through many candidates. from rookies to seasoned pilots, no one could drift alongside the former ace. the words are on the tip of her tongue—i told you so. but jing yuan gives her a placating smile, and says, just one more.

the candidate who walks in is you. you’re young, maybe qingni’s age, but there’s a hauntedness in your eyes that yukong understands.

jing yuan does the honours of listing your accomplishments. five confirmed kills, and two assists. not bad, for someone as young as you. but then, he mentions what yukong had already guessed.

it was you, that day, who took down calamitas. you, in that half-broken jaeger, your partner dead in their seat, but still connected to you within the drift. you, who piloted a jaeger on your own to deliver the final killing blow. yukong comes to respect you as much as she mourns your loss.

as you strap into the drift chair, she can’t help but wonder. was this jing yuan’s grand strategy this time? to put two pilots who had lost their partners together, so that they could bond in their grief? drift in it? yukong almost wants to laugh—but she doesn’t.

not when less than five minutes later, the computer flashes with the words DRIFT COMPATIBILITY: 100%, NEURAL LINK STABLE. and not when she turns her head to face you, and feels her dead heart stir for the first time in years.

[testifiedtimaeus]

I drew this Alien AU thing in ~2022 hot damn (Hal's a synthetic/android for those who don't know)

[dragon-and-balls]

"...You and I as Us

Perfectly imperfect..." -Wyatt

[2demon2slayer]

If monster mash kaiagku does get redemption maybe they jsut sprayed him with a water bottle until he went back to being a slayer

busting out the ye olde spray bottle

[flockofdoves]

theres certainly a lot of interesting room for people to explore in fanfiction of like ‘what if this character was in a different situation how would they act’ but honestly i am personally so much of an AU hater so much of the time. especially when its a work that is largely shipping focused instead of a character study im so often just like ‘no! engage with the source material!’ it just feels like nothing to me once the connections become so tenuous beyond character’s names

i think this happened to me through being a baby communist middle schooler interested in history reading les mis fanfiction. i was always so ‘stop with the modern day coffee shop aus, no i dont care that you did it because les amis canonically meet in a cafe. you’d better start researching 19th century french radicals’

[averlym]

Hi! Would you maybe be willing to draw Fluff, 1 for platonic Kat and Cathy, please? No pressure if not obv!

"wait is that my book" "you mean our book?" (prompt list here)

[iobsessoverfictionalmen]

If you want to be tagged when I update this fic, leave a comment on this post or send me an ask!

[r0b0s-robos]

The vibes I'm trying to get for “A Botanist’s Guide” is essentially these songs from The Oh Hellos

Y/N being hurt from a previous relationship, scared of loving again. But ultimately wanting to. Desperately wanting to feel okay again.

And then hopelessly, after failing to push feelings down, still falling in love despite being scared.

[phoenixmetaphor]

welcome to the Resident Evil/Star Trek fusion literally nobody asked for. sorry for the handwritten notes; i really cannot be bothered to typeset on the ipad.

but i really like orions, okay guys. and this one has his clothes on so maybe tumblr won’t delete him.

[totaled-drama]

Some notes for the Little League AU for those who are interested!!!!

You’re welcome to send me any suggestions/headcanons/questions for the AU if you have any :)

[laplacesdevil]

I can now spread my propaganda of Jeremy as phone dude. AND objectum

[undefeatablesin]

Anyway pls enjoy this Good Hunter Ruza WIP lol ✨️

[theramblingsofadork]

⭐️ So, uh, major spoilers for my OC lore here, but I was thinking all of last night why I wanted to do my Starpoint Squad AU in the first place. My ways the story could go have been running all over the place, and I needed to pin down what it’s purpose was to recenter my focus.

I thought I’d share my thoughts with all of you so I can get you all on the same page on what you can expect to see here. (I’m realizing that my lack of explaining and vague lore drops might be giving people an unrealistic expectation as to what to expect here. .w.;)

VVV

So, in my OC Rivet’s canon story, she loses everything. Her home, her parents, her brother, and Starline— who does not change his ways— makes things worse by becoming exceedingly twisted until he meets his intended fate.

She gets no real happy ending. Doomed to lose or be betrayed by all she loves.

On the other end of the spectrum, canonically, Starline fails to gain everything he wanted and worked towards, and loses even more by not being able to let go. He’s made a fool of multiple times throughout the comics, and (imo) goes out with a whimper.

The more I think about the AU, the less it makes sense regarding the two’s individual stories. But, together.. at the end of the day, I just want them both to be happy. I want there to be a universe where both can thrive and survive and not be completely awful or miserable people.

Where Starline gets the recognition, support and love he desires, and where Rivet is able to save at least one person she cares about. Where the both of them can have a support network through the Starpoint Squad, and where things aren’t completely horrible.

That, in essence, is what this AU is about.

Friendship, redemption, and warm and happier endings. It still has sadness and angst, but it’s not permanent. It’s not as destructive to either of their characters to where they dive past the point of no return.

So yes, Starline might be kind of OOC in this one. Or at the very least, only have his Metal Virus/Bad Guys personality. It’s gonna be heavy on relationship and reconciliation, and even though canon characters will be involved, it’s more of a OC centered story.

I realize this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, and it’s okay if people skip out because of it. I have to accept that I can’t make everyone happy, being 100% canon compliant is only going to cause me more exhausting headache, and at the end of the day, I just need to write the story I want to make and have fun.

Hope that clears things up, and thank you for reading. 💖