#all aboard the hyperfixation express

[dragon-ashes1485]

Whenever I see a big pile of dinosaurs I must look for Parasaurolophus for it is my ultimate favourite dinosaur.

(Ok allosaurus you're pretty cool too, and underrated I might say.)

Dinosaurs, 2009

[dragon-ashes1485]

Reassuring to know that even Elves have awkward smiles

"Help this is so awkward why won't these dwarves give me personal space Durin hates me why does he hate me what is happening why is that dwarf screaming at me m8 calm your plimsolls I just want to talk to my chum."

[critterbitter]

dear gosh I'm obsessed with how you draw the sillies. ingo and emmet are so perfectly characterised and i can't imagine them any other way. your dialogue is phenomenal. the Pokemon are so wonderfully realised characters too, litwick/lampent/chandelure sassy nightlight beloved (ft. lady sneasler), and the Big Eel Doggo 🤩 i love you draw the othere too, lint roller the archeops!!!! trubbish shenanigans! elesa and her menace pizza rat!

you so perfectly thread that line between goofy and genuinely heartfelt. the little scenes of emmet and his eel in the rain and other such shenanigans next to emmet's anxieties and impostor syndrome culminating in that beautiful gorgeous wonderful evolution. sassy lamp and the genuine care and devotion she has for her rice cracker bland tasting trainer. oughhhhhhh

also?? your comic composition and your expressions and your colours and all of that are so good too

they're so silly and they're also so real. literally you're one of my favourite submas creators WHERE DID YOU COME FROM (i am hit with a train and dragged further into the black hole)

fantastic. no notes. love what you're doing, and i'm thrilled to see what you do with them next!

best wishes - @doodlejoltik

ah MAN thank you so much for the kind words and reblogs! The fact you catch so many little details I litter about my comics brings joy into my shriveled little human hands.

As for context, I came from the BOTW and dnd fandom from instagram! Art under cut!

(I drew these guys. So much. Linktober 2021 was my first foray into comics. I am glad to say I've evolved since drawing submas in 2023.)

BOTW aside, Pokemon's always been a hyperfixation for me, but only creature design wise (except for the adventure mangas. I LOVED that pokemon manga.) Submas sorta hit me like a speeding train because it gave me the frame work for a sibling and found family dynamic, and a lot of this iteration of Ingo and Emmet's personalities are from my own experiences OR from the deep abyss where I keep my braincells. Anyways glad to ramble! Thank you so much for the kind words-- and I'm excited to see where the submas train rot takes us. Onto new tunnels! All aboard! Yippee!

[absolutebisaster]

Star Trek fanfic, I have no excuses. I'm hyperfixated

Laughter bubbled up from your throat as you watched the cadets running through the third deck halls. The USS Enterprise was always bustling with activity. With life. After beaming aboard you were on your way to the bridge. It was the first day of your transfer from the USS Arcadia and you needed to check in with the captain.

The bridge was just as busy as the rest of the ship. You could barely hide your excitement when you finally came face to face with the captain. James T. Kirk. "Its an honor to finally meet you, sir." You introduced yourself and informed the captain that you would be the replacement mechanical engineer while your predecessor was on family leave.

"Welcome aboard, ensign. We look forward to having you on board." Kirk waved you off and as you were boarding the elevator, you made eye contact with the Vulcan science officer. The quirk of his brow made your heart skip a beat and the doors slid shut, taking you down to the main engine room.

Your first day was suddenly your 79th and before you knew it, you had friends. No one on the ship was a stranger except the bridge crew. There was never time to meet them, they were always far too busy with 'Bridge Stuff' as some of the others called it. 

There was no one else awake as you walked the hallways of the Enterprise. It was late, you couldn't sleep and you certainly hadn't expected to see anyone, so walking into the cafeteria and seeing a figure sitting in the dimmed lights startled you.

Pushing the feeling down, you went to the replicator for a cup of tea. You glanced over at the man and quickly looked away again when you made eye contact. Unmistakably Vulcan. Mr. Spock.

"May I join you, sir?" You asked as you sat down with your tea, not waiting for an answer. "We met on my first day." But you reintroduced yourself because technically you were strangers. 

He didn't talk much, but you enjoyed the conversation you were having. He was a scientist first and a starfleet officer second, that much was obvious. It made you smile when he talked about his work.

"Oh man, I wish I could be part of a landing party some day. I can only imagine how amazing it is to make First Contact. That's why I agreed to take this assignment. The Enterprise is famous for First Contact." Vulcans didn't experience emotions the way your people did so you tried to hide your minor disappointment. "But grease monkeys aren't on the list of people required for First Contact." 

He quirked a brow, that same look from before. "Grease monkey?" 

"I'm a mechanical engineer, sir. I build and repair Starfleet engines. Not nearly as interesting as being a scientist." 

Then Spock said something that surprised you. "You are an invaluable member of this team, without you and your department, the Enterprise would not fly." Your bottom lip quivered and you looked down into your empty cup.

"Thank you, Mr. Spock. I… that really means a lot to hear." Especially coming from a bridge officer. "I just wish I could be… I don't know… more involved? I'm only stationed here for the year, so I know there's no point in getting too attached to the Enterprise, but this is the most famous ship in the fleet, to be sitting here tonight is what so many crewmen only dream of."

"You talk a lot." He said simply as he got up and headed for the door.. "Sleep well, ensign."

-----

Time was different in space. There were no days or nights to help show the passage of time. If it weren’t for the computer, you wouldn’t know if today was six days ago. Working down in the engine room especially made it complicated. All you knew was work. Since your late night tea with Spock, you had been thinking about him a lot. He was the only Vulcan you had ever actually met. The few in the academy with you were more concerned with their own lives to make friends and while you understood it, you found yourself researching Vulcan in your free time. 

After a rough mission on Melia left the Enterprise in desperate need of repairs, you put your personal life on hold. 38 hours into repairs, you couldn’t do it anymore. You couldn’t see straight and your head was spinning. When was the last time you had anything to eat? Drink? You were just about to climb down off the ladder when your foot slipped. 

Your head was pounding when you opened your eyes. The lights were too bright and you whined, bringing your hand up to shield the light. “Oh good, you’re awake. That was a nasty fall you had, ensign. Your ankle is almost done being reconstructed so take it easy, okay?” It was a medical officer? You were in sickbay.

“What happened?” you asked as you pulled yourself into a sitting position.

The doctor scanned your head. “Your crewmen said you blacked out and fell off the ladder you were on. Your foot slipped between the bars and broke your ankle but you should make a full recovery in the next hour so when you’re able to walk again, I want you on bed rest until your next scheduled shift, do you understand?”

“Yes sir, I understand.” you gave a weak thumbs-up and a smile. He walked off to deal with his next patient and that left you to look around sickbay. The Enterprise was going to recover. They always did, you had learned. 

Since you had your tablet on you when engineering beamed you to sickbay, you were able to log in and check the progress of the repairs. In the two hours you’d been unconscious, the chief engineer had gone down to finish your repairs. All the work you had put into the Enterprise had been finished by him and as far as you knew, he was taking all the credit for the repairs you’d done.

“Good, you’re awake.” When the captain walked into the room, you tried to scramble to make yourself more presentable but he held up a hand to stop you so you stilled. Kirk sat in the chair next to you and patted your hand “Scotty said that your work on the warp core saved our lives, ensign.” Pride was swelling up in your chest. Captain Kirk himself was talking to you! Your work hadn’t gone unnoticed! “So I wanted to come down here and thank you personally.”

“Captain, I love this ship, I was just doing what anyone else would do.” You were blushing and looking down at your hands as you picked at a callous. 

“Ensign, I want you to go ahead and take the rest of the week off to recover and relax. You’ve earned it.” pulling your top lip between your teeth, you didn’t respond. “I’m sure you don’t want to feel useless.” Kirk was speaking to you like you were friends and he reached out again to get you to stop picking at the skin on your hands. “So why don’t you take this week to study up on your Vulcan?”

Your head shot up and you finally looked at the famous captain. “Sir?” Kirk just patted your hand and left with a smile. 

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Your week off was leaving you with a disgusting amount of free time. You had been chased out of engineering just about every day. Apparently the team was under direct orders from the captain to make sure you took the time off. Fucker.

So you spent most of your time tinkering with the toys you collected. Remote control things designed to keep children entertained. The sphere following you now was one of your own design. You had taken the working components from the toys that broke and cobbled them together to make something entirely new. 

A few of the other crewmen stopped as they watched you and your toy walk by. You controlled it with your starfleet tablet. Was it appropriate use of the technology? Not by a long shot. But no one was actually going to say anything to you about it because they really didn’t care. As the sphere rolled along, it bumped off the walls and swerved to avoid tripping anyone. A couple people told you it was cool, but no one was really interested in it so you decided to go show your commanding officer. Maybe the lieutenant commander would find it charming.

The trip to the bridge was interrupted by the sphere going off on it’s own. The program you’d used to control your toys was missing some key components and this wasn’t your area of expertise so you decided to just follow along and see where the data took you.

The sphere rolled along until it bumped into a door. “Come.” the voice called from the other side of the door. This was someone’s private quarters and as you stooped to pick up the sphere to get it to leave, the door opened. There stood Mr. Spock with the same quizzical expression on his face he always seemed to have when he looked at you.

“I’m so sorry for the intrusion, sir. My robot came this way on it’s own.” you explained as the sphere tried to roll back out of your arms. “Where are you going? You’re embarrassing me.” you whispered as it slipped out of your grasp. It rolled into his room and you had to stop yourself from following it. “Oh! I get it, now. The cat must be yours! My sphere only reacts like this when the cat is around.” you explained and tried to get it to come back to you but it was already under his bed. 

“Yes, I have a feline companion. Tell me what your sphere does.” His tone was always so serious, it sounded like an order and since he did outrank you, you nodded and handed him the tablet with the control mapping pulled up.

“The sphere is just a toy I built from other scrap.” you explained. “It may look polished and nice on the outside, but deep down, it’s just a fu--” his brow rose. “It’s just a mess, sir. Something to keep me preoccupied during my quote-unquote ‘on-station vacation’ the captain gave me after passing out in the engine room when we left Melia.” You explained the controls to him and soon enough, he had it rolling out from under the bed. “It’s programming has it obsessed with cats for some reason I can’t figure out.”

“What programming software did you use?” the sphere rolled around his quarters as the two of you stood in the entryway together.

“I uh… It’s actually something of my own design. I’ve been working on it for like… ten years now. All my RC toys are controlled through that program because even though I can fix a warp engine, I’m not… actually all that computer savvy. I needed something simple that I could control multiple bots with.” You and Mr. Spock hadn’t spoken since that night you had tea together, this was a nice moment they were sharing.

He controlled the sphere so it rolled out of his room and took a step out the door to follow it. “Let us find somewhere else to take this toy, shall we? I do not want it to put unnecessary strain on my cat.”

“I’m not distracting you from anything important, am I? I didn’t interrupt sleep or meditation?” You followed him as the sphere rolled down the hallway. Spock had turned off the automated balancing system and he was having a much easier time controlling it than you did.

“No, I’ve found myself with free time today. You’re not interrupting anything.” Truth be told, he had been trying to meditate but was having trouble keeping himself focused. “What others have you built?”

“Do you want to see them? They’re all in my quarters on the next deck down.” You were already leading him to the lift. “I’ve been working on this little guy because the project I was working on I just… Can’t get it right. There’s some sort of scientific aspect I’m missing? Hey! You’re a science officer, do you think you might want to take a look at it?”

“I will help you if I can.”

[jinxthequeergirl]

All i ask of you

Julian devorak x reader

Summary: after a couple years you stumble across a liar from your past

Yup im trying to write again slowly but surly im making progress and went through not one not two but five story ideas before i settled on this so enjoy!

Warning: none/ angsty?/ also really bad

Song: "All I Ask of you" from The Phantom of the opera

Also all blame goes to @asylummint for this new hyperfixation

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The night wasn't all that dark thanks to the full moon over head making your job a lot easier. Swinging from your ship to the one you and your crew men had sailed close to in the night with almost little to no sound as you landed on deck two of your men followed after.

The lot of you slipt up in search of materials and goods to bring aboard your own ship.

"I'm sure you where quite a good fellow."

You tensed at the voice that apperd behind you. "And thats why its such a same i have to throw you over board." You huffed as the voice poked you in the back with a sword. "Now get up." You followed orders but once fully upright quickly spun around punching the man square in the jaw and kicked his legs out from under him.

He landed with a hard thud letting his sword skid across the floor boards. "Lucky for you you won't have the pleaser of doing so."

The man scowled holding his jaw whrn looking up at you and froze. "You...you cut your hair?..." He asked with a smug smile.

You looked at the man with the same awe struck expression before it twisted into anger. "Bastard!" His eyes widened and he quickly rolled away from you as you brought your sword down to slash him. He grabbed his sword in time to block your second attack. "Y/n, please! Lets talk!"

You growled disarming him again this time enough to send his weapon over the edge of the ship. "Talk? Really? After what you did? You know they have a bounty on your head back in Vesuvia, i ought to turn you in!" He crawled back on his elbows as you advanced twoards him.

He stopped moving feeling his back hit two pairs of strong legs. He looked up meeting the angry faces of your crew men. "Take him!" You barked at the men.

"No! No! Stop! Y/n!" Both men grabbed his arms and carried him off the ship twoards your own. He looked back at you pleadingly but you only scowled in return.

~~**~~

"Julian!" You jumped from your seat in your bedroom quickly as the red haired man stumbled through the window.

"Y/n, Darling!" He beamed after landing on the floor. "What are you doing!? How did you even manage to-"

"A man in love has his ways." He replied cheekily as you pulled him up from the floor. You only laughed making his face flush.

Julian and the rest of the crew he managed to become part of landed on your island in search of "a place to lay low and find riches." As julian put it.

But within the first hour he managed to get himself into trouble and ran into at the local bar.

After the trouble passed he stuck around he told you to many stories to count and learned about yourself and ended up loving you more than he expected.

Since then he's been around you a lot managing to run into you unexpectedly or even, now crawl through your window on your ship.

"So tell me more about being i pirate! What can i expect." You said excitedly sitting close to him on the bed. He laughed lightly and began to tell you all about his adventures.

~~**~~

The sun beat down on his face through the metal grate above him and he jumped back with a start when it creeked open and slammed against the deck above. "Rise and shine princess, captain's here to see ya!"

He looked up some what hopefullly at you once you appered abobe him. "Keep our course for Vesuvia while i talk to him." You ordered the man who opened the grate.

Upon julians hearing you say that his somewhat hopeful look faded, but he didn't let that show.

"You know this place is just how i remeber it." You slid down the rope latter and faced him with an unimpressed look. "And might i say you my dear are looking as beautiful as the la...well as ever, and what about dear old dad? Will he be joining us anytime soon?"

"He's dead." You said flatly and that seemed to shut him up. "Im...im...sorry to hear..."

"Don't be when he died i learned he left this beauty to me so i searched the city for the toughest group of people i could find and...well we are here. Im the pirate princess! The most feared woman in all the seven seas!"

He frowned he had heard stories of the pirate princess, the daring lady he just didn't expect you. "Well at least you got what you wanted..."

"Yes. I did." He couldn't bring himself to look at you, across your face sat the most hatefilled, disappinted look he had ever seen on anyones face it just hurt him more coming from you. But he knew he was in the wrong.

"Y/n you have to let me go...i can't go back to vesuvia they'll have me hanged!"

"And rightfully so! You should be punisjed for what you've done! Not just to me but to everyone back on the island! To my father!" You hissed.

"No just hear me out! The count...i...i..don't remeber what happend! And...and as for you i can explain!"

"Explain what, devorak? If i sat here and listened to you i wouldn't be able to tell if what you where telling me is true or not!"

He winced. "Please! What will it take for you to listen to me!?....i know! My coat pocket! Look in there, look in there and maybe you'll listen. Just please listen y/n...that's all I ask of you!" You rolled your eyes and moved up the latter. "We are to land in vesuvia tomorrow evening...start preparing a farewell speach."

He looked up at you eyes widen with fear and disapoimtment as the gate slammed shut. "Y/n!...y/n!"

~~**~~

Three maybe more months you had both lost track of time and you both lied on the floor of the deck on your fathers ship looking up at the stars. The night was warm, the sky was clear, you where happy thats all julian wanted.

Something seemed to bother you and you sat up. "Whats the matter?"

"What if...what if you leave me-"

"Y/n i would-"

"Ilya...just hear me out...you came with a crew who was more than glad to take you in...when they have to leave you'll go too...and what if i end up just like my father? Afraid to ever leave the docks, to actually set sail? Ilya when im with you-"

"You trust me?" You stopped and looked at him quizically. "Yes."

"So why don't we run away together? Me and you, our own ship, the most daring pirate duo on all the seven seas! What do you think?"

You seemed to light up at the idea. "You mean it?"

"I do! Just say you'll share with me one love, one life time..." He stood up pulling you with him.

"Just say the words and I'll follow you."

"Share each day with me,each night, each morning..." He spun you around earning a playfull giggle from you before kneeling down infront of you.

"Say you love me!" He said before pulling a small ring from his coat pocket. You gaped and smiled.

"Julian, you know i do!" He grinned and placed the ring on your finger before scooping you into a hug and spinning you around.

"Anywhere you go! Let me go too!...Julian, that's all i ask of you." He smiled and kissed you deeply. "Of course!"

"So what would we name our ship?" You asked looking up at him in admaration, He thought for a moment.

"How about esprit libre or the free spirit?"

"I love it!' you said giddily kissing him again.

~~**~~

You stared at the palm of your hand in awe looking at the ring you had inturn given him the same night. You grinded your teeth and headed back to deck.

"Captain is everything-"

"Open the cell i need to talk to Devorak." With haste on of the crew men unlocked the cell pit and flung it open, and without a second thought you jumped down. "What the hell is this supposed to mean!?" You yelled holding up the ring.

He lit up scrambaling twoards you. "It means I didn't just blindly abandon you! After i left i held on because i had no choice but to leave you!"

"You promised!"

"I also promised myself i wouldn't let anything happen to you!" It was your turn to now be taken aback and confused.

~~**~~

"Devorak, there you are!" Julian froze at the voice of his captain. "Captain! Sir!"

He turned and faced the man who had an evil, twisted smirk on his face. "I've been looking for ya!"

"You have?"

"Ey, some of the men say you found the restin spot of one of the wealthiest pirates of our time."

Julian felt his blood run cold.

"Is that so...well i don't know where they would have gotten that id-" captain shibed him into a wall knocking the wind from him.

"Don't play dumb with me boy! I know about your little princess there and i have about three men with a close eye on her so where. Is. The. Ship?"

Julian swallowed thickly. "I'll show you, but leave her out of this." The captain gave a thoothy grin. "Leade the way.

~~**~~

"If i didn't you might not have been here now...and i would have been the one to blame..."

"And then?"

"Well after they robbed what they could that night from everyone in the city they dragged me back to the ship, no choice in the matter...no goodbye...i lost you that night to keep you safe."

You stared at him. Wanting to say something but not knowing what.

"Captain! Vesuvia just ahead!" You looked up at the man and nodded then to julian worried. "Ilya!...i...I'll have them turn around-"

His heart hopped into his throat at the nickname you once called him. "Y/n no!" He attempted to move and grab you but failed to his ristrans.

"If we don't-"

"I can hide out vesuvia is a larg city!" You looked at him before an idea struck. "Very well but i can't let my men think i've gone soft...i'll have to escort you in." He nodded.

"Then we can have a proper goodbye."

The ship landed kn the docks and you held julian by the arm, his hands tied behind his back. You turned to your second in command and whispered something to him before carrying julian into the city.

You both stopped far enough from the docks but not to deep into the city where people would be watching. You freed him and looked at eachother. "I guess this is fairwell...the proper way." He stuck out his hand for you to shake. You took it and pulled him into a hug.

"Please like i would let you go again?" He pulled away and looked at you baffled. "But the ship-"

You waved it off "i told them some lie they are already halc way out to sea by now...besides i've done about everything a pirate can...we can start over here."

He smiled and quickly cupped your cheeks kissing you.

"Anywhere you go, let me go too...Thats all I ask of you..."

[dragon-ashes1485]

If Elrond lived in our world, I feel like he'd be that one person that gets Wordle in two everytime.

Yes, I am trying to distract myself from tomorrow's arrival. My personal "Last Temptation" will be to skip all my lectures (I mean lectures from 9-5 is plain evil) purely so I can watch the finale and obsess over it on here.

[dragon-ashes1485]

Music Question - TROP

I have listened to the soundtrack nonstop, usually when doing very dull things. To be fair, I at least felt very dramatic while doing them! Currently listening to "True Wealth of the Mountain" aka balrog time, and waiting for my potato to cook. The balrog would cook it quicker than my oven. Stupid oven.

Anyway!

[dragon-ashes1485]

Whoops...

Went to text my Mum after watching ep7. So that went well.

After this I proceeded to mention to my friend that the accidental salute emojis makes my comment worse🫠I did explain later and it made sense. It could've been worse I guess😂

[dragon-ashes1485]

"The Last Temptation"

Music rant part 2!

Wow I am on it like a car bonnet analysing these pieces, I think it's literally just to rid myself of ep 8 anxiety at this point.

Anyway.

So "The Last Temptation", lots of Sauron's eerie theme sneaking it's way in (obviously, the handsome bastard) and a lot of Galadriel's theme as well. I'm thinking this will be the primary score for their battle sequence? More on that in a mo.

Very very briefly we can hear what seems like the Southlands theme? 2:36 into the piece. Perhaps something to do with Arondir (please let him live) and maybe Theo? Let those two reunite and live like the found family trope they deserve.

Galadriel and Sauron's themes are really interwoven (is that a word?) with each other in this peice, reminiscent in a way of the undertones of "Scherzo for violin and swords", hence why I am almost certain it will be used for the fight between the two.

It's quite noticeable throughout that it occasionally slows pace, so I wonder if that's owed to Sauron trying to tempt Galadriel? I don't think she'll take it, personally, especially as following the quiet respite, there is a clear influx of a dramatic flourish in the music.

That is then being followed by Sauron's theme again, eerie and mysterious as usual, and then Galadriel's theme shows again, only this time it is pensive and quiet. Could she be injured? Did Sauron attempt to kill her?

But then!

Music turns upwards and what do we hear? Elronds theme! It's changed a lot since the "Battle of Eregion" piece, a lot more hopeful now, so I'm thinking we'll get a scene in which he is forced to use the ring to heal her. Perhaps Camnirs earlier injury being healed has foreshadowing all along.

Bonus:

"The Sun Yet Shines", I'll bet you anything, will follow directly from Last Temptation, especially as it follows the same tune as when Elrond said goodbye to Galadriel in Adar's tent. The first minute of it sounds like the kind of scene when one character has been brought back from the brink of death so fingers crossed.

Also later there's a snippet of the battle theme soooo, mini battle?

P.s, I'm genuinely proud of myself for writing this in my free time rather than 3am.

[dragon-ashes1485]

Chapter 5 is out and this fic is complete!

Upon arriving back at Lindon, Camnir recalls his brush with death and Elrond feels to blame. They both enjoy the sun while it still shines, before the battle arrives.

"His hand ghosted over the old wound and Elrond's eyes followed it with anguish in them.

"Have I not told you, dear Camnir, that your bravery is greater than many elven warriors'?"

Camnir chuckled.

"Have I not told you that you deserve kindness?"

Elrond huffed a short laugh.

"I suppose we both think greater of the other than we do of ourselves." Elrond mused.

"Is that not always the case?" "

Thank you so much to all of you for sticking with me, and all your lovely comments I have cherished over the past week or so! Special thanks to @anariel-the-elrond-apologist who has been an absolute gem of a mutual. Go and check out their works, they recently posted a new fic and it is well worth a read :)