#drag or die au

[artificialgrinder]

Hey, Hi, Hello! I just wanted to pop by here for a bit. So, I don't know if everyone has seen yet, but Adore just came out as transgender so I'll be going back through old chapters of Drag or Die, and in chapters in which she's out of drag and I use he/him pronouns, I will be changing these tonight!

I know she won't ever see this, but I just want to say that I am so proud of her and it's so lovely to see her this happy. She deserves the absolute world.

[st4nth3m4n]

i’m just gonna post my fav aus as i doodle them i think. cheers to any “ford accidentally kills stan” aus 🥂

EDIT: forgot to mention!! the text is from a book "When My Brother Was An Aztec" by Natalie Diaz - specifically the poem "A Brother named Gethsemane"

(jokey follow up to this doodle under the cut)

[hymnoeides]

Finally got the balls to watch the current eps for Yingdu Arc and . Well.. cheers to my doomed timeline fuckery butterfly yaois, I had to do this🥺

[plutonious]

oouhhhh I'm dying of artblock. so I'm forcing myself to draw things that look shitty DEAD EMMET AU SAVE ME. SAVE ME DEAD EMMET AU.

basics of this au; Ingo was missing(in Hisui) for eight years, and in that time, Emmet spent it not coping well to the point he gave himself a heart problem from the stress.

Complications from a seizure and stress caused him to die in his home.

Normally that would be fucked up and bad; but what makes it worse, is that a month after Emmet dies, Ingo reappears back at the subway and tries to stitch himself back into the old life he didn't know, and have to deal with grieving a guy who has been with him for most of his life but he doesn't even know.

But Emmet is verrrrrry much not gone.

anyways. I them. this au is a bit more ingo focused than what I normally drift around because I like Emmet soooooo much. I'm going to throw more thoughts down.

Despite dying in their apartment, Emmet wanders around Gear Station; its where he spent most of his time and where Ingo disappeared. He, as a ghost, is looking for Ingo still, thinking it will cause things to go back to normal.

Emmet isn't really sentient in the month between his death and Ingo's return. He's aimlessly wandering in through the station and the tunnels calling for him and asking if people have seen him, but he can't really interact well. Sometimes he's spotted or heard. He's probably talked to passengers and been seen on trains, with many excuses.

Chandelure can see and interact with Emmet as soon as he appears at the station. She would wander the tunnels to keep him company in the month after he dies.

When Ingo does return, something clicks and he is actually aware. He has a lot more control of what he can do and isn't stuck in some foggy limbo of conscious.

Emmet finds out he can posses Ingo, which he uses to polish up duties he thinks Ingo needs help with. Sometimes he just wants to jump in for a battle.

Elesa and the other depot agents are not happy about the possessions. Elesa thinks Ingo is pulling a joke in bad taste(because I mean you didn't know the guy but he was your brother and he's fucking dead), and the agents get really uncomfortable.

Before Ingo knows about him being a ghost, the possessions feel like a lapse of time that he is only vaugely aware of. After Ingo and Emmet meet in the tunnels, Ingo can boot him out and communicate with him.

First two images are after Ingo comes back but before they meet, and the third one is before Ingo is back.

SCRATCHES HEAD. I don't really have much on any actual stuff. I'd love to do a comic or perhaps a fic but I have the horrible disease of not knowing how to panel things in a way I can achieve and the other illness of not writing often. whatever. I am a big fan of au though. I think it's neat. hopefully I'll be out of artblock soon enough to do more shit about it. I lot a lot of little scenarios I'd like to draw out

I'm also going to @emmyet because you're sooooo nicies and soooo polite and got me to draw multiples things with oneeee swag reply. hiiii helloooooooooo (CHEERFUL WAVE)

[squiddybobiddy]

Smells like queer people…

(I hate him so much)

(He needs to be mine and ford’s I guess)

(Also I finally made a finished piece so that’s a bonus)

[discordiansamba]

the moon spirit was dead.

kou briefly lingered to watch as his uncle cradled the dead spirit's body- before turning his focus back to zhao. as if fearing retribution, he'd fled the moment the moon spirit had been struck down. and if that was the case?

he was going to give it to him.

he wasn't hard to track down. kou's bending might be gone, but he could still chuck a snowball at the pompous windbag's head the old fashioned way. the man turned back to face him and sneered.

"the blue spirit," zhao smirked, "-and what do you plan to do now that your bending is gone, war brat?"

kou unsheathes his swords. who needs it?

zhao just laughs and removes his cape. kou lands on the ground, dodging a fire blast as he does. he hasn't gotten so dependent on his waterbending that he's forgotten how to fight a firebender without it. in his early days as a pirate, his swords were the one thing he had to depend on. teaching himself waterbending after a lifetime of being forbidden to bend had taken time.

zhao quickly realized this match wasn't going the way he wanted- so he turned to taunting him.

"foolish boy," zhao spat, "-you should have been loyal to your superior bloodline."

kou's lips twitched in a smirk. you don't even know who i actually am, admiral. which one of us is really the idiot here?

zhao squints at him- and he watches as it clicks. he doesn't quite go pale, but there's something in his eyes that tells kou that he's keenly aware he's looking at a ghost.

"prince zuko," zhao recovers quickly, "-i never would have guessed. you've certainly fallen far from grace. did you make a pact with the ocean spirit to survive?"

kou laughs. ozai didn't tell you? i was born a waterbender.

zhao just scoffs. then you were born a traitor with no honor.

he probably expects the insult to hurt, but kou just lets it roll off of him. if there's one thing piracy has taught him, it was how to embrace his lack of honor. if he was born without it, then as far as he was concerned, he it wasn't something he'd ever needed.

when the moon returns, kou senses it before zhao sees it. he gives the man a smirk of his own, and in one fluid motion, he sheathes his swords and rolls out of the way of a fire blast- and then proceeds to smack him back with a water whip.

the expression on zhao's face is priceless.

(when the ocean spirit comes to claim it's due, kou lets it.)

[kommandonuovidiavoli]

Mixin' liquor with depression Isn't good for anyone Blame it on my adolesenceFucking up is too much fun

[gil-notskajla]

AUs were meant for independent fanworks by fans who cant coordinate and agree upon all details like a studio or singular author would. They weren't meant for corporations.

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

[artificialgrinder]

Okay so I've had a think about it.

And YES I KNOW I DIDN'T UPDATE THIS WEEK BUT I WILL THIS WEEK, I PROMISE.

So I tried to think about the last time I went through this writers block, just the time I vented to my friend about it. She asked me, "Well what inspires you to write? Not like lighting candles and all that jazz. When specifically does the creative juices come flowing?" And I was like, "whenever I reread the story from beginning to the current point?" And she said, "well, get reading then."

So yeah I guess I'm going to reread the entire fic. Wish me luck

[nekumiho]

stumbled upon these again while thinking about aus and like oughghghHHAHAAHA i should rly finish/redo some of these sometime. pros of being a roleplayer: i have 800 emmet aus. cons of being a roleplayer: i dont have enough aus that have both emmet AND ingo

[thelemonsnek]

The two legendary dragons, despite how long they've been alive and how much they've been through, have never been apart in any meaningful way. Zekrom!Ingo is not having a good time (neither is Reshiram!Emmet, but that's neither here nor there :) ) More on this under the cut!

[image id: a two page comic featuring Ingo and Melli from Pokemon Legends Arceus. The entire comic is a sketch, with guidelines still visible, and is done in black and white, aside from cyan lightning. The entire comic is set on a mountaintop cliffside, in the middle of a huge thunderstorm. Everything is very dark, and rain is visible throughout.

Ingo stands at the edge of a cliff, facing away from the viewer and looking into an intense storm. Lightning strikes off in the distance, and harsh winds are ripping at his clothes. The second panel is a closeup profile view of his face. He is leaning into the wind, eyes shut, seeming to be either looking for something within himself or trying to lose himself in the storm. The third panel is a closeup of Melli's face, shadowed.

Melli comes up behind Ingo, and asks him, "Why are you chasing storms, Ingo?" Then, gaining momentum, he seems to yell louder above the storm, "you have a life, so live it. the time before now is long gone." Ingo, still facing away from Melli and staring out at the storm, says nothing for a beat, then without turning around, asks, "Do you think that I do not know that, Warden Melli?"

The next panel looks out over the stormswept mountain. Multiple lightning strikes are visible as Ingo says, "I am well aware that my tracks are without destination. But I cannot switch over to new tracks, lest I risk derailment."

The next panel switches back to showing Ingo and Melli. Ingo has turned around now to face Melli. He has placed a hand to his chest, teeth bared as he shouts, "I know that this could be my home station, if I let it." His eyes now have lightning branching off from them, and his teeth are sharper. Black scales are visible, creeping up his hand. Melli is braced against both the storm and Ingo's sudden anger.

In the final panel, Ingo has somewhat collapsed in on himself, and half turns away. His hands are now twisted into claws, with more obvious scaling, and his teeth are sharper. "But I cannot," he says quietly, visibly defeated. Melli seems less ready for a fight now, and has drawn back, possibly out of sympathy or fear (and maybe both). End id]

Ingo and Emmet are Zekrom and Reshiram!

the gods are real and they're autistic about trains

they can "shift" in and out of their draconic forms, and have several stages in between (human, partial, mid, etc) basically it's a sliding scale of traits! Here we can see Ingo's "partial" state, where he has fangs, claws, and scales but not much else

the two of them have never really been apart. Oh sure they've been on differing sides of the continent, and sometimes one of them will work a differing shift than the other, but not in any meaningful way

not til Ingo gets eebied :)

separated for the first time with no way to reunite, they find themselves completely unable to shift fully, only barely able to get to a partial form. For Ingo this is pretty convenient! Not as much to try and hide/explain away :) for Emmet this is terrifying

there's another side effect to them being apart, and it's that their roles...don't switch, but Emmet finds himself endlessly driven by the ideal to find his brother, while Ingo is constantly seeking the truth of who he was and what he left behind. We get to see a little bit of the conflict this causes within Ingo here!

they do eventually reunite and it's cool as hell, I'd love to draw it out someday

[vinefilledarchways]

I don’t post often, but I felt like this was an important thing to post. I found an old cartridge in a garage sale that seemed to be a knock off of undertale?? I havnt played it yet but me and @banesberry-anomoly are gonna be posting about it, so keep an eye out :))

[ennaku-sirri-da]

In your hot pants and high heels, it seemed like rainbows would appear

[ ID: Traditional art colored digitally of Dr. Habit from game Smile For Me dressed as a woman persona. Her name in this persona is Katty. Her fashion is more y2k.

Katty has green eyes accentuated with blue, white eyeshadow and bushy brows, big lashes with wavy orange tips. She wears very tiny golden glasses. All over her face are glitter stickers. Her mouth is open, revealing a long blue candy-like sugared tongue coming out. Her lips are painted red. So are her claws. She has very long red and grey hair dropping down in dramatic curls till her backside. Also forms bangs. She has some facial hair as well. Sitting atop her huge hair is a golden, jewelled kokoshinik with rays stuck to it, atop the points of which are smiley faces. Other jewellery worn is the teeth based necklace.

Her dress consists of mostly red and pink. She wears red furry gloves with a pink poof at the end. The top is a tank top with thin straps and a furry trim around the chest area. A frilly pink top is beneath the tighter strapped red top above. She also wears a short skirt with a studded belt. The skirt is pink with sunflower patterns and a furry hem. To top off the look are big red platform heels and fishnets around the legs. Smaller details are the two rings on her right hand, one a silver moon and the other wooden with lavendar flowers.

As for her appearance, Katty generally has a lot of body hair and sagging skin, freckled, and scarred, with stretch marks. She is of a thinner build. All over her are small kiss marks and stray fur.

Katty carries a red and pink parasol near her head, swirling it around so it drops pink cotton fluff, some of which she tastes with her tongue out. Bright yellow light shines behind the parasol and behind her kokoshinik. She has a cheeky smile, curling one lock of hair around her claws. She poses with one leg held out. The whole image is warm toned. End ID]

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OK everyone I'll be posting my old smile for me AU art in a desperate bid for attention LMAO so get ready for some CONTENT

Here's Habits alter ego, PRINCESSSSS KATTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Plaintext:PRINCESSSSS KATTYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Shes post-Habitat Habits DRAMATIC side because he NEEDS to have angsty monologues with himself stomping around the room

[shoecrabs]

i honestly don't think anyone will care but I keep brainrotting over the idea of a pjo/rainworld au

I've turned the Seven into funky slimy cats dealing w concepts far beyond their comprehensions lmao

[artificialgrinder]

Drag or Die: Part Four

After getting Alyssa and co out of their safe space and to the prison, Katya is back in the game. She's got a mission to tend to - avenge Trixie. But Adore just has to cause trouble, doesn't she?

Chapters

[1] // [2] // [3] // [4] // [5] // [6] // [7] // [8]