#fanfic ftw

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (2-8 February 2025)

perfect reaction to a pc just deciding to take a pee break. no shady shenanigans, just a pee break. still laughing over it.

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Please Pass the Guilt (Nero Wolfe #45) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator)

🥰 Size Doesn't Matter series (Kalee60) - 97K, shrunkyclunks AU with freelance operative Bucky who has a crush on Cap AND then develops feelings for this tiny, stubborn-as-fuck, injured blond guy named Grant that Natasha dropped off. Plus a whole 'bring down HYDRA-infested SHIELD' thing they've got going on. First fic is 63K, Bucky's POV and the main story; 2nd fic is 33K and is Steve's POV on the whole thing.

🥰 Where You Lead (Linsky) - 42K, hockey rpf BDSM AU

💖💖 +150K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

00Q Chatfics and Assorted Headcanons (cicer, miri_tiazan) - Bond universe: 00Q, 2.3K - absolutely hilarious & unhinged not!fic of various 00Q headcanons

pony (greatunironic) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 19K - FANTASTIC olympics AU with aged up rockstar Eddie & pommel horse superstar Steve - fun & funny, incredible job fitting characters to this AU

When I Think About Seventeen (thisapplepielife) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 2.8K - sort of 2nd chance romance, just a tinge of poignant nostalgia to add piquancy

Long December (Arsenic) - Suits: Mike/Harvey, 16K - delicious, angsty h/c alt version of things post S1

Let Me Be Your Porch Light, Baby (AidaRonan) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 8.6K - mostly a reread of great monsterfucking fic with mothman!steve NOW with added epilogue making his happy ending even happier

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

The Repair Shop - s1, e12

Home Town - s9, e6; s8, e9

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - s3, e10

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #24

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #25

Handsome - Ilana Glazer asks about God

Handsome - "Weird Al" Yankovic asks about memorable movie moments

Harley Quinn - s5, e1-4

Only Murders In The Building - s1, e1-4

James Acaster: Hecklers Welcome

Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

D20: Dungeons & Drag Queens - "The Queens Take Matali" (s2, e5)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Twyla's Twine Time" (s19, e5)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 652. Smart Bitches Turns 20 with Candy Tan

It's Been a Minute - Books vs. Brain Rot: why it's so hard to read

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Dylan Was Always Electric

⭐ 99% Invisible - Valley So Low

⭐ Decoder Ring - Jump, Jive and Fail: The ’90s Swing Craze

⭐ Decoder Ring - Decoder Ring Plus | John Bunkley of The Atomic Fireballs

⭐ Switched on Pop - Liz Pelly's Mood Machine says the playlist isn't the product — you are

Welcome to Night Vale #261 - Brought To You By Flakey O's

Short History Of… - Butch Cassidy

One Song - George Benson's "Give Me the Night"

Vibe Check - It Doesn’t End with This

Ologies - Hippopotomology (HIPPOS) with Rebecca Lewison

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Speaker Terror Upper: When Bass Tapes Shook the Streets

Shedunnit - The Missing Moneylender by W. Stanley Sykes (Green Penguin Book Club 7)

You're Dead to Me - Aristotle: Ancient Greece’s greatest philosopher?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Paul Scheer’s Life in Three Places

Dinner's on Me - NATHAN LANE

The Curious History of Your Home - Hats

Pop Pantheon - Billboard's Hot 100: Hits, History and Kinks (with Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy)

Our Opinions Are Correct - No, We Don't Live in a F---ing Simulation!

The Curious History of Your Home - Board Games

What Next: TBD - Bonus: The Discourse | Why is Elon Musk Cheating at Video Games?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Love Hurts And What's Making Us Happy

One Song - Daft Punk, Part One: The Road To Get Lucky

One Song - Daft Punk, Part Two: "Get Lucky"

The Sam Sanders Show - Should the Oscars Even Exist? with The Big Picture Hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins

Pop Culture Happy Hour - You're Cordially Invited

Today, Explained - Super Bowl GNX

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Songs' playlist

Thundercat

The Atomic Fireballs

Squirrel Nut Zippers

Royal Crown Revue

Grailknights

Wig Wam

[thelaithlyworm]

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: 盗墓笔记重启 | The Lost Tomb Reboot (TV), 盗墓笔记 - 南派三叔 | The Grave Robbers' Chronicles - Xu Lei Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: A Tou/Bai Haotian, Bai Haotian & Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling Characters: Bai Haotian, A Tou (DMBJ Series), Wu Xie, Wang Pangzi, Other Character Tags to Be Added, Liang Yanyan, Liu Sang (DMBJ Series) Additional Tags: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Canon-Typical Gore, Fluff, canon-typical nudity Summary:

Bai Haotian cannot believe she landed a date with A-Tou.

Xiao-Bai's only a Warehouse 11 middle management type, and A-Tou is so strong, and pretty, and brave, and tall...

(If only the date would... happen?)

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (26 Jan-1 Feb 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 The Father Hunt (Nero Wolfe #43) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator)

🥰 Death of a Dude (Nero Wolfe #44) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator) - love it when Wolfe is forced to leave the brownstone

🥰 It's The Snow (postmodernmulticoloredcloak) - 44K, stucky modern AU - snowed in, only one bed, enemies-to-lovers goodness - reread, forever fave

💖💖 +223K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Everybody Wants (primrosewine) - The Cabots (Cat Sebastian): Daniel/Alex, 16K - so lucky to get such great Cabots fic for Yuletide

And a cradle for your heart (ryoorisuru) - MCU: Stucky, 2K - short but sweet fic where bucky gets to be shown that no one who loves him is afraid of the arm

Novel Movements (thisapplepielife) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 2.6K - charming & fun & when I read the tags I thought 'how you gonna make Eddie into a plausible gym guy?' and then of course IT DID ALL MAKE PERFECT SENSE

Some Kind of Tomorrow (togina) - Justified: Boyd/Raylan, 27K - truly delightful mpreg with perfect character voices - really love the set up for the possibility of mpreg in this setting a lot

Not In The Answer But The Question (aimmyarrowshigh) - MCU: Shrunkyclunks, 27K - reread, forever fave. Brilliant shrunkyclunks with jewish deli owner Bucky helping Steve connect his past and his present. Lots of great stuff about existing as an oppressed minority, on multiple axes. (but not super heavy! Mostly just a delightful love story!)

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Why Won't You Date Me? - Siobhan Thompson On Men Who Don't Wipe, Hookups Gone Bad, and D&D Fans in Her DMs

Ask Hank Anything - What’s The Sexiest Part of A Chicken? (with Rhett & Link)

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled - s1, e5; s2, e2, e6

Home Town - s3, e6; s9, e5

The Great Pottery Throw Down - s1, e1

Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune

Beyond Paradise - s1, e1-2

Um, Actually - s10, e1

All Creatures Great & Small - s5, e4-7

D20: Dungeons & Drag Queens - "Ice, Ice, Fae-by" (s2, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - "She's a Brick Orc" (s19, e3)

D20: Dungeons & Drag Queens - "Shady by the Sea" (s2, e4)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Monét Will Say Anything" (s19, e4)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

⭐ Pop Pantheon - CHER (with Hit Parade's Chris Molanphy)

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Pitt

⭐ It's Been a Minute - Intellectuals vs. The Internet

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Dylan’s Mailbag: Tough Trips, Controversial Airplane Etiquette, and Tattoos

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Presence

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

my 'Liked Songs' playlist, on shuffle, off & on all week

[bending-sickle]

It Never Rains in California by bending_sickle

But girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours

Part 3 of You Owe Me, a Supernatural fanfic

Summary: Crowley said he'd save up all the favours Castiel owes him for a rainy day. Well, a powerful demon is hunting him down and it's pouring...

Relationships: Castiel/Crowley, Castiel/Dean, Crowley&Dean

Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence

Hurt/Comfort, Angel/Demon Relationship, Enemies to Lovers

Words: 85,472 | Chapters: 56/56

[justaz]

battle of camlann but merlin wasn’t ancient as shit. he blasts the warriors around arthur away and arthur turns to see a glowering, golden-eyed merlin. he tightens his grip on his sword but isn’t able to raise it. the inconceivable notion that merlin has betrayed him runs through his mind but he cant quite grasp it. his father is screaming in his head to kill the wretched sorcerer but all arthur can see is his friend wearing a face that looks too much like morgana’s. merlin glances up at arthur and the expression of rage fizzles into one tinged with fear and concern - all too confusing for him to unpack in the midst of battle. merlin is slow to approach his side and even then he keeps his distance. before either of them can say anything, mordred appears, sword in hand, glaring at arthur.

merlin tries to draw the former knights attention away from arthur, tries to goad him into fighting merlin instead, but mordred is deadset on fighting arthur. he calls morgana over instead and says emrys’s fight is with her while his is with arthur. with the extra seconds of back and forth, arthur isn’t as shocked when he raises his sword against mordred’s. morgana and merlin blast each other great distances until they’re far away from modred vs arthur and land on the front line between the two armies. both armies back off and watch the light show as morgana and emrys battle until morgana’s army uses the distraction to close in on camelot’s army.

three battles occurring at once until morgana gets a lucky hit in and merlin goes flying. he lands next to a gwaine who is currently bleeding out. he smiles when he sees who’s next to him “merlin!” which sounds so much like his greeting every time they ran into each other before gwaine became a knight. he reaches out and heals gwaine’s wound and leon just looks up at him for a moment before going “you’re always full of surprises, aren’t you merlin?” merlin grins and goes “i got one more” he stands up on surprisingly steady legs and calls on kilgharrah. in for a penny, out for a pound. arthur is already fuming at him, might as well rip the bandaid off right?

kilgharrah attacks morgana’s army while merlin orders aithusa to stand down. camelot’s army is able to march through the charred army and bring down those who remain, mordred is loosing but persevering through rage and spite alone, morgana is screaming (like she always is nowadays). merlin and morgana battle once more until mordred and morgana’s armies have fallen. merlin makes a tactical retreat to arthur who is still staring at him wearily (and definitely irate). he requests permission to kill morgana which is baffling but she is his sister and he’s always cared for her even after her betrayal so he supposes it makes sense. once he gives it, their fight doesn’t last longer than a minute. emrys was always stronger than her, he was just buying time.

camelot emerges victorious though they don’t seem all that excited about it. the other warriors cheer and clap each other on the back, but arthur is just watching merlin. the knights watch them uneasily. merlin returns arthur’s gaze. “is that the fucking dragon i killed?” merlin looks up at kilgharrah who is needlessly burning the remains of morgana’s army. merlin turns back to him “yes.”

[bookgeekgrrl]

xiaq's tags: #every time someone makes a joke about my Ao3 being easy to find #I’m going to reblog this #AO3 and the people I met there are the whole reason i have a professional writing career now #You think I’m going to hide that history now?? #Absolutely not

Pretty bold of you to put your AO3 handle in your Instagram bio. Especially when you’ve been writing there for 10+ years. I would never. lol.

Skill issue.

I have no guilt in my pleasures and no shame in my progress.

[captainjamster]

Price who returns home to his daughter less inhibited each time.

daddy kink, incest, use of she/her, girl and daughter - characters are very much adults, i always picture price at about 50-55 and reader at about 27-30

Price that slowly starts to come back worse and worse from his deployments.

There's nothing *wrong* with him - oh, for the first time, everything feels right. Nothing really matters anymore, in such a delicious way. John carves lines in the sand with his morals, so easy to wash away when the tide comes - he just redraws them wherever he needs. It's simple, really - honestly, he doesn't know why it was contained to his work life for so long.

His wife, your mother, left him. She saw what you can't - *won't* (maybe it's the naviety of a young adult, maybe it's how shielded you've been by his deployment and your adolecence). Something woven together with bits of a man, a shell for the brutality and hunger inside that consumes him. The ghosts that haunt behind his eyes, sex just a little too rough, sharpened claws and bite wounds smoothed over by his gruff tone and that charming attitude. She abandoned him. But you wouldn't abandon your Daddy, would you?

You coddle him, just like Daddy's little girl should; do anything to make him feel better. Keep the house spotless, wait for him with open arms, and eventually legs, when he comes back home.

Let him fall asleep on the plush fat of your thighs in his big, lonely bed that you just can't stand seeing him spread out and forlorn against. Stiffle your complaints as he ruts between your cheeks, breathing in deeply the scent of sweat and sleep against your neck, and let him fuck the cum back into you during the sleepy morning sex.

He knows, honey, it feels so weird, but Daddy just can't let his baby girl around these other men. You have no clue what they're capable of; the world is full of filthy, uncouth mutts, and John is keeping his prized pet clean. But he isn't cruel. Price knows what a growing girl like you needs, knows that he can't just leave you high and dry with no toys to play with. 

It's a mutual exchange, something to satisfy you both. Price uses each hole whenever he wants, and makes sure that you cum each time until you're a sobbing, writhing mess. I mean, what else is your poor Daddy meant to do? So pent up and needy, with his beautiful girl so close in reach. You'll just have to lay down and take every drop his thick cock can give you.

dividers and headers by saradika-graphics

[cerisereids]

hi all (18+ ONLY NSFW) don’t mind me just thinking about how aaron would be super apprehensive to opening himself up again sexually after haley, especially not when it’s with the new agent hired at the bau. he’s been trying to resist the teasing glint in her eye over the past few weeks she’s been hired, but clearly he’s failing miserably as he scrambles on top of her. she’s made a mess of him, his tie long forgotten, his button up half undone as she runs her long, manicured nails through his stiff hair. it’s like he’s on fire, a burning desire coursing through his veins as he slots his knees between her thighs, the plush skin squeezing around him, making him dizzy. he rocks his hard length against her warm, damp core and his eyes roll back in his head. he hears her gasp at the impressive size of him, and the noise is enough to make his stomach flip, a warmth settling deep in his belly grower hotter and hotter the more she writhes and moans underneath him.

“don’t wanna hurt you,” he breaths out as more clothes fly off, the skin on skin contact making him crazy.

“i can handle it,” she whispers, beaming up at him with a determination that swells his heart by three sizes. what other choice does he have?

[adylote]

Omg Eleanor asking for the child/operator was sooo lovely (can't/don't know how to use a better word (?).

That woman stole my heart in a way so fucking DIVINE!

Now I need to draw them while Drifter sob on the corner (?)

[bookgeekgrrl]

#it’s very simple! there are two kinds of AUs: canon divergence and change of setting #it’s only canon divergence if the change happens further back than the current end of canon and the knock-on effects change the outcome #otherwise it’s just sparkling tropes (peer reviewing nonasuch's tags here)

Is it just me or has a lot of fandom forgotten what "AU" means? It's short for Alternate Universe. I keep seeing people talking about, like, "fake dating AU" or "only one bed AU." Unless your characters exist in a world where a) beds don't exist or b) beds exist in such abundance there could not POSSIBLY be only one of them, that's not an AU. It's just a regular degular story.

[notlikelybutpossible]

I commissioned Klodwig to illustrate liquid blob Kylo persuading Hux to join him in the bath (he's trying his hardest NOT to be a biohazard, okay? Hux should definitely trust him!) Fic now on AO3: It followed me home, can we keep it? (15K, E)

[bending-sickle]

“Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.” - Henry Jenkins (1997)

tired: the Grail romances, the Divine Comedy, and most of Shakespeare technically qualify as fanfiction

wired: none of these things are fanfiction because fanfiction is the act of telling stories that legally belong to someone else, which can only exist a society sick enough to decide every story has one (1) owner and lock its entire culture behind glass walls that say “look but don’t touch.”

people have always touched. fanfiction is when you touch anyway. the existence of the anyway is inherent in the definition, and the ways people do it are different when it’s illegitimized, dubiously legal, and forced semi-underground. fanfiction is the subculture that emerged from copyright law’s enclosure of culture, which makes it the weird sibling rather than the superset of other shared storytelling traditions.

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (19-25 Jan 2025)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe #41) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator) - NW & co vs J. Edgar Hoover. Always makes me laugh.

🥰 Death of a Doxy (Nero Wolfe #42) (Rex Stout, author; Michael Prichard, narrator) - possibly my fave NW book. Julie Jaquette, you are a legend

😍 😍 The One Where They're Stars on HGTV (earlgreytea68) - 466K arthur/eames series - what it says on the tin: they're stars on HGTV but also so much more. I don't know how to express how marvelous this series is. The first fic (Fixer Upper) is 8K and is their getting together and could absolutely just stand alone. But then there's another 458K just showcasing their lives for the next 2 years, the shows they do, the entourage/found family they acquire (plus their original family) and it's all just SO FUCKING WELL written and delightful that you never once feel the weight of almost half a million words. Instead I couldn't wait to dive back in and spend more time with them. This is all I read with my eyeballs this week and I am so satisfied with that.

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Home Town - s4, e4 & 17; s6, e2; s8, e17; s9, e4

Fortune Feimster: Crushing It

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - s2, e9

Handsome - Pretty Little Episode #23

Handsome - Melissa Etheridge asks about getting it on

Beyond Paradise - Christmas Special (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine

D20: Dungeons & Drag Queens - "Through the Venomlands" (s2, e2)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Fae-by, Fae-by, Fae-by, Oh" (s19, e2)

All Creatures Great & Small - s5, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Welcome to Night Vale - Patreon Bonus Jan 2025: Broadcasts from the Edge

Short Wave - The science behind the FDA ban on food dye Red No. 3

⭐ The Sporkful - Is Your Recipe Lying To You?

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Brutalist

Vibe Check - The Baddest Bunny

Pop Culture Happy Hour - One Of Them Days

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Radio Station Jingles: 80 Years of Earworms

⭐ The FanFic Maverick - #CaptainAmerica (Stucky) - Interview With Fanfiction Writer ZenaidaMacroura

Pop Culture Happy Hour - 2025 Oscar Nominations

Pop Culture Happy Hour - The Night Agent

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Mystery Man of Marree

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - The Man with the Twisted Lip

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

My Mix #6 (The Struts, The Offspring, The HU)

Fleetwood Mac

Light Rock

Ultimate Karaoke Party

Lady Gaga

Lord of the Lost

[zackieboyo]

can't believe the 2012-2013 Aussie show SheZow ended queerphobia(except for Kelly, it's too late for her)

[faislittlewhiteraven]

Undertale/ISAT crossover thoughts

Don't really want to write one myself (already got enough fics I'm failing to write XD) but ever since I finished In Stars and Time I've been thinking how I'd write a crossover between these two amazing games and I figured I'd share my notes in case anyone needs a bit of help/motivation in writing their own~ =D

Warning: These will mostly be in 'order of thought' as it's all barebones stuff. Also contains FULL spoilers for both Undertale and In Stars and Time so er, if you're still looking to play those/still getting through them don't read this and please play this incredible games.

Mt Ebott is located on The Island and the shattering of the Barrier brings the ability to see color back to all those on the (ISAT) surface.

Humans losing the ability to see color in ISAT was due to them/the 'wish wizards' of The Island sacrificing it (along side their seven strongest 'colour casters') in a Wish Craft ritual, naturally leading to humanity losing most of their 'colour magic' knowledge.

Undertale's 'sepia flashbacks' were all Chara's memories of how the world looked to them, BUT once in the Underground they were able to see (and remember things on the Surface) in color (hence the whole 'golden flowers' bit; it was still mostly just a cover story but Chara genuinely wished that they could see their favorite flower field as the 'gold' they realized it was rather than the 'mid tones' they saw it as on the Surface).

...The 'erasure' of the Island I'm thinking might've been accidentally poor Chara and Asriel's fault: with Chara's 'ritual' killing of themselves via buttercup taking three days to happen, Chara being from the Island insisting Asriel always give them flowers in groups of three, seven and thirteen, and an entire Underground filled with tons and tons of 'trapped' wishes from monster kind for their freedom combining with Chara's self loathing/desire to hurt those who hurt them trapping them in a loop that Just. Wouldn't. End. until Chara eventually snapped and pulled a 'May these people, this Island, EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WHO'D EVER HURT THE MONSTERS I LOVE including me BE ERASED UNTIL THE MONSTERS ARE FREE!' and um. Welp. There went an entire nation... (also Flowey eventually remembered some of this but only after going back to being Flowey post Asriel and probably it took a while for him to sort through all that).

Which er, means in this fic, that the people of The Island and the Island itself are still 100% there but they've all spent roughly 8 years or so all blitzed out of their minds: Need to think of Chara's exact wish wording so its not just 'corpses everywhere' but very good odds the people on the Island were either running on full automatic for years or able to remember some stuff but only if they very very carefully did not think of themselves as their own countrymen/used the languages of elsewhere/were careful not to think of where they were as any actual location within their country...

...Which naturally would effect the kids by far the most as their very language is basically a brown note (bilingual types could at least swap over to a different language but likely most of The Island was rendered silent) and well, pretty hard to remember Mt Ebbot is the mountain that must not be climbed when you can't think of the locations around you by name and the adults may or may not remember the kids exist half the time so... Yeah. Cue a lot of kids climbing up the mountain due to both lack of warnings and increased chances of feeling ignored/isolated/hurt.

Aka why in Undertale we can never hear/read anything Frisk says, why the monsters outside of Flowey/Asriel never refer to Chara by name and why no one remembers Frisk's name until after the Barrier shatters: Chara's 'Wish' couldn't be broken until then.

Not sure where all the anime and high tech that's washing into the Underground is coming from but either The Island used to be a massive tech hub prior to memory erasure, a LOT of tech was lost along with the loss of color or The Island's memory erasure in the ISAT world color magitech? maybe the wizards tried to seal away more than just monsters?, or IDK maybe the Underground barrier techincally had them displaced outside of Space and Time a bit and the garbage that was washing in was from literally everywhere thanks to the Universe wanting to help them or something (side note: realizing the memory erasure from Chara may have accidentally snipped Universe worship from the monsters as well since they clearly venerate the stars also but well. That longing for the stars DID cause them pain so..).

Imagining that Siffrin and party are in Bambouche meeting Bonnie's sister (or idk, having a vacation or reunion there if you wanna give Siff a bit more recovery/'explaining his issues to his family' time) when the Barrier is broken and all the colors come rushing back. Best first sunset ever (right before the entire Surface world kinda flips out over color, and to a lesser extent those familiar with The Island start remembering more and more details as the 'curse' weakens a little with every monster leaving Mt Ebbot) followed up by Siffren and the others absolutely losing their minds over how beautiful the stars are with just a tiny bit of color to them (the stars no longer being passively pushed out of people's awareness helps).

Anyway next day the party realize they have to investigate: Partly because Siff is well, kind of losing their mind over being able to see and remember home a little, but also because W.T.F and the Island is clearly the epicenter of everything going on. ...Also Siff may remember childhood stories about colors being locked away to serve as warning for if the Monsters returned so um. That's could be a thing.

Meanwhile the Monsters are getting a MUCH warmer reception from the local humans than they ever could've imagined (accidentally saving a nation from enforced amnesia kinda does that) and are also very confused as to why no one knows who they should get in contact with for formal alliance stuff (not sure if The Island has much of a government left at this point honestly...)

Would Flowey and the ghosty Chara acompanying Frisk count as Sadnesses???

... And er, that's all I got plot/setup wise. Most of my brain energy had been spent on imagining what soul colors all the ISAT cast have and also 'What Pokemon would they all be if they ended up in a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game?' so have a list with my reasoning on that front! =D

Siffrin: Blue/Integrity - Might seem like an odd choice given his constant lying/acting but like. Given all of the memory erasure and the torture of the loops Siffrin's absolute refusal to compromise his family's happiness/safety or use the loops for literally anything not 'helping family/ending the loops' based (even when he's basically losing his mind and could really use just... Taking a loop or three to goof off or something) just screams how devoted he is to what he believes in and well, the amount he lies syncs up well with how insane he's going so yeah. Siffren is an Integrity soul who's having a really really hard time being true to himself due to all the wobbie breaking he's gone through all his life. Specifically I like to picture his soul as a very dark, deep black/blue with little pinpricks of other colored light (mostly green, red and yellow), like a tiny heart shaped starry night's sky <3 (And er, bet that soul went very 'red/bleeding sky' as he was losing it in Act 5; Determination isn't his color by nature but they were not well at that point at all).

Isabeau: Cyan/Patience - Isa is super kind and all sorts of things but what really sets him apart is just how patient he is about everything (in ways both good and bad). I like to imagine his soul looking like a blue daytime sky, maybe with the odd white cloud and yellow 'sun' dot: partly because it fits him but also partly to cutely contrast Siffrin's. *cue me humming Like Morning Follows Night from the RWBY OST because I mean. It kinda fits honestly

Mirabelle: Orange/Bravery and/or Yellow/Justice - Again another 'you might not think so' but like. Mirabelle is hella gutsy despite her anxiety and I admire her so so much (also JUSTICE BARRIER REFLECT AGAINST THE KING YAAAAGH! XD) Not super attached to it as Isa and Siff's but the orange/yellow glow of a sunset (maybe with some pink/purple along the edges to show her Perseverance <3).

Odiel: Green/Kindness - She's hella awkward about how much she cares and not the greatest at reading situations/reacting gently but like. Her sheer affection towards the others, her always watching and coming out with the bandages and how she point blank tells Siff 'nope, not angry at you nearly blowing up the world. Also you trying to do that because you love us is cute' means I can't really see her any other way~ Not sure if her soul would be dark green (for more Integrity) or more light green (for more Justice) but all in all, very very green, like light/dark speckled leaves <3

Bonnie: Purple/Perseverance - This kid endures so much so well I swear (they're also really brave so a little orange would work well too but despite everything I don't think bravery is their main characteristic). I like to think of their soul as very 'purple evening clouds with bits of brave orange gold/setting sun on the edges'.

And Loop has a White boss monster soul for reasons; thinking that in this crossover that Monsters believe that they were born from the Universe's compassion (with The Islander's myths claiming they're the result of failed/'cursed' wishes like the 'brother who can understand my suffering Wish Craft' fairytale Siff finds in the Orary room) and both Monsters and the Islanders believing Sadnesses are born from forcing a wish of cruelty/sorrow that goes against the will of the Universe (cue Chara and Flowey who probably were Sadnesses in this until the breaking of the Barrier grumbling that yeah that sounds about right and The King from ISAT proving to even more aaagh than he already was).

And yeah. I'm out of babble thoughts now so hope that this was interesting for you all and please feel free to yoink any ideas that snag your interest <3