#i will find you fsg

[nicowdc]

goodbye you were bigger than the whole sky 🙁💔

[throwmeabonepleaseandthankyou]

may i have some headcanons? S/O is a big big fan of "strange" animals, specifically bugs and fish, and enjoys going on hikes and swimming to find different species. how would the skeletons react? for ut papyrus, us bros, uf sans, sfp papyrus, fsr papyrus, and fsg papyrus, please! (can you tell i really like the papyri lmao)

if the above is too long of a prompt, how would the above skeletons react to an S/O who has bug terrariums?

I love bugs and have known to catch moths and spiders when my family is too scared of them(I've also caught and released mice but that's a story for another time). Also, the Papyri are the best, they're just so cute, no matter the AU 🤭.

Papyrus : Oh! So you want him to go bonkers! He can deal with fish(after all, he's best friend with one), he can deal with cats and dogs and everything else, but bugs? Why's it got to be bugs? You can gently push him into a weird-animal-loving perspective by showing him the pretty moths and playful lizards, but good luck getting him to hold a spider or a millipede.

Cobalt : Woah, those are so cool! Can he hold one? He seems interested at first... until he feels their little legs trailing up his bones. With all of those tiny feet speeding up his arm and latching onto him for balance, Blue is instantly disinterested. He'll love them from afar.

Honey : He likes taking you places to go find said animals, even if he naps in the car the whole time. Hey, Y/N, go place a bug on his chest. Cue the loud screeching followed by falling out of the car.

Red : Surprisingly, he's more into it than you, which is odd because usually he only acts like it even though he's scared of his shadow half of the time. He points out lizards that were too quick for your eye, camouflaged bugs hiding in trees, and the odd fish out in the water.

Rus : Lizards, insects, spiders?! You're almost perfect for him! Even though he's usually too lazy to pick his fatass up off his bed or the couch- if you tell him you're going hunting for little guys, he's on your heels. He wants to go, please? His hands grab your shirt everytime he notices you going near the door while holding a small container. Where are you going, s/o? He's wants to come too.

Pup + Coffee : Unless it has four legs and is fluffy, Pup wants nothing to do with it. I'm sorry, but he's not the best fit for this one, and neither is Coffee. Coffee is more willing to let your stickbug hang out on his finger, but Pup freaks out at the sight of a ladybug or a butterfly. For someone who's supposed to be your scary guard dog, Pup sure is a wuss.

As for the terrariums, almost all of them would be chill with them. Until you ask where Fluffy the tarantula went, the sound of a skeleton freaking out over your 8-legged friend being somewhere in the house. Whether the worry is for themselves or the spider, that's for you to figure out.

[marigoldsandbuttercups]

(I'm not sure if you've answered an ask similar to this previously but)

What is the FSG boys "type" when looking for an S/O? And what changes with the boys personalities whenever they start developing feelings, like going from a "friend" to a "crush" to an S/O?

(Don't think I have, friend, you're in luck!)

A friend? Oh no, that's my crush :)

Wine (FSG Sans): His ideal type is a little,,,, difficult to point out. He's never really taken the opportunity to mull over it like others do as he was always focused on his job, on his life mainly when he was in the underground. It takes him a bit to really decide what is his "type". But once he does, it's not all that surprising.

Or is it?

Wine would fancy someone who knows how to hold their own, someone who's got a little spunk and is very witty. He'd also like someone who's very sure of what they're doing and level headed, but it's not a deal-breaker for him if you're someone who's a bit more shy and mousy, he finds it all alluring once you've completely and utterly charmed him. How to do that is a whole other ball game, however.

There's a way to figure out if Wine sees you as a friend or as a "friend" is the way he talks about you to others (mostly Coffee, though, he knows ALLL the tea) so if Wine let's you hang around his younger brother without him being there, you're definitely in his good books. With his close friends, Wine likes to treat them with nice things, or would take them along with him for whatever he's got planned that day. You also will see that he's more talkative, even if he can be rather sassy sometimes.

When he's got feelings for you, man, it's like Cupid struck him hard. He'd start to call you the sweetest nicknames, and although his face doesn't reveal much, his voice sounds just a tad softer when he calls out to you, that little bit of gentleness reserved for you and only you. He'd be more inclined to give you gifts that you can actually use or store away as he hopes you will always remember him when you look at it.

Coffee (FSG Papyrus): Doesn't have much of a type, honestly. If you asked him, he'd probably list out the most basic things in people (Nice, sweet, etc, etc). It's not that he doesn't care or doesn't find anyone attractive. Rather, his priority is never love or being in a relationship but it's not hard to have him fall for you, quality time is the way to go with him, honestly.

He doesn't change all that much when he's around a friend, perhaps a bit more relaxed rather than his usual, closed off self. But give him a bit of time (and the right topic) and you'll see that shell of his start to break and go on long spiels of what type of music he likes and the process of creating music and the tools in excruciating detail. You also will notice that he likes to send you random pictures throughout the day or message you at the quiet hours of the night.

And if you listen closely enough, maybe, you can even hear him laugh at the horrid pun you just made.

If he's got feelings for you, the first thing you'll notice just how quick he is to tense up around you. It's like you're sent back to square one, really. Perhaps it's not all that bad when you begin to spot little letters left for you, and it starts out fairly innocent, mundane compliments that soon get a little more braver and more specific, stuff like how much he likes being around you, or how you have a really nice laugh, it makes him feel.. Good to hear it.

He's not the most obvious but he certainly tries as he does value the friendship you guys have and the main thing is that it's because of you, as long you're around, that's what makes him happy.

[dk-thrive]

Why I write

I kept asking myself why I write—or more so, why my default state is writing, since on any given day I might be writing for morality, Art, or attention, for just a little money. It’s not as easy or as fun as it used to be, so why do I keep writing? (I can’t go very long without writing, though I can go for a while without writing something good.) I think I write to think—not to find out what I think; surely I know what I already think—but to do better thinking. Staring at my laptop screen makes me better at thinking. Even thinking about writing makes me better at thinking. And when I’m thinking well, I can sometimes write that rare, rare sentence or paragraph that feels exactly right, only in the sense that I found the exact right sequence of words and punctuation to express my own thought—the grammar in the thought. That rightness feels so good, like sinking an unlikely shot in pool. The ball is away and apart from you, but you feel it in your body, the knowledge of causation. Never mind luck or skill or free will, you caused that effect—you’re alive!

— Elisa Gabbert, Any Person is the Only Self: Essays (FSG Originals, June 11, 2024)

[naanima]

So I have been sort of slowly reading up on John Henry, owner and head of FSG. You know, the multi-billionaire that owns SEVERAL sports teams via FSG, in almost every sport it seems, or trying to get one in every major sport.

Below is the link to an article/interview with him that was released last month, and it is an interesting read if you are into that sort of thing. The part that's most relevant to me, HOCKEY is this:

I decided to ask him point-blank: would you ever sell the Red Sox, Liverpool or the Penguins? Henry wrote: “My wife and I live and work in Boston. We are committed to the city, the region. So the Sox are not going to come up for sale. We generally don’t sell assets.”

This IS NOT a panic situation or anything, it MEANS NOTHING. It is just something I personally find interesting in the VERY limited context (and NO real info), and I LOVE to speculate. Ahahaha. But like dude definitely wanted to buy the Bruins. LOLs.

[haveyouseenthisskeleton]

Masterpost 28

General asks

S/O breaks a bone and puts it back like it's nothing (UT characters)

Tetris game is insulting skeleton (UT Papyrus, US Sans, UF Papyrus, HT Papyrus, FSG Papyrus)

S/O wants to take things slow until they ask if they can kiss skeleton (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O made a big mess in the kitchen (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O sings their love to skeleton but it's death metal (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Someone disrespects skeleton's trans boy/girlfriend (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's kid wants to dress him like a doll (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O and skeleton propose to each other at the same time (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O was a professional dancer younger but injured themselves (HT, HS, HF, DaT, DF Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's relationship with Toriel's and Asgore's new heir (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's child is scared of the monster under the bed, except it's real (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O has ADHD (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O accidentally burns the camp while they're camping (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O is smart but is a dumbass (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

A random man intrudes their yard by digging a hole in the middle of it (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton turns into an animal for a day (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O lets baby clothes in all the house to tell skeleton they want to have/adopt a baby (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O's family member tells they are eating too much at a family dinner (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Skeleton's lets his brother take care of his kid while he's on a trip (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O tells him he's going to be a father, but actually they adopted a dog (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

S/O falls asleep on them on the couch (UT Grillby)

S/O squeals when they're scared (SF Papyrus)

S/O's ex is royalty and doesn't like monsters (UT, US, UF Sans)

S/O fights someone who doesn't like monsters (UT, US, UF Sans)

First kiss headcanons (UT, US, UF Sans)

Creeper and people who likes touching him (MT Papyrus)

Underfell Mettaton headcanons (UF Mettaton)

Doomfanger adopts a human baby out of nowhere (UF Sans & Papyrus)

A monster has a crush on their human child (UT, UF Toriel)

S/O is a crybaby (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Space-loving S/O gets abducted by aliens for a few years (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus + HS Papyrus, OT Sans)

Skeleton's walk in a bear trap and breaks his ankle (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Moody teenager rejects skeleton as a father after an argument (UT, US, UF, HT, SF, FSG Sans & Papyrus)

Character's friend brings their boyfriend Jerry to a dinner (UT characters)

Character building event

How often do they show their genuine emotions (MT, MF Sans & Papyrus + DaT Papyrus)

Can they cry on demand (UT, US, SF, FSG Papyrus)

How would they respond to being fired (UT Sans, Undyne, Alphys, Mettaton)

Would they eat something they find gross to be polite (UF Papyrus, HT Sans, SF Sans, FSG Sans)

How loose if their use of "i love you" (MT, MF Sans & Papyrus)

How do they greet someone they like/love (MT, MF Sans & Papyrus)

If invited to a TED talk, what would they talk about (UF, HT Sans & Papyrus)

Tough or gentle love (MT, MF Sans & Papyrus)

Who do they believe without question (UT Sans, Papyrus, Toriel, Undyne)

How do they greet someone they dislike/hate (FSG, MT Sans & Papyrus + DaT Papyrus)

How do they greet someone they like/love (FSG Sans & Papyrus, DaT Papyrus)

What a phrase they say a lot (US Sans, UF Papyrus, HT Sans, HT Papyrus, SF Sans, SF Papyrus)

How loose is their use of "i love you" and positive greetings (SF Sans)

How loosely do they use the word "friend" (UT Papyrus, UF Papyrus, HT Sans, HT Papyrus, D!Papyrus)

How do they greet someone they dislike/hate (HS Sans & Papyrus)

What belief/moral do they stand by that I disagree with (HS Sans & Papyrus + DaT Papyrus)

If someone was impersonating them, how to make the difference (FSG Sans & Papyrus)

How loosely do they use the word "friend" (HS, DaT Sans & Papyrus + OT Papyrus)

Other things

Some cool Undertale blogs to follow

I'm still looking for cool fanfics to read

Matching colours in the Fell AUs

Myfanwi talks

1000 followers!

Happy Valentine's day!

Mjöllnir the Chinzilla

Mjöllnir and his ridiculously large size plushies he likes to walk around

Some precisions about the askblog rules

[fsg-settings]

【FSG设定整合】Undyne Alphys NTT

Undyne

*很小就认识Alphys了。

*年龄和咖啡相仿，她出现的时候红酒已经是青年了。

*她的初始性格是很开朗的，刚加入科学团时：

“喜欢地上的超级英雄漫画！想做厉害的科学家！科学太酷了！”

*Undyne加入研究团队的时候年龄很小，但是分数很高，于是被招募进了团队。研究员们一直在研究核心的改进，但是Undyne提出的方案总是关于“怎么拯救垂死的怪物，怎么挽回他们”，所以追随者们不喜欢这个新人，欺负她。经历过霸凌和社会的打压之后变成了现在的性格。

 

*看的超级英雄漫画书是私藏的。漫画书来自人类世界，“那个世界充满了暴力…但是又充满了自由。”

 

*红酒答应保释Alphys时，要求Undyne替自己做了一些事：搜索出Gaster私人日记里那些否定女皇不理解科学的片段、录像Gaster手语里对女皇表示愤怒的片段、指责Gaster因为女皇眼睛不好而刻意改用手语去与科学团交流。

 

*你进入真实验室的时候会发现，融合怪是劳改营的犯人。Undyne：

“他们要是知道我没有按照规定处死犯人，而是试着救他们，他们会把我带走劳改的，并且杀了这些融合怪，求求你不要和任何人说。我没有敢于信任的人，请不要夺走我唯一的朋友们。”

然后你把Alphys等了很多年的信给她，已经泛黄老化的一封信。你告诉她，她不是孤独的，她是被人爱着的。

 

*在Undyne国王结局里，Undyne做了一个替代Alphys的机���人，语言行为完全一样，但是她说：

“其他人的替代品我都能完好的做出来，但是唯独她怎么做我都做不像，这个代替品会说的话，我现在甚至连她原先是什么样子都已经想不起来了。”

Alphys  

*很小就认识Undyne了。

*新兵时期很害羞，不善言辞。但是她给Undyne写了一封情书，结果被发现是同性恋，被其他新兵举报了“不想为了怪物生育的雌性是我们共同的阶级敌人”。因为不愿牵连对方，她涂掉了收件人的姓名。之后在女子劳教所被当作“精神病人”治疗（厌恶疗法、电击疗法或药物注射），并且怎么样都“没有治好”。

*之后被红酒从监狱里保释出来。红酒保释她的主要原因是“她很强壮、她很听话”，还有一点：

“其他的受害者惨叫的声音很难听，让人没有想要伸手的欲望，但你从来没有叫过一声。

“多么坚强的怪物啊，真是了不起。” *你杀了其他怪物的话，她不会和你做朋友

NTT

*模板化自大狂。

*地底娱乐来源的代表，让沉闷的地底人民消遣的角色，存在的意义是让大家进行消费。  

他的观点就是人民的观点，让人们不再想着创作义愤填膺的文字。

*音乐人，做的音乐是90年代波兰的实验电子乐，对于地下的怪物来说是未曾听过的音乐，因为人类的音乐是被禁止的。那时候没有多少怪物会做音乐，但是他做了，让怪物们耳目一新。所以也存在不喜欢他风格的黑粉。

*在音乐结束之后他会聊天，谈自己的事情、自己小时候的事情。

 *和小幽灵彼此想念但彼此不想见面。  

*当年偷换了自己和小幽灵的体检报告，得到了获得身体的机会，对此感到愧疚、觉得自己被讨厌了。实际上小幽灵不在乎身体只是不想和NTT分开，在NTT离开后感到被背叛，认为他很自私。

*认为阻拦人类前进控制舆论是自己的任务。

*在遇到Chara之前，他不是人形的，而是一个被固定在实验室里的一个大方块，像一台自动产出音乐的电脑，也从不在电视露脸，只是一段广播，在收音机里也能听，在电视上��有静态的某张图像。人形是迫不得已才会使用的，在遇到Chara之后才有机会变成人形跑来跑去，在那之前都没有变成人形。过被固定住的时候，大家都猜测他是什么样的怪物，后来发现他是个机器人的时候，大家都觉得被他欺骗了。

他和Chara对峙的时候在电视上露出了真正的样子，而且打输了，人们打电话说他是骗子、说他是连人类不如的骗子。然后小幽灵Happy打电话说，“就算这样我也会等你回家的”。所以绝望的NTT就放行了Chara，关掉了直播。

*认为红酒“好恐怖”。

相关图片

（You can find many old doodles of Jotman on her old accounts, I inserted some of them.）

[wave-nine]

Do you have a favorite underrated papyrus/sans or au?

wanted to say I really like the money drawing you did!! it's so cool!!!

YAY thanks soooo much!! I'm happy you liked it! 🥰

My favorites are US, UF, SF, and SFR papyrus. I think they're all pretty well known and I don't have much interest outside of those AUs, so not really... but I find FSG, UTO, and HT really cool, too, so maybe I can mention Utotale? It's not widely known and although I don't know much about it myself and can't give you info on the setting and characters, I do love the designs and the works I've seen of the bone brothers.

[arn359]

Hey hey!! So this is not an ask BUT it is a recommendation!!

There is a FSG fanfic called "something good" written by skeletonlvr22, you can find their account on here and on AO3!

It is a Coffee x reader, there isn't any spice and its still being written (so far there are 11 chapters)

It is about Coffee and Wine (and the other versions of themselves are mentioned as well but aren't really a big part of the story..yet) being on the surface, and Coffee just wants to explore. Coffee being trapped in the underground and practically forced to stay inside his home by Wine, made him want o explore the world. So Coffee moves out and sets off!

So far Coffee has made a good friend (reader, who is also an OC of the creator)

I like it a lot so far and since you love FSG so much I think you would like it too!!💛💛

(If not then just ignore this entire rant😅)

I have this fic opened on my tabs but haven’t read it yet. Thank for the recommendations. I'm posting this so ppl could see it too.

[starssecret]

Here are my skeletons for Bad reset Best outcome! :D

Hey! I have more information out now about them and their partners!

Loved doing these so much <3 I wanted to give them unique nicknames as well as outfits (tho some just fit like originally- Sans lol)

I tried to make it so all their names match Y/N in someway! Or would be like a nickname their S/O would call them.

(and dw I’ll post about Y/N next lol)

under the cut for more info!

So left to right- top to bottom we have

Meteorite and Rocket for Classic UT

Lucky and Bee for Underswap

Shadow and Knight for Underfell

Chardonnay and Silver for Swapfell

Pumpkin and Muffin for Horrortale

(Pinot) Noir and (Coffee) Bean for FellSwapGold

UT:

Y’all I think we’re sleeping on giving classic sans space themed names- like you’re telling me this man is ND and loves space and wouldn’t name himself smth Sciencey or space themed? Wrong lol.

As for Rocket- I was trying to think of smth to match sunshine, and I thought about smth like Sky- but thought Rocket and just yes lol

US:

Finding a matching name to match Lucky’s S/O was so hard lol- but I like how it works now :] Also Lucky's and Rocket's outfits are SO GOOD imo lol I like how sporty they are- but still fit their character you know?

Bee was pretty easy though lol, his S/O's nickname is Hunny, so Bee followed naturally lol and he's just cute let's be honest <3 ALSO it's a little hard to see- but he has a tooth gap in his front two teeth <3 the upper half lol I just had too- too cute to pass up <3

UF:

SHADOW- Ok so his S/O is Doll, so obvs I was drawing blanks, but I saw a website list Shadow as a nickname for a boyfriend... and spent 20 mins laughing my ass off about it. And nothing else worked better so I kept it lol. 10/10 name- I think Y/N deserves to call him Shadow the hedgehog all they like lol

Knight was easy lol- design and name wise. I already knew his S/O’s name was Prince/ss (depends on gender lol- and if you don’t like either of those just a neutral Royal title lol) so every good Royal person has a knight in shingling armor- so Knight it was lol.

SF:

Chardonnay- Ok I'll be the first to admit, I didn't originally plan on adding Noir when I started (More commonly Wine) so I was cool giving a wine name to Chardonnay and now there are two lmao. But I think Chardonnay is good for SF sans, Also his clothes? 20/10 in love.

Silver- ugh poor Silver, I'm gonna make him relive his trauma :[ but he was an addict underground, and was clean above, but now he's thrown back in the middle of it. So not happy :[ I chose silver as him name since everyone always names him after like money and such, and to semi-match Angel his S/O

HT:

Angst angst angst, Pumpkin! Took forever to decide on his name. His S/O is Lamb, so I almost went with smth like Steak, Bull, or Beast but I didn't like those. But remembered about calling people Pumpkin and fell in love <3 I would so call him that lol Also the handmade stitches in his clothes to repair them <333

ANGST ANGST ANGST, Muffin! Is so baby nil <333 Obviously an adult, but so soft and sweet. He tries so hard, tho- his poor S/O Sugar- well- you'll see soon lol. But Muffin and Sugar just felt right lol <3

FSG:

Ok I think I need to explain myself a little here lol. So his name is (Pinot) Noir, meaning his full name is Pinot Noir like the red wine, but he just goes by Noir. But I didn't want Noir on it's own without the wine context lol. So he's got like two nicknames lol. He's super classy tho lol, I almost put him in a suit but I decided that was too much- so I settled for vest and dress shirt lol.

Same for (Coffee) Bean, I kind of wanted to just keep Coffee, but I re-did everyone else so I had too T~T But I wanted them all drink themed lol. His S/O is Cocoa lol so they both match on theme <3 But also- if you call 'em Bean you could get away with calling him a Beanie Baby, so win! lmao

But yeah! These are the boys! Y/N designs soon to follow! :D

[foreverisntenough]

If Trent goes to Real Madrid I fear he’ll fade into the shadows, lets face it he is not as big a star as any of the players on their current roster and to me doesn't seem like he’ll get much playing time. But that's just my opinion.

Also, the rhetoric that he's hanging onto Jude’s fame is starting to be pushed. Joining RM would amplify it.

I get this opinion. What’s interesting about Trent though has always been England’s media obsession with him. I don’t know enough about La Liga or Spanish fans/ media but as “local lad” as Trent is… he also is massive. He genuinely is one of the best in the world statistically and has been. You can’t take that away.

You’re right he’s not Vini, Mbappe, or Jude. But with that in mind… he’s very well known. And then in addition, just a Madrid brings a lot of attention. Good or bad, more people will know him. I wonder how many people don’t know much about a player until they get there. How much their following changes just because of the club. I think of players like Ferland Mendy, no shade, I think he’s great but Trent has massively more media attention. If I were to base it off something as trivial as instagram, Trent goes to Madrid now with 12 million followers… it’s only going up. I think it’s insane he has as much media on him as he does considering his play time for England and that he plays for Liverpool and is scouse. Yes, lfc is one of the biggest clubs in the world but has such a strained relationship with the media. I’m not sure he’ll ever fade. Every time he returns to England it will be an onslaught of attention.

I find the hanging to Jude’s fame kind of nuts personally. Like… I get it, and I’ve seen it a few times on het but it makes no sense to me. I genuinely believe they’re friends. Trent to Madrid is largely in part due to Klopp and FSG’s inability to retain a player not the uptick in time spent with another player.

Honestly, this is my opinion but this entire transfer saga has been so insane because Trent drives the media mental. His name has become clickbait and he always has been the scapegoat so 🤷‍♀️ We shall see. Sorry for the long response xx

[nicowdc]

what if i cry??? huh????

[yuckydraws]

Hi!

Could I request the FSG brothers with a s/o with a native language?

But the reader shows off their language skills by singing a song in that language that sounds very beautiful, however when the skeletons search up the song the lyrics are hilariously inappropriate. (Kind of like Rammesteins Dicken titten)

And when they’ve successfully pranked them they can hear them laugh from the living room.

Thank you!

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Sorry about the mix up on that last one!

Wine: He has a sneaking suspicion that he's being duped, so he'll discreetly search up the song in private. He'll find it quite silly, but he'll keep this information to himself. You'll have no idea he's caught on until you bust the song out again and he starts singing the lyrics along with you perfectly, smirking knowingly at you. He has a knack for turning pranks on their head like this.

Coffee: He loves listening to you sing and the moment you start singing, he's on his phone looking up the song. Only to let out a flustered squeak and sink into his hoodie as he reads the dirty lyrics. W-why are you suddenly singing about that??

[veliseraptor]

Top 5 underrated books you love

oh man see this requires me to judge "underrated" though...challenge, that. but here goes let's see what I can come up with

1. Doctrine of Labyrinths by Sarah Monette. This is the obvious one for me. Out of print fantasy series published at the wrong time my beloved. I mean, admittedly if it was published now the discourse would be a nightmare (if...people read it, maybe it would still be underread), but god I love it so much. I recognize it has its "storytelling flaws" or whatever but this was the first series I read where I felt like the author was putting their hands on my shoulders, looking me directly in the eye, and going "okay, Lise, I'm about to come for you where you live." and then did it.

2. Coldfire Trilogy by C.S. Friedman. It's been a while since I read this one so I hesitated a little over including it, because, you know, "how much can I say I recommend something if I haven't read it in ten years" but part of my problem here is that I've met maybe three other people in my life who have also read it. Maybe if more people started reading it I would actually get around to doing my reread. An early "huh this really feels like it should've been gay, are we sure it's not" book. I'm still not sure it isn't.

3. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. And Children of Ruin and Children of Memory is sitting on my shelf eagerly awaiting me, but this was the one that kicked it off and I keep trying to recommend it to people, but for some reason "it's about sentient spiders you guys" isn't as compelling a sell as I feel like it is. But it's about increasingly advanced spiders on an evolution fast track building a civilization you guys and also about conflict with the other and all that but. I'm really here for the incredibly fascinating worldbuilding Tchaikovsky does with the spiders.

4. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks. I really want to at some point ask Ann Leckie if she's read any of the Culture books because...I just feel like there's something there. Not the same, but some kind of connection, and I felt it particularly reading this book. I remember enjoying Consider Phlebas (clearly, I picked up the "next" one in the chronology of this 80s space opera series), but this is the one where I read it and was like. Oh, fuck, you got me. In general I feel like this is a very interesting series worth revisiting - I wouldn't say it's obscure but I feel like a lot of more recent sci-fi/fantasy readers overlook it because "80s sci-fi" has a lot of connotations, deserved or undeserved. I will just say that I'm picky about my sci-fi and this one got me.

5. I went back and forth for a while about what to put here but I think I have to say A City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer, because I remember when I started seeing Annihilation and its sequels take off going NOW YOU GUYS FIND HIM (pleased and exasperated) and that book was my intro to his work. And I still in some ways like it (and his other earlier work) more. But just in general if you are into New Weird stuff, or enjoyed his more recent work, I recommend going back and looking at his older stuff, too. I happen to know that after being hard to find for a while FSG is now reprinting those books.

BONUS: I can't actually say Lymond Chronicles is "underrated" as such because it has a very devoted following and a whole crop of authors talk about it if you start looking, but still. The devoted following is not actually huge. And I love it very dearly.

[dk-thrive]

that this right hand moved then as it does today

Kierkegaard called it “the dizziness of freedom,” those glimpses of the way out of the trap. Why do we always look away and never take that path out? I wrote “INERTIA & UNCERTAINTY” in all caps at the top of a page. I wrote “THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN JOURNALS & MEMORY.” I put asterisks next to the interesting thoughts, the thoughts that wanted more thinking, a map to the treasure. Proof that thoughts were had. The disconnected thoughts are always me, are they not? Proof of continuity? “In the diary you find proof,” Kafka writes, “that this right hand moved then as it does today.” We need proof of our lives, and we need it while we live.

— Elisa Gabbert, Any Person is the Only Self: Essays (FSG Originals, June 11, 2024)

[ratsoh-writes]

Masterlist 28

(*****)= suggestive

General

FAVORITES (all)

SO turns bitty for a week (hf ff ss sf)

dancing in your pjs (papyrus, star lilac jupiter)

kiss attack!!! (tt ot bt )

SO feels safe in their arms (ft ff hf sf ss)

someone accidentally sends a ton of money to his account

SO blinks like a lizard (us uf + mafias)

SO has a business making sex toys******

which (non virgins) haven't been with a human*****

waking up to doggy kisses (willow pitch sails)

stepkid says i love you for the first time

SO purrs when they see him

getting the least judgy guys to judge you (pop sails peaches fisher ram)

chubby SO (ft ff fs)

getting turned into an animal they hate

wiz sib wants to ask out their crush (papyrus, honey, mal, uf, ht)

SO is a nude model for an art school**

thoughts on travel (all)

advice they'd give their younger self (ls lf mafias)

aftercare (lf ss sf gt nt)******

SO has a miscarriage

SO gets in a car accident and is at the hospital (ut mt ms ul ls)

when his bro has a crush (nt fsr ot)

attachment styles (all)

rich SO tries to spoil him (ht hf hs hfm)

giving his bum a nice pat (peaches honey jupiter jasper cricket quill)

SO sends him a naughty picture (fot tt bt)****

SO leaves little love notes for him (lf ss sf gt nt)

tag you're it! (sans pluto G lens)

SO telepots his bro on a boat to propose (sans star red mal oak lord hook)

alien invasion (ul fot gt)

he accidentally hurts SO (ft ff fs)

date gets vertigo (ft ff fs)

bros reaction to taking in wiz sib (ut us sf)

bro think his SO is cheating (ut uf us fsg ht)

royals for a day (ut fsg ot)

stranger saves their life (st ss sf lf ls)

making stuffed animals kiss (st sf ss of nt)

SO cant say dish soap

favorite dairy products (all)

he wakes up to a stranger staring at him

clingy SO

if they weren't farmers (ft ff fs hfm)

interactions/poly hcs

the beef between the farm and farmswap bros

if oak and peaches were together

Worldbuilding

cat monster traits

trailrunners

shroomsnails

more magical plants/crops

fillerblot (jerry)

ebott specific careers

ALL BIRTHDAYS

famine aus struggle with babies*

cat allergies and cat monsters

human to monster first aid

stars curse

fae

The Mafias

ace's talents

bruisers talents

ace fun facts

Farmtale

ranchers talents

rosemarys talents

yosemites talents

peaches fun facts

rancher fun facts

Horrorfarm

moose and maples parents

Farmfell

rams talents

pitch talents

pitch and rams parents

Fellswap gold

wines talents

coffees talents

fluffy coffee

Fallouttale

some lens fun facts

lens talents

Seatale

fishers talents

jaspers talents

fisher fun facts

fisher fun facts 2

lustswap

sparks talents

lustfell

peppers talents

fluffy lush

Nomadtale

compass talents

Horrortale

oak fluffy facts

Underswap

stars crazy police stories

Gastertale

green relationship

where you can find green

Underfell

edge relationship

Horrorfell

noir relationship

noir fun facts