#mike the cool person

[feelsblind]

IM FUCKING CRYING I LOVE U VYVYAN

[franken-shits]

Inaccurate, I know, because they're all transgender, obviously !!

[dwarfedvyv]

watching the young ones bloopers and the fact they cut the line where Mike says “they call me a hanging judge because i’m so well hung” from the show should be a CRIME because that’s hilarious

[wheresmyteaneil]

every friend group has the

anarchist poet

depressed hippie

violent fucker

cool one

[freakyfrook]

midnight munchies run

[f0x-gl0ves]

They're having a nice little party!

[miiiwu]

THE YOUNG ONES DOG AU!!! :D

Mike is a shiba inu, neil is an afghan hound, vyv is a bull terrier, and rick is a cursed mix involving a greyhound, a Chinese crested, and a bunch of random others

Mike is the tiny alpha <3

[completebastardsweek]

Complete Bastards Week 💥

***************COMING JANUARY 2025***************

[superfast-jellybitch]

These guys, am I right?

[fromthecrypt]

average queer friend group

[vodka-margarine]

I made some young ones bracelets! :D

[dwarfedvyv]

my gay autistic ass pointing at my favourite characters: you are gay and autistic

[irenic-raccoon]

Happy Halloween here's ur candy *I hid a young one character in each of them*

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

A Bastard's Carol: a work of fanfiction by scumbaganarchy 💣

Season's greetings, scumbags! I hope you're all having a pleasant day. I come bearing a gift (of a sort):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1we8qEVul2PTWFCtaVqyyXccVg8-xZBte/view?usp=sharing

A huge thank you to @viviangreeneart for the awesome art! ❤️ It turns out we should all definitely be making fake novel docs out of our fanfic. It's good for the soul.

Some pretentiousness about ABC below the cut.

Just over five years ago, a naiver version of me had the idea of writing a Young Ones/Rivyan parody of A Christmas Carol. She started actually writing for this idea in December 2019... and promptly discovered it was going to be a whole lot bigger than she'd anticipated. With one chapter posted before the big day, she decided to kick the rest into the new year.

That new year was 2020.

Yes, that 2020. Although, to be fair, what other one could I be talking about?

We'll skip all of that. None of us need to relive it.

One year, two or three lockdowns, and four indefensibly long chapters later, ABC was finally done and dusted in December 2020. It stood at around 60K words, making it by far the longest thing I'd ever written. I guess we all had to spend that empty time doing something, right?

Followers of this blog will have noticed, I'm sure, that I've never shut up about ABC since. Maybe you even rolled your eyes when you saw the title of this notification? Uh oh, she's going on about that old thing again...

Yep.

Look, I'm incredibly bad at hyping up my own work - self-deprecation is a bad habit, but a common one - and the more time that passes between who you were when you wrote something and who you are today, the harder being positive about it can get.

I was 18 when I wrote ABC. I had only gotten back into writing properly at 17. The whole work went through one major copy edit a year or so ago, when I knew a little more about writing - but I still didn't know as much then as I do now, and I suspect (and hope) the same will be true for a future version of myself when she looks back on my writing from this time.

All of this is to say, sometimes ABC reads to me as something written by somebody else. 18 year old me didn't write exactly the way I do now; she hadn't gotten the Bachelor of Arts cheat code boost that I have. But she was extremely passionate. She did love the bastards Rik and the gang created with all her heart. She'd also studied A Christmas Carol for her GCSEs only a couple of years previously, so she did at least understand the text she was taking a chainsaw to. I think all of this mattered. I think this gave ABC heart.

But what's my point in saying all of this (again)?

For a very long time, I've wanted but held back on commissioning an artist to draw me a cover. Well, no more. Truly, thank you ever so much to @viviangreeneart for indulging me and creating something fabulous for this old fic of mine. Thank you too to everyone who has ever commented on or kudos'ed ABC on ao3 over the years. It really does mean more to me than I can say.

Having dropped a new and flashy PDF decked out like an actual novel, here's the link to ABC on ao3, which will always be its home:

Merry Christmas, scumbags. Cliff bless us, Everyone!

[feelsblind]

the GASP i let out.

[miiiwu]

more TYO doodles before I go to bed :3