#mutually assured dumbassery

[rockityrockandstone]

Maybe Scout/Driller can be fireflies or fireflares?

FIREFLIES IS REALLY GOOD TOO!!! I like Mutually Assured Dumbassery but that one is also super cute so I will probably use both???

Do u have any ideas for Gunner/Driller 👁👁

I am working on it but idk :( I want it to be clever and silly while also fitting my characterizations of them. If you have any ideas please lemme know <3

[theravenmuse]

Mutually Assured Dumbassery

My GOAD pride exchange gift for @tawnyontumblr

CW: Explicit smut, light relationship angst, references to emotional abuse in past relationship

Summary:

Crowley is not Aziraphale's type. Aziraphale likes men. Big buff men with gym-chiselled bodies like Gabriel. Crowley is just a scrawny twink with a gender as fluid as the Thames. They just aren't compatible. Which is fine. They're friends. Maybe Crowley’d like for them to be more, but being friends is enough.

Aziraphale is not Crowley's type. Crowley is fast and trendy. Their clothes, their hair, and their makeup all change with their mood while Aziraphale owns five of the same jacket in slightly different shades of beige. It would be foolish to think that Crowley could be interested in him in any romantic capacity.

Despite these differences, when Aziraphale's ex shows up and attempts to woo Aziraphale back to his side, Aziraphale and Crowley decide that they can pretend their long time friendship is just a little more in order to drive him off. Everything is going to be perfectly fine. They can definitely go back to how their relationship was before with no emotional baggage of any kind.

Thanks to u/quona for answering all of my genderfluid Crowley questions, for catching the many many times I accidentally misgendered them, and for the exquisite title.

Read the fic HERE

@goodomensafterdark

[wishing-stones]

do you have any general headcanons for baggs?

Prefacing this with: if you want to know more about him, go to his creator and the blog for he and his au Here

I have loads.

It's difficult to pin down stuff that hasn't been mentioned, or that involves parts of the lore/story for Megalosomnia that haven't been revealed yet. So, while I have tons of headcanons about the story and/or other things that might be spoilery, I'll narrow it down to one for that:

-He created Flowey, being the Royal Scientist, and keeps him in a terrarium. It's been stated that he's not really around when the human/Frisk falls, and when you take that clever mind and the latent almost meta-level observation skills of Sans in general into account, you get someone who is unwilling to let his experiments just sit around in pots on a countertop. They were all in their own tanks, and when Flowey woke up, he was stuck in a glass (or plexiglass) cage with no real way out. It's since been expanded, so he isn't in a cramped little box, but he's down in the true lab with no way out. And, predictably, he hates this. He can still save, load, and reset, but... it doesn't do him much good when he's stuck in a tank. They get catty at one another, Flowey tries his best to needle Baggs into making the mistake of opening his tank for even a fraction of a second, but it never works in his favor. The tank is climate-controlled and everything in it is automated with no chance of escape. He's pretty well taken care of, at least.

This is the biggest headcanon I have for MS/Baggs in general. I might be close to canon, I might be way off. But... It makes sense for him to keep the one person he can't control under careful lock and key, doubly so when they can save and reset. All he has to do is get out of that tank once, and everything Baggs has built will come crashing down around him. It's a risk he absolutely cannot afford to take.

But, by the same stroke, Baggs knows who Flowey is, so it would be mutually assured destruction.

Other miscellaneous headcanons include:

-He's not as much of a hard ass as he comes off as, sometimes. I just don't get the chance to write him when he's not preoccupied with something else very often. Dumbassery comes with the territory of being a Sans, though, so he has the capacity for some spectacular feats of goofiness. If someone sees this, he doesn't even bother to remedy it-- he just smiles and more or less says "No one will believe you." (Also, most of what he's been present for when I write him is either a. his job or b. being very guarded around the others. He's starting to show otherwise, though.) -He is a lot more compassionate than he might come off as. While he keeps an air of professionalism about him, if he likes the people he's taking care of or looking after, he's accommodating and thoughtful. He's gentle with the flighty and conciliatory with the upset. His friends and family immediately fall into this category, and you can tell you're in good with him if it starts to feel more intrapersonal-- if he talks about himself at all. -It's known he likes Hot Pockets and Sushi, but in the same vein, he likes bagel bites, pizza rolls, anything else that is pizza-like and thrown in the microwave or oven. It's fast, it's absolutely awful for you, and it's greasy. He similarly likes other similar garbage-tier frozen microwave food, but the pizza-flavored ones are his favorite. He also likes mozzarella sticks. -He likes soaps. There's several he's partial to-- awful human programs that have fallen into Waterfall-- but they're good for background noise. They're terrible, he knows they're terrible, but they're entertaining for the sheer ridiculousness of it all, and no he is not invested in the secret romance, how dare you insinuate otherwise. -He has those glasses he wears around General, but they also come out if he needs to look disarming or have someone trust him a little more or if he wants to make a statement in the company of those who know what he's capable of that he's a complete non-issue right now and off the (proverbial) clock. He doesn't really need them. -He can sew! This is a bit of a necessity, since his (very cool custom) lab coat occasionally takes damage. He has more than one, but if you look very close, you can see just little peeks of fine white thread from a ladder stitch. -And, last but not least the goddamn heelys. They, I think, have been bounced around a bit and displayed in at least one piece of fanart. It's hilarious to me because while he's studious and hard-working, he's still a Sans, and you can never truly rid a Sans of all of his laziness in all areas. Coupled with the fact that he burns the candle at both ends, it makes sense to be able to roll from place to place rather than walking-- or better yet, have someone walk for him. Almost everyone in the lab is used to him catching rides on the back of their coats and just go along with it. It's just something the doctor does, so you get used to it fast if you work with him.

I've been rotating him and his au like a rotisserie chicken since I discovered them, so I've had a lot of time to sit and think about these. He lives in my head rent free so he may as well earn his keep by providing inspiration. Little turd.

[rockityrockandstone]

So I've been thinking abt maybe making shipnames for the dwarves and I propose this for Scout/Driller:

Mutually Assured Dumbassery

Just think about it. Or don't. That's more on brand.

Also if anyone has some recommendations for other names lemme know :O

I'm just gonna call the full team 'four of a kind' because it's a silly little poker reference and I think the team would play poker.

[rockityrockandstone]

Sorry for how long the funny fireflares fic has been taking, I am going through a severe inspiration drought and everything I write looks like shit :')

I'm stepping back a bit to do some more simple stuff until my brain can come back online. Still hopefully drg themed tho so I will be posting stuff about anything that gets finished!!

I hope the wait isn't too frustrating <333