#something about pennies

[greyeyedmonster-18]

happy one year to ten reasons (to go to michigan)

one year later and my midwestern fourth born child is by far the most loved by all of you.

10 chapters

59k+ words

1.5k+ kudos

24k+ hits

if this is my last muggle au, then this one is something i can be proud of. i wrote it on a whim, pantsed it all the way through in four days, and i am forever amazed by how much this story seems to resonate with folks.

healing and grieving and finding home in unlikely places. a love story that also isn't a love story.

endless thank you for reading, commenting, leaving hearts on my doorstep. this one is definitely a huge chunk of my heart, and cant say thank you enough for being so kind to it.

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It wasn’t Remus’ intention to stay in the Upper Peninsula, no matter how…perfect it had been to write. No matter how stunning the sun looked setting on the lake in the winter when the yellow and oranges would come through the cracks in the trees, catching the white snow on fire, transforming the grey of the lake into something soft and pale blue. He was never going to stay, even if Madame Rosemerta’s cherry latte’s put a New York cup of coffee to shame.

Even if Marlene had become a better friend to him than all the ones he thought he had.

Even if…even if Sirius was there. 

Because there was no way for Sirius to be and for a book to be. Remus had been there, done that, bought the t-shirt and wore it out. It didn’t work. It couldn’t work. And if there was anything Remus had learned through a harrowing divorce and heartbreak…words, pages, and times new roman font were not going to wake up one day and decide they didn’t love you anymore. 

[inkskinned]

they will need to whipstitch the wound closed, but embroidery is a "woman's" task. they will need to eat and clean and mend clothes, but why learn basic things when you can have a woman measure out your life in beads. he will be the "head" of your house, but if you want him to act accordingly, you must assign him a list of all applicable activities. you will be otherwise constantly in charge of almost-everything; so he will lead the house he is absent from.

in movies and books, the "cool" girl will be more-like-a-man. she will be "less boring," more "fun". she will have masculine ideas and masculine talents, which means a man doesn't have to change in order to find her fascinating. she will disdain of something as simple as stitching. how boring!

she will kick open the door of a car and quip what, girls can't drive? and flip her long hair down one side. she will grill and shoot a gun and skydive. be a guy. she will be sexualized.

somewhere, working on computers becomes a masculine task, and now on tv a gen-z disney character throws her hands up in the air. i can't be a computer science nerd, i'm a girl! in the real life, she will be unable to sit through some of her classes, shivering when she realizes she is the only woman present in several of them.

how many times have you read this book and seen this show and watched this movie. the singular woman is allowed 5 lines because she's not just smart! she's also pretty! she is surrounded by 20 average men, but she is stunning. she is the exception to the bland, pale lives of women-at-home, who will never be shown. she likes dirt and motorbikes and blood and shows up in a tiny dress during the final scene, rolling her eyes at our male lead's incredulity - just because i like motorcross doesn't mean anything. i'm still a woman, okay? i actually like shopping.

it is almost never reversed, and you think about that often. it is vanishingly rare to have a single man in a cast of women. the male love interest does not show up at a feminist march and sardonically squint at our leading lady - what? you thought only women care about human rights? he does not know how to balance a checkbook or kickbox because i grew up with three sisters.

when he cooks he is a chef, which is sexy. when he cleans, he's being kind, genteel. when he nurtures his family, confetti rains from the ceiling. when she does these things: it is her duty and her identity. what do you mean she has other passions and hobbies? isn't her hobby and passion homemaking?

the other day a friend embroidered a seam closed on your jacket into the shape of ivy. every time you touch it, you think of her.

something about women's hobbies and art and skills. something about women's work.

[rottentiger-art]

AU: Colin accidently brought himself a souvenir from his travels to Ireland

[identityquest]

here with me

[feroluce]

Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:

This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!

He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either

had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)

broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)

found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)

Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki

Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.

And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.

We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.

The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.

Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!

Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk

[wildflowercryptid]

my beloved besties, i've gotten really tangled up in these towers.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Jaune: Stop doing that.

Penny: Stop doing what?

Jaune: Saying things that make me wanna kiss the hell out of you.

Penny: ... No.

Jaune: *Cups her cheeks* Okay then, You asked for this!

[kariachi]

Really there was a good space for money to be a point of conflict between Kevin and the Tennysons. Like, we get the show going 'oh that Kevin isn't he greedy' but, I mean really a thing.

Because here's the thing, the Tennysons are middle-class teenagers living at home with parents who take care of them, one of whom ends up with merchandise. If they're hungry, there's probably gonna be food in the fridge at home and they did not need to worry about getting it there. If they decide to splurge, the only things they have to worry about cutting funds from are non-essentials. If their valuable shit is damaged, somebody else has to worry about replacing or fixing it. If they get hurt, somebody else's insurance is covering it. If they decide to step back from the Plumbers and just not work for a while? They don't need to worry about a roof over their heads.

And Kevin is, very much not middle-class living at home with parents taking care of him and merchandising deals on the side. Even discounting WoG it's clear he doesn't live with his mother, probably for reasons relating to the absolute mess that was a childhood that left him homeless longterm. He's paying his own bills, he's buying his own groceries, whenever his car gets wrecked that's on him. And I doubt the Plumbers medical funds cover freelancers, so we can reasonably assume any damage he takes prior to Basic Training? The medical bills are on him too. If he decides he needs a break? He's still got expenses he needs to cover, he has to worry about making sure he's got an nest egg enough to keep him for however long first. And this isn't something new to him, he's first introduced as homeless at 11-years-old, and aside from his time in prison and with the Rooters? There's no indication anyone else was funding his ass. He's been having to worry about this shit since before he even met the Tennysons, and the position he's in as of UAF is likely only recently as good as it is given his age and the work and time it would take to reach any level of true success in the black market.

Just, it would have made for a good episode in 'we're more mature now' UA, to hit on the difference between how they look at money, how they spend their money, and why.

[kyistell]

*sigh* The voices won

Never thought I'd get to the point of no return and make HP fanart but HERE WE ARE!!

Ahem, anyway, here's the quad, debated on whether or not I wanted to draw Marcus as well but decided not to soooo...yeah...enjoy?

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Okay so we're at 623/1025 Pokemon done right now that's 60.78%, and did you know that each 1 (one) new unique crochet brings us .09% (NOT EVEN A /TENTH/ OF A PERCENT) closer to 100%. That's 402 more Pokemon to go (currently) (not including ones that have different variants/forms). That's so many. Whoa. Wow.

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(i suppose this has been long overdue—

i will be taking down WIP from ao3 today as I am genuinely uncertain when it will no longer be a WIP. i understand that this can cause a bit of contention among readers/writers about deleting work but the idea of having an unfinished work on my page is not the vibe for me.

alot has happened since i decided to post my first fic in april of 2021. at that time, i was living in a new state where i knew very few people, and was transitioning my career. it was (and is) the middle of a pandemic that was (and is) very heartbreaking and taxing in my field. i was also just coming off two very hard deaths in my life. i was lonely and frustrated and took to making art and writing to find a way through. i connected to a new community of folks who were online, i started putting my art in galleries and shows and fairs. and then i started a new degree program, my lorge bebe started high school, i found my footing as a parent, i found my footing in my career again, i found my footing as a person, and my ambitious art endeavors tapered out.

i also fell in love, something ive kept so secret and private, not wanting my ideas and stories of romance to interfere with what was happening in front of me and blooming so perfectly.

and i always think about...sharing, and how much of myself i am willing to share. whether or not we admit it, art is very much a part of me.

i told myself earlier this year that what i was feeling regards to writing was burn-out. i burnt myself out after writing so much in such a short period of time.

but the truth is, i have been writing. I have been making art. it's just no longer something i am sharing as often and prolifically in this space. (also, all my inspiration atm is coming in the form of muggle au's and well, as someone once told me, if you're going to write a muggle au...why wouldn't you just write OG fiction?)

i say this because a lot of new folks have come here, and are wondering whats next. a lot of old folks are waiting. and to answer both of these- i don't know. and i'm not going to make false promises and pretend it'll be "when i have time" because..that's just not true.

to be clear, i am not leaving tumblr, and will resume shit posting and ask games and interacting and posting things i find engaging. but i have no idea about writing-- and will not be offended if you unfollow because you came here for the content.

sirius and harry are forever throwing a frisbee on a beach

remus is forever gawking at football butts

kingsley and sirius are forever flirting and blushing after a first meeting.

and i am very okay with that. these endings seem pretty happy to me

xoxo)

[yurki-posts]

The Nopony

(I made the eye wrong on the upper right aaaghhhhh)

[charlidrawz]

Happy Birthday to The Blue Blur™

I plan to do more, I'm just exhausted from the past week.

Wedding was so much fun, had a great time with CJ, everyone's been wonderful-

I'm just. veeeery tired & got sick. 😔

Anyways, here's what I've done so far!

Happy Birthday Sonic the Hedgehog, Cyno, & Laura Post!

(References to @snapscube)

[nientedal]

my only complaints about the new megamind material:

that is not a parakeet

you cannot work and cool glass like that in 15 minutes i am SORRY

everything else is gravy, chefskiss, love it. so much quiet fishalien stuff happening. megamind has a cold fusion reactor somewhere. minion/chum & roxanne seem like best bros. the former mayor makes blown/lampwork glass figurines. side characters have first and last names. megamind is a goofy little egomaniac where it's funny and down-to-earth where it counts. it is a show made for me personally and i am eating it with a spoon.

[slime-sandwhich-nom]

Not able to draw today so you get me writing 😔

I don't think I like growing up.

Sure, mum says that with growing up i get more chances with things like watching what I want, not have a bedtime anymore but..

I don't think it's worth it. Neither of us do.

it's.. scary, if I have to be honest.

neither me or my older brother Darwin are gonna grow up any time soon and I'm glad but, my other brother? Gumball?

He's bound to grow up at any time now, he's the oldest and he's the closest one between all of us three to become officially a teen.

he just needs to turn 13 and he's gonna be a teenager.

And..I don't want that. I don't think Darwin wants it too.

We've been noticing how gumball has changed- in a lot of ways and my theory is that he's growing up, he's starting, mum says it too.

She seems happy about it but we're not. It's just so scary to see.

his voice changed and now he's all about penny this and penny that- he's all about this girl and just seems obsessed with her! Even the slightest interaction makes him go all crazy and giggly, whenever she's around he turns all red like a tomato but he doesn't seem embarrassed. He's just

So weird now.

Mum says that it's normal, at his age boys should start "thinking about girls" but it's just so confusing.

especially because gumball seemed to understand and didn't even like that like a month ago!

He had an entire rant about how he won't "think about girls" or anyone for that matter, that he's never falling in love or have a crush, and honestly I agreed with him. He never seemed the type to do all of that corny stuff with someone, especially the kissing. Ew.

but. But the moment we stepped in middle school he changed entirely, I don't know what happened.

sure the first few days were normal I guess, he just did his usual antics but then he met this girl- and with Darwin as my witness- is like he froze.

Like if he was a deer in the middle of the street.

and from that moment on he hadn't stopped talking about her, he only stops when mom is around for some reason.

but it's not just that- he changed in other ways! his fur changed- he got taller I think- and his voice is so low now compared to ours! He's more snarky and sarcastic now and he scoffs a lot too- he's like those teenagers in highschool in movies, all grumpy and mean all the time.

I don't..what that.

I want my brother.

I want my naive and sweet big brother who just wanted some friends and play knights and princesses outside in the yard.

I don't want this cynical, sarcastic, snarky and cocky guy. That's not my brother.

Mum says that it's normal for him to change, he's going through puberty or whatever but- it's not fair! Couldn't he stay the way he was? Sure, he was a little bit stupid and naive and because of that people bullied him and took advantage of him but he was the sweetest! Both of my brothers were!

Now only Darwin is and gumball is just this- guy who likes going out with his friends instead of. Of me. And Darwin.

Sure Darwin tags along but- I'm just left alone.

Before middle school gumball and Darwin used to hang out with me- gumball used to ask me homework, he used to ask me things- now he just doesn't.

Now he just doesn't pay attention to me, only sometimes he does but even when he does he feels like a totally different person.

and penny. I don't know what she's doing to him- she seems sweet but- he just makes him panic and he gets super quiet whenever he talks to her- it's cheesy and annoying.

What if they eventually get together? What if gumball eventually gets stolen definitely and I won't be able to see him anymore?

Sometimes he talks about marriage or college and that just means he will leave me here in Elmore just for some peanut girl!

he's gonna leave me and Darwin here while he goes with people he just met in middle school.

it's just not fair. I don't like this change that much.

[twilight-deviant]

Telling content creators it's wrong to explore artistic freedom and be independently funded by fans, and they should instead continue taking advertisement revenue from google* is

NOT

the anti-capitalism stance actually.

*(Yes, google owns youtube.)