hexcii

[hexcii]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[hexcii]

genuinely fucked up that if i want to interact with someone online i have to say words and have a conversation instead of just mashing my face against them like a cat

[hexcii]

i can’t wait for celebrity culture and worship to go extinct <3

[hexcii]

"preferred name" "preferred pronouns" um NO? there's my real name and my real pronouns. apparently you are using some fake evil version?

usually im in favor of evil versions of things but yikes that's rank you skank

[hexcii]

Heres a matthew for these trying times

[hexcii]

i wanted to design Sun and Moon similar to Nurse Dollie's face. so here is my take on it

[hexcii]

Inquiring mind would like to know, for the thing au, do you think the exo of the suit would become supple like flesh or remain hard?

Are they bug? 🪲

Also really love the au and makes me want to give the old horror movies a go ❤️

Bug exo-skeleton!? Stop guys!! You'll give him ideas!!

In all realness though, this was one idea I was playing around with!! I think it makes more sense to have that insectile kinda chitin (is that what it's called?) or exo-skeleton. Believable enough to appear metal, but a touch would give it away

I'm so glad ur enjoying it!! The old horror movies are my favourites out there, especially ones like the wickerman or the thing

[hexcii]

Yippee!!!!

A short animation I made the other day to remind myself that animating is fun, actually

[hexcii]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[hexcii]

hey. what do a selkie and a ziploc bag have in common

[hexcii]

Bent

[hexcii]

[hexcii]

here's Six for u guys (: smiles bigly decided on this name for the teehees!!!

[hexcii]

I’m gonna be going into the hospital tomorrow (nothing serious, just doing a test) so I will probably be a bit hard to get in touch with as it’s gonna leave me pretty dizzy and out of it for the rest of the day

[hexcii]

People don’t talk about canon eclipse enough and it hurts my soul 💔

They’re so gentle and sweet ☹️ i love them 😔

[hexcii]

there's a bunch of posts about like "what's your favorite number" but what about WHY it's your favorite number

[hexcii]

⭐️🌙