#...from around a decade ago

[thebeardedladyofthelake]

Wayyyyy back in like 2015, I wrote but never finished an Invader Zim fanfic in which Dib and Zim were forced to team up on a sort of space road trip. Unfortunately, back then I wrote all my fics on a second generation iPod touch, which has since died, taking years of writing with it. The only evidence I have of this is photos I took of a couple parts of the story I wanted to share with my friends in 2019 (the thing barely worked by that time but I STILL didn't take the chance to back my shit up because I'm an idiot lol) but it was actually pretty funny so I figured I'd post them here for folks to enjoy.

(check out the alt text for a smoother reading experience)

[starscream-is-my-wife]

The beginnings of Thundercracker learning Skyfires schematics because he’s a magnet for trouble

[lemonlimestar]

some 2011 flavor timkon bc i’m in bed fighting for my life atm :,-)

[astarioffsimpmain]

Hi! Not sure if you're still taking requests, but if you are may I ask for "hold" with Gale?

(the hot wizard has me in a chokehold... 🙈)

Thank you!

Hey anon! I was still taking requests when you sent this in, so thank you for adding to my Gale pile (I love my Gale pile ❤️)! I am definitely feeling this one today. 🥰

BTW, he has me in a chokehold too. 👀

This blurb was inspired by this post.

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Thunder cracked outside and you jumped a little, startled out of your task by the sound and the aforementioned rumble. You smiled, shooting a glance towards the window. A thunderstorm on an autumn night like this was fitting, considering your plans. You spooned the last of the sugary drizzle onto the freshly baked cinnamon rolls you'd pulled out of the oven and brushed your hands together. You grabbed a towel to cover them before heading upstairs, hoping the scent hadn't wafted far enough to reach your lover's library.

You pushed open the large wooden door with your shoulder, and your heart swelled at the sight of him. He was lounging on the plush settee near one of the windows, glasses on his nose and papers in hand. He chuckled, tsk-ing and shaking his head at one student's mistake, and wrote a note in the margins. You smiled. You were certain his students tired of his inability to reply in a short manner, but you could never get enough of him. You would happily listen to him talk for hours, never ceasing to be pulled in by the smooth, practiced sound of his voice. It was the sea, and he, your anchor.

"My love," you called softly and his eyes flicked to you.

"Ah! I wondered what smelled so heavenly. I was intending to come down to check on you once I finished this paper. It seems you have reached me first." He smiled with a warmth that could melt all the glaciers in Cania as he rose to meet you. His hands fell to your hips and gave them a squeeze while he leaned precariously across the dish of hot baked goods to press his lips to yours. You hummed against them happily, your eyes falling closed as you were wrapped up in the comfort of him. When he pulled back, he gazed down at you, his eyes soft and filled with love. "Come here," he murmured, steering you towards the settee. "Set those down on the side table. They'll need to cool before we indulge. However," his finger shot up as he gave you a mischievous smile. "I know of something we can indulge in whilst we wait."

"Oh?" you smiled. Gods, you loved this man. "And what might that be, Mr. Dekarios?"

"Why, Mrs. Dekarios, I am quite certain you already know."

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Tagging, Darlings: @knightofmight01 @micropoe10 @fanon-and-canon @just-a-refrigerator @worfs-glorious-hair @senualothbrok @nerissa-dekarios

[luck-of-the-drawings]

so REVENGE, HUH? or justice, if that makes you feel better. it tastes the same when cooked just right. 'I REALLY WANTED A BROTHER.' such a shame to burn a bridge you so desperately wanted to keep, especially when it wasnt even you who started the fire. especially when you hope that not a single fragment of that bridge ever washes ashore.[MAY IT ROT FAR FROM MY SIGHTS] an unfortunate loss! atleast he has his friends.

[lune-redd]

wait what's up w tara if i may be nosy

[ryugumon]

wishlist of nintendo games that could still come out on the switch instead of the switch 2:

New Rhythm Heaven game (even tho i dont play them because i suck at rhythm games)

Hotel Dusk remaster (should be possible since Another Code got a remaster )

Tomodachi Life

New Pokémon Mystery Dungeon/Explorers of Sky remake

[quaranmine]

shared annotated version of IDL with irl friend. only person i know irl other than my mom who's read it :0 but we were talking about writing this weekend and I've known her my entire life and she's responsible for introducing me to a couple life-altering fandom experiences (cough, doctor who) sooooo I was like. Why am I Afraid

hope she likes it :) and is prepared, perhaps, to cry-

[sainteclectic]

Who turned whole into a vampire? Idea: love interest, as for how it'd happen, no idea but resolves a question I've had since the beginning

honestly? probably no one important. the thing is, whole wasn't meant to be turned. the vampire who turned him was planning on just leaving him for dead - the entire point was that whole is just some stranger who wouldn't be missed. someone completely alone, who no one would look for if he went missing. he wasn't attacked with any plan in mind. he just looked like an easy target.

why was he turned? whole doesn't know. he probably doesn't even know he was supposed to die that day. he doesn't know who the vampire was, what their plan was, nothing. all he knows is that they were right: when he disappeared that day, no one went looking for him.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

okay well. one thing that i absolutely adore abt ieytd3 specifically is their dedication to The Bit. The Bit, in this instance, being the telekinesis.

i first heard of ieytd pretty much the year it came out- although i wavered in and out of the community until a few months before the sequel was announced. within that time, there was this trend in what few ieytd fics were published that they would reject the telekinesis mechanic entirely. they would pretend it didn't exist. they brushed it off as a mandatory game mechanic for a VR title, but obviously it doesn't actually matter in canon. it's unnecessary.

but seeing schell games literally go "nuh uh". and take what's a pretty significant step in a unique direction from their source material. and say "actually, not only is telekinesis canon, but we are going to make it's existence critical to the plot of our entire third installation" was so much fun. i respect them so much for that.

a lot of times i find the best sort of games are those that take their silliness seriously. they don't feel ashamed of doing their own thing- breaking the mold a little bit, if it means developing a deeper sense of identity. they took this mandatory mechanic- essentially the only obstacle between them and an untarnished james bond-esque experience- and said "we can roll with this". and just did.

i love a game that's not ashamed to be what it is.

[tacobellebandit]

Vampire that eats garlic bread even tho it fucks them up for days afterward because they just love it so much that it's worth going through it on occasion.

[seriousbrat]

Do you think Lily (or atleast your lily) is “not like other girls-ing” it. Meaning do you think she looks down on the hyper feminine or atleast holds her self as being better (consciously or unconsciously) for not being that?

Given the time period she grew up in it would be a bit of an anomaly for her to not have these deep seated ideas of femininity (which is why I don’t give hermione too hard of a time here), but if you think she didn’t adopt that thinking what caused that? And if she did (to any capacity) what does that look like in her day to day life?

Oooh, honestly a very interesting question! My most honest answer is that.... probably a little bit. The thing is that we've only begun to question the whole "not like other girls" thing very recently, so we have to consider that this was absolutely not a thing during the 70s. I do think Lily would consider herself "not like a lot of other girls" in the sense that maybe intellectual, political, philosophical things are more important to her than stereotypically feminine concerns like makeup, boys, fashion etc. That being said, I think she would in general be what we now call a "girl's girl."

I don't think she can be blamed for this; again the way we now see the whole "not like other girls" thing is very recent. Personally I don't believe that any women or girls who have felt excluded from the roles traditionally ascribed to women are at fault for feeling that way. Especially in the past, I understand why women would have felt like they weren't meeting certain standards that were expected of them and would take that as proof that they weren't like the majority of women-- the truth is that NO women are meeting 100% of the standards expected of them, but all of this is a pretty recent idea.

Lily would have likely compared herself to the model of Petunia, who is in many ways very stereotypically hyperfeminine-- her main life goal was to get married, be a housewife, and have a kid. While Lily did get married and have a kid, I don't see her as being content with just being a housewife, and I don't think that was her only life goal at all. If it weren't for the war (which is already something Lily was dedicating herself to beyond a sterotypically feminine role) she likely would have had aspirations beyond being a mother and a wife. So I do think she compared herself to Petunia in that sense, but you have to consider that in the 70s and 80s women were still fighting for many rights and considerations that today we consider basic.

I imagine that for Lily, Petunia represented something actively anti-feminist-- she married a chauvinist, conservative, middle class man who expected Petunia to cook his meals and clean his house-- and that was all that Petunia aspired to. I think that, in a sense, Lily did look down on Petunia for choosing this lifestyle, simply because she would never be content with that herself. We also have to take into account the fact that, for all the faults that the wizarding world has, gender is not really as big of a factor as it is in the Muggle world---although misogyny definitely exists in canon, a witch could potentially be much more powerful or talented than any given wizard, and it seems as though witches are very capable of reaching the same positions as wizards in the Ministry.

So, basically, I do think Lily would have judged Petunia especially in some sense for making choices that Lily considered to be anti-feminist. Does that make her an "I'm not like other girls" girl? I don't think so, personally I see her as being a stalwart feminist and very supportive of her female friends. Her judgment of Petunia likely came from the disparaging attitude that Petunia and Vernon had towards Lily and James-- I see Lily as being prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt, and really making an effort to support her sister and maintain their relationship even if she didn't fully agree with Petunia's choices. But as we know, Petunia didn't let her. Lily tried to understand, and that does show a lot of empathy. I think that in this situation he problem was Petunia.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

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[songsofhome]

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[0rionz-belt]

anyways fun fact, this minicooper has been driven so fucking infrequently since my parents got it that it still has new car smell despite it being from 2002.

[wraithsoutlaws]

you know i had a fun little vp idea i wanted to do for the cyberpunk anniversary but i haven't had the energy to even touch it recently so i'll just settle with saying that this game impacted me in ways i never thought it would when i first picked it up 3 years ago. i knew i would enjoy it, i had been looking forward to it for a long time, and despite a ~controversial~ launch, i had a fucking blast from day 1 (on ps4 no less). regardless of bugs and memes and public dunking, the story grabbed me like nothing else could at the time, and it reignited so much of my passion and motivation for art that i had lost in the clutches of mental illness and i'll always be grateful for that. it introduced me to so many wonderful people (some whom i carry very close to my heart), and maybe most personally surprising, it gave me an outlet to understand parts of myself that i had been too afraid to acknowledge for a long time, the courage to accept and embrace myself as non-binary, and allow myself to just BE without trying to convince myself i'm crazy. that's not what i expected from the get-go but it's been a really fun journey to be on ngl