#borrowers and beans

[smol-lucy]

Adopting a borrower 🩷

[ittybluebell]

when the borrower's found out by the big people:

[gtbutterfly]

What's your most controversial g/t opinion? Most would probably be about a certain trope or something regarding angst or ethics, but mines much more stupid.

I think borrowers calling humans "beans" is stupid. Like, why do they do it? I know they called humans that in the original book, but it just doesn't make sense to me, and sounds a bit too silly. Like, borrowers would know English from listening to humans talk, right? So why would they say bean? I gets it's like, a mispronounced version of "being" as in human being, but why mispronounce it? Is there something physically different about borrower anatomy preventing them from saying the g? Why don't they say other words differently then? Shouldn't they have like, a whole different accent all together?

And why shorten it to being? Why not say human? The word being is referring to humans in the term human being. Sure, borrowers probably wouldn't know that, but why say bean anyways?

What lilliputian with a speech impediment 100 years ago first ending up in human civilization heard a human say "human being" in some kind of context, and then went back to all their friends and told them that the big people call themselves "human beans" and how did that term spread across all of borrower culture across the world? It just never made any sense to me.

[tsspromptmonth]

Hi, I’m back to request a second order because I enjoyed my first one a lot. This time I would like to order a Ristretto with 2% milk, Peach, Kiwi, Starfruit, and Espresso syrup, and crushed animal cookies and aloe vera jellies for toppings.

(Giant/Tiny Au with hurt/comfort, featuring Patton, Remus, Janus, Remy, with the tropes of animal traits, and “I didn’t know where else to go.”)

I made 5 comments for a 500 word fic.

Fics on AO3 that I commented on:

plenty of fish in the sea by PanicAtTheEverywhere (elfzhyza) https://archiveofourown.org/collections/sleepy_bean_fanfic_cafe_2024/works/60249565

Space Brothers by KieraElieson https://archiveofourown.org/works/60276034

A Time of Gods (And Men!) by wickedcompanion https://archiveofourown.org/works/60271312

As Above, So Below by KieraElieson https://archiveofourown.org/works/60250324

Cozy Sweaters by Ended_Flames https://archiveofourown.org/works/59329588

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Friends in Weird Places by @typically-untypical

[krikidilly]

Spotted while out on a borrow!

[storytellers-and-co]

Tansui's Adventures - #18, Amal'jaa and Roegadyn

Life could never be easy, could it? Tansui was actually starting to miss the cookie-sharing at this point. After the efts - and being almost run over by quite a few of them - he was informed that a shipment of ether had gone missing. On top of that, Amal’jaa blood was requested. 

Fun times. 

Especially after Tansui made it to the stolen supplies, and started to rummage about after taking a cursory glance around - trying to make sure there were not Amal’jaa about. 

Except there was. 

A single shout of a low, rumbly voice, full of promises of violence, of fire and pain and hurt and chains. Tansui felt himself freeze, unable to pull the staff out right away as he heard the heavy footsteps rushing towards him. 

‘Move. Move. Move. Move.’

A hulking, dark mass was coming towards him, followed by another.

‘Move! Move! Move!’

Finally, Tansuis fingers twitched, hand reaching for the staff - too slow, far too slow, they’d make it to him before the first spell could be cast, and he was here alone, alone, alone- 

‘Move dammit! MOVE!’

“Cover your horns kid, it’s about to get loud!”

A foreign female voice snapped him out of the fearful, frozen state - causing him to duck down, arms going over his horns as a loud twing-bang echoed from somewhere behind him. The Amal’jaa were pushed back, and Tansui let out a small sound from the back of their throat - before finally wrapping their hand around the staff, pulling it from its holster. 

Aether built around, bringing in a freezing cold - cold that Tansui launched at the first Amal’jaa that had been shot at earlier, pinning them down into the ground, encased into the ice. 

Taking a look to the side, there was a Roegadyn right next to him. Tall woman, with a wild grin and a gun. A gun she used to shoot at the other Amal’jaa, laughing all the while as the barrel turned bright red. 

Tansui focused once more towards his enemy, blood boiling even as the cold built in his scales - earlier fear turning into searing anger. 

Few more Blizzards and shots from somewhere to the left and back, and the two would-be-attacker lizardmen were downed. Tansui let out a silent, soft sigh, standing up and turning towards where the Roegadyn were - about to thank them for stepping in when they did. 

Except… they were gone.

Cameo: Wynona Starfinder by Moose-Productions

[iggyalfi2319]

Hooman: *buys an old TV post at a flea market* 📺

Friend: you know it's HD and 4k nowadays, right?

Hooman: I'm more of live action type.

Friend: I don't think I follow...

At home

*A group of Borrowers live playing an action movies in the TV box, ropes and mattress included*

Hooman: *claps and encores*

Friend: why did I ask...

[micromentality]

NB giant here! Please call me a good bean 🫘

oh duh lol

ur such a good bean !!!!

[sir-shinyrocks]

y’all I got caught shoplifting today. the guy let me off easy. it was scary though. don’t steal shit.

[smol-lucy]

Time for me to hop on this trend but WITHOUT AI 🫡

Literally It's so fun to try and draw in ghibli artstyle 🌱🌷☘️

[tsspromptmonth]

Borrower sneaks into candy bowl late Halloween night. There’s a surprise final trick or treater. The human, ready to be done for the night, dumps the entire bowl, borrower included, into the child’s bag.

Comments are on these stories:

Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29869140/chapters/73501122

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Enough to Share by @prince-rowan-of-the-forest

[gtbutterfly]

I meant to upload this a couple days ago. here's art of Sara.

[ittybluebell]

here's a snippet from chapter 4 of itty bitty brains (my izombie g/t fic)

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Atom turned to see. The regret was instantaneous.

Filling the doorway was the human bean that had trapped him. The man didn't notice Atom at first, eyes downcast as he sipped from his giant-sized teacup. Atom was frozen - he couldn't even take advantage of the bean's distraction. His legs refused to move. The instinct telling him to hide was gone. Why wasn't he running? Why couldn't he move?

Then the bean looked up.

He was so big. The distance mattered little when the human towered so monumentally larger than Atom. Atom's breath caught in his throat when those eyes locked onto him. Somehow, the doctor was even bigger than Atom remembered.

The human lowered his cup, mouth rounded in a surprised 'O' shape. "Morning," he said.

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[lemedstudent2021]

teese choasty my beloved <3

chilled greese

[iggyalfi2319]

Borrower: *"borrowing" stuff*

Bean: *about to box them*

Borrower: Hold it!

Bean: *freezes*

Borrower: *goes to Bean's phone*

Bean: Don't you dare.

Borrower: *Plays Yakety Sax*

Bean: 💢

Borrower : *bolts*

Bean: Get back here!

Bean's friend: *records while sipping coffee*

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[thedoctordanko]

I’ve leaned into my Toy Maker era of life, and back in 2022 when my wife and I were getting married I made these action figures of us.

They were the Wedding Topper to our Homemade Funfetti Cupcakes (1 of 5 different types of cupcakes and also had rainbow layers to it - it was dope and we made them all ourselves!! - but I digress.)

They were based on our bride and groom outfits so I have classified them as The Wedding Edition versions of our custom action figures.

Lately, I have been ‘toying’ around with a Casual Look version of us. We use them on our Christmas tree and displayed with our wedding photos and momentos from our relationship.

They are the best and I am glad to have made them. Not just because of the vanity of having your own action figures - it rules, btw. But it also is this wonderful expression of the love I have for my wife and our relationship over the last 9 years from knowing each other, to befriending each other, to dating each other to marrying each other.

Because I also REALLY love being a toy maker. Being a maker in general is rad. So getting to use my love to fuel love is a type of art I can get behind.

Grant Gustin’s The Flash would be so proud! (And not just because I slapped that lightning bolt logo on my Chuck Taylor’s like it was 2014).

But then, when all of those AI generated action figures started circling around - that bummed me out as a maker and reminded me of Mattel using AI art for their stuff and it made me sad - at a time when there’s already so much awful and sadness and anger already bouncing around 24/7 like a cloud of sewage just hovering over our brains.

So instead of focusing on all of that! (That’s what therapy is for) I took some brand new photos of the action figures as well as some accessories I have sculpted/printed/cobbled together and I decided to put my photoshop skills to good use to make some silly packaging.*

*Could be sillier though.

Not a real Doctor - Just Real Toys!

I call them Actual In-your-hand figures. And I can make you one!

Not of my wife and I.

I mean, maybe if it were like a collector’s edition 2-pack for our 10 year anniversary or something. You don’t even know us.

Anyways.

If YOU want YOUR very own Custom Action Figure of yourself or perhaps as a gift for a loved one - I can make that!

Accessories Included AND with real ENuff packaging!!

Just reach out to me here, Instagram, or through my website (shameful plug straight from the plug bag!):

Honestly, though making toys is a real treat and I’m just happy I get to do it at all!

So thanks for looking and tell your friends!

Or don’t. I’m not your Mum.

But thank you also for letting me ramble about my wife. I dig her a lot! 💙🧩