#hijinks ensue

[spotted-owl-sketches]

Day 28 friends

In which Volo accidentally kidnapped adopted by the wolf pack. If you want a nonsense au this is it baby. Why have one faller protag when you can have four! Now start howling, pretty boy

[ap0llx]

anastasia but its a real con this time

[stars-n-spice]

Ok but-

Modern AU where Tech and Cross do drag racing on the side.

They mean two very different things.

[balestrra]

Ignore the super unfinished bg of jet yelling at scourge (phantom and slinks r their au names)

[unforth]

@esper-aroon has enabled me, so here let me scream at y'all about The Imperial Uncle.

Okay, so I recently read The Imperial Uncle (Huang Shu) by Da Feng Gua Guo from Peach Flower House and I really loved it??? It's first person pov, mlm, about the Emperor's uncle Jing Chengjun, who is mistrusted by everyone simply because of who his parents were and his position, and so he's basically given up on trying to convince people that he's actually a nice, decent person without ulterior motives. He's super trapped by his position, and there's so much he can't say and do, and he's also a hopeless romantic, like, from his own mouth all he really wants is to sleep beside and wake up next to someone who actually gives a shit about him, and even that is basically out of reach in his life. Like, the book starts with his wife (who he has never once had sex with) storming into a meeting he's having and announcing he's a cuckold and she's pregnant.

But also, this poor bastard really thinks he knows what's going on and his very smart. Very unreliable narrator. He's actually kinda a hilarious, impulsive himbo. But the TL:DR is that his loneliness and isolation and the extent to which he's politically trapped routinely lead him to make absolutely terrible decisions.

E. Danglar's translation is absolutely gorgeous, too, and... idk, if you love political plots, melodramatic idiot main characters, a dose of pining, and a slow burn that eventually pays off, come take a look??? (some people think it's a love triangle??? idk, I never really got that vibe, I never felt it was really in doubt which of the two potential dudes he'd end up with, but maybe I only feel that way because I got it right, lmao).

Anyway, I can't stop thinking about how these two idiots end up finally finding each other and getting together, and I have an entire AU in my head (a modern corporate one) and part of another (canon divergent from like a decade before the book starts), and I just want people to love this book as much as I did and scream with me about it.

[frankenjoly]

anyway sskk crack concept where bram tries to be aku's wingman partly as a reward partly like "this is getting painful to watch" but he has: 0 knowledge about modern-day dating

[local-maenad]

Not to post Marvel for the first time in two years. But I just had possibly the funniest idea of Frank being tutored by Peter in Biology.

[armadillorollup]

House M.D.

[lemongrablothbrok]

Hehe hey remember that brief period in time when Mike Nesmith (The Monkees' lead guitarist and resident asshole) looked almost identical to Jimmy Page (who was not yet but would be Led Zeppelin's lead guitarist and resident asshole. I mean, a bigger asshole than the other members. Which I can't really say for The Yardbirds which was his band at the time, lest we forget Eric Clapton, who is/was at least as much of an asshole as Page, is also an alumnus of The Yardbirds. Anyway)? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Anyway, a few key differences between these two control freak stick figures of undeniable talent but dubious likeability: Mike Nesmith could actually drive (and with proficiency) a car as well as a motorcycle (as well as -- I believe -- an airplane?) and punch a hole clear through drywall (true story), whereas Mister Black Magick on the other hand didn't (and still doesn't? Not sure?) have a driver's license, was not reasonably safe on a motorcycle even as a passenger (true story), and any attempt to do bare-knuckled physical damage to the structural integrity of a building would probably result in Jimmy looking like this:

Thank you for coming to my "How to Tell the Difference Between the Lanky Raven Haired Lead Guitarist Douchebags in lemongrablothbrok's Favorite Late '60s/early '70s Pop/Rock Quartets Where There's Two Capricorns and One is Some Cute Lil Guy Named Jones and the Other One is This Bitch Right Here" TED Talk. I forget why I did it in the first place, I think I was bored. And because comparing and contrasting arbitrary shit is my jam.

Also a couple months ago I had this dream that Led Zeppelin had their own TV show like The Monkees except it was them. Which would have been fucking wild. I blame those charmingly domestic indoor shots from the Chateau Marmont photoshoot for planting such zany ideas in my subconscious.

[beentobeetle]

Best wingman around

[houndsoflxve]

i posted the same thing on twitter, but i know that tumblr has more people who share the same kind of madness as me and will understand my vision better:

an AU fanfic in which Loustat has not just one daughter, but twins, one based on Bailey!Claudia and the other on Delainey!Claudia.

[fukinkitty]

maria and alice

[team--charlotte]

finally finishing night court and dreaming of an incredibly niche crossover between it and the hookers sketches from kids in the hall

[grandapplewit]

I love writing sequels to fanfics I haven’t written yet. So fun and saucy. Oh, what’s the context for this? No fucking clue. Next question.

[sweaters-and-silly]

Buck’s scrunched up face is what I live for. He’s so funny here.

[quitedisastrous]

already thinking about the obligatory "ok but what if the protagonist was evil" au for my (checks notes) 6 day old story. fascinating