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[fezwearingjellybananas]

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“I was the one holding the metal chain, Cisco,” Barry said. “Iris had an indirect hit. I had a direct hit, I know I did, I remember the pain. It threw me into the chemical shelves, I’m the reason they broke, I’m the reason they got to her. So why is Iris the one in a coma, Iris the one who got hurt, and I got these.”

This fic is extremely slow to get started (I've been distracted, but I think I might go get started on a playlist, that might help), but it does start with everyone have The Worst Time and Zoom's not even been mentioned yet

Thank you!

[A🌹 for a WIP sentence]

[severeannoyance]

Where Angels Fear to Tread on Ao3 (requires login)

A galactic war… and one lost Starfleet officer desperately trying to get home!

Just finished this cover for our Trek/Wars crossover fic! I’m incredibly proud of it (and of the fic too). Plo Koon gets to adopt a lost disaster goblin and Wolffe is Unhappy (but Dooku is unhappier).

[bedlamsbard]

'safe' for the wip guessing game?

He looked like some of the soldiers Bucky had met during the war, the ones who had been fighting for so long that they couldn’t recognize when the fighting was over, still waiting for the next barrage to begin even when they were home safe, or as close to home and as close to safe as you ever got out there. 

[philcoulsonismyhero]

I've sent in many asks about OCs and I'm not going to stop: can I ask about Kevin and Jay adventures?

So 'Kevin and Jay adventures' is a doc with the current iteration of a 'verse I've been playing around with for literal years, which an urban fantasy thing set in Scotland and mostly just an excuse for me to set little stories about Magical Weird in places that I know. It's also called 'Brownies and Bogles', which I think I'm going to keep as a title (and the doc with that title is actually the one I'd been writing bits in, I got them mixed up, but whatever).

The basic gist is this: magical creatures from folklore and such exist, but people don't really notice because there's a magical perception filter of sorts. But the more you run across magical stuff, the more of it you start to notice going forward, so there's always going to be some people who end up aware of Everything, whether they like it or not. And, since I love stories about organisations that deal with weird stuff, there's an in-universe organisation I've yet to name whose job is to keep things ticking along and smooth over the complicated times when magic stuff and the human world interact a bit too closely. Their beat involves things like making sure the fairies who want to put on their own show during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival have signed all the paperwork promising not to abduct any humans at the end of it, keeping track of the kelpie population (not a job for the faint-hearted), and just generally making sure that both worlds coexist relatively peacefully. They're not exactly upholding the masquerade, more making sure that it never gets broken in Too Dramatic a fashion, and they're also the ones that deal with the fallout (a lot of which is paperwork) when it does.

Enter Kevin Merrick and Jay (currently making do without a surname), our protagonists and two employees of said organisation. Kevin is an almost hilariously normal middle-aged white bloke who likes sci-fi and Top Gear and should never have been introduced to the concept of Mythbusters, and he ran into a bunch of weird fey stuff in his 20s when he was still figuring his life out and turned out to be a very good fit for the organisation. He likes helping people, and these days that includes fairies and selkies and wulvers and all manner of other interesting folks, so he's having a great time. Oh, and one other thing about Kevin - he's aroace and he's been platonically married to his best mate Dave ever since that was legalised, and they were civil partners before that. He enjoys leveraging his Normal Middle-Aged White Bloke-ness when people are being queerphobic, he likes seeing the looks on their faces when they realise he's not on their side.

And then there's Jay, who's grumpy, queer, and about 300 years old thanks to being left on a fairy hill by parents who thought they were a changeling, and then taken in by said fairies who thought it would be really funny to send an actual changeling back in exchange for this perfectly human (and what we'd now call autistic) child. A century in a fairy hill will make anyone a bit weird, so by the time Jay got back out into the world they were immortal and gifted with the sort of shapeshifting that lets them trans their gender however they want at will, which is helpful because they turned out to be very gender weird. Jay's had a lot of identities and gotten into a lot of adventures over the last two centuries, and they've been working with the organisation (which I really need to name eventually...) on and off for decades. They've been partnered up with Kevin for a bunch of years now, and the two of them have a very entertaining odd friendship.

I'm currently thinking that their adventures would make for some fun short comics, 1-3 page kind of things even, exploring the wacky situations they get into while dealing with all sorts of magic stuff and giving me an excuse to poke at fun worldbuilding without worrying about a lot of plot. It's a lot of 'wouldn't it be amusing if' stuff centred around local folklore and places I'm fond of, but I'm sure it'll probably grow an arc plot eventually if I think about it for too long.

Here's a snippet of dialogue from the assignment that involves them visiting various castles in order to update the records on how many ghosts are currently active, one that Jay always hates because they've had to do it every five years or so for decades and have developed beef with most of the ghosts in question:

Jay: “I hate the ghost survey.”

Kevin: “You’ve said this before. Multiple times today, in fact.”

Jay, clearly not listening to him at all: “I hate the ghost survey, and you want to know why?”

Kevin: “You’re going to tell me anyway.”

Jay: “I hate the ghost survey, because do you have any idea how many Grey Ladies there are? Or Green Ladies? And don’t get me started on ghostly pipers! And then they get offended when you assign them numbers so that you can tell them apart, but oh, no, they’re not just going to give your their real names either because that would ruin their mystique and- You stopped listening a while ago, didn’t you?”

Kevin, patting them on the shoulder: “Only a wee while.”

[severeannoyance]

I care so passionately about this fun silly fic we’re doing, my dudes. I love it so much. We’ve been having so much fun. We handed Plo Koon one lost, homesick, feral-as-fuck Starfleet officer, and asked him to not let her wreck the joint, and we ended up with found family and a (slightly) better ending.

We’re having SO much fun with it and I love Chester so very much. Think somewhere between Janeway and Mariner…

Where Angels Fear To Tread

Rating: T Characters: Plo Koon, Commander Wolffe, the Jedi Council, assorted Jedi & Clone side characters, a whole bunch of OCs Chapters: 9/? Fic Contains – star warstrek crossover, a whole lotta culture clash, discussion of genocide and war and other Clone Wars-typical topics, Jedi culture/worldbuilding, and the authors playing fast and loose with both canons.

THEN: In the midst of the Clone Wars, a newly-minted Jedi Knight vanishes, suspected of defecting. But the woman brought back to face the Council is not Knight Tulin, but an officer of an extragalactic organization that calls itself ‘Starfleet’. Curiosity, and a determination to rectify the mistake, drive Plo Koon to take the lost Commander Chester under his wing. But between Republic Intelligence’s sinister interest in their extra-galactic visitor, the growing Separatist determination to capture her for themselves, and the good Commander’s own determined escape attempts, keeping Chester alive is hard enough–let alone getting her home. NOW: In the horrific wake of Order 66, a badly injured Plo Koon stakes his survival on one last desperate hyperspace jump, to a mysterious anomaly that might offer hope for him–and for what little remains of the Jedi Order. For Captain Diane Chester, Plo’s arrival is confirmation of all her fears. Now, she’s got to keep the Empire’s grubby hands off the Alpha Quadrant with only one ship, one Jedi, and that greatest Starfleet tradition–a hell of a lot of showmanship.

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sooooo a few months ago @severeannoyance and myself were yelling excitedly at each other about, respectively, star trek and star wars, and somehow this turned into inflicting our assorted blorbos on each other. Then @squireofgeekdom joined the crew, and suddenly we had approximately 150k words of narrative collision.

I have been meaning to post this link for like six weeks and I kept forgetting skjhgjdhf

[squireofgeekdom]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Paradise (TV 2025) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Cal Bradford/Xavier Collins Characters: Cal Bradford Additional Tags: Spoilers through S01E07, POV Cal Bradford, One-sided Cal Bradford/Xavier Collins, at least as far as Cal's pov is concerned, he thinks it's one sided. the truth is left as an exercise for the reader., Unreliable Narrator, Self-Loathing, Suicidal Thoughts, Canonical Character Death, canon compliant at least until the finale drops Summary:

He knows, knows there’s a chance that Xavier is wrong, a chance he could ask his wife - ask Teri if she would have wanted to name their son James if the book had been James and the Giant Cherry, could ask her anything, could tell her - anything. He could tell him.

Why don’t you tell him?

Why didn't you tell him?

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this show and episode 7 in particular very abruptly and unexpectedly made me lose approximately all of my beans and be consumed by writing this all weekend. now it lives. apologies to all my other wips XD

[sandmanalone]

Thanks for tagging me @aidanchaser !

4 non-selfie photos:

1. Pretty blossoms in my neighborhood!

2. The first buds on a tree in our backyard, and a bonus Ladybird

3. Dice from the last session of the USS Interpreter crew shenanigans, where I kept rolling badly and got a very cool alien princess killed 🥲 and then switched to another die and immediately started rolling better

4. Abstract studies in the sketchbook!

Tagging @heliager @squireofgeekdom @super-tired-robot @the-hellscythe-cat @benpaddon just for fun. No pressure as always tho!

[vexic929]

Andy Mientus's facial expressions are such a journey in the scene where EoWells confronts Hartley in the accelerator, don't mind me while I hyperanalyze every detail (thank you @squireofgeekdom for posting that glorious gif set) but-

first we have THIS right, that firm press of his lips he starts the scene looking almost like he wants to cry but is holding himself back THEN

you can literally see how much he WANTED EoWells to own up to it, to explain it away, to actually make it make sense

he's hurt, he's disappointed, he's heartbroken, and he's disgusted but also he's in disbelief, his lover idol/hero is finally showing his true colors and he's made the decision that he has to go against him for the good of everyone (attempted Flash murder notwithstanding Hartley is really a good person but I could go on about that in a separate post)

but then

his face falls SO fast, he pivots from fury to fear in an instant, that's a man who has been betrayed before and knows exactly how bad it can go for him when he doesn't fall in line, he's not scared of the big burly security men, he's scared of another person destroying his life (and I would be willing to bet those wounds are still fresh, he's only just managed to pick himself back up from having his life torn apart before and EoWells knows it)

anyway The Flash has a cast of some of the best actors and I'm so mad they didn't use Andy more he's SO talented

[kandisheek]

FIC REC WEEK 34 – TONY AND THE BOTS

MASTERPOST

Here are all the fics I recommended this week. If you want to see my actual review of these fics, the posts are all linked as well. Please enjoy, and remember to leave comments and kudos!

MON: long fic (50k+)

The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation by scifigrl47

TUE: mid-length fics (15-50k)

The Butterfingers G. D. I. Stark Guide to Problem Solving by Epiphanyx7

Bedtime Stories and Nightmares by scifigrl47

An Unexpected Reunion by Sara (ctrsara)

WED: series (with 3+ fics)

Best Bot Dum-E: Series by rebelmeg

THU: long fic (50k+)

Forgotten, but Not Forgiven by Shi_Toyu

FRI: short fics (>15k)

Run Program: DUM-E by Amuly

Arms And The Man by copperbadge

The Multidimensional Oven by withasideofangst

Silver Linings by incarus_chained

Rom-Commed By Fate (Or JARVIS) by leashy_bebes

SAT: author spotlight

Del_Rion

Spam Bot Call Me by Another Name The Unfortunate Burglary The Halloween Spectacle Evolution of Warfare

SUN: short fics (>15k)

Toasters by squireofgeekdom

Just Apply STE-V by LBibliophile

The Innocence of Weapons by riani1

Dummy Likes Bruce Best (That's Okay, So Does Tony) by celtic7irish

Mimily, Pefzr, and Welcome Home: A Learning Curve by LearnedFoot

[highlyillogicalandroid]

@squireofgeekdom and @timetravelbypen both tagged me in the "pick a favorite character" poll thingy, so here we go! I think it was originally 5 characters but I do what I want.

I shall tag @elephant-in-the-pride-parade, @existentialbogwitch, and @adarkroomandawallflower (and anyone else who wants to participate)!

[fezwearingjellybananas]

for the fake title game, going with lyrics to a song off the miles morales game soundtrack, but one that i think could work well in a flash fandom context? 'i've got family for miles / running up the mileage'

That does work so well for a Flash fic. This one would probably be just post Williamson's Flash run

Wallace West didn't exist before Flashpoint. His uncle is actually his father and now dead, his mother's gone, and now there are all these people who have all this history and know each other so well, and Wallace-

They don't know him. He doesn't know them. He doesn't know where he fits.

But he has Aunt Iris, and Avery, and Barry.

They'll figure it out.

Together.

[Fake title for a fake summary]

[bedlamsbard]

Trick or treat! 🎃

You get...the alternate version of a scene from Better in the Morning! Marked in my files as coming from Chapter 4.

Now

“Well, this is all…awful,” Loki said to no one in particular.  Rather than attempt to join in the argument Odin and Frigga were having he sat down against the wall instead, pulling his knees up in front of him.  It wasn’t that he had nothing to contribute; it was just that at this point all he wanted to do was find somewhere quiet and scream for a while, but since that wasn’t an option he was going to have to settle for getting out of the way.  Maybe it would make his parents think he was a child; at the moment, he didn’t care.

Predictably, Thor immediately came over to sit down next to him.

“Go away,” Loki told him.

Thor shook his head. “There’s not exactly anywhere to go.”

“There’s the other end of the hallway.”

“Don’t be like that.”

Loki rubbed at his forehead. “I’ve had a very long day, Thor,” he said. “And any moment now the TVA’s goons will probably turn up again and we’ll both have to get up and fight for our lives, so I would just like to take a moment to sit here and pretend that our parents ��� or rather, our mother, from your past and my future, and your father from a different timeline entirely – aren’t arguing about whatever they’ve moved onto arguing about now, and that our genocidal big sister whom our father kept secret from us our entire lives isn’t here either.”  He thought about what he had said, then corrected himself, “Your father.”

“Not either of our fathers, apparently,” Thor said after a moment’s thought.  He frowned.  “That grammar doesn’t sound right.”

“Ugh.”  Loki let his head fall back against the wall.  It felt oddly warm, but he didn’t have the energy to investigate why; it was also entirely possible he was still mildly concussed from the Hulk, even though concussions didn’t typically last this long for Asgardians. “I hate this.”

“Me too.”

Thor was quiet for long enough that Loki shut his eyes again and was halfway to drifting off to sleep – he wasn’t making any attempt to listen to what Odin and Frigga were saying to each other, and the familiar sound of their voices was hypnotic – when Thor said abruptly, “I need to ask you something.”

“I really don’t think you need to,” Loki said, cracking open one eye.

“It’s about Thanos.”

[philcoulsonismyhero]

The OC hoard in my brain is getting a little bit ridiculous and I keep bouncing between thinking about all of them in an endless loop, so here's a thinking-out-loud list in an attempt to quantify just how many of these guys I've got at this point:

DnD folks, various - Arren Conall, Sam Harnendil, Benjamin Larkwright, Arthur Fenn, Cor Fenn, Theron Adeshola, Phillip Larkwright, and a druid, a monk and a ranger who don't have names yet

The whole unnamed NPC gang from the Sam comic - Dwarf Doctor, Orc Doctor, Human Doctor, Human Nurse, Halfling Nurse, Elf Nurse, Human Orderly, plus Tarrick Shar who does have a name, and also various bit part patients and soldiers

Science fantasy setting - Willa Stonehold, Sam Hargrave, Maisie Kennard, Polly, Orrin, Barnaby, etc.

Arcane vibes setting - Jay (also technically a DnD guy, just setting-incompatible with the others), Wrenn, unnamed Science Girl

Ewan and William, aka the Woodsman and the Wolf Traveller (who also have DnD alternate selves)

Detectives etc. - George Glen, Tim Kingswood, Naomi Edusei, Chris Sharpe, Ellie Glen, The Usual Suspect (a cat), half a dozen as-yet unnamed minor characters

Red Shift Blue Shift (joint custody with @yourfriendlyneighborhoodenby) - Dan Gibson, Peregrine, Max Mwangi-ZQ82WX1, Georgie Toa, Cobi, Bob, [redacted], Kamari, Patch, Hector Cardenas, Chanda Ghahramani, etc.

Vaguely Discworld setting - Arren Conall again, Xi, Dwarf Pathologist, Dr Werewolf (possibly an alternate Tarrick Shar?), Kid Werewolf, Shadow Powers Woman, Hamish

Space hero thing - Charlie, Vesper

Other space thing - Alastair Hayashi, Charlie Charleston (different Charlie), Anwara Siddiq, Flynn Turnbull, Bird Alien Scientist, many other secondary folks that would take too long to list

Wizard of Oz-ish thing - robot soldier, bird scout, wizard

Werewolf detective duo

RWBY OCs (joint custody with @squireofgeekdom) - Resca Merlo, Otto Cairn, Niol Savannah, Hugh, Dot

And also many and various half thought out character concepts created by mashing other folks together, plus like half a dozen other iterations of Sam who tends to get everywhere

That's. More than 50 with names and at least 20 who don't have names yet but exist as pretty solid concepts, which is. Silly.

Don't get into original fiction, folks, it goes and gets into you and suddenly your brain is full of 70-odd people all clamouring for attention.

[plokoonsdisapprovingeyebrows]

Rating: T Characters: Plo Koon, Commander Wolffe, the Jedi Council, assorted Jedi & Clone side characters, a whole bunch of OCs Chapters: 27/? Fic Contains – star warstrek crossover, a whole lotta culture clash, discussion of genocide and war and other Clone Wars-typical topics, Jedi culture/worldbuilding, and the authors playing fast and loose with both canons.

THEN: In the midst of the Clone Wars, a newly-minted Jedi Knight vanishes, suspected of defecting. But the woman brought back to face the Council is not Knight Tulin, but an officer of an extragalactic organization that calls itself ‘Starfleet’. Curiosity, and a determination to rectify the mistake, drive Plo Koon to take the lost Commander Chester under his wing. But between Republic Intelligence’s sinister interest in their extra-galactic visitor, the growing Separatist determination to capture her for themselves, and the good Commander’s own determined escape attempts, keeping Chester alive is hard enough–let alone getting her home. NOW: In the horrific wake of Order 66, a badly injured Plo Koon stakes his survival on one last desperate hyperspace jump, to a mysterious anomaly that might offer hope for him–and for what little remains of the Jedi Order. For Captain Diane Chester, Plo’s arrival is confirmation of all her fears. Now, she’s got to keep the Empire’s grubby hands off the Alpha Quadrant with only one ship, one Jedi, and that greatest Starfleet tradition–a hell of a lot of showmanship.

...

In today's update, Chester makes it back to Coruscant, the Jedi Council takes stock of recent events, Lingo and Joyride discover the joys of Shopping, and Count Dooku very slightly rethinks the advisability of becoming Palpatine's cringefail apprentice...

[raemanzu]

So... I've been basically off tumblr for probably the longest I ever have since I joined in 2011.. lol...

Which is to say, 2-3 months, I think?

Long enough to realize that most of what I missed about tumblr was just a handful of people. So I came back and unfollowed most of the blogs I follow, keeping only my favs. Started working backwards through one of them and it felt really nice.

Life as a working person who's also doing an accelerated online masters program is making it very important for me to manage my time better and also my mental/emotional bandwidth. When I'm not at work wrangling little feral humans or slogging through special education textbooks I'm exercising (weights) 3 times a week and trying to get a garden going with my partner, and the rest of my time goes to RPing blorbos, for morale.

But this week I made bread, twice.

I used to post a lot more random art and personal updates on here, once upon a time, and my favorite blogs/tumblr friends are the ones that still do that, so I think maybe I should try to do simple stuff on here more, not just reblogging stuff... maybe it would help me feel more like a person while using this online space. I'm missing a feeling of community lately.

If you tagged or messaged me anything between now and March I probably missed it, I am lost in the homework anxiety vortex. I know I was tagged in at least one WIP game but I haven't done any creative writing lately, alas! Only a little drawing, and I'm torn on whether to upload it anywhere because of the AI "art" problem.

anyway shout out to @astriiformes, @tearlessrain, @squireofgeekdom, and @neil-gaiman, the main reasons I got back on tumblr tonight xD