aka I did it, I finally drew fanart for this beautiful behemoth of a fic!! come read it here, for a bad time call simon blackquill by nerdyskeleton
transcript under cut
Comic art is drawn to correspond with the events of the ad posted in the fic as follows:
“Do you hate your family? I want to hate them too!
I’m a 29 year old ex-convict (didn’t actually kill anyone, don’t worry) who probably hates your family and probably doesn’t have anything to do but terrorize them. I will be your platonic date to a stupid family dinner or gathering for one (1) night/event.
I work at a noodle place and will get buckwheat flour all over your family members, if you ask me to. I will also make fun of you and your family members, because that’s all I do in general anyway. Other services include telling scary prison stories, threatening to show any possible prison scars, pretending to get very drunk, hitting on a different family member, or hitting a family member. May be convinced to propose to you in front of your family members, too.
Feed me and maybe give me $30?”
This cuts into the next scene, which is mid phone call with Simon and Nahyuta. This is lifted directly from the fic, with talking tags added below where it may not be clear without context.
“I will pay you. More than what the ad said.” [Nahyuta told him.]
“How much?” Simon asked. If it was a big enough sum, it might be worth it to spend a few agonizing hours with this man and his shitty family.
“$200. I’ll make it $300 if you bring flour to get all over my brat of a little sister. The ad said that you would do that.”
Ye gods, if this right bastard of a man thought that his little sister was a brat she must be terrible.
“Will you do it now?”
“…Fine.”
“Excellent. That’s what I thought your answer would be in the end, Simon. What’s your full name?”
“Simon Blackquill,” he ground out.
“And I’m Nahyuta Sahdmadhi. Can you promise to be as insufferable to the rest of my family and friends as you have been to me?”
i laughed really hard at so many moments in watching and dreaming but i think my FAVORITE was when luz was like "it'll be so nice to see them again..... 🥺 after all this time...... 😔😢☹️" and camila's like "mija 😒 you saw them last week 🤨" FIDJDJJDBDBDB the toh writers were like "FUCK every story where the found family breaks up at ALL at the end. these kids have been cuddle puddling with movies at least once a week for five straight years and theres NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT"
I love tunnel vision Ian (and mickey) it really is true 😂 it’s like “who what where” if the other is in their presence and you’re trying to converse with them.
look. you said this and i............ i got carried away okay? here. have this.
jams lmao i looked at your reblog of my post and tumblr is like ‘oh you like ofmd? you like ed teach? you like that one gif of taika waititi in the ed teach costume? WELL JAMS HAS REBLOGGED IT ONCE OR TWICE’
it’s like having your pornhub history put on blast. tumblr needs to stop exposing me like this or it needs to make an incognito mode
this is very important are you a chasing cars person or the man who can't be moved person. (in other words i absolutely adore your character playlists and your narcissa black one has me frothing at the mouth)
Jesus Christ. This is like the Mortal Kombat of Irish sadrock. Okay.
When you put Gary Lightbody in a contest against someone who's not Gary Lightbody (co-author of "The Last Time" ft. Taylor Swift a.k.a. Movement 1 of the "let's ruin GT's fucking evening" Swift quartet) then there's only so many things I can say. I like the Script. But who's their Gary Lightbody? Gary fucking Lightbody? A songwriter inspired by the poetry of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney? A professional musician who said THIS about his technical abilities?
TLDR: "Chasing Cars" made me cry when I was a teenager and watching shitty fanvids in bed. And it still hits.