#yes I am the meme sharing professor

[rorygilmoreclown]

Kuroo x Desi!reader

Request: Kuroo with a poc/ south Asian exchange student in college. Smart witty mathematics major. (NSFW or SFW) Request by: @thefuckwasmyname

A/n: This is a grammatical abomination in terms of punctuations amongst other things. Also, is “ofcourse” an indian word of sort? Because autocorrect throws a fit and always denies that this word exists. Edit: got the error, dw I fixed it, of course.

Note: Italics are the dialogues. First dialogue is always Kuroo’s.

Word count: 1.1k

New student in the middle of the semester. You couldn’t go ignored at all. Specifically by a certain topper of the class.

Afterall you put his sport scholarship at risk. How could he ignore you.

So when that one common course came along, he saw this as an opportunity.

To flirt with you.

Because in his head, it wasn't the curiosity of seeing pretty little earrings or the little dot between your eyebrows or that pretty smile that attracted him to you; it was the fact that he wanted to win. Or maybe both.

Graciously failed to flirt as soon as he saw what you were working on.

The complex problem that your professor had assigned. THE COMPLEX PROBLEM. One which, even he, could not solve.

No matter how many times he tried to derivate. But you, were nearing the answer. That’s just not acceptable now is it.

So, now he had to distract you, the stakes were higher.

So when he saw the chance, he started the debate with you. To try and prove you wrong.

“Chain rule”

“Product rule”

“Chain rule”

“Product rule”

“Chain rule”

It was in fact the chain rule. And you were in fact right. Kuroo just didn’t want to admit it.

(Read the note before this pls)

“You are wrong you know.”

“No I am not. It is solvable by only chain rule.”

“Okay, let me convince you? I have a free lecture post lunch and before practice. “

“You could try. You will be wrong. “

That’s how your first date went. Him trying to convince him that he is right and you just sitting there trying to show him the solved version.

It became a routine of sort.

Him bringing you questions and then starting debates over them. Which turned into you sharing the questions you couldn’t solve as well

Eventually, just that one lecture was not enough to be debating over problems of all things.

So you took over each other’s lunches as well.

That’s when Kuroo discovered, your cooking

Let’s just say, for his stomach and his heart, there was no going back.

Achar from the side tiffin, getting over quicker than it was before. You reciprocated of course.

He had to buy pocky more often now.

I saw this math meme yesterday

Show

No

Huh

No

Why’d you tell me then?

Give your number, it’s a visually funny one

Or you could just show it to me from your phone

No

Fine, give your phone here

That’s how he took down your number.

A lot of stolen ladoos later….

Texting you things other than just problems started to make sense now.

His favourite being texting you indian food content he finds.

Yours being sending him kitten content in order to influence him into keeping one.

You see, your rental doesn’t allow pets. But his does.

And you had found the most adorable black cat near the campus.

He gives in in a couple of days yes. Afterall, he was the Nekoma captain.

So you both go shopping for the cat.

You see, despite being a cat person, Kuroo didn’t really know a lot about them. So you were there to help the cat out.

Not for anything else obviously.

They are as a matter of fact, allergic to milk

No, they are not. Back home I used to feed the stray cats milk and water

You didn’t know any better. I do.

No

Yes

No

Yes

I’ll google it

Go ahead

Ha!

What

They are only allergic to cow milk. Not buffalo milk.

Okay what?!

Yes, look

Next debate of yours came with the flavour of the cat food

The vet’s always suggest to start out with the chicken or ocean flavours

The salmon one looks better

Don't be stubborn on this one.

I will be.

Fine, I’ll give Kenma a call, he has cats.

Okay you do that.

Much to your dismay, Kenma suggested to start out with the ocean flavour.

Then much to your cashier’s dismay, his calculator broke down.

You could say that the cashier wanted to do the same.

Its 2080 yen

No, it’s 2210 yen

He said it’s on 20% discount didn’t he

No he said 15%

The cashier had said 10. The cashier himself spoke.

So it’s 2340!

Both of you claimed at the same time.

Did you finish the assignment yet?

You rolled your eyes at his text.

No, I’m on it

Okay, send it once you are done

No

Please

Okay, what will I get in return

A date

With who

With me obviously

No

You dare reject my advances

Fine, I’ll send it

Thankyou. Now that’s more like it

Stop being an asshole, doesn’t suit you

It suits me about 70%

We talked about this Kuroo

Yes we did

It was 20%

No

If it couldn’t get any better, you were also good at chemistry, but decided to drop it due to excess course load.

So it didn’t surprise Kuroo when you could correct his assignment and tell him that he had attempted a 10 marker incorrectly.

You had a fight about it for a while, but he did end up agreeing that it was D-erythrose and not D-threose.

(for context these molecules have similar structure, but not exactly the same)

Once this happened. Kuroo was no longer kidding himself.

He finally admitted to himself that he indeed does like you a lot more than he had planned and also the fact that you were better at math

So when he finally decided to confess, it wasn’t surprising to him and you either.

You had noticed the long stares, the teasing behind the red ears of his.

Because you were doing the same of course.

But Kuroo being Kuroo, decided to be extra about it.

He decided that the best way to confess to you would be to spell out your name and the confession as functions

Spent literal days on it

Even asked you to graph a few small things.

Didn’t tell you what of course, but you anyways helped him.

After he showed it to you, you literally got up and left.

Didn’t even say a word.

Left the poor guy hanging.

Well, he just justified it in his brain that he had miscalculated your actions as liking him back.

He decided to save himself the future embarrassments and never to talk to you again.

Gave up on the idea of him liking anyone else ever again

Lost the meaning of life.

Caved into depression.

All this in the span of 4 minutes 33 seconds that you were gone.

You came back with a “I feel the same” text on the graph as functions for his confession.

Boy lit up.

Deflated again

How’d you manage this within 4 minutes?

You just laughed.

[mc-glare-is-king]

Funny Out of Context Quotes From My Friend Group’s Discord Server

(I say out of context but some of them have a little context lmao- also this is just for funsies bc i love my friends & our chaotic groupchat)

(idk if my friends have tumblr but if they do- you didn’t see this)

“Also, [insert professors name] is a whore for not just posting our grades online and that’s on god”

“he’s dead💀 sleep well!”

A note I had in the rough draft of a paper for my art class that I shared with my friends:

“I just finished my conclusion, but I keep thinking about how I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to describe the painting or not and it’s like almost 11PM so I don’t want to bother you but also my brain has low key melted and is officially done for the night so I just wrote this paragraph and you can either say yes to the dress or throw this page to the sharks or something.”

And the following response:

“SAY YES TO THE DRESS😭”

“Idk but like kill it girlie KSDFHSJD”

“The pug is on the BRINK of death🥰”

“friggin snappychat whatchamacallit and all y’all youngsters smh”

^ and the “LMAO GRANDPA PLEASE” in response^

“GET UR DIRTY LIPS AWAY”

“SIN COSINE TANGENT HELP”

“u signed with the turkin grease???”

“Can I take over your Brian?” (brain lmao)

“My Brian ??? Sure u can have him he’s not good at his job anyways”

“Wait will he give me your dyslexia”

I would email [insert professors name] like “hey how do I do this one thing on adobe” and he’ll be like “you literally took my graphics class” and then he’ll turn into that Dance Moms meme where Abby Miller is like “HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING, JOJO”

-And he’s like “GO TO LAVA LAMP YOUTUBE”

“im lesking [friends name] im leaking”

I would say that to them and they’d probably go “lmao get good, we’re the American education system, you stupid little bitch”

my friend referred to my anxiety, adhd, & depression as “um… illnesses” one time and i thought it was funny

“i deal with [friends name] on a daily basis and her fards stank bro” (in response to me saying how much I appreciate them dealing w/ my daily weekly breakdowns lmao)

\/ \/ speaking of my breakdowns👀 \/ \/

ITS GONNA BE WHEN I ULTIMATELY WORK MYSELF UP ABOUT THIS PROJECT SO MUCH THAT I BURN MYSELD OUT AND END UP FEELING LIKE IM A FAILURE WHOS DISAPPOINTING EVERYONE

…

ahahaha anyways-

how is everyone else’s day going lmao

“[professors name] really said “I want you to have fun w this project” but followed it up with “but also it needs to be the best piece you’ve ever given me” as if that wouldn’t stress me out💀”

“HEY💢‼️‼️GIRL🙋‍♀️‼️🚺My name is TSUKASA TENMA🦄I💆‍♂️🗣AM👍👍STAR‼️⭐️🌟I👁AM🌎FUTURE STAR DANCE🗣🗣‼️‼️‼️💃🕺💃🕺AND‼️‼️🆒➕SING‼️🗣🗣🎙”

“I’ll beat his head into the dirt” (in response to my lil brother making fun of part of an art project I was working on)

“Do I need to put your dad on my parents hitlist😭”

[dazz-linglight]

OMG ANOTHER ONLY B?!?!

Hey, HI 👋 I'm Rain. She/they. Nice to meet you.

I am appalled by the lack of content for Just B. Can you write something, literally anything with Geonu please!?!? He is my top bias of all time and my brain runs wild for him.

(Hii Rain, and yes! I plan to post a lot for Just B this year <3 love them)

(decided to do college lovers for him, hope you enjoy <3)

(happy birthday for him!!!)

Keep Driving

Starting your first week in college surely made you nervous, but everything felt easier when you met him. Lee Geonu. Sharing most of your classes with him during the week you noticed that he isn't the stereotypical popular guy like some others. He is sweet, so intelligent and bright, smiles a lot and seems very loyal and careful to his friends. You don't have the courage to approach him to talk but the two of you exchange a few glances through the day.

In the next week you find out he's working part time at the cafeteria in front of the university and you make it a habit of going there after classes to get coffee. You're aware that you are developing a crush on him but you guess but there's never really a thought that you have a chance to actually go out with him since he's a young and handsome guy and probably could have eyes on someone else already.

You get the opportunity to talk to him when the professor announces the first group activity for a class. Surprisigly, Geonu was the one to come over to you to ask if you wanted to be a part of his group for the activity and you accepted it, receiving a bright smile of his. "Oh god, I'm fucked over this guy." You think while smiling back, trying not make it obvious how much you freaking out inside. You move to sit with him and other colleagues to plan the activity and everyone agrees to have Geonu as the leader since he showed bigger interest.

The week go by, the acitivty is done and you developed some kind of proximity with Geonu, he started sitting next to you for all the classes you had together and weeks turn into months and you slowly notice that he always laughs at your jokes, looks at you like you're the most interesting person in the room and smiles when he sees you walk in the cafeteria he works in and how he's always sharing silly memes with you.

You're not sure what's going on, until you do. That feeling happens in a flash: You're in love with him. And there's a small impression that he's in love with you too. All your friends already noticed how you two interact differently, the longing stares, the subtle touches. Everybody silently waiting for the day you would appear holding hands.

He caught you off-guard one day when he had to leave early from class and patted your head leaning in to your ear and said:

"Bye darling, when you're going home text me, okay? I need to know if you're safe." You just nodded and said a quick bye, not trusting yourself to say more because your stomach was full of butterflies and right before he left he gave you a kiss on the forehead, not staying to see your jaw drop to the floor.  After the shock passed you finally decided you had to confess. The semester was close to ending and you didn't want to hide your feelings and risk losing him anymore, so you did as he asked and sent a message later.

You: I'm going home now. Are you free after work?

Him: yeah, wanna go out?

You: yes.

Him: oki. Pick u up at 6.

You read his last message and feel your heart beaating faster. The hours pass and you get ready until he arrives on his car, sending you a message to come out. When you do, he opens the passenger door for you to get in and show that smile the makes you weak again as you sit and close the door.

"Hello, beautiful lady" He sweet talked and you could barely move, speak, breath for a moment, feeling the tension of being so close to him in a small space. He felt it too as he started the car and left the neighboorhood you live in.

"There's something I want to tell you, Geonu." You talk in a low tone as if the windows would break if you were louder, breathing in slowly and looking over to his side profile.

"Me too, _____." He locks eyes with you shortly before getting his attention back on the street ahead. His voice stays calm, you instantly feel a gentle breeze of air sending shivers all over your body. "I don't want to be your friend anymore." Your breath hitches as you take him his words.

"Don't get me wrong, it's just.. I want to be more than a friend to you." He stops by the red light and turns to look fully at you. He tucks a stand of hair behind your ear and brings your forehead to his softly. "There's not a day I don't think about you since we met."

"Thank you.. I was afraid I was the only one to feel like that.." He felt your trembling hand meet his, intertwining fingers on his lap since he had to go back to driving.

That night he took you for dinner, you both talked about your feelings and everything you felt towards each other, filling the table with sweet nothings and officially marking the first day of your new relantionship status. The next day in college you were glued to each other, Geonu making sure to announce to your friends that you were dating.

"FINALLY!" You heard the chant and all of them shwed happiness with the news.

[findroleplay]

Hello! I’m a 21+ writer looking for Loki/Mobius from Loki 👀 I’m keen to play Mobius.

I am advanced-literate and write multi-paragraph to novella style replies, usually longer for things like starters and transitional scenes and shorter on dialogue heavy replies. I am an Active partner at the moment and only looking for the same.

I love slow burn stories and enjoy angst a lot. I’m good with action, darker themes and themes such as mpreg but also fluff. I have no limits so throw anything my way. Let’s discuss some of the themes that could come up in advance. I am happy to write side characters and explore relationships outside of the main pairing as I have a lot of love for the other characters in these fandoms. I’m good with OOC conversations, for plotting and such, like sharing memes and photos and just buzzing together over the story!

Like and I’ll hit you up OR, even better, DM me. Please, please send me a decent introduction too as as I love nothing better than having a partner there with their info and their thoughts from the get-go. We want to write together so show me that, please? I likely won’t reply to a ‘yes i’m interested in ____’ type reply. ❤️

My idea for them is as follows

• Messing with the timeline slightly, what if Mobius was sent back to the moment of his abduction by the TVA? And in classic Loki style, what if he decided that the sane thing to do was stalk Mobius on Earth. I’m picturing Professor Mobius? I’m also definitely picturing single-dad Mobius because of how good he was with the kid at the church.

• Anyway. Loki figures he’ll watch for a few days. Check Mobius is happy. Flash forward to a week later and he’s getting a member of the faculty fired, framing himself as a substitute and introducing himself to Mobius at work.

• Office romance, re-falling in love, slow burn… all leading to angst when the TVA inevitably reappears and suddenly Loki and Mobius find themselves on the run (with a toddler). Perhaps they end up on Asgard? We can tweak the timeline all we want.

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[quetozcoatl]

For the fanfic game: B, F, and R!

Original ask meme here, feel free to send me a letter!

B: Any of your stories inspired by  personal experience?

One of my old RWBY fics is me angsting about my neurodivergency via the lens of Professor Ozpin. NGL, I'm considering deleting it, it's... embarassing, and not my best work.

On top of that, the backstory for one of my WoW OCs was based on, for lack of a better term, my daddy issues. It's a fucking cringe backstory and it just turned melodramatic and I'm so glad I reworked it.

But for a more light-hearted response, it's a fic I'd like to write. When I was young, one of my teeth was loose. I complained about it to my older brothers, and one of them responded with: "Oh, your new tooth is going to grow into a vampire tooth" ...or something along those lines. Knowing my younger self, she was terrified and probably cried.

I think it's a perfect concept for Klint and Barok van Zieks!

F: Share a snippet from one of  your favorite dialogue scenes  you've written and explain why  you're proud of it.

As much as I want to post a snippet from my roleplaying on WoW, I won't, because it will require a paragraph of lore-dumping, which I am prone to do at a moments notice, just read any of my AU fics.

I have a LOT of WIPs, and some of them do have dialogue I quite enjoy. However, one of them just takes the cake: it's from an AU inspired by Baldur's Gate 3 (a very good game!) and tried to work within the canon of Dungeons and Dragons. In it, Klint is a bard of eloquence, rather than a ranger. I decided to make Balmung his stuffed hell-hound that Mama van Zieks made for him and he cherishes deeply, and my favorite dialogue is Klint talking to that Balmung:

”What was I thinking, Balmung?!“ No one would hear him, he had wards specially installed to prevent that. In here, he was free to talk how loud he wanted to an inanimate object, and no one to judge him for it, either! “Acting like some sort of seductress, touching her with my bare hands!” He gives Balmung a squeeze. “I don't want to be a harlot, and, I must have frightened her terribly with these talons of mine.”

This too, which happens some lines later:

“Hells!” He snatches his head back in. “Can you believe this, Balmung?” The dog did not respond, on account of being just a stuffed animal.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?

First off, Guillermo del Toro. He is one of my idols and I look up to his storytelling a lot. I love that he does not sacrifice color to tell dark stories, and that his works have taught me to accept that I'll write what I want! Another one is Zack Morrison who writes and draws the webcomic Paranatural, which I have kept up with since high school. They made the swap to a blend of writing and art sometime in 2021, and the descriptiveness and cleverness of the writing has made my jaw drop.

Next, Another one is Eiichiro Oda. That man can casually reference something he wrote hundreds of chapters ago, and no matter how crazy things get, it feels perfectly plausible within the world of One Piece. But unfortunately it's come at a cost due to him being a mangaka, and I must stress the importance of taking care of yourself before anything else.

These two are well-known for their diverse cast of characters, and Zack Morrison does little, but effective things to make the characters stand out even more in the mixed setting and it's genius. However, an honorable mention to Andrew Hussie and Homestuck, for popularizing the concept of using limited things in text like numbers and cases to distinguish the characters.

Now, the next is sillier: Elizabeth Hoyt and Tessa Dare. Yes, they crank out regency romance novels but they know their niche, damn it! My first romance novel was Duke of Sin by Elizabeth Hoyt, and it's helped me really come to terms with the fact that what I read is not necessarily what I want. I love the fantasies romance novels bring, but the idea of actually BEING in a romance makes me want to run away screaming!

[mishkakagehishka]

Oh my god Korka skdkdkdkskdk spiderman pointing meme all the what the hell.

Profesor... PROFESSOR??? Says the literature major my god I am illiterate you'll notice whenever I manage to get to read cyclops my brain is smooth /j (yes I have that tab open on my phone since you shared the link it's just sitting there... I'll get to that during commutes when university starts again probably kwkekdd or I'll try)

Literally every time you like a thing I say about lore or au ideas or something I just go "hehehe Korka approves <3" like akdjdkisksls

(I don't know why first thought while writing this was like... It just reminded me of the butterflies as Mika's motives and all your tags and just skdksjdkdkdb your analysis are always so good and you're so good at applying intertextuality like... Really how do YOU think I have good ideas and interpretations what sort of magic did I use to trick you to think that /j)

Okay I'm done now I'm going to hide so I don't see the response to this it's just going to make me implode a little probably just thinking about hitting send is embarrassing enough kdododdkdkd I love you and your way of thinking and your passion /p 'k byeeeeeeee

HDHSHSHSJSJSS STOPPP I GO "hehee Ash approves ! :)" WHAGWVWBWBWNSNNS

Loooook i think i'd see you around before i followed you bc i remember thinking "oh... should i even follow i feel like this person is so Above me wow" like HDBSBSBJS how did this happen... it's a little funny that we apparently both thought the other was intimidating😭😭

That entire last part is too relatable tho, you get it, the "it's embarrraasssisijngnngngmg" of sending an ask

Anyway. <33 i'm happy the adoration and admiration goes both ways tho! :>

[pikapeppa]

WIP Wednesday

[singing] FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER...🎶😂 I am participating in a WIP meme! Thanks to those who have kept on tagging me despite my Dumblr inactivity - most recently @little-lightning-lavellan @elveny @ashalle-art @varric-tethras-editor @in-arlathan. I love and admire every single one of you! 

A couple of WIP bits to share today. From the chapter of Inadvisable (professor Solas AU) that I just posted today -- Abelas and Athera being adorkable:

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Abelas sidled into the kitchen. “Do you find older men attractive?” 

Athera’s heart jammed itself in her throat. “What?” she squeaked.

He frowned. “I apologize. That was blunt. There was… a remark made during the evening that I have been thinking about. So I wondered whether you find older men to be attractive.”

Spirits save her, her face felt like it was melting. She swallowed nervously before replying. “N-not like as a rule or a fetish or anything. But, um, there are some older men who are attractive. Like you!” she said brightly. “But you’re not attractive because you’re older, you’re just attractive because you’re, um, attractive.” 

“I see,” he said slowly. His expression was thoughtful now instead of being so focused on her, and she exhaled slowly, relieved at having gotten through that minefield of a question. 

She placed a clean dish into the second sink and picked up another one, then shot Abelas a sideways look. “What was the remark? The one that made you think?”

“Tamaris commented that some women find older men to be attractive, and that some couples take advantage of their age differences to enhance their sex lives.”

Tamaris, Athera thought darkly. I am going to murder her tomorrow.

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And from Until We Meet Again, my Geralt of Rivia x Reader fic: Geralt brooding about having to go to a formal party.

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“Where are you going tomorrow night?” you ask.

Geralt sighs. “A masquerade out at the Vegelbud place.”

“A masquerade?” you say in surprise. “Like a masquerade ball?”

“Mhm,” he grunts. “My favourite.”

You smile. “Oh yes. I forgot how much you love the bragging and the small talk with pretentious noblemen.”

“Mm,” he grumbles. “Don’t forget wearing a doublet. Really looking forward to dressing up like a trained monkey.”

His voice is utterly flat with sarcasm, and you can’t help but laugh. “Oh, Geralt. I’m sorry. I wish I could help.”

“You could pretend to be a witcher and go for me,” he suggests.

You laugh again at the thought of trying to impersonate someone so unique as Geralt. “I’m not quite sure I can pull off your charming scowl.”

“Charming scowl, huh?” he drawls. “What happened to me smiling like sunshine?”

Funnily enough, he is smiling now, and your heart is feeling warmed as though by the sun. You giggle and fondly pat his arm. “That too. There’s no imitating that smile.”

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Tagging back to all the loves who tagged me, and forward to @crackinglamb @johaeryslavellan @cartadwarfwithaheartofgold @mrscullensrutherford @mythicaitt @mogwaei @charlatron @alyssalenko @kittynomsdeplume @hollyand-writes @musetta3 @lethendralis-paints and anyone else who sees this and is in the mood to share!! ❤🥰

[angstyaches]

ooh can you please tell us more lore about nancy and ryan’s life together? just funny stuff / slice of life / early days things? i’d love to know more about that!!🍄

CW (because of course I would be incapable of writing fluffy headcanons without the need for content warnings lmao): hunger and nausea mentions, species-related food intolerance.

_

Back when they first met, Nancy was a disgraced witch who had been cast out of the magic academy where she'd intended on becoming a professor. Ryan was a recently-identified Elder, and was lying low so as not to attract the attention of stronger Elders and their clans, as she was still young/weak and had nobody protecting her. She was also low-key on the hunt for her missing brother, but easily became distracted from that when she started to fall for Nancy.

Their early days are the embodiment of this very specific meme where two chameleons are lesbians/wlw, but neither one can work out if the other is a lesbian/wlw, so they both just die and become skeletons... (if I come across the meme/video again, I'll link it here lmao)

Basically, if they didn't both have regenerative powers and/or immortality, it's likely that they would never have gotten together. Because it would have taken them too long to figure out that they were attracted to each other.

They can never accurately tell the story of how they eventually got together, because they can never agree on who came on to who first, who picked up on whose signals and when, etc. Asking them how they got together is one of the quickest ways to make them end up in an argument.

I think I've spoken a lot about how Nancy was working in a 50s-style diner at the time, and even though human food played absolute havoc with Ryan's stomach, she kept coming in and forcing herself to eat and drink menu items so she could have an excuse to be there.

She'd usually play it relatively safe by ordering black coffee, or the occasional pastry, but occasionally, Nancy would looked concerned and say something like, "Oh, is that all... ?" And Ryan, due to sucking at social cues and feeling desperate to blend into human society, would be like, "Uh, no, of course not, I will also have a steak and a some nachos...?"

Even though black/white/grey is Ryan's beloved colour palette, she noticed how brightly Nancy used to dress/accessorise at that time, and began wearing a pop of red every day. A red scarf, or a red ribbon in her hair (which was down to her waist at the time!!), or a red tie on her shirt.

Conversely, Nancy also noticed Ryan's fashion choices, and began to make efforts to look more sophisticated at work. For example, she used to wear her hair in two bouncy pigtails, but started tying it in a single low ponytail.

Nancy's first observation about Ryan was that she looked like a black-and-white photo come to life.

Nancy often used to start work without eating breakfast, and end up working through her lunch break, so there were multiple occasions where Ryan heard her stomach growling during her shifts.

There were also times when Ryan was starved for blood, and looking like Grade A Shit as she sat at her regular table.

There was a period of a few months in which Nancy knew for certain that Ryan was a vampire, but Ryan didn't know that Nancy knew. So during this time, she'd see Ryan looking frighteningly pale and weak, wishing that she could offer her what she needed, but knowing there was no way to do that without revealing what she knew.

The first time Nancy cracked and asked Ryan if she needed to drink some blood, there would have been a conversation something like:

Ryan: Wait, you know?!

Nancy: Yes, of course I know! How stupid do you think I am?

Ryan: Well...

Nancy: Oh my goodness, don't you dare finish that thought!

Their first kiss was in the rain. It didn't last very long because Nancy doesn't like the rain.

Their first shared lover was a woman who Ryan had already been seeing (for both recreational and feeding purposes). Nancy happened to be around when Ryan had plans to meet up with this woman, and it all just sort of naturally happened. Afterwards Ryan and Nancy were both just kinda like "Huh. Okay. That works. Let's make this a thing."

Ryan was endlessly impressed by even the smallest things Nancy would do, like produce a little glowing light to see in the dark. It used to make Nancy extremely excited and flustered when Ryan would keep going on about how amazing she was; particularly because with Ryan's deadpan voice and articulate way of speaking, it was hard not to take what she said as objective truth.

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I know 2020 has been hard for everyone.

And I want everyone to know, suffering isn't a contest and we all suffer in different ways. But I feel I should give my year in Review. Just some things that happened to me personally.

This was an intense, and long and spiritual and emotional journey for me...

I really discovered what it meant to have community, family and what my life means to me.

But I feel I need to get this in writing cause I can remember the year with vivid detail and I will probably forget if I don't get it down.

Do I have to share this publically online to my tumblr account for a bunch of strangers to see? not really.

Do I want to?

Yes. I think so. Just from how so many people on tumblr and real life have touched me.

This is kinda long and no one needs to read this.

(idk how to do a readmore on mobile. But this is where I would add it later. No one needs to read if they don't want to.)

January/February: (and some background on the last five years of my life cause.....well. it's important.)

As people knew, I got way into Invader Zim last summer. I spent most of my waking life working a dead end job at a grocery store. I lived a sad lonely life, going straight home to a single dark studio apartment. With not many material possessions outside of games, my laptop and my tablet to my name. Half of my material loves, such as home furnishings and books were still in boxes from when I moved in. In case I ever had to move again, or get some "big screenshot or copywriter" job in the city.

....

I lived in that city in the same dead end job and apartment for five years.

No friends. No social life. I often refused to make doctor appointments or attempt to establish myself in that city. I didn't even talk to anyone in my workplace.

Work. Go online. Go to sleep.

I lived like that for five years.

I thought it was good.

Even my therapist thought I was doing well.

When I really wasn't. My main character flaw I struggle with is motivation.

I can talk to someone about very detailed plans I have to fix a problem... But I tend to never follow through.

Just because I can describe in detail how to fix my personal problems, it doesn't mean I will do it.

(I have gotten better at this but it's a major struggle)

I might have been a Zombie during the day...

But by night I was pouring my soul into my AU and my analysis.

After being so thoughly ignored or overlooked by the Naruto fandom and the Undertale fandom, I felt like I had finally found my home and was settling into a community there.

I just loved that people loved what I had to say.

Especially my AU.

It's no secret that a lot of themes in my au revolve around found family, grief, and loss.......

Fatherhood, in particular.

What it means to be a father, how much do you need to try when you mess up, how willing should a child forgive their parent, especially those that have wronged you and how much of it is factually accurate and simply a self projection of what children want their parents to be and visa versa... What amount of forgiveness and change is nessasary...is it needed?

....

It's no secret that a lot of my AU is a giant coping mechanism for my Dad's death. Espessially the falling out and growing closer with a lot of my family members throughout the years following his death. (Most of the time I keep it ambiguous to how it relates to my personal life unless I include a readmore that states so outright. I feel my au can be enjoyed by a variety of people in the fandom who don't need to know me as a person or my life story.)

My Dad passed away in 2016 in February and my family still feels the aftershocks to this day.

It's part of the reason I moved to the city, alienated myself from my family and people that loved me and refused to experience life for five years.

My entire world was Zim, and I was okay.

March: When America finally realized and started to feel the effects of the pandemic....

A lot of people got scared.

Me included.

I didn't have any streaming services or access to the news. So I only heard accounts from my mom.

I didn't understand why the store was so dead quiet and empty for a few days, then it went into mass chaos and panic in the span of two days.

It felt like Retail black friday in the worst way. Everyone was packed like sardines. Everyone was yelling. The lines at the registers bled into the clothing department.

I was witness to customers shoving others for toilet paper, being rude to cashier's and just overall unpleasantness.

At the time, I didn't even fully grasp what the pandemic was, and I feel a lot of people at the time didn't either.

I ended up absentmindedly scratching my eyebrow in front of a customer and she screamed and villanised me for it. That they didn't want groceries touched by my "unclean hands"

I ended up breaking down into tears.

The customer behind me gave me a hug and told me I was doing a great job.

But the damage was done. It was the final straw, I couldn't stop crying and I was breaking apart.

Thankfully my Boss (the one who likes me) pulled me aside and asked what's wrong.

It was then that I quit. No notice. Same day. I had to get out of there.

I was planning to move to an apartment with my sister in the summer, but my Mom offered for me to move back in with her temperarily just so I can get out of the city and away from the pandemic.

So I did.

I got scared, broke my lease a month early and quit my job of five years that gave me nothing back.

He told me, "take care of yourself and your family, I won't keep you here, do what you need to do."

So I did.

April-June:

A very eventful few months.

My mom offered for me to live at her place, but for some reason she was acting like I would live there forever. That this wasn't a temporary arrangement, and that I didn't have an apartment set up already.

This was in large part to my sister, who had lived with my mom taking advantage of her for years.

Even though my sister and I were going to move in together, I was just never sure about it cause of how she never packed her stuff or made any effort to find a job.

My mom often acted like I was lazy and not searching and was treating me like... Well, an unruly teenager instead of a woman of 29 years. She acted like I was a failure for returning home when it was her idea in the first place.

I would have just been petrified in the city.

Like usual, I retreated to my au again.... And in the spring, something eventful happened.

In may, 8th 2020:

I was invited by @rissynicole to join an invader zim discord.

Now, I've never really used discord before. I always thought it's interface is too confusing.. and I'm a member of a few other iz discords and I usually don't follow them that closely.

Rissy assured me it was different cause some friends of thiers made it and it was smaller.

Before I knew it, I was sharing memes and getting to know everyone there.

It wasn't long after I invited my partner in IZ crimes, @paketdimensioncomic who was genuinely wary of iz servers due to a bad experience with the last one they were a part of.

But soon they were sharing memes and laughing with everyone else.

My eyes were starting to open and I was able to connect to fans of my work in an interpersonal way. And I was able to discover new artists and aus I never knew about.

I was also able to meet so many others of the community and invite them to the server myself.

The moo-ping 10 server kept me sane while I was living with my judgmental mother.

Not only that, the summer was very productive for my au.

Drawing was all I did, and it was a huge break from the job as a cashier I had.

Not only that, June came, and with it, me and Ceph's first collab fic:

A result of us just going back and forth in our DMs constantly about Professor Membrane and how he changed in ETF for the better and how much we adamantly stan "trying-to-be-a-good-dad-brane" and how much of his ETF development has to be implied off screen in order for the emotional resolution in the movie to matter.

The only reason I never professed my love for Membrane as a character in the fandom before the fic dropped was.... Well....

Membrane can be a decisive character in the fandom and I was so worried people would hate me if I did an analysis on him, simply because he's not the best parent in the world. (As an understatement)

Ceph and I really encouraged each other to scream our love for the science himbo loud and proud more frequently and so often.... I actually start to see less Membrane hate posts and breakdowns then their used to be.... I like to think it's a combination of Me and Ceph's influence, along with ETF and the Quarterly's painting Membrane in a slightly more nuanced light then he was previously.

I never wrote a collab fic before and it's such a rewarding and fun and unique experience that I don't think I'll ever have again. And I love working with Ceph on our fics so much.

So much so we did it again...

July-August:

I never thought I would be one of those people who writes NSFW IZ fic... But here I am.

The Brainbrane au started.... An au of my au where Membrane and the Computer fall in love and Membrane makes him a body.

This ship was based around the idea where we joked that Membrane and Zim's Computer would have funny interactions if they ever met, under the pretense Membrane thinks Computer is Zim's parent.

Our headcanons morphed and shifted until we just full blown started shipping them.

Just because Membrane and Zim's Computer have overall REALLY entertaining chemistry.

It's a character dynamic never seen in the show or comics (yet) and I imagine thier interactions to be nothing but entertaining banter.

The fic was also born from spite... Making fun of the troupes and cliches that we found personally destestible in some questionable zadr fics.

So an angry ace and a demi-bisexual collab on a porn and end up blessing the fandom with

Compapa headcanons,

Computer being recognized as a more common used fanon character,

The ship of Brainbrane.

The fandom having a crisis of "oh God, not only are we xenophiles we're technophiles too!!!" Or "why you gotta give Zim's Computer an ass"

More android Computer designs

It was an eventful summer.

In the midst of all this, I moved into my new place, got a new job, and I was able to see my friend (who is def my platonic straight soul mate) who lives in Indiana.

She came to visit, showed me how to decorate and how to take care of my body better! Things were looking up! It was great.

September-November:

My job was at a boat store. If was approaching the fall and my hours were being severely cut.

I was getting into a rut of depression again.

I thought things were changing but the same routine I was trying to escape from was the same thing coming back.

But instead of letting it take hold, I decided I was going to do something about it... I was gonna visit a museum and go with my sister. Just... variety stimulation.

Well that didn't happen.

I talked about this shortly in my au itself...but..

My sister had a complete mental breakdown.

She stopped taking her meds, went off the deep end and was in the hospital a total of five times throughout November.

A lot of it was acting out and the perfect storm of environmental factors that made her scream and act out so she would keep going back to the hospital.

It was traumatizing for me.

I just can't explain what it's like. For her and for me to be in that position.

I'm not telling the full story and a lot of bullshit things happened I won't share here.

She got diagnosed with bipolar one and my mom expected me to be a caretaker for her.

I threatened to disown my family and move away out of state.

It was just too much for me to handle.

So much I was a nervous wreck.

I tried to pick up a second job... Cause my sister was in the mental ward so frequently and couldn't pay the bills.

But I was fired within a week cause I was so stressed I couldn't retain the basic information they were training me for.

It was an office job.

My dream.

It could have been.

I was fired from something I really wanted.

I was only there for three days.

I could not retain any information.

I was a mess.

My sister was a trigger, my mom wanted me to live with her. I couldn't live like this.... I had to get out.

I had to get out.

December:

Remember my Indiana friend?

Well the first week of December is my birthday.

My 30th to be exact.

While I did pick up a seasonal position at Target (not my first pick)

I took the first week of December off so I could spend time with her. Cause she agreed, I needed a break from this crap.

Surviving 30 years is cause to celebrate and if I had to celebrate with my sister I would have cried.

I know there was a risk traveling out of state during a pandemic...

But I needed out, I needed a friend..

And I kinda wanted to look at the place since I was considering moving there.

My friend's mom was sick so she avoided me and her daughter and got us a hotel room.

It was fun! I got to swim in a salt water pool, we talked about Naruto, I showed her the iz and su art books I brought, also Computer and Membrane tea.

I also got to meet her other friends and get crunk. And her bf who is super nice and funny!

I had a super fun birthday....

Until her mom told my friend that her grandparents had covid and that was what she had. And my friend got sick within that same day.... As did I.

I owe so much to her family.

I was an entire state away...about a ten hour drive from home.... She let me stay at her house. "The covid house" we called it.

Cause everyone (except the father. He avoided everyone and booked a hotel immediately cus he was an ER doctor) had covid within a day.

I called in, the test results were positive and I had to stay with her family for ten days quarantine before I could work again.

Which would have been fine....

If my tumblr didn't log me out perminately of my old account. @dana-chan325 .... Which really sucked cause I had a constant headache and was too sick to engage with tumblr or much of the fandom. I didn't want to make a new account when my head was in a bad fog and I could barely breathe or smell.

It's not like I saw much of my friend either.... We all slept at different hours and she had more symptoms then I did.

It was just netflix, danganronpa v3 and cry.

I was miserable, but at the same time.... Not?

I really feel like God himself was the one who pulled me off from tumblr, and my living situation.

Maybe a whole extra week feeling like a bobblehead was what I needed.

It gave me some much needed clarity on my relationships with my mom and sis and friend.

Running away to Indiana was not the solution here.

Once I was better within ten days and no longer had a leave of absence, I drove home.

I am glad I fully recovered (but from how I understand it, my dear friend is still ill. I'm praying for her)

I might have gone to work a bit too soon, cause I had an asthma attack after trying to unload a single cart in the span of six hours.

My boss lectured that my speed was unacceptable, and even though I explained the covid situation and breathing problems many times, she threatened that I'd be fired if I'm that slow again.

Que the next few days of work where they put me on register.

Instantly I was sent into a panic remembering the last time I was on the register and how that panic attack caused me to quit.

I even asked if I could go back to stocking, since my breathing had improved. My boss assured me that I was put on the register cause they needed help and nothing to do with my covid thing.

Then as December concluded and the new year began, my boss said that this was the last shift for me cause my position was seasonal and they were letting a lot of people go.

I then asked why I was on the schedule for Sunday, and he told me to ignore it and I'm free to reapply for full-time.

I mean.... They can act smart about it...

But putting your general merchandise stocker onto register after she had an asthma attack and missed working the first two weeks of December due to covid.....

Not a good look.

So once again, I'm jobless once more.

Will probably continue to live with my sister for awhile.

But I do not feel as if it's a bad thing....

I met so many good people this year....

My friend's family even gave me 500 usd to cover my rent since I couldn't work for a majority of December.

I've seen evil and good from humanity this year. I've seen acts of god, good friends and what my real family means to me as well as friends I consider family.

This year really made me look back at the person in the mirror and say,

"I deserve better."

And actually worked for it this time.

Oh and after Christmas I got a horrible yeast infection that burns over most of my body currently.

Very accurate doodle to the pain I'm in right now.

(seriously my body is a fungus.)

But hey, good news, I respected myself enough to go to the doctor about it!!

So that's progress.

I really hope 2021 holds good things for me.

Thank you to the mooping 10 server for always being there and keeping me sane,

Thank you tumblr for liking my au and everything.

AND A SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU TO @evartandadam and her family for housing me and my dumb diseased ass. Everyone, she is an angel and I can't express how much she means to me. Please check out her art and buy her stuff on redbubble.

Anyways... Byebye 2020.

I look forward to what I can accomplish for myself this year.

[findroleplay]

Hello! I’m a 21+ writer looking for Loki/Mobius from Loki 👀 I’m keen to play Mobius.

I am advanced-literate and write multi-paragraph to novella style replies, usually longer for things like starters and transitional scenes and shorter on dialogue heavy replies. I am an Active partner at the moment and only looking for the same.

I love slow burn stories and enjoy angst a lot. I’m good with action, darker themes and themes such as mpreg but also fluff. I have no limits so throw anything my way. Let’s discuss some of the themes that could come up in advance. I am happy to write side characters and explore relationships outside of the main pairing as I have a lot of love for the other characters in these fandoms. I’m good with OOC conversations, for plotting and such, like sharing memes and photos and just buzzing together over the story!

Like and I’ll hit you up OR, even better, DM me. Please, please send me a decent introduction too as as I love nothing better than having a partner there with their info and their thoughts from the get-go. We want to write together so show me that, please? I likely won’t reply to a ‘yes i’m interested in ____’ type reply. ❤️

My idea for them is as follows

• Messing with the timeline slightly, what if Mobius was sent back to the moment of his abduction by the TVA? And in classic Loki style, what if he decided that the sane thing to do was stalk Mobius on Earth. I’m picturing Professor Mobius? I’m also definitely picturing single-dad Mobius because of how good he was with the kid at the church.

• Anyway. Loki figures he’ll watch for a few days. Check Mobius is happy. Flash forward to a week later and he’s getting a member of the faculty fired, framing himself as a substitute and introducing himself to Mobius at work.

• Office romance, re-falling in love, slow burn… all leading to angst when the TVA inevitably reappears and suddenly Loki and Mobius find themselves on the run (with a toddler). Perhaps they end up on Asgard? We can tweak the timeline all we want.

-

[swampythesweetsketch]

Mimzy Mochama (NSR Edition!)

Name: Mimzy "Mariposa" Mochama-Supernova They/She | Poly/Demi Glitter Ball Object head Age 21-23 (varies for AUs) Themes: Flora/Fauna (from Father) and Galaxy (from Mother) Colors: Green and Gray/Black Music: Dance Pop (Ex. Circle ft GUMI, Again and ECHO by Crusher-P)

Mimzy was born to Oliver Mochama and Isabelle "Intergalactic" Supernova.

She was left behind in Vinyl City for unknown reasons and was instead raised by her uncle, Thomas "Subatomic" Supernova.

Thomas raised his niece while phasing from his professor job to a professional artist in NSR.

Mimzy was kept away from the other NSR artists at a young age due to her love of dancing. And Thomas did NOT want Tatiana to make Mimzy a child artist like what happens to Yinu years later.

When Mimzy was a bit older, she was introduced to Eve. The two were okay but Eve's insistence on "interpreting" and "defining" Mimzy's dance routines lead to the two quickly fighting.

She also met Tatiana, after Thomas/Nova allowed, and to confirm his fear- she did in fact question Mimzy if she wanted to lead her own district after displaying her dancing.

She turns down the offer at first.

Until she met NeonJ and 1010.

Neon J and her got along quite fine, she's very patient with his army persona and knows he has some issues.

Now 1010-

She and Rin were immediate enemies. Come to find that 1010's personalities from "gentleman" can easily phase into "jock". Rin wasn't the best at conversations early on, so his unwelcome advances and flirting towards Mimzy pissed her off to no end.

Purl-hew and her got along at first. But come to find that Purl-hew was a friend of Eve's, and after Eve got to push her perception of Mimzy to Purl... yeah. Their friendship fell apart, worse off when Purl-hew defended Rin.

ZImelu and Mimzy were okay at first, they don't like Purl and Rin and want to spend anytime AWAY from any NSR events to only spend time together. Zimelu developed a crush on Mimzy after the two began sneaking off to underground karaoke bars and got to hear her sing for the first time.

Haym and her are... well- Mimzy didn't like him at first. When the fight between her and Rin happened, Haym tried to de-escalate. Which convinced Mimzy that he was on Rin's side. Haym lost his cool with his brothers sometime after, the two ran into each other and spent time tucked away in Cast Tech to help him out with his conflicted feelings. He started to crush on her when she became ride-or-die with him and Zimelu.

Eloni was an odd case as he tried to ignore her, kinda complacent with his weak popularity within 1010's group. Mimzy was too preoccupied with fighting Rin and Purl-hew at the time to talk.

Mimzy decided to take Tatiana's offer after the 1010 fiasco, but Thomas/Nova urged her to have Mimzy get a portion of Cast Tech instead to help avoid the energy consumption of constructing a new District.

So after 2 years, Mimzy obtained a quarter of Cast Tech to turn into a night-themed park called Lunar Trail with a central dance studio and open stage. The place is a favorite when it's nighttime, fairy lights are used to brighten the place but not too bright to blot out the night sky.

As she begins the process of opening her stage to smaller acts and new dancers, she finally gets to meet Eloni. Zimelu and Haym snuck him out to see a late show, and the two hit it off quite well despite Mimzy's hesitance. But after they close up the stage and go off to get food, they find to have a lot of shared interests with memes and internet culture, along with sharing their own interests like Mimzy's love for old cartoons and Eloni's passion for ice cream making. (Yes I am making a headcanon that Eloni is the one behind all the ice cream shops in Metro Division. fite me)

When the two start secret dating, Zim and Haym are supportive! (and a little pissed that their bro got to be with Mimzy even though they had a crush on her before he did.) Yeah, these four are idiots in love (after Zim and Haym confess too) and don't dare tell anyone.

During the DK West riot, Lunar Trail is one of many places caught in the fires and destroyed. The loss of the mini district hit NSR hard and DK West is ran out of Vinyl City, Cast Tech had to close off a portion of its district to rebuild.

Mimzy, feeling without purpose, was advised to use her skills to work with 1010 or Eve. She chose Eve. She didn't want to deal with Rin or Purl-hew.

Though Eve did turn down her partnership, the two did talk about their problems and left a bit better than before.

She was pushed to work with 1010 afterwards, and Rin ignored her for the most part. Purl-hew got word about her and Eve (kind of) making up and tried to talk to Mimzy, but they too ignored each other.

Zimelu, Haym, and Eloni got to spend more time with her. They were happy with it, then they got worried that Rin might catch them.

Mimzy returned to her almost complete district as NSR went to judge for their monthly Lights Up auditions to check everything before it went back online.

Then B2J came to audition...

Mimzy held off opening the district to avoid B2J coming there to get her Platinum Disc and had her uncle stay in her rebuilt flat until the Rock Revolution hit its peak.

After the game...

Mimzy reopened Lunar Trail to new artists and performers like she planned to. As she got to meet B2J as a friend instead of corporate foe, she came to find out that Zuke was DK West's brother. Yeah, she didn't like him so much after telling him what damage his brother did to destroy Lunar Trail the first time.

Mayday, she kind of enjoys her company but doesn't consider a friend due to Mayday's company. She enjoys her more plain and skin-deep approach to analyzing things.

With the other NSR artists gaining more free time thanks to new artists, Eloni started to open up his schedule to babysit Yinu.

The tiny child wanted to see the "Natura rip-off" that was in Cast Tech. Well, she sees Lunar Trail and then has the time of her life playing in the playground and seeing the night sky and now she wants her own playground in Natura. (To help visualize the difference between Natura vs Lunar Trail- Natura to me is this posh plaza with golden colors, small statues, and a more garden/apartment flat setting. Lunar Trail is a lax park setting with blue/green lighting, circling trees to close it off to the rest of Cast Tech, and few buildings to be found.)

Rin and Mimzy get to work with a small collab, and Rin apologizes for his dumbass behavior. Mimzy accepts and the two become casual work buddies.

Purl-hew and Eve get to talk to Mimzy after Eve got her own beef with Zuke resolved, and the three come to terms with their grudges. Purl decides to pause his and Eve's friendship, as he wants time to discern his thoughts and feelings that've been influence by her.

Vinyl City improves, NSR gets reformed to allow leeway to new power and improvements.

Mimzy gets to close the stage late at night to go back to her flat. Zim, Haym, and Loni are there to see her after a long day.

[thelibrarina]

Fic meme!

I was tagged by @shitpostingfromthebarricade​. Thanks, this was fun!

how many works do you have on AO3?

61. Now I have to add more words to this line or it becomes a giant number. Oh, tumblr, never change.

what’s your total AO3 word count? 

527,746. Half a million words. Damn.

how many fandoms have you written for and what are they? 

On AO3? 14, though some are fusions. The primary ones are Les Mis, The Professionals, MCU, Vikings, and Star Wars.

what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Grounds for Dismissal (exr coffee-shop AU)

2. Friday I’m In Love (exr fake dating AU)

3. But I’m Hopeful Yet (exr wrong suitcase AU)

4. Pining for You (exr hallmark holiday movie AU)

5. Still the Same (exr White Collar AU)

Gee, do you see a pattern here?

More below the cut, as we said in the olden days...

do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I want to, I swear!! But the process goes like this: I see the comment and I have to sit and bask in the warm happy glow, and then I get distracted while thinking of something to say and suddenly it’s been two years and then it feels a little awkward, right? So this is just to say: If you have ever commented on my fic, I see you and I love you and I cherish every word. Thank you.

what’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I am bad at angst. Probably the fics with the saddest endings are In Fire (exr Pacific Rim fusion) and We Will Become Silhouettes (Professionals episode-tag drabble--it’s not clear without context, but they sort of explode at the end).

Honorable mention to Even After All These Years, which has the angstiest beginning. 

have you ever received hate on a fic?

I once got scolded in an AO3 comment for using the fandom tag correctly. Also someone yelled at me on ff.n for mentioning America in a positive context in a Les Mis songfic. (There were so many better reasons to yell at me for that fic, tbh.)

do you write smut? if so what kind?

The highly fraught and overly emotional kind. Also sometimes the iambic pentameter kind, or the alliterative verse kind.

For years I could only get myself to write smut for the semi-annual p*rn battle that was held on dreamwidth. It was super-handy for shutting up my inner editor and locking my inhibitions in a cupboard somewhere.

have you ever had a fic stolen?

Scraped to a random website, yeah, but not stolen.

have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! Grounds for Dismissal was translated in to Chinese, and a few other fics have podfic versions, too!

have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not to completion, but writing with friends is a joy even if we never finish things. 

what’s your all time favorite ship?

Don’t make me choose, it’s mean. But Enjolras and Grantaire have had my whole heart for quite some time now.

what’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

All of my as-yet-incomplete Les Mis fics are in a shared word doc. It is longer than my total AO3 word count. There’s a college professor AU (exr, of course) that has gotten hugely bloated and might or might not be fixable.

But I will finish the indulgent Batman AU someday. Mark my words.

what are your writing strengths?

Banter! And replicating a voice or a style. 

what are your writing weaknesses?

Action and smut. What are bodies? What do they do? How many limbs to they usually have, again? I don’t even know.

what are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Storytime! I was the only non-Classics major in my Latin class, and my professor would regularly start writing shit on the board in Greek. I would have to raise my hand and remind him that I couldn’t understand it.

And that’s all I want: to understand what I’m reading. Whether the author uses translations or context clues, or just indicates in the header or the notes that you need to know multiple languages to understand the fic, I’m cool with it.

(Also consider not italicizing words from other languages when you put them in a sentence. Daniel Jose Older has a great 2-minute video on it here.)

what was the first fandom you wrote for?

Somewhere in my parents’ house is a blue spiral-bound notebook with a printed label that says Star Wars Novel on it. I think I was 11 or 12 and it was a Young Jedi Knights continuation. So...that one.

what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Usually, whatever fic I’ve finished most recently. But I’m really proud of The Glorious People’s Republic of the Cafe Musain. I can’t claim a hundredth of Terry Pratchett’s skill, but trying on his style was an absolute blast, and there are some lines in those fics that I’m still genuinely delighted by.

[who-ever-said-i-was-nice]

Mtach up thing please! <3

Female, INFJ-T, Sagittarius. 155cm (tiny potato, just dont smash it on my face or I will get insecure)I would never, brown eyes, long light brown hair, pale with freckless. Average-skinny. Wear glasses for study/work which is basically 24/7 same and have some tattoos here and there.

I think Im more of an ambivert but more close to the introvert side. I’m smiley but still people tend to tell me that they thought I was rude (or directly a bitch) highly doubt it they just jealous but found out I’m not that bad, guess that’s on bitch resting face :( nope :) better. Socially awkward but after I get comfortable I fool around a lot, memes and vine references give me life. I tend to do the opposite of what I’ve been told just because I don’t like it when people order me things.pffff can relate Tho I’m shy I will not hesitate to step up if someone is being rude with someone specially if is towards a friend or someone close to me. I try to be very caring and supportive for anything you will need but also empathic, I cry if someone cries kjdfhgk but try to hold it together so I can help and not make feel worse the other person you seem very nice pls be my friend

I’m sensitive, I get stressed and anxious easily and for that I constantly have headaches and stomach ache,noooooo :( I have a whole self-care routine to help me with that or else I will, without a doubt ,get sick. I don’t like places that are too crowded or very loud noises, it makes me nervous. I’m your “will cry if gets too anxious” person. yup you are to innocent and cute to be my friend I’m either “Mama bear” scary or “will murder you in your sleep” scary.....I’m just a marshmallow tho

I like reading welcome to the bookworm club, learning random things. I love art in general, music, painting, dancing, etc. I love animals too! All of them, cats, dogs, birds, frogs, please let them all in(but my weak spot are cats, I cant deny it). I’m vegan, try to make it the most healthy possible (eating well, taking vitamin D and B12 to not die that was funnier than all of my jokes combined i died ). Sugar is my passion and my minimum 4 tsp of sugar per coffee knows it(this is where the I eAt HeAlThYy goes to hell xD damn right lmao, you still healthier then me). When it comes to music I like a bit of everything, I will be listening alternative rock or metal and then jump to kpop, tho I’ve been into chill lofi lately, specially when is mix of a series or movie cause nostalgia hits hard and I’m into that shit kjhjk I also have a playlist of Disney, anime or movie songs/soundtracks because it helps me to study or work more motivated, your girl needs motivation to not stare into space for 1 hour straight,kjkiijjioh same tho Im quite disperse, I always forget where I put things and then blame the goblins for that, but it turns out, it was on my hand all the time lollol

I study art online, I want to be a concept or background artist for animation, I used to study animation on a university but dropped because the pressure was too much and never could get along with the university itself, every week was a fight about something (Im not problematic I swear, I try to be the most chill out-care free possible but I swear the system is horrible here :( )yeah it happens sucks that you had to go through it. I’m also learning complimentary therapies! (I think that’s how it is on english) Reiki, tarot, pendulum, past lifes and such, Im into esoterical/”mystical” things.

For hobbies I do embroidery, sewing, read, stare into space for 1 hour and yoga (this is part of the self care routine to not die).

My favorite season is autumn or early spring, I dont handle too hot weather or the sun well, I like winter and rainy days but then I get so cold that I invernate on bed the whole day.

For relationships I think communication is key, I know is not easy but is the only way to make it work :( and cuddles, please cuddle me and pet my head, I will be on your palms if you scratch my head. I can be very touchy, like holding hands and hugs but I dont like it if someone who is not a very close friend or my partner does it, I just dont know how to react or do kfdhlk I prefer my personal space untouched :(  Im so sorry it was so long!! I wanted to do it very detailed but sHoRt to not make you think so hard with who match up me but maybe tmi is just the opposite for you, if so Im truly sorry! :( I think you are an angel just for trying to match up me with someone <3 ahhh, yes, the matchup (take a shot for everytime i said match up on this paragraph game) for ikevamp please! <3

4 shots huh.Ahahahahhahhhahahhahahhhah...... Don’t worry about the length. The longer the better right. Right? I’m nasty I’ll stop. Also yes I went through it and left little notes within the text. Why, because I’m cool. Hopefully. One day. Anyway!

I matched you with...............

                                        .......................ISAAC!!!!!

My sweet baby angel little boy

Isaac is very,very shy so it took him some time to warm up to you

but that does not mean that he didn’t like you

oh no no no

on the contrary

Isaac died every single time you passed him

he didn’t understand how someone could be so perfect

you took his breath away

him not being the tales man actually liked that you were shorter then him

you see, because men are supposed t be tall and strong and all that crap, plus being around Leo, who scores a 10 in all of those, made him quite insecure about his, well, actually everything

the way he talked, or rather didn’t, his height, that fact that he wasn’t jacked like some of the guys in the mansion, or, you know, at least in his mind

he isn’t exactly the fighter type either

he’s a scientist after all, not a worrier

and this made him feel like he didn’t deserve you, because he couldn’t protect you

 oh my, sweetheart no

you on the other hand, think he is amazing

I mean not all people know all the constellations name and position by heart, nor can they carve amazingly cute wooden toys and decorations, nor are the university professores and just so happen to be an absolute physics geniuses so yeah

both of you being quite reserved, it took you ages to get together

but when you did it was the most amazing thing ever

he confessed to you one night while you where stargazing

it went a little something like this:

You: Thank you for bringing me out. It’s so beautiful!

Isaac: Yes. Like you.

You: *eyes emoji*

Isaac takes your hand, blushes hard, and even though he wanted to look into your eyes he couldn’t bring himself to, in fear of loosing himself in them

“Y/n ever since I first laid eyes on you I knew that I needed you in my life. You make me feel so comfortable by the just being here with me. You are funny, lighthearted and so welcoming and accepting. I love when you sit next to me in the library, I love it when we stargaze, I love how you ask me oh so many questions. How you are so eager to learn everything. Yet you are so quiet and shy. It’s amazing really. and in those moments I fell like I love it even more. The comfortable silence we can both sit in. The look we share, were we somehow always know what the other is thinking without even asking. I love your hair falls and frames your face perfectly. Those adorable freckles are driving me mad you know? Your petite features always astound me. So small yet so pretty. How is it even possible? However I don’t expect you to reciprocate my feelings. It doesn’t matter how much I adore you, I can’t protect you. I am not what a man is supposed to be. I’m not strong and tough Y/n, I’m just a scientist. However I felt the need to tell you this. To tell you my true feeling. I love you Y/N. I really do.”

Isaac sat there with tears streaming down his face

he couldn’t look at you

he just waited for the rejection to slap him in the face

however it didn’t come

you cupped his wet cheek gently and he looked up to see your tear stained face

you slowly pull him towards you and kiss him

it was so gentle and full of love

you pulled away tears still pouring down your faces

however these weren’t tears of sadness, but of joy

you both laughed as Isaac pulled you into a hug

well.....

i may or may not be crying writing this

yes I definitely am that is totally the case

anywhoo

after this it is smooth sailing

cutest couple ever

And that is it! Sorry if this is lame and it literally took forever. Thank you for the request though.! Have an amazing day and be safe!

[writinghannibal]

MEME | | ROLEPLAY RELATED MUN MEMES

@la-mangouste​ asked ✌ : Fondest role-play memory, between muses?

Easy. This whole interaction was [chef’s kiss]

"Even Steven," Hannibal smiled faintly, repeating the words that had been spoken over the broken body of Randall Tier, "Forgiveness for doubt. I have remained your true friend and companion throughout. Murder plot and all."

He tilted his head slightly in consideration, "In the allegory we began with, between you and I -- I am not God, I am not Satan and I am not the serpent cursed to crawl upon his belly. I... am Eve."

"The serpent told her of the fruit, yes. But she, in her curiosity... in her desire to know what would happen, pressed it to her lips and ate. Obtaining knowledge, knowing of good and evil she became far more curious," Hannibal reached out and picked up an apple from the fruit bowl on Will's table. It had a bruised spot, but it would fulfill his purpose. He shined the skin on his shirt sleeve and took a bite.

"Wanting to know what would happen, Eve brought the flesh of the fruit to her counterpart and offered it to him," Hannibal held the apple out to Will, "and because they were equals, because they shared life... he ate."

"Even Steven." Will praised the good doctor through repetition, though the man hardly deserved plaudits for his memory - he'd certainly enjoy daily proclamations of his genius, but for those close to him, it would be a tiresome exercise to live through. "So even after being flayed and strangled at my request, you still saw me as someone you could trust?" The professor ventured to ask, eyes sharp behind his spectacles.

He was content to abandon the question as Hannibal moved on, and leaned forward with interest as he finally confessed to the role he saw himself in, which was a revelation that both perplexed and amused the profiler. Will looked on as the other threw himself behind the subtle pageantry of taking the apple as Eve had, then cocked a brow as its bitten flesh was turned about, and ultimately offered to him as it had once been to Adam.

"And because she was a companion made specifically for him, he was more amenable to her demands." Broad fingers finally plucked the apple from their slimmer counterparts, and brought it to his mouth, where teeth sunk past its waxy skin with all the finality of someone signing away their place in paradise.

"Do you think he ever resented Eve after they were cast out of Eden, or do you think the promise of knowledge was worth the sacrifice in the end?"

[nocompromise-noregrets]

11, 12, 15 for writer ask meme

YAY THANK YOU <333333

11: Share the last paragraph you wrote. Ah. Well, the absolute last paragraph I wrote is part of one of my Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang entries (one of them is finished now woohoo!), upon which I am bound to secrecy, but the last non-challenge-related paragraph I wrote is this, from chapter 97 of Empty Vessel, which is cooperating at last hooray:

Later, they had a picnic on the riverbank, by the little beach that the running water had created in the heights of winter, and the children and Tauriel kicked off their shoes and went paddling in the shallows; the temperature dropped a little as the sun went down, and Tilda came to curl up in Thranduil’s lap, yawning, though the others played around in the water for a bit longer.

12: Share a dumb line from an old WIP. Ooooh. I've been looking over the mopey-Draco-after-Voldemort-won thing I mentioned a few days ago, and wondering whether I might actually be able to finish it, if I start posting it and get some feedback. Not at the moment, I need another active WIP like I need a hole in the head right now, but maybe later on in the year...anyway, not dumb, particularly (I would like to think I grew out of my writing-dumb-things phase long before the advent of internet fanfiction XD ) but here's a little something (not really a line, as always I am incapable of picking something that doesn't need a bunch of context, but still):

I shrugged awkwardly. “I suppose I was devoted, once. Before I grew old enough to start looking around myself and asking myself questions about what I was being expected to do.”

“What your father expected of you?”

“Yes. And the…you know who.” I used the name your lot always used for him at school, not quite feeling like describing him as the Dark Lord to her face. “I was slightly integral to their plans for a while.”

“I know.” Hermione’s face softened. “Draco, you were a child. You didn’t have a chance.” She shook her head. “If they were halfway decent people they would never have expected that of you.”

“I think you and I both know that your idea of ‘halfway decent’ is slightly different to the way my family see it.”

“You can say that again,” she snorted. “God, no wonder you were such a little shit at school. You’d never had anything other than that pureblood rubbish force-fed to you from the cradle. Not one single decent role model.”

I arched an eyebrow. “Malfoys don’t coddle their children.”

“No, that’s certainly not what I’d call it. You know, Draco, Muggles have words for how you were treated. Words like ‘grooming’ and ‘child abuse’.” Her voice had gone steel-hard and I was reminded of the Hermione who punched me in the face in the third year. “No wonder you’re messed up in the head.”

15: How do you name settings/characters? With enormous difficulty, usually. I don't write much original stuff, or many original characters, but when I do, either their names pop into my head, or they really really don't. For example, Hal and Jack in my original thing Two of a Kind were easy, as were most of their friends (some of them, including Jack, are named as they are because they're based on a fanfic I wrote a long time ago in a now-dead fandom and their names are close to what they were in that fic), but I still have NO IDEA what their bands are called (they're both guitarists, Hal in a band who are amusingly rather like this year's Eurovision winners Måneskin, and Jack in a loud and obnoxious punk band). Meanwhile, Maudie in Empty Vessel is Maudie because Maud and Matilda are versions of the same name, and I figured that Bard would've named his youngest daughter after her mother who died giving birth to her. Auriel was easy enough - 'daughter of the morning' seemed apt. And all the Lake-towners/people of Dale just sort of popped into my head; most of their names are English or Scandinavian-ish as that's where the Professor, and later the film-makers, based Lake-town linguistically. So Agnes, Margery, Ned and Jonty are very English, and Anders, Hanna, Lotta and Erik are rather more northern European/Scandinavian.

That was fun! Thank you! <333333 Anyone else want to ask me stuff about writing?

[xenbiology]

ABOUT

Hello! My name is Professor Alem; though you may simply call me Alem or Professor! My pronouns are they/them. I’m a biologist and author who studies and breeds Xen fauna and their history and relationship with humans. I mainly deal with headcrabs and their domestication, and have even bred a few new types myself! This picture is of me and Paz, a new pattern I am working on :)

I created this blog because I wish to share the information and make it more widely accessible to a human audience, and to answer any questions you all may have on my work!

- ALEM

FAQ

So... what is this blog?

This is a Half-Life based askblog that takes place 200 years after the ending of Half-Life 2, and follows my headcanons of Xen biology! It’s is designed so you can send in questions, which will be answered ‘in character’ by Alem, a vortigaunt scientist. It’s also to keep track of any headcrab characters people might have made/adopted.

If you’re familiar with Professor Peach, it’s something sort of like that. Basically, you’re allowed to send in questions that are responded to by Professor Alem, a vortiguant biologist, as if you were a character in the setting. You’re also welcome to send in ‘ooc’ questions as well though!

I also just reblog a bunch of art and posts revolving around xen biology, as well as some memes and such.

This blog is intended to be 16+ because it might contain some upsetting or potentially NSFW content, but all in a biological format (discussions of animal abuse, art of meat/dissections, discussion of breeding behavior and anatomy, etc). Everything will be tagged generously. There won’t be any condoning of mentioned behavior, and no explicit porn or heavily NSFW images.

If you need anything tagged that I didn’t, please let me know.

So is this a roleplay blog?

Er... not exactly. It’s more of an in-character ask blog. But if you have a similar blog, I wouldn’t be opposed to interacting.

Am I allowed to use these headcanons?

Yes, go ahead! I would be thrilled to see anyone using any of these, or even something based off of these. You’re allowed to mix and match and change anything you want for your own personal use. You’re free to make OCs or characters based on any of this stuff too! Make a headcrab! Make a scientist! Go crazy go stupid!

Am I allowed to do fanart / fanworks of _____?

Yes!!!! You’re 100% welcome to draw (or write about, or.. whatever) Alem, any of Alem’s crabs, your own takes on anything or any biology, or just. Anything from or inspired by this blog! I would love to see it!

If you do, please DM it to me- I don’t check my email often, and don’t see @’s! I don’t mind at all!

Who’s the mod?

Hello! My name is Rhi / Bees / Toad, and I’m the mod here behind Prof. Alem! My pronouns are they/them, please. I’m 21, neurodivergent, nonbinary, and going to college for zoology babey!

I run this blog because I think headcrabs are neat, and I love to worldbuild, especially when it comes to biology! You might recognize some of my art and ideas from my other blogs, listed below.

Main || @toadsong​

Half Life / HLVRAI Sideblog || @black-mesa-slut-voice

Art Sideblog || @bees-draws

If you have any questions for me, feel free to send in an ask! Please specify that it’s either directly to me or OOC however, so I know not to answer as Alem!

What exactly is the setting here?

As I mentioned, this blog takes place 200 years after the events of Half-life 2. It sort of... diverges a bit from canon there, since we never got a full conclusion to the story, but this world is working under the assumption that the resistance managed to drive off the Combine from earth, and humanity started to rebuild... but now has alien neighbors and creatures.

Vortigaunts are seen as normal residents and have just as many rights as humans, and it’s not uncommon for them to mingle together as complete equals. Though vortigaunts didn’t used to have names, they must at least legally choose a name to put on paperwork; and many vorts choose to use it for the ease of humans around them, since they’re not tapped into the vortessence.

A lot of animals are extinct in this universe due to the Combine, which is part of why aliens as pets and livestock is much more common. There’s also several new and synthetic species created in the absence of some, which were made by humanity thanks to leftover Combine knowledge.

Technology is roughly in the modern-day level, though some knowledge is more advanced than today’s thanks to leftover Combine tech, and some knowledge is less advanced or lost completely thanks to the destruction of information databases by the Combine. But roughly 2020′s level tech!

Where’s Gordon/Barney/Alyx/etc?

Unfortunately, despite the tech advances, immortality hasn’t been invented yet, and most people can’t live for 200+ years. They’re long passed by now... though the vortigaunts never truly let them be forgotten. Thanks to the vortessent hivemind, Alem knows them just as well as any other vortigaunt knew them. You’re welcome to ask them questions, though they may not be comfortable answering. I have lots of headcanons on them as well, which I might sprinkle in, lol.

RULES

Do not interact with this blog if you’re a bigot. This means do not interact if you’re LGBT+phobic of any kind, antisemetic, a nazi, anti-blm, pro-cop/’blue lives matter’, racist, ‘pro-ship’/pedo/MAP, etc. This includes transphobia, biphobia, and panphobia. If you’re nasty you know who you are. Get outta here!

On that note- despite the warning above, this blog will not particpiate in any political discussion or drama. I simply do not want nasty people interacting with this blog. If you want to discuss anything, at the very least, go to my main/sideblogs. The exception of this is if I reblog something from a nasty person/source- I try to do a brief check of who I reblog from, but sometimes I’m tired or lazy. If you notice content come from a questionable blog, let me know, and I’ll remove it!

Please try not to send in overly explicit or horny questions. Though this blog may discuss mature themes, such as discussions of breeding behavior and anatomy, it’s not going to be horny in nature.

Be aware that if your question is ‘in character’, Alem may refuse to answer it. Unless you’re a recurring person or someone they feel comfortable with, don’t send anything overly weird or personal. Alem is a professional, and is always more than happy to share things they know (sometimes too much), but even they have a line they won’t cross sometimes. On the other hand, even if Alem might not answer it, I probably will! I love to answer questions, even more than Alem :D