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aelswiths · 1 month

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Aelswith x Alfred (being so cute and married) in 2x05

For @kingslionheart, @ladyfenring, @garunsdottir

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anglerflsh · 10 months

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I'm really intrigued by your ocs. Could I ask for a bit of lore about them?

do count that most of it is in the process of being re-written. They're for a four-act play I was toying with a while ago.

The short of it is, O. (lighter haired one) is ruling prince of one of the states that are part of the same federation as the state H. (black haired one) is direct ruler of. The former is one of the bigger states, whose claim to fame has become the efficiency of its military after the reforms O. put in place when his sister was still ruling princess. She has recently been poisoned, hence why he's head of state now - he was never directly introduced to the federation council before because he wasn't the firstborn child, so him dealing with diplomatic relations directly is a new development. The latter is instead a more commerce-central kingdom - I think of it like the repubblica di Venezia (it also helps because H. is head of the church for the kingdom as well as temporal ruler) - and H. has been in charge for enough time that he's well-established as a figure in the federation despite his kingdom's small size. And they know each other because of said diplomatic relations taking place! Their respective lands fought a war years prior, under different rulers, so it was significant that they would be friends.

#there's more to it because of how the federation works - and why two states that are part of it can be at war with each other - but #I am still figuring that bit out #also because this is a play a lot of it wouldn't be explored in the actual text lol #[.asks]#[.oc]#Oleander #oleander honey #I'm also thinking it would be better if the ex-princess wasn't dead but rather had gone insane/was severly sick due to the poison

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llyfrenfys · 6 months

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Heddiw yw Diwrnod Gwelededd Rhyngryw / Today is Intersex Awareness Day

Mae pobl ryngryw yn bobl â rhyw amwys. Mae'r gymuned ryngryw yn amrywiol gyda llawer o brofiadau. Mae rhai pobl ryngryw yn drawsryweddol neu'n anneuaidd hefyd.

Am fwy o wybodaeth a chefnogaeth, gweler @tin_wardrobe a @transaidcymru ar Instagram a @northwalestransintersexnonbinary ar Tumblr

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Intersex people are people with an ambiguous sex. The intersex community is diverse with lots of different experiences. Some intersex people are also transgender or nonbinary.

For more information and support, see @tin_wardrobe and @transaidcymru on Instagram and @northwalestransintersexnonbinary on Tumblr

#diwrnod ymwybyddiaeth rhyngryw #intersex awareness day #ymwybyddiaeth rhyngryw #intersex awareness #rhyngryw #intersex #excuse the sparse text here- still trying to find a bilingual system which works for everyone #I've had some people find bolded text hard to read so I'm still trying to figure out how to make the Welsh and English texts distinct #from each other at a glance

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thats-a-lot-of-cortisol · 8 days

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My mom just sent a message to the family group chat suggesting that my siblings download the 'For the Strength of Youth' magazine on their Gospel Library app and talked about how much the youth magazines helped her testimony growing up and like, cool. Fine. Don't know why the 'sending random spiritual thoughts in the gc' thing started out of nowhere when it hadn't been a thing for a decade but this is just another one of those, and you're ofc allowed to talk about things that are significant in your life.

I don't think sending the 'What I Did When Someone Close to Me Challenged My Faith' article right afterwards was strictly necessary though 🙃

#hi bg mutuals 👋 i'm gonna vent about this from time to time. if any mutuals dont want to see it block the 'apostake' tag #trying not to read too much into it b/c I think I did last time something like this happened #and i dont want to make an ass of myself even if neither time would actually be in front of my parents #but like...i know that they know that one of my sisters is clearly PIMO #they went through her phone a couple weeks ago and i have no idea if they read my texts w/ her #but if they did they probably saw the conversation i had with her about some of the really common shelf-breakers #and telling her to take looking into it at her own pace b/c it's scary and overwhelming #(a conversation SHE started btw)#and when i talked to my parents about the larger context of that whole situation i talked about not having space to step back #and their response was that they give plenty of space b/c they dont make her go to seminary???#that's not the same thing as letting her openly question & potentially leave the church idk what to tell you #like. besties i dont know for sure what caused it (which is NOT making things better. it just feels potentially passive aggressive)#but from my end? it sure looks like it might be a reaction to that. probably not JUST that (friends exist) but.#if you think I'm whispering anti-mormon rhetoric into my siblings' ears just ask me. i'm very much NOT doing that #i'm just. talking? to them? when and if they come to me with questions?#and not making my answer 'well there's a reason our parents raised us in the church! ☺️'#(an actual argument given in the article my mom sent)#hate it. thanks #apostake #jay rambles #ok to interact #im not challenging anyone's faith. my patience though? INCREDIBLY challenged #gotta figure out how to work my way around a 'hey please dont send spiritual thoughts to the gc *I'm in*' talk tactfully #they've been pretty chill about me leaving over-all?? at least to my face #haven't pushed me to go to church w/ them; was fine with me not visiting for easter; didnt try to convince me to not drink coffee; etc #it's just. frustrating that they're not giving my siblings that still live with them that same grace #my sister's 17 ffs #it's very possible im way overreacting to the article. but what is tumblr for if not screaming into the void #religion #mormonism

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butchhamlet · 1 year

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thankyou for defending romeo&juliet. u r doing fifteen year old lesbians everywhere a justice. juliet is so me

as someone who was once a fifteen year old lesbian sitting in english class going "mercutio is just like me fr"

[image: the guy saluting and crying meme]

#max.txt #still haven't figured out how to work alt text i'm a bit dumb innit #asks #anyway this is so real. r&j were lesbians

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viksalos · 6 months

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in about 5 sessions with my therapist we went from "you can't possibly be autistic because you're not like the nonverbal high support needs teenage boys i worked with in the early 2000s," to me digging up my childhood psychological records from the early 2000s and convincing her, to her presenting my case to her supervisor and her supervisor being like "yeah you had an undiagnosed autistic client on your hands and she needs to be transferred to someone qualified to handle that" lmao

#text #only reason i stuck with her after figuring it out is bc my psychiatrist works at the same practice and he *is* qualified lol #that said i don't think she was being malicious abt this. like i would be more angry at her if she *still* refused to believe me #after all the evidence i dug up #only thing she's guilty of is not keeping up with the research in this particular subfield of her field #which; in fairness; is no longer her specialty #aughhhh i'm gonna have to do so much processing about how the '''''g1fted''''' label shot me in the foot so many times tho #with so many professionals who insisted i couldn't possibly be having any associated difficulties bc of it #(not to mention the societal narrative that ex-''g1fted'' kids are just privileged (fair) and whining about fake problems (not fair))#and set me up for so much systemic abuse that i can't even be mad at a single person for bc they all thought they were doing their best #but the good news is i can process that with New Therapist lol!

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iridescentoracle · 8 months

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@eglerieth replied to your post: Hello! I am here to ask about your Dior headcanons…

What’s your Galadriel headcanon?

Oh man, I didn’t see this!! Thank you for asking, i fully did not expect anyone to actually get far enough into the Dior post to see that let alone actually want to know. Sorry I’m two days late!

So! What we know about Galadriel in the Silmarillion:

She hated Fëanor but thought being a queen sounded pretty sweet/desired power

She’s named as one of the leaders of the Noldor across the Helcaraxë

Instead of founding her own kingdom (like she’d explicitly originally wanted) or moving in with her brother she got married and stayed in Doriath and learned a lot from Melian

Eventually Melian was like “hey so you should explain the weird ominous evil metaphysical cloud i can see hanging over the Noldor so i can explain about it to my husband bc he should really learn about whatever happened before it blows up in everybody’s faces” and Galadriel was like “yeah he probably should but i’m not telling”

At some point Galadriel asked Finrod why he wasn’t married yet

One time Melian casually foreshadowed Beren’s existence to Galadriel, who has no recorded response

That’s it. That’s literally all we know about what she was up to. She was super jazzed about the prospect of Ruling A Kingdom and then made friends with a queen and learned a bunch from her and… was still alive after the War of Wrath, and in between we have nothing.

We don’t know how she survived the Second Kinslaying, we can assume she made it to the Havens of Sirion but don’t know how she survived the Third Kinslaying let alone what she did/where she went after that… we don’t know what her reaction was to the death of her only remaining family member in Middle-earth, for which her cousins and the great-uncle in whose kingdom she lived were both partially responsible…

Like, that's weird, right? Galadriel is firmly established as someone bold and interested in being a ruler and stubborn as all get out, and then she… does nothing and everybody seems to forget she exists for several hundred years and some major political upheavals that should have personally affected her? It's not just me? That's really weird?

So, my Galadriel headcanon is that she’s inexplicably absent for most of the Quenta Silmarillion because she was deliberately erased/left out by the scribes writing things down because there was no way to acknowledge her presence in Doriath during and after Beren & Lúthien’s whole everything without getting into the messiest bit of Sindar-Noldor political tension that didn’t involve the Fëanorioni, because (again, headcanon) Galadriel Did Not Respond Well to her uncle getting her brother killed as a side effect of trying to get her cousin’s boyfriend killed and there was A Lot Of Tension for a while there (when you’ve got that kind of interpersonal tension between people who are both essentially Political Figures, i figure it’s probably going to turn into political tension unless they’re both trying very very hard to avoid that and potentially even then)

…and then after Thingol’s death a few years later, I think one of the primary contenders for Next Ruler of Doriath was Galadriel “Well I Came Here For A Kingdom In The First Place” Granddaughter-of-Olwë and also her husband is related to Thingol* and Lúthien’s clearly removed herself from contention so if the Sindar want a monarch who’s actually related to the last one they both qualify, it’s perfect and obviously Galadriel should be the next queen of Doriath (it is not obvious to everyone)

* on a side note, Celeborn is mentioned twice in the Quenta Silm: #1, Galadriel stays in Doriath because she’s marrying a “kinsman of Thingol,” while #2, shortly after Thingol’s death, Celeborn is referred to as a “prince of Doriath.” Not actual evidence, but it sure fits in nicely!

Like I said in the Dior post, I don’t think anything ever came to outright surface-level conflict; a civil war in Doriath is not getting left out of the Silmarillion. Tension between Galadriel and Thingol, though? and then between Galadriel and [various other contenders for the throne after Thingol, potentially including Dior himself when he arrived] that had everyone a little nervous? when she didn’t become queen and did (however begrudgingly) accept that Dior was the closest thing to a consensus pick and did survive the next several thousand years only to finally wind up as functional queen of most of the remaining Sindar despite eschewing the actual title? That I can see getting diplomatically left out of the histories, and explaining why she’s completely during the parts of the story where you’d think she’d be most involved.

#eglerieth #replies #lotr #character: galadriel #the silmarillion #listen i love galadriel more than words can express but so much of what's interesting about her is her character development #we know her best from LOTR as one of the oldest wisest most powerful most respected people in all of middle-earth #and she started as this stubborn willful power-hungry kid?#it's been a long time since i first read the silmarillion but i still remember discovering that and how it blew my mind #so while i do think all of this makes sense as An explanation for her disappearance from the text #part of why it's *my* explanation of choice is that i love that that's where she started and i think it's a shame we don't get to see more #of first age galadriel being this complicated messy figure who makes her third age self look all the more amazing #bc how the hell did she get there from here #so it works out so nicely if part of the reason we don't know more about early galadriel being Complicated™...#is just how Complicated™ early galadriel was #anyway the main thing i have realized in writing this & the dior post is holy shit i think about the silmarillion too much #i have. so many thoughts and opinions that i have never discussed with anyone and i don't even know what i actually need to explain #/what facts & opinions i need to establish as context for the stuff i'm actually trying to talk about #guessing the answer is "a whole bunch that i didn't‚ but not like half the things i *do*'' but i genuinely do not know!

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werewolf-transgenderism · 1 year

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bad news: started twenty page paper at like 1:30 pm on the day before it's due and then had to spend two hours annotating a source I thought I'd already pulled quotes from

good news: in the past three and a half hours I've written eight pages and that means there are only 12 pages left to go AND I'm gonna format it into chicago so I can use footnotes to take up more of the page space AND the prof specifically asked for larger margins so he can leave comments :)

#upping the margin size and adding footnotes will add so much length to this for real #don't ask me why I did this to myself it's because I'm writing about william blake and literally didn't even figure out my point #until like this morning #because blake is soooo confusing on PURPOSE and like I'm still not 100% sure I know what's going on in 'jerusalem' but #as long as I'm confident about it I can get away with it #this prof really likes my writing even though every single thing I've turned in has been entirely pulled out of my ass at the last second #like I'm not stressed about this paper and I probably should be but you know how it is #I can bullshit twelve more pages I have barely touched on the actual text it's just theological background on the prelapsarian androgyne #good thing I love leah devun's work on premodern nonbinary sex and already have so much info about this #anyway the next two days will be 'miles liveblogs procrastination consequences'#but after that I'm FREE from COURSEWORK and will be doing the actual phd part of the phd #anyway.

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knifegremliin · 1 year

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managed to avoid the phone call and still do what i needed to do B)

#🔪.text #which is test drive the car #mom and i took a chance and just drove on over to it #and it just so happened that the guy was literally already outside with it #so i got to drive it a bit and ahhhh i really do like it a lot #i still need to figure out payment tho #i'm hoping all will go well and i'll be able to get it #but the guy said that some other people are coming to look at it tomorrow #so we'll see #and unfortunately i have a petsitting job starting tomorrow so i'm not even gonna be home aghhh #so really no idea how i'm gonna work this out :')#so i'm really just hoping that none of those other people will buy it lol #because i really have no idea how i'm gonna be able to get it if i'm not..... here.#thankfully the petsitting job ends sunday and i'll be home early in the day #so as long as no one else buys it......#fingers crossed #hoping for all the luck in the world rn lmaoo #i really like this car and i want it lol

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the-penultimate-pam · 1 year

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I'm on Pillowfort!

Yeah, just in case The Brands™ destroy what makes Tumblr good, I’ve made an account on Pillowfort. For the moment, it’s under the username that I’m allowing both Online and IRL people to know (including... coworkers lollll), so I probably won’t be as wild on there, but whatever!

They just made it free to join, with a waitlist - go to https://www.pillowfort.social/waitlist and sign up, the wait time is only 5 hours at the time I’m writing this, OR you can pay $5 USD to get immediate access (just go through the homepage to join that way).

Once you get the email saying your registration has arrived, you just create a username and password, and then you’ll need to go back to your email inbox and confirm your email address to get full access to the site’s features.

Then follow meeeeee <3 https://www.pillowfort.social/TwasBrillig Click the little plus in a circle on the left. (Followers and mutuals, if your Pillowfort name isn’t similar to your tumblr name, please let me know who you are! I probably won’t block unknowns but would like to know :) )

I’m definitely sticking around on Tumblr as long as I can, though!

(Protip: Go to settings and turn on dark mode)

#and yes it does have a tagging system almost identical to tumblr's so yes i will be making full use of it #still figuring out how it all works #i do admit the UI and navigation are a little less intuitive than what I'm used to #but I like the philosophy behind its purpose #pam spam #so far it does seem very VERY similar to tumblr #I just don't think you can make custom pages on your profile #or even customize its design and layout #but that may be in the plans for future #also i'm trying purple text here and there - please let me know if this makes it difficult or inaccessible for you #purple because purple is good

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leatherbookmark · 1 year

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sits. i wonder in what ways would things change if gusu lan were slaughtered instead of yunmeng jiang, with lxc and lwj the only ones remaining

#what if there was no cave... what if lxc's worst nightmares came true and his uncle telling him to run really did end up being the last time #he'd ever see him. and jc didn't marry but he had many reasons for that. if all that was left from the sect was two brothers and a bag of #old texts i wonder if lxc would take one for the team and just. get married have children. be a bad husband and father (it's the trauma)#also re: xiyao. the lotus pier wasn't burned because the wen wanted to use it as the supervisory office. jgy wouldn't have 'helping lxc'#as one of his motivations for getting accepted into the jin. but with jin money he definitely could have helped in other ways #on the other hand again: Two Brothers And A Bag Of Texts. i'm committing treason rn but what if jgy still went to spy at the nightless city #but also helped the lan a lot. to the point that a/ both brothers realize how insanely competent and hard-working he is and b/ jgs #figures out that his bastard already swore his allegiance to them. something something #again though jgy (or: still my) staying with the lan would still... be a Not Good ending because lxc while he's xc he's still l. so even if #he loved a-yao more than everything he would probably still choose to Suffer for the clan's sake. especially if he could spare #lwj the suffering.#everything is sad actually. ah why did i make this post #shrimp thoughts

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absentlyabbie · 6 months

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seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

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strawberryslips · 2 months

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I'm feeling better about my art so [boots a bunch of stuff out of my drafts]

#Had mixed feelings about older art bc of [trauma] but like #the creep who hurt me bluntly could only translate my actual designs so well #and theres more me (bc theyre my ocs) than there is him with the designs #so I'm posting em #bc I like how they look #and I like how my current stuff looks (for now)#im riding off the high of figuring out how to draw noses and making previous ideas actually work #so while im not posting art from today its still worth posting i think #text #its all in the queue so! enjoy!

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prokopetz · 2 months

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Something I love about The Far Roofs is how much of a swerve its premise is if you're coming to it uninitiated.

Okay, so there's these talking rats with a culture of swashbuckling heroism – basic Redwall/Reepicheep stuff.

Also, there's a magical realm called the Far Roofs which exists above every human community, and that's where the rats go adventuring; a little weird, but you can see the precedents in popular fiction. It's like wainscot fantasy taken to its logical-yet-absurd conclusion.

By default, the game wants you to play as a fictionalised version of your (presumably human!) self and go up onto the Far Roofs to have adventures with the rats. All right, now it's coming together: it's like isekai fantasy meets The Muppet Show, with you as the obligatory human character, right?

Then we get to the nature of those adventures: the rats have this whole culture built around questing against beings they call "the Mysteries" – beasties with names like Harpy and Goblin and Unicorn. So basically it's a bunch of muppety rats on the roofs fighting Dungeons & Dragons monsters, and you go up and help them do it. Great.

And then you get to what the Mysteries are actually like, and... well, I'm going to let the following excerpt carry the weight here. (This particular bit of text also appears in a previously published work by the same author, so I'm not giving anything away that's still under wraps.)

Unicorn, which is named Numinous, dwells three steps away and beyond the world, but most often in the Farthest Roofs, where the Steppes of the Sky come down to touch the Vast and Earthen Court. There it is stepping upwards from the world, as it has always been stepping upwards from the world, caught in a moment of transcendent glory that does not complete. It simply is. Melanthios heard the footsteps of Unicorn. Melanthios heard the ringing of Unicorn’s bells. So Melanthios chased Unicorn off to the Farthest Roofs, and Melanthios did not return. Anton and Karel, who were his sons, were wiser than their father. They heard the bells but they did not follow. Instead, they memorized the scent. They gathered swords, and ropes, and nets, and they went out. They brought food and water and all manner of gear. They clung to the roofs with all four feet wheresoever after Unicorn they went. It proved no good. Anton looked up, and Karel to his brother. The world came down— That’s what Karel said. He had time to look away. He had time to bury his head in his paws. He did not see the fullness of Unicorn’s presence. He only saw Anton his brother become unreal. In the light of the moment of the Unicorn, Anton became as a paper figure in the fire. His reality burned out. His shadow seared into the roofs behind him. Where he’d stood, for just a moment, the Steppes of the Sky came down to touch the Vast and Earthen Court; and Anton was gone away. So Karel ran and Karel ran and Karel ran from the Unicorn; and all his life, he envied but was more fortunate than his brother.

These are gods. You're going up there to kill God.

Like, it's still silly wainscot fantasy with funny talking rats, but there's that tension. It's like if Fraggle Rock occasionally took a hard turn to serious cosmic horror – Lord Dunsany by way of Jim Henson – and that tonal juxtaposition was treated as something unremarkable.

Basically what I'm saying is go back The Far Roofs.

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #the far roofs #dr. jenna moran #crowdfunding #kickstarter #violence mention #death mention

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reiderwriter · 5 months

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Can I request a Spencer babying the reader BAU and everyone on the team is so done with it but reader is confused and oblivious...?

A/N: Thank you for your request! I've been very much feeling post-Prison/ later seasons Spencer recently, so I hope you enjoy this fic!

Warnings: mostly fluff, implied age-gap, slight mentor/mentee dynamic.

Your first year in the BAU would've been tough had it not been for Doctor Spencer Reid.

It was tough still, but without him, you don't think you'd have been able to handle much of it. He'd been your mentor through each case, taking you under his wing when he wasn't on academic leave, teaching his criminology courses at the FBI Academy.

Those weeks were the hardest, and you found yourself moping about in the office, texting him once or twice a trip for advice.

On one particularly hard case, he'd come back into the office after you'd text. Not to consult on the case, but just to drop you off a chamomile tea and a pastry to brighten your day that little bit.

When he was back, your days were great. He knew so much, and you learnt so much from him so quickly, eagerly consuming his every word. You were so eager to please him that you often forgot others around the two of you.

“Spencer, if you're done fawning after Y/N we have a case to work on,” Emily gently chastised the man as he pulled out your chair for you, ready to sit down to hear the details of your next crime.

“Oh, Emily, thank you, but it's okay. Doctor Reid was just being considerate, I'm sure he'd have done it for anyone.” The shared glances around the room were filled with glib secrecy, but no-one commented further, leaving you slightly baffled.

Those shared looks between the other members of your team had become more common as of late, with each one more worrisome than the next. There was something unsettling about being the only one out of the loop, and as the newest member of the team, and the youngest, it often felt disheartening.

“Y/N, don't worry. Being the youngest member of any team is tough, but you're smart and you're holding your own.” With a pat to your head he walked away, lifting the weight off your shoulders slightly but not fully. You needed to get to the bottom of the BAU's non-verbal communications, and you needed answers.

Your first technique was interrogation. Surely one of them would break and tell you if you laid out your thoughts and feelings clearly.

Surely not, you found, as each member casually and softly blew you off.

“Y/N, you just need to think carefully about how certain members of the team act towards you. How familiar they are. How overly familiar they are.” Tara had at least told you that much, bit it had left you just as confused as the radio silence from the others.

“Everyone has behaved very professionally with me. You've all been very welcoming up to this point, which I appreciate greatly.”

“I wouldn't count gifting you flowers for your first successful case as the most professional act, Y/N,” she said as she sipped her coffee. “But I suppose that is just up to interpretation.

Doctor Reid had sent you flowers after you finished your first case. But there had been extenuating circumstances in that case. You'd both worked on the geographical profile on that case, and together had figured out the species of flower the unsub was using was only cultivated on one local flower orchard. It had cracked the case open and you'd found your unsub hours later.

So the flowers were an extension of that small joint success. That was all.

Your second attempt at figuring out what was going on was observation.

Partially taking Tara’s advice, you tried your best to track the moments when each of the weary looks would come your way.

Overwhelmingly, they seemed to be directed towards Doctor Reid whenever the two of you interacted.

You had to gently inform him of this, before it interrupted both of your abilities to work.

“Doctor Reid, do you know why Emily and Rossi are both currently watching us from between the blinds in their offices?” You whispered to the man, leaning in close to his ear. You were quite sure he didn't know, but a question seemed as good a way as any to broach the topic.

“I do, yes. It's best if you ignore them.”

His nonchalance in the matter shocked you, so sure you were that this would be news to him. You waited for him to elaborate, but he didn't.

“Why are they staring at us?” You finally managed to force the words out in a small squeak, forcing his eyes back to yours.

“Don't worry about it for now, I'll handle it.” He smiled down as you, and the bright gesture washed away more of the tension you'd been feeling in the office. You smiled back at him as he rose from his desk chair and carried himself to the stairs. You giggled when he winked down at you, just as you noticed Emily frantically hurrying away from her office window as Spencer knocked on her door.

As much as he told you to not worry about it all though, you really couldn't help yourself. You found yourself growing more clumsy under the watchful eyes of your entire team, galling more times than you'd care to admit into Doctor Reid's arms. He always caught you, though, and you were thankful you never did yourself serious injury.

You finally got the answers you'd craved out on a case about a month into your struggles.

There was something slightly unsettling about the way the female Sheriff was paying attention to Doctor Reid, and it made you uncomfortable. Your mouth ran dry when she touched his arm, but a small part of you warmed up again when he shrugged her off. Until, at least, you heard him explain why.

“I'm sorry, I'm a germophobe, so I'd really prefer you not touch me.” His voice was calm and steady; it really didn't seem like he was lying.

“You're not pulling my leg? I'm sorry if I came on too strong, but-”

“Why would I pull your leg, I said I don't like physical touch?”

“Well, there was that young girl earlier, Y/N was it? You had your hand on her back as you walked in, so I didn't think…”

The woman had made a good point, and you crept closer to the edge of the door to hear Doctor Reid - Spencer's response.

“Sheriff, if we're done here, do you think I could get back to my job?” You were almost disappointed in the change of topic, but you weren't all that sad to see the Sheriff remove herself from the room. Slipping in behind her you decided to test the new theory that had slipped into your mind in the last minutes.

You called out to him to grab his attention as you walked into the room but before he had the chance to turn and greet you, you threw your arms around his shoulders and pressed your body down against his, enveloping him in a back hug.

It was quite possibly the most familiar position you'd been in with him, but really it wasn't all that different from your usual proximity.

Unlike when the Sheriff casually brushed against him, he didn't stiffen, didn't pull away, but instead melted into your touch, looking up at you with a large grin.

You stood shocked for a minute before grinning back.

“Spencer, I think I know why everyone has been watching us for the last few weeks.” You said, causing his eyes to panic slightly as he acknowledged your words.

“The, uh, the Sheriff was just in here talking about a development either some of the DNA test results-” He desperately tried to change the subject, but you were locked in now, spinning his chair around to face you more as you came eye-to-eye with him.

“I know why the Sheriff was in here, Spencer, I heard it all.”

“It's not what you think,” you paused for a moment as your brow furrowed, trying to figure out if you'd somehow caught the wrong end of the stick.

“So our coworkers haven't been waiting for you to ask me out, having noticed large changes in your body language and attitude around me?”

“It's….exactly as you think.” His face was flushed with pink and your heart skipped a beat at the man in front of you. But you still had some questions.

“And you knew, but you didn't say anything to me despite the fact that I bought it up multiple times?”

“I'm…I'm not good with words," he frowned

“Are you good with dates?”

“Excuse me?”

“You're going to take me on a date when we get back to Quantico. After giving it some thought, Doctor Reid, it seems I've become quite enamoured of you.” You dropped into his lap then, sitting there like a cat pleased to take up residence on its owners legs. He stuttered for a few seconds but then found his voice again, face lighting up.

“Spencer. Please, Y/N, call me Spencer.”

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Unhappy bc I was assigned four more one-hour interviews to transcribe and I rapidly discovered during the transcribing of the last round of interviews that I frickin hate transcribing. I don't know what it is because it's pretty mundane work that I'm usually fine with, like along the lines of data entry, but if I do it for more than an hour at a time I get super antsy and become physically uncomfortable. Like I have to take at least an hour break between every hour of work, and the most I've ever been able to transcribe in an hour is 8 minutes of audio (and that was with perfect audio that had no fritzing or echoes or background noise), so it takes like bare minimum seven or eight hours for me to be able to transcribe a one hour interview.

#and this is with my improved technique after I figured out how to use voice record on google docs #like I'll literally have basically the entire interview written out as a chunk of text #and I just need to listen through it and add punctuation and formatting and all the ums and uhs that voice transcription skips over #and I can still only do like eight minutes of audio per hour of transcribing #I hate it #I'm like twelve minutes into the first of the four audios I was assigned and I want to throw myself out the window #and it's not like this is my 9-5 job #this is a part time job I'm not supposed to work for more than 5 hours a week #so even if I work at peak efficiency it'll take me a solid month to get through these #and I never work at peak efficiency because this is not my primary job and also I've got school and thesis shit to worry about

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