good morning here’s a tlou x the office au

joel and pam are ig jim and tess, except if pam was far more confident and flirty and jim was a single father with even less patience for everyone around. at the beginning of their flirtationship, tess is in a relationship with mike, who is just? meh? he’s nice? he’s not good, he’s not bad, he’s just nice. but everyone sees the way joel looks at tess, has been looking at tess for years and years and years; they see the way sarah comes in and absolutely adores spending time with her, ditching her daddy completely in favor of spending time with “literally the coolest person ever”; they see the way tess faithfully makes both her and joel coffee every morning, even despite her claims that she “is not a goddamn coffee machine, thank you very much. everyone in here can get up to go make their own goddamn cups of coffee”; they see the way the two of them fall in love. they know it is only a matter of time (and are particularly interested in the specifics of that time, because they’re all invested in the office-wide bet of when exactly their getting-together will be)

ellie is a temp that is driving everybody crazy but also somehow simultaneously making them fall in love with her.

maria, tommy, and bill and frank, literally almost every character from game 1 and 2 under the cut!

ellie is major crushing on new hire dina in accounting, and she’s constantly hanging back there with dina and jesse, the other accountant and dina’s ex/bestie. anna is alive and super proud of her and comes to visit her on the job sometimes, which everybody adores. they all spend the day gushing to her about how awesome and whip-smart ellie is—they leave out stories like the time she and tommy set half the kitchen on fire because they put foil in the microwave

maria is ig kinda like a version of stanley that, except young and hot but still very much being slowly driven insane at this fucking job with these absolute fucking wackos. she’s their best salesman, and she’s so fucking smart about investing her money that she’s somehow absolutely loaded filthy rich on the side—to the point where everyone is a lil suspicious of what exactly she’s investing in, but whatever. she vacations in crazy expensive lavish places like luxury hotels in vegas, lake tahoe, and magnolia springs. she has also been divorced twice (not bc shes a serial cheater like stanley just bc she was too good for them and the divorce contracts she negotiated for herself were also a great way to make a lil extra money. allegedly). she is a level 10 Cat Person and has two custom-modeled cat rooms for all seven of her cats (tommy worked on a new, better, more awesome one after seeing her first)

tommy is an accountant who got hired here first as a temp as a favor to his brother; he actually really ended up loving the place, so he stayed. i think he’d be a hilarious version of meredith, not in that he has an alcohol problem but just in that he parties way to hard (and, like meredith, always somehow ends up with his shirt off) and halfway lives out of his (actually pretty lavish and cool) camper van that takes up three parking spaces and takes ten minutes to park every morning. he’s fun and friendly and head-over-heels in love with maria, who is playin a lil hard to get but only because she’s not interested in anything too serious, anything that’ll take time away from her work and her cats—she knows, somehow, that it would be serious with her and tommy. she is kindasortamaybe falling in love with him a little bit already too, so. the office also has a bet on who will get together first, between maria and tommy and tess and joel. tommy has a retired ptsd service dog named buckley that comes around the office sometimes to visit everyone and get pets and take long naps on maria’s cold feet—tommy makes sure maria knows how much buckley loves cats, too, just in case

riley is ellie’s best friend and works as a temp under marlene across the hall (she also employs abby, lev, yara, and mel), but riley comes around enough that she’s practically part of the family. she’s constantly coming over with snacks and coffees and extra smooth pens for everyone when she hangs out with ellie, so who can complain? she also has a really cute lil thing with cat, who’s temping under esther in hr. cat always cat/house-sits for maria when she goes on trips

the office is co-managed by bill and frank, with frank handling the emplyees and day to day stuff while bill mostly makes sure the walls don’t collapse in on everyone everyday (literally and figuratively. the paper business is an especially shitty one, and their building structurally is an absolute mess). 5/7 days out of the week, bill is walking around all day with workboots and his tool belt on, looking like he just came back from war

it is an incredibly good time, and it descends into chaos when a camera crew comes in to make a documentary about all of them

honestly though if they weren't cowards they'd sell nelson flavoured alcohol in the portsmouth gift shop

Room Service

It's Em’s (@redrattlers) birthday :)

Summary: Luke’s blue eyes are so soft on him. He says quietly, “I don’t care that you steal tiny soaps.”

“I don’t care that you’re a hooker,” Michael replies simply.

or the one where Michael is a room attendant at a hotel and Luke is a hooker that frequents it.

Word Count: 27,601

Pairing: Michael Clifford/Luke Hemmings

Rating: E

Read on AO3

i say this in the kindest way possible but i think there's a lot of american critiques of saltburn that just don't quite grasp the british class system? and like i'm australian i haven't experienced it myself but like. the cattons are not the kind of rich that a person could conceivably aspire to. these are people descended from the mr darcys of the 19th century, who made their money from slavery and colonialism and it still hasn't run out and likely never will. they're probably related to the royal family somehow. oliver being so obsessed with them and doing terrible things in an attempt to reach that status despite being relatively privileged himself makes so much sense in that context.

Sannyo Miko rivalry?

(Miko's guest appearance is now officially old news, so I can finally post stuff)

Does anyone think these duels will become some kind of fanon rivalry and take off? Or a ship possibly. Rivalries tend to form ships, which would definitely be funny. adding her to Miko's Marisa sized harem. Sannyo destroyed Mamizou in their game so it's kinda cute seeing Sannyo get stupefied and publicly defeated by Touhou's biggest show off.

Look at this adorable perplexed face.

Though in all probably, Miko doesn't really care much about the gambling and is probably just using this display to lure out the all geidontei Yokai.

Though maybe she does enjoy the games. Who knows?

Ugg, and if they get the Russo brothers to direct on top of Waldron's shitty sexist writing for Kang and SW, we're really fucked for Lokius. Remember when gay rep was "so important" to them that one of them played an unnamed gay extra with one sentence of dialogue? And they thought the community would fall all over itself in gratefulness because they'd found a new and humiliating way to other queer characters and highlight how heteronormative Marvel is? Yeah, I hate them...just a little. I'd take Taika Waititi's disinterested sloppiness over their homophobia any day, because at least he'd embrace some diversity.

Something I don’t think we talk about enough is how we watch Ghosts and how the existence of fandom and online discussions about the show impacts that.

When series 4 aired, I was surprised to discover that the morning of the release date of episode 1, the whole series was put on iPlayer. I understand that this is done so people who want to watch the show in one go are able to, and it lets people view at their own convenience, but it also removes people from the experience of watching a show as a fandom.

As someone who doesn’t like to blow all 6 episodes of a series I’ve waited a whole year for in one sitting, I end up having to cut myself off from twitter and tumblr for the duration of the show’s airing in order to avoid spoilers. While this is a nice break from social media, imagine a world where they didn’t dump all the episodes on streaming at once.

Imagine across the country everyone in the fandom sitting down to watch each episode together, discussing possibilities about the rest of the series and live tweeting as the show goes on. Imagine coming home from a long week and sitting down on a Friday knowing today is Ghosts day and messaging your mutuals about the episode just after it had finished.

It feels like in todays rushed society we’re getting more and more disconnected from one another and removing the experience of watching a TV show together as a fandom, and as a nation, is just another factor that contributes to this.

I read a 300-ish page book the other day, after not reading a lot of pro-fiction in a while, and it was like... pretty much just Fine in terms of the pacing and how polished it was. I could see the bits where the author was handwaving and trying to get something ticked off to move on to the next scene. It was mostly a pretty decent read and there was a lot I liked about it, but it was solidly mid and I was suprised that it had been published by a Big 5 publishing house when I got to the end and realised it wasn't an indie.

To be clear, this isn't a "which proves fic is better than books" thing, I was just kind of pleasantly surprised that you can get a good-enough-but-not-amazing-and-kinda-sloppy book professionally published in this day and age and have decent ratings on Amazon and GoodReads.

wait lol

(the book isn't out yet but there are a few pages avail on preview here)

Film updates become a tomdaya fanpage is starting to happen

Told y’all there is a new TZ trinity 😂

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35.

35. Thoughts on writing challenges/contests.

For folks who thrive on those sorts of challenges, they can be fantastic! Though there's so many different kinds anon.

Like, there's very serious writing contests/competitions with high value cash prizes and sometimes publishing contracts.

There's fanfiction contests.

There's all types of challenges, including everything from like... personal challenges (Kinktober / Whumptober / NaNoWriMo) to group challenges and Big Bangs etc.

I don't participate in Big Bangs generally, and have no real interest in contests in fandom. I remember the days where fanfic awards used to be given out to people to like, copy and paste onto their fic to show how popular it was, and that's not really done anymore!

I think writing challenges/contests are really good for the people they're good for. It's often the best way to connect with writing peers, and fellow folks who are in a similar boat to you.

Personally, I have my own challenges to reach every month.

Also Kinkmemes are superior :D

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Thank you for the fic recommendations you shared over the last week!

ugh you’re so welcome, this last week particularly has kept me very well fed and i have hope that as time passes, the fics are simply going to get better and better!

wish it was easier to just like, know what you want to do in life. what do you mean i have to go through a whole self-discovery journey just to get a job in this capitalist hellscape. is it not enough to just exist.

a friend just reminded me of a bit i used to do at parties/meeting ppl for the first time. ppl would be like "where do you work" and i'd look these virtual strangers in the eyes and be like, completely straight-faced "i sell juul pods to teenagers."

fr if taylor and philip don't kiss then what's this all been about. (the entire series of billions) what is it all for