ā greetings & salutations. since my original intro post is kind of messy, I'm making a new one!
ć¼ name
lark !
ć¼ age / birthday
twenty-one / may 5th
ć¼ pronouns
they/them | he/him
āāāā other socials/blogs āāāā
ā archive of our own: ma_lark_ey
ā spotify: malarkey
ā discord: ma_lark_ey
āāāā fandoms i'll tag/post:
all for the game (the foxhole court) / red, white, & royal blue / percy jackson / magnus chase / check, please! / the extraordinaries / simon snow (carry on) / the adventure zone / the raven cycle / royals & romance (the nightmare before kissmas/go luck yourself)
āāāā also, here are my fics that I still think are readable. āāāā
(otherwise known as, the collection of fanfictions I actually think are well written and not the ramblings of a lunatic (re: not written in a cripplingly intense hyperfocus.))
Separated by fandom
Carry On ā
ā Winter Gardens [NR/6k]
"Simon Snow was (almost literally) scooped out of the trash by Davy Cadwallader when he signed his contract to become 'the next big thing' at just thirteen years old. Now, at eighteen, the years of sidelining his health in the name of his producer's standards are catching up to him, and the public's beginning to notice.
It probably doesn't help that his boyfriend's vague-posting insults to his producer, either... Or that people are onto the fact he even has a boyfriend."
ā are not created equal [NR/4k]
"Carry On where Everything Is the Same(tm) except Simon Snow is Deaf. And also autistic.
Baz has like an ounce of emotional literacy but that's less important."
Dungeons & Daddies ā
ā is that my face!? [G/36k]
Nick decides to go to church camp with Grant just so he doesn't have to be alone. He wasn't ready for... Whatever the fuck he's got himself into.
This kid has his face, and for what? Nick's heard of dopplegangers, but this is just absurd. Much more absurd that they have the same fucking name.
ā day:/time: [G/3k]
In which Grant Wilson haphazardly keeps a diary of his first few days in Faerun and the set of twins weirder than the Oak's that have taken him under their wing.
ā apples never fall far [G/3k]
Henry always saw his transness as an afterthought, a part of himself that burdened others to hide away and talk about as little as possible.
Lark always saw his transness as something that permeates his identity, affects each and every way society treats him. Something as innately a part of him as autism.
Both have always seen their transness as a piece of them they cannot change, even if they tried.
ā Stampler: A Documentary by Paeden Bennetts [G/10k]
what if the boys never went to Faerun? What if faerun didn't exist and they were simply kidnapped by their grandparents? what if, over a decade after the fact, young film major Paeden Bennetts, the youngest kidnapping victim, gathered the doodlers to film a documentary with a true to story recount of the events?
ā laundry basketball [G/3k]
Grant is struggling with cleaning his room due to a hard hit of Depression, so, he calls Terry to come help him. And who's to say if they kiss once or twice? It's not gay to kiss the homies.
The Extraordinaries ā
ā you're alive in my head. [NR/3k]
"should've kept every grocery store receipt / 'cause every scrap of you would be taken from me. / Watched as you signed your name... / ...All your closets of backlogged dreams / and how you've left them all to me. / What died didn't stay dead."
OR: Five times Nicholas Bell missed his mom and the one time he didn't
Harry Potter ā
ā never learned to read your mind [series] [T/132k] [ongoing]
āIām trying to raise you to be a functioning adult, Albus. Do you want me to just stop being your father? Would that make life so much easier for you?ā
Albus knew that sometimes the things he said were needlessly cruel, and he didn't care. This was one of those times.
āGod, sometimes, I wish you werenāt my dad.ā
His father tensed, and what he said was so much crueller than anything Albus could ever come up with.
āWell, sometimes, I wish you werenāt my son.ā
Or: Five times Albus ran away and the one time Harry followed him
Percy Jackson & the Olympians ā
ā The Side-Effects of Being the Hero [T/2k]
Percy had always known he was neurodivergent, but since his adventures in saving the world from evil beasts and immortal beings, his mental health has only declined.
He's been doing well since the fall of Gaea, but the weight of even causing that much damage weighs on his shoulders, leaving him in harsh nights. Nights like this one.
ā home sweet home [NR/4k]
In which; Annabeth never goes home during the Olympian's series. Instead, it's not until after the war with Gaea she makes the ultimate decision to try to reconnect with her family
ā wisegirl is live! [T/11k]
Fans piece together that popular streamer B4ckb1t3r's companion, Wisegirl, bears a striking resemblance to kidnapped seven-year-old, Annabeth Chase. Even down to the same name. Isn't that just crazy?
ā i wanna know, do you play DnD? [G/3k]
In which: Heroes of Olympus (highly abridged) is actually just a high fantasy DnD campaign of a bunch of kids in their late teens trying to have a good time.
That's it.
Magnus Chase & The Gods of Asgard ā
ā The Law of the Conservation of Mass [T/50k, ongoing]
The Law of Conservation of Mass states that no matter can ever be created or destroyed. If Magnus holds onto that information, maybe he won't completely just melt into a pit of despair every time he remembers the apartment fire. Or X's entire existence. Or really anything that's happened in his life in the last two years.
He's spent two years figuring out how to be a functioning human being. And since the universe hates him, as soon as he figures out the whole 'surviving with no one to look out for you' thing, his estranged uncle come out of the void to play hero. And his cousin, who (to his knowledge) had been missing nearly a decade, is suddenly here as well?
Red, White, & Royal Blue ā
ā CHECK(MATE) [T/14k]
"It's such an unexpected pairing, a hockey player and a punk star. How'd you too meet?"
"Oh, well, it's really silly. It actually started when Alex's fans started..."
"I met Henry because my Tumblr followers started this elaborate hoax about us being best friends."
"And, let me guess, you ran with it?"
"Oh, June, you know I commit to a good bit."
ā it's nice to meet you, prince perfect [M/5k] [ongoing]
Two years ago, Mary Windsor passed away at the age of 86.
Two years ago, her youngest grandchild, a talented young female singer/songwriter who performed under the stage name 'Prince Perfect,' disappeared within the month.
Now Prince Perfect is back from the dead. With an endless amount of cryptic messaging leading to a hidden away album for fans to discovery. An album named 'henry.'
Unprepared Casters ā
ā you're on your own kid, you always have been [G/1k]
In which a nameless citizen of the Fey wild contemplates the recent happenings with the Sun (or, Suns) and Moon.
ā find a penny, pick it up! [G/2k]
A brief summary of the early life of the eldest Lovejoy.
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nothing makes me more aware of how dumb people are about cats than the way my brother talks about my cat. āshe pounced in my feet this morning!ā well. yes. sheās barely a year old & just woke up. she wants to play?
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
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If the only thing that has kept you going was outliving Mitch McConnell, imma need yall to pick a new person to outlive and fast. Your mission is not over.
putting my blorbos in a room together could only result in a murder, an overthrown government, a traumadump-based drinking game, or a very very concerning combination of the three.
so ive just finished book 3 of the simon snow saga and ive got to say. im jealous. idk if im jealous of baz or simon or both but im jealous of someone
also?? shepard and penelope are such a power couple??? idk what rowell was on when writing that but i need some of it because i now have so many hcs of them
this is also the first time ive seen the name niamh in physical writing so i have to again be amazed at the pronounciation of gaelic names. when my friend (also called niamh) told me it was pronounced āneevā i think my mind failed a little bit
anyways. i really liked the series!!! i admittedly got confused at the like. half day that snowbaz broke up but it was also very in character for simon so fair enough
it was cool seeing all the magickal creatures and their traits; i thank shepard for that. what a diva. mages pmo a bit though. esp davy and smith. they can fuck ALL THE WAY OFF.
ok ramble over i go poof to ao3 for snowbaz content now
-š£
the snowbaz breakup hits me so hard bc simonās deteriorating mental health is so valid & also understandable. like yeah he would lose all sense of purpose & feel worthless afterwards.
shepard & penny my otp. i need more of them like. Always. I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) but Penny actually fixed him.
i just want Simon to get a pet. i think a lot of simonās issues could be helped if he had something to care for, something that needed him. Simon Snow ESA arc WHEN.
i mean neither of them asked to be dragged into the mageās weird creation path
the humdrum is literally just a kid (echo?) created by magic that simon himself can not always control and simon was an unwilling accomplice who had all this forced upon him
āi give them some of my nothingā āand you give me more nothingā <- that broke my fucking heart btw
-š£
IM BEHIND ON THESE SORRY I GOT DISTRACTED BUT.
the insidious humdrum is unironically my favorite character in carry on. like truly i think about him every day. all he ever wanted was to be something??? and he couldnt even have that???
iāve read book one nine times & āiām sorry everything good came after i left you.ā always gets me. like OW???
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seb is the kind of person to very calmly walk up to whoever is available āThere is a glass spider crawling on my nightstand. I understand he is harmless but I need him elsewhere before I harm him please and thank you.ā and orok is the kind of guy to pick up said spiders with his bare hands and set them outside.
penny mentioning in the first few chapters that people tend to kidnap living relatives to hide them from visitors vs. baz BEING kidnapped and refusing to tell anyone whilst ACTIVELY investigating his momās visiting yet acting like thereās ZERO correlation will always drive me MAD.
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Ergo it is your responsibility to communicate your needs and boundaries
If you lie to someone about something being okay when it isn't, that is on you
Something being a trauma response doesn't exempt it from harming your relationships and the other people in them
Enabling your trauma responses will not make them go away, and it is your responsibility to work on yourself for your own wellbeing as well as the people around you
Being A Victim cannot be a pillar of your identity forever, and being victimized does not make you incapable of harming other people (see above)
You are not a mouse in a jean jacket you are an eel with a gun / adult human being who can use your words even if it's Scary
Having a personality disorder doesn't make you evil but you have got to get off of Personality Disorder Tumblr (see above, re: enabling)
Deep sigh. You want me to ~be compassionate~ here's the compassionate answer: your trauma will tell you you're a helpless child forever and you need to Not Think This Way for yourself (living under the assumption you're still in danger whether you actually are or not) and everyone else who has to tiptoe around your Sensitivity. That's how you break the cycle and you can only do this by accepting responsibility for your actions. And it seems like a small semantic thing but imo step one is calling yourself a survivor instead of a victim. Self identifying with your victimhood helps No One. You lived, now get up
today i learned that the finnish word forĀ āhazardous wasteā is ongelmajƤte, which can also translate as āproblematic garbageā and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.
