#call friends.. text.. infodump... open up...

because what do you mean i get to be friends with a senior who is trying to teach me jazz guitar and shows me brokeback mountain edits and talks to me about bojack horseman and can shred guitar and had a girlfriend that broke up with him and came out as a lesbian and now he is maybe queer? and got me out of class for like half an hour to interview me on alt fashion and dress codes and watches mitch marsico and kurtis conner with me and works at hyvee and played marching bass 4 and is in the lower band percussion with me even though he’s a senior

and what do you mean i get to be friends with a kid who plays trumpet and has paws drawn on his sneakers and has an infected eyebrow piercing and really needs to break up with his toxic girlfriend and we tell him so every day at lunch and he runs with shelter dogs every morning and i’m 90% sure is a furry or an alterhuman and called my mom yelling and panicking because he couldn’t find his music

and what do you mean i get to be friends with the girl who likes mountain dew black cherry kickstart and puts coins in her shoes and knows literally everyone and puts ranch on everything and texts me from the class over and is dating a boy in college and was in pit with me and is going to be section leader next year and has a sister that plays trumpet and sends me reels of baby animals and gives me her cookie in exchange for my chicken and played the vibes and was the most welcoming person when i first joined marching band and gave us packets of almonds or cashews when we were hungry in the morning and let me infodump to her about hadestown

and what do you mean i get to be friends with the boy that slept over with me and my friend on new year’s and made mocktails with us and does the charlie brown thing and sends me reels telling me i’m gonna blow up and played bass 2 and rightfully got into the upper band and chews with his mouth open and his parents won’t let him go anywhere and little brother watches bluey and let me sit with him and bring him food when he got angry down in the pit and we watched reels until we started laughing again

and what do you mean i get to be friends with the boy that says he doesn’t practice but absolutely shreds every four mallet marimba piece he can get his hands on and joined hadestown pit at the last minute even though he doesn’t even like musicals and played tenors his freshman year and made it to state (for all districts AND a solo) both freshman and sophomore year and uses photomath and said he missed me over spring break and tries to act nonchalant and won’t tell me about the boys he likes and likes the videos i repost and got first chair percussion in the whole band but hates responsibility and leadership so he gave that position to a senior

and what do you mean i get to know the girl that’s a costume and makeup designer for the theatre department and has a nose piercing and is a soprano and has a boyfriend and knows my sibling and buys me ice cream

and what do you mean i get to know the boy that runs the dnd club and immediately stiffened up and asked for names when someone said they got sa’d by someone in said dnd club and is interested in my teacher love triangle headcanon

and what do you mean i get to know the guy i found having a panic attack in the percussion closet and never fails to dap me up or fist bump me in the halls and plays kit for the whole school and is going to be center snare next year and is still hung up on his ex and has a twin sister

and what do you mean i get to know the pit section leader who i found crying about her ex behind the bleachers during a football game and comforted me about being overstimulated and my grandma and showed us pat the pit cat and heads circle time and laughs at my bad ginger jokes and absolutely crushes every piece of mallet music she touches

and what do you mean i get to know the girl who was center snare this year and got overwhelmed trying to record her audition and was convinced she was horrible at percussion but still got second chair and is in choir and has a close bond with a sophomore boy and is probably dating another girl

and what do you mean i get to know one of the best singers i’ve ever heard and has a septum piercing and i’ll have to go through my first musical audition without her and cut her hair as soon as she finished her role of lesbian persephone and is probably dating the aforementioned girl and says hi to me by name whenever she sees me

and what do you mean i get to be acquaintances with all these cool seniors and juniors and sophomores that i would never even know of if i were not in any musical activities. i wouldn’t know 2/3 of my best friends without band and i wouldn’t know 7+ of these people (way more than 7) without marching band and i wouldn’t know 2+ of them (way more than 2) without being involved in theatre and what do you mean i wouldn’t know anything about this school’s choir or choir director or have helped make a jeremy jordan cardboard cutout without having been in the musical because that was where the choir director first looked for percussionists to help and what do you mean i wouldn’t have even been in hadestown pit if i wasn’t talking to my band directors and old piano teacher and the pit director just so happened to ask me if i played guitar and i said i probably couldn’t play it but i could definitely play a percussion part

Martin Schäfer

★★★★☆ Reviews (4)

★★★☆☆ arrived with no issues but item is kinda mid

★☆☆☆☆ would not shut up about languages

★★★★★ would not shut up about languages

★★★★★ very good dog arrived in good condition

Item condition:

Slightly damaged, still working

I'm autistic and ADHD, struggling with executive dysfunction. I will do things, only very slowly.

Agender because I do not understand gender, although unsure if it's just the human concept of gender I don't understand. However I actively encourage gendering me for the bit!

Therian and transpecies! Specifically an anthro german shepherd mix border collie, possibly with some other herding dogs in there. I also identify a lot with becoming a virtual/uploaded consciousness? Not sure what to call that.

Demireflective and platoniromantic/flectic. Not exact labels but the closest I can get without using an encyclopaedia worth of text to describe myself.

I'm an artist and I'm open for commissions! Check out the pinned post on @martinshepart for details!

Tags

#martin originals - all my posts where I say/ask a thing #poked beast - asks answered by me #martinshep's art - my visual art #martinshep's music - my auditory art #martinshep's languages - my languages related art

Other blogs

@martinshepart - my art blog, I put all my art there @martin-schaefer - my alt nsfw blog that I'll probably rarely use

Current special interests and hobbies:

(Note my knowledge of any of these is not as exhaustive as most people's)

Illustrated art

Cartography

History (esp cultural and economic)

Linguistics (esp lexicography and orthography)

Semiotics

Cosmology

Quantum mechanics and general relativity

The most horrid music you can imagine (breakcore, mashcore, dariacore, dancecore)

3D modelling

Fursuit making

Kandi bracelets

Game design/dev (once I get my shit together and learn C#)

Music making

Furgonomics

4D games

No Evil

Languages I know, am learning, or am planning to learn:

If you speak one of the languages I'm learning and are willing to help me out please let me know :D

English - I'm a native speaker and specifically speak australian english

Auslan - Can hold some simple conversations.

Toki pona - mi kama sona, kepeken tenpo suli. mi pilin e ni: sona toki pona mi lon meso. (I'm learning, slowly. I think I'm at an intermediate level.)

Hindi/हिंदी - मैं बुनियादी हिंदी वाकयों बोला सका। मैं कोश में शब्द मिलना बहुत अक्सर। (I can say simple sentences. I have to look up words in the dictionary very often.)

German/Deutch - Ich kennen en bisschen deutch, aber jetzt ich lernen nicht. (I know some german, but I'm no longer learning it.)

Dutch/Nederlands - Ik spreek een beetje nederlands. Dezelfde als duits echter. (I speak some dutch. Same as german though.)

Spanish/Español - Estudiaba español. Sé mucho poco. (I'm learning spanish. I know very little.)

Croatian/Hrvatska - Still getting around to learning the basics.

I also want to learn arabic and mandarin at some point but I'm waiting until I'm learning fewer languages.

Me↓ (art by snowflake-sage)

Me↑ (art by snowflake-sage)

Feel free to message me if you want to hang out in vrchat, infodump to me, get help with art or 3d modelling, lust over my fursona, or just chat! I'm an attention whore so don't think you're bothering me!

I also have a discord server:

I like to listen to fucked up horrible awful music

Here's a google doc (currently under renovation) with a bunch of recommendations that's still a work in progress, I plan to add more to it as time goes on too

i’m going to refer to my s/i as myself in this post sorry (this counts as the mutant au,, that’s technically the main skyliv canon now, spidersona is second canon shhh. also a the mutant she has a different job)

can i let liv be stereotypically evil for a little bit. can i sit on that metal chair and giggle and kick my feet while she monologues and infodumps for an hour. tell me all the things she’s planning on doing to spider-man.

can i just. pull up to the lab one day during her lunch break to find her still hunched over her desk. she perks up like usual,, it’s a sight id never get over, before bolting over and getting a tentacle tto pick me up by the scruff (back of the shirt) and drop me in the first chair she sees

it’s like she’s got it all ready, like she rehearsed for this rehearsal. i mean when she turns the monitor around she didn’t realize she had a folder of pictures we’ve taken together open but “OH WHOOPS! DONT LOOK AT THAT, ITS FINE” and she minimizes it to a folder called “evil plans”

can i let her get into it every now nd then? even if she gets too into it, idc if she calls me her lackey or sidekick before she bursts into laughter. idc if she tosses me her goggles to hold before deciding to slide them uncomfortably over my bangs to try them on. she’s lost a lot with her work, this is the most fun she gets nowadays

the computer files make it canon that she’s had friends. but if you’re an Octavius who’s been dead set on work, i don’t know if you’re canonically destined to keep those friends

i mean, in my au she’s barely started the collider, but she’s still busy. she’s got a much more involved role in everything else at alchemax. she has to oversee funding from fisk and sponsoring miles’s school. she feels the need to consistently redesign and tweak her technology. she wants it to be perfect, she wants it to be seen

but after a bit, maybe i can help her learn that not everyone has to see her. i need to learn the same thing, but a couple people, maybe even one, can be enough

i show off liv being a “mad scientist” too much. maybe she hasn’t been consumed by her work, maybe she’s got a perfectly fine social life. if that ends up being canon for whatever reason, i’m sorry. i don’t want to take that away from her

but she’s an Octavius. like every Spider is cursed by the universe, so many with that last name must be cursed too. same with the Osborns, and the Staceys, and so many more.

Backstory:

Erika lived and spent the first part of her childhood in the US before her family was moved to Tokyo thanks to her dad's job when she was 11.

Her home life wasn't...great.

At 16; after years of abuse at the hand of her younger brother, she left. Packed up what she could and took the first train she saw. She didn't really care about where she was going as long as it was away, and ended up finding a cheap apartment with a landlord that had no problem renting to a 16yr old with no job. Which is how she ended up being Sakura's neighbor.

While she was moving in, the ceiling light came crashing down suddenly, and she screamed. Sakura, both annoyed by the loud noises and concerned about the scream, dashed over to look into the open door of Erika's apartment, yelling about "What the Hell is going on in here!?"

He back peddles HARD when he saw that Erika is american, and slowly, in english, he asks "what is happening?" (Sakura knows a decent amount of english thanks to a LOT of time watching bad american movies.)

Erika quickly explains in japanese, though thanks him for the effort of speaking english. Seeing that they're similar ages, she asks him about the schools in the area - she hadn't even put a thought towards her education when she bailed home.

Sakura really only knows Furin, but tells her that he has a friend who knows the area really well and will ask him. S l o w l y he types out a text to nirei, and then helps pick the glass from the light off the floor while shooing her away.

Within minutes Nirei is calling Sakura, ready to infodump on the schools. With a scowl, he puts the phone on speaker and lets Nirei and Erika talk as he leaves them to setting up the apartment best he can.

Eventually the squawking between Erika and Nirei comes to an end and she returns his phone to him, helping him help her finalize her new home. She thanks him and promises to thank him with lunch sometime soon.

And quietly, she applies as a transfer to Furin under her brother's name.

Needless to say a week later when Erika shows up at Furin, Sakura nearly falls out of his seat.

Class 1 is full on shouting when she shows up for homeroom, explaining that it's a boys school and what is she doing there and wait how do you know a GIRL sakura?

Erika shrugs and finds a seat. She explains that she applied with a male name, but doesn't really anticipate a delinquent school throwing her out based on gender, so as long as the paperwork looks ok she's just going to. Stay at Furin.

Kiryu and Suo are both deeply amused by the turn of events, but Sakura is annoyed as HELL. Asks her if she can even fight.

The wicked smile and bright eyes surprise him when she asks if he'd like to find out.

She's not properly trained, but she's angry, fast, and an instinctive fighter. The fight is quick, she is definitely out matched by Sakura, but there's no question she can hold her own after a powerful kick to the chest sent Sakura thrown back into the desks. Unfortunately that's about the only hit she manages to land, unable to keep up with Sakura's speed and agility. Instead of conceding defeat, as she's sitting on the ground with a split lip and a bloody nose, she insists that Sakura teach her how he moves so well. "You're like an acrobat!!" She delights in english.

"ARE YOU SAYING I BELONG IN A CIRCUS?!" he shouts back, answering instinctively in the same language.

Literally no one knows what they're saying but the vibes are already having them laughing and the question of Erika's suitability to Furin is put to rest.

Fun Facts:

Erika and Sakura love to chat in english to mess with everyone. Sakura appreciates the practice and the chance to say things without someone (Suo) teasing him. Erika likes that she can speak her native language and also make fun of everyone without getting caught.

Kiryu and Erika get along like a house on fire. They both love fashion and games, and immediately swap info when they find out they both have accounts with a few mutual games.

When Nirei finds out Erika is Sakura's neighbor, the info quickly jumps from him, to Suo, to Umemiya, who quickly make plans to invade her apartment and improve her conditions like they did for Sakura.

Umemiya cries when he finds out that she never replaced the overhead light and has been using her phone flash light to get around at night. She falls over laughing because he has "big fat baby tears".

Loves to torment Suo specifically with really dumb dad jokes. She strongly believes he is too clever and "must be dumbed down". You'll know if she's going to say a bad joke when she begins with "Hey. Hey hey Suo. Hey :)"

He indulges her every time and literally no one knows why.

She makes Umemiya cry again when she tells him she doesn't like tomatoes.

When her nightmares become too bad, or memories creep up, she will break into Furin and make her way to the rooftop and spend some time with the plants. Umemiya finds her asleep one day on the roof and promises that if she needs to talk, the plants are great at listening.

"everything is TERRIBLE if I talk about it the plants will WILT"

Ume tells her to tell the tomatoes then.

He also leaves a blanket in the stairwell for next time.

She once teased umemiya by calling him Papa Ume and he cried (again).