#margin of error ask

any snippets for a guy whose birthday is today??

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VORTEX!!!!

omg all the mooties are having birthdays back to back, I do not have enough snippets for this!! Sadly, the thing im working on is under strict lock and key. But as my resident Lizzie McAlpine lover, I will give you the Lizzie McAlpine au <3

here is some later MoE for youuuu. I picked out some of my favorite bits.

what a shame is soooo moe tango about jimmy and protective grian because tango really doesnt gaf about grian not liking him..like thats his jimmy! oh what a shame it would be if i got with your brother…youre not allowed… hes got you under lock and chain…

none of that is stopping tango from flirting with jimmy at every chance he gets including in grian’s own kitchen. we know tango’s a fake idgafer about most things but for this i really feel like he Does Not Care

also andrew(second half of over the ocean call) is just ranchers. all of them. in every universe. (give me a minute my love)

Hi vortex!!

See, I could make an argument against this but ive taken over a year to write chapter five...take me out back wth its been so long. BUT id say that it's not so much Tango not caring, and more of him being unable to control it. Aoughhhhh okay, theres this line.

https://www.tumblr.com/attheendhello/820022213576212480

APPLE IM GIGLINGGGGG

oh this is glorious. I love chupa chups thats like such a childhood staple.

if im being honest, the reason I have MoE tango use candy is not only because its a very common vice for folks that stop smoking, but because its how my parents stopped. They did jolly ranchers, and its half the reason i can't stand them today lol. So I gave Tango the superior candy (to me) (because I have slain a bag of dumdums before)

GOOD MORNING ARIS!!!

I giggle at the MoE dreams this is awesome. Thank you for stopping to read my nonexistent book it means a lot to me. I think I've shared the tentative cover for MoE?

~ :D

WOW OKAY????

:D anon, I cannot make Jimmy sick because lore reasons. But I CAN give you sick fic headcanons.

- Jimmy is one of those "I am not sick" people that is so obviously struggling to stand but knows he has things to get done.

- he'll keep going until he collapses or someone tells him to go to bed.

- he's great about taking care of others. Makes homemade soup (scars recipe) and has a collection of teas at the ready.

-Tango doesn't get sick. He just...doesn't. He says its cause he played near horses as a kid and as a result has all the bacteria ever already.

-he gets the flu once (rare event in undergrad) and even though he was barfing his guts out, he still went to his finals because he was not about to fail a class because he got sick.

-Jimmy gets sick and Tango says "put extra lemon in your sweet tea, it'll help." "I don't have sweet tea at the ready babe..." "Oh hell, hold on I'll get you some."

No? But I’m sure I’m about to be told.

Maybe it’s already canon to MOE, I can’t remember. But Tango can draw really really well. He doesn’t think he can, thinks he’s limited to engineering sketches. (Or doodles on the margins of proofreading papers) He especially can get frustrated when he finds himself sketching Jimmy. Because he doesn’t think he can ever draw Jimmy correctly. He’s wrong, he’s drawing Jimmy well enough most art students would weep, but he holds himself to impossible standards.

I don’t know, just the thought of Jimmy getting all flustered by finding a stash of these drawings of himself and he can see all the love Tango pours into them, and Tango goes “Yeah, they aren’t good enough.” Whilst Jimmy’s brain short circuits because ?!??! what do you mean you see me this beautiful and these drawings are amazing???

~Elen (🍠)

My Elen!!

So. this. I've been rotating this in my head for a few days now and I cannot find a reason to NOT put it in. I don't know if it will appear in the main story (so much is outlined and half written now) but I will try my damndest because I LOVE Tango who can draw.

It's normally Jimmy who I have doodling in my aus. But thinking about it, Jimmy spent most of his free time growing up out doing things. He was working part time jobs and doing school work. Tango on the other hand, did school and Ranch and maybe he saw Zed. Most of his childhood is yapping with Jevin on their horses. He's had tons of time to teach himself how to draw.

he has a little book in his saddle bag. and a simple charcoal pencil that he sharpens with his pocket knife. and he draws what he sees. birds, bison, landscapes. and when he gets to college he learns to draw more mechanically. but it always has a bit of an artistic flair his classmates never had He draws a sktech for one of his projects and it has shading on it. Or he marks up an exam with explanations of his thought process, and he gives visuals to many of this thoughts. Tango has always been someone to just snap his fingers and understand something, he's learned that many people need visuals, so he always provides them.

Drawing people though? I don't think he has a lot of practice in that. He can do loose outlines of a person in a landscape, but never detailed enough to know WHO the cowboy in a drawing is. until he met Jimmy. Theres a moment where he's up late, somewhere between the start of their flirting and the lollipop scene of chapter one. He's working on a project and is thinking about Jimmy's blushing flustered face and just, draws it. It doesn't look very good, and it doesn't look like Jimmy at all, but that doesn't stop him from trying again. As they get to know eachother and as Tango commits Jimmy's face to memory, they improve. Tango is a practical guy, he doesn't have social media and he hardly uses his phone, this is his way of "stalking the gram". this is how he gets to look at Jimmy when they aren't around eachother. on loose bits of papers, on the edge of his homework, on the back pages of a sketchbook he hasn't drawn in since he was last in texas. is Jimmy's face. Sleeping on the lab couch, taught in frustration, smiling softly. The only thing that Tango just cant seem to get right are his eyes. Nothing can capture them, not even the person who stares into them everyday.

Absolutely. He's still a Tango, he snickers at dad jokes and loves a horrible pun. I just haven't had a chance to write him being very silly.