#scienceoftheidiot

I commissioned @scienceoftheidiot! It’s royai inspired by banksy’s kissing coppers

It’s also for my royai fic, lowkey on Ao3

I love it! go check them out!

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I have programmed a bunch of posts about being 30 for today, just for the thrill of finally being part of this decade!

✋ - A hand carding gently through their hair

HIIII thank you so much once again!! loved this prompt & the freedom to pick my girl for it 🥰

Piece by Piece

copia & cirrus, fluff & a bit of hurt/comfort, animalistic new ghouls — 1.2k, also on ao3

fic prompts

Some months ago, just after the Summoning of his first, Cardinal Copia had signed up for a library card and checked out a book. He’d hidden his borrowed paperback from the older three—they were an easy-going bunch, all things considered, but a Ghoul might be offended by the dog on the cover. Copia would have understood. He read it each night before bed, or each night he did not spend with that new blue-grey creature, full-grown but as helpless as they come. Every time Copia looked at him, it was as if he could still hear the storm that had raged outside. The animal screech, the pouring rain. He’d shudder through that memory for the sake of the creature; he’d clean his skin and treat his burns, applying words and body language and movements he’d learned from that book, but keeping those lessons to himself. 

Copia hadn’t reached this point in his career without being a stickler for the rules. He returned the book by its due date, ready for the next reservation. Maybe that patron of the library would have had a real dog.

(ha ha)

Fave truck or truck adjacent thing you drove/rode in lately ? (Yes this is a targeted ask)

Well I spent much of the past week in a Morris CS8 Quad Mk III (Lovingly called the No5 due to its build style). It was grand, and had a great detachment to work with.

Just to keep it spicy (Hiiii <3 <3 <3 <3) you get a snippet from the Severance AU <3

(do I have too many WIPs? Who is to say)

Sam’s going through the rough-cut of episode five of Tag Across Europe 2. It’s his job to decide what stays in the final cut and what gets cut out, just as it is his responsibility to upload the episode once it is done. Right now he watches DP Ben on screen, changing trains. On another layer of footage, which will later get match-cut to this part of Ben’s screen, DP Sam and Adam are searching through the train DP Ben just left.  But that’s not what Sam’s focused on. (he’s long ago grown comfortable watching his own diverging personality move on a screen completely separate to him)  No, the thing that’s fascinating to Sam is DP Ben. Because right now, DP Ben is looking at the camera, smiling. Only that smile has no staying power – as Sam watches, DP Ben’s brows furrow, his lips falling open as if he’s struggling to say something. Behind him the train departs, taking DP Sam and Adam with it. Ben is none the wiser. Instead, he stares directly into the camera. His eyes are glassy, their blue muddled slightly by the obvious confusion growing on his face. In a conspiratorial whisper, DP Ben leans closer towards the camera – completely irrationally, Sam can feel himself lean closer towards the screen as well. “I thought we were in Spain.” DP Ben says, words ill-fitting as they fall from his lips. “But I don’t think— I don’t think Howald is a place in Spain, though.” Looking around, slowly, Sam watches as recognition blooms on Ben’s face. He’s smiling again, relieved.  “Oh,” his voice echoes through Sam’s office. “I’m in Luxembourg. Right. I knew that. Sorry. I— Spain. That was silly.”  Sam hits pause. He’ll have to cut all of that himself. Copy and paste it into the secure folder on his private (hidden) desktop, and delete any sign of DP Ben losing the plot. Dammit. He’ll have to be more careful with the footage from now on – what if one of their full-time editors had seen this clip and left it in? No, Sam has a brand to protect. Sam has a show to produce.

Morally Grey Original Personality Sam, my beloved <3

Thank you SO MUCH for sending me this ask! <3<3<3

Oh my god thank you so much for asking!!!

love to talk about my WIPs

okay so Resurrection AU was initially inspired by this textpost, and gained a few elements from The Old Guard so essentially it's, well.

Whenever Ed dies, Truth decides, no you know what, they haven't had enough of Ed yet, this alchemist is kinda interesting, and keeps bringing him back. (you know the first time Ed died but didn't actually die was in Baschool. But he doesn't know it yet, he thinks he just barely saved himself with his healing attempt, but the fact he regained consciousness at all to even get to try was only because Truth wasn't done with him yet)

So this is mostly post-canon and we get to see not only the horror of Ed experiencing death again and again in various circumstances, not only the horror of his loved ones (mostly Al) witnessing those deaths and having to deal with the pain, the fear and shock, the grief, the impossibility of it all, BUT ALSO the horror of seeing what it does to Ed, experiencing death over and over, how he becomes more callous and reckless, taking risks, drawing fire because he knows he can take it and Al, no longer in an invulnerable body, cannot. Seeing how he becomes desensitised to his own suffering, how his relationship to Truth becomes more embittered and fraught because they are doing this to him somehow.

And even for Truth themselves it becomes a horror of sorts when they see how it changes Ed, dulls that spark, starts to break down that indomitable human spirit that moved them to do this in the first place because this was never what they wanted. They just wanted to give him a little more time.

dogs!! here is my reasoning:

1- How many languages did you study this year? Routinely: 1, sporadically: maybe 3? I was never that dedicated of a learner anyway, so I rarely ever focus on one language (very much the type to do 24,601 things at once and then get bored xD), but this year it was worse xD In theory, I have a Mandarin class every week but this year my schedule has been a mess so I don't always make it. The 3 sporadic ones are Japanese (which I started 17 years ago, but was never dedicated enough to go anywhere with it), French (which was the first language I added to my Duolingo many many years ago but I also really haven't gone very far at all 🙈), and the other one is a Slavic language that I got to CEFR A2 to, but this year I just did Mondly daily lessons when I remember (which is barely ever xD)

2- Which language did you study the most this past year? Definitely Mandarin, bc actual lessons, but I've been so bad at it that my teacher was disappointed at my lack of progress xD