Drifting Along

Actual image of me when I read a fic that lets Kinger and or Queenie call Caine endearing nicknames.

While i'm at it lemme plug some fics I really effing like that do this

The road to being loved and wanted is paved by these losers by my buddies @humanityinahandbag and @samthefrank

I'll sleep when I'm dead by @one-in-a-maxi-million

I can't remember if these ones have nicknames used but the way they write Kinger and Caines relationship is TOP NOTCH

I was only trying to help you! (its published anonymously but I'd love to edit this with the users socials if anyone knows who it is and if they're happy for me to plug them)

Small Gods by @crimes-wears-goggles (Probs my fav Caine centric fic post episode 8 oh my g o o o d its so good I need to make art of it because it does the resentment between Caine and Kinger so damn well

turn the lights off by @purplecatghostposts is a lil angstier, but I thought they wrote Kinger's headspace super well and did a great job depicting the resentment Caine would logically have for his absent creator. One of the first tadc fics I ever read!

Glitched Sick is by the same Anonymous author as "I was only trying to help you!", also really good. It's another instance of "Caine overworks himself and has to be cajoled into taking a break" which is of course a fav of mine.

One, stubborn, pathetic, delirious AI by @misterworms is another Caine sickfic, still in progress, with a panicky half-delirious Caine who can't restart due to a lack of storage space. I really like how computer code type language is used in this one.

The Signal by The_Penny_Tails (couldn't find a tumblr, sorry!): Kinger enters lucidity and realizes his boy needs a hug. Very sweet.

The Digital Prometheus by @jcleeful has Kinger repeatedly visiting Caine in the recycling bin, figuring out how to help Caine regulate his emotions and safely bring him back to the Circus.

less kinger & caine focused but i gotta mention em:

Call It Even by a different Anonymous author is a delight of miscommunication and misery, lol. Still in progress, deviates after episode 8, featuring a Caine who no longer wants to be here and the humans trying to figure out how to handle that. Lots of Caine in spider form, too!

this could all be new to us by @they-bite is a pair of post-episode 8 fics with Caine trying to hide away from the humans and the humans still trying to reach out despite his attempts at isolation. rlly rlly good, i reread it regularly.

Therapy but it's just Zooble interrogating Caine by Sparkhearts2 - a must-read for me, canon-divergent pretty early on but does a really fun job of studying Caine and the Circus, with an emphasis on Caine being a computer program, including fun features like commands :D

Ablation Study by Bookwormgal - Post-8 (and post an au evil bubble timeline) Caine goes to extreme lengths to hopefully, finally make his players happy, no matter what state it'll leave him in by the end. Super good, love my some yummy angst, tbh could've even used more chapters studying the idea, has a happy ending.

Idioteque by Anonymous - Post-8 with an amnesiac Caine who thinks he's a human and a whole other thing going on behind the scenes, every update is a treasure

all about you, with or without you by they_bite - Post-8, Caine retrieved with the humans and Caine sort of puzzling out where they stand with each other, really nice Caine exploration

Best Damn Listener in this Whole Digital World by X_Venture - CTRL ALT DEL AU fic and sooo good, I love that au so much. This one takes place episode 3 with Caine tagging along with Kinger and Pomni, having a lot of PTSD, and struggling all the while to understand humans <3

Absolutely love the idea that post taking the blue AI out, when Caine hits his limit he goes back to being the lil red orb (Y'all go read this fic Against the kitchen floor, it does this do well). Bonus drawing just cause I was feeling hella soft:

The idea of orb Caine unconsciously summoning his avatar back in his sleep and accidentally kicking Kinger in the face killed me I had to doodle it, also bonus doodles

Cyn & Caine shenanigans! 🦷⚠️

we all need a moment sometimes

Figured I do a quick quilt top, you know, just throw something together.

And then I made two blocks of the forty eight needed for this Harvest quilt and boy howdy.

And the quilt! She be gorgeous!

Love that fuck-off bright yellow I picked for the cornerstones, they’re perfect for this.

I decided that since the quilt top was so colourful, I’d put plain flat black cotton the back and use up some of these bobbins, making the quilting on the back really stand out.

Holy shit did it work or what! I love it, of course LOL

I used a medium purple on the top so it would fade into the patchwork and not show up too much on the background. The quilting pattern is called Pink Lemonade and it is one of my favourite quilting patterns.

I didn’t have any left over border fabric, so I found a nice blue that matched with that print and made it my binding. I debated using purple, but couldn’t convince myself to do it.

The blue looks good though, from the front and the back.

BackUp AU | Guilt