i am a baby velociraptor.

[AO3: secondofjune]

[babyraptor]

it took me nearly 20 years of fandom before i dove headfirst into Trigun fan fiction, and now that i’m in, there’s no resurfacing. so now, just in case anyone is interested, i would like to share some of my favorites. listed in alphabetical order.

i’ll be updating my list every so often. i’m secondofjune on AO3.

(since Tumblr has limited the number of links per post, i had to split my rec list into separate entries.)

Titles A - E 

Titles F - K 

Titles L - S 

Titles T - Z

i hope you enjoy.

[cam-orange]

a donut for you

[valtsv]

what doesn't kill you gives you an extensive vocabulary and niche knowledge set that nevertheless fails to accurately account for what happened

[inkandpainter]

[throatoftheworld]

The Witch by Lionel Lindsay

[d1g1k1tty]

I have not watched either Trigun iteration, I have not read the original manga, so I come here to tumblr to ask my important question:

Do Vash and Wolfwood canonically fuck???? I keep seeing a lot about this couch situation and I’m almost worried.

[b0tsbby-deactivated20260130]

So do we just not talk about Vash being able to handle a spaceship control panel, bypass the lock that was on Tesla’s files and him being very comfortable fixing his own arm like do we just not talk about it like do we just not t

[the-cooler-phantomowlet]

mans been around for a damn long time, it would make sense that he's picked up a bunch of random skills over the years. i know i absolutely would if i wasn't restricted to a mortal lifespan

[the-cooler-phantomowlet]

my only complaint (and ig its not fully a complaint it doesn't actually bother me that much) when it comes to tristamp vash is the fact that previous iterations are implied to put work into the hairstyle every day (as opposed to their hair Just Doing That™), but tristamp vash's hair only does the thing for the final battle in ep 12 and the rest of the time his hair somewhat conforms to the laws of physics. obviously he wasnt gonna pull out hairspray on the spot to make his hair extra spiky in literal seconds, so it's basically styled perfectly through plant-based witchcraft ig? is he doing it intentionally? do independents just have perfectly styled hair at all times? is that in like the list of things they can just do?

[shelternmberone]

Been going thru your Ghostwood yaps and art again bc I think about him every 3 months and lose my mind all over again, and I was wondering now that Stargaze is finished if you had anymore ideas for him in the narrative and what he'd maybe be doing? Did he fuck off after Lost Julai and is spending his days helping out random folks as much as he can bc he believes Vash will turn up soon and trusts to find him and himself when the time is right? Is he joining Wolfwood on his 2.5 year search to give himself some company especially knowing that Stampgaze's contract is completed yet he's still searching? Does Ghostwood get to be privy to Stampgaze's fate or is he whisked away back to his own "timeline" before he gets the chance and just has to trust that his little self and little Vash will work themselves out if he gets to spend his days with his own "best friend?" Oh oh and not to mention Livio's fate!!! If he's still present he would possibly see this version of Livio/Razlo and maybe even see how they turned out! Maybe he'd even see Midvalley and the Leonoff have their own changes of hearts! And then Melanie ofc oughhhh

Wahhhh sorry I forever have Trigun on the brain and Ghostwood is a particular scratch that will never cease to itch (in a good way I prommy) and the idea of him maybe influencing Stampgaze some in Vash's ideal or even just being there to see them in action and have maybe some pride in knowing his little self is doing his best and still looking out for Vash makes my heart flutter

Anon u have no idea. U have noooo ideaaaa how much I've been thinking about ghostwood, because I'm gonna b real. I thought Stampede wolfwood will die, and ghostwood was supposed to commit the ultimate act of self love and save him at the cost of his own new existence (because the more he gets invested into the story, the more he becomes flesh and blood human again). But Stargaze said - no. Just this once, everybody* lives!

I think my two favourite ideas for ghostwood now are:

A) he's present for the entirety of the story, slowly sinking back into being just a guy, a dude, accepting his new life and staying on NML to tend to the greenery until he dies and gets subsequently woken up in his own grave by his Vash. Cause I'm a sap.

B) he does the sacrifice thing, but the one who he has to save is Legato. Now, hear me out. That will require some significant rewrite of Stargaze, giving Legato more depth, time and a different death moment. But it is a self indulgence. I love Legato okay and also it'll be powerful message for ghostwood to save the most unsaveable person of them all. Just like his Vash, he tries to the end and succeeds where he failed.

I personally think the nugget of Legato being mad at Wolfwood in Stampede for his ungrateful demeanor could be integrated into this. Anyway.

As for JuLai. 😈. I have an answer bc I've been thinking about it for ages. Basically Ghostwood has a huge divorce moment when Wolfwood just leaves Vash up there and fucks off, tries to help Meryl but with little progress and promises her to get Roberto's body out of the tower. He manages to drag him out into the city but then Vash explodes everything. It wipes out everything, including Roberto's body, but not Ghostwood himself. He's still inky enough to materialize after it's over, but he feels such immense guilt over failing to keep the promise, he fucks off into the desert alone.

Just a lil spice to make him weird about Stampede Meryl too.

_____

*except for the poorest meow meow of them all, Legato. And Knives i guess lmao.

[shelternmberone]

hail mary full of grace

[ramblingcoyote]

Wolfwood: *laying in bed* do plants fart? Would it smell like dirt or ozone?

Vash: *sighs, rolls over, gets out of bed, puts his boots on, walks across the room and promptly throws himself out the window*

Wolfwood: stop being dramatic, it wasn't that dumb of a question!

[the-cooler-phantomowlet]

[i-love-my-blorbo-polls]

Make this meme with your blorbo and reblog it

[luckyopossum14]

I ran out of characterization for some if you can't tell, he's only canonically interacted with two of these and the other two are aware of his existence

[intactics-deactivated20250505]

[talking shit about a guy] he could not earn the trust of a horse

[ohmightydevviepuu]

ficbinding archive: manacled / alchemised

wow. so, this took a while. i began typesetting this project in june/july 2025 and pasted down the last endpaper on 25 june 2026. 😅

the story: manacled by senlinyu. published as alchemised in september of 2025. hardcover, 1st/1st (US Edition), signed by author on tipped-in page for midnight release at Barnes & Noble

archive notes: since this is a recent pub and a fairly recent fic surrounded by a swirl of Disk Horse, i took the opportunity to collect as much contemporaneous reaction as i could, including:

the AO3 meta, including a list of all tags, collections, and translations related to the fic

fan art. every linked piece that sen called out in their chapter notes (that was still active/public) is included

examples of fan binds

selections from sen's manacled sideblog where they answered asks and gave meta/background on their process

podcast transcripts about the fic

meditations on P2P in general that used manacled (and other recent dramione pubs) as a hook

the binding:

all of Avendell's "official" art is included within the text

i utilized the "official" manacled font (Morpheus) for key parts of the typeset

there is a palimpsest on each chapter heading (and on the front cover) calling back to the original HP fandom

the text is printed on red river bright white coated paper to facilitate the inclusion of the images

all interior text rendered in Alegreya; chapter heds in Morpheus, chapter subheds in Harry P

typeset from a PDF, with an extra volume consisting of compiled contemporaneous notes and news articles/blog posts

rounded and backed casebinding (adapted/faux three-piece bradel binding with french groove)

oxford hollow spine

faux raised bands across spines to create a sense of the editions

made endbands in chiyogami paper with crane motif

dubletta bookcloth with leather spines

titles in holographic black HTV from teckwrap

notes on alchemised:

first edition, first printing US hardcover

signed on tip-in FFEP

published 23 september 2025

condition: fine / new

[queenofsf]

young arthur and mary

and... dutch

"arthur you're such a good soul you wouldn't leave us would you we're your family my boy loyalty should come before everything else we're counting on you you're the most special one there’s no one like you arthur after all god made the earth in seven days and on the eighth day he created you ARTHUR WITHOUT YOU WE'LL ALL STARVE TO DEATH YOU'RE GOING TO STAY WITH US INSTEAD OF THAT YOUNG LADY AREN'T YOU???"

[gaslit-dipshits]

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

[sanctus-ingenium]

Anois teacht an Earraigh / Feb 1st, 1st day of spring 2026 [print]