Realizing I should probably make an intro post at some point-
Hey there! Honestly, I don't really care what you call me, but if you'd like something that's less of a mouthful than my username, Aly is great!
Agender aroace creature here, use any pronouns haha. I'm not a minor but I'm not saying more than that <2
I don't have a DNI, just don't be a bitch. I am not afraid to exercise the block button; everyone just be nice and respect people.
Fuck ICE though. And if you put my art in genai I'm going to put you in a blender.
And with that, anything about fandom or my art and writing is under the cut :]
I am into a ton of different fandoms, do not expect any consistency long term lol.
I tend to get very obsessed for a hot second and then kinda put it in my back pocket forever and remember it's there every three months. I wield my AuDHD like a weapon to reblog and write and draw like a madman for six months then get a new obsession.
Right now, it's bloodymary (and Grace/Simon/Engie, which does not have a ship name yet, still figuring that out)
My ao3: I_defy_categorization | Archive of Our Own
I use #aly yaps for posts where I... y'know. Yap a lot. I tend to reblog a ton of stuff all the time, so if you just want my stuff, I'm planning on starting a sideblog for that soon, and I'll put it here once I do.
I also use #Look Inside Of Me au for my monster!simon bloodymary au, and I've just started cowriting a Grace/Simon/Engie fic with @cannibal-walleye which is not out yet.
I also have some original characters, which I use #the rising storm for, and then character tags (like #trs crimson, #trs dove, #trs tempest, etc). Honestly I haven't posted a ton of art for them yet, but believe me it's coming. Eventually.
I also need to come up with a better au name, that's just the one I've used as a wip for like 5 years and now can't seem to leave behind lol.
Those are also the lovely dragons and drake you see in the art above. Here look at them again. My babiesssss :)
Some other fandoms include: The Magnus Archives, Minecraft (mostly Hermitcraft and the Life Series), Gravity Falls, Five Night's at Freddy's, Epic the Musical, and I'm probably forgetting a couple but that's good enough for now.
Feel free to dm me, I'd love to talk! If you've got cool thoughts about the characters and want someone to listen, I'm here hehe.
Aaaaaand I should probably stop yapping at some point lol.
I quite like the implication that instead of waving him off and saying āyeah yeah yeah shut up I donāt know what that meansā, Ryland wouldāve sat down and let Rocky describe the words, find the human equivalent, and then type them into the computer to allow this verbal beating
I donāt believe in Catholicism so if I ever say āgood lordā please hear it in Jonathan Sims Head Archivist Of The Magnus Institute Londonās voice, thank you
simon, who is usually at least partially pumped full of adrenaline, who has been starving his whole life, who has never had fresh air or light or an open environment, who has never seen a lot of water, who has never slept in a bed, who has never had real sugar or caffiene, being introduced to grace's biodome: i've died and gone to heaven.
ryland grace who is used to fresher air and more water and sunsets and rises and changing weather and more flavorful and enriched foods and more aesthetically pleasing things and more creature comforts introducing simon to his biodome: i'm so sorry this place sucks.
Hihi it's me, still thinking abt TNBM au and Courtland and all of them. You mentioned how the CIA are still still trying to get Courtland back to be their agent and I'm wondering how does that affect like his ability to accept and act *normal*?
Like I imagine everyone's mostly settled down atp and their having a game night but it's one of those worse days and Courtland is very on edge and vigilant cause what if they do try to take someone he cares abt again? Clearly coercion is smth they're not concerned abt. Or what is someone he still has bad blood with tries to attack now that Courtland has finally settled. Just look at how badly things went when his only connection has Fitz and Claire. Now he has *so much* to lose and he doesn't know if he'd even be able to take it and he's lowkey spiraling when suddenly a loud crash happens just outside the apartment. A car crash most likely but Courtland is alr up and checking windows and the perimeters and its methodical and precise and hey when tf did he grab a knife. Everyone else is just watching him go full battle stance and Claire is also getting up to try to talk to him but Ryland and colt glance at each other as they both feel like they've just watched their older brother disappear and this soldier, to put it likely, just took his place.
Courtland eventually snaps out of it but when he looks back at the table he's met with the stares of his brothers and Simon, a mixture of concern, pity, and even fear on their faces and he hatess that they saw him like that, saw him act like the killer he was, and he just wants to lock himself in a room where no one can see him but instead just resorts to sliding down to the floor with his head between his knees and hands on the back of his neck, a grace family staple. He's lowkey spiraling with thoughts that he'll never be able to live a life without danger and attacks at every turn and he can't just be normal for the people he cares abt and he robs them of the chance at a simple life.
Claire is able to get him to finally respond but only after she calls him Six when countless "Courtland!"s didn't seem to get through. And Courtland hates that too. That Six is who he subconsciously truly views himself as, someone who's meant to kill, to harm. They're able to get everything calmed down eventually but being trained to be a weapon your whole life doesn't just go away after one night. And sure it's not the MOST common situation, calming down your older brother who also happens to be the best ghost agent for the CIA, but since when has anything been normal around the Grace's? And that's how Claire finally manages to get Courtland into therapy.
(Sorry for the long ask again! I just love this au sm I know I've said it before BUT ILL KEEP SAYING IT TY FOR MAKING IT)
Oooh no, I love all of this.
Like, of course Court slips back into Six on bad days. He tries not to. Jesus Christ he tries so hard, because he doesn't want to be Six anymore. But at the same time, how could he not? It was all he knew for so long. It was all he was told to be. And sometimes he's too tired to fight it. Sometimes it's just easier. Claire is good at coaxing him out of it. Ryland and Colt have quickly learned how to pull him back to them, because god forbid they're gonna let their older brother go again. And you know. I think, maybe, there are some days where Court gets so deep into it that the only one who understands it enough to bring him back out of it is Simon.
Bc, you know.
Being raised in a death cult is remarkably similar to being recruited and used as a shadow operative by the government. Especially when you had so much of your identity ripped away, when they made sure you had nothing left except to be this thing they've made you to be.
Jon's progression of Marks is so deeply devastating, because the further along he goes, the more Marks he gets from trying to save people.
His first 4 Marks (Web, Eye, Corruption, and Spiral) were things that were done to him. He didn't seek them out. Mr Spider was in the pile of books his grandma gave him. he had no way of knowing The Magnus Institute was haunted. Jane Prentiss hunted him down, and so did Michael.
the next 2 were brought about by his own curiosity. he knew the risks of accosting Jude and Mike, but he went willingly. his desire to seek out knowledge got him Marked by the Desolation and the Vast.
Elias sent Daisy to Hunt Jon, so that would make it the 5th Mark that Jon had no agency in, and the 7th Mark total.
then comes the Unknowing. in an attempt to save the world, Jon's willing to give his life to destroy the ritual. Marks 8 and 9 (Stranger and End) are purely altruistic on his part.
and from there on out, he continues to only get Marked via Protecting People.
Slaughter's from saving Melanie. Flesh and Buried are from saving Daisy. Dark is from trying to stop yet another ritual, something that he still believes could potentially end the world. Lonely is from saving Martin.
[this brings the final count to an exactly even split; 7 from external forces, 7 from Jon's attempts at protecting people]
as Jon becomes less and less human, he tries to save more and more people. and he's willing to give his life to do so!! he's willing to die!
and he succeeds. he successfully managed to save all his friends. it only cost him the world.
Bloodymary Coffeeshop AU where Simon is working at a coffee shop near Grace's middle school. Simon is trying to be a functional member of society after being raised in a cult and spending a good chunk of his life in prison and losing an arm and stuff, but things, uh. They're going.
And then there's Grace, who's just a normal middle school teacher. When the coffee machine breaks down in the teachers office and no one is doing anything to have it fixed, Grace is forced to go to the coffee shop nearby if he wants to survive being a teacher (Grace loves his students, but c'mon, he can only handle so many middle schoolers without his morning coffee). And, well, he meets the handsome barista with long dark hair and cool scars and suddenly he forgets his coffee order.
Bonus points for humour if Grace's students clock his ass at some point bc they hang out in the coffee shopā since it's near their school, and they see him flirting (or at least attempting to) with the random barista. (hey doesn't he look a lot like Markiplier?) Obviously the next day they start interrogating him, Grace being the cool and favorite teacher that he is.
