hey its igrab! you might know me from AO3, or maybe livejournal back in the day. here’s some stuff about me!
i am a writer, first and foremost
in my late 30s and still weird
nonbinary (they/them)
asexual, arospec (microlabels here)
irl married to the best person ever, ace4ace nb4nb but we still call each other wife bc 🤷
i have cats, rats, and a bunny
no marketable skills to speak of just a whole basket of disorders. adhd, autism, bipolar, and fibromyalgia are the ones i yap abt most
libra - metal dragon - 9w1 - INFJ - airbender - fuck jkr but ravenclaw
currently rotating: hoshiumi kourai and hiruhoshi, haikyuu!!, ywpd, wha, gachiakuta, jjk, wind breaker, dunmeshi
non-fandom special interests: aroace and gender stuff, architecture (esp chinese), historical fashion, overpasses, fiber arts, rats, rabbits, seagulls ig, the roman empire, linguistics and linguistic anthropology, astronomy, DID and other dissociative disorders, psychology of child abuse
important tags:
#organizer - lists i'll need later
#igrab yaps - filter this if you don't need my thoughts on anything and everything 24/7
#igrab writes - official fic promo posts
#seagull boys - anything even tangentially related to hoshiumi kourai, hirugami sachirou, or kamomedai
• what i blog about •
ive been in fandom since i was a wee baby trading pokemon cards and making sailor moon ocs. i went to my first anime con when i was 13. there’s a lot of shit i like!! lets break it down.
CURRENTLY ROTATING
haikyuu: hoshiumi is my fav, hiruhoshi is my otp. my other favs are komori, bokuto, kita, and noya. i like multishipping but i do have my preferred pairing setup which is MOSTLY normal. (i’ll just die on the hill that komorin and osakita should be the normal ships. seriously. SERIOUSLY—)
fallen london: started playing recently and ofc i need a character for each ambition. so its half gameplay reactions (especially Rats) and half figuring my characters out.
yowamushi pedal: just did a rewatch so they’re spinning around in there. trying to get some of my abo au out. crying n screaming abt soft imanaru, t2, and aroace midosuji x simp komari. and toumaki. fuck this show
dungeon meshi: idk why i thought i wouldn’t get obsessed w thistle he literally has tan skin white hair i’m so easy. anyway HIM and mithrun and kabumisu and chilaios and—the only pairing im not a big fan of is laios/kabru but no hate! ship what you like!
hoyoverse: i don’t blog abt it often but i play all three of the big ones, and ive played hi3 a little. my favs are baizhu (genshin), welt (hsr), and lycaon (zzz). going any deeper would be a whole post of its own!
final fantasy xii: for the game’s 20th anniversary there’s a zine project i’m doing that i really need to work on haha… ha…
FOREVER FANDOMS THAT ILL NEVER QUIT
Sports Anime (knb, daiya, days, + more)
Okami (currently replaying)
Final Fantasy (IV, IX, XII, XV are my favs)
Stardew Valley (excited for 1.7!)
Animal Crossing
Pokemon
Kingdom Hearts
Sky / Journey
Dragon Age (all of them. everything.)
Elder Scrolls (online, skyrim, tabletop)
Danmei (meatbun, priest, mxtx and more)
Magnus Chase
The Hobbit (and lotr in general)
Stargate (esp sga but i like sg1 too)
DEAD/HIBERNATING FANDOMS (still important)
DC (relatively speaking)
PJO (behind and not motivated to catch up)
Sherlock Holmes (i still love the books and ritchie films dgmw but sherlock burnt me out)
im writing this [redacted] fic and it’s over 1k and [redacted] and [redacted] are STILL not at the [redacted] bc i decided to take a hard left into how they MET and [REDACTED] but seriously i could have knocked this out in a few hours last month. this is terrible orz
incredibly elaborate bit me and @iclimbtreestofeelalive came up with while i was playing pokemon Y iii couldn't pick if i should put this on the art blog but whateverr hello if you scrolled down this far sorry for the long post okay i love you
Light you fool!! all you had to do is mention charmander has a disadvantage against the first two gym leaders and struggles in Mt Moon! On the other hand, Squirtle slaughters Brock's gym and Mt Moon!
but bulbasaur—while struggling in viridian—has an advantage against both gyms AND mt moon! and even viridian isn't that bad because the bugs don't know any bug type moves! anyone who truly wants to breeze through the early game would choose bulbasaur!
All bulbasaur has to fear is the flying types in route 1; and even if you want to avoid that, squirtle would still be an overall superior choice to charmander.
L is guilty of the same sin of arrogance as Light; unable to even consider deigning to choose Bulbasaur. And Light, so blinded by pride in his knowledge of minutiae, has missed the forest for the trees and failed to point out that someone who wants an easy early game would NEVER choose a fire-type starter!
I think I was momentarily possessed by the spirit of Near.
this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .
The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.
It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.
After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.
If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!
Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com
The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.
Thank you so much!
[ Link to survey ]
PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!
I think it would be really wonderful if seagulls were constructed more like bottles with a mystery inside. What I'm imagining is that were you to catch one, you could then unscrew its face and there would be a glowing gem nestled in some sort of gilded socket. The Core of the Gull so to speak. Then you could swap that around with other seagulls, and after screwing the faces back on they would fly off as if nothing happened. Hm... Is this too esoteric, or do some of you see what I am getting at?
thinking of making an every-hoshiumi-ever blog, for daily bird boy manga panels… its not even that i care abt anyone else following it i just want every dumb little kourai face all together in one place where i can stare at them.
yes? no? …im doing it anyway whatever
can everyone comment w their fav daily haikyuu panel blogs?
ive only seen every-asanoya-ever, every-suga-ever, and daily shoyo vitamins (cant remember exact username) but there’s gotta be others
it occurs to me that not everyone has heard the Wonderful Amazing theme song for my demon-stuffed demon story Lost World. it was written for me personally by Ellegarden (jk) and it’s a banger.
made the lost world gang on maddel’s picrew! L-R top to bottom: Haku, Boat, Nadja, demon!Boat! eventually i will make demon form Nadja since she… is… a demon…. unlike Boat who got demonated as a baby.
and demon form Haku while we’re at it bc he’s got a demon microdose situation goin’ on.
anyway some more characters!
top row is boat’s two grandpas (they’re in a 20-year mexican standoff situationship), bottom right is demon grandpa’s demon form, and bottom left is The Richest Man In the World. she is extremely evil and not representatice of anything at all. (a demon also. obviously. this is the demon show for demons. human dad also has a microdose demon! but different!!!)
When you get this, list your five favorite songs atm and send this ask to at least 10 people in your notifs! (No pressure!)
Hello!!! Thank you for the ask!! Sorry for the delay, sleep has been a fuck as of late.
Currentlyyyyy.... hm.
Centipede Legs by Luluyam
Lake Pontchartrain by Ludo
fuckin....... Jim Bob. by Hardy.
Maphra's cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon
TOUBOU by DUSTCELL
\o/ yayayayayay~ thank you i love these things. Let me open up my notifs... I think I'm gunna ping instead of sending asks due to being kind of insane right now c:
@static-static @ikemenomegas @demonic-silver-and-gold @featheredcrowbabbles @hemostatiquesheep @moonofmercury @junipersheart @forgotten-dustbunny @bagofdrymice @fipsthegreat
