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Hi, I'm Alex (they/them) also known as runningondreams (or running) over on Dreamwidth and AO3. Here you can expect Fallen Hero: Rebirth/Retribution, Baldur's Gate 3, MDZS/The Untamed and SVSSS, Guardian, Discworld, life-consuming Bioware games (Dragon Age and Mass Effect) and some Star Wars/SWTOR, Star Trek and Marvel comics stuff, alongside history, literature, social issues, trans things and art. I also love talking about world-building and writing. My fic on Ao3 | My fic on tumblr My edits | My art tag | Fic recs About me Ask me anything

[eptck]

IM SO TIRED OF SO MANY THINGS ABOUT DISABILITY BEING IN PRIMARY COLORS & CUTE BUBBLE TEXT

IM SO TIRED OF CAPTIONS AUTO-CENSORING CURSES & VIDEO CREATORS TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT THE ALGORITHM BY LEAVING PEOPLE OUT OF WHAT THEYRE ACTUALLY SAYING

IM SO TIRED OF FORCED BEDTIMES IN CARE HOMES & FORCED CELIBACY & SOBERNESS BY CAREGIVERS

WE ARE NOT CHILDREN . WE ARE ADULTS . WE CUSS AND FUCK AND DRINK AND DO DRUGS AND WE LIKE ADULT THINGS . HORROR MOVIES AND BOOKS AND SHOWS ABOUT SEX AND VIOLENCE . TREAT US LIKE ADULTS OR I'LL CUT YOU

[kidhellion]

cant believe nikki let HG buy him a car before ortega could (he always said no to ortega because he hates ortegas taste in cars)

[runningondreams26]

Trying my hand at art fight this year!

Art Fight

An art gifting game

[runningondreams26]

Kit Li (another Fallen Hero Sidestep)

Art Fight so soon!!!

[berryinnit]

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

[cat-the-comet]

golden boy

[insomniac-arrest]

the road OUT of hell is also paved with good intentions. That’s just kind of the main road we’ve got

[amasdoodles]

another one of these bc i wanted to draw

[imaginaryalex]

Changed the username slightly.

imaginaryelle --> imaginaryalex

Should have changed it years ago, but finally got to a point where I don't care so much about the broken links.

I'm also finally setting up a side blog for my art and fic: runningondreams26 (there's nothing there yet though!)

[impossible-rat-babies]

sorry he got evil baby disease from redacted

[impossible-rat-babies]

okay one more ref that I didn’t intend to make but nevertheless

[chateauofmymind]

hottest sex scenes are the ones where somebody’s self-understanding is permanently damaged/altered

[calnexin]

Forged, never born

[impossible-rat-babies]

while I don’t believe in chargestep soulmate stuff I do believe in the whole of. leaving an inevitable mark on the people that come into our lives and come to love and care for us & how we never lose how we were changed

[ensign-reassigned]

I love star trek because it says that humans are good, but not innocent. Because it frequently acknowledges how much blood we've shed to get to their version of the future. Because it doesn't use that fact against us. If anything, it makes the message more powerful.

Humans have killed and enslaved and colonized each other for centuries—and still we have grown past it.

What we are is not what we will always be. What is happening now is not an indication that their future is unobtainable. It's simply proof that we have more work to do to get there.

That's the hope star trek gives us.

[sidesteppostinghours]

i cannot fucking put my thoughts on the parallels between mortum and ortega's narrative standing into coherent words and it's pissing me off

[autistic-sidestep]

pulp im pulling your tags into the post cos this is fire meta and cannot stay in there

#IT'S ALL JUST WORD VOMIT #LISTENNNN I SWEAR THERE'S COHERENT THOUGHTS IN HERE SOMEHWERE I PROMISEEEEE #just. these two are the ones that actively enabled+encouraged sidestep's new life (as a vigilante/villain) after both their escapes#sidestep's hero suit up until heartbreak was commissioned by ortega. mortum literally Built sidestep's villain suit #ortega is much more tangled in villainy than meets the eye and specifically in mortum's associates (the puppet‚ dove) #mortum has much more intimate knowledge of what's Really going on with the rangers (thanks to halabi) #they've met in person in the past and are charmed by eachother. they met while driving which is their shared hobby #mortum threw ortega's car into the ocean. ortega would apparently be amused by this #they are both deeply paranoid people and handle this in opposite ways #mortum actively keeps the people they distrust at arm's length. ortega takes the “friends close and enemies closer” approach. #they both align on flirting with potential prospects (whether that be clients or targets) first thing and just seeing where it takes them #ortega's mind cannot be read and that's out of their hands (even if there are times they wish it could) #mortum's chooses to make their mind unreadable via numbers #it's up to sidestep to decide which one of these is worse for them #(also mortum's mind can't be read just at all for the majoroty of both books bcs of the puppet which again reflects step's experiences with- #-ortega. different bodies same experiences) #i'm losing my mind i'm going insane.i think #can anybody hear me. save me #no wait i'm not done #mortum is the only one that can truly investigate ortega's mods without consequence #one of ortega's criteria for becoming a villain is somebody who can handle their mod upkeep #can you all please imagine tense yet strangely intimate mod maintenance between these two with me. crucially it has to be set while they're- #-still tense and distrustful of eachother and solely keeping it together for the sake of the team. but also this is the first time ortega's- #-mods have ever been inspected in a way that felt respectful (outside of techsteps‚ potentially). which they are normal about obvs #also also. something to be said about revealed/betrayed guilty ending where mortum doesn't bust you out vs Does bust you out (1/2) #I RAN OUT OF TAGS?&)$)&))$)&_BRUHHHHHHHHH #also also. something to be said about revealed/betrayed guilty ending where mortum doesn't bust you out vs Does bust you out #< i MEANT to continue this with: both of these paths have such delicious potential reflecting ortega+hbi #wherein leaving you in the hospital is a repeat of the fact the person who enabled step's new life in the first place left them for dead at #-the whims of the government (or government aligned associates‚ at least) #in which case sidestep deserves to crash out like actually i would be destroying the city over that too #on the other hand #mortum saving you from the hospital. that's like. a glimpse of what a saved from the farm incident could've been #WAIT ALSOx3. THEY ARE ARGUABLY THE MOST PROTECTIVE PEOPLE IN THE CAST OF THE PEOPLE CLOSEST TO THEM AND SPECIFICALLY SIDESTEP/THE PUPPET#AND THEY ARE BOTH READY TO RAISE HELL FOR THE PEOPLE THEY LOVE #i'm going to. head in my hands. guys i really really want to see them i'm being struck ill #i NEED to write that mortumtega racing fic auggshgghhhhhjjh (2/2)

[amatres]

every once and a while i remember a short sidestep fully just says more or less that theyre the right height to put their face in ortegas chest

[amatres]

i feel like there is other lines im not sure but this is the one from the apartment scene that i remembered through a fog for those curious, it's a julia only line

[sambeckdraws]

colour palette requests - Wyll