Currently obsessed with Sprolden (any universe) and Dispatch.
Always happy to accept drabble & one shot requests for any Heartstopper, Solitaire or Dispatch characters.
🍃🍂Master List🍂🍃 of all my Heartstopper fics can be found here.
🔥💧Master List💧🔥 of all my Dispatch fics can be found here.
Other special interests include: music (lots), my husband, and general aesthetics. Sometimes I make art.
I spend most of my time writing fanfic and trying to learn French.
✨Please note✨ I try to maintain a minor-friendly space HOWEVER I am an adult and I do and will write about some more mature things on here (mostly sex concepts, sexuality, the smut writing process, with the occasional rude meme sprinkled in). Feel free to block #freakykate if that stuff bothers you.
✨Some tags I use✨
#sproldenSOD for all my Michael and Tori songs of the day
#kaleidoscopefic for stuff about my Sproldenverse
#the damp gets in your bones for my current Dispatch WIP
#seanposting for funny/weird shit my husband says
#freakykate for anything spicy that I think requires this tag
“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately
Grrrrr. I'm getting SO MANY of these lately, and it doesn't even matter if I lock my fics because they are from registered users! And this "person" definitely didn't read my fucking fic (the 'scene' they mention doesn't happen) which means they fed it into fucking ChatGPT, which is stealing my work. I'm so so so frustrated I want to pull all my fucking fics until Ao3 can get this under control.
desperately in need of big sister advice on how to manage curly hair so please share whatever wisdom you have. I'm talking shampoos, conditioners, gels, creams, diffusing, towel drying, brushes ANYTHING i'm so close to shaving all my hair offfff
Okay, so full disclosure I have very curly waves (2C) so it's not tight coils or anything, but I'll put what I use/do under the cut.
Products:
My routine is very simple. I'm a lazy asshole and I ain't doing all that. So yeah, just regular shampoo (I use generic head and shoulders bc my scalp is dry) and I use one of those scalp scrubbers. Then I either use a deep conditioner or the Aussie Bouncy Curls Conditioner. I let it sit for a while while I do my face/body and then I mostly just rinse it from the top of my head. If the ends feel particularly squeaky I will add a little more conditioner before I get out of the shower and just leave it in. Then I scrunch a few times with the towel and wrap it around my head.
Get out, put in my contacts, moisturise my face, then take off the towel, comb my hair in the general part I want with either a wide tooth brush or my fingers and then spray with the Gliss heat protector.
Then I blow dry my roots and my fringe only with a comically huge round brush. Just for volume and shape.
Then I add that curl cream/gel to both my wet length and my dry top layer (I will rewet the top layer if needed and give it a few scrunches) then I don't touch it until it's dry.
I've only started doing the root blow dry recently since cutting my hair, but I really like the effect. I can go like four days without washing my hair and it looks decent. I'll add a bit more of that curl cream to reduce frizz and refresh my hair and spritz with dry shampoo if greasy.
Before I would just do everything else and no blow-dry (or just fringe).
So that's it!
For the products, I swear by that Aussie curl conditioner. They sell a lot of curly products, but I only used this for years. I'll water down a pea sized amount and rub it over my dry hair and it works perfectly fine as a leave in.
Currently using Garnier Hair Food as my deep conditioner. I don't really like it, but I got it on sale. I use it like once a week.
I use the Gliss spray if I'm blow drying. It's also supposed to repair damage and I do see a difference since using it.
And then the curl gel stuff, I use like a penny sized amount for below the shoulder hair on the first go and like half that for subsequent refreshes.
Okay, so I know a few of my moots are curly like me, and I need to tell youse I'm obsessed with this stuff. It smells so good, and truly is giving me fucking Hollywood hair with like no effort. I got it for €4 or something at Normal.
Sometimes I wake up and I think of a cute blurb or a funny exchange that the characters can have and I'll punch it into my phone. And sometimes I wake up and think of something completely devastating and just
Been staring at this Waterbae sketch for two days trying to figure out what was wrong. Today I realised. I gave Chad a middle part, when his hair will naturally fall in a Millennial side part. Duh. 🙄
Just throwing this out there, but Blazer is Shroud's daughter and the amulet she wears is the original ore that all of his Red Ring tech is made from.
Spoilers under the cut.
All of Shroud's henchmen only have fragments of the ore in their tech, whereas Mandy has a huge chunk, hence her abilities.
It's also why she wanted to help Robert, she feels so much guilt for what her father did to him and his father. And why she doesn't tell him her origin story.
Maybe also how Mandy knows Chase, as she would've grown up knowing about the Brave Brigades, maybe even wanting to join, but not having the power to do so. (I HC that Mandy is a few years younger than Chase and a few years older than Rob, around 34 now, so neither of them would've been her peers back then.)
Shroud literally shoots a dude in the head for talking shit about Mandy. And he does that little caress to her cheek and hair when he first scrapped with her in the final battle.
Anyway, I see you Amanda Connors. I'm coming for you eventually.
He keeps trying to subdue her/get rid of her in the battle, because he knows she knows him best and because maybe he doesn't want her to die.
Also maybe why he doesn't straight up kill Visi when he takes the pulse, because at some point he promised Mandy he wouldn't directly kill any of her friends? I don't know, that one is still cooking.
He is also surprised by Chase's arrival in the Blazer getup, as he never predicted that Mandy would choose to give his only/final gift to her, to someone else, especially not to facilitate his downfall.
Waterboy hooked up with Flambae's neighbour and when Waterboy leaves (he usually doesn't stay bc of his powers and the dude wasn't a good lay anyway), he runs into Flambae.
Flambae doesn't recognize him immediately, because he's wearing different clothes, doesn't have his goggles on and has piercings. Ofcourse he's going to ask Waterboy, what he's doing and he wants to hear all the tea (he hates his neighbour for different reasons).
Just them randomely bonding outside of work over past horrible/funnyish hookup stories.
Okay, so I love the idea of Waterbae bonding over gossip, especially about guys, but I don't personally think Herm would go in for a hook up situation at this stage. I *do* however, head canon that he was in a messy situationship/hook up thing at uni where the guy was kind of a dick and made Herm feel bad about himself and his powers. So I'm loving a scenario where like Herm goes to Chad's flat to pick something up and bumps into this guy in the hall and then he arrives at Chad's door visibly shook and he's like "What the fuck's your problem?"
"Uh, um, well, I kind-just ran into my ex."
Chad's eyes bulge out of his head and he leans dramatically into the hall. "Who? Where?"
Herm points at the door across the hall, wiping water out of his face.
"Shut the fuck up, Buddhism Bitch?"
"Um, I guess?"
"Bro I fucking hate that guy. He gets up at the ass crack of dawn and does these super loud meditation videos. I can hear him doing breathing exercises through the fucking wall."
Herm giggles. "Yeah, he was like that at school too. Very...spiritual. But...not so um, enlightened."
Chad pulls him into the apartment, the thing Herm came for forgotten and a beer shoved into his hand.
"Spill," Chad says and so Herm spills, telling him all about how David would flirt with him during their biology classes and how they would fool around in the lab after hours but then in public he would totally blank him.
"I was pretty stup–dumb–n-naive, I guess. I-I think-thought he would...change?"
Chad shakes his head. "Douchebags like that don't change."
Chad grabs them more beers and tells Herm about a guy he used to hook up with that would only have sex with him in the shower. "Like, don't play with fire if you don't want to get burned!" Chad jokes.
It goes back and forth like this, swapping stories, complaining about how hard the dating scene is for supers, until they get hungry and Chad orders them pizzas. Finally, Herm has to go, so he grabs what he came for and leaves.
A few days later Chad comes into SDN beaming, holding a handwritten letter.
Herm stares at it.
Stop parking like a dickhead Chad! I will get your piece of shit car TOWED! You have been WARNED! -D
"Wa-what did you do?"
Chad shrugs, grinning. "Listen I'm a busy man, I don't have time to make sure I'm parking perfectly in the lines."
Herm just laughs. "That's rude."
"Getting blowies from a guy in the back of biology and then ignoring them is rude. For a guy who is all about Buddhism and shit, he sure hates karma." Chad laughs at his joke as the note in his hand disintegrates into ash. "Anyway, beers after work? I need to tell you about this loser I hooked up with over the weekend. Spoiler alert, he called his mom after."
I had dinner with this woman the other day, and we were talking about doing things around our flats and she said to me, "I really need to hire someone or get a boyfriend to do all the big jobs." (She's recently divorced by the way.) And I said, "I'm sure you can do most of those things by yourself. Just get a drill and some basic tools and watch a youtube tutorial."
And she says, "I can't bring myself to buy the tools, I feel like I won't be a woman."
My brain buffered for a few minutes (I had just told her about all the stuff I built/put together in my flat) and I finally said, "I bought a pink drill."
Chad and Herm early in their relationship, making out on the couch and Chad is feeling up Herm...when he feels a lump. He pauses, pressing against the lump. Maybe it's a cyst, or an in-grown hair, but fuck, it's not normal.
"You feel that?"
Herm pulls back confused. "Uh, yeah?"
Chad puts Herm's hand on the lump. "That. What is that?"
Herm's eyes go wide as Chad's stomach drops. He jumps from the couch and grabs his phone, finding the nearest hospital where Herm can get checked. Chad's so fucking scared he doesn't even care that Herm is now leaking all over his couch and floor as he presses his fingers into his left pec.
A few calls, one argument with a hospital receptionist, and several hours later, Herm is in for a scan. Chad is pacing the hallway, spiralling out that the first guy he's ever really cared about was sick and was definitely going to die and no one would ever love him again.
And then the doctor pops his head into the hall and tells Chad he can come in.
Herm is sitting in a chair in front of a large monitor. Chad sits next to him and squeezes his hand. The lump was there on the screen, black and horrible and jagged.
The doctor smiles tightly. "So, it's not cancer."
Chad exhales with relief. "Wait, how do you know? Don't you have to do an autopsy or something?"
"Biopsy," Herm says.
"Yeah, that."
The doctor points at the black mass on the screen. "Thats not a tumor. It's a bullet."
Chad spins to face his boyfriend. "When the fuck did you get shot?!"
Herm shrugs. "I-I don't know-remember."
"You don't remember getting shot?"
"I-I heal quick-fast! I guess I missed one."
Chad drops Herm's hand. "Missed one! How many times have you been shot?"
Herm side-eyes the doctor watching this exchange. "Uh, we should-can talk about this later-at home."
Chad huffs with exasperation. "You're damn right we're talking about this at home. Let's go."
Herm waves goodbye to the doctor and scurries after Chad. Meanwhile the doctor is just sitting there like, "Fuckin' superheroes."
Sean just watched Iron Lung because I told him about it the other day in reference to Project Hail Mary and now he's laying next to me scrolling Bloody Mary fan art and he just asked me:
"What's a slash ship?"
😭😭😭
Like omg baby boy, welcome. Welcome to the dark side.
