Unprofessional Conduct: The Blog (intro + fic list)
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Moonlighting as a VTuber & AO3 writer to survive the day job of 10 years in the corporate code mines 🥲
💖Current affliction: HarryKim / Disco Elysium. Terminal. It's why I post now.
I write yaoi on AO3, stream on twitch, and occasionally smuggle skills out of the day job to improve the presentation layer of my brainrot (workskins, browser extensions).
🆗Asks & DMs open! writing, life advice, anything. slide in. Water’s cozy.
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#my writing — Chapter updates, drabbles, assorted brainrot smuggled out of the corporate mines
#UC41 — The longfic. HarryKim slowburn hurt/comfort. ongoing, 99k and climbing
#RedChecksAndOrangeBombers — The one-shots/multi-shot & smut. Plot bunnies that mutated into monsters. All AU branches of the UC41 universe
#AskNeen — Previous asks
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↓ My writing (list updates) ↓
🔫 Unprofessional Conduct in the 41st — E · 99.5k · WIP · slowburn hurt/comfort · mutual pining
Kim transferred to Precinct 41 eight weeks ago and has been quietly, devastatingly in love since Martinaise. Harry — sober(-ish), trying very hard — has not noticed. The parliament in his head has. It's losing its mind about it.
🔗 Custody — E · 12.2k · complete · rank play · praise kink · prank-turned-real
Harry cuffs a sleeping lieutenant as a prank. All Kim has to do is tell him to stop. He doesn't.
❄️ Shelter-in-Place — M · 10.2k · complete · forced proximity · caretaker gets cared for
Stranded on a dead coast road in freak spring snow, one regulation blanket between them. Kim runs the hypothermia procedure out loud so he doesn't have to feel it. Harry does the holding. For once, Kim lets him.
🪩 Crowd Control — M · 5.3k · complete · leather pants · jealous harry · UST [all my fics are honestly]
Kim wears the leather racing jacket to Disco Night. half of Martinaise notices. more unfortunately: Harry notices.
🎯 Cheek Weld — M · 3.4k · complete · touch-starved · professional pretext · pining
Harry can't qualify with his own service weapon since the tribunal. Kim has a fix: the range, after hours, bare hands at his hips — to correct his stance. On the record.
👩💻 The Voices in Your Head — AO3 workskin · made with 10 years of professional spite
Disco Elysium. Your fic, but with intrusive thoughts in colour. Accessible, mobile-friendly, no forced dark mode.
writing this from the corpo code mines btw. one monitor has typescript. the other has kim kitsuragi saying with enormous dignity that he has wanted to do filthy things to harry in the kineema since the moment they met. this is what they mean by full stack development
reblogging and liking the 9865877466432756w65123th harrykim post of the day just to feel something while trapped in my second corpohell meeting. if kim kitsuragi isn’t gay on my dash every thirty seconds i will lose my remaining tether to humanity
New Disco Elysium fic up: Shelter-in-Place - a Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi one-shot
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Red Checks and Orange Bombers (UC41) universe.
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Harry Du Bois/Kim Kitsuragi
Format: one-shot, complete
POV: Kim 🧡
Words: 10.2k
Read it on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/88835486
Forty kilometres from shelter, the Kineema dies and the snow closes the road behind them. Kim Kitsuragi knows exactly how cold kills a man. What he does not know is how to survive one regulation blanket, Harry Du Bois's arms around him, and the professional metre between them disappearing by degrees.
Shared body heat is procedure.
Harry's heartbeat under his cheek is not.
Kim would have fixed the coil. For the record.
Excerpt:
His gloves had soaked through and gone stiff, so he took them off. Only these two hands and the long self-taught fluency of a boy who'd learned machines where other men learned doctrine — alone, and young, because machines didn't let him down and people had.
He set the bare hands against the cold metal and worked.
The cold went through pain quickly and out the far side of it into the worse thing, which was absence. He'd written the stages into exposure reports from the dry side of a warm desk — erythema, then numbness, then the waxy pallor — in the flat vocabulary he kept for other people's bodies. He read them off his own fingers now, in order, and kept working.
He set the spanner to the bracket, and his hand wouldn't close around it. He instructed it — in the calm interior voice he used for everything — to grip. It declined. These were the hands he had, his sole qualification, the one part of himself he'd never thought to doubt, and they'd stopped answering.
"Okay. That's it. That's enough." Harry was out in the wind, one big hand closing around his elbow, then his shoulder. The grip was not a suggestion. "Inside, Kim. Right now."
...
Harry folded him onto the back seat and swung in after him.
"Hands," Harry said. "Give them here. Both of them."
Kim gave them.
Harry took both ruined hands and swallowed them whole, folded into a single warm dark space that smelled of engine grease and cold air. He bent his head and breathed. A long warm exhale Kim felt travel the entire length of his frozen fingers. Then again.
"Your hands," Kim tried. "You'll lose the heat off your own. Keep them in your—"
"My hands are fine. Yours are the colour of a fish. We're doing yours." A pause; the dryness gentled all the way down.
...
"And before you start: I outrank you. This is technically an order, Lieutenant. So sit still. Let someone else do the holding, for once."
Hi! I really, really, REALLY like your "Unprofessional Conduct" fic. It has cured my main vice when it comes to fanfiction or even reading in general.
ANYWAYS, it has brought me so much joy that I'm very much looking forward to drawing these wonderful characters from a videogame that is currently taking over my summer. Thus, I was wondering if there’s any special scene in your fic that you think would work as an illustration? Cause I would love to draw it, if that's okay with you, of course.
Ahhh, thank you so much!!!!That’s genuinely such a lovely thing to hear! And of course it’s okay with me; I’m always delighted by the idea of someone making fanart inspired by my writing.
But now I’m incredibly curious: what scene actually made you flip? lol
Was there a particular moment or chapter that really stuck in your head while you were reading? I’d honestly love to hear what caught your imagination before I start suggesting anything, especially since the scene that made you want to draw them would probably make the best illustration. 🧡💚
STEALING YOUR IDEA AND RUNNING AWAY WITH IT. Oh my goodness had I checked my Tumblr asks while live and seen this you would have heard me banshee screeching.
AO3 finally gets a rich text comment box (Firefox extension + mobile!) 🧡
AO3 gives authors a Rich/Plain toggle in the work editor. commenters get a plain textarea: type your own HTMLtags, or go without. So I built the toggle for comment boxes too!!
What it does:
Rich/Plain toggle above every comment and reply box. including the reply boxes that load in after you click reply, and the floating reply popup in the author inbox, so keysmash essays can be answered in kind
Toolbar: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, blockquote, lists, links, clear formatting. renders live as you type, no more handwriting raw (doggin') html like its 2004
Before it submits, your comment gets cleaned down to AO3's own allowed HTML, so nothing quietly vanishes after you post
Works with Reversi and system dark mode. No flashbang at 2am
Firefox only right now (desktop + Firefox for Android). No Chrome/Edge planned for now. costs money to publish there 🥲
Get it on Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b4dea4cfa49341fb93c0/
Source code on GitHub (it's open source ✨, you can read every line before you install): https://github.com/ninineen/AO3-Rich-Comment-Editor
^ Fully open and transparent. Github issues page available for bug reports.
Bugs, questions, suggestions? slide into my ask box, or if you're shy, my dms! they're totally open
made so you can leave a comment as unhinged and over-formatted as the fic deserves~
Amazing addon page Icon by @tozerving with permission. Thank you!
Packaged extension icon by sunsetfoam, used with credit per their terms (no political use).
literally went and visited an old friend of mine in his garage so he could teach me about diesel engines, purely to lend one scene of Kim fixing his Kineema (read: fictional radio punk car) in my yaoi HarryKim ~~smut~~ fanfic a level of structural integrity it frankly does not require.
(yes, I made him read all of it) he does not read yaoi. Or fanfics for that matter.
Living rent free in my head rn. Everything about this piece is chef's kiss. Composition. Colors, expressions 😭 it's *everything* the perfect disco elysium art doesn't exist. This piece:
hello!! first of all: YES ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!! <333 second of all: would you rather me answer your ask privately or publicly? i don't mind either way <33
Hello hello!! Slide into DMs! So we can talk spoilers!! I'm so excited!!!! Oh gosh!
so… last time I was (very) active on tumblr was 2008–2018 ish.
can someone explain to this crusty old grandma what the social etiquette of comments on a post is now? I hardly see anyone use them. is… is it okay… to use them?? or are we still just reblogging and screaming our feelings in the tags
