25 yo he/him. i really like roach! this blog is for occasional cosplay pics or other things that don't need to go on my main. i post fanfic on Ao3 as tinyduckies (18+, MDNI! this blog is ok tho). feel free to send asks/DM/reply/tag n stuff or just say hi; i don't bite unless you want me to!
Not a republican nor military simp. I just think big dudes in tac gear are sexy. I write darker things so Watch Out. Roachtruther and Fic Writer. I've actually been writing since 6th grade, which is uh. Over a decade now lol
This is my TV-14 (DLSV) blog.
My Main Blog: @tinyduckies (also TV-14 DLSV)
My 18+ AO3: tinyduckies
My 18+ Sideblog: @sideroachblog
Minors can interact with *this* blog and my main, not the other sideblog listed above. I ask that minors don't read my 18+ fics highlighted orange (the others are fine, highlighted blue). Ultimately I cannot parent you and do not care to do so, so if you fuck yourself up reading my adult fics I blame your parents.
Heed the TWs!!
Masterlist Under the Cut
Completed:
1. Roach Wouldn't Really Do It...
GhostRoach ANGSTY Hurt/Comfort One-Shot
HEAVY TW: Suicidal Thoughts
2. Leg Day
18+ Oneshot, SoapRoach Public Gym Shenanigans
3. Exhaustion's a Funny Thing
18+ Oneshot, GhostRoach Totally-Not-a-Date
TW: Mild Homophobia Mention, Alcohol Consumption, Drunk Sex
4. The Apple of My Eye
SoapGhost Hurt/Comfort One-Shot
TW: Mortality, Parental Death/Hospice Care
5. Subatomic
Röanig [RoachKönig] One-Shot, Developing Friendship/Crush, Can Be Read as One-Sided or Mutual Pining
KeegRoach Hypothermia Fic, pt. 1 but can be read by itself.
TW: Head Injury/TBI, Broken Bones, Unconsciousness, Drowning, Hypothermia
7. Rope Training
18+ Oneshot, SoapGhostRoach. Title explains it lol
WIPS:
1. Outside Looking In
18+ longform content, has occasional smut. SoapGhostRoach. Takes place after Roach is rescued from an Ultranationalist prison camp. From Soap's perspective as he grapples with his crush on Ghost while learning more about Ghost's intimacy with Roach, as well as Roach's past first-hand rather than by word-of-mouth.
~90k words, >2/3 complete, updated every month/every two months because I work full time.
Don't read if you hate communication issues/miscommunication in fic.
18+ KeegRoach pt. 2, post-Frozen Solid where they reconnect and focus on getting together while Roach recovers and Keegan deals with his father's shitty behavior tying him to America when he'd rather move on with his life. Has occasional smut.
~16.5k words. I dunno if I'll finish it. I would love to but you know how it is lol
I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that “20 is still basically a minor” need to understand is that the feeling of “I’m just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adult” is DEEPLY universal (and won’t stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.
Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when you’re trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize you’re 22 and you still feel like you’re 15, but it happens to all of us. You’re an adult. You have to deal with it.
The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.
Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"
The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.
Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."
This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.
This torches everything. And I do mean everything.
A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):
ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives
allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason
preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies
requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.
What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.
Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.
Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.
Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:
"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"
But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.
