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koh | ask me about the snake in my header | writing tag: my writing | Spoofymcgee on ao3

[spoofymcgee]

just realized i don’t have a bio post so

‘lo there

- i am koh

- ey/em happy to meet you! (it's been nearly two years so i can't really say those are new anymore, but a bad pun is the next best thing. i'll take any pronouns but i especially like those ones.)

- i am an amateur artist and a slightly more experienced writer, you can find some of my work in the ‘my writing’ tag and the rest of it up on ao3 under Spoofymcgee

- also i podfic sometimes! those are under podfic_mcgee at ao3

- am jewish, will disappear on saturdays and other holidays

- if you give me a chance to talk about snakes i’ll love you forever

- feel free to dm me! i want to make friends but i am very bad at it so please talk to me

- my current fandoms are star wars, star trek, stranger things (no i have not watched the show, no i am not going to), discworld, leverage, morrigan crow, doctor who, house md, hamilton, tortall and bnha, apparently

[thecollectibles]

Mermay 2025 (11-20) by Christophe Young

[bedupolker]

Opposable thumbs are handy

[feefal]

Oyster mermaid~

[greenfinchg-illustration]

Day 31- MerMay2026

🐚 - seafoam - 🐚

[vashito]

mermaid megafauna

patreon . bsky

[gravitcat]

a thing for mermay i guess

[artistic--ghost]

Shrimp Thimble before Mermay is over

[stealingpotatoes]

happy mermay to this beautiful mermai-- what do you mean that's a seal. that's literally a mermaid look at her

(links // tip jar!)

[callonpeevesie]

the horse lesbians! i love them i miss malory towers. also gave clarissa her glasses because Reasons

[booksandchainmail]

I've been thinking again about the ways in which Malory Towers and St. Clare's handle their villains.

To give a bit of context, these are each girls' boarding school series written by Enid Blyton: they follow the same general structure (each book introduces a couple new girls to kickstart the plot) and have a lot of recycled character concepts. The main difference is that Malory Towers (which was written later) has much more continuity: along with various gimmick characters who fade in and out between books (or keep appearing if their bit is fun enough) it has a core cast of four characters who can roughly be described as protagonist, antagonist, love interest, and romantic false lead. Meanwhile St. Clare's theoretically has twin protagonists who essentially stop appearing after book 2 in favor of characters with more interesting gimmicks.

In both series, each book has a villain: some girl who is scheming/bullying/manipulative/stealing/etc, and who gets discovered and disgraced at the end. In St. Clare's these villains generally only appear in one book; in Malory Towers it is always Gwendoline.

There's a bit in one of the early St. Clare's books where the reformed villain gets asked not to return to the school next year: not as a punishment, but so that she doesn't have to do the hard work of growing into a better person in an environment where everyone already hates her.

This does not happen for Gwendoline. She comes into the first book and within a few chapters has made most of the cast her enemy, and then keeps it up for another five books. And she does just keep pulling shit! Her classmates don't like her for valid reasons, and she never really tries to be less of a bully, and I don't blame any of the rest of the cast for not wanting to spend time with someone who keeps stabbing them in the back, and is also generally unpleasant.

But on the other hand. She's a twelve year old who proceeds to spent every hour of the day, most days of the year, for six years on end, surrounded by people who hate her. How the hell could she have ever improved? All she ever sees from her classmates is that they scorn and exclude her, her teachers disdain her, new classmates only spend time with her until they get to know the other girls... What reason does she have to think that doing better would mean getting treated better? What reason do we have to think this?

Anyways. I think about this sometimes in terms of restorative justice, and the conflict between "everyone deserves community/socialization/friendship" and "no one is obligated to forgive you or welcome you back". Sometimes the only solution is to just give people the chance to start fresh!

[thebibliosphere]

Babysitting my niece and nephew and my niece informed me I’m not real.

For context we were looking at a photo of her other aunt, and she said, “that’s my auntie” and I said “yeah, just like me,” and she thought about it for a while and said, “only sometimes.”

Upon further explanation, it turns out you can’t be a real if you’re a witch (context). Not a real auntie. Real.

My status as Aunt Spooky has officially been upgraded to cryptid.

[shubbabang]

[dark-wizard-guy-fieri]

context (via @mellorocket)

[chimthecappy]

doubly funny that I saw a compilation of all the corporate accounts like "aw thanks elmo, we're doing well" meanwhile all the flesh and blood real human people are extremely not okay

[artistefish]

Okay but Elmo had actually the best and sweetest response to all this trauma dumping:

And then all the other Sesame Street character accounts joined in:

And now I’m thinking maybe we’re gonna be okay… 💗

(Comment compilation from this Twitter)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I kinda feel for the poor person running Elmo's Twitter.

"So, boss... I may have messed up."

"What did you do, Ray?"

"Well, I made a post for Elmo saying 'Hi, how's everybody doing?'"

"I mean, that's kind of what we pay you for."

"Yeah, but.... <sigh> it turns out pretty much everyone is hanging on by a thread, badly enough that they needed to tell Elmo."

"Oh."

"God help me, boss, I think Elmo needs to be there for them."

"Get the others."

[shu-of-the-wind]

this is the energy that jim henson would be proud of.

[anna-neko]

and important addition

Source: instagram

[5fivecrows5]

Painted this while listening to Lazarus by Haunted like Human

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[the-semicolonoscopy]

Time for the annual Pride Month reblog of Freddie Mercury and his fabulous cats!

[greelin]

did perfectionism ever truly protect you from harm or neglect as a child though. ultimately. Lol

[greelin]

[REALLY NORMAL AND WELL-ADJUSTED VOICE] well you never know maybe it COULD have saved me. if i ever actually achieved perfection. it could have happened then. if i was actually ever enough. Which i was not

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!