#marshtwain

[artsywindow]

Flint belongs to marshtwain. Popsicle Beard belongs to me.

[smoreofbabylon]

marshtwain replied to your photo “rough drafts: a summary.”

SUNNY YOUR WRITING IS SO BEAUTIFUL

Haha, thank you? I feel like it’s actually pretty messy but it’s improving, slowly, over time...

True story: I only started writing in cursive in my junior year of college, when I was taking History of Economic Thought with the Worst Professor Ever.* I always used to print all the time forever, but then I realized that my LARGE, ANGRY ALL-CAPS NOTES about HOW STUPID DR GAY [that was really his name, promise] WAS were, you know, large enough and clear enough that he could actually read them upside-down from the front of the class, since I was on the second row and no one sat in front of me

so I started practicing cursive 1) so I’d have something to take my mind off how stupid the course was and 2) so that he couldn’t tell that, instead of taking notes about John Stewart Mill, I was writing things like “stop telling that stupid joke stop it stop it stop it that is the fourth time you’ve said it and it wasn’t funny the first one i swear to god” etc.

*someone with insider knowledge once told me that, when other instructors at my university were feeling bad about their RateMyProfessors scores, they’d go look at the angry reviews on his page to cheer themselves up, and I believe this story 100%.

[quokkafoxtrot]

Don't Want Everything (He Wants It All)

The lights were on, shining down and bathing him in white and Hermann felt himself melt away.

Out here, he was The Marquis.

Out here, he ruled ingraciously.

Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb. Rockstar AU. General Audiences. Pre-Slash. 2.5k

Album Art by marshtwain. Slightly spoilerish back cover under the cut.

There is a sequel in the works. *hangs head*

[geniusbee]

marshtwain replied to your post: some sloppy doodles cause I haven’t po...

WHO IS THE ANGRY DUDE IN THE SCUBA SUIT OMG

Ahaha he's maybe a character in a maybe short-run webcomic I'm planning?? It's about a whale-sized geoduck that washes ashore in a small coastal town, and becomes a tourist attraction but is more sinister than it appears 

he tells everyone about it first but no one believes him because he is a compulsive liar 

[jacqcrisis]

★ Johnson, maybe? 83

Ahh, Johnson. I guess a few facts would be if she were sapien, she’d be bi-racial (half Cuban/half White). Her first name is Lucia though no one has called her that in some time, she’s around 30 years old, childless, her intense hatred of sapiens and general delight in violence against them derives from her childhood consult in Cuba where sapiens are scarce but are in a small territory war with the three consults that control the country, she emigrated to the north due to her massive bulk being too hot for warm temperatures and was originally in a consult in Northeastern Ontario close to the Hudson Bay, but ended up in Adam’s consult after Hannibal’s slavers broke her old one apart (which is why she does not recognize Newt by his smell, appearance, or first name).

Sorry, word dump. That was way more than one fact BUT CHARACTERS THAT I NEVER GET TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IF I DEVOTE TOO MUCH TIME TO THEM OR MAKE THEM TOO IMPORTANT I GET YELLED AT BECAUSE THEY AREN’T ‘REAL’ CHARACTERS WOO HOO

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Replies!!

pandaswaittillmarriage said:literally the best reason to have a webcam. such cute.

I feel terrible for not doing this up until recently, it's so helpful AND super fun to make weird faces in your camera!! win-win

marshtwain said: i am so jealous of your shoulders/clavicle, dude. is it weird that i see a lot of your hermann in your face?

holy heck that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me ahaha thank you!!

cerigg said: 3 and 4 are how I imagine you are all the time

That's true, that's accurate

youareillogical said: So cute!!!

patster223 said: BEE YOU ARE SO HECKING CUTE!

Thank you bbs!!!!

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marshtwain

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“just poured honey on my cheerios because plain, stale cheerios are a)...”

you reminded me of the time i tried pouring hot chocolate powder into orange juice because i thought it would taste like a chocolate orange. it didn't.

I have no words, just a D: D: face.  Chocolate oranges are amazing! ... but that does not sound amazing.

(I feel like we're both acting in the proper spirit of that bit in the Last Continent with Rincewind and the beer-vegetables-salt-soup-thing?  i.e., "The thing about late-night cookery was that it made sense at the time. It always had some logic behind it. It just wasn't the kind of logic you'd use around midday."  Well, no alcohol, but more exhaustion, anyways.)

[jacqcrisis]

compositionally this is a bit of a mess but i was listening to ok go’s wtf and i couldn’t stop thinking about EMBARRASSED/possibly-turned-on/in-denial!Hermann getting caught staring at hybrid-form!Newt.

^ Submitted to me from marshtwain based off of my weird au fic Survival is for Nerds and OH MY GOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH I CAN'T SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH IM LITERALLY BLUSHING FUCK