I had a half-baked crossover thought that others may or may not have had, but Tucker (Danny Phantom) and Ritchie (Static Shock) are both tech nerds, both more than human (if keeping Pharoh Tucker), and both have the surname Foley. Now idk about anyone else, but meeting someone with the same surname and interests, even if coming from a different part of the world entirely, sounds like the perfect set up for shenaniganry.
Okok I see you. Ritchie Foley and Tucker could absolutely hit it off as good internet buddies before meeting up and just causing absolute chaos
Sometime a family is a taxidermist turned wandering hide and bone salesperson, a litch that initially had the taxidermist bring things for collection but eventually thought "wait am I dad now?" After the taxidermist kept snarking back, and a random street child the taxidermist adopted after the child gifted them a string.
"The music box was blessedly silent.
For all of his hatred of the thing, he found himself in awe at just how such a small thing could cause so much misery. His hand shook as he reached out (when did he start trembling?), and he slumped to the ground as if his strings were cut before he even touched it.
How long before he wasted away?"
Thank you so much @serenefig for commissioning me! 🌸
11. “We could get arrested for this.” (mass effect for fandom if wanted, or dealers choice)
"We could get arrested for this."
Annabel Ryder paused and looked at Reyes, quirking an eyebrow. "Says the man who runs a smuggling operation."
"Legal smuggling operation now that Kelly's gone." Reyes flashed Anna a trademark smile but that didn't sway her. "But that doesn't change the fact that we're breaking into an Initiative facility."
"So you just get Keema to spring you if we get caught." Anna turned back to her omni-tool and the decryption program it was running. "And I can always claim Pathfinder authorization. Testing security or something. Which is technically true."
Reyes watched Anna talk and felt the familiar warmth that he'd come to associate with her. Here was someone who'd been battle tested and come out stronger on the other side. "So would this be considered a date? Since it's just the two of us."
Her omni-tool gave a chirp and the holo-lock on the door glowed green. Standing, she pulled out her pistol and gave Reyes a wicked smile. "Maybe. If we find what I'm looking for quickly, I'll let you fuck me in the cargo hold."
Reyes pulled out his own pistol and grasped Anna's arm, pulling her close to growl in her ear, "Don't make promises you can't keep."
Anna just gave him a wink and pulled her arm out of his grasp, knowing full well where the information was and that this was a way to finally cross off 'sex in a cargo facility' on their list.
BTS for "don't you ever wonder what it's like out there?" please!
BTS: I’ll write a DVD commentary about my personal favorite passage from [that fic]
oh man, my first tsp fic! well, sort of- id posted the prologue for somewhere else by then, but hadnt gotten further than that. i was still in the planning stages, and needed to get a better handle on their voices before i felt comfortable writing something with more meat to it
BTS below the cut!
Of course, the Narrator knew that. Had known it for awhile. That didn’t stop him from forcing Stanley through the game, over and over again, for some twisted and unknown reason. It was enough to drive a man insane- it had, on several occasions. But with how the world reset at the end each time, it always passed, leaving Stanley sitting at his desk, cracks in his mind sealed over once more and he would get up again and begin the game again.
I always loved the idea that, since the resets fix any damage to Stanley's body, that they would also repair any damage to his mind- i.e. a mental break brought on by despair, or whatever's going on at the end of the Mariella/Insane Ending. I imagine that that, in and of itself, would feel like a new kind of torture, though; unable to recede into the haze and blur of a broken mind, forced to be one hundred percent present for every waking moment, for every dragged-on second you're trapped. Truly, Hell.
I am tired, he signed up at the ceiling. Tired of your bullshit.
“Stanley!”
askfjasd okay I know it's overdone but I love having Stanley just spew profanities and offend the Narrator. See: the 'asshole'/'not those words!' exchange from Somewhere Else. It's funny to me and it'll never stop being so.
“In one, it goes just like the Freedom Ending: you find the mind control center, turn it off, the door opens, freedom! Ta-da!” He laughed, the sound sending ice down Stanley’s spine. “The twist is, I would let you step outside. You would wander around, find civilization, maybe even make a home for yourself. You’d think: ‘Is this it? Am I finally free?’ You’d have your doubts of course, who wouldn’t?
This? This is horrifying. It's a form of the 'it was all a dream' trope, but in a new and horrifying way, to me. To imagine going through all that, getting out, making a life- only to have it snatched away and have you stuck right back where you started?
Horrifying.
“I’m… sorry, Stanley,” he murmured. “That was too far, even for me.”
Goddd, I love when they're both stuck and they both hate it but there's no one else around to take their frustrations out on, so they hurt each other and then they regret it and make up, only it's hard, because there's no one else to go to, nowhere else to hide, and it's awful and toxic and these two are not healthy for each other here. I'm not about to go expanding on this particular iteration's relationship, but there's no way they can grow anymore than swinging violently back and forth between animosity and cautious companionship unless they get out. Tragic.
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Thank you so much!! This was fun, returning to an old story of mine :D
I just wanted to say frien, that I don't actually know what you look like and I've been picturing you as Maize all these years 😅
OH! See now I kind of didn't want to answer this because you've definitely been picturing me more appealing than I actually am lmao.
I have exactly two face post on here, so if you want to switch up that mental image then : [here] & [here]
