#thought-42

[stoppit-keepout]

Hello SK oh my god please tell me about "tfw your former coworker is now a nanny" thank you

you know this one!! but I suspect this might have been a kind invitation to write more... so I will take you up on it.

THE TITLE: i'm actually writing it in Google Keep (hilariously) so the title is just something I slapped on for the meme hah. I didn't THINK it had a title in Keep, but it looks like I've called it N. (for Nanny)

THE FANDOM: Murderbot...

THE CONCEPT: there's so much good potential for horror in this whole fandom, and I stumbled upon a thread of "reasons my toddler is crying" around the same time I was hanging out with my friends and their kids, and their eldest was furious at being offered 1) a peeled segment of orange; 2) an unpeeled or partially peeled orange; 3) no orange. so uh... c-c-c-combo!

THE EXCERPT: (part that i have not sent you yet)

We're going to have to talk to it if we're going to help it, ART sent to me.

We don't have to "help" it, I replied. What does it need help with anyway? If anyone needs help, it's the humans that don't realise they're living with a weapon.

ART threaded off from my question in the middle, answering, De-bugging, restructuring its disaster of a codebase, updating ten years' worth of module and system patches, receiving psychological treatment, …

My play yard surveillance drone flagged raised voices, so I backburnered our feed and turned uselessly in its direction.

"I don't want to put it on, I wanna wear it!" The child-client was pushing at the coat the Unit was holding out to him.

"Understood," the Unit said.

Its voice sounded like a normal SecUnit voice, which ART said was creakier than most human voices because our lungs don't need to carry as much air. I thought about that instead of thinking about how shitty it must be to work for a child. They might be almost as bad as C-suite executives.

"Let's have you wear it like this," it said, and it draped the coat over the child's shoulders without tucking his arms into the sleeves.

The child-client screamed, "No, don't!"

The Unit's hands clenched in the clothing and its mouth froze, open, for 1.8 seconds. Punishment, I guessed.

The augmented human adult intervened then, and between salted starch squares and a distracting fauna toy, eventually the child-client moved on from his crisis.

The Unit waited until its child-client was wearing the coat before it did anything else. The adult got it to carry several bags, which it did without comment, following the family gaggle exactly 5 meters back the rest of the way to their home compound. My surveillance drones used all the cover they could to follow them as well.

I didn't share my drone footage with anyone, but ART probably saw it anyway.

[legobiwan]

Hello I just discovered your Obi-Wan and Dooku content and it has significantly improved my evening, thank you for your excellent Dooku feelings and meta, I'm enjoying it a lot!

:) 

You are MOST welcome, my friend! Feel free to stop by anytime if you want to flail about these two I love them and their relationship oh so much!

[kmackatie]

For the ask game: 4, 47, 58?

thank you for the asks!

(ask me a fanfic writer ask)

4. what is the plot bunny you’ve been carrying for the longest? optional bonus question: do you ever wonder why you haven’t written it yet and experience deep existential dread?

Oooh what a good one! There's loose ones -- I have some oneshots set in the musicians verse that are half-drafted I'll get to one day, a sequel to evilgast (shadowstrucker?? what's the official ship name for that one) but this next one is the one that I've been slowly marinating in my head and I think is in a place that I would like to start writing it soon. It's a grief fic, but not necessarily lifespan angst though that by nature will be there. It's more about the complicated nature of grief and what that looks like at different stages, as well as that choice of loving someone despite of knowing that time is limited. I have an idea of how I want to structure it, and what I would like to explore through it. It's more about the beauty of life and all it's complications than outright angst.

47. what story are you most proud of?

pieces of (you) me and the breath before the phrase I know, I know, that's two fics, but they are both there for different reasons and I can't pick between the two.

58. what is the last thing that a fic made you google when you were writing it?

Aside from googling words to make sure they mean what I think they mean, I'm honestly not sure? I'm writing a modern au currently, so there isn't much in there that I've needed to research. I definitely did a lot of research for the musicians au, just to make sure that I was remembering the technical terms correctly as it has been a while since I've actually studied them!

[psidn]

4, 6, 17!

hi hi hi can i just say the "answer" button on tumblr asks is uncomfortably close to the trash icon for deleting the ask and i swear this is the third time i had to do a hard swerve with my mouse to not accidentally delete the ask.

i just picked some fic myself for the first two questions

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

we are gleefully continuing my knb spiral: Midorima's lucky item being a Mamma Mia DVD for the one knb tweet/chatfic i wrote. what can i say. i also liked google search "how to look cool online -wikihow" from the same one. WHAT CAN I SAY.

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

if through blood, sweat, and tears i came up with an idea for a universe, then by god i will put it in there. jk, but also i think the yuletide fic i wrote for this past yuletide is an example of that. i was coming up with a lot of kinda unrelated ideas, and early on in writing i was like, no, i must put these aside! but then partway through i was like, fuck it. these are interesting to me, i like them, i'm gonna make it work. and that's why there are like several half-baked ideas floating around the edges of it, but honestly i think it works fine like that.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

HI. GOOD THING YOU'RE ASKING THIS. i wrote like 1k or something of it in 2018 and keep circling around it like a vulture. it's my knb fma au. so like miragen as the seven vices/homunculi. i have them all mapped out and they're perfect, i'm a genius. and akashi is looking for his brother. GET IT?? i'm a genius. and it's set to fleet foxes' mykonos do you see why i am a genius?!?!?!

ok i'm coming down from my power trip. one day i will finish this. i have to. my (other) white whale.

[stoppit-keepout]

SK please tell me about a time before the beginning of the Murderbot fic

BUT OF COURSE!!

Crew.Iris was propelling herself faster than advisable down the corridor connecting Large Plant Biome to Crew Quarters, so I pushed a warning to her newly implanted feed. Crew.Iris flinched as if it were visual stimulus and mis-timed a footfall as she turned a corner, causing her to supinate her foot excessively, probably over-stretch her lateral ankle ligaments, and fall to the ground.

A MedDrone was already on its way and I alerted Crew.Seth and Crew.Martyn about the incident over the feed, then there was nothing I could do but listen to Crew.Iris produce a high-intensity sibilant through her vocal tract and watch her make a facial expression consistent with depictions of pain.

I'm sorry, I told her.

She bared her teeth (aggression? humour?) and said, "It's fine, Peri, it just hurts," before returning to her hissing sibilant.

MedDrone arrived and injected a painkiller within thirty seconds of the incident, at which point she ceased her atypical vocalization, and Crew.Martyn arrived shortly after.

I focused on treatment in MedSystem until she was no longer exhibiting signs of pain.

Why were you making that sound? I asked.

"It just helps to have somewhere for the feeling to go," she explained.

Her explanation wouldn't make sense to me for at least twenty-five thousand hours. I am reliably informed that some things have to be felt to be believed.

[stoppit-keepout]

hiiiiiiiiiiiii

HI~~~~ I’ve chosen to interpret the many “i”s as license to hit skip for each i; this is also because the first song I got to was instrumental, and the second was “Push It” by Garbage, a song for which I can honestly say I don’t have a favourite lyric.

the 13th song I got to, though, was D is for Dangerous by the Arctic Monkeys! I loved this album when it came out, but was still surprised when i looked up the lyrics; i think I thought I knew the whole song, but evidently I didn’t, because I didn’t even know the word “compromission” (which is in a later line of this verse) until tonight.

D is for desperately trying to simulate What it was that was alright Three quarters of an hour ago

[simmonsized]

"accidental co-parents of the found family group" York and Carolina you know i'm right

SOBS I WASN’T GOING TO SAY IT BUT IT’S TRUE

they ARE the parents

or at least Carolina is for sure the parent and York is like, supposed to be the dad but none of them take him seriously until it is like, Too Late or the last minute lkaflksflksfjlkil

[simmonsized]

NOVIE THAT'S SO MANY WORDS

I KNOW LOL

I JUST gOT REALLY CAUGHT UP IN IT

the other chapters are long like. 3000 words each. 

HELP?!??!?!