The Contents of My Brain

She/Her - Jewish - Twentysomething - Ace - Lesbian - Writer - Complete Dork. There's no plan for what goes on this blog; it's just things I think are neat.

[the-z-part]

The Z Part writes fanfiction!

I figure I should put all this in one place and pin it since I want my fic to be easily accessible and I don't want to constantly self-reblog.

So! I write fic on AO3 under the name TheZPart. It's all Teen or lower. Here's a selection of my work:

The Adventure Zone (all of these are very spoilers!!!)

Touche, a 100k high school fencing au. Everybody's in it! Taakitz, Magnulia, and (especially) Blupjeans. My magnum opus tbh

Eight (Candle)nights, a series of ficlets set around Hannukah! Very wholesome

The Maltese Duck, a comedic oneshot with noir aesthetics, about Angus and Mavis

Fire Lily, blupjeans hanahaki oneshot written to a prompt

Up In The Air, taakitz flight attendant au oneshot written to a prompt

Dames and Dragons

the fire's burnt, the wind has blown, the water's dried (you'll still find stone), a Lilia-centric long oneshot about how she's actually in love with Tenevine (but of course, Tenevine loves Loria, and also they're all at war....). Spoilers through the end of The Weeping God

Raffles

Material Girls, the Ides of March but they're contemporary American women, and they kisssssssss (contains the tag "Fingering (Metaphorical)" which is the best tag I've ever, ever put on a fic)

The Raven Cycle

One Spring Day, a tiny oneshot about Demi!Gansey. I wrote this in 2016 so it's not necessarily up to my current standards, but, you know. It's fine.

[yourocdoeswhat]

Having OCs is the best because all my headcanons for them are confirmed

[yourocdoeswhat]

I know I made this post but #mood

[meshugenist]

a demiurge is when you kind of want something

[fluentisonus]

the part of me that likes manuscripts & textual genealogy is always wanting to find the Earliest Written Version of whatever folk song I'm currently interested in but I'm going to be honest while it's always wonderful on a historical level more often than not I get done reading all 20 verses of a 17th century broadside & go hm. well. time has improved this one a lot actually

[everyluxoziatonce]

i let him hit cause. uh. well i’m gonna be honest it’s cause i fucked up my parry timing

[marzipanandminutiae]

could the beach painting not be intended as a somewhat ~racy~ depiction (see: the topless woman), hence the short/tight clothes?

oh it 1000% is

that is his Fantasy Version of Combinations, I'm convinced

it's like that one artist nobody now realizes loved to depict women half-dressed, because corset-covers look like tank tops to us and petticoats look like normal (even old-fashioned and concealing!) skirts. what was that guy's name? with all the blue silk?

...TOULMOUCHE

this woman is showing her underwear. a glimpse of petticoat might be fine, but Skirt Hiking To Reveal A Huge Amount? nope. that is a sexy painting.

Lounging About With My Bodice Inexplicably Open is a popular Toulmouche theme. the white "tank top" is also underwear. note the half-up hair- that is also sexy!

damnit, Toulmouche why is this lady sexy? there's a kid in the painting! have some decency! but no, Mama is praying with her child while inexplicably having removed specifically her bodice but not her skirt. nor has she just changed into nightclothes before putting the kiddo to bed like a normal person. also that is clearly her chemise and her skirt would not close over it without her corset on; the fat distribution would be all different.

this one is just gay. Mlle. Red is clearly into Mlle. Nightwear/Lingerie and her sexy 1880s pixie cut (I think? either that or her hair is blending REALLY well with the shadows). I'm here for it

"this letter is so distressing that I had to stop midway through getting dressed and put on my Bolero of Sadness. and lounge seductively against the screen. sad-ductively, I mean"

Get dressed to the point of putting bodice on

do not put bodice on

don Tiny Vest

pin roses to corset cover that would 100% negate purpose of corset cover if actually attached to it

???

Toulmouche(TM)

Once again, that's not even her corset-cover. It's the top part of her combinations. how is her skirt fitting without the corset it was fitted on top of? Seamstresses Hate Local Painter Of Specific Fetish For This One Weird Fitting Trick!

(also, "you wanted to paint a woman in this one very particular unlikely undress state you find hot, but you painted her making out with a mirror and called it Vanity etc." there's actually a version of this called Vanity, and she's fully dressed. this one is The Mirror.)

I've got nothing. Extremely obvious late Victorian undergarment on top normal late Victorian skirt on bottom, fucking Renaissance Revival pearl-encrusted sleeves. Why not. Why, indeed, the fuck not.

WHAT IS WITH THE LITTLE VEST

[contact-guy]

So you’re telling me Sherlock Holmes could have enjoyed a refreshing coca-cola

[princessofwhiteshadows]

[princesskuragina]

Corset discourse really likes to talk in sensationalizing absolutes but historically speaking a corset is just a kind of garment. They could be uncomfortable and painful or they could be well fitted and supportive. They could be hyper-fashionable or they could be brutally practical. You could tightlace them or you could wear them with no reduction whatsoever. Most corsets were probably somewhere in the middle. Like bras. Or shoes. To say they were never perceived as restrictive or used as tools of enforcing dangerous/misogynistic beauty standards is like saying women's shoes never restrict freedom of movement. Patently untrue, but that doesn't mean those shoes have some deeper moral good or evil and it certainly doesn't mean we can use that fact to draw sweeping generalizations about the relationships of entire centuries of women to their own bodies. Corsets, like all clothing, exist in context.

[sioltach]

[portal-to-the-past]

It’s Warmer Below - London Underground poster, 1927 // Design by Frederick Charles Herrick

Source

[dandylion-s]

Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.

[heywriters]

No, Google Docs, there is a distinct difference between "cussing" and "cursing."

[strawberrykapricorn]

Calling google ‘googie’ is such a power move imo

[heywriters]

Tis indeed! Thank you for this addition. Here are some photo examples of the Googie style.

[tribeofthedrunkenweasles]

IT HAS A PROPER NAME?!

[geardrops]

posts that provide surprise knowledge, balancing out posts that provide net zero knowledge gained, what a rich ecosystem we live in

[greelin]

and if i say something

[auberginesdonthavelimbs]

[ID. A laughing face emoji pointing forward. Edited text over the image reads,

You fell for the character's facade that's meant to be dismantled by the viewer!

End ID]

[randumbkatt]

this picture is so beautiful to me, the colours brothers

[xperiane]

[neopoint-blog]

woah bitch the fuck was that for

[hungry-joe]

[katabay]

accidentally, a comic that was supposed to be about Merlin and Arthur turned into a comic about Kay and Merlin and now I’m looking at the rest of my story ideas and you know what. the dynamic compels me enough to overhaul my notes to focus on this

(& before anyone says anything: the spelling shift between Cei to Kay mid scene is intentional)

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

[serendipitous-posts]

"Adaine will outlive her friends" "Fig as an Archdevils will outlive her friends" wrong, all their friends die and they demand to go to hell. They spend their afterlives in the Bottomless Pit surrounded by moshpits. Adaine swings by once a week for movie nights. She livestreams their funerals and they rank their eulogies.

[gretashand]

Fig makes a studio album called ALL MY FRIEND ARE DEAD and each bad kid features on the song about the story of how they died bc NONE of those mfs are going out without a bang.

adaine’s track is actually a skit at the end titled STOP TELLING THEM IM DEAD. the skit has a house party remix within an hour of the albums release