thederpypikachu

they/them aroace agender nonbinary autistic + adhd

[thederpypikachu98]

Hi! I'm thederpypikachu98. I go by Pika or Serif

I use they/them. I'm a trans nonbinary agender aroace artist with ASD and ADHD. I'm 23!

My blog varies depending on my interests but currently (and for the foreseeable future) I'm focusing on Project Hail Mary.

I write fanfiction, and off the internet, I do a lot! I studied book arts and printmaking in college, and for fun/on my own, I study physics, astronomy, astrophysics, and anything relating to space. I don't have a solid plan for my future career but I'm interested in teaching, studio work, apprentice work, museum work, and collection work! I am both a marching member and an instructor for colorguard/winterguard, and currently work for a special rare book/graphic art collection as a collections assistant. Previously, I taught swim lessons, lifeguarded, was a general camp counselor, taught archery, worked for a payroll/tax company, and worked at a Michaels craft store.

Tags on my blog:

#serif writes - things relating to my fic writing

#serif rambles - where i ramble or talk a lot, usually includes asks

#serif spins - things relating to colorguard/winterguard. not frequently used but it does exist

#serif explains - where i explain something! science, math, art, etc.

#Eridian Shifter AU - my main PHM au! combines book and movie canon but leans towards movie canon. in which Ryland Grace develops the ability to shift between his human form and an Eridian form at will. His Eridian form can survive both Earth and Erid's atmosphere. Starts a couple weeks after the Adrian Fishing Incident. Eridian Shifter Masterpost

#Eridian Pebble Shifter AU - the spinoff au of the Eridian Shifter AU! in which everything is the exact same as the main AU except Grace's Eridian form physically matches his chronological age. Instead of him shifting into an Eridian form that's physically about the same age as Rocky, he's a pebble/very young Eridian. He retains all memories and all skills, it's not age play, it's not age regression. The only change is that he's physically a pebble. Eridian Pebble Shifter Masterpost

#Fall From Grace AU - an AU in which Grace is a deity/god/whatever you want to call it. He's stuck in a weakened form and believes himself to be human, except alongside the memories of teaching and working in a lab are flashes of things impossible for him to have witnessed. He keeps surviving things that should have killed him.

Masterpost for my PHM Movie Analysis posts! I go into detail about the countries whose flags appear on certain parts of the Hail Mary, what brands and companies contributed what to the project, and different items and objects that I've identified on the Hail Mary (like how South Korea seems to have done most of the inner doors/bulkheads, and how Stratt sent a sewing machine with them, and how there are three different brands of whiteboard markers, and how Honeywell's the one who built the pilot seat base and track that breaks during the Fishing Scene, and how even though CNSA was active and part of the Project on Earth, I can't find a single instance of their logo/name or the Chinese flag outside of Yao's jumpsuits and clothing on the ship)

My Fics (may not be fully updated sorry):

my Ao3

Eridian Shifter AU Series - self explanatory, currently also has the pebbleshifter au

To Live My Life As It's Meant To Be - start here for the eridian shifter au! takes place a couple of weeks after the Adrian incident and goes up to Grace and Rocky reuniting. Grace POV, one-shot

You May Call Me Grace - in which Adrian meets Grace after he and Rocky arrive on Erid. Adrian POV, one-shot

Erid's Saving Grace - in which Grace, Rocky, and Adrian descend the space elevator and properly step onto Erid's surface, and Grace finds out just how much Erid loves him. Grace POV, one-shot

To Plant A Garden Is To Believe in Tomorrow - in which Grace, Rocky, and an Eridian crew journey to Earth to establish relations. Grace POV, multi-chapter, ongoing, "main fic" for this AU

Eridian Pebble Shifter AU Series - self explanatory

Rocky the Pebblesitter - the main fic for the pebble shifter au! exact same time as To Live My Life (etc). Rocky POV, incomplete, multi-chapter

Cosmic Slumber - fic from the Fall From Grace AU. In which Grace runs for his life and the world itself struggles with him against being drugged and forced into space.

My Boundaries:

I have major emetephobia. Bad. I'm at the point where I can vaguely discuss it, and mentions of it in fics or comics are okay, but anything more than that and I can't handle it. The gagging in PHM is okay, but more than that? nope.

Bigots, racists, ableists, transphobes, aphobes, homophobes, p#dos, AI "artists", pro-AI people, zionists, etc etc. none of it. get out.

Not a fan of NSFW stuff. Vague or non explicit stuff is sometimes okay, but explicit stuff is not for me.

Unless stated otherwise, BOTHER ME FOR UPDATES. Ask me when the next chapter will be! I am consenting to be bothered! Just don't go overboard or I'll revoke this. Do NOT do this to other people.

Do NOT put any of my work, posts, concepts, aus, ideas, etc into AI. Not into chatgpt, not into image generators, none of it. If I find out someone did this? you ruin it for everyone. I will delete everything relating to my aus from tumblr and ao3 and you will never see another update regarding it again. this is not a joke. do not test me.

ASK if you want to translate my fics! If you want to do so, do NOT use AI!

Accusing me of using AI is the most insulting thing you can do. Especially as I'm someone who would rather handwrite everything and use digital entirely because my handwriting is shit. I literally work with printing presses and handmake paper and typeset entire posters and artist books by hand. it is an insult to the actual technology that is the foundation for earth's global society for you to accuse me of using AI. i study typography and love grammar and punctuation. I use shit like em and en dashes because I literally do it by hand, setting tiny bits of lead in rows to print with machines older than everyone currently alive, and that is not an exaggeration.

I love fanart! I love works inspired by mine! I love hearing that I inspired you! As long as you credit me with a link or my username, I'm totally happy for you to make art or write your own fics using my ideas!!!

Heads Up:

I do swear. I actually have been toning it down a LOT on here. I swear like a sailor. If you can't handle me swearing, sorry!

I am not afraid to call you out and or block you

If you are one of my students (and I will Know if you find this blog), I am not joking, block me and do not interact. This is not just me being funny haha. Not only am I uncomfortable with being friends/mutuals/whatever with you on here (and any other social medias), but I am literally not allowed to. If you like me as your instructor, then you will not interact with me, because if the school district finds out, you're getting me fired. I already have you all blocked on "regular" social media platforms, don't make me super sleuth out your tumblr accounts. (no, I'm not joking about having you all blocked. yall need to learn basic internet safety because it was very easy)

Nice to meet you all and I can't wait to make more cool stuff! Feel free to scream at me in asks or comment under posts. I love chatting about my ideas and I have lots more to post in the future!

Even if I don't chat much about something, if you have questions about things I do (book arts, printmaking, bookbinding, letterpress, colorguard, winterguard, etc) feel free to ask me questions! I'm happy to explain things!

Link to the Fanfic Writers: Director's Cut post I've reblogged! Send me asks on specific scenes/moments in my fics/aus you want me to talk about, a star emoji (pretend I have my emoji keyboard rn) if you want me to pick something to talk about, or send me a lock-and-key emoji and a fandom from the list if you want to hear about a fic/au from another fandom! I have lots of fics and aus I've never posted!

[thederpypikachu98]

so my out of state cousins (who shall henceforth be called my cousins since I consider them more my cousins than my actual first cousins) are going to the ren fair tomorrow and I decided to change my plans to go with them

because while in the hot tub with my cousins (the adults, not their kids) we were doing the classic "chat while splashing and kicking our feet and spinning in circles and holding ourselves up by our hands" as you do when chatting in the pool and I mentioned that the last time I went to the ren fair I went in my full BOTW link cosplay minus the wig because of the heat

and then they begged me to do the cosplay but I have not yet decided

but im bringing my life size replica of the master sword because the little cousins heard me say I have swords (I also have wado ichimonji, shusui, and kitetsu but I dont have a good belt for them) and wanted me to bring it

we'll see lol

either im going as botw link or im going as androgynous individual with a cloak made of constellations and elf ears and a sword.

...which honestly is pretty much the same thing

[thederpypikachu98]

the only reason im doing anything for this stupid holiday is because my cousins from out of state got here today so I was like "fine ill go hang out and stare at the lake that the backyard has turned into (storms) and eat dinner"

I walked in and got jumpscared by people I dont know and my ex friend who I dont speak to anymore and his family plus my first cousin who i dont speak to for a number of reasons

everyone was like "happy 4th!" and I said "I dont celebrate" and they all stared at me and I was like "i say this every year I dont know why youre surprised"

[almondcroissantsandink]

Surely Grace inadvertently causes a craft revolution on Erid when it's realized that he's going to need new clothes sooner or later. He gets to explain different colors to Eridians and they recreate his fox cardigan, but more cozy and with stone inlays so he makes noise when he walks. He's also regained some weight since getting to Erid but they want to make sure he's nice and cushioned and warm, so they create matching pants, too, that mimic the coloring on a fox's legs. They have many thrums about this and different crafting groups fight for which articles of clothing they get to make Savior Grace. They create different synthetic fibers to mimic fur and wool and everything :)

I also added the base illustration that I drew over, like how it is with paper dolls lol

[thederpypikachu98]

guys it is hot as FUCK out

like its not actually that bad (im just complaining), its about 97°F its just that its sooooo humid and muggy cause we get crazy thunderstorms and I was just outside for 3 and a half hours twirling and theres supposed to be a storm in a few hours but its just so gross because of the lake effect

im being nice and after I chill and charge my phone im driving down to the summer camp my sister works at and im bringing her ice pops and a fan and potentially other stuff if she tells me what she wants cause even though she and I get along the worst out of my siblings, I still dont want her to get heatstroke and the majority of cabins dont have AC plus she's lifeguarding

...also i need to clean my freezer out and a good chunk of space is being taken up by a huge box of ice pops I got last summer that I ate all the grape ones from and I dont like the other flavors so im making her take them so the kids can have them and I can have freezer space

[justthatrandomkid]

Can’t stop thinking about a phm au where Yao and iIyukhina survive, obviously I think grace would still be the closest to Rocky, he’s the scientist, and a teacher.

Thinking about how when they go their separate ways, and they experience the taumeba leak, and they have to decide whether or not to go back for Rocky

Theres a gun on the ship, but who gets to it first? Yao/Ilyukhina? who wants to go home, pointing the gun at Grace who leans his head against the barrel and tells them to shoot, because that’s exactly what they’re doing to Rocky and the entirety of Erid

Or grace, full of fear as he holds a gun he doesn’t know how to use, begging that the others turn around, that they’ve already sacrificed themselves for earth, why not erid?

[kyri45]

local school teacher gets main protagonist-ed against his consent, more at 12.

You guys asked and I delivered more of the Star-Spider Grace AU. And guess what? ISSUE#2 is already available on my Ko-Fi!

Also! If you want fics a lot of people started to write the, and you can find them in the PILOT posts i did last week!

Concept by ne and @sam-i-am-27 !

[thederpypikachu98]

I havent truly been in the vld fandom in a VERY long time (for a number of reasons)

however i do really like the aus people made where it was basically characters from X fandom in the paladins' positions

and like everything else about vld would be the same, just with a different group of paladins

and i am just visualizing that but with grace and rocky

I have zero idea who else would be a paladin besides those two and who they could bond with (besides adrian) that would allow them to form voltron but like yeah. now im considering which lion grace and rocky (and adrian) would pilot

also now im wondering if vld is the same genre as pacific rim (disclaimer ive never seen pacific rim. my knowledge comes from the occasional phm x pacific rim fic and pointlesshub's video on it). like both series have people in giant robots and you have to work with someone else/bond with them to pilot a giant robot (either the same robot or a robot made up of smaller robots). maybe I just like the idea of grace and rocky being drift compatible. because you cannot tell me that those two arent drift compatible.

[jube-art]

If I could hug a person after three years of isolation I'd sob too, Rocky.

(Grace is also ugly sobbing, you just can't see him, because he was too embarrassed)

[jube-art]

I don't think you can tattoo back over chemical burns there, bucko. Those things are fucked for life

[graphi-horse-time]

another one

(the website i used to do the cover didnt let me download in full quality so im putting the art by itself under the cut)

[thederpypikachu98]

and we're back to ao3 throwing a tantrum about me trying to respond to comments

cmon bud. you can do it. its okay.

[thederpypikachu98]

addition to the fall from grace au:

even in human form, grace's eyes aren't quite human. they're blue but the shade of blue depends on the sky above him at the moment. on a clear winter's day his eyes are piercing blue. on a stormy evening his eyes are a dark gray-blue. on cloudy days his eyes have streaks of white drifting across the irises. no one can agree on what color his eyes actually are beyond "blueish".

when he wakes up on the hail mary, with no memories, his eyes are dull. it isnt until he meets rocky and starts recovering more and more memories that they start reflecting earth's sky.

once they get to erid, his left eye changes to reflect adrian's atmosphere. even if light doesn't reach its surface, the planet is blue. his left eye has stripes and clouds matching erid. he gets spooked when he catches the change in a mirror when walking past.

[polite-alien]

[thederpypikachu98]

its supposed to be 108°F tomorrow 😭

I can handle the heat but without a strong wind or shade I struggle with over 105°F heat

perfect to see when im actively standing in my basement poking around my furnace and air conditioning system because the AC is acting up (again)

if my AC is fucked then im literally gonna lay on the floor with my 3 box fans pointed at me

[thederpypikachu98]

I did in fact fix my AC at like midnight but I couldnt sleep in my room cause it was so hot. thank you 80yo house with horrible ventilation upstairs. my poor floor ac unit was trying its best but it can barely keep the area around me bed cool in WINTER let alone summer so. my bedroom is a sauna rn

I tried to go outside to pick some of my lavender since the heat is perfect to dry some of it but nope. fuck no. theres zero breeze rn and its over 100°F.

AND I STILL HAVE PRACTICE TONIGHT idk why they didnt cancel it when theres a head advisory and the only air conditioned room in the school is inaccessible cause we dont have keys or swipe access. so we have to practice inside. which also means its kind of pointless for guard because we cant spin inside because the school district hates us using the gym and the auditorium is not big enough for us to fit everyone and to allow the kids to toss

HOWEVER i am working on writing! currently swapping between the next TPAG chapter, the next rocky the pebblesitter chapter, and the crackfic eridian shifter time travel au fic lol

[thederpypikachu98]

PSA: TAG YOUR FICS PROPERLY

that means that if you are writing a PHM x Iron Lung crossover, TAG BOTH FANDOMS. If you're writing a PHM x Fall Guy crossover, TAG BOTH FANDOMS. ETC ETC ETC

im to the point where i cant even scroll the PHM tags on ao3 without coming across improperly tagged crossover fics. I dont want to see bloodymary or whatever that crackship is with actor dude from falling guy and grace. That means when I exclude those ships and those fandoms, I dont want them popping up anyway because you dont understand how the tagging system works

If you genuinely don't know how to tag, ASK FOR HELP. There are plenty of how-tos on tumblr and google and whatever. Ao3 works using a tagging system. If youre not gonna bother using it, then post your stuff somewhere else

This isnt just a PHM crossover issue but ive noticed it frequently lately. Idk if its because theres an influx of brand new ao3 users or what, but please. I beg of you. Either tag correctly or ask for help with it. Im here to read PHM fics, not crackships with Tom ryder (which is a ship i genuinely just. dont like. at all) or romantic bloodymary. or anything else. if youre writing a fic where there is crossover between the fandoms, tag both fandoms. Properly. instead of only tagging PHM and then adding the characters from the other fandom.

I literally hit excluding tag limits because of shit like this. Ive done it several times, especially for fandoms like phm where theres 3 different tags for the same fandom (book phm, movie phm, and all media types phm). i have to exclude so many character tags, relationship tags, fandom tags, and regular tags that ao3 stops me and tells me ive got too many selected.

If you want help learning how to tag your fic, im happy to offer advice. Other people would probably help too! My point is not to shame new fic authors who dont know how ao3 works. My point is that you need to tag properly.

Also: im not talking about stuff like dead dove or chose not to use archive warnings. Im talking just tagging crossovers as crossovers instead of single-fandom fics.

[thederpypikachu98]

life hack when you buy silverware, if you are unboxing the silverware and realize you like said silverware, WRITE DOWN THE BRAND AND STYLE

because otherwise in the future if you need to buy new silverware because the original set got broken or old or lost or whatever, and youre like me and has a specific preference for silverware, youre not going to remember the brand/style

this also goes for things like towels and cups and mugs and dishware and anything like that where it may or may not have the brand name on it and you like that specific thing and if you need to replace it in the future youd want to match that style/brand

I had to get a new set of silverware because my old set was more like a mix of whatever I had - a handful from my parents, a handful from my grandparents, a couple allegedly liberated from various restaurants, and a handful of the cheap target plastic ones from college and I have over time bent or broke some of that so I bought a new set and I love them and I wrote down the brand/style so in the future if I have to replace any of them I can just look at that list rather than bring the silverware to the store to compare