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Autistic Lincoln Rhyme series :) I love Mel Cooper, Thom Reston and Peter Hoddins with my whole heart <3

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Mel with a slight lisp

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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Mel ‘my mother would kill me if I got a tattoo’ and heavily tattooed Greta is one of my favourite head cannons <3

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I’ve not posted in a long long time and I promise I haven’t forgotten about this app 😭

Exam season in the UK is just about to start so I’m currently focusing on knocking these exams out of the park so I can get back to talking about the Lincoln Rhyme books aksjdka (and Gabriel Lake and Melissa Bloch <3)

Give me 2 months and I’ll be back to waffling 😭🙏

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Here are little things that I picked up on during my re-read :)

TW

and spoiler warnings!!!

• Lincoln calls Thom his ‘nemesis’ (the coffin dancer)

• Roland is scared of flying (the coffin dancer)

• Amelia is 5”9 (the bone collector) and it said that Mel is 2 inches shorter than her so he is 5”7 (the coffin dancer)

• Thom has a cane and is still impeccably dressed in the end of the empty chair (the empty chair)

• Mel drives a 1992 dodge (the stone monkey)

• Lincoln’s dad died of cancer (the stone monkey)

• Lon calls Rachel his ‘better other’ <3 (the stone monkey)

• Amelia is a competitive shooter (the vanished man)

• Greta and Mel do skeet shooting and wine making and Mel applies chemistry and physics to them <3 (the twelfth card)

• Lon was traumatised by the librarian’s death and kept touching the the bloodstain on his shirt (the twelfth card)

• Thom’s aunt died and he got her dog. Mel was sat feeding the dog biscuits <3 (the cold moon)

• Ron and Tony used to ride motorbikes! (the cold moon)

• Ron does gardening (the cold moon)

• Lincoln was on the varsity track team at school (the broken window)

• Rodney plays roleplaying games (the broken window)

• Thom makes his own bread <3 Greta probably bakes too because Mel asked for the recipe for her (the broken window)

• Lincoln’s middle name is Henry (the broken window)

• Mel is constantly in demand :) (the burning wire)

• The man who lied about the award took a step towards Thom so Thom squared up to him. I love him 😭 (the burning wire)

• Thom considers Lincoln to be one of his closest friends (the burning wire)

• Thom ‘abdicated his usually perfect posture’ when he was worried about Lincoln :( (the burning wire)

• Amelia was flung off a motorbike in a race when she was 22 (the kill room)

• A TV show got made about Lincoln (the kill room)

• Lincoln was really excited in the Bahamas and sent Amelia a video of a talking parrot (the kill room)

• Thom and Amelia keep their Chardonnay in the blood and tissue sample fridge (the kill room)

• Thom has a monkey tie! (the skin collector)

• Lon’s girlfriend - Rachel - is a nurse (the skin collector)

• Amelia has glasses (the steel kiss)

• Lincoln and Amelia fight over Mel like he’s a child of divorce in the start of this book because they both want him for their cases 😭 (the steel kiss)

• Mel doesn’t like lifts or escalators (the steel kiss)

• Thom makes Lincoln use his manners (the burial hour)

• Mel was hit by a shopping trolly when he was 15 and had 14 stitches on his ankle (the cutting edge)

• Lincoln’s doesn’t know what an influencer is (the midnight lock)

• Mel and Greta watch the news and listen to podcasts together <3 (the midnight lock)

• Thom didn’t hesitate when there was a gunman outside of the townhouse to protect Amelia (the midnight lock)

• Lon and Rachel compete in trivia (the watchmaker’s hand)

• Mel got really excited when he found something for the case and I thought it was adorable :) (the watchmaker’s hand)

• Mel is scared of heights (I think) (the watchmaker’s hand)

• Mel flies drones (the watchmaker’s hand)

• Ron has 2 dogs called Auggie and Daisy <3 (the watchmaker’s hand)

• Lincoln would sacrifice his life for Amelia, Mel, Lon and Ron <3 (the watchmaker’s hand)

I love them all so so much <3

I love the random little facts we get given about our guys

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My formal apology for me last fan fiction is some Mel and Greta fluff <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I love writing angst but I quite enjoyed writing this so I’m gonna try to write more fluff :)

(Please ignore how bad I am at naming fan fictions 😭)

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I’m doing Whumptober 2025! (Well, I’m trying to 😭 - I started at day 3 and I don’t think I’m using an official list)

This is my first one! I really hope you enjoy it! <3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I promise I’ll write something happy soon aksjdka

[iodine-coated-cleaver-deactivat]

so uh tagging game

The last fictional character in your photo library, is the person you gonna sit next to in a 8 hour flight!

OHHH EMU?? Not bad

tags(sorry weh): @teto-teto505, @veilofpoe, @loftedlow, @arsonistic-carp-0-2, @pompomme4, @never-end1ng-m1sery, @mxnihil + OPEN TAGS

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Welp, I have to fly with Skitzo, y'all! I mean, as long as he doesn't crash the plane or anything, we should be fine… hopefully!

Like seriously, out of ALL the fictional characters that could've been in my camera roll, it HAD to be the demonic 1920s killer bear. The universe really said "here's your travel buddy - good luck!"

Honestly though? Eight hours with Skitzo might actually be interesting. Dude probably has some WILD stories from the animation industry back in the day. Plus maybe he'll give me some cursed vintage cartoon trivia or something.

Just gonna keep my headphones ready in case things get too spooky at 30,000 feet! ✈️🐻

Tagging all my mutuals @ruinationz and @turbotasticnumberone and @cartoon-cat7241 and @cru5h-cascades and @seleyaaaa and @mono-squamblo and @strayfelinez and @strangelilangel and @yukihirop and @rivertheemoo and @meatmedallion and @eeeeeeeeep-lolz and @drownedsilverforever and @senpaipaws and @cartoonlover999 and @byronicmoron and @resolutelymadvermin and @wanka-wanky and @looksmokin and @justwatchedsometv and @oakwoodvida and @human-n0-l0ng3r and @glooberousgoon and @goddess-of-lov3 and @lucifersdog-luci and @casethecreep and @aoihibiki247 (in case y’all wanna do the tag game)

Also tagging my girlfriend @obessiveforyou (in case you wanna do the tag game)

[yukihirop-deactivated20251224]

I'll have an awesome flight!

@rivertheemoo @homogremlin @thetastars @xybzzz

[homogremlin]

considering my last FOUR were variations of her i think this counts

@mattistar @teehee-of-the-gremlin-isles @unidentifiedflyingidiot

[prettiestprincie]

MINE IS MOONY FROM ENA LEtS GO

@itsadrianayourmom

[itsadrianayourmom]

LUKAAAAAAAAA LUKA YAYAYAYAYAAYYAYAYAYA

@longwombraider @sh0jun @snoevergarden

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hehe steinspirit!!!! artist is (kaogens on twt!!)

@random-husky @nicco-ck @rwbypro

[nicco-ck]

Best flight ever <33

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Oh we’d yap so much aksjdka

(I don’t have anyone to tag 🥲)

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Pattern Release!!

I know it's been a long wait but I finally released the pattern so you can make your own dragon Dan Heng plush <33 thank you for waiting patiently

Crochet Dragon Dan Heng Pattern - Robyn's Ko-fi Shop

This is a pattern to create a crochet dragon Dan Heng from the game Honkai Star Rail. *It is just the written pattern!! Not a physical item!

This link will bring you straight to the pattern, the link to my Kofi shop will be in my bio!

Reblogs are appreciated <3

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An amazing pattern from an even more amazing person <3 definitely check it out if you can crochet - beginner or advanced. Looks so good when you finish it <3

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Challenging you all!

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most!

Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!

[faith-gigliorosa]

Let's see...

Within temptation - The cross

Shikata Akiko - VII

Blackbriar - Crimson faces

Clay Aiken - Broken wings

30 seconds to Mars - Hurricane

Voting ended onSep 17, 2025

I tag @ysabelanne @random-husky @katzkinder @yarrayora @xthunderbolt and anyone who would like to join 🩷

[random-husky]

Thanks for the tag Faith!!! 💜

Hmm..

Gracie Abrams - That’s So True

Yaelokre - Neath the grove is a heart

HIM - Join Me In Death

Taylor Swift - The Man

IAMX - Bernadette

Voting ended onSep 18, 2025

Tagging: @nicco-ck @longwombraider @kiwi-the-servamp-addict @tipzycat and anyone who wants to join! :3

[nicco-ck]

Thanks for the tag Husky <3 it's been a minute since I've done one of these

:)

Would You Fall in Love With Me Again? - Epic the musical

Eternity - Alex Warren

Put You Through Me - Arrows in Action

The Idea of You - Alfie Castley

Flares of the Blazing Sun - HOYO-MIX, YMIR

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

Tagging @thewatchmakersnerd and anyone else who wants to do it (I don't have enough close moots for this lol, I don't feel comfy tagging some mutuals </3)

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Thank’s for the tag, Nicco! I’ve never done this before!

I don’t have any other moots to tag (sorry) so if anyone sees that and wants to do it, feel free! <3

:)

The Garden - The Crane Wives

Chemical Overreaction - Will Wood and the Tapeworms

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

For the Departed - Shayfer James

You are Here - James Marriott

Voting ended onSep 19, 2025

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Headcannons about our guys <3 (mostly Thom, Peter and Mel)

• Please hear me out on Greta having tattoos 🙏

• Thom gets really lonely sleeping on his own most nights so Peter gave him a teddy with a recording of his voice saying ‘I love you’ inside and a bottle of his cologne to spray the teddy with every night <3 Thom got him one too

• Lincoln is very protective of Pam <3

• Peter’s phone is full of photos of Thom doing the most random stuff. He looks at them whenever he misses Thom <3

• Thom’s family is really fancy. He got dragged to work events with his parents a lot as a kid so his parents could show him off

• Thom and Peter both got in trouble with the police as kids. Peter got in trouble for just being a troublemaker and doing normal teenage stuff. The police knew him well and would usually just drop him at home and tell his mum to keep better control of him. He joked a lot with them

• - Thom, however, got in trouble for fighting and drinking underage. A lot of the time, police never caught him because he would run back home before they got to him. When he was caught, he would sometimes get aggressive and try to fight the police. He would end up getting cuffed and nearly went to Juvie a few times

• Lincoln secretly has a sweet tooth and loves when Thom bakes really sweet stuff

• When he was a teenager, Peter had school, work and had to look after his siblings. He was burned out a lot as a teenager

• When Thom got shot, Thom and Peter got to spend so much time with each other and Thom almost didn’t go back to work because he didn’t want to leave Peter :(

• Peter keeps one of those robots that you can control with your phone at Lincoln’s so that he can follows Thom around and talk to him (and annoy him aksjdka)

• Pam loves Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings because she would sneak away from her mum to buy them <3

• Mel loves Christmas. Partly because it’s the one time of year he definitely gets off but also because he gets to see his extended family and Greta’s family <3

• - Greta’s parents were unsure of Mel when they first met him because of how nervous he was but her mum warmed up to him when she saw how happy Mel made Greta. Her dad warmed up to him when he talked to him about his career being a detective and his dad took an interest

• — Mel’s mum absolutely adored Greta as soon as she met her. When she managed to get Mel alone, she asked him when he was going to propose to her and when she was going to get grandchildren

• Mel sometimes feels like he isn’t enough for Greta. Guys hit on Greta when they’re out a lot - she brushes them off and shows them that she’s with her boyfriend and then leave her alone. Mel, being the insecure and anxious man that he is, looks at these men and thinks that they are more attractive than he is and then automatically assumes that he doesn’t deserve to have such a beautiful girlfriend

• - Greta is always fast to pick up on how Mel feels and reassures him that he is the most handsome man that she has ever seen

• Mel has had glasses basically his entire life - he had them since he was 2 and his parents picked the round ones because they thought they were cute and they were the cheapest

• - Mel’s family have always been very poor. His mum was/is a seamstress and his dad was in the army. Mel started working as soon as he could to help his parents. Even though Mel is a highly regarded detective/forensic scientist, they still struggle financially. He tries his best but with his mum’s health issues and how expensive New York is he struggles quite a bit

I love them all so so much <3 I’m doing a re-read of the series so I might make a post of small details I missed when I finish if you want that :)

This is serious procrastination because I have 3 tests coming up but I haven’t started revising for them 🥲

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I had the pleasure to test @nicco-ck ‘s Dan Heng crochet pattern!

It was such good fun to do this pattern! I’ve only been crocheting for a few months so the pattern is good for confident beginners too!

I love my new dragon (Feirge) and you’ll love yours too if you choose to make the pattern! I can’t stress enough how awesome the pattern is!

Go show @nicco-ck some love for the pattern! <33

Thank you, Nicco! <333

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Head cannons on their hobbies/skills <3

Lincoln <3

* I swear Lincoln says that he did track as a teenager so I like to think he carried it on into his adult life before the accident

* He plays a lot of chess (Thom encourages him to join a chess club but Lincoln flat out refuses to)

* He listens to any type of music without lyrics a lot

* He does a lot of research and writes books/papers on it

Amelia <3

* She shoots competitively

* She obviously drives around a lot but she also probably fixes up old cars in her spare time :)

* She probably works out a lot and likes to go on long runs

* She hangs out with Pam a lot and goes shopping or to the movies with her

Thom <3

* Baker/chef of the year

* Fencing like the posh boy he is

* I feel like I remember you saying that he also swam in high school and I love that idea <3

* He sews and knits a lot - he’s normally tailoring/fixing up his friends clothes or making them new ones. He definitely knits sweaters for Lincoln and Peter <3

* - I also had a thought last night that he knits things for people in hospitals and drops them off when he gets chance after having seen how depressing being in hospital can be

* He reads when he gets chance (he talks about books with Geneva) - he’s probably a fantasy/romance guy because he gets way too much crime with Lincoln akdjsk

* He also hangs out with Pam a lot

Peter <3

* I head cannon Peter to be a movie fanatic so he watches movies a lot (basically every day) and takes Thom to the cinema when he can

* He also reads a lot but he’s probably read non-fiction

* Does gazing lovingly at Thom every chance he gets count as a hobby?

* I don’t know why but I can see Peter doing stuff like flower arranging or something - it just gives me Peter vibes

* Peter can draw really well and sometimes he’ll sell his artwork - a lot of the time he gives it to Thom <3

Mel <3

* Ballroom dancing king

* He also does skeet shooting and wine making with Greta - they are so in love it hurts my heart

* He flies drones and I think he’s awesome for it

* Mel is such a nerd so I can see him having a really nerdy hobby like D&D or something

* He reads so much - he can get through books crazy fast

* Mel likes going for hikes/walks in nature - usually with Greta and his dog (who I think would be called Laika). He finds it therapeutic

* Also, Mel listens to emo music. He just really likes it

Lon <3

* In the twelfth card, Lon makes a reference to doing carpentry. If he was being sarcastic, I don’t care because carpentry sounds like a very Lon hobby

* - woodcarving would also be a very Lon hobby in my opinion

* You can’t tell me Lon is not the type of guy to go fishing

Ron <3

* Gardening <3 I’m pretty sure that in one of the books it says that he gardens

* I also think he’s do photography - he takes so many photos of his wife it’s unreal

* I’m pretty sure he has a dog? He takes the dog on runs with him - even after his head injury he’d never forget to take him out <3

* He used to ride motorbikes but gave it up when he had kids - he fixes them up with his brother sometimes

Roland <3

* Roland also shoots competitively - I think this is cannon

* Roland goes camping a lot and takes his sons

* He brews his own beers in his basement because it just seems like something he’d do

* He probably used to ride horses as a kid

* I can see him doing boxing or some type of martial art

I hope you like them! If you have any other ideas please tell me I’m always ready for more content of our guys aksjdka

Also I was watching Barbie and this reminded me of Thom and Peter aksjdka

Peter: what am I supposed to do?

Thom: Peter! Go for a walk or something.

Peter: by myself?

Thom: yes.

Peter: really? Where?

Thom: anywhere.

Peter: can I go that way?

Thom: yes. Okay.

…

Thom: don’t go far.

Peter: okay!

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More alignment charts!

I used your chibis because they’re so cute!

I hope you enjoy them :)

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Random headcannons about our guys :)

• Mel and his mum being able to speak a different language like Hebrew (I kind of think Mel might be Jewish but it changes day to day tbh aksjdka) or something

• - I love the idea that she yells at him in Hebrew or whatever language when she’s really angry at him - that’s how Mel knows that he fucked up

• Peter’s favourite ice cream flavour is cookies and cream because it reminds him of his childhood - when he was a teenager, if there was any spare money (which there usually wasn’t) he would take his siblings to get ice cream and he always got cookies and cream :)

• Mel can do magic tricks because he was bored and taught himself how - he’s banned from talking when there’s magic on the TV or something because he spoils it by explaining it to Greta

• Thom knits in his spare time - he makes blankets and sweaters for everyone and makes Peter little teddies/plushies <3

• If Amelia and Thom can’t sleep, they go on a drive and talk about whatever

• Mel is SO in love with Greta - he would do absolutely anything for her

• - they were in a bar once and a guy was getting really close with Greta to the point where she was visibly uncomfortable. So Mel, being the 5”7 and not very intimidating man he is, started a fight with the guy. He lost miserably but he tried because no one makes his girlfriend uncomfortable without him protecting her <3

• Mel’s dad was his best friend as a kid. He was always supportive of his dancing and would tell all of his friends how proud he was of his son for winning another dance competition. If Mel had a bad day, he would take him out for ice cream and talk about his day. When Mel’s bullies started following him home, his dad would wait by the school gates to walk him home

• - he was absolutely devastated when his dad died - I haven’t really thought about how he died yet but I feel like it was something that they didn’t see coming (I had a thought that his dad was in the army and that he died at war a few days ago)

• Lincoln wants to reach out to his ex wife (Blaine) - not in a romantic way, he just wants to see how she’s doing. He wants to make sure she moved on and that she’s happy because he did genuinely love her :(

• Lincoln is secretly very impressed with how much Thom knows about cooking (he once suggested that Thom should write a book about the chemistry of cooking) - he loves Thom’s cooking and even though he doesn’t want to eat sometimes, he’ll always eat Thom’s cooking

• I’m pretty sure you’ve already said this but I think it’s funny so I’m saying it again aksjdka but Peter takes so many pictures of Thom. Cooking? Pictures. Brushing his teeth? Pictures. Eating? Pictures. Sleeping? Pictures - he just thinks that Thom is so gorgeous in everything he does

• When Mel goes on vacation, he’s very uneasy for a day or two because he’s so used to not resting and looking after himself that it feels wrong for him not to be working. Greta has to force him to relax by taking his phone to stop him replying to emails and make him sit with her on a sun bed or whatever with a book <3

• Thom is always the first one to like Peter’s social media posts <3

• Even though he’s really short and skinny, Mel can eat an ungodly amount of food

• Mel is full of anxiety - literally everything makes him anxious. People, loud noises, speaking, his mum (when she’s nagging at him to get married and have kids) - you name it, it probably makes Mel anxious

• Peter doesn’t sit in chairs properly

• If he can, Mel will take Greta’s clothes. They’re so much bigger than his so they keep him warm

They bring me so much joy aksjdka

I have a couple of posts planned but I have so much to say about them <3

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I made some alignment charts of them :)

I’m cooking up some head cannons about them in high school but headcannons are so difficult to come up with 😩

I hope you enjoyed these <3

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I filled out another relationship chart with Mel and Greta <33

They make me so happy aksjdka

Mel’s commitment is lower than Greta’s because he puts his work first a lot - he loves her so much but he is definitely running himself into the ground with work :(

He also probably gets pretty jealous of when other men flirt with/stare at Greta in public but is probably too awkward to confront them aksjdka

I’d love to hear what you think and if you agree or disagree with anything :))

Close ups of them <3

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I filled out a relationship chart for Thom and Peter <3

(I put ‘kind of?’ for living together because they probably have a house but Thom doesn’t usually stay there)

Close ups of the little guys that I drew :)

:))