🍉 From the river to the sea 🍉
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Massive nerd, mediocre (great) artist, ok (amazing) writer (thanks for the corrections :D).
IMPORTANT: I have a blog with WordPress called FellSpace Books (play on words of L-Space). If I'm nuked again, for whatever reason, you should be able to find me there. I'm not very active right now, but I will be if the need arises lol. URL is fellspace.wordpress.com.
Anyway.
Welcome! I go by Wren online and I'm very queer. I've got some mental health issues which I may post about (cw for self harm and/or mentions of suicide, it's not a guarantee but it could be here). I'm a writer, fan, nerd, musician, and full-time shitposter.
There is a lotttt of shit (more abt me) below the cut. Be warned.
My current gender is: there are bigger fish to fry (voi/void/voidself) Note: you dont have to use these pronouns because they change often. I would prefer you did but don't stress, they/them is perfectly fine.
I'm in a lot of fandoms and my fixation will change REGULARLY. Some of my most common are: Magnus Bane, The Hunger Games, BBC Merlin, LOTR, Ranger's Apprentice, Discworld, Nimona (mostly the graphic novel), Katzen-Jammer, Gideon the Ninth, Project Hail Mary (ngngngng), and various musicals. I'm also the pioneer of the Mary Emmons tag (Hamilton/RPF) on AO3 afaik.
My other interests include climate justice, outdoorsy type shit, native flaura and fauna, marine biology, languages, and history. Also old books, as Project Gutenberg is my wife; mythology; and reading in general. In terms of spirituality, I'm Hellenist and sort of agnostic.
My first playthrough of Undertale (incomplete, i am at the king guy boss fight but havent uploaded photos)
WIPS:
this is not an alexander appreciation club (burr 4 life) - hamilton crack. no better way to put it.
Tyrant's Reign - My main original wip. Follows an ensemble of five characters as they save the world, take down the tyrant queen, and then have to deal with the aftermath of killing a fascist with a large following in the aristocracy. High fantasy, no romance, all-queer cast.
⭐ 50k reached!
so you think you can tell - Eva Stratt is put on the Hail Mary (illusion of choice, whatever) and events ensue. But she'll be fine if she just keeps going, right?
title is a reference to wish you were here by pink floyd and i genuinely think its so her song. the album in general is very phm to be entirely honest.
Tags I occasionally use:
#supdate sunday for fortnightly writing updates (as of October 2025, this is no longer happening, but you can find old posts still)
#tyrants reign for anything about my current WIP
#ἐλληνική for my amateur attempts at classical Greek, and #deutsch or #deutschposten for German (which I am somewhat better at)
You can also search #ranger gathering for stuff related to any gatherings I participate in. (may be under the respective year tags instead)
DNI: Generally I'll just block you, but this blog does not welcome pro-censorship views, bigotry, or gen ai users. There may be reblogged NSFW content (gore and smut) on this blog, so if that will make you uncomfortable, I advise you to be careful.
My opinion on pro/anti shipping is here
Finally:
Free Palestine, Indigenous peoples, and people living under oppressive regimes. Queer, disabled, women's, BIPOC, intersex rights are human rights. And I support trans men as much as trans women and enben, you bloody cowards.
[ID: A comic of Grace at a table with the Hail Mary astronauts. Shapiro, with her arm around Dubois, asks, "You're sure you and Stratt aren't a thing."
"Absolutely positive," says Grace.
"You've never even kissed?"
"Nuh uh. Nope."
Dubois joins in, saying, "But if she asked you to... say... get your arm surgically attached to hers. Would you?"
"...huh???" says Grace, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, would you?" asks Yao.
Grace looks thoughtful. "Like. I mean. If it was pertinent to the mission, then..."
"Never mind," says Ilyukhina. "Something much more concerning than sex is going on here." End ID]
The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.
Do yourselves a massive favor: practice asking for help BEFORE it's an emergency.
I am a social worker. I have worked in community mental health and in home-based healthcare. And it is much, much easier for me to help you when the situation you're in is not yet a full-blown crisis.
"I'm out of money and have been for a while and now I haven't eaten for three days." This is a crisis. A crisis where I'm likely going to have to put you in the car and take you to the nearest food bank--except food banks require appointments now, and the next opening is in four days, so you're staring down the barrel of a week with no food. That's obviously not going to work, so, let's call eight different food banks until we've found one that has an appointment the next day...except it's in the neighboring county and you can't drive. So now I'm calling your doctor to try and brow beat an emergency plan of care update out of him so I can come back the next day and drive you to the food bank. And we haven't even started on the "constantly broke" part of the problem.
"I don't think I have enough food to make it to my next paycheck. I have (xyz) in my house and that will only last until (date)." This is bad, but not a crisis. We have a few days. We make you an appointment at the food bank and contact your brother to make sure you have a ride there. Now we can spend our visit talking about what bills are causing you the most problems and make a jump on a long-term solution, like looping in a community action agency to cover your utilities and getting you an OTC card from Medicaid to cover some of your groceries every month.
"I'm ten months behind on rent, and my landlord said I have a week to get out, or the cops will throw me out. I don't have the money, and if I get evicted, I have nowhere to go." This is a crisis. Every single thing we do here is going to be some version of a Hail Mary. In Michigan, we have the state emergency relief fund for rent issues, but process time is well over one week. There are community action agencies that we can call to assist you with payment, but they are unlikely to have sufficient funds to cover nearly a year of back rent. We can contact legal aid clinics to try and prevent your landlord from evicting you, but they may look at your case and determine that too much "fault" lies with you. Most likely, I'm going to have to put you in touch with homeless shelters and the public housing office.
"I'm two months behind on rent and I don't think I'll be able to pay next month either." This is bad, but not a crisis. This is solvable. We have time to apply for SER, or put you in contact with community action agencies. We have time to review your finances and see if you qualify for a public housing wait list or other forms of ongoing rental assistance. We have time to talk about a million possible adjustments to try and ease the burden of your rent.
"I am the sole caregiver for my elderly parent who has dementia and is emotionally volatile and fully dependent on me. I have not slept through the night in weeks and I have not had an actual break for over a year. I am having screaming meltdowns multiple times a week and I am threatening self-harm unless someone comes to collect my parent and take over all caregiver duties." This is a crisis. This is a crisis where the ethical code of my profession demands that I call 911 and report the conversation to them. They will likely come to the house and interview you. If they determine your threats were serious, they will have you forcibly committed to a psych ward. Your parent will either be dumped into a random hospital or rehab center, or left in the house on their own. Upon release from your psych hold, you will be expected to resume caregiving duties as though nothing happened. Except, now, adult protective services is actively investigating you, because it was determined you may be an ongoing danger to your parent.
"I am the sole caregiver for my demented parent, and I have not had a break in a couple of weeks, and I feel angry and weepy most of the time." This is bad, but not a crisis. We can get you in touch with volunteer groups for respite, and apply for state funded programs to get more day-to-day help, and talk about long-term planning for when the dementia symptoms get worse. We can get you the phone numbers for crisis lines and enroll you in a support group.
Obviously, you can ask for help at any point. Don't use this an excuse to never ask for help. If you always wait until it's a crisis, fine, you have free will. But you are ALLOWED to ask for help BEFORE you're in a blind panic, and it is always easier to get help when you aren't screaming and sobbing because you think your life is over.
Genuinely - if that happens, you do the best you can with what you do have. Try to hope for the best, plan for the worst, for situations like that. And try to remember that even if help doesn't arrive in time to prevent a crisis, that help will still likely come much sooner than if you'd waited until the crisis started to reach out.
And be proud of yourself for reaching out for help and doing something to try to protect and take care of yourself, even though it's stressful as fucking fuck.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
This goes for asking for help as well.
Or, for example - if you reached out for help with rent, maybe the community group or relief fund can't get it to you by the 1st. But maybe they can get it to you before the 3rd or the 5th - when your landlord adds on a late fee.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that and other such aphorisms exist for a reason.
Do what you can to ask for help <3 Even if it doesn't go the way you want - asking is still important. You really can get help from so many places you never expected - but it's a lot harder for people to help you if they don't know you need it.
I had a thought: At some point Grace lets Rocky listen to human music, and Rocky gets confused because some of the chord progressions and rhythms mean something in Eridianese. However they just mean straight gibberish with some human words in the background.
Rocky thinks Grace is a lunatic for listening to a song that is about “hydrogen monkey fire eating sound burger”
When Grace gets better at understanding Eridianese, he can no longer listen to some songs because of this.
y'okay can we stop pretending yet. like can we all acknowledge that eating disorders are chic again, and it's going to kill someone.
and like. do we have to keep gently phrasing things to protect naturally-thin people's feelings. in my life it has never been fashionable to be fat. "fat" is still a bad word. there has never been institutional power pushing people to gain weight; no trillion-dollar industry to "fix" skinny people. a larger body type has never been over-represented in models, influencers, celebrities. sure, people might say "i'm worried for your health," but they do it with respect and gentleness, like they're talking to a scared deer.
every single fucking time i talk about this, i have to be so careful with what i say, in case i offend even one skinny person. it is just true that skinny people have social capital across many cultures. there is a reason you almost never hear someone say "i wish i was fat," but you will constantly see people say "I wish i was thin." and yet inevitably some skinny person will tell me: i thought you wanted body positivity. it is the same fucking attitude as when a cis man says "when you say men have power, well, i've been bullied for being a man. i thought you believe in mental health awareness. don't you know men have a higher suicide rate?"
two things can be true at once: your experience being bullied for being thin was terrible. and people with larger bodies probably have it worse.
i have been big and small. i know many other people who have been big and small. trust what i'm about to tell you: being small is much easier. the world is kinder to you. people treat you better. honestly, this pattern occurs pretty much regardless of gender - my guy friends have confided that they'd rather be bullied for being thin than be bullied for being fat. if you're skinny, the pressure might be to gain weight, sure, but it's often to do so in a way that keeps you skinny - to gain muscle, specifically.
thinness is seen as innate and natural, genetic. whereas carrying any fat - that is a moral failing. it is assumed to be related to your character, your personality. i have seen people equate it to discipline, to hygiene. that bias is why we need to talk about this.
of course i want nobody to make a comment about anyone's bodies. and i think that hyper-thinness and an obsession with weight loss and a recession and a rise of conservative values... all of this is very fucking concerning. we are watching a return of "pro-ana" content, reframed as choice feminism, "health-conscious" behavior, "looksmaxxing". it's fucking terrifying.
I would like to add a few things my wife told me when we talked about the topic. I used to be overweight myself, but as I understood after the discussion, not overly so, because I trusted in my BMI too much (would still be on the verge of overweight in fact, because BMI is bs.) When I told her that I eventually had to choose not to mind the comments, this was her reaction:
"I have never heard so much priviledge in one sentence."
The reason is pretty simple and I am ashamed of me not realising sooner. I could choose. I had a choice to ignore the comments.
She cannot ignore that most shops don't have clothes or shoes for her size. That she has to check if bycicles carry her weight, that the saddles may be big enough not to hurt.
And I've read about people whose sports equipment breaks under their weight.
Yes, thin people struggle as well. Thin people have anorexia or bolemia or other things that are valid problems that need to be addressed and taken care of!
But fat people have anorexia as well. They have bolemia. Increased risks for heart diseases, and backpain. And doctors ignore most of their problems because in many cases the problem isn't that they are fat or don't exercise enough, it's that the symptoms are not being recognised and remain untreated.
When you're thin and you struggle, your problems are more likely to be visible. Anorexia and bolemia less so, yes. But just as invisible as if you're fat.
But undernourishment is visible in paleness, in fatique.
When you're fat, the diagnosis is 'fat', not 'heart disease'.
I love to imagine rocky has a really strong regional accent. And thats what's coded into the programme. A bit like how it took a while for Siri to grab a scottish accent. Turns out you can't communicate with Grace unless you're from Mining Colony 4. Becuase they have a slightly shorter staccato every fourth word and its easier for aliens to cope then to record the entire database.
yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.
I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.
The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.
If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.
The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.
It’s not enough to just not participate in society
If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.
i mean, not really. "transvestigaten" is an english loanword, as is "hotdog". "meinen" is a cognate with "my". ikea is a company name, so obviously well known. the only word not known to english speakers is "sie", which could be a cognate with "she", but is in this case used to mean "they".
however, "they're transvestigating my ikea hotdog" is such a funny fucking sentence. tumblr dialect transcending the language barrier.
