Tim’rous beastie

She/her, late 30s, UK Spectator of various fandoms over the years. You’ll find all of them and more stuff I like here, in no order whatsoever. Apologies for any whiplash. ~ small_creature, GoldStandardFcukUp and ForTheSakeOfConvenience on AO3

[timrousbeastie]

So… dipping my toe into writing via fanfiction.

Three fandoms:

All Creatures Great and Small (2020-) as small_creature on AO3 — listed in this ACGAS post

Slow Horses (2022-) as GoldStandardFcukUp on AO3 — listed on this Slow Horses post

For All Mankind (2019-) as ForTheSakeOfConvenience on AO3 — listed in this FAM post

General warning for spoilers and canon non-compliance throughout, and I’m super flaky about updates. Sorry, it’s just who I am as a person at this stage. 🤷‍♀️

You might also be looking for:

Slow Horses memes

For All Mankind memes

[timrousbeastie]

[welcometothejianghu]

Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

[ao3commentoftheday]

Images are white text on a black background with a coloured icon taking up the leftmost third of the image. They are as follows:

Green icon of a magnifying class over a beetle. Who's That Boy? (wrote for a character that previously had no AO3 tag)

Orange icon of a tape measure. Size Matters (wrote the longest fic to date in the fandom)

Grey icon of two women holding hands. Lesbifriends (wrote the first F/F fic in the fandom)

Yellow icon of a smiling face surrounded by hearts. My Special Person (wrote something because you knew that one person who'd appreciate it)

Blue icon of an elephant and a mouse. Lorge and Smol (wrote a crossover between a fandom with more than 1000 works and a small fandom)

Grey icon of handcuffs. Testing the Waters (this had better not awake anything in you)

Yellow icon of two fish approaching a hook. Hooked! (wrote something for the first time and are already planning on writing something else for it)

Green icon of a bag with a leaf on it implying soil or plant food. A Brand-New Bag (wrote for a fandom so small you had to teach AO3 what it was)

[stxrfiish]

my proposed alternative for ‘there’s no platonic explanation for this’ is ‘there’s no normal explanation for this’. there are a number of different ways they might love each other but however they do they’re crazy as fuck about it

[timrousbeastie]

[lilylogue]

“Because I can read you like a book.”

Clown Town — Mick Herron

[lis5664]

It just occurred to me that canonical Sergei has almost certainly had these in Iowa. I bet he likes them.

[bluntforceyearning]

Sam Vimes in the face of authority at any given time :...now if I had an axe..

[allsadnshit]

I need a "girl who's gonna be okay" moment bad

[timrousbeastie]

[b-go]

Pleaseee let us see more of his house in season 6 😭🤞

[the-archivist-14]

i can never help but laugh whenever I see aesthetic videos of people going “oh to be loved by a writer” and then show these aesthetic pictures of poets bending over their papers with ink spilled over their fingers with notes filled with beautiful flowing letters that are all full of love for the person watching it.

Meanwhile I am a writer and I know a couple of writers who look more like the conspiracy board meme whenever we’re writing, love poem or not. And when I mean conspiracy board meme I mean it, eye bags under our eyes, coffee cups in the corner bc we have enough caffeine in our system to kill a horse, notes covered in chicken scratch writing, 50 documents are opened in our computers and none of us know where our thesis paper is, let alone where your love poem I spent all night writing is while looping a song that reminds me of you.

what I’m saying is- this is very expectation versus reality.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[graceamazerocky]

Hugh Jackman posted this new promo poster on Twitter....I LOVE IT!

[graceamazerocky]

Love these promo posters for The Sheep Detectives movie, sad to say the movie doesn't seem to have much of a presence in social media!

[kamil-a]

I NEED A SICKO… im holding out for a sicko till the end of the night ..and hes gotta haha and hes gotta say yess at the window with a look of delight

[olidel]

[jabberwocky1996]

Ruby Ashbourne Serkis as Tanya Mironova in Every Episode of Star City

1x01 - "The Eyes"

[anxietyproblem]