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just posting whatever comes to mind without filtering or caring for quality as much here

[nomsfaultau]

if y’all think Lambs is bad now, you’re not ready for when “Kristin” finally shows up

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Secret fic before GTA6? 🙂‍↔️

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

You win funniest ask of the year.

I want to say "yes" but I can't make promises. They're done when they're done.

(And seriously, if it makes people feel better then I feel like people wouldn't actually like secret fics. They're very... exactly what I and @therealvinelle want in fics without any consideration for anyone else.

It's very self indulgent.)

[therealvinelle]

I will illustrate this.

When a group of characters put on an in-universe play based on canon events in one of the fics, Muffin and I naturally thought we needed to know exactly what happens within this play. So, what do we do? We write the screenplay. Then, when the play is performed in the fic, we lovingly botch some line deliveries and cues, skip or miss lines, and of course have intermissions as we make our way through the entire damn screenplay that we ourselves wrote. The chapter is 20k.

The chapters average 11k in length, with one à 60k that largely got long because characters summarising things that already happened earlier in the fic (something they keep doing, because we consider "what details would A include" and "how would B react to A's version of the story" to be vital and relevant and therefore worth a 16k chapter) being split into two chapters, 30k each.

We have also written a second play because the actor characters need money.

All this to say we're having fun but I don't think readers would. Self indulgence and unmarketability, baby, yeah.

[lucidstarlet]

Deeply intimate relationships that are inevitably doomed because of the characters natures' opposing one another on a fundamental level have me in a chokehold

[nomsfaultau]

ok I’m trying to finish up the next MFR chapter and I need to strangle Tommy actuallt

[twilightunsculpted]

Fanart for Mandatory Family Reunion by @nomsfaultau!

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[twilightunsculpted]

Fanart for Mandatory Family Reunion by @nomsfaultau!

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[nomsfaultau]

work anon here, consider: you release the new chapter i read it on the train ride (it's a long ride and i read fast), then i'm thinking about it all day and don't even have to be on my phone to be distracted!

also we did end up getting everything for the day done with like half an hour to spare so really i think it motivated me to work harder so i could check my phone between batches ;)

ok that sounds responsible. I will release it just for you and you alone, work anon. College app guy and Lennjamin can suffer the consie quencies of their actions.

[nomsfaultau]

pulled up mandatory on my phone to read during downtime at work to try and be on tumblr less, didn't think i'd get too invested since i've already finished it multiple times, and then i procceeded to slack of the most i have since being hired because i got way too into it again

you do great writing but my coworkers are lowkey mad at me LOL

squinting at this ask trying to figure out if releasing another chapter would help (new content! Don’t have to reread for a bit) or hurt (more incentive to read on the clock) your employment. But also bare minimum effort all the way babyyyyyyyy boss gets a billion I get a cent that’s why I read fic on ao3.net

[thegreatestgoob]

MFR fanart

I've been reading @nomsfaultau 's Mandatory Family Reunion and the scene where Techno finally told Phil what he thinks about him stayed with me for a long time. So I drew the oldest-looking 18yo

[twilightunsculpted]

Oh my archons I love this so much!! The angle, the colors, the expression, everything is just a;oieughs;oiuga

I especially love the way the desaturated colors and limp hair kinda contrasts the intensity of his expression. It really portrays the resigned, bitter fury(? I’m not entirely sure how to word it) of the scene! Thank you so much for making this!

[google-searchhistory-official]

"You need to break the time loop. Stop trying to save me. I love you."

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[twilightunsculpted]

Sometimes I wonder why I never take the ideas I have beyond the brainstorming phase, and then I find myself reading a 300 page book about middle childhood attachment and a stack of scientific papers on the neurological differences between adults and children in order to better portray my character and then I remember.