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[thefannishmkp]

Fic Rec: Oxfordshire 1942, Book 1 of The Stone Gryphon by @rthstewart

In the summer of the Dawn Treader, Aslan tries to get Peter’s attention. But, it’s all Greek to Peter as he studies with Professor Kirke and meets unusual people who seem vaguely familiar.

[image description: a book cover featuring the fic’s title and author. visual elements include an illustration of a gryphon, old and yellowed writing, and the lower half of a man wearing a satchel and holding a book. /end image description. ]

#mkp's narnia edits #narnia edit #the chronicles of narnia #narnia fandom #the stone gryphon #rthstewart #ain't no other mkp

[playing-god-with-mkp]

Merbabies!

an incomplete list of cc used:

tail by @aleniksimmer, recolor by me using one of @hoanglapsims‘s adult tails as texture // ears by [tekrisims] // headfins by @zaneida-and-sims4 // scale “tops” by @claudiasharon // scale overlay #1 by @aleniksimmer, recolor by me // scale overlay #2 originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer // body color overlay by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // facial markings by @taty86 // eyeliner by @suzuesims // lip color by @remussirion

tail by @aleniksimmer, recolor by me using one of @starfullsims‘s adult koi tails as texture // ears by [tekrisims] // headfins by @zaneida-and-sims4 // scale “tops” by @claudiasharon // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // scale overlay #1 by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // scale overlay #2 originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer // facial scales by [VCS??]

tail by @aleniksimmer // ears by [tekrisims] // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // colorful vitilago by @rachirdsims // scale overlay originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer // facial markings by @taty86

tail by @aleniksimmer // ears by [tekrisims] // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // colorful vitilago by @rachirdsims // scale overlay originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer // facial markings by @taty86

tail by @aleniksimmer, recolor by me using one of ea’s adult tails as texture // ears by [tekrisims] // scale “tops” by @claudiasharon // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // scale overlay #1 by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // scale overlay #2 originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer

tail by @aleniksimmer, recolor by me using one of ea’s adult tails as texture // ears by [tekrisims] // nose facial detail by @pyxis-likes-ts4 // scale “tops” by @claudiasharon // scale overlay originally by [nenpy], recolor by @weepingsimmer // facial scales by [VCS??]

@aleniksimmer @claudiasharon @hoanglapsims @pyxis-likes-ts4 @rachirdsims @remussirion @suzuesims @taty86 @weepingsimmer @zaneida-and-sims4 @tekri

#ts4 mermaid #ts4cc finds #ts4cc lookbook #is that the right tag??? #ts4fantasy #i'm sorry guys i know i didn't remember all of the cc i used #and a few of them i don't know for sure that i got the handle right #anyways pls admire my babies #because i love them so much #couldn't fit my merchildren into the post but i'll do a separate one for them later when i have the spoons #ain't no other mkp #mkp's merpeople #full fathom five my mer-sims lie #ts4 merpeople #playing the sims with mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

WAIT WHAT THE FUCK @rthstewart​ WHEN DID APOSTOLIC WAY GET FINISHED HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT IT WAS STILL A WIP HOW DID I MISS THIS IT WAS FINISHED IN 2013??????????????????????????????

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[theoriginalmkp]

2020 but every time you think it can't get worse it goes faster

it's 2020, folks, and I know there's a pandemic on but you may want to get your eyes checked, because prophecy might be written on the subway walls and hindsight might be 20-20 but there's none so blind as those who don't want to see and everything gets blurrier at a (social) distance.

and I know the sheer scale of it is dizzying I too would like to get off this ride, but there's an iron bar of panic locking me in place (for my own safety, the government says; keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times) compressing my chest,

and it feels like I can't breathe, feels like the crushing weight of a knee on a neck, the violating internal wheeze of a ventilator at work, the terrifying threat of a person breathing down the back of my neck, all those zoom calls and micromanagement,

and the temperature of the earth is still climbing. there are children in cages and convicts in coffins and maybe we managed to vote the horse out of the hospital but he's started taking hostages and as we all know by now in this kind of situation, you never want to call the cops,

even if it feels like there should be someone available to complain to. 

and everywhere you go it's the same damn refrain

                                  I can't breathe—

it's 2020, folks, and I know some people are calling this the darkest timeline. I can't say for sure that they're wrong. I can't say for sure that I want them to be wrong. it's always darkest right before the dawn, after all, and we live in unprecedented times—

                                   did you ever think 2020 would end like this, tulio?                                     …the destiel and dippin dots were a surprise

and I'm still holding out hope for a sunrise.

#(a day late and a year short) #poetry #poets on tumblr #spilled ink #poetry: 2020 #ain't no other mkp

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#actually autistic #actually autistic reaction gifs #what's my line? #autistic lyfe

[thefannishmkp]

Fic Rec: The Queen Susan in Tashbaan, Book II of The Stone Gryphon by @rthstewart

Queen Susan and Lord Peridan of the Gryphon Aerial Corps aid the British war effort in 1942 America - a dodgy tale of espionage, seduction, and garden insectivores.

[image description: a book cover featuring the fic’s title and author. visual elements include old handwritten letters and an image of the taj mahal (representing tashbaan) reflected by an image of the united states’ capitol building. end image description.]

#mkp's narnia edits #narnia edit #the chronicles of narnia #narnia fandom #the stone gryphon #rthstewart #ain't no other mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

...it is so fucking weird reading fic about ‘lifestyle’ kinksters written by people completely outside of the scene, because it’s not exactly that they’re getting it wrong, I’m sure some people do in fact manage their kink relationships in such a way, but they write it like it’s standard and I’m just like... have you ever... talked to someone actually in the scene? or just read fantasies on fetlife.

like, I’m not judging, exactly - it’s like the fanon standard version of bdsm clubs, which are clearly based more on other fan representations of bdsm clubs than anything else, and have a lot of inspiration from (probably) porn and the old leather traditions, it’s certainly a subset of kink culture, it’s just. really fucking weird when people write it as the standard.

I suppose other people might find it weird when I write lifestyle kinkster fics based on the contemporary DC scene, though, so.

I am pretty excited about the fact that I’m finally seeing kinkster fics written by people who clearly do have experience in the scene, I knew they had to be somewhere.

#ain't no other mkp #kink for kate's bls #actual kinkster mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

that adhd family lyfe

my family was coming over today at 9:30 AM

 9:40 AM: my dad texted to tell me they were running late and asking if in an hour was OK

10:40 AM: my mom texted me saying they'd be here between 11:00 and 11:15

11:30 AM (now): guess they’re going to be late. r. later.

#ain't no other mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

does. my apartment’s leasing office actually expect me to sign the last page of a lease. without actually providing the full text of it.

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[shamelesslymkp]

got my second dose of the vaccine yesterday! I was expecting to feel awful today, since I felt crappy last time, but mostly it just seems to be my arm being sore, and even that’s not as bad since I did the move-your-arm-around-a-lot-immediately-post-shot thing!

...OK, I might be feeling a bit feverish but honestly it’s so hard to stay thermoregulated these days who knows.

#ain't no other mkp #me: *opens windows* #me: *turns on fan* #me: *turns on space heater* #me: *takes off one sock* #me: there that's better

[thefannishmkp]

MKP here, posting on her fannish sideblog in the hopes of actually showing up in search results for once! still the same @shamelesslymkp, tho <3

I have Stepped Up my spreadsheet game with the assistance of @persephonesidekick​ and now proudly present to you all the fruits of my obsessive labor! 

This spreadsheet is the product of hours of combing through AO3 tags using the AO3: Display Tag ID userscript to identify the filter IDs for various ships and then several more hours of learning how to do Spreadsheet Magic and troubleshooting the inevitable ERROR! messages that cropped up again and again, and I am so damn pleased with myself, yo.

How It Works:

Use the link above to go to the publicly available spreadsheet. 

Cross-reference and identify all ships you would like filtered from your AO3 search results. Input the number 1 into the applicable cell for each.

Spreadsheet MAGIC.

Select cell B27 and hit CTRL-C to copy.

Paste your bounty of filters in the ‘Search Within Results’ box in your AO3 search options. Important: You MUST use the ‘Search Within Results’ function or the search will NOT filter out these tags. Do NOT input this list of filter IDs into the ‘Exclude Other Tags’ field.

???

Profit Read Fic.

Please do not fight over who gets to edit if more than one person is viewing at one time. The sheets are protected so you can only edit the fields where you indicate whether or not you want to filter a specific ship out.

Important: This Post Is Not A Place To Bash Batships/Batcest.

If you reblog or comment on this post talking about how Terrible and Gross people are to read/write/condone-the-existence-of batcest/batships, I will block you. This is meant to be a resource for everyone, because everyone has their squicks and notps and triggers.

That said: 

Go forth, filter, and rejoice in thy fields of somewhat pre-filtered fanfic!

Tagging Batfandom Bloggers: @audreycritter​ @jerseydevious​ @goldkirk​ 

Also Tagging Major Fandom Bloggers: @thebibliosphere​ @copperbadge​ @star-anise

Anyone who wants to use this spreadsheet as the jumping off point for a spreadsheet of their own (for this fandom or any other) is welcome and even encouraged to do so! I’d appreciate a line of credit but it isn’t necessary.

#batfandom #dcu #batfamily #batman #batman fic #fandom resources #i made this! #ain't no other mkp #fandom is a tool-building animal

[shamelesslymkp]

I am successfully moved, very very partially unpacked, and am slowly recovering from the stress of the weekend. Got my workstation set up today!

One cool thing about moving is getting to reorganize shit in different and better ways - this apartment’s layout is almost identical to my old one, but the differences are enough to force some big changes in terms of how I set things up (I lost an entire closet and a shelf of storage space), which is stressful but also kind of refreshing?

But jfc, y’all. I owe my parents and my younger brother so much for all their help this weekend with moving shit and cleaning the old place, especially since I was progressively less and less actually involved in doing shit as the weekend went on and I got more and more overloaded.

I haven’t done that much conversational bluescreening and decision paralysis in a long time, and it eventually devolved into me crying semi-hysterically underneath a weighted blanket (and my giant stuffed dog, because when I asked my brother to put the blanket on top of me he of course added the dog on top) while my brother tried to talk me through breathing exercises designed for a panic attack (which I greatly appreciate but wasn’t actually specifically helpful).

my mom was still in the other apartment, cleaning (and causing herself so much pain in doing so that she was in tears herself, which I feel bad about but not as much as I possibly should, because there is literally no getting her to stop doing the things even though they’re hurting her, she will do things that cause her pain in front of you to like, spite you for not doing it first, it’s the most stupidly self-destructive and violent style of guilt tripping I’ve ever seen and she doesn’t even seem to be consciously aware of doing it) which was for the best because she’d already gotten annoyed with me for a smaller meltdown earlier in the day, but my dad finally managed to get out of me that the precipitating event was my inability to find my clean bed pad, and therefore my inability to make my bed, and that I hadn’t slept because I didn’t have curtains and my bed wasn’t made, and holy shit his making my bed and putting the curtains up did more to stabilize me than anything else could’ve at the time.

the weekend was also stressful on just the physical level - I was doing a lot more exercise than I normally do and it was both exhausting and painful - and had the added emotional stressor of having received a joint phone call from my supervisor and manager to tell me that one of my team members had passed away Saturday morning from Covid - he was part of the CA office and worked the night shift, so I’d never worked with him much, but it was still upsetting. I did really appreciate not only that my supervisor was calling team members individually to tell them the news but that our manager insisted on being part of the call to me because they ‘both know how much [I] care’ and were worried about how the news would affect me, my manager was like ‘do you have people you can be with?’ and it was very sweet and that’s actually I think what got me upset the most, because it made it real?

anyways I still have off work until Thursday this week, thank-fucking-god.

#ain't no other mkp #covid death mention #just talk to your therapist mkp #adventures in apartment living #adventures in brickspace with mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

OK, what was before purely an academic question has quite abruptly become terrifyingly possibly applicable, what the fuck do I do when I’m scared adult men are about to become physically violent with each other, neither is white, and one is BLACK, because childhood television is telling me to dial 911 and the last 5 years of actually watching the news is telling me that’s a good way to get someone dead

they’ve stopped screaming and swearing at each other now but the one dude left promising to fuck the other guy up if they ever meet up outside, and also the dude yelling from his balcony did not seem like he was particularly balanced so I’m kind of scared it’s going to happen again

#ain't no other mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

funnily enough I feel like you probably will care if I default your pronouns to they/them

but I’m not getting push back on actually asking for them yet so I’m just gonna go with it; if this is the worst then that’s really in the end not all that bad!

so far have gotten back five other responses, four of which included their pronouns without comment, and one of which responded to my clarifying email with an enthusiastic confirmation of my pronoun presumption and thanking me for clarifying, so that was really nice, actually.

I will drag this department into the bright shining present with all the stubborn persistence of an autistic idealist. I believe in them.

(the ideals? the department? yes.)

#ain't no other mkp

[shamelesslymkp]

ngl, I had such a bad experience with the neuropsych eval I had that I am like. currently a millimeter away from psychically tearing all neuropsychiatrists apart into tiny shredded pieces if they for one second make my friend feel like they made me feel so like, if the sun suddenly goes supernova or something just know that I love y’all but there’s a line, sometimes you gotta draw a line and just say what are you going to put up with and not fucking this

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[shamelesslymkp]

me: well that's the second day in a row I've laid down right after work and woken up the next morning, although at least today I woke up at 4 instead of 7

arrowsforpens: hoo boy

arrowsforpens: yeah when's your next couple of days off in the 6-week [work] cycle?

me: ...

me: sometime back in november?

my therapist, somewhere, and kate, at a doctor's appointment: *stare into the camera like they're on the office*

#ain't no other mkp #look things keep HAPPENING ok