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elpsycongruent · 3 years

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For the ask meme: 1, 2, 18, 55, 69

1: Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed?

closed? of course??? it’s not even a sleep thing, I just don’t leave my closet door open unless I’m actively looking in there.

2: Do you take the shampoos and conditioner bottles from hotel?

usually! not if I used most of it, or if I don’t like the scent, but if it’s more than half full and inoffensive-smelling? hell yeah.

18: What is your Song of the week?

...do I have to admit this? do I really have to say what I’ve had on repeat for most of March?

...作为怪物。

55: Favorite type of fruit pie?

ooh, that’s really tough. I love pie! but if I had to pick one... probably strawberry rhubarb.

69: Ever take dance lessons?

hahahahahahahahahahhahaha

okay. so while the short answer is “yes,” this one has some Stories.

story #1: I, like many toddlers, got put in a baby ballet class when I was in preschool. the teacher actually asked my mother what was wrong with me, and strongly discouraged me from continuing. she had never seen a three-year-old as uncoordinated as I was. I repeat: I was too clumsy for TODDLER BALLET.

story #2: in elementary school, a lot of kids in my class, including me, got roped into these super ridiculous ballroom dance/etiquette lessons, out in some strip mall ballroom that was probably not actually that far away, but the drive felt like a YEAR.

I despised these, for many reasons. First, you had to dress up, and I was still young enough that all formalwear was unbearably itchy for my undiagnosed autistic ass. Secondly, it was suuuuper heteronormative: ten-year-old me was DEEPLY unimpressed with the fact that the boys always got to choose their partners, and the girls were not allowed to say no. Also, there were always more girls than boys, and girls ONLY learned the “girl part” and weren’t allowed to pair off, so there was a regular wallflower crew of girls who didn’t get asked to dance, and just... stood around... the whole time... I got left out about half the time; I once got into pretty serious trouble at school for mentioning that another girl got picked even less than I was, despite the fact that I was trying to commiserate with her about how boring it was, not make her feel bad for being “undesirable” or whatever.

Thirdly, and most importantly for the elementary school crowd: the snacks were terrible.

Despite the fact that I despised these lessons enough to write RPF about the woman who ran it running into serious misfortunes, and was regularly reduced to frustrated tears when I got home, my parents didn’t? understand? that I was miserable being forced to do this? years later, when I brought it up, my mom said she “thought it would be nice” and that she wished she’d been able to have dance lessons as a kid, which... mom... please... listen to the incredibly unsubtle ways your child tells you she’d rather do LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE.

(on a side note: apparently said woman who ran the thing, who struck me as super fussy and proper and an overall stick-in-the-mud, was... in a motorcycle gang? the things you learn after the fact...)

story #3: I was in a musical in high school; I had an ensemble part with very simple dance steps. in spite of the teachers getting someone to individually coach me on it, I don’t think I ever got them right? not even once?

story #4: like five years ago, a coworker invited a bunch of us to one of her ballroom dance performances; her teachers gave out coupons for a very steep discount for introductory lessons, and I signed up because it worked out to being like $50 for what would have normally cost $500. I had fun, but the place’s whole schtick was that you should be able to hold a conversation with your instructor while dancing, and not have to think about the steps. I could tango passably if I followed the instructor’s lead and thought CONSTANTLY about the steps; as soon as my mind wandered, so did my feet.

in short: the only way to get me to have a good time while dancing? get me tipsy and have me dance the hora first. nobody has any dignity while dancing the hora; after that, my ridiculous flailing fits right in.

#answer #siriusmistake #thanks for asking!#this was fun!#i hadn't thought about mrs simpsons's in a while #still bitter about those snacks tbh #long post #shut up lulu

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gostaks · 3 years

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hi, this is maybe a weird and/or hard question to answer, but could you explain the undergrad math alphabet post? (i say it's a hard question bc i haven't done math since my one (1) semester of college calc, so yes that is my experience and highly probably the answer still won't make sense to me?)

My understanding: In a lot of math, if you want to talk about an integer you call it n, possibly because n is the first letter of ‘number’ and mathematicians aren’t very creative. Then if you have to name a second integer, you have to pick a different letter and ‘o’ looks a lot like ‘0′, so you call it m. Because generally you’re using n before m, and because it’s pretty standard otherwise to name variables in alphabetical order, after a while it starts to feel like n ought to go before m.

It probably doesn’t, though.

(As people in the notes have pointed out, the rest of the math alphabet goes something like ‘n m i j k l x y z w u v a b c r s t’, for similar reasons.)

#realtime #siriusmistake #text

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crownleys · 3 years

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For the ship playlist game: Zoe/Amelia :3

An EXCELLENT suggestion thank you SO much

“He’ll Never Love You (HNLY)” by Hayley Kiyoko

“Bubblegum Bitch” by Marina

“All This Woman” by Betty Who

“Partition” by Beyonce

“Side to Side” by Ariana Grande

~Send me a ship and I’ll build you a mini playlist for it~

#OKAY wow this one was a little harder than I expected because I needed to get that last one PERFECT #but I think I got it #zombies run #amelia/zoe #also I almost put p***y is god by king princess in so listen to that one as a bonus track #siriusmistake #zrs6 spoilers

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steamysthings · 4 years

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@siriusmistake really got me with those tags so i needed some tender ‘i’m getting up and you should be going to bed’ vibes

#my art #fanart #zombies run #zr #zr!#sam yao #alex!five #5am #it is most definitely 5am in this drawing dghdfjsdfj #baby want caffeine #tradeoff ritual #whoever's waking up defintiely gets dressed and comes back to bed to sit for a lil bit #siriusmistake #i'm rly proud of that pillow and five's coffee hand #and the legs #zr stuff has honest to god reignited my drawing energy again

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quixoticanarchy · 3 years

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∞!

thank you!! [shuffle music and pick your favorite lyrics]

“To live is to fly” by Townes Van Zandt - a lot of the lines are good but I’ll pick these:

“Everything is not enough And nothing is too much to bear Where you been is good and gone All you keep is the getting there”

#music #siriusmistake #thanks!

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runfive · 4 years

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If you're still doing the characters ask, maybe Veronica McShell or Sara Smith?

ahh thank you I love you doing these, this is literally making my whole night 💖

i’m gonna do both of them because I love them both so so much

sara:

favorite thing about them: I just love how unapologetically ruthless she is like that’s so rare to have female characters that are like that also I love the arc of like sara threatening to kill five to a ride or die relationship

least favorite thing about them: ***s2 spoilers*** murder wife goes a little too far sometimes like leaving owen to be run over by a train for some fuel like alskdjas wtf sara like yeah it’s owen but we can get fuel somewhere else you don’t have to kill him i’m screaming

favorite line: sara says “that’s my Five” and I produce tears on the spot

brOTP: sara/five dream team!!

OTP : I really like sara/five but personally for my five, sara is a lot older than her so I don’t really ship it for my five but for the character of five as a concept I love the idea of sara/five and also I love sara/janine

nOTP (sara): no notp, sara just has chemistry with everyone what can I say

random headcanon: five was having a hard time after a hard mission and was just in the training area beating the shit out of one of the punching bags and sara found five and was like five don’t hurt yourself if you want to hit something you can spar me and sara and five having sparring matches kind of became their thing and their way to deal with stuff

unpopular opinion: ***s2 spoilers**** not really an unpopular opinion but I feel like sara’s actions are kind of glossed over by everyone (not to call out any of the other characters because I headcanon this for my five too alskdja) after her death because it’s easier to forgive her when she’s dead and if she had lived there would have definitely been some betrayed/hurt feelings for what she did even though it saved everyone in the end

song i associate with them: little talks by of monsters and men oh my g od it’s my favorite song especially through a sara and five and moonchild lens

favorite picture of them: Sara is one of the few characters that I don’t have a clear picture for in my head but this sara/five fanart by @crownleys holy SHIT has me clutching my chest every time it’s my favorite thing ever

veronica:

favorite thing about them: anytime my smol science child starts talking about some theory or whatever that I’m like kid idk what you’re talking about but you’re talking about it so passionately and that’s endearing af

least favorite thing about them: pls stop doing ethically questionable experiments child :((((

favorite line: ***s7 spoilers*** “We did a McShell maneuver on it. I think my dad would be proud.” oh my god oh m y g o d hi I love crying!!!

brOTP: veronica and nadia of course crying just thinking about them

OTP: veronica/happiness

nOTP : I'm not into shipping veronica with anyone since when we meet her she’s a kid and pretty much all the other characters are adults

random headcanon: I just like a scenario where Nadia and Veronica are sitting outside at night and looking at the stars and Veronica is telling Nadia literally every single fact she has stored in her brain about all the stars and nebulas and constellations they can see in the sky and Nadia’s never been interested in astronomy but she’s just listening to Veronica talking excitedly and it’s the happiest both of them have been in a long time

unpopular opinion:***s6 spoilers*** I didn’t feel betrayed or dislike veronica as a character even after veronica was working with sigrid and whatever other questionable things she was doing like I just felt kind of sad I mean chris probably trusted abel to look after veronica and I know at this point in the story she’s an adult who can make her own choices but I feel like no one except nadia was really there for her when she needed it and everyone was putting too much pressure on her to save them so I get why she would do what she did

song I associate with them: there is definitely a sleeping at last song out there that is perfect for veronica and I will find it at some point

favorite picture of them: and we have another beautiful piece of art by @crownleys!! (I was legit like there was that one piece of veronica art that I love and cherish with my whole heart and I was trying to search for it on the tag and I was like ah crownleys did it of course)

#siriusmistake #thank you so so much for sending me this!!#this was so fun to do I love sara and veronica both so much oh my god #sara smith #veronica mcshell #replies #ask game

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delucadarling · 4 years

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siriusmistake mentioned you in a post

@puptart jon hears 'almost beaten to death by an angry goth' and goes right into proud relative mode, i'm loving it tbh

Jon really does just manifest adoption papers then and there doesn’t he

#siriusmistake #me rule #tma

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squidbatts · 4 years

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To Feel So Simple

or: on the relative virtues of Abel, New Canton, chickens, and cats

((it’s That Time Of Year again and i am ever so pleased to present @siriusmistake ‘s zr secret santa present! thank you so much @runnerzero for organizing this, thank you sirius for liking ships that i usually don’t write so i got the Wonderful experience of writing archie for the first time! i hope you enjoy this as much as i enjoyed writing it!))

{ao3}

Abel doesn’t have a chicken petting zoo.

New Canton doesn’t either, not really, not one that the Permanent Advisory Council knows about, but Archie’s found that sneaking into the livestock holding pens does just as well in a pinch. Abel, though, doesn’t even have chickens.

“All I am saying is that it is practically a crime to not have farm animals to play with,” Archie tells Five as they do a basic supply run together. Five watches her out of the corner of their eye, amused smile creeping onto their lips. The sight of it makes Archie’s own smile widen. “I know you bonded with Mauve the milk cow when you were in New Canton, I saw you making kissy faces at her.”

“I never said I didn’t,” Five replies, easily stooping to pick up a sports bra that Archie is sure wasn’t there a second ago. “And I’m sure that all of Abel would love to have some livestock around, but it’s not that easy for every settlement.”

“Yes, yes,” Archie waves a hand dismissively, “Not everyone has a castle, but Abel has their military, yes? Can the army not spare a single little litter of piglets?”

Five makes a face, one that Archie knows they don’t think she understands, but that she easily interprets as If we had that, we’d eat it/break it down for resources/something else gruesome and no fun. It’s a very complex face.

“We have... kittens?” They offer after a while.

“Kittens?” Archie gasps, immediately pressing the button on her headset to call to Nadia as Five tries to pass off the smile on their face as shrugging nonchalance. “And I am just now hearing of this?”

“Just now hearing about what, Runner 20?”

“Don’t worry,” Archie replies, “I only wanted to ask if I could stay at Abel tonight?”

“What?” Nadia says, and Archie can hear the annoyed squint in her voice, “No, you and Runner Five both are supposed to be coming back to New Canton tonight, your route doesn’t put you anywhere near Abel-”

“Excellent, time for a detour then!” Archie cuts Nadia off, grabbing Five’s hand and changing their direction towards Abel.

“Archie, you can’t just do that!” Nadia says, “This is not a part of the agreement, and I’m going to tell the Council.”

“I’ll tell them it was an improvised Fraternal Alliance bonding activity,” Archie responds smartly, spurred on by the way Five is laughing and easily matching her step for step. “I am doing important work, and you wouldn’t want to stop a runner from doing important work, would you? That wouldn’t be very productive of you.”

While Nadia splutters over the comms, Five reclaims their hand to say, “Having a sleepover is hardly ‘important work.’”

“Personal relations are always important, silly. You can’t win a war unless you trust your allies, and we could use more trust on all sides when it comes to the Fraternal Alliance.”

“I don’t think you’re the person who needs to work on trusting your allies,” Five signs, face twisting again in an I still don’t like Nadia way. Archie bites the inside of her cheek because, as much as she likes Five and loves Abel, she also loves her settlement and her radio operator and all of New Canton.

Nearing Abel comes with the voice of Sam Yao in their ears. “Hey there, Five, Archie. Not that I’m not glad to see you, but aren’t you both supposed to be in New Canton?”

“Very important intra-settlement bonding,” Archie replies, and Sam snorts.

“Does New Canton know that?”

“New Canton knows what they must,” Archie says archly. “Now, I have heard that you have kittens. Can I reserve the kittens or is it a first come first served sort of thing? I’m willing to wait, but I would rather see them as soon as possible. Oh! Could you bring the kittens to the gate, actually? So I can hold a kitten immediately as I enter Abel. That would be the most ideal.”

“The kittens have to stay in the kitten pen,” Sam says, like he’s reciting a line off a card.

“Are you sure?”

“Believe me, I’ve tried,” Sam admits, and Five snorts beside Archie. “Sometimes I think Janine keeps more security on the kittens than the Major does on the gate. Uh, don’t tell anyone I said that though.”

Five winks at a camera and mimes zipping their lips, so Archie follows suit. Sam laughs in their ears and they approach Abel to the cobbled-together gate quickly swinging open to allow them entrance.

It’s fun for Archie to watch Five as they journey into Abel. In New Canton, Five doesn’t seem on edge exactly, just a little stiff; personally, Archie’s always thought that, when surrounded by the structure of New Canton, Five reverts back to habits from the military base they lived on after Z-Day. Back in Abel though, it’s easy to see Five relax. It seems like everyone they pass greets Five happily, offers them a high-five or a smile, and Five’s shoulders lower, their gait slows, everything about them yells home. Archie wonders if she ever would’ve noticed how uncomfortable they were in New Canton if she wasn’t given this close-up view of what Five looks like when they’re so completely in their element.

“How lucky am I,” Archie says after the twelfth person stops them to ask after Five’s health and their run, “To be escorted by Abel’s most popular runner.”

Five flusters, predictably, and tries to wave Archie off. “We don’t have as many runners as you do, it only makes sense that we’re well known.”

Archie hums, not agreeing but also not willing to fight against Five’s lack of ego. She winks when Five shoots her a skeptical look and laughs at the bright blush that blooms on Five.

“The cats are this way,” Five says, quickly turning their face away from Archie and gesturing her forward. Archie laughs again but follows happily.

The kitten pen is an enclosure made of chicken-wire and wood, with a cat walkway high on the walls and half a dozen kittens wrestling and playing and meowing. There’s another Abel runner inside already, one that Archie is able to quickly recognize as Runner 3.

“Simon! Hello!”

“If it isn’t my favorite New Canonite!” Simon crows, grinning and holding a tuxedo kitten with unnaturally sharp teeth up to Archie. “Meet my baby.”

“Your baby?”

Five huffs, rolling their eyes. “None of the kittens have official names, because Janine didn’t want to name them, but Simon has got everyone calling this one Simon Pawchlan.”

Archie looks between the cat and Simon. She tilts her head. She supposes, if she sort of squints, that they look slightly alike each other. It’s the smiles, she thinks. “Ah, I see the resemblance.”

Simon laughs, “No, he’s named after me because he’s great at escaping the enclosure. Even Janine can’t keep him in here.”

“He’s also named after Simon because he’s often escaping to get to Janine,” Five adds, and Simon shamelessly grins at the revelation. “Don’t ask, it’s absolutely not worth knowing.”

“Truly, you’re a charmer, Five,” Simon says, reaching out to pinch Five’s cheek and deftly dodging the mostly harmless snap of their teeth as he does so. “But I do think that’s my cue to leave. Enjoy the kittens, you two.”

Simon hands Simon Pawchlan to Archie as he goes, making a complicatedly indescribable, We communicate only by facial expressions here in Abel face at Five. Five makes one back and Archie politely coos over Pawchlan as the two runners silently fuss at each other. When they’re done, Five sinks to the ground lotus style and clicks their tongue gently, attracting the attention of several kittens. Archie sits beside them, carefully holding Pawchlan close to her chest. She watches, stroking careful, calloused fingers down Pawchlan’s back, as a cat leaps into Five’s lap while another determinedly makes it’s way up Five’s sloped back.

Five stays perfectly still as the kittens explore their new human body playset, stiff but not tense, and Archie thinks, I am lucky to be allowed to see this, to watch the Runner Five covered in kittens, with their back to the door, still completely at ease. Five is lucky as well, Archie thinks, to be the type of person that Archie will overtly disobey orders for in order to spend more time with.

Archie leans over and presses a kiss, firm but not demanding, to Five’s cheek. Five startles and causes the kittens to scatter, red sweeping over their skin as they turn to her, shocked. “What was that for?”

“Nothing,” Archie says, then, because that wasn’t quite true, “Everything. I was thinking that it's nice, being here with you. You are a surprisingly good date, Five.”

Five turns away, but Archie still sees the nervous, pleased smile creeping onto their face. When Archie leans in again, clearly telegraphing her movements to give Five time to back out, Five turns into it, meeting her head-on. It is wonderful, even if Simon Pawchlan rudely interrupts by digging his claws into Archie’s arms as she inadvertently squishes him into Five.

“You’re a pretty good date too,” Five says, hands steady though they can’t seem to look Archie in the eye. Archie laughs, bubbling over with happiness.

“I am the best date,” She corrects, “And you would do well not to forget it.”

#zombies run #archie jensen #zrs2 spoilers #just in case #siriusmistake

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sternenblumen · 4 years

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The book is on its way to you now! :D

Whoo! Thank you! And Seanan’ cats got fed today, too, because I was missing the last two in the series - I’ll catch up on them until the book gets here 😄.

#siriusmistake

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runner5ive · 5 years

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a prompt: Janine + BEING HAPPY (maybe cuddling some of the township's puppies/kittens? I am predictable lol)

Enjoying the Janine prompts! And couldn’t resist drawing her with Simon Pawchlan Feline De Luca either!

Janine probably pretends to hate the cat until no one else is around :’)

Loved the request @siriusmistake

#simon pawchlan feline de luca #janine de luca #zr #zombies run #zr5k #siriusmistake

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wurmstache · 5 years

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YOU GUYS 😭😭. This is like a time capsule 😅, so glad you guys are still about!

#eriquin #siriusmistake

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elpsycongruent · 3 years

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👀 i would like to hear about this universe-hopping oc, if you are interested in sharing

Haha, sure, I can share if you like. Behold, my most self-indulgent creation!

She's not exactly a self-insert- she's her own character by now, for sure. But I've definitely used her to work out a lot about myself; she's been she/they since loooong before I thought about applying that to myself, and mostly ace for even longer than that. She was originally born out of my Yu Yu Hakusho phase; I had her as a silver fox demon and Kurama's sister, in true quasi-self-insert-mary-sue fashion. But I ended up liking her so much, I carried her forward into my next obsession, expanding her backstory as needed. As it stands now, said backstory is more or less as follows: As a kid, she was "fractured" by a traumatic event, which sort of... condensed timelines around her? I think I was somewhat inspired by Cat Chant from Chrestomanci; instead of having different versions of himself across nine worlds, like other characters, Cat only exists in one world, but has nine lives. Unlike Cat, she does have physical versions of herself in different worlds, but they're all aspects of the same whole, and are kind of a hive mind? But not really? They can swap memories with each other at will, and generally react/behave the same way, even when they technically have different lived experience. So she's not exactly universe-hopping, but she does remember things that happened to other versions of herself in different universes, and knows that she doesn't *really* belong in most places she finds herself. (There's a whole plotline with what happened to her original universe, but the tl;dr there is that it's now something like Timeheart from Young Wizards.) She has a lot of names these days, depending on what story I'm flinging her into, but by default she usually goes by Nita. Whether that stands for "Incognita," Infinità" or "Eternità" depends on who she's talking to, but they all fit the general gist of her character: an immortal who, in the absence of any grand plan for how to spend her existence, tends to attach herself to whomever seems most interesting at the moment. (*cough*whatever my current hyperfixation is*cough*) She's usually a librarian or an archivist unless she's attached herself more closely to the plot- exactly the kind of person who can nudge a protagonist into finding out a critical piece of information in the nick of time. (Because I am NOTHING if not a sucker for fix-its, and hey: she's MY daydream vehicle!) The real point of that is that she's never the focus of whatever story she's currently part of; even when she inserts herself into the plot, the things she changes are things that the original cast *could* have done without her, but just didn't in canon. (She also likes bodyguarding interesting people, regardless of whether they're "supposed" to die.) That's probably enough rambling on my part; if you made it this far, thanks for listening to my self-indulgent rambling! Nita means a lot to me; I've had her for ~15 years now, and she's still going strong!

#thanks for asking!#this was fun to actual put into words #who knows if it's actually coherent though lol #answer #siriusmistake #shut up lulu #my ocs

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