*tired Sigh* No, Mabel Did Not Create Dippy Fresh As A Mean-spirited Replacement Of Her Brother, Evidenced

Varian gets tanner and more freckly in the sun and Hugo just burns. There is no cure. Aloe vera & whatever concoctions Varian can whip up are helpful, but they just reduce him to his pale self again. He is doomed to either be pink/red or pasty. Varian desperately tries not to find it funny.

With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

“actually, despite all their actions that prove who they are, Lying Liar McFalsehoods said this to Gullible von Naïveté, and Gullible von Naïveté believed them, so your take is bad” is a statement i read way too often on here.

idk, chris sonnenburg. if you didn’t want your character to be adored by the fans, maybe don’t make him such a little goob.

look at ‘im.

also, maybe don’t make him one of the most compassionate people in the show who only wanted to make positive change for the people he cherished— *i am dragged off of my soapbox*

Alright! Sorry for being so absent today! I was building a tool so you can all check your own names on demand.

I am asking that you not talk about it on Hugging Face. I'm sure word will get there eventually, but I'd like to avoid them accessing this as much as possible. Feel absolutely free to spread around Tumblr.

Tool is here! Use page 1 to search by username. Use page 2 to search by work ID (which you'll need to do if you're looking for an anonymous work).

That said, I did pay out of pocket for some of the accounts I've needed to do all this. If I need to, I'm fine with eating that cost, but I am going to ask nicely that if you feel like kicking in toward it, you donate to the Ko-Fi I made specifically for this technical project. I was hoping to get a short-term membership, but I was only able to buy access to host this for a full year lmao. BUT regardless, this is freely available to everyone. Do NOT feel like you need to donate if it'll put you in a bad place or even if you just don't want to. Just figured I'd ask instead of quietly sucking up the $180.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the cost to host the tool! I appreciate you so so so much. As of this edit, I'm at $185 total, and right now, I don't expect to have to pay for anything else to keep this available.

I gave the tool a quick test, but please come yell if it stops working. I'm around; I'll fix as fast as I can. It's slow as hell, but it does load eventually. Give it up to 10 minutes, and if it seems down after that, please alert me via ask! Anons are on.

Now with all that being said, time for me to start focusing on how we stop the next scrape.

Gimmie your Donella headcanons pretty pls

well… only because you said pretty pls

evil lesbian time

-she has used her braid to strangle a man before. this was in front of hugo, but he was ten years old, so he was practically an adult. it’s fine.

-she used to be very protective about her lab journals, but ulla started doodling around her notes and donella gradually warmed up to it. (then they started to drift apart, and ulla began her own journal that she never let donella see, and donella was left to trace the loops of ulla’s handwriting even before ulla was gone.)

-she usually made it a policy not to hire child soldiers, but hugo was the best thief she’d ever seen. she tested him & his instincts for a while before deciding to raise him herself.

-on that note, she does love hugo in a way, but donella’s mind is very priority-organized, and hugo ranks low on that list.

-she prefers mechanical weapons to chemical ones. her dagger is her go-to in a 1v1 fight, though.

-slightly civil to quirin. slightly. a long time ago.

-very defensive, even with those she half-trusts. they have to be out to get her, otherwise, why would they be saying this?

-constant, well-hidden paranoia. she’s climbed so far but her position is so precarious.

-she was raised in a very unstable home that she left as soon as she could. either she was an orphan or she was brought up by someone who parented her like she parents hugo.

-she only got truly, unconditionally attached to someone once, and that woman disappeared for almost two decades. ulla was always going to disappear, and donella was always going to be left.

star princess nuru headcannons<3

i think you mean nuru my QUEEN. she’d probably be my favorite disney princess if i actually got to see her story/read a really good fic of her pov. as it stands, movie-rapunzel has the top spot and nuru is a close second because of… just everything about her.

-she likes nighttime better than daytime, not just because she’s an astronomer, but because it feels like the weight of responsibility is lighter once people aren’t constantly demanding things of her.

-mildly dysgraphic. (the math-dyslexia thing i also have.) nobody’s figured it out, and she just thinks she’s very bad at math, so she doesn’t tell anyone. the second some sort of number-involving problem is introduced, she’s already using any of her mental tricks to find the solution before anyone can even turn to her.

-the curse upon her kingdom guaranteed that the royals would stay alive to watch their subjects suffer, so nuru has survivor’s guilt.

-extremely good at all things medical due to caring for her citizens from a far-too-young age.

-did not ship varigo until she began to trust and like hugo. she wants only the best for varian.

-became friends with hugo by spitefully buying something because it made him uncomfortable to have money spent on him, only for him to retaliate by stealing a very extravagant necklace for her, until they were both holding armfuls of stuff they didn’t need and aggressively pushing them at each other. they ended up returning them, then glanced at each other and mutually decided that they’d tolerate each other now.

-asexual lesbian. (i’m so sorry guys. i don’t ship her with amber. we don’t know anything about amber, and donella is already in love with ulla, so we’ve got so much of people pining for varian and his family members. plus i think it’s cruel for varian to have a cousin named amber in the first place. whose idea was that. ((not hating on anyone who ships them; i just personally don’t see the appeal.)))

-she’s very good at scathing remarks disguised by politeness. she’d be great on bbc sherlock.

-she started out very reserved and stoic, but gradually came out of her shell around the boys, getting to the point where varian accidentally said “my balls” instead of “my chemical formulas/my orbs/literally anything else” and nuru laughed hysterically for three minutes straight. varian gave her the silent treatment for a while after this.

-she makes her own star maps. like, dotting out where each one is in the sky, then tracing her own constellations depending on her mood. it’s her own form of art.

love when theres a character whose entire existence is spoiler tagged by default. go behind the curtain boy

that’s what i’ve been screaming

Like me personally I think we should allow Nuru to be fragile every once in a while because she’s literally just a girl. Not in the barely-disguised-misogyny way but in the was that she’s LITERALLY just a girl, she’s like sixteen, she’s a child, and she already spent her entire life cosplaying Atlas and having to be strong for her people, allowing her her emotions is not a terrible awful crime and it does not make her any less capable. If Varian and Hugo can be allowed their emotional complexities and hundreds of thousands of breakdowns and still be capable and ass-kicking then guess what, so does Nuru

i’m poor. need money.