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Variety Show

Pleased to meet you. You can call me Variety. This tumblr is a miscellaneous jumble of things, including lots of art and fandom ramblings. For more about me and what you can expect me to post, see this post
I also have a fanfic tag and a TF2 side-blog.
And, of course, feel free to ask me anything.
AIM: ladygyr (All lowercase.) Steam: VarietyShow
Timezone: GMT
Currently likely to include spoilers for the game OFF. Lots of them.

Posts tagged Other people's fanfic:

saeto15:

No idea what to call this. Haven’t written anything in years now, lol.

Homestuck, body horror, featuring Karkat.  Hopefully it’s clear what’s going on, but the gist of it was this: so trolls are basically insects, right?  And Alternia has all sorts of flora and fauna that are out to get you.  How easy would it be to not notice something was wrong with you until it was too late?

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Scripted [OFF fic]

copyx:

Characters: Zacharie, numerous others

Length: 1018 words

Summary: Zacharie has always known what his role will be. Some days, that makes it hard to live it.

Warnings: Violence, blood, addiction issues, fuckery of the fourth wall, probably spoilers.

He is the braved, winged hero once, storming the Frog King’s castle without an ounce of fear. He strides through the hallways without even drawing his blade, he stands before the king without an ounce of fear. When his blade cleaves flesh, his aim is perfectly true.

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Fic Feedback for ZiGraves

Righty-oh, here’s the fic feedback digest I basically said I’d write for your recent fics (Ignem Feram part 4, If They’re Not Dead, RED Spy Ain’t Right, Congelatio, Coxsone, Alice Blue), am writing down whatever occurs to me. 

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Academic Rivalry

novicefortress2:

zigraves:

For the very first person to send me a prompt here on tumblr, with my apologies that it’s so long and that it took so long - thankfully I resisted the temptation to drag it out any further, so here it is. Contains Medic/Engie science-smut. 

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Ah! This is beyond great, it’s pitch-perfect, ausgezeichnet, прекрасно! I had been holding back on reading this during the day so I could take my time and savour it, and I’m glad I did!

The build-up is well paced, and illustrates the characters and how they could interact very nicely in and of itself. (How the Engineer gets drawn further into conversation was something I particularly liked.) Furthermore, you expanded upon and carried that along into latter half properly, which makes me very happy. Not only is it a smooth and plausible-seeming progression from one to the other, you keep the traits established in the first part present in the second. (Although they can do the job on the level of pure titillation, I think it’s really a shame to see scenarios where the characters’ quirks almost fall by the wayside as soon as the smut itself enters the picture. Happily that’s not a complaint I could have of this.) There’s a sense of eroticism in the details, too, which can be a mite rare.

Now, I’ll stop extravagantly lavishing praise on you and say this: firstly, thank you very much for indulging my request, secondly, no need to apologise for the time taken - the quality bears it out! - or the length, because that gave you the leisure to develop things properly, and lastly, that final line is an awful tease! However, one can’t be greedy, so I’ll hold off on begging for more, and just thank you again.

If I went off listing favourite lines I’d be here all day, so here’s the one that stood out to me and why (under the cut to hide spoilers!) -

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Reblogging over here, because gosh, I certainly am lucky to get this written at my request! I don’t think I need to add anymore to my comments above, just go forth and read.

(via vstf2)

Reading a good fanfic

Nonsensical vague babble under the cut.

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matchbook-stories:

mindcathedral:

kewinosaurus:

dear fandom gods

if u are out there at this time

pls have someone write a fic about droog impersonating a priest

thank

Your prayers are answered, my child. 

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THIS IS SO GANGSTER

File under: things that are delicious.

liz-of-all-trades asked: DetectivexInnovator. Innovator caught some bullets or something and Detective finds out by accident after Innovator forgets to cancel a tea party XD

varietyshow:

matchbook-stories:

[I bet y’all thought I forgot about these! SHOWS WHAT YOU KNOW. Ha-ha!
It’s, um.
It’s not fluffy.
Just to warn you.]

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The most excellent of things. There’s little I like more than seeing the way different people handle DD/PI in mobsterswitch. (But then again there are few things I like more than mobsterswitch.) But ah, this is just so damn good, I love the impression it gives of there being this delicate interplay of manipulation, almost-loathing and Detective’s sublimated desire to cause pain at work in their dynamic. Like this part for example: He’s smiling at you, faint and weak, and all you want to do is pry his teeth out one by one (but no, no, that’s not what you want, you only want to bring him to justice).

Now I’ll stop before this degenerates even more into raving praise and just say: guys please read this fic it’s what would happen if mobsterswitch!DD/PI was thrown hard against the noir end of the scale and it’s so good, okay?

As I’m raiding my own archives and thinking about fics from a while back, I might as well pimp this again. As you can see from the above, I really like it, and it sure as hell doesn’t show up on the mobsterswitch tag, which is a shame. 

Back Together Again

astharoze:

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Deadeye Detective back together again.

But Pernicious Innovator Could.

(this is essentially…science…porn….)

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So. Cool.

A Nasty Little Fic

herecomesyourlemoncookie:

A little something something for Variety, who said she wanted to read a story about a good person getting dragged through the dirt.

Love you, honey!

Everyone else, enjoy this fic about Droog being a know-it-all.

 

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I probably shouldn’t be smiling right now, but this is all I’ve ever wanted for so long.

I’m so just happy this exists, and I’m so happy you wrote it for me. <3 <3 <3

Re-reading this later at my leisure, hopefully I’ll have some comments on it. (And the time to formulate them!)

(Source: jawbonejoe)

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