#i like gb underrated ship

[idiocymybeloved]

Dear Diary

A school DSMP au of Dream’s villain origin story

Characters: Dream, George, Wilbur, mentions of Sapnap and BBH

Ships: Dreamnotfound and Georgebur(romantic or platonic, depends how you take it)

TW: Implied D3@th and M#rd3r

Cross posted on Wattpad

Dear diary, 

Today was my first day back at school after a week-long suspension. Nothing out of the ordinary happened, a few kids laughed at me, I sat alone at lunch again, but at least I didn't take my temper out on anyone. Progress I suppose. 

However, this time, I didn't walk home alone. 

The new kid, the one who moved in next to me a few days ago, recognized me. He followed me home casually, he didn't seem to know anything about me or my issues. Fine by me. I invited him over to my treehouse on the old tree in the backyard. 

He loved it. I spent the afternoon with him. His name's George, and he and his family of 3 moved to this little dinky town from NYC. He's colourblind, has two cats, and loves dandelions. And I mean loves. 

George's really nice, he liked the treehouse. He liked the big old tree. He liked our small house. He liked me. 

I hope he comes over again tomorrow, I like having a friend up in the treehouse.

- - -

Dear diary, 

I failed my math test today, and my mom gave me a whole lecture about it. 

I was lucky George(who got an A+ may I add,) was willing to help me study. 

We had fun. We spent the day in my tree house again, eating snacks as he brought me through all the old material and new material too. He makes me laugh and taught me more than the stupid teacher every could, or would. 

He's not like anyone I met before, and he doesn't treat me like I'm a scary animal. 

He treats me like I'm a human.

A friend. 

I don't want that to ever end. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Two weeks of talking with George and we're officially best friends. He follows me everywhere; to school, during classes, recess, back home, and only leaves if his mom forces him back. 

I like him.

- - -

Dear diary, 

A few girls walked past our table today. They pointed at me and started laughing. I felt my ears burn and my vision turn red. I was about to say something when George stood up for me, yelling at them to shut up. 

I can't believe someone would do that just for me. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Hi, sitting in detention while writing this. 

I know, I've been trying to do better and control myself but those girls from yesterday started to pick on George when they found out about his colour blindness. 

He looked so ashamed, I couldn't help but get mad. 

I think I scared them enough, they shouldn't come to bother us anymore. 

- - -

Dear diary,

I'm angry again. George kept getting picked on. 

Is it because of me? Is everyone mad at him for befriending me? 

They think I'm insane, don't they?

Anyways, after school, I still had my lunch money because I didn't feel like eating so I bought George some cute little glasses from the convenience store. They didn't do anything, but they sure looked cool. 

George looked more confident in them. 

I felt proud. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Detention once more. Woo. 

My old friend, Sapnap, stepped on the glasses I bought for George and I yelled at them, or 'went ballistic' as Mr. Halo said. 

I could care less about that, that's not the point. As I came out of detention, George was still there as usual, waiting for me to go to our treehouse together. 

But as I got closer... I realized he wasn't alone. 

George was laughing and chatting eagerly with a boy in our class called Wilbur. When he saw me, he obviously came running back to me, ready to go home. Wilbur raised an eyebrow at me, looking somewhat ticked. I just rolled my eyes at him. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Something's up with this Wilbur character. He keeps following me and George. 

We sat together as always, but it felt like Wilbur was always there, cracking jokes to George. It made my ears burn again. Everytime I tried to speak, he dismissed me with a wave of his hand and kept talking to George. 

George's my best friend, not his. 

Who does he think he is?

- - -

Dear diary, 

I am so done with Wilbur. 

I just want some time alone with George, like it was when we first met.

But he keeps butting in, and of course George is eager to let him come along. I guess I should be happy that George made a new friend. 

Except for the fact that this new friend literally hates my guts. 

Wilbur ignores me, pushes past me and keeps glaring at me when I get George's attention at all. Like dude, chill out a little. 

My ears burn and my jaw works every time he does that. 

Just leave us alone...

- - -

Dear diary, 

Nothing's the same anymore. Or everything's the same again. 

George went to Wilbur's house today, without me. Me? I went to my treehouse and tried to do the math homework but I can't focus on anything without George now. 

I miss him so much...

George, you're my best friend... right?

- - -

Dear diary, 

George's not the same. 

He still goes with me after school, sure, but in school? It's always Wilbur. He follows him and his posse, and Wilbur talks to him all the time. What about me? Am I just cast away now? 

George... come back. 

- - -

Dear diary,

George's not coming back. 

I messed up. 

I'm sorry...

- - -

Dear diary, 

Please.. Just make it stop. 

I didn't mean to scare George the way I did. I didn't mean to yell at him. It was instinct, I was just getting a little annoyed that everything's about Wilbur. Your new best friend. 

Please... I'd do anything to go back to that one night. Because now, everytime I look at George, he's regarding me with fear, remorse, panic as he clings on to Wilbur who seems to hate me even more now. Everytime I look into his eyes, I see nothing but dark anger.

A look I know way too well. 

George I'm sorry... I'm sorry I hurt you.

- - -

Dear diary,

It's my treehouse. 

Mine. 

I don't need anyone else and I never did! It's MY treehouse, George can leave me alone and I don't care at all! Go have fun with Wilbur, I don't care. 

It'll just be me and MY treehouse again. 

Because this'll always be mine. My treehouse, and there's nothing you can do about that. 

It's mine. 

Not ours. 

Not anymore. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Everything hurts...

My insides seem to burn, everytime I look at them. Everytime I look at George, I see all my mistakes, all the ways I hurt him. 

And that Wilbur... 

It's all his fault. I hate him so much. He caused all these problems, if it weren't for him, I'd be fine. Screw Wilbur. 

I wish I could just erase him off the face of the earth. 

- - 

Dear diary,

...what if I could? What if I could get rid of him? For good?

Would that fix everything?

- - - 

Dear diary, 

It's going to work.

- - -

Dear diary, 

Hi, I'm sorry I've been gone for 3 days. It's been... quite hectic. 

Wilbur is gone. 

Ha. My plan worked. 

I didn't realize the repercussions of it. 

I didn't realize George was in his house at the same time. 

And I most certainly didn't realize that it wasn't Wilbur who I originally killed. 

...I don't want to talk about it. 

- - -

Dear diary,

The newspaper, television, school gossip... all they can talk about is the sudden disappearance of him. 

All I hear and see 24/7, is him.

Just shut up, okay? I didn't mean to...

I'm scared diary.

What do I do? 

I just wanted George back...

- - - 

Dear diary,

WHY CAN'T EVERYONE LEAVE ME ALONE?

CAN THEY ALL JUST SHUT UP! I'M SORRY, OK? JUST LEAVE ME BE I DON'T NEED ANYONE AND I DON'T WANT THEM TO BE HERE! 

MOTHER, TEACHERS, PEERS, THEY ALL ARE WORRIED FOR ME! IF YOU'RE WORRIED, JUST LET ME BE. 

- - -

Dear diary,

Mother's gone. 

I've been sitting in the treehouse for the past hours. I shed no tears for her. 

I definitely shed more tears for George. 

I still imagine him hugging me as I fall asleep in my treehouse. 

- - -

Dear diary, 

Now what? 

I can't go back to school.

And this new craving inside of me... it's driving me insane. 

What if I ran away? Would anyone care?

- - -

Dear diary, 

I thought about it more. I need to leave with a bang.

- - - 

Dear diary, 

The deed is done. 

Thanks for being there with me through it all diary. 

But I'm not coming back. 

Don't worry, soon you'll hear about me as the ruler of the world. 

I'll be back. 

Signed, 

Dream. 

#fanfic #wattpad #angst #tw death #tw murder #dsmp #dsmp au #dream #dreamwastaken #georgenotfound #wilbur soot #dreamnotfound #georgebur #i like gb underrated ship #this isn’t the usual stuff ik but I had this and I had to post today #And I didn’t have time to draw smth #And I didn’t post yesterday sorry

[gb-diesellok]

Tbh, Pearl x Greaseball has always been one of the ships that you always have in the back of your head. Like I don't think about it as much as some, but I don't dislike it. It's like finding something that you didn't know you lost, like that feeling of "Oh, there it is". It's a really casual and pleasant thing, one that probably deserves more attention than it gets, but it's always there, being lit as hell.

Also aesthetically they just look amazing next to each other, if they fused like in Steven Universe it would probably look freaking amazing-

So yeah, GB x Pearl is underrated as you said and deserves to be a main ship.

I feel it is criminally underrated...considering there is a whole scene about it! How it isn't considered near a main ship is...surprising to me!

Maybe more people will write about it...I know I will!

[erin-gilberts]

stantzler for the ship bingo?

It's okay / I'm neutral - I'm personally neutral about Stantzler, just because as a lesbian the only ships that make my brain go brrr and silly are sapphic ships. The investment I have in Stantzler really comes from how much you guys love it. I love how much you love it, even if it doesn't make my heart keysmash and blue-screen!

Aesthetically it's GREAT - I love how the ATC team all looks so strikingly different from each other, but I equally love how the original team just looks like a group of average guys, dark-haired, most of them dark-eyed, average build. They look like a couple you could realistically meet and I think that's aesthetically very cute and underrated. I love that Ray and Egon have the tol / smol dynamic happening a little bit, and I love that both of their hair looks so floofy and tousle-able. Very important for shipping.

Relationship goals - Their connection is definitely something special. Of the four, Egon and Ray seem the closest, which is part of what made Afterlife so absolutely devastating - it's clear Ray took Spengler leaving the hardest. They're both autistic and I think they both understand each other in such an automatic way it transcends words and explanations and all of the typical barriers between one person and another. They're both operating on their own wavelength, together, and they complement each other. Y'all might get sick of me pulling out the kite and the line thing from Haunting of Hill House, but - without Egon, Ray would become untethered and float away up into the clouds. Without Ray, Egon would crash and just drop right down to the ground.

Would do / read fic about it - Listen, I'm so invested in the Stantzler roleplay threads my group of GB mutuals has, it's like a whole soap opera in text XD

I really need this to be canon - Especially after Afterlife. I can VERY much read the reason Ray was so personally hurt and betrayed by Egon leaving through the lens of them being together. And maybe their relationship was always a secret and that made it harder. I think Ray would have always held onto the hope of Egon coming back after all they invested into the life they built together, and when he never did - until the very end - it crushed him. The day he was told Egon Spengler died is the day he had to finally confront the death of his own most desperate, most cherished hopes.

#erin is talking #asks #oh fuck this one got sad #stantzler

[goblinlovesmusicals]

Yeahhh gimme that Striker content pls 🤲🏻

Remember how you wanted to hear about Greaseball’s adoptive parents? Well, you will!

I doubt I’ll end up writing this so I’ll just spoil it rn: Striker and Trax are Greaseball’s adoptive dads!

(Yes, I know, I used to ship Greasetrax. Key word is used to. I’ve fallen out of love for it and moved on, and now I want to explore how Greaseball and Trax work as son and father.)

Striker is a southern beau, he’s big and strong...and he has to use crutches to walk.

He was born with no wheels, and on top of that his legs aren’t strong enough to support his weight. He uses crutches, and he used that as an opportunity to build his strength.

I imagine him looking a bit like Robert Torti but with blonde hair.

He has two moms, a cattle car named Moa and a diesel named Domino.

Hes the youngest of four.

Him and Trax are married because I say so, and they’ve adopted a crap ton of kids.

Including:

Greaseball and Pacific Blue (Greaseball’s brother from Hero City Rollers)

Foxy (Animal car Joule, I decided she needed to be a separate char)

Rod ( @the-rum-tum-hatter s oc!)

Swift (the other racing marshal, he’s in actuality Trax’s baby brother but their parents passed away when he was a baby so Trax and Striker raised him as their son)

Aaand Blaze (their only bio child, he’s a lil shit-)

I love Striker sm, he’s evolved from just a member of the gang to GBs brother to GBs dad.

I think he’s underrated as my oc-

#starlight express #striker the diesel engine #starlight express oc

[just-the-hiddles]

Writer’s Spotlight | Winterisakiller & Winterisakillerwrites

Another Writer’s Spotlight and this week I featuring @winterisakiller​ \ @winterisakillerwrites​.  This is actually one of the first fic writers I found on Tumblr and I feel honored to feature them today.  She is the queen of angst and ripping my heart out.  Yes I have “yelled” more than once “fix it now!” at them after reading one of their stories.  They write killer OCs and are a genuinely great and supportive friend

The Basics

Any other names you want people to call you?

Cait

How long have you been writing fic?   

Oh goodness, since I was 12...so fourteen years give or take.

What fandoms and/ships do you write?

Currently Tom Hiddleston RPF and in that fandom Tom and OFCs. I also used to be active in the AFI fandom writing mostly slash fic, with the occasional OFC throw in.

How did you get started writing fic?

I have always loved making up stories in my head. I started reading fic ages ago (Hanson fanfic to date myself) and found myself going....I can do this, so I did. My first fics are horribly embarrassing and thankfully aren't to be found anymore. But it was good practice and it gave my the excuse to put pen to paper so to speak.

Story Recommendations

Which of your stories are your favorite?

That is a tough question, its like asking me to chose my favorite child. But if I had to I guess I would say its a tie between my two multi-chapter stories, Love & Great Buildings and Get Better. I love L&GB because it was the first long fic I wrote on my own from start to finish in YEARS. And Tom and Rosie have come to mean so much to me, especially being my first foray into the Tom fandom. Get Better I love because it let me explore the Tom I had created in Brave Face and let him find the happy ending he felt he no longer deserved. Cath (the main OFC) was such a fun character to explore as well. Building their relationship was a challenge (mainly trying to get them to cooperate with me) and one I enjoyed immensely.

Which story are you most proud of?

Honestly, Imperfect Tense because it was such a painful and difficult story to write. And it makes the only story in which I absolutely could not stand the Tom I created. He is a selfish in it and a coward and it costs him everything in the end. He had so many chances to come clean and be honest and he ran from each and every one until the truth finally was revealed and by then it was far, far to late. I love the OFC in the story, Molly, because she sticks to her guns. She loves Tom, trusted him implicitly, and he broke that trust and no matter how much she loves him, there is no way she can forgive him. And she sticks by that, even when the circumstance she finds herself in would be so much easier with him actively involved. So long story short, I'm saying Imperfect Tense because it wasn't the story I wanted to tell but the one that it needed to be.

Which of your stories do you think is the most underrated?

That is another tough one. I think I am going to have to go with Becoming. For one its a general Tom fic, not an OFC or reader fic, which meant it definitely didn't get a great deal of traffic. For another it was a challenging fic, for me, because I had so many ideas about what I wanted to explore and narrowing it down to focus primarily on building the relationship between Tom and his son and how that impacted Tom as a person (the guilt, the confusion, and the desperate need to get this right).

Someone is new to reading your stories, which story/stories should they read first?

I guess I would say either the Last Minutes & Lost Evenings series (Tom and Rosie) or the Brave Face series. Though any of the one shots I've written are good jumping in points as they are mainly independent stories (unless otherwise marked).

Which Story did you do the most research for?   

Honestly, Get Better (and in the same vein its prequel Brave Face). Get Better because it was sent in and around the London Betrayal run and I wanted to be as accurate as I could be. Brave Face because I did a LOT of looking into Tom's schedule at the time (2014-2016) as it played a very big role in the way I was writing Tom's character.

Which Story was the easiest to write?

Surprisingly, Brave Face...It almost seemed to write itself. I seriously blinked and somehow a 13,000 word story appeared. It never happened before and I seriously doubt it will ever happen again.

The Writing Process

What is your favorite part of writing?

When I get to that one part of a story...The one I can't wait to tell because its been sitting in my brain, begging to get out. And when I get it out exactly, if not better than, how I saw it in my head.

What is your least favorite part?

Editing is a bitch. So is trying to start something and not being able to get the words out the way they need to be. If that makes any sense.

Describe your style in 1 to 2 sentences.

Character driven and full of emotion. Mainly angst.

Who are some of your writing idols and/or influences?

Fanfic wise? I am in utter awe of @tilltheendwilliwrite​. Everything she writes is amazing and beautiful and my god I want to be her when I grow up. I also adore WhittyOne (on AO3), her Pastiche series is stunning and heartbreaking and beautiful. The relationship between Tom and Michelle is one of my absolute favorite fictional relationships. The love and trust between them is something out of this world. Traditional writers, I really don't have any one I strive to be. I read a lot (though as of late its been more fanfic than anything) and will try just about anything as long as I am invested in the characters.

What programs do you use to write and/or edit?

I write and edit mainly using Word. Occasionally, I will fiddle around with Google Docs, but Word is my norm.

Are you a plotter or a pantser?

Probably more of a panster, though I have been trying my best to be more of a plotter (at least in the basic sense) so that I at least have a general direction to move in.

Do you write RPF or not?

Yes.

What do you think are your writing strengths?

I think my strength lies in my ability to capture emotion (both the way my characters express their emotions and the way they don't) and I think I'm fairly decent at dialogue.

What do you struggle with?

Detail and description. I am working at getting better at describing the world around my characters. Trying to make the world more technicolor and less black and white.

Favorite Trope?

I'm a sucker for unrequited love and mutual pining.

What is the best piece of writing advice you have heard?

Actually its funny that you ask, I was talking with @evieplease last night and she mentioned that the best way to catch any errors or to see if what you've written works, read it aloud. And honestly, I had never thought of it until that moment and my god it makes so much sense.

What would you say to a new fanfic writer starting out?

As dumb as it sounds, just start writing. If you have an idea, run with it. Explore and try new things.

What is a random bit of research you have not managed to work into a fic yet?

I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

What is your favorite random detail from one of your stories?

I have an entire relationship background plotted out for Tom and one of my OFCs that will never feature in the fic(s) they are in, but gives me such a better understanding of them as a couple.

Any goals or WIPs you want to share?

Right now I am in the middle of writing Chasing Marigolds which is an idea that sprung from a tumblr game I participated in back in September of last year. Basically people sent story titles and the game was to come up with a summary for the title you were given. @lettalady​ gave me Chasing Marigolds and I came up with a basic summary and a few days later, the overall plot of the story. Flash forward to about a week or so ago, when my brain decided I HAD to get the story out. I'm only one and a third chapters into the story as of now, but I am excited about it and I cannot wait to start sharing it.

This or That

Fluff AND Angst

Smut AND Fluff

Reader Insert or OC

Ojne Shot or Series

Canon Divergent or AU

Pepsi or Coke

Coffee or Tea

Sweet or Savory

Until next time peeps, toodles!

#writer's spotlight #fanfic recommendation #winterisakiller #tom hiddleston #tom hiddleston fanfic #tom hiddleston fanfiction

[is6621]

Be A Water Boy -Megan Danehy

If you can’t be on the football team, be a water boy. If you can’t be a social media app, be a social media-adjacent app. It’s hard to think of creating an app that poses even the smallest competition to Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, or any other of today’s social media giants. First of all, you would have to create something extremely original that meets a presently unmet need. Secondly, you would have to address switching costs…and unless you have some great reason why a user should jump ship over to your no-name app while all of their friends are sharing on Instagram, you’re basically out of luck. So, what can you do? You can be a water boy!

Let’s face it, taking away every one of Instagram’s one billion users isn’t the most realistic endeavor in the world, but many creators are figuring out that there is a way to piggyback on the platform’s success. This isn’t a new concept, but it is an ingenious one. John Barnett, who formerly worked to develop the stories feature on Instagram, is no stranger to the success of social media giants but is proving that you don’t have to be a social media platform to be successful. He, along with cofounders Alex Li and Joshua Harris, built an app called Chroma Stories, which is a new member in the ever-growing family of social media-adjacent apps. Perhaps not unintentionally, the app’s logo is designed to look like a sibling, or at least a cousin, of Instagram. This is a smart move considering the founders’ wanted to focus on creating a tool that complements social media platforms by providing more enhanced features than the platforms themselves provide.

Chroma Stories is not the only social media-adjacent app, it just the newest one among a host of others. Remember VSCO? It’s a perfect example of a social media-adjacent app. Its photo and video editing features are much more advanced and differentiated than those offered within the Instagram app. Of course, VSCO itself is also a platform, but its real value is in the supporting role it plays for Instagram. Other popular apps include Pic Collage and Unfold, of which Selena Gomez—poster of one of the most liked photos on Instagram—is an avid user. These apps offer users everything they could possibly want when it comes to designing the perfect aesthetic for stories.

As the name implies, Chroma Stories is specifically focused on the very popular stories feature, which has had a controversial path from Snapchat to Instagram and now, Facebook. Regardless of how the feature made it to Instagram, it has been a huge success. But in a world full of influencers, stories, like regular posts, are held to high expectations when it comes to aesthetics. And that is where Chroma Stories and all the other social media-adjacent apps come in. Many of these apps are free, which makes them widely accessible. They also offer advanced features for purchase, which allows them to turn a profit. Most importantly, they all have features that the social media platforms themselves do not have.   

Perhaps the best part of this underrated class of apps is that they can be just as fun to use as the social media platforms they support. I have spent many an evening uploading photos to VSCO just to see what they’d look like with a certain filter or with the brightness turned up. I also downloaded Chroma Stories, which I admittedly just heard of this week. It possesses the two qualities that I think are necessary for a successful social-media adjacent app: easy and fun. To get started, all you have to do is select a photo—from your camera roll or from the thousands of royalty-free images built into the app—and then spend as long as you want scrolling through the seemingly endless supply of filters, overlays, stickers, and text options. I was even tempted to post an Instagram story because, as promised, the app really does give photos an amazing aesthetic, and I will definitely be using it again. So, after just one use, I can easily see the value in social media-adjacent apps, and I’m interested to see how creators will take advantage of this demand and profit not as a platform but as a supporting tool. And from what I can tell so far, it looks like being a water boy isn’t so bad after all…you still get to travel with the team.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/catching-gen-z-requires-a-big-fish-instagram-11569643201

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/style/the-disposable-camera-trend-taking-over-instagram/ar-AAFhVbl?mod=article_inline

https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/best-apps-instagram-stories-layouts.html?mod=article_inline

https://www.gadgethacks.com

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