#jena makes stuff

[crestfallenchampagneproblems]

this is a state of grace...

#taylor swift #taylor swift lyrics #state of grace #red tv #red taylor’s version #tscreators #userccpj #jena makes stuff #my art #tswiftedit #tswiftedits #tswiftcreators #the first time in a long time i've made smth i hope it's somewhat decent

[misscinnamonroll16]

I would very much like those gender bent headcannons for brozone if they're still on the table...

They're absolutely still on the table. First off, names. John Dory is Jena Dory I like it better than the regular Jane Doe. Spruce is a lil harder bc of the name change but I feel like Stella would be a good choice bc it can change to Bella. I like Claudia for Clay. Flora is a soft sweet name for the sensitive one, Floyd. Branch I feel like would be named Bambi with those big ol eyes. Now onto the actual headcanons, these are mostly just period stuff.

JD was super embarrassed about her body changing, not sure how to explain it to her little sisters

Stella scared the crap out of Claudia when she got her period once. She didn't realize she got it and bleed through her underwear. She asked Claudia to get her a new pair and to get JD. Claudia peeks into the bathroom to see her blood soaked panties and immediately thinks she is dying and freaks out. Claudia goes running to Jena crying about how Stella is dying. Jena Dory is confused and goes to see what's wrong, seeing that she just bleed through her underwear. JD has to explain periods to Claudia so she doesn't think Stella is dying (this actually happened to me 😂)

Jena definitely hated going bra shopping, whether it was for her or her sisters. She just felt embarrassed by it.

Claudia got training bras for her birthday once. She pulled them out of the bag, excitedly showing them off. It would have been kind of cute if they weren't having the party in a restaurant

Flora becomes a mega bitch when on her period. She's super cranky and hates everything

Jena (just like John) holds in all her emotions, especially when on her period. She gets killer cramps tho

The sisters just think Jena is just sick when she cancels rehearsals bc she's cramping but she doesn't tell them that.

Claudia makes herself cry constantly when reading her sad books, it gets worse when she's on her period

Bambi thought she was dying when she got her first period

Stella gets bad acne the days before her period

Jena Dory had to explain periods and puberty to her sisters, she tried to make it a wonderful experience becoming a woman but periods suck

Flora didn't realize she got her first period and bleed through her skirt. She was so embarrassed she cried

Claudia tracks her period so she's never surprised

Bella uses tampons and pads after having kids

Jena uses a menstrual cup

Claudia uses tampons

Flora uses pads

Claudia craves sweets premenstrual and during

Bella doesn't eat much when she's on her period bc she's often super nauseous

Jena Dory gets migraines (poor girl can't catch a break 😔)

Flora wears the heaviest makeup, only bc it's so dark

Claudia and Jena Dory love bubble baths

Jena Dory is a c-cup, Bella was a c-cup but became a d-cup after having kids, Claudia is a b-cup, Flora is an a-cup, and Bambi is a b-cup

Jena, Claudia, and Bambi can't walk in heels

Claudia has bad back pain when on her period

#trolls #brozone #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls john dory #trolls bruce #branch trolls #trolls gender bent #genderbend #trolls hcs #trolls headcanon

[chronicallyday]

Okay so because Jena Malone made a TikTok video to respond to the question of what makeup was worn for the Pride & Prejudice movie, I came up with a crack au idea that I shared on discord with friends for post-mockingjay (Finnick lives ofc). It was me telling them my thoughts on how the victors probably all wanted to live privately away from the spotlight even though people like Plutarch wanted them to continue having public personas (like when he asked Katniss to sing for a show)

But what if Johanna Mason one day out of boredom and annoyance decided to do some behind the scenes reveals, just unhinged stuff and she like broadcasts this live and Plutarch has no idea how she’s streaming it. It’s Beetee ofc.

Johanna: oh you wanna know why you never saw me shit? Oh it wasn’t Capitol censorship. You see bears when they hibernate they eat a whole bunch of stuff to clog themselves up before hand and—

Plutarch: make it stop make it stop make it stop

Beetee: I’m gonna need a while to fix it. I did my job too well when I gave her access

Johanna: —and I was 17 of course I didn’t want anyone to see me shitting on national television and then someone sneaking up behind me to kill me while I was doing my business

Haymitch watching with Katniss and Peeta in D12: I should have asked Blight (most likely her mentor) more questions when he was alive

Finnick: pls pls someone be recording this somewhere

Annie: genius. I was too stressed to think about needing to go I just held it in most of the time

Johanna hearing about that later: you held it in for how many days??

Annie: pretty sure the first time I peed that whole time was during the flood

Finnick would try to be supportive with head pats but he’s slowly losing it. Boys had it easier when it came to relieving themselves and he was her mentor so he knew she struggled T^T

But also

Finnick: The real reason the Career pack exists is so we can use the facilities and not be killed with our dicks out

Enobaria just agrees with what he says for the laughs

And honestly I wonder about the bathroom situation cuz Katniss mentions one time that her urine is brown from dehydration in THG but in CF there is not a single mention of any of them needing to use the bathroom

I’m going to assume they were all peeing in the salt lake whenever they were swimming in it

Dr. Aurelius is probably so fed up with the victors at some point cuz they decide to meme their own lives and laugh through the pain

#the hunger games #odesta #johanna mason #crack #crack au #day’s rambling #thg #thg memes #finnick odair

[bamboozledshitshow]

Shawn - Part 2

I remember one time during our fights you told me that you knew it, you knew that I was just using you.  I am not exactly sure what you think I was using you for.  I hate that you paid for everything.  I tried to pay a few times but you always insisted on paying.  I offered to meet you in Orange Beach but you insisted in driving to pick me up and us going together.  Don’t think that anything you ever did for me went un-noticed.  I still think about it daily.  Not a day goes by that I don’t think about you.  Sometimes I would imagine leaving work and you would be in the parking lot.  That’s the think that sucks about you living so far away, there is no change to accidentally run into you.  I would see couples working out together and I so badly wished that you and I could work out together.  I wished we could do weeknight dinners.  There is so much that I wish we could have done.  I used to pray that you and Jena would break up and we would get back together but that wasn’t very nice of me.  She’s a lot closer than I am, it’s easier for yall to spend time together and you found someone that makes you happy.  I am happy for you.  Believe it or not, I really am happy for you…..even though I wish it was me that you wanted to be with. 

I think back to all the stuff I did to make our relationship so difficult and I could kick myself.  There are times when I just want to scream and punch something because I did this to us.  My only excuse is that I was going through a difficult time.  I couldn’t spend the night because I felt like if I wasn’t home, something would happen to Hailey.  After all, my dad died while I was away having fun.  I wish I could go back in time and do it all over again.  I would definitely have a toothbrush at your house along with some other items.  I would spend weekends at your house and you would spend weekends at mine.  I hate myself so much for screwing things up between us.  I have no one to blame by myself and it kills me.  I have absolutely no desire to date and I haven’t since we split up.  Now that you are getting married, I guess I need to get it through my head that we will never be together again.  I need to get on with my life.  I need to put myself out there but I know that I will never find another person like you and I refuse to settle for less.

I’m glad that you found someone that makes you happy….someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with.  I would give anything if that was me.  I know I still have so much more to say but it’s useless.  You will never see this.  I doubt you ever think about me.  I wish you and Jena a very happy life together.  You will always be in my heart.  I love you more than you could ever imagine.

#Shawn

[anonymousewrites]

I was wondering if you could make a story

of Wednesday Addams (Jena Ortega) x

Rachel Roth(reader) and how Wednesday find out about the reader powers and how they meet each other’s and stuff.

I don't quite know who Rachel Roth is, and I'm sorry, but I don't do requests. I hope you do enjoy the Wednesday Addams x Reader story I come out with, though.

[meowkid1000]

Girl help I just finished season two of Sex Lives Of College Girls and no one in my life cares about it but me and I care So Much Rn

first off, starting with the fact I Never binge shows unless I really really really like them, j finished two seasons in 2.5 days. I watched all of season one two days ago, season 2 ep 1-7 yesterday, and I just finished the last few eps today.

Season 1&2 Spoilers ahead!! I’m not going to be articulate about this whatsoever

😭 ok so I just love how they did the characters?? And not just the main four roommates but like the side characters and the ones we don’t see that often?? I didn’t get the main characters names down till like. After I finished the first season, leighton kept eluding me! But like. I still loved them all, and I love how in the second season we got to see more of the side characters relationships to the main characters that they weren’t originally friends with?? Like Jocelyn being friends with everybody and I love how they did Canaan as Kimberly’s coworker first and then Whitney got with him (and then they broke up which I didn’t really care about then but now that kimbers with him I’m like BESTIE WTF ARE TOU DOING) and also I loved getting to see more of lila!!! I also like that the main characters do something shitty and then people are mad at them! Except the theta frat was weird at the beginning of season 2 to me?? Ik they held the fundraiser but also like a strip show fundraiser doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would be very good? And then the lady who came in who was like wtf forgave them too early to me but eh. But like bela being kinda a bitch to jorja? And that on top of bela not telling the journalist to do the group photo and editing the article, of course it makes sense the foxy wouldn’t want her to stay! She does love comedy but also she’s a little selfish!!!

also I love how they did leightons character, she’s like a popular bitch but also closet lesbian but then she meets The Gays tm and she comes out and people accept her and she doesn’t have to change who she is like she’s terrified of but also she does because she learns it’s okay!! And there’s injustice in the world and not everyone liked The Gays tm like when she was sticking up for people at the kappa thing!! And she had Very Internalized Homophobia and said fuck a lot at the beginning which was funky. I hope she gets to talk to her highschool friends again, it would be interesting I think to see in season three if they reconcile and or reconnect after her coming out, because that was a lot of the strain on their relationship as a trio iirc, they said they felt like they didn’t know her and that she was hiding smth all the time.

I wasn’t the biggest fan of Whitney with her coach, but I’m really glad she made up with Jena and then the coach got fired for being a creep! And her mom started laying off a little in the second season which I liked. I think her and Canaan made more sense than Canaan and Kimberly and I’m still kinda mad at Kimberly for that, because Jackson was RIGHT THERE but oK, but also Whitney didn’t tell Kimberly that she was going to try to make things work with canaan or something but also canaan and Kimberly are coworkers n shit like Lila said and girl code n shit like not dating exes so. Crazy stuff ig, I love Kimberly to death but she’s gotta stop whoring around /j

Kimberly and Nico were kinda cute tho!! Except that Nico had a girlfriend and didn’t tell her, that was not cool at all. I’m glad Leighton got pissed at him for not only cheating on her friend maya but also with her roommate kimber. I feel like I relate to much to Kimberly’s attitude towards like. Life generally but also she makes me mad sometimes. I think her and Jackson were going really well!!! They understood they were different but he was more than happy to be involved in her interests, but noooo!! She saw her coworker in a different light for a night and went ❤️🫦❤️ in 0.2 seconds!!! Bitch no u had a boyfriend!!!! Plus she Knows going for Canaan is a bad deal!!!!!!

I really liked bela too, and I’m glad that she’s getting consequences. I wish that she yk. Didn’t cheat on Eric with the comedian. Glad she remembers Eric existed, but also damn girl 1.8 gpa?? And also she wants to transfer?? Girlie that’s running from your problems!!! And also your roommates who love you very much!!! Although the whole ryan thing fucking sucked, she had a bit of a feminist arc in helping start the foxy but girlie no

anyways this probably didn’t make sense, thank you for reading this far if anyone did, and if you haven’t already go watch sex lives of college girls <3 I really liked it and as a current freshman in college I would like to say their fictional lives are very different from my own and had a fun time watching their drama

#sex lives of college girls #slocg #show review #idfk #i just really liked the show go watch it

[elmaxlys]

✒✦ 👀

✒ If you were a song, what song would you be and why?

I want to say Ruins by Lord of the Lost. The why I understand in my heart lol but I'll try to write it okay hmm;;

Without even talking about the lyrics, there are 3 types of moments I personally feel in this song, the verses, the distorted vocals and the chorus. On vibes only, the verses: all my struggles going on with life - the distorted vocals: all the anger - chorus + bridge: I can't really separate this one from the lyrics, it's basically faith and hope.

The lyrics also feel quite appropriate to describe myself with. I won't go full analysis on you rn but yea. Basically world hard and cold, but I can't quit now so let's see where it takes us. Grab on the little beauties everywhere and make it out. I'm trying.

✦ What musicians did you like 5 years ago? 10 years ago?

5 years ago... 2017? Apart from Avatar, I was big on Oomph!, Ghost Town, Equilibrium, Thrice and Nothing More, mostly

As for 2012... I don't even think I thought of music outside of songs yet. Like the stuff I listened to most was the HSM soundtrack idk.. I listened to a bunch of catholic bands and choirs bc that's what we had home, and among these, the ones I liked most were Spear Hit and Glorious. Mika and Jena Lee as honorable mentions because I did like them and listened to them a lot but how do I say that. I didn't realize? 2012 me, man.. no idea what I had going on

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Music asks

#thank you <3 #when we were waiting to enter the lotl concert last week i was talking with my bro about which songs we wished to hear live #i said raining stars and ruins #guess what they played <3 #big 'avatar playing tower the day i saw them live' moment ;;v;; #what's also awesome is that during lord of the locked they had robse (ex-equi singer) as guest on ruins :') #OH SO DON'T LET YOUR DOWNFALL BE DESTINY DON'T BLAME THE STARS

[druidx]

July, Aug, Sept Roundup/ WIP Whenever

What was on the Task List for June:

✅ Go on hols ✅ Continue posting applicable drafts from @Druidx into @Dru-Reads-Writblr; answering old asks & tag games. ➼ Create WIP Intros for ❌ NaNoWriMo 2017 (modern-ish au) & give real title ✅ Elowyn Investigations ❌ Alexis dalliance vs the evil of Titan & give real title ✅ Tales of the Starbound

What have I been doing?

Iceland is amazing!!!!! I had such a good time, and the landscape is so inspiring. I saw new lava, volcanos, waterfalls, thermal springs, glaciers, and columnar basalt. I ate puffin, minke whale, and so much fish and lamb. It made me want to yank out the worldbuilding for Astrya's Star and do ~something~ with it.

Denmark is now my second home. This is causing more personal problems than it should 😅 But while I was there, I was able to finish several fics that have been lounging in the WIPs folder. Turns out that when two run a house, you have more time and energy for other stuff.

In between holidays and finishing fics, I've been prodding things on Tumblr. On Sep 12 I decided to start posting my old catalog of work, using the tag #for posterity. You can read about why here.

What’s next for October?

➼ Posting drafts, answering old asks & tag games, & updating Masterposts. Tumblr admin-y stuff.

➼ Prep for NaNoWriMo. It's coming up on that time of year again, lads. I had thought I was going to write Tenguer, the joke AU I came up for the Cryptid Series, but The Ruby Falls has decided to take over instead. So, I need to:

Resurrect the WIP intro

Review my planning doc

Review my word count doc

Maybe get some more detail down about The Blades

Re-read where I was

Meal plan/ make "ready meals", ensure I have a good stock of healthy snacks

Update to the new LTS and run backups

ICYM

➼ Spiritus Alco Custodiat (TESIV: Oblivion, Modern AU), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: A jest from Jena turns swiftly sour

➼ Strawberry Fizz (TESIV: Oblivion, Modern AU), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: Martin & Baurus take a summer holiday

➼ The 'Shroom Witch (Starbound), Tumblr :: Mio, the Last Protector, visits an agaran witch for help destroying the Ruin.

➼ The Temple of the Fading Light (Starbound), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: Mio, the Last Protector, investigates an ancient temple and learns the dark secrets behind it

➼ Long Past Dawn (TESIV: Oblivion, Modern AU), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: Martin isn't fond of parties or unwanted female attention. Baurus has a solution…

➼ Per Necessitatem (TESIV: Oblivion), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: A description of Rowan performing the Dark Brotherhood's Purification Quest

➼ Rowan Hunts (TESIV: Oblivion), Tumblr ~ AO3 :: Jauffre has gone missing; Rowan hunts him down and brings him back

#wip update #wip whenever #wip wednesday #original fiction #progress update #writing progress #meta wandering words #meta writing

[seb-reads31]

no i mean treaty- of course I mean Astie ;)

interpret that ask however u liek

- mustery anon

😰Aster your darling 😰

Tw's - All kinds of abuse, slapping, hitting, forced apologies, manipulation, basically all of the abuse

Genre - Heartbreaking angst </3

Comments - ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ I had to double check. Also, writing this is gonna be different- I must step into the shoes of Nyan (don't take that harshly Nyan- I'm sorry- ;-;) I'm already hating the idea of writing this but this is interesting- why- You demon- this'll just be what his punishments are if he's caught doing something "bad". This poor baby- 😭😭 I'm going to attempt to make this short because I don't want to torture him a lot-

Aster's punishments:

😰 If he was ever caught mumbling about Jena (Gena??-) or some other person, then he was slapped, sometimes multiple times if he tried denying it

😰 Sometimes it gets worse, but we're not gonna talk about that

😰 If he's ever caught in a lie, he gets tossed back into the basement, probably without a specific meal, or few

😰 If he hesitates to respond back to an "I love you" he is forced to say I love you, if it's said in a way that they don't like it, he gets a harsh slap across the face

😰 If he doesn't eat a meal they make for him, he goes a couple days without food

😰 If he accidentally hits them, then he gets tossed into the basement again, but tied to the chair

😰 Things can get bad really quick

😰 Especially if they are in a bad mood

😰 Or if he's broken too many rules recently

😰 It's incredibly strict

😰 When it comes to physical affection, there's only a few things he can say no to

😰 Stuff like cuddling, hand holding, hugs, they are required

😰 If he says he doesn't really feel like doing any of those things, he's manipulated into doing them

😰 They are a twister person, and poke every button he has to see what makes him crack

😰 What makes him follow orders

😰 What punishment method works best for him

😰 Obviously it's mostly the physically harming things

😰 He is threatened with knives on occasion, like a time or two a week

😰 But rarely ever gone through with

😰 Mostly saved for majorly broken rules

😰 If he jumps because they scared him, he is forced to apologize a couple of times

😰 If he says anything that is supposedly hurtful, his existence gets ignored for either a couple of hours, or a few days at a time

Notes - This ended up being a bit longer than I thought it would be. I feel twisted- ;-;

#project julius #precious baby #head canon #reader insert

[crestfallenchampagneproblems]

don’t put me in the basement when i want the penthouse of your heart!

#taylor swift #taylor swift lyrics #edit #my art #taswiftnet #networkthirteen #tswiftedit #tswiftedits #taylorswiftedit #tswiftcreator #tswiftcreatorsnet #tscreators #gif #my gif #lyric gif #userccpj #jena makes stuff #bejeweled

[gigantomachylesbian]

OKAY rage abandoned let me make a list of things I’m looking forward to:

1. Audrey’s birthday is this week!!!! We are going to eat sushi and I love to celebrate a birthday

2. We’ll probably get to do work on the farm for my greenhouse class again

3. lots of stuff I don’t even know about yet!!! I will have nice little moments and fun conversations that I can’t even predict

4. After Friday it’s spring break :^) and the following stuff is all Break Stuff:

5. take a nice shower in my house as opposed to a gross shower in my dorm

6. see dogs!!!

7. I am going to convince mom and my twin to go to one of my favorite local bookstores with me and then try out this local ice cream sandwich place (all their ice cream sandwiches are named after fictional witches/wizards (but not the shitty ones) and I NEED to try the Howl one) so I will be able to replenish my book supply and get a treat AND have family time

8. See Jena my friend Jena and watch Howl’s Moving Castle :^)

9. Call my friend Danny!!! 

10. Maybe I will finally be free to attend a discord movie/video night with folks for once in my life...

11. Maybe get to work on my new diorama project! I don’t have all the materials I need but I could at least start 

12. Just be on break :^)

13. Oh my god literally the most important thing is I can FINALLY see my doctor. I will at the very least know if months of knee pain is just part of the healing process or find out if something is wrong!!! 

#k talks #okay. okay. I have some big things to do this week (timeline project mostly) but once I'm through I get a week off!!!! let's go let's go

[sternbagel]

before / after gif challenge! tagged by @callmebonnie so thank you Nat!! I love the way you do yours 😍😍

rules: from your creations, choose as many gifs as you’d like and do a split of before and after to show your coloring

I bent the rules a little bit and did the sharpening as part of the after. (side note, thank you so much Nat for showing me how to do that!!) After is also on the left because it looked better on these gifs, all of which are new because I never save my photoshop files once I’ve finished the gif, limited storage space on my laptop and all. But this was fun!! And expect to see the fully finished gifs in posts in the near future 😉

I don’t follow too many people that make gifs, there’s more photo edits than anything, but if you’d like to, I’d love to see some before/afters from @vanderlindeee, @trippin-over-my-fandoms, and @buckeybarns​!  And anyone else who sees this and wants to show off, go right ahead and say I tagged you!!

#my posts #before and after gif challenge #in case that's an actual tag lol #red dead redemption 2 #i can only make gifs of video games because i haven't bothered to learn how to download footage from shows and stuff yet #but eventually i will #edits by jena #rdr #the charles gif looks so good actually lol #and none of these are the same size alsdfja

[bugie78]

I am gonna slightly rant but the house cleaners that come to clean my house are starting to bug me beccause when they clean my bathroom they take my cat’s litter box and set it in the bedroom AND NOT PUT IT BACK WHEN THEY ARE DONE. LIKE CAN YOU PLEASE PUT MY CAT LITTER BOX BACK???????????????????????????????????? Because what if my cat has to go potty and I am out that day shopping or sleeping over at a friend’s etc etc and such. Then she’ll get confused.... cause not only do they put the cat litter box in the bedroom they place it on top of my cat’s carrier and seriously not put it back. IT AIN’T HEAVY AT ALL. LIKE I HAVE NO MUSCLE TONE AND I CAN LIFT IT. T-T. 

Also the ppl that my dad just hired to blow the leaves are also annoying because when they are done they do not close the side gate to the house. Which is really bad because I am the only one that checks that gate, and if no one else checks the gate, then my dogs when dad lets them outsdie will get out, bark at pedestrians, and run accross the street etc etc. 

Like we have pets. Be respectful of our pets and shut the gates, and put their things back where you found it. Honestly I should tell mom to tell them this... because I am annoyed that they do this every single time they are over.... 

Like seriously, when I do my little side job of walkiing dogs in my neighborhood, I always put back the thiings where I found them, such as the leash, the doggie bags, even the food if they ask me to feed the dog too. JUST PUT THINGS BACK. IT REALLY ISN’T HARD. >:( 

#personal #every single week it is the same thing #I have the litter box in the bathroom in the corner for a good reason #because that is where she goes to the batrhoom #I mean just freaking put it back when your done... #how is this so hard #like i do not care if you move the pillows or any other stuff but the cat litter box Has to be in that bathroom #stop moving it out and not putting it back after you done cleaning... #and i wish ppl would just shut that damn side gate #grrr #it makes me annoyed #shut up Jena

[haliawrites]

halia’s aesthetics: the cluster ( @injenaralwrites )

“And so I cry sometimes When I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out What's in my head And I am feeling a little peculiar”

— polly brenner, naim burcin, adom haddad, amerie knowles, hunter morris, charlie wilkinson, ming jian & maeve o’brien

#i'M SORRY I MAKE TOO MUCH STUFF LATELY #my brain is jst going wild #the cluster #jena #haliaedit #halialoves #children i'll have to write down my kids hcs again someday bc i'm all confused #plus i want angst and fluff pls

[words-writ-in-starlight]

day 18: "the doctor (or MedSystem) is in"/"doctor's visit"

Jena thinks she’s probably in shock—the MedSystem agrees with her, and also put a few more diagnoses on the list, like malnourished and muscle adhesions from repeated injury and nearsighted. She’s supposed to stay in her assigned room until she’s cleared, but sitting still and letting the med drones hum around her and scan her for respiratory issues was making her restless, and apparently the MedSystem noticed. She hates that. Jena hates it when bots know stuff about her, just from looking, just from filtering through all their data on her and knowing. It makes her think about how short her leash is.

But here, apparently, things are different. The MedSystem noticed that her heart rate spiked every time a drone came close or a new scan initiated, and a human doctor came over with a kind smile and suggested that she take a short walk. They told her where to find some of the others, Mish and the littles and Hanette, and that she was free to take as long as she needed, before she came back to talk about next steps.

Jena has worked goddamn hard to keep a hold on the last scraps of optimism buried in her bones, which is the only reason she didn’t immediately demand to know what the fuck next steps she could possibly have from here. She’s trying this whole trust thing. She’s trying, and so she took the directions the MedSystem gave her, and left the room.

Now, she’s pretty sure she’s lost. She should have taken that one service bot’s offer, when it pinged her some ten minutes ago with an offer of guidance. Instead, it startled her, and she fumbled with the basic interface the Medical Unit had provided before she managed to send back a point-blank go away. It had responded with a perfectly polite please do not hesitate to request help, and have a pleasant afternoon and a sigil that Jena suspected, with a kind of shocked outrage, was the bot-equivalent of an understanding smile. The bot had left, its sturdy wheels whirring quietly over the floor toward another patient, before Jena collected herself enough to answer again, to maybe eat her words and admit that a map would be great, actually.

She’s managed to find herself in a quieter wing of the patient tier—probably not where the littles are being kept, it’s way too calm—and she stops outside a door to breathe. Try and center herself. Look pathetic enough for another bot to take pity on her. Whatever.

Jena’s been standing there, breathing, for probably about a minute when a drone—tiny, one of the little fingertip-sized spy models—zips past her face, around a corner, and out of sight.

“Ha,” she mutters, feeling a little vindicated. “Fuckers.” She knew they had to have some kind of surveillance on this station, even though the social worker—which is not a phrase she got a useful definition on, but sure—claimed that it was illegal to place cameras in a medical center, in the Preservation Alliance. But also, it’s just a drone, and it’s not even in one of the rooms where it might be getting valuable information, so it’s basically like not having surveillance at all. So Jena tries to exercise some trust, and follows the drone in hopes of finding its supervisor-bot and getting directions.

She turns the corner just in time to catch the black dot of the drone, stark against the clean pallor of the MedUnit walls, as it swoops under a door and into a patient room with no windows on the door, and some kind of glitch in the number marker making it read NULL.

Jena knocks, and opens the door without waiting for an answer.

Then she almost has a heart attack.

The SecUnit must have stood up the second it realized she was coming in—the MedSystem is making an aggrieved bleep at it, and it still has tools extended, as if mid-procedure. It doesn’t have a shirt on, and there’s a spotting of dry blood and some kind of translucent fluid on the medical platform. It’s standing crooked, like there’s something wrong with its legs, or maybe its feet, but that doesn’t matter. Every instinct in Jena’s body sends up the alarm, and she knows—knows, like the MedSystem had known she needed a break—that it could kill her before she crossed the single step between her and the door.

Its mouth moves, and Jena feels all the panic of the past cycles pile up in her throat. She can’t even hear it over the hammering of her heart. She thinks that the MedSystem is pinging her, through the interface, but she can’t see anything except the SecUnit, her vision spotting black at the edges. The SecUnit is surrounded by a handful of the little drones, like satellites orbiting a planet, and she can see the glint of reflection that says the drones are looking at her, their tiny lenses aimed at her face.

The SecUnit’s brows snap together, its mouth twisting into a frown. She’s never seen one do that before. Jena is having all kinds of thrilling new experiences today. She just hopes the last on the list isn’t getting shot by a SecUnit.

It speaks again, and this time Jena forces herself to hear the words. She has too much experience not dying when a SecUnit asks her a question to fuck up that track record now.

“Are you lost.”

Its voice is uninflected, clipped, and its eyes do one sweep over her before it fixes its gaze on the wall behind her shoulder. She gives it a nervous once-over in return, looking for a weapon. It’s wearing plain pants, with a lot of pockets, and a pile of clothes on a chair looks like it’s probably a shirt and jacket, crumpled together and marked with more blood and fluid. Its feet are bare, naked alloy against the floor, and that seems wildly indecent somehow, even more than seeing the sealed ports in its arms or the cloned tissue of its torso. Some of the pieces in its ankles look…crunched. It makes Jena a little queasy.

“Attention, Miss Liveport,” the MedSystem says, apparently concluding that she’s not going to answer its pings and resorting to its speakers. It sounds as pleasant and neutral as ever, its automated femme-adjacent voice designed to be soothing and assured in equal measure, but Jena gets the distinct feeling that it’s annoyed with her. “You are currently trespassing on the private room of another patient and interrupting a procedure. Please state your business, or I will have to notify security to escort you back to your own room. It is against care policy to allow—”

The SecUnit sighs, and it’s the most expressive thing it’s done since it yanked the gun out of Jena’s hands. She recognizes the weary, overburdened sigh of an adult surrounded by trouble-prone children.

It’s—weird.

Even weirder is the fact that the MedSystem shuts up, halfway through its recitation of care policy. The alert symbol in Jena’s minimal feed blinks twice, and then stops glowing red, switching to a gentle blue.

“Miss Liveport,” the MedSystem says after a moment, “this patient is currently in need of treatment. Please reschedule your visit at a later time. Visiting hours are between two hours past midday and six hours past midday, station standard time.”

“I will not be here at two hours past midday,” the SecUnit says, and it sounds—exasperated.

“It would be beneficial to—”

The SecUnit scowls, still staring at the wall like it’s hoping to drill a hole into the hallway. It must say something in the feed, because the MedSystem stops again.

Jena thinks she might be witnessing an argument.

She’s going to blame the stress of the escape for her sudden failure of impulse control, if she gets shot and someone wants to know.

“You’re getting—fixed?” she asks the SecUnit, with what she recognizes to be an appalling lack of interest in her own survival. “What happened?”

The steady pattern of the drones changes, three of them swooping toward her as if to get better angles on her face, and the SecUnit scowls harder.

“You shot me,” it tells the wall. “And BreharWalhan wasn’t exactly supplying their contractors with quality medical equipment.”

“Oh.” Jena takes a minute step backward, uneasy. Is it—angry with her? She’s never really wondered about whether SecUnits experience emotion before. She’s always thought of SecUnits as being basically like a natural disaster. Tectonic activity brought down mine shafts. SecUnits killed people. They didn’t feel any particular way about it, except maybe satisfied with themselves, which she theorized when she was feeling especially morbid about it.

“Stop,” the SecUnit says, in the same tone of brisk command she remembers it using to order them into the awful shuddering—bubble, that it used to evacuate the cargo container. Jena stops. For some reason this doesn’t make the SecUnit look any less angry, but it does step back itself, sitting back down on the exam bed. “You didn’t answer my question.”

“What?”

Jena is feeling more disoriented by the second—this SecUnit, with its awkward stance and its set scowl, is nothing like what she’s spent her entire life fearing. She shot it, and all it did was storm over and take the weapon away, like an aggreived adult taking a kitchen knife away from a toddler. At the time, when she had lived through the encounter, she assumed that stress had made her delirious, and she had missed it. But now, it’s sitting on the bed, broken feet clicking in a way that sounds distinctly not right, and when it shifted to sit, she caught a glimpse of the hole she left in its back.

It's shoddily repaired, a thick twist of scar tissue, with reddened cast to the skin. The MedSystem, Jena realizes slowly, was going to reopen the wound and fix it properly. Maybe fix whatever happened to the SecUnit’s feet, too.

The SecUnit interrupts her unsubtle staring by finally turning away from the wall and fixing her with its own unyielding stare. Jena flinches—she can’t help it. Something indiscernable flickers across the SecUnit’s face, then it settles back into its scowl.

“If I was going to shoot you, I would have done it earlier,” the SecUnit says shortly. “Are you lost?”

Jena can’t quite make herself speak, under the direct eye of a SecUnit, so she nods. She hopes that it can’t see her hands shaking by her side.

“MedSystem can give you directions.” The SecUnit looks aside, at a panel of information helpfully reading out its lack of a heartbeat, as if it’s talking to the MedSystem. Except—before, it talked to the MedSystem in the feed, without even twitching. Maybe the SecUnit just wants an excuse to look away from her. “What are you doing here?”

“I was just—following a security drone,” Jena manages.

“They don’t use security drones here.” Jena looks warily around at the drones, settled into another orbit, slightly wider, around the SecUnit and still keeping their lenses directed at her. “Those are mine,” the SecUnit says, and then adds, flat, “They’re a medical accommodation.”

A faint, panicky laugh bubbles out of Jena’s lips, before she clamps her teeth down on the tail end of it.

“SecUnit is welcome to use its drones inside the Medical Unit as long as it does not trespass on the privacy of any other patients or otherwise compromise the care protocols of this station,” the MedSystem supplies in its serene, authoritative voice. “If you require directions, Miss Liveport, I can supply them through the feed.”

“I got directions,” Jena says automatically, years of resisting the interference of the bot systems on WayBrogatan kicking in before she can stop it. “I got Mish and Hanette and the littles’ room numbers.”

“You are listed as an authorized visitor on those patients’ files,” the MedSystem confirms, the little blue symbol in Jena’s feed blinking again. “If you would like, I will direct an assistance bot to escort you the rest of the way.”

Jena is still watching the SecUnit with something that feels akin to rapt horror, and doesn’t think to stop herself from asking, “Why does it want me to leave so bad?”

The freak SecUnit, which took being shot like a minor inconvenience and hasn’t even addressed the crunched parts of its feet, looks distinctly hunted for a moment before the MedSystem chimes in again.

“Miss Liveport, you entered another patient’s private room during a procedure without warning or permission. You have been authorized as a visitor, but it is against care policy to encourage distress—”

“MedSystem, shut up,” the SecUnit says aloud.

Another patient.

Something about that phrase feels so fundamentally jarring that Jena can’t process anything else for a long moment. Another patient. Another person being given medical care, just like Jena is.

The SecUnit is staring at the wall again, face blank.

“I—”

“You’re in the wrong wing,” the SecUnit says. It interrupts her like it’s nothing, as easily as Jena might cut off another mine worker. Jena is already so off-balance that it almost doesn’t register.

Almost.

Miss Liveport, the MedSystem says into her feed, privately, your vital signs indicate that you may be experiencing some dizziness and fatigue. This is common after a traumatic experience, such as you have undergone, among other things. It helpfully brings up a series of diagnoses that she vaguely recognizes as having been on her chart, and highlights the relevant symptoms under each. Continuing to exert yourself may result in injury. I have dispatched an assistance bot to your location—please allow it to help you to your destination.

Aloud, the MedSystem says, “Miss Liveport, I must request at this time that you allow me to treat SecUnit’s injuries.” The SecUnit—SecUnit? the MedSystem used it like a name—is frowning again, at an indeterminate spot on the wall, but the MedSystem continues blithely with its latest effort to make her leave. Jena guesses, in a dazed kind of way, that it would. The MedSystem is programmed to ensure minimal distress of its patients, and having Jena here is clearly…distressing. To one of its patients. “It is against care protocol to perform procedures with visitors present.”

“Right,” Jena says blankly. “Of course.” She’s still looking at the SecUnit. She shot it. It still saved all of their lives. She remembers how—tired it looked, in the split second before it marched over to take the weapon from her.

Jena wonders, in the slow, uncertain way of someone forming a sentence in a foreign language, how many times someone it’s saving has shot it in the back, for it to react like that.

“Um.” Jena swallows. She can’t muster a smile, but she tries to keep her voice from cracking. “Thank you. For saving us.”

The drones all stop, hanging in the air, lenses pointing at her, and something very close to horror crosses the SecUnit’s face. But she doesn’t have to deal with whatever it’s thinking about saying in response, because it turns out that Jena doesn’t have the guts to stick around any longer. She backs out of the room so fast she almost blunders straight into the assistance bot whirring along toward her.

The door shuts, and she leans a shaking hand against the wall and gasps for air.

The assistance bot lets Jena stand there and hyperventilate for a few moments before it pings her, which she decides she appreciates.

Miss Liveport, the MedSystem says, probably because the assistance bot isn’t advanced enough to communicate in words itself, please sit down.

Jena lowers herself, trembling, into the assistance bot’s seat. It’s comfortably shaped, with a control stick in case she wants to drive it rather than letting its autopilot direct it. Just touching the control stick makes her feel a little better, a little less like she’s just been moved to another cargo container, a little more in command of herself. Jena wishes that she knew where she was going, because she thinks that being the one in charge of the assistance bot would be—better. Good for her recovery, or whatever the doctors would want to call it.

The MedSystem pings Jena again, politely, for a destination to give the assistance bot.

Jena is about to open her mouth and respond when something pops up in her feed and makes her fall silent.

It’s a map. It’s not complex, just a bare-bones layout of the MedUnit from above. There’s a blinking marker, labeled Liveport, and three others, two red and one blue, clustered in the next wing over. One red one reads Human Three, the other Human Seven. The blue one, a couple rooms over and much larger, reads Small Humans.

Looking at the map, Jena can see exactly where she got turned around, in the large atrium where this wing and that one join into a Y-junction. She can also see, very clearly, the route to find the other markers.

“Um,” Jena says, still looking at the map. “MedSystem? Did you make this?”

No, Miss Liveport. Are you confident in your ability to find your companions using this map?

“I—yeah. I guess so.”

The MedSystem sends her an indicator of satisfaction through the feed. Please do not hesitate to contact me or an employee of the MedUnit if you require further assistance, Miss Liveport.

Jena nods slowly, and says, carefully, “Thank you, MedSystem.”

It is my pleasure, Miss Liveport.

#whumptober 2021 #no.18 #the doctor is in #doctor's visit #murderbot #murderbot diaries #fic #fugitive telemetry #starlight writes stuff #hi! writing this was a nightmare. #this is actually the third version of this #the first version satisfied me greatly and then was lost to my computer crashing #the second version was an attempt to remember the first version and made me rabid with frustration #so here is the third version! #i have named 'human one' jena in case that's not obvious #is this pronounced 'YAY-nah' like in german or 'GEE-nah' like in english? no clue #this is literally just medsys trying its HARDEST to help secunit and being stonewalled at every turn #this was originally going to be for the 'scars' one but i have a better idea for that so yeet

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*holy fuck, it’s GALLAVICH time* 💖🧑🏻‍🦰🧑🏻💖- share one (or more) Gallavich fic or art or post that you’ve enjoyed recently, or share something you’ve created recently, or just feel free to say how much you love them! & pass this on to your fellow Gallavich fans!

YOOOO are we doing this again??? oh fuck yeah. BUCKLE UP, YALL. i tried to keep it to recent stuff, made in the last few months but... i went a lil overboard. check under the cut for all kinds of cool shit:

gifs:

we'd all be lost without @mickeygifs, who is blessedly expanding her repertoire to include more our our faves!

@sickness-health-all-that-shit is obviously killin the gif game lately

@iwannabewhereyouaremickey is doing an incredible 100 days of shameless series!

@7x10mickey has been making the most colorful and creative gifs!!!

@tamikhailo won’t let us rest with pretty mickey

@ianspettyagain makes some my all time faves!  

@emmyrussum continues to make amazing gifs 

i’ll never recover from @9x07fiona’s lil black dress set (not gallavich but i don’t care)

@milkovichy spreading all the mickey love lately  speaking of mickey love, smiling mickey from @tiacky

@mikhailo-m is making SUPER cool and colorful sets right now (pro tip: you should also read his fics!)

@imikhailo is a legend and you should reblog everything she makes. just. everything. 

you know how i feel about @sandymilkovich’s gifs. good lord.

@wildandwired​ makes lovely shameless and schitt’s creek sets, and also made the coolest CG edit!

visual art:

@doodlevich recently posted the cutest domestic art, another beautiful work from jena!

@prettyboy-ian has the coolest style, check it out here

blessed be @steorie who graces us with beautiful work

mitchell @psychicskulldamage is UNREAL and you can see their work here. incredible, incredible art.

@hotgirlmickey gave us moon song gallavich and i’ll be unwell forever

@mikcrymilkovich.... tomato husbands. enough said. 

@y0itsbri makes beautiful, colorful art. SO unique and cool. (hint: check out their writing, too!)

i ADORE @fan-gurly-gurl’s art. so colorful and vibrant and fun! 

twisha’s art..... i will never be the same. visit @grumpymickmilk and enjoy her work here!

i’m here to yell about paola! @mishervellous​ is an astounding artist and writer.

fics:

@whaticameherefor has multiple awesome works out right now, including a hilarious meet-ugly from gallavich week!

i don’t... i don’t know what i’d do without TD. do yourself a favor and read it immediately if you haven’t! @thisaintmacys-bitch has built an incredible world!! and the one shots!! amazing.

@iansfreckles has been spoiling us lately!!!! check out her fics here.

miles between us from @xgoldendays continues to blow my mind

@sickness-health-all-that-shit has also written some awesome fics lately!! rita please teach us your ways!

@mikhailonely is writing one of my favorite WIPs right now, but they’ve written multiple lovely fics. check out everything here!

if you’re not reading CG or EAY from @gallavichy, then i’m not sure what you’re doing

@gallavictorious has written some incredibly intricate and lovely fics lately!

@ianscurls gave us tomato husbands and i’m eternally grateful!

@ianrightsonly has given us the ULTIMATE fake dating in wtfwf

@dreamylyfe-x has bound and recently wrote stages, which destroyed me in the best way, check her fics out here!

@mick-mikhailo  has some awesome WIPs which you can find here

skating husbands!!!!! from @halcyonlauren

@abundanceofnots writes my faves. my FAVES. here they are!

everything by @ianandmickeygallavich is so sweet and fun!

do yourself a favor and check out @southside-forever’s masterlist. you’re welcome! (ps - he also makes gifs!!! franny parallels!!!!)

@unbridgeabledistances is writing the coolest pride and prejudice AU!

leah @whatwouldmickeydo just finished the sweetest multichapter!!!  the summer vibes are unmatched.

beta-ing for @sweetcresta is one of my favorite things. her fics are so immersive and lovely!

@grabmyboner is so funny and deserves all the love you have!!!

emina @gallavich-x blew my mind during gallavich week with several awesome fics!

@livinginsunnyhell is writing a really good post-canon WIP right now!

@sunnyian has one of my favorite series here

seriously yall, @howlinchickhowl is masterful with words. always a wonderful reading experience!

i love everything @thewesternredcedar does! they just started a new WIP here, and i’m so excited!

PLEASE follow @arrowflier’s speed writes. they are incredible.

@tamiettitami gives us the mickey/tami content we deserve!!

really really enjoying @emsemotional’s writing these days! check it out here.

@spoonfulstar is ruining my life with you’ll never see us again, but i am loving it!!!!

luscious outdoor vibes and mel the bartender, you can’t go wrong with to the ends of the earth by @yeah-all-of-it

@sunoficarus wrote bad for business and it’s incredibly cool ✨

i just started @mickeysfreckles​ WIP but it’s fabulous so far!!!

i didn't get everyone, there's no way i got everyone!!!! but these are some of the amazing creations i've enjoyed lately. there are, of course, many more!!!!

#i am certain there are things missing #but i did my best!!! #i love you all and your beautiful creations so much #it’s never intentional to miss someone i’m simply human