Momento (just a test to get the writing style right)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/5346230

Alcor looked into the frozen chamber, his body forever in a state of terror and fear. It was a little refresher, of his life before.

His time with Mabel, Wendy, Soos. Back when life wasn’t so decrepid and dark. There were times when he wondered if he should set it free. Let it wreak havoc for a while, for his amusement. He never did though. Anyway, he couldn’t see any soul in that thing, it must have died long ago. Unfreezing it would just let his only last resemblance of himself rot away. His only last physical momento of when he was still human.

As Alcor let a single golden tear streak down his face, he left the chamber. Hiding it away again from the prying eyes like those he and his loved ones had owned so long ago.

angryinterrobang:

Ford never grows accustomed to the Transcendeced World. Too much like the realities he ran from. Tastes too much like failure. It can’t be victory because he didn’t have anything to do with solving the problem. That said he still finds an unexpected ally.

Candy doesn’t hate her glasses exactly. They’ve been a part of her face since she was four and all attempts at contact lenses have just ended with her twitching in defeat with her eyes watering. She always has the option of wearing an even bigger bedazzled pair over her standard black frames (courtesy of Mabel Pines).

But she’s also a weapons ~~expert~~ enthusiast. Candy knows that experimenting with the recoil of a new magicked machine with glass near her eyes is a poor life choice. Squinting at the target without them is equally unwise. Dipper (via Mabel) offers to ‘improve’ her vision in exchange for – well- she’s not sure what because she always turns him down.

(Dipper will always be the twelve year old who drew a pamphlet to her greatness. Dipper is a demon and she doesn’t want him near her eyeballs. Mabel would be furious if Candy ever said it out loud. Dipper probably knows the reason already.)

So eventually she goes to the Mystery Shack and through the secret passages down to a laboratory where an Author with no family sits. His glasses always have one cracked lens. His weapons use energy from realities that died before she was born.

They talk for a long time.

gaybirdnerds:

Philip Farkas is questioning Alcor on prominent Mizars. “The first recorded Mizar was of course Mizar the Gleeful,” he says excitedly, “and then Mizar the Knowledgeable some decades later-”

“He wasn’t actually a Mizar,” Alcor interrupts, “but it was technically my own fault that he thought he was, so I let him keep the name. Long story.”

#filed under Excerpts From a Fic I’ll Never Write #the long story is that dipper in an attempt to keep r!ford away from demons accidentally ensures he’s fascinated by them #which leads to him becoming convinced he’s mizar and accidentally joining a cult #and then accidentally becoming the leader of said cult when r!stan finds out he isnt actually mizar and plans a whole con around it #and then they make off with a decent fortune and r!ford spends the rest of his life writing demonology papers as Mizar the Knowledgeable #and dipper cant even be mad bcause its all his own fault lol @gaybirdnerds

Color us intrigued!

Book Girl Time Period Details

boopboopitydoop:

The year is 6045 when Alissa is born.

The current world leaders are mainly Pro-Natural, as that movement has come up again. Many supernatural creatures such as fairies and manotaurs are either forced into what is left of Earth’s wilderness, or into zoos for people to look at.

Anyone who can pass as human, does. Lycanthropes and vampires do their best to hide. Lucy Ann runs an underground group for helping vampires hide their aversion to sunlight and consumption of blood, recently extended to help lycanthropes have a place to hide during their transformations.

Books that talk about the supernatural are private objects, passed down through families and by librarians who restore them and keep them secret.

The government has hired mediums for discovering supernatural creatures in society, and thus vampires and lycanthropes trying to pass as ordinary humans hide in rural areas.

Alissa is five when she meets a psychic, who tells her her soul is bland and that it will never be happy due to wanting to stay on the safe side. Her mother is later arrested after that psychic reports to the government about her soul having antlers.

After two months in prison, her mother is finally released on the grounds that she had no abilities connected to the supernatural, and it is later discovered she has cancer. When Alissa is seven, her mother dies.

Later investigation shows that the prison her mother was kept in had many carcinogens, some used as anti-magic solutions. This fuels Alissa’s desire to help the Supernatural Rights movement that rises up when she is about eleven.

She meets the twins when she is fifteen, and is hired by the Pilkingtons as a babysitter. The Pilkingtons are prominent business owners, and Pro-Natural supporters. They don’t become aware of Alissa’s support of Supernatural Rights until the summer before she goes to college, when she is nineteen.

Will and Marissa later become supporters as well. Rissa continues the Mizar tradition of fighting with Alcor, while Will continues to give gender roles the finger. They are about twenty when discrimination against the supernatural becomes illegal.

Alissa, unfortunately, doesn’t get to see this moment happen.

What was Mabel’s last relationship before Henry like?

Not great.

A year before Mabel met Henry, she had a six month relationship with a girl named Heather Sawyer, a fellow Californian with curly blonde hair and an infectious laugh. And for awhile, things went great! Heather met Dipper and they actually got along well and Heather didn’t seem creeped out by the fact that Dipper was a demon. Towards the end, Mabel even began wondering if Heather was The One.

Heather, on the other hand, didn’t feel the same.

Thus one day Dipper felt himself pulled towards the Shack, called by his family circle….and bound by his True Name by his sister’s girlfriend.

Heather offers Dipper (offers him!) a deal. He does what she wants-puts some hard cash in her account, a new car, maybe a seat in Congress, nothing too crazy-and she doesn’t tell the world the True Name of Alcor the Dreambender.

Dipper laughs in her face, because all and sundry having his True Name….that, that would be a big problem, no bones about it, but he is a demon. What he can’t weasel his way out of he can wait out. Hell he’s bound by Heather now, but all he needs is one slip up on her part and he’s good.

Then she brings up Mabel and Dipper grows still. Heather smiles and how did DIpper miss that nasty edge to it before?

Yes, wouldn’t it be interesting if people found out that the grand and terrible Alcor had a human family? Had a great-uncle (stop), had parents (stop), that Mizar wasn’t another demon but his sister (S̗̠͈T̗͠O͉̬̺̗̣̬̠P̫̫.)

Heather drops the smile. Names, addresses, other personal information; she’ll blast it all out over the internet and to every news outlet she can unless Dipper does what she says (and oh doesn’t it gall him to have this woman call her Dipper, call him by the name he trusted her with and is now his jail.)

Dipper is well and truly fucked….and that’s when Mabel steps into the room.

Mabel who was coming into the kitchen to get a glass of milk and heard voices coming from the living room.

Mabel with tears streaking down her face, betrayed by the woman she loved.

Mabel with a bat in her hands because no one, no one, threatens or hurts her brother.

Once the circle is broken, and Heather is made at bat point to let Dipper free of his bonds, there is the question of what to do with her. She lives…but only because Mabel points out to Dipper that they’re supposed to be better than her, better than that.

Heather lives…but she moves as far away from Oregon as soon as possible. She spends the rest of her life operating a ham radio station out of the Falkland Islands, and never falls asleep with the lights out again.

Mabel sobs herself to sleep in Dipper’s arms that night, and he’s worried that something precious and beautiful in his sister has been irreparably broken.

But.

While Mabel hurts, and fuck does Heather’s betrayal hurt, and she takes some time to lick her wounds and mope…. eventually she starts putting herself out there again because Mabel knows that its better to get back on the horse that bucked you off than to never try again.

It is in that mood (and with a few beers to relax her and Wendy’s vouchsafe) that Mabel meets Henry at a party ten months later.

Twin Souls Anime and Torako

Based on this Fic. Thank you, @pipiezexal, for bringing Bentley into the Twin Souls Anime prompt – it sparked such ideas. 😀

ModO: Thought:
Torako finds out
despite all attempts to keep her ignorant
next thing they know
she’s writing self-insert fanfic
possibly drawing self-insert fan manga despite her art skills
because it’s just not fair that she be left out
ModK: oh my word
ModO: now should she write herself as simply a Mizar’s best friend or as a possible love interest to the Mizar or to Alcor or maybe both?
hah, definitely love interest
(just to see them squirm)
she actually uploads the fic to a site, and while there might be some of the usual disgust over the romantic self inserts messing up the ships, there’s also the handful of people who go for it
“ooooh so good write more”
ModK: this is all wonderful
ModO: “I luv Korato!”
Kanelbulle.jpg: KORATO
ModO: YES
It was either that or she goes the route of Enoby with some ‘meaningful’ word or other
Korato was easier to come up with on the spot
ModZ: ALCORATO 5EVER <33333
ModO: 😀
Oh man
imagine if
it somehow gains a fan following?
Kanelbulle.jpg: OH GOD THAT PAIRING NAME KIND OF SOUNDS GOOD
ModO: I don’t know how
ModZ: NO WAY KORASTAR IS WAY BETTER
GUYS WHY CANT WE JUST ALL GET ALONG WITH OT3
ModO: but let’s say she meets someone online who really likes her ‘character’ and can actually draw pretty pretty manga and does a page here and there
and it spreads
ModZ: tfw u forget Korato isn’t canon
ModO: yeeeeeessssss
they treat it like a spinoff of the anime canon ;P
reincarnated Mizar to further separate it, plenty of space for a newcome character to slip in
soon there are fans
ModZ: korastar LEMONY GOODNESS don’t like don’t read XDDDD
ModO: Bentley and Dipper are just “oh god Torako WHY”
she totally models the new Mizar on Bentley
ModZ: tora is the ultimate troll
ModO: she draws ‘fanart’ of it
and hangs it on the fridge
ModS: KORATO
Oh my god
IM FUCKING PISS
ModZ: the fanart is korato with mizar and alcor swooning on her lap
wearing shades and a “big pimpin” shirt on
ModS: YAS
ModO: that would definitely be one piece in particular and very indictive of the general theme
*** Seiya has renamed this conversation to “KORASTAR 5EVER” ***
ModZ: omg but
ModO: they go through at least a week of various “kissing meme” arts
“kiss on cheek/forehead/nose/lips” – those things
in various pairings
ModS: YAS
ModO: and she doesn’t draw well so it’s essentially stick figures
but the message definitely gets across
ModZ: torako getting this terrible anon who keeps sending her messages like “KORATO SUCKS, GO DIE” “STOP BREATHING” AND “I FUCKING HATE YOU AND YOUR DUMB SELF INSERT I HOPE YOUR HOUSE BURNS DOWN”
but one day they stop
ModO: 😀 yeeeeees
ModZ: torako notices someone in the fandom made a post “im back guys, computer burst into flames last week it was so weird”
ModS: HAH
Yes
YES GOOD
And totally not suspicious at all!!!
ModZ: torako goes and sits down next to dipper and just grins
dipper all nonchalantly “what”
ModO: Dipper could totally make her stop if he wanted, but as embarrassing as it is there’s humor in there as well, mostly because for once there’s a Mizar just as squirmy about it as him
ModK: i love it
I love this all
ModO: I love these guys 😀
ModK: Korastar 5ever
indeed

Ok so imagine

nithela:

– Dipper and Henry having some brotherly bonding time one night, having drinks and managing to have a nice conversation going as Henry slowly gets more and more inebriated. The nice kind where you get talkative and feel like you have the smarts and sit on all the answers
– Henry launching into small speeches, showing that he has a good brain and a lot of well-thought out theories about how things work.
– Dipper being drawn into it and coming almost too close to spilling the secrets of the universe, basically.
– Henry, leaning back on the couch, head against the backrest, legs kinda haphazard, a forgotten drink cradled in his hand, going “okay you lost me there :D”
“Aaah sorry man, I sorta forgot you were mortal there for a bit”
“It’s fine, I don’t think I’ll remember this conversation tomorrow anyway”
“No you won’t.” Dipper states and it should unnerve Henry, but he just looks at his drink, makes it swirl in his glass.
“It’s nice talking to you.”
“You too, brother. Go to bed. You’re gonna fall asleep soon anyway.”

Question for Henry – when Dipper is on Yggdrasil, does he like being pet (and do you indulge him)? And how do you deal with being licked or clawed at? Licking just seems too intensely personal and gross for me, and my friend’s cat kneaded my leg the other day and it hurt so I can’t even imagine what it is like with claws the size Dipper has. Thanks!

tau-cast:

Actually, rubbing Dipper’s head or finger-combing his hair is guaranteed to put him right to sleep – indulging him in this actually makes everything else more bearable simply by removing his capability to engage in the other behaviors you mention.

The licking is admittedly strange and hard to become accustomed to. Unfortunately, all my attempts at discouraging this behavior have been to no avail, though I can often get him to desist for short spans of time at least. As for the kneading, it’s more tolerable than you might believe. Dipper can control the length and acumination of his claws at will. When he is angry, fearful, or otherwise defensive they will, of course, become longer and sharper. When he is happy, content, or restful, as he is when under the influence of Yggdrasil, they are quite short and comparatively blunt, and can hardly be felt in most circumstances.

tau-oct:

“Wow.”
Henry’s soul frowned at Dipper a bit, as he crossed his arms.
“You don’t need to sound so surprised.”
“No, really this is…this is….this is really impressive. I’m kind of stunned.” Dipper thought about the remaining contestants, and how they would fare in Henry’s stage, so unlike Mabel’s in every single way.
“They’re all fucked,” Dipper concluded.
At that Henry smiled. His antlers shifted from moose to elk to pronghorn to pudu to animals that Dipper would have had to delve into his copious knowledge to figure out what they were. Sometimes grape vines trailed and curled around the tines of his antlers, other times plums or peaches hung from the branches. At one point Dipper saw a singular, perfect and absolutely massive watermelon hang suspended between a pair of curling rams horns.
Henry boffed Dipper gently on the shoulder. “Hey, be nice. They’re doing you a favor, ultimately.”
Dipper rolled his eyes. “Only because I dangled a Time Wish in front of them.”
Henry looked over spectral glasses. “Still a favor.”
Dipper squirmed under his brother’s gaze.
“Are…are you…Henry, don’t dad me!”
Henry peered a second more, and then relented, pushing his glasses back up his nose. His face grew worried.
“Do you think I made it too hard?”
Dipper looked behind him, into the depths of Henry’s stage.
“Only one way to find out I suppose.”

Our OCT is gearing up for round two! Go check it out and see what the characters are up to now.

HC: The Ending of Toby Pines

oreramar:

Because cults and cultists and people summoning demons with blood sacrifices are not the only danger in the world, Transcendence or no. Because sometimes – often – an untimely death is not the result of bold sacrifice but of an accident of time and place. Because even Alcor can’t save his loved ones from everything.

It starts with toilet paper, of all things. Rather, it starts with a lack thereof.

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