PRIDE WEEK DAY 2!

Hey all,

Thank you so much for the sudden support! Your tags make me so f t,,

I was going to post a headcanon list tonight for my very first request, but uh.

I tried opening the post thing. in another tab, and it pressed back, because i’m dumb.

Uh, basically, that means I lost all of my work (it... it was a long post), so unfortunately I won’t be coming out with that until I can rewrite it. Apologies if it turns out worse because of this-- I hope I remember everything in the morning.

Just a heads up! I feel horrid having to make this post in the first place. Clean start and all. But I’ve never been one for smooth beginnings, clearly haha

Anyways, I’ll stop rambling. You guys give me the serotonin, looking forwards to posting that list sooner rather than later! I’m real sorry for the delay.

In honor of the second anniversary of his passing, I'm leading another community tribute for the voice actor of TF2's Soldier, Rick May, in the form of a digital zine! If that's something you're interested in, please fill out this interest check!! We'll be accepting artists, writers and SFM/GMOD creators!

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Howdy y'all! It's Archie and I'm back at it again with another tribute for the late voice actor of TF2's Soldier, Rick May. This year's trib

Additionally, while the other mods and I are still working things out, here's a carrd full of some information to tide you guys until the Discord server is posted next week, on January 21st! It'll be posted both here on my Tumblr and on my Twitter, @/enbyfroggy :]

Thank you, Rick May

Thank you, Rick May

A tribute zine for everyone's favorite patriot.

(You can also find last year's tribute right here if you've never seen it before!)

So, self insert ocs.

As someone who’s blog revolves around this one, I have some thoughts on the post.

Edith was originally a self insert oc. However, since I wanted the fic I was writing to be a sort of love letter to the community, I decided to expand her personality and try to make it so that she could be projected on by anybody. Or at least, as many people as possible. Speaking a second language, feeling out of place, having anxiety about going places, making impressions, the things in her past and mistakes she’s made, all of these things are a mixture of what I feel and what I’ve heard others feel a lot, and so I added them.

But she is, in fact, her own character and 10th class, whom I love a lot. Whether or not she is so wholly unique that she stands out, I don’t care.

But what I did care about, ironically enough, was making an impression. And that came with the mechanics of her class. 

Just because you have a self insert or 10th class OC, you are not obligated in any way to explain what their purpose is, what their reasons are, so long as YOU are happy.

For me, I wanted to come up with a unique 10th class that had her own mechanics, but that’s because I saw untapped potential. If she were to be in the game, it would be near impossible for those mechanics to actually work due to map limitations. 

And that’s the thing, because she’s a work of fiction, it doesn’t matter.

That means I can get as creative as I want with her, because she’s not part of the game. 

As for shipping, my personal rule is not to ship her with any of the mercs! Not in the main fic, anyway. Might make some spinoffs if I ever finish the main one, but I felt that many had a bias towards certain characters they liked, (which is absolutely fair and I love those kinds of fics either way), and I wanted to keep it so that she could have varying relationships with everyone and not just romance! It’s for personal reasons, not influenced by anybody else.

 However, I immensely enjoy seeing people shipping their ocs and self inserts with the team! Why the heck do you think I post x reader headcanons sometimes?

In the end, your characters are not more or less valid, and you don’t love your characters more or less depending on how developed they are.

As long as a character makes you happy, as long as the relationships they share make you happy, as long as you are content, then nobody, and I mean NOBODY can tell you how YOU should write YOUR characters.

You can take overdone concepts and expand upon them in your own way, because your character is unique to YOU.

You can give them modern day clothes and use tropes because your character is unique to YOU.

and YOU,

can do whatever you DAMN want.

You are valid, loved, and your characters, your self inserts, your tenth classes are yours and yours only. I support you all the way!

Do not send hate/harassment towards the author of the post being mentioned here, you goofs. 

Hey, hey, okay, but for some reason my brain saw mantis men and the idea that the world is taken over by aliens and went:

“…Aperture science facility creates an army of mantis men and various horrifying abominations of science that have been dormant for years only for Chell/Doug to go and find them and somehow take over the combine with pure human ingenuity and bullshittery.”

Obviously the scientists are long gone, but that doesn’t mean the consequences of their crazy experiments can’t still be far reaching, can it? That doesn’t mean someone can’t come and try and take the facility over with the same ideals as Cave himself, right? I mean, I don’t know alot about the lore of either series, I know more about portal than I do half life but… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Portal is 2700% funnier when you remember that it canonically takes place in the same universe as Half-Life.

Aperture Science, a company run by a guy with more money than brains, accidentally turned a bunch of test-subjects into mantis-men using only 1950’s technology. 50-odd years later, their chief business competitor, Black Mesa Research Facility, is manipulated into setting off a dimensional catastrophe which ultimately results in the world getting conquered by an interdimensional alien empire called the Combine. The computer in charge of the Aperture Science facility, in the middle of a goofy tirade, claims to be “the only thing standing between us and them.”

Trivia fact #15

It is unconstitutional to draw, write or otherwise view Medic team fortress two as a twink as shown here

[Image description: A screenshot of the Constitution of the United States edited to have the words “dont make medic a twink” in small letters at the bottom right corner of the image. End of description]

Woah wait what?! No wonder the chat wasn’t showing up... I was planning some stuff with them.

Deleted or deactivated?

I’m not going to speak for them, there’s many reasons that it could be but perhaps anxiety surrounding the blogs? I don’t want to speculate though.

If you’re reading this, we hope you’re okay! Please be safe, we’re worried about you. 💖

Does anyone know what happened, to @talk-to-the-mercs? The blog is gone for for some reason. And the creator’s prersonal tumblr (@aggressive-positivity-network) is gone too?? They didn’t do anything against the rules, as far as I know.

If you’re reading this, I’m not mad or anything. But it’s a bit weird to just suddenly disappear…

makin my way downtown

it’s friday, post the dancing demoman

Hmmm, OH, how about heavy with an s/o who’s also Russian, and can’t speak English very well?

Source: Unknown. Could be Tf2gallery?

Heavy with a Russian S/O who is not fluent in English:

- Absolutely adorable together, while he doesn’t prefer his mother land of Russia, having his S/O be from there is incredibly comforting for him. It reminds him of his mother and sisters, and is like bringing a piece of home back with him.

- On the other hand. The language barrier can get a bit annoying at times with the other mercs, as his S/O is easily overwhelmed by their questions and comments, especially if they get frustrated when trying to respond, but not knowing the words to do so.

- They constantly fire off back and forth between each other when in private, though! If one stumbles across or into Heavy’s little “library” area, (a repurposed side room meant for housing tapes that have since been burned, the shelves are lined with books that he’s collected over the years), they’ll often find Heavy and his S/O deep in philosophical conversation with each other, far swifter in Russian than in English.

- Medic, Heavy, and Spy all do their best to help teach them English, to varying degrees of success. Spy is incredibly helpful, but isn’t around enough to make a huge difference. On the other hand, Medic isn’t quite as helpful, but is a better teacher and is more than enthusiastic to help where he can. He’s often too caught up in his experiments to be there as often as Heavy, though; although his S/O is perfectly fine with being in the med bay, so long as things don’t get too hectic.

- Heavy and his S/O are virtually inseparable, though. Heavy is either glued to their side, or they’re glued to his at all times. If they’re separated on their own terms, it’s for a very good reason. If not, and you’re the reason behind it, then you’d better run. They’ll find their way back to each other no matter what cost.

OOHOOO OP THIS IS SO GOOD!!!

Not Over Yet

for @writingdispenser based on their amazing fic, I’m Gonna Like the Way You Fight

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Oh absolutely! Sniper would have been my first pick tbh, since he’s definitely one to know exactly what to do in a situation like that. Engineer, while smart and chill (I agree you’d spend a lot of time around the campfire!), might not fare well in the survival department since he’s more of a metal-working guy. 

,,but imagine an s/o cuddling against the merc of choice in the wilderness against a tree or in a makeshift shelter in the cold-- hhh

✈️ tf2? 😳

I dunno the idea of being trapped on an island with ANY merc seems like absolute hell but yknow which would be the least?

✈ - character I'd rather be stuck on an island with -

If I had to pick one I'd probably pick Engineer. He's good company, probably really likes campfires, and after a day or so would probably have built a working plane out of twigs and seaweed to get us the hell outta there.

Sniper's also a good choice due to his wilderness survival skills.