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Luna! She/Her/Hers | He/Him/His Genderfluid, Bisexual.  Butcher by day, I'm a Game Runner at Waerloga larp in New Jersey and an author of queer monster porn on Smashwords under the pen name Luna Howell.  Buy my books maybe! I write TF2 fanfics over at typingatlightspeed. Icon art by the absolutely amazing erikonil. Askbox currently closed.

My Stuff Masterpost

Since we can pin posts this seems like a good idea, especially since, yanno, my stuff is all over the place, and this'll be an easy place to find them.

I'm not gonna do an about me since it's in my blog bio.

My active blogs:

@markingatlightspeed - This blog is my main one. A heavy dose of TF2 and whatever else. I try to tag decently but sometimes I'm lazy. If there's something recurring that I blog that you'd like me to tag for, lmk, but I'll be real if it's like, "violence" or "blood" in the TF2 cartoony style, that ain't gonna happen friend, I'm sorry. That said anything REALISTIC I will always tag for.

@typingatlightspeed - My writing blog! Mostly TF2 fanfic, though a few others have slipped in, as well as a little bit of original writing based on OCs and D&D characters. Lots of smut to be found, and anything smutty will always be tagged "nsfw /" just like that. Be warned: I wrote a lot of my Monstrous Intent series out of order so if you're looking to read that, there's a page that lists them in order right here, along with any content made by others.

@monstrousintent - The dedicated blog for my TF2 monsterfucker AU, Monstrous Intent. I've been writing this bitch since 2013 lol. It focuses on BLU team and their (usually sexy) misadventures dealing with, being, and becoming monsters. This blog contains reblogs of my MI fics, as well as others' MI fics, artwork, metaposting, and asks. I'm still blown away that others have loved it enough to do works for it. <3 Some of them are even canon to the AU!

(A warning tho: Because the AU was started in 2013 it DOES contain Spy/Scout, which wouldn't be made an incestuous ship by Valve until 2017. The BLU team's Spy is not canon Spy, he's not even the same species, and it is explicitly laid out that he and BLU Scout are not related. RED Spy and Scout are related though, which does lead to a kind of funny-if-upsetting misunderstanding on RED Demoman's part at one point. So, yanno, if that squicks or triggers you, buyer beware. I do tag for all ships mentioned in a fic though so there's a lot there you can enjoy while avoiding that ship, too.)

Where to find my work:

Lightspeed on Ao3 - My Ao3 account contains all the same fics as I publish here on @typingatlightspeed but easier to sift through and a bit more visually appealing, of course. I consider it the more official archive of my works, since I'm slowly going back and trying to fix formatting issues that have arisen when copypasting from libreoffice into the browser, which plagues my ao3 and tumblr posts of fics. Slowly.

Luna Howell on Smashwords - I've written a few books! Three novellas and a novel, all queer monstefucker stories and totally not heavily based on Monstrous Intent with the serial numbers filed off, nosiree! The Conclave of Monstrous Affairs has a lot of fun worldbuilding and a lot of steamy sex, which I'm very proud of. My cover artist is the amazing @moofrog.

on the subject of it often being out of character for characters to be having carefully negotiated bdsm sex in smut fics: 90% of metal gear ships are insane toxic yaoi and would definitely be having sex that is neither safe nor sane and only borderline consensual HOWEVER otacon and snavid would be thoroughly negotiating kinks before during and after sex like theyre doing mission briefings on a codec call

Not apocalyptic levels of OhFuck unless you’ve sat through a Cat5, but shit’s been like this for a long time now. We just put up with it for far too fucking long:

Me: I need to go home. There’s a hurricane coming and my basement apartment is on the coast, so I’m worried about my cats. (To myself: And maybe needing to evacuate.)

Boss: Is your house and your cats more important than this job?

Me: YES.

Boss: …oh. Okay. Uh…see you tomorrow…

Different boss, several years later, a conversation that happened multiple times:

Me: Hey, it’s starting to really snow outside, I live on a steep hill, and I only have 2-wheel drive. If I don’t leave now, I can’t get home.

Boss: Is getting home more important than getting your job done tonight?

Me: Considering I value my life more than I value this paperwork being digitized? YES.

Boss: ….

Me: Bye. See you tomorrow.

Boss: Uh, yeah, okay.

Different atttempt:

Boss: Why don’t you just get a hotel after work?

Me: Do I get a raise so I can afford it?

Boss: No.

Me: Bye. See you tomorrow.

Boss: Is getting home

more important than getting

your job done tonight?

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Haikubot aside we should normalize saying those things to bosses absolutely. It’s only going to get worse.

What’s crazy is how the bosses are so conditioned to guilt trip and then when they don’t get the response they expect, they don’t even follow through on the demand, like “oh, uh, I guess that’s okay then.” They’ve been trained, but when you break the training, it turns out they’re kind of real people.

“Oh shit I guess your life is more important than a silly job. Huh. Yeah fair enough ”

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