the clock ticks 1. 2. 3. asleep they will never wake up the same again..

"Second place wouldn't be too bad, right" After season 2 starts back up, Lightbulb is approached by a certain someone who proposes a deal. Work with her or settle for second place. A Taco and Lightbulb partnership AU. This is also a human AU. This is not a ship, but if you see it that way, that's cool too. TW for manipulation, depression, swearing, head injury, guns, attempted murder.

OJ's hotel has been absolutely BOOMING lately. And that kind of success was... hard to manage, to say the least. Especially since OJ couldn't seem to find a good assistant to help out with things. He'd tried, sure, but all of them just... fell flat in one way or another. So imagine his surprise when Steve Cobs, the CEO of Meeple Inc., offered to BUILD one for him. Well... who was he to turn down the offer of a lifetime? [Robot Paper AU! TW: Themes of implied/reference @bus3 will be scattered throughout the chapters. AU by me, @lakeey10, and @miilkyun (who also designed the incredible cover!) on discord Originally uploaded to AO3 from May 15 2025 - June 30 2025]

Oh, gee! Some people seemed to have gone missing within the OSC's newly made society! The more time everyone spends SLACKING OFF, the more people will go missing! If we don't FIX this in time, we might never see the light of day again.

"People go missing, leaving friends, foes, and partners to help before they fall victim themselves." People are going missing. Fan, alongside some others, need to figure out how it's happening WHILE it's happening! Will they find out how it's happening? Will they find out what's causing it? Or, who? Trigger Warnings: Drugs. Suicide/mentions. SH mentions. Death Possible gore (unlikely). Torture. Eating troubles(?). Mental illnesses. If you are uncomfortable with ANY of these topics, please reconsider reading! Also this takes place after the show ends, if none of the "MephoneX" things happened, so Hotel OJ are still there- and Knife.

!! FIRST BOOK !! Taco's finally trusted by OJ now after everything, but she blew her chance by getting her revenge on him. She would even take it that far, by framing him for murder if she could. EVERY CHARACTER HERE IS MADE BY AnimationEpic, RIGHTFULLY KNOW AS Adam Katz. CREATOR OF THE WEBSERIES Inanimate Insanity ON YouTube My only claims is everything you read / see here. But the characters don't belong to me.

Lightbulb wakes up in Hotel OJ to find everything... perfect. Too perfect. Everyone's acting like the best possible versions of themselves - Knife is gentle and soft-spoken, Taco and Pickle are happily together with no tension, and Balloon has completely dropped his desperate people-pleasing act. Even MePhone seems more stable and kind. At first, Lightbulb thinks this is amazing! All the conflict and drama that used to stress her out are gone. But something feels fundamentally wrong. The conversations are too polite, the smiles too consistent, and everyone keeps insisting they've "always been this way." When Lightbulb tries to bring up past arguments or drama, everyone looks at her with genuine confusion. "Lightbulb, why would you think Knife ever threatened anyone?" "Taco would never manipulate people, that's such a mean thing to suggest!" They seem genuinely hurt that she'd imply they were ever anything but perfect. She has to choose: pretend to be the "normal" version of herself that they want, or risk everything to restore her friends' true selves. But the more she fights against the artificial normalcy, the more she questions if maybe being "fixed" wouldn't be so bad after all... Content warning: Contains descriptions of medical content such as needles, surgeries, and existential stress. Also implied Lightbrush and a tad bit of Mephoj. Inspired by Will Wood's "Love Me, Normally", along with other songs. All characters are courtesy of Adamation, song references are courtesy of Will Wood. All cover art is mine. Woaahhh love me normallyyy woahh yeahhh woah yeaahhhh

Lightbulbs missing Paintbrush and the rest of her friends. When she has a chance to go back and fix things, she takes it. Lightbulb goes and fucks around w/ time again and causes a butterfly effect. There will be ships in this, or at least implied ships. TW for depression, clingyness, swearing, manipulation, god complex, guns, physical fights and arguments, blood, death, and other stuff I'll add if and when it shows up

CHAPTER BANNERS AND COVER DRAWN BY @radikalzia !! (Thank you zizi your so cool) Fan progressively loses it. He's tired of the constant comments and bossing around. He's tired of being treated..different. He goes missing. And so do most of the cast. This is set in a way that season 2 ended, cobs IS dead, but mepad and knife aren't, and Mephone lives in the hotel as well as mepad and knife. it's a bit wonky but it'll make sense .. also humanized. They humans. Ya. THIS IS A KINDA VIOLENT FIC!! It's kinda 'inspired' by experiment 21 and thinking skills, so it's violent, there's death, and some ..detailed descriptions. Blood and gore warn. DONT READ IF YOU CANT HANDLE THESE.