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moss would like vocaloid NOPE IM NOT TAKING ANY CRITICISM the time period is right, the show is set from 2006-2013. perfect time for vocaloid. he likes vocaloid. dont need it to make sense, its just true.
havent watched the IT crowd all day havent watched it since last night what am i gonna do ive been busy ill watch it tonight but i have stuff to do until 10 and i need to sleep but i wont sleep i have to watch the IT crowd
This scene is everything to me…
Other IT crowd fan art
Actually kind of in love with this little pixel art I made of Imogene...very much captures her essence. I love the 2010s hipster look she has going on, even if it's a little anachronistic. In 7 more years she could be a nerdfighter.
made on makepixelart.com
maurice moss stimboard!!
(blue theme)
i finally made one!! this is mostly for me but it would be wonderful if other people liked it too!! it’s not perfect but i thought it was silly :3
credits under the cut!!
the moss gif was made by me, and the moss sleeping meme was too.
i’m just gonna link all of the places i got these gifs, some are ones i didn’t use but ones i downloaded i’ll just link them all!!
some it crowd doodles i had lying around my gallery :p
(the third jen drawing is the first time i ever drew her so the artstyle is VERY different..)
can you tell who my favourite character is yet
Moss: Not before I flush the toilet, thank you very much.
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Meet my IT Crowd OC! Name: Imogene Prendergast Height: 135 lbs Weight: 5’4” Eye colour: Brown Age: 26 Occupation: Field Services Engineer for Prophecy Electronics Likes: Windows XP, Doctor Who, Alien, the Hainish Cycle, Metroid Prime, 10,000 Maniacs Dislikes: Windows Vista, The Fifth Element, Grand Theft Auto, any & all sports, going outside Looking for: There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
icon credits: @spreadicons @sugar-violence faceclaim: mary elizabeth winstead
Making a playlist because i feel like Moss has a little birdhouse in his soul. This is what I have so far
Send recommendations to my submit box! Preferably nothing pre-2007 (I like to be period accurate)
So hey ummm my birthday is coming up
Our most popular tee this year
You better not be stupidly sad pixel roy trenneman when i get there
No IT Crowd fanart? Fine, I’ll do it myself
OG image I found off of Pinterest
Update #2: A New Outlining Method, Dropdown Plotter
I've been having a hard time conceptualizing how to plan out a novel lately. It used to come so easy to me. Now that I'm a real adult, it feels like there isn't enough space in my brain anymore for me to have my story all in my head without writing my ideas down somewhere.
So, good outlining methods, which can be hard to come by, are crucial for my writing process.
But, a lot of traditional methods don't work for me.
In my opinion, it's extremely important to have an outlining method that doesn't overwhelm you, and which feels creatively freeing. And when do I need to be more creatively free, than when writing an IT Crowd fanfiction?
So I've come up with a new outlining method that I'd love to share with you all! I call it Dropdown Plotter.
Dropdown Plotter uses the dropdown menu feature, which can be found in both Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, to help you better visualize (and, most importantly, easily reorganize) the major aspects of each chapter of your story.
Basically, it's a spreadsheet that includes, at minimum, 8 columns.
Chapter Title
Plotlines
Included Character(s)
Perspective Character(s)
Location(s)
Chapter Story Description
Writing Stage
Due Date
Why keep track of these things? Balance. Basically, making sure your characters, plotlines, POVs, and important locations all get adequate page time.
It's a lot easier to conceptualize these things when you have it on a color-coded spreadsheet, zoomed out really far, and can see in a big picture way. For example, you might see that the red color indicating "Legolas" is in a scene, drops off after Chapter 17. You might see that the green-coded plot about his missing shoe is only important for 5 chapters in the middle of the story, or that we're spending almost the entire story in the bathroom and never in the evil lair.
So, how do you use the Dropdown Plotter?
First, you go into the dropdown menu, and you can see all the plots you've selected. There's a handy "search feature" for those writing the next Game of Thrones. You want to click the little pencil icon in the bottom right, which is the "edit" button.
On the right-hand side of your screen, a column will pop up called "Data Validation Rules." From here, you can edit the names and colors of each item in the dropdown menu, and add or delete things as you'd like.
Make sure to click "allow multiple selections" on the bottom of the data validation rules pop-up. This will allow you to select multiple characters, multiple locations, and multiple plots when you're in the dropdown menus.
Don't forget to click "Done" at the bottom!
On top of the dropdown menus, the nice thing about working in a spreadsheet is that you can always drag and drop the rows and columns. This makes it extremely easy to change the order of scenes around, in a way that feels very impermanent and easy.
Here is what my Dropdown Plotter looked like for the first three chapters of The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction.
Looks pretty, right? And pretty outlines build confidence! Not only that, but what I like most about this outlining method is that it encourages me to be less precious with my ideas.
It's way less intimidating to overhaul major aspects of your story, such as the dominant POV, the main plot, etc., when all you have to do is click a little button in the dropdown menu to change everything. When I'm editing a little blurb in a spreadsheet versus an entire step outline, it reminds me that no writing problem is insurmountable, and nothing is ever really set in stone.
Again, it builds confidence.
Unfortunately, I've only built a Dropdown Plotter in Google Sheets, but I've provided a blank version to share with you all. The nice thing about spreadsheets is that you can add and delete things as you see fit. For example, some people might want to add...
More columns indicating multiple scenes within the same chapter!
A "Story Beat" column, to mark the specific plot beats each chapter follows (as in the Hero's Journey or the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet).
An "Important Info" column, to mark any worldbuilding or character details discussed or introduced in a certain chapter.
Literally anything your little heart desires!
Happy outlining and I hope you enjoy the Dropdown Plotter!
Update #1: Outlining
I'm a screenwriter all of a sudden so the whole last few years I've spent outlining before I start everything. That's just kinda the standard in that field of writing.
But I'm trying to be a lot more loosey-goosey with this one. I'm doing three act structure, some rough outlines of chapters, and filling in the blanks as I go. Talking it out with other people who know the show & who don't mind spoilers for the ending has been great in getting me to whittle myself down to a logline, midpoint, and ending. But I'm restricting it to that! After I have all my chapters roughly in mind it'll be go time.
And yeah, outlining is great, but it also kind of encourages you to get in your own head about stuff. It can be really overwhelming having all these details you want and feel like you need to incorporate. Which is why it's important to remember that you're meant to be writing, after all, not just letting the wheels spin. If they spin too fast they'll fall off. Put the damn car on the road and write!
A lot of times the best details are the friends we write along the way.
remembering this for the future
what people flagrantly misunderstand about culturally iconic ‘logicians’ like spock and sherlock holmes is that they are fuckinggggg annoying. like you canNOT write for nor adapt either of these characters properly without understanding that they are admirable in many ways, yes, but they are repeatedly and gleefully, ON PURPOSE, fucking massive nuisances to literally every sane individual around them, all the time. they love bothering people, they LOVE it, it makes them SO HAPPY, and THAT, not their brilliance, is what makes them the best. spocks a BITCH
FATHERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
one thing i learnt after years of being on here is that we need an office-centric series to obsess over
Wait a minute….
Wait a minute!
THE MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!
WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!
*HE’S GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE!!!!!*
Yeah this could’ve been a Parallels post but I felt it would’ve been funnier as a regular post.
Shut up, my reasoning is sound!
Sometimes it's just you and 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3 against the world 😔
Yeah I like men in STEM (two total idiots working in a basement cluttered with God knows what junk while their girl boss best friend just sits and watches)
Which of these men would you rather date?
For this scenario, imagine you're a heterosexual woman in your 20s. You can be a bit of a screw up but are generally normal, you just find yourself in weird situations sometimes.
Options:
Daniel, a security guard who likes quizzes and used to like you until you accidentally prevented him from winning a lot of money. He now hates the sight of you and it’s really awkward. He also has some anger issues.
Bill, a known player and generally sexist and disrespectful man who treats women like prizes to collect. Is rude to waitstaff. Doesn't like tapas. Talks about your sex life openly. Once got haunted by a ghost.
Phillip, a cosy scottish accountant with lots of friends in the theatre. Very into PDA. Secretly gay and in denial about it.
Douglas, a man who inherited his dad’s company and is slowly running it into the ground. Is CONSTANTLY horny and has pretty much no respect for women. Has more money than sense and is as dumb as a bag of bricks. Has nice hair.
Peter, a kind of cringy, optimistic and wholesome guy. Can cook well. Loves hugs and telling goofy stories. Is kind of up himself but not harmful at all. Is encouraging of you and your dreams. His full name sounds like a really bad word and it’s really embarrassing when people bring it up.
Gary, a builder who’s tall, bald and not very conventionally attractive. Once thought a woman was in love with him and was nice about it. Good at his job. Fairly normal. But once pissed in your sink as revenge because you falsely accused him of pissing in your sink.
Michael, a driving instructor and generally nice guy. He just REALLY looks like a magician. Like distractingly so. Despite this, he’s really bad at doing magic.
Introducing my new Tumblr sideblog for my IT Crowd fanfiction!
Hello! My name is Lu and I'm a 22-year-old writer from the Midwest who currently lives in Austin. I am a huge cinephile which is my one defining personality trait. This summer, my goals are to make real bread for the first time, eat healthier, outline my next screenplay, and get my temps license (because I can't drive). To procrastinate all of that, I'm working on a side project!
I began writing a long-form IT Crowd fanfiction in 2018 (age 15) which had a small but mighty community of dedicated fans on Wattpad. I am incredibly thankful for the readers who STILL encouraged me to finish writing even after a six-year-long cliffhanger! Hitting 20k reads in 2025 meant a lot to me.
In succumbing to IT Crowd brainrot yet again, I was surprised to find there are still less than a handful of long-form IT Crowd works available online, including mine. Also, looking back on the work I wrote when I was 15, I realized that it would benefit a lot from a rewrite (obviously). After I put on my slightly larger glasses, I had a bit of a eureka moment!
Now that I'm on summer break from my M.F.A., I'm planning to take some time to write some low-stakes, no-pressure stuff for myself. So join me as I start the journey of a new(ish) long-form IT Crowd work, temporarily titled Unexpected Reboot!
Unexpected Reboot is a rewrite of The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction, only with an actually coherent plot, and a couple other updates and tweaks for being, well, written by a 15-year-old in 2018. I'm not changing a couple words and cutting a couple scenes--it'll be a page 1 rewrite with a completely different plot, but the same characters and storyline told in a more satisfying way.
Like The Grant, Unexpected Reboot answers the question: What if yet another woman was hired at the IT Department, but she was another standard nerd?
Well, for starters: Comedy. Action. Romance. It's just another day in IT. I can't spoil too much this early ;)
This blog will feature updates on my writing process, goofy memes and polls, and general IT Crowd stuff. At some point, I am also hoping to host a cover design competition! My ask box is always open for questions, comments, and general goofiness.
Side note - I hate Glinner and as a big FU to him I have a list of LGBTQ+ resources for the US & UK on my blog. Please feel free to send trans mutual aid requests, fundraisers, or even just more great links to my submission box.
All updates on the fanfiction will be tagged as #it crowd unexpected reboot! Follow the tag for updates.
Looking forward to hearing from you! All the best, Lu <3
gif credit: @goodomcns
Richmond Avenal (S02E04) The IT Crowd