Introducing My New Tumblr Sideblog For My IT Crowd fanfiction!
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
More Posts from It-crowd-unexpected-reboot and Others
Jen : Moss, Moss, there's a spider in my office. Could you deal with it? I just hate spiders.
Moss : Hahaha! Oh, ah. Yeah. I'm not overly fond of them myself there, Jen. Um, how... how... How big is...? Whoa! Hey, now. I tell you what, I'd actually recommend my good friend Roy there as the go-to guy on anything with more than seven eyes. Um... He's on a very brief personal call right now...
Jen : Come on, Moss. Don't be silly.
Moss : You're right, I'm being silly. WRAP IT UP, ROY! No, it's just a spider. It's fine. It's just a spider. Oh, look, it seems to have left of its own volition.
Jen : Oh, be a man, Moss.
Moss : You're right. I'll be a man. I'm a man... Please don't shut the door.
Jen: I won't.
Moss: Goodbye, Jen.
Moss:(laughing) Oh, dear me.
Jen: What are you laughing at?
Moss: This flipping circuit board, Jen. Some chump has run the data lines right through the power supply. Amateur hour! I've got tears in my eyes.
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Can't believe he bikes to work every day. Seventy miles.
do you guys know about richard ayoade's stupid idiot loser folding bicycle
Under the cut are #59 gifs of Richard Ayoade as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd. All of these gifs, including colouring, have been made by me from scratch, and are 245 x 140 pixels. Please like/reblog if using.
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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)
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- what time it is
- how long you’ve been reading
- how many chapters you’ve covered in the last 24 hours
- what you were late for because you were reading
- the woeful few hours you have left to sleep
- the emotional outbreaks you’re experiencing
- the inappropriate place you’re having said outbreak
- the general public’s reaction to your outbreak
- how much phone battery you have left
Official Tumblr blog for The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction AND Release date T.B.D.: Unexpected Reboot
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