Official Tumblr blog for The Grant: An IT Crowd Fanfiction AND Release date T.B.D.: Unexpected Reboot
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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)
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.
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.
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
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.
Rip Jen Barber from the IT crowd, you would have loved chatGPT
I don't like a lot about it but that's always how it is drawing new characters.
roy And moss edit.... If u even care ..........
my fav disaster trio :3
can you make on for Maurice Moss :). something golden hour, vintage, light academia, retro computer :)))
Maurice Moss Stimboard
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📺 x 📺
🧷 🌇 👓
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
do i amaze you?
i love richmonds weird little spin in this scene . from the moment i saw this i knew i had to draw it
my boyfriend is in need of funds for traveling due to his grandpa passing away on may 2nd. his mother is purchasing the ticket but he needs transportation to the airport and back once he's home. he will need food as well, specifically gluten free friendly food which is usually expensive.
the current goal is $100. please help/reblog!
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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