#in this specific area anyway

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hello! I have come asking for you to info-dump about the the modern human au. I full of brain rot of them (especially after the last thing you posted about them, damn) Maybe you can tell us a bit more Sally!!

lucky for you, i've been full of that good ol brainrot As Well! thoughts! feelings! ideas! i got em!

so since we're already on the subject of the Crash Arc, allow me to expand on it for a moment before i get to Sally Thinkings! if you've read the snippet, you may have noticed the extent of Wally's injuries was not listed yet. well! he got messed up with a capital F! since it's fiction and i'm god in this scenario, i'm veering slightly away from realistic damage, immediate & lasting. bc lets be real. if i stuck to "this is as realistic as i can make it", then Wally would be aaaaaabsolutely fucked. it was a bad crash in a very unsafe vehicle at high speeds. like - this is what happened. a drunk driver hit Home going 70 down the freeway. swerve, fishtail, tumble down a (small, shallow, really its more like a glorified ditch) ravine with trees and rocks and shit on it. absolute miracle that Wally didn't die in the crash, let alone during the solid half hour (slightly longer) he was trapped in Home before someone noticed the crash site and called emergency personnel. Wally "hanging up" on Barnaby was actually the impact jarring him so he slipped and hit the end call button. but yeah without going into technicalities and detail, Wally has some lasting damage in his dominant hand. It takes extensive physical therapy for him to be able to paint/draw again at the same level he had been at. the hematoma hadn't done a lot of brain damage that wouldn't resolve itself with time. in my mind, when Wally wakes up in the hospital, for a few days he's very confused and his memory is shot. he'll wake up, interact, then go to sleep, but when he wakes up again its like waking up for the first time again. he just can't retain memories for a bit. he's got some severe brain fog. his mood is also kinda fucked with - he's uncharacteristically irritable with low patience, etc. these are all things that clear up with time, but in my mind Wally has chronic migraines going forward. bad ones! and there are days where it's harder fr him to concentrate. and yk. a teeny bit of chronic pain where his shin bone was pinned back together and where his hand was essentially crushed. but other than that he's fine going forward! good days and bad days!

but enough about that! You Want To Hear About Sally!

i imagine that she becomes quite successful in the theater industry. i'm not too familiar with it myself, so i'm gonna be uh. Vague about it? but she starts her own theater troupe - it's a bit of a commute from home base to the town she works in, where the theater is located in, but she makes it work! of the group, she's probably away more than any of them. working on shows, traveling to work on other ones - i like to think she's been on Broadway! she probably has had opportunities to do tv/movie acting, but idk... i feel like Sally would be like "nah. live shows or nothing". maybe at some point she takes up voice acting gigs, as long as she can do them from home. she probably has her own little room-turned-VA-studio thing. idk how that works either! it seems right! but yes Howdy's store's automated messages and advertisements are in Sally's voice. she's probably picked up a temporarily modeling gig here and there.

so Sally is very very busy. Poppy is supportive. everyone is, and they all love to help out when they can - and reel Sally in when the "stardom" starts to get to her head. they do their best to acclimate to occasionally getting jumpscared by her voice in a grocery store or in. idk. fashion shoots. victoria's secret billboards. that last one was a joke! maybe. i think she would.

i also like to imagine Sally like... getting some sort of award and then spending a solid five minutes naming her friends, thanking them with specificity, and then plugging their own stuff. they probably have a rotation for who accompanies her as her plus one for events and parties she may or may not be invited to. she's not like... a Big celebrity but! she's Known and Liked! she has Connections! i like to imagine her and Wally looking dapper as fuck at a Venue...

so the friend group typically stays together, with Sally going off to do her Things the most. she makes sure to schedule time to be with her friends and girlfriend/wife/Poppy between work and gigs and etc. she somehow finds a balance with Ease. or apparent ease... someone get this girl a vacation...

#lmao now im thinking about them all scheduling a joint vacay #sally is having the time of her life getting to Relax and just Pamper Herself #everyone else is also greatly enjoying the break #except howdy. he's a mess. to him relaxing is working. things are too calm. too quiet. understim effect x100 #on that vein ive been thinking about a covid arc and its. Funny #and domestic! #where are the covid fics of characters getting stuck together during lockdown... #rambles from the bog #wh modern human au #but yes been thinking about the au a lot #ive decided that wally does eventually get a job that he actually Enjoys! #previously he was just doing his indie art and such. bc he'd try a job and be like 'wow. i hate this. this is stupid. bye' #his art brings in more money anyway. he's living that miraculous imaginary life where art provides reliable sustainable income #enough so that barnaby doesn't need a full time job! bc this is fiction and i want them to have an easy life #in this specific area anyway #i would like them to live in a world where its slightly kinder... the housing crisis doesnt exist... one can live on minimum wage... #also thinking more about their homes and such. etc!

[sharpbutsoft]

No because why did i see someone post about wanting Hozier to write a lovesong set in the United Kingdom because it would suit their ship? Like pleaaaaaase do you listen to his music at all? Do you understand his anti-colonial messages and the love he has for his Irish heritage?? Do you know which country almost eradicated Irish culture, Irish language?? Do you????

#it was a specific area they named #which i will not repeat because i dont feel like it #however…. #Um anyway idk what i expected from the piss on the poor website

[zytes]

ozone

#had to fix this one before posting it #was supposed to be included in the last post - but didn’t exactly fit with the other images thematically #this building/sector is at the mouth of the entire park — I think it’s spot that manufactures/cans/pumps compressed natural gas?? not 100% #and it’s LOUD. not this building specifically but the 4 dozen other factories and assembly plants that operate on this block #similar noise level to working ground services at an intl airport; the passive noise level is somewhat-distant jet engine at best #hard to capture that aspect in the image — I should do a field recording tho #anyways yeah - it’s fun to drive through the heart of the park at night and listen to the whirrs and groans of machinery #I want to capture more but obv being oblique with a camera in this area or making frequent passes warrants a little more sensitivity #I do not want to deal with cops OR well-meaning-but-misguided working class folk who open carry to their shift at Dangerous Chemicals INC #my art #webcore #internetcore #glitchcore #artists on tumblr #night photography #distortion #noise #art #y2kcore #abstract art #glitch aesthetic #artwork #abstract #industry #infrastructure #machinery

[crystallizsch]

Yuusha = Jamil's Charging Station

(help 😭)

#honestly how dare he #jamil's just draining energy from another sleep-deprived person #they're so cute #how gross #anon i woke up to this and the idea made me go feral #i cant believe this #you managed to just hit a certain part of my brain #the fluff part specifically #and somehow this is me still restraining myself #hdkshdkej #anyways thank you for this ask i had fun with it 😭🫶 #[— #✦ asks #twst #twisted wonderland #twst art #twst oc x canon #jamil x yuu #jamil viper #twst yuusona #twst yuu #(💜) yuusha #(💜) jamiyuu #★ my art #☆ comic #—] #anyways my own battery is dead #good night tri state area #(i will not sleep until 3am+)

[megumi-fm]

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#okay random story time i don't know why im narrating this or how i even stumbled upon this memory rn #but i generally do sad vents in the tags and for a change this is a funny one #so back in highschool (i say highschool but i mean junior college) i used to visit this park near my house a lot #i was an sg kid back then and the thing about parks there is that they're kinda beach-parks and they have the best cycling/running tracks #they're also really massive parks so i used to go often. sometimes bicycling. other times walking. yeah. the park was like my sanctuary #anyway. there are quite a few bike rental areas in the park and there was a cute lil shop next to this one particular rental place #and they sold like biscuits and water and icecreams and stuff and i went there a lot #and on one particular day i went there and there was this guy around my age part timing at that shop #now again this might be culture specific bc i dont see it in india but part timing in uni/pre-uni is pretty common is sg #a lot of shops and restaurants employ teenagers to twenty something ppl for part time jobs... anyway im just adding context #point is that i had walked to the park with my mum that day and she told me to go buy a couple icecreams so i went to the shop #and i saw this guy around my age and like. not to be a simp but this dude was so pretty? #like he saw someone had come to the counter so he looked up and shot a smile and i thought i got slapped by sunlight #i could spend the next several lines going on about his pretty tan skin and his glowing raven eyes but this is pathetic enough so ill stop #anyway he saw me and smiled really wide (customer service smile- i thought to myself) and i smiled back and asked for icecreams or whatever #and then this guy started getting chatty right. so he was all 'you come here (to the park) often right? ive seen you with your bike a lot' #see now. the problem with me is that i always think im bothering people. this poor dude was attempting to make conversation #and i was replying with one word answers #and i wasn't even realizing that he didnt want that. bc he kept asking more questions and i. kept. shutting them down. #then when he gave me the icecream he was all 'are you here alone? icecream alone is no fun... i could keep you company if you want..?' #which. he was being really cute about right. but because im so fucking dense i was all 'oh no i came with my mom actually' #and he went 'aw man' in this really cute but faux sad way which i didnt understand at the time and i left and then #after three full fucking days. i realized this man was tryna hit on me? #and then i went to the park like a week later and he was gone. poof. i even thought of asking the uncle in charge of that place #then i got too embarrassed and chickened out #yeah so turns out my neurodivergence neutralizes any sort of rizz that comes my way #i could've been chilling with a cute boyf rn but no😩 this is my destiny #megumi in the tags

[pilferingapples]

idk if you've already done this but i'm lowkey dying to know what you think all the amis (and co) would do career-wise in the modern day because i think about it all the time

OKAY SO

All of them are the planners REALLY even if Enjolras tends to be the one who really pulls it together Feuilly is the sharpshooter, this is canon

Bahorel , Courfeyrac and Legle take the in-person actor/Face roles as much as possible ; they also take the Daredevil, backup Muscle, and Thief roles, respectively, as needed

Enjolras is the muscle/combat monster

Combeferre is the tech specialist

Prouvaire handles the online social interaction, which is increasingly crucial these days

Joly is the lockpick and when needed the Distraction ; they've done so many of these missions they've lost count and STILL no one even suspects his involvement

Grantaire is the cook and the getaway driver when Bahorel's otherwise occupied

Together they do Leverage-esque Heists to try and make the world a better place already dammit

#...this is definitely not what you meant #but The Best I Can Do #I only think of them in Modern Setting at all as part of very specific AUs #here. have one #Bahorel and Grantaire are the usual getaway drivers bc they have the best canon Area Knowledge #everything else well. do I have to explain. I CAN EXPLAIN-- #anyway HEISTS FOR JUSTICE

[bonkalore]

Am I proud of this cheesey exchange? Yes. Yes, I am. Now watch me lose control over a ship that exists only in my vague mind AU!

#Daniel Spellbound #daniel spellbound jayce #Daniel Spellbound Lucy #Jacy #Jayce Chinda #Lucy Santana #Lucy/Jayce #demon boy #demon boyfriend #I'm just gonna go with Jacy as the ship name I guess #no one else lives here anyway lmao #I just wasn't sure on the spelling but feel like Jaycy looks weird #also it was at this moment drawing them in different outfits that I realize #they look like the alt versions of the Jughead and Betty I had for KaiJug as an original that I was trying out ffff #I am scratching a specific itch in another area that isn't too far off from where I was lol #whoops #(also kisses still never get any easier to draw i'm sorry)

[umbraastaff]

barry bluejeans...

#the adventure zone #taz balance #barry bluejeans #starblaster #animal crossing #acnh #mine #this room is so fucking cluttered and hard to get around. as it should be. #it's not really meant to be any specific starblaster room so much as just. like a shared workspace kinda area w/ everyones shit #theres a disproportionate amount of davenport things here actually #maybe if i get enough Stuff tho it would b fun to make specific char themed areas... #anyway i still need better wallpaper for here. celeste gimme space wallpaper blease

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

#hollow knight #little ghost #hk ghost #the knight #hk hornet #hornet #alright. as of writing these tags it's been a week since the original dream so! let's see what i remember dgsgsgf #i was playing a game. which was a sequel to hollow knight ((Not silksong though)) #there was some new sort of divine infection in hallownest and hornet had asked ghost to investigate it. they ended the last one after all! #the red glowy spike gate thingy is what you jumped into to enter the 'infected' areas #though it actually led directly to a hub world type of place. which was kinda like an expanded base for the grimm troupe? #more like an entire lair instead of a camp. also some greek gods were there for some reason lmao. they had their own special rooms too #so sidenote but- new headcanon that there are grimm troupe members named ares athena artemis &... venus lmao. not aphrodite for some reason #also monomon was there?? i think??? except she was cooking????? she had a sidequest to deliver something to someone though i dunno hdgfhdgh #i remember going back to the grimm troupe lair a couple times throughout my 'playthrough' #anyway. the 'infection' this time around was more of a glitchy physical corruption thing? rather than a mind corruption. #though there were still aggressive enemies to fight. but i remember getting a map from cornifer early on and he was. probably infected #i think part of his body was covered in electricity or something? so he wasn't fully visible? but he was still acting normally #there was also a moth who was the seer but then later wasn't the seer (but was still the same moth) dghgdhf. i delivered stuff to her #that glowing white wall thing in the drawing was like a one-way gate. you could only cross it from the other side and ghost came from there #i guess things looped back up somehow i dunno ghdgfhgf #anyway. ghost's red eyes. those are significant! those happened while i was walking through a corridor. it had pools of shallow water #(shallow enough to just walk through) and also creatures that were lightseeds but red.the implication was that they were full of Blood lmao #and as i went along killing them--as one does--as i walked through the hall. they started turning the water red too #there was also narration about this as it was happening ashdgsf. specifically the narrator said the water turned red before it actually did #ghost's eyes slowly turned red too. but aside from that they were fine! since. they're the player character and the player is perfectly fin #BUT. when they encountered hornet again. she thought they were infected. and that she lost the only family she had left </3 #she didn't attack though. instead she just jumped into the red spike gate without a word. decided to try to fix everything herself #but eventually you'd encounter her again down below and she'd fight you. didn't actually get to that in the dream though #aand i'm out of tags </3 i wanted to talk about what i'd do to make this make more sense as an au or something now that i'm awake but. :c

[blujayonthewing]

thinkin about how if gnomes are partially insectivorous and also live underground in the woods then Cicada Emergence is 1000% a huge cultural event, probably with religious significance, and cicadas would hold tremendous cultural importance both literally and symbolically

#<- in areas that have periodical cicada populations of course #me whenever nature does something cool: hey you could make a religion out of this #you COULD though!! #and once every 13 years happens a lot more often in a gnomish lifespan so they can more easily build solid traditions around it #it'd be a solid monthlong festival at least #observances for various stages of emergence; parades/ feast days/ festival days; lots of time spent gathering and cooking and preserving #harvest festival on steroids. extremely specific harvest festival #joy amd abundance IN ADDITION to any cicada symbolisms (life/ rebirth; perseverence; the primal need to stand up and scream sometimes; etc) #uh anyway I don't have a Good Post about this right now lol I'm in bed and should be asleep just rotating the concept in my mind (again) #about me #gnome stuff #worldbuilding

[thebirdandhersong]

grabbing stuffy, politicised, echo chamber academia by the shirt collar and pulling it uncomfortably close to my face as I give it a ferocious glower and then shaking it violently and shouting in its face: "where is the delight! WHERE IS THE DELIGHT!!!"

#recently went to a talk about christians in academia and the speaker said. what we bring as Christians into the world of academia #should be a love for our area of study because it brings us closer to the mystery and wonder of God's creation #and disregarding the politics of academia like reputation competition etc etc we should be focused on love for God love for our neighbour #and love for our specific area of study because there's always more to learn. just like there is always more to learn about God #anyway. where is the delight!!!!! #slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21 #(adventures in class)

[aropride]

that post has actually shifted my perception of stupid fucking PrObLeMaTiC MeDiA discourse forever i think i need to chew on the topic for like 8 hours and decide how i feel about it then

#text #i also hate the term 'problematic media' like just say what youre talking about man. is it undernegotiated kink is it racism is it just #outdated terminology SAY WHAT YIURE ACTUALLY TALKIGN ABOUT OR IM BLOWING THIS WHOLE BUILDING UP #also its such an annoying conversation bc theres so much nuance and grey area but you cant get into it without the most annoying people in #the world getting mad at you from literally every side. also when it comes specifically to fandom/ship discourse the terminology is so #unhelpful vague and annoying that it makes me want to slam my head into a brick WALL. i have a whole like. giant post abt this in my #drafts but its like not even halfway done and already 2k words so its more 'rumination' than 'helpful' probably #ugh. anyway. tldr im chewing on this framework later

[arvoze]

whatever the hell those 2 got goin on

#pokemon #pokemon mystery dungeon #hattrem #cacturne #my art #silica #keith #hi. if i talk abt them i will EXPLODE they hate eachother btw. #they r both from the sand continent. they knew eachother as wee kids in the Same Area doing Some Things #they were like. friends but in the sense of You can tell one of them is using the other one but the other one doesnt realise it #(silica is mean and rude and would simply just use keith to do whatever i will not explain the specifics) #anyways keith realised that this was. very not good and went to a whole other continent (water) exclusively to get away from her #he does not tell anybody abt his life b4 the water continent he gets weird abt it #silica does go out of her way to find him tho just out of spite #keith gets. Really messed up abt it hes MY cacturne and i get to give him problems if i want to #i don't rly do that kind of stuff often but. thinking abt the way he gets questioned abt stuff bc he does not act Like That . #thinking abt him considering opening up abt things. ohhhh my little boy #also they used to be part of a diff group and guildmaster rime knows abt that group but thats for another day

[permanentreverie]

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#ok so mini rant session #i am doing a bit better today - little less distraught over getting fired from a job i thought i was doing pretty good at and i was trying #really hard and genuinely enjoying #and just more baffled because truly i had no warning and i was completely blindsided #i was in the middle of a 3 month trial and i would have a review at the end in which i would be offered a permanent position if it went well #and i thought i was making my way towards that! granted i was still making mistakes but genuinely not of such a great scale i thought it #called for my immediate dismissal #that being said i was still VERY MUCH IN TRAINING. i had only been there A MONTH AND A HALF learning COMPLETELY NEW SYSTEMS #and i was told that i had been there a few weeks already and that i wasn’t catching on quick enough. that there were some areas i was #understanding and others i just simply wasn’t #and i asked what areas specifically so that i could learn more and try harder #and they didn’t give me a specific answer. #ok and so. so. i have this insecurity. #that at first impression people will like me. that they may think i’m pretty or kind or funny or whatever #but then they spend time with me or get to know me and realize that that’s all bullshit. #that i’m actually not pretty and im mean and loud and selfish and lazy and rude and etc etc etc #MASSIVE fucking insecurity in that like that’s why i genuinely don’t have friends or a significant other #and that genuinely i’m just a Bad Person #and when i was fired? i was told ‘a persons true colours show after a few weeks’ #so that’s MAJORLY fucking me up. #when i was hired i was boasted to about my boss’s hiring process and how she’s ’only been fooled twice’ #and the morning before i was fired in a meeting my supervisor told everyone that i was doing quite well. #so yeah i truly had no fucking warning. at fucking all. #hurt and confused and angry and baffled and did i mention hurt #anyways if you’re still here i’m sorry i know this is not a good look for me

[thisismeracing]

hi friend, you still have the potential to be sued here in the US, even if you’re not using images. That’s a big part of why authors likes Anna Todd, scrubbed After (with all references to Harry’s name) from the internet when she started charging for it and before any publication would take an interest. (Before anyone comes for me, I’m sure the original has been saved by some third part somewhere. This is the internet after all. But the point remains if she were to be sued, she is able to claim that she did her due diligence by removing any and all content with any reference to Harry Styles from the internet BEFORE she received any payment.) The US is currently starting to crack down on copyright and intellectual property infringement. In large part due to the fact that so many people have received huge payouts over the last ten years. Unfortunately they’re not choosing to go after the ones that have actually gotten rich from the issue. And while the drivers might not care. Their management most certainly will. If you’re choosing to charge for your fiction it might be best to at the very least change names so you might have some form of deniability.

this was an interesting ask, thanks for the heads up again!

I'm not trying to go against your word, but rather wondering about the topic myself because it seems to me it's a huge gray area, so feel free to reach me on my private messages or on anon again if you want. But speaking about Anna Todd, technically she could still be sued even after scrubbing Harry's name from the story because there was still proof on the internet that it was a story about him, if we're talking about defamation it doesn't need to involve the monetization aspect, it's still defamation without it. This would mean that ANY RPF fanfiction is illegal and could be sued (which is not necessarly the case because theres the whole fair use thing).

We're talking about huge payouts, but I'm getting less than fifty dollars a month with Patreon lol would their team really come for me (a poor grad student) on behalf of a billionaire for getting less than fifty dollars a month to help pay school and medical bills? this would need a huge pr work too to make them seem good after doing something so crazy like this.

Talking about defamation, let's say I change names, but this Tumblr would still be up and everything else would easily show that it's about pilot X, this could still be considered illegal because you can tell who it is about. The reason why nobody comes for rpf is because 1) the money people are talking about is just a few bucks most of the time, and 2) it's exactly this real people's FICTION, there's not much to talk about defamation of a worldwide artist when the content you're sharing is for a nich of less than one hundred people, it's not reasonable. I haven't found a past decision about something similar in the US court, if there is, please send it in, but other than that it's a huge speculation thing in my head, which only a judge could clarify.

Patreon and monetizing fanfiction is quite common in fandoms like Chris Evans', for example, and I haven't seen anything legal come from it yet. again because it's unreasonable for those artists to go after their own fans for taking less than a hundred dollars in content that clearly sets a fictional character that just happens to look and have the same name as them because more often than not it's set in an alternative universe.

#this is probably all over the place Im sorry but Im just tired (as in I haven't had a good night of sleep) #also again this is not me trying to go against whatever you said but rather sharing my bits to how I see it if there's something concrete + #pls sned it in #or if there's a fault in what I said feel free to point it #but just letting you know that I might take a few to answer or just not answer because this subject is taking a toll on me #I've seen a few writers doing it on f1blr but people had to point it out because I did it like lol chill #anyways #thanks for adding this btw you sounded more mindful than mean (which i don't think you were trying to sound so all good <3) #millies inbox #anon #f1 fandom #fanfic patreon #it is easier to see those legal problems coming from fanfics that involve the Copyright aspect #anna todd is very specific case in my head #but yeah #it would only make sense if the work were talking about was a seeies #series* #Im not on the hs fandom and I have seen quite a few patreons for him so… #yeah #its a gray area in my head

[whentherewerebicycles]

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#got a MAJOR win at work today #successfully negotiated funding for a new program that will create 10-15 new paid research positions this summer #with potential to scale to 20-25 student positions next year if the pilot program goes well #all in an area/field we have been strategically targeting because student demand for opportunities there is so high #!!!!! #now [redacted] did present this proposal as her work to the higher-ups with no mention of me lol #even though i have been determinedly driving this forward for months #which is such a contrast to my boss at UT who was SO good/meticulous about naming people's specific contributions esp to their superiors #but honestly whatever! who cares as long as the work gets done!!! #now lots to do to get the program up and running for summer but #that is work i enjoy. finding funding is work i do not enjoy #anyway i am PLEASED