#mar's 200 follower event

[loversj0y]

YOU GOTTA DO THE CLASSIC “YOU BELONG WITH ME”

you belong with me

event posters are all found on pinterest btw!

wilbur soot x gn! reader

tws: mentions of cheating

notes: welcome to the very first post from the 200 follower event! starting off strong and classic with YBWM! this song holds so much love in my heart as a elder swiftie (i still remember buying her debut album way back when... i watched the 2008 vmas live..... wilid)

word count: 1.1k (these are blurbs so they wont be as long as my usual incoherent ramblings)

taglist: @l0veb0mb1ng / @core-queen / @lillylvjy

You’d never wanted to shake sense into your best friend Wilbur more than in this exact moment. You two were hanging out after school, sitting in the spare music room and goofing off, when his phone started blaring his ringtone. Now, even from the otherside of the room, you could hear his girlfriend yelling at him. 

You almost wanted to yell at him yourself, to let him know that it doesn’t have to be like this! But you might just be biased, given the fact that you’d been in love with him for years now. 

You and Wilbur had been best friends for years, growing up and being there for each other throughout it all. 

When he started dating this girl, you thought it would be good for you, to help you get over the crush you had for him. It only made it worse, every fight she started with him brought alarm bells to your mind, and you just so desperately wanted to tell him that “It doesn’t have to be like this! I actually understand you!” Every time you refrained from saying anything, it made your chest hurt a bit more.

He set his phone down, sighing softly.

You looked up, fiddling with your shoelaces, “Another fight? What was it this time?”

“Nothing much,” he shrugged, “She was just annoyed I didn’t put three hearts at the end of my text.”

“What?” You laughed sardonically, “Wilbur, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” You couldn’t hold your sharp tongue back.

“I mean, I get it, I guess. It’s important to her, so-” “Yes, but yelling at you about it? That’s the thing. If she really cared about you, she’d just talk to you and be nice about it.”

“It’s fine, really. Now, come on, let’s keep working this section.”

That night, you laid in bed and just wished you could get past your own shyness to tell him. You could picture it in your head, just standing there and almost begging him to see you and realize that you understand him, all of his laughter and quirks. 

A week later, you got a text from him in the middle of the night, asking if you were awake. You were; it was a Saturday, so you were just listening to music and having time to yourself. It wasn’t that much longer before you heard his car park in front of your house. You went downstairs, sneaking him in easily. You walked upstairs to your room, opening the window and grabbing a blanket. You both crawled onto your roof, sitting up there.

“Is everything alright?” You asked him softly.

He shrugged, “Just a bit down, I guess. I needed someone who always makes me feel better.”

You smiled softly at him, lightly swinging your shoulder into his, “Well, I’d say you came to the right place.”

He chuckled, and for a while, you both just stared up at the stars. 

“I feel like I don’t belong here sometimes,” he admitted quietly. 

You turned to him, “What do you mean?”

“I don’t know, I guess… I just feel like everything here kind of sucks.”

You nodded. This was something you two talked about often; how shitty this little town was. “We won’t be here forever, though.”

He hummed, “We could just leave.”

“What?”

“After graduation. We could just pack our bags and head out somewhere, drive until we run out of gas, you know?”

“I guess,” you smiled softly at the idea, “that could be pretty nice.”

He smiled, leaning back a bit. He looked over at you, and you could feel nothing but love in his gaze. “If we can’t find a place we belong, we could alway make one up. Make our own place to belong.”

You didn’t know if it was how late it was or the look he was giving you that pushed you to speak before you could even think about it, “I think I know where you belong.”

“You do?”

You nodded, “Yeah.” You quickly moved to change the subject, not wanting to play homewrecker anymore than you’d felt you may already have. If he was happy, you could learn to be happy for him, you supposed, “What brought this up, anyways?”

He sighed, looking back up at the moon, “I found her kissing another guy.”

“What?”

He nodded, “Yeah. In the band room.”

“Wilbur, that’s awful.”

“We broke up,” he admitted, “and honestly, I should be more upset about it.”

“Are you not upset about it? I mean, she cheated on you.”

“I am, a bit. But I kind of feel relieved. I think you were right about her.”

You flushed slightly, “What do you mean?” He chuckled, giving you a grin, “Oh, please. I know you hated her. You may have acted otherwise, but we’ve known each other for years. I know you just as well as you know me. I could see it on your face.” You smiled lightly, “I guess I never thought about that. I did hate her, but I just didn’t want to say anything because I thought if you were happy, then I should support it.”

“That’s nice of you. I think I dodged a bullet though, to be honest.”

You nodded, and you both returned to comfortable silence. 

He broke it once again, “What did you mean? When you said you know where I belong?”

You bit your lip. Here goes nothing. “You said it yourself. I know you. So, I dunno, I think what you’ve been looking for has been here with me the whole time. I think you belong with me.”

He looked back at you, and he seemed shocked, but with better inspection, he looked like he was calculating you cautiously. 

You kept speaking, mostly out of nerves, “Wilbur, you never even smiled when you were with her. And it killed me, because your smile has become such a comfort for me, just in knowing that you’re happy. I understand you, and I’ve always been here for you. Maybe I don’t know what I’m saying, but I feel like, maybe you’ve been searching for something that’s been under your nose this whole time. I almost wonder if you’ve been oblivious or just stupid to how much I’m into you, because you know me so well, and I don’t honestly think I’ve ever hid it that well. So, yeah. I don’t even think it. You belong with me. Even if it’s as friends.”

He gave no response, and you immediately regretted your admission.

However, he didn’t give you long to regret it before he moved a hand onto your cheek, giving you a loving kiss. You kissed him back just as lovingly, as if you had been waiting for it for years. Which you had been. 

And when he pulled away, foreheads pressed together, you both just grinned. 

#mar's 200 follower event #mar writes #wilbur soot x reader #mcyt x reader #wilbur soot #dsmp x reader #wilbur x reader #core-queen :3

[torchship-rpg]

Dev Diary 8 - Identities: Terrans & Lunars

Happy International Moon Day! Torchship is set 200 years after Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, with history diverging when Alexei Leonov followed him a few days later, keeping the space race hot through moon bases, Mars, and beyond. A bit like For All Mankind, if everyone was a bit less of a complete drama queen.

In celebration of the incredibly cool feat of somehow putting boots on another world, we’re going to be focusing today’s Dev Diary on the two human Identities which descend directly from the event; the Terrans who went there and the Lunars who stayed.

Terrans

We touched on Terrans in Dev Diary 2, as an example for how even the most ‘standard’ of human identities still has a lot of interesting Traits to draw from. Still, Terrans are very much the ‘default’ human identity, being the most populous human group. They’re called Terrans because they got upset about everyone calling them Earthlings, and it had a nice symmetry with Lunars.

Even before we get into the specific sub-Identities, each Identity is divided into a bunch of subsections which dive into various details about the group; where they live, what the environment is like, and what specific biological or genetic details you might need to know. Any of these can come with Traits; the Biology one is where aliens get their signature features, and humans get the developmental and genetic distinctions that set them apart.

(As an aside, these Identity entries are big. They’re not just a couple of paragraphs, they’re thousands of words about history, culture, and biology. Sometimes I get distracted and go on for four paragraphs about the Zinovian biological and cultural concept of sex and gender. Sorry not sorry.)

For Terrans, our Biology section includes our first two Traits. As mentioned last time, 1g is unusually high for humanoid life in the setting; most other species evolved at around half to maybe three quarters of that, and the various spacers will have grown up under even less.

This means that Terrans are a great fit for the Heavyworlder trait, which is one of the Gravity traits. This gives you better tolerance for high Gs (important when you’ve got to work on your spacecraft while under thrust) in exchange for worse penalties in 0g. Compared to a spacer who could spacewalk before they could normal-walk, you’re going to come off clumsy in freefall. You also get a bonus to Physical Instrument, the cert used for basic physical strength and endurance, and do more damage in melee.

The other Terran biological Trait is Baseliner. An assumption underlying every biological Identity is that unless we say otherwise, there’s genetic engineering afoot, either ongoing or in the species' past. While some of this is awful Gattaca-style eugenics nonsense, for Torchship’s humanity this has mostly been just some tidying up. Evolution settles for a lot of ‘good-enough’ solutions, so with a little bit of targeted editing we can do stuff like prevent cells from hoarding molecules they’ll never use, or use a chemical that’s actually good at the job instead of one that the body just had lying around.

Baseliner is the Trait where we say otherwise. You pretty much can’t survive off Earth without some genetic engineering; turns out even a pretty small reduction in gravity long-term is going to be bad for your heart, nerves, muscles, bones… your everything, basically. But if you and your family have always lived on Earth, you could well have gone the last hundred years without genetic editing. 

The downside is that it costs more XP to upgrade Physical Instrument and you take extra consequences from different levels of gravity, but on the upside you have an extra ten minutes in low Oxygen before consequences start setting in, and you have a higher tolerance for drugs and poisons. You might not be peak human performance, but all those redundancies can come in handy.

Once we’re done with biology, we move into the sub-Identities, which are specific regions or subcultures. Right now Terrans only have two; rural and urban. (I’ve played around with some others but I haven’t been happy with anything yet, send in your suggestions!). Urban Terrans live in the dense, futuristic megacities that dot future Earth, in communal archeologies that are like self-contained villages. Theirs is a life of beautiful buildings, abundant greenery, a different kind of library for everything, and a joyous excess of monorails. It’s everything you could have wanted from Usborne’s Book of Future Cities (1979) come to life.

Urban Terrans get recommended the following Traits; Polyglot (to get across the cosmopolitan nature of the cities), Well-Connected (to show your closeness to the Star Union’s bureaucracy), Divergent (because urban Terrans are exactly the sort of people who do recreational genetic modifications), and Communal Spirit, a trait which boosts the effectiveness of working together. This is a common Trait for many Human identities; it’s pretty much the one that models prosocial production practices in action. 

The Rural Terran trait represents a much smaller proportion of the population. These are the mix of farmers, ecologists, and indigenous groups piecing the planet back together after a close brush with climate change. Outside of lithium, there’s not a lot of on-world mining anymore (space mining has made it uneconomical) so this is mostly agriculture. These communities are relatively isolated, bypassed by the high-speed trains connecting Earth’s cities; the saying goes that Mars is closer to the cities than the farms are.

Rural Terrans get these Traits suggested: Biome Specialist (representing a familiarity in whatever regional ecology you grew up in), Stiff Upper Lip (farm work tends to toughen you up), Natural Esper (a lot of psychics try to get away from the crowded cities), and Trusting, a trait that rewards you for helping others, but makes you more vulnerable to manipulation and makes it stressful to initiate violence.

Finally, at the end of each Identity is a section dedicated to how this group fits into Star Patrol, and how their presence can result in extra Traits through social interaction with other groups. Here, the privileged, ‘default’, often somewhat thoughtless Terrans are recommended the Imposing trait, which gives you some bonuses for being intimidating, but makes it a little harder to get people’s trust. It also does a decent job representing how Terrans are simply more heavily built than anyone else in the Sol system; when you’re comparing to tiny Martians and spindly Spacers, Terrans are collectively a bunch of Conans the Barbarian. 

You grew up somewhere where air is free and water falls from the sky, and people are understandably sometimes hesitant to correct your ignorance because you’re three times stronger than they are. Terrans often have some growing up to do as they realise how they come off to others.

Lunars

In Torchship’s world, there have been moon bases since the early 70s, and people have lived on the moon full-time since the early 2000s. The Soviet moon base program eventually withdrew due to budget problems, leaving the ever-increasing network of American bases the sole full-time real estate on the moon. In the 2040s, Armstrong City took one look at the unfolding disaster that was the collapse of American capitalism and seceded. Playing up its neutrality, it eventually became the de jure capital of the Solar Union and, now, the Star Union, though in actuality this is mostly symbolic.

This is because living on the moon is genuinely very difficult. The gravity is just 16% of what it is on Earth, it’s airless, and there’s no atmosphere to stop the radiation. When people started living there, its only selling point at all was being closer to Earth than Mars was.

Now that people do live there, though, in a vast underground city, there turns out to be a second advantage. The Moon is very rich in mineral resources and very poor in biospheres you might destroy by aggressively mining them, and it’s incredibly cheap to get things to lunar orbit. This has ended up making the moon the industrial powerhouse of the Star Union.

Lunars are living in the most extreme conditions of any of the human Identities, which is reflected in their Biology Traits. Like Spacers, they get Freefaller, a gravity trait that is in most ways an inverse of the Heavyworlder trait. They might not actually be living in freefall, but the gravity is so low it might not make a difference. The very low gravity also means they are recommended Medical Dependency; humans simply were not meant to grow up in these conditions. Even with genetic modifications, some ongoing medical treatment for bone density or nerve issues, arising from being seven feet tall and effectively 30 pounds, is to be expected. Finally, Lunars are recommended the Wireless Brain Uplink Trait, an extension of the implanted medical monitors which were once standard on US moon bases for long-term survival.

Lunars also only have two sub-identities. The first are the Mazedwellers, those who live in Armstrong City itself. Armstrong City is built out of the subterranean mines of Luna, using the thick crust of the planet to protect against solar radiation. This makes the city a twisting, sprawling web deep under the surface, where space is at an absolute premium even beyond what Spacers experience. To live in these conditions but still contribute your industrial might to the Union, your town doubles as a factory floor, converting back and forth every day.

This gives Lunars a distinct identity in their work ethic; while everyone else can be more content working at their own pace, on Luna the faster you get the job done the faster you get your living room back. Your recommended Traits are Claustrophile (giving you a bonus in a space suit but mild agoraphobia), Driven (representing this unusual work ethic), and Shifting Gears, a trait which lets you have two sets of Personality Impulses, in this case representing the strict work-life divide that is at the centre of Lunar culture.

The other Lunar sub-identity is being a Yardworker. The Lunar Yards are the reason that humanity won the big space war; turns out running a slower-than-light multiplanetary civilisation requires an absolutely ludicrous number of spacecraft, so Lunars built an absolutely enormous and ever-expanding space station to do that with, using a giant railgun to shoot raw materials up to it and commuting every day with short-hop shuttles. In the post-FTL era, the sheer scale of the Lunar Yards means humanity can produce an almost comedic surplus. During the war, Lunars couldn’t serve in Star Patrol (see the end of the dev diary for why), so people started living on the Yards to make as many rockets as possible instead as a way of contributing.

Being a Yardworker is a prestigious job for a Lunar, and also a competitive one. Work never slows down, six shifts twenty-four hours a day. For this reason, Yardworkers share the Driven and Claustrophile Traits with their Mazedweller counterparts, as they aren’t that divergent. They gain the Voidborn trait (which gives bonuses for making repairs, cheaper upgrades to the Cosmonaut cert, and stress when your rocket is experiencing shortages) and the Cultural Tool trait, which gives you a bonus 4d6-era item you can carry atop the normal inventory. For Lunars, that’s your Yarkworker’s Marker, the thick-nibbed, vacuum-writing pen workers carry to leave each other vital notes about problems that could potentially kill them and/or draw dicks on the spaceship. The Yardworker’s Marker and all the little notes that crews would find in their spacecraft developed a mythology, which is why now it’s as much a badge of honour as a practical tool.

Finally, the Lunars in Star Patrol section touches on an important consequence of Lunar biology; being a Lunar was for life up until shockingly recently. They couldn’t even survive something as tame as Martian gravity even a few decades ago, which meant they could never visit Earth and couldn’t serve in Solar Patrol because their hearts couldn’t take the acceleration. This only changed in the past few decades in the form of an intense, and often rather painful, two-year series of treatments and acclimation.

This comes with two suggested Traits. The first is Augment, the trait we use to represent attempts at genetic engineering that go above and beyond the normal evolutionary cleanup, which can represent some of the extreme intervention and above-average effects it might have had. The other is Stiff Upper Lip, as per Rural Terrans, representing the adjusted pain tolerances you’re going to develop after undergoing something like that.

As you can see, Trait overlap is pretty common in these things, and of course these are just suggested Traits. Despite all the differences, everyone is a lot alike in most ways.

#torchship #torchship ttrpg #rpg #ttrpg #dev diary

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

USS Sorcerer (NCC-9670-B), Arlington-class long-range fast dreadnought:

(Arlington-class reference art via @MarcSherwood8 on Twitter)

The Arlington-class dreadnought USS Sorcerer (NCC-9670-B) started her life as an Odyssey-class dreadnought, one of the sister ships of the USS Enterprise-F. Like her famous sister, the Sorcerer was heavily damaged in the 2411 Battle of Midnight, the climactic battle of the Iconian War, fought above Earth. The Sorcerer lay in spacedock above Mars for several years as subsequent events redirected Federation shipbuilding towards new endeavors. Finally beginning reconstruction in 2412, she saw several planned refit suggestions come and go - first, she was to be rebuilt to Odyssey-class standard, then to the upgraded Yorktown-class refit, then the upgunned Lexington-class subclass of the Yorktown-class. Finally, in 2414, it was decided that the Sorcerer would become the second in the newly designed Arlington-class of long-range fast-response dreadnoughts, to spearhead a new Federation effort to explore the Gamma Quadrant alongside the Federation's allies in the Klingon Empire, Romulan Republic, Tzenkethi Coalition, and the newly peaceful Dominion, as well as follow up on issues related to the Hur'q Crisis of 2411. Under the command of Captain Yanute, the vessel was relaunched on January 1, 2416, the 5th anniversary of the Battle of Midnight.

The Arlington-class long-range fast dreadnought:

As a descendant of the Odyssey-class, the Arlington is one of the largest ships ever built by the Federation; the subclass measures 1041.5 meters long, 385.22 meters at the beam, with a draught of over 200 meters, and a mass of over 7.25 million metric tons. With a crew of over 900, space for a full Starfleet Marine Corps battalion of 800+ members, and an embarked air wing of 400 personnel, the immense long-range vessel is thusly provided with a laundry list of amenities ranging from an internal promenade/mall, a dozen holodecks, two arboretums, two internal pool/sauna complexes, three main social lounges, and dozens of observation areas.

Able to maintain quantum slipstream travel for a full six hours, the Arlington-class combines its impressive speed with some of the heaviest firepower ever added to a Federation vessel. Boasting 29 MkXV phaser arrays, 4 light and 4 heavy MkXV pulsed phaser cannons, and a whopping 14 multipurpose torpedo/probe launch tubes. These tubes are capable of fully automated loading of the full Federation probe range, as well as photon, quantum, and transphasic torpedoes, the latter-most only available in limited quantities due to weapons limitation treaties.

In addition, the Arlington-class carries over the Lexington-class's phaser spinal lance, capable of devastating damage against vessels even larger than the Arlington. The phaser lance has been colloquially nicknamed the "Wave Motion Gun" by Lexington- and Arlington-class crew members, as it's immense energy discharge resembles that of a similarly devastating weapon from a late 20th century Earth science fiction franchise.

The Arlington also plays host and mother ship to an Eagle-class light "parasite" escort, itself a formidable and agile vessel, armed with multiple phaser arrays, four phaser cannons, and four torpedo tubes. A full wing of 60 Federation Aerospace Force Valkyrie aerospace fighters, falling under the command of the vessels' Commander Air Group, rounds out the vessels' firepower.

Defenses consist of a quadruple-layer hyper-capacitor-based metaphasic shield array, a full meter of albative armor, and a full suite of phaser- and microtorpedo-based CIWS systems; the Arlington is also fitted for but not with a Nanotech Molecular Ablative Generator field array, based on technology from an alternate 25th century.

#star trek #star trek fanfiction #uss sorcerer #crew manifest

[thebibliomancer]

Earth X #8

May, stop being in space! You need your oxygens!

Earth X: it’s a Bad Future and it is a mess.

Uatu the Watcher has been blinded and he kidnapped Aaron to be his seeing eye robot. Uatu has bullied and dehumanized Aaron into deleting his own personality.

There’s been a mass empowering event which mutated all of humanity. At first it seemed like it was Reed Richard’s fault but doubt has been raised.

A psychic brat called the Skull has arrived in New New York with an army of thousands of mind controlled people.

Bruce Banner came to Sorcerer Supreme Clea for help contacting dead Mar-Vell. But Clea turns out to be in league with Loki and traps Thor and Hulk in in the Realm of Death.

Everything is apparently the Celestials’ mysterious plan for Earth or alternatively events are off the rails and happening 200 years sooner than they’re supposed to.

Earth X has so much stuff going on. So many subplots. And yet if it was a conspiracy board, all the yarn would connect to the Celestials.

I’ve commented before that Earth X takes the chaotic, kitchen sink Marvel universe and tries to tie it all into the Celestials.

A few issues back, Uatu explained that the Asgardians weren’t gods, they were shapeshifting empathic aliens who looked like Norse mythology because people expected them too.

It wasn’t an explanation I particularly liked.

Then, last issue, it was explained that the Hulk’s various personas were only a result of the Celestial seed in Bruce absorbing more and more gamma and had nothing to do with Bruce’s mental health.

This also I didn’t particularly like.

Now Earth X goes in a similarly weird direction by claiming that Peter Parker’s trademark crushing guilt and responsibility complex are also part of the Celestial plan.

Uatu doesn’t finish explaining how the hell this makes sense because he notices Aaron ask a follow-up question… which means Aaron didn’t erase his own personality!

Yay, Aaron! It would have been a bummer for him to undergo identity death for Uatu’s jerk ass.

In fact, Aaron was pretending to be an emotionless robot because he suspected that Uatu wouldn’t reveal the true secrets behind everything as long as he could still second guess them.

So now he knows (almost) everything. And he is furious.

Aaron Stack: “Who knows, maybe man’s every vice and every hunger can be traced to the Celestials. Maybe the Celestials’ manipulation of mankind’s evolution was in actuality a step down. The fall of man. You’ve damned them, Uatu. You and your Celestial Host. I guess this doesn’t surprise me. You’ve set yourself up as God. So you have the power to damn. But do you have the power to save? Could you redeem what you’ve set out to curse? You could. I know it. But you just don’t want to bother with it. You’d rather sit. And watch.”

John Jameson, moon werewolf astronaut, wanders into the Watcher’s home and right into an argument between Uatu and Aaron.

Which is good because it gives Aaron someone else to talk to when Uatu goes to sulk.

Also, somebody to narrate to. John wants to warn Earth about a scary something approaching from space but Aaron runs through the subplot list to show how everything is a mess and nobody is really available to deal with space invaders.

Captain America uses the Lockjaw teleporter (which I guess he borrowed from Reed) to warp right into Tony’s self-quarantine. Freaking Tony the hell out with fears of contamination.

Cap tries to warn Tony about the Skull’s huge army reaching New New York but Tony is sure the Iron Avengers have it handled.

(They don’t. They’ve been destroyed by the Skull’s army)

The Skull also has his forces wipe out the Hyda. Hmm, I really thought the mind control squid would be more important to the plot. I included it in every recap.

The Skull is confronted by Cop Luke Cage (who I also thought would be more important to the plot after he had that scene with Peter Parker in issue 1) and is irreverent and horrible as ever.

He’s the worst. I love him as a villain.

Meanwhile, Reed and Ben walk the streets. Ben has an emotional breakthrough all by himself while Reed is completely engrossed in his own subplot and doesn’t notice Ben is talking to him.

He altered Cerebro to find Inhumans instead of mutants so he could find the missing Inhuman Prince but everyone on the streets is pinging as Inhuman.

At the same time, in Latveria, Luna starts spontaneously undergoing terrigenesis, the Inhuman transformation process. Which should only happen in the presence of the terrigen mist.

Which finally solves the mystery of the mass empowering event. It wasn’t an explosion at the vibranium radio tower. The entire world has been exposed to terrigen mist!

Somehow. We don’t know how. And the Inhumans seem surprised to realize that this is the case.

Over in the Sanctum Sanctorum, Clea gloats to a captive blind child Bruce but is surprised by Hulk and Thor escaping the Realm of Death with the help of ghost Strange.

She asks for Loki’s help but he’s bailed on her. Obviously.

So Clea decides to explode New New York out of spite but Thor transports her and him to Asgard, knowing Loki will prevent him from coming back.

With the Sorcerer Supreme and Thor out of his way, Loki gloats Earth is his.

Still not sure how this fits into everything else going on.

I’m not sure if Cap found any help from Tony but he moves onto Russia.

Currently ruled by Colossus.

There was a bit in an earlier appendix about how due to the mass empowering event, former superheroes were asked to take leadership positions since they were used to leading those with powers.

It hasn’t come up so I forgot about it but here we are with President? King? Secretary? Colossus.

Colossus doesn’t want to get involved because Russia is the breadbasket of the world and he needs to protect it. But Cap points out that the Skull won’t stop at the ocean. He’ll make his way to Russia eventually and he’s a dumb kid who treats this like a game. He won’t think about controlling people to do agriculture.

(If that’s the case, the Celestial plan for Earth must come about really soon after the Skull. Or at least depending on whether that’s been derailed or not by the terrigen jumping the gun by two hundred years. But my thought is, if the Skull is part of the plan, you can’t have much time between him taking over the world and whatever the Celestials need Earth for. Because the kid isn’t going to bother keeping civilization going.)

Back in New New York, Peter continues to try to convince May not to do anything. She just tells him to grow up and jumps into action against the Skull’s army without a plan.

The Skull sends Iron Maiden to confront May Venom. Iron Maiden begs May to withdraw before the Skull takes control of her but May doesn’t listen.

May beats Iron Maiden with a little asphyxiation and then immediately falls under the Skull’s control.

His creepy, creepy control.

Away from the action, Peter is at a loss for what to do now. He contemplates a Peter Parker Spider-Man costume he sees in a shop window but walks away very “Spider-Man No More” ish.

I guess Peter’s identity is out.

The appendix has a bit where John Jameson asks after his father. Aaron tells him that Jonah has himself locked up in the Daily Bugle building, the paper having gone out of business when it was revealed Spider-Man had been taking Spider-Man pictures all along. Jonah also keeps Jack Russell Werewolf By Night locked up with him, under the belief he’s werewolf astronaut John, since NASA lied to John and didn’t tell Jonah his son was going to the Moon.

Phew.

And the issue ends with the Skull and his top peeps cornering President Norman Osborn in his office.

Unless this goes in a completely unexpected direction, I also thought President Osborn would be more important to the plot than he was.

Was he just a Bad Future signifier? Things are so bad, Norman Osborn is president, but also he’s not really important?

Odd.

#earth x #liveblog #machine man #uatu the watcher #John Jameson #captain america #iron man #luke cage #mr fantastic #the thing #inhumans #hulk #Thor #Clea #Loki #colossus #spider man #mayday parker #venom #norman osborn

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

A few stories about the Tangerine Tyrant caught my eye today, and they all point to his increasing desperation - so I figured I’d go around the horn and celebrate his continuing dissipation.

First: Criminal Defendant and Adjudicated Rapist Donald Trump yesterday predicted a “bloodbath” if he didn’t get reelected, and the media quickly devolved into outlets condemning his use of violent rhetoric and others - Fox and Newsmax - concern trolling over how he was talking specifically about the automobile industry. So, whatever. If you’re interested in parsing the event along those lines, have at it - but I think there’s a more interesting, deeply indicative phenomenon just below the surface that speaks not just to Trump’s mentality but that of his whole bonkers cult.

If you’re looking for the atavistic pull of Donald Trump on his followers, it’s in his power to do whatever the hell he wants and face no consequences. NO ONE can tell him what to do. NO ONE can keep him from attacking whomever he wants. NO ONE can prevent him from sating his desires. NO ONE.

Now, we know that’s not true - as evidenced by his exile to Mar-a-Lago for the past three years, but it’s part of the mystique. In a lot of ways, it makes sense if you look at his cult following - people who are, by and large, deeply disempowered and enraged at a culture that is stripping away their traditional privileges and social entitlements. They WANT Trump to keep shitting the punch bowl as a sort of wish fulfillment of their own stifled rage. Maybe they can’t rape the woman they want to rape or kill the immigrants they hate for speaking Spanish or Hindi at the Gas-n-Sip – but they sure as hell can dream about it when Trump gives a cross-burner of a speech. That’s all standard form.

But what we saw last night - and in the fascist outrage-trolling today - was something new. It’s been creeping into the 2024 election cycle here and there, but yesterday, it entirely broke through, and it’s this: NOT EVEN TRUMP’S BRAIN IS ALLOWED TO CENSOR TRUMP’S MOUTH WHEN IT COMES TO RAGE AND ANGER.

Look, Trump KNOWS that using words like “bloodbath” is going to cost him non-MAGA voters. He knows that calling people “vermin” is going to hurt his chances of navigating the very narrow path ahead if he hopes to return to the White House. Yet, he can’t stop himself. Trump is unable to act in his own easily achieved best interest if it means not being a monster, and while it’s lamentable that he’s bringing such hatred to our national debate, I encourage him to keep it up.

You be you, Donald!

Every single time you let your id out of its box, it’s like sending America an unsolicited, mushroom-shaped dick-pic. Sure, your fans are going to love it, but the rest of us grossed the fuck out.

So, please! Rage on!

-----

Second:

Trump’s lawyers in the NYS civil fraud case settlement submitted a filing today that it is “a practical impossibility” for Trump to post a bond for the half-billion dollars he needs to cough up in order to appeal the decision. According to reports, he approached 30 different surety companies, and they all turned him down. Why they would do that might indicate what’s got him tuned to “bloodbath” and “vermin” levels of rage.

It might be a simple point, but it bears a paragraph of explanation.

Most folks who don’t work in the NYC real estate market – or any real estate market – might think, “Hey, he’s a rich guy. Why not just sell a few of those buildings he owns? They’ve gotta be worth a pretty penny.”

Or, alternatively, “Why won’t anyone take Trump Tower as collateral for a loan?”

The simple answer is he doesn’t really OWN any of that shit outright. It’s ALL mortgaged to the hilt. To get a clearer picture of this, let’s look at 40 Wall Street – one of Trump’s “prestige” properties.

The numbers are a bit hard to come by, but an hour of reading suggests that the building is presently worth about $200 million. Mind you, part of the fraud charges – now proven – included his valuation of the building in 2015 at over $750 million, but it’s just not worth that at all.

So, take the $200 million as a starting point and note that Trump’s mortgage on the property, according to a Bloomberg report in November of 2023, stands at $122 million. So, if Trump were to liquidate his stake in the property fully, he’d only net about $78 million – and that is BEFORE the capital gains taxes, NYS taxes, and NYC taxes on the sale. According to a few articles I’ve scanned this evening, that would be up to about 40% of his earnings. That means, even if he drops one of his most precious assets, he would only raise about $50 million.

He owes TEN TIMES that number by next week.

Play that out another round, and realize that if Trump tried to sell ten or twenty office buildings in NYC all at once, the price of ALL of them would plummet to fire-sale prices.

He’s fucked. Moreover, he knows it and is desperate to find a way out.

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This brings us to news item number three: The Return of Paul Manafort.

News leaked today that Trump is considering bringing convicted felon and former campaign manager Paul Manafort back into his 2024 bid for the White House. Manafort, primarily due to his complete lack of a moral center, would be a tremendous asset for Trump. He’s a solid political operative, but what he REALLY brings to the table is a direct line back to the Russian oligarchy and their money. That, obviously, is an enormous threat to national security, and I’ve got to hope that the intelligence services in DC and around the world will be on heightened alert for any covert – or overt – entreaties to Putin or his cronies for a loan. I’ve got to hope there are ways of making such entreaties known to the public through selective leaks if nothing else.

But that brings us back to observation number one.

Trump knows that going to Putin for help with his financial difficulties if it becomes known, would be a dagger to the heart for his chances of returning to the White House. Yet, if I’m right, he will be unable to stop himself when it comes to finding a fix for his hemorrhaging empire. His brain will tell him this is a terrible idea, but it won’t matter. NO ONE is allowed to stop Donald Trump from doing whatever the hell he wants to do – not even Donald Trump.

In 1776, James Otis, a thoughtful supporter of the Revolutionary War, noted about politics, “When the pot boils, the scum will rise.”

Trump is proving that to be true, even when there’s only one evil, arrogant, rapist bastard in the soup. He’s so screwed.

Love to you all.

Michael J. Tallon

#TFG #skullduggery #Michael J. Tallon #political commentary #the plot thickens

[candlecoo]

This is an AU Idea in which the time between the Pre-Quirk and Modern Era is between 400 to 500 years rather than 200, somewhere in that time period the remaining Quirkless population left the planet to live amidst the stars on stations or on colonies. The idea of people still Quirkless existing is an idea few consider plausible and even fewer know is a truth, the common belief is that the Quirkless Humans are extinct.

Midoriya Izuku is a modern Martian Human and has the dream of going to earth to be a hero, a dream that many before him had expressed but the ruling government had argues it was a bad idea as they didn't know how their continued existence would be viewed.

In the end Izuku got permission to descend to Earth as part of an Expedition to Earth, to return his his ancestors' homeland of Japan and make an attempt to become a hero in a world that has long since forgotten about the Quirkless people.

Basically a Spaceborne Iron Man-like Izuku, the suit is needed to compensate for Earth's gravity. Furthermore there is a difference in Technology levels between the Quirk'd on Earth and the Quirkless among the stars, what the Quirk'd population consider Cutting Edge (Holograms) is seen as old tech by the Quirkless.

- so quirks had started popping up when civilization was in the middle of an advanced space or at least the start of one.

- quirks appeared in the population more rapid in this timeline and the people without quirks continued to advance technology to attempt to keep up in the newly quirked world.

- by the second generation the majority of people had quirks.

- however everything stalled for those who did, they now had to deal with the drawbacks of their newfound power.

- on the contrary the quirkless had been investing everything they had in scientific advancement.

- threatened by this the quirked members of the government planned to set an initiative to eliminate the quirkless population.

- while a smaller group of quirkless government members set in motion a secret plan to evacuate the quirkless population out of the planet, with highly advanced space travel technology that had been kept secret.

- the plan was to get all the quirkless people they could off the planet before the Quirked Rights Bill was put in place, which would allow the government to place people without quirks into camps and basically repeat some of Earth's darkest history.

- the project resorted to any means necessary to protect the quirkless population even if it meant taking them off the street or by force.

- they departed meer days before the Bill went up, and those that weren't saved were captured one way or another and we're never heard from again.

- a brother early on in the disappearances decided to vault away his younger brother after tragic events came to pass.

- that was 494 years ago.

- today was young Izuku Midoriya's graduation to his next chapter in the martian capital city. He was a proficient scholar and inventor.

- and today at the age of thirteen it was his turn to decide what direction he would like to take his life into.

- he could find a career to devote and train from on Mars.

- or he could follow the footsteps of many and explore and settle in colones out in vast space.

- but Izuku wanted neither. He had always been fascinated with his ancestors homeland and Mars' surveillance of the ongoing development on Earth.

- they had superheroes! Real life superheroes!!

- plus Izuku had always found quirks to be interesting.

- so he makes an appeal to have a future on earth for the purpose of research into quirks and their homeland, without letting anyone know about the quirkless or the colonies of course.

- and after alot of debate it is approved and Izuku is given all the identification and money needed to survive on Earth.

- when Izuku gets there he's fascinated by the people and quirks. Even moreso with the fact that the idea of quirklessness is treated as myth or like a really sad documentary. Also Earth's tech is SO far behind!!!

- Izuku plots a plan that will allow him to blend in quirk wise and he finds himself on the fast track to becoming a hero.

#aspirations of earth au #candle answers #ask the candle #bnha au #bnha #bnha headcannons

[pinchofhoney]

200 follower special!!

oh my!!

hello, and thank you all for 200 followers!! ♡ i know it's not really a big deal, but for me it's more than a lot. i’m grateful to each and every one of you!! i can't even imagine so many people in one place lmao

i missed the moment when there were a 100 of you in here, so now we buckle up and let's go with a special event!! ♡

here is the file, where you can find a complete list of actors and characters for whom i write. below you will find a list of prompts for both fluff and angst. as you can see, i have two moods and nothing in between - it is what it is, right?

please send requests in this general format: angst/fluff (to make it more interesting you can pair them), number or dialogue selected from the list and the character of your choice. if you feel like, you can also add a plot idea, but i need all the above information no matter what

requests will be accepted during this time period: mar. 26, 2023 - apr. 09, 2023 closed

i’ll be prioritizing these over other requests between this week and the following, thank you once again ♡

» special events masterlist

angsty dialogue prompst by @glasswriter1​

“i guess i wasn’t enough, was i?”

“i don’t think i can look at you and not think of how you killed every last bit of love i had”

“i hate that i was always yours and you were never mine”

“please tell me i’m dreaming, that you’re not actually breaking up with me”

“please leave before i lose myself to madness and beg you to stay”

“are you happy now? i’ve been destroyed, is this what you wanted?”

“all i can think about is kissing you when i shouldn’t. you aren’t mine”

“so this is it? this is where it all ends?”

“you want to do something for me? how about this? leave me the fuck alone and never come back”

“can i hug you? one last time“

fluffy dialogue prompts by the same author

"do you know how glad i am to have met you?”

“make me a playlist sometime, will you?”

“in another universe, we are not together, probably not even in the same country. and i’m glad that this isn’t that universe”

“do you know you mumble in your sleep? it’s precious how it’s all either about stars, strawberries and rainbows or murder, arson and dictatorship. there’s no in between”

“god, sometimes it’s so hard to… to not kiss you, you know”

gentle, accidental, brushing of hands while walking together

A watching B laugh, their head thrown back in amusement, eyes tearing up and skin getting all flushed, and realizing that they would never feel the same for anyone else

“i’m not kidding, if you were mine i’d bring you the moon if you asked me to”

“how much longer are you going to hide your feelings for me, dummy?”

and it was when A watched B look at someone else the way they wanted to be looked at. does A realize how much in love with their best friend they were?

#thank you #pinchofhoney's special events #200 followers event #200 followers #followers special #pedro pascal #joel miller #javi gutierrez #javier peña #oscar isaac #steven grant #marc spector #jake lockley #ben barnes #the darkling #kaz brekker #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack kline #castiel #crowley #lucifer #x reader #fluff #angst #hurt/comfort #prompt list #writing prompt

[marleysfinest]

TEARS OF TITANS Reiner Braun x OC fic (in progress, nsfw):

AO3 // Wattpad

MMB X HELOS band au (aot, in progress)

AO3

REIMAR CHRONICLES (selfship drabbles, posted whenever I remember to update it)

AOT (all are nsfw unless stated otherwise) reiner

paradis vs marley touch

perfect day ❤

post-shopping quickie

cadet reiner hate-fuck

beg

reiner bakes a cake [fluff]

lunch break

devoted

jean

enemies to lovers [fluff]

shopping trip [fluff]

levi

massage [fluff]

reijean

puzzle piece [fluff]

JJK (all nsfw unless stated otherwise)

gojo wake up

geto take it dont move

choso please

toji lazy

FOLLOWER EVENTS

Hot 100 🔥

Tight 200 🌺

OTHER EVENTS

mar's moodboards 💘(valentine's selfship event) - in progress

#pls bear with me while I clean my house #masterlist #reference

[be-events]

congrats on surviving episode two of next gen! updated rankings can be found here. no eliminations were announced in this episode, however the next episode’s teamwork evaluation will be the first elimination round. participants in the bottom ranks have been warned that they may not survive to the third episode if they do not show marked improvement.

for participating in the auditions and appearing in the second episode of NEXT GEN, all wannabes who submitted their participation may collect points as outlined on this spreadsheet. points were awarded based on the writing requirements submitted and the optional extra threads. no verification is required; you may link back to this post on your spreadsheets.

for the next episode of NEXT GEN, all participants will be divided into singing, dancing, and rapping groups, and then those groups split in two for a total of six teams. each skill will go head to head with the winning team receiving immunity from elimination while the members of the losing team are at the mercy of the judges to stay in the competition. the teams and their assigned songs can be found below. the singing teams will be practicing at the LIME ENTERTAINMENT building with help from BOM and are given special access to certain practice rooms for the week. dance teams will have practice rooms at SR MEDIA assisted by YOOJUNG and rap teams at STUDIO DELTA with J-YOON. independent practice will be expected of them between lessons and participants are welcome to work together with their teams to rehearse.

the teams and performances for episode three are as follows:

DANCE TEAM A - performing FINESSE by bruno mars

bada

jinyoung

noel

DANCE TEAM B - performing SALUTE by little mix

sarang

stevie

saea

matty

SINGING TEAM A - performing SPARK by taeyeon nana

joomi

kou

seojun

haneul

SINGING TEAM B - performing MISSING YOU by btob

haein

ren

dohyun

RAP TEAM A - performing WITCH by jang yeeun x jeon jiwoo x jamie x cheetah x hyoyeon

nayoung

hyejin

eunkyung

RAP TEAM B - performing ZOO by taeyong x jeno x hendery x yangyang x giselle

junho

cam

wonjae

jinae

NOTE: for the singing and rapping groups, don’t worry too much about line distributions! you’re welcome to establish them with your team independently so long as everyone agrees with them but this is entirely optional. same with dance groups regarding center distributions.

during the next few days, all participants will be practicing at the LIME ENTERTAINMENT building to prepare for their mcountdown performance. this rehearsal will take up the majority of their morning and after lunch they will head to the various other locations. once the mcountdown performance is complete, participants will be at the separate locations full time.

TASK:

this event is for next gen participants only. part 3 will run until march 17 at 11:59pm. any solos posted after the deadline will not be considered. please send in your submission before this deadline.

please use the hashtag #BE:NGS1P3 for all posts relating to this part of the event.

please write at least one 4-post thread with another participant in your team preparing for the mission. NOTE: this task may be completed multiple times.

please write a 300+ word solo about your muse’s performance in front of the judges

OPTIONAL: please write at least one 4-post thread with another participant from any team preparing for the mcountdown performance. NOTE: this task may be completed multiple times.

OPTIONAL: please write a 200+ word solo about your muse reflecting on their preparation and their performance in front of the judges. this should be treated as a verbal interview. what was the greatest challenge during this mission? was there another participant who was especially helpful? do they feel confident in their performance? etc. questions can be made up to prompt responses to specific events throughout practice and the performances.

NOTE THAT THE WRITING TASKS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOT OPTIONAL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. POINTS WILL BE AWARDED IN THE NEXT UPDATE.

please keep in mind that all threads and solos should be written with the assumption that cameras are on the participants at all times.

when you’ve completed these tasks, please send the following form to our events blog:

SUBMISSION TITLE: MUSE NAME - NEXT GEN S1 EP 3

preparation: link to thread *may be completed multiple times; please include multiple links if so

mcountdown preparation: link to thread *may be completed multiple times; please include multiple links if so *optional

performance: link to solo 

reflection: link to solo *optional

#BE:NGS1 #BE:NGS1P3

[kudzucataclysm]

History leading up to the year 2005

heavily redacted btw :(

250 Ma –‘Them’ arrive and influence life on Earth.

5 BCE - Martian history begins with the Firsts.

Late 1800s – “Aliens” on Mars make contact with major earth governments; this begins a period of unprecedented scientific advancement.

November 30th 1905 – The first version of the superintelligent AI known as ‘Hammond’ is created.

1911 – First man lands on the moon. 

1915 - Lupe Altena is born.

1931 – The first instance of Martian Pneumoconiosis aka Adirondack Plague (ADP) is detected on Earth.

1937 – Lupe Altena and Hammond meet.

1943 – Carmine Keller is conscripted into the Wehrmacht at the age of 26. 5 months into his service, he is presumed KIA.

November 1945 – a comet known as Gabriel’s Arrow suddenly enters the solar system.

December 1945 – Gabriel appears in the sky on Earth. ‘Outbreaks’ of spontaneous human combustion and seemingly supernatural events occur worldwide for 6 days, and on the 7th day the Arrow leavesAround 40% of the human population at the time developed superpowers.

February 1947 –  the Yellowstone Caldera shows sudden, unusual signs of imminent eruption. The event is easily swept under the rug due to the global outbreak of superpowers.

1951 – a group of superpowered humans affected by Gabriel’s Arrow form the United Heroes Coalition overseen by the US government; world nations, especially the UN, NATO, and the Warsaw Pact sign the Stockholm Concordat, an international agreement that regulates the activities of ‘altered individuals’ to be under supervision of the UN as well as the individual’s respected government.

1952 - 1956 – Civil war on Mars occurs. The lone king, ALDEBARAN, is overthrown and eaten by 5 of his sons.

1952 – the US government publicly establishes ABIS, a form of weather modification to assist in agriculture and to potentially use in armed conflict. 

1953 – The World Stock Market collapses.

1954 – Martial Law is declared in the United States, and the US Constitution is suspended.

1957 – 1959 – Tension between Earth and Mars simmers, as it’s discovered that the Martians have been sending infiltrators to spy on earthlings for decades.

1960 – Richard Nixon wins the 1960 US presidential election. Martial Law in the US ends.

October 27th 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis goes hot- Nixon launches airstrikes against the nuclear weapons stored in Cuba, leading to catastrophic loss of life. The USSR invades Berlin. NATO attempts to de-escalate the situation; the USSR resists all attempts at negotiation.

October 31st 1962 — Martial Law is reinstated in the US. Congress is suspended until further notice, and the military assumes control over the legislative and judicial branch.

November 30th 1962 – the USSR launches a nuclear retaliation strike against the US and Europe. The nukes detonate in the heartlands of the mainland decimating the agriculture industry. Millions die from the blasts, and nuclear detonations occur over the east coast and western Europe leading to blackouts of the electrical and ABIS grid.  The continental crust is destabilized, and the Yellowstone Supervolcano finally experiences a limited eruption, breaking open the tectonic plate under the Midwestern states.

[Collapse of the ABIS grid as well as the deaths of those who operated it irrecoverably decimates the world’s weather system.]

LUPE ALTENA, with the assistance of the USSR superhero VERONIKA, stops the caldera from completely erupting through unknown means.

The US Urban Civil War period begins months later.

1967 - 198X - The European Resettlement Program is initiated and overseen by the Sinosphere. The European diaspora results in over 200 million refugees. Europe is abandoned.

197X – Lupe Altena founds the PROMETHEAN SOCIETY.

198X – A diplomatic Martian fleet appears above Earth, offering aid and scientific knowledge in exchange for diplomatic relations and earth’s resources. The emergence of the half-Martian half-human Chimera species follows. The US Urban Civil War period ends.

August 1990 – Francis Mueller hatches from her egg. This is also the year where Gabriel’s Arrow returns.

November 30?, 1991 – Desmond Arkady is born in the shattered remains of the American Midwest.

2005- current year

#shattered earth #IM DRUNK SO #IGNOEW MEEE

[usafphantom2]

More HARM missiles in the new US$ 725 million aid package for Ukraine

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 10/17/2022 - 16:00 in Armaments, Military, War Zones

The U.S. Department of Defense authorized another presidential shipment of security assistance worth up to $725 million to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs.

Friday's authorization, which allows the Pentagon to quickly transfer equipment from U.S. military stocks, is the 23rd withdrawal of U.S. Department of Defense equipment to Ukraine by the Biden administration since August 2021.

According to the Pentagon, the new security assistance package includes additional ammunition for the HIMARS, 23,000 155 mm artillery ammunition, 500 155 mm precision guided artillery ammunition, 5,000 155 mm ammunition from remote anti-shielding mine (RAAM) systems, 5,000 anti-tank weapons and more than 200 Humvees.

The package also includes an unspecified amount of AGM-88 high-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs) that have been integrated into the Ukrainian Air Force's MiG-29s. The Pentagon confirmed for the first time in August this year that it has supplied HARM missiles to Ukraine, which seek enemy radars employed by air defense systems and destroy them.

Meanwhile, Ukraine showed video images of the missile developed by Northrop Grumman being launched from one of its fighters.

The presidential "withdrawal" of October 14 follows the meeting of U.S. Secretary of Defense Austin, of defense ministers of almost 50 countries in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels this week, in which leaders pledged to provide additional security assistance.

As a result of the meeting, Germany delivered the first of the four IRIS-T air defense systems committed to Ukraine. This critical donation will help Ukraine better defend its civilians from Russian air strikes. Germany also recently announced that it will deliver more MARS rocket and oxen systems.

Spain announced that it will provide four HAWK launchers to strengthen Ukraine's air defense, while Norway, Germany and Denmark invested in Slovakia's native production of Zuzana II oysters for Ukraine.

In addition, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have committed to sending air defense missiles to the NASAMS system that was supplied to Ukraine by the US.

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[loversj0y]

You’re loosing me 🥲

you're losing me

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pairing: wilbur soot x gn! reader

tw: angst, wilbur is kind of a dick tbh, crying and fights

notes: i love this song so much but this one made me so sad man. im getting better at writing angst but it still makes me sad :(

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You couldn’t sleep.

You and Wilbur had barely spoken in months. You two see each other everyday, and it’s almost shocking how many conversations you could have without saying anything. You couldn’t tell if you even loved him anymore, you knew you had the ability to, it was just hard to sort through all the noise and indecision in your brain. 

Wilbur wasn’t very vocal about your relationship. He was affectionate in private, but sometimes in public it felt like he barely knew you. Even though you’d been together for years, he still acted like an acquaintance when you were around anyone, even friends. 

Your relationship felt like dying. You didn’t feel trapped, but you so desperately wanted him to just do something and be there, give you any sign that he still cared about you and loved you. 

You felt cold when you finally managed to go to sleep. His arms weren’t wrapped around you like they used to be. It felt like sleeping next to a stranger.

You felt just as cold when you woke up. Wilbur was awake next to you, leaned up and scrolling on his phone. You turned and looked at him, unable to hide the sourness from your expression this early in the morning.

He looked at you in response to your shifting, “Hm? Oh, good morning, darling.” He smiled, “Sleep well?”

You shrugged in response. You missed when a response like that would make him pull you into his arms, kiss you and ask you what was wrong and what he could do to help. 

Instead, he just ignored it. “Old friend of mine is having a party tonight, do you want to come with me?”

Not really. But it was better than just sitting and rotting in your apartment, unable to escape the constant reminders of your dying relationship. 

“I’ll come, I guess.” You’d long given up hiding the pain and resignation in your voice. Wilbur never noticed the signs.

“Great,” he leaned down, pecking your lips quickly, “I love you, darling,” he stood, walking out quickly.

You didn’t even have a chance to respond before he was out of the room.

You laid in bed for a long time. Wilbur barely noticed that you stayed there, even as he flitted around the room and got dressed for the day. Once he’d spoken a quick “goodbye” and headed out (you didn’t even know where he was going), you finally stood up and took a shower. You cried while you showered. Your heart felt tired of this, and you didn’t know how much longer you could keep it together. You’d dedicated years of your life to this relationship, and he acted like he simply tolerated you. You don’t know how long you stood there crying, but by the time you got out, Wilbur had returned. If he noticed your red-rimmed and puffy eyes, he didn’t say anything.

You got ready for the party quickly. It was a quick walk there. Every time you remembered the walks you used to go on, where his arms would be around you or his hand it yours, it felt like twisting a knife in your chest. But you put on a happy face. It wasn’t anyone here’s business the mental torment you were going through. 

The start of the party was nice, meeting some of Wilbur’s friends and mostly just talking your praises of Wilbur. Shortly after, he left you alone, and you felt overwhelmed. You didn’t know anyone here, except Wilbur and he’d currently fucked off to where ever. You stood in the corner, trying to spot him in the gathering of people. It almost felt like he was ignoring you, but you tried to convince yourself that it wasn’t on purpose. 

It did make you bitter, though. He was the one who told you to come, he was the one who invited you out, and he was the one who was supposed to love you. You’d never felt so alone in a room full of so many people. 

You finally spotted him, making your way over quickly. You took your place next to him, and he spared you a quick glance before going back to his conversation. You didn’t butt into the conversation, you didn’t even know this guy.

He brought you up though.

“And so, you two, you’ve been together how long now?”

“Three years,” Wilbur supplied, letting his hand come to rest on your lower back. 

“Wow, three years, that’s amazing. Are you liking the married life?”

It was an honest mistake, one you would’ve clarified with a soft chuckle and a simple “Oh, we’re not married yet.”

Wilbur had a different response. “Oh, god, no,” he fully laughed, shaking his head, “We’re not married. Didn’t mean to give you that idea.” He responded, acting like it was a joke.

It sent you spiraling. The rest of the night was a blur, too lost in your own thoughts. He clearly seemed to think that your relationship was a joke. So why was he even still with you? Why was he making you feel like you were dying? Why was it going to be your job to find a way to end this? To get him to admit that there was nothing left; he didn’t love you anymore. 

You didn’t remember getting home. You had walked home without him. He probably hadn’t even noticed. You stood in front of the mirror, staring at yourself and just wondering how you could’ve gotten there. 

Wilbur unlocked the door to the apartment about half an hour after you’d gotten home.

“Love?” He asked, walking in and finding you in front of the mirror, “Why’d you come home without saying anything?”

You sighed quietly. “I’m shocked you actually noticed.”

He scoffed, “Why wouldn’t I?”

“You haven’t noticed anything else.”

“I don’t understand.”

“I know you don’t.” You ran a hand through your hair.

He didn’t speak for a while, crossing his arms, “Is this… another one of your sadness things again? You should just tell me if you’re upset. I could’ve stayed there if I knew that’s all it was.”

You felt rage bubble up in your chest, “God, Wilbur, I am so sorry, actually. That my pain ruined your fucking night. By all means, go. Clearly, you think I’m the pinnacle of being okay right now, so just fucking go. You obviously would rather be anywhere than with your partner who’s been struggling for months.”

He frowned, “What are you on about?”

You clenched your jaw, “Do you love me, Wilbur?”

“What? Of course I love you-” “Then tell me anything about myself, right now. Anything recent. How have I been doing at work? What song have I been listening to? How many nights have I stayed up crying while you didn’t notice?”

He was speechless. You continued. 

“I have spent months being there for you. Every time anything went wrong, or you needed support, you didn’t even have to say anything, I was always there for you, even when it hurt me! And you haven’t even noticed that I’ve been fucking drowning for months. All I’ve wanted for months is for you to ask once, just once, if I’m okay. And you haven’t!” You scoffed, anger bringing a laugh out of you. 

“And you know what? I wouldn’t marry me either! Because clearly there must be something so vitally wrong with me that when one of your friends mistakenly thought we were married, you laughed in his face. You treated the entire concept as a joke! And I- I’m such a fucking people pleaser, I didn’t even say anything or speak up at all! I let you laugh off the idea of us being together forever as if it didn’t even matter!”

You were fighting off tears as he spoke up finally.

“Is that what this is about? I didn’t mean to laugh like that, it just caught me off guard.”

You put your head in your hands, groaning and yelling into them, “That is not what this is about, Wilbur! Have you even been listening to me? Do you fucking love me or not? Because you haven’t given me any indication to show me that you love me, Wilbur. I feel like I’m dying just being here with you, and you haven’t even noticed. I have done so much for this relationship, and all I have wanted for months is for you to give any sign that you even know I exist!” You panted, and Wilbur just stared at you, “Will you just fucking do something?”

“I don’t know what to say. I didn’t realize that you were… were feeling like this.”

You nodded, sitting down on your bed, arms crossed. “Get out, Wilbur,” you whispered.

“What?”

You sighed, placing your head in your hands and wiping away tears, “Get the fuck out. I can’t do this anymore.”

Within moment, he walked out, leaving you behind. 

The worst part about it all was how easily he listened. He didn’t try to fight for you. He just grabbed some of his things and left you, alone, to sit in a dark room where you’d watched your relationship die.

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[strangerrthings]

All the movies that inspired Stranger Things 4 (According to the Stranger Things Writers)

1. 300 2. 12 Monkeys 3. 13th Warrior 4. 2001: a Space Odyssey 5. 28 Days Later 6. 47 Meters Down: Uncaged 7. Ace Ventura Pet Detective 8. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 9. Almost Famous 10. Altered States (Unavailable) 11. Amalie 12. American Sniper (TNT) 13. Analyze This 14. Annihilation 15. Aristocats 16. Armageddon 17. Arrival 18. Assassin’s Creed Movie 19. Avengers: Age of Ultron 20. Babe: Pig in the City 21. Back Draft (Peacock) 22. Basketcase 23. Batman Begins 24. Batman vs. Superman 25. Battle of Big Rock 26. Beauty and the Beast 27. Beetlejuice 28. Behind Enemy Lines 29. Beverly Hills Cop 30. Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey 31. Billy Madison 32. Black Cauldron 33. Black Swan 34. Blade Runner: 2049 35. Blair Witch Project 36. Boondock Saints 37. Borat 38. Bram Stoker’s Dracula 39. Broken Arrow 40. Burn After Reading 41. C.H.U.D. 42. Cabin in the Woods 43. Carrie 44. Casablanca 45. Castaway 46. Children of Men 47. Cider House Rules 48. Clueless 49. Con Air 50. Congo 51. Constantine 52. Crank 53. Crimson Tide 54. Dances With Wolves 55. Dark Knight 56. Death to Smoochy 57. Deep Blue Sea 58. Die Hard 1 2 & 3 59. Dogma (YouTube) 60. Don’s Plum 61. Don’t Breathe (Nope) 62. Doom 63. Dreamcatcher 64. Drop Dead Fred 65. Dukes of Hazzard 66. Dumb & Dumber 67. Edward Scissorhands 68. Emma 69. Enter the Void 70. Event Horizon 71. Ex Machina 72. Fallen 73. Fargo 74. Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift 75. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 76. Final Destination 77. Fisher King 78. Forrest Gump 79. Fugitive 80. Full Metal Jacket 81. Get Out 82. Ghost 83. Ghostbusters 84. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 85. Girl, Interrupted 86. Gladiator (?) 87. Godzilla: King of the Monsters 88. Good Fellas 89. Good Will Hunting 90. Hackers 91. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets 92. Heat 93. Hell or High Water 94. Hellraiser (I + II) 95. Hidden 96. High Fidelity 97. High School Musical 98. Highlander 99. Home Alone 100. Hunger Games 101. Hurt Locker 102. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang 103. I Am Legend 104. In Cold Blood 105. Inception 106. Independence Day 107. Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark 108. Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom 109. Innerspace 110. Inside Out 111. Interview with a Vampire 112. Into the Spiderverse 113. Island of Dr. Moreau 114. It Follows 115. It’s a Wonderful Life 116. Italian Job 117. James Bond (all) 118. James Bond: Skyfall 119. John Carter of Mars 120. JP (= Jurassic Park?) 121. Jupiter Ascending 122. Jurassic World 2: Fallen Kingdom 123. Karate Kid 124. Kingsmen 125. Knives Out 126. Labyrinth 127. Leon: the Professional 128. Let The Right One In 129. Little Miss Sunshine 130. Long Kiss Goodnight 131. Lord of the Rings: Trilogy 132. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers 133. Lost Boys 134. Mad Max: Fury Road 135. Magnolia 136. Mask of Zorro 137. Men in Black 138. Mimic 139. Minority Report 140. Misery 141. Mr. & Mrs. Smith 142. My Cousin Vinny 143. Mystic River 144. Never Been Kissed 145. Nightmare 3: Dream Warriors 146. No Country for Old Men 147. North By Northwest 148. Ocean’s 11 + 12 149. Ocean’s 8 150. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 151. Open Water 152. Orange County 153. Ordinary People 154. Paddington: 2 155. Pan’s Labyrinth 156. Papillon 157. Paradise Lost 158. Peter Jackson’s King Kong 159. Peter Pan 160. Pineapple Express 161. Platoon 162. Predator 163. Primal Fears 164. Princess Bride 165. Prisoners 166. Pulp Fiction 167. Ravenous 168. Reality Bites 169. Red Dragon 170. Reservoir Dogs 171. Robocop 172. Rushmore 173. Saving Private Ryan 174. Scrooged 175. Se7en 176. Shape of Water 177. Shooter 178. Sicario 179. Silence of the Lambs 180. Silver Bullet 181. Sky High 182. Society 183. Source Code 184. Speed 185. Splash! 186. Splice 187. Spy Kids 188. Star Wars 189. Star Wars: Rogue One 190. Starship Troopers 191. Step Up 2: Step Up 2 Tha Streets 192. Stoker 193. Superbad 194. Swept Away 195. Swingers 196. Sword in the Stone 197. Swordfish 198. Tangled 199. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 200. Terminator 2 201. Terminator: Dark Fate 202. The A-Team 203. The Birdcage 204. The Birds 205. The Book of Henry 206. The Cell 207. The Craft 208. The Crazies 209. The Crow 210. The Descent 211. The Devil’s Advocate 212. The Fifth Element 213. The Fly 214. The Good Son 215. The Goofy Movie 216. The Graduate 217. The Green Mile 218. The Guardian 219. The Guest 220. The Hobbit: I, II, II 221. The Lighthouse 222. The Matrix 223. The Mist 224. The Mummy 225. The Natural 226. The Neverending Story 227. The Orphan 228. The Peanut Butter Solution 229. The Perfect Storm 230. The Prestige 231. The Raid 232. The Revenant 233. The Ring 234. The Rock 235. The Shining 236. The Terminal 237. The Visit 238. Thor: Ragnarok 239. Timeline 240. Titanic 241. To Kill a Mockingbird 242. Tombstone 243. Total Recall 244. Toy Story 4 245. True Lies 246. True Romance 247. Truman Show 248. Twister 249. Unbreakable 250. Unforgiven 251. Unleashed 252. Very Bad Things 253. Wanted 254. War Dogs 255. War Games 256. Wayne’s World 257. Wedding Crashers 258. Weird Science 259. Welcome to Marwen 260. Welcome to the Dollhouse 261. Wet Hot American Summer 262. What Dreams May Come 263. What Lies Beneath 264. What Women Want 265. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? 266. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 267. Willow 268. Wizard of Oz 269. You’ve Got Mail 270. Young Sherlock Holmes 271. Zodiac 272. Zoolander

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[furuyalover]

200 follower event!

— just a lil sum for a huge milestone <3

hey guys! i recently hit 200 followers so i wanted to do something fun to show my appreciation! since i get a lotttt of my inspiration from music i wanted to a semi music related event! read below for the deets !

THE VISION: send in an ask of your desired character/characters (list of fandoms i write for below) with a song of your choice or a random one from one of my playlists and i’ll write up a little drabble/hcs based off the song! all works from this event will be tagged under #mars & her music

— if you choose a certain song feel free to include a specific scenario or wtv in your ask! ex. you & a character slow dancing to [insert whatever song you please] please note that i don’t write nsfw :) you can be as specific as you want & add as much info as possible! also please add your preferred pronouns or else i’ll probably write for a fem reader :)

for all my lovely anons: if you would like, sign your ask with an emoji/nickname so i can ofc remember you & add you to my anon list :)

im only going to do 3 characters max per song, but you can send in as many requests as you want! lmk if you want me to write fluff or stm silly 😋

fandoms: jjk, haikyuu, ace of diamond, saiki k, & one piece (im not that far into the show so pls bare with me)

playlists! below are my various playlists, with a little description of them, and the number of songs! if you want a random song, pick a number 1 through whatever & you’ll get a random song! or feel free to just suggest an artist/album and i can pick a song from that :)

a distant memory i used to know: sort of sad songs (not rlly), kind of somber, but overall just mellow! | 203 songs

take a shot for me: mainly baby keem, drake & sza, but sorta that mellow rap vibe | 84 songs

cruise: very similar to the previous playlist! mainly rnb, includes a lot of the weeknd & brent faiyaz | 334 songs

cutesy: upbeat songs & love songs! | 306 songs

lavender buds: the music i listen to when im high 💀 | 410 songs

444: mainly neo soul i think? idrk the genre, but a lot of erykah badu , thee sacred souls & ms. lauryn hill | 246 songs

the works: basically my liked songs since there are sooo many different songs, artists, & genres in this … | 468 songs

slow dancing: self explanatory. songs i would wanna slow dance to, a lot of 50s-60s music! | 192 songs

orange soda shorty: late night drives playlist <3 | 272 songs

sleepy time: my napping playlist LOL | 205.songs

apologies in advance for my questionable music taste but i can’t wait to see how this goes <3

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#mars & her music! #fun fun fun! #haikyuu headcanons #haikyuu x reader #ace of diamond headcanons #ace of diamond x reader #daiya no ace headcanons #jjk headcanons #one piece x reader #saiki k x reader #haikyuu event #diamond no ace event #ace of diamond event #jjk event #jujutsu kaisen event #hq event #one piece event #saiki k event #coaches thoughts!

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Choosing the Mars samples for future return to Earth Perseverance, a NASA rover, is collecting rocks on the surface of Mars, more than 200 million kilometers away. Though they could eventually become the most valuable rocks on Earth, the rover has limited space for these samples. That's where "return sample scientists" such as Chris Herd come in, lending their expertise to determine which samples could answer the greatest number of questions about Mars and further our understanding of the planet, including whether it has ever harbored life. The highest quality samples are sealed and stored airtight on Perseverance, to await study on Earth in the future. A backup of each sample remains in a depot on Mars. "The rovers have to be cleaned to a certain standard, and the sample tubes we send are probably the cleanest things that humanity has ever sent anywhere," says Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and curator of the University of Alberta's Meteorite Collection. This is to ensure that no contaminants or signatures of life from Earth make their way into the Martian samples. Each tube contains a sample of about 10 grams, and the rover has capacity to fill, seal and store 38 sample tubes; the follow on mission can bring only 30 back. So, return sample scientists need to be selective about what samples they capture. Once the tubes return to Earth, only a certain percentage of each may be used for analysis—the remainder must be curated and archived. Modern technology and innovative tools mean the limited sample materials available shouldn't be an issue. "We make the most of the least amount of material. We have an incredible array of instrumentation that allows us to do that," Herd says. "There are ways we can analyze a sample that give us unprecedented detail about when the rock formed, how it was modified, whether there's any organic matter that could be evidence of life. There's a host of things we can tell from tiny amounts." Selecting information-rich samples Return sample scientists take various priorities into account when determining which samples to preserve in the tubes. They also consider the practicalities of what's available to sample once the rover reaches a particular site. The larger mission is broken down into smaller campaigns, each campaign targeting three to five samples. Within three weeks of each sampling event, return sample scientists must complete a report that details "everything from the map view to the outcrop to the details of what we've learned about the rock as we sample it," Herd explains. While researchers on Earth already have samples of at least 175 Martian meteorites, they tend to provide a snapshot of a younger Mars, having been ejected from the planet after violent impacts early in its existence. Consequently they don't offer a full picture of what has been happening on the planet since. But Perseverance has already gathered igneous and sedimentary samples from sites in Jezero Crater. Researchers will compare the igneous samples obtained by the rover to some of those existing meteorite samples we already have on Earth, deepening our understanding of Mars. The sedimentary samples will fill a gap in our knowledge about Martian geology, as we currently have no sedimentary rocks from there. "Those are even more interesting from an ancient biology perspective," Herd says. "That's the reason we went to this landing site, because the rocks were laid down by liquid water some three and a half billion years ago and could preserve evidence of ancient life." Tools aboard Perseverance record the location of samples, provide insights into what the rocks are made of, and gather information about the environment each one is from, giving researchers invaluable context. Once sampling from Jezero Crater is complete, Herd estimates the team will have about half the available sample capacity remaining, to be used as the rover drives up and out of the crater. "Each of those 15 or 16 samples could be unique and could represent a bigger range of ages and rock types than we've seen inside the crater." The return to Earth It won't be easy to bring the samples back to Earth. The task needs a lander (a spacecraft that can land on and leave a planetary surface), a rocket, and the ability to rendezvous with an orbiting interplanetary spacecraft. And on Earth, researchers need to be ready to handle the samples. "There's a lot that we have to do to make sure we don't contaminate the samples with signatures of life from Earth and misinterpret that signature as life on Mars," Herd says. He says it's hard to imagine retrofitting an existing facility to house and study the samples appropriately and safely. Instead, he says a tailor-made facility could protect the samples from Earthly contaminants, while ensuring that our environment is safe from potentially harmful Martian contaminants. "We need to get this right," he says, "because this is answering a huge question." "There's still a non-zero probability that there's extant life that has somehow managed to survive on Mars," Herd adds. This slim chance is due to the history of Mars, and it "being warmer and wetter in the past and having that potential for microbial life." While there are still several years to wait until researchers can get their hands on the samples for analysis, the process is just as satisfying as the eventual payoff may be, according to Herd. "It's absolutely phenomenal for me to be involved in such a huge mission, where we get to explore and get information about the rocks and the geology while at the same time sampling and looking forward to bringing those samples back," Herd says. "That's what sets this mission apart."

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #nasa #esa #mars perseverance rover

[saean1620]

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