#this just felt like a fun update

[strangelittlestories]

On Christmas Eve, Ebeneezer Scrooge fell asleep in the server farm of his Cryptocurrency mine. In the background, the soft wash of LED displays and gentle hum of cooling fans filled the basement. He'd recently expanded his operation, having gotten a great deal on hardware in the Cyber Monday sales. So he was sung to sleep by the gentle guzzling of electricity and the slow accumulation of what might (by some) be considered wealth. Throughout the long night, he was visited by three ghosts. The whole business played out more or less as you'd expect, so we won't overly dwell on it here. Where things really started to go FUBAR was when Scrooge awoke… Looking out the security cameras on the snowy morning, Scrooge spied an urchin child. He pressed the buzzer on the speaker and cried out to them! "You, boy! What day is it?" "What? I can't hear you." "Hold on, I'll come upstairs!" Scrooge ran up the dingy stairwell of his minimalist and kinda grungy compound, stopping only to disarm his top of the line security system. He stepped out into the brisk winter, and very nearly forgot to reset the alarm in his excitement. Then he remembered he had prime numbers in there, damn it! So he did reset the primary alarm, but didn't bother with the non-lethal countermeasures, and that was something at least. "Thanks for waiting!" He huffed. "So, boy … what day is it?" "Not a boy!" Came the shrill reply. "Girl, then! What day is it?" "Not that either!" "Look, kid, this isn't a game of what's your fucking gender. Just tell me what day it is!" "It's solstice day, sir!" Said the urchin, looking up at a dishevelled Scrooge with their big urchin eyes. "Wait, really? …You're sure it's not Christmas? I fell asleep on Christmas Eve…" "I guess you slept for near a year, then, ‘cos I celebrate solstice and it's the gods-damned solstice." “I don’t know how to process that!” Cried Scrooge. “Maybe there’s a specific detail you can focus on to ground you?” Suggested the urchin, in a surprisingly helpful bit of trauma advice. “OH!” Exclaimed Scrooge. “Tell me, child, the butcher’s nearby. Does it still have that big turkey in the window?” “The butcher’s closed down six months back, I’m afraid! But I think there’s an Amazon Fresh around here somewhere?” Said the urchin. “That’ll do!” Scrooge rummaged around in his pockets. “Here, take this printout of a Jpeg of a poorly drawn frog and go buy me the biggest turkey you can find in Amazon Fresh. Then deliver it to Bob Cratchet!” “Even Amazon won’t take your NFT bullshit as currency, mister!” “Okay - I can give you cash.” Scrooge paused for a moment. “Do you have Venmo?” “I’m a street urchin.” Replied the street urchin. “Of course I have Venmo.” “Great. I’ll transfer you now - keep the change.” “I don’t mean to look a gift crypto bro in the mouth, sir, but aren’t you famously stingy? Like, your name’s literally a synonym for tight-fisted penny-pinching.” “That’s the old Scrooge. I got visited by three ghosts last night and now I’m a new man.” Said Scrooge, proudly, before added conspiratorially, “At first, I thought I’d just drank a bad batch of Soylent. But they were pretty convincing in the end.” “So you’re going to donate all your money to charity or start a non-profit or something?” The urchin said with open-mouthed awe. "I don't know. It's kind of ambiguous. I might do those things, or maybe I'll keep being rich and be a bit nicer? "Okay, so now you're closer to a Bill Gates rather than full Musk/Bezos on the scale of evil billionaires.” The urchin looked directly into the camera for a full three seconds. “And we’re supposed to celebrate that? “Look, it was pretty fucking radical for its time, okay?” Said Scrooge, snapping his fingers to stop the urchin breaking the fourth wall any further. “Are you gonna buy the turkey or what?" “I dunno, man. On the one hand, it feels like if you really changed your tune, you’d do more than buy one turkey for the single poor person whose name you know. On the other hand, you said I could keep the change. So this really is a bind for me…” “If I’m honest,” Said Scrooge, “I really didn’t think it would be this difficult to be charitable. No wonder Elon is the way he is.” “Sigh.” Said the urchin. Saying the word out loud, rather than just sighing, which I think tells you something about the level of frustration here. “You know what, this isn’t gonna work.” “Huh?” Said Scrooge, somewhat nonplussed. “Spot! Here, boys! Heel!” Called the urchin. In the distance, a low rumbling growl could be heard. Out of the shadows of the misty winter morning, a giant three-headed hound emerged, its jaws snapping at Scrooge in triplicate. “AAAARGH!” Yelled Scrooge, now so nonplussed as to be minused. The urchin pulled out a matte black flip phone, decorated with a few tasteful flowers, and made a call. “Hi Persephone, it’s me, Charon.” Said the urchin. “Yeah, I’m up here on psychopomp duty. Yup, it’s the Ebeneezer Scrooge case - y’know, the tech bro who drank too much Red Bull and had a heart attack? Well, we gave him another shot this year, but he’s still a bit of a dickmagnet. He’s made some progress - he understands basic empathy - but we’re still a bit stuck on the ‘myth of the benevolent billionaire’ stage.” In the background, the sound of screaming tech-bro and snarling monster dogs was fading into the distance. “I think we’re gonna call it for the day and give it another try solstice.” Charon continued. “Yeah, Cerberus is dragging him back to the underworld now. Yeah - he did a great job as the three ghosts too - definitely earned a treat. Cool - see you in a few.” Charon flipped the phone closed and took a deep breath. They took a pair of bronze coins out of a pocket of their ragged hoody, and placed them gently over their own eyes. “Hades bless us. Everyone.” They said to no-one, then disappeared.

#writing #short story #a christmas carol #dickens #mythology twist #honestly a christmas carol is excellent and really quite radical #this just felt like a fun update #and i think a lot of the radical-ness of Dickens' writing gets lost in the twee

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

Heroes of Millennium (HoM) AU

Act 1, Omake (Extra): Master of Time - (here)

Act 1: What was left behind. - read here

#hom au #heroes of millennium au #danny fenton #danny phantom #clockwork #dp clockwork #juniper lee #jake long #rex salazar #zak saturday #randy cunningham #kim possible #jenny wakeman #ben tennyson #;D hi! sorry this is not an update anyone expected. but i was sitting on this idea since january lol #couldnt start on it for months. but now that im making some slow progress with Act 2 outline. i decided why not? #when i started to draw hom comic i was like 'nah we dont need long winded cryptic intro with CW i want some action right away!' #and almost right after i finished act1 i was struck by this idea lol. mostly because its fun and i wanted that one last page of all homies #also an opportunity to drop some more lore ? hints. and you can also see i am depicting CW a bit differently to his canon #but also like tbh he probably wont appear in next acts like at all so xD dont take anything seriously here. this is all just in good fun ;) #CW is like that grandpa that urgently calls you to do something for him but then instantly trolls you and kicks you out #small edit: fixed typo and added disclaimer doodle because it felt incomplete without it ;)

[reineydraws]

renkaza sketches based off the opening scene of the bear 2x09 bc the shots were nice :') less nice was me squinting at the low-lit scenes trying to make out their features and getting mad at my screen's glare but i digress 😂

#kny #kny fanart #renkaza #akaren #akaza #rengoku kyojuro #kny akza #kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer #demon slayer fanart #i loooooove akaza's eyes sm and also his adoring ways #this is so gay but im not sorry #also the intimacy of kyojuro's loose hair draping around akaza's face when they lie down and kyou leans down to kiss him 🥺🥺 #they just hold each other so close!!!!!!! #akaza's fangs peeking out his mouth are also fun 🥰 #this is also me 10/10 recommending the bear!!! pls watch it!!! #update: this has been in my drafts since aug 28 LOL im just gonna post it #my hang-up was that they felt super intimate but i fixed that by making the gallery photoset less close-up #but i wanted to show off the last one cuz it's my fave. alas!!! #i also really like the first one c: #and also the second-last one cuz i think it's cute when u laugh and ur partner kisses ur forehead 🥺🥺 #ah & i like the second one too cuz akaza looks so soft & his eye looks like it's so clear & glowing & he looks in love (which he is!!!!!!) #i guess i just like the idea of being in love and in ur lover's arms and being so physically close :'))) it's cute. it's lovely. i love it. #updated update: ykmow what im gonna post the set showing off the last one!!!!!! #it's cute and this is my blog first and i shd practice that better lol #i changed up the order too so now the second-last has become the fourth one l o l #anyways

[ohitslen]

BREAKING NEWS 🎉Ch. 5 of The neighbor from 311 is up!🎉

#Yo hi its me. I forgot to post here when I updated chapter 4 ...well now there is two instead of just one! ✌(for the ones that still haven't #read chapter 4 anyways-) #updating was tricky since I've been so busy with uni and my personal life so. hobby writing was reserved for when I had free time #and only sometimes when I felt like it bc I won't torture my eyes with more screen time than the one I already have throughout the day #This was fun to write as usual :) I am excited to write the next chapter and how things will start to unfold from now on! #Oh I have also started to read dungeon meshi. I'm loving it. #the neighbor from 311 #trigun #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #vashwood #trigun stampede #wolfwood #vash #nicholas trigun #trigun fanart #reincarnation au #Trigun au #lenssi writes #lenssi draws #trigun fic #trigun fanfiction

[core-cosmos]

It’s bout time I made one of these

Really though it’s kinda crazy to think I’ve been listening to dndads for almost a year now and never finished a character lineup before…

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #scary marlowe #lincoln li wilson #normal oak #taylor swift #dndads taylor swift #hermie unworthy #hermie the unworthy #doodles #lineups are super difficult for me for some reason #I’ve started like 6 for the teens and just never finished them #I’ve got a whole folder on procreate just for them #anyways it felt appropriate to sorta redesign some of them seeing as we have entered a new sorta arc/dynamic #a fun fact bout the updated designs is scary has the jacket I usually draw Willy in #that’s why it’s too big #:)

[beaulesbian]

"doomsday device customer service hotline"

☠️☠️☠️ □-□-□-2-3-˧-5

#i always forget there are these new fun eps to watch and only remember like a week later #this was just perfect and i didnt see anyone posting this part here yet #make some noise #dropout #jess mckenna #sam reich #mine #this is so real i almost felt bad for the evil doer or henchman to wait for another transfer call #they'd be like.. of course we couldnt even get an updated device for this important day and now i have to sit at my phone for hours #just to try to get some tech support for it #alkslks so funny tho

[ox1-lovesick]

hi

#life update nobody asked for lol #I missed you guys my pookie wookie dookies #I deleted all my social media and life is so great wow #still a lot of mental health problems but I'm finally learning to deal with my emotions and not hate life (wow) #is it bad for me to say I'm so glad I left blr #I will probably never come back here lol but I think (?) today is txt's debut anniversary and since I am the self proclaimed empress of moa #downgrading to a flip phone actually #I unstanned txt and all the kpop peoples too (SHOCKER) #I do feel really nostalgic and sad when I think about them but I think it was the thing I needed most #delulu is infact not the solulu #daydreaming about beomgyu being the new student at my school and being soobin's bestie was never the greatest idea hey #it's so freeing to not care about them and focus on what's infront of me #if you need a sign to start growing out of kpop and start worrying about your own life here it is babe 😭 don't let anybody give you shit #Not to say kpop is bad or anything I just think for me it was getting a bit out of hand #As much as we all make fun of the delulus it's so easy to fall down that spiral when these idols constantly tell you they love you #The parasocial relationship was REAL istg these people felt like my friends #Hueningkai does not give a FUCK about me and he is so real for that #Thinking about deleting this blog but I'm logging off after this so I very well may forget it exists again #But I just wanted to share what's been going on #And I miss you guys a lot #I may have outgrown kpop and tumblr but you all still have a special place in my heart #I miss the good old days 😭 when discord let's me back in I might visit wme #Not much has changed with me but mentally I feel like a whole new person #But I hope you all are doing GREAT #Living your best lives and doing things that make you happy #You owe it to yourself more than you owe these celebrities anything #xoxo savie 😝🤟🤟🔥🔥🔥

[prosebushpatch]

So I decided to restart my animal crossing new leaf for the 3ds file completely but I didn't know that Tom Nook would OFFER TO BUY the entire town and let you carry over the money to the new town and it's hysterical because the mayor basically peaces out, cashes in on 30 million bells, changes entire identity, and accidentally becomes the mayor in a new town. There's a fanfic there but I'm too lazy to write it.

#rose and rambles #HELLO???? #i did not know that tom would offer to buy AND I DID NOT EXPECT MY TOWN TO BE WORTH 30 MILLION BELLS NOT INCLUDING MY CATALOGUE AND #THE INTEREST I'LL GET FROM GETTING THE BELLS IN INCREMENTS #MAKING THE FINAL TOTAL CLOSE TO 39 MILLION #WOWZER #okay also i did think long and hard about this #like i never have restarted that town #but it was overrun with flowers and i wasn't close to any of the villagers but wolf link #and i can get him again #i needed a blank slate #i do this with farming sims all the time #i restart so often because once i get into late game i have no gumption and animal crossing *is* different #but i really needed that fresh start and it felt better to restart new leaf than horizons #but the funny thing is #i now want to restart new horizons more than ever #i just haven't really touched it since 2020 #i never did the pumpkin growing thing im so behind #and every time i think about going back to it i just feel dead #but restarting new leaf has been so fun and refreshing #and its only end of day two BUT i have so much bells to burn on projects #so i can get the foundations of things like bridges and stuff right away and continue through my house loans more organically #idk i feel good #and i might prefer restarting horizons in the future with knowledge of things and #with all the updates already figured out #feels good #also my starter villagers in this new town are #fauna peanut eloise sparro and rooney and im so heckin thrilled #best line up ive ever had in the beginning

[tinyundercover]

once I get my life together I promise my pepper & felix updates will be more consistent lol

#starting now im gonna try and post 1-2 times a week #maybe every sunday? #I've been on spring break and have also felt super motivated so I've just been writing A TON which is why I've been updating pretty often #but I don't want to get ahead of myself and post too much and have nothing to post if i get writers block #yknow? #anyways hope you all like the story I've been having sooo much fun writing it!!

[sulfadimethoxine]

Chica y moondrop

#anyway #after this animation is finished #most likely won’t post any more dca stuff #or fnaf #idk got bored ig and they aren’t as much fun to draw as they use to be #just going to lurk #I am going to be a lurker nowww #or until my favorite dca fanfics update #or a new game comes out #whichever ones come first #I really haven’t felt any motivation since December but I just want to finish something for once regardless if I’m #feeling motivated for the characters #have one more dca animation in mind but I mean… #most likely no #there is just nothing keeping me interested sry #of course this could change and I could feel a sudden burst of energy to draw them again #or I could be radio silence for a few months #still I just want to see the pretty pictures everyone else draws so I will lurk regardless #ok that’s all I want to say have a good day #hope all 6 of my followers see this lol

[gracebethartacc]

Does the transformation to a star also hurt Magnifico? Cause in the song he’s laughing but I don’t think a skeleton disintegrating would be very pleasant

Oh yeah for sure but he’s very much riding that “gettting loads of magic all at once” high, BUT hence why the burn line at the end becomes a yell like it hurts as well he’s just too focused on the magic part and being evil to really register it

#Fun fact I plan for a more final version to have the last verse actually be moved into being a reprise seeing as I switched it up that mag— #—isn’t absorbing the magic RIGHT away and now it’s gonna be more like a last attempt bc Asha and Aster are determined asf #Hence that doodle comic #So yeah idk when we will do the more updated version but probably way later but hopefully this makes sense #But also also i think it should be noted that aster loosing that magic probably hurt more than gaining it would #PLUS star has never felt pain before that point so it was worse because of that as well #(Hc like if you tried to punch star for example your hand would just go through like stardust)(I believe this was in the concept art !) #rewrite the stars au

[kindlythevoid]

So anyway I did a thing today.

#felt guilty. checked the story. ended up finishing the chapter. #anyway that's six out of like a projected 21 chapters #plus a side story that I need to flesh out #that used to be one actual chapter but I wrote too much and is now a side story I need to finish #anyway i love y'all #just wanted to let you know #hopefully the next chapters should go by a bit smoother since one is just a fun chapter and the next few already have a few scenes written #and stick pretty closely to canon which means I can get through it quickly (in theory) #lol might end up posting before I finish the story and post slower than usual #might wait until I have a few more chapters and the side story fleshed out to post #will see will see #stay tuned for more #anyway anyone who follows me for #rewind series #there's the update I love y'all stay safe out there <3 #kiki writes #just yelling into the void #meme time

[adriles]

sitting in my tent without washing to punish my self for allowing patroclus to fall in battle, which has Cemented my fate to die far from my native phthia . Ough !! It stinks

#book 23 #patroclus #ok widdle updates #1) i think im gonna do helen for april fools cause of the people who said stuff she ended up having just one more vote than everyone else #and i like to start collecting stuff beforehand #gonna make her text pink. maybe italics. she deserves it she means everything to me #2) ive felt like. eh about some posts recently. and im blaming me not finding things funny #on me needing to refamiliarize myself with source materials lol #so once my break starts soon im gonna do a reread and ig try to post alongside it #so that will be fun and sexy #tis all

[that-spider-fan-over-there]

*dusting off this old blog* Well it's been a while, isn't it?

#hello :D so I've been missing since September- scheduled queue aside #Life was stressing me out and I needed to cool off to focus on wrapping up the year else I'd lose it #then Life got worse by Sep-Oct (y'know. horrible real life events + personal stuff + holy shit I need to learn how to Adult) #forgot my password for a while so I was mostly on Twitter and it was Not Fun (and it still isn't) #and I remembered it by the end of January where I was getting most of my shit together and was mostly on Discord with friends #who were the reason I wasn't completely losing it so if you're reading this. thank you and I love you very much <3 #but I missed being on Tumblr and the friends/moots i made. just got nervous to come back here. idk why. brain works in weird ways. #it looks like I'm justifying why I wasn't here and on one hand. yeah it's kind of an update #but it's mostly because I don't like going out and returning like stuff wasn't happening so it's really a me thing so anxiety won't spike #idk if I'm gonna go missing like that again or not but. yeah i'm still alive #(felt good to write that last phrase so maybe *something's* going right in life) #but yeah i think i'm back (not 100% because. Life) and will do a pinned. if you read all of it thank you! :D #okay i'm gonna post this now before my brain decides it's a bad idea-

[candyriku]

finally getting a chance to work on chapter 15 today :-)

#shout out AS ALWAYS to people leaving comments!!!! you are keeping me motivated you are keeping the dream alive #for some behind the scenes: in the last few weeks i've been barely sleeping and it makes it very hard to write or even be in a good mood #i usually need 11+ hours to function and so like. 2-3 hours a night is putting me in a bad place both mentally and physically #and yes i realize 11 or more hours is like a silly amount of sleep but idk. it's just how i am. i go to bed early AND sleep in ahaha. #i've been falling behind in all my classes due to the sleep thing so writing for fun has totally been off the table lol #ANYWAYS #typing typing typing (this chapter will be a lighthearted one) #we all need some fluff and levity i think (and i need to give time for Riku to care for Sora even more and be like. wow. i love you) #I was struggling earlier bc i wanted to write both about how Sora has been hiding darkness from loved ones and needs to let them in #but also with the idea of sora feeling that he needs friends to have strength or value. and i kind of realized i needed to pick one #like maybe a better writer than me could have both of those things be addressed at once but for me i was like... I want Riku to comfort him #which goes against him learning that he's fine on his own. we can address that in a different fic. rn he is just sad and needs to know #that he can share that with the people around him. and that he's still loveable despite it all #also shout out to my gf for teaching me “love isn't something you deserve that's not what love is” like. i did not know that b4 her #so I asked her lots of questions for chapter 14 actually cause I was like. i want Riku to support Sora in the way you'd support me #cuz IDK SHIT ABOUT THAT i have always felt unworthy of love and like i had to beg people to stay with me until i got into this relationship #so i was like. judy. what is your wisdom. how do you care for me when i feel like my pain makes me unloveable. what would you say #So yeah shout out to her! I am off on a tangent now hehe sorry. thanks for reading if you read this at all!! have a good day :) #jtsys fic #updates

[alwayscryingoverdannyb]

an amazing thing happened at work today.

sb accidentally used a group address and sent an email to about 5000 ppl from the entire EMEA region. subsequently, people many countries across Europe had a bit of fun with the "reply all" button

original message:

(Has anyone ever made floor stickers with an arrow and the copy "T-Mobile, we are here" or "Visit us at T-Mobile"?)

5min later:

(Romania watches Eurovision apparently :D :D)

(and no, that was not the last message in the thread)

#it felt like half of europe had fun for half an hour just based on our common europeanness?? #idk it was nice :D #employment adventure #stories #lithuania needs an update!!! #:D