#/brightest star

[thoughts-ofawriter]

What’s your favorite WIP?

-writeintrees

thank you for asking!

probably Brightest Star. it’s my oldest and most personal story!

#ask #of course I love all of them #but tbsinc will always be with me #/brightest star

[starseneyes]

Heart-Warmed and Teary-Eyed: Kindness Matters

I have a P.O. Box that I check once a week. Right now, I mostly use it for letter correspondence with my friend @always-coffee—a tremendous published poet and beautiful human I met by chance online.

Monday she said she mailed her latest letter. So, I stopped by the Post Office on the way home from dropping the kids at school on the off-chance it made it through USPS faster than normal.

I found no letter inside, but a flyer from the Post Office saying they were holding something for me that wouldn't fit in the box. I wondered if Ali had sent a letter that was too tall (because she has such amazing stationary). I had no idea what was about to happen.

I glimpsed the package as they pulled it from a cabinet and wondered what on earth Ali sent me. That was not a letter.

Then I saw The Golden Notebook Bookstore label and knew it was something @neil-gaiman related.

For those who don't know (normal people who don't follow Neil on social media, for example), that is the local bookstore near Neil's home in New York. He periodically signs books for them that are sold with zero markup.

I am a fan of Neil as a writer, but also as a human. I don't follow many celebrities—a side effect of my set-kid youth—but I did follow Neil last year during the WGA Strike. Been a fan of his for ages, and Neverwhere is my favorite book.

Ali knows all this, and I just knew she had done something sneakily sweet.

I rushed home with a smile on my face, trying desperately not to set off the speed-trap on the road back. Let me tell you, driving speed limit when excited is not easy for me!

When I finally whipped into my driveway and sprinted into my house, I carefully opened the package (more excruciating slowness) and tried not to cry happy tears when I saw what was inside. Wrapped tenderly in bubble-wrap rested... a book.

What You Need to be Warm is a poem Neil wrote that features illustrations from some of the best artists in the industry. That in itself is wonderful. But the mission of this little book is what is so amazing.

See, the sale of every copy supports UNHCR—the UN Refugee Agency. This book literally helps people when you buy it.

I have wanted to buy a copy for ages, but you all know I thrift and buy books secondhand. I didn't want to do that with this book.

I wanted to buy it outright to ensure the maximum amount of money went to support the cause. So, I have been waiting until we were a little more stable so I could buy it full-price, outright.

Thanks to Ali, I have a copy that was purchased outright (so it helps people in need) and it is signed!

Yes, it's a signed copy with pen bleed on the opposite page, and all.

I would never do something like this for myself. You all know I am woefully practical and doing things for myself isn't second-nature. I’m working on it, but it is slow coming reprogramming a lifetime of behavior. So gifts like this... oh, they mean everything.

I am overwhelmed with gratitude that such a kind soul would do something like this for me. Thank you, Ali.

#Gratitude #Acts of Kindness #What You Need to be Warm #UNHCR #Good People Still Exist #And Ali is one of the brightest stars shining in the dark

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 87

“Mother, I crave violence.” 

  Danny paused in the middle of his work, turning off the torch as he turned towards Dan. Who had once again be de-aged for destroying a world a few years before. (Ellie had cackled for hours about her being the older sibling now) The currently-six year old was scowling, definitely not pouting. 

  He raised an eyebrow, setting his tools down. “Jordan, we’re literally in an assassin’s den right now-” Honestly running into someone he’d met in his time-traveling was rather interesting, apparently his old rival had become so ecto-contaminated that he was immortal now. “-and I know you just got out of sparring, so are you really ‘craving violence’ or are you just bored?” 

  Dan pouted, sorry, he scowled. “Your ‘friend’s’ kids kept tryin’ to copy me and got in the way.” He hopped up onto one of the chairs, visibly not happy about not being able to fly as he glared at tiny legs. Tough shit, he knew better than to destroy worlds, they couldn’t always reverse time. 

   Danny sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “They’re just trying to play-” Maybe to a human they wouldn’t, but honestly everyone here was so liminal they were probably closer to ghosts than anyone except for Amity. Which had also been displaced in time after getting dragged to the ghost zone, so it had been soaked in ecto longer anyway. 

   “They got in the way and I almost stabbed Dusan!” Dan whined, despite what he’d insist. “At least Elnath can go intangible and Nyssa can dodge!” Ah, that was the issue. He’d been worried. 

   “Little sunbeam, you don’t have to worry,” Danny soothed, scooping up the ghostling. Even though he had been an adult, the chemicals in the brain and body were still that of a child’s. A young child at that. “The trainers are there to keep an accident from happening.” 

  Not to mention that he was rather confident that between Ras and himself they could keep any injuries to minor ones. Sam would have loved to meet him, Danny thinks. Honestly they would have been best friends, but Sam was off on another world on a mission to collect every plant in existence, so good for her, and Tucker was back in the reincarnation cycle. 

  Oh well, at least he wasn’t waiting for them alone, and maybe Dan having more siblings would help stop another timeline-breaking accident from happening. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Danny fenton #league of assassins #ras al ghul #Danyal & Ras met when Danny was doing a time mission & trained together a bit #Ras was not expecting his old friend/rival to reappear hundreds of years later looking unchanged #Danny deserves to have white hair in his human form as he becomes more ghostly lol #morally grey danny #space core danny #his obsession is less general protection & more protecting what is His #Is Ras and Danny together Or are they platonically co-parenting #Honestly up to the writer #Hilariously Dusan definitely looks like he could be Danny's kid with the white hair and lazarus green eyes lol #Naughty ghosts get de-aged #sun core dan #moon core ellie #Ellie/Dani is named after the second brightest star in Taurus

[skyistheground]

SUPERNOVIC!!!!! I JUST HAVE TO EXPLODE!

#in stars and time #isat #isat spoilers #isat siffrin #my art #YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE BRIGHTEST STAR!! TEEHEE!!

[redbean-nom]

palpatine: help me budget this my empire is dying

#star wars #tbb #tbb s3 #<- inspired by that episode with hemlock and tarkin arguing about money over space zoom #tbb hemlock #dr hemlock #royce hemlock #idk what his tag is #governor tarkin #<- bc he's not a grand moff yet iirc? #wilhuff tarkin #emperor palpatine #palpatine #darth vader #vader did not realize his shirt is in frame #and yes that's a blurry custom zoom background of his castle #yeah palpatine maybe having three blank check projects all running at once is not the brightest idea exactly #no wonder he cheaped out on stormtroopers #those three spend like 90% of the empires gdp

[waitingforhobi]

Hoseok weekly ↳ 27/78

for @sevencoloredstar 🖤

#for my brightest star 💛 #bang bang con #cr. qdeoks #hoseok weekly #jung hoseok #jhope #bts #btsgif #dailybts #dailybangtan #userbangtan #cyphernet #trackofthesoul #annietrack #heyryen #usersky #usermaggie #usertaeyungie

[chrisbangs]

231003 ♡ Happy Birthday Bang Chan!

#chan #bang chan #stray kids #cb97net #createskz #*gfx #*m #long post #all the stars in the sky couldnt compare to how much i love you... thank you forever and for always... #i will be by your side till the sun sets okay? #together always... im happy here with you #you changed my life and made me into a warmer person... #i think im so lucky that the universe led me to you... im so grateful that you exist here with me... #my everything... you are always my brightest sun and i hope to continue to be your moon #how many times can i say thank you till my tongue grows numb it still wouldnt be enough... to say thank you to you #because of you i am here still today... because of your kind words i was able to hold onto who i was that night #im never truly alone because you're always a part of my heart and who i am now.. you exist inside my very heart #you are so truly and deeply a soulmate to me... #i love you... so much..

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

James Webb Space Telescope JWST

#space #space images #space photography #outer space #brightest stars #astronomy #james webb space telescope #jwst images #special interest #feel free to share/reblog #James Webb Space Telescope JWST (Facebook)

[4rcta]

-System launch successful-

#boothill #the brightest star #boothill honkai star rail #boothill hsr #hsr boothill #honkai boothill #hsr #honkai star rail #hoyoverse #boothill fanart #cyborg #game fanart

[tealbirb]

selune definitely loves her chaotic, led astray by other gods, victims of amnesia and quite violent disaster wlw daughters. they were friends before, but neither of them remembers.

what if we were sworn enemies and we still kissed?

#baldur's gate 3 #shadowheart #bg3 #tav #my art #baldur's gate shadowheart #aurea is not… the brightest star in the sky but she still tries. she’s kinda pathetic. and a botto- #shadowheart x tav

[muzzachambers]

These trials make us who we are, who we are, we are

We're motivated by the scars that we're made of

These trials make us who we are, who we are, we are

We take our places in the dark

And turn our hearts to the stars

TRIALS - Starset

#mass effect #mass effect legendary edition #jane shepard #commander shepard #digital fanart #the brightest star

[skzfaker]

It's not about the money, it's about the jutdwae

Happy birthday, Changbin!!!

#Stray Kids #Stray Kids gfx #Changbin #staysource #bystay #3rachasource #seochangbinet #meltracks #usersemily #bobausertag #usersun #adriblr #usersa #ChangbinDayWithJutdae #GALAXY BRIGHTEST STAR CHANGBIN #줏대있게_창빈이_생일축하해 #happy changbin day! #my stuff

[huariqueje]

Karlavagnen over waterways  -    Anna Gardell Ericson 

Swedish,  1853-1939

Gouache and watercolour , 49 x 35 cm.

#Anna Gardell Ericson #swedish artist #asterism #seven brightest stars #Karlavagnen asterism #Big Diepper #night landscape #pine forest

[bloomingnewwrld]

Siffrin doodles

#in stars and time #isat #isat fanart #isat siffrin #in stars and time siffrin #yeah guess who decided to play this game during finals week. not my brightest moment but we ball #i love this guy by the way #what the hell is his deal #i love it when protagonists are awful at being heroes #they’re so lotus coded its crazy. you should play this game #my art #artists on tumblr

[formulaonedirection]

you've got a smile that could light up this whole town ✨

#lewis hamilton #me when the teehee man teehees 🤩 #the brightest star that ever shone actually #nadia's things

[emdeerm]

Idea!

Ex-Twin

Damian and Danyal were twins. They were very close but only within their mother's sight. Everyone else only ever saw a cold indifference.

Danyal has failed a mission at the age of 6 which resulted in his death. Damian was with him at the time and retrieved the body. In a desperate attempt to get his brother back, he tried to dip him into the Lazarus Pit.

The Pit took him away much to the heartbreak of the living boy.

Damian threw himself into an even more ruthless training and excelled at it. With time, Ra's was even happy that the other boy has died. It served as an excellent motivator to his heir.

Years passed. Damian has been with his Father for a long while now. He was now turning 22 and Father held a Gala in his honour. Damian has long since realised that it was quite unnecessary but it helped their covers and allowed him to make connections.

However, they were just as boring as ever. Same faces, same lies, same talks. Nothing aloevera changed

Until a new couple from a city Amity Park, came with two teenage children. Samantha, the girl, was expected. Her bright pink gown less so if any information on her was any true.

Her companion, a boy her age, clearly uncomfortable in the suit and tie, made the ground under his feet disappear.

He looked so much like Damian himself did at the age of 15. And his eyes were that familiar, haunting blue.

Damian excused himself from his current conversation, and gracefully strode out of the room past the young teens.

Maybe he was being paranoid. Most likely unreasonably hopeful. Perhaps he was behaving irrationally.

Nonetheless, long minutes later, the scan of a hair he managed to snag revealed the truth.

It was his brother.

He came back.

___

Um... so, Maddie and Jack got dozed with some old Ecto at some point during very early stages of Maddie's pregnancy and Lazarus (Ectoplasm+Clockwork) infused the preserved genes of the baby, who died so early and had a glorious life of adventures ahead of him, into the barely formed zygot.

Danny's adventures happened. Phantom Planet not so much (unless you want it to be after the AGIT). Sam's parents finally made into an even bigger leagues and were invited to the Gala.

Danny had a bad feeling. Anything to do with the extremely rich was always problematic. No offence, Sam.

#Sam: none taken. #dpxdc #dc x dp #dc x dp crossover #ex-twins #I mean #genetically they still are #but Danny's whole life has been started over #so... #Danny woukd sometimes get flashes of his past in the early childhood #they stopped around the age of 5-6 (guess why) #but returned a lot more vividly when he became a Halfa #that's why he sometimes pulls out moves that he shouldn't be able to know how to do #his Phantom form is a little different as well #it's still a hazmat suit but the feeling of his Ghost side is a lot more haunting #he looks the same #but his presence feels like staring into a dark #deep #pond in the middle of a moonless night #ironic since he shines like the brightest star #but eh #dc x dp prompt 2