#'Should be pretty short' I said.

[creepy-crowleys]

The quiet in the aftermath of the monster’s attack didn’t last long. Crowley jammed on the lighthouse’s fog siren, startling the stunned soldiers on the shore into action just as creature hurled its incredible bulk onto their tiny island.

The small chunk of rock stolen from some distant coast shifted noticeably beneath the weight of a creature almost too large to fit on it.

A brave machine gunner opened fire on the immense beast, anima-lit rounds scoring tiny golden grooves against the monster’s plate-like scales. Vent-like sores along its body puffed fresh clouds of fog into the air as it turned its massive seaweed-crowned head in the soldier’s direction. Scuttling parasites crawling along its hide disembarked in pursuit of fresher, softer meat as a low rumble from its throat rattled the island.

The Lord of the Deep Ones reared back on its muscular tail, left half-trailing into the sea - too long and thick to fit on the tiny island - and on shrunken rear limbs no longer able to fully support its weight. Boiling sea water foamed at the edges of its maw as its chest expanded in preparation to raze the few guards that stood to challenge it.

The attack never came.

The beast tossed its head suddenly, a brilliant spotlight searing its eye, scorching the seaweed cloaking it and blistering its scales. It dropped back onto its belly, attack on the minor inconvenience posed by the guards forgotten in favor of twisting its giant maw towards the greater offense posed by the lighthouse.

Crowley bristled right back at the beast, braced against the lighthouse’s lamp, the lamp shining more brilliantly than ever with the force of her magic.

#.NO SIGNAL #.MISSION LOG #:Soldiers of the Sea #.horror #(('Oh I just wanna write like three parts' I said. #'Should be pretty short' I said. #Siiiigh.))

[foxspritez]

not enough mermaid aus in this society

#SOCIETYYYYY #thought it would be funny if he said the skyrim quote #sampo’s earring is supposed to be one of those swirly shells idk they’re pretty #if someone drew sampard mermaids already send it to me immediately #sampard #gepard x sampo #honkai star rail #sampo koski #gepard landau #u know what would be sooo cute… u should ask me about this au #but in short prince gepard gets rescued by mermaid sampo and they’re in love #sampard loves each other btw canon real #the fic art i’ve had in my procreate drafts for months vs this i did after class today #it’ll get done eventually… mark my words… #no more tags im shutting up #mermaid au #mermaid sampo

[miraclemaya]

There is a car

It is morning, and I wake up thirty minutes late. 

My husband has already left home. No note or text explains, but I understand.

I wake the kids. As they get ready, I make their lunches. My son gets leftovers from last night’s takeout, my daughter gets an egg sandwich and macaroni salad. They both get a small brownie.

When the kids are done, I rush them out the house and straight to the car.

As I pull out of the driveway, I notice a car parked by the curb. I’ve never seen it before. It’s painted a dark blue, and none of my neighbours own it. 

I drive down the lane, and give the car no mind. I need to drop my kids off at school.

It’s there when I come back.

At night, after dinner I stay awake. My husband has already fallen asleep. He has spoken four sentences to me. I look out the window, gazing out at the moon.

The car is still there, illuminated in the light of the full moon.

I gaze at my nieghbour’s driveway. It is empty save for one car.

I stare at the car. I don’t know its make, nor its model.

I go back to bed and fall asleep hours later.

 I wake up late. Again.

This time, my husband shakes me awake. I make him breakfast. 

The kids are harder to wrangle today, my daughter having had a nightmare last night. I shush her, and bundle them into the car.

I don’t pay much attention to the car parked by the curb.

This night I sleep as soon as I hit the bed.

I dream of large vast places. Places without people. Places where I feel home. Places I feel welcome.

The car is still there that morning. I ask my husband if he’s seen anyone enter or exit it. If he saw it arrive or leave at any point.

“It’s just strange, I guess.” I say. 

He gives me a look and a shrug. I don’t bring it up again.

Both the kids are sick today. I make the necessary calls, give them the necessary medicine, and make the necessary meals. 

I am about to ask my son if he knows where the thermostat is, when I realize I don’t remember his name. I don’t check their temperatures after that. 

I leave the house later, needing to get groceries.

The car is still there.

I don’t sleep at all that night. I tell myself it is because I worry for my children.

I spend the whole night looking at the car.

I wonder if it is locked.

It is 4 am when I decide to check if it is.

I walk out the house. The full moon is out and bathes the car in white light.

It looks almost inviting.

My bare feet feel the grass beneath me. It’s wet. I almost slip, nearly bashing my head across the sidewalk.

The Car doesn’t let me.

I open the door.

I step into it.

I sit down.

I leave.

They welcome me.

#i asked delia #one of my wives #what my fiction tag should be and she said corn pages but im gonna do #yellowed pages #cause that's close enough #anyway here's this i would love some critique #i feel pretty satisfied with it's short length but that doesn't mean it is without problems #just none i have noticed #this is like one of the vibes i wanna nail down for the setting im working on #hope my mutuals enjoy

[httpiastri]

Oscar is so bad LOL What even is he doing?

go off, anon 😚 you seem to know a lot

idk if i would say p9 in the championship, two podiums and being one of the four people to win a race this year is “so bad”, but you do you i guess

#first of all…. sending stuff like this to an oscar blog is so funny 🤣🤣 #you think i’m gonna agree??? #it’s pretty interesting imo how like #all of a sudden #p10 as a rookie and p5 in the quali is ‘bad’ #(quali = shootout sorry) #when he’s a rookie who’s never done cota before #constantly outperforming not only the other rookies but also very experienced drivers #kinda same for lando how everyone was like ‘poor guy had a bad weekend!’ in Qatar #like… if y’all said a few months ago that two P3s would be BAD then i would’ve lost my shit #mclaren fans became spoiled in such a short amount of time lmao #don’t get me wrong im not against it lol im just trying to stay appreciative of every thing that goes right #anyway #oscar is not bad #sorry anon #you’re watching a future wdc #you should be thankful 😇 #told myself to not write too much because this is just a silly hater but then i did 😶 #asks! #anon!

[cestacruz]

Mmm Jeanne

#servants cant learn new stuff (i'll talk about jalter in a second) therefore #jeanne shouldnt know how to read or write #we actually Dont get a confirmation that she can do those things in summer 3. because the book that jalter thought jeanne wrote #was actually Her own book #jeanne works with marie. maybe she comes up with the ideas and does rough drawings that marie would be Delighted to bring to life #marie reads to jeanne is my image #jalter taught herself how to read and write and i think that was possible because of the unstability of her existence #if you try to teach jeanne how to read and write it will stick for a second but if like idk 15-20 min pass she would likely find herself #unable to read again and her writting to be suboptimal #she can sign her own name ofc thats historical #she can recite the bible from memory iirc #i love jalter's ability to be her own person even if it comes with the fact that she is very much. an ephemeral dream #like her FCKING SKILL IS CALLED. #WHY MUST YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS FGO #anyway. now jeanne again but physical #oughhh thank u for the support in the tags when i said jeanne should have self image issues because she looked different in life #i hadnt fully talked bout it i just went with hair but yeah. i need to check again because im pretty sure her body wasnt Suuuper different #but i just gotta confirm #but im just so i love the idea of her just not liking the way she manifested abd not knowing Why she manifested like that #when there are Countless depictions of her with her short brown hair #sieg looks to the side whistling (its not his fault but he knows the pseudo servant part #and its probably a mix of . fate apocrypha's manifestation and of how some people imagined jeanne looked like #but it still upsets her #not that she'd ever complain to people #you can probably get it out of her tho #unrelated and only to those who reached this far: im thinking of a singularity set in 15th century orleans in the Middle of the hundred year #war. but the difference aint “oh jeanne d'arc came back to life evil” rather than “there seems to be a battle here where it shouldnt and oh #my god is that jeanne- oh god jeanne d'arc fucking died-- #and chaldeas has to try and fix the war without living breathing jeanne d'arc #actually thats not the middle of the 100yearwar but yknow what i mean. also haha jk unless...

[22degreehalo]

No for real though, something I will *never* understand is the weird distrust left wing people have for utilitarianism, especially consequensialism.

Like, so. MUCH. bullshit conservative rhetoric is all wrapped up in purity/disgust stuff that doesn't include even an ounce of actual consequence!!! And what IS intersectionality if not the idea of figuring out who is objectively worst off and helping them first even if it means taking away some from the best off?!

And that follows historically, too! The utilitarians were some of the first to put forward real thought-out, rigorous theories that pleasure is good and so mutually-enjoyed sex acts can't and shouldn't be thought of as evil!

It's such an obvious pairing! And I can't help but feel that back in the day, when queerness was weird and 'against community norms', that was better understood. But maybe that's my own nostalgia creeping in.

#i picked up a book by one of the writers of the good place the other day #spoiler alert: the section on consequentialism was. mystifyingly short. #he pretty much just brought up the 'utility monster' argument then dismissively moved on #like that debunked it or something. #hot take but i dont even understand the utility monster argument lol #it's just. not possible. one person physically cannot get that much fulfilment. biologically or logically. #it's like if we said 'but what if stabbing people made them feel good?? then we SHOULD stab people!! qed' #anyway. That's Just My Opinion. #also im sorry bjt this is why i dont rly want to watch the good place either #i just have too many pet peeves about this stuff and i wouldnt be able to appreciate it :(

[todayisafridaynight]

stream tomorrow. ~3pm est. this fuckin site. if i dont get hit by a car by then.

#snap chats #ill make another reminder post an hour before the stream tomorrow dont worry #yes this is related yes this is also so i can be angry FUCK #imagine being an american and waking up and reading the news and wanting to light everything on fire #anyways. before i bring politics into my funny sideblog. #ive been shirking /drafting/ a comic all week cause i keep getting distracted And Brother I Feel Another Impulsive Idea Enter The Dome #ok im lying its another idea ive had cooking in the back ever since i made my initial tattoo post but it's a short silly comic #so i think i can get the one day Relatively quickly #BUUUUT the main monster i wanna do.... idk what ive been shirking it it SHOULDNT be terribly long #it SHOULD be pretty simple and just me being Smart and Funny right and yet... brain broken. #i dont know if i want to make it especially long or keep it short and sweet... #SOOOO this all relates back to Stream Tomorrow because i wanna have it at least DRAFTED in my head by then #not another accountability stream... uh oh... #i vow to be less annoying this time around i looked in the mirror and reviewed myself and said 'bitch shut up you fidgety bastard' #so HOPEFULLY i'll be less erratic #in any case. off to do that mini comic. i guess it's more of a warm up in my book #bye bye ill see yall in five. hours. #cause apparently thats how long it takes me to COLOR SHIT god forbid sketching and lining and kms #ok bye fr stay sexy

[dilfsuzanneyk]

buying more knee and thigh high socks to spite my teacher who dress coded me because longer socks are "distracting" and "provocative"

#it's not against school rules either btw it's perfectly allowed #also i literally just wear them bc my legs get cold #and they make me feel good about myself okay #i should be allowed to wear things that make me feel nice #he also proceeded to dress code me on my skirt! #he said it was too short #my skirt is above my knee. #it's be a lot longer too!! #it just looks that 'short' because i wear my skirts pretty high!! #utter bullshit if you ask me honestly #like come on #you're a grown man with KIDS telling your own student that what they wear is distracting and provocative? #ok. ok.

[toasteaa]

.

#vent.tea #you ever mind your own business and then remember all the shit people have said about your body #and it slings you right back into a hole of 'I'm not losing enough weight/I'm not losing weight fast enough'? #Just remembered how my mom and grama for years would tell me that I was too big and guys wouldnt like me but that #my sister was beautiful and they always had these pretty clothes for her to try on and wear. #Or how a friend in college told me I have a lunch lady body and that my voice sounded annoying. #And it's all stuff that I grew up hearing and I'm trying to see myself in a better light while taking care of myself #but it's that awful part of my brain that keeps telling me that I'm not good enough or pretty enough to be taken seriously #because I'm still 179 lbs instead of something lower. #I'm getting married for crying out loud and I still don't think I'm pretty enough to be in photographs #and I hate it. #I hate that everyone thinks I should just be over it too as if I didn't go through two decades hearing about how I'm #the short and stocky fat sister with the chubby face and big frame while my sister was 'model like' and willowy and pretty. #It shouldn't mean anything to me now but sometimes I just look in the mirror and just...idk #I'll get over it as usual but fuck man. Was not expecting to feel like this rn. #tbd

[aceofstars16]

Hmmm…

#I just sent a text that said ‘I’m still struggling mentally/emotionally/spiritually but’ #and I was going to add a shrug emoji but…honestly…there is no but #I can’t put a positive spin on it right now #i listened to worn by tenth avenue north last night #and that’s pretty much exactly how I feel #and I feel like it’s just ‘you need to do this or try harder or trust more’ #but I’m too tired….I’m tired of hoping because I’m always let down #I’m tired of being told it’ll all be made better in heaven #cause that doesn’t help me now it just makes me feel like this life is point #less and I’m just….so tired of feeling like it’s all on me #I prayer and ask for God to do something but I still feel stuck and forgotten #I feel so broken and numb and I don’t have any fight anymore #I should probably try out meds just to see if it’ll help in the short term #but I’m low key worried they might make me feel worse and I don’t know if I could deal with that :/ #yeah….venting in the tags cause I’m just…a lot of stuff and tags feel safer…

[diamondseaside]

sooo besties just got back from my date and i’m not sure how to feel about it

#he’s really cute and nice to talk to but i felt it was a little awkward at moments #and it was pretty short bc he had plans after #before he left i said i had fun and we should do this again and he agreed but idk if he was saying that just to be nice #we’ve been talking for about a month now so i thought things would flow better in person :/

[coe-lilium]

I am trying very hard to be reasonable with a whole lot of Rings criticism and see where it comes from because I have my own gripes (major gripes too) with what has leaked so far and so on but then I run into stuff like: 

“The Numenoreans *have* to be taller (or Amazon is shit that doesn’t respect Tolkien: shame on them!)”

or 

“They depicted X Numenorean character with a beard, lol, what ignorant cretins, don’t they know the universally-known fact of Numenoreans not having a beard because of their blood ties with the Elves?” 

and think, do you think you’re being smart? Or not sounding like desperately reaching like the fox with the grape?

Like the -rightly- almost universally loved movie trilogy also didn’t respect either of these things? Was Aragorn shaved, blonde and 2 meters tall in the movies? NO. Did that hurt Aragorn’s portrayal in any way? Also NO. 

If you want a visual story where two races of 2 meters tall people intermingle with regular sized humans and shorter people your only option is animation, not a 5 seasons long live action. The making of the movie trilogy docs talked at length about how much work had to go into making the hobbits and dwarves look shorter than the other actors and you expect that work to be multiplied for also every elf and numenorean? Who bloody cares!

Or shit like “Oh, this scene of Elves on an Elven ship (with a very similar design to the movies) moving through a blank sea doesn’t *feel* like Tolkien, it’s sooo bland”.

Are you fucking kidding me, we’ve reached levels of complete ridicule. Just admit that you’ll hate it whatever the authors will do because it’s being produced by Amazon and go on your merry way. 

#the characterization criticism/worry is sound most of the times but it's perhaps a 30-20% of the criticism i see. even less #the rest are *the vibes* or stuff that makes one suspect the critic doesn't quite grasp tolkien themselves #like the unhinged screeching one on twitter who almost went 'so you're excusing genocide????' as a reaction to the *nothing is evil #in the beginning* quote. which TOLKIEN wrote. in the fellowship. which was something ELROND said #TLDR: it's the bad faith that gets me #i was pretty disappointed at the elves short hair. i still AM. but for fuck sake! #lotr on prime #lotr rop #here. it should be down enough not to appear in the tag

[lord-squiggletits]

I haven't read any yet but I'm a little nervous about reading IDW Optimus. I like it when Optimus prime is "strong enough to be kind" and from what I've heard, everyone's an asshole to each other in idw. If I'm way off base please let me know, I hear the comics are good but I'm not interested in an Optimus that's mean and miserable. I resent the idea that misery has greater artistic merit than joy.

I mean, I'd say don't trust what the fandom says about the comics (or any media for any fandom in general tbh) because the majority of the time they're wrong.

I'm an IDW Optimus apologist so I'm a little biased, but I genuinely think that most of the story moments people call him "an asshole" over are moments that make 1000% sense when you read them in context. Like, people act like Optimus is just a jerk that goes around being mean to people for no reason when the reality is that when he's frustrated, angry, lashes out, or distant from other people, it makes perfect sense as to why??? IDW Optimus is still a noble person that believes in mercy, gives people second chances, and thinks that treating people like people is better than ending them because it's more convenient. It's just that in IDW he's more than just a noble hero icon, he's also a human that sometimes runs out of patience and snaps at people, or makes mistakes that he can't take back.

When IDW OP lashes out at people, it's not because he's a meanie jerk >:((( or whatever the fuck haters think, it's because he's incredibly idealistic and has high moral standards, and when people/the world don't measure up to them he gets frustrated. In other words, he's so passionate about doing something, about trying to help, that that passion can turn into frustration when things aren't going well. It's the fact that his virtues can be both a virtue and a flaw depending on the situation that makes him feel like the most interesting OP to me.

Also, IDW is a realistic and gritty continuity, embroiled in politics and conflict that leaves no one untouched. and Optimus is in a position of power over an army. I think it's really stupid to expect the commander of an army who gets into politics afterwards to be a squeaky clean hero who does nothing wrong and everyone likes him.

And also also, almost every single complaint I hear about IDW OP either takes his actions completely out of context or just straight up gets basic story facts wrong lmao. Like people will call him an asshole for punching Prowl when what Prowl actually did to get punched was using Devastator to try to destroy a space bridge despite knowing it would lead to the death of an entire Cybertronian colony. People call IDW OP an asshole for "not letting the Dynobots leave the planet" in Monstrosity when actually OP was the one telling them that he would help find a cure for their beastial forms, and when they decided to leave Cybertron anyways, he didn't stop them. People even get mad at him for making Megatron give a speech telling the Decepticons to stop fighting, even though Optimus was already being ridiculously lenient by letting Megatron on parole to be co-captain of the Lost Light!

The main reason people hate IDW Optimus is because they just cherrypick his worst moments without including the context and they ignore his good moments in the story. And also instead of accepting that IDW OP is his own version of Optimus that can be interesting if you give him a chance, they basically hate him for not being a cardboard cutout of a meek depressed uwu Optimus/a silly funny stupid dad character.

Ahem...

Optimus apologism aside, I would really, really just ignore what people say about everyone being assholes in IDW1. Just because a lot of the subject matter is dark doesn't mean that the story says that nothing in life matters and people suck-- far from it. Even Barber (whose writing I think is mediocre and shittily executed), who constantly writes Optimus being shit on, still gives him moments where he's allowed to be the hero that chooses peace and reconciliation. Not to mention how if you look at MTMTE/LL, those stories are more or less fundamentally about the power of relationships/friendship/love between people.

Anyways, fuck what the haters say, send me more asks about IDW Optimus so I can gush about his underappreciated moments of heroism and be an apologist for him whenever he acts like a jerk is a human person with flaws and virtues just like every other character in the continuity.

#squiggle answers #i'm being pretty unfiltered in this ask i used it to take a break from writing a wip because i'm exhausted from it #but yeah tbh the longer i'm in this fandom the less patience i have with idw op haters #i'm not weird for liking him people just have shit taste sorry #especially when i spend most of my time in the MOP fandom but people still hate on him all the time #as if idw meg is any better lmaooooo #also for the record i used to be scared of reading more of the comics because of how everyone said #that idw op is such a jerk in them #but then when i actually read them i was like 'people called him a jerk over THAT? but it makes perfect sense why he did that?' #in short: the fandom is wrong and you should probably read on your own and come to your own opinions #the fact is that this fandom is full of cowards who can't appreciate an OP who's a little bastardly and complicated

[overdramatics]

complicated transgender feelings over being the only kid of my family who didn't get a baby book

#also hilarious that i was the one who didnt get a baby book. like of Course i didnt get one #theres pretty much only one picture ( #at least that i have out of the. three. that i have) #that id be comfy showing people bc i have a plausible short haircut in it #but like it would be nice to have something for myself y'know. i wouldn't look at it often by any means and i have a very complicated #relationship with who i was before i started medically transitioning and especially before i started figuring shit out #forget where this was going either way this should probably be said to a therapist instead of tags lol