#It's coming I promise I'm working on it

[marlynnofmany]

All right, what's on the ol' professional to-do list for this morning? Ah yes, a photoshoot with Stabby the Roomba. Naturally.

#gotta make the Patreon tiers look interesting #living the dream #I don't miss retail #and that's an understatement #'a book sale a day keeps the soul-sucking job away!' #crossing my fingers that all this is as promising as it looks #anyways I'm off to tape knives to my Roomba again #then work on editing other people's writing and do a bunch of other things #never a dull moment #Stabby the Roomba #Patreon #it should be coming back soon #stay tuned #and if the cat comes down to join the photoshoot in entertaining ways #I will be sure to share #writer life

[somegrumpynerd]

Putting my special little guy through it

#UTDR #UTMV #My Art #Killer my beloved (puts him in a horrible situation) #It's okay he's gonna be okay I promise #It won't be silly but he will be okay #Also if this comes out near to how I want it he won't be alone #I should really be sleeping for work tomorrow but I just have ONE more picture to do outlines for for this #So I'm gonna ignore my common sense and do it first #I'm hoping I'll have this finished this week but we'll see how bad the work situation is

[dragonnarrative-writes]

im the anon who sent that gaz ask and omg kyle's interlude was so good!!!!! im just giggling thinking of kyle wondering how much does she know? did she catch on somehow? fuck I have to take her out quick before she finds out how many projects ive finished and the whole time miss new girl is like. wow this guy fucking sucks at his job i want him gone from my hospital >:(

mans thinks shes gonna file a case with a police and she just thinks he's incompetent as shit

I'm so tickled. That's exactly what's happening.

CW: discussions of death and dying, autopsies, medical neglect

There’s something going on on the cardiac floor that you just… can’t quite put your finger on.

This isn’t the first hospital you’ve worked at, but you’re also new to urban healthcare, so you don’t want to rock the boat by being paranoid. But traffic from the cardiac floor is… steady. You’ve read the papers, know the stats like the back of your hand. And the cardiac floor is perfectly in line with expected trends. Every. Month.

There are fluctuations, of course. Plus or minus three to seven lives is nothing remarkable in cardiology. Macabre, maybe, but true. But that’s unnatural. In the seven months you’ve worked here, you’ve seen waves elsewhere in the hospital. The plastics floor had a month with zero deaths followed by a month of a persistent infection sweeping through the otherwise reasonably healthy patients. Oncology has seen a steady decline in patients sent your way, thank goodness. Even emergency and intensive care aren’t as fixedly consistent as the cardiac floor.

When you wonder about it aloud to the director, Dr. Martins just shrugs. “We have a good team up there. Very good at keeping things clean and double and triple checking their work.”

“But if that’s the case, then the number of deaths should be going down,” you point out.

Dennis gives you a rueful smile. “That’s not always how human bodies work, unfortunately. You know that.”

You do know that. Which is why the consistency grates against your nerves. So you decide to do a little digging.

The name that comes up the most often in the chart notes is one Kyle Garrick.

That’s actually not 100% accurate. He’s charting exactly the way he’s supposed to. And no nurse has complete, individual access to patients 24/7. But every dying patient he has access to is… perfect. Their blood work, labs, vitals, prognosis, medication adherence and refusal is almost too-the-letter, textbook precise.

The most obvious answer is that Garrick, and probably a couple of other nurses on the floor, are fudging the numbers.

The idea is infuriating. You hate the way the administrators keep changing medical record systems just as much as the next person, but inaccurate charting is a safety issue. People can, have, and do die because someone writes down the wrong timing for medications or assumes that a patient’s vitals are unchanged. If anything, this is probably worse than that. The fact that everything is so pristine probably means that some patients are just being written off. The nurses might be deciding who gets the excellent care the hospital is known for and who gets neglected.

You stay three hours late investigating the next cardio patient that ends up in your morgue.

After examining the body and reading, rereading, and re-re-re-reading his chart, you find it. A stutter in the dosages of blood thinners, a slightly higher blood pressure reading from someone who isn’t nurse Kyle fucking Garrick. Just enough evidence to have you testing the body with an aspirometer almost too late. And there it is. A fatal air embolism.

You want to scream, but the dead man doesn’t deserve that.

Three weeks later, sipping from your water bottle, someone calls into the office. “Knock knock.”

Dennis practically lights up. “"Good morning, Kyle. Been a bit since you've come to see us. Care for some tea?"

Your eyebrows shoot up. Dr Martins hates unexpected visitors. Then you look over your shoulder, and you understand. Even old queens aren't immune to pretty privilege. The man that’s leaning in the doorway is gorgeous. Maybe its because you work with dead bodies all day, but his eyes and skin seem to glow, even under the fluorescents.

"Can't," the man says, apologetically. "Just dropping someone off."

"Well, at least let me introduce our new nurse!"

The fact that you’re wiping crumbs off of your mouth over a paper plate is the only reason no one sees your face fall when you hear him say, “Nice to meet you. Kyle Garrick.”

#slasher handler #cod #fanfiction #dark fic #kyle gaz garrick #gaz appreciation nation #dragonnarrativewrites fanfiction #coffeeshop chats #please keep these requests coming because when they hit they HIT #i'm having so much fun #i promise im working on the next ghost part #but the giant weirdo is fighting me #gaz is much more cooperative and considerate

[hyunip]

Model!black!reader x Artist!Ony

His hand slid into the frame of the photo, tring to move a piece of trash that seemed to also be peeking into the frame of your photos. This caused his large hand to be caught in one of the photos. You hated anything that was good enough for you on the first try, honestly. Despised it. More than someone chewing their food hella loud in your ear.

Without moving your head an inch, you moved your eyes to give him an evil glare. And he knew what that meant. The larger male, known as small artist Onyankopon, avoided this gaze and threw away the piece of trash, his nerves tingling as he felt your pretty hazel eyes burning right into the back of his head, waiting for him to turn around so you could finally make eye contact with him.

You were used to Ony avoided this stare, so when he finally turned towards you and held that gaze until one of you looked away, your heart jumped.

No matter how hard you stare at this man, whether the eye contact makes him nervous or not, he will not budge.

But to show you he does not play games, when you get home, you go off on him. Telling him how he fucked up one of your photos, he wraps his arm around your waist and pulled you towards him, telling you how it was only one photo.

Yet you couldn't let go of that, because that was important to you. "It don't matter Ony. You know how I feel about that."

and after all of that, he's finally the one taking the reigns in bed. He has you in missionary with your hands in his as he hunched over you, feeding you sweet, deep thrusts while he mumbles little apologies in your ear, kissing your neck and jaw every time before he said another one.

#hyunip speaks ミ★𞠬 #hyunip #hyunny #black reader #aot x reader #aot smut #aot x black reader #its been some time since i wrote anything #I'm sorry I've been off for awhile y'all #got a lot on my mind and this is one of those things lmao #but i promise y'all even though I been off for a while #Imma still work on some stuff for y'all #announcement coming after this post

[marclef]

hello there friends, tonight i present a very special gift to you......

it's the only Peppino clone i've never caused any harm to come to!! take him, he's yours now.

now be gentle with him, he's seen a lot. you wouldn't let anything bad happen to him.............. would you?

#this started off as a different thing but i got bored and did this instead. enjoy your new tiny friend. #sidenote! i'm slightly burnt out right now and taking a few days break from working on my comic! but i promise it's still happening. #just need time to get my brain motivated to work on it more. i want it to turn out as good as possible and working with a dead brain will- #-make that difficult. but it's coming!!! #my art #pizza tower #peppino clone #also uh. yes noodle. you partially helped inspire this. #you better be nice to this one y'hear? you get this One.

[holocene-sims]

just a guy and his snowpal ⛄❄️

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 screenshots #simblr #it's missing my pixel son grant hours #actually i've seen a lot of him lately bc i've been working super hard on story posts - yippee yippeee!! #it's just going slow but i swear they're coming again *pinky promise* #btw if you are reading the tags and you do read the story - question?? #do y'all prefer waiting for me to finish a whole bunch so a cohesive arc is released over a short span all at once? #or do you prefer more frequent updates mini updates that just take longer to cover the arc overall? #if that makes sense #it's much easier for me to do the former bc i've styled my story that way but i notice a lot of people do mini but frequent updates instead #and i'm just kinda curious if one would work better than the other or if people have preferences as readers #i don't know that i would retool it bc i like the long drawn out scenes/arcs i do but i also do want to make more story #and the potential is maybeeee there that i could push things out faster as for the whole narrative if i don't wait until i have time to mas #produce the content #like rn because i'm doing a whole sprint to finish this one arc all at once but i had to wait forever until i had christmas break to do it #holocene.png #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: grant

[mousfri]

thinking about how Much is in that very first scene where jack adjusts will's glasses

jack makes sure that barrier between will and himself (and everyone else) stays up. jack deals with will graham, profiler for the fbi, NOT will graham, haver of murderous impulses -- he essentially promises to keep will that way as long as he helps out. his goal is to keep that barrier constant and steady, and when he sees it slipping, he pushes it back into place, even within minutes of meeting.

it's almost like he's saying 'hey look what i can do for you if you help me', 'look how good i am at stopping you from falling apart'

and even though will is very clearly uncomfortable with this, he agrees anyway. in retrospect, it's so clear how desperate will is to appear normal. during his lecture, where he takes on the viewpoint of a killer, his glasses slip, the barrier weakens -- he finds something almost comforting, familiar in that killer's mind. jack comes along and patches that barrier up, and will sees an opportunity to escape that comradery he has with killers.

of course he agrees. jack has promised him the thing he's be striving for all along. he is willing to endure all discomforts in return for that normality.

then there's the fact that jack just goes ahead and touches him like that in the first place. he has this attitude of entitlement, making grabby hands at something he wants with the intention of taking it for his own. it sets the tone for the remainder of their relationship throughout s1. he says what he needs to get will to agree, and shucks his duty of care off onto hannibal, ignoring all signs of will clearly losing his marbles.

#i promise i'm not hating on jack rn #this is not a boohoo poor will post #they're as bad as each other for different reasons #jack is obsessive and careless #but will is a repressed liar with daddy issues and also murderous so yk #obviously a lot of jack's reluctance to take will out of work comes from hannibal supposedly supporting him #hannigram #hannibal textpost #hannibal lecter #will graham

[amphibia-a-day]

Day 869 of Amphibia Screenshots

Episode: The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers

#Amphibia #The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers #Amphibia The Sleepover to End All Sleepovers #Anne Boonchuy #Marcy Wu #Spring Plantar #Polly Plantar #Amphibia Screenshots #Amphibia Screenshot #SHOOT I'm so sorry this is like 12 hours late i didn't realize i had nothing queued 😭😭😭 #i was at ren fair yesterday and worked 7 hours today and now midnight is in 50 minutes #💀💀 #so uh here's this I'm about to go to bed soon I'm glad i opened tumblr 💀💀 #I'm sorry normally i have at least a week queued but working 2 jobs and midterms coming up soon man i just keep forgetting oops #I'll have something out on time tomorrow though i promise!!!!

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #my partner's friends have a big important camping trip they've been planning for a whole year tomorrow #and me and my wife are also invited #camping is Tricky for me #between the illness and the army experience being Miserable #plus since it's a big group of people The Autism comes into play too -n- #but my wife and partner have worked together to accommodate me only staying for one night even though everyone else is staying for 3 #(which also means daily drawings will not be disrupted even though I'm leaving my tablet at home!) #so I am looking forward to touching trees or whatever people do when they're camping not-for-work #(I wouldn't know literally my only experiences of camping were in the army) #(I have been promised I will not have to sleep directly in the mud and I will not be woken up for a guard shift) #(so like. it should be fine.) #favorites

[willowcrowned]

i hate the homogenization of layouts i hate how every new update to desktop tumblr makes it look more like the app i hate how they've decided to give up on tumblr as a website i hate that blog themes and html are being treated as an old fashioned holdover and not a fun unique feature i hate that the phone app is all that matters!!!

#AND I'M PRIMARILY AN APP USER #but like. come on guys #tumblr works best when it's a website NOT an app #the whole POINT of it is long-form content and highly customizable experiences #famously not features of apps #tunglr #anyways. i promise i'll stop complaining #we're still at least a few years away from tumblr up and collapsing barring any horrible mismanagement a la twitter and reddit #so. we've got time #tumblr update

[buttfrovski]

cutie patooties

#finally decided to come back around and work on this parody painting #south park #i just wanted to promise that i'm working on some art atm 😭🙏

[aceghosts]

WIP Thursday

Hey everyone! I've been tagged by @nightbloodbix, @socially-awkward-skeleton, @cassietrn, @katsigian, @captastra, @marivenah, and possibly others that I'm forgetting.

Tagging (Opt In/Out): @bbrocklesnar, @carlosoliveiraa, @captmactavish, @alexxmason, @clicheantagonist, @theelderhazelnut, @direwombat, @strangefable, @amalkavian, @voidika, @cloudofbutterflies92, and anyone else who would like to participate.

I have more snippets from Rooney's CP2077 universe for you, including those listed in this poll. (Not gonna lie, I'm kinda surprised that Rooney's family won, lol.) I'm gonna start with two slightly depressing snippets, and then I also have two small fluffy snippets.

First, let's kick off with the winner of the poll, a snippet from the oneshot about Rooney's family. Also, I have to give a strong warning for this entire fic in general. In Mass Effect, Rooney's background is colonist, which means you are essentially left the sole survivor of your colony after being attacked by batarians. In their AU, Rooney's entire town is attacked by bandits, leaving Rooney the sole survivor. This fic is going to deal with distressing topics. If you need to skip it when I post, please do so. I will also have more detailed warnings when I post the final version of the fic.

As for this snippet, I do want to give a trigger warning that Rooney is not in a good mental state and is very much struggling:

The week that Rooney’s family died is always the worst week of the year. Rooney’s normally unflinching, steady demeanor turns brittle. Their mood is an ever vicious cycle of grief looping into tv-static like numbness, which eventually loops back into a grief that threatens to swallow them whole. Their sleep schedule goes to hell, ghosts haunting them in their dreams. Even in their waking hours, the ghosts still haunt them, always there. Nothing holds any interest for them, and they feel a slight sense of nausea, picking at their meals. The weight of a broken promise weighs heavily on their shoulders, and Rooney feels like they’re drowning underneath it all, exhausted of fighting the tide. All they want to do is hide in their room underneath blankets until the storm passes, when they are finally able grip onto some sense of normality. Most years, they power through, only taking the day of their family’s death off. Their usual ritual is to spend the day alone, writing unsent letters to the ghosts they carry with them. This year is different. The grief hits harder, a dark, black cloud hanging over them. It feels so hard to breathe, to exist. Their limbs feel weighed down, each movement more difficult than the last. They feel so numb to it all, to the whole point of their existence. Perhaps, it’s because they died and now know death intimately. Maybe, it’s the fact they’re stuck in this Arasaka facility, amongst enemies and isolated from their comrades. Maybe, it’s that small glimpse of what they saw between life and death. And then, there is Yorinobu, Rooney’s only friend in this lonely place. They’ve been avoiding him all week, unwilling to let him see them like this. He doesn’t have to know, and Rooney doesn’t want him to think less of them. The grief will pass like it always does, and Rooney will be fine. …Right?

(Also, due to this fic winning, you're probably going to get Rooney and Yorinobu's second meeting first as this fic references that fic.)

Second snippet is from the Relic Malfunction fic. The Relic Malfunction fic is dealing with Yorinobu finding out about Rooney having the Relic in their head and the ending of CP2077. Here is the snippet:

V nods, tears running down their face. “I’m so sorry. I should have-.” “Yes,” Yorinobu cuts in, his tone brutal, “You should be the one dying in their place.” Vik opens his mouth to protect V, but someone else beats him to it. “Yori, stop it. This isn’t V’s fault. If you need to be angry at someone, be angry at me.” Everyone turns to Shepard, awake and alert. Yorinobu sits back down, his hand coming up to cup their cheek. “Rooney, is that-?” “It’s me,” They reassure him, pressing a kiss to the inside of his palm, “Silverhand hasn’t taken over yet.”

And lastly, here are two small snippet from some short fluffy fics. This first one is from a fic inspired by a tumblr post (and is essentially Rooney and Yorinobu shamelessly flirting with one another):

Giving him a curious look, Rooney says, “You have that look again.” “What look?” He asks, shooting them a charming smile. “The one where you’re planning something.” “Possibly,” Yorinobu shrugs, as Rooney continues, their hands coming down to the lapels of his jacket. He shivers underneath their touch. With a heavy sigh, Yorinobu starts, “It is such a shame I am going to this party alone. I wish I had-.” “No,” Rooney replies, a response that would sound curt and brutal to most. Yet, he notices the way the corner of their mouth twitches upward, the humor in their eyes.

This second one is from a prompt:

“Delighted?” They quip, still playing with Yorinobu’s hair. He laughs. “Alexandre and Marion adored you. I thought they were going to ignore me all night.” Rooney remembers how Alexandre and Marion lit up at the sight of Rooney, both getting out of their chairs to greet them. Marion gave them a tight hug, telling Rooney how good it was to see them again. Alexandre gave them a firm handshake, but they couldn’t miss the way he looked at them with incredible fondness and a misty look in his eyes. When Yorinobu and Rooney sat down, Alexandre and Marion overwhelmed Rooney with questions about what Rooney had been doing since they left the Arasaka facility. “I thought the same,” Although Rooney couldn’t be too frustrated, when every time they looked over at Yorinobu, he was watching them a slightly smitten smile on his face, content to let Rooney talk, “I really missed Alexandre and Marion too.”

#wip wednesday #kate writes #the rooney fic tag #I won't let fear compromise who I am #commander rooney shepard #OTP: It always comes right back to you #death tw #grief tw #that first one is going to be rough #but I promise I will be putting out some fluffy stuff too #also I apparently can't work on one project #if i'm not working on more than one thing i start gnawing on the bars of my enclosure

[kiirous]

There is nothing more homoerotic than attempting to kill the other at least once.

#or dying for the other #this was specifically brought on by #orv #but it also works for tons of different pairings #the s classes that i raised #i promise there are more but my brain won't come up with anything if i try to think of it specifically #i guess harry potter does also count #i don't need to name the names #you know who i'm talking about #bsd

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Your analyses are the best. They are so fun to read and I over think everything afterwarrs

Thank you!

For analyses above my level, I highly recommend checking out these if you haven't already read them:

The two chapters of Kei Toda's Reading The Promised Neverland with a British/American Literature Scholar (2020) that have been translated into English by fans (Chapter 2: Religion by @thathilomgirl & @0hana0fubuki0 | Chapter 3: Gender by @1000sunnygo)

Anime Feminist's "Emma’s Choice: The gender-norm nightmare at the heart of The Promised Neverland" article (2018) (good follow-up to Toda's chapter on gender)

Jackson P. Brown's "Thoughts on… The Promised Neverland, and Black Women in Manga" (2018) blog post and Zeria's video essay/blog post (2019) on Krone's depiction

Jairus Taylor's "The Unfulfilled Potential of The Promised Neverland Anime" (2021) which made me more open to the idea of a remake of S1

For tumblr posts (some of these I'm linking through my blog because I either had a minor link addition or think the OP's/prev's tags deserve to be seen and rebloggable, but you can just click through to the original post):

@puff-poff's exploration of the demon world's culture (Part 1 & Part 2)

@just-like-playing-tag's examination of the farm system, Emma character analysis launched by a minute change in S2e02, and mini-Isabella analysis regarding her treatment of Ray (along with her blog just being a wealth of knowledge in general)

@hylialeia's post on the series' handling of Norman's plan/the oppressed and oppressors

@avadescent's analysis of the S2 ED album art (Norman and Emma are perpendicular; Emma and Ray are parallel.)

@linkspooky has a lot of analyses from when the series was running but special mention to this analysis of Norman's character

@vobomon also has a lot but special mention to her Norman is autistic and Norman has PTSD posts

@goldiipond's "Ray is autistic" essay

@emmaspolaroid with some of the best Emma and Emma & Isabella meta in general

@nullaby's post on Isabella and Ray's relationship

#The Promised Neverland #Yakusoku no Neverland #YnN #TPN #TPN Meta #Character Analysis #FSS Chatter #FSS Asks #TPN Krone #Sister Krone #Kei Toda #Reading The Promised Neverland with a British/American Literature Scholar #definitely forgetting some but these are the ones that first come to mind and I could easily find again #there's also some fanfics out there that are so foundational to me for my interpretations of the characters #(𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠‚ 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠 my beloved <3; along with bsa's and sae's works and others) #but this is already a bit of reading #also probably a number of discussions on TPNtwt that I'm missing out on but I fucking abhor the format for long-form discussion #even with thread unrollers #Sunny idk if it's just my browser but I think some of the pic links on your blogspot are breaking </3 #if you take a shot for every time I mention on this blog how I still can't believe the S2 ED album art is real you'll get alcohol poisoning

[startrekdescribed]

Threshold Day 2024 incoming.

[Image description: white text that says, "Dawn of the Final Day 24 Hours Remain." /end image description]

#I'll tag them all threshold day #and i promise I'll be coming off hiatus soon #I'm doing much better now that I'm working less and started therapy #i gotta refollow a bunch of people #i unfollowed loads when i stopped #i do not see much star trek on my dash #I'll probably mainly follow and get notifications from the gif makers

[not-poignant]

it's going to be so weird not putting up Underline the Black this week! i've made a stricter choice because there's 5 Thursdays this month but i need like... a mini-break so 9 (actually 10, possibly 11) chapters are going up this month, but only 4 of them will be Underline the Black.

it's so weeeeird

also hey congrats to all of us because Underline the Black has been now going for almost year (two weeks away!) and that's largely thanks to all of y'all who gave Efnisien a chance and then like those of who were absolutely shipping Gary/Efnisien and let me wander into feral omegaverse land

#housekeeping #underline the black #it's been almost a year!!!! #y'all that has gone SO FAST #it feels like i've only been working on it for 5 months #wild #only took a year for them to have their first sex scene #and that folks is the true slow burn #y'all are AMAZING waiting so long sadlkfjasd i promise there's more to come #i'm also really tired #boomp