#alack

[mariana-oconnor]

The AO3 search/filtering system has just ruined me for every other search function ever. I genuinely go onto websites, click 'advanced search' and then look at what paltry options they've given me in utter horror. How does anyone find anything? How do people survive?

#AO3 #I'm not saying that I can always find exactly what I'm looking for if I want a specific fic #but 9 times out of 10 I can #And yes this is as much down to the dedication of the users tagging things effectively #If people didn't use the tagging system it would be useless #But people do #and then the tag wranglers make it all work so well #Glory to the tag wranglers #and it's just beautiful #I could weep #Also I'm pretty sure some of the fics I'm looking for have been deleted #Which is tragic #and I can't find them on the wayback machine either #Lost to the abysm of time and now living only in my memory #Alas #alack #alas and alack

[frailgun]

it's not enough to reblog the dick down dog anymore. i need to get Defiled. i need to get to get fucked such that my family tells me not to come home for christmas this year. i need six to twelve very intense trannies, like those ones who are really into guns and can't relax about it, to pin me down and terror fuck me for 2 hours. get all their dicks in me at once, i don't care how. i need to be reduced to a smoldering pile of meat and cum and spit and piss. when they're done and toweling off and passing out water they look down and see that im dead

#but alas #alack #i have ibs 😔

[taosnipple]

I just wanna put cheese into bread and bake it and eat it. I only want decadence. I only want everything.

#alas i have let the cheese go counter warm.... #and all that remains......... is old velveeta. #alack #alarm #a lesser beast would brave the grocery store but me? #i will eat the doughy nothing bread. #i will dip it in as much butter as it takes so HELP me fuck

[whattraintracks]

Heads up, uni resumes tomorrow, so my march for raph stuff is gonna slow down.

This weekend was entirely too busy, but I refuse to abandon my day 10 draft. Expect that sometime this week, with at least a couple of other days.

Thanks for all the love thus far. Can't wait to see what else we all make!

#today on my interests v. priorities #somehow priorities won #i have plans for quite a few prompts but responding to all 31 just might not happen #alack #march for raph stuff #whattrainofthought

[orlaite]

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)

#apocalypse now #francis ford coppola #martin scheen #filmedit #filmtvdaily #filmtvcentral #fyeahmovies #dailyflicks #filmgifs #moviegifs #movieedit #new hollywood #newhollywoodedit #mine #alack the original title doesn't have the exclamation mark that the norwegian title adds. too bad #it adds a certain je nais se quais

[rookflower]

you see, i don't hate ivypool, but i also think dovewing should be legally allowed to kill her if she ever wants to at this point because come on

#warrior cats #dovewing #ivypool frustrates me because she would be so much more interesting if they actually acknowledged that she was an arsehole in canon #or so much more likeable as a person if she grew out of her weird controlling thing with her sister's love life once they were both adults #but alas and alack we're stuck in a weird limbo where she is Perfect and so much Cooler and Tougher than her sister bc Girlboss #but also never really gets to grow or change as a person beyond being a shitty teenager in oots #i like her best as a weird normal guy stuck in a Situation in dark forest maps bc i did enjoy her oots chapters a lot though #peak wacky warrior cats magic bullshit after the broken code. sick of ivypool yelling at dovewing hashtag girlboss moments tho

[gay-ppl-real]

Did y'all know I have a pair of absolutely ancient jeans that I use as an embroidery canvas.

No, you didn't, because turns out I've apparently never shared my Layton or Encanto patches on here I guess??

Well, I made a Welcome Home patch on them!! My buddy was kind enough to help me take some pics wearing it while I was in town today.

What symbols for which characters under the hood :)

Wally: apple, eye, his lil face! Barnaby: his pawprint and his hat Julie: pink and purple flowers Frank: their tie, butterflies (plus hearts) Eddie: a multicoloured letter (plus hearts) Howdy: a caterpillar Poppy: the little wings she draws next to her signature, and a cupcake Sally: Stars!

Having more things dedicated to a specific character doesn't have any significance, it just means I had more ideas for them or they fit nicest to fill in a space haha

#welcome home arg #welcome home fanart #welcome home #innisart #embroidery #yes I am wearing rainbow socks #The fit was fire ok I was v pleased with my look today but alack could not get any pics #You can still see my stitching markers around Barnaby's paw LOL #those will come off in the wash adsfakjsdf #My bud didn't take a pic where you can properly see but Frank's tie and Eddie's letter are next to each other and surrounded by hearts #also the butterflies are purple (Eddie's fav) and yellow (Frank's fav) #idk man I just think that them. #y'know. #and Wally's face is next to Barnaby's hat #and Julie's flowers are always near Frank's symbols #because they are best friends :)

[sodapopfunk1]

Hello Wrench nation (9 people)

#heard this fandom was dead #but alack; what am i but a fly #also sorry for his lack of tats n stuff i drew all this in school with no ref pics ;-; #watch dogs #watch dogs 2 #wrench #wd2 wrench #reginald blechman #reggie blechman #ururfrgggggggur tags #myart

[accidentalautomaton]

webweaver🕸️

annabelle moment :::-3 (sorry for not posting u guys :-3 working on it)

#tma #my art #tma art #annabelle cane #tma annabelle #tma fanart #the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the web #i did something a little different in this i guess? idk… #i wanted to do something else w the background but. alas alack

[reactionimagesdaily]

#alas and alack... #reaction image #reaction meme #daily reaction images #image mood: [undefinable]

[chiropteracupola]

No one ever told me leaving was the easy part / I've got to stay away / Leaving you was easy, now I've got to do what's hard / I've got to stay away...

[a tristan for @mortiscausa’s ’march to camelot,’ for the prompt ‘love’]

#em draws stuff #march to camelot #arthurian things #arthuriana #tristan and iseult #BACK ON THIS HORSE AGAIN! it is going to STAY MARCH until I am DONE WITH ONE MORE OF THESE and THEN it may be april #this one was So Very Hard and I'm still not 100% sure on it but it's done and I did it and anyway I like it more than the cei one :/ #I'm VERY pleased with the dragon altho' I can't rightly say where it was that I found the version of the story where there Is a dragon #I suppose it was either in roger lancelyn green or in rosemary sutcliff's 'the sword and the circle' #but having neither on hand at present I cannot exactly Check alas alack #caption lyrics are from 'stayaway' by muna as I was listening to the tiny desk version whilst drawing and I felt it was only apt

[kkpwnall]

if it wasn’t for bad luck i wouldn’t have luck at all

part one | rated t | 1270 words | cw: parental death

all my thanks and love to my beloved @fragilecapric0rnn for beta-reading 💜 you're a rockstar and your feedback was so so helpful

Eddie was born under a bad sign. That’s what his momma always used to say. Friday the 13th, and in October? He never really stood a chance and neither did anyone else he got close to. He was like a black cat walking across their path. 

[ keep reading below, or read on ao3 ]

His momma was first, of course. Cursed by the fate of Eddie’s birth from the very beginning. And if he hadn’t dawdled on the way home from school that day, if he had gone straight home just like he’d promised, if he hadn’t stopped to pick a bouquet of ditch weed wildflowers for her and got distracted by caterpillars and rollie-pollies— Well, maybe he would’ve been able to tell the 911 operator she was still breathing when he found her.

His daddy was next, not much long after. Eddie worshiped him like a hero in one of his fantasy stories, the charming, devil-may-care, down on his luck protagonist who stole from the rich and gave to the needy. But the first time Floyd brought him out on a real job, just the two of them, when all Eddie had to do was hot wire the getaway car after he heard the signal (three hoots like a barn owl), Eddie panicked. Did he say barn owl or barred owl? Was that two hoots or three? Why did the wires all look the same in the dark?

When the police cars painted him in their flashing red and blue lights, he dropped the wire cutters and ran. Floyd went down in a hail of bullets behind the car Eddie had been trying to steal, and Wayne got his own life sentence when the State dropped Eddie on his doorstep.

Uncle Wayne got the worst of it, obviously. Working himself to the bone, nights and weekends, to put Eddie through school. Not to mention senior year for a second and third goddamn time.

It was too late by the time young Eddie figured it out. By the time he decided to keep everyone at arm’s length.

It’s safer that way, for everyone.

Chrissy was just the latest in a long line. And he’d only lowered his guard an inch, a millimeter, when he saw someone just as lonely and desperate for a friend. He’d only barely started to let himself have an inkling of what an actual friendship with her might be like when—

This is exactly why Eddie doesn’t have friends. He has minions. He has little lost sheepies, he has twerps and shrimps. And that’s it. That’s enough. It has to be enough.

But all that changes the day he dies.

Or maybe it’s the day he finally wakes up. His new birthday, welcomed to the world once again in a cold, bright, sterile hospital room.

And really, the way he sees it, it’s all Henderson’s fault.

The little shit wanders in every day at visiting hours and makes himself right at home. He props his cast up on Eddie’s bed, and steals the remote to change the channel on the ancient, minuscule tv over to cartoons, and then he just… camps out! All day!

The kid will not leave him alone, no matter how cold a shoulder Eddie tries to give him. He even broke down and explained everything to him. How he’s bad luck, he’s bad news. And people who get too close to him end up dead.

But maybe the painkillers they’ve got him on scrambled his brain as bad as the bats scrambled his guts, because Dustin steamrolls right over him.

“If curses were real, which they aren’t,” he posits in his professor voice, “Your dumb curse can’t try to kill me again. It already took a shot and it missed, and the worst I got was a busted ankle.”

Eddie opens his mouth to tell Dustin that’s not how curses work but—

“And what was its goal anyway? To get you alone and friendless, dead in a ditch? Well then, mission accomplished!”

Which is… weirdly comforting when he puts it like that.

Dustin brings with him a rotating cast of the rest of the fellowship. Eddie finally gets to meet Baby Byers and finds out he’s already been recruited to Hellfire before Eddie can even say hello.

More often than not, Steve tags along too since he’s already ferrying them all between the hospital and home. Usually after he’s spent some time with Red and the other kids in her room, he’ll drop by. To check on Dustin of course.

It’s not because he likes Eddie. Don’t be ridiculous. He doesn’t even know him.

All that… before… it was just some harmless flirting to keep himself from completely losing it while he was on the run from homicidal bible-thumpers. And Steve was just humoring him.

So he hides behind stupid flirtatious remarks, easy to brush off when it’s always undercut with sly winks and salacious expressions. Enough to keep everything surface level. Keep him at arms length.

It doesn’t matter that his eyes still seem to linger on Eddie, even when he hasn’t said anything for a while. Or that he brings Eddie extra pudding cups from the cafeteria. It doesn’t mean anything when he stands in the doorway trying to finish one last story or joke, until the kids almost literally have to drag him out when visiting hours are over.

Because it turns out Steve is an incorrigible gossip. And Eddie’s not about to be the one to corrige him. Not when he brings an extra dr. pepper for Eddie every time he stops by the vending machine for a coke and gleefully tells Eddie which of the doctors, nurses, and shady government agents are sleeping together.

A can of coke he taps on the lid with a peculiar rhythm before he cracks it, every time.

“What’s up with that?” Eddie finally has to ask one day, when it’s just the two of them and the Price is Right.

Steve hums this confused little sound at him, tilting his head with furrowed brows as he takes the first sip.

Eddie repeats the pattern, tapping it out on his own can.

Steve blinks a few times, first at Eddie, then at the can in his hand.

“I didn’t even realize I did that,” he huffs out a laugh. “It’s uh… something my grandpa taught me when I was a kid. Y’know just for luck.”

The blood in Eddie’s veins freezes and he’s stuck like that for a painfully long moment. Propped up against the lumpy hospital pillows with his mouth half open, staring at Steve.

“For luck.” he says flatly.

“Yeah, so the fizz doesn’t explode when you open it.”

“And has that ever happened to you?” Aiming for flirty, aiming for scathing, aiming for anything that’s not desperation.

“Well no,” Steve says with an easy shrug and a conspiratorial smile, “that’s why it’s lucky. It’s like picking up a coin that’s face-down on the sidewalk.”

“Uh, I’m pretty sure it’s face-up, darlin,” Eddie says coyly, like every alarm bell in his head isn’t ringing a deafening cacophony.

“Nah see, you gotta leave those ones for someone who really needs the luck.”

“But then you get the bad luck.”

“Nah, doesn’t work that way,” Steve says, and fucking winks at him.

Eddie wants to shake him. What is wrong with him? He’s got it all backwards and it’s dangerous. How is he walking around like this?

Whatever, it’s not his problem. Steve can do whatever Steve wants. Eddie doesn’t need to protect him from himself. It’s not like they’re friends. And really, that’s the best way to protect him.

[ part two ]

[ also on ao3 ]

#steddie #stranger things #steve x eddie #steveddie #steddie fic #steddie fanfic #stranger things fanfic #stranger things fic #stranger thing steve #stranger things eddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #cw parental death #friday the 13th #i was hoping to get this all finished today but alas alack #the rest of it is well under way though and will be posted in the coming days so just you wait #fun fact there was a friday the 13th in october 1967 #making eddie 19 in this fic #i was gonna have his bday be that day anyway regardless but then finally decided to look it up and was overjoyed that it actually works out #friday the 13th fic #kk writes #bad luck fic

[why-bless-your-heart]

I like the word ‘alas.’

#and alack. they’re good words.

[mashmouths]

does anyone know how to stop the body from keeping score? i have shit to do

#i have shit to do but i'm so bad at both going to sleep and staying asleep that it's been fucking up my life for years at this point #yes this about accidentally sleeping through class this morning but in my defense i had an atomic tummy moment at like 6 am :( which is #kind of my point? an reason for missing sleep shouldn't stop me from participating in my own life and i'm tired of rationing my waking hours #if sleep was optional i would be unstoppable essentially but alas. alack even. specifically a lack of sleep. #girl all the saints have it out for me today for skipping church on a holy day of obligation i guess. well fuck those guys. #a post

[winepresswrath]

you ever see someone who desperately needs to log off but you don't know them well enough to say so and it's like watching someone drive off a cliff in a universe where there's no way to yell "slow down!!! other way!!!" that coveys care and respect and the idea that they're probably a fine driver having a bad day because "slow down!!! other way!!!!!" are contemptuous & insulting things to say?

#alas. alack. sorry baby hope your friends are on it #to be clear this is no one on tumblr

[callmearcturus]

Hey, i left like a kind of shitty and self rightious rant about self determination on one of your fics, sea)(orse like a year ago. I am sorry, i don't really know why i did but part of it mustve been i was sleep deprived and hadn't started E yet.

I just wanted to say tho, i just read Human Domestication Guide and have had serious brainrot about it for the last week or so. i mean ive been OBSESSED obsessed.

so like. i get it now.

Anyway, idk why i bothered putting this on anon given how easy it would be to track me down given everything ive just said but yeah. sorry again.

okay so a few things

thank you for the apology! i'm glad you reached a better place regarding the difference between fiction and reality, that's genuinely great and healthy, cheers!

its funny bc I was writing sea)(orse and the revenant au at the same time, and they are both leftist fantasies in opposite ways. in one, the fantasy is "this world is fucked, i wish someone would just come in and go wow this place is a mess and start fixing shit," and then add in a bunch of fucked up power dynamics and BOOM. while the revenant AU is almost the exact opposite, it's about recognizing the current system is fucked and making the decision to try and fix it and knowing it'll be work but utopia is a process.

here's the big one. i... have no idea what rant you are talking about. like, no clue. if it was a comment on the story, then I think i nuked it so fast that I just forgot about it??? and if it wasn't a comment, I never saw it.

and for that, i want to point to this as an objective lesson:

if someone leaves a shitty comment/ask about your fic, just nuke it! don't read it! once you realize it's One Of Those, just hit delete. if you avoid obsessing or rereading the remark over and over, it won't stick with you and you will be better off!

these are the rules of fandom. block people who you don't want to see. do not hateread people you don't like. delete hatemail and rude comments. these things work!

ANYWAY anon, i am happy for you. i am also happy that I straight up don't know what your rant was. 8)

#Anonymous #hilariously i have Seen the human domestication guide thing on the AO3 #and it was not my thing unfort #alas alack #okay i will admit it: when ppl leave really funny hatemail #i screencap it to show my friends and laugh at it THEN i delete it #sometimes ppl tell on themselves so hard its hysterical