#fifty words

[skeptiquewrites]

Microfic: To Summon A Lover

for @drarrymicrofic prompt 'cranky'

It's one of Lavender's cranky ideas about soulmate magic. Sitting under a bridge somewhere in Cornwall—rosemary sprig under his tongue and an iris crushed in his grip—Harry's beginning to feel foolish. Surely it would have worked by now?

"Potter, what in Merlin's name are you doing down there?"

#drarry #drarrymicrofic #fifty words

[ladderofyears]

Moon and stars.

“You two are like the moon,” Luna said dreamily, sitting opposite Harry and Draco

Draco scoffed. “Cold, barren and distant?”

“No,” Luna smiled. “Silly thing. Every month, your love only grows bigger and bigger. Even though you fight and pretend to break up, the same pattern happens over and over.”

~

Fifty words.

For @microficmay

#drarry #harry x draco #fifty words #microficmay2023 #luna lovegood #moon

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I certainly didn’t see this being on my 2023 bingo card.

Edit: Ya’ll this meme above isn’t accurate anymore since other messages from the group came out. I made this meme when the first initial message came out.

The meme down below is more correct as to what’s probably happening with Ao3. Also wanted to say that despite the name of group, the people behind it are probably Russians.

Edit: July 11th, So Ao3 is back! Though the donation link is being attacked now. There’s also a second account on Twitter trying to impersonate Ao3.

#a03 #fanfic #fanfiction #supernatural #ao3 #hackers #anonymous Sudan #lgbt #ao3 smut #the disgusting smuts were the hackers words #like so what? #you can’t handle our noncon dubcon omegaverse angst mpreg smuts #go read fifty shades of grey then. it’s not our fault you can’t handle us #also the fact they called it disgusting smuts implies that they had to have went to ao3 and read smut on there #Edit: they just released a statement saying they want 30k in US dollars in bitcoin for the ao3 servers #i reblogged that statement twice I believe #and to hold a non profit organization as a virtual hostage? #really #like they’d have better luck holding Wattpad for hostage

[jade-of-mourning]

sorry sometimes i think about mako and my heart hurts so much. this kid raised himself and his brother on the streets in homelessness and utter poverty from eight through fifteen, promptly after seeing the violent death of his mother and father. he turned to the triple threats because they couldn't survive as a pair of wretched kids without any adult support, and the environment forced him to turn into the exact character that killed his parents in a terrible twist of irony. and after sheer-fucking-luck hits and they aren't homeless anymore, their livelihood wavers on the outcome of what's a literally game to everyone but them; and after things are finally starting to look up and their team is going places and things just might be okay, his gradually stabilizing world unceremoniously expands and everything goes to shit.

and the city that chewed him up and spat him back out, ruined him as a child and took away his ability to stay afloat in a true sense of normalcy as an adult — when it's on the verge of destruction and falling to pieces before his eyes, he gives himself to save it with the full expectation to die. he went from the kid who didn't and couldn't care about anything outside of himself and his brother, to finding redemption for his younger self in his police work despite its injustice against him, to willingly sacrificing himself to a world that had never loved him.

he's a desperate people pleaser, socially and emotionally stunted for the adult he had to be as a kid, unable to navigate interpersonal relationships easily yet still trying his damned hardest. he's intensely and entirely devoted to the things that matter to him and for so long it was only him, bolin, and ensuring their survival — yet by the end, that devotion has expanded to protecting the rest of the world. he starts out entirely self-reliant and ends in trusting the people he cares about to know their own needs, to be able to take care of themselves, to be okay without him despite having spent so much of his life defined by his role in others' well-being.

just. what the fuck i'm such a big fan of this fictional guy and i'm unashamed about it at this point. also let him cry please (if you won't i'll do it i'll let him cry)

#lychee's brain trash #mako lok #mako tlok #sorry for the shitpost i don't do a lot of those i realize #how tf did this guy not had a massive break down in canon at any point #nd like;; he never shows resentment for the unfairness of it all #he doesn't ever use his past to excuse any of his choices/actions that are influenced by it #which is pretty intrinsically linked to his relationship fumbles #he just quietly holds himself accountable and probably mildly despises himself haha #as much as i don't care for the love triangle it really does make complete sense in accordance to his backstory #anyway this is just a roundabout way of me expressing my salt at people writing him off as a malicious asshole lol #i literally cannot articulate the intense complex things his conjured up existence makes me feel #this does not even scratch the surface there is SO MUCH #i need to actually write the fifty fics that exist to my brain otherwise all these thoughts will never see the sun #trust that one day the avatar!mako au will emerge from my drafts;;; #and. you know. that one shot i've had in wip for the past 2.5 years #and the four other oneshots that will probably never be converted into actual words

[desceros]

so. we are all familiar with villain rise leo x reader by now. but do u have any headcanons or just ideas about villain rise donnie x reader ? 🤔

so. this, uh. this got out of hand quickly

villain!donnie au where splinter didn't scoop up all of the turtles when he fled, and donnie got left behind in the exploding lab. god i love pretty boys with trauma

as the lab explodes around him, little baby donnie barely finds a safe place to hide so he survives. he gets crushed under some rubble, and he and his shell becomes scratched and bruised. after everything settles down, he crawls out and manages to escape to the streets of the hidden city. not properly tended, his wounds heal improperly and scar, leaving him always just a little bit in pain.

despite the odds, donnie survives. he's resourceful and brilliant, and with his naturally aggressive nature, he manages. after a painful lesson where he's nearly killed by a small local gang, he learns that hiding his soft shell is important, so he begins picking through the trash and putting things together. he's good at it, he realizes quickly. able to see things that connect together and make something bigger than their parts. he begins to scrap together all kinds of contraptions; a cover for his shell, a tool to help him break into people's houses for their blankets when it gets cold, something that plays soft music and keeps him company when he feels a little hollow in the back alleyway like he's supposed to have someone with him and doesn't.

as he grows up, he learns. he has a cold exterior that never betrays his inner thoughts, because those are just as vulnerable as his soft shell. he has no friends, no family, nobody but himself. he's so, so quick to attack, cruel and unforgiving, defensive and hardened from his youth. if he hurts you first, you can't hurt him, after all.

he starts making money selling his tech to sketchy people, until finally he manages to land an actual apartment. he goes one on the sketchier side of town so he can twist the landlord's arm (read: blackmail) into letting him do whatever he wants. running water, heating, a bed; these are all things he quickly becomes picky about, now that he has them. he craves comfort, so he remodels the entire place from the inside until it's unrecognizable. then, wanting more, making enough money because he's so fucking good at hacking and tech, he gets the apartment next to his, too. puts a door between them. refurbishes the other one into a full-blown lab where he can push, create, experiment.

he's got himself convinced that he prefers it this way, that the hum of his tech around him is all he needs. he finishes something and looks at it, almost like he's waiting for... for something. (...for someone to tell him he's amazing.) but he brushes it off, puts it to the side, then moves onto the next thing. this is all he needs. this is all he needs.

one day, he wants more. there's one more apartment on his side of the floor, so he goes to the landlord. unfortunately, there's someone inside, and they're, uh. not to be messed with. no matter how much donnie twists and grills. infuriated, he goes home to take matters into his own hands—only to learn that the person in the apartment next to his is you.

you are the underpaid, overworked, exhausted, single, addicted to this black swill that you call coffee but you're pretty sure is some kind of yokai magic juice personal assistant to one baron draxum. the motherfucker's been trying to get you to move into his lab for a few years now, but if you have to spend one more minute in his presence, you'll scream. also, you warned him that if he even thinks about mutating you, you'll quit, and since you're the best goddamned assistant he's ever had, quadrupling his tracking numbers since you started, you're also one hundred percent human. ('when you are the last human, then i shall mutate you, as i will no longer have need of your services then.' 'try it. i'll gnaw your fucking arm off and password lock the coffee machine.' '...bah.')

you meet donnie when a package is delivered, mistakenly, to your apartment with his name on it. (it's a passive aggressive gesture where he had it specifically sent to your apartment, so you could come talk to him and he would, uh, kindly inform you that you'll be moving.) unfortunately for him, you're used to dealing with mad scientist egomaniacs whose respect is nigh impossible to earn, so when he tries to threaten you, you laugh in his face, drop the box off at his feet, and go to work.

.......donnie stares at the spot where you were for a good, like, five minutes after you leave.

over the next few months, over and over this little green fucker next door makes your life miserable. he does weird experiments at weird hours—until he learns that actually, you work weird hours, so then he does them at normal hours which keeps you from getting any sleep. he blares loud, obnoxious music. he leaves snide messages on the corkboard by the stairs, even though you both know that you're the only two people who live here so there's only one person who could be doing it. he fucking mutates your favorite pothos plant where it was sitting, innocent, beautiful, on your balcony, so now it sings to you exclusively in nickelback lyrics when you go to water it. (...your one consulation there is that, at least, you aren't the only one who suffers.)

donnie, meanwhile, is perplexed. enraged. how the fuck are you so resilient?! he has done everything short of actually shooting you in the face, which he would have done were it not for your tie to baron fucking draxum, and yet you're still fucking here, preventing the expansion of his lab. it's infuriating. he can't stand the sight of you. just looking at your face and the way you smile and laugh at his machinations makes his chest feel tight. his fingers curl into fists when he looks at you bending over in those stupid pencil skirts of yours to grab your mail when he leaves the door open and it all falls to the floor. he wants to wrap his fingers around your pretty little neck and pin you to the nearest surface and squeeze until—until—

...oh. oh.

the day you get a beautiful bouquet of flesh-eating mutant yokai lilies on your front doorstep, no note attached because really there's only one person who has the resources to do this, the bottom of your stomach drops as you realize, perhaps too late, that you have attracted the gaze of something truly, truly terrible.

#ask tag #i. i could continue this for like. fifty thousand words. oh god send help #villain donnie au #just. gonna go ahead and make this a tag bc i smell the blood in the water

[brother-emperors]

the personal drama involved in a late republic trial is a delight

this is a very unserious comic talking around All Of That involving Lucullus and Clodius, but what also happened was I was almost done lettering the first chapter of Trikaranos when I realized the font I was using didn’t have a crossbar I, so this was one of. several. font tests I did over the past week trying to find a new one that I wanted to use lmao

Lucullus, A Life, Arthur Keaveney

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

#marcus licinius crassus #Lucius Licinius Lucullus #komiks tag #drawing tag #roman republic tag #I went through like. fifty fonts looking for one with a crossbar I AND had good word spacing RIP #and some had both but they had a D or a S or a G that I absolutely fucking hated when it was in italics #this one tho. this one is good. I will be using it #ALRIGHT im clocking out. i have work to do. comics to format. coffee to make #catholic cardinals to sexualize probably

[wandering-alien]

'Oppenheimer' is actually a really interesting exploration into masculinity and gender. Bear in mind I've only watched the film once and my thoughts aren't entirely coherent but I wanted to share some.

Robert and Kitty's relationship is really intriguing and an insight into relationships and gender dynamics of the time. Kitty is suffocated by her kids and role as a mother but pushes through and sticks by Robert's side, not only because she's really loyal but because that's what women were expected to do. She's sacrificed a lot of her happiness and now her husband is a great man of history.

We see Robert Oppenheimer in a very emotional light, with close ups of Murphy's amazing acting really driving this home. It's good to see how someone in Oppenheimer's position would actually behave, and the stress and anxiety he feels is built into the film. At one point, Truman calls Oppenheimer a 'crybaby' and it really reminded me how important the obvious showing of Oppenheimer's emotions is in this film. Not only does it help us connect with him as a character, but it's acknowledging men's emotions and a fact that this male character can be and is vulnerable (which is an idea reinforced by the scenes in the board room).

Also just the general details, like the chemist arguing with another member of the team because he doesn't understand female anatomy and acts like she can't properly do her work. Really reminds you that it was a different time.

Sorry if none of this makes sense or if it seems a bit off, just what I took away from the film, especially because I saw 'Barbie' a few days before and that was very focused on gender as a theme.

#oppenheimer movie #Oppenheimer #oppenheimer film #barbie #barbenheimer #gender #film #film analysis #robert j oppenheimer #cillian murphy #christopher nolan #nolan #feminism #masculinity #vulnerability #emotions #fifties #atom bomb #second word war

[rollercoasterwords]

hey just wanted to comment on ur fanfiction that u wrote and edited and posted to let u know that ummmm u wrote the character with flaws?? sorry but did u realize that u gave the character flaws?? i don't really like this character because they have flaws did you mean to give ur main character flaws?? just wanted to let u know that character has flaws and i don't like that!!

#based on. a real comment. that i just received tonight #jeeeeeeeesus fucking christ #tiktok and its consequences honestly!!! #feel like this person probably wandered over bc they saw people recommending my fics for woke points this week #and now they r dismayed 2 discover that the characters are not. in fact. perfectly woke!! #also it was on. chapter FIVE. of a FIFTY-TWO CH FIC. #like....damn that's so crazy that the character has flaws.... #i wonder if we will see them grow and change at all over the course of the next 200k words.... #thanks for letting me know that u don't like it when characters are not perfect little angels <3 #i think u should ummmm. check out the children's section of ur local library. might be more ur speed xoxo #grumpy posting #txt

[peachpety]

come to your senses, draco malfoy

A mere glimpse of ridiculous dark curls and Draco's heart rockets into his throat.

Every bloody time.

In the Great Hall. At the pitch.

The 8th-year common room offers no respite—Potter lounges, carefree.

Stupid Potter and his dimpled, snaggle-toothed smile.

Oh, how Draco longs to smother it with his mouth.

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to be continued

a chaptered microfic ficlet, part 1 of 7 written for @microficmay - 50 words 01 may prompt - yearn week one sensory challenge - sight

Part 2 →

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#microficmay2023 #drarry #drarry microfic #draco x harry #a chapered microfic ficlet #50 words #nifty fifty #peach writes #come to your senses draco malfoy

[daily-prompts]

I am fully convinced that there is at least one typo in everything I ever edited.

#there’s so many how do you get them all out #like in a paper sure maybe #a short story okay #but a novel????? #fifty thousand words and they’re all spelled correctly??? #no fucking way

[skeptiquewrites]

Microfic: Classy

for @drarrymicrofic prompt 'classy'

"Aren't you a darling. May I see your paw, Madame? Thank you. What an elegant little lady. Just taking a look, just taking a look." Harry hadn't expected to encounter Draco at the vet's, much less have him cooing over his cat Odette, who was preening for him. "Poor thing."

#drarry #drarrymicrofic #fifty words

[ladderofyears]

Dishevel.

It’s a pleasure, Harry thinks, watching Draco while he sleeps.

Draco lies, scrunched under the sheets, curled up in the foetal position, hands fisting the quilt like he’s worried they’ll be snatched away. His hair, usually elegant, is dishevelled.

Draco’s lips are parted, begging to be woken with a kiss.

~

Fifty words.

For @microficmay

#drarry #harry x draco #boys in love #fifty words #draco malfoy #harry potter #microficmay2023 #ladderofyears microfic #drarry fic #early morning

[ghost-bxrd]

Call me stupid but if I met William Cobb I’m gonna tackle hug him

I had this ask show up in a little window at the top of my screen and immediately went “R.I.P.” 😭

Seriously tho dear, pls do not tackle the trigger happy Talon in a hug. It reduces the likelihood of survival drastically 😭😭😭😭

#I mean I can totally relate #the urge to hug awesome characters is STRONG #but also if you see Cobb run the other direction #quickly #that’s a murder owl in the scariest sense of the word 😭😭😭 #William Cobb #talon #court of owls #may I suggest instating yourself as a court member first #chances of survival if you attempt the hug then go up by at least fifty percent #whereas before the were at a solid one percent #what if Gotham #ghost talks

[ikiri]

actually before twitter explodes lemme migrate all i've posted there jic hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

#dr stone #drst #dcst #dr. stone #ishigami senku #senkuu #senku #gen #asagiri gen #chrome #dcst chrome #stanley snyder #stan snyder #stanley dr stone #luna #luna wright #ryusui nanami #tsukasa shishio #luna dr stone #my classic gouache brush days #i'm not into dcst anymore sadly but memories and also what's the word #DOCUMENTATION #also ignore that i changed @s fifty times tis all in my art moment even tho twt killed those so <3 #it's actually so funny to think i thought this was a lot of art back in the day and now my rise folder is FULL of stuff like girl #queued #my art

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Hope” by Palestinian artist, Sliman Mansour

(Guillaume Gris)

* * * *

Faith is a grace, not an achievement. And there are times in human existence when imagination as consolation is a violation of life and a desecration of grief.  Here is what I mean: 

The mind may sort it out and give it names— When a man dies he dies trying to say without slurring The abruptly decaying sounds. It is true That only flesh dies, and spirit flowers without stop For men, cows, dung, for all dead things; and it is good, yes— But an incarnation is in particular flesh And the dust that is swirled into a shape And crumbles and is swirled again had but one shape That was this man. When he is dead the grass Heals what he suffered, but he remains dead, And the few who loved him know this until they die. Galway Kinnell, “Freedom, New Hampshire” [Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman]

#Hope #Sliman Mansour #Guillaume Gris #Zero At The Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair #Christian Wiman #poetry #poem #words and writing #Galway Kinnell

[phoenixkaptain]

Me: I will not post random thoughts on Tumblr to strangers. I can keep my opinions to myself.

Also me: Why is everyone so mean to Ben?? How could Obi-Wan have known that Luke would somehow become the first person ever to take a Sith and pull them back to the light side without any amnesia involved? How could he have known that?? Also, he watched Anakin murder children, I don’t think it’s fair to make him out to be the bad guy for not giving Anakin another child.

Also, is the scene on Bespin supposed to be Vader’s turning point? Because sources say he was very evil and bad and more evil, but was Bespin the point when he realized? Like, look at it this way. Anakin almost definitely became desensitized to killing. We see that in the Clone Wars; he has no issue killing people for whatever reason, so it’s clear that he’s become numb to it.

But, Darth Vader is used to people doing whatever they can to stay alive near him. People are afraid of him. They do what he says because he is six and a half feet tall and more machine than man, on top of being someone who can choke someone across a video call. The people who do refuse to do what he says are the rebels, the bad guys, from his perspective.

So when he has Luke cornered, he expects Luke to surrender because he views Luke as his son, which means Luke can’t die. Padme died and that is as much death by his own hands in his own family that Vader is willing to take. Luke has to surrender, because Vader doesn’t want to kill him and there’s no other way out, unless Luke wants to let go of the gantry and fall to his probable death.

And Luke lets go.

In that moment, do you think it hits him? Do you think Vader realizes that his own son is willing to die over being on the same side as him? His son hates him so much, he falls into a bottomless hole just to escape him.

Do you think that’s the moment Vader realizes that Luke is fragile? Luke is human? Luke isn’t just a Jedi, he isn’t just the person who is uncatchable and who blew up the Death Star, he’s a person who can die. And it’s highly likely that Luke will die, from Vader’s perspective. This boy who would rather fall to his death than spend another moment in Vader’s company. If anyone was going to die in this fight, surely it would be the dumbass who flies into traps, knowing full well that they are traps.

Do you think that’s what the scene means? Is that Vader’s turning point? Is that the moment when he feels worry for Luke? Not worry for the Luke in his mind, the power that Luke has, or anything. Just, worry for his son.

Vader was willing to kill millions, billions, or even trillions of people to get to Luke, but Luke is willing to kill himself before being caught. Luke, the one person Vader doesn’t want to die. The one person he figured probably couldn’t die, since he pulls stupid shit all the time and walks away like nothing happened.

Is that the moment where Vader dimmed, just for a second, and became a bit more of Anakin, instead?

#star wars #star wars original trilogy #luke skywalker #anakin skywalker #darth vader #obi wan kenobi #hello welcome to my fifty thousand word essay #on how Ben did nothing wrong #he just wanted luke to see anakin as obi wan saw him #the best person alive and the most important person in obi wan’s world #excuse him for not wanting to tell a barely adult #that his father has brutally murdered countless people #also yes #this is another random thought time #the inane ramblings of a madman #very long post #long post