#god I went to town with this

[meteor752]

Honestly the story of mlp must be very weird from the pov of a random guy in ponyville, like one day a new antisocial librarian moves into town, and like a year later that librarian ascends into godhood and becomes the new ruler of the entire world

#I would respect the hell out of every librarian I ever met if I lived in Equestria #You never know which one will be your next god #mlp #mlp fim #my little pony #my little pony friendship is magic #mlp g4 #twilight sparkle #that one weird prissy girl you went to school with in your youth becomes the head of a fashion empire and the savior of the world #That shy girl you used to bully marries the embodiment of chaos #Those two girls who wouldn’t stop fighting during the autumn race gets married #And one of them becomes the captain of the wonderbolts #Your towns local baker marries Weird Al Yankovich #Id be pissed at myself that I never volunteered to help out during the summer solstice all those years back #outside pov

[raineandsky]

#65

“What is that?”

The hero looks to where the villain is pointing at their feet, a frown creasing their brow in confusion. “Are you five? It’s called a cat.”

The villain’s hand drops, unimpressed. The cat weaves itself around the hero’s ankles and purrs brightly. “Is it yours?”

“Oh, yeah. She’s my sidekick now,” the hero tells them, receiving a disbelieving laugh in return.

“The cat,” the villain says slowly, “is your sidekick.”

“She’s trained!” The hero kneels down to the cat’s level, giving it a loving pat on the head. “Sit.”

The cat does just that, and the hero gives it a tiny treat from their hand. “Good girl. Speak.”

A heartfelt meow echoes off the walls around them, and the hero grins at the villain as they get to their feet, “Wanna see her best trick?”

“You’ve trained a cat like a dog. Big whoop.”

The hero’s grin widens as they point a finger at the villain like an accusation. “Attack!”

The cat lunges at the villain with its claws and teeth bared, and the villain learns very fast that a cat can indeed make for a very good sidekick.

#creative writing #writblr #writers on tumblr #writing #writing community #heroes and villains #hero x villain #ya bitch went to hay on wye #the lil book town in wales #GOD its so cute im kind of in love now #did i buy a bunch of books i didnt need?? ofc

[novelconcepts]

You know that feeling, when you’re listening to someone tell a story, and you can just feel in your gut that what actually happened is SO much darker than how they’re relaying it? And they’ve put a ton of effort in, right, to sand the edges down. They’ve gone over it a hundred times, beating all the wrinkles out, practicing like you’d practice a presentation or a stand-up routine. By the time they tell you the story, it’s perfect. You can’t help but be charmed by it. Can’t help but laugh at all the little silly bits. Can’t help but see it the way they want you to, so you don’t ask questions, you don’t dig in to the open wound just behind the plaster, you don’t let the certainty that it was Bad, Actually sweep you away. It’s just a fun anecdote now. Smile with them. Laugh with them. They’re here now, so it’s fine, right? Right?

I get the feeling that’s just Simone’s entire marriage to Taissa, and I feel so fucking bad for them both.

#yellowjackets #taissa turner #Simone deserves so much better and I say that as a number one Taissa stan #I love tai. I live for tai. oh my GOD watching her relationship with Simone gets under my skin #it has to be perfect. it has to be perfect so it can never be real #whereas with van they had no shot at perfect. no choice but to be real. #and tai got out of the woods. and out of the next three years or so (presumably) with van #and went ‘cool cool cool how do I do the opposite of that so I have control over myself’ #and the answer is: a lie. a pretty lie. shined up. put all the realities in a box. tell her NOTHING. #look cool and fun and hot when you’re in a good mood. shut her out when you’re not. #and watch with surprise when the house of cards you’ve meticulously built just blows away the next time a hurricane rolls into town #how MANY conversations over YEARS did Simone look at her and KNOW she wasn’t getting the real tai #and just. coping with it out of love and hope that she’d get there some day #gaaaaaah. Justice for Simone. get her and Sammy to a beautiful home faaaaar away from Jersey and wilderness gods

[popsicle-stick]

I don't know anything about England but I'm interested in how the characters' locations inform their characters like Seward's. I'd like to know more about the implications of being from Purfleet/Essex for example (Though iirc Stoker immigrated from Dublin well into adulthood so I don't know how well he knew all the cities.)

there's so much to be said! i really don't think that stoker meant much intentionally, but the placement of the asylum in purfleet specifically is interesting.

long post so i'm cutting this!

the asylum at purfleet, essex, is an example of the common 19th-early 20th century phenomenon of establishing psychiactric hospitals in the rural counties surrounding london - simultaneously serving as a 'tranquil' location away from the city, while also serving the dubious, cruel purpose of squirelling away would-be patients into residences away from the city - out of society, out of sight, out of mind.

in terms of jack seward himself, purfleet is a kind of an in-between, nothing place - things and people pass through, not much stays. (there's a reason why whitby is remembered as 'the dracula place', and not purfleet.) it's quite literally on the edge of london - of society - and in that scene where jack's looking despondently towards the sun setting west over london, his own isolation becomes palpable - from society and from the world as a whole. the endless, transient, liminal feel of the essex saltmarshes just....gives the vibe. this was a scene that felt particularly gothic to me - jack is the custodian of his very own haunted house, here, in all its bleak, isolated glory.

It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.

this is an fascinating parallel with the count's situation in transylvania, which is NOT the topic du jour here so i'll stop before i ramble but compelling nonetheless! like the count, though, he's a liminal figure - in london, but not quite in london. in the group, but not in the group. alive, but not really living. wide awake in the witching hour, unsure how to re-integrate with society.

it's also worth noting that the opening of dickens' great expectations has pip in his childhood home on the kent marshes - which would pretty much be the opposite bank of the thames from purfleet. in great expectations, pip's village serves a similar role - the quiet, bleak, nowhere-place directly placed against the bustling cosmopolis of london.

in terms of other characters and locations, i've written a bit before about jonathan (and mina possibly) hailing from exeter, devon, in the south west of england - which is much further from london.

jonathan and mina, in terms of the group dynamics, are outsiders: they're very much lower middle class, hyper-aware of the importance of money and societal etiquette as a means for survival and social betterment. this is a personal hc of mine, but i like to think of jonathan as having the long supressed remnants of a devon accent. south west accents are often the subject of a lot of ridicule and mockery in the UK (akin to a southern US accent) and hiding that regionalism, in both the 1890s and today's britain, would be a means of survival and progress for him - i think the fact that he's always given a standard home counties RP accent in adaptations cuts out a major aspect of his character. he's a devon boy!

in contrast to all this, lucy's hampstead residence shows her affluence. it, too, at risk of breaking my social isolation metaphor, was on the edge of london at the time - but was known more as a wealthy suburb with huge areas of greenery at hampstead heath and highgate. there's something to be said, though, about a place like highgate cemetery - a liminal place between the dead and the living, between city and country, haunted at night by a vampire - and the same could be said for purfleet.

arthur is hard to pin down - for the life of me i CANNOT work out where 'ring' is supposed to be - at first i thought it might be a shortening for ringwood, hampshire, which could work! but i just don't know. his character does scream privileged southern/home counties though, and if anyone has any followups on 'ring' and its wherabouts i would LOVE to know because this has been bugging me for ages. lmao

tl;dr, psychology and sociology as informed by place is SO fucking fascinating to me like it just. it affects so much. from the liminality of certain places lending themselves to the supernatural, to characters being mirrored by their surroundings and vice versa, to the social implications of where you call home. it's just!!! interesting!!

#cw ableism #dracula #dracula daily #this is my disorganised magnum opus i wrote so much and deleted half bc it goes off-topic but there's so much..... #i grew up near the fringes of london myself and there's a certain transience to that kind of hinterland which i think you get w/ any city #my own personal hc for jack seward is that he was brought up in an isolated seaside town (harwich‚ maybe?) and went to university in london #before continuing his education in amsterdam #also i like that harwich has a DIRECT ship route to the netherlands....thinking.....thoughts.. #while writing this i was doing some research and now i have many seward hometown thoughts god. #[points to a puddle in a saltmarsh] this is jack seward. to me

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oh waow maybe having friendly neighbors is a Good thing (said in the voice of a guy who just received free cookies)

#ough theyre so soft and theyre pumpkin w/ cream cheese frosting... #they will be Gone by the end of the day i cant stop eating them #ive been a little worried bc yk. small town. neighbors tend to be nosier #and i am a nervous person! i would like to be left alone! dont perceive me dont knock on my door dont look in my windows! #but hey. tasty homemade cookies. maybe this is all right #god theyre so fuckign good what the hell did she put in them... #absolutely unprompted #today is a Decent day #nice weather. hauled wood. got cookies. went for a lil walk & saw some cool moss and sap. gonna have some tasty beef for dinner #and there was a new casual geographic to watch! & a new wendigoon video for tonight!! yippee! #and im drafting fresh scribbles for november since im doing repostober #things are decent and ill take it while it lasts. even if im perpetually cold because this house is fuCKING FREEZING- #oh heated blanket we're really in it now

[zensations35]

A comic of Leo and Sasha from my polycule by @kotyonoksnz

Fabulous work as ALWAYS!!

(and there's Skye in the last panel~)

For more info on these characters, see my Masterlist

#snz #snz art #LSSR #zen oc #oc leo #oc skye #oc sasha #seriosly though #how DOES KOTYO MAKE SIMPLE LINES LOOK FUCKING ✨️SUPPLE✨️ #gods you went to TOWN on this #A+ job with Sasha's outfit THANK YOUUU #rrrghhh and Ahhhh I CANT WORBS I C DBSKFJFB

[kiirotoao]

I’m not a dreamer, but damn, if I don’t dream about Byer’s future, I am nothing.

I dream about Will one day saying, “kiss me” to an already smitten Mike. Him confidently knowing that he is loved and being unafraid to ask for outward affection and Mike returning it. I dream of Mike biking home from work every day and announcing, “I’m home” just so Will can hear him. Will smiles tiredly as he greets him in the kitchen, and Mike can’t help but smile right back as they talk into the endless night. I dream of the pair owning a condo, a flat, maybe even a home, all on their own and calling each other over to come cuddle. I dream of them getting a cat and naming them Yoda. I dream of them getting engaged. I dream of them renewing their vows in that safe haven.

I don’t even think this far into my own future. I’d say to send help, but I can’t stop enjoying these dreams. There’s nothing to save me from. They are my happy place right now.

#byler #byler brainrot #byler headcanons #them your honor #I looked back at my first byler fic and was absolutely gobsmacked that I wrote it in 2022 #the year went by so fast because of this mystic small town show #an adage #and ode #an ‘oh god what is wrong with me’ #I’m too far gone

[sassyandclassy94]

Timothèe Chalamet is a walking living, breathing piece of art and you cannot change my mind🎩

#God went to town the day He created that man #timothee chalamet #help me! I’ve be sucked into the portal again and can’t get myself out!! #I blame Wonka lol

[giddlygoat]

i rewatched the last unicorn today after many years of not having seen it <3 it’s SO much richer and funnier and more beautiful than i remembered, oughhh

also rewatching who framed roger rabbit again because i was lowkey feeling like an empty husk of a person this evening and i was instantly revitalized upon hearing roger’s iconic “pbbbblease” line HAHAHA

#work has. consumed my life and for the first time in a LONG time i don’t get much joy from drawing #i just don’t have any energy left for creating stuff and all my ideas are gone #it’s frankly very scary sometimes bc i rely on art so much so ehhhh #but watching cartoons always seems to help at least a bit #god my boss went to disneyworld today because he happened to be in town for a work thing and . #i’m not jealous IM NOT [sobbing uncontrollably /silly] #gear diary

[backpackingspace]

Okay but xie lian really do just being lying the whole series

#Tgcf #heaven official's blessing #Xie lian #When I first watched the series I was like wow! Himbo love that for him! #On rewatches it became more and more clear that he was just straight up lying! (And trying to have a soft meet cute) love that for him #Xie lian about anything ever: Oh! I just happened to be in the area I know nothing relevant ever #Cut to scenes where xie lian in fact did know everything relevant #I know he was actually scarp collecting/homeless/struggling but also #I fully believe he tripped his way into main character status everywhere he went #Every single town spent decades talking about that one guy who just showed up! Asked for scraps! Taught all the street kids martial arts #That lead directly to an uprising that he directly took part in and then how he picked the one moldy bun got sick and died forever #Like everyone that met him was just like ???? Yall will never believe this #His statue pops up in the capital and everyone who has ever met him ever just be like yah it makes more sense that he's a God #Jun wu frantically stopping all evidence that he has prayers and followers bc that RUINS his plans goddamn it xinela #Jun wu to Ling wen: Okay okay perfect everybody hates xie lian now with his distruction now tell him he has zero merits really rub it in #Ling wen: who has had to read sort and hide all the prayers he's been getting for 800 years .....yes sir

[bugmistake]

i love my mom ......

#shes in town rn and im hanging out with her #and we went to get burgers and chicken tenders and curly fries and a malt to split #and we were planning to just eat inside but we pulled into the parking spot and i was like god. #i dont think i can hang out in there can we get it to go #and IMMEDIATELY she was like oh okay! do you want to write down your order in my phone and i can go inside and order for us both #and well she's in there right now. and we're gonna go back to her airbnb #and we're gonna watch the tv show we like #and she's gonna help me with my taxes #abd frankly im gonna cry probably. and maybe make her listen to the new chappell roan song

[tortoisesshells]

34. stars; for maggie and joe.

Maggie Evans hadn’t asked for much in life, and had let much of what she wanted pass her by: little trinkets she couldn’t afford, friends she had no time for, Joe Haskell, who’d never looked her way, until – Until he had. And then, crushingly, he hadn’t. If there were solace in knowing why Maggie was too far gone to feel it – seeing that thing’s teeth in his neck had made her throat own ache, and heart go light, as though she was scarcely tethered to life at all. Joe said he had to answer the door, after the knock came again – if she could only get him away from here, just as she had thought, those horrible weeks in the Old House, that if she could just run far enough away, she could be free of Barnabas – She took hold of his bedside lamp. Mouthing her silent apologies, thinking desperately of the moon and stars over a balmy sea, of some place in the world where no one had ever even heard of Collinsport – Maggie brought it down on Joe’s head with a dull thud.

send me a number and two (or more) characters, and get a five sentence drabble!

#god if i think to hard about how bullshit the end of 599 is i will start barking. frothing at the mouth. biting. #oh? maggie figured it out? maggie put it all together? finally can get some justice for everything barnabas (and jules) did to her? #could save joe from following the same path even if they're done forever? #lol no. this is no longer the 'women possess brains and agency show'. #BARK. BARK BARK BARK. #ahem. #anyway. #please enjoy five sentences in which maggie evans performs percussive maintenance on her ex; outwits a warlock; and escapes thru; #an open window. i hear she and joe got married in vegas and set up in a nice little coastal town in cali. they never went back to; #collinsport and lived happily ever after. <3 #fic #my fic

[hosseinis]

you just know those two have religious trauma because after being forced to go to church every sunday until i was sixteen i'd know those expressions anywhere

#that's some 'stop your bullshit' right there #that's like when some woman said if god wanted me to have a nose ring he would've given me one when i was born #i was like ma'am god did not want me to be born at all i had the umbilical cord wrapped around my throat #.doc #ginny watches criminal minds #anyway jj explicitly comes from a small town #and i would NOT be surprised if hotch went to a religious boarding school

[takekawa]

morning gripe that the dismissal of “go outside and talk to REAL queer people” is exhausting in the sense it assumes there… ARE active accessible scenes near everyone. there aren’t. hope that helps

#blue moon personal post #balance between ‘being online can distort your perception of things’ and ‘sometimes it is literally all you have’ #god knows i know there’s other queer people in my town but like #there’s not a singular gay bar in my city as far as I’m aware 👍 #i think there was one but it went out of business? maybe

[treefish]

I need my golden crown of sorrow, my bloody sword to swing, my empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology ’cause I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king.

#ts4 #sim edit #portrait #bless your soul desgoffes for posting about florence + the machine's new album #it's on repeat now babes #also random but this past week was fucking rough #work has been god awful #things went from being incredible to being shit so fast #i'm actually attending an open house for a beauty school in town tomorrow morning #so i think i'm gonna change gears because i just can't keep doing this anymore

[julykings]

brb listening to pool by samia

#logging off for the day mwah kisses hugs etc .!!! #had a good day for the most part :-) felt cute and woke up to these flowers I picked last night while walking around town with R #i was so fucking sleepy like I have no stayed out past 1 in fucking years it was super nice last night ! #but got a lot of work stuff done today / have been troubleshooting mono typing on shirts … still haven’t cracked the code #but I’m getting closer lol.! #went to a ‘farmer’s market’ this evening . but it was Nothing of the sort it was just a bunch of food trucks.. no melons .. no cherries …. #walked around did some drawing then caved and got melons at the grocery store lol. home now. #going to clean and go on a walk and then do some river art !!!! #and get high and eat my god damn melons .!!!!!! #have a good night luv u #personal #selfie