#nobody dies I swear

[silvereternitywrites]

Don’t let your (Human!!!) Mechanic make Mixtapes

Writing Prompt: A pirate ship boards, the human crewmate uses the coms to blast music trough the ship as a terror tactic.

Prompt Source: user fire-sword; subreddit Humans Are Space Orcs

The Captain had listened to this remix exactly once in its entirety and labeled it a terroristic weapon of mass morale destruction before locking it in a drawer.

To be honest, the human crewmate was perhaps a touch more thrilled than she strictly should have been to be given permission to actually use it.

It was horror-rock, falling into that delightful "creep" tune category with synthetic violins that wailed between high and low notes and a bass strumming heartbeat that artificially raised the pulse rate of the listening parties. Aliens... well, she'd found out aliens responded to that unconscious cue WAY more than humans did.

The fact that she knew every beat and bounce and hitch of it, well, that was where the morale destruction came in.

The pirates had boarded in a specific hallway- and they had been subtly guided to this door for a reason.

It was the maintenance crew hallway. The entire floor had holes big enough to reach through or climb through, and the human crewmate? She fit through them, being lanky, tall, and double-jointed. The ceiling had the same grates on either side of the walkway, to allow for access when the gravity was turned off, making it a catwalk surrounded by bolt holes.

The voice was soft at first- only someone who knew the song would know the words. But Human Jazz played them out perfectly to make the Pirates regret ever trying to raid this ship.

The first set of verses were about "burying" something, and every time it said "buried it" Jazz dropped uninterrupted from the ceiling to the floor. Just at the edge of vision, without touching the holes or making a sound, timing her catch of the bars below to the thump of the drum.

And once they were good and spooked, on edge...

She added her voice to the ship speakers, a roar that made the walkway vibrate under their feet for the chorus.

"RUN! AWAY! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, BEFORE THE MONSTER- MONSTER IS INSIDE! THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD! AND GONE! BUT YOU WERE SO WRONG! HASN'T BEEN SO LONG; YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D SEE- SEE, SEE THE DEAD WALK!"

Screaming from above and plasma lighting up the walls told her it was working.

What a shame for them- the pursuit would continue until morale improved. Her morale, or course. All that light would make this more troublesome until it cooled.

The next verse was about what had been buried coming back to bury the singer- it was time to change tactics anyway.

Now her hands reached up through the tiny holes and grates throughout the verse, grabbing and yanking on legs, tentacles, weapon barrels, whatever was in reach, heedless of the burns she was getting or the catch of nails on fabric and skin. Her fake-claw nails were just acrylics, she'd replace them after this, and some bloodstains from a ripped cuticle or two would really sell the idea that something dead and gross was trying to get at them on top of the “detached fingertips”.

As they were coming up on the second chorus, she pulled both hands back down and put them on a panel instead, directing one of the repair-bots with their dozens of arms to dance to the tune, the lyrics printed on it's glowing screen that loomed up out of the dark.

She already knew what she was going to do with the bridge- it talked about disease and parasites, so she was going to yank body parts under the grate and "bite" them with needles full of weak general anesthetics from the first aid kit. She didn't need to actually like, poison or paralyze them, the imagery from the song would make their minds do that for her.

Except-- the thunder of movement, out of sync with the music, headed back up the catwalk at an honestly dizzying speed, and suddenly it was absolutely quiet except her, the repairbot who had now started the fix the plasma damage to the walls, and the music on the ship speakers.

Poking her head up from the nearest access hole, the pirates were gone- with the exception of one, who'd been hog-tied with their own tentacles and blinded with their Captain's hat. Left as a sacrificial offering to the monster for leading their crew into a deathtrap, probably. Well, Jazz didn't want them to think they were too hasty and come back...

She bared all her teeth in the widest, meanest grin, including her sharper-than-normal canines, and whipped the pirate's hat off, the light of the repairbot's torch illuminating her from behind in only brief flashes.

"Buried what I thought would die, don't got no alibi, I buried it," she sang at the alien's horrified face, "I FUCKING BURIED IT!"

The pirate's scream was a noise she couldn't have replicated in a million years. Yeah, driving it home was a good idea.

"RUN! AWAY! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, THE MONSTER'S ALREADY INSIDE! THOUGHT IT WAS DEAD! AND GONE! BUT I WAS SO WRONG cuz it had been so long and life went on thought it was done I never thought I'd live to see THE DEAD WALK!"

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"I still don't think you needed to render the enemy so terrified they entered an involuntary coma state," the Captain scowled at the human crewmate, who was slung sideways in her work chair. Again.

"It's not like I knew their species can even DO that, Cap! Besides, it was a bloodless battle that successfully repelled the enemy, right? And we haven't been bothered by pirates in that entire sector since!"

The Captain squinted angrily with all their eyes.

"We're a terror-tale in that sector now," they replied flatly.

"Wait, shit, did I accidentally Flying Dutchman our ship?! Aw fuck, Captain, I’m sorry."

The Captain sighed- finally, she understood the gravity of the iss--

"If I'd known that was gonna happen I'd have picked a better song! Dead Walk is kinda underground, how are other ships supposed to lean on the legend with an obscure Earth song?"

The Captain gave up and left to go drink their 400-year old heirloom spirits. They had never worried they were going to be the Onelle to finish off the 'drink in case of headache-inducing disaster' bottle but it looked more likely by the day.

Song: Dead Walk by RedHook Note: the remix featured here doesn't actually exist because I can't make it. Will update and link if that ever changes!

#aliens #pirate raid #terror #fear tactics #sonic warfare #silvawrites #prompt inspired #humans are space orcs #nobody dies I swear #The Ferret #Really who let The Ferret have run of the repair bay's bolt holes #It's clearly all the Captain's fault

[opikiquu]

#★ my art #doodles #toilet bound hanako kun #tbhk doodles #tbhk #tbhk nene #nene yashiro #my bsf gave me her tbhk manga she abandoned (how rude) so ill give them a new home 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 #i love hanako i swear #but its like. I want to attack him also #yashiro what a girlfail (positive) #shes so cute :) #shes the best the characters need to LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!! #im only on chapter 8 nobody tell me she dies or something like that

[rumbleonthemill]

some people are still surprised by the acts of Peterson here,like...do u have eyes?

he's being STALKED by a journalist here

who takes photos of him out of context

and tries to expose him for shit (which the cult did) he has actually nothing to do with, because he's busy trying to protect his last remaining family member (EVERYONE fucking forgets this and I'm so mad)

bitches literally try to cancel Peterson while he's just mindin his own business like always

also,if he wanted to murder anyone,he'd have done so. early on. he doesn't want to cause harm, but he's not tolerating people around his family.

#hello neighbor #text #discussion #gotta love how the hypersensitive whining little shits perfectly approve a random grown man as he tries to take a kid he just met w himself #literally nobody understands the plot that Nikita was setting up either I swear.. #idk?!noone has fucking experience with loss and grief as it seems or wtf is ur problem and if so why tf are u whining #it would be so funny if this queued post went out after i died and people would be whining at a dead person tho #I have so many traumatic experience & I feel Sosed sadly.people who have NOTHING are barking at me as if I was wrong well how about you shu

[beanghostprincess]

I'm realizing now that all of my fics for Sanuso week are extremely angsty somehow. Even the one Ice Skating. Somehow. Don't ask me how I did it because I do not know.

#well at least it's hurt/comfort i swear nobody dies in these fics #i mean in theory nobody dies i still have to think about it #i am joking i swear everybody will be fine #sanuso #one piece

[neims-skeleton-obsession]

oh don't mind me. im just thinking about ghastly being so fucken worried whenever skug puts hhimself in the slightest danger post-death. during a war. maybe getting to the point of snapping at/being upset with him. because "I won't lose you again, Skul. I can't."

#skulduggery pleasant #ghasdug #is this a ghasdug???? #fuck it #it is now #tw swearing #tw death #convinced ghastly feels like absolute sHIT as soon as he finds out about skug's death #because and ive said it before ill say it again #NOBODY SAVED SKUG #NOBODY CAME AND PULLED HIM OUT #HE DIED COMPLETELY ALONE AND THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED #and ghastly beats himself up over that i think #at least for a bit #and just. cannot bear losing him again. not for a second time #hahhhahhhah. hah. hahhahah irony #irony???? eh probably #anyway im full of feelings

[dreamsy990]

my thoughts on ddd basically boil down to "great game! kill the story with fire and sticks." which i think is about the coldest take ever. do not get me started on how nobodies having hearts is a dumbfuck plot twist i am so full of rage over that.

#it ruins roxas' entire character i swear #also sidenote soras evidence for nobodies having hearts is. hilarious #his examples are xion; namine; roxas; and axel #xion isnt even a nobody #namine is only considered a nobody on a technicality #roxas is generally an exception to a lot of nobody rules. also him having emotions and that being an abnormality is like. a plot point #and axel generally doesnt have emotions! he only ever has them relating to sora or roxas and he is genuinely shocked the first time he- #-realizes that he can feel something because of them #he literally dies saying '[roxas] made me feel like i had a heart... its funny- you make me feel the same way' #that weird ability they have to make axel feel things is a big part of why he cares so much about roxas and sora #and to say that 'he actually had a heart' is just a bad misinterpreting of what was already there #and if i didnt know any better i would assume there was a different writer for this game #its poorly thought out and directly contradicted on multiple occasions #plus you cant tell me xemnas really tricked all these people into thinking they didnt have hearts. like. at the very least VEXEN would have #also if they always felt things and xemnas gaslighted them into thinking it wasnt real #then why would axel notice anything special about sora and roxas at all. wouldnt he just treat emotions caused by them like everything else #-and talk himself into thinking they werent real? like its just not thought out #also to me it makes xemnas a less interesting villain. i dont mind his big secret plot i think its fine honestly. #but i much prefer the option of xemnas taking advantage of people who were desperate to him gaslighting and lying #its more personal taste but like. idk #also literally do not get me started on how this twist sucks for roxas' character. its just plain bad for him. #he fought tooth and nail and fucking died saying he deserved to exist whether or not he had a heart #and to look at him and go 'dont worry you get one now' is just bad! and i hate it!! #anyways. i fucking despise this games story #kingdom hearts #doodles #sora #roxas #riku #lea

[lambjock]

he is everything to me, i fear !!

#my posts. #little hope #re-watching a lh playthrough and seeing the miltons sends me into a cationic state i swear #i'm like ugh DAVID!!! TABITHA!!! #nobody understands my Insanity towards them and nobody gets them like i do but that's okay #david really is everything to me though. his curator cut scene changed my brain chemistry for life #like he is the original. he's the echoed footprint the rest of the d's follow yet all that personality has been washed away #& now all that remains in the d's that was true for david is their unwavering devotion and love for the t's #people don't talk often enough about how david dies like. on PURPOSE. or at least more willingly then most #everyone else fought it. everyone else spat and kicked and died cursing or begging. but david? he dies quiet #because he wanted to. he really damned his soul to a cycle of rebirth and gruesome deaths simply because he !! #loved tabitha too much to let her die and not go with her !! like wow david you are EVERYTHING to me #tired of the t&d borderline codependency and why their arcs intertwine the way they do going unnoticed ... they'll always be real to me <3 #also ngl dennis is still my fave d but david is really close adjskdjksk

[isnt-it-pretty]

Me accidently making an already angsty fic way angstier than I meant to

#my writing #eleazar!cyno #i swear nobody dies #well #jury is still out on azar #i have no control over whether Taj Radkani beats him to death

[twistedappletree]

Gonna post another zhuiling fic soon in-between the manor fic just because I tried to get some writing done on the manor fic while I was in burnout mode and ended up writing a bunch of useless crap LOL

needed to take a breather and work on another idea so I could recharge enough to go back and rewrite the parts I sabotaged 🫠

#writer life is so fun ayyyyyy lmaooo #BUT BUT BUT #this inbetween fic is almost 4k long so it should be a good intermission #I basically wrote that bookshop AU I was screaming about earlier but I made it work in the canon universe/ancient setting #and added some extra bits #there’s also highly implied SANGCHENG ✨👀✨ hehehehhehe love them #also Jingyi being…… well #jingyi lmaoooo #my favorite honestly #eeeeeee I’m just happy I’m gonna have a new fic to post at least bc I’ve been quiet on AO3 #I haven’t died I swear I’m just working every day of my life until further notice #bc nobody wants to take this sweet ass dog walking/shopping gig apparently 😭😭😭 #ANYWAY #I’m just ranting now so I’m gonna shut up and go write lmaooo byeeeee #apple babble 🍎 #fic musings

[dnangelic]

what is the truth. schrodinger's normal abnormal boy

#i was going to write a meta but i deleted it all bc i got embarrassed and can't put woRDS TOGETHER IN A SMART/CLEAR WAY #RHGHHH #its in my brain though i swear #its just abt daisuke's juvenile sense of confusion #hes young. hes a lil lost! he goes along with his family's phantom thievery but he doesn't necessarily completely enjoy it #it's complicated. he truly genuinely from the bottom of his heart loves art. but he doesn't necessarily like the stealing aspect #and he'd never ever steal anything deeply precious to anyone. he refuses to hurt anyone's feelings #but also- he's a little out of touch with things too sometimes. he keeps convincing himself he's 'mostly' or 'sorta' or 'pretty much' norma #when hes NEARLY DIED PLENTY OF TIMES thanks to his training #nobody normal comes home to electric doorknobs pitfalls alligators rabid dogs and lasers #his whole family is literally a family of criminals! he has live artworks w bonkers powers in his basement! #his own weird pet rabbit can FLY AND TALK #ud think turning into dark he'd be like 'well this might as well just happen' but in a way dark rlly was the last straw for daisuke #and like. there's nothing normal about any of this oagbdkgfk ESP IN A MODERN AGE!!! #but daisuke a) is a little willfully ignorant of it and b) genuinely ignorant of anything outside of it. bc again. hes a kid! #he doesn't have a lot of friends! he's a loser! #satoshi bringing up the tamers' cycles too. dark and daiki both agreeing that even if things seem fine now #that in the future the niwa and hikari would fight again. the niwa would cause the hikari pain #over and over. daisuke can't stand it. everyone keeps trying to tell him that his life and future is fixed #but if it's not one he agrees with or wants for himself then he's going to reject it #and that goes double for people like satoshi who have to reject krad. their sorrow and pain #bc it doesn't actually produce any beneficial outcome. its just senseless #*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.

[carrotcouple]

It takes Wei Ying far too long to open the doors in front of him. The paper and wood is painted with faded lotuses and lilies. Strange how he never really noticed it before. He thinks it might have been Lan Zhan's work actually. Although Jiang Cheng was talented with the pen, painting wasn't what he enjoyed doing.

Wei Ying pushes open the door and stares with wide eyes. He doesn't remember the last time he entered this room. There's no way he does. Because if he did, he would have known the walls were covered with writing.

Every inch of the walls is inscribed with beautiful letters, calligraphy so stunning that teachers from far and wide would be green with envy. Poetry and songs and letters and thoughts. Jiang Cheng wrote everything that gripped his heart. Wei Ying sees it now.

Most of the room has been cleaned and organized, personal belongings put away. The walls were left untouched. Who would dare erase such beauty? The only thing out of place is a cushion placed on the floor in the center of the room.

Wei Ying doesn't know who put it there. But he wouldn't be surprised if it had been Jiang Yanli. Wei Ying kneels down on the cushion, studying the walls, wondering how he never noticed.

How had he never noticed?

Why did he only notice when he saw Jiang Cheng gasp and then collapse, falling off their boat and into water where the river claimed him, as if welcoming it's child home?

Wei Ying had frantically fished Jiang Cheng out of the river, but it had already been too late by then. All that was left was the running ink from calligraphy painted onto his brother's own skin.

Jiang Cheng is dead.

Part 1 > Part 2

#sunny writes #jc art disease au #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #wei ying #jiang wanyin #jiang siblings #zhancheng #jiang yanli #lan wangji #lan zhan #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed #mdzs #literally nobody asked for this #except for me #the jc is dead and everyone regrets after he dies agenda #i love everyone i swear #i just like being mean #also the zhancheng agenda #putting this here on Tumblr #that way it's out in the open #but i don't have to deal with the mortifying ordeal of being known #God i hate this dilemma #i love jc though #which means pain #for him #and everyone who ever loved him #and didn't love him

[otvlanga]

metalheads trying to hard to gatekeep Metallica because a bunch of teen girls are just now discovering it through stranger things is so funny to me LMAO

u know how many thousands of shows and movies have had Metallica songs in them over the years?? Like damn.

“no ur inferior to us Metallica fans because you discovered the band through a OH NO MAINSTREAM TV SHOW and only looked up the band because Eddie Munson is hot”

Like get a grip who cares. I got into grunge music when I was like 13 because the whole aesthetic was mainstream on wattpad and other stupid teen sites at the time. Ur rock idols are rolling in stupid amounts of cash, they don’t care

#I swear. it’s mostly the younger alt people too #y’all complained that nobody liked your interests in middle school and now you’re angry that it’s in the spotlight again #also Metallica isn’t even like gatekeepable. they’ve been around for fucking ever. cliff burton died before some of your parents were born. #otty rambles

[bayleaf-2]

*Gritting my teeth* I Will Not add love songs to Lyra's playlist I WON'T DO IT I WON'T!!

#he dont got nobody that makes his heart flutter or whatever cheesy crap people write these days /lh #like sorry the. i let myself put in 1 (one) song from The Sapphic Album (Burn Pygmalion) and now just like with Vivi its like ADD THIS SONG #ADD THIS SONG TOO! OO THIS ONE TOO and its like GUYS THIS IS A LOVE ALBUM. WE CALL IT THE SAPPHIC ALBUM FOR A REASON. #THESE CHARACTERS DONT HAVE LOVE INTERESTS. #anyway bottom line #I. Yeah im coping with the possibility of her dying by thinking nonstop about him living with Emily what of it #Hey ill have stuff to make me feel better when they all DIE. HEY WHAT IF LYRA DIES AND EMILY LIVES. WHAT THEN BITCH #LOOKING MY DM IN THE FUCKING EYES. #I swear to god #If you pull an Epilogue I will s c r e a m ok. #do you understand. #the possibility of death has been fucking plaguing me. Also lyra is very much having an 'im in danger' moment #like might not. uh. go back up?? she might be the KHUNOTH WE'RE GETTING OUR ASSES KICKED guy #anyway. thoughts! 10 pm thoughts! this is what you do to me DM although im sure youre well aware of it by now #c: dnd related #lyra

[izukumidoriyaofficial]

You know what you should do for Valentine’s Day? Give your friends some homemade chocolates or gifts to show your love for them! Oooo or maybe have them all watch some cheesy romance movies or a Disney movie marathon while eating some nice dinner! That’s what I would do!

I’m going to buy them all chocolates. Then, we will sit down, and I will play them a fun tv show, like OHSHC (Ouran High School Host Club).

This is where the real fun begins.

Once they hit it off and start to trust my judgment, I will ask if I can play a cute Valentine’s Day movie. They will agree.

I will turn on Up.

#deku speaks!! #>:3 #watch them all break down when she dies I swear #the grief Carl carries is so strong nobody can resist crying #even Kacchan will tear up #they will have the most mixed feelings in the world #especially after the ending to OHSHC

[titsthedamnseason]

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#i feel bad saying this bc in the forward brandon says that sazed’s character arc gave him a lot of trouble in the back half of the series #but i can definitely sense that #i don’t really love the direction that it took #i mean i actually do think that him losing faith in the one thing he dedicated his life to is a really strong plot #like it’s the most Serious and unexpected but sadly believable thing that could happen to a character like sazed #but i’m unfortunately not convinced that tindwyl’s death would cause this #and i swear im not just being a hater because i didn’t like her a lot as a character #i just mean that we never really saw them interact that much? and sort of knew that they’d known each other back in terris but there were no #flashbacks or anything and so much of the past was tinged with animosity #so imo their love story came on kind of fast and didn’t convince me #which is why i think i can’t by grief for tindwyl as the reason for sazed’s prolonged mental breakdown #and i also feel bad saying this next part because personal grief obviously changes and affects a person more than other objective deaths #but sazed if fr acting like nobody else has ever died before #like sir your nation is in the midst of a millennia long still ongoing tragedy and desperately needs your specific help now #GET IT TOGETHER MAN! #mine #juli reads the cosmere #in his last pov he said something like ‘yes people have been dying this whole time but tindwyl was Different’ well actually no she wasn’t! #the rest of the terrismen are actively being targeted right now. let’s focus on that if you’re so worried babes!

[thesquireinvictus]

The scolding and superior, meanspirited and manipulative, vacuously judgmental, and utterly joyless way my mother regards my little baby cousin/niece really casts a light of understanding on a lot in my childhood.

#literally nobody can do right in her book #including the tiny child! #she vents to me about how much she /hates/ everything my niece's parents do #and vents about the little baby too! #I swear she looks at the world through a filter of evil #her own best friend of 25+ years died recently (an old family friend) and her primary reactions was to mock and disparage the poor woman