#(but not in this chapter for full disclosure)

[greenandhazy]

There is a book entirely about exploring ethical conundrums like this, and I would like to transcribe the conversation that brought it to my attention, between myself and some coworkers, particularly one coworker, Jeffrey, who was notorious for being utterly obsessed with our job.

Jeffrey: Oh, cool thing--I just finished reading this book called Would You Eat Your Cat?, and one of the chapters featured [a historical illustration related to our job]. Coworker 2: It was called what? Jeffrey: Would You Eat Your Cat?. It's about interrogating cultural taboos, and one of the chapters was like, if your cat died, would you eat it? Me: Why would you eat your cat? Jeffrey: Not like would you kill your cat to eat it--but if it died a natural death, as opposed to burying it or cremate it, would you eat it, like as a final tribute to the time you spent together. Honestly, I think it made some compelling arguments. If I weren't vegan, I might eat my cat. Me: Really? Why, though? I don't tend to think of eating something as a way to express friendship towards it. Jeffrey: Well, why not? It's all kind of socially constructed, so-- Coworker 2: Yeah, sure, the taboo against eating cats is kind of arbitrary, but you just said you found it compelling enough to make you reconsider veganism! What is the argument for eating your cat? Jeffrey: I really didn't think you guys would get so caught up on the cat thing. I thought you'd be excited about the picture. Coworker 3: ONLY YOU WOULD THINK THAT, JEFFREY.

Anyway. There are some less random hypotheticals in there, including very weighty concepts--and, full disclosure, personally I did not enjoy reading the book--but I do agree with the OP that the concept of interrogating the origins of our morals is important, and some people might find the book more to their taste.

[obstinaterixatrix]

Sherbet knows she might run into pirates or sea monsters on her voyage, but what spooks her most is the ghost ship rumored to kidnap people. Although she’s relieved to hear that it only takes them for a special reason, she soon wakes up on the infamous vessel without any clue why! Despite her initial despair, however, Sherbet is delighted to find the grumpy but hot pirate, Granita, on board with her. On the other hand, Granita finds hell in the form of the bubbly little terror who can’t seem to keep her hands and innuendos to herself...

here’s an ongoing f/f webtoon that is. hysterical, unhinged, and dumb as hell (affectionate)

sherbet is a young aristocratic lady and huge lesbian on her unenthusiastic way to an arranged marriage, granita is a ruthless pirate captain, they’re stuck on a ghost ship together

the art is really good and the writing is SO funny. like, here’s something from chapter 3

and here’s a follow-up from chapter 4

anyway, it’s primarily comedic with some drama and pathos thrown in for spice, and the tonal shifts can be wild—There’s Definitely Something Deeper Going On and I love the looming threat of plot and sincerity. good for folks who want high energy comedy between two adult women who each think they’re in vastly different genres

[doodleswithangie]

@reddieweek day 1: mythical creatures

I started this on actual Day 1, and as usual it spiraled into something much bigger than the simple doodle I started with, but I definitely enjoyed thinking it through and finding my take on the concept!

[Image description: A Werewolf/Vampire AU featuring Richie Tozier and Eddie Kaspbrak from the "IT" movies. The AU is detailed with handwritten notes and captioned vignettes. Alt text is provided, and copied and reformatted for easier reading under the cut.]

Copied Alt Text, reformatted for easier reading

Image one:

Young half-shifted werewolf Richie and vampire Eddie pose for the camera. Bulleted notes read:

Derry 1.0

The Losers are all some sort of mythological creature (which isn't that weird in this Derry).

Richie is a werewolf who stays half-shifted around his friends (but hides on the full moon).

Eddie is a vampire who carries blood bags from the pharmacy in his fanny pack (less messy that way).

Richie mimes Eddie's fangs and taunts him with puns as Eddie pulls out a medical blood bag. The dialogue reads:

"Stopping for a quick bite?" "You know I- hey wait-" "Kinda sucks to be you." "You suck! And you already have fangs! Quit that!" "Fangs for noticing!" "HISS!"

Image two:

Portraits of Richie and Eddie as unhappy adults in their human and creature forms. Bulleted notes read:

Derry 2.0

Richie

Intensely guards/hides werewolf side

Very hairy even as a human

High stress situations or the full moon will involuntarily shift him

Eddie

High neck suit collar to hide the bite

Strict diet for basic nutrients

Ironically more vampiric the more he suppresses the urge to feed.

Black ink seeps up the page, with the caption, "Pennywise forces them to reckon with the parts of themselves they've hidden away…"

Image three:

Set against an inky background are scenes of a bloodstained full vampire Eddie, full wolf Richie in the Deadlights, and wolf Richie hunching protectively over Eddie. They are captioned, "Eddie kills and drains the Leper. Richie fully shifts in the deadlights. Eddie saves Richie, and in turn Richie saves Eddie."

Set against a bright background are scenes of after the fight: wolf Richie sleeps as Eddie waits with Richie's folded clothes, and of them recreating their pose from the first image, touching foreheads. They are captioned, "Post-battle nap and swim in the quarry before hightailing it out of Derry."

Image four:

Richie's clawed hand scratches out "R + E." It is captioned, "With one final stop on the way."

End Copied Alt Text.

[clairenovaking]

everything i love gets lost in the drawers

Dean is tired of travel by the time the small airplane touches down in the singular Knott’s Harbor airport, the familiar, old as dirt pilot announcing their arrival to Maine. There are five other passengers, and Dean is the last to depart, nodding to the pilot as he steps out and into the warm evening air. He collects his bag, slinging it over his shoulder, and heads through the airport for the parking lot. Something in his chest eases at the obnoxious red Jeep he finds waiting and the redhead leaning against it, large sunglasses obscuring most of her face. She’s got, for whatever god awful reason, a large posterboard that says ‘SAY IT’S CAROL SINGERS’, in reference of their least favorite Christmas movie, Love Actually, and Dean is already laughing by the time Charlie Bradbury catches sight of him. “Winchester!” she cries, and then Charlie is launching herself off the car and throwing herself into Dean’s arms, hugging him as tight as she possibly can. Dean can’t help the way he grins, wrapping his arms around the redhead’s lithe body and twirling her in place, burying his face in the curve of her shoulder.

or, the Dean/Castiel (and friends) Happy Place AU.

chapter one: real life - monday now posted

[burnthatbridge]

illicit affairs

buddie | E | chapter 1 of 8(ish) | 3k | just a boy helping his boy bestie figure out gay sex, with a side of infidelity This is how it starts: Buck goes on a date with Tommy. How it goes from there, Eddie can't even begin to explain.

Chapter 1: born from just one single glance

It’s in the aftermath, when Bobby and Athena are safe and being checked over and the 118 plus family and friends is piled in the waiting room as usual — they all have their preferred chairs with how often they’re here — that Eddie’s unfocused mild interest in this new guy who his friends trust, turns to sharp notice. 

Eddie has to step away to call Carla, to let her know they got Athena and Bobby, to assure her that he’s fine, Buck’s fine, they’re all fine. And then he spares an extra moment to text Marisol because he knows she’ll see the news soon, if she hasn’t already, and will worry.

After, when he returns to the waiting room, Tommy’s in his seat. Eddie doesn’t really have a specific one he favors so much as he always takes one next to Buck. So, it follows that, Tommy is now sitting beside Buck. 

When Eddie left, Buck’d been pale-faced, and shaky in a way he wasn’t when Bobby was missing and he had a goal to focus on. Eddie hadn’t wanted to leave him, but it was Buck who’d said didn’t he need to call Carla? Let Chris know they’re okay?

Eddie pauses across the room and regards the scene before him. Tommy is leaned in, chatting to Buck, making wide, expressive gestures with his hands as he does. Buck’s still more grey than pink in the cheeks and one hand is clutching the arm of his chair, but he’s stopped picking at the patch of peeling paint he’s about tripled in size over their past handful of waiting room residences and there’s a hint of a smile curling the side of his mouth, which had been a grim line before, waiting for the doctor to report back on Bobby and Athena, waiting to be allowed to see them. 

“He’s in good hands.”

Eddie starts at Hen’s words. She appears from behind him carrying two paper cups of what Eddie understands from experience is the worst coffee known to man. He used to force it down because caffeine is caffeine, but he can’t anymore. It reminds him too much of the three minutes and seventeen seconds that were some of the worst of his life.

read on ao3

[mistystarshine]

Your Love Is A Ghost

Lucifer Morningstar was the most dangerous vampire in the world.

And then he wasn't.

Charlie never let her father's past bother her. However, when her blossoming interest in Vaggie takes a dangerous turn, she finds that there is no escaping family history.

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

opened the draft for chapter 4 of my rusame fanfic sighed and closed it brothers it's looking Rough

[queenofbaws]

there are already roughly a million posts like this already circulating, but man. just. sometimes you really do have to step away from something you're working on and come back to it later.

creative buds, please. please. no one is worse at taking my advice than i am, believe me, but seriously, if you've been feeling down or frustrated or stumped with something you've been working on lately, take this as your sign to maybe take a little break. a week, a month, whatever. you've been looking at it too long, you've read it too many times, you've erased that same line so many times you've lost count - you need to come back to it with a rested brain and fresh eyes.

however rough it feels to you now, i promise, promise, promise that it'll feel so much better after a little distance. <3

[terresdebrume]

Sometimes you read a fic that's like

I can't genuinely say it's not a possible way this character (or these characters) would act but I don't think it's very likely and also I really really really don't like it

Like yes your characterization makes sense, internally, but admitting it makes my teeth ache

[oheboi]

he should have been evil. just a little. as a threat

[maxwell-mtv]

Yo, if anyone wants to check out my FNAF fanfic that has all your cult favorites like: Daycare Boy and LARGE MUSICAL SPIDER MAN!! The first two chapters have been published.

I’ll be working on it more as time goes on, but for now I’m ahead by 2 chapters and intend on keeping that as a pattern. I promise it gets better as you read more, so please forgive the eh beginning lol

[misscammiedawn]

My, my it has been quite some time since we updated our romantic little series of Madison and Belladonna hypnosis stories.

I just posted Chapter 9 and Chapter 10.

CW: From here on out there shall be Flashback chapters which are intended to provide context as to why the characters are as they are and why they hold their beliefs.

The broader story is about exploring a hypnotic romance with an emphasis on making mistakes, communicating and growing to overcome obstacles.

Flashback chapters inform why those obstacles are there in the first place and though I feel they are important for telling the broader story, I do encourage anyone reading for the romance to think about skipping flashbacks if they are here for the low-stakes fluff.

With that all said, here's the quick synopsis for Chapters 9 and 10:

Bella is Infatuated: Madison makes some plans. The couple discuss hypnosis scenes in media and Bella gets a new trigger.

Flashback: Aqua's First Hypnosis Session: It's 2003 and Ben's hypnotist likes to turn him into his RP character, Aqua, and have her do recruitment for him.

[good--merits-accumulated]

it's MY fic and I call the shots (eg: move aside pseudo-medieval gay romance. no more romance. Time For Brothers Who Kill Each Other Now)

[theyonapodcast]

We’re back with more Palace Arc this week on The Yona Podcast!

We cover Yon-Hi’s diary and all the sad, poor decisions Yona and Soo-Won’s parents made. Then, in the present, we get to see Yona act as a badass politician while Soo-Won gets sicker and Hak gets thrown in jail. It’s a great time. 

Please check us out on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. If you have a Twitter, you can find us over there, too!

[k1d1c4rus]

can you talk more about joe's past in the industry and his early days with clan?

omg omg okay so. we get a little bit of this in joe's monologue in ch2 but lets expand

(cw/ underage, dubcon and SPOILERS)

joe moves out at 17 and moves to LA with a half baked idea of being a filmmaker, but in reality he just wants to be out of his parents' house. he lives off his bar mitzvah savings and working night pot washing shifts and applying for a million and one unpaid runner jobs, all the while lying about being over 18 (because who's going to hire a kid, right?). one job comes up to be a camera assistant, so he takes it. he arrives, realises this is a... Uh... Certain Kind of Movie. before he knows it he's assisting on a porn set.

but, like, its paid, and they dont care that he hasnt got, like, any experience. at all. and before long someone asks if he's considered being in front of the camera. he kind of realises (mostly cause it's a middle aged dude that's asked him) that it would be for Gay Porn, but he's also always been kind of a fag (which has always been kind of a problem) and now someone's saying he could earn a pretty decent cheque for exploring that, so like, why the fuck not? they think he's good enough, and it's pretty rare that anyone thinks he's good enough to do anything, so that feels pretty good.

(he's got a killer fake ID, and no-one seems that bothered that his stories and math don't quite check out. he's kind of good at something, for once, and he's getting paid for it, but it's barely safe or sane, and consensual only to an obvious point)

the story he tells patrick of how he meets pete is true, and the two decide to form clandestine to get some control back over their careers - joe bc he's stuck in a rut of filming artistically dogshit pornos with skeezy perverts and pete because he’s been boxed into his niche. joe (now 19) puts the last of his savings into it and pete (who has the clout and reputation) sells the damn thing. they are cofounders, but joe's more than happy for pete to be the face of it all.

joe meets andy when pete brings him on board, and things............ Happen. andy has his life together and knows what he wants (or at least, that's what it looks like) and joe is 19 and a little fucked up and thus kind of really likes being hardcore dominated (realy healthy huh), you can see where this is going. they scene together but they also just regular fuck and they also shoot, which is ofc predictably messy. andy tells joe he doesn't think bdsm is an appropriate alternative to the therapy he probably (definitely) needs. they try and make it work, it doesnt. they break up.

that's pretty much the breakdown of what I have. the trohley is like. percolating REAL hard in my brain and will come out more as the fic progresses.

thank u for ur ask !!!! I <3 getting a chance to continuously flesh out these characters!!

[gorbo-longstocking]

that epic moment when youre actively being stalked but also you couldnt give less of a shit