#About The Author

[bomberqueen17]

turkey turkey

the turkeys are all dead

and packaged

and .... well, the ones that were getting sold have been sold. there are a bunch left in the fridge that we're goign to cut up. but. we don't have to do that until next week.

we raised 250 turkeys ourselves, and processed 150 for other producers. 200 of ours we did on saturday, and sold on sunday-- about twenty thousand dollars of the farm's annual revenue. and then the rest we did today, and packaged and sent off to be sold at the other farms, and got ours all nicely stored in the walk-in cooler .

In the midst of today's processing the state inspector showed up. They never inspected us last year and we didn't like that. He came today with a trainee, and kept like, narrating what he was looking at to the guy. And they kept standing in our way. And they were like "omg it's so great you're processing right now we never get to see these facilitites in operation", and then were like "oh this area's really dirty this is a problem" and we're like......... yes the turkeys bleed when we kill them so there is blood here..... like it's not going to be..... totally clean...... in the middle of the process..........

anyway. they made several comments like this but then in the end passed us with a perfect A score, so like, i hope they learned some things i guess. we are the only facility of this type in our entire county, so it's not like they get to see this stuff in operation very often.

so anyhow. i am going to spend tomorrow sitting down as much as possible. i'm so tired. but. we're done. we're done!!!

[brightbluedot]

to succeed in adult friendship you must remember the key tenets of child friendship:

Play Toys

Play Pretend

Snack Time

[finnlongman]

I was in Donegal when the contract for my Gollancz books was finalised and I signed it and sent it in, so here's a photo of me outside Oideas Gael right after that happened, which I couldn't caption honestly at the time.

(I feel like the car is disrupting the vibes of this photo. It is not my car. I have nothing to do with this car.)

[demi-shoggoth]

I teach high school Bio, and I had my students do an assignment about the mass extinctions. One of my students then referred to conodonts as "funny little guys"

Which is fair

Image © @alphynix

[thecreaturecodex]

State of the Codex March 2024

It is not a secret that I have had a bad year.

I am a school teacher. And a trans woman. This is my first year using she/her pronouns full time in the classroom, after a multi-year period of social transitioning. It has put a target on my back.

Over the course of this year, one period in particular has been a wellspring of hate. Homophobia, transphobia, racism and sexism. Not all of it directed at me personally, but a barrage of students showing over and over again that they are hateful and that they want me to know it.

Administration has gotten involved. Multiple students have been transferred out, but it feels like playing Bigot Whack-a-Mole. And now that the students know that they're under scrutiny, they've gotten subtler. Today someone left me a message. Subtle enough that it has plausible deniability, targeted enough that I know that someone intended for me to find it, and to know that they think of me as a man. I have my suspicions, but I don't know who did it. I feel gaslit, emotionally abused. I don't feel safe.

Someone else is going to be teaching that period for the rest of the year. They succeeded in chasing me out. I am exhausted and relieved.

And would like to know that I am loved.

Please, reblog and comment on monsters you like. Leave nice things in the tags. Send a friendly ask. If you want to make a material contribution, go to the support page. I want to feel like I'm valued and supported right now, because I have spent the last six months feeling like the wrong kind of monster.

Thank you

[ataleofcrowns]

man interactive fiction authors get the most insane asks from anons what is it that has these freaks showing up to bother you all, just for putting out work for free??? 🙃

I'm gonna be honest, we're just way too accessible. Unfortunately for authors who are just starting out, there aren't that many ways to build up a readership outside of dropping regular updates.

Interacting regularly with your base of readers and giving them extra content through (anonymous) asks is one of those ways to cultivate an audience, and I feel gross just writing that because in an ideal world that shouldn't factor into it at all. But in the current online landscape, that's just become part of the culture surrounding it.

Especially since IF itself as a genre is very much online, there is this expectation that authors themselves should be familiar with the online landscape and be easily accessible as well. That accessibility comes with both pros and cons, and one of the major cons is that you get randoms in your inbox who decided to leave their manners at the door just because it's the internet and they're anonymous, so they think they can say and demand whatever they want from you without repercussions.

It's a decision that every IF author will have to make for themselves, in terms of how much they interact with their readers and how much access they allow.

While I do keep my anonymous asks on, I do that as someone who has thick skin and knows the risks of doing so. I'm also relatively active in my Discord server, but that's pretty much where the interaction with my readers ends. I'm otherwise a very private person, and this past year especially have taken added distance because I'm more comfortable that way.

But that's also a luxury I have because AToC is pretty well-established as an IF now, so I can afford to let the work speak for itself rather than twist myself up into a pretzel trying to garner more readers. I absolutely don't envy new IF writers, I can't imagine the struggle for them in this climate 🥲

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

the babbit masterpost

HELLO welcome to the Babbit's Blog masterpost!!! On this post you'll find some fun facts about yours allegedly (me <33), some ref's for my different 'sona's, and a couple links to my fics and whatnot! Are you ready? No?? Excellent neither am i let's do this

Meet the Babbits!: the self-inserts/personas

the first ref is for my general/most commonly used persona, Babbit! They aren't really an anthro/furry as much as they are a humanoid with the head of a rabbit. I like to think of this one as the 'me' that's in my head- the purest form of my thoughts and feelings, but not the solid real-life me. The second ref is my self-insert persona, Rabbit, the one i picture using most often when i'm reading a fic or imagining a self-insert scenario lol. This one is like the me that people see and meet and speak to in real actual life, if that makes sense. It's the way I come across to people and all of the things I wish I could iron out of my crumpled up real-self <3 The third is a much more specific 'sona, Hazel, who started off as a FNaF:SB animatronic self-insert. She does have a backstory and lore now, which i think makes her more of an OC than a self-insert, but a lot of her is still me and a lot of what she experiences in her backstory is from my life/instills the same feelings that were taken away from things that happened to me, so I think she kinda counts enough to put a ref for her here sdkjfsdhfj (Why the different names?: makes things a little easier, and they hold meaning to me symbolically, I guess!)

Content!: Here's a short list of my various fics that will get updated as I create more! (it was, in reality, not fine.): FNaF Sun/Moon x Reader fanfic, gender neutral, for general audiences, fluff-fest, idiots to lovers "You're the new tech/repairman at the Fazbear Mega Pizzaplex, unfortunately. Your first task? To make the Daycare Attendant into two separate animatronics. It's an amazing opportunity, really, and there is nothing you love more than getting a chance to really work with such tech! The only bad part is that you don't know how to tell anyone that you just might be in over your head. (You are extremely in over your head.)" After Everything Was Fixed (but you were still broken): AU FNaF Sun/Moon x (Animatronic) Reader, gender neutral, read with caution, angst, harm to sentient robots, traumatized main character, hurt/comfort slow burn, romance slow burn "The virus was gone. Everyone was fixed. You had been put back together. It's a time for a new beginning, to do things right this time, to wash away the past and paint a better future. Their memories of the infection had- mercifully- been taken away from them. Yours had not. He doesn't understand why you try to avoid him. Even if you could tell him, you're not sure you would. You want to be his friend, but it's difficult; every time you see him, you remember the hundreds of times he killed you." A fic where you are a repairman-themed STAFFbot, taking place post-virus. In the past, Moon, infected by the virus, took delight in attacking and dismantling the reader during the night. Now, in the present, you find yourself burdened by the memories of the past while everyone around you has no recollection of the events. It gets more complicated as Sun and Moon, both now cleared of the virus, grow curious of you. This fic will follow a series of arcs, presently on arc one. For anyone curious, feel free to send an ask about the arcs in 'After Everything Was Fixed'! The Sun, the Moon, and the Blazing Comet (title subject to change): AU FNaF Sun/Moon/Eclipse x Reader, gender neutral, teen and up audiences, travel/journey, betrayal, hurt/comfort slowburn, reconciling, themes of breaking the mold, found family (TBA) Hold My Broken Hands (title subject to change): AU FNaF Sun/Moon x Reader, gender neutral, mature audiences, dark romance, dark comedy, severe bodily harm, mutilation, murder, obsessive behavior, possessive behavior, lovesick (TBA)

My AU's!: i'm going to make a Babbit-AUs-Masterpost and then put the link here i swear, i just have so many im sorry jdfhsjdfhs (like more than twenty)

Fandoms!: I enjoy, have been in, made or make content for: Pokemon Undertale FNaF Creepypasta (YEAH I KNOW LET ME LIVE OKAY) My Little Pony (I KNOW OKAY LEAVE ME ALONE) Steven Universe Star Trek Warrior Cats i'm sure theres more but i just forgot everything i have ever liked wheeeeeze

Whomst the hell?: HI I'm Rabbit! Or Bones! Or Babbit! Or Avarice/Ava, if you want to go for a more legitimate-sounding name. I'm 24 years old, prefer to use they/them pronouns, and so, so incredibly ace. I've been drawing as long as I've had the ability to hold a pen, writing since I was in grade school, and being a plague to the ones around me since the beginning of time! If you've seen my art, its probably from the absolute mountain of fluffy-wuffy love-dovey (y/n) x Sundrop/Moondrop/Eclipse doodles I've been sharing for several years now sdfjhsdj. If you've heard of my fics, it was probably the one I made just for fun that's now turned into an actual fanfiction that I enjoy writing, the silly-lovey-fluff incarnate (it was, in reality, not fine.) !

Likes n Dislikes!: I'm a sucker for sap, fluff, and lots and lots of love-dovey bullshit! I also like stories about finding oneself and monsters being befriended or loved. I like space, aliens, robots, the odd and strange, injecting humanity into things not human, monsters, creatures, animals, the fae, concepts of spirits and karma and the afterlife, and more! I dislike 'fanservice', most anime tbh LOL it's not personal I just don't enjoy it im srry, FLY BABIES i know they have an actual name but i hate that word too pls just dont i will scream, sexually aggressive/forceful content/characters, being made to feel small, dumb, or trapped,

Other!: I have a pretty high gross-out tolerance! I also have a pretty high 'wow that's messed up huh' tolerance, in that sometimes I will just say stuff that's super grim or dark or messed up and not realize it lmao. I am full of random facts and anecdotes, especially weird or gross ones! sometimes i get on tangents that can go for actual hours so pls forgive that lol

WARNINGS: THIS BLOG MAY FEATURE CONTENT BASED ON/RELATED TO THEMES OF GUILT, CHILDHOOD LOSS, GRIEF, SELF HATRED, DISCONNECTION FROM REALITY/SELF, TRAUMA, AND SEVERE DEPRESSION/ANXIETY. YES I AM GETTING HELP. YES I AM OKAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING.

bonus persona: crybaby

[foreverdolly]

⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ welcome to my dollhouse- i hope you play for a while. . .

my most recent fic post: savage bonds part 5

❉ dolly ❉ 25 ❉ a virgo. . . but the cheeky kind

i wish that i was born in the fifties so that i could have experienced the 60's and 70's in my prime. wanna talk about cute boys? message me, ya filthy lil animals.

make sure to explore my masterlist guide!

i'll be turning my requests back on the second that i finish "fake dating", "be my lover" and "i just ride"

forever dreaming about elvis. forever dreaming about austin. forever dreaming about rockstars and men that i can't ever have.

xoxo

-forever dolly

. . . come on baby, let's play house! ⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

i do not permit anyone to translate or post any of my works on any other sites. if you’d like to base a fic of your own on one of my works then please message me for permission first! no form of plagiarism will be tolerated!

[jennablackmorebooks]

I've knit a cropped short-sleeved cardigan, using wool yarn, wooden buttons, and a pattern from 1956! I really enjoyed making it, and it's super comfortable.

[shortfeather]

The fact that Iskall keeps breaking into old regretful love songs when beef refuses to give into his shenanigans is one of my favorite parts of their dynamic

[blackcatworshipcommittee]

AU with four love triangles but they’re all just Clark Kent/Superman and Bruce Wayne/Batman falling for one another’s multiple personas and being super conflicted

Example:

- Clark is falling in love with Bruce, who despite being rich seems like the only decent man in the entire city.

- But at the same time SUPERMAN is falling in love with BATMAN, for being a soggy troubled mess

- Bruce is pining for Clark Kent, the one journalist in Gotham who doesn’t take bribes.

- But BATMAN starts falling for SUPERMAN who seems to always have the right answers and never gives up hope

- and then CLARK falls for BATMAN because he sees him take down fossil fuel executives in an alley in the business district

- Meanwhile BRUCE falls for SUPERMAN because he sees him save the lives of an entire train full of people like it was no big deal

You get:

- Bruce sweating being interviewed by Clark for humanitarian projects hoping he won’t realize he’s Batman

- Clark sweating at the same time hoping Bruce won’t realize he’s Superman

- Superman meeting with Bruce for intel on the bad guys and hoping he won’t realize he’s Clark

- Batman meeting with Clark to give him the inside crime scoop for the paper and hoping he won’t realize he’s Bruce.

- Batman and Superman being relatively normal and comfortable around each other because neither knows to be nervous, but feeling guilty for betraying their respective crushes

[bomberqueen17]

early voting

My sister lives in a town that hosts one of only a few early voting sites in her county, and said that yesterday midday when she drove past it the line was at least 100m long.

(No, I don't know how she measured this or why she did it in metric, and how she could see the whole thing from the street-- idk. to be fair to confused Europeans, the conversion between yards and meters is actually very easy (in fact they are functionally the same for the ranges people are normally estimating) so if there's one measurement Americans might default to using without thinking it's meters. and my sister does have a bachelor's in science so has more than average familiarity with metric.)

Anyway. I'm told early voting sites in my county were also crowded today. but I have a secret plan:

the Bills are playing this afternoon, so even dedicated democracy-upholders will be retiring to sit in front of their TVs in the mid-afternoon. I will go place my early vote once the football has enticed my neighbors indoors.

(This is also when we do our grocery shopping: we find out when the game is, and go just before kickoff. These concussion-enjoyers are so obliging with their schedules...)

[finnlongman]

A paper presented at the Seventh Ulidia Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, held at Ulster University, Belfast, June 2024.

No, this was not the official title of my paper.

Yes, this was my actual final slide and did remain on the screen for some time.

Yes, a few people laughed.

No, nobody brought it up afterwards. In fact, all the senior scholars were being incredibly nice about my paper, which suggests they read this in the most accurate way (completely sincerely and innocently).

This is probably for the best.

[midwesternvibes]

WOOO I DID IT

FOUND A MUSICAL FOR EVERY PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY!!!!!! MY THEATRE KID KNOWLEDGE FINALLY PAID OFF!!!

[ataleofcrowns]

hello how is my goat doing

Taking pictures of butterflies on my daily walks 🦋

[huramuna]

hi! i'm philomena! you can call me philo, phil, or phia. i am 24 and from florida, usa (est timezone) & i'm neurodivergent (autistic) i am irish & indigenous american! i am also non-binary, any pronouns are okay. i love dragons, moths, and the moon. my ao3 • my main is @eiralune, so follows & likes will come from there!

i don't do taglists any more unfortunately, its mostly because i never remember and then feel bad about it so i've made a second blog just for reblogging my fics! @huramuna-fics -- follow & turn on notifications for just my fic postings!

requests are OPEN! request info & masterlist under the cut.

i am currently obsessed with HotD, more specifically, Aemond Targaryen. i also love Alicent Hightower and Helaena Targaryen and am always up to talk about them. i am a new aegon ii girlie, but i love that pathetic sopping wet cat! i have been writing most of my life but finally have the courage to actually publish some of my work, so enjoy!

my general fic recs are here! take a look at my golden grail fic recs here! these are fics i would take with me to a desert island, to the grave, adorned on a shrine, etc. they are the ones that i reread semi-regularly and are my absolute favorites. my work is 18+, so minors please DO NOT interact. i will smite you.

MASTERLIST

feel free to drop requests, but there is no guarantee i will actually do them -- my writing drive comes and goes and i usually hyper fixate on the one thing i am currently working on, but i will mark them for later and reply once the request is done! rest assured, i am looking at every request. 🤭

i will write for aemond, helaena, alicent and aegon II. i will only write wlw for alicent and helaena. i won't write requests the following themes: - non-con - incest - underage