#Fun tho

[embryoblast]

Green and Orange

[inbabylontheywept]

Want Better Things

“You thought that was a bioweapon?” 

The translator broke down for a second as the creature did a sort of broken exhale. Connotations were all that came through. Vague implications. Pity, the software flashed. Disgust. Anger.

A pause as it decided.  

Sadism. 

Valta was already backing away. The final decision didn’t change his behavior, it just made the hall feel far, far too short. 

“I didn’t order it deployed. I didn’t make it.” 

The thing was staring at him, and he couldn’t look away. The two eyes moved in such perfect tandem that he didn’t think it was conscious. It only had binocular vision because it only needed binocular vision. Always the predator, never the prey. 

And now it was moving in on him. 

“Oh, but what if you had? Then I could tell you all the things that were wrong with it.” 

One of its hands - a sprawling, five fingered  spindly thing - traced carelessly along the station's walls. 

“No incubation period. Symptoms arrive within 40 minutes of exposure. No time to spread undetected. Minimum should be one week. Embarrassingly low.” 

The pressure the thing was putting on the wall increased, the gentle glide turning into a buzzing scratch. Humans were strong, but not strong enough to cut through metal like this. The suit had to be powered and clawed. 

“Spread through contact. Limited waterborne. No airborne. Intended mechanism of infection is viral load being put on hands from scratching, and then passed into the environment. Pathetically inefficient.” 

The translator was working, but the thing was overeunounciating each word. The meaning was being passed along by a clean, helpful voice in his suit, even as the sound was being passed on through the environmental speakers. And the sound was dreadful - clicks of ceramized bone jarring against each other, wet muscles modulating air into something sharp and rasping. 

“Mechanism of death? Lysis overload. Could be dangerous if it was transmitted into the lungs, but since the initial load tends to be dermal all we wind up with-”

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off. 

It took its helmet off it took its helmet off it took its helmet off in a biozone it - 

It looked a little pink, actually. A little scratchy. It lifted a delicate, taloned hand and rubbed its face against it for a moment before finishing. 

“-is a rash.”

Valta’s prey drive had glued him to the spot. It was too close. The stupid, stupid part of his brain that still thought he was grazing on Duranga hoped that if he stood still long enough, it might not notice him. 

The human paused a moment before continuing. 

“Do you know why they sent me? Alphonse Ericsen, PhD, MD, civilian doctor, here to speak with you?”

Valta’s snout twitched. The suit translated the gesture for him. 

“No.” 

“Because one of our grunts is a dumb fuck,” the human said simply. “And he spent two days fighting on your station with his helmet off. He got infected that way and brought back your stupid, itchy plague to our carrier ship, and now we’ve all spent the last 8 hours scratching ourselves raw. But the jokes on you, because when we were treating that guy you know what we found? That he was in the asymptomatic phase of a COVID infection. So if this-”

It gestured to its pink face with a snarl. 

“-is your idea of a bioweapon, then COVID is going to be your apocalypse. But if you work with me, and shut everything the fuck down for the next three or four months, I might be able to save most of you.” 

Valta unstuck at that. He’d spent weeks down here, worrying about nothing more than the next skirmish. Now he was looking at a genuine existential threat. 

“...What? Why would you help us? We wanted you to die. All of you. I wanted-”

The human cut him off with an exasperated wave of his hand. 

“You wanted something stupid. Doesn’t mean I have to join you. Best I can do to fix you is keep you alive and hope that you feel ashamed later. That, I genuinely look forward to. Now come on, you’re going to be the one explaining to all your friends what’s at stake here. My bedside manner is so bad that they limited my patients to virology slides and USMC marines. I think that’s actually one rung below the guys that just dissect cadavers.” 

Valta would’ve made an amused hum at that, but something already felt scratchy inside his throat. 

[doodle17]

Tag two blokes who do fuck all

I was bored, had a mechanical pencil and freedom so here they be

[raeb33s-art]

Yay almost done

[lemomix]

once again another post from my ava/avm era lmao

wonder who my boy second is so mad at,,,

anyhow, ciao !! crunch on this or smth :3

[sloaners]

I made a poor life choice and started playing genshin

[housewifeswag2]

i made a housewifeswag community on here but idk what that means or how to use it 🤠

edit to add link: https://www.tumblr.com/communities/housewifeswag

[hulloitsdani]

Found family game night is highly competitive in the FEH household. People die. Careers are ended. Any action causes an equal and opposite *Anna Will Remember This. This a battle to the death and no one is safe.

[anonymous-bastard]

do u think gotham has bad urban planning?

- @underworlds-favourite

I'm not from Gotham & I'm not there a lot so I'm not super informed about the situation.

That being said, here are some pros and cons of Gotham Urban Planning.

I've started putting in cuts just because these are getting quite long.

Pros

The Wayne Foundation does a lot of good work, transforming the Urban Landscape into something better, getting affordable housing build, improving infrastructure, building third spaces, etc.

They are ridiculously good at rebuilding their cities, oftentimes improving it at the same time

In theory one of the best public transport networks in the country. In Praxis, it desperately needs more funding, modernization and it suffers from the frequent Arkham escapee attacks, same as the rest of the country. But it is still pretty good!

Gotham has less Urban sprawl than most American cities, and more high- and mid-rise buildings as opposed to just going straight to suburbs.

Decent rent prices for a city this size (more on that later)

Cons

The corruption in Gotham does not stop for Urban Planning. They don't hesitate to raze poor neighbourhoods into the ground for dick-measuring projects.

Bike and pedestrian infrastructure are still SO BAD in many areas of Gotham.

Compared to other cities, it's really lacking in terms of green spaces.

While housing prices are pretty great, the cheap housing is often complete and utter shit.

But as much as I hate to say it, Gotham's problems for the most part won't be solved through Urban Planning.

In general, a lot of the problems Gotham faces can't be solved with good urban planning. It can help mitigate symptoms, bad urban planning certainly can make things a lot worse...

[killingmyselfanegg]

my introduction to the doom franchise & it's doom 3

[lastweekscoffee]

I'm gonna try watching this new show, I don't know if I'll like it though

*Watches the whole thing in two days*

[sparklyoats]

Just realised Charlie is almost 1. I remember you telling us about that one hookup you had during NY celebrations 🥹 wow! Time flies. He is so precious. Bless his lil heart ❤️ give him cuddles from my side. I bet he is a cuddle friendly baby

Time really does fly! Its crazy🥹 honestly its been the longest but quickest year of my life idk how to explain hahah but truly i made the right decision, no doubt about that🙏🏻 we are celebrating my mom today (its her birthday🥳), and next friday its lil man (aka Charlie) 😍 neither my mom or i realised until this week that their birthdays was so close hahahha wild

[themosthatedbeingg]

He’s crawling from his mounds of paperwork .. he did it .. it’s done .. he did his work he’s going to go die now and he deserves some damn BoBa tea !!.

[kluiyu]

new year new me (i'm a cartoon now)

[hugsohugs]

I BEAT STARS AND TIME!!!!!! holy FUCK that was long

[champagneandcaviar]

🎶 Ratigan + Miss Kitty!

SEND '🎶' + A SHIP AND I'LL CHOOSE A SONG BASED OFF:

Their main song: The Piano Duet: Corpse Bride

The Song that plays during a romantic scene between the two: I will be there: The Count of Monte Cristo

A Song to play in the background of a battle: Past the Point of no Return - The Phantom of the Opera

The Song that plays during their wedding/most important date night: Love Duet: Swan Lake

The Song that plays during a fight/sad moment: Maybe: Ink Spots

The Song that describes my muse's current feelings/thoughts about your muse: Evermore: Beauty and the Beast

The song that plays if they were to ever break-up: Not sorry for loving you: EPIC

The song that plays when my muse thinks of yours: Killing me Softly with her song: Perry Como

@heedingcalls