#HERE WE GOOOOOO

[draculadrawalong]

May 3

My friend Jonathan Harker, food blogger sollicitor from London, is on a work trip in Transylvaina, and he is collecting a ton of recipes for his girlfriend.

[hazelcallahan]

COUNTDOWN TO ARCANE SEASON 2 ↳ Episode 9 - The Monster You Created

[alwaysxlarrie]

dan humphrey yearns to be blair's wife: a gif series | 1/?

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[hoosbandewan]

🎄 12 DAYS OF TOM BENNETT-MAS — DAY ONE 🎄

Favorite moment: Tom in the woods in Spain

[kithtaehyung]

[ 3tan12 ] visuals + teaser… surprise🥴

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a/n: Y’ALL IM SHAKING AT THE KNEES🗯️🗯️🗯️ WHAT DO WE FEEL ARE WE RLY READY OR..

[thebramblewood]

Never fear! If anyone can knock some sense into our boy, it's Professor Grace Anansi.

Previous / Next

Caleb: [reading] In remembrance of the Great Breach and our fallen Sages, L. Faba, Simeon Silversweater, and Morgyn Ember. May our tireless pursuit of higher magical learning honor their unfathomable sacrifice.

Are office hours over, Professor Anansi?

Grace: [eyes light up in surprise] For you, they’re always open. Oh, Caleb! I’ve missed you!

Caleb: I’ve missed you too, Grace.

Grace: It’s been so long I was beginning to think you’d finally forgotten me.

Caleb: I could never.

Grace: [blinking back happy tears] Well, I was just about to pack it in for the night. Will you walk me home?

Caleb: It’d be my pleasure.

Caleb: You wouldn't rather fly?

Grace: No. Like you, I prefer to keep in touch with my human side.

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Grace: Can you stay awhile? I’d love to cook for you.

Caleb: I was hoping you might say that.

Grace: Ah. You came prepared then?

Caleb: Indeed I did.

[rustingcat]

Chapter 1 Wild

"It's here!"

Lena was not prepared for the sudden gust of wind that blew through her window. While Kara did drop to greet her through the big balcony on her foundation's office every once in a while, she would usually get a heads up and a quick knock on the glass before entering her space. That was not the case today. Kara simply burst in like a wild blur, as she continued to zip around the office with uncontrollable excitement. 

"Kara! Kara please," she begged her friend to calm down. "What is here?" 

"This!" Kara dropped a small piece of paper on her desk and stepped back. Her smile was too big to be contained, her body practically vibrating from excitement.

Lena picked up the paper to study it. She could see why Kara got so excited, her own wide smile spread across her face as she read the very formal invitation for the wedding of Nia Nal and Querl Dox.

Kara raised her hands in celebration while making an unintelligible happy sound, somehow biting both lips as she looked like a kid that just found a secret door to a land made of candy. 

Lena found herself easily laughing from both the display and the excitement. She was truly happy for their friends, but there was also something just so contagious in Kara’s pure happiness. 

"Kara, it's still a few months away," Lena chuckled, putting the invitation back on the table.

"Yeah but the gift is important. What did you bring to Kelly and Alex?"

"Money. They did not complain." Lena smiled back at her.

"That’s boring. With everything that they went through they deserve all the happiness. We need to figure out the best gift!" Kara announced as she dramatically fell onto Lena's office couch.

"We?" Lena asked with a raised brow.

"I mean, we can brainstorm together, and have the best gift out of everyone."

"It's not a competition, Kara." Lena chuckled. She rose up from her chair to join Kara on the couch.

"I know, but still." Kara's smile did that thing that Lena adored, where it squinted around the mouth as if she was trying and failing to contain it.

"You have something in mind, don't you?" Lena guessed.

"Sort of? Brainy chose to be with Nia. He made that choice, but he still worries about the future and the big brain." Kara started explaining.

"Do you have a solution for that?" Not that she had any doubts about her friend's intelligence, yet she couldn't really keep the astonishment out of her voice.

"Maybe? I thought about what we know of the big brain and the future and it reminded me of Nia's descendent. Suddenly, it was so obvious!"

"What did you figure out? And what does Nia's descendent have to do with it?"

"Have I ever told you about the Birthing Matrix?" Kara's face turned more focused, like the playfulness from before disappeared in an instant.

"No?" Lena couldn't say she heard the phrase before.

"It's the method Kryptonians used to procreate. All you need is a DNA sample for the machine and any couple can create an offspring. You could even tamper with the generic code to affect their appearance, natural affinities and so on."

"Sounds revolutionary. A machine like that could change everything. Every woman who's afraid or incapable of child birth, same sex couples who want a child of their own, and infertility problems or problematic genetic mutations. Kara, this could be huge!"

"I know. But it could also be dangerous if it’s not properly controlled." Kara said more seriously than before. 

Lena nodded in understanding. Giving parents a potential way to control their child's life even before they are born in such a way could lead to terrible things, not to mention the potentially dangerous plans the military could have for such program. "You said tamper with the genetic code, do you want to use it on some of Brainy's DNA?"

"Essentially yes. To try to create something organic that is not really a person so it could be sent to be fused with the big brain. And also for both of them. I know they want children, they said it before, and with this machine we can create a biological child for them! So Nia could have someone to pass on her dreamer abilities to."

"That's amazing and incredibly thoughtful." Lena smiled proudly. "We can certainly try to solve Brainy's genetic code, but do you have access to the machine? Is it still operational?"

"I'm afraid not, we might have to build one." Kara bit her lips, phrasing her sentence almost like a question.

 "It could be quite a challenge, do you have the plans?" Lena felt the scientist in her getting wild with anticipation, she understood Kara's excitement from the prospect. Or at least thought she might.

"No. But I know where to get them." Kara smiled.

"Oh?" Lena raised a playful eyebrow.

"Fancy a trip to space?"

Read it on ao3:)

[night-market-if]

Steam/book 2/General Update

I am so excited to announce that the Steam Keys for Kickstarter will be sent out in the next few days. What does that mean? It means that we have a Steam release date for the public!!! Expect it to be out for purchase, September 3rd! (barring any terrible code breaks because I am so freaking nervous there is going to just be a blue screen of death for some reason). 

I am also excited to announce that the Introduction to book 2 is in beta right now. And Chapter One is being written.  Book 2 will follow much the same format as book 1. With the chapters being released to the public for free on itch.io. Early access will be available on my Patreon. I will make an announcement when that is available but the intro will just be released to everyone immediately.

Along with that, keep on the lookout for another story brewing. More on that in the next week or so. But Fall is almost here and with it, so many creative endeavors to get us through the winter.

I am looking forward to hearing from you all again and crafting yet another tale.

With love,

Zinnia

[blackjacktheboss]

may you learn to mend yourself

Solitude agrees with Percy. Or it would, if it were possible for the son of Poseidon to be truly alone while sailing on the open sea.  “Guys, I’m really okay,” he says once more in vain. A vanguard of sea creatures has been escorting him on his journey since he boarded the boat his father sent him in Fiji four days ago, and despite several attempts to send them on their way, they persist. He sighs, shaking his head, though he cannot help but smile.  What a special thing, he thinks, to command such loyalty and devotion simply by existing.  “I hope I’m worth it,” he says to himself. 

[thewanderingmask]

OKAY HERE WE GO

hey folks! are you a fan of one extremely specific reflection character?? WELL HAVE I GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU

I'm getting a limited run of Cal charms printed! 2" tall, double sided acrylic. I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS

Pre-orders will be open for the next week, with the charms themselves expected to get to me in May!

Thank y'all so much, and have a lovely rest of your day!

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[toadstool32]

[moviestarmartini]

[blackjackkent]

Here we go!

Like with so many things in the world, I think Rakha would be thrilled if time pressure wasn't an issue and she could just enjoy the experience of traveling in the Cap. Everything about this is new - the strange underwater landscape of the Chionthar, and the strange mix of magic and mechanism that sends the little vehicle soaring through the murky blue depths.

But there is no time to think of such things - especially since, as the Cap draws near the great bulk of the underwater prison, a screen at Rakha's elbow flares to life and an unpleasantly familiar face and voice emerge from it.

"Aren't you the intrepid little adventurer?" Gortash sneers. "Digging and diving where you don't belong. And I thought we were friends."

Rakha peers warily at the screen. Like the sub itself, it's a fascinating bit of magic that she would be very interested in understanding better if the moment permitted. But for now all of her attention is on the man displayed on it.

This is it, then, perhaps. The moment the alliance shatters. She had hoped that the pretense might last until she was ready to confront him directly, but if it has to be now, then so be it. She told Barcus she would free the Gondians if it could be done. And Wyll's father might be in this place...

"Let the hostages go," she says flatly.

Gortash raises his eyebrows in mock-innocence. "Whyever would I do that?" he asks dryly. "The Iron Throne is their home. It is a most useful tool for motivating my Gondian workforce - key to the construction of the Steel Watch that keep the city safe."

He leans closer to the screen. "But like all tools," he goes on coldly, "the moment it ceases to be useful, I will break it. Thanks to your trespassing, that moment may have come."

He stares her down, unblinking. "Return to the city, find Orin, and claim her Netherstone as you agreed to do. And then I will forget this transgression."

(A/N: Not sure if this is a bug or if the intention is that Gortash doesn't yet know that Orin is dead. :P )

Narrator: Your conscience pricks. You did agree to an alliance, after all. But then again, what honor need there be with someone like Gortash. Your mind turns to the Gondian hostages, bound in fear, their futures hanging by a thread in Gortash's web.

She spares little thought to the question of her conscience; this alliance was always doomed to fall apart. But she is aware that Gortash's threat is perfectly real; he will do his level best to punish the Gondians for her intrusion.

A tight smile tugs her lips. Not if I can get them out first.

Dock at the Iron Throne.

She jerks her head in a silent command towards their dwarven pilot, who gulps and taps the controls to send the sub forward.

The mocking smile disappears from Gortash's face instantly. "That was a mistake," he growls. "When the corpses start to wash up on the shore, remember - you could have prevented this."

He vanishes from the screen, and the sub rocks as a sudden shockwave bursts through the water around them.

An explosion has burst through the prison. Peering through the front window of the sub, Rakha can see water beginning to pour in through cracks in its structure, the inside beginning to flood.

Shit. She should have known Gortash would have failsafes in place, that he would not hesitate to scuttle the place at any sign of threat.

But it changes nothing. She knows what she came here to do, and she is going to do it.

She is just going to have to move faster than she has ever moved in her life.

[newtsnaturethings]

Starting the new year off with a wonderful 12 mile hike followed by a random migraine headache felt very apt for 2025

[morecrearty]

testing brushes

[maddenikaris]

I started windbreaker (finally)

Oh no I’m falling in love again—-