#The Reality Bug

[roseunspindle]

What I Read in October 2024

Continuing my absurd isekai/harem obsession (why do I like these?) Well, we have a love confession in like, volume one. It's kinda fun. ^_^

A start to a cute seeimg shojo with some psychic elements. (I do wish they hadn't altered people's names from the japanese...)

I love it. Prefer it to the anime. (Why is Cain so adorable?)

The end of this book just... wouldn't have happened if Aja hadn't been so dead set on being a "i am superior and knowing" bitch.

I love Tifana so much.

I liked this one a lot less. Elf girl's parents and brother were kinda the worst.

My mom couldn't remember this book when I was saying that Tuck Everlasting was written by the same author. So I had to dig it out so she could reread it (and nautrally I did too.) ^_^

These stories were awesome! Really loved Ghost Camera but all of them were so good.

Continuing my American Girl "I can finally buy and read these books" we have Meet Addy. I'd never read this one. Poo Addy and her family.

A fun ride.

I was really bad (fun new tooth problem) so I opted to reread this series.

This had an interesting premise but was a let down. It felt like a neat, gripping story was just...waiting to happen but kept not.

I finished Moby Dick! (Via Whale Weekly!) Woo. That ending though...emotionally unwell I must say.

Finally got my hands on volume 4 and 5

Also Heaven Official's Blessing Volume 5 (says I'm at the 30 images limit)

[krmljam]

more bugs more drinking

[chocostrwberry]

I was thinking about how the show explained that when you make a wish, essentially the old world you lived in is erased and they make a new world centered around your wish.

BUT what if the kwami ACTUALLY destroy the world??

And I just wanted to draw a dramatic apocalyptic scene ahahahahha

I applied it to a silly platonic/step-siblings Lady Noire and Mister Bug AU I dreamed about literally last night.

[chalkrub]

kofi birthday reward for @dire-vulture ! pheel birthday AND fat dragon friday - the stars have truly aligned on this blessed day

[cozylittleartblog]

8th annual nick valentine post! fallout 4 npcs Love sitting. they'll see a chair and ask "is anyone gonna sit here" and not wait for an answer. its like nick is on a personal quest to sit in every chair in the commonwealth. if he sees a chair its on sight

its because his joints are bad, obviously. he's like 140

[adragonthatwrites]

I think, in our desire to make Shen Qingqiu a little guy who loves monsters in fics (very good, wonderful, we love this, BUT), we have missed the opportunity to make him the monster in the AU. I raise to you:

LiuShen Naga AU, where Shen Qingqiu is the naga.

Monster hunter/supernatural pest control guy Liu Qingge who gets called to a small rural town because there's some sort of monster about. The locals have not sighted it, but the behavior of their livestock and sudden dip in wildlife population indicates some sort of large, likely supernatural predator has moved in.

This can be modern AU or cultivator AU! The only important thing is this; nagas are not something Liu Qingge would normally deal with. They're huge and incredibly dangerous, with extraordinary stealth skills. If a naga's around you, you won't know it unless they want you to, and by that point it'll be too late. Their venom is also legendary. So whatever the context of the AU; a naga is something above Liu Qingge's roster of things he'll go after, simply because while bullheaded, he is not suicidal.

So, Liu Qingge investigates the mountains, but finds almost nothing to suggest the kind of beast he suspects to be there. He makes several trips over the course of several days, each time going deeper and deeper into the mountains beside the small village. He finds what he thinks are signs of something there, though he doesn't recognize exactly what could have made them (nagas are very solitary and exceptionally rare, and signs of their presence difficult to find or identify. Liu Qingge has never encountered one before this, nor is he expecting to, so he doesn't recognize up the signs for what they are)

The moment of realization comes when he's deep, deep into the mountains one evening and stumbles upon an odd object on the ground. Large, green, slightly translucent. He lifts it, and feels his blood run cold as he sees the pattern of massive scales and realizes he's holding the shed of a naga.

A fully grown naga, who absolutely knows he's here. Who's den he's probably standing dangerously close to, if there's a shed. A naga who, undoubtedly, has been watching him for the better part of his time searching these mountains, without him ever realizing it.

His heads whips around, searching the area around him. He's been allowed to move within and leave the territory unimpeded thus far; he may be able to get out now, provided the naga hasn't realized how close he's gotten to it's den. If he moves quickly...

It's at that moment his eyes catch on a shadow, falling strangely on the forest floor. He pauses, eyes faltering, before with a sudden harsh chill he finds himself starring directly into a pair of vibrant green eyes with sharp slit pupils. He can just make out the shape of a massive emerald green naga crouched in the underbrush, less than a hundred feet away from him.

And he feels the rush of cold harsh terror only experienced by a prey animal suddenly realizing it's in the sights of a predator.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I got into a new store this morning and had to use the bathroom. My training is jumping around between locations. While doing my business a quick dark shape darted right by my leg making me yelp.

A not-Rick-sized-but-nonetheless-substantial spider decided bathroom time really ought to be more social and scuttled right by my leg.

In order to appear competent and brave I dispatched this unfortunate arachnid on my bonny lonesome while quailing inside. Not ten minutes later the district manager dispatched another in the back room.

Apparently this store has a huge spider problem and I’m like we should just pick up and move the store. The spiders can have it, they were here first anyway.

[capquinn]

dad quinn trying to get the kids ready for a day out but they're not cooperating and the whole time he's telling himself 'i've survived playoff overtimes. i can survive this' 🤣

Quinn trying to get the kids ready for a day out is organised chaos — the kind of chaos that feels oddly familiar, the kind that everyone warns you about but still somehow takes you by surprise.

It starts with Cub, who has already been running circles around the living room for ten minutes, his little legs kicking up the carpet as he evades Quinn’s attempt to wrangle him into his jacket. Quinn’s doing his best, trying to get the jacket over Cub’s arms, but Cub’s determined to escape — squirming, wiggling, twisting his body in every direction like he’s in some sort of high-speed escape race. Adamant that he doesn't need to wear one.

“Cub, buddy, just hold still for five seconds,” Quinn says, trying and failing to sound patient, his voice starting to waver under the weight of the never-ending wrangling. Cub whines, twisting his body again, nearly falling face-first into the couch cushions.

Quinn sighs, looking at him with a tired but amused expression. “How can someone this small create this much chaos?” he mutters under his breath, mostly to himself but loud enough for the whole house to hear.

From the other room, Bug’s voice rings out with absolute confidence: “I’m not wearing socks today!”

Quinn’s head jerks toward the sound of her voice. “What do you mean, you’re not wearing socks?” he calls back, but he’s already bracing himself for the inevitable argument.

There’s a beat of silence, followed by Bug’s indignant tone.

“Just not! My feet don’t need socks,” she declares, as if she’s already made a groundbreaking discovery that will change the world forever.

Quinn pinches the bridge of his nose, feeling the tension build between his eyes.

“Okay, but it’s cold out, Bug. You’re putting socks on.” He starts walking toward her room, his mind racing, wondering how he’s ended up in a perpetual state of negotiations today.

But before he can even enter, Cub bolts past him, a single shoe in hand and his jacket hanging half off.

“Cub! No, no, no…” Quinn mutters, watching helplessly as Cub removes his remaining arm from the jacket sleeve.

Quinn looks down at the car keys in his hand like they’re a lifeline.

“I survived playoff overtimes,” he mutters to himself, more as a self-pep talk than anything else. “I can survive this.” He shakes his head and turns back toward Bug’s room, where she’s still stubbornly standing in front of her closet, arms crossed and determined to make her case about socks.

He stops in the doorway, looking at her with a deep breath, willing himself to keep his cool.

“Bug. Please. Just socks for today. Then you can take them off when we get there, I promise.”

She raises an eyebrow, now slowly coming up with a new excuse. “But I’ll just get too hot in the car, daddy,” she argues, like this is some sort of complex problem only she can solve.

“Nope,” Quinn says, finally walking over to her, leaning down, and pulling out a pair of socks. “You’re wearing them. Trust me. It’ll be better for everyone.”

As he starts to gently slide the socks onto her feet, he glances at his watch. They’re now officially running behind schedule.

“Alright,” Quinn says, finally giving in to the madness, “we’re getting this done and then we’re getting out of here."

He watches as Bug sighs dramatically, sliding her feet into the socks. Cub finally calms down enough for Quinn to get his other shoe on (and his jacket, for the third time), and they all, somehow, miraculously make it to the door.

Quinn’s hand hovers over the doorknob, still feeling the adrenaline of the chaos, but he’s almost there. He gives a little nod to himself, a grin tugging at his lips, and with one final sigh of relief, says, “alright, we’re officially ready."

And as they finally step outside, Quinn knows that no matter how crazy the morning has been, at least the hardest part is over. Now, he just has to survive the actual day out.

[sayorseee]

This has been bothering me all week I have to say it and hope it gets addressed in the movie

HOW does Missy Martin know who Jasper is? If she’s a Kid Danger super fan, how does she figure out that Jasper is Henry’s best friend enough to include him in one of her stories and make Jasper the hero??? I’ve been thinking about this all week I need to know!

Like Frankini is obviously a Kid Danger villain. Piper was the President of the Man Fans and has also helped Kid Danger and Captain Man publicly the most out of anyone. How do we get to Jasper being dragged into these stories tho??? He and Charlotte (and Schwoz) were always very careful not to be seen with Captain Man and Kid Danger or at least if they did they pretended like they weren’t besties!

[roseunspindle]

September TBR 2024

[valenteal]

Chuuya’s ability is weird and idk how scientifically accurate it is supposed to be but I am going to share what I think is going on.

It’s not just telekinesis, it’s gravity control. But he doesn’t control how much gravity an object has but how much gravity is affecting the object and in what direction. I’ve been thinking about this for a while and it seems so me that when Chuuya touches an object it is affected only by the gravity created by his ability and not by the natural gravity of the Earth. But his ability is not bound by space, it operates almost on another plane of existence. Like when something is affected by his ability it enters something comparable to an added layer of reality. Chuuya creates enormous gravity only within that separate layer of reality, and as you likely know gravity is created by mass so he’s creating large amounts of mass and or energy whenever he uses his ability but it paradoxically takes up no physical space. To make it even more complex, it isn’t just one added layer, every time he uses his ability on an object it creates a new, separate layer, as we can tell from the fact that they move independently. To get the kind of movement he does it makes me think that these gravity layers are that red glow, and it’s almost like he consciously decides what point/angle/direction the gravity is coming from and it pulls the object in its own direction while being connected to it kinda like when you dangle a carrot in front of a horse to get it to move, a self perpetuating system. And Chuuya controls placement of gravity wells as well as their strength and can even make multiple points of gravitational pull act on a single object at once.

It fascinating and totally OP. But it also requires precision and skill.

[EDIT: just want to say that this post explains my initial thoughts before diving down this mind boggling rabbit hole and I will later post a more comprehensive and revised version when I’m done. This one isn’t entirely accurate.]

[xeverashifts]

might have mini-shifted to a parallel cr??? so i decided to take a nap earlier and i did have the intention to shift and i did what i usually do but i told myself that i had the ability to shift and “i have shifted” and when i woke up from my nap it was if i had woken up at the same time i fell asleep? like the sky was blue and everything it was a bit hazy cause i was in that half sleep and half awake state but it was very quick then the sky just went dark as if someone turned off a light switch or something so idk if i minishifted or maybe i’m just bugging?

[aurosoulart]

[ID: tags via @lanixigay that read "#BUGS IN LOVE #THEYRE LOVEBUGS YEW #HOW COULD YEW NOT" /end ID]

dragons in love is winning but Yew puns are my secret weakness. this is too stupid to be an official video so it's literally just for tumblr, enjoy ghskgh

[prismatiger]

Homunculus

[starryskiesahead]

also i finished all of the disastrous life of saiki k. and

aaaaaaaaaaaa-

i loved it sm

kusuo saiki ultimate magical boy