#The West Tower

[romanwitchgirl]

Writing ideas can come from the strangest shit guys. I thought "what if our high school principal had a cane?" And then ✨fantasy✨. So now I'm on a track to hell inside my brain thinking of all the shit I could to with this. The betrayal. The angst. The absolute fucker of a slowburn of a romance.

Basically here is some major points

So Main Char. Finds out her ordinary school is hiding something

For background, MC is bullied and isn't liked much in the school

So she finds this out, and discovers this massive power she has

It basically starts off like your typical bullied to hero situation

But she's still bullied

And she gets angry and blasts these bullies away with her power

Now everyone is scared

And you see this shy and nice character turn darker and darker

The last straw before she totally snaps and takes over the school is her friend calls her out on her actions that are getting worse and worse

And mc is like "I did what it took to survive! Aren't you sick of it?"

At the end the argumnet peaks as mc blasts her friend away and internally she is scared that she doesn't care. Shes glad even

This forms sides in the school

There's like this whole war that plays out afterwards. I don't have many more plot points for that one

As for the romance

After the sides split, there is this guy who is just loyal to a fault to mc

Eventually, mc gets stabbed or some shit and the guy who has been hopelessly in love with the mc sees her bleeding out

He stays by mc for the entire time of the recovery

When the mc wakes up, they just know that the guy has been there the whole time

And then busts out a line something like, "I never seemed to fully appreciate how much you stick by me until now. Thank you"

And this bitch doesn't say thank you

So that's like the unofficial begining

They hang out more and then those feelings are just exploding

And then the guy makes a reckless decision on a reconasince mission or something and mc is like, "you could've died! What were you thinking?"

This banter goes on and finally the guy is just "and how do you think I felt when I saw you half dead a couple weeks ago?!"

Silence

Anger and sadness in waves

Mc: "I'm sorry. I just- I just care too much to see you do something that could end with your death being my fault"

And then confusion because he thought that this love feeling was unreciprocated

This whole scene is just angst conversation central

It ends with a kiss (duh, I'm a weak woman ok)

And they are just a fucking power couple

Obviously with hitches in the road

But we get there

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

My Top 25 First Time Watches of 2024!

1. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984) 2. Série noire (Alain Corneau, 1979) 3. Christine (Alan Clarke, 1987) 4. La morte vivante (Jean Rollin, 1982) 5. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman, 1973) 6. Les Nuits de la pleine lune (Éric Rohmer, 1984) 7. Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (Robert Bresson, 1971) 8. La prima notte di quiete (Valerio Zurlini, 1972) 9. Céline (Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1992) 10. Angel Dust (Sogo Ishii, 1994) 11. Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976) 12. Les chambres rouges (Pascal Plante, 2023) 13. You Can’t Take It with You (Frank Capra, 1938) 14. Smooth Talk (Joyce Chopra, 1985) 15. Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (Richard Blackburn, 1973) 16. The ’Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989) 17. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947) 18. Road (Alan Clarke, 1987) 19. Drylongso (Cauleen Smith, 1998) 20. Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968) 21. Little Odessa (James Gray, 1994) 22. The Company of Strangers (Cynthia Scott, 1990) 23. The Black Tower (John Smith, 1987) 24. Ocaña (Ventura Pons, 1978) 25. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jireš, 1970)

(My list in Letterboxd -click here-)

Happy New Year!

[ghostly-bat]

Kathy, throwing herself face first into the couch: Ugh

Maya:... You ok?

Kathy: Jon and Damian are fighting again

Irey: How long do you think it'll take for them to kiss and make up this time?

Kathy: I don't know, the longest they've gone is what? Like 3 weeks? And that was only because they both didn't want to be the first one to say sorry!

Tai: I remember those 3 weeks...I hated those 3 weeks. They were both so miserable and they made it everybody's problem, like god! Just talk to each other! Why do they both have to be so stubborn!?

Jai:

Jai: We could just lock them in a room together

Everyone else:....

"We could just lock them in a room together"

-A couple days later-

Lian, grinning:

Lian: I see that you two are friends again

Damian, quickly pushing Jon off of him, disheveled and red in the face: Harper... Ever thought of making your presence known?

Lian: Ever thought of making out where people can't see you?

Damian:

Jon, still on the floor hiding from embarrassment:

Lian: Yeah, that's what I thought

Lian: Guys! Jon and Damian made up!! I found them making out on the couch!!

[scavengedluxury]

Sainsbury's under construction, Bell Green, Coventry, 1969. From the Sainsbury Archive.

[emaadsidiki]

Al Gassar Resort via Katara Cultural Village 💡✨

[anghraine]

I love living in Washington—I wasn't born here, but my family moved from Oregon when I was in elementary school and I lived in WA until I was nearly 20 and then moved back seven years ago. So a lot of my life has been spent here and what hasn't been spent here has been in Oregon (mostly) or California (two years of grad school).

Obviously I love the Pacific Northwest and I love the West Coast in general, but nothing reinforces this like seeing the reminder I sent to myself to sign up for health insurance, answering a handful of questions, getting immediately approved by the system and picking a plan, and promptly being informed that I now have health insurance with dental, vision, mental health, etc and that my ridiculously low adjunct hell wages means it costs *checks* $0 (even as autumn makes the PNW more beautiful than usual!).

I know it's a very US American problem to consider. But I grew up on the Canadian border, which meant that when my parents went bankrupt from my childhood medical expenses after I hit their insurance's lifetime cap when I was... like, 12, I was entirely aware that Things Don't Have To Be This Way because I had friends and family acquaintances with Canadian citizenship. And meanwhile I have relatives and friends on the US side who have to incorporate health care so much into calculations about what jobs to take, where to live, what the cost of living really is with a medical condition.

Another guy in my department and I were actually just talking the other day about figuring out possible jobs/cost of living calculations not just from reported numbers for a state or city, but about the importance of calculating cost of living for yourself specifically because of health expenses, difficulties of transportation, etc. Like, people talk a lot about how expensive California is and it definitely is, but for me that was significantly offset by the state paying all my medical expenses despite me not even having California residency. The Portland metro area is expensive, but it is entirely possible to never drive anywhere because of good public transit+walkability.

So anyway ... thanks, Washington State, that is a huge load off my shoulders and it makes voting against right-wing bullshit in WA a pleasure as well as a civic duty <3

[marclef]

Day 8 of uhhhh...... Pizza?

after an exciting day of a burning palm tree taking our power out, i've finally finished today's art! Eyhm is all dressed up, and ready to go out for Halloween!! 😊✨

she is now 100% certified rat.

but don't worry; Fake Peppino knows better than to harm her 😉

[bluecote]

Hallam Tower Hotel, Sheffield

Lanyon & Zennor Quoit, West Penwith, Cornwall.

[peninsulaisms]

transmission tower at the top of cliffs created by a great flood

[ffxiscreenshots]

[romanwitchgirl]

I promise to get masterlist and blog stuff figured out later or tomorrow, I need to relax as I've been relentlessly editing the fuck out of this blog for two and a half hours

[dienamights]

Beauty and the beast!au with katsuki except you fuck him in his beast form

[intheholler]

[emaadsidiki]

West Promenade 🗾

[monotone-artist]

hello um. explodes into a million pieces

[id: two digital art pieces of characters from horizon: forbidden west. the first image has three different drawings featuring aloy, seyka, and beta. aloy is in the oseram artificer outfit with leather armor, bracers, and a leather crop top vest with red cloth; beta is in the nora huntress outfit, with a leather tunic and a light blue bandana around her neck; and seyka is in her usual outfit with a white-and-gray fabric armor and a pink-and-gray scarf. the backgrounds in these pieces are a textured light pink.

the first drawing is an upper body shot of aloy and beta, who are side-by-side, each with an arm slung over the other's shoulder, the sides of their heads touching. aloy has her other hand on her hip and is smiling at beta, though she also looks slightly concerned. beta is ducking her head slightly, her other arm curled into herself as she also smiles, albeit a little anxiously.

the second drawing is of aloy and seyka. aloy is sitting down, her legs outstretched while seyka is laying back against her chest. seyka has an interface open in front of her that she's curiously navigating through, her tongue sticking out. aloy is peering down at her and smiling. they're both slightly blushing.

the final drawing is an upper body shot of aloy and seyka. seyka is grabbing aloy by the shoulders and frantically shaking her, gasping in amazement, her eyes sparkling. aloy looks pretty startled but otherwise isn't fighting against it.

the second image is of a sunwing, a pterosaur-like robot. she is standing, lifting one wing to preen at it. she is simply colored a slightly darker shade than the background. the text reads, "Sunny the Sunwing <3" end id]

[hanzajesthanza]

man what is this