#What-ifs

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Is it in the best interest of humanity to prevent other species from becoming sapient or do you think we can handle peaceful co-existence with sapient non-humans?

I don't care about the best interests of humanity, I care about the best interests of the biosphere

and I know from history that us meddling with the evolution of nature either goes great (see: Native American interactions with the landscape) or terribly (see: the environmental destruction that is European Colonialism)

so I don't know if we can handle peaceful coexistence, or if more sapience would be good for the biosphere, or what have you. So, since I really don't know, my answer is we shouldn't really do much of anything. If other species become sapient, we deal with it then. If they don't, then we don't.

[heartstringsbloom]

Au where McQueen was created (a la the replica program from Kingdom Hearts) for racing and this can go either way, but for the purposes of this story we’ll focus on humanized!Cars

When he wakes up he’s blank. He can perceive everything, see the white walls around him, feel the baggy white jumpsuit he’s wearing. But he doesn’t really associate with anything, rather he just perceives

A man in a lab coat walks in and tells him that he’s a racer. What does that mean?

He learns that it means to go fast, to loop around a track over a hundred times for a trophy. That trophy means he’s the best. The person they hand him off to—Harv—tells him that he’ll be the best

People cheer for him and scream his name from the stands. All he has to do is make first place in that little red car they give him

They also tell him that his name is Lightning. Because he’s fast, there and around the track in a flash. Lightning McQueen.

Royalty? Not yet, Harv tells him. Not until he wins the Piston Cup

But McQueen gets lost on the way. It was supposed to be a tie-breaker, but Mack—and Mack is so nice, always makes Lightning smile—leaves him behind at some diner while McQueen was signing autographs. Strange little mementos that people like to ask of him.

Lightning doesn’t think he meant to. He had been told that the race was too important to miss. Maybe Mack didn’t realize he had even left the trailer

McQueen wanders. It’s nighttime, and the stars are bright and decorate the sky. McQueen wonders why the cars passing have headlights when his doesn’t

(The track is always lit. Is too much light a bad thing? Is he a bad thing?)

One of the cars slows next to him, and McQueen sees the window roll down. Someone with a hat and a badge

Sheriff of . . . Well the man doesn’t say, but he asks Lightning if everything is alright. Lightning thinks it is, except he doesn’t know how to get to California.

It’s a long way, Sheriff tells him. Guess McQueen has a long walk

Sheriff scoffs and asks if he needs a place for the night. Lightning doesn’t think so. He only needs to get to California. But Sheriff shakes his head and mutters something Lightning can’t make out, sorry.

He offers Lightning a ride

Can Sheriff get him to California?

What is with you, kid? You need some rest.

Okay.

Sheriff takes him to a bright orange motel with a sigh that reads “Cozy Cone,” and it makes Lightning smile. It reminds him of the track. Nothing else

Inside is someone with hair bluer than the sky, Lightning thinks. She has to be made of the sky, or the ocean, or maybe both. He asks

She blinks at him and her face gets pink, making her ocean eyes all the more vibrant. Wow.

Sheriff calls her Sally. Lightning forever associates her with everything blue and beautiful

She shows him to a room, and he tilts his head in the tiny but warm space. It’s smaller than his trailer

Is it? Sally asks. He nods, clutches his trailer key in his pocket. He wonders how Mack is doing

Sally asks if he’s hungry, and Lightning hasn’t thought about it. He’s . . . Never been hungry, has he? Should he be?

“Should I be?”

Sally blinks and her eyes get softer, and she looks him up and down as if she’s seeing him for the first time. Lightning mimics her, smiles because she’s so lovely and he wonders how the stars would scatter across her waves of hair

She says to stay put, and leaves. Lightning falters, saddened by her absence, and falls to sit on the floor, folding his legs in a crisscross

He lights up when she returns, carrying a bag of something that smells amazing.

She sets it on a small table next to the bed, beckons him over and starts talking about burgers and fries and a tiny salad, whatever those are

But he eats, seeing how she smiles when he does, and it makes him want to do everything in his power to keep that on her face

Sally bids him goodnight and leaves, and it’s a little sad because she’s so wonderful, but the food tastes amazing so Lightning doesn’t feel as sad

He stares at the empty takeout carton when he’s finished. Thinks about Sally and the stars and burgers and the bed. It’s a soft, neatly made and fresh-smelling. He lays down slowly, finding it an interesting alternative to the seat in his car

He doesn’t think of California that night, too swayed by the sky and the ocean and stars.

[camilletea]

"Please... I've been on my knees- change the prophecy..."

But it's Ango praying to whatever deity is listening not to take his remaining friend away from him when Dazai's heartbeat flatlined-

But it's also Dazai picking up a pen and wrote on the Book for a chance that, even if it's just one world, Oda would live.

[jaronxlordashcombe]

What if... #17

Roden broke Jaron's arm instead of his leg? Would everything still be played the same or would something else happen? Would Jaron still climb up that wall, fight Roden, or sit and wait for him to come? Would Jaron even be alive at the end of the book or not?

[darkangel1117]

deltarune au where everything is normal except spamtons benefactor never left so hes still popular when kris goes to cyber city and kris gets to, idk take his lunch money or give him ⏃ hug

⟟ think he really needs ⏃ hug considering his friends probs left him at that point and is decently lonely

...

imagine if someone turned this into ⏃ fic or tiny animatic or one of those posts with the many photos (comics right)

[twcfaces]

🚼 x Gilda obviously

Ms. Delia Dent, law student and artist on the side.

She met her father through the glass at Arkham Asylum a few days after turning 18. With everything she'd heard about him, she was prepared to see some kind of caged animal, some hideous thing to be ashamed of, but he wasn't anything like that at all. Instead, she found a deep well of compassion.

Once or twice a month, she visits him and he helps her with her studies, even if he's a little behind in practice. These visits seem to improve his quality of life tremendously. It's all he talks about for days after the fact.

[stabbyapologist]

Sometimes, I get to thinking about stuff and it's like your heart breaks again and it's like...

Well, I guess it's grieving. But the people aren't dead. She isn't dead, she still alive. But what I could have had if I had just made the right decisions, if I knew exactly what the repercussions were or if I had just prioritized them.

Or the memories. Grieving the memories. But it's like, they're not even real. You're just revisiting old desires that you've thought of before and here you are: reminiscing that what-ifs and should-haves and could-haves as if they're going to change anything.

They don't.

"It is what it is."

"I hate that phrase. Sounds like dying."

[atherix]

Mmmm bro that is a good thought tho. Imagine them being so bad but,,,,so in love with each other. Bro i cant stop thinkin how fuckin good that is wuxjdjk

Gods i love some fucked up lovey dovey gay men wbdbsjd

- purp anon

God fucked up lovey dovey gay evil men is so good.

I have absolutely no problem with Mumscarian as villains. The idea of Blondie as a good guy sours my mood tho <3 (this is a joke, by the way, she wouldn't be NEARLY as fucked up if she wasn't evil so-)

[ancientforgcd]

"You were magnificent, Darkness. I shall never forget you for as long as I live."

"Hehe, t-that was amazin', B. I'll see you in the afterlife, budy."

[elirandom]

1700-1800s mansion for sale in Sweden.

[moldy-guacamole]

elliotly doodles

sorry if it's hard to see

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[pigdemonart]

Unexpected and unrequested Bowuigi be upon ye

They still tickle me from time to time. And I found these now years old sketches I never cleaned up, and decided to share cuz WHY NOT!

Its a good time thank everyone who supports my silly ideas LOL 🙇 ♥️ genuinely love you all sm

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[cheruib]

i miss everyone i ever met all the time

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael Afton wishes he had FNAF Movie Mike's life,,

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

My Great Grandma who loved her babies very much

Reference that I used for the face!

[cynicalclassicist]

Chalk it up to one of those what-ifs of history! But Jerry Brown's time has passed now.

If Jerry Brown won the 1976 presidential election, how do you think a Brown Administration would have gone?

Not great. In 1976, Jerry Brown was 38 years old and just one year into his first term as Governor of California. He was not ready to be President in 1976. He was barely ready to be Governor in 1976.

Now, if we're talking about the Jerry Brown of 2012 or 2016 who had mastered just about every aspect of all levels of state and local government in the most populous state of the country, that would have been a different story. With the experience that he had by that point, Governor Brown would have been an awesome President.