#although it’s a good story idea

[a-chaotically-small-lunta]

Okay I had a dream where it was like I was playing a video game and this game was crazy. So it was kinda like a mix of Stardew and Terraria but like 10x harder. You start out in a world that’s in the cave man era and you find two people wandering around who need help. You all decide to make a safe base for you all the stay in. This is where you learn that the game makes you have a small base where you have to have at least 2 people living in it or else the game will end. Anyway you make a small base and craft some stone tools when it introduces the enemy of your world: Zombies. Oh boy Caveman era with zombies, sounds fun. Anyway your goal is to find more survivors, resources, and protect your settlement, which btw your settlement can be attack while you are away so you have to set up defenses or find people who are willing to fight. Luckily the game is kind and won’t start actively attacking your base until you find 10 people. After running around a while I find some ruins, which I’m like wtf there shouldn’t be any building but okay, and it’s a castle. Inside the castle there is a dining hall where the tables have food lying on top of them, modern food. I’m talking cereal boxes dated 2027 and some dated 9704.

Exploring the room a bit more I discover a hole that looks like it opens on top of the underside of the cliff. I say fuck it and jump in knowing I’m probably not gonna survive the fall. However I do survive the fall and discover there is a whole other world underneath mine and this one is mostly flooded, and it’s fantasy. So it’s discovered that this game has layers of games on top of each other, each with their own weird theme. Supposedly there’s like 50 of these layers. Like there is a modern world somewhere below but watch out, there’s an infection making people into plants. There’s even a cyberpunk world and just straight up a hell type world! Each layer of the game has a theme and something wrong with it (Caveman - Zombie) but it’s also an expansive world where you can find people and ‘dungeons.’ These dungeons are all different based on the world you go in, like a modern world that’s overrun by a disease would have a mall, or the cyberpunk world is supposedly taken over by dinosaurs could have a section of a city be considered the dungeon. The themes were all mixed up and made almost no sense half the time. The dungeons held tools, crafting recipes, people, resources, and were filled with dangers. So your goal now is to expand your base, keep people safe, and get to the bottom layer. Supposedly the bottom layer is what caused each layer to become eventually abandoned or broken, and now it’s your job to find out why. However this is where the difficulty becomes fucked up. In each layer there is only a maximum of 5 holes and in some there is only one hole that can lead you to the next layer. (Luckily if you find the a very specific type of person you can move these holes into your base or just outside it for easy access) These layers are huge so finding one little hole is almost impossible, especially since spending too much time in the ‘wrong layer’ aka not g your layer, can lead to monsters attacking more frequently in said layer, cause you aren’t supposed to be there.

This game was crazy and the lore of the game is that the creator of the game didn’t know what kind of game to make and kept changing their mind from their original idea, leading to outlandish themes. However the creator didn’t want to destroy their creations so they simply buried it under the new one so it could live on. Only doing so cause these layers to go into chaos eventually and be overrun by whatever monster was set up there or whatever monster from the layer below would make its way up, cause it was possible to have a safe layer but only because the enemies moved to another layer. Honestly though when I woke up I actually wanted to play this game dispute the difficulty of it. Like yeah you start off with stone tools against fucking zombies, but later on you could get a sword that’s enchanted or even just a straight up gun. There were also more silly or fun weapons like the gun that was enchanted by a wizard to have a 20% chance of turning the one you shot into a frog. Like wtf that’s really funny to me. But anyway that game would be a huge file cause of how big each layer is. Like one layer could have 50 or more dungeons and they weren’t small. But you could expand your base, have a simple little life in it, farm foods from many places, and defend against the caveman zombies outside your door. Which as you explore each layer there’s a small chance that the enemy of that layer will move into your level. This can cause them to work with whatever is in your level now or take over whatever is in your layer now. I was so lucky to have fucking dragons and demonic robots take over my world…WTF man so rude. It was entirely random which layer would come next (the only exception is that your level and the bottom layer were always the same) no one knows what the bottom layer has, no one has beaten the game yet. No one even knows if there is an end to the game, cause who’s to say the creator won’t just add a new layer? That’s how my dream actually ended. With an ominous message of ‘you’re on top for now, but you might lose that if they get bored’ like oh no.

[ashtonisvibing]

i've seen the minecraft movie trailer

who was the writer that decided to make steve reference "the children yearn for the mines"

i just want to talk

no ignore the baseball bat in my hands

[carnivalls]

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See the thing is. I know I'm good at writing. Like I have my weak areas or things I need to improve in, but it's not a skill I otherwise spend a lot of time feeling insecure about because a) if I don't believe in my writing literally who will b) if I want to publish my writing I ought to at least feel a resting level of good about it because editors and agents likely will not be cradling my face like a prize cat and telling me how talented I am while asking for their edits c) I've always had an audience for my writing even at its worst– I started sharing my original works online when I was around 16 & that really helped sell to me the idea of 'there will always be someone out there who likes what you do' d) untalented men never think this hard about the quality of their works and they always end up published anyway and e) I don't have many other thoroughly developed skills so why not have one I feel good about. Having said this. Awkward feeling to realize you're one of the authorial weak links in your postgraduate creative writing degree's social circle

[kezibun]

Hello again tumblr ^-^

It's been a while...😅

[peteytheparrot]

Literally every single story I’ve been infatuated in some way was a mystery,,, I love mysteries,,,, why aren’t my stories MYSTERIES-

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I'm starting Mission to Zyxx Season 5 now, and I have feelings about that.

First, it generally scares me when people hype anything up at all because there is no guarantee that anyone values the exact same thing I do to the same degree. Even if I trust the creators of a thing to value something and try to do right by it, that doesn't always necessarily mean it will be successful, especially if that involves doing something wildly different than what made it good in the first place (I have been burned this way before). I guess I'm just hoping they continue the format of goofy improv shenanigans for the majority of it with something more planned and emotional in the finale if they want, like they've been doing all along. I'd think they would, and I've heard nothing bad about the ending, but I guess it still makes me nervous because I'm so close to the end and I want it so badly to stick the landing. I'm setting my expectations on the floor so I can be surprised instead of disappointed, but honestly, I don't need it to be better, I just need it to be on par with the rest.

Second, and more briefly, I'm happy it's (hopefully) ending before it has a chance to decline. I am so on board with that philosophy. But on the other hand, finishing a thing that I really, really like and knowing there's not another one out there gives me a special kind of heartache. Like, I know there will be other good media, and stuff that's good and unique in other ways, but I know for a fact that there are no other podcasts out there that have the same mix of a balance of off-the-wall improv and structured narrative, quality comedy, fantastical sci-fi setting and loveable characters, and high quality production. There are other things out there with many of those qualities, but nothing that checks every one of those boxes. It's a lightning-in-a-bottle thing that very much feels like the right people had to be in the right place at the right time to do it. Attempts to do it again would feel hollow because it had to be born out of necessity and passion and the talents of the people involved, so if you switch out the people it loses the reasons it's great, and if the same people tried to do it again it'd feel tired. That makes me so, so grateful it exists, but also so, so sad that it doesn't, and I'm 80% of the way done. When it's over, it's over.

Anyway. Now that that's all out there, I'm just gonna finish listening and have fun. Wish me luck.

[xejune]

a happier ending

[puppppppppy]

i feel shy talking here when i dont have anything worth sharing but i cant help feeling like ive said things in the tags that could be brought up in court

[michameinmicha]

Me: can we have The Raven Boys?

Mom: we have raven boys at home

The Raven Boys at home:

[fragmentedblade]

Ratio isn't just socratic nor is his method just socratic. There's a lot of sophist too, with how he is paid and the Genius Society looks down on that.

[bitchthefuck1]

I don't want to sound like a bitch but the fact that a vast majority of the top posts for the bear s3 are about sydcarmy is genuinely depressing. like if the only lens you can look at a show like this through is "is my ship canon or not" I fear you've missed the point

[majordomo-zazu]

The Mufasa movie was really good and really bad at the same time but it wasn't bad for any of the main reasons people are saying it was bad for, y'know?

[izayoichan]

Flynn: So, how do we celebrate this success? Rylan: Can we be at the shelter today, and just hang out with the animals? Flynn: Of course.-he smiled, it was not quite the answer he had expected.- Why the shelter though? Rylan: It's calm and well, we haven't been there in a while, with all our practice. Ye-Min: And it's so nice to just be alone for a bit, with the animals! Rylan: Yeah Tyvan: No fans to ask for selfies!

There was a laugh between them, but also a look between Flynn and Emil, that they would need to talk with Rylan about it later. For now though, they would head to the shelter to celebrate. The day ended with dinner and a large cake at River and Lucas’s place as a little surprise. 

The next big thing for them all, was Amuary’s graduation, which Tyvan had asked to go too. Flynn and Emil had decided to come as well, hoping that perhaps they could finally meet Amuary’s vami, who they assumed might be there.

Tyvan: Why do you want to meet Ams mother so badly? Emil: -spots Amuary with his vami. Amuary's Vami is very similar to Amuary, though he wears a blindfold-... Tyvan: Mom Flynn: Emil?

Amuary's Vami notices Emil and the others, smiling and giving them a small confirming nod.

Tyvan: Mom, do you know hi..?

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[crossbackpoke-check]

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

[emoticonheart]

oddly specific (and long) scenario i can't get out of my head:

a posh and proper princess is kidnapped by a pirate crew, but this crew don't want to hurt her in any way. in fact, they are very friendly and accommodating to the princess. they don't tie her up or anything like that, and even give her her own room. they promise her that they won't hurt her, and tell her they only took her so that they could earn some money from her ransom. as soon as the ransom is paid, they will let her go safe and sound.

either way, the princess is pissed. despite being free to roam the ship as she pleases, she chooses to stay in her room. the captain of the pirate crew is especially nice to her, but no matter how many times he visits her, delivers her food, or tries to talk to her, she gives him the silent treatment. still, he doesn't lose hope.

until one night, when the captain walks in to visit the princess, she finds her crying on her bed. he asks her what's wrong, and that's when she finally opens up. she tells the captain how lonely she is, and the captain promises that they all want to be friends with her, if she'll give them a chance. she's hesitant, but she eventually agrees.

the next night, the princess hears laughter from her room and decides to investigate. she leaves her room and walks up to the main deck, and she finds the captain and his crew sitting around a table drinking beer and laughing. the captain smiles and waves her over to join. the princess is about to decline when she remembers her conversation with the captain the night before and decides to join.

one of the crew members offers her a beer, and she initially declines, saying that princesses don't drink beer. they tell her to loosen up, so she eventually agrees. the taste is bitter at first, but she quickly gets used to it and even enjoys it.

a bit later, when they're all a bit drunk from the excessive amounts of beer, one of the crew members lets out a hearty belch, which quickly turns into a contest. the captain is easily the best burper in the crew, letting out belches that overpower the sound of the waves crashing on the sides of the ship.

the princess is absolutely disgusted by this behavior and even considers leaving, but she's shocked when the crew turns to her expectantly. they want her to burp.

she yells at them, shaming them for even entertaining the idea that a princess like her would act so barbarically. they all laugh, telling her that royalty status doesn't exempt her from having gas, and that she should just loosen up and let it out.

she's about to refuse again, but pauses. her parents have drilled into her the importance of having good manners... but her parents aren't here. they haven't even paid the ransom yet, so who knows when she'll see them again? and the pirates were right, she did have plenty of gas in her stomach from all the alcohol she consumed. so... what harm would it do to just try it out for once? after all, it seemed this particular audience wouldn't judge her.

so, she sits up straight in her chair, her posture as perfect as a princess's should be, and then immediately taints that princess-like image by releasing an absolutely gigantic belch. it overpowers everything the crew had previously let out, including the captain, and when it's over, everyone is silent from shock.

that is, until the entire crew jumps from their seats and roars their approval. even the captain lifts her up onto his shoulders, praising her for releasing one of, if not the, best burps he's ever heard.

after that, the princess is much more comfortable with the crew. she laughs with them, drinks with them, and even burps with them every night. she never realized how nice it is to be free of the expectations of royalty and femininity, and she doesn't want to go back to it ever again.

she never thought she'd say it, but she's fallen in love with the pirate way of life.

[juniperhillpatient]

alright besties new happenstance is officially written I’ll edit & post tomorrow after my job interviews 😊