#anyways i am not a horror writer

[helmtechnician]

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while Her Imperious Condescension's colonial pursuits never falter, She does take breaks.

And when She stops, So do I.

And, on some rare occasions, when the crew leaves the docked ship to visit a space station,

I get to leave with them.

Onboard the station, they take care of me, as ordered.

I can't function well without the wires anymore.

Doesn't matter, I'm always connected to wires these days.

The mechanics dote on me, and I'm often the most intact of the helmsmen docked for maintenance.

Sometimes I wish the crew would be more careless with me, and give me a chance to fade, like the rest of them do.

But, I know that all She will give me are a few, rare, days.

Spent in my small body looking outside, for as long as She will allow. So I go through the motions.

[uncleardyn]

(alan wake-gravity falls crossover) man i love that character. you know, the deeply paranoid author who made a pact with a dark entity that ultimately ended with him stranded in another dimension separated from his loved ones for years at a time? takes place in the pacific northwest? has twin imagery associated with him and a reoccurring specific piece of symbology related to the unfortunate situation they're in? doesn't ever explain the reasoning behind his actions and instead just kinda goes "bro trust me"? yeah he also wears an outer layer of clothing with elbow pads on it, that one.

[abhainnwhump]

Whumpee with a permanent collar around their neck.

Maybe Whumper used magic or simply a drill to seal a collar on their neck. A chain, a leather collar, one of those super cutesy fuzzy ones with a bow, it doesn't matter. Whumpee screams in pain getting it on and it somehow hurts worse once it's secured and dully throbbing.

The collar is too tight and they constantly feel out of breath. It constantly needs to be covered up with scarves or turtlenecks. They'd rather suffer in the heat than let anyone see. The worst part if that it is a permanent reminder of what happened. And they can't do anything about it without causing serious damage.

[scarlettshazam]

I ended up really loving this drawing that I did of the two main POV characters of Only Slightly Dead, which has a preorder link now! (For eBooks, because you can’t preorder paperback or hardcover 🫠)

Because this is tumblr and only like two of you are looking at me please enjoy post-book happy twins who have been through a whole horror book to get to this art. I kept drawing them as sad and angry and they needed to be cut a fuckin break for once

[bumblevoid]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Rouge the Bat & Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog & Sonic the Hedgehog, mentioned a lot at least - Relationship Characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, Infinite (Sonic the Hedgehog), Sonic the Hedgehog (mentioned) Additional Tags: Aftermath of Torture, Implied/Referenced Vivisection, specifically, Shadow the Hedgehog Needs a Hug, Rouge the Bat and Shadow the Hedgehog are Siblings, Shadow the Hedgehog Has PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, i think i gave him a whole new ptsd too, that is absolutely not how it works but shhh, Febuwhump 2025, Gunshot Wounds, Blood and Gore, Minor Body Horror, Game: Sonic Forces, Game Rewrite: Sonic Forces, Doom Powers (Sonic the Hedgehog), wow its the main idea of this au woahhhhh, Exhaustion, Major Character Injury, Body Dysphoria, Wow these tags are bad, they're accurate though, Title from a Mother Mother Song, specifically have it out shhhhh i didn't alter it at all, Angst, no beta we die like my physics grades still Series: Part 8 of Void does Prompts, Part 2 of Bleed Again (Forces Au) Summary:

[Chaos] Exhaustion | On the Run | Gunshot Wound

 Shadow knows about how long he's been here. But today, today he escapes. He needs to find Rouge.

[diodellet]

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[pokimoko]

hiii--- i know you mostly post/write about other fandoms but i just want to say that graceful degradation is probably one of THE best fics ive read of all time and i love it so so so much, it had me screaming into my pillow at like 2 in the morning. its such a unique and creative take on his backstory and the ANGSSTTT. oh my god...u are a genius

Thank you so much!!! Portal 2 was something I never imagined myself writing for, but I'm very glad I did, because writing that fic was a blast. It came out of my fondness for 'Flowers For Algernon' (which I read many years ago but has been stuck in the back of my mind ever since) and my need for a Portal fic that suited my particular niche of interests (which included, of course, my dear old friend angst). I'm so glad to hear you think of it so highly! That really means a lot 🥰

[acesammy]

can i say something?

The fact that sam is not focused on in the later seasons is actually fucking amazing if we consider the alternative to be what happened to dean.. which was character assassination if anything.

[ghostsofbeverlydr]

cannot fathom bravely announcing that you don’t read books only fan fiction in an advanced fiction writing class. like yeah we can tell

[silhouettecrow]

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 197

Adjective: Mournful

Noun: Quartz

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Mournful: feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief

Quartz: a hard white or colorless mineral consisting of silicon dioxide, found widely in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, and it is often colored by impurities (as in amethyst, citrine, and cairngorm)

[vvabbitt]

i really need to find my place on booktok because for some reason its decided im into erotica and i dont know why but i am not T^T i dont even like romance that much my preference for books and romance is when the book is not romance genre and its more complex and probably not even canon qjxiwbfb i only read my erotica via ao3 where gnc is much more likely to come across and i can hand select kinks specifically…. honestly if you are writing erotica books you should be required to do like a tags thing like ao3 so we at least know what we are getting into and if it even matches our type of freaky because thats one shitty thing on ao3 is when you miss a tag and o_O ‼️ what lmfao

[arolesbianism]

Was trying to figure out what my favorite abnos are and made a tier list to figure it out and realized I like dream of a black swan Way more than I thought I did

[erebus-luckycharm]

2024 is determined to make me work for it riiiight to the very end lol.🔪🔪🔪 I came back from a 2 day work trip where we pulled like 10 hour workdays and I came back from those to my hotel to work on my thesis defense. Because I'm defending on Friday. All the while I'm dealing with an exceptionally intense period, the cramps literally feel like someone has lit a fire in my poor uterus lol. Oh also I'm working through the weekend all the way to the 31st, I will commit an actual murder 🙂‍↕️

[lesbians-all-the-way-down]

My life won't be complete until I name the other lead in the historical fiction I've decided I'm going to write.

[confused-and-dickless]

I am spinning my homemade blorbos in my head rn but I can't draw good and I don't even have a solid idea of what they look like. They don't even have names. But I know them like my own soul. And they're in love. And they're me. And they're everything. And they love each other. One of them loves soup. Tumblr I'm telling you you'd love these fuckers if only I know how to express anything about them. Maybe I'll write out their backstory and a few of their adventures.

[tepkunset]

Until Dawn makes me uncomfortable...

...Not in a "this is good horror" way. In a "who gave you the fucking right to ruin our spiritual legends" way.

Some context, first: I am a Mi'kmaw person, and my people are among the Algonquians who have traditional legendary stories about ice cannibals. My people call them J*nuaq (singular: J*nu) also often anglicized as Ch*nook (singular: Ch*noo), but they are most commonly known under the Ojibwe name, W*ndigoag (singular: W*ndigo). Now that I've shared those names, I will for the rest of this post simply refer to them as "ice cannibals" out of respect for those who practice the avoidance of referring to them by name, which some people do and some don't.

Obviously there are variations among nations in how these beings are depicted, but I can guarantee you that this thing from Until Dawn...

...Is not very accurate. It may not be as bad as the whole antlers thing commonly tacked on by white horror writers, but ice cannibals are not stereotypical zombies either, or whatever the hell this thing is.

The ice cannibal I am personally familiar with is described as a giant, emaciated person with an icy heart and incredible Power. They used to be one of the People, but were transformed through either cannibalism or through an evil spirit. Now they are monstrous beings who kill and eat people.

But let's for a second pretend that Until Dawn is 100% accurate in its depiction of these ice cannibals. That doesn't change the fact that the writers, as white people, have no fucking right to even so much as touch these spirits in their story. Algonquian peoples have made it clear time and again that these beings are not for outsiders to fictionalize. They are not your cryptid. They are not your aesthetic. They are not anything that is yours.

And writer Larry Fessenden? He's a repeat offender. This motherfucker is obsessed with ice cannibals. He wrote the 2001 film W*ndigo. He wrote the racist 2008 Fear Itself episode "Skin and Bones" featuring them again. And his biggest claim to fame is Until Dawn, which of course, he pulls out the same shit a third time.

On top of all this, the whole "totem" collection theme in the game is more appropriative bullshit and a classic case of the Tipis and Totem Poles trope. Supposedly the mountain the story takes place on is a sacred place to the Cree in the lore of the game. And yet it's full of Pacific Northwest Indigenous totem-like things?

So anyway. I really don't care how accurate or inaccurate the upcoming film adaptation of Until Dawn is. I don't want anything to do with it, and I personally hope it flops.