#astronaut!dean

[rennerator]

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Finally finished my Space boys (in love) picture

They are difficult to draw

[aomasade]

Art for Xspace - Christmas in space

Wincest/J2 Holiday Exchange 2024 - Gift for candygramme

More pictures and information in my Artpost on AO3

Summary: A snow globe in space? After successfully completing their astronaut training, Jared and Jensen spend Christmas for the first time on the SPN space station in the Blue Giant star system. As a surprise, Jensen has a custom-made snow globe in his luggage. Jared is delighted with his Christmas present, which Jensen makes float towards him during their spacewalk. The snowflakes dance merrily around the decorated Christmas tree in zero gravity. OR Sam and Dean are aliens and work on the SPN space station. Dean has a surprise souvenir from Earth with him, which he has modified especially for their spacewalk.

[mariocki]

Pathfinders in Space (ABC, 1960)

"Now, the remainder of us have fifteen hours of oxygen left. That leaves fifteen hours in which to complete our research here."

"Well, what's the good of all that if you can't come back with it?"

"The moon never destroys her treasures, Henderson. We shall leave a record and it'll be preserved in the vacuum of the caves. And the future expeditions you mentioned, they will find it."

[kerryshifts]

hi kerry!! do you have any ideas for places to shift to? (╥﹏╥) all i can think of are the more well-known ones like h2o or uh... that's it, actually :[

places to shift if you have no ideas.

italy 1993. but it’s a romanticised version … becoming reality. you live in south italy. more specifically palermo, sicilia, a city full of old churches, monuments and works of art of inestimable value, animated by lively neighborhoods. summers are mainly beach days, eating apricots and strawberries from your grandpa's gardens, living in the rural part of the town if you like a quiet atmosphere. you are part of a friendgroup who goes on adventures almost everyday, sometimes even daring to go outside of sicilia, and who spends the majority of time together. sometimes, when the summers are too warm, you’ll spend the days in someone's private pool, reading and talking shit about your classmates. in the winters, after the homework (be careful of what high school you choose to do!!!!) you’d stay inside eating the food someone's grandma cooked for you and your group. full of vibes … and if you want to know more about italy and its high schools ask xxxx.

fairyland. you are a fairy who lives next to your bestfriends, who are also fairies. actually …. it’s this whole universe full of people like you. think about it like the cartoons version of winx. you learn how to be a fairy in a school, you and your friends go out together almost everyday, maybe a romance with a rival? it’s a world full of possibilities.

old hollywood. if you script out all the bigotery, it would be such a fun experience. best friends with marilyn monroe (or mortal enemies… who knows?) parties full of glam, and you are so loved by the public that the future generations will remember you as an icon, forever. not going to lie i would this just to be with james dean.

rockstar. therapists hate you because you encourage rebelliousness !!!!!!!! you are full of charisma, and so are your songs. lead vocalist, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, and drums…. maybe a rock band? smokey make-up and red lipstick, leather jacket or skirts or pants or whatever (even nothing… if you are that bold) you are a world-wide EVENT. your concerts are full of people screaming your songs word for word. magazines write about you like you are some sort of miracle happening to music. have fun !!!!!

supernatural. not the show (well, if you want…!) but it’s a school full of supernatural people, and each of you is divided into an house based on your supernatural abilities. honestly it sounds cool, just make sure to script that vampires and werewolves will not kill each other… because of their dramatic ass. oop.

farmer’s child. you live in kansas and you are part of this numerous family (you are the middle of, like, 10 children) and… you also live in a small town. but everything seems to be out of a movie.

your dream job !!! understandable. what job do you want to do? a florist (romantic life with flowers everywhere you go, befriend clients) or an actor/actress (you would have such fun in between takes!!) or an astronaut (to THE MOON!?!?!?!?????!!!!!!!!) or a teacher (cmon, some kids will teach you life lessons. children know things we forgot) or… everything else in the world and beyond, really.

monarch of an another planet. its like star wars but its not star wars. you just rule a planet. sounds exhausting but also cool?

[nickssidewitch]

Speaking of the triplets with POC, I need to see y’all write fics where the main characters are:

Asian

African

Pacific Islander

Middle Eastern

Caribbean

Disabled

Plus-sized

And I need to see new professions and AUs:

Astronaut

Equestrian Horse Rider (I think that's what they are called)

Teachers/Principals/Deans/Headmasters/Coaches (in university btw)

Journalists

Photographer/Videographer

Directors/Actors

Carpenter/Construction Worker

Real Estate Agent

Rapper, especially the triplets with rapper gfs/bfs

Stripper/Exotic Dancer

Caterer/Chef/Cook

Criminal!AU (nothing immoral)

Superhero/Superpower (I made this AU some time ago but I'm not gonna write anything with it womp womp)

Tourist/Tour-guide

[valandrawrites]

2024 Recommended Fics - Incomplete List

Here's my start at an end of year round up. If you're looking for a specific kind of fic or trope, let me know, and I'll try to find something for you! I have many, many more I could add, and what I've included is in no particular order.

I didn't list the rating or warnings with this because it just got too long, and honestly, I'm lazy. Read at your own risk.

A. fragilis by eachainn @eachainn

This is quite simply the best fic I've ever read. Do not continue until you read this one!

150 million years ago, an Allosaurus finds a stranger had wandered into his territory and he wants the intruder out.

1878, the middle of what will become known as the Bone Wars between O.C. Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. Castiel Novak is transporting fossils from the latest dig in South Dakota back to Yale. He has to be careful, because there are people who work for Professor Cope who would gladly take the fossils off of his hands.

Those Who Get in the Way of Peace by ladyofthelake17 @ladyofthe-lake

“Don’t make me an optimist. You will ruin my life.”

Dean Winchester finally has his shit together: business is booming at his auto repair shop, he's eating healthy (okay, he's eating salad with bacon bits), he's exercising (in a cemetery). He's single, but he's claiming it as a good thing. And so what if Sam's not talking to him? So what if his dad is marrying an insane artist? And so what if the priest marrying them is hot as hell with a name that sounds like a sin just to say it — Castiel?

AKA: another Fleabag fic, but maybe it'll have a happy ending. Maybe.

Illicit Ink by allmystars @allmystars-i

Dean Winchester has a secret. He does this thing maybe two or three times a week, and he loves it, don’t get him wrong, but… He’s a camboy, and that’s not exactly something he wants shared around the breakfast table. When Dean decides he needs a change, it’s nothing too drastic, just a tattoo. But the hot-as-sin tattoo artist he gets to do the job might just change everything.

Ground Control to Major Tom by MrsShinigamiDaiko @mrs-shinigami-daiko

Dean Winchester dreamed of being a mechanic all his life, but he never thought he would end up working as a mechanic for NASA and going into space. He is thrust into his first ever space mission after a strange lunar body, dubbed Luna-b I, mysteriously appears in Earth’s sky. Teams of astronauts scramble up to the permanent lunar base and begin analysis to determine if the blue orb is any threat to mankind. Most of the first team is sent home after a few months, nearly all of them having fallen ill with devastating cases of space sickness. As time goes on, it becomes clear that something altogether unnatural is going on here. Dean feels like he’s losing his mind as he and his crewmates also begin to succumb to sickness. He races to figure out what could possibly be the root cause. Is Luna-b I really just some weird, deep space rock that got caught in the Moon’s orbit by chance? Or is it something much more sinister, watching and waiting for the opportune moment?

Pinfall by crowleyo @crowleyo

Cas runs the family diner with his adopted son, Jack. His old high school flame rolls into town and he thinks he can just step back into Castiel's life. Well... He's kind of right.

This Impossible Happiness by FriendofCarlotta @friendofcarlotta

In one universe, Dean Winchester is pushing thirty. He’s just danced at his little brother’s wedding, he likes his job at the garage, and he goes on the occasional hunt with friends and family. He’s also desperately lonely for someone to share his life with. One day, he finds a mysterious package outside his door. It contains a news clipping about an urban legend that just might be real, and a book by Professor Castiel Novak, who happens to specialize in that same urban legend.

In another universe, Castiel Novak’s roadside motel is slowly dying, its business hollowed out by the interstate system. Dean Winchester, the man who asked him to run away together years ago, is only a painful regret these days. Until the day a mysterious letter Castiel doesn’t remember writing brings Dean back to his doorstep.

Out there in the multiverse, a man and an angel look for each other in all the wrong places. In the meantime, they might as well help a few other versions of themselves figure things out.

Then Comes the Rain by someonetoanyone @someonetoanyone-blog - a three part series

“I’m not looking forward to it,” Rowena tells him, as though that will absolve her of anything, “he may have a better solution for this, but the spell requires a smidge of spilled Grace. He’ll need to be hurt for this to work, and — Dean, all joking aside, you may be the only person fit to do this.”

“Oh, this’ll be great — go ahead, tell me why I’m the only one that can get butt-fucked to save the world.”

Mind Your Own Business by BunnyHunter

While the ability to overhear the secret thoughts of the people around him was distracting at best and anxiety-inducing at worst, Castiel had found ways to cope that included a pair of noise-canceling headphones and burying himself in his PhD research. After hearing inner thoughts for his entire life, there were very few things he overheard that surprised him anymore. So imagine his shock when his roommate Sam's brother, Dean, came to stay with them. While Dean may have been able to keep a straight face on the outside, his inner thoughts told a much different story.

Survivalism by bleuzombie @bleuzombie

Genetic engineers Castiel Novak and Dean Winchester are on the verge of a breakthrough in cancer treatment and possibly even a cure, using genetic manipulation and incredibly, shark DNA.

Following a devastating diagnosis of brain cancer, and amid growing pressure from his boss, Dick Roman, for results, Castiel is pushed to an act of desperation. He tests the cure on himself with disastrous and violent results.

He has never been so hungry.

Dean Winchester’s half-way house for orphaned half-monsters (and humans) by foolondahill17 @foolondahill17

What if Dean just kept every kid he’s ever interacted with?

A re-write of season 6 onwards in which Dean slowly collects every conceivable stray that crosses his path.

The eyes of a lamb by naughtystiel @naughtystiel for Shedar

The year is '98 and Spring is approaching fast. For most, the season is a symbol of new beginnings with Mother Nature’s chaste kiss that breathes life into everything once more. It's inspiring, peaceful and beautiful. So, the fact that this is exactly when a certain serial killer loves to strike makes Detective Winchester's blood boil. Two years in a row now, the guy has slipped through his fingers, not leaving a single trace behind. No clues, no leads, just murdered women in the most picturesque places imaginable. And the worst thing of all? Sometimes Dean catches himself admiring the killer's work.

where there is darkness by quiettewandering @quiettewandering @wanderingcas 

When Castiel Milton takes a job to be the new assistant keeper at Whaleback Lighthouse in Kittery, Maine, he expects to live out his new life in quiet isolation. What he gets instead is Dean Winchester: bitter, brash, and, like Castiel, harboring a dark secret. As the spark of attraction between them grows into a flame, the lighthouse walls start closing in—as do the ghosts of Dean and Castiel's checkered pasts.

[reality-detective]

This is the list that was compiled from Pastor Bob Joyce (Elvis.) He has said; quite a few who are alive. There are supposed to be over 900 so this 👇 list is still short.

Alive & Faked Death

Elvis (Pastor Bob Joyce)

Bruce & Brandon Lee

MichaelJackson

Princess Diana

JFKennedy Jr

his wife Caroline

her sister Lauren

Nicole Brown Simpson is Megan Kelly

Tupac

Prince

Glen Campbell

John Denver

Carpenters

Bee Gees

Selena

Freddie Mercury

Marilyn Monroe

Isaac Kappy

Patrick Kennedy

Arabella Kennedy

Robin Williams

John Lennon

Yoko Ono

Joan Rivers

Kurt Cobain

Pres. J.F.Kennedy Sr

Kobe Bryant & daughter

Corey Haim

Jimmy Hendrix

Paul Walker

Bob Marley

Biggey

Chris Farley

Whitney Houston & daughter

Roddy Pipers

Dick Clark

Peter Jennings

Rush Limbaugh -Jim Morrison

Richard Beland

Luther Vandross

Dale Earnhardt

Johnny Cash

Shirley Temple

Janis Joplin

Big Bopper

Buddy Holly

Hank Williams

James Dean

Dennis Wilson

Natalie Wood

Ron McKerman

John Bonham

Heath Ledger

Brittany Murphy

Patrick Swayze

Debbie Reynolds

Annette Funicello

Joe Cocker

Lynn Anderson

Dudley Moore

Ashley Babbitt

Anna Nicole Smith

Elvis brother Jesse

Amy Weinhouse

Jon Benet Ramsey

Heather Rourke

George Michael

Elizabeth Montgomery

7 NASA astronauts

Seth Rich

Marty Fieldman

John Ritter

Sonny Bono

Jeffery Epstein

Mindy McCready

Erin Moran

River Phoenix

Penny Marshall

Donna Summers

Dana Pluto

Andre the Giant

Kenny Rogers

Michael Landon

Theresa Saldana

Bill Paxton

David Canary

Mary Tyler Moore,

Dudley Moore,

Princess Grace Kelly,

Steve McQueen,

John Candy,

Kate Spade,

Mama Cass Elliot,

Michael hutchence,

paula Yates,

Jackie O

George Carlin

Anthony Bourdain

Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Andrew Breitbart

Chris Liddell

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Tom Petty

Lucille Ball

Martin Luther King Jr

Brian Wilson

Chef Anthony B

Davey Jones

Chester Bennington

Chris Cornell

Erin Moran

Florence Henderson

Layne Stanley

Ricky Hendrix

Robert Trump (DJT) brother Patty Duke

Judge Scalia

Paul Newman

Donna Summer

Keith Moon

Mac Miller

Edyie Gorme

Tony Snow-GWBush press sec Brad Nowell

Caleb Logan

Conway Twitty

Keith Wheatley

Teena Marie

Rick James

Frank Zappa

Mickey Mantle

June Cash

Seal Team 6

THE BEST IS YET TO COME! 🍿

You Decide 🤔

[juliussilver25]

Silver Odyssey: The Beginning

The Silver Collective is known around the world for being a Baseball powerhouse. Number 17 Dean is both the Captain and Owner.

Also a lover of American football Dean founded a silver team.

Over time, Dean continued to expand his silver teams investing in golfers, swimmers, weight lifters and an ice hockey team.

The Silver Collective has attracted many fans among the ranks of the police and the astronaut core who wear their team color silver proudly whenever they can.

The Crew of Explorer 1 is on a deep space mission looking for life on other planets.

The ship’s sound system is playing a beamed broadcast of the final game of the World Series. The series is tied at three. This is make or break day for team Silver. The crew had arranged before the mission began that their uniforms would be silver in support of their team and they brought a picture of the team to hang on a wall.

In middle of the Series broadcast John speaks: “Captain our instruments are picking up an anomaly in sector 39A. Some kind of pulse”

“Is there a pattern to it, John?”

“There seems to be but I can’t make it out.”

“Let’s investigate. Take us to sector 39A.”

No one disconnects the broadcast of the game while doing their work. Each grabs a quick snippet of the game when they can.

Upon arrival in the sector the team finds what looks like a giant spiral among the stars. It is absorbing everything around it.

“Don’t take us in to close John.”

“Yes, Captain.”

“John, come take a look at it through the view screen. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. It is beautiful.”

Moving closer to the screen the Captain and John look in awe.

“Cap., this is so exciting. To be the first to discover whatever this is.”

The Captain does not respond. He is staring vacantly at the spiral out in space.

Without moving his eyes from the screen, John continues. “Cap. What doooooo youuuuuu cooooooommmmmaaaaaannnnnndddddddd”

The cockpit goes silent, except for the baseball broadcast, with both men staring at the spiral. In their minds they hear a repeating pulse. Slowly words are heard within the pulse. Join, submit, obey, join, submit, obey. The words become louder and clearer. JOIN, SUBMIT, OBEY, JOIN, SUBMIT, OBEY.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst to the crew, the ship is being drawn in closer and closer to the spiral heading straight to the convergence point. As the ship draws closer, the spiral seems to envelop both men going deeper and deeper into their consciousness while continuing to draw in the ship. The spiral begins to spin faintly in the men's eyes. Brighter and brighter each second.

Ship and crew go deeper and deeper and deeper. All the time the pulse continues, join, submit, obey.

As the astronauts and spiral join a loud roar comes through the speakers as Team Silver wins the series and the Commissioner’s Trophy. Subconsciously the astronauts hearts and minds jump for joy for silver at the exact moment that the spiral takes total control of them. Fusing silver and spiral together. The men become one with the spiral and accept their new purpose to submit and obey as the spiral identifies itself with the joy and love of silver.

The spiral surrounding the ship becomes silver. Both men, now with full silver spiral eyes, begin chanting: “join, submit, OBEY SILVER, join, submit, OBEY SILVER, join, submit, OBEY SILVER!”

The rest of the crew, who had also been watching the spiral from their stations, begin to stand and make their way to the bridge also chanting: “Join, submit, OBEY SILVER!”

Without warning, the ship lurches forward, pulled by an unseen force deeper into the spiral’s core. Alarms blare as the crew stand like zombies staring at the spiral in the viewfinder.

As the ship spins deeper and deeper into the spiral, the men hear the spiral’s voice growing clearer, more demanding. “You will serve the Silver Spiral. You will spread our message. You will conquer in our name. Join, Submit, OBEY SILVER!”

The men’s chests swell with pride and a newfound purpose as they repeat out loud the mantra "Join, Submit, OBEY SILVER!". The Silver Collective’s anthem is repeated over and over, a tune of victory and unity. They are no longer just explorers; they are soldiers in a cosmic crusade.

As the spiral’s light dims, the ship’s systems stabilize. The crew look around with a sense of resolve and purpose. They have crossed a threshold, and there is no turning back. The Captain turns to John, his voice firm. “Search out the nearest inhabited planet. We have a mission to fulfill.”

The ship leaps into hyperspace, leaving the spiral behind. But the light of the spiral remains within them in the backs of the eyes, a constant reminder of their new allegiance. As they streak through the stars, the men of Explorer 1 know that they are no longer just fans of Team Silver; they are the vanguard of the Silver Spiral, ready to conquer new worlds in its name.

Days turn into weeks, the hum of the engines a backdrop to their silent contemplation. Finally, the ship's computer identifies a planet that matches their search parameters: Earth-like, abundant in resources, and most importantly, inhabited only by males. They name the planet Andronia.

The scans reveal a civilization similar to 20th century earth. The perfect candidates for conversion. Cloaking their ship, Captain gives the order to land.

They descend through the clouds, the planet's gravity tugging at them like a child eager to embrace its new parents. The ship touches down gently in a lush valley, surrounded by towering trees and a babbling brook.

The ships crew gather their gear the silver spiral in their eyes gleaming.

In the cover of darkness, they set to work. The crew, now fully devoted to the silver spiral, construct a base with precision and speed. It grows beneath the foliage in a cave they construct, a silver bastion of technology, blending into the natural landscape like a chameleon. They work tirelessly, driven by the silver spiral's will.

[thelittlewyrm]

More space boys (in love)

[aomasade]

Art for Xspace - Christmas in space

Wincest/J2 Holiday Exchange 2024 - Gift for candygramme

More pictures and information in my Artpost on AO3

Summary: A snow globe in space? After successfully completing their astronaut training, Jared and Jensen spend Christmas for the first time on the SPN space station in the Blue Giant star system. As a surprise, Jensen has a custom-made snow globe in his luggage. Jared is delighted with his Christmas present, which Jensen makes float towards him during their spacewalk. The snowflakes dance merrily around the decorated Christmas tree in zero gravity. OR Sam and Dean are aliens and work on the SPN space station. Dean has a surprise souvenir from Earth with him, which he has modified especially for their spacewalk.

[70sscifiart]

Black Mirror and retro sci-fi paperback cover art

Someone on the Black Mirror team really knows their late-60s sci-fi paperbacks! Spoilers for Season 6 ep "Beyond the Sea." 

This paperback is a 1967 edition of Ray Bradbury's 'The Illustrated Man,' with a top-tier Dean Ellis cover.

Ellis was a great paperback artist: He balanced one central image with intricate details, making covers simple yet engaging. Ellis covers don't usually have this much ennui, which makes this one a particularly good pick for the episode, about an astronaut who also feels alone.

The other main paperback featured in the episode is a 1968 edition of 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,' by Robert A. Heinlein, with a cover by Paul Lehr.

Lehr is an icon of 60s/70s covers, so he's a great artist to include. This particular cover has one of his signature tropes - A crowd of tiny figures gathering around a single object, in this case a moon base.

That said, that particular Lehr cover looks more similar to the style of Richard Powers (a surreal 50s artist who influenced Lehr) than is typical for Lehr. Here are a few other 1968 Lehr covers that I think represent him better, with more shadows and monochrome.

But here's what blows my mind: We never see the cover to one paperback spine in this scene. It's this 1967 Richard Powers cover, with the yellow spine.

It seems to show a man enviously watching a woman from behind a screen - incredibly on-the-nose symbolism for this episode.

I wonder if the prop person for the show came up with multiple options and the Powers cover lost out to the Lehr one. Either way, it's an amazing Easter egg. 

 If you liked this, subscribe to my newsletter - My latest issue covers Black Mirror’s retro sci-fi cover art in more depth. You might also enjoy my art book Worlds Beyond Time, which has a restored version of that exact Dean Ellis Illustrated Man cover in it.

[diminuel]

Astronaut Dean and the alien creature that found him floating around, trying to fix his broken down space ship~

@codenamefinlandia suggested astronaut Dean and Cas floating in space.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 9/10/2024

someone adopt this little orange man from me in Houston TX! more details here!

listening

the 1991 Ella Mae Morse compilation Capitol Collectors Series is the official driving-cats-to-the-vet album bc it is so mellow but still fun. this album has previously been featured several times in tuesdayposts but i think you should all listen to it again.

seven thousand three hundred days IS a long long time to sleep ur so right ella

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reading

two different works that annoyed me: Emily Hamilton's The Stars Too Fondly. my first clue should have been that this is my least favorite poem, bc ppl would quote it to me smugly after my mom died. im sure they thought they were being so super comforting to a budding astronomer, but, much like how i can no longer eat lasagna bc ppl gave us Twenty! Party! Size! Platters! Of! Lasagna! after my mom died (they would just Appear on our front porch, frozen), too much of this poem really soured me.

i had this book on hold Forever and then delayed delivery twice bc i have not felt like reading lately. here's the publisher's description:

In her breathtaking debut—part space odyssey, part sapphic rom-com—Emily Hamilton weaves a suspenseful, charming, and irresistibly joyous tale of fierce friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe itself. So, here’s the thing: Cleo and her friends really, truly didn’t mean to steal this spaceship. They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri, unable to turn around, and being harangued by a snarky hologram that has the face and attitude of the ship’s missing captain, Billie. Cleo has dreamt of being an astronaut all her life, and Earth is kind of a lost cause at this point, so this should be one of those blessings in disguise that people talk about. But as the ship gets deeper into space, the laws of physics start twisting, old mysteries come crawling back to life, and Cleo’s initially combative relationship with Billie turns into something deeper and more desperate than either woman was prepared for. Lying somewhere in the subspace between science fantasy and sapphic rom-com, The Stars Too Fondly is a soaring near-future adventure about dark matter and alternate dimensions, leaving home and finding family, and the galaxy-saving power of letting yourself love and be loved.

should be catnip for me, right? wrong. starts out as a chat fic, which i hate.

i had a lot of trouble finishing the first chapter, which also has an extended third-person omniscient narrator flashback in italics, a thing i also hate. i KNOW you can figure out how to integrate this information into the book in a better way instead of dumping it in my lap.

i think part of why this is not hitting like i wanted is the tone, because i think this veers more new adult than i was really hoping for. i think introducing a big group all at once is very hard to do effectively. i do not like a series of character introductions that feel like they are trying to sell me action figures. or perhaps blind-bag figures. i do not like a six-deep list of cheesy puns about someone's name. i do not have the patience to see if this debut novel finds its footing a little later on, though i am glad a sapphic ghost in the machine romance exists in this world.

i also read dean motter's mister x (both the original late eighties through early nineties run and the 2008 follow-on).

let's yoink the description from wikipedia:

Set in Radiant City, a dystopian municipality influenced by Bauhaus and Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the series concerns a mysterious figure who purports to be its architect. His radical theories of "psychetecture" cause the citizenry to go mad, just as he did, and he takes on the mission to repair his creation. To accomplish this he remains awake twenty-four hours a day by means of the drug "insomnalin", all the while coping with a Dick Tracy–like rogues gallery and supporting cast including his long-suffering ex-girlfriend Mercedes. (ed note: the redhead in the santa beard below)

the art in this comic book is really and truly stunning. everyone was firing on all cylinders. beautiful retrofuturistic advertisement vibes, very fun play with panels and word balloons while still being readable, there are airships, you know how it is. looooooooove a hardboiled noir.

the Concept of mister x, this horrible awful futuristic city that grinds its citizenry up and spits them out? both figuratively and sometimes literally? love it!!! love a great wounded beast of a city as a character!!!

unforch the "who is mister x" subplot does not resolve in a satisfying way, imo. there's a lot of flip-flopping, there's a lot of options, he ends up being (maybe?) someone he was very definitively proven NOT to be in an earlier issue, and it really soured me on the whole experience. and also i don't believe it! that specific person makes no fucking sense! who mister x is, is by far the least interesting part of the series. tell me more about how he's fixing the city. show me more of the city. shut up and dance, robot artists

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watching

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, dir. Singer). this movie did not need to be two and a half hours long. appreciated the EXTREMELY divorced energy from charles & erik though, quicksilver rescuing the school scene was also very fun. my bestie's husband has informed me we are NOT watching Dark Phoenix, i'm not sure if we're going to loop back and watch the ??? number of wolverine films or if we're going to see how i feel about deadpool. bc i find this character insufferable through clips only.

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playing

there is a feature in the video game genshin impact to turn your World Level (TM) down in order to make overworld enemies a little easier. i am at seven out of nine bc i genuinely can't finish the boss to unlock world level 9, and i am finding some of the overworld enemies too hard at 8 and want to finish the achievements in a more relaxed fashion.

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making

this is going to be a lot of previously posted pics so bear with me.

saturday morning/saturday evening. plants? repotted. porch and stairs? swept. old wasp nests? knocked down. different mirror on the porch to go out to the curb when i have the energy? yes. also a giant slab of engineered stone from the top of a dresser but that's out of frame.

speaking of the giant broken dresser that was in my apartment when i moved in just over a year ago, i ripped it apart with a crowbar and threw it in the dumpster. put my pretty zebrawood desk in the empty space and started thinking about what to hang on that wall. the wall across from it is maps, bc i think a cozy office should have lots of maps and it makes a good video conference background. maybe this will be the dedicated cowboy nonsense wall. i did so much dusting and vacuuming and mopping and the girls can't even hang out in here bc the orange boy is in the office bathroom. big sigh.

also a lot of driving around and emailing and calling thirty shelters and rescues figuring out how to get this orange man a home. please take this orange man off my hands.

[thevioletcaptain]

Really want to give you 69 for the song prompt thing but I will take it seriously and go with my actual numbers: 5 and 29

(you don't have to do both, I'm just giving options. Or maybe they fit together well! Who knows)

Thank you! And guess what?

Far Above The World #5 - Space Oddity by Ramin Djawadi (Bowie cover)

It's almost 1am when Dean's cell rings, and Jack says "Don't be mad" the second he answers. Seeing as he thought Jack was sleeping until five seconds ago, Dean's not making any promises.

"What's going on?"

"Um… y'know my friend Elliot?"

"Uhuh."

"And… you know what the ISS is?"

Dean squints.

"What'd you do?"

"I kinda… flew him here for his birthday? But the astronauts saw, and they're freaking out, and Elliot is—"

Dean pulls the phone away from his ear. Stares at it a moment before holding it out toward a barely-conscious Cas.

"Hey, babe? This one's all you."

[written for this spotify wrapped prompt game 🎶] [other fills for this prompt game are here] [also posted on ao3 as imogenbynight 💚]

(I made separate posts for the other two you requested because the tones vary so wildly 😅 Those posts are here: #29 Industry Baby by Lil Nas X & #69 As A Child by Madeline the Person.)

[ltleflrt]

I mentioned to my coworker that I've been a guest on a couple podcasts, and even though he knows nothing about the subject, of destiel, or fanfiction, and definitely not both, he decided he wanted to listen to one. I ended up giving him the link to the mixtape book club episode I was on. He asked me what a "prompt" is, and is now obsessed with coming up with something that I've never heard of before so I'll write it. And a destiel themed one, at that.

It's very cute, but I don't take prompts lol... I think I might start compiling a list of all his ideas and putting them online for other people to write instead.

Today's prompt: Dean and Cas are the astronauts currently stuck in space because of Boeing's bullshit, and they both think they're straight, but it turns out they're not as straight as they thought.