#because the shelf is full

[morganbritton132]

Just remember this idea I had for a fic where Steve’s dad worked in marketing and made jiggles for commercials so they had a full music studio in their house.

The local music store had a section where local artists can sell cassettes. It’s mostly poorly recorded country music from The Hideout’s open mic night, but Corroded Coffin is there too. Eddie practically stalks the shelf to see if anyone buys their music. No one ever does (except for Gareth’s mom).

Then one day, Eddie goes into the shop after work to see if any of CC’s stock is gone, and sees a new tape there. No artist name. No song titles. Just a slip of paper stuck into the case with a hand drawn rose on it.

Eddie buys it and even though it’s not his typical type of music, falls absolutely in love with the voice on the tape. He loves the music. The production quality. The way sadness seeps into every corner of side A and B.

He goes back to the record shop and asks who left the tape, but the employee has no idea. They think someone just stuck it there without permission and have no idea who they’re supposed to pay for the sale.

Two more tapes show up over the next month with a different drawn flower on it, each sadder than the last. The artist is clearly going through something. Eddie still has no idea who they are and is now stalking the shelf not just to see if his own music is selling (it’s not).

He’s in full investigation mode and it’s annoying all of his friends. He needs to know who this person is because he’s a little in love with them and also a little worried about them. It’s really sad music.

Meanwhile, Steve is just trying to process the end of his relationship with Nancy in the only way he can think of.

[just-your-average-tangerine]

Easily the worst part of working night shift is having to spend 30 minutes to an hour of every shift fixing all the things that day shift fucked up that they weren't even supposed to be touching in the first place.

[castielsprostate]

breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it

[hoofpeet]

[backpackingspace]

Wait going off the idea that Athena keeps things from her favorite people:

What does diomedes give her?

[can-a-tuna-fish]

When you realize/remember that a skirt has pockets It’s very important to announce it as loud as possible in the middle of the mall.

[sysig]

Maybe requestober prompt of soft?

Day 5 - Pile o' plushies

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

got me some DVD-Rs :)

[jellybeanium124]

had to go to petco and petsmart (ugh) because I don't need the 10 pound bag of pellets to foster one small bunny and it was hard to find the 5 pound bag available online, and holy shit they just keep dead beta fish out in basically plastic soup containers. like what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck. genuinely horrifying to stumble upon. I haven't been to a pet store in well over 10 years (I had two pairs of fish as a kid, and mine were kept in a decent size tank at least with some snails cleaning the algae). I know they're territorial and need their own space so they can't be kept in a big tank all together like the other fish for sale, but holy shit what the fuck why are people breeding beta fish just to store them in fucking soup containers where they die. not to be a privileged american but I gotta be honest that was one of the most horrifying things I've seen in person with my own two eyes. just these shelves full of dead or dying beta fish for sale.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, ed. by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

This has a bunch of authors I already love in it (Stephen Graham Jones, Darcie Little Badger, Waubgeshig Rice, and Rebecca Roanhorse!!), and several authors I've been meaning to try (like Tommy Orange, Nick Medina, and Kelli Jo Ford, to name a few), so I'm really hyped for them all to be together in one volume! Plus dark fiction is very much my jam (especially when it comes in a bright and colorful package).

[qtubbo]

Qfit take he has a vanity mirror and will spend an outrageous amount of time on skin care, he has all those stupid products that definitely don’t do anything. If ramon wakes up early he just stares in disappoint at his father.

[marlinspirkhall]

My friend died from cancer on Monday. He was a musician and we'd collaborated on some stuff together earlier this year. I've been cycling between feeling numb about it and feeling nauseous. I wasn't sure if I should make a Tumblr post about it, but I finally have the spoons to do it right now.

[depresseddepot]

weird thing about me is that I am so serious about new year's resolutions that the last week of december feels like I'm in one of those "preparing for war" montages (but in a good way)

[luxlitemidnight]

Tonight's excitement, guilt tripping a ghost into giving my vape back

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Housemate is letting one of her rabbits walk around at night again :/

[lycankeyy]

ACTUALLY piggybacking off that ask I guess I've never explained WHY Somnia is so important to me. So I guess there's not a better time than now to explain the backstory of how Hypno is my secret #1 favorite Pokémon that I don't talk about

Amazingly this story starts of when I was like. A really little kid. First learning how to read. I had this book called The Dream Eater where a little kid helps a town plagued by nightmares after saving a baku, a mythical Japanese creature that eats nightmares. It was one of my favorites growing up.

When I got into Pokémon (like really into Pokémon, I've been interested since I was 4 but I only started having my life revolve around it when I was 11 or so), I realized that Drowzee was based on the same legend, so naturally I grew to like them a lot. The thing was that I was also starting to get invested in Pokémon Creepypastas around that time, so it was impossible to ignore its evolution's... reputation. Not to mention how comfortable some people were making jokes about said reputation in reference to me liking them. When I was a child.

I really hated that this seemed to be all people could talk about when it came to this cute little fictional animal. In a weird way, it reminded me of how people act like sharks or snakes are evil (both of which I was also an avid defender of when I was younger lmao). In my frustration, I wrote a now-lost "parody" Hypno's Lullaby where a Hypno was abandoned after evolving even though she was the Specialest Most Nicest Pokémon in the World. The Hypno in this story was named Somnia. While the original version of the story is gone and I haven't gone through the trouble of finding my old art of her, I did redesign her in early 2023:

Around the point of her redesign, as well as me deciding I wouldn't rewrite the story on account of it being more or less hate art for another story lmao, I decided that if I ever found a shiny female Drowzee or Hypno, I would take extra good care of her and have her be Somnia's "good ending". Lo and behold, a few months later, I found one during Safari Week. As I'm friends with a couple people who do Ribbon Masters, I decided I would do the same for her. And now, instead of a haggard, tragic Poképasta OC, this is Somnia's official final design:

The world may be against Hypno, but I am it's strongest soldier. We have been bonded since my childhood and I refuse to let people continue to tarnish its name with their gross and cruel idea of jokes. Hypno is a cute Pokémon and I'm tired of pretending it's not

Now I just need them to add Hypno to Pokémon Sleep so we can come full circle /j