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[bethanyactually]

#there is something so !!! about Temperance's curse being the thing that connects them even more and then eventually helps save them #like bitch they were just kids in love before and you CONNECTED THEIR SOULS TANGIBLY (via @stuckonaglacierwithmacgyver)

[foursaints]

saints! penny for your thoughts on evan(s) 🙏

i didn’t see the appeal of them but it took one (1) hockey au and now they own me. yapping under cut

the fundamental axis on which evans(s) revolves is how evan rosier initially comes across as strange, and lonely, and prodigiously talented, and a little sad— perhaps in exactly the way that a young severus might have, when lily first decided she wanted to befriend him. except unlike severus, THIS boy is golden-headed and ridiculously gorgeous and has the most startling amber eyes. and he ACTUALLY doesn’t need other people, or her approval, the way that severus only pretends not to.

i think lily blinds herself to evan's darker, more unsettling aspects and finds herself wanting his approval. the idea of a dedicated, independent genius who only cares about his field of study (be it medicine, or potions, or whatever) and lets nothing ruffle him ever is HIGHLY appealing & aspirational to lily <- this isnt necessarily an accurate picture of evan but its how she initially sees him

it's the teeny crush that people headcanon a younger lily as having on remus but this time more serious & as an adult. lily likes how carefully he folds his napkins. she likes that he’s a hypochondriac who carries around alcohol wipes & wrinkles his nose & doesn’t say anything unless he absolutely NEEDS to. she likes how meticulously he micromanages his schedule.

but also she DISLIKES his iciness and the way he views other people. she dislikes how genuinely impossible it is to become close to him. he is such a belligerent autistic freak that he can't find it in himself to even slightly modulate his tone to sound less dead when talking to her. except lily takes this as a Challenge, and the only person on earth wholly charming enough to throw evan off his axis is the Perfect Girl Who Everyone Has Had A Crush On Throughout Her Entire Life.

it's the guy who likes to play God & the girl who has essentially lived her life as God's Favorite Angel. and evan thinks she's the most fascinating, inexplicable outlier of a thing that he finds himself continuously showing these silent little gestures of affection & contrition that TOTALLY throw him off his axis. yes, she can sit beside me. yes, i’m slipping my hand into hers (what is happening to me???)

idk i tend to see them as one of those unlikely duos that eats lunch on the stairwell together when they don't have anybody else. they would fall extremely quickly into friendship and instigate several private personality crises in each other that do NOT stop them from sending very corporate texts at each other ("Hello" "Hello - Are you well?" "I am well - How about you?") that they're both furiously blushing over in the privacy of their rooms. and they would talk the craziest shit about other people together.

anyway everyone please ask me about olympics au forever

[thaliasthunder]

and to think these motherfuckers all saw him as some creepy weirdo they needed to keep a safe distance from and debated to just LEAVE HIM TO DIE. i am trembling with rage i will burn them alive i will fucking stab them open i will feast with their guts i will

[cheekyboybeth]

confessing my sins (i forgot how to do this): i like to sleep with socks on

Dw babes, I sometimes do it too

[usernyoom]

literally do not kno whether ppl think max isnt capable of being a parent, are angry that him being good one doesnt fit their narrative or are just disgusted by non traditional families 😹😹

[marypsue]

fic writer self-recs

I was tagged by the lovely and talented @titleleaf!

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

I'm gonna try not to just reproduce the same list from the last time I did this (although I can't fucking find it, so who knows), and also shine the spotlight on some that I think don't get as much attention but that I'm still very proud of anyway!

(But also, the road goes ever on. It's always gonna be the road goes ever on.)

1. house rule #3 (MCU Thor, Avengers [2012])

“Darcy,” Jane says, firmly. “Breathe.” “I am totally breathing,” Darcy protests. “Look, after you offered me the job, she bought us a bottle of sparkling wine and thanked me really cryptically and I basically haven’t seen her since. And in that time, Selvig’s dropped off the map, and a supervillain calling himself Loki who could be her fraternal twin pops up and starts chewing German scenery in a helmet that looks exactly like the one in this book.” Darcy sits back in her chair, bouncing off the back. “Also, I told her about this professor who was a total pain in my ass, and like two weeks later he was on leave for ‘undisclosed reasons’ and he still hasn’t come back.” “This…could all be a coincidence,” Jane says, lamely. “Oh yeah. Same way that weird homeless guy you kept hitting with your car showing up inside that storm was all a coincidence,” Darcy says. “Oh, my god. I’ve been watching ANTM highlights with a supervillain.”

I love Darcy Lewis, I think the narrative voice in this one hits her sense of humour just right, and it makes me astoundingly nostalgic for the early 2010s.

2. definitely not bfu rpf (definitely not Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Unsolved?)

“Even Scully took it seriously when the shadow government gave her cancer, man,” Bryan says, when he sees the glitchy footage. “There – okay, there are two issues with that line of logic,” Zane says. “First, cancer. That’s detectable by current medical science. It’s not exactly a matter of belief. Second, Dana Scully is a fictional character.” “So you won’t get an exorcism?” Bryan says, sounding defeated. “Bryan, my dear, I think you already know the answer to that one.”

Back when the Watcher guys were still attached to Buzzfeed, there was a really popular fandom trope that went around that Shane was secretly a demon. However, nobody seemed to have taken the next logical step - that if Shane was a demon, he wouldn't believe it.

(I don't write RPF, because I tried it and felt weird about it, but I just had to get this written, so I changed everybody's names to something that rhymed with the real-life people's names. Legally Distinct Buzzfeed Unresolved.)

3. Girls In White Dresses (Supernatural)

Mary’s the first to appear in the kitchen doorway, pistol raised, eyes flinty. But she pauses, just for a moment, when she sees Dean, and Jess’ stomach drops. Whoever - whatever - Dean really is, he at least hadn’t lied when he’d said he was Sam’s brother. He’s Mary’s son. And Mary’d just had to watch, helpless, while one of her sons died. Mary’s going to hesitate. But Jess can already tell that Dean won’t. By the way Dean's grinning, she can tell he knows it too.

I had to unfridge some of SPN's many, many freezer-burned women. Also it was so much fun to try to think up ways to hurt all of them emotionally as badly as the show likes to hurt its big strong men emotionally. (Lady Gaga voice) It's equality.

4. i hold with those who favour fire (Crimson Peak)

Perhaps she looks too long. Perhaps her eyes are playing tricks on her, perhaps it is only the lingering warmth of the body melting away the fallen snow, but it seems there are more autumn leaves gathered under Edith’s frozen form, more reds and golds spilling from beneath her nightdress and her hands and her golden head. The leaves flicker and dance, as though caught in a high October wind, though any such wind would be stymied by Allerdale’s protective walls. It isn’t until the hem of Edith’s gown begins to blacken that Lucille sees that what she had taken for autumn leaves are flames.

This one was written for a prompt meme where I asked for a character and a monster/mythical being, and wrote something short connecting the two. I should do that again, that was fun.

5. Boiling a Frog (Rick and Morty)

“It’s strange,” she says, tipping the contents of her cup carefully into the drain under the vending machine’s dispenser and crumpling the cardboard cup in one hand. “None of this feels really...real. Like, Grandpa Rick should be here complaining about how hospitals are breeding grounds for superbugs and how sitting in waiting rooms is pointless because unless you’re a doctor, there’s fuckall you can do to help anyway.” Morty suddenly looks uneasy, but Summer’s not sure if that’s because of what she said or because of the coffee. “I’m glad he’s not,” he says, and then looks horrified.

I broke up with this show when it became clear it was going to wallow and spin its own wheels and suck Rick's dick forever and that at least one of its creative minds genuinely seemed to think that was great and smart and good storytelling and if you didn't love it then you were just too stupid to appreciate his brilliance. But every once in a while the show managed to do something really interesting by approaching something heavy and awful sidelong with absurdist sci-fi and gross-out humour in a way that just worked for me.

I tried to do that here and found out just how hard it is to get a handle on that tone of almost manic energy with total black despair oozing out around all the edges. I think it really turned out, here, and despite no longer having any interest in anything to do with the show, I'm proud of it.

Also, I still love Summer.

I'm going to tag @daddygrandpaandthebeaver, @bixxelated, @marzipanandminutiae, @definitely-not-a-bug, @aquitainequeen, and, as usual, anybody who'd like to do it!

[large-penises-sporting-goods]

Me and sales guy Tyler looking at each other, when he asked me "did Tasha [new mgr trainee, very loud and brash] leave yet?" and I say "yes" and then we stare at each other in knowing silence (we mutually do not enjoy Tasha's presence, but have never discussed this with each other)

[watchingthecredits]

hi murph ! watching the credits has been stuck in my head All Morning

hi kal ! that's great unfortunately there is no cure and the song and me are there forever <3

[cryinonthebusdyinlittlewuss]

The idea of Will Campost on Tumblr: cool, a little strange, good opportunity to compliment his writing/pitch ideas

The idea of Beth May seeing me on Tumblr: terrifying, I'm rethinking every word of every post, please let me make the queen laugh, beh if you're seeing this you're so amazing

[thaliasthunder]

no bc the way nico must've been deeply crushed by percy that he never cursed him tho he had all the reasons in the world to do it? if percy had to deal w nico's curse w the arai monsters in tartarus he would've straight up died there

[sdktrs12]

ch. one requested prompts : trapped + “wait, no! don’t go in there!” 

Half eaten apple cider doughnuts, pumpkin cupcake wrappers, and red solo cups sticky with remnants of spiked hot chocolate litter the coffee and side tables in the living room. The TV is still playing in the background, some slasher flick Annie had popped in before her and Ruby had finally called it a night, promising to return bright and early the next morning to finish planning.  

Which really meant late afternoon for Annie.  

Beth shuffles around the living room, trash bag hanging loosely in hand as she gathers up used paper plates and napkins, wrinkling her nose as she tosses them inside. She briefly wonders if a councilwoman's salary can afford her a housekeeper somewhere down the line, before her thoughts are interrupted by the revving of a chainsaw and a truly disgusting noise that sounds like— 

Yup, Beth thinks as she glances over at the TV just as some random serial killer hacks up some random camp counselor, bone and flesh being torn apart. 

Beth winces as massive amounts of blood start squirting out of various appendages, making a mental note to never let Annie make the pick for movie night again.

read the rest on AO3 here!

[brooklynislandgirl]

//Steven can fill in slow dancing. Jake asks if Yiddish counts. Marc hovers with the highlighter over "monster or cryptid?"

"S'okay abou' da dancing. I can teach ya all kines. Yiddish? Would love t' learn. I feel migh make it easy f' talk story wi' each oddah." She wants to see a smile bloom. Wants Marc above the others to know even if he did fill it in, it wouldn't change things. Isn't that what being friends is about? "Wha' would make you happy?"

[cheekyboybeth]

isn't it funny that I once held a tarantula

so you know the beauty of the tarantula??

[aspiring-thembo]

Put your On Repeat playlist on shuffle and post the first ten songs.

1) The Chain by Ingrid Michaelson

2) Two Veils to Hide my Face by Passion Pit

3) Get Up by clipping.

4) 1000 Words by 0171

5) You Are a Beam of Light by The Beths

6) Stampede by Bitter Ruin

7) Baby Luv by Nilüfer Yanya

8) Arrow by Rosie Tucker

9) The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

10) Never Meant to Know by Tally Hall

I was tagged by @edibleashell ty! I don't have many mutuals so @nonultra do you have a repeat playlist?

[jurassicpark1990]

today my family had to make the heartbreaking decision to say goodbye to our darling nettie. she made fourteen trips around the sun and things were just getting too hard for her. i'll miss her dearly but i'm glad she can snuggle up with her best friend pippa again 🐶💗

[blueshinefox]

I know this ship was ModernEddy1’s idea, but I thought since the ship was kinda dead, I'd just say... wow.

https://www.deviantart.com/moderneddy01/art/who-i-could-have-shipped-Beth-s-case-405000570

How is it that a ship I randomly created back when Cartoon Hangover inspired me as filler for a fanfic suddenly end up on one of my favorite apps?

2022 gave us a lot of blasts from the past: Sonic the Hedgehog, Your Favorite Martian, ROTTMNT, etc.

Now Cartoon Hangover? This really is the year of nostalgia!

Now “Selfish” is stuck in my head.

Also, if you don’t know what “Selfish” actually is, then here’s the song

There’s also the animation meme, by the way

I want to keep this ship alive even after both Bravest Warriors and Super Fuckers ended. (Until, you know, they ended up getting "sequels" of some sort, especially Super Fuckers).

Again, thanks for making me not feel ashamed of myself.