#broken eggs

[thegoodmorningman]

Now you gotta walk around on the shells all day.

[lemuseum]

[whonsper]

Trick or treat!

HEHEHEHE THANK YOU BESTIE

as your treat (or trick, depending on how you look at it), take broken eggs slimecicle after his first encounter with a zombie!.

I’m so hungry.

Cucurucho hasn’t been by in days; wasn’t the promise that he would be by daily to fulfill requests? Where is he now? Is that just another thing the Federation tricked us with? Pulled the wool over our eyes, making us feel safe and welcomed and cared for, then pulling the rug out from under us by completely retreating when we need them most? Maybe they were the ones who put these stupid zombies here in the first place.

Cucurucho will be by soon. This will all be over soon, the Federation will clean up this whole mess and we’ll all go back home safe and sound and with compensation checks in our back pockets. And we can all forget any of this happened. It’ll all feel like a bad dream. We won’t have to deal with zombies, or defending ourselves, or survival, or the darkness, or a rotting corpse sitting staring at you from the middle of your tiny home. It’ll all be gone.

But until the dream ends, I’m sat in my home, scared and alone and staring at this rotting corpse. And I mean rotting; I can barely breathe but I’m too scared to open any windows. And it doesn’t help that I’m still hungry. My stomach keeps growling even as I almost vomit from this thing. I don’t want it to be here, I don’t want a reminder that I killed a living thing that’s not quite human. I don’t want the reminder that they exist, though I guess I couldn’t forget with the constant noise outside my door. It’s terrifying.

I hear it at all hours, I’m never sure when it’s meant to be day or night. Does that kind of thing even matter anymore? Am I going to die on this island?

God, I’m so hungry.

Is this thing human? Is it an animal? It looks organic…

I need to dispose of it. I need to throw it out. Maybe the other zombies are like hamsters, they’ll eat their own kind.

I need to eat something.

[your-favorite-roommate]

BROKEN EGGS IS NOW LIVE

[weirdpexels]

Photo by Anna Shvets

[johnconstantinesdick]

I get the criticism of the Hunters of Artemis from a narrative perspective—it sucks that it essentially boots interesting female characters out of the story—but it always baffles me when people viciously hate Artemis for *checks notes* doing damage control.

Like. Thalia explicitly goes with Artemis to avoid the prophecy, and I definitely think that’s the reason Artemis tried so hard to get her to join—hell, you can view the hunters trying to recruit Annabeth as a way to get Thalia to join. And Bianca? You can’t convince me that Artemis didn’t guess there was something up there and react accordingly.

If Percy or Nico were even a little bit girl-adjacent you bet your ass she would be all over them to join. No one actually wants to risk the Great Prophecy happening, and Artemis is doing a hell of a lot more to stop it than anyone else.

[sofy-tofy]

Did you know? In Remothered: Broken Porcelain, there is a poster (Easter egg) of Daniella from Haunting Ground and her iconic quote.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

TFA Arachnus Prime

[an-established-butt-dent]

Var lath vir suledin

Soft, soft lips - they haunt me in my dreams.

[aria0fgold]

Finally done with my version of The Universe's design!

[eyesteeth]

i wish carpenter was real :[ i want her to give me a hug…

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: parents or parent figures/mentors

in some of these the parent/mentor relationship is central, in some it's just one aspect!

Sailing By Orion's Star - 3 aroace MCs, one is a mentor figure to the other two (& parent figure to other kids)

A Promise Broken - MC is an aroace man who's adopted his niece

Of The Wild - MC is ace, and adoptive parent of a bunch of fey kids

Màgòdiz - one of the 6 MCs is an aroace person who's a parent/mentor to a bunch of kids

Bang Bang Bohdisattva - two MCs, one is an ace man who's a parent/mentor figure to the other

Kaikeyi - MC is an aroace woman and mother

The Thread That Binds - aroace MCs with demi/greyaro mentor figures

Fallen Thorns - aroace MC with an older aroace mentor figure

Breasts and Eggs - MC is an ace woman questioning asexuality & motherhood/donor conception

An Accident of Stars - secondary MC is aromantic and a mother

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - MC's dad is aroace

Seeing Colour (in Everything Under The Moon) - aro MC and older aro relative/mentor figure

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[whonsper]

🎃 trick or treat 🎃

HI HI don't mind this being late :3

for you my dear anon, i think I've got something good in here... *rummages around in a comically large trench coat*

oooo! ive found some spare pissa in this pocket! lucky you!

philza is one of the few natural hybrids on the island. he's a crow, obviously, with big beautiful midnight black wings. he soars above everyone else's heads from day one, the sunlight glinting off his wings. its why he lives on the wall, he just likes being high up.

when the federation took him in, they clipped his wings. so he could still glide, but could no longer fly properly. they also fucked with his memory during the procedure, so trying to remember what exactly happened is next to impossible. he's not even sure he had wings before coming to the island.

missa is a human, like most of the other islanders. when he gets kidnapped by the federation for genetic testing, he doesn't go home afterwards. he wanders the land, hoping to somehow find a way that he can prove his skill to his husband and son.

he collects dogs along the way, but they may only follow him for a chance to chew on his arms. he rattles around the forest, no longer fearful of the skeletons that surround him. they don't fire at him anymore.

he returns home, unrecognizable to his husband now if not for his voice calling out for him to please lower his sword, and the large midnight black feather hanging around his neck.

[your-favorite-roommate]

manifesting that I can get this one done in a timely manner

once again thank you @watercolorfreckles for the prompts <3

DAY 3: Buried

I swear this island is a death trap. I thought there was no way the Federation would so blatantly make a death trap, but everyday it seems more and more obvious. They're trying to kill us, or use us for something, and they don't care what happens to those that don't survive.

Your Tio Wilbur's been missing for I don't even know how long, I don't think I've seen him since the sun went down. No one has, except Phil, Fit, and Roier. I would joke about if he ever really existed at all, but I can't. Not now. No, he was is real, and he's our friend. And he loves us very much, he loves his daughter, he loves his family, too much to leave behind.

Phil found his beanie half buried in the dirt, that red one that he's always wearing. Just sticking out of the ground. Phil was on his way to Fit's when he saw it. Apparently they meet up every night, after the kids go to bed, just to check on each other, make sure they're still alive. That's definitely all they're doing.

Just between you and me, Flippa, they're definitely fucking. Phil's been kinda going through it with Missa gone, and Wilbur disappearing, and now they think he's de they don't know what happened to him. I mean, I don't wanna make assumptions...

They're not telling Talullah, obviously. Or Chayanne or Ramon. None of the kids need to know, "they don't need to worry themselves" , as Phil said. I think I'm in the clear telling you. I mean, this is meant to be read when you're older, when you've almost forgotten about the island entirely.

I hope that, whatever happens, you don't forget us. Don't forget me, don't forget Mariana. As much as we fight, we still love you, and everything we do is for you.

I don't wanna think about where Wilbur is, but I can't imagine he left willingly. I mean, he has Talullah, I don't think he'd abandon her so easily. I know if I was away from you, I'd be heartbroken, Flippa. But don't worry. Nothing's gonna happen to me. I'm sticking by your side till the end, I promise. I'll protect you, we're gonna make it. And when our time runs out on the island, I hope that we can still have each other. I don't wanna lose you. I'm not going to lose you.

[princeparadiso]

what could have been

[bookishdaze]

I just really wanna talk about eggs in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

SPOILERS for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes below.

Ok, so ya know how in the beginning Noa has to find an egg of his own for his hunting ceremony the next day?

But unfortunately, as Mae tries to escape, she shoves against him and she breaks his egg?

Spoiler images below. You have been warned!

Eggs have a lot of symbolic meanings. They often represent life, fertility, and rebirth.

Broken eggs can also have different meanings, both good and bad. It can be considered a bad omen. A loss of life.

But they can also mean a sign of change and new beginnings. Noa's broken egg is the reason why he goes out in the middle of the night, which leads to him finding Proximus' apes, which leads to them finding his horse, which then leads the apes to Noa's village.

A broken egg can also symbolize a transformation and breaking out of one's shell. Think of a baby chick breaking out of its egg for the first time and transforming into something new.

Oh, and do you guys know what Lightning calls Noa?

"Welcome home, baby bird."

And I think it's interesting that it's Mae who breaks his egg. She is the start of his change. She shattered the protective shell around him and his world, and yeah, it sucks and it brings a lot of pain, but this breaking of his shell means the ending of one chapter of his life and the start of a new one. Their paths are intertwined and they will be each other's catalysts.