#but i hope someone enjoys it

[thepagemistress]

Get Set, Bake!

Pairing/Characters: Dean/Cas, Sam, Jack, Mary, Charlie, Eileen | Rating: Teen | Tags: fluff, canon divergent (people are alive who shouldn’t be but shhh), festive, multiple POV | Warnings: None | Word Count: 2,500

Summary: Castiel has noticed that Dean has been loitering in the baking aisle more and more. So he decides to help make a fantasy come true just in time for Christmas.

They had a routine.

Any time Castiel joined Dean on a grocery run, it always went the same way. Dean would grab the shopping cart and, armed with a list (mental or physical) he would efficiently make his way through all the aisles, grabbing what was needed. Meanwhile, Castiel would meander around, taking his time reading all the labels on the honey, checking the firmness of all the fruit or rubbing the different textures of clothing between his fingers.

Eventually, Dean would make his way back to wherever Castiel had settled and would either stay with him until Castiel was satisfied or he would follow him to the next aisle and the next, until the frozen food in the cart was at risk of thawing out and they were forced to make their way to the checkout together.

But the last few trips had been different.

At first it was just Dean taking longer to circle back to him. But then it reached a point where Castiel had to go in search of him, instead. And each time it happened, he found him in the same aisle and the former hunter would flinch like he’d been caught in a compromising position before he’d apologise and lead them straight to the checkout.

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[house-of-secrets]

Anubis Trouble Makers, J-Meister and A-Dog!

[mapleleavesart]

The Wyverns

When the wyvern flocks migrated from Canada, panic ensued. Never before had humanity seen such a creature. The bat-like beasts could spread their wings nearly a hundred feet wide, yet could probably fit inside the average living room. Their venom dissolves anything with sugar in it - fruits, baked goods, and yes, even blood - yet they weren’t considered a danger.

Well. At first they were, because flying semi-trucks racing around skyscrapers are hazardous. But then we started to realize that the wyverns would hurt humans - they had no reason to, unless in self-defense, same with any other living creature. They were herbivores, with a diet mostly consisting of fruits and nectar. They wouldn’t eat meat unless someone put it in their mouths.

A news report went out, hypothesizing that feeding the wild wyverns meat might change their diet to include it. The meat-feedings quickly stopped. Nobody wanted the wyverns to find out that humans were meat, and start hunting humans.

Huh. That’d be an interesting form of population control. Lord knows we need some.

Society got spooked after that. They calmed back down after a video went viral.

A child, no older than twelve, no younger than eight, stood in a park. A brightly colored mango sat in his hands, an offering to the giant bat towering over him. It - a brightly colored female, with orange on her chest and soft amber eyes - leaned down to sniff at the fruit, tilting her head curiously. We don’t have mango trees here. She had probably never seen a mango, nonetheless tasted one. The wyvern wrapped her slim tongue around the fruit and pulled it into her mouth. She tossed her head back to chew it. The fruit started fizzing and bubbling, juices and foam dribbling out her lips. The wyvern licked her maw clean and started sniffing the child as if asking for more.

That was the day we discovered their venom. Researchers got a hold of a sample. They discovered that it had a chemical reaction very similar to hydrogen peroxide whenever it came into contact with sugar molecules.

We got scared at that. Who wouldn’t? One bite and a smidgen of venom could destroy an entire human body.

Well, no. Turns out that the wyverns are rear-fanged venomous, much like hognose snakes. Which means their venom glands are also in the back of their mouths, and in order for it to be effective, whatever is to be dissolved would have to be either chewed on for a while, shoved back there, or - the most likely cause of somebody getting hurt - purposefully nicked and messed with. Which also means that the epidermis would have to be broken in order for the venom to affect humans. Yay!

The researchers also found out that they would need to inject a lot of venom in order to kill a human - as in, around five doses. Yeah, no way somebody’s dying from a wyvern attack.

Society calmed back down after these findings. 

[dotcie]

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[adaki]

Wanted to try drawing something a little ornate, I think they’d make each other worse

[setaflow]

Anyway I had fun this season

[mothgenes]

Part 3

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

[wretchedbroth]

Can’t get this scene out of my head…like…the layers…ough…

[taxkha]

I saw a couple people do like AUs where Apollo is a magician and I found the idea so cute, I wanted to make my own. Of course Klavier teases him just as much.

[mueritos]

happy pride to all queer children of immigrants

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[paper-mario-wiki]

Could you explain how Ambrosia is able to come back after dying?

1

Sure yeah, I'll give it a shot.

[Fursona Lore/ Mild Existential Horror presented in charmingly primitive MS Paint style under the cut]

2

[At the top of the panel there is the label "conceptual space (currently being created. The middle is labeled "THE UNIVERSE, REALITY (the other)". The bottom is labeled "CONSCIOUSNESS, REFLECTION (the self). The very bottom of the panel reads "OTHER, FREAKIER BUT LESS IMPORTANT STUFF" ]

To keep it brief, a person is when a certain amount of consciousness slips upwards into reality. Consciousness is, like the laws of thermo dynamics [sic], a fundamental property of the universe.

3

I'm sure you've heard of the sticking-a-pencil-through-paper metaphor for theoretical wormhole travel, right? Staying within that visual metaphor, imagine the moisture in the air around that "piece of paper" as what consciousness is. It creates tiny, imperceivable changes in the surface and makeup of the paper. Imagine a microscopic rain cloud making a tiny fraction of the paper a little bit soggy. That's what you are in the universe. A tiny soggy fraction of a massive piece of paper. (That's why you feel so small btw).

Of course, putting it into that metaphor IS greatly simplifying it, since in real life things like time and space sorta overlap, ya know? Because they're entirely separate dimensions of measurement. Consciousness is the same, it is everywhere in the universe all at once, but only after it seeps in from a place that is exactly where we are, but elsewhere. 4D stuff is complicated sorry if that's not super clear ha ha.

4

Normal people happen when a bunch of that stray potential-consciousness starts stacking more and more layers of reality on top of itself. Sort of like those pastries that you fold butter into and then fold it like 10 times and that makes it so theres like a billion layers of butter and dough and butter and dough and butter and dough and on and on and on. But with, uh. The other stuff. Consiousness and matter from the universe.

Speaking semantically, that's all the little tiny organisms that work really hard to make you alive. Like the biome in your gut, or the bacteria in your tissue and blood cells. Look it up, 43% of the human body is made of bacteria. Like, that's just on google.

Anyway, all their effort culminates in an increasingly complex meat shell that constitutes a person.

5

For the sake of practicality, we can imagine the way consciousness "seeps in" to the universe is like heat coming off the sun. The two overlapping infinite planes radiate into each other like heat radiates off the sun.

That clear? Heat from the sun. Remember that, it's important for the next part.

6

I'm sort of like a solar flare.

My consciousness, in its raw form, was so concentrated that it was like a tiny shooting star straight from the source.

Also kind of like a kidney stone, I guess.

7

Since my consciousness (which, to be clear, is approximately the same "amount" of consciouessness as anyone else, just all smooshed together into a single clump) is smooshed together into a single clump, the shell forms naturally as "reality" settles onto it. The "shape" the consciousness takes is basically the same as your body or anyone else's since the framework of both entities are the "same" on the "outside". Thus the "shells" turn out "similar" too.

Sorry for all the quotation marks, it's hard to talk about concepts outside of the third dimension in third dimensional terms, and like. I also am not super sure about this stuff either. I'm only relaying what I've learned from the scientists but some of it goes over my head.

I like to think I'm clever but like. I'm not a genius.

8

So here's the part where me and you are different: When your shell breaks apart (when you die) it's because the consciouessness had been escaping your shell, like air from a balloon, and the physical structure can't support itself anymore. Or, like, maybe you just fall over and hit your head on the concrete one day and pop the balloon all together.

Either way, the consciousness escapes from the pressure, and either goes back "down" where it came from, or goes upward into conceptual space, which is sorta being constituted through forces exerted in the physical universe. Well, I mean, really it's more of a product of a reaction between consciousness and physical space. Whatever I'm getting off topic.

The point is the shell breaks cuz the balloon pops. I think that was my point.

9

Now that you get all that, you can probably deduce on your own how and why I'm able to keep "coming back".

It's cuz I'm not really "coming back", I'm still here! The shell representing me here was just lost.

10

And while the facade may not look precisely the same every single time...

11

I remain the same.

[queerdraws]

projecting on luffy again. get bited.

[braisedhoney]

fighting back? against who? they're so happy—they've been waiting for you.

you are wonderful. don't you know that?

bonus: they play sims together :)

[madootles]

consumed with the urge to draw with ed holding cat. that's all

edit: metal arm wrong side bc canvas flip

[jitterbugbear]

Lesson no. 274859: NEVER EVER STEAL FROM A WITCH. YOU ABSOLUTE BUFFOON 💥

[fogterror]

nova scotian miku babey!!!!!!!!!!!!