#but the spiders are just another reason for this I guess. or something to project onto
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hpmort · 2 years ago
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There are more than two spiders in my room which I think is too many spiders? A room of mine’s size, yeah one spider is useful, and maybe 2 is good but I am concerned about population density
What do they know that i don’t
#nightblogging#spiders#personal#ish#I was having an ant problem and I think they’re carpenter ants maybe so anyways more spiders in the house is good#none of the ones around here are able to put dangerous venom in humans#like either they can’t pierce human skin or their venom isn’t a problem if you’re not allergic#and I’ve never be allergy tested but I have had a negative reaction to lanelin and so avoid skin products and also wool and sheep#like out of caution mostly which is why I was briefly interested in raising angora rabbits which don’t have that in their wool#because felting looks like it could make cool things but my skin has melted in response to lanelin in the past?#wdll specifically I was already having troubles but it didn’t help#and even if it doesn’t do so much damage on its own it certainly exacerbates preexisting problems#anyways midnight anaphylaxis by spider would be A Way to go I guess#but the problem isn’t the spiders themselves so much as what they imply#and I don’t know what that is#at least two species are represented so it’s possible that one might predate one or more other spiders???#i don’t know but I am uneasy about all the arachnids#I’m always anxious and stressed to the point that my stress has given me symptoms of so much shit#but the spiders are just another reason for this I guess. or something to project onto#my life is literary and the spiders are symbolic of my own issues in some grand narrative or whatever. like that gun#that legally i can’t know about but i do bc some things are too absurd I guess?#it was so fucking poetic. symbolic of their family relationship. I don’t know shit about the people#and also you cannot legally inherit a gun#excepting maybe muskets I guess#and the shagginess of that dog just adds to it#I think that I am guilty of accessory to some kind of misdemeanor or something for discussing this maybe#it is past midnight and I’m posting this now#completely out of it and irrational#to get something fucking out there to vent or whatever the fuck
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lazypanartist · 2 years ago
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Hobie Brown x Artistic/DIY Reader
I love him 💙
pt 1 - Pt 2 - Pt 3 - Pt 4
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Warnings: maybe spoilers for ATSV, IDK. Reader's in the punk scene and from Hobie's universe. Whole lotta projection. Canon-typical injuries
Features info dumping and personal Hobie HCs I guess. It's long ASF. And just self indulgent
Please RB, likes alone don't do anything for the algorithm!
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DIY/punk Hobie Brown
If you're in the scene, you know the basics
Patches?
Hand-Stitched
Usually with dental floss for durability/cost efficiency
And originally painted with white-out for the same reasons
Spikes or studs?
Cheap, bulk buy, screw em on yourself
Or just make em out of cans
Hobie's fit looks like it fits the bill
Old leather or denim jacket with the sleeves cut off
FN/SM painted on the back
Shirt's kinda tattered iirc
Spiked collars are easy
Same with the wristbands
When he meets you?
Whoo boy
It was one of his shows he was putting on
New songs, new faces in the crowd
He spots you from a distance at first
Little sketchbook in hand
You stay through his whole performance
When he's chatting up the crowd afterwards, though?
You're already gone
(Bitch writes a song about the pretty thing watching from afar, bc ofc he does)
He next sees you during one of President Osborne's speeches
Standing in the front row of a gathered crowd, shaking your head at the screen
He drops down after a few minutes, hanging upside down and blocking the less-than-pleasant view
He takes a few moments between questions from others
Little explanations
A promise to do what he can
Takes just a glimpse to look you over
You have a similar touch to the rest of the crowd
Worn out boots, tattered clothes, hand-sewn and painted patches
And your sketchbook still in hand
It's a little peculiar for the crowd
But he doesn't question it
What he does question is where you've gone after he turns to look at you
He only took a second for more reassurances
But when he goes to see you again
You're gone, just like the first time you caught his eye
He realizes then
That he's intrigued
He doesn't know what it is about you
Until he keeps seeing you pop up again
Riots
Concerts
Shows
Speeches
His immaterial object of interest
He finally starts actually talking to you the third or fourth time he sees you
At another of Osborne's liefests
An ambassador on a stage, surrounded by punks
Speaking of the President's virtues
Yeah
Spider-Punk shows up pretty quickly to run him off
And gets to chatting with you
When he first approaches, you ask for his opinion on a patch idea
And turn your sketchbook to show him the page
His spider symbol backpiece
But instead of FN/SM, it simply states
"Down With President Osborne"
He takes your pen and signs as a seal of approval before swinging away
Sure, it was a short interaction
But it led to even more meaningful ones
Like, say..
Him practically dropping out of the sky into a park
You were just minding your business, sketching the scenery
When he almost fell on top of you.
Covered in injuries
He laughs when he looks up and sees that it's you
Because of course it's you
Tries to resist when you start futzing over him
If you're the parent friend like me?
Patch him up
PLEASE
Even if you can't see him back together
Just
Bandaids and gauze pads
And maybe some candy
Bc suckers help with creativity
Or it's just my neurodivergence? Idk
Just. Offer him one in case he needs to bite on something while you're putting alcohol on his injuries
When you're done he looks them over
Promptly winces when he twists his arm 🙄
But then thanks you for your help and swings off
Again
These kinds of interactions become common
He'll find you hanging around the city
Either doodling or just vibing
And drops down to talk for a bit
Or get patched up
Loves when you offer to fix his costume
Bc it looks just as nice & homemade as the rest of your/his fits
Grins under his mask when he sees a new patch or two
And starts snickering if you deny their application
He really appreciates everything you do for him
And figures he should prove it
Sure, he's saved you
But he's saved a lot of people..
He wants this to be special
Unique
And he thinks he knows how to do that..
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miifu666 · 5 months ago
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What are Suklha abilities would you say ?
Hellooo anon ♡♡♡
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Im sorry for being a bit inactive for the past few days, im working on 4 college projects at once and im dealing the heavier parts 😭 a bit burnt out too.
Suklha's Abilities are mostly based off of a kowledge one has throughout their life, also acts more like a messenger.
Shapeshifting/Transformation. Suklha has the ability to shapeshift into something more Surreal be it a nonexistent creature with Grotesque attributes or a certain person. This also includes their tails, which they cab elongate and grow the size of they're inspired off of Kafkaesque, its only fair they have the ability to turn into something nightmarish.
In turn, She can shapeshift others into something too. Suklha has shapeshifted a couple of dragons into inanimate objects to teach them humbleness, she needs to have a logical reason to do this though.
She is rumored to have a venom that can destroy countless of villages, provinces even. A venom that can act as a plague, the ones who could eradicate dragons like tissue. Although this hasn't been seen done by her
Contracts, Suklha has the ability to form contracts that can control one's fate/destiny should the two party agree to it. If met with the proper condition, the contract might bend the reality of time.
Omniscience, being the creator of the cursed book. Known to change cover each time it's placed on a shelf, Suklha can give out the knowledge of the universe to anyone and anything. Besides the side effects it can bring, She has total understanding of hwo everything works. People's fates, deaths, etc. This comes at a cost in which she has to adhere certain "life rules" such as Equivalent Exchange, to be adapted in her way of living.
Bastard of Immortality, Suklha was supposed to be a symbolism the rotten side of immortality, a symbol of Rotting. She has the venom that can cause plagues, to turn a whole village into a rotting flesh. Burning the scales of even the dragons. She's the patron of a chaotic primordial god, of course She's bad news.
Immortality, Suklha can't age or die from natural causes. As long as the link between the god and Suklha is still ongoing, she's immortal by any means. She's able to regenerate her own body, but somehow guardians from the underworld found a way to scar Suklha's vessel
Astral projecting, i guess this also counts as Telepathy? Like in LMK im sure every non-human beings can do this to communicate to one another. But they call it astral projecting.
Probability, Suklha can create certain chain reaction sequence of events in order to make her goal come into fruition, this can come from the simplest of action. Since Suklha has a total Understanding of the universe's knowledge, i feel like this is more of a softskill instead of an ability but ill put it just in case.
Illusions, Knowing how magics and Yaoguais work their way around. Suklha learned some advanced spells from the spider sisters, giving vivid illusions that might be too realistic. Like a loop of walking through the forest once or twice more than you should.
Besides these, she's probably more in tune with using Artifactss. Whether its made by their own hands or someone elses. I would List Suklha's softskill too but im guessing anon is asking more about her supernatural ability.
I think Suklha prefers to utilize the powers of other beings who are either cooperating with her voluntarily or under her direct control. Influencing their powers rather than using her own directly.
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miguellover07 · 2 years ago
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Ughhh, may I request something,well umm do u remember those wattpad nerd story (that had to deal with nerds girl who no one really had an interest,then boom someone is interested in them and they just called them ugly ass,but the nerds always weared baggy clothes and big glasses) that was popular there, well I wanted to ask
Nerd!reader(female) x rich!popular!Miguel
Highschool/college au
Who is an new kid(miguel) come to school already become popular and all the talk of the town ,he was just incredibly annoyed by all these girl jumping onto to him like an bug going toward the sun,and the fucking guys that say there he best friends,he would just shut them up,and make fun of them,he was fed up with people telling him what happening with today's drama or shit,he just wanted to had fun,I mean just because he was rich doesn't he was lazy,that's when he wanted to find an place that quiet and clam he went to the library, that where he saw reader,(who he never saw her before,he just thought she was an new kid) nerd!reader who was wearing headphones underneath her hoodie (listening to music of course) while studying,she seem peaceful,but knowing him he would just sat down next in the same table as her,
AND THE REST IS UP TO u (Idk what to do)
Always have an wonderful day😘😘😇
Study buddy
Around 1100 words, fluff, rich!Miguel x nerdfem!reader
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After finally getting rid of these annoying classmates of his, he found his way to the school library.
He was already so frustrated and grumpy by them. They don't understand that he simply doesn´t care who fucked with whom or who holds the best parties.
This year he wants to improve his grades to the impossible, so only A´s are allowed. This means no parties, no drama or any kind of burden for him.
The reason is that he wants to be worthy of his parents company.
He wants them to be proud of him and inherit it to him because he deserves it and not due to the fact that he is their eldest son.
That´s why right now he's standing in the math section and looks through the books and after a bit of searching he finds the books he needs for practacing.
Luckily the math section is mostly empty except for a group who are probably working on a project together and a girl.
Before searching for a seat, he decides to regard the girl for some minutes.
Her oversized hoodie has a big image on the back which tells him that she is a fan of the same comic as him.
He sees her removing the glasses and rubbing her already bloodshot eyes and she seems worried and frustrated.
So, he decides to sit next to her, taking out his school supplies such as notebook, calculator and some pencils.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to befriend her so that he can have a study buddy and they could help each other out.
As he sits down next to her, he notices the small spider-man earrings and he can't help but feel excited because he also likes him.
Even her earphones are designed in the colour red and blue which implies that they must be customised.
She rests her head in her hands and Miguel guesses that she is either at the brick of a breakdown or just taking a break.
"Need help?" he causally asks her as he takes her notes to see with what she is fighting.
The moment he starts speaking is exactly where her song switches to another one, so in this little second she hears him right next to her.
Startled, she jumps in her chair, putting a hand on her heart "Gosh, I didn´t see you coming..."
And Miguel can´t help but find her slow reaction adorable.
She slowly takes her headphones off and sighs while blushing intensly. The new kid talked to her? And even offers his help?
No way, this must be a prank, most people don´t even recognize her which she is extremly thankful for since she has seen how the popular kids bully the nerds or basically everbody who isn´t filthy rich or at least good looking.
But she needs help or else she will fail her math class and studying alone won't get her far.
"I don't even know what I´m doing..." she would whisper embarrassed.
Humming, he starts opening one of her books and takes a minute to read himself in this topic.
All the while she puts her glasses back on to get a better sight of him.
It´s like she is looking at a model, his skin looks so smooth and his hair is so fluffy and voluminous.
His sharp features makes him so much hotter but to stop her emberassing blushing, she tries looking at the books before her.
After understanding the topic, he leans back and starts explaining it to her, without making her feel stupid which only makes her more attracted to him.
He even put his arm behind her to lean a bit closer towards her and his other hand keeps pointing to the book while sometimes scribbling on her notes.
Nodding eagerly as she finally understood what her problem was and how it workes.
She can´t help and turn to him as she gives him a tired but happy smile since this session took over 2 hours of him just explaining and calculating together.
"Thank you so much for your help, I don´t know what I would do without you," expressing her graditute while packing her stuff "Could I perhaps repay you?"
Miguel leans back and packs his schoolbag as well "How about before we start our next time we have lunch together? I´m still new here and don´t know my way around and I don´t know if you´ve already had the chance to explore our school"
Confusion is written over her face "What do you mean?" she chuckles akwardly.
"Aren´t you new here as well?" he raises a brow and is seemingly confused now.
Chuckling she explains "No no no, I´ve been in this town since birth so I actaully do know my way around, I could be your guide if you like" she puts her hand before her giggling mouth to hide it and Miguel again can´t help but find her adorable with the whole behaviour and looks.
Everything she does just suits her.
"Oh sorry, I don´t know why I automatically assumed you were new here, but yeah I´d like to have a sweet one like you as my tour guide... ugh when I think about that one of the other could be my guide, I already get a headache"
Again she can´t help but giggle at his confession and as they two stand up, she can´t help but notice the height difference which makes her a little bit nervous again. Miguel notices it immediately which makes him smirk.
"I´m Y/N, by the way" she awkwardly introduces herself as she remebered to do it at the beginning which makes it a bit awkward again but he only leans down to hear her better and perhaps to tease her a little.
"Y/N, it´s a pretty name and it suits you perfectly... and I´m Miguel o´hara" he says with a little smirk.
🕸🕷
Hope you like this one, I somehow struggled to make him seem 'more rich' and her more 'nerdy' with the set up but I still hope you'll enjoy this one, my friend <3
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klausinamarink · 1 year ago
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happy birthday to @penny00dreadful!
Now have the Spider-Man Eddie fic you’ve been hungry for!
thanks to @pearynice for the beta read!
Chapter 1: The Bite
The van just barely makes it inside the shop before it collapses, all four wheels popping out like a cartoon, with the heavy coat of dust exploding into the air like a mushroom cloud. A perfect summary of Eddie’s life right now.
His forehead lands directly on the center of the steering wheel. The horn goes off long enough for someone to rapidly knock on the window. Said window immediately shatters into a bazillion pieces, earning a couple swears from the person outside. Eddie says nothing. He pushes the scorching tears behind his eyeballs and whips his head up with a wide smile. “Sorry I’m late, boss,” Eddie greets nonchalantly, like he isn't crying on the inside. 
“Hey to yourself, Munson, but what the fuck happened to your van?” Olive’s eyes are as wide as a bug as they stare at the vehicle in horror. “Scratch that - how did you even drive?”
“It’s a real funny story, actually.” Eddie cracks the door open and swings his legs out. His boots hit the ground gracefully, but despite the urge to immediately fall and curl up into a ball, Eddie remains standing.
“Picture this: you see the morning traffic on the expressway so you decide to go on a shortcut. Said shortcut also turns out to be a disaster for a very different reason. Can you guess what happened?”
Olive doesn’t have a chance to open their mouth before Eddie barrels on, “I swear to god, boss, it was something from those old D&D books. It was a creature from literal Hell! It rammed right into my van and broke my windshield. I thought it was some lost deer or something, but I couldn’t leave to check because then it stood up and its face opened up!”
Eddie brings his hands to his face and rapidly motions them as jaws clamping together. It doesn’t fit the exact description of seeing a spindly thing suddenly reaching out ninety percent of its face as rows of razor-sharp teeth, but it’s close.
“Obviously, I scream and I hide back inside the van. And the next thing I know, that thing was gone and it fucked up my van even more.”
He also leaves out the details of how he hid in the back and cried like a baby, but that wasn’t anybody’s business.
Olive stares at him with utter bewilderment. They rub a hand over their face with an insufferable sigh, “Okay, I don’t believe half of what you just said-”
“It’s not a lie! That shit is probably on the news by now!”
“-but because your van is in that state, I’m giving you some mercy to fix it until the end of the week.” 
The van makes another shuddering sound. Eddie doesn’t dare to turn around yet. But whatever it is, it makes Olive grimace. 
“If you can even repair it.”
Eddie claps his hands together and bows down to the waist, almost weeping in relief. “Thank you, boss.”
Olive is already walking away, “Until Saturday!” 
They disappear into their office. Then Eddie finally drops to the ground.
He’s still shaking from the whole ordeal. But he’s more freaked out about his new transportation plan and car insurance than the flower-faced monster. 
Eddie should count himself lucky that he’s even allowed to repair his van, but it’s only Tuesday and there is no way he can make it look good as new by the weekend. His van is an older model and replacement shipments will take more than a week to arrive, even if he were to call them now. Meaning that Eddie will have to either take the van to another garage (already unlikely, too expensive) or finally give her up to the junkyard (already likely). If he has to take the second option, he will need to find buy another vehicle (fucking impossible) or endure the public transport.
The more he tries to think through, the quicker he spirals. Suddenly, Eddie cannot breathe and he’s pounding on his chest like breaking his ribs will fix it.
A cold sensation taps the back of his neck. Eddie springs up with shock, clamping a hand over the skin. Patrick is standing over him, glass water bottle in hand.
Eddie wordlessly takes the water and gulps half of it in one go. It’s too cold and gives him major brain freeze, but it helps him calm down a bit.
“Thanks, man.”  
“No problem, Munson,” Patrick helps Eddie up to his feet. He jerks his chin at the van, “You seriously going to fix that by yourself?” 
“Already am,” Eddie grunts, tying his hair up into a bun.
“I can get Ronnie for the hose to wash the dirt off.”
Eddie shakes his head, already walking off to the cleaning station, “I got it. No need to help.”
Yeah, I can fix the van like it’s new again by Saturday. Absolutely no problem. 
This is fine. 
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Eddie is still under the van when his cell phone rings. He ignores it at first, determined to finish the exhausts. It rings again, louder than his drill. Eddie sighs and rolls out, blinking rapidly at the bright ceiling lights burning his retinas. Might as well have a quick break. 
He grabs his phone from where it sits on a nearby box and answers, tired and unkindly.
“Yeah?”
“Eddie, where the hell are you?! You should be picking us up by now!”
Eddie blanks. It takes a few seconds for him to properly absorb Jeff’s words.
“Uh-” He quickly looks around. The whole place is suddenly deserted with the garage doors now closed. Looking through the windows shows him it has gone dark outside. 
“Shit.” 
“Yeah.” He can practically hear Jeff rolling his eyes. “We’re at the gym- Gareth, put that stupid candy down, it’s just meth!” 
“W-Wait, wait, hold on-” Eddie is standing in the middle of the garage like an idiot because his brain is going millions of miles per minute and he is trying to remember what the date is. “What do you mean you’re at the gym?” 
“We’re at Frankie’s gym! Think you can break the ten minute record?” 
Eddie doesn’t answer. He’s staring blankly at the empty sockets of his van’s headlights instead of checking the time.
When Jeff speaks again, it’s in an awfully calm tone that brings Eddie flashbacks to his shitty teachers all the way back in elementary school. 
“Eddie. You’re at your apartment. Right?”
Eddie bites viciously at his thumb, right between the cuticle and skin. 
“Eddie-”
“I was… just leaving…” God, Eddie wishes he can shrink straight up into nonexistence. “You know, uh- the- the garage…”
He holds his cell phone as far as he can, just in case Jeff would scream profanities into his ear. But because he’s the best friend in the world, Jeff doesn’t do that. Instead, Eddie hears him take a long deep breath.
“Okay,” Jeff clicks his tongue, “here’s what we’re going to do. I’m gonna tell Frankie to take our shit and he’ll drive us over to the bar. You meet us there in twenty. Do not forget your guitar.”
His heart rate going up in a spike, Eddie starts biting into the skin of his fingernails. There is no way for him to make it in time without calling for a taxi and even those rides cost money. 
“Jeff, man, listen-” Eddie swallows back the beginnings of a sob, “My van is fucking busted and I literally can’t make it to the Hideout without using the subway. And that’s gonna take me an hour!”
When Jeff doesn’t say anything, Eddie starts to assume the worst. But several seconds pass with more silence, Eddie frowns and checks his phone’s screen.
Even when he rapidly taps on the screen, it remains pitch-black.
Of course his phone chooses that exact moment to die on him. And people call him the dramatic one.
Eddie runs his hands through his hair, almost uncaring about how tangled and greasy it is. Before he can consider yelling or breaking something out of frustration, Eddie starts grabbing his things, throws them into his bag, and books it out of the garage.
Usually, the cool night air would refresh him after a tiring workday surrounded by oils and smoky gears, but Eddie barely cares as he breaks into a sprint.
Twenty minutes should be enough time to catch the train to his place, grab his Sweetheart, and meet up with the guys for their bar performance, right?
He’s almost out of breath by the time he gets to the closest subway station - Creel Station is as filthy as its corporation namesake - but he’s relieved to see that it’s still open. He nearly breaks his neck from running down the stairs but Eddie doesn’t stop until he makes it to the platform.
Collapsing on the nearest bench, Eddie mentally congratulates himself while panting for air. At least he can handle waiting for a few minutes until the train arrives. 
So he waits. 
And waits.
Aaand waits.
Eddie keeps checking his watch every time he thinks the subway is coming. Ten minutes has passed. 
It could be very delayed. His surviving rational brain suggests. Eddie almost believes it.
When twenty minutes pass with no subway in sight, Eddie decides to take advantage of being the only person on the platform and just yell out to the uncaring void.
Now he’s faced with a terrible dilemma: leave and face whatever more miserable luck awaits him or somehow get to the next station.
Naturally, he chooses the wisest decision.
“Why the hell not?” He grumbles to himself as he hops down on the tracks and starts walking. He’s grown up with a carjacking dad and escaped the cops for selling weed and ketamine back in high school. What’s more incriminating than a little tunnel adventure?
It’s only after entering the tunnel that Eddie realizes one thing: it’s too dark. Even with the lights aligning the ceiling, they barely reflect the metal rails. If his phone battery hadn’t run out, then he would have used the flashlight to see properly.
Eddie mutters more curses under his breath, but he’s already too far to turn around. Besides, what’s he supposed to do at this point? Buy a flashlight at the nearest convenience store?
He shuffles to one side of the wall, careful not to trip over the rails or any suspicious puddles. He keeps a hand brushing against the wall, doing his very best to ignore the gross dirt and spiderwebs. 
The first few stations he makes it through are all empty. But unlike Creel Station, the gates to the outside are closed to the public. It makes Eddie a bit claustrophobic but he tries to pretend that it doesn’t bother him. Last thing he needs is a stress-induced heart attack. 
He does wonder why Creel Station hasn’t been closed off if there was apparently no one else there. But Eddie’s starting to see some blurriness in the edges of his vision so he’s desperate to just go home. 
Also because, let’s face it, he can’t make it to the Hideout. He’s going to have to apologize and explain to Jeff and the other guys in the morning. 
But he probably won’t have enough time because now Eddie has to start waking up early and find some way to get to work.
Just as Eddie starts to curse at the world, the toe of his boot hits something. 
Then Eddie is falling forward.
Something very solid hits his face. He barely feels the sharp explosion of pain inside of his mouth before Eddie sees everything going completely black. 
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The first thing he registers after returning to consciousness is that his nose hurts like hell. 
He’s groggy like he had too many drinks. Drinks. Right, Eddie had gone to the Hideout earlier. 
Wait, didn’t he? 
No, he hadn’t. He was supposed to be on his way there hours ago.
Eddie tries to get up but his head is full of lead and his body is like a rusty car due for a junkyard crushing. 
He tastes the pang of copper in his mouth. He runs a tongue over his teeth, hoping none of them got chipped or broken. They feel fine, but his tongue definitely hurts more at the tip. Must have bitten it. 
When Eddie finally pushes himself up, he cringes at the dirt and a piece of litter sticking to his face. Right. I went into the tunnels like a genius.
It takes a moment before he’s fully on his feet. Even then, Eddie leans against the wall to stop his head from spinning. 
He spits out some of the blood. It lands on the rail, a speckle of red reflecting too brightly on the gray metal. 
“Okay,” Eddie tells himself, “move on and get the fuck out of here.”
Once he feels stable enough and knows his ankles haven’t twisted, Eddie continues on walking. 
As he arrives at the fourth station, his feet are killing him and his eyelids are drooping. He checks his watch but what do you know, the face is cracked and he can’t hear a single tick. 
For all he knows, three days may have passed and his poor uncle is losing his mind. 
Maybe the others had already held a funeral for him. Eddie can see Jeff on the podium and giving the eulogy. Here lies our friend Eddie who died doing what he loved - succumbing to the urge to return to dark holes. Anyway, who wants his guitar?
At this point, Eddie may as well just curl up into a ball and wait for the subway to finally arrive and turn his misery into red mist.
Then there’s a resounding growl from behind.
Eddie whirls around, suddenly much more alert. He stares down at the dark end of the tunnel, expecting it to be the long-lost subway.
But nothing greets him.
All hairs on the back of his neck stand up nonetheless. The morning’s incident flashes before Eddie’s eyes. The flash of teeth in petal-shaped gums. The guttural shrieks and its casual ripping of metal. 
That was under broad daylight. Now he is in a possibly abandoned subway station late at night, very much alone with no contact for help.
But because he’s an idiot, too small and stressed for this massive world, he calls out, “Hello?” 
His mind might be playing tricks on him, a sadistic attempt to get him to fall asleep as soon as possible regardless of the filthy environment. Or maybe it’s just one of the maintenance workers. 
The growl starts again, closer this time.  
Nevermind, fuck that.
Within seconds, Eddie is climbing on the platform and dashing across the station. There’s not a single soul in sight and it accelerates his terror more. Eddie swears he can hear the growling again.
As he gets to the stairs, he prays that the gates aren’t closed and that he can make it aboveground.
When he sees the open path to the night sky, Eddie cries. 
He embraces the night air this time. But Eddie doesn’t stop, his vision blurring. He runs and runs until his legs and lungs give away at once and he collapses against a brick wall in an alleyway.
Eddie pants heavily, his lungs growing tighter with a cold dryness. As his breathing slows to normal, Eddie oh-so carefully peeks out of the alley, opting to stay hidden. 
He just sees regular people and cats on the streets. No shadow demons chasing after him. 
Eddie slides down to the ground, covering his face with his hands. He takes a moment to sob, but it gets stuck in his throat. He almost forces it out but it does make him shed some tears, so it’s a little more cathartic. 
Talk about a fucking day.
Eddie drops his hands and sucks in another breath. Before he can think about his next options to go home, Eddie feels a sudden itch on his arm. 
He scratches it, almost absentmindedly. That is until the itch starts crawling its way down his arm.
Eddie looks down in time to see a spider the size of a coin emerging from under his sleeve.
Now, Eddie is usually arachnophobic, but his reaction to tiny eight-legged demons has a delay of a few seconds. So he spends that time just staring at the spider crawling to a stop at the back of his hand. He even admires it. Unless the lighting has gotten otherworldly, the spider is glowing faintly with a tie-dye mix of red and blue. Its tiny round eyes almost seem to blink up at him.
He thinks, Huh, it looks kind of cute.
And then it bites him. 
To his credit, Eddie doesn’t even scream. 
He just does it after smacking the spider to death. 
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velvetvexations · 10 months ago
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I saw a post recently deriding the take that superheroes are inherently fascist, but I think it's complicated.
They DID all come from that seed of vigilante bullshit where they all practically worshipped the cops (except early Superman who didn't spit on them but neither was he especially respectful) and warred against vague Crime as a concept, often represented by "the Underworld" conceptualized in a way that's very familiar to anyone whose seen people rant about antifa.
However, they started to inch away from that in the Bronze Age. It was a very, very gradual process, with some regressions like how post-Crisis Batman swung hard into Gotham being a nightmare of New York at it's worst in the 80s (although that came with plenty of criticism of the cops and elite), but by the time of the MCU it's notable that none of the Avengers fought crime. We could get into how it used a modified version of the Ultimates-set up (which was explicitly designed to be a little fucked, which is something I love about the first two Ultimates minis and especially the second) and that version of Hawkeye and Black Widow who are basically heroic CIA ("wOrLd SeCuRiTy CoUnCiL") assassins played totally straight that then shifts to being a billionaire's world shaping pet project, but at least in terms of vigilantism it takes until Spider-Man for someone to be like, going out at night to stop muggings like a "classic" superhero and I think his age does a lot to dial down the eyebrow you can raise at the fact that he's going up against a gang of ordinary criminals doing ordinary criminal things (just, you know, with scavenged alien tech).
Then we get Daredevil, which takes pains to portray the Kingpin as a very rich man gentrifying neighborhoods and terrorizing the underprivileged. Then season two introduces the Punisher, who I really thought would have already been absolved if you just limit his crusade to the specific mafiosos who killed his family, but despite killing a bunch of mafiosos anyway it still turns out to have been at the behest of a rogue element of the US military - I guess because they just needed a twist. It's hard to stretch out a Punisher story for too long for obvious reasons. Then in season one of the Punisher it's a PMC (including yet more rogue US military).
I didn't watch season two of the Punisher because I'd heard it was going to adapt The Slavers and got really excited, but then it turned out to not adapt The Slavers and I lost all interest. But that makes sense and fits into my thesis here, because even aside from how soul-crushingly bleak The Slavers was, THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY Netflix or Disney or ANYONE would EVER do the window scene, or at least not without changing it to a guy and that really feels like it'd drain the scene of half it's impact. But here we again see concern for optics.
Luke Cage was interesting because by starring an underprivileged Black man on the run for crimes he didn't commit, he was able to fight criminals without it being weird, and what's more they were Black criminals, reinforcing Black people are perfectly capable of being both villains and heroes in a narrative without white people one way or another. This was crucial, since racism is another common element of the problematic soup of traditional superhero narratives.
But while I haven't really been paying attention to cape stuff at all lately, other than that I don't really think there's been a lot that wasn't total sci-fi fantasy bullshit, including the following two Spider-Man movies.
Except, I guess, The Batman (2022). But that movie fucking RULED so it's fine.
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The earth-65 symbiotes are such a fascinating species! Not just the synthetic ones but the hint that the more well known ones and just the contrasts between the two. Gwen’s eats whatever she does but needs things like cellulose to survive meanwhile the organic ones only feed on brain chemicals such as adrenaline and phenylalanine. Anyways ever think about how Elsa Brock and technically Matt Murdock are Venom’s parents in Earth 65?
thank you for all this interesting information, thats something I'd honestly never noticed before but i also dont really know a lot about symbiotes lol. thats really cool!!
also OKAY LISTEN LMFAO in e65 circles I only ever really hear people talk about Matt's scenes with Cindy Moon when it comes to addressing Matt's canon non-platonic interactions and I honestly think Elsa Brock is way too overlooked on this front
the relationship that we are shown in only a handful of panels is waaayyy more interesting than anything we are given about Cindy and Matt.
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Matt approached Elsa, told her he was going to mentally manipulate the Manhattan DA into becoming his personal pocket square, told her he was working with spider woman, told her he was going to go after Norman Fucking Osborne to manipulate and scare the hell out of him, and then told her that he wanted to fund her symbiote project to be the pretty bow wrapping everything together
and she fucking loved it
NOT ONLY WAS SHE ON BOARD SHE WAS FUCKING EXCITED, SHE WAS ESTATIC. she heard "I want to fund your batshit project to create an organism that's extremely dangerous and unstable" and she started FOAMING AT THE MOUTH
I kinda loved Matt and Elsa's relationship and I wish we got to see more of it. They had more chemistry in a single panel together than Matt and Cindy had in the entire kiss they shared. They both love putting on a show, they're both evil (actually, i think elsa's worse than matt to a degree), and they both love controlled chaos.
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another detail I enjoyed was that Matt very much lied to Elsa about his true intentions w the symbiote.
in the scene with Osborne, he lays the whole plan out to Norman and Gwen. about the symbiote and harry and everything. and that had kinda seemed to be the original idea until:
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first of all, love the banter like genuinely its so fun. second, I love that we find out the reason Elsa is angry isn't because she doesn't like working with Matt due to his reputation or because she feels bad about it. in fact, I think she couldn't care less except for when it comes to how it affects her own career.
She's angry because Matt acted like he was going to keep their true intentions for the venom secret until after it had already worked only to TELL SPIDERWOMAN LITERALLY EVERYTHING.
Elsa was involved in this whole thing because not only did it benefit her research but she also like that it was evil lmfao. like she couldn't understand why Matt would reveal so much to Gwen or even why Matt would want to infect Gwen w the symbiote since Matt already had a way to easily control Gwen through using the "power-up" isotopes.
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this whole scene she's basically saying "you wanted to be evil so why aren't you being evil???? we were supposed to be evil together Matt what the fuck????" And she's reasonably second guessing his intentions
what she doesn't know is that Matt was just using her to give Gwen her powers back. Matt didn't actually ever want to control Gwen. he had the hopes of maybe manipulating her into killing him but there were just enough holes in his plan that him failing feels very intentional.
here I am once again pushing my agenda that Matt wanted Gwen to win. he knew the symbiote was going to consume Gwen but he also knew it wasn't a perfect organism. far from it. once again, a win-win situation for him. either the symbiote makes gwen kill him or the symbiote is just unstable enough that gwen can mold it into something that isn't consuming her, therefore making her stronger and better than before.
but anyway. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK I LOVE ANY EXCUSE TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING EARTH 65. OR ANYTHING MATT MURDOCK.
good day to you :)
edit: I just reread your ask and I'm starting to wonder if the symbiote was altered that way on purpose? (to have to consume cellulose, ect. rather than brain chemicals lol) cause both chemicals you listed promotes alertness, alters mood, and regulates body function. specifically phenylalanine is an extremely important amino acid. if the symbiote feeds on these, it takes them from the host. taking important neurotransmitters like that would inevitably cause a destabilization and deterioration of the host (ignoring the fact that the radiation would probably kill them first). Matt certainly didn't want that for Gwen, right? he wanted the symbiote to fuck w her but not like. destroy her. he wanted to keep the mood enhancing qualities while stripping away the more dangerous aspects. gwens already immune to the radiation but the venom needed to be altered to feed on something that wouldn't harm gwen. matt wanted Gwen to have a chance to fight the thing off before it completely took control. he was ACTING like he wanted it to take her over but if that was true he would've left the symbiote in its more organic form. or something closer to it.
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beesmygod · 2 years ago
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BLOODBORNE LORE Q+A PART 5: BOSSES
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THE HUNTER ASKS:
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there IS a connection! where queen yharnam can be found, so can her shadows! they're HER shadows, not the shadows of the city. this is a reasonable inference given they have low poly pthumerian faces under the hoods. i brightened the shit out of this screencap to make it easy to see.
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the boss version is found right before you run into her (or, really, one of her projections*) in the moonside lake and the others right before we bump into her on our way to deal with mergo.
*this is some speculation but its not without backing. the real queen yharnam can summon two ghostly clones of herself who can be distinguished from the real one because they are not pregnant. the one you meet before mergo poofs like the ones she summons during her fight if you hit her.
they do suck tho. kind of a shitty fight. if youre a confederate and you summon henryk its not even fair. something DID happen in development tho. lance macdonald, who does a lot of bloodborne datamining that whips ass, recently posted a comprehensive history of this bastard: the snake ball
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despite the shadows of yharnam sucking ass and being one of the weaker boss fights, i seriously think this looks way worse and it was a good idea to cut it. if i reached the end of this notoriously grueling and miserably boring level full of literally nothing but snakes just to be served another, bigger snake i would become saint patrick irl. at least they pretended it wasnt snakes at first with the current fight lol.
i dont really get the snake infestation thing. like its there and there's the whole madras twins story or whatever. but it doesnt really seem to have any attribution to any outside force. it just seems like its some shit that happens in yharnam. sucks. maybe this is supposed to be another example of the line between man and beast blurring, like the note in byrgenwerth.
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lol i love this question. i have no idea. how tf does he know its name is paarl. it sure as shit didnt tell him. "vacuous rom" at least comes from micolash but i dont know how you would know it before that. how does the hunter know its a spider. how does the hunter know ebrietas is a girl. the insane confidence to decide that mergo's wet nurse is a wet nurse is unfathomable.
i saw someone on reddit call logarius "gary" and i thought that was very disrespectful. does that help.
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i think so! not a lot of info on those guys. i appreciate their existence tho. they have a sick hat you can steal.
i guess i don't really understand how fire works in the bloodborne universe, really. laurence's burning body could be read as metaphorical but none of the fires in yharnam go out easily. old yharnam is still burning, somehow. some pthumerican enemies can cast hadoukens for no reason, for example: the pthumerian elder, those chalice dungeon enemies that look like the chapel dweller, the keeper of the old lords and their horrible dog, the shadows of yharnam............lady maria..........!
the only one i can think of that breaks this pattern are the beast possessed soul and the loran cleric who tries to kill you IRL by lighting your PS4 on fire with his AOE attack. i know i post this all the time but please watch this 30 second clip of this asshole casting nuclear winter on this poor hunter
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genuinely no clue on this. fire cleanses or whatever but other than that its a mysterious force in universe that behaves oddly.
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i believe so! she's at least a cainhurst knight if her outfit is anything to go by. its such a good fight. her song on the OST is a waltz and its like they created the fight around keeping time.
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i should cut this here. next time i can focus entirely on rom/mensis/the one reborn, etc. almost done. that post will probably be long tho.
but everyone is so wrong about what happened so you have to deal with it.
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I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE
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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 11 months ago
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The forecast indicates an opening well over $100m for INSIDE OUT 2, which is really no surprise to me. Animated movies, even sequels to beloved favorites, tend to be underestimated before opening. They don't make huge bucks right out of the gate like frontloaded fan-driven things like MCU movies and the like. Their business is more in the walk-ups at the theaters, and make those big totals on Saturdays and Sundays. Hence why projections can be quite low. MARIO is a good example, some analysts had that at $70-90m for its opening.
That looks to be the case with INSIDE OUT 2, a sequel to a movie that made $90m on its opening weekend unadjusted... 9 years ago. Of course it was gonna stay flat at the very least, but some projections are suggesting it could cruise past $120m.
The all-timer opening weekends for animated movies:
$191m - THE LION KING (2019)
$182m - INCREDIBLES 2 (2018)
$146m - THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE (2023)
$135m - FINDING DORY (2016)
$130m - FROZEN II (2019)
$121m - SHREK THE THIRD (2007)
$120m - TOY STORY 4 (2019)
$120m - SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023)
$115m - MINIONS (2015)
$110m - TOY STORY 3 (2010)
$108m - SHREK 2 (2004)
$107m - MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU (2022)
$104m - THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (2016)
$103m - THE JUNGLE BOOK (2016)
So, it'll be with the big leagues either way, but I'll be curious to see how high it goes.
Of course, some of the trades are seemingly celebrating this win for all the wrong reasons... And I'm sure Disney execs will use it as some sort of justification for something regarding their original movies. Don't be surprised if another sequel gets slotted before D23 this year, or some time thereafter. But the good news is, people get to keep their jobs once more.
I think $300-400m domestic is also pretty much a lock, could even challenge $1 billion worldwide. For Disney, this is their biggest animated release since FROZEN II, nearly five years ago. In terms of animated movies in general released after March 2020, this may share the top spots with Mario and the Minions.
On the one hand, I'm happy to see Disney finally get some BIG animation box office cake after years of movies either having to release elsewhere for the safety of audiences (SOUL, LUCA, TURNING RED) or outright flopping (LIGHTYEAR, STRANGE WORLD, WISH), and they're sure to get some more with MOANA 2, and possibly MUFASA at the end of the year... But, at the same time, there's all the corporate nonsense. I keep thinking, what are they going to say if ELIO and such perform more like ELEMENTAL?: "Uhhh, uhhh? I guess trying to do this 'general appeal' thing didn't work either??"
INSIDE OUT 2, coupled with MOANA 2, ZOOTOPIA 2, TOY STORY 5, FROZEN III & IV, etc. should make back what was "lost" on the other movies. I'm not against sequels funding the originals, that's the way it has been with many studios since the 2000s, I'm just more concerned about how Disney will go about the originals being made at both studios. If INSIDE OUT 2 holds on at the box office in the coming weeks, it'll just tell me that audiences liked the new story, and that there doesn't need to be any of this needless meddling of Pixar's filmmaking processes. INSIDE OUT 2 was approached the same way ELEMENTAL, TURNING RED, etc. were - so if it has great legs after an expectedly big opening, then that just proves my point. And vindicates those so-called audience-unfriendly movies.
But yeah, I expect a big sequel drop from Pixar by the end of the year. Something that'll come out probably 2-3 years after TOY STORY 5.
SUNDAY UPDATE: Estimates have it at $155m. Could go higher when tomorrow rolls around... Big doins'.
MONDAY UPDATE: $154m. Great CinemaScore grade. This thing's smashing $400m domestic, maybe even makes a play for $500m. $1 billion worldwide locked, too?
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sabrinatvband · 2 years ago
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Looking for Filmmaking Partner
[EDIT: Someone did contact me about this, we wrote around 40% of the story, and then they abruptly quit the project. Leaving this post up for posterity, but I'm no longer looking for a collaborator and you shouldn't expect to ever see anything related to this.]
Hi, I'm trying to make a movie, and I'm looking for a creative partner, preferably another queer person.
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[Drawing of a character from the movie I'm doing concept art for]
SKILL STUFF
I guess I should explain what I mean by "creative partner". I myself am a jack of all trades, master of none. My best skill is probably writing; I once co-wrote an erotic novel with someone. I've written many short stories. I've written a lot of non-fiction stuff, mostly film criticism.
[Note: The best stories I've posted on ROM are probably Miss Latrix and Therapy.]
I've done a bunch of filmmaking related things in the past. I once attempted to make a movie with a few friends, and it didn't go very well. I didn't even know what the 180 degree rule was at the time and so the footage didn't edit, and there were a bunch of logistical problems so we didn't get very far.
Most of what I've done, video wise, is porn. I've shot and edited my own oddly ambitious videos before. I've composited in stuff from Blender into my videos. I'm not very good at using Blender but I've dabbled in photogrammetry and I understand, to a certain degree, how to shoot footage in the best way possible for later VFX work.
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I am also a musician. I've recorded a bunch of albums, which can be found on Bandcamp and Itch. I own a lot of audio gear and understand how to do live recording and ADR stuff. [Most of my music is a lot more ambient than this.]
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I also am a decent artist. I know how to draw things in perspective, and putting together a storyboard / previs thing is well within my skillset.
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I'm a "generalist", basically, and I'm hoping to find another generalist. Not necissarily someone who can do all of the same things as me, but someone who can do at least a handful of them. I want to be able to bounce ideas back and forth throughout the entire filmmaking process.
STUFF I LIKE (That I Hope You Like as Well)
My favorite directors are probably Brian De Palma, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Paul Verhoeven. I love De Palma for his filmmaking chops, but also his black comedy instincts and love of artifice / camp. Femme Fatale, Raising Cain, and Phantom of the Paradise are favorites. I love Cronenberg for his dry and acrid wit; Videodrome is such an incredible black comedy, and Crash is a total masterpiece. I like Verhoeven for how fastidious his work is, but also for his bleak satirical humor. Showgirls, RoboCop, and Starship Troopers are my favorites of his. I basically like all three of these directors for the exact same reasons. And Lynch? Obviously Lynch does camp, and he can be hilarious, but his work is just something else. Mulholland Drive and Fire Walk With Me are possibly the most empathic films ever made.
As I said before, I love camp. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark is a personal favorite. Obviously there's Showgirls, which I've already mentioned. Switchblade Sisters is not a movie I love, but I do enjoy how knowingly silly it is. Freeway is kind of like Switchblade Sisters if it was a legitimate masterpiece. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is essential evil bitch cinema. Other camp favorites include House of Versace, All that Heaven Allows, Romy and Michele, The Wizard of Oz, and Cry Baby.
And here's a list of random movies I love: Bound, Batman Returns, The Hunger, House, Spider-Man 2 (2004), Down With Love, Scream, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Craft, They Came Together.
The Movie I Want to Make (That You Hopefully Also Want to Make)
I have not done a lot of work on the movie I'm trying to make. I believe in working basically from scratch with another person, so that's it's a real collaboration where both partners are fully invested. The list of notes I've included below is basically all of the work I've done so far.
The movie would be something of a "Woman's Film" parody / pastiche, mixed with exploitation movie stuff. It's a mix of All That Heaven Allows, Showgirls, Freeway, Heartbreakers, and Breathless [not the French movie; the 2012 Gina Gershon film]. It's about a cougar in a loveless and strained marriage. She has a daughter who's in a girl gang / all-female rock band. They are both, to some degree, rivals.
The daughter and mother live in two different worlds: the daughter’s world of delinquency and punk shit, and the mother’s adult world of keeping up with the joneses, passive aggressive remarks, etc. Adults fear the daughter because they think she’s violent and erratic [correct]. Adults fear the mother because they think she’s a homewrecker [correct].
The mother and daughter have foils. The mother has a rival cougar, who's richer and classier. The rival cougar has a daughter who pretends to be a chaste schoolgirl, but it's obvious to everyone except her mother that she isn't.
The daughter and mother have a tough relationship, and it gets worse when a young mother and her vacuous femboy son move into their cul-de-sac [not a femboy in a conscious way; he has no idea that he's not masculine]. The cougar, the daughter, and their respective rivals all want to sleep with the femboy, who turns into the MacGuffin.
The mother manipulates her daughter and her gang into killing her husband. Lots of bitching ensues. Lots of cunt energy. Etc. None of this is set in stone, but this is the basic premise I've come up with.
The Big Problem
This film would presumably be shot in the US [I lived there most of my life], but I currently live in Portugal. If we started chatting and ended up hitting things off, we could work remotely for a while. If we got to a point where we'd finished all of the pre-production [screenplay, storyboards, previs, probably even casting], I would be able to justify flying over so that we could shoot the movie together. But I can't do anything IRL before we've essentially completed the entire movie on paper, Hitchcock style.
If you live in the UK, Canada, or continental Europe or something and you were on board until I mentioned shooting in the US, you should still contact me and we can maybe work on something else!
Contact
Message me here on tumblr if you're interested in working together. Please include some of your stuff!
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prose-priest-potentate · 2 months ago
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Another ask game filled out! From here: X
What was the original thought that led to the creation of this character?
He’s made specifically for the game because we were a pretty small party when it started and we needed a decent party balance. We had a rogue already, and a druid/barbarian, so I picked something that could keep us alive and take a hit. 
How long was the process before the character reached its final version? (or a version that would be clearly recognizable as the character?)
The bones of him were set before the game started, like??? (runs to check my files) three years ago. His personality and character development came along organically after.
What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?
His… role? I guess. I picked race and class first, and then some of his personality came along with that when I picked his god, and a lot of his appearance came from choosing a breath element. So his name was probably last.
And reverse, which one of the four things did you struggle with the most?
His personality. I’m not a rules lawyer myself, and originally wanted to play the devil-may-care hit-first-question-later barbarian, but my friend had already picked.
How did you choose their name and why? Was it simply based on vibes or is there any specific meaning behind the name? Are the reasons behind their name different in- and out of universe?
I generated a bunch of ‘dragonborn’ names and then sorted through the syllables to find something easy enough to say and still not feel like a normal ass human name.
I did make it canon that his name is sort of jammed together between his father’s (Tirtheth) and the lady that runs the religious order he’s born into (Amtash). His little cousin (Itovatash) is also named with the same sort of convention.
What was the thought process behind their appearance? Did you go mostly for the aesthetic or are there other reasons they look the way they do?
He’s a dragonborn because they’re my favorite base race and I never got to play the first one I made. He’s gold because I wanted him to breathe fire and don’t like red as much (and specifically don’t like the canon homogenization of the colors) - and he’s albino because I liked the bit about leopard geckos from Battleship (2012) and piebald because I really like the spider piebald pattern in boas, and I wish it didn’t come with all those neurological issues. It’s kinda part of the joke though, right?
What is an aspect of their appearance that you like the most?
I chose to give all my dragonborn feathers instead of the hair? Spines? That they have in canon. I’m v much on the fuzzy dinosaur train, and cannot fathom why dragons and dragonborn integument wouldn’t be pretty?? Plus, it acts more like hair.
What is the origin of their personality? And let's be honest - how much of it is projecting?
So I opened up the faerun wikia and started with the article on dragonborn, which led to the article on Bahamut, and while I think he’s a great guy, I clicked through a bunch of the gods from his article. At this point, I wasn’t after a particular domain or oath or anything, and was just looking around. Torm is cool, and I appreciated the giant golden dragon battle steed. But then Amaunator popped up, and we’re fighting vampires, so The Keeper of the Eternal Sun seemed appropriate. And because Amauantor is a lawful neutral deity all about law and order, that informed a lot of what Imrath would have to be, right?
As for the rest, it’s a mix of my own relgiosity as a kid and he’s funny because I am. ✌️
How big is their role in the story? Do they make a frequent appearance or are they a character with little "screentime" but big influence? Or are they just a favourite background guy?
In the FIC - he’s the main character. In the PLOT - he’s part of the ensemble cast of heroes supporting the main girl.
What is their main character arc in the story? Where do they start and how do they develop? Do they get a happy ending or is their story a tragic one?
His whole story (as a character) is a sort of coming-of-age finding-his-place-in-the-world thing, and throughout the story as played and written, his main development is becoming less good. He needs to sit at lawful neutral in the end, so he’s technically being corrupted, but it’s a good thing for him.
He gets a pretty good ending. I don’t know how it would have gone if we had kept playing - probably way worse - but because I picked it up on my own and I want him to have a happy ending, he’s getting one. 
Is there any existing character from other media that your character resembles? Was the resemblance intentional or was it a coincidence?
…He’s made of archetypes, so I’m sure he resembles someone, but I’m not sure WHO.
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000life-is-meaningless000 · 8 months ago
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Fated To Be Fucked, Doomed To Be Damned ! ! !
if a lion pounds is on an animal or any other predator kills an animal or any other arthropod any kind of insect or spider kills another they don't apparently go to hell in human theology, even though people have seen animals in hell ? - ( Suffering )
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I Never Understood, Any Of This Shit !
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But, in the natural rules allegedly, . . . . . ALLEGEDLY !
if an animal kills another animal and they enjoy it and there's blood all over their face and they're ripping it apart and having a good time
the animal does not get diagnosed with a fucking mental illness 😡 the animal is not diagnosed as immoral 😡/😤 and apparently the animal does not get sent to Hell by some god or goddess even from another fucking universe !
BUT IF A PERSON DOES THAT, ( or any of that ) STRAIGHT THE FUCKING HELL ! ! ?
it's only fair, I Guess !
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if a human steals from another human they go to hell of a human is pride for all they go to hell if you do anything dark you go to hell, and what really gets to me is when you hear about angels and deities actual Divine beings of the universe and has very Superior very serious Ultra serious I can't find a word more intense than with serious and special souls in the universe Divine beings who have unbelievable amount of responsibilities in existence and even they end up in FUCKING HELL ¡ ! ! ! ! ! ! !
it really is a unbelievably insane thing that hell was real and it is, we're all going to hell that's my analysis that we're all going to hell it's not a matter of if, I swear to God it's not a matter of if it literally is a matter of when !
there is no if !
we are all destined we are all doomed and completely and absolutely fated to scream and eternal suffering in the in the realm of absolute damnation we are all doomed to go there all angels will end up there all deities eventually will end up there All Souls all Spirits all aliens there isn't a single fucking animal in existence that will not end up there !
if a dog ends up killing a fucking cat and a cat end up trying to fight a dog that the dog will be Smited by the god Zeus and sent right to hell and then the cat will be ripped apart and sent to hell how dare they act Wild !
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and then eventually Zeus will be end up the hill himself as Cronus and other deity that rain in Olympus of divine thrown all of them ended up in Hell quite literally every Divine being ever set on the Divine throne of Olympus some way some half of some fucking reason ended up in hell ?
it is absolutely appalling yet astounding how much shit ends up in hell it is over . . . FUCKING . . . . . Whelming !
to see so much shit quite literally end up in hell
YOU'RE GOING TO HELL, I'M GOING TO HELL !
YAHWEH FROM HEAVEN IS GOING TO HELL, people say they see celebrities in Hell people say they see a lot of people they know in hell I've actually in my God damn life when I was just like mine and my own business so people I knew it was it was it was cast to me as a dream but dreams don't exist your astral projecting
I've seen almost everyone in my life that that died end up showing me that they're being sent to hell
AND NO, I'M NOT A FUCKING CHRISTIAN OR A CATHOLIC !
you're going to hell I'm going to hell God's going to hell Jesus is going to hell and almost so many people in the Asian country has said they seen Buddha in hell !
I'm losing my fucking mind, it is just it it seems like hell is the universe for all of us, if we're all going to hell then why do any of us fear the punishment ?
When we're all Fated ?
Wen Something so special and so great and so Grand and so white and light and pure and positive like Lucifer was sent to Hell Lucifer was was probably the nicest smartest seraphim to ever exist he was top quality and that's an understatement !
HE'S IN HELL ! ! ! ! ! !
😡 - YOU'RE FUCKED I'M FUCKED NONE OF US SHOULD CARE WE END UP IN HELL JUST KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN AT THIS POINT HELL WAS LIKE DEATH ONE DAY YOU'RE GOING TO DIE AND ONE DAY YOU'RE SOLD AGAINST HIM TO HELL IT'S FUCKING GUARANTEED ! ! ! ! !
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I just want to go over the world Part, Again, I want to go one more time !
the god Cronus the gods Saturn who was the god of time for an extremely long time no pun intended
even that mother fucker even that much
even that fucking deity even him, even him even fucking him ended up and fucking hell so many deities in Egypt ended up in hell so many deities in Babylon ended up in a fucking hell even the even God himself has given an arterial name so he truly is the creator of the universe known as the demiurge
AND THAT'S WHY I SAY HOW LONG IS IT GOING TO BE UNTIL THE FUCKING MONAD THE TRUE BEING OF ALL EXISTENCE AND THE FUCKING AEONS AND SOPHIA END UP IN HELL, from the Pleroma !
YOU'RE GOING TO HELL I'M GOING TO HELL YOUR BELOVED FUCKING PETS GOING TO HELL I'M NOT TRYING TO BE MEAN !
Forgive Me, if I look like a troller an asshole on the internet I'm sorry - 🙏🏻
I definitely can't shake the image of looking like a crazy person, but, you know what fuck it !
ALL YOUR BELOVED PETS ARE GOING TO HELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL ALL THE DEITIES, YOU WORSHIP APPARENTLY ARE GOING TO HELL CUZ OF ALL THE HISTORY I'VE READ ABOUT OTHER DEITIES AND JUST THE PAST AND SHIT AND JUST HISTORY ! ! ! ! ! ! !
animals really enjoy killing and stuff and I'm pretty sure the aliens all throughout the Universe don't know about Christianity ( for the pagan religion, various deities to say you come damnation and they themselves some way somehow ended up in fucking hell ? ) - ( I mean Tartarus ) so they're going the hell eventually but even if they're not we all know that Jesus is still going to go to hell we know that being in heaven does not save you from hell
LOOK AT LUCIFER THE MANY OF THEIR ANGELS
it's only a matter of time before All Souls in heaven end up in hell and it's even said in the Christian religion lots of times that just because you're in heaven doesn't mean you can't be sent on down !
but if you're in hell you can't be forgiven so that means that once you're in hell that's shit's, Permanent !
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there's a lot of aliens out there that are really enjoying murdering killing causing genocide stealing raping God Only knows whether crazy fucked up dark things are doing torturing with their paranormal alien abilities
which means that eventually all life in the universe all intelligent life all animal life in the universe all that's going to end up in hell and I'm not even trying to be a smart-ass I wonder if bacteria ends up in hell
I'M NOT TRYING TO BE A SMART-ASS !
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so this ends up in hell that ends up in hell you end up in hell I end up in Hell got struck his shoulders and says oh fucking well then he trips from Heaven he ends up in hell all the Angels end up in Hell everybody in the Divine family ends up and fucking hell all animals end up in hell all lions end up in hell all arthropods end up in hell all aliens end up in hell all deities in the Divine family end up in hell everyone that walks this world Yahweh actually said multiple times and I've experienced him say he's going to throw everybody in the hell
I'm not fucking around I swear to God that shit
Yahweh said multiple fucking times that he's going to throw everybody in Hell All humans in the hell he's damning everyone he actually said that shit long before I was on this planet that was an actual conversation I had with him I actually fucking experienced that !
so if you looked at the history of things of deity so a lot of other deities in hell and that's fucking Part that they can never get out of it but the the Titans all Titans are in hell and Titans are all deities so they get thrown into hell also called the underworld and other times as well so everyone ends up in fucking hell no one can avoid it no one no mortal no animal no alien no Spirit No Angel no demon no reason no excuse no Divine permission no fucking thing and it is you from hell they're probably going to end up in fucking hell
THIS IS FUCKING MADNESS ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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justmybookthots · 1 year ago
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I did read a fair bit in April, but for some reason my brain wasn't in the mood to talk about it in my reading journal. Well, now I'm forcing it so it has no choice. I'll just compromise and make my reviews brief. And yes — a lot of thrillers in this month because I didn't want to read anything that had romance in it for a while due to a writing project that was very romance-heavy. I WILL say that reading six thrillers back-to-back has shot my nerves to pieces so 😂
Dead of Winter: I remember reading another book then downloading Dead of Winter and just opening it for a peek. WHAT I DIDN'T EXPECT was that the action had already started in Chapter 1 and next thing I knew, I was reading it like a mad man and I could not stop. I need to say that I guessed the plot twist one-third through the book and some of the logistics behind it but surprisingly, it did not ruin the story for me. It was actually one of the few thrillers I read that made me feel claustrophobic and scared. Long after I was done, I kept thinking about it, feeling a) sad for some of the characters' suffering and b) scared/disturbed. I always thought gore didn't matter to me in written form but this book proved me wrong. Overall a really good book.
Never Coming Home: I enjoyed this one a lot, too. I was also a little disturbed and rattled by this book. More than that, I was sad because some of these people were genuinely all-right people in my books (ha ha, bad pun). But they met a terrible ending, anyway. I kinda had to suspend my disbelief about the killer getting away with this shit but I gotta say: I always enjoy the 'And Then There Were None' premise. 
Everyone is Watching: This thriller actually wasn't scary, and while I'd definitely have complained had I read this first, it ended up serving as a palate cleanser after I read two really disturbing books. This was also my first time reading a book where certain characters DID THE RIGHT THING and weren't completely morally reprehensible, and I was shocked. I don't see likeable/rootable characters in thrillers often. Overall, despite lacking some of the tension and fear I'd normally have liked, it was circumstantially welcome for me and kept me engaged throughout. I would have liked if a certain subplot/thread had been wrapped up though — it had just been left there to dangle.
Ward D: Freida McFadden is often hit or miss for me in regards to story resolution, but this was a HIT!! Again, I guessed the plot twist like one-third the way in (I don't know if I'm being smarter or I've just read too many thrillers), but the journey was so thrilling and I couldn't stop reading. That's her gift, isn't it? Somehow she's perfected the formula to make her books unputdownable. I was cheering for Spider-Dan at the end, haha. I really liked this one!
That's Not My Name: Okay, so this book made me uncomfortable. The idea of a girl waking up and living with a strange man who claims to be her father was so… icky. Can you imagine?? Sharing a secluded cabin with a man you don't even know but you have to take his word that he's your dad? Thank God the man never did anything sexual because I would have vomited right then and there. Also, the ending actually made me tear up because it was really sad. I did skim in parts but other than that a pretty solid book? I don't like this as much as the aforementioned thrillers I read, though.
Everyone Here Is Lying: This was my first time reading a book with this writing style. It feels… well, not bad, just different — almost like I'm reading a report of everyone's POVs in the suburbs. It feels kinda impersonal, the way things are written? I can't put a finger on it. I don't think it's necessarily something I disliked. It was actually very engaging UNTIL the mystery reveal came in and I was like: huh??? This is so anticlimactic. This is the reveal? The culprit was like, barely mentioned up until that point. It's what made me dock a star. Other than that, the journey was pretty entertaining and I love domestic thrillers.
Wrath of the Talons: Okay. So. The first half of this book? I have to say it's kinda garbage. It's extremely repetitive with Lina going around, killing some Blackbloods, then gathering allies with just a few nice words and some baubles/valuables as bribes. I don't think she did it in any way that was significant or impressive, and I don't think she's sly as the other characters keep praising her to be – she's honestly just dumb if you ask me, lmao. I kept comparing her to Jude Duarte and being like: this is a Walmart knockoff. That said, the second half with the Prophecy came in and I was really hooked by that, and how Rui was trying to handle it. I also just really like seeing him in pain because of it. 🙂 In any case, the ENDING is what made a solid three-star book into four stars for me. Or at least a high three stars. That was delicious and I won't spoil it but I loved how it came full circle with the man whose wife Lina killed. I was originally pretty annoyed with how she thought it was okay to deceive that man into an alliance after what she did, but the culmination of that plot point was splendid. I'm really curious about the next book, which is coming out later this year, I think? It's a lot faster than I expected given we waited so long for this book, so I have a feeling this is just a placeholder date, but we'll see!!!
Okay — I'm done wrapping up. I won't be mentioning the Mediator reread right now. All in all, this was a productive reading month for me (shockingly) despite all the fanfic writing I did this month and I'm pretty content about it. I'll see where the next month takes me… 
- 1 May 2024
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mysmashplaythroughs · 2 years ago
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99 Problems but F-Zero ain't one of them
I see Tumblr's joined the group of websites that felt the need to make their layout even more irritating with no actual gain. Well anyway, yeah another 'off-topic' post rather than something substantial. Admittedly, this has probably been my least productive year yet when it comes to my Smash Bros Playthroughs (Ironic that rereading my post at the end of last year I said I might actually be able to finish everything up to the Spirits etc on my list yet I've not even finished Tales of Symphonia yet...) I've beaten 3 games on my list and two of them I was barely able to justify being on the list as they were new releases (Pokemon Scarlet for the Pokeball item because it's the first main series game where you actually can manually throw a Pokeball to make a Pokemon appear and Fire Emblem Engage because of stage related reasons (there's no spoiler tag it seems on here so I'll hold off specifying). Beyond these though, I've been playing just new releases really including Tears of the Kingdom (the third on my list but I'll hold off why), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Future Redeemed (which was fantastic) and I finally was able after all these years to play Spider-man on my new Steamdeck which took up a large chunk of my game playing this year (didn't finish Miles game yet though.) There are two other games I've mainly played, (besides every so often doing a few Mario Maker 2 courses which is part of a big project I've been working on for that) the first of which is finally relating to the dumb title I've used above. F-Zero 99 isn't what F-Zero fans wanted but it's still been great to play imo and I've been playing it far more than I thought I would. Hopefully this will be a sign of some possible attention for the series as a whole as it seems to have attracted quite a few casual players as well as F-Zero fans.
I thought I'd managed after what I mentioned last time to get every game I wanted to on the eShop before it closed on 3DS and Wii U, and I did manage that for my Smash list, but I was missing a game I'd always meant to pick up but never got around to... and I realised far too late that meant the only option now was trying to track down an overpriced copy on Ebay or something. I did however manage to win a copy in an auction (I wouldn't like to admit how much, just that it was below at least the prices for every other copy I saw on there) of Project X Zone 2. Because of this I've been playing that a lot recently, I've made it a fair way in, there's more characters than I expected that I at least knew the name or look of but it's definitely got a lot of ones I had to ask my friends who play a lot more obscure games about. With that said, since Phoenix Wright didn't get into Smash it is fun at least having him in something like it and I have been enjoying it. I've mentioned before I believe sometimes just liking crossovers even if they're things I've never heard of, I guess because in a sense it allows me as a newcomer to see it from the eyes of the other characters who've never met before and so I learn what they learn. Either way, that's been mostly taking up my playtime atm, which try as I might I haven't currently found a way of justifying to be on my list (granted, honestly adding it might be reaching too much even for me.) All of this however, has led to a problem that means I might have to change plans fast...
Nintendo's announced that the Wii U and 3DS will be losing their online almost entirely next year, with only redownloads of software you own, updates to software and Pokemon Bank I believe to still remain after next April (and Bank is stated to end sometime after...) This announcement made me realise I had to heavily look at my list and see if there's something that will make impossible. I worried about Federation Force and Triforce Heroes but those do seem to be at least playable in single player (definitely not ideal but not completely unusable) however, it's the other thing that has me concerned, Pokemon Bank closing. Due to this, I've realised I have to do what I originally planned to do after finishing the items on my list, which is to capture every single Pokemon that's appeared in Smash Bros in any form (Pokeball, stage background, Trophies, Spirits) but in it's home region. I was then planning on transferring them all to Pokemon Ultra Moon and using that game to get screenshots of them (with their region exclusive photo backgrounds in the game). Due to this therefore, I plan to start very soon playing through the final two Pokemon games I had on my list, Emerald and Crystal. Admittedly, Emerald isn't one I plan on actually using to capture Pokemon specifically, it's far far easier for me to use ORAS to do so, but for my actual playthrough of the game's plot etc, I plan on playing the original Emerald on GBA. Crystal is one I've been looking forward to for a while as it's my favourite Pokemon game ever and on my list of top 10 games of all time (the majority of which are on my Smash list) I do also have Sword and Shield on my Smash Bros list as well as Legends Arceus and Let's Go, however since they're on Switch I'm going to hold off on those till I was originally going to play them. Also because it's almost impossible beyond hacking or using complicated means from what I've seen to get certain Pokemon, I will settle for simply having ones like Celebi or Mew rather than specifically getting them from their regions, basically as you can probably guess I just mean I'll get what I can.
So yeah, that's where I'm at basically, I'll probably update my list after posting this as I've added a fair few things (Daisy for example is going to have Super Mario Bros Wonder become her actual game now seeing as it fits her in Smash a lot more than Super Mario Party did on my initial list) so yeah. I guess if I have an aim for this by the end of the year, I highly doubt I'll beat all the games I have on my list for Mii Costumes (from Tales of Symphonia to DOOM 2016) but I do plan on going back to a few I've skipped over either because I couldn't play them at the time or didn't want to burn out too much on one series (numerous Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts games I've skipped over for now regarding costumes or stage elements for example) so at the very least I'd like to end this year with that looking a little bit more respectable. Typing this out has made me decide to finally stop holding back on this and get a move on with it, so I'm hoping perhaps by the end of the year I might finally write those last two Melee character posts and have good news on my progress after that. Either way, I guess in honour of Charles Martinet, I'll try and stick to the mantra of 'Here we go!' (Yes, feel free to unfollow me after that)
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shoot-the-eye · 6 months ago
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I have so so many dreams (they're my special interest so I write them all down. I'm at over 800 now), and many of them have some form of whump. Good and bad. Good because they make good stories; bad 'cause they suck to experience.
I prefer being the whumpee or caretaker because I don't like the idea of being the one hurting other people without justified cause (like fighting for my life).
(Rambling, details, and an actual dream under the cut)
If I have to hurt someone else for no reason it's usually because of mind control or I simply go to third person and watch as my character hurts the other person. Then it's back to first person and I have to deal with the consequences of "my" actions.
I've endured a lot in my dreams. Kidnapping, mind control, long falls, (never any broken bones though; I haven't broken any bones irl so I guess my subconscious doesn't know how to mimic it), stabbings, poisoning, burns, acidic melting, dehumanization, public ridicule, complete and total loss of hope, watching others suffer due to my actions, zombie bites, venomous snake bites, too many fucking spiders, rape, being hunted for sport, being hated by anyone and everyone for things outside my control, sickness, muteness, blindness, amnesia (a lot of amnesia actually, it's very common for some reason), losing everyone I love due to the passage of time, things being under my skin that Should Not be under my skin, extended isolation, drowning, asphyxiation…the list goes on.
This may not count as whump unless you're going for emotional, but my very worst nightmares are when bad things happen to my cat.
I'm sorry for all the rambling. I should probably actually describe a dream. Here's one of my scariest ones to date. Usually I'm not scared once I wake up, but this one had me genuinely terrified even after I was awake.
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Basically the dream started as a school dream, but I was a teacher instead of a student. It was my first day as a teacher and another teacher told me to be careful, because it looked like I had a ghost in my class. I looked over the class, and saw a kid that had a mask-like face, but had very obviously died by drowning. He was still dripping wet.
The dream skipped to after class. The ghost was still there, sitting in his seat, but everyone else but me was gone. It was really, really creepy. Then suddenly he was in front of me. I tried to give him a choice between necklace prizes, hoping that giving him a gift would keep me safe, I guess. He took one, chanted, "Hard, school was hard," and clawed my eyes out anyway. It stole the breath from my lungs, and I died.
I was suddenly in the body of someone else, a student this time, and ran into the ghost. The same thing happened. "Hard, school was hard," he chanted, and killed me. One thing that was consistent besides the chanting and the method of death was the beads from the necklace in his hands.
This happened a few more times until I was a teacher again. People shouted at me to run, but all the other teachers and students I had been who had died had already tried that. Even going intangible through walls (something I can just Do in dreams) was useless because he was a ghost who could do the same thing.
So even though I still tried to run, the next time he said school was hard, I did something new: I agreed with him. Agreeing with him made him hesitate, and I saw my chance and fled the school. But I wasn't out of trouble yet.
Even though I had escaped the school, I had not escaped the drowned boy. He was still right behind me. Every time he repeated his mantra, I verbally agreed with him, buying myself a little more time.
I learned through him projecting his memories that his mom used to take him to the nearby lake after school. Through his memories, I could see how much his mother meant to him, and how much he meant to her.
I found myself running to that same lake.
Eventually, the boy and I were standing side-by-side at the lake's shore. Even as the situation died down from its earlier state of frenzy, the boy repeated his mantra, and I repeated my agreements.
I realized that I knew how this was going to end.
For some reason, telling this boy that his mother loved him became more important than staving off my inevitable death.
The next time the boy repeated his mantra, instead of agreeing with him, I told him that his mother loved him.
In a story, this would have surely stopped the boy from killing me in a moment of poetic catharsis. But this was a nightmare, not a story. As I had declined to agree with his mantra, the boy pushed my face beneath the lake's surface, and I drowned.
I finally woke up—or at least, I thought I did. I woke up in my mom's house, in my room from before I moved out. I was heaving for breath, but when I rolled off my bed to get up to find my mom, a familiar bunch of beads fell out of my lap.
The boy appeared in front of me. I tried to wake up for real, but couldn't (something that has never happened before or since; I can ALWAYS wake myself up when I'm having nightmares) until, once again, he chanted, "Hard, school was hard," and killed me.
I don't think I have ever felt such dread and horror as I did when I saw those beads.
Finally, I woke up for real. It was hard to determine whether I was really awake, after the fake-out in the last section of the dream. So even after waking up, I was still terrified.
Dying over and over really doesn't bother me usually, as that's how most of my time loop dreams work, but the fact there there was no escaping this kid was terrifying. Not being able to escape is one of my biggest fears.
The whump in this scenario, aside from the brutal violence, was the knowledge that no matter what I did, I would not be able to escape.
hello!! i’m kinda curious, so question for y’all whump community!!
ABSOLUTELY take this as an invitation to share your whump dreams if you have any and are comfortable sharing!! comments, reblogs, and asks are all good!!
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heyy, can you write a Chrissy/Fem!Reader where their secretly dating behind Jason’s back 😔
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Thanks for these requests! I started writing anon 1s request and realised I was incorporating anon 2s request so have merged them together. I think I'm going to make it a series? It's to be continued anyways. so here's part 1! Hope this is in the ball park of what you guys were wanting <3
Part 2 • bonus sex scene ohye
Secrets Part 1
Pairing: Chrissy x fem! reader (female anatomy and she/her pronouns)
warnings: none yet - cheating? I guess?
words - 902
“chris… you ok?” 
The girls bathroom near chemistry was the only safe place for you and Chrissy. No peering eyes, no disruptions, just a bunch of reasonably unused stalls that could use a spruce up by the janitors. The lights gave you a headache and you wondered if they had been changed since the 50s. It was your meeting spot, and had been for the past year. Walking in, you were confronted by a terrified Chrissy who looked like she had just seen a monster … but that was impossible. Upon seeing you, she ran to give you a hug - but this hug was scared and pleading for your protection. 
“hey! Hey, its alright! What happened?” You realised she had been crying.
“I feel I’m going mad, y/n” she was able to sniffle out. She had brought up a couple of things that had been scaring her recently, something about a grandfather clock, spiders, and her mother. 
“Have you been seeing that stuff again? Chrissy, I told you to go speak to someone about tha-“
“I have.” She cut you off, pulling away from the hug and looking into your eyes. You could tell she was telling the truth and was at a lost end. You pulled her back into you, kissed the top of her head, and let her know you were here now and nothing was going to hurt her. 
Chrissy was your partner for your freshman chemistry project. Something about oxygen and the effect it has on different cells or something - you can’t really remember. What you can remember, however, was the late night studying sessions that ended in movie marathons, music recommendations and listening parties, how far across the room Chrissy could successfully throw pieces of popcorn into your mouth, giggling fits, and the one kiss that changed everything. You weren’t out, and neither was Chrissy, and you both had boyfriends at the time that you both felt feelings for. Girls can kiss their friends sometimes, right? And it not mean anything? Oh, but it did. And you both knew it. You absolutely had feelings for your boyfriends, but this just felt right. Better. A couple of months later, you and David had called it quits. Something about how you seemed distant and you weren’t available as much as you used to be. Partly because the guilt was eating you alive, mostly because you realised you had feelings for Chrissy. And you knew she felt the same, she just hadn’t admitted it yet. 
Over the next couple of years, you two didn’t stop. She’d tell her parents she was having a sleepover with Y/n, her best friend, and they didn’t suspect a thing…and neither did Jason. Did it annoy you she was still with him? Absolutely. But you didn’t say anything incase it ruined what you had. After all, you guys were just friends, right? Friends who do each others hair, talk about boys, listen to music,  kiss, and cuddle when they sleep. A totally platonic friendship. One day in school, she took your hand and lead you to the bathroom in the science hallway. She was looking at herself in the mirror, and you in the background. 
“so, did you get your results?”
“A in both of my essays!” She whirled around in excitement, hugged you, then planted a congratulatory kiss on your lips. The atmosphere changed, the tension rose, and she slowly went in for another, sweeter kiss. This one wasn’t like the ones you two had shared before. It was in public where anyone could walk in on you. But you didn’t care. You had been expecting this. Needing it. “I’m so proud of you” she said, softly, pulling away. You gave her a shy smile and looked away. Cupping your face and bringing you eyes to meet hers, she went in for another kiss. This one was longer and became more passionate by the second. 3 kisses in school. 3 kisses where anyone could walk in on you two. 2 kisses that confirmed she liked you like that. Holy. Fucking. Shit. The bell interrupted the moment, but it didn’t ruin anything. After that, you two started meeting in the bathroom more often. After English, after Biology, after Spanish. Some sweet and loving exchanges, some more passionate and rough. The only condition was that Jason could never find out. Or anyone, for that matter. And that was that.
Presently, in senior year, you were standing in the bathroom, holding a tearful Chrissy. 
“what did the school councillor say?’
“Not much, she just listened and told me I wasn’t crazy - but I think I am, y/n”. This is not how you expected this exchange to go. A little make-out before PE, nothing extreme. But this was new, and strange, and not like Chrissy at all. 
“Why don’t we ditch and go get ice cream or something?” Her eyes lit up, momentarily, then her eyebrows furrowed. 
“I said I’d meet Jason after.” This depleted you. You assured her it was fine and that you could sit with her in here for a bit but she insisted she better go and that she didn’t want to spend another second in there. You watched her leave, and then you searched the stalls for anything strange. Weirdly, you had a fleeting thought that Chrissy may be doing drugs, but pushed it away as that’s not something she would do. You were sure of it. 
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