#can be done in any genre

[giffingthingsss]

The implications, ethics, and possible outcomes of technological trajectories. Science fiction.

[haveyouheardthisband]

[fuckmeyer]

timewarp!twilight: a time travel au

[throughout the series, Bella Swan has prophetic dreams that reveal her future (or present predicament) in cryptic ways. but tho Bella can peek forward in time, her true power lies in the past.]

time first unzips when James sinks his teeth into Bella at the ballet studio.

the burning in her veins overwhelms her. for a delirious moment she seizes from venom & bleeds out on a hospital room's tile floor where her mother is giving birth. to her.

the Cullens barge into the studio. Bella's writhing on the ground. they never see the warp. a stunned James is defeated.

Bella says nothing, chalking it up to a near-death experience. ofc she can't unravel the fabric of time lol like what?? who does that???

over summer, night terrors haunt her when Edward is away.

the "good" dreams give her flashes of the future. wolves. light. cliffs. a stone antechamber. red hair. a casket.

it's the nightmares she fears the most.

her PTSD-fueled flashbacks feel so real, she unzips time to escape James's attack & wakes up in random places as if sleepwalking.

at first they're tiny jumps. a few minutes back. then several months before she meets Edward. then the day Renee leaves Charlie with Bella in tow.

the night after her disastrous birthday party, her nightmare dumps her in the back alley of a neon-lit diner.

this isn't home. not 2006, not 1996, not 1986, even...

disoriented, she stumbles in and sits at the counter. the folded newspaper by the napkin dispenser, the Philadelphia Herald, reads March 3rd, 1950.

oh god.

when she looks up, a familiar pixie-haired vampire stares back at her with moony gold eyes.

"you've kept me waiting a long time," says Alice, pushing a plate of pancakes toward her.

time zips. back in bed. morning. 2006. Bella scrambles to school to tell Edward about the time skips.

ofc, it's hard to speak when you're being sucker-punched in the gut by your first love's painful breakup monologue.

instead of confessing, Bella says goodbye.

October. November. December. January.

as the wolves shift and Laurent stops in for a visit snack, Forks gets all gunked up with paranormal vibes. Bella warps further back for longer periods. 1935. 1933. 1911. 1863.

luckily, she often crosses paths with the Cullens. as humans, she knows, they won't remember her. it's cathartic to see them, if only for a few moments...but it's never enough.

she pulls increasingly dangerous stunts to keep traveling. motorcycling. chasing wolves. stalking vampires. on & on.

Bella dives off a cliff to chase the visions.

she smacks the water & warps to 1918.

human Edward Masen immediately falls in love with a drenched & shivering Bella Swan. over the evening, she falls in love with him. again. ugh.

but was it a time skip, or a near-death experience? she wakes up coughing water, Jake breathing life into her on the beach.

Alice returns. with a renewed love for Edward (ugh), Bella jets off to Italy to save him & meet the Volturi.

back in forks, the vote ignites a fiery rage she'd buried for months.

how could they do this to her? how could they break her heart & leave her behind when she needed them?? did they even stop to think about Laurent??? the wolves?! VICTORIA?!!

just as she lunges for Edward to rip his stupid face off, time unzips in front of them & she vanishes.

further back than she's ever gone.

London. 1640s.

human Carlisle tries using a silver cross to defend himself against a starving vampire while Bella looks on.

when the vampire's eyes find hers, the horror of what Bella has been doing settles in like a dense fog.

with each time skip, Bella seals their fate.

not only is Bella the thread that ties the Cullens together in time, but Bella aligns the stars for every member to become a vampire.

in the 1640s, she is the scent that pulls the starving vampire away from Carlisle.

in 1863, María sees Bella's warp & pursues her until she finds confederate Jasper Hale on his way to Galveston.

in 1911, her time skip startles 16 y.o. Esme out of a tree, breaking the girl's leg. she is treated by Dr. Cullen.

in 1918, a cold & wet Bella gives Edward the flu.

in 1933, Carlisle spots Bella on his way home from the hospital & finds her so eerily familiar he calls out & rushes to catch up. frightened by the commotion, Royce et al leave a dying Rosalie in the street.

in 1935, warping into a forest pisses off a huge black bear. Emmett saves her & subsequently gets mauled.

in 1950, she listens to Alice tell the story of her only human memory: prophesizing as a little girl about the "lady in the blue jeans" who comes to visit, to the horror & disgust of her superstitious parents. they throw her in an insane asylum.

now, in 2006, she reappears & falls at the Cullens' feet. her face reflects their looks of shock.

it was her. it was always her.

& all because she ditched Alice & Jasper to confront James at the ballet studio.

"oh god," she whispers from the floor in a broken voice. tears blur her vision. Bella looks up at the family of vampires. "i think i've made a terrible mistake."

[deus-ex-mona]

real talk: lxl should continue to explore romance fantasy concepts in their songs. it’s clearly working for them~

[skunkes]

how did u feel about the 2nd Terrifier movie? i saw it on a first date so it wasn’t the best experience… but revisiting it I can enjoy it more. good sfx

So the first one is 1h30m i believe, and I know when I watched it and saw I was 40 minutes in i was like wow its been that long and it feels like not much has happened huh. But then it did what it did and it ended.

For the second one I was like oh its been 40 minutes. Hopefully it starts kicking off like the first one. And then after what felt like an hour only 10 more minutes had passed LOL and the entire rest of the movie felt dis way

I like that this one had more of a semblance of a plot... The clown cafe song is stuck in my head... Sfx is good but hm im not sure how to describe this....im not one of those "omg this is just a legal snuff film u guys are evil for watching this" people nor am i a "ermm if u cant handle this ur a prude and a little baby actually" person but more somewhere in between or outside. I love movie gore, when i was younger I watched Saw SOLELY for the traps, i didnt even know the plot until more recently LMAO

but obviously That One Scene...idk! I dont think it was too much in the "prude" way nor was i clapping and cheering but it did evoke a "ok come on wrap it up" feeling from me...like these faces combined...does dis make sense. Not walking-out-of-the-theater disgust and revulsion OR enjoyment/glee but just mostly straight faced this ⬇️

The first movie has a naked woman being split in half from coochie down so its definitely not the gore itself here that evoked this emotion ykwim

[loveologystudies]

thinking about isat flight rising au.......

[koachdal]

Race, Phillip Island 2024

scale was pissing me off again so i had to do one without lap 1 to get a better look

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

i think the phrase "magic system" should go away and be forgotten forever, actually

[starswallowingsea]

Every time I think about how the Colleen Hoover fangirlies get mad when people even suggest that they should try and diversify their portfolios I get really, really sad. Like I don't think you have to read classics or anything and be an elite snob but if you limit yourself to just Colleen Hoover and maybe Sarah J Maas and a few other popular booktok authors, you're missing out on so so much. Even if you just want to find good new releases, keeping up with the book of the month club will give you plenty of options (even if you can't subscribe to them and have to get them from the library). Diversify your portfolio. Read older mass market paperback romances or literally anything else.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of bsol through speaking of xmas xtrav that like i'm so augh god hand over heart falling over (just like the bloodsong b/c it's the like conclusion of being Overwhelmed By Artistic Effect that then in the ideal version you may as well die) at the thought of the finale where you have the main plot conclude as that Story w/those Themes like ah but even then, the influence, the other the musicians now, that this whole time like yeah you have to do it even if you just keep building or die or were thwarted even prior to that b/c you didn't know you wouldn't be....but that then just like in the opening song Outlaw or sort of distillation of the theme abt being someone making art Last On Land or that at other points other characters have emerged as not really their characters not really a greek chorus but elements of the story helping to Tell It, here's Everyone again for the friendship song altogether & each with an instrument & like not even able to see it but pics & imagining & the enthusiasm & the Thematic Resonance like this is when you are pursuing these pursuits together like _o__ (splayed out facedown emoji) aaauuughhh ;;mm;; bsol finale with everyone showing up playing & singing & dancing the song celebratory finale it's all the Theme when the full cast of Characters had only ever all been together for the one standoff scene at the end & yet obviously We've known them all & everyone is outlaws which is a song like i'm already going sicko mode & this is just the intro, so yknow, The Conclusion, good lord find an iconis musical finale without that place for the celebratory outpouring of enthusiasm right amidst other feelings & situations but Good Lord Here's This in a story that'll always have been all about people's depths & heights & widths & breadths & variations & tumult & all the dimensions, people will have Brought It all over the place & it's like yes leap around together playing & singing this song together which isn't The Story but is such an extension of it b/c bsol has its show within the show quality still infused all in it & if this flurry of Actors Celebrating Outpouring We Put On This Show but still within the show you are seeing as an audience in this venue wouldn't have been part of the original plan with a whole [outside the show within the show] plotline like. embraces bsol holding it so hard my becherished

[gikairan]

Everyone taking the Steamboat Willie design and making it do things Disney wouldn't sanction like....

you could have done that anyway. Disney would not have sued you for that. He didn't need to be in the public domain for you to do that.

Disney would have had a problem with you if you tried to sell Steamboat Willie. Not that you made him swear ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Public Domain is about being able to sell your version of the character, not "do whatever you like with it for free". You could do whatever you like with it on the internet anyway, you will not face consequence. Just as long as you didnt try to make money off of it - no one was going to come after you.

[snorfbin]

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[olberic]

keep in mind im only like 20 hours in (but am aiming for as completionist as i can get without a guide) but like. man i dont know. im having fun playing veilguard as a video game with fun combat and great visuals but this thing is not a dragon age game. which is a real shame because the first three games gave it SO much to build on. like its just all the little things.

magic healing had really interesting lore in the first two games, especially with the concept of spirit healers. even in inquisition they had the idea of having to use elfroot to make/restock your healing potions, which were pretty finite, and in da2 there were only so many that you had to buy. but in veilguard theres just… pots of them? youre in ancient ruins you should be preserving for study and the game wants you to break shit for a thousand year old healing potion? its one thing for it to be entertaining gaming but another for it to just disregard the lore set up in previous games.

dalish elves are totally raised to believe in their creators as benevolent gods, right? so why is an elven rook so blatantly flippant about “yep we’re killing the elven gods that are real and evil!” and all the dalish just say “oh damn we have to kill our gods that are real and evil even though we have no proof of this”

the blight. the mere CONCEPT of the blight in dao was terrifying. having its only lore explanation as “the maker’s curse for the ancient magisters’ hubris” being something almost obviously being wrong, but still not having a true explanation. darkspawn showed some level of intelligence — not just with the architect, but in that they build their own weapons and structures! that they knew when to retreat, who to target! the idea of TOUCHING anything blighted was terrifying, something that could be fatal to your warden, to hawke’s sibling, hell it’s behind aveline’s whole story. but in veilguard theyre functionally just zombies. and u can stand in fully blighted space with only a minor temporary penalty. like. what.

dai heavily implying hawke and their LI caused a ruckus in weisshaupt and made the wardens shut themselves away, saying that your warden from dao was researching how to cure the blight — potentially as a mage themselves, and potentially with the research from avernus and the architect — but all of that is just… not addressed.

is varric not still kirkwall’s viscount. should we not let him out of the lighthouse so he can stop that city from exploding again.

mage rights being SUCH a huge deal in the other games and just…totally skimmed over. even if we think of the best case scenario, that a decade later nobody bats an eye at free mages, should it not be so recent that theres signs of the historic centuries-long oppression theyve faced. is nobody in this world mad at how theyve been treated by most of thedas.

ik inquisition did it too but i miss my sovereigns/silvers/coppers money system. “+6 gold coins” grow up for real

even from a plain old mechanics standpoint, theres no combat pausing, no fun or freedom or control for the party members in combat. like this could be any action game theres absolutely nothing to link it to any dragon age history.

why can random ass warriors and rogues use floating elven magic. why can warriors summon floating shields and cast flaming weapons and necrotic damage.

seriously i LIKE the combat but its just antithetical to what we’ve learned and been told in the previous games from a lore perspective. like come on.

i cant even get into the elf and qunari stuff itll piss me off too bad. but like idk all the things in dragon age that i love and that made me think so fondly of the series for so much of life is just… gone. this could be any fantasy action game. theres nothing dragon age in here. what made the magic and elves and darkspawn and cultural details feel so unique are gone.

[sandinabottle]

When you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish, then send this ask to 10 of your mutuals!! (this is skelecentral’s main blog🧍‍♂️feel free to ignore this!)

Oooo ask game :D alr alr I'll try it!! (With youtube links for convenience)

Two - literally cry and weep and sob uncontrollably everytime I listen to this song. Love it. Personally, I really like all the Sleeping at last's numbered songs from 1 to 9 (I don't know what else to call them;; orz), but this one introduced me to all the others so it's extra especial for me lmao

The well - I don't really know how to describe this one in words. But I really love it. A lot of the the crane wives' songs scratch my brain right actually.

Dinosaurs in love - 1 minute and 6 seconds that could probably shatter anyone's soul. they didn't say goodbye. they fell in love and had parties and ate fruit and cucumber but they didn't say goodbye.

Yes I genuinely did sob while listening to this today after a few years of having discovered it

Bones in the ocean - sad sea shanty. sad sea shanty. sad sea shanty. sad sea shanty. sad sea shanty. sad se

Boreas - "promise me that you'll start where I end, and I promise to give you everything that I am" is. A line. I don't know how to describe how it makes me feel, but there are many emotions and thoughts flooding my brain all at once. I will probably make a piece of fanart with that specific line at some point. Maybe.

Bonus: Sharks with legs -

i will not elaborate

[alexjcrowley]

The people who say that jazz artists should just "play the rights notes" are the same who thinks the curtains are just blue

[mbat]

man yesterday i was complaining to my dad about how theres only like one or two categories for animated movies at the oscars and he was like 'there really isnt that many that come out for them to have more categories for' as if they dont also only focus on the same like 5-7 live action movies for every other category, or that animation could fit into those other categories/have their own versions of them just as easily. i dont really care about award shows cause its just famous people congratulating eachother, but like... i love art. and its unfair that one of the best forms of it is shoved aside like that idk