#close bracket

[squoople]

The Murder Of The Hierophant

CozySmp Lore

TW: gore, death, terribly sad, so so so sad, violence, cuntfromlvjy (referred to as 'Cpt')🥰 (gore in tags too)

during an argument, Cpt gets right up in squoops face, she can almost taste the alcohol on his breath. he looses control, he draws his sword and slashes it up her back, slicing her wings until they are hanging as if just by a nerve, she slumps to the floor, pinkish blood pooling. lucas who was standing in the doorway lets out a blood curdling scream and launches himself at Cpt. knocking him to the floor lucas pinned him down by sitting on his stomach, he pounded the axe into his fathers face and chest, splattering blood and brain matter across the khaki walls. he sobbed tearlessly as his arms tired from the constant swinging of a netherite axe, and a small weak cough brought him out of his blind rage.

"lu- " squoop choked again from behind him "l-lucas? i- i cant see" her voice was more timid than he had ever heard it "im scared" his heart shattered, he scrambled and knelt in the ever-growing pool of his mothers blood and grabbed her pale, shaking hand, noticing how cold and grey it already was. lucas could hear every movement like someone had placed a sonogram funnel into his ears. "lucas.. i- i dont want to die.. plea- please.." her voice was weak and quiet. it had already clicked.

"stay still mama" he already knew. "its gonna be okay, just hold on" she would be dead and there was nothing to do but watch his own mother bleed out infront of him, the dark liquid seeping into the fabric of his clothes like tar.

"lucas look at me.. please" she raised a shaky hand up, and he pressed his face into it, still holding onto the other like a lifeline. "my beautiful boy". she ran her calloused thumb across his soft cheek, he gazed into her eyes, her blue iris's had dulled, but her inky black pupils and sclera reflected the universe. her hand left his face harshly, and her quivering breaths no longer tormented his ears. but the sound of her last echoed like a broken record.

[aroaceleovaldez]

okay last one for the night but. honestly i really hate how the franchise has been using loyalty to Rick as a shield for so long. If Rick was involved in a project or not doesn't matter, especially not anymore.

ReadRiordan and the publishing for the franchise has been using this tactic for ages - they obscure if any writing related to the series wasn't written by Rick unless it's special circumstances. It's near impossible to find out who the ghostwriters are (Stephanie True Peters and Mary-Jane Knight). TSATS was promoted as the first time we got a non-Riordan (Rick or Haley) author working on one of the companion novels despite having seven already existing ghostwritten books in the series. The only reason Mark Oshiro was emphasized so heavily for TSATS was because they also work as a sensitivity reader for topics such as queer identity, and Rick had received backlash in the past for being a Straight Cis Old White Guy repeatedly falling into bad habits (that he hasn't broken out of) with certain characterizations that he kept doubling-down on or retconning into oblivion. The show emphasizes that Rick was involved, but the LA Times article brings into question exactly how much he was involved, and it doesn't even really matter either way. The ReadRiordan site actively avoids putting any writing credits on their articles (or art credits...) or anywhere on their site.

Practically the entire fandom unanimously agrees the musical - which had zero involvement from Rick - is the best adaptation of the series so far, including the TV show. Some of the best writing to come out of the series recently was the stuff ghostwritten by Stephanie True Peters (Camp Half-Blood Confidential, Camp Jupiter Classified, Nine from the Nine Worlds, etc). And yet when promotional stuff is posted about CHB:C, there's clearly coded language used to hide the fact that Rick himself didn't write it. Yes, that's how ghostwriters work, but at this point we should really stop pretending "Rick Riordan" isn't just a pen name for a group of authors like "Erin Hunter" and that Rick is actually writing everything in the series. I can easily look up and see which Animorphs books were ghostwritten, and who those authors were. I can find every "Erin Hunter" easily listed on official sites. And yet most people don't even know the Riordanverse franchise has ghostwriters at all.

And the franchise is still trying to use the "Tio/Uncle Rick" stuff. Author loyalty and marketing parasocial relationships isn't going to save the franchise when the author himself can't hold up his own original themes or even keep basic series bible details straight, and especially not if the editors are barely if at all doing their job. And please at least get a goddamn series bible by this point.

[proseka-headcanons]

It's my turn with the gender poll

There is a right answer and I will reveal it at some point /silly

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[whos-hotter-jjba]

Second Chance Round - Match 2

[gaytkachuk]

"tumblr's favorite NHL team" bracket: metro division finals

pacific | central | atlantic

[haveyouheardthispodcast]

[thefreakandthehair]

eddie’s death anniversary? idk what you’re talking about. he’s alive, and well, and happy! steve made waffles and coffee this morning, and eddie’s listening to him ramble on about his march madness bracket that was busted week one.

(“Sweetheart, I love you but you lost week one. Time to give it up.” Eddie speaks around the rim of his old, chipped Garfield mug. He wears a fond smile, the passage of time settling into the shallow wrinkles around his eyes.

Steve sets his Best Uncle Ever mug down, the hand-painted lettering uneven from where Dustin’s son had gotten over-excited. “No no no, they had the team’s seedings all wrong! Everyone’s brackets got fucked! Hear me out…”)

[bl-bracket]

Normally I don't like to offer commentary on the bracket while it's going on but I need to let y'all in on the absolute fever dream the past 24 hours have been

-prepping for the bracket, decides to throw in some more characters to make things more interesting

-still has dead friend forever on watchlist but remembers seeing gifs of the show and one of the characters seemed to be pretty unhinged

-goes to the dead friend forever tag, finds the guy, scrolls through the tags to figure out his name and sees a lot of people talking about how unhinged he is

-thinks: oh that's good that means he'll probably do well in the prelims

-he passes the prelims

-putting him in the seed: well he only has my one submission without any propaganda (because I have not yet watched the show) and dff doesn't have a ton of viewers logged on mdl compared to others so he's going to have a pretty low seed meaning round 1 will be rough but hey at least he still has the loser bracket to shine-

-he wins, beating the #2 seed out of 64, one of the most submitted characters, in ROUND ONE

-welp

anyways congrats to New from Dead Friend Forever for the biggest upset since I started seeding these things, knocking out one of the most submitted characters, and it was a character I added last minute without propaganda because I hadn't watched the show yet and was going off the memory of gifs I saw several months ago. you can see now why I've been losing my mind over this right

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

The typo that always annoys me most is opening parentheses with no matching closing parentheses

[redo-rewind-if]

Sorry for the lack of snippets lately, I figured since it's so close to release that I wouldn't do anymore atm but... I couldn't resist sharing some of this scene lol.

[sexiest-objects-tournament]

Fiber arts includes knitting, crochet, sewing, cross-stitching and embroidery. Likely more that I'm forgetting.

Gore includes vivisection, dissection, cannibalism, organs, etc.

Please share propaganda in the notes!

[dw-companion-bracket]

DW RTD Companion Bracket - Semi-Finals

[ya-boi-haru]

Y'all really going to let the rainbow themed couple lose on pride month?

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Mammals

Scandentia. This order is made up of treeshrews, small mammals native to South and Southeast Asia. They are sometimes used as model organisms due to being closely related to primates.

Monotremata. The only order of mammals to lay eggs. It is made up of the duck-billed platypus and echidnas.

[sebdoeswords]

Finished the first season of Tsurune and MAN that shit was good. I think what I love about sports anime (especially non-mainstream sports) is that they deal with the quintessentially human practice of pouring your whole heart into something and loving something so much you could burst