#fORREAL THIS WAS SO FUN

[pacificsaury]

ezri dax worm girl funnymoment

[whenmuldermetscully]

It never fails to amuse me that Scully— a woman clinically unable to conceive a child and fails IVF — finally has like what ONE summer of sex after years of not having it… and boom she gets pregnant naturally like that.

The syndicate are all in awe over this medical anomaly that is Scully when it’s Mulder who’s got some Michael Phelps bionic swimmers. Homeboy even got her pregnant a SECOND time in her 50s…

Like I need Secret Season of Sex as canon bc it looks so stupid making it a key point that she can’t have kids for how many seasons, just for it to fly out the window with a cute lil romp in Mulder’s bed.

[lotus-pear]

Idk if I already sent this in or if it glitches out and didn’t send but I found this on pinterest:

OH MY FUCKING GOD STORYTIME REAL QUICK EVERYONE SIT DOWN. OKAY SO I SAW THIS ALREADY LIKE A WEEK AGO SO I WENT INTO THIS PERSONS DMS TO ASK THEM TO TAKE IT DOWN BC I LITERALLY DONT ALLOW REPOSTS AT ALL. AND THEN THEY ACCEPTED THE REQUEST. SO I WAS LIKE OK GOOD THEYRE CIVILIZED. WE'RE GONNA SORT THIS OUT. BUT THEN THEY LEFT ME ON READ. AND THEN THEY FUCKING BLOCKED ME??????????????????????? LIKE?????????????????????? THE FUCKING AUDACITY????????????????????????

[demonzoro]

thinking abt that anon who posted a hate comment 0.3 seconds after i posted a fic ....... genuinely you inspire me to write more

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2025: OVERGROWTH by Mira Grant.

Plant-astically delighted to report that I received an ARC via Tor (Nightfire) and Goodreads! I love Seanan McGuire's writing, and my first foray into her work as Mira Grant was INTO THE DROWNING DEEP, which was phenomenal (think all the best parts of Michael Crichton--the Science, the Speculation, the Consequences--but women and queer people are Entire Characters)(we love a good sci-fi horror paced like a thriller in this house).

The premise of OVERGROWTH is basically "the pod people are coming, they've been warning you about it for decades, and no one has been listening." Stasia, our main character and (first person, past tense) narrator, has spent her whole life telling people that she's "the vanguard of an invading species of intelligent alien plants," which is confirmed via a broadcast from space.

And the chapters are time-stamped "X days pre-invasion."

Yeah.

This book was an absolute delight and all around a lot of fun--the tone was the perfect balance of funny and heartfelt and relatable and dread-inducing, and it very much read like a love letter to the genre with lots of cross-pollinated references (Seymour? Little Shop of Horrors? War of the Worlds? Jurassic Park? Hello????).

It was also very much a book about the distinction between being human and being a person, and about alienation and belief and trust and friendship, and about queerness and neurodivergence and belonging. And, y'know, mimetic plant aliens, in myriad shades of green.

I was initially surprised by the choice to tell this story in past tense and first person (because DROWNING DEEP was patently not that, and most of what I've read of McGuire hasn't been either), but it turns out that was The Only Correct Way To Do It: For most of the book, Stasia didn't have the full picture of what was going on, but her partial understanding + our readerly perspective from inside her head carried both the relatability and the horror. It was a really interesting and cool way to do an alien invasion book (from the perspective of the invader's plant)(ahaha, botanical pun). Also, the narrative frame made me pterodactyl Hunter shriek my way through the last two pages, which. OOF. WHAT A RIDE!!! I'll be rotisserie-ing over the late-game twist (page 396/465 in my copy) and the ending for a long time.

I loved that the aliens felt alien and all too much like people; I loved Toni and Hunter; I loved the biology and worldbuilding; I loved the botanical quips ("salad bar" is, in fact, the best possible term of address to an alien invader, no notes); I loved the shady government agencies and unethical experimentation; I loved the "we are the monsters you have made". I stayed up way past my bedtime several times for this, and it was worth every second. Do recommend, check this out in May!!

Half-assed spoilery content warnings under the cut (I'm not good at these because I have a weird concept of what necessitates a warning, so please do NOT consider these complete in any way shape or form):

on-page toddler death (graphic, in prologue, signposted with "look away"); transphobia (toward beloved trans character); spider (alien); bug-adjacent (alien); vampirism/blood drinking; other usual horror/alien invasion type tropes etc. (body horror? do people tag body horror?? i was an animorphs kid i'm sorry i don't know what a normal amount of body horror is but i love it all)

[querical-equinox]

“Dave, what did you think you were doing?” your heart was beginning to calm down. “What. Were. You. Doing?”

This was one of those scenes that has been bouncing around in my brain non-stop since I read it and I'm so happy to have it drawn out finally! Like serious kudos to @glitchysquidd for this chapter of Frighteningly Intriguing, I have been knawing at this for days now. I was originally just gonna thumbnail the scene out for funsies, but the inspiration hit hard lol and here we are. And as an extra treat here are said thumbnails cause i still like the sketchiness of em (not pictured however are the other variant pages lmao i did quite a few)

[bluemoon-golden]

yesterday, Etoiles said he'd probably log on the server tonight. hilarious timing. local anti-rp man comes home on Most Lore Day more at 9

[saessenach]

No but why is this silly show so much FUN and why am I several years late to it!!!

I love lying characters who tell the truth but only to a certain degree, so I am absolutely YELLING about Sauron flat-out TELLING Galadriel about the blood-oath to Morgoth and "I am not the hero you seek"

I especially find it really fun how you've got the little sleight of hand trick setting up Sauron behind Halbrand - the so-called kingship of the Southlands, the mystery of a crest that marks the way, the whole forge thing!! Gosh, it would have been sooooo much to go into this blind about the reveal BUT this is also really FUN.

(I've only ever read one of the LOTR books, but had a lovely time with the movies, so I am not the best at discerning whether this is a ~good~ adaption, but hooo boy am I having a lot of fun with it!!!)

[setacin]

return the sun ..... return home

[kirisclangen]

Larchpaw

She/her, 8 moons, cis molly

[dykesynthezoid]

Sometimes so many people in a fandom hate women that if you are vocal about not really shipping a popular m/f ship people will baselessly assume that you also hate women bc obviously you must only be doing it bc you’re into the m/m ship everyone’s obsessed w and then you have to look at them dead-eyed and say well actually I am a dyke and I want that woman to be having freak nasty sex with other women and also just do not fucking care about her relationships w men but sure whatever you say

[nappingpaperclip]

[marigoldbaker]

Eda still wasn’t one hundred percent sure whether she’d just now acquired a long-term partner or she’d been dating Raine the whole time without realizing it, but either way, today was still the day she’d kissed Raine for the first time, and she really felt like getting in trouble was the best way to commemorate something that objectively fucking awesome. (Eda and Raine get together. Are together? Have always been together? Unclear. They're having fun with it, though.)

i just have a lot of fun thinking about best friends in love. i think eda and raine would be such goofs.

[druidposting]

Spahr's oddly sincere "cute" upon entering Lark's cabin is so funny to me. Like why did he say that lmfao. No one asked your opinion Jonas but im so glad you gave it <3

[bitchthefuck1]

I don't want to sound like a bitch but the fact that a vast majority of the top posts for the bear s3 are about sydcarmy is genuinely depressing. like if the only lens you can look at a show like this through is "is my ship canon or not" I fear you've missed the point

[edraculation]

you ever see somebody be so objectively wrong about your blorbo that you have to block them on sight