#farm accidents

[ahedderick]

Silver scissors

Sometimes I'm just going about a normal day and I suddenly remember the silver scissors. They were cold, moving up the side of my ribcage. Hold up:

The summer I was four I got run over. My parents had loud hysterics (and, yeah, I have to let them have that one) and drove me to the ER right away. In the ER, after the nurses tried to tell my mother to settle down, someone got a look at the big tractor-tire-print across my abdomen, and they suddenly got a lot more serious. I was gently laid on a table for an x-ray, and they cut my clothes off. From the ankle on up to my neckline; I'll never forget the feel of the scissors. For the longest time, the words 'silver' and 'cold' were synonyms in my mind. Children's clothes were different in the 70s, and not nearly as 'childish' or rainbow-y as they are now. The shirt I had on had dark olive-green stripes. I can remember being terrified that I would get in trouble for ruining my shirt. I was squished, bruised, and had both hips dislocated, but my primary concern was getting in trouble. Which, hmm.

The x-ray showed no broken bones or visible organ damage, just the dislocated hips. The doctor reviewed things and decided, in his wisdom, to inform my mother that I was going to die; that there was nothing they could do but keep me comfortable until I passed. "This is not a survivable injury."

I lived. Bitch. Three days later they sent me home. I don't believe the ruined shirt was ever an issue. They didn't want to feed me anything, because of the internal damage they assumed I had, but I did get a sherbet cup at some point, and it made quite an impression on me. I got zero actual medical care (after the x-ray). The seventies were a wild, weird time.

All of this brought to you by the fact that I saw a video clip of Ernie from Sesame Street, and he had a very drab, kinda-ugly striped shirt on.

[therobinswayne]

this might be a crazy idea, but what is instead of pacifica just being the northwest who owns the town at the time, pacifica switches places with fiddleford?

like, listen. after not getting into his dream school, dipper manages to get into a school that is still reputable based off his good grades. pacifica is his roommate because, hey, it's the 70s, no way he's trying to explain transgender to the admissions office. they hate each other for a while, because he thinks she's a priss who payed her way in, and she's annoyed that he fights back. but over the first year, they help each other understand themselves. she learns about his birth mark (which he keeps firmly hidden away beneath his hat at all times) and he learns about her cold and distant parents. they bond.

they live together for all of college, and it gets to the point that dipper won't deny having a crush on her, but he doesn't even think to bring it up, shrouded in his own insecurities. but she's the first real friend he's ever had that wasn't friends with mabel first. in fact, she doesn't even know mabel exists.

when she comes clean to him about feeling like a fraud because her father DID help her get into school, he convinces her to prove herself and get the degree she wants instead of just the MRS degree her father had planned for her. she turned out to be a damn good mechanical engineer.

when they graduated, her father withheld her any money for not settling down how he wanted, and she found herself a job with her degree so she could really be herself. she credits dipper with helping her get there. she promises to write. dipper heads to oregon.

she works there for a year, before getting fired. any other place she tries refuses to hire a woman in the field. she's forced to go back to her parents. her dad sets her up with an approved husband, and she gets married. she doesn't care about him at all. she has a son. he's named after her father.

then, when her son is 3 or 4, she gets a call from dipper. he asks her to come to some town in oregon and help her build something, because he needs a brilliant mechanical engineer, and she's the best one he knows. she tells her husband she's going, and he doesn't care. she hugs her son tightly, tells him to be good for the nanny, and sets off.

dipper's a little different. he's more crazed, drinks a lot more coffee, is constantly scribbling in his journals and whispering to himself. he has all these plans, and he doesn't seem to leave the house often. more often than not, she's the one who heads into town and buys groceries so they have anything to eat.

she knows something's going on with him but he won't tell her what. one day, he falls asleep next to her while working and she finds out. bill, his name is, and he's rather unfriendly. but dipper didn't tell her. she doesn't know what to do with that, so she just doesn't bring it up.

when they finish the portal, their first test, her foot is in front of the line. for just one moment, she's stuck inside. dipper brings her out, but it's too much. she can't even describe what she's seen. it's horrifying. she tells him they have to destroy it, and he refuses. she leaves.

when she gets back to her family, her husband is in bed with the nanny. she doesn't have it in her to care.

she sets to work, making something that can help her forget the horrors that haunt her dreams. she does make it, and she takes it to gravity falls in hopes of helping dipper forget all of this madness. when it doesn't work, he looks at her so damn betrayed. like she's the one doing horrible things when he wants to bring about destruction.

it's so easy, in the aftermath, to erase his face from her brain. that betrayed look in his eyes. but it still comes back and haunts her. so she makes it stronger, makes it work better, keeps testing it on herself, until there are gaps in her memories she doesn't remember there being and she doesn't remember why she even made it.

doesn't matter. she can't stop now.

by the time the stan's get there, pacifica is just. the old lady who lives in the trash yard. her hair is thin and white, she's shrunk, her posture is atrocius. she knows her name is pacifica, but that's all. she doesn't remember anyone for long, or any direct conversations. things go missing the second they happen, and no one can recall what happened to her.

eventually, her son moves to gravity falls in hopes of finding his mother. he doesn't put together who she is, since no one knows her last name. she doesn't look anything like the woman he's seen pictures of.

when dipper returns to the dimmension, after weirdmageddon, she sees him and for the first time in a long time, she remembers something. he tells her she must hate him, but she just hugs him. he works to get her memory back, bit by bit, by reworking her machine to work in reverse.

once she's got enough memory to come back to herself, one of the first things she does is kiss him.

the second thing is going and finding her son.

[nelkcats]

Wrong Ticket

Danny bought a plane ticket to travel to Goshen, Indiana to visit his father's family. Apparently his aunt was very excited to meet him, and Jazz was excited to send him away from the lab after his accident.

She was worried that she would have to spend a few days scouting colleges, and Danny would be left home unguarded (she wouldn't make that mistake twice, her parents didn't count as good guards and Danny would be too bored since he was on school holidays), so the invitation from their uncles was like a miracle fallen from heaven.

Unfortunately for Danny, his family didn't check the ticket after purchasing it, and therefore they didn't notice the error where "Goshen, Indiana" was changed to "Gotham, New Jersey," so when the airline called his flight, Danny didn't notice his destination. He practically fell asleep a few seconds after entering the plane.

Danny wished he had been paying attention when a few hours later he found himself stranded on the streets of Gotham with nothing but his luggage and a little money. Though that last seemed more of a risk than a benefit if he took into account the way they watched him as he passed.

As if that wasn't enough, it seemed that something strange was starting to happen to him, there were moments where his backpack would slip from his grip, almost as if he was walking through it, and others where he felt invisible. This did not go unnoticed by the denizens of Gotham, who were assessing him with clear interest.

Red Hood, who had noticed the guy (possibly meta) stumbling into his territory, sighed and offered him a temporary place to stay. Danny, who just met the strange guy in the red helmet, was relieved to have temporary lodging, though he would probably look for another place the next day. Just in case.

[daredevil-vagabond]

Here's my take on scarecrow, where his origins are a kinda fucked up legacy farmer from West Virginia who figured out how to synthesize LSD from farm herbicide when he was in his Ph.D program.

[witches-come]

"A prenatal person does not use a pregnant person's body."

What.

[doomspaniels]

The Big Doggies had some Opinions about the parasite that swallowed the Little Howly Buddy's head. Mostly "What on EARTH??"

[justamagicalpurpleshark]

Doc casually building his mural:

*server breaks down*

Doc: *sighs* *turns to the sign on the wall* *resets the count*

Days since Docm77 broke the server: 0

[monpalace]

Time knew he would never be able to understand all the new-fangled sayings and things that the youth said nowadays; especially given how much time he spent around the other Links without picking up a single term.

It came with being older in age (and era), he knew that. He could easily accept it because there was no shame.

He just can't help but wonder how you managed to keep up with the younger members. You were so close in age, and yet you had a much easier time understanding them.

(Were you his? From what he understood, you came from similar times.)

(He prays you are.)

Four and Sky, despite being “older,” even knew what words the younger generations used in their day-to-day lives.

“You're troubled.”

Time allows his eyes to wander from the conversing group that settled around the fire to his side. He was more than out of the way from the others, resting his aching back against a tree.

“What’s wrong?”

He shakes his head, letting his gaze move elsewhere so as to not let his hesitance show. “I’m fine. Your eyes deceive you.”

“My eyes deceive me?” Rather than offense, your voice mocked his own in amusement. “I’d be a fool to not see you sulk in this corner by your lonesome. I’ll ask again;” you hum, taking his hand into yours. “What troubles you?”

Time makes a vague gesture to the gossiping group, the tales of Wild’s experiences days after he woke up from his century-long sleep transitioning into Wind’s carefully spun stories of the seas to impress his older brothers.

“Their language is lost on me.”

“Lost on you?”

“Aye,” Time groans.

The laugh that bubbles out from your throat; Time has known (his) you long enough to know which ones you're able to hold back and which ones you can't.

He knows this is one of those laughs you can't stifle.

Time’s lungs clear at the sound. Whatever smoke and fog that previously cluttered them instantly dissipates into the air he breathed, the (not so) subtle of his brows undoing itself the few seconds it went on.

“They're not having an easy time either, you know,” you say.

The comment makes Time huff, his spine curling under the heavy weight of his armor when his muscles relax. “I know.” The leather and metal of his gauntlets creak around his fingers uncomfortably when he cracks his knuckles. “I know,” he reiterates.

“It’s always aye with you. Yes sir, no boy— you’re so formal.” Despite the discomfort of it, you lean onto his arm. “The only ones not intimidated by it are Twilight and Hyrule. Relax.”

“I am relaxed.”

Time ignores the way you stare down at the armor he wore.

The phantom warmth he felt emanating from your body leaves when you stand. He wants to reach out and bring you back beside him, but he doesn't believe he should be selfish when he looked so rigid and was seated so close to the others.

The desire grows when you stretch an arm behind his head and cup your hand around the back of his head, fingers scratching his scalp. His body feels akin to an open flame with you pull him forward and press a kiss to his forehead.

“Take your armor off and join us. Tell us that story of your ex-fiancée, yeah?”

Time is ashamed of how quickly he sheds his metal outer-casing, but he does as told like a dog receiving a bone.

[buckybarnesss]

I was watching a documentary about a guy from a family with a lot of tragedy in it and one of the things said on this program is "I used to have five brothers. Now I'm not even a brother" because he was 1 of 6 and his 5 brothers all died. And man did it make me think of Derek, I know he has sisters not brothers but like, I just think of him going from having a big family to being completely alone and how much damage that has to do to a person. So much of S1 Derek makes sense in light of that!

oh man that's from kevin von erich. i found an article where the quote is used. apparently it's from an episode of espn's 30 on 30. the recent movie the iron claw was about the von erich family. absolutely tragic.

fandom talks a lot about how teen wolf has a lot of only children but it also has a non-insignificant amount of sibling death.

the catalyst for the events of teen wolf is laura hale's death and derek coming to look for her.

malia and her little sister kylie. even in her coyote form malia kept her sister's baby doll for 8 years and when scott and stiles took it she came looking.

theo killed his sister tara but she haunts him, her heart beats inside him.

camden lahey died before the show but it left isaac bereft a brother.

boyd's sister alicia died and it haunted him.

ethan held his twin aiden as he died.

peter likely had to listen to talia die and was helpless to do anything. he's a little brother left without his big sister.

alexander argent's suicide seems to be gerard's motivation/justification to go after duecalion

marie jeanne had to kill her brother sebastian which ends up mirroring her decedents chris and kate,

chris loses kate first to their father's manipulations and than to her own depravity.

it's a huge plot point that mason absorbed his twin in the womb making him a genetic chimera.

brett and his little sister lorilee

stiles and scott consider each other as good as brothers too

it's why cora hale's survival is such a huge moment and is such pivotal, paradigm shifting, world altering event to derek's character arc. cora hale was the inverse of peter's resurrection. cora being alive and returning gave derek hope. he was no longer the middle child of three left all alone.

[broodygaming]

Happy Halloween from my On Theme rooster

[merry-fagoland]

"why are you giving this character a weird hobby that doesn't make any sense" no you don't understand it. makes sense To Me. which is why im giving goro akechi an ant farm

[swan2swan]

No show will ever do it like Avatar because in the first five episodes we got to see:

1. The decrepit outskirt hovel town that said “It’s all UP from here” (literally, they’re at the South Pole).

2. A ruined but majestic Air Temple on a mountain peak.

3. A Fire Nation naval base.

4. A humble fishing village with several memorable characters.

5. A whole darn mountain metropolis with magical infrastructure ruled by a crazy old king and visited by an incredible gag character.

And it did all of this without feeling rushed, crowded, forced, or unsatisfying.

In five episodes.

[outofthiisworld]

🐓// tired: doc & ophelia getting chickens for the farmhouse

wired: doc & ophelia rescuing weird lab-spliced hybrid monster alien chickens from one of the ATLAS earth bases and treating them like they’re normal chickens outside of their particular quirks and needs.

[goldfishontheceiling]

ezekiel's first movie would be teen beach movie, because he searched up "teen beach movie" on google and found it. he would be terrified of movies after that because he doesn't understand that it's not real and you can't actually get stuck in movies.

[definitelynotshouting]

Just saw your update on your single player world: love the shoreline! The bits were grass becomes sand is really well done as well!

!!!! AUGH THANK YOU!!!! I want to increase the mud patches to make them a little less blotchy from a distance, but otherwise im pretty happy with the overall transition!!!!

Also thank you for the excuse to show off my starter house, which i just finished a few days ago :]

plus bonus interior:

[kakusu-shipping]

My mini contribution to @echoes-lighthouse's Evil Slasher Orphanage! My wife Anna and I are here to help, and brought a few more kids of our own.

I really thought I was a horror fan until I sat down to draw this and came up blank. I guess I'm not a slasher guy, because a LOT more Monsters and Beasts came to mind, so it took a while to form a list. Though I did include Sam who is certainly a Creeture but.. They're human enough.