#gasoline is fine

[landwriter]

this morning's early googling for wrapping up the corinthian/hob fic:

gulf of mexico oil rigs

molotov cocktail ingredients

siphoning gas tool

nuclear lab mexico

savoy hotel bathrooms

[dreamsy990]

just nobody things (ft: rikus impeccable sense of smell)

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

one one time my friend had a dream about the bomb gianni plush playing a trombone better then them. he was really upset about it in the morning

Thank you for being the only normal anon of the night <3

How did your friend lose to a plush with no arms though. Skill issue tbh

[strqyr]

the mystery portal is living in my head rent-free.

for years i've been aimlessly speculating about the possibility that raven has a bond to someone unexpected, simply because they established that she has bonds with qrow, tai, and yang, but logically she needs to have one with someone else to leave. and the obvious answer to that is vernal, but 1. they never mention it anywhere, not even as an 'used to have', 2. there's no way to know if vernal was already with the tribe during the flashbacks (she doesn't look to be much older than yang, at most i'd say she's about the same age as cinder), and 3. we don't even know if raven had gone back to the tribe at this point in time.

and it's not like i ever really thought it would actually go anywhere—i was fully prepared to have been overthinking things like usual lol—but to be here now is like... they're feeding into my bad habits... and i don't know what to think ಠ╭╮ಠ

[enbycupcake]

team help. i made a box choco cake last night with apple cider vinegar+baking soda instead of eggs and i added in cinnamon and put homemade frosting on top. last night it tasted fine but today it tasted SO FUCKING BAD????? what happened T.T

[tricksteroftheheart]

the 'severe regret' fic is going to make me twist.

talking about ships in the tags. cw astro x sprout and cosmo x dandy (not spoken about positively.)

[kianri-ah]

watching the young royals trailer for the first time, @ august: oh so hes a piece of shit

two seasons later: OH so hes a Piece of Shit

[lightdancer1]

See the further irony is:

That in using 'Mall Goth Sauron' as the take on Dark Willow over 'misogynist has character randomly killed for LULZ' it also allows for greater accountability on the one hand and for Season 7 to thematically focus on repairing all this damage in the midst of facing an enemy of shadows reliant on lies to further itself. The only way to break the Druj is the absolute Truth in a very Zoroastrian sense. Characters don't get to neatly skip past accountability for their actions, and this would spiral over into further later seasons with the essential reality that in an otherwise lower-level setting this one random girl from California is a Dark Phoenix-tier reality warper and the most powerful person on the planet, or the universe.

And the questions of how that power could and should be employed on the one hand and that Willow is essentially a Doctor Strange type who beats up Gods and Eldritch Abominations for her regular line of work where her counterparts deal with the more 'street level' crises would in turn be the logical conclusion of where the show ends. She doesn't do as much physical fighting for the same reason that Stephen Strange never uses magic to go punch the Hulk in the face, her narrative role is ultimately that of Sorceress Supreme of Earth, with literally nobody in an ancient established war anticipating that this one random ginger from California was and is the new Sorceress Supreme and that if they had had such awareness the realities are that this power would and could have taken worse forms.

Unfortunately for the world, the reality too is that it is a shy computer geek who has a not at all subtle dark side and the usual teenage anxieties and insecurities given the equivalent of being able to reliably actually do things other people might dream of but can never do.

But again as long as Dawn Summers being a good thing is a narrative convention that's established memory magic is a poor choice to show the corrupting effects of reality-warping. It's a case of 'yes as established in canon all of this is true for that one season but then they decided to retcon it, so the fans are not obligated to care about it any more than the canon does about this itself.'

[8iunie]

via Giorgia’s Instagram story, 28.02.2023

[blazeball]

saw the first ending for immortality but i fucked up and glitched it which was a little upsetting </3 but its fine i still have so much game to do

[marlenasblog]

Songs that we've already heard 😭

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Hiii just wanted to say you are my favorite tumblr page on this site/application. Have a good day and sparkle on :>

I worry for your health but ok <3

[gible-love-nibles-archive]

omg haiiiii :3c haiiii cathal, how are you????? :3c

“Oh, hi. I'm doing fine. Just having a sandwich.”

“…Needs more kerosene on it.”

[sunset-a-story]

—5— What songs would you choose to accompany someone reading your first three chapters?

- @writeintrees

Yay! I was hoping I would get his one for some reason. Thanks, @writeintrees!

Pepita by Calexico

Gasoline by Halsey

Family by Mother Mother

[supercrazygirl2003]

went out for dinner <3

[apocalypticdemon]

for the wip title ask game:

'the droning engine'

oh boy, this is my super self-indulgent fic, lmao. I've been super into IndyCar my whole life, as is the rest of my family, so it's my IndyCar AU for the Terror (with a focus on fitzier as the narrative drive behind it).

It's kind of unwieldy and a bigger project than I thought it would be, so it's still very much in the works/in the planning stages while i draft prose as it comes to me, but I've been poking at it in my free time. The basic premise is Crozier is an older driver, signed to team Terror, a smaller team, but one that generally is in good standing. He's got a really odd rivalry with Fitzjames, and this comes to a head at the start of the work, when the Terror management signs James on as a driver. Basically, the plot is going to stretch over the entirety of an IndyCar season, and I'm going to try to hit major plot beats from the show in this story as the characters all vie for the championship for the season. Some stuff gets changed around, just to make things work, but that's the general premise.

I have it planned for the final driver lineup for team Terror to be Crozier, Fitzjames, Silna, and I think Little, but that's still in flux. Hickey was on the team, but gets let go after publicly starting a fight with Silna and suffering the consequences, lol. He continues to scheme in the background as the season continues to unfold, because a different team snaps him up pretty quickly. Is it conventional for how drivers are passed around and contracts are signed? no, probably not, but I do what I want, lol.

I have plans for general plot beats, how I want to draw narrative similarities for things like the no good, very bad wardroom dinner from the first episode, carnivale, and character deaths in the show without...... actually killing anybody, because I can't really have that.

I want the vibes for the fitzier part of the story to be the kind of "they would absolutely fuck several times before actually talking about their feelings" kind of dynamic, so I think that's the route I'm going to take and have their relationship really blossom towards the end of the season, but i'm also still planning out the specifics of that one. I really like the added tension of a secret relationship, given that they're on the same team and that motorsports doesn't necessarily have the most.... open-minded audience (it's very fun being an unpatriotic queer person at these events. i am....... very much in the minority there), so I want to play with that a bit, too. I thought I had a neat and tidy plan, but it rather started crumbling in my hands when i sat down to actually try to write it, so I think I'm going to be wrangling this one for a bit.

but i'm very excited to actually get to it someday! i know this write-up is very rambly and a bit unhinged, but i truly have so many thoughts about it that it's hard to organize into a coherent, short summary, lol. I have a lot of personal history tied up in this, too, so it's hard not to just go on cool tangents about the sport. this project has taken a back seat as my master's work ramps up, since it's just.... so much bigger than i thought it would be. but i really want to work on it over this winter break, creative juices willing.

and as thanks for reading........... all of this rambling, lol, here's a snippet from my draft of the "birdshit island"-cum-team-dinner scene:

Francis is at the end of his patience with the man, at this point in the day, and snaps. “Why don’t you tell us all about that crash in Monterey, James? That one was rather spectacular, if I remember right.” Fitzjames sours immediately, frowning and gritting his teeth. Francis has exactly a half a second of deep satisfaction at the expression before Blanky viciously kicks him in the shins under the table. Francis winces and glares at him, leaning down to rub at the spot. It had hurt, damn it. That prosthetic leg wasn’t soft by any stretch of the imagination.