#ghostofasecretary

[lorata]

*have some jerky and a crisp, beautiful apple* <3

ahhhhh experienced mentor, protein and salt AND a treat for the morale thank you thank you much appreciated I am watching the fake sunset with a sense of real beauty

[tanoraqui]

tell us about Míriel in the superhero AU?

Miriel was Finwë’s neighbor, best friend and first crush. Her father worked for the government on the sort of morally dubious scientific projects that would soon become Los Alamos and nuclear bombs…and one day when they were, idk, ten? They snuck into his laboratory out of curiosity and something went Terribly Wrong, and Miriel was struck by irradiated, maybe even Musical lighting that made her…sick, mostly. But also now she could manipulate thread with her mind, any sort of thread, anything that could reasonably be imagined as thread. (Think Sandry from the Circle of Magic books by Tamora Pierce.)

Part of what drove Finwë from that day, as he sought chances for heroism, befriended aliens and gods, was to fix or at least make up for what he saw as his fault for giving Miriel this chronic weakness. Miriel, who accompanied him on most of these adventures because she had freakin’ superpowers and also wanted to help people and see strange new things, never blamed him, though she did get annoyed at him blaming himself.

Miriel’s death not long after Fëanáro’s birth was still something like sheer exhaustion and something like a choice. She returned at some point (comic books!) and, as of the “present day” of her few great-grandchildren being teenage heroes, lives together with Indis in the Tirion family manor house (none of their descendants live there anymore, though some stay frequently enough to still have their own room.)

[mixelation]

@ghostofasecretary commented on this post about when Minato has a "what have i done" moment about team 4:

ooooh ok so, in reborn au au where Minato Does A Bloodbath instead, when does he get clued in on how monstrous they are?

i think i'm actually going to tweak the events of the iwa chunin exams in toxicity (reborn au au) slightly to make it Even Worse. they get out of iwa like they do in mutagenicity. and then, instead of acting rash in an emotional moment, minato has a "fuck it" moment and goes to Iwa the next day as a much more premeditated, calculated move. and THEN he does a bloodbath. :)

obito: see? i told you i got it from somewhere.

[a-small-batch-of-dragons]

Hypermobility

Okay wait I have a prompt!!! If you wanna So I've been reading a lot of fics recently that are in space aus, with the whole humans are deathworlders concept (idk how this is common across my fandoms but it is so I'm binging them lol). And I had an idea based on recent irl events. – anon (long ask, cut for brevity)

inspired by my lovely @ghostofasecretary who has trained all of our friend group to look for hypermobility on account of our schlorpy joints :)

Read on Ao3

Warnings: none

Pairings: loosely implied analogical i guess, but as with most of my shit can be platonic or romantic you decide

Word Count; 1809

Remus glances up to see Virgil staring at Logan like his abdomen has spontaneously ruptured. He sees Roman out of the corner of his eye do the same. Virgil swallows heavily. "L," he says slowly, "what the fuck is wrong with your arms?" "Nothing is wrong with my arms, what are you talking about?" "Elbows don't bend like that!" Ah. So there was something wrong. Remus was right. Take that, human etiquette manual. Wait, shit, something's wrong with Logan.

Roman clicks at Remus as he comes onto the lab floor. Remus clicks back as he logs onto his station, sighing as he looks at the absolute mess someone's fucking made of the logs—seriously, it's only been one quarter cycle, how are they this fucked up already?—and Roman immediately leans over to see what he's sighing at.

"Wait, what's that?"

"Some xetron made an absolute fucking disaster out of the hadron logs."

Roman winces in sympathy and his carapace shifts. "Are you gonna do yours before you clean that up, or—?"

The last part of his question gest interrupted when Logan comes onto the floor, waving a brief hello with his fingers instead of his antenna—because humans don't have antennae, which was a pretty sharp learning curve for both of them when they'd been so confused as to why this human was refusing to talk to them or even show his feelings, they'd had a few apologetic shifts before Logan realized what was going on and explained everything—and raising an eyebrow when he noticed them clustered around Remus's station.

"Is there something wrong?"

"The shift before us messed up their hadron logs."

Logan rolls his eyes. "You'd think that for life forms insistent that their gravitational curves made them more naturally prepared for graviton scans, they'd have a better sense of how to record them properly."

"You're spellcasting on the acolytes, Logan."

Logan frowns, glancing at his tablet, before the equivalent phrase pings on the screen and he hums. "Ah, I see. Yes, well, if you'd like my help at any point, I only have the routine gamma sweeps to do this shift, so I should be amenable."

"Oh, I can do it, it's just a pain in my thorax."

Roman chuckles and heads back to his own station, probably to sneakily-not-so-sneakily ask some of the others on the shift who are fucking competent what the fuck happened. Remus gets himself ready to dive into the long and tedious work of redoing the spin increments and calculating the proper uncertainties for the right variables—honestly, do they even look at the readouts? It has the layout right there! And it's not like the other logs are invisible! Just look at the rows two microns above the empty one you're supposed to be filling out!—and manages to sink into a rhythm for the first half of the shift. Granted, he's absolutely muttering about how stupid it is that they aren't even calculating the basic momentum, let alone the angular velocity to account for the other celestial bodies in the middle of the waveforms, but it's fine, and Roman keeps up his running commentary of the molecular analysis machine that takes its sweet-ass time to do even the most basic of scans, and every so often he'll hear a small huff from Logan as he corrects their probe's trajectory, but for the most part, the lab is a quiet and serene place to be.

God, he can't wait until he gets rotated back to the engineering department full-time.

Like, yeah, he likes spending time with his brother, and the human's cool—he's really funny when he lets himself be, like his wit is drying than the mountain deserts on Cre-Ativa, and his facial expressions are fucking plat when their superiors are being xetrons, but there's only so much he can take of this quiet where not much happens. And he has to deal with the idiots who don't know how to format hadron logs correctly. This is the third time he's had to correct a typo that's rendered the rest of the calculations useless.

"I'm honestly about to recommend them for a review of the training course, that's how fucking serious this is."

"Maybe there's something wrong with how the keyboard is adapted for their limbs?"

"That would explain some of the typos, not all of them. And it definitely wouldn't explain why there's a massive formatting change about halfway through."

"Perhaps there's a shorthand they're using for some of the notes that we don't know about, and they're forgetting to correct them at the end of their shift."

"Yeah, but then they should tell us that, instead of—" Roman trails off and Remus looks up.

Logan is…stretching, yes, that's the right word. His limbs are extended over his head and his back is arched, but his upper limbs are…bending. Not like the way they normally bend, they're bending…too much? Not enough? The wrong way? Yeah, that's it. The wrong way.

Logan notices they've gone quiet and looks over. "Is there something wrong?"

"You're, uh," Remus stammers, "are you—okay?"

"Yes, I'm perfectly fine, what is it?"

"Nothing, nothing."

He and Roman exchange a look—the first rule in the human etiquette training manual was if they get weird, just roll with it for a reason—and get back to minding their own business. Admittedly, some of the errors do make more sense now that he's looking at it like it's some kind of shorthand he doesn't know yet, but that wouldn't explain why some of these variables are straight-up wrong and why they wouldn't bother to tell him what the shorthand is so that he's not trying to do the work of two shifts in the time of one.

Something he does appreciate is that the way the shifts in the lab are set up, opposed to engineering, is that sometimes there will be people whose shifts halfway overlap with theirs. So there's always at least one set of people that are staying in the lab while a changeover is happening and then there's not that risk that the equipment will be left unattended. Apparently they learned that lesson the hard way when the molecular exhibitor decided to go into overload in the five minutes where there wasn't anyone logged in, and nearly destroyed the matter wave projector on the station next to it. The justification was in the name of safety, but really everyone knows it's just so the higher-ups know exactly who to blame when shit goes awry.

Whatever the case may be, the door slides open to reveal the other human down here, Virgil, yawning as he makes his way over to his station.

"Hello, hello, everyone."

"Hi, Virgil!"

Virgil winces. "You are way too chipper this early in the morning."

"It's past the circadian half cycle, Virgil."

"Yeah, and?"

"I'm afraid you're going to have to acclimate to your schedule on your own time," Logan says, stretching again, "even though I'm sure your caffeine tolerance has—what? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Remus glances up to see Virgil staring at Logan like his abdomen has spontaneously ruptured. He sees Roman out of the corner of his eye do the same. Virgil swallows heavily.

"L," he says slowly, "what the fuck is wrong with your arms?"

"Nothing is wrong with my arms, what are you talking about?"

"Elbows don't bend like that!"

Ah. So there was something wrong. Remus was right. Take that, human etiquette manual.

Wait, shit, something's wrong with Logan.

"Logan? Do we need to take you to medbay?" Roman's already rushing out from behind his station. "There's a pack in the corner, I can—"

"Oh, for—relax, all of you, I'm fine."

"Uh-huh, yeah, fine, that's what I'd describe elbows that bend all schlorpy as, yeah," Virgil says, "what the—does that not hurt?"

"What? No, it doesn't hurt, look, your joints—"

"My joints suck ass but at least they're fucking bending the amount they're supposed to!"

Remus isn't quite sure how human joints are capable of such a surprising and invasive act, but never let it be said he's not curious. "Your joints are capable of performing anal suction?"

"What the fuck? No! It's a turn of phrase!"

"Oh. Disappointing."

"Ignore him," Roman says, "Logan, are you sure you're—"

"Yes, yes, I'm fine, I'm just—oh," he mumbles, prodding at his tablet, "what's the word for this in Common?"

"There's no word for schlorpy elbows, Logan—"

"Yes, there is!" He pokes around for a few more seconds before he lets out a noise of triumph and says something that the translators don't translate.

"It's what?" Virgil just shakes his head when Logan tries again. "I don't know what that means, bud."

Logan sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Okay, let me try it this way. What's it called when you are in a state of heightened energy and it leads to outbursts of things like running around, or talking too loudly, or being high-strung?"

"Remus," Roman offers helpfully.

"No, Roman."

"Are you talking about being excitable?"

"No, there's a specific word for it. It also serves as a prefix for being too much of something, or an overabundance of something."

"Too much—do you mean the word hyper?"

"Yes! Yes, that's it. And then what's the name of the thing that some people hang over cribs that have little stars or animals?"

Virgil stares at Logan for another moment. "You mean a baby mobile?"

"Yes, but only the second word."

"Mobile?"

"Yes, that's it. Then put the two words together—"

"There were probably so many other ways you could've said you were hypermobile, L, I'm just gonna put that out there—"

"Well, it got you to guess it, didn't it?"

"It's too fucking early for this shit."

"Again, it is afternoon—"

"Shut up."

Roman looks back and forth between the two humans, still twitching as though he's going to be asked to sprint for the medbay at a moment's notice. "So…is Logan…are you alright?"

"Yes, for the fourth time, I'm fine. Virgil's just a little excitable, that's all."

"You try being normal when joints are doing unexpected things," Virgil mumbles, more to his caf than anything else, but he reaches behind himself to pat Roman's carapace. "He's fine, his body just does that."

"But you said it bends the wrong way, how is that fine?"

"There is a thing known as hypermobility," Logan says, "it…oh, dear, it basically means that certain joints will bend…more."

"He's not hurt, that's pretty much all I know."

Roman looks like he's about to protest but Remus just clicks at him. They exchange another look as the humans settle back to work.

Humans are weird, just gotta roll with it.

These hadron logs, on the other hand—

"I'm gonna punt these flimflobbers into the next star we see."

"Can I help? They fucked up the carbon dating program as well."

"How do you fuck that up?"

"Ask them, not me!"

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[grey-ves]

Getting to knoooow me

thanks @nixieteeth :)

Last song: Between the River and Me by Tim McGraw

Last film: Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021) (for a class, but it was a really interesting documentary!)

Currently reading: So many books... mainly Dracula by Bram Stoker (ofc) and Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture Since 1870 by Katherine Ott. For fun I've started Babel by R.F. Kuang and Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.

Currently watching: Dungeon Meshi

Currently consuming: Water

Currently craving: Pho... always pho

tagging @rhatbog @evening-wish @deadl1ghts @skellish @anotherdamnalex @andresindoril @ghostofasecretary

[everoutoftouch]

How does your Pinterest see you?

I was tagged by @onyxheartbeat thank you! ^^

Search up

-Fashion

-Pantone

-Mood

-Food

I like it. Especially the Pantone color!

Tagging anyone who wants to do this and @fictionalred @gothdrpepper @graveyardlilies @ghostofasecretary

[aeide-thea]

tagged by @aldieb! thx for thinking of me, these little questionnaires are like. a cute little blast from tumblr's more interactive past :)

last song: i was going to have to give a sad little answer here about how i don't listen to music nearly enough anymore (never mind sing) and it's very definitely a reflection of my depression, but then i entirely out of nowhere and very urgently was like 'wait actually i have to listen to gordon lightfoot's "song for a winter's night" right now' so then i dashed off and did that and now that's the answer:

if i could know within my heart that you were lonely too i would be happy just to hold the hands i love on this winter night with you…

favorite color: oof so so many!! colors are so important. the signature one has gotta be a really highlighter-vivid chartreuse (🎾), but i do also really love me a good marigold orange? not to mention vermilion, or ochre, or moss green, or really saturated cobalt, or shades of rust or russet…

last movie/show: shetland bbc, which is a quiet well-acted murder mystery series set in a very beautiful very remote landscape. soothing if you like the british isles and can bear to entertain the fantasy of a decent policeman, at least for an hour or so at a time. also i admit to enjoying douglas henshall's face.

sweet/spicy/savory: all the best things are savory and also spicy! like. the jamaican curried chicken i grew up with. indian curries. malaysian laksa my beloved. can you tell i like curry. :D

relationship status: sidebar but this is such an amatonormative question lol. like why are we societally expected to look at 'relationship' and infer 'romantic.' also it seems like a weird outlier given that all the other qs are low-stakes little softballs abt yr tastes. however. extremely single! sometimes i'm sad about it because i miss sexual intimacy and i'm too shy to pursue that with strangers? but honestly most of the time i'm just as glad, because i don't actually know how to love people romantically without making a whole self-abnegating religion of it, so i'm not really convinced that dating was ever really all that good for me, on the whole…

last thing i googled: i use duckduckgo now, and you should too! :) having said that: 'yoal boat.' which is a very beautiful traditional style of shetland boat—apparently descended from a norwegian model?—that the islanders used to use for fishing, and then for storage draw up onto the land into these little prepared hollows called noosts (they have marinas now), which like. obviously i think is the most charming word imaginable. a cozy little noost for a lovely little boat! 🪺

current obsession(s): yoals aside, i guess the thing that best fits this category is that sometime in the last year or so i turned into Merino Guy??? like. even my boxer briefs are merino now (well, a merino-tencel blend) and like. it's so good, guys. comfy in a startlingly wide range of temps, helps me lessen my contribution to the microplastics problem, somehow even makes for reasonable athletic wear in the right weights and cuts: what's not to like. anyway brb, gotta go print out my 'NOT 🐑ISH ABOUT MERINO' bumper sticker. :D

tag 9 people: oof idk, do this if you'd enjoy it and ignore it if you wouldn't? gonna make like west and pull some names from my activity feed: @e-b-reads, @ghostofasecretary, @leatherbookmark, @nathanielthecurious, @obstinatecondolement, @papavera, @quailfang, @tisiphoness, @youcanthandelthetruth

[23rdhunter]

Tag Game!

tagged by: @eikotheblue & @avulleonastick

Favorite color: today it's a cool, blueish gray.

Currently reading: Ravens in Winter by Bernd Heinrich, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, and The Vorkosigan Saga (yes, all of it. again.).

Last song listened to: depends on if singing counts. If yes, "De Colores," the folk song. If no, either "Sullen Girl" by Fiona Apple or "Viola" by Najoua Belyzel and Marc Lavoine.

Last movie watched: Glass Onion! I really enjoyed it, and was able to drag several other people to watch it with me, which tbh is probably most of why I enjoyed it. Gotta track down Knives Out soon.

Last series watched: Saw the latest episode of The Owl House when it came out (not the leak, managed to avoid spoilers entirely, somehow). It continues to be really good!

Currently craving: still feel like a few hours in the ocean would fix me, but gotta fix a few things myself first. Also maybe a hug.

Currently working on: trying to figure out if I can mod Dragon Age: Inquisition acquired via xbox gamepass for pc. If so I might wanna stream a liveplay. maybe. Also deciding if I want to tackle [large cleaning project that will take at least 2 days] today or two weeks from today. Also [redacted].

Tea or coffee: I have had several mugs of both these last 24 hours and expect to *checks time* have at least a few more of tea, though we just passed the end of the coffee times.

Tagging: @xactodreams, @rusalkii, @otterknowbynow, @just-evo-now, @incrediblefiction, @change-the-rules, @ghostofasecretary, @salt-and-bramble, @spiralingintocontrol

(note that being tagged places you under zero obligation to do the thing, feel free to ignore)

[thisisnotharmless]

playlist meme!

rules: you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people.

tagged by: @drcloyd

Down - Something Corporate

10 Days Gone - Jack’s Mannequin

Sami - Darren Criss

Emily - The Mowgli’s

Nailed - Hedwig & the Angry Inch sountrack

I See You - Mika

Free - Mother Mother

Synthetica - Metric

Starry Configurations - Jets to Brazil

Don’t Fence Me In - Ella Fitzgerald

tagging:@punching-unicorns @throgmortem @rootbeerwolf @ghostofasecretary @thecharmingchimaera @smallsoapdish @eragon17 @11-23-63 @formerlytfs @furi-road @izziwitch

[lorata]

happy birthday!!! 🎉🎉🎉

✨thank you!!!!✨

[mixelation]

wrt this post, @ghostofasecretary asked (partial quote):

could the bodyslamming somehow feed into Itachi's fake dating rumors? because that...feels like the kind of stupid romance that happens in Naruto.

the thing about itachi is that he goes into every single interaction and life situation with the idea that he's the leader and he should be calling the shots, and because the entire ninja universe is obsessed with him, usually people are like "oh yeah, itachi, he's definitely in charge. don't even bother questioning him he's always right"

the incident in question isn't really known outside of the team, and also a few years too early for anyone to be keeping tabs on itachi's romantic life, BUT it is symptomatic of tori's relationship with itachi. tori is not like "itachi, natural born leader--" tori goes through life assuming that if she decides on an insane plan, itachi will just kind of go with it. because they've entered the horrific unbreakable bond of genin teammates, she's.... usually right. he'll criticize her when he thinks she's being stupid, but there's enough interpersonal history he has some trust her plans will work, and also if The Plan is already happening (which it IS because tori has evolved beyond asking for permission first) it's usually easier to just modify the parts he thinks are bad than to back out. she may or may not have learned that trick from him tbh

also i guess because i made him her drunk translator in plasticity, itachi is.... good at anticipating wtf tori i trying to do even when it outwardly seems like nonsense?

anyway. the point is. once itachi decides they're dating, everyone else is like "oh yeah, that makes sense." who else would he let talk back to him like that???

(meanwhile people who KNOW itachi well are like, "yeah, that makes sense. who else could stand him? like attracts like")

[grey-ves]

Thanks @vickythestrange :)

Tag game: tag 9 people you’d like to get to know better.

Last song: Pokerface

Currently watching: (just finished but) Blue Eye Samurai

Three ships: bloodweave, griddlehark, ianthe x therapy

Favorite color: pink

Currently consuming: coke

First ship: uhhhhh tbh probably my oc ship with my best friend that we started in 8th grade

Relationship status: single

Last movie: Barbie

Currently working on: a duology about said oc ship with my best friend, and my graduate thesis, and my homework

Tagging: @rhatbog @andresindoril @ghostofasecretary @stockyardsyndrome @mercymornsimpathizer @skellish @esther-on-fire @hellofromanotherdimension @frontline-titties-of-the-fifth

[everoutoftouch]

Username Song Game

Rules: pick a song for each letter of your URL and tag that many people.

Tagged by @mandalorian-general thanks for the tag! ^^

E - Everyday by Weyes Blood

V - Vow by Garbage

E - Echolalia by Yves Tumor

R - Rocket’s Tail by Kate Bush

O - Oxytocin by Drab Majesty

U - Under The Moon by Foster The People

T - The Lovecats by The Cure

O - Opheliac by Emilie Autumn

F - Femininomenon by Chappell Roan

T - Twilight by Bôa

O - Oblivion by Grimes

U - Unpunishable by Ethel Cain

C - Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy

H - Hierophant by King Woman

I made a Spotify playlist for all the songs too lol https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47VMK24hsf9fdzUTIue7fk?si=QiRTZSSgR9W4O75X-bBB6Q&pi=u-IsHOJPD5Txij

Tagging (I know the rules say to tag as many as your username but idk that I’m gonna do that lol) @fictionalred @lev-1athan @gothdrpepper @clawless92 @automated-exchanges @dysphoria-things @ghostofasecretary @cowboybabeop @graveyardlilies @ghouloriented and anyone else that wants to do it!

[lorata]

happy birthday!!!!!

THANK YOU :D

[grey-ves]

thanks for the tag :)

tagging @joebidensbignaturals @dingydingus @pri-0-rity @andresindoril @rhatbog @ghostofasecretary @hellofromanotherdimension @anotherdamnalex @evening-wish @ossifer-bones

i also wana start a picrew chain so just tag as manny ppl as you can and make a little guy of yourself

little guy maker｜Picrew

mine

@sad-trash-pigeon @hyperbolic-havoc @literally-maria @willprobablychangethis @willows-woes @heartstopperstuff @sproldenlover @pessimistonsteriods @person4924 @katelyn-heartstopper @artsimmys @acuteobsession @apersononearth011 @faulty-radio

[tozettastone]

ItaDei vibes? KakuHida? (are these even real ship names?)

They are definitely real ship names haha. itadei is almost always rendered like that because of the vowel thing but I see hidakaku sometimes as well as kakuhida. 🤔

KakuHida has the vibes of driving fast really late at night with the street lights flashing over your face in the interior of the car. You don't necessarily like the person in the next seat over, but you're both reeling from some incredibly bad experience you've both had and for the next 3 hours of this drive you're a single, unstoppable, inseparable unit.

ItaDei has the vibe you get when you've quit your familial religion but you walk into a church and the light through the stained glass hits your face. It's still a beautiful building. The rush of conflicting feelings and resentments haunts you.

ships for vibes