#hamster story

[whumpinthepot]

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Content warning: Pet trope, Giant/tiny, female cast, poor vision, selective mutism, vertigo, heights, hair pulling, broken bones, cages, falling, 

Votes: Brush the bedding out of your hair and check the cage door to leave! 

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You lean over to pad around for the brush, digging your arms into the fluff until you triumphantly resurface with the plastic toy. Gingerly you start working away at the tips of your hair, feeling around for debris that has gotten stuck in it. You work for a while, tossing fluff to the side, one section at a time… 

It's no good. 

Every time you manage to clean a chunk of your curls, and start on the next layer, your clean hair gets bedding caught in it all over again. There's too much hair and too much fluff in your cage to handle separating the two.

You have to get away from it. Only for a minute.

You crawl for the cage door with a thudding in your chest at the thought of leaving your cozy nest. It takes a second to figure out the latch with your hands, but it flips open easily. You squirm your way out of the heavy door, and land on the cold hard counter. 

A sharp breath fills your lungs, and for a moment you’re too stunned to move. The brush clatters beside you.

You can only see the marble pattern right underneath your thighs, but beyond that it becomes such a bad blur that you can’t see where the ledge of the counter ends.

Slowly you start brushing your hair again, and now you throw the fluff as far from you as possible. You’re doing well and the pressure starts to lift from your shoulders. 

Until you reach the back. 

The brush tangles up in your curls, and when you yank it, it lodges deeper against your scalp. Tears spring to your eyes, and panic causes you to tug the brush sharply in an attempt to rip it from your hair. The sting mixed with the motion sends waves of dizziness over your body and you lose balance, falling sideways.

The counter ledge is closer than you realize, and instead of marble hitting your sides, it's just air.  

You’re falling. 

Falling.

An explosion of hot metallic pain slaps your whole body, and the air is knocked out of you, leaving you winded. Your arm throbs like thunder, and you bite back a nauseating scream. 

Tag list and credits under the cut:

Thank you @alittlewhump and @frogkingdom for proof reading <3 hearts for you <3 <3

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[keirashark]

What if I just walk into the ocean?

[egophiliac]

#i feel you op i also started initially to read the stories but got busy grinding for events instead 😭 #i also haven't read any of the events not even madguy bc i feel like im gonna miss a lot of context i feel sorry for my boys #although I've recently caught up to ch7 and it made me a stornger more brainrotted madguy fan than before #ppl said it's gonna get more insane later on and im nervous #but so far. the stories are GOOD i highly recommend reading it if you're able to #it's just kamen rider but with extra steps #also to assuage your fear (i hope?) i heard from the grapevines that the change to leon is minimal you can easily miss it (via @chipsncookies)

YES I feel a lot better knowing other people are in the same boat as me! :') as someone who only plays games very casually, the events are fun (and have been a good excuse to get those support stories on characters I was kinda ignoring) but SO distracting -- and they have a connected overarching narrative of their own (make sure you read them in order when you get to them!) so I don't want to skip any. which I guess is to say that my problem is that I'm enjoying the writing too much! how dare they.

overall it definitely has that Kamen Rider tone and feeling I was hoping for and I am VERY pleased with it! I do kinda miss the kitbashy monsters, though otherwise it's basically just Rider But With More Random Scenes of Characters Being Ridiculous At Each Other and that is exactly what I was after. (also exquisite taste, Mad Guys are best guys 🤝)

and as long as I still haven't gotten to episode 13 and can therefore continue to be hilariously naive, let me just say that I know what I'm dreaming of for Leon. he deserves it.

...although I do think it would be VERY funny if they made that whole big "WE WILL BE UPDATING LEON'S SPRITES TO REFLECT STORY CHANGES!!!!" announcement and then it turns out that they just like. hue-shifted his eye color slightly to the right or something. it's not even a big story beat, Leon just decided to try out some color contacts, maybe comb his hair back a little, and we don't have the heart to tell him to stop. :(

[newwavesylviaplath]

spot the difference

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Okay but if mbj can't see beneath the baps how does he look at sqh?

He is Hoisted. Held in one hand, as he should be.

[mottinthepot]

Hamster chapter 15!!

[mottinthepot18]

Hamster Chapter 14

[marlynnofmany]

Racetracking

“The good news,” announced the gravelly voice of Mimi the tentacle alien, “Is that this model defaults to zero-g when it breaks.” He led the way down the corridor with tentacle slaps instead of footsteps, which managed to sound exasperated.

I had the brief thought that he was louder than Mur and Wio when he walked, possibly because he spent so much time in the engine room where everything was noisy. But I put that thought aside. I had a pretty good idea what the bad news was.

“The bad news,” Mimi grumbled, “Is that the carrying cage that these high-paying customers insisted on is so broken that I can’t fix it. Even with the right tools.”

“So we have animals in zero-g,” I said.

Mimi waved a tentacle in a way that I privately found hilarious. “We just took off! Just! It’s like they’re trying to frame us for damages!”

I looked at him in alarm. “Are we sure they’re not?”

He made a dismissive motion, still walking. “That’s what the cameras in the storage holds are for. There’s proof that no one dropped it or whatever. And I think Captain Sunlight is already talking to them about it, which is a conversation I do not envy her.”

I winced. “Yeah. Which animals? It’s just one of the carriers, right?”

“The little ones. I dunno what they’re called. They were alive when I left, but they looked pretty upset.”

That didn’t narrow it down. As the ship’s resident animal expert, I’d had a look at each of the half-dozen life support chambers that passed for carriers among the rich folks. Each of them held a different type of little furry whatsit in wild colors. Each was sealed with its own supply of air and gravity — or at least it was supposed to be.

I couldn’t hear any distressed noises yet, but when Mimi poked the button for the door, it slid open to a chorus of muffled squeaks.

The six chambers were lined up in a row, on display in the center of the room, with nothing close enough to so much as touch them. Five held animals calmly nosing around the bottom.

One held a whirling tornado of blue fur.

I dashed over to peer through the glass, hands dancing uncertainly. I shouldn’t touch it, shouldn’t open it. But—!

…But.

I looked closer. “They’re running.” I dropped my hands and stared.

Mimi plopped down next to me. “Is that bad?”

“No, it’s just — Look at them! They’re doing this on purpose!” I started to smile as I realized why the squeaks sounded familiar. “They’ve made their own hamster wheel.”

“A what now?” Mimi wanted to know.

I gestured vaguely. “It’s an exercise thing for animals like this where I’m from. A wheel that they run inside of, and it keeps spinning. These guys—” I pointed at the chamber. “—Have created their own.”

“Uh-HUH.” Mimi tilted his head to watch the antics, which were slowing down as they noticed us. “That is a strange reaction to zero-gravity.”

“I’ve heard of mice that did that, actually,” I said as a memory surfaced. “It took them a while to make a game of it. I wonder if this isn’t the first time the carrier’s gravity has gone screwy.”

Mimi held a curl of tentacle thoughtfully to his face. “That is an interesting data point. The captain will want to know.” He lowered it. “And if you’re sure these things aren’t about to die of organ explosion or whatever, then we should go tell her.”

The blue furry things — which did honestly look a lot like mice — had settled down to some more even-tempered bumping around in there. None were limping as far as I could tell, and none had been knocked unconscious or worse.

“I think they’re okay,” I said, looking closely. “The food dispenser is closed, thankfully, so there aren’t any pellets or globs of water floating about. They just got a bit of excitement.”

Mimi levered himself off the floor. “They’re not the only ones,” he grumbled. “Annoying little meatsticks must be in cahoots with the rich jerks, trying to make our lives harder. Why would they even do that?”

I gave the chamber one last look, then stood and followed him toward the door. “I dunno, it looks like fun. Probably a lot of animals would enjoy that if they knew it was an option.”

Mimi stared at me with one large eye. “Animals from your planet.”

“Well, yeah. Probably others too.”

He made a wet-sounding snort of skepticism and led the way into the hall.

I followed, smiling. “Come on, it looks like fun. I was just thinking it would be neat to try in a zero-g room, though flat walls wouldn’t be as good as curved ones.”

“Your planet’s full of weirdos. You know that, right?”

“Oh, it’s been said before.”

~~~

Thanks to this post for inspiration! It was too good an idea to pass up.

Anyways, this is the ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. But you probably already knew that.

[franeridart]

OMG THE WAY ROSS TEXT IS SO CUTE, the hamsters stickers have different colors to represent his pets or are they all the same color? ALSO ALSO I'm loving those two dumbasses saying they just want to be friends while crushing on each other, peak entertainment.

Btw

Sono brasiliana ma ho cittadinanza italiana

Non parlo italiano, ma sto imparando

They're all the same color! It's a sticker pack he and nico both use actually haha it's probably never gonna be relevant in the comic but thinking about them both is how I came up with the design for it! E buona fortuna con l'italiano!!! 💚💚

[lesbonoi]

under discussed part of chapter one: sherlock is known for being mycrofts brother (when he isn't recognized as violet's son). even mycroft himself refers to sherlock as "living in his shadow" in one letter. a number of times when he introduces himself its like a 50/50 if someone goes "oh is mycroft your brother" wrt game's story it explains part of why sherlock is Like That All The Time but in a real life context of . Like. Sherlock Holmes as a pop culture icon. its really funny.

[whumpinthepot]

Happy STS, Breezy!

Half my dash is doing some variant of Nano right now. What do you hope to achieve this month? What are you most excited for?

Ellliii <3 ty for the ask!!

I’ve always loved Nano but have never participated in it!! I haven’t been able to write since ive had covid, my energy is sapped right outta me, but this month im really hoping to update Hamster chapter and get over my writing block.

[theriverbeyond]

me thinking up a fun AU: ok so it starts off with her getting greviously injured,

[tarohonii]

HTBAD as Tumblr Text Posts pt. 2

[sunforgrace]

he sat there on the ground and cried. for cas. cas told him he loved him was taken away and he buried his head in his hands and wept

[yuseirra]

I JUST HAD TO PAUSE, AND COME POST THIS HERE

I WAS FEELING SO SORRY FOR THIS KID AND THEN LEARNED HIS PET HAMSTER'S NAME IS HAMBURGER

you can't do this to me game I was feeling sad and then I just burst out laughing

[mottinthepot]

Hamster doing model work from this CYOA story!