#i am open to any and all ideas

[popcorn-plots]

"In the work of fiction Requiem of a Nun by William Faulkner, a character states, “The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” Discuss how this idea intermingles with Gatsby’s view of the past and compare this to Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily.” ready, set, go

totally not 300 words into a 1600 word essay due on friday based on this prompt

i also totally didn't have three weeks to write said essay and procrastinated it until today

[duefault]

i've got some drafts / inbox stuff to do still but ! since its been a second i'm going to put out a little starter / meme / plotting call. if u want to do plotted things i welcome u with open arms but if u want a random starter that is also just as fine ( just specify muse ! )

[icedb1ackcoffee]

to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.

[noctlas332]

day two the lengthening is an act of love

[ofbardsandmen]

nothing ever excites me more than a spontaneous genshin, or more particularly, mondstadt discovery. i sat diluc upon the barbatos statue as a nice spot to go afk on without being interrupted by repetitive idle animations and voicelines (sorry diluc, this is nothing personal). my volume was turned up more than regularly by accident, and my in-game music was off despite how much i like the original game soundtrack. aNYHOW- i was about to go afk when i heard some strange noises that i didn't recall hearing in mondt before. it made me pause and turn my volume up even more. in the video above, it's kind of hard to discern the brief sounds over the noise of the wind up on the statue and in mondstadt in general, but when the wind dies down a little, you can distinctly hear voices of people, and what shocked me the most – neighs of horses. i have no clue whether it is just me discovering this only now, after 4 years of playing this godforsaken game and clearly not having paid enough attention to mondstadt's sfx before, but i still felt the need to share this terribly interesting tidbit in case there's other clueless mondstadt enthusiasts like me.

[clowningaroundmars]

i still cannot get over The Twins like.

imagine.

you have another version of you out there arguably living a life just as difficult as yours, if not more, that you can talk to at literally Any Time! and they're You so you basically already have half a convo down anytime you decide to pop on over via a portal

1610 and 42 stepping out of their respective portals side-by-side just to stroll out of an alleyway like nothin happened just going:

1610: LOUD SIGH

42: rough day too huh?

1610, brushing debris off of his shoulder: yeeep. another run-in with the rhino. again.

42: you didn't lock his dumb ass up like, last month? how'd he get out?

1610: don't know, don't care. so done with this week, i just wanna... i dunno. hibernate til spring 😮‍💨

42: man, what a mood.

1610: what happened to you? you look like you had a rougher day than me!

42, covered in visible bruises and cuts along with his bandages: mannnn... rougher week more like. well... rougher life. but. anyways.

they both nod at each other in Understanding

[crownedwille]

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[ovenproofowl]

back on my bullshit but did anyone else notice that the mysterious old lady (or old ruby) in 73 Yards was making the same repetitive hand gestures whenever we see her in frame?

So, from what I can gather, the pattern is:

Shrug, arms straight, palms facing outward

Both hands draw up together to gesture outward

Left hand makes palm down stroking motion over right hand

Both hands clasped towards centre of chest

Left hand placed across the heart

It's easy to miss because we rarely get a shot with the full motions before it cuts away, but I'm pretty sure the pattern never changes.

I haven't been able to find any discussions about it yet, but for the same gestures to be used over and over, you would think it must mean something. Perhaps another clue about the message the mysterious figure was telling everyone that made them run? A hidden detail about Ruby's origins? I'm even wondering if it might fall in line with BSL but I'm not educated enough on hand signs to even know where to start. Unless the gestures are simpler than that, conveying universal meaning?

If anyone wants to jump on this with their thoughts, I'm open to listen!

[datastate]

i was looking for an ask, and it reminded me: i do hope that anyone who's genuinely entertained some of the things i've discussed, or has shown interest even through anonymous interaction, knows i am very grateful. even the smallest indications that you may enjoy what i'm making, especially with a few of these old messages that were sent unprompted, well... it was very kind of you.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

May I offer you some wizbands in this trying time? Plus a short comic ft. the rest of the polycule below:

The other tavs are Othello ( @laiostoudenn ), Heron ( @oathweave ), and Theo ( @irilya96 )

[puppetmaster13u]

Danny Phantom Crossover

Where Amity has been near abandoned for years, untouched and unaged if not for the destruction from long ago, when (GIW, Ecto-Contamination, the Portal, Whatever or Whoever) demolished it.

Of course nowadays it's long forgotten, a city laid to ruin, slipping from the minds of those that left. Until someone finds it again, and finds a place of forgotten dreams, the living dead, and a towering figure cloaked in red with a large needle-esque weapon to their neck.

"Leave now, while you still can, stranger. You won't find anything here. All that lies in this place are ghosts and broken towers."

[joelletwo]

v theee [boring car selling in nc details] theee to junk ur car the company wanted me to go ahead and sign the title and leave the buyer info blank which is having an open title (bc if u drop it on the way to sell ur car anyone can pick it up and fill in their info and own ur car) and is like. STUPID illegal in nc. like people still do it esp in just third party-to-third party sales. and junker services do it so if they can sell the car again they dont have to deal with two transactions of paperwork and fees [<- which is why its illegal so nc can capture those fees]. but like. they shouldnt be able to tell me on their publically available site that they want me to break nc law

and also nc law wants me to get that title notarized which because of open titles being illegal. most notaries wont notarize u if the buyer isnt also there filling in their info.

most notaries are also. either like banks or other m-f 9-5 type businesses. or just some random person in their house. and random person in their house is more likely to break the law for me but i dont want to ask some random person to break the law for me

(the dmv will also notarize and anecdotally from reddit some of them totally will just shrug and let u do it with only you the seller/you the buyer there instead of needing both but thats arbitrary depends on getting someone who doesnt care lol)

AND also. even if im selling to a person not trying to get me to break the law just buying my car regular. and i work m-f 9-5 or we both work hours where theres no way to get us both in the same place and certainly not a bank or a dmv except like, sunday evening, when no banks or dmvs are open.

do we just go fuck ourselves????????? like what do they want. they want me to die?????? i think my government wants me to die and sterilize myself

[varjopeura]

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

as someone who knows what ur prev old man yaoi obsession was it checks out you like cherik.... same dynamic id say

For but a moment i thought you were referring to arasawa but nay you meant xehaqus 😔

[prince-liest]

ALRIGHT, first draft of ch 3 of the bodyswap fic is done!! Now I need to meal prep so that I have things to eat for my next several shifts. +^+

5.6k words, so a bit longer than the previous chapters! And chapter count is definitely up to 4 now, haha. I always do this to myself.

I'm gonna need to write some adorably shitfaced platonic radiodust shenanigans after this to cope, haaaa—

[caterpillarinacave]

Okay, so, should I actually write NATM fics? 🤔