#idk my brain is being weird again

[bionicle-ramblings]

Great, I've been thinking about a Humanized!Bionicle AU but the Toa have Magical Girl powers amd the limit is however much energy they have. Yes, they all get super cool lookimg transformations too,but the transformation essentially has them don their Toa armor and their voices get modified too

And I blame/thank @angryraptor13 for it

Thanks a lot😆

[deoidesign]

For my birthday... read my webcomic! It's literally free! (Unless you want books. Those are not free)

It's beautiful, it's gentle, it's funny, they're canonically t4t and gay... And it's about time traveling vampires solving supernatural mysteries!

I've spent thousands of hours writing and drawing it, and it's really good! I'm not biased!

It's on hiatus right now and coming back in 2 months, so it's the perfect time to get caught up

[welcometogrouchland]

I've been binging Batman Beyond recently (Terry ily so much) and thought about how- bc of the JLU twist which I think isn't even canon to the comics BB verse but shhh bare with me- he'd technically be Damian's half brother??? Which is just so ridiculously soap opera to me. I need them to interact in a silly time travel adventure so bad you don't even understand (ID in alt)

[lucifer-kane]

Seeing audio drama creators be very on board with people making original characters for their thing is so very good and it makes me, a chronic oc maker, so very happy.

[mechazushi]

⬆️ this, but Soshiro is Katarra and Kafka is Sokka and he's saying "Third Division"

[gomzdrawfr]

Gomzzzzz hello!!! I’ve been lurking in your blog for like, over a year now and I just wanted to say, your art is so freaking amazing and cute....the big cheeks!! I’ve always struggled with confidence in my own work, to the point where sharing anything felt almost impossible (stare at my stuff for hours only to delete them) But seeing you do your thing? I decided to try posting too. Okay it took a while but when I did I was fully expecting it to get like… 2 likes, max. But then YOU reblogged it, and my phone basically exploded. I’m not even kidding—my notifications were wild, and for the first time, I actually felt proud of something I made. It might sound silly and you probably don't know which art of mine you reblog but it really hyped me up and frankly...i found back the feel to draw again. I can't thank you enough for doing what you do, for making cod space a better and nicer place (your reblogs on others are always soooo positive and top tier)

Anyway, I’m keeping myself anonymous because, uhhh, social anxiety vibes and don’t want to overwhelm you;w; but I hope you know how much you’ve impacted people like me just by being yourself. I’m wishing you the absolute best for 2025!! zapping you with my beams to give you braincells for your school stuff

you deserve all the good things fr

-🦈

🥹

CryING iN THE CLUB— (my room)

Shark anon, thank you for the sweetest words, I really needed this today…and I’m so proud of you for finding back the love to draw again. I hope 2025 will be a blast for you too man!! Remember to take rest and have a good year ahead

[deathbringerdragon]

Still dealing with the "post Christmas crash" that I'm sure any of you who also celebrate are feeling. Especially if you were hosting a Christmas dinner.

So I do apologize for the lack of any updates on any MW projects I have currently.

As compensation, how about I write out what little tiny bits of my weird ass fucked up dream I had that was about Monkey Wrench.

Which isn't very much now since it's been 8-9 hours since I woke up. But I remember enough for me to just look at it and be like: "what the FUCK was that dream??... .. . . Also I might be able to nab bits of it for future story ideas?.. if not for me at least other people. Maybe?.."

So anyways. Without further adeu. Gonna introduce yall to the weird ass dreams that my friends are very used to hearing about, lmao.

It'll be under the cut. As stated before. Judt bits and pieces. It's just what parts I remember. Its not a story.

To start off with. In my dream any context related to the cataclysm didn't exist. Nothing. Nor any of the current events in MW.

Shrike and Beebs were still mercenaries I guess? Though it wasn't important. I don't think anything about their lore was changed.

Anyways, first bits I remember was that they were on a planet in a city that more or less looked like a bright and sunny beach town.

And shrike kept wanting to wander off and do his own thing, to which Beebs kept trying to keep him from doing that for a specific reason I can't remember.

Eventually shrike manages to sneak off anyways though. Pisses someone off. I can't remember. Or they just already after him. Either way, thus begins Shrike getting captured, some people threatening to kill him. And him escaping somehow with those people now chasing him.

Meanwhile Beebs is just. Shopping. Completely unaware that there's chaos going on.

Some lady was chasing down shrike (who ironically, had nothing to do with Kara, and in the context of the dream was like, trying to catch him for completely different reasons. Can't remember what though. I think it had something to do with What Shrike is?)

That of which was a high speed chase in some sci-fi hovering cars. Cuz shrike hijacked one. And was causing havoc in traffic.

There was like. Two different "groups" after shrike.

That lady. And the people he pissed off.

At one point shrike was in a forest and. Got caught. Something with like.. folklore-esc monsters happens. Said creatures try to eat everyone there. Shrike escapes.

I think the high speed chase happened after that??

Idk some of it was kinda stupid/cringy to the point that even my asleep brain was like "bro wtf is this. This is weird even for your dreams" and altered. Something. In the dream. I have no clue what.

Alls I know is what's next in my memory is that Shrike and Beebs more or less kidnapped a child?? Uuhh. I think a manifested stand in for an "oc"

That of which Doesn't even exist.

My brain just apparently decided to Make That Up on the spot for my dream??? Tbh not unusual, but these normally aren't the kinds of dreams that happens in

Anyways so kid is kidnapped.

Reason?

Either shitty home life, orrr deal gone wrong. Or like... something to do with a saloon full of cowboy-esc characters who apparently had previous beef with Shrike and wanted him dead and tricked him into going and meeting with some people who were gonna kill him and somehow in the confusion as he escaped the kid just randomly was being dragged along for whatever reason.

But yea I didn't even remember the cowboy saloon part until I was writing about the kid.

I'm pretty certain that'd what led to the "group of people getting pissed off at shrike and chasing him to try and kill him"

Anywas at some point shrike meets back up with Beebs, who's just bewildered but not surprised about all the chaos. And somehow is so chill about it he just keeps shopping while shrike is shrieking (lmao) as random people keep trying to kill him.

Shrike apparently was also complaining about something related to the kid. NO fucking clue what. I think it was like.. related to Why he decided to nab the kid??? Something about how the peopel were treating the kid/what they were planning??? Alls I know is that it was so out of character that I think That's when my brain was like "wtf. Bro that's so put of character it's cringy"

Also shrike had. A normal "white american boy" English accent during that part and I could feel my brain just cringing so bad.

Either way Beebs eventually decided they got everything they need and it's time to go.

So the three of them pile into a. Fucking Mini version of the Bucket.

And thus starts another fucking high speed chase.

Except this time Beebs just. Flies the.. car... bucket.. spaceship... thing away since the things the people were using couldn't fly.

And then they're in the actual bucket while shrike is complaining about the crazy lady who was trying to capture him, and originally almost had because she seduced him.

And beebs just called him an idiot for falling for that-

To which my dream switched over to earlier in the dream where Shrike was for some reason eating dinner with the lady and, as he said, getting tricked by seduction. Before she literally just tied him up and started hauling his ass to some lab to be experimented on.

There was... SO much more random shit and chaos that happened in my dream that I wish I remembered cuz it made the dream atheist somewhat a cohesive "story". But also so much fucking weirder at the same time

(Like legit I think at one point the dream judt forgot about MW entirely and was focusing on this plot about several groups of women/girls who had to like, work together in teams of two or three to fuse together into these literal Giants, that were also soooorta robots to be piloted?? To fight these weird fucking poisonous creatures that were trying to kill them?? Ironically it was Nothing like power rangers despite how I described it. It was its own fucking thing entirely and it was Weird and uncomfortable)

But uh. Yea. Uhm.

Welcome to the world of "Death's weird ass fucking 'acid trip' dreams despite the fact no drugs that cause weird dreams are taken whatsoever". I hope you enjoyed your stay. Maybe I'll pick through what weird ass fucking bits and crumbs I remember and make some actual interesting story prompts for yall since these kinds of dreams for me often can be used to create interesting story arcs for my various stuff.

[bionicle-ramblings]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm fairly certain of 2 things:

1. The Toa Metru would 100% survive a Saw game

2. (Somewhat of a human au thing. Honestly, these both kind of are) If the team did a Lip Sync Battle, Matau would either perform the Wrecking Ball thing Anne Hathaway did or Umbrella that Tom Holland did

[tearlessrain]

seriously can catastrophes stop happening for five minutes my brain is already fried from the ones we're already experiencing

[grand-line-shenanigans]

wahoo wahey

[readingwriter92]

rewatching the night of the doctor eight times in a row single handedly making me want to listen to all the mcgann BFAs bc good lord i'm obsessed.

I gotta look around bc genuinely i kinda do want some like. before he joins the time war era shit. It just- the line alone of like. "I'm one of the good ones" "Who can tell the difference anymore" shit like FUCKKK

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

tomorrow is my first day back to work and I'm a lil nervous

I haven't been able to get anything written for here bc I've been trying to get a couple other things written (updating my Bill Cipher redemption fic and starting a Gyutaro x reader x Daki because I make poor life choices)

but I'm on light duty for a month, basically just sitting at the register checking people out, unable to do any stocking or anything bc I'm not allowed to lift anything over 15 pounds so I can't lift totes, bend much, or reach much, so I'm allowed to bring something to do in between customers... maybe I'll get some writing done? I feel as if I'll be slacking off bc that's how my brain works

but you know what, I kill myself for that store normally, I don't work full time simply because I can't afford medical insurance if I did, but even working only part time I give my all while I'm there, I'm not someone who slacks off. so if I'm healthfully and approvedly permitted to slack off and take it easy for a month, I guess I'll take it (... plus, I mean, I'll still be working, just light duty, it's not like I'll show up and get paid to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, I'm still gonna be ringing out customers)

ANYWAY MY POINT IS-

get those last requests in! after I get home from work tomorrow, I'll be closing the askbox and won't open it back up till this batch is finished and I swear I mean that this time 😂

[itspileofgoodthings]

Well, I actually have the most mundane of questions, but it’s been so long since I’ve been in an English class that I feel like I’ve completely forgotten (and I’m curious how you do it): how do you go about reading a book as a class? Do you assign them the chapters to read at home and most of them actually do it? Or do you give them class time to read? Do you have the kids who try to spoil the rest of the book for the class? Basically, how does one teach a book in the year 2024?  😀

And do you have your students annotate inside their books? (I know the English teachers in my school require the students to do that, and I get why, but I inwardly shudder every time I see a student marking up a page.) 

Haha I love this question because I too am always asking myself how DOES one teach a book in 2024?

It’s sort of a combination. I absolutely assign reading every night (almost) unless it’s Shakespeare or any play in which case we read it all in class. But for a novel there’s a couple chapters a night. I read aloud to them a lot too. Sometjmes I make them read aloud to the whole class, rotating kids who read. Sometimes I assign a chapter to be read in class silently with questions or quotes due at the end of the reading. Sometimes I put them in groups and make them read aloud to each other. There’s no one way that works for sure and of course ultimately I have no control over how much they read and I’m not naive enough to think that most of the reading assigned for homework doesn’t get skipped most of the time buuuuuut.

My bottom line is that I believe it’s my job to get excited about the actual text itself (easier for me in some cases than others but overall pretty easy because it does fill me with excitement) and then commit to taking them on the journey of the story with me. And my goal—that I’m sure I often don’t reach—is to make that experience so much more fun if you have actually read. And the way that I teach is pretty text heavy which is why I always make sure I’ve read the chapters for the day and am not just relying on my memory because the way I do it is just sort of absorbing it all up like a vacuum-cleaner, schwooooop, and then either pulling stuff out of the reading to look at directly or directing them to do the same thing. So the big thing that I have going for me, if any, is buy-in. Is getting kids excited about actually reading the actual text. I also speak often and passionately about the evils of sparknotes etc. not because they help kids get better grades or whatever but because they present you with the husk and shell of a story, stripped of all that makes it interesting, and that by reading that alone they’re reading something so dry and dull and are not achieving what I always want them to achieve —which is, have an Experience with the Literature.

Again, it never works perfectly by any stretch and there are so many ways I want to explore in my quest to get better at it but overall I think, at my very best, I can create this wave of energy and excitement in the story itself which is the most organic and ultimately most helpful way to get them to want to read.

Also no haha. I don’t let them annotate! Though occasionally kids DO of course. But sometimes they bring in their own copies in order to do that. The spoilers absolutely happen and are annoying but I sort of get by it by moving on very quickly and/or talking about how it’s often not the ending but how you get there that makes it interesting. Because that’s just true!

[cryolyst]

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[sankttealeaf]

gamers. i miss the sun :(

[candledburns]

you know what i really like about rwby. lots of female antagonists. morally messy women. i need more characters like that in my life.