#im so excited about this can you tell

[iridescentis]

Ride The Cyclone: The Quarry AU

I've been thinking of making a The Quarry AU for RTC for a while and now I finally have it!

In 2009, a fire took place during a talent show at Elysium. Ezra, a born werewolf, was a circus attraction named Ezra the Dog Boy, raised and cared for by his adoptive older sister Penny, an orphaned witch. Penny is sixteen, her brother thirteen. Three teenagers Ezra's age come snooping into Elysium under the impression that it is an illegal drug plant taking advantage of child labour: Ocean wants to expose them, Constance wants to help the kids and Noel tags along because he always does. They find out while they're there that they have a boy held captive, and try to free him. Noel has the idea to set fire to some plants to cause a distraction, while the girls unlock Ezra's cage and free him. Ezra is freed but as a werewolf, ends up biting Ocean in the process. The three kids manage to get out mostly unscathed, but the whole population of Elysium is killed as the place goes up in flames, including Penny, who puts a curse on the three kids and the town of Uranium.

The Original Three

Ocean - The first werewolf cursed by Ezra, Ocean is determined to free herself from her condition. At thirteen, only a few full moons after she was bitten, she breaks down in front of Father Marcus, telling him everything. He doesn't believe her, but after a failed exorcism, he agrees to trap them in the abandoned warehouse and watch from afar. With visual evidence, and only narrowly escaping as the werewolf teenagers break free, he dedicates his time to researching and hunting down Ezra to break the curse for good.

Noel - In failed attempts to help Ocean during full moons, he and Constance get bitten. Curing himself is important, sure, but Noel wants freedom more than anything. He is sick of missing out on life to keep his condition a secret, and feels trapped. The trio are kept in electric cages which were built in the warehouse after a few years, but in June 2015, he's running late and accidentally transforms in the woods, ultimately attacking Hank.

Constance - Constance tries her hardest not to blame Ocean for the curse, but drowning in self-loathing she struggles not to. She's hyperpositive to make up for the fact she feels like a monster, but all she wants is to not be a werewolf anymore so she can leave everything behind. She doesn't want to die, or harm anyone, and she hates that they have to kill Ezra in order to break their curses.

The Lovers

Astrid - Recently graduated, she looks forward to taking a roadtrip vacation with her boyfriend. They pack the car and stop at a gas station just before midnight, preparing to leave, when Father Marcus spots them and tells them to go home, or find a motel until the morning when they can travel safely. Astrid doesn't listen, and continues to drive as planned. Down the road, they spot a figure and Astrid swerves into the woods. They attempt to fix the car and check out to see if they hit it, but Astrid gets distracted by the ghost of Penny, and Hank is attacked and bitten by Noel. Father Marcus, who followed them, shoots Noel to make him run away and tranquilises Astrid and Hank, bringing them to holding cells.

Hank - Bitten by Noel, Hank becomes a werewolf and deteriorates, terrified of hurting people but especially Astrid. The couple are kept in holding cells for months, questioned and gradually getting information out of Father Marcus. They find out that it was Noel who bit him, and Astrid decides they have to escape and kill Noel to break Hank's curse.

So, important notes:

Astrid and Hank were a year above the others and graduated the summer of 2015. Everyone else is in their senior year.

In this AU, Ezra is the same age as the choir and Penny was three years older, so Tammy doesn't really fit into the AU anywhere, but she could? I'm not sure how it would make sense for her to be there but hey potentially?

The rest of the choir are technically side characters although the main portion of The Quarry plot would be centred around them: Mischa, Ricky, Corey, Trishna.

The plot happens at the fall fair, when it's a full moon and the choir van breaks down, meaning they're stuck. Ocean, Constance and Noel all turn but Ezra is present too. Astrid was hiding Hank in the woods closer to the fair, so he breaks out and shows up.

The Quarry werewolf mechanics apply, so the original wolf (Ezra) has to be shot with silver to cure the kids, but any werewolf shot with silver is dead permanently.

Obviously The Quarry itself has many endings, for this AU my first idea has Astrid, Hank and Trishna as the only survivors, but it could be a Final Girl moment or a Last Man Standing, or everyone lives! Lots of potential versions of this AU

I'm not going to write this as a fic but I'm definitely going to come up with more stuff for it because I love this so much :D

[inkskinned]

hey btw if you're in the USA at  2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.

if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.

additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.

i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."

"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[darcydoescosplay]

Nastya cosplay!! Love my engineer wife so much

[studiipolis]

looking at the sonic3 postcredits, imagine theyll use sonic ova elements in sonic4.

and im not only talking about the "sonic and metal are spiritually connected" part or the "strange isn't it" line.

i need sonic4 to include the utter trauma and pain from sonic watching a different kind of him die out. an entity that could've co-existed with him - if it wasnt for the fact one was born with kindness and the other created for destruction - dying right in front of him. like it's his brother, like it's his twin, like it's him dying at that exact moment.

or they can include the ova clothes. thatd be cool too

[shittywriterbrain]

in the language worldbuilding notes. writing "dialect continuum" "mutually intelligible" and things of such nature

[zeb-z]

It's always so intriguing to watch Foolish from another perspective during lore, because it usually really is just guesswork to his thoughts and motives. Even during the moments he's being entirely honest, he can be hard to pin down.

Watching Foolish there's no question as to how much he knows, or how much he cares. It's always more than you think. You get to watch him choose to play a happy go lucky idiot, and then join in the act in chat. Watching him break down that act today was fun.

First with Fit, his joyful positive attitude starting to crack after looking through Leo's photos. His moment to gather himself before talking, his trailing off and voice cracks when asked if he's okay, only to change the subject immediately.

Then with Bad, talking about their months on the island and just what trust means. Considering how to weed out a federation puppet, going over theories with each other after just having told one another that the best way to find the rat is to give theories out one at a time to find the leak.

I’ll have to watch Fit's perspective of today later, but I know with Bad, the mood change was obvious - and yet somehow, he managed to get away with much more than he let on.

Still, it’s obvious he’s starting to crack, with Leo being gone, with Bad clearly deteriorating - you can’t pretend to be happy and carefree for forever, when the stress is this high.

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

WAIT are you a sonic fan 👁️👁️

I AM !!!! in fact its a Huge interest of mine i just dont post about it :((

[koko2unite]

[florenceandtheinkmachine]

have not posted in a few days because i am now a proud father

[thecrabbybarista]

Can they put out a new nightmare time puzzle so the hatchetfield fandom can talk about something besides shipping for 10 seconds

[paperglader]

yes, it’s been three weeks, and yes, I’m still screaming about the fact that Imogen was at her lowest when she met laudna (was thinking of ending it all), and laudna had been roaming aimlessly for thirty years, utterly alone. No purpose, no reason for living, until she met the purple-haired sorcerer that saved her life no questions asked as soon as they first met, then chose to stick together forever, hold on to each other, sleep on the same bed for the next two years and help each other find answers to their miserable existence- and now, NOW that they finally got it together, got some stupid answers, and actually gained some power over the forces that had subdued them for years, KISSED, immediately- literally nine days into their relationship- the shitty world that they live in decided to make it clear and remind them that their days are numbered (significantly smaller numbers than they had accounted for) and that they won’t get to live their quiet life on a field, raise horses and just be. I AM OK ABOUT THAT. TOTALLY FINE.

[tricksteroftheheart]

my moot comes into my askbox talking about transformers and i stare at it in awe. how did you know i like transformers . . . /silly

[allastoredeer]

Hola since we are two days before AppleRadio/RadioApple week, here some Al!Bottom for the soul🍎🦌 I don’t know if u foolow those artist already but they portrays AppleRadio the best and just wanted to share, since I know u are a big fan as well aha ha

1-

https://x.com/uxlvoid/status/1790203966032371930?s=46&t=TriLXvXLINymJKhmX-66WA

2-

https://x.com/v1ll1a/status/1796216183009812864?s=46&t=TriLXvXLINymJKhmX-66WA

OOH HOO! Oh, Twosoulls, you coming in here and feeding me. Thank you, these are delicious 😋 The style and outfits in the first one look familiar, so I'm likely following this artist, but if not, I need to follow them RIGHT NOW because dayum, Alastor looks so good 😍

I wanted to participate in RadioApple Week, but alas, between writing my fics and drawing other things, I just don't have the time 😭

BUT! I'm gonna try and participate in the next RadioStatic week! Hopefully. If I can 😅

[3-aem]

me petting my cat at 3am after 0 indication that he is actually hurt: r u okay would u tell me if you were ever not okay

my cat probably: god she’s at it again

[puppyeared]

When you backread through a fun conversation you had with someone for hours an angel gets its wings