#jesus h roosevelt christ

[niobiumao3]

[beefsteakclub]

I'm going to be ill.

[lovecolibri]

Okay, I absolutely need Brennan to never again describe anything about vampires drinking from someone because GOOD GOD 😳😳😳🥵🥵🥵

[christiwhitson]

The longing for his wife and child was a pain Jamie still carried every day. It settled around him like a cloak lined with lead--warm with memories but heavy with sorrow. Still, while he’d not found true happiness since losing Claire, he had at least found contentment and purpose. As horrible as his years in Ardsmuir had been, they had taught him a great deal about himself. He’d entered as little more than a wraith, feigning life for the lack of ability to do anything else. But over time, he’d learned his own strength once again, learned that he could survive in the worst conditions and yet retain his sanity and pride.

[paramouradrift]

#Avatar BioShock Crossover AU" 2023 please!!!

This one's a doozy.

I don't remember precisely what triggered this one, but there was a period of a couple weeks last year where I got really into the idea of an Avatar/BioShock crossover AU. This spawned several AUs, only one of which made it into my WIP folder, apparently, so the rest must be lurking on discord with my beta reader. This particular AU has a few scant character notes, some timelines, and a discussion of themes that paint what I would consider a compelling but overly-ambitious picture.

The themes in play: destiny, causality, consciousness, free will, and moral choice. We are pulling material from BioShock, BioShock 2, BioShock 2: Minerva's Den, BioShock Infinite, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra. Rapture exists in its own right, whereas Columbia is replaced with Republic City. Tears, Spirit Portals, and Spirit Wilds are all the same thing, linking Rapture and Republic City across time and space. Bending and Splicing are the same, as well, with the "Avatar" being someone who has spliced up to an incredible degree and not died of every kind of cancer. The Avatar State is thus a kind of berserk mode that uses up all the EVE in the Avatar's body, leaving them powerless and vulnerable at the end. Past Avatars exist as coherent ADAM ghosts.

Aang, in this story, is a Jack/Eleanor Lamb character originally from Rapture who escaped into Republic City through a tear, and set about trying to find a way back to Rapture's past to undo all of the damage he ended up causing. He's a man haunted by guilt whose efforts are ultimately futile, because that's not how causality works.

Korra is our Elizabeth, whose ability to open and close tears makes her valuable to Aang in his quest for redemption, but also makes her a target for everyone on both sides of the veil who wants a slice of the Rapture/Republic City pie. But opening and closing tears destroys entire sections of probability space, creating fixed points in spacetime and releasing a ton of spiritual energy that gets eaten by the bioluminescent mass that sits beneath Rapture, spitting ADAM slugs back out into the world, accelerating the chaos and decline of both cities.

I have here that Aang somehow travels back to the past and becomes the founder of Rapture, which means he later creates and then kills himself while trying to do everything he can to avoid that outcome. It probably made more sense in my head the time. The other members of the Gaang are listed as Rapture's Best & Brightest: Zuko and Sokka are divorced and miserable, with Zuko trying to be a single dad and Sokka inventing the Thinker; Katara is the city's foremost doctor and philanthropist; Suki is a detective/private security chief; and Toph runs the banks because nobody else is capable. She also laid a lot of the city's foundation.

The Mechanist is here inventing things. Wu is a popular singer with his own radio program. Suyin is a prima donna ballerina. Asami is...presumably doing something amazing, but I didn't write that bit down.

The villain rogue's gallery is all here as well, moving back and forth across the tears and causing mischief and mayhem. Zaheer's radical spirituality causes Aang (Rapture Founder) to ban religion, and Unalaq tries to get control of the Avatar Program so that he can become an Avatar himself. Ozai and Zhao extend their feelers throughout both cities, seizing power and resources for themselves. Amon slots himself nicely into the Atlas role (plot twist and all), so nothing really more to say there. Kuvira is apparently a former police officer turned mob boss capitalizing on the chaos for her own gain. Long Feng is a cold technocrat who runs a private security firm and manages assets for city big wigs. My note on him is "a less affable Sinclair."

Pro-bending/ADAM boxing is a thing, so Mako and Bolin are here trying to make it big in the big bad city/ies, which probably means I planned some background Wuko.

I have no idea what my endgame was. I don't know what the actual plot was going to be. This project wasn't one I seriously considered planning out in detail because I was in the middle of H&V/J&R work, and that takes priority over anything else with this level of ambition. Having said that, it might be interesting to take another pass at the concept and see if I can turn all of that up there into something workable.

WIP Game master post.

[nicollekidman]

every photo of me not taken by me is so violently humbling

[agentrcmedy]

thats not an edgar allen poe quote LMFAO its from a poem by sade andria zabala

So…instead of just kindly educating me and letting me know, maybe even recommend something by said author I can read (which I’d love to do since these words are beautiful), you’re choosing to belittle me by laughing at me? Cool. Thanks anon. Really nice of you. Also, your punctuation is incorrect. It’s “that’s” and “it’s.”

[miss-guided-ghosts]

Seahenge? more like the new age spiritual movement is destroying valuable archeological evidence and cultural landmarks for the sake of the “vibes of the land”

[jewishbarbies]

this is honestly a new low. what is with the toxicity coming from female directors/showrunners lately? she didn’t care about the source material. the writers didn’t care about the source material. losing your lead actor is the consequence - and you retaliate by smearing him in the press calling him a misogynist gamer?? because he could do your job better than you?? because he gave a shit about the project?? fuck everyone apart of the production for the witcher that had any part in this and/or refused to stay true to the source material and caused this whole mess. that showrunner should be ashamed.

[jynersq]

my former university has approx 3 billion HR employees and yet they cancelled my insurance due to not a single one of them understanding how COBRA payment grace periods work. which can be ascertained from the most basic of googles and is literally on the DOL’s COBRA for dummies page. i hate it here

[lovecolibri]

Season 2: Shannon abandoned Eddie, abandoned CHRIS, came back where they fought any time they weren't in bed, and then asked for a divorce and was ready to leave again.

KR: for season 6, let's have Eddie stroking Shannon's picture and looking forlorn so we can throw some new girl at him.

[christiwhitson]

Dead leaves crackled beneath my head, and I stared upward into the bare branches of the trees that surrounded us, not even bothering to attempt sitting up as I came to grips with the situation. The stone was silent now and seemed utterly benign, but the truth could not be denied.

We had traveled through time. Together--just as we had before.

“Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.”

[fr-achilles]

wwaaaAAAUGH i went into the AH with the intention of just looking at harlequin/jesters for ideas about good color combos and ended up with an ignis great-grandbaby. he is like a little goth parrot to me 🦜

[moonshynecybin]

personally i think marc is like. extremely crazy. just very very very good at pretending he’s not

brother i don’t even think he’s that good at pretending. you ask anybody on that grid about marc they’re all like that dude is UNWELL. the official motogp account was posting vids of marc kubrick staring at valentino in 2013 like. well this guy is dialed in ! haha ! socials admin fully sweating BULLETS

[tairneanaich]

She called a tam a fucking what

Not Diana Gabaldon getting both Scottish history and linguistics wrong in one staggeringly arrogant breath. Surely not.

Scotch bonnets. Like the fucking pepper 🤣

Just call us all Jocks, Diana. Just say it with your whole chest.

I also cannae believe @ayeforscotland is off on his holidays, and I’ve got no one to roast her with. I’m like Statler without Waldorf over here: half a muppet double act.

Also, the name of the hat the OP is looking for is a tam o’ shanter. Or you could just call it a bunnet.

Fucking Scotch bonnet. 🌶️

Good grief 😂

[nientedal]

wish the megawhiners would stop tagging their fucking hate. go make a "megacritical" tag or some shit and stop being so boring and annoying in the megamind one, ugh.

time to go on a blocking spree lmao.