#letters from a bottle

[the-ship-of-theseus-daily]

Pardon me, you are the Hero of Athens, correct?

Muse seems to be holding a food tray, covered by a thin layer of tinfoil.

Or do you just share a name with him? I apologize for the confusion if that is the case..

- @greco-roman-literature-daily

oh ahoy there!

Unfortunately no I am not "The" Theseus. Though I've been told That I'm just like him back when I was in Greece still.

Please! Come on in matey!

[a-lesbianshadowinthenight]

this scene is comedic gold but also so indicative of all their dynamics. esti’s exaggerated cartoon-like legs flailing about as she gets up to run away is so funny but she clearly wants nothing to do with lupe at this point, lupe obviously caring about esti being missing but insisting she doesn’t and then putting on an angry front, esti telling her that she’s not her mother hitting a nerve, lupe acting both like a scolding mother and an immature squabbling sibling, jess trying to talk some sense into lu, who still stubbornly refuses to listen and tries to push past jess, jess being so exasperated by lupe’s behaviour to the point where they think it’s a little funny.

[ofmdlovelyletters]

this lovely letter is for Samba Schutte 💙

Hey Samba! Someone wrote you a lovely letter (and the entire fandom co-signs). 💌

[sandy-shocks]

Thinking furilumi thoughts rn

What if Lumine invited Furina to join her on her adventures. Of course she should let her have all the rest she wants first but Furina is what? Early 20s newly mortal and got her whole life ahead of her now, having been trapped as the archon for 500 years I bet she's never really been to another nation. I'd be awesome for Lumine take her outside Fontaine and experience everything teyvat has to offer. And I think it would be good for her mental health to not be stuck in Fontaine all her life.

Lumine showing Furina all her favourite places, introducing her friends and teaching Furina all the recipes she's learned over her travels. Lumine slowly realising that she really likes Furinas company and this is the first time she's had a long term adventuring companion (that's not paimon) and that whoops she may be a little in love with her actually.

Furina for the first time in her life being genuinely 100% happy and not feeling like anyone has any expectations of her or that she has to put up a facade and she can just enjoy herself. She learns more about herself and the places around her, I think it would take her longer than Lumine to develop feelings or realise she's feeling them in the first place.

Also think I'd be rly funny if she just sends Neuvillette bottles of random water from places she's been.

[chuuyrr]

i love how we, as a fandom, agreed that chuuya would be a gentleman in a relationship 💀 he would spoil his s/o, pay for dinner or lunch or whatever, he would definitely open the door for us, like-- I NEED HIM

also, hello, bbg. how are you?

- message in a bottle anon

IKR chuuya definitely follows the unspoken sidewalk rule too. he gets offended when you don't let him do any of those, especially when you refuse to let him pay for what you want because he's supposed to spoil you >:(

[maddymoreau]

Fallout New Vegas is the gift that keeps on giving. Every day I discover something new about it.

[dutybcrne]

Kaeya has a habit of stealing and hoarding little things from people he loves. Small seemingly innocuous items going missing at random? Chances are, Kaeya is behind it.

[notmonsters]

💬 :3

From HERE.

< LIL' STAR [ CLOUD ]⭐ > Darlin' don't beat yourself up so badly , alright ? Things happen . Y'might not be perfect , an' that's okay . Look , whether in SOLDIER or not . . . Just know , you're good enough . . . You'll always be good enough . If not t'anyone else , I'm proud of you . Always . Sorry if that's a lil' sappy ! I just wanted t'cheer you up , you know ? Make you smile . < unsent >

He always liked it when he smiled .

< LIL' STAR [ CLOUD ]⭐ > Hey , sweetheart . Don't think I forgot about you , alright ? Not for a second . If you ever need anything , or just want to talk I'm here . Got it ? I'm not goin' anywhere . I promise . No , wait - I pinky promise . < unsent >

Until his dying day was he ever by his side .

< LIL' STAR [ CLOUD ]⭐ > Thanks for taking me t'meet your mama . She's real nice ! An' has th'best cooking . Don't tell my ma I said that , she'd never let me hear th'end of it . Do you think she knows we're dating ? Probably , huh ?? I mean , it's not like we're great at keepin' secrets . I'd like t'meet her again , sometime . I might go without you , though . I've . . . got a question t'ask her . < unsent >

He never got to ask her that question .

[p-sherman-42]

10/10/24

Dear N,

It feels pointless to even write these anymore. It's just that this is all I have left of you. And I don't know why I can't just let you go. It feels like you died, or something. It feels like you died and this whole campus is haunted by your ghost.

The unfortunate truth is that I think something inside of me is missing. The hole was there before I met you, but you filled it, for a while. And though you didn't really fit, I chipped away at the surrounding area to make you fit. And I held you there with tape and paste and bandages like hope and I held onto you so tightly--so desperately--and I think I may have squeezed you too tightly. I drove you away, didn't I? I was so busy for so long trying to turn you into a villain, into something I could hate, that I completely absolved myself of any responsibility. I smothered you, didn't I?

It was my own fault I didn't get to know you as well as I would've liked. I hardly asked you questions because I was afraid of making you feel like you were being interrogated, and I was so afraid of overstepping. I was selfish. I was immature. I was so preoccupied with the idea of you that I neglected the real you. I made everything about me, didn't I? And I attacked you with accusations and bitter, frigid indifference when you couldn't live up to my expectations, my preconceived notions of what love should be.

I'm sorry.

I'm sitting at my old pondering spot by the water. No headphones this time. No you. I'm listening to the traffic bustling over the bridge, the lethargic lapping of the water against the shoreline, the rattling of rocks under feet. There's two ducks bobbing together in the shallows. A male and a female. I'm watching the rowing team go by. I'm watching a man hurl a tree branch into the water for his dog (I think it's a collie) to fetch. I was listening to Mew on the walk down here, thinking about that story you told me about the concert you went to in the rain.

I miss you.

Maybe... when I graduate, I'll reach out. Maybe by then I'll be ready to be just friends. But not yet. I can't risk any distractions. It's stupid, to think that you'd even still want to talk to me at all after all of this. It's even more stupid to think that you'd be waiting for me, that you'd even remember me.

Maybe by then you will have forgotten all about me. I'm hoping I will have forgotten about you by then. I'm sorry, but it's better that way. For the both of us.

But if my feelings still have not changed by then, maybe I can give it a try. I just need to hold out until June.

I know it's selfish, but please wait for me... please.

I love you. I miss you. And I love you, and I fear that I will never stop loving you.

Yours, always and forever, M♡

P.S. Sorry that I signed you up for the Scientology email list... I couldn't help myself. It seemed like a good idea at the time. You have to admit it is pretty funny though

[collgeruledzebra]

oh when the bachelor gets back to the capital or wherever he ends up now that thanatica is gone and cleans out that bag of his you KNOW the grit in the bottom is going to be capable of starting an entirely new epidemic

[the-ship-of-theseus-daily]

returning the hat, hopefully it finds its way back to its rightful owner

sHIT THIS IS OCEAN POLLUTION FUCK

- @the-chonny-jash-power-hour-daily

(The seas wash over the hat, waves floating it off towards the sunset)

[sparklyseblos]

we need to talk about sabrina carpenter and the way she executes her brand/aesthetic bc after looking at the videos of short n sweet tour she is doing it PERFECTLY like she & her team really put SO MUCH thought into it - they’re putting on a production here

[ofmdlovelyletters]

lovely letter for scarrletmoon! i don't know if he ever looks at tumblr anymore but scarr's been such an important part of this community and written so much great fic and facilitated so many great discussions, i hope he knows how important he is to all of us.

Hi @/scarrletmoon, if you're still checking Tumblr, this lovely letter is for you. 💌

[hasellia]

First thing to do in the morning.

Gotta drink that geologic gay juice.

[cantsayidont]

February 1964. Lex Luthor learns the true origin of Brainiac: as a humanoid "computer-spy" created by the tyrannical computer rulers of a distant planet (later called Colu).

This story, which appeared in SUPERMAN #167, was a rather dramatic retcon: In his previous appearances, there was no indication that Brainiac wasn't just a green-skinned humanoid alien. His debut in ACTION COMICS #242 described his origins quite differently:

So, why would National-DC and Superman editor Mort Weisinger make such a radical change to a fairly well-established villain? The explanation lies in an editorial footnote omitted from later reprints of SUPERMAN #167:

As the letters column to which the footnote refers explains:

And now let us go behind the scenes and unveil a remarkable coincidence. The fictional character, "Brainiac," was created for us by Otto Binder, a famous science fiction writer who is currently the editor of "Space World," a magazine for rocket experts. (Otto also created "Bizarro" and wrote the great Superman novel, "Krypton Lives On." [SUPERMAN #132]) Shortly after the first "Brainiac" story first appeared in ACTION COMICS, in 1956 [sic; actually 1958], we learned that a REAL "Brainiac" existed … in the form of an ingenious "Brainiac Computer Kit" invented in 1955 by Edmund C. Berkeley. Mr. Berkeley is a distinguished scientist and a world authority on automation, computers and robots. In deference to his "Brainiac," which pre-dates ours, with this issue of SUPERMAN we are changing the characterization of our "Brainiac" so that the master-villain will henceforth possess a "computer personality." We are confident that our readers will approve of this transformation; it should make "Brainiac" a mightier adversary for the Man of Steel. Readers will be interested to learn that they can build their own "Brainiac" by purchasing one of Mr. Berkeley's computer kits and assembling the parts.

The latter paragraph also provides the address of the company, noting, "'Brainiac' kits cost less than $20.00 and make an ideal educational hobby."

This retcon stuck, and, as the editorial explanation suggested, did serve to make Brainiac a more formidable foe, although it created some discrepancies that were never adequately explained. The most important feature of the original Brainiac story in ACTION COMICS #242, of course, was Superman's discovery that the villain had previously stolen and shrunk the Kryptonian city of Kandor, which Superman recovered and brought to Earth at the end of that story. However, nothing in this revised origin suggests that shrinking cities and storing them in bottles to repopulate Brainiac's homeworld was part of Brainiac's original mission, or even a logical extension of it.

Years later, the early issues of L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 presented a post-Crisis version of how the computer uprising of Colu was finally resolved, which formed part of an even more convoluted origin of Brainiac.

[chuuyrr]

i need more fanfictions where reader is in the ada and starts having feelings for chuuya (or, even better, chuuya, despite being a port mafia member, starts crushing on the reader).

imagine the tension??? the lingering touches, the stares, the insults and teasing, the fights, THE FORBIDDEN ROMANCE TROPE !! basically an enemies to lovers plus the impossible love with angst, fluff and tension. i am IN LOVE

- message in a bottle anon

forbidden love, enemies to lovers, and tension?? mhm. mhm. ✍️✍️