#now is not the time to panic

[lala-blahblah]

I do this very silly thing where when I discover a piece of art that moves me deeply like a song or a book I put it on a little pedestal in my heart and make no effort to engage with any of the artist's other work. And I think it's because I'm scared that it's a fluke, that the stars lined up perfectly just this once but that my tastes are too specific or discerning to be so easily pleased again and I don't want to be disappointed. I had read "Nothing to See Here" by Kevin Wilson and loved it so so much but had it in my head that his other books would be too weird and sad for me, but I got to the library half an hour before closing yesterday and I didn't have much time to browse and I just grabbed two of his other books and crossed my fingers, and oh my goshhhhh I could not put "Now is Not the Time to Panic" down last night it was sooo good in so much of the same way, like it makes me want to write something (which is still a new feeling for me as someone who has always considered herself more of an artist than an author). It's this crazy book that's very satanic panic-esque where these teenagers make this freaky poster for fun and just start hanging it up everywhere and their small town doesn't know what to do about it and things spiral out from there. And I'm just reading it like yes yes yes this is how I feel about the world and no one has ever put it in words before but YES this is it right here.

I think it's that Kevin Wilson is the opposite of a romantic. He is so real with his description of teenagers and growing up and how weird people are and how weird they feel and how love and feelings is kind of gross and awkward and what you feel as a teenager will define who you are but the person you feel those things towards will not be your end goal. And the details he gives to people's lives are just weird enough to be true. And the relationships are always part of the story but not what defines it. And he writes such losers, his female characters are such losers and failures and sad weird little kids that grow into weird adults but I love them so much and they feel like real people they feel like they could be me. I don't feel like many people capture this well with female characters, not since Suzanne Collins with Katniss Everdeen. Everything goes wrong for Kevin Wilson's characters but it's not dramatic like a sitcom. It's a quiet sort of wrong. It's like when you were in middle school and you spoke up in conversation in a group of girls and then they all looked at you in vague confusion and disgust and then move on, and you go "oh. I'm a weirdo freak and I just need to stand here quietly and never say anything ever again." Here are some quotes I liked.

[desdasiwrites]

– Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

[kloudchild]

Coming of age story Art, Fixation and Expectations Fast Friendships

A creation can change people forever and nostalgia about it can keep you in a place forever. This seems especially true for what changes us when we're younger.

For art and connection For readers and writers For Kevin and for Eric

[lemongogo]

life of regret

[lucasmaybury]

'The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.'

[aashiyancha]

[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.

[fizzreads]

I read this entire book on a plane, and I am pretty pleased with myself. This was the second book by this author that I’ve read. I liked it. It was a fictional account of this crazy viral panic that these two teenagers in Tennessee started in the 90s. It’s narrated by one of the teens, who was awkward and lonely. She grew up to be a successful author, happily married and with a daughter she adored. (Although oddly, she mentions that she didn’t fall in love with her husband until after their wedding??) But when her secret comes back to haunt her, she basically freaks the fuck out. I did find her actual obsession with this phrase and poster that she created to be really bizarre. But overall, it was good.

[rynli]

every binary man does this

part 1 part 2

[carpbait]

hey guys. runs into a wall

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

When in doubt, Soup it out.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[bagginshieldfamily]

Something I need the fix it AU writers who use Frodo as Bagginsgields child to focus more on:

Gimli meeting a hobbit that looks strangely like Thorin Oakenshield but has the last name Baggins before connecting the dots:

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 136

 There is a small child floating in the Watchtower. 

They’re visibly not human, a too-big cloak of purple (what shade no one knows, all they can describe about the cloak is purple, nothing else) hanging from them as big Lazarus-green eyes glare down in something of a pout. The child huffs, blowing white hair out of their face despite it shimmering and shifting on its own already. 

How the child, inhuman or not, found their way into the Watchtower- without setting off an alarm no less- is a concern. A very large concern, but it can wait because there is a four-year old (if the child is the equivalent of a human child that is) at oldest staring down at them. 

 “Do you know where the speedsters are?” the child piped up after an awkward stare-down, none of the league members present quite sure what to do in this situation. It was probably around time to call Batman… or they could call Flash instead. 

[equill]

Reuniting with a distorted past.

Extra:(New personality tested gone wrong)

wanted to play with rin living in the aftermath aus aswell and had these drawings laying around to share so yay

Panel 1: Was buried alive.

Comic 1: Who are you supposed to be?

new friends

Comic 2: Misguided protection.

obito still sensing the warning signs of rin losing her temper. anyways they proceeded to be dragged into the ocean by rin like some sea monster

Comic 3: Finding out (Now what will you do?)

obito is harshly brought back from his delusions because now its not just kushina but rin too who he needs to ripped out the tail beast from

[hypewinter]

I've had a brainworm for a few days now so here me out.

After an accidental reveal gone wrong, Danny is forced to flee the country with both his parents and the giw after him. While he's trying to find some place internationally to settle down, he comes across a secluded complex.

Said complex happens to have access to an ectoplasm run off which Danny is in desperate need of. Though it has been corrupted by whatever the people of the complex have been doing to it, that's no problem for Danny as he can easily purify the portion he takes in to survive.

Deciding this is the perfect place to live off the grid, Danny sets to work figuring out how to blend in. It turns out that's the easy part. With his temporary stint as a ninja, his training with his black belt mom, and his general ghost physiology, he fits in pretty well.

He fits in so well in fact that he is told he'll be training someone one of the head bosses has their eye on. A kid his age.

Basically what follows is Danny accidentally ruining Talia's plans for Jason by unconsciously purifying his corruption and just talking him through his emotions. When Jason gets back to Gotham, he returns without a clouded mentally and realizes just how much Bruce went through after his death.

Instead of unleashing his complicated plan, he quietly takes over the underworld. He loves his father but also knows there are situations in Gotham that require a more firm hand. Jason decides to be a firm hand in his dad's place.

(I imagine he is only revealed on accident yet his reunion with his family is just as dramatic as Under the Red Hood. Tbh it probably has something to do with the joker suddenly going missing.)

Meanwhile back at the League of Assassins, Talia is impressed by Jason's training and is under the impression that his failure in Gotham is due to him getting cold feet at the last second so she puts Danny in charge of Damian's training.

Danny this time takes a more conscious role in ruining the league's brainwashing by challenging Damian's beliefs and teaching him he should use his weapons to protect, not to harm. By the time Damian gets to Wayne Manor, there is significantly less deprogramming that needs to be done.