#quarantine story

[basswhoisalsoellie]

Alright Tumblr it’s about time I share this story with y’all. This is the legend of the jarred milk.

The year is 2020. 2 months into the quarantine. Every day is the same and time moves yet stands still…

It was 2 am. I was doom-scrolling on my phone when the sudden urge to consume an ice latte kicked in. Conveniently I had some cooled coffee and milk in the fridge. So I got up and start walking towards the kitchen.

This is the point of the story where we acknowledge that I was 1) very much sleep deprived 2) mentally checked out due to gestures towards the state of outside in 2020 so critical thinking wasn’t really on my agenda.

I open the fridge. The coffee I left in the fridge to chill stood before me. Behind it was the milk. Or, more so, what I thought to be milk.

It was mayonnaise. It was a mayonnaise jar. I put mayonnaise in my coffee.

My brain seriously didn’t thought it was weird that I opened a jar and scooped “milk” for my coffee. I thought it was jarred milk.

Anyways this is why my friends someone refer to me as the Jarred Milk

[crimeronan]

i've downloaded zombies run & i'm three missions in & enjoying it so far, but it's also so Tragically and Hilariously clear how much this story was written in 2012. and how it was also less interested in subverting genre expectations than making you move your body (very fair!! given that that's what the game is designed for!!)

the two most egregious things in these first three eps are:

1. i was paired for a run with a coughing woman who insists she "just has a bad chest cold," and even though the camp supervisor firmly establishes that coughing is THE FIRST SYMPTOM of an infection, i'm instructed to go out running alone in the wilds with this lady. who's coughing. so much.

she keeps being like "it's just a cold 💕" while refusing to let anyone examine her and i'm like. YOU GUYS DONT HAVE QUARANTINE PROCEDURES?? PUT HER ASS SOMEWHERE AWAY FROM THE REST OF US?? DUDE??

2. it's then established that everyone at the camp is suspicious of me because other camps nearby have been torched after being visited by shady-ass secret-keepers very similar to myself. but i'm still allowed to roam around and do supply runs like it's nothing. the NPCs just mutter mutinously about me and make allusions to how i'm gonna get everyone killed.

PUT MY ASS IN QUARANTINE?!?!? DON'T LET ME LEAVE WITHOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS??? WHAT???? YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO GET A GRIP?!?!?!

the lack of quarantine, safety, and hardass procedures would be excusable if this was a hippie commune or solarpunk future or whatever, but it is Not. this is an AMC's walking dead style deal where the only people more dangerous than the zombies are the non-zombies.

so i'm like.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE LAST RUGGED BASTION OF HUMANITY. WHAT ARE YOU DOIIINGGG.....

[inexplicablepeas]

Then I envisioned Armand. My old enemy and friend Armand. My old adversary and companion Armand. Armand, the angelic child who had created the Night Island, our last home. Where was Armand? Had Armand deliberately left me to my own devices? And why not?

-Lestat, Tale of the Body Thief

Yes, very good question, where the fuck is Armand??? How sad for him that he apparently took a break from stalking Lestat exactly when he would he would have had complete leverage over him - can you imagine how he's kicking himself reading this?! 😂 Lestat was in a weak little mortal body and needed his help! Such a missed opportunity! Pour one out for Armand when he read this book… 🤧

[stormingfrost]

anyway I’m gonna info dump about my rotg wip that’s taken me literal years to write and still isn’t even close to being done but its bouncing around my head like a dvd symbol and i need to talk about it rn so here

Jack’s dad dies when Jack is 14 and becomes the Wind

guardian training is actually just watching informational employee training videos about child care

Jack dies on his 18th birthday

Death from puss in boots is here and guides Jack as he’s fresh from drowning and before becoming frost and is stuck in limbo. No other shrek related things come up at all, it’s just him.

nightlight and Jack are not the same person but are at the same time. Idk that part of the wip isn’t that developed yet

Jack started out as aroace bc projection but now has a gf (Tooth) and an ex bf (Shadowbent). He’s still ace tho

jack and pitch continue being mirrors to each other but this time bring in past lives and things get super messy (and traumatic for jack)

Shadowbent is the mvp bc I love him

tooth and Shadowbent become friends despite Jack’s awkwardness around Shadowbent (they all become pretty close, considering everything)

bunny isn’t an alien but still has all the trauma of the books because I like to make my favorite characters suffer

bunny was a father and had a little brother that looked like Jack… just a smidge

north and bunny are married and Jack has no clue. This leads to shenanigans.

Sandy gets trapped in an alternate universe where he and pitch are not only allies but dating. This decision was made before I knew what arcane was but goddamnit that one timebomb French song is their song now

Woody the talking Christmas tree is a demon robot (look it up im scared of that thing)

Bunny gets trapped in weird FNAF scenario where all of the animatronics are of the guardians

Jack’s sister is the sun and the moon doesn’t like her

a giant spider tries to eat Tooth

Nightlight is implied to be a mass murderer

north gets stuck in a time loop and is so tired by the end of it, he takes a nap for a month

Jack loves Frankenstein and hates victor because he gets reminded of MiM

tooth and Jack get stuck in the wizard of oz. Jack is Dorothy and Tooth is Ozma while Baby Tooth is Toto. If I had the capacity to put musical numbers in a fanfic this would be a musical episode

Jack paints the fall leaves pretty colors

bunny and jack get trapped in the lotus hotel and find out that some human guy keeps a collection of spirits in the basement

pitch steals Jack’s intestine

Tooth has an identity crisis and breaks the multiverse

north lowkey adopts Jack

tooth becomes queen of all fairies

Pitch develops a drug that’s like the fear toxin in batman

jack crashes his own funeral. Twice.

bunny gets gifted a paintbrush from Jack after they had a fight

north got the title of a saint while being a bandit. He’s still confused about it

tooth wasn’t supposed to be born

[solarpunkani]

Minor W for the solarpunk zombie story, we finally reached the front gate of the town GOD BLESS

Already shoving other OCs into the project as minor characters

Now the problem.....

I am overthinking EVERYTHING

[melit0n]

Somethings' in the air me thinks

[melien]

BubblyIris🪻: Milo!!! Heyyyyyy

BubblyIris🪻: Are you there

BubblyIris🪻: Where's my sea blob fish

BubblyIris🪻: I had such a weird dream

BubblyIris🪻: I HAVE to tell you

seablobfish🐟: oooohhhh i'm all ears

seablobfish🐟: please tell me I was a part of it

BubblyIris🪻: Of course you were

BubblyIris🪻: We were in some futuristic world and were supposed to be epic soulmates who will save the universe with the power of their... soulmate-ness

seablobfish🐟: 👀👀 that's us alright

BubblyIris🪻: And then you were replaced by a clone who your mother shot and the real you was kidnapped by an anomaly who turned out to be your other mother and you were tortured by her and looked like you have just been crucified

seablobfish🐟: LMAO no but I already look like that every day. the trials of life

BubblyIris🪻: No you don't!! You pretty as hell

seablobfish🐟: 🥰

seablobfish🐟: alright and what happened next?

BubblyIris🪻: I woke up and was like ?????

seablobfish🐟: makes sense

BubblyIris🪻: But it wasn't even the worst part

seablobfish🐟: are you serious???

BubblyIris🪻: YES

[shadowmoses]

THRILLING news. one of our new baby rats sleeps like this

[celestialrealms]

begging solmare to stop insisting to us that EVERY mc would be most comfortable at the house of lamentation in nightbringer. The brothers aren’t the only romantic options. Why should an mc that, for instance, is in love with solomon (or is even just good friends with him)... the only character from their actual time... be forcibly told by the narrative that they’re more comfortable around versions of the brothers that are essentially strangers to them?

[crimsonlovebartylus]

im casually reading complicity, the sequel to duplicity - tell me why this damn fic still makes me CRY?!?!!?

[muralconservator]

hi so this is the main art discussion but this is a shorter relevant one

ooo that's quite interesting

I do think that him holding the candle in the art does make a case that suggests he might've lit it himself or caused it on accident though I have some other ideas.

The man of the house he was staying at beginning to pray for forgiveness for longer and longer periods and Andrew describing the village as 'plague-stricken' kind of reminds me of how they used to think illness was caused by the wrath of God, there's a line mentioning that in the story as well.

there was also the belief that illness was caused by bad air that could be purified via heat and smoke, therefore leading fires to be lit to ward off the bad air, perhaps the fire was lit in hopes of helping the illness but accidentally got out of hand and spread?

[satinoflowers]

Modern au cristin cole goes clubbing with young rhaenyra ali laena etc cuz hes the cool older guy thats “one of the girls”, its chill until he gets hit on by a gay guy and the night ends with him committing a hate crime

[tinynavajoreads]

Currently Reading: Stories from Quarantine by The New York Times Magazine, previously published as The Decameron Project

Trying to get my brain to focus on a book and a series of short stories seemed to be the best bet. And the stories have been interesting and a little haunting so far.

Once done, I'll let you know which of the stories I enjoyed!

[writterings]

yknow long covid is some bullshit. you're telling me i can't smell shit unless it's directly under my nose all because of a virus i had in 2019??? bullshit

[snoopyreadsliterature]

really disappointing.

[rockingego]

I had the opportunity to be normal but then minecraft story mode happened