#the little contractor

[bittybattybunny]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24045355/chapters/139264945

IDK why tumblr decided to not post the link as it normally does

anyhow

Finally finished this cover for my fanfic! Only finished writing it almost a year ago whoops

Anyhow Ru getting t beat up Keith because he deserves it all things considered. Really happy with this one uwu

[dragonpyre]

Stephanie Brown is to the batfamily like what Shawn Spencer is to the Santa Barbara police department

[essektheylyss]

I am once again knitting which means I'm back to the Nein rewatch and happened to be on Midnight Espionage, and truly INSANE episode. The egg dick, both break-ins, the Zauber Spire attack, and the first time a beacon is on screen in like four hours flat. Trent Ikithon is there. The episode ends with Liam and Marisha yelling, "TRUST THE PORN."

[judeaftersickness]

"You're not just my weird patient, Jude," Andy said. "You're also my weird friend." He paused. "Or at least, I hope you are."

He smiled into the phone. "Of course I am," he said. "I'm honored to be your weird friend."

(the postman, pg 230)

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that almost every nation had class distinctions in its accents, and you just never hear about them except for the British.

[pjshermann]

[envolvenuances]

and I think child modelling should be illegal I'm not even joking

[praise-the-lord-im-dead]

Me: gosh trying to figure out housing feels impossible. It'd take a miracle for us to live somewhere vaguely stable

Bible reading for the day: the conversion of Saul and the raising of the dead

[theladwhoisweird]

"A Little Life" Characters Headcanons......

Willem would read fics about himself

[calistozom]

I'm back with my cambion and with a lil bit of completely useless information about him. And also a bit of my pain from the prev weekend. I usually spend it on all sorts of small sketches and other joys, but this time I decided to spend it on suffering and another attempt at animation (down bellow)…

So, Nazir is a devilish clerk whose distorted parody of a heart entirely belongs to the world of financial frauds, pyramids and other small scams aimed not so much at murder or robbery, but at spreading discord in society everyday life. His a very "fell in love with his work"-kinda guy, who picks up the same "fallen" servants (well, or those who can be persuaded to fall).

[bittybattybunny]

Some more artfight mostly my bigger pieces of the year!

Two of these (the mermaids and the bottom with the Midroyahedgehog) @thepotatogremlin

@darkmedolie

@doodleimprovement

This batch defs were my favs of the year

[tj-crochets]

Good news: after a lot of weeks, my air conditioner is fixed!! Also good news: I caught an error in the software at work that was impacting both contractor pay and customer invoicing! Bad news: going through large amounts of data loosely falls under the purview of the department I am now sort of in charge of, which meant my department (which is me and two other people) had to individually open every single order from [specific subset of customers] since the beginning of the year to manually check if either error had occurred. Hundreds of orders, even with a few different criteria we could use to narrow it down. It's done though! I mean the error is not fixed but previous instances of it causing problems are caught and now that we know it exists we can catch future problems before they are invoiced/paid out I have done zero crafting today and I honestly doubt I will get any done lol

[fun-kytown]

I walked into a small bookstore on Friday to pick up a book I had meant to read for months. I had just finished my previous book and, because I wasn’t home and still had four more days left visiting my sister, I decided to read ‘A Little Life.’

The book was just over 800 pages and I thought that it would be a good read for the next few weeks or so.

Little did I know I’d finish it 3 days later.

I hear stories all the time of people who’ve read the book. Their grievances, their frustrations, their mourning. I hear how they cried every time they opened it.

I didn’t cry once, but I feel broken.

Maybe it was because I felt connected to Jude in some way, to his trauma, to his guilt. Or maybe it was because I myself am still unable to accept my own existence, my own pain.

Though, I also feel like an imposter. A fraud. How dare I connect myself to a character so different than I?

Ever since I was a kid, I formed deep emotional connections with characters in any media I exposed myself to. I believed them to be my friends, my family, or even extensions of myself.

So, when I finish a book, I feel a part of myself is lost. Ripped away. Destroyed.

That’s the feeling I have after finishing this book.

The pain I felt was that, given the book recorded a lifetime, with the characters growing old, I remained young. I sit here, experiencing the entire life of a man, all the while I stay 19 years old in a random week of July.

And as I was finishing the book today, I sat outside in a lawn chair, under a shaded tree. Across from me, a summer camp program exited a building to eat lunch outside.

A kid sat in the chair across from me to begin eating his lunch.

He looked at me. I didn’t look at him.

“What book are you reading?” He asked me.

I brought my head up from the page to meet his eyes.

“Oh, just a grown up book about a man’s life.” And I smiled at him, trying to hide the pain the book had brought me.

“Sounds boring,” he replied, “See, instead of reading about his life, I would just live his.”

The kid continued to eat his lunch and I sat there, unable to form words.

I looked down at the book in my hands, my heart aching for the man in the book, and looked back up at the kid.

He sat in the chair, eating a turkey and cheese sandwich, peeling the crust off the bread, dropping the scraps to the ground. He tore of pieces of the sandwich piece by piece as he kicked his legs while he sat, feet swinging in the air.

“Nah, kid, just live your own life.”

And I hope that kid’s life is as wonderful as he could ever imagine. May it not be tarnished by anything or anyone evil. I wish for all his sandwiches to have no crusts for him to peel off, and for everyday to be sunny so he can play.

I hope his life is everything he could ever wish it could be.

And I hope that it’s more than that.

[kiwibirdlafayette]

they dont know i wrote the rest of hermits/lifers/empires crew into my osmp AU just so i could write in my head a scene where sonja meets the mounders + the roomies

[pjshermann]

advertising post for my upcoming/in progress A Little Life fics bc im so excited about them and need to talk about them :D

just what the doctor ordered (title not finalized)

Fic about Andy and Jude meeting for the first time when Jude is seventeen and has a terrible, sustained episode that makes his friends take him to the campus hospital. Fic follows Andy and Jude through their relationship up until Jude's death

I won't put my child in the dark

Fic about Harold and Julia in the days and weeks and months after Jude's death. enough said about that ;)

Scones

A lighthearted, no angst A Little Life fic???? can you believe it. If you've ever watched Derry Girls you will love this one. I'm taking the scones episode from season two, and putting the Boys in the Hood in a similar situation. College shenanagins involving corpses and weed

Gnossienne

Remember when Jude said his worst nightmare would be for Harold and Julia to find out about his past through a doctors report, a photograph, or a film still? Yeah, that's EXACTLY what happens. woops

No title yet (relatively new idea so yk)

Fic about Harold and Julia meeting for the first time, with Harold finding happiness again after grieving Jacob's passing and his divorce from Liesl. First dates, wedding, and general love !

[hog-zone]

incredible piece of worldbuilding here. the afterlife has a glamour system.