#this is my first story

[maybeiamdownbad]

For the first time ever I'm actually going to post a story that I wrote! I don't know how many chapters it's going to be but I know I absolutely want to continue it!

Title: Entity 001

Warnings: Heavy Angst, horror aspects, aliens?, major character death (future chapters), eventual fluff, colossus trope, thoughts of death, the government is evil (duh)

WC (this chapter): 3.8k

Mist surrounded the edges of Finley’s mind. A deep kind of fog that only vanished after being truly awake and focused. An alarm blared with a shrill buzz breaking him out of that calm state like a lightning strike to a still ocean. Turning over in bed, Finley smacked his hand-me-down alarm clock, willing it to be silent. Sitting up his dark blue sheets fell from his shoulders, air nipping at his bare skin.

The apartment he moved into was big enough for him and his sister to both have a room to themselves. It was a vast improvement from their grandmother’s basement, but it came with an unknown cost. Lodging and bills had been paid for by Finley’s new employer who had taken a class of recent college graduates and promised them a chance to explore new aspects of life from beyond the stars, but he hadn’t known what his new job would truly entail. They had been very vague but when offered a job that would pay six figures a year right out of highschool Finley had not hesitated to take the opportunity. Most of the other students however hadn’t been so easily convinced to move their lives.

Finley took a moment to gather his haze filled thoughts and began to get dressed for a brand new day. The cold white coat hugged his arms as he opened the door from his room to the living area. Kylie had already been awake and waiting for Finley to start making breakfast. She was a small girl who had a passion for anything and everything that caught her attention. In the last few months she had been drawing everything she saw, which Finley had decided might not be the best thing to tell his employers. 

The petite girl sat in the corner where the only window in their apartment sat. She had drawn little clouds on blue sticky notes and put them up along the window sill. At the moment she was working on drawing the willow tree just outside the complex. It stood large and tall even though it seemed lonely in the otherwise empty courtyard.

Finley had begun pouring cereal into the bowls that came with his temporary apartment. Off white porcelain sat on the marble counter and as he poured the milk Finley thought, Wow they really sprung for marble, amazed by little things that seemed so large to him in that moment. There were no splinters that came up with the bowls like there would have been in grandma’s little kitchenette. 

“Here ya go kiddo,” Finley handed Kylie her bowl and sat down to begin eating his, “How long have you been up anyway?”

Kylie gently took the cereal and responded “Not too long.” 

She had been very quiet since moving and Finley was sure it was because she didn’t want to leave her friends behind. But she took the change of pace like a champ and didn’t complain nearly as much as the average child would have so the older brother counted his blessings and moved on. 

We can move back once we’re well enough off to be comfortable. She’ll be ok, she’s strong.

Money had always been scarce and although he felt a pang of pain every time his sister sighed he knew she understood where he was coming from. She had always been wise beyond her years.

“Alright well I better head off, I’ll be back in a few hours. Will you be good here till I get back?” Finley broke the silence with a simple question.

“Mhm” The ten year old didn’t even look up from her sketch.

“Ok well don’t commit any crimes you can't cover up while i’m gone!” He watched a small smile form on her face as he walked out the door and down the stairs to his second day on the job.

Air clung to the pale white walls with vigor. Every breath he took sounded off like the clicks of an empty gun. The lonely creature lay still in the corner of a white room with one hollow light that hung from the ceiling precariously.

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Click click click. A breath in. Click click click. A breath out. 

It had been several light cycles since he had seen the sun, how many it had been he did not know. The last memory of any warmth feeling so far away that he could barely remember the sweet hug of light. Vast limbs clung closely to his dark purple skin. How long had it truly been since the monsters had taken him hostage? He couldn’t remember. He couldn’t remember anything anymore.

Landing on the small blue and green marble had been a mistake. A break had cost him his life. Stranded away from any of his kind it seemed there was nothing he could do to get home. Small beeps filled the air, with sounds of mechanical contraptions unknown to his kind. They were harsh and never slept, a constant reminder to where he was.

A large mirror covered one of the six sides of the extra terrestrial’s confinement. Mocking him, as if to say, look at how far you’ve fallen. Where was he now? He didn’t know, all he knew were the confines of this room. But the moment he got out, his captors would know the meaning of death. He would swarm them like a plague, one that seeped into your very soul, ripping them apart from the inside out. They would know no peace.

Click click click. In. Click click click. Out.

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Finley's first day on the job had been meeting most of the scientists he would be working with, as well as becoming acquainted with some of the other highschool graduates that were taking the opportunity. He still didn't have a full idea what their job was going to be but from what had been explained yesterday he was going to be working hands on with items from space.

He wasn’t entirely sure what his bosses were referring to but he was just as happy to be a part of scientific history, as he was to be making enough money to have whatever he and his sister needed.

Sitting under the willow tree right outside his apartment Finley heard his bus round the corner and quickly come to a halt in front of him. Despite clearly having been expensive and new the bus ground to a halt with a loud screech. Finley stepped inside with a greeting to the driver and took his seat. The metal machine whirred back to life and he was officially on his way to his new job.

Taking a moment to note who was on the bus with him he saw some familiar faces from the day before. At the front Dave sat talking to Carter, or Carey… he wasn’t sure what the blond scientist name was but Finley had met him the other day.

Behind them sat a man in camouflage, who he hadn’t met. Looking around he noticed that each seat of scientists had one or two men, who were military protection, sitting behind them. Though his guide yesterday had said the military was very invested in their discoveries, Finley hadn’t expected so many guards. At least not on the bus to wherever they were going.

The more he thought about it the more nervous he got. Sweat started to form near the cuffs of his sleeve. They hadn’t told him where they were actually going. Sparse trees began to thin even more as the bus went on a winding road into rocky mountains covered in sand. 

The sun rose higher and higher into the sky, beating down on the window to Finley’s right. Seconds turned into minutes and those turned into more than an hour of non-stop driving. 

After what seemed like an eternity  the bus came to a halt in front of a river-worn bluff. Nothing but sand filled dirt and scattered dry bushes filled the vast area for miles and miles. The passengers departed the metal monster and all gathered outside, and though he had been told they were going to a remote base Finley was unable to find one in the vast expanse of desert.

Moments passed and the bus drove off. Standing by the bluff, fifteen scientists, ten soldiers, and six students who had been brought along all waited.

One of the soldiers with a higher stature than the others spoke above the murmur of the crowd, “Alright you all know the drill, phones in the box.” He held out a cardboard box with large sharpie lettering that wrote, phones. Though the sharpie was barely legible but Finley got the idea and put his phone in along with everyone else, and as the last phone hit the bottom of the box a mechanical whirring sounded off.

Dirt rose from the ground in a single large rectangle and a metal box lifted from the ground effortlessly. Though many of the men and women standing around him didn’t bat an eye at the mystical event, the other students were quietly freaking out. The large stainless steel box had partly glass doors outlined with metal trim that slid open without a hitch and the first group of half a dozen people went inside to be lowered down into the ground. 

Each small group of people boarded, taking nearly ten minutes for the contraption to rise back out of the ground to accept more people yet again. Group after group went down into the ground, and though this was passed off as a normal occurrence, the other new employees seemed less than thrilled to be venturing into the unknown sharing many of the same fears Finely was just beginning to feel.

    The sweat that had begun to form near the cuffs of his sleeve moved down his wrist onto the palms of his hands. 

Why do they need so many soldiers? 

Why is this so far away from other people? 

Why was the entrance hidden like that?

    The wuestions he had would have to wait. It was the student’s turn to follow suit. The officer with the cardboard box motioned for the group to step into the hidden elevator, the warm temps making his hair fall out of place. Step after noisy step Finley and the other teens entered the elevator and began their decent.

    The glass doors shut with a quiet magnetized sound and the dirt he had just been standing on lifted above Finley’s head. The fact that the doors were clear didn’t make much of a difference when the shaft they had gone into was so dark. The officer standing behind Finley and the others stuck his right hand into his pocket holding the phone box in his left hand. The action made Finley realize that everyone in the elevator had been holding their breath aswell. As if any one of them making a sound would cause the elevator to break away from its cable.

    Several long minutes passed and just as Finley was about to ask one of his never ending questions light flooded through the glass. The largest cave Finley had ever seen opened up in front of his very eyes. Every question he had before was replaced by a new one.

    Powerful lights hung from the roof of the cave, countless balconies jutted out from the walls connected by more elevators. On the base floor there was what seemed to be a command center filled with blinking lights and stange machines Finley had never seen before.

The most astounding thing however, was at the far end of the cave. Made of layers and layers of bullet proof glass a wall stood nearly twenty storries high. Behind it a monster of gigantic proportions kept curled into a large mass of dark purple limbs and spines that stuck up from its thick skin. 

    A dimmer light than the rest hung from the ceiling of the creatures confinement. The ligtht flickered seemingly begging to be anywhere else. The light didn’t reach far enough to fully acentuate the beast, and the almagomation of flesh moved only in juts. Its breathing seemed to come slower than that of a humans.

    “What the fuck is that?” One of the students, Al, questioned with a slight quiver to his voice.

    “That, my friend, is exactly what we have been trying to figure out for a long time. So far we call it ‘Entity 001’ though.” The officer spoke in an almost bored tone.

    Another of the students, Jessie, brought up the first ligitimate question, “Is that what we were brought here for,” she didn’t seem very confident, nor did any of the other students for that matter though,”are we studying…that?”

    “Up close and personal doll.” Jessie cringed at the nickname but didn’t say a word back.

    In a strange and dangerous way the beast seemed beautiful. Light speckless dotted a deep and saturated purple skin. It was covered in shadows but just behind arms, hands, and fingers that were to long to be proportional, a crooked face rested with tear stained cheeks.

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The frigid metal floor stung the receptors just under his skin. A large white door opened and the alien stayed still. It had been too many cycles where he had been prodded and poked with metal from that door, but he did not have the energy to move away from it or fight. 

Luckily his captors seemed to choose peace today. A large vessle of water had been rolled in on a metal beast. He did not need to eat, his speices had evolved past that necessity. However the desire and need to drink had not been moved past so easily.

The door shut quickly, it always did, and after a moment when he was sure it would be safe the alien unfurled himself from the position he had been laying in and moved over to the water. Moving one of his many clawed and webbed hands to the water he lifted the substance to his mouth before taking a greedy drink.

Click click click. A breath in. Click click click a breath out.

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Finley stood shocked as the glass doors slid open. The decent had been a long one, but with the information given to the students it had seemed to go by in an instant. The group took what felt like a never ending journey to the glass.

Behind Finley a very heated coversation was held by Al and Jessica arguing about weather or not the monster should even be alive at all.

“It should be put down.” Al continued with fast hand gestures.

“You don’t even really know what it is, besides if it’s that big the thing can probably hear you-”

Jessica was cut off by a new voice,”I assure you it cannot hear you, or see you for that matter.” Finley turned around to see a tall woman with bright eyes and even brighter pink hair tied up in a loose bun abover her head. 

“Well I guess it can’t do much but that’s beside the point. The real point is you all being here. Albert, Finley, Jessica, Tyler, and Amber,” The woman took a quick breath,”Well that was a mouth full. I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Dr. Rinsley, you may call me Dr. Rinsley. I didn’t go though 15 years of training to be called anything less.”

“Dr. Rinsley, what are we doing exactly?” The question had been the first words Finley had heard Amber speak.

“Well each of you have volunteered to be paid a heafty amount to put your lives on the line for our scientific future. In your job description Shutter Labs told stated you each would be working hands on with items from space. ‘Entity 001’ just so happens to be ‘those items’.”

A ringing began in Finleys ears. I’m going to have to go in there. Only that thought crossed Finley’s mind. His vission went white and every sound other than the ringing was blocked out. For a split second Finley believed he may faint.

His breath deepened, heart rate slowed and then, a vision came to him. It was a day in the summer, before he and his sister had moved. She was playing in their grandmother’s garden. She happened to be sneaky enough that she had taken a salt shaker outside and eaten the tomatoes right off the plant.

His senses returned to him slowly. He might not make it through whatever these people had planned, but his sister was going to make it out of her pre-teens with enough money to go all the way through college and be happy.

The other graduates were in an uproar of arguments directed at Dr. Rinsley, some worried that their life would be on the line, others bringing up the deceit in the waivers. In truth, they all knew it would be dangerous if they were getting paid that much right out of highschool. But out of every issue Finley saw in his recruitment it didn’t matter compared to what he was fighting for.

“What do you need us to do?” his question stuck out among the raised voices like a sore thumb.

He had spoken without even realizing what he was doing, and the answer Dr. Rinsley had given him back was something he and the others should have seen coming.

“You’re going to go in there with ‘001’ and see how it reacts,” The other students quieted down the moment she continued, “If you have any issues with it you can take it up with me before you change into the testing clothes. I will be in my office.

Dr. Rinsley strode off in a direction he and the others could only assume her office was in. Every person but Finley practically tripped over themselves to get to her office and spew every question they had at her.

“One at a time.” The officer who held their phones grabbed onto the hood of Al’s jacket, which stuck out over his white lab coat stopping him from following the pink haired doctor.

Finley took his chance to walk beside Dr. Rinsley and state his own concerns, “I don’t care what you want me to do, if its go in there and kiss the thing i’d do it. However, I need to know that my next of kin will get the money.” 

Step after step they went up a set of stairs into the doctor’s office. The wood creaked, seemingly worn from years of abuse. How long has this place been here? That was something Finley hadn’t considered, but it really didn’t matter at this moment.

“We can set up a payment plan or trust fund for them. I assume you’re referring to your sister?” She spoke without even looking up from her phone, and opened the door to her office.

“Yes.”

“It will be done within the hour, now go change. The bus ride home is long, as im sure you’re well aware, so we don’t have all day for the first test.”  She said it so nonchalantly, as if his life couldn’t be ended in a moment if he went into the cage with that beast.

As Finley left her office he glanced at the glass wall. The alien unfurled its arms and legs and strode over to the pool of water in its massive enclosure. Finely could barely comprehend the proportions of the beast.

It had four arm-like limbs wich streached forward as it made its way to the water. Its powerful legs propelling it forward at a relatively slow pace. Each step it took sounded off like great earthquakes, and as it took one of its webbed hands up to its face its jaw seemed to detach from its skull. A pale blue light emerged from its maw as it took drink of water.The speckles of light on its back pulsing with each gulp.

    Tearing his eyes away from the event Finley continued down the stairs, and was directed to the dressing rooms.

    The cold white clothes were made with low quality cotton and had sections of cloth cut out for heart rate monitors and mics. The other graduates had gone to ask their endless questions to Dr. Rinsler, but Finley finished getting dressed. He wanted to get this over with. If he was truly the first person to ever interact with this being, he would likely die.

    The thought made him shudder as he pulled white socks up his calves. He had to do this for his sister. She might not understand but it will be worth it. He didn’t really want to do this. Infact if he had any possible way to avoid it he would, but the sheer amount of military in the cave alone made it abundantly clear leaving wasn’t really an option. Might as well get it over with fast. 

    After getting fully dressed, Finley made his way out of the changing rooms and into the grand expanse of cave. He mustered every ounce of courage he could, and before he could take a step towards Dr. Rinsley’s office, one of the higher ranking study group scientists intercepted him.

    “Finally, ok we’re putting you in there in 5, follow me.” The scientist waved for Finley to follow.

    The ringing that had faded in the teen’s ears returned with vigor. Each breath he took and each step he came closer to the door that would ultimately lead him to his demise made him want to run further away than possible.

    Once he approached the enclosure multiple people came up to him, testing the mics and the cameras attached to his form. Moments later the pink haired doctor approached him aswell, shooing away the other scientist.

    Looking into his eyes she began, “I know this isn’t what you were imagining but I promise we will do everything we can to make sure whatever the outcome of this interaction is, it will better our scientific progress. And we will take care of your sister.” 

    Finley could tell she was being genuine but that didn’t quell his fears, in fact it heightened them, heartrate monitor beeping in protest. Dr. Rinsler rested her hand on his shoulder in sympathy and left taking all of the others with her.

    “Are you ready?” She shouted from her observation station, hand on a switch which read ‘door unlock 1’. The officer from before heald his hand above a similar switch which read ‘door unlock 2’.

    “No, but that doesn’t really matter.” Finley spoke with a huff. Sweaty palms held close to his sides.

    For a few agonizing seconds, nothing happened. Then with a whirr a door the size of a small car opened. He stepped inside, each placement of his foot echoing in the large cement and glass cube.

    As the door shut behind him his eyes couldnt keep up to adjust and he was surrounded in darkness. 

    A light glow of blue came from the corner of the massive gymnasium like structure, and the last thing Finley heard before passing out was an intense vibration in the air like the firing off of a machine gun with deep misfires.

    Click, click, click… Click, click, click.

(To be continued)

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

[coconutfuzzy]

Chapter 1: Am I Really Going To Do This?

Licea Looked Out Her Window With Bore.... She Just Couldn't Put Herself Too Sleep.

She Tried Counting, Breathing, Zoning Out and everything else but nothing seemed to work.

But Something Caught Her Eye.

A Cat And A Rabbit?

"How Peculiar?" She Questioned, She Wanted To Ignore It But Her Curiosity Got The Best Of Her.

She Turned Around Away From The Window.

"My Mind Just Playing Tricks On me" She Said As She Went To Sit On Her Bed.

And there she sat with her eyes closed debating with her mind.

"Stay Home And Try To Sleep"

"Go Out And see"

"Come On Licea Just Leave, You're Only Going To See A cat and rabbit.... Nothing Else, What's The Harm in that?"

"Licea I Think we Should stay home, you don't know what's out there and what If we get caught!"

"GO LICEA!"

"STAY LICEA!"

"GO!"

"STAY!"

They Started Yelling at her.

She went back to the window to see if they were still there.

And they were, she looked back at her bed and at the window once more.

Then she cracked her room door open and saw the guards sleeping as they rested up against the wall with staff in hand.

"I'll Just Go To See them, Then Come Back To Bed"

She Opened Her Closet And Got Her Coat Because It Was A Very Cold Night.

Once She Put It On, She Took A Breath In And Went To Open Her Door.

She Slipped Out The Door And Proceeded To Quietly Make Her Way Down The Hallway And Not Wake The Guards At The Same Time.

As She Made It To The Beginning Of The Stairs, She Stood And Thought.

"Am I Really Going To Do This?", She Looked Back At Her Cracked Door Then Back At The Stairs.

She Took Her Chances And Quietly Walked Down The Stairs, She Felt Adrenaline Pulp Through Her but She Didn't Know Why, All She Is Doing Is Going To Look A Cat And Rabbit.

After Awhile Of Her Being In Her Thoughts She realized she Made It To The Bottom Of The Castle Stairs.

And There She Stood In Front Of The Castle Doors.

"Am I Really Going To Do This?" She Questioned Herself Once More.

She Took A Deep Breath In And Opened The Doors And When The Whiff Of Air Hit Her She Let That Breath Go.

She Can't Remember The Last She Was Outside With A Guard Or Someone Watching Over Her.

She Looked Down And saw The cat and rabbit.

"Hello" She Me Greeted Them but they Ran The other way.

"Hey Wait!" She Yelled And Ran After Them As Well.

They Ran Into The Woods And She Seemed To Be Becoming Farther And Farther Away From Home But She Didn't Care To Notice.

They Running Finally Comes To A Stop When She Reached A Hole In The Ground, The Cat And Bunny Stopped Directly In Front Of It And Looked At Her.

"Why Have You Lead Me Here?" She Asked, They Said Nothing nor did any gesture.

But Turned Around And Jumped In The Hole.

She Gasped And Looked Down Hole And Saw Darkness.

Something Told Her To Turn Back And Go Home, While The Other Said Said Jump.

She Looked Behind And Saw Nothing But Trees.

She Turned Back To The Hole Took And took a Deep Breath In.

"I Got Nothing To Lose"

She Said As She Let Herself Fall Forward.

[iwasbored777]

We're not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It's said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who's not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would've been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her "ugly and unwanted" she still helps her.

She was representing a woman in women's world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn't fit in but still had more wisdom and kindness than everyone who thought they're better than her.

[inbabylontheywept]

the house i grew up in was a little bit of a fixer upper. for the first 19 years, my dad just sort of slowly fixed it, but pretty early on in college, he came into a large amount of cash and decided to just do the whole thing at once. so he rented a different house for like, 2 months that was just a block down from us, and then got a bunch of contractors to fix original house ASAP. it was kind of crazy, but it compressed many years of work into like, three months.

the sitting in a new house for three months was actually pretty fun. and i shouldnt really complain at all (staying at home while in college is a sweet deal)

but.

but. my parents are fairly hard of hearing, and their bedroom in the old house was in the furthest possible annex from everyone else. wheras in the rental it was just in the middle of the house. so without going into details, i was extremely aware that my parents were having sex like, eight times a day. my dad had just retired and i guess they were celebrating, which is great i guess, having parents that really like each other is way better than the alternative, but also, it did make me envy their deafness. i kept headphones on for so long that year i got literal ear calluses.

at the same time, the house my buddy from the shoe incident grew up in flooded. turbo flooded. they burst like, two pipes at once and the damage was so severe they had to redo all the flooring and all the drywall. his family actually had homeowners insurance, which is either incredible or suspicious for a family that used the drained pool in their backyard to store rusty scrap metal. so insurance was handling the work, but in the meantime, they were crammed into a very small hotel room space. we did the math on it then, it averaged about 80 square feet a person.

so one day i got home, and i was chilling, and then six rolled around, and apparently six o'clock was sex o'clock because my parents decided to flex their cardio. i grabbed my headphones and prayed that god would do for me what he did for beethoven, but that failed to work, and then seven rolled around and my parents were still at it, which again, very impressive, but was pushing me to swap out judas for mozart in those prayers. there's a definitive point where you stop praying to be deaf and instead pray that god could take you to a nice field and pop you like a gore-balloon.

i was about five minutes away from that point when my friend called me and basically said i have been stuck in a 500 square foot space with 6 people and i didn't have many marbles to start but what few i had are gone. please. if we are friends, if we were ever friends, take me out of here just for a moment.

and i was still pretty mad at him, but i had pity on the poor guy. also helped that i was desperate to leave the house. so i drove the chickenshitmobile to the hotel and i picked him up, and then we did our normal hangout activity, which was go to food city and buy produce. his normal house was, on a good day, nasty, and his backyard was, as i stated before, mostly used to store mosquito larvae and rusty metal, so what we'd always done before was just walk to the grocery store a half block away and leer at vegetables.

so we did that and it was like old times again. they had some radishes that were expired, so i could buy like, literally an entire grocery bag of them for about $5. so i did. i really like radishes. he got a coconut because he liked fruit and beating things with hammers.

which probably would've been great except we didn't have a hammer, so instead we spent about 30 minutes stomping itike it owed us money. when it finally cracked we cheered like we just got the winning touchball at the superdome and then he ate some of the flesh, and i ate some of the radishes, and we admired the black, starless sky of the city before i took him back to his hotel room.

and then we got pulled over.

i forgot to turn my lights on because the street all around the food city was ludicrously well lit. so it went from being pretty bright, to pretty bright and flashy, then i pulled into a parking lot and a cop came to ask us for IDs which is where everything went to shit:

i’d forgotten my license at home. 

the cop was was actually kind of chill about it - he said he could get by with just an address. except i did not know my address. i hadn't memorized the new one yet. so i told the cop, my house is getting remodeled, i don't know my address right now. and then he went to my friend, and my friend said the exact same thing. house getting remodeled, staying somewhere else, no address, sowwwwwwy.

now the cop genuinely didn't know what to do. he went back to his car, and i was stressed that i was about to get into HUGE trouble so i started eating the radishes and my buddy started eating more of his coconut, and we actually managed to eat like a quarter of both before the cop came back. we ate enough produce that he could smell something weird in the air, and he asked what the smell was, and i said radishes, and my buddy said coconut, and the cop said which, and then we produced a large bag of droopy radishes and an absolutely brutalized coconut, and the cop was just like

so my buddy tried explaining how he was sharing a 500 square foot apartment with 6 people and wanted a fruit he could fight with power tools, and i tried explaining how i'd actually tried buying my parents like, board games and puzzles and stuff but nothing worked - the only thing my parents seemed to like doing right now was each other, and we both went on long enough and pathetically enough that the cop eventually went:

ok. stop.

and we stopped.

and he said do you know why i pulled you over?

and i said, because of my headlights, and my friend (who is hispanic) and the cop both looked at me like like i was the dumbest person in the entire world. and then the cop said no. that's why i'm allowed to pull you over. i checked your car because this neighborhood has a terrible sex trafficking problem, and i pull over every car i can to make sure no one is buying or selling sex. and you two are obviously doing neither. now i could give you, like, four tickets right now, but that would do nothing to make this area safer, so just turn your lights on, go home, drive safe, and try to be less stupid in the future.

and i said okay but i was thinking, you know, damn, this is just how i live man, i don't have a hidden third gear i can shift into. people can't just get smarter because it would be convenient. it's always convenient to be smart. i am literally trying my best.

but i didn't say anything because i was, slowly, learning how to filter what i said. instead i nodded and the cop left then i dropped my buddy off, and the last thing he said was said he owed me for responding to his SOS. I said he owed me for a lot of things, and he agreed that was true. then i drove home with my lights on, 5 under the speed limit, and arrived to a peaceful quiet home. I could’ve wept with relief but instead I went to bed.

the relief was short lived. i was woken up at 6 am by my parents. i swore, and then i prayed, and when i did not explode, i swore again. then i got up to make breakfast before my first class.

[iwasboredsoimadethese]

5:00 am

Getting out of bed yozel was dead tired she hadn’t gotten any sleep, sleeping was getting harder and harder for her everytime. she would close her eyes and she would hear the sirens of the ambulance and feel the eyes of everyone as they looked at her, she wondered if she had come home a little earlier, it would’ve been her in the ambulance and not her-

Drip

Drip

Drip

She was crying. Yozel was a strong woman nothing got to her she was brave and showed no emotion, she sat there on her bed wiping her face, She had not time for crying after all it was her first day.

Entering the Cafe yozel looked around, it was empty. As she walked up to the counter emerald eyes widened as she took a step back, a man about 40, average height, and a bit hefty popped out of nowhere.

“HELLO THERE! Sorry to frightened you there but we seem to be closed at the moment!,”

He was jolly and loud…yozel wasn’t a big fan.

“Sorry to interrupt..but I’m here for the job, we spoke on the phone..”

All she could was mutter, yozel was a bit taken aback it was about 6:00 am and he was energetic as if he was still 25.

“Oh yozel! Nice to finally meet you!”

“It’s nice to finally meet you Mr. River…”

“Please! Call me Eric,”

God he was loud.

“Well Mr. River I came in early like you asked, I doubt you have forgotten,”

“….yeah! Of course not!”

He had forgotten. Yozep let out a sigh this was going to be a long day.

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GUYS SO UM SORRY IF ITS SHITTY THIS IS MY FIRST TIME 😭

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[silentsockfeet]

the fact that the vi vs jinx fight was foretold from the beginning. the fact that the opening credits ends with their fight immortalized in stone, so that every episode you watch is a reminder of the immutable truth of it. the fact that every moment is building to this, that the show will culminate in this. this was always going to happen, they told us this from the beginning, and nothing anyone could do will ever change that.

[egophiliac]

tsum events really are just the best, huh

[fumifooms]

Omg guys he just genuinely likes bugs and mollusks and critters 😭💘💔 Forced to noble when he just wanna crouch and watch things skitter in the dirt…

[pomidaea]

Thank you encyclopedia

[caffichai]

More art for Coldshot's Called Shot by my friend @fishing-lesbian-catgirl! If you like spicy content, go give it a read!

The final piece, at least for now! Somehow I did these in reverse chronological order, but I guess it worked out in the end

Hey, if you're here, check this out!

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i love the DLC man

[and-corn]

[reunitedinterlude]

dan pushing phil up hills (2024 // 2016)