#this story was such a blast!!

[uhohdad]

RAAAHH WHEN IS AFTERMATH COMING OUUT

((take your time!! i’m just hella excited /gen))

ugh i know 😓 i hate making y’all wait. you know dad lives to serve, for the people by the people 🫡

THE AFTERMATH wasn’t originally planned so unfortunately it might take me a bit to work through 😭 don’t worry dad is grinding for y’all. as soon as i have an estimation i will let you know and then ultimately miss the deadline bc i’ll get carried away lmao. dads got his flaws too 😔

[salamispots]

dream wip

[star-trekster]

ST@CEC 4: Deep Space Nine; In Charles’s Shadow

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At your side [End of Season 2]

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[foldingfittedsheets]

A friend I had briefly in my teens years was this girl in Arizona. She was a junior when I was a freshman, and as I was socially awkward and very lonely she kind’ve pulled me under her wing for a while. I don’t remember how we met, but I remember riding in her car and meeting her cute miniature Doberman.

But the thing I remember most about this girl was that she loved lying to me. And I had a massive but I acknowledged crush on her so I adored being lied to. Her natural charisma and storytelling was hypnotic.

It’s not what it sounds like because it wasn’t malicious but she came up with this in depth lore to tell me about this fake job she had. I know autistic people are meant to be credulous but I truly never believed her stories, I just adored her storytelling and was very ready to listen to whatever tale she spun that day. Another of her friends chided her once for teasing me but I genuinely never minded.

In her lore she moonlighted as a Professional Liar. People would hire her to get close to a target they wanted rattled. She’d make friends, develop a strong relationship, foster a dependency on her, then disappear. Then when they were confused and missing her sometime when the employer needed their target rattled she’d show back up as a glimpse to knock them off balance. Often it was implied she’d faked her death in the interim.

That itself was fine, it was an okay story. But in order to support that lie she’d make up tons of supporting details that were way more fun. She had this fake boyfriend who got high as balls on a mission and ended up seeing a sheep in a field and carrying it to a farmhouse to try to buy it because he wanted a puppy. I liked that one but suspected she didn’t know how big sheep were.

She’d IM chat with me as this made up boyfriend sometimes; once she had him ask me if I noticed her limping and he told me she’d just lost a toe but was covering for it like a champ. That one was fun.

She told me about something she called “purple charge” which was a way to get instant night vision. I did try looking that one up on the off chance, but was sadly disappointed there.

She said that Professional Liars had such high stakes jobs that they needed a week of insane time where they just partied so hard it was like a Dionysus rave and her IM boyfriend persona implied she’d killed someone during one of those stints.

I had such a fun time with her elaborate fiction that I’d often ask follow up questions and she had to do a lot of world building to keep up with my fascination. We’d get to class and I’d have three or four new questions which I think is why her friend thought her teasing was too far. They genuinely thought I believed her but I was just loving the fiction.

If any of this sounds malicious I’ll also add that when I got harassed on a roleplaying board she went out guns blazing to go after the guy who’d been harassing me. She genuinely enjoyed my company.

I find myself looking back on our friendship very fondly. I can’t remember her last name or have any way of looking her up, but she really was a professional liar to me. The only downside is that I’m completely faceblind so if she ever wanted to pop unexpectedly into my life I’d have no idea it was her.

[archivewriter1ont]

Rex, a few weeks after Anaxes: Hey, guys.

Hunter: Plan 87! Keep Away!

Crosshair and Tech: *turn into bodyguards*

Wrecker: *snatches Echo off his feet and holds him in the air*

Echo: *completely unfazed* Hi, Rex.

Rex: What on earth are you doing?

Wrecker: No backsies! You gave him away so he’s ours now!

Echo: They think you’re gonna repossess me or something.

Rex:

Rex: Echo, are you okay? Do you need help? Blink twice if you need help.

Echo: I’m loved, Rex. Slightly squished, but very loved.

(This is actually it's own fic now.... Plan 87: Keep Away.)

[paimt]

just realized i never posted this out loud

[hickeygender]

made a post a while back on how javert's suicide is often poorly portrayed in film adaptations to the point of accidental comedy, and how the 1978 movie in particular is the most unhinged example. audio warning for a loud trumpet blast, don't turn up your volume

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - The Caribbean

[ricky-mortis]

TCB/Shipwrecked/Pulp Doodles!

[the-red-planet-mars]

500 notes on this and you write that angsty mars fanfic

JKDHGHOIJWEHBGEHUIWO FINE!

sigh im making the deadline to 5th May despite knowing this will reach half the goal in under an hour

[manny-jacinto]

DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY (2004) dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber

[doctorsiren]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Alas, this beautiful dream could not last.

[incessantlark]

Lyrics from 'Uneasy Hearts Weigh the Most' by Dance Gavin Dance

[klayr-de-gall]

"more than all the miles combined"

@legendaerie commissioned me to illustrate a scene from their christmas story! Give it read on Ao3!

Summery:

Where Diluc Ragnvindr's business trip detour takes him a little too close to home, guilt and good manners take him even further, and he ends up somewhere he never thought he'd be again.