#written in 15 minutes

[sjmacwrites]

A Writing Prompt - Yesterday I killed a goldfish...

or at least I was sure that I had killed a goldfish. 

It belonged to my brother. Frank Finatra was its name and to the best of my knowledge Frank had lived a very happy like with his tank mates Fish and Chips - a pair of bulging eyed black fish. Then my brother had asked me if I would be able to look after Frank and his tank mates while he was away for a couple of days. I thought that it would be ok. I was wrong. 

Twenty Four hours into my fish caring role and Frank was belly up in his tank with his tank mates looking up at him like he was some kind of fish Jesus and they were waiting for him to resurrect. For a brief moment I considered not telling my brother and just finding a good doupe. The thought disappeared as quickly as it appeared as I knew that he would figure out that it wasn’t Frank as soon as he saw him. So I instead did what any mature older sister would do…

I called Mum and asked that she break the news to my brother thinking that he would take it better that way. 

As Mum dealt with my brother, I dealt with Frank. 

I didn’t want to just dump him in the toilet just in case my brother wanted to have a funeral. So instead I scooped Frank up, wrapped him in some paper towel, popped him him a tupperware and stored him away in the freezer. With my fish mortician duties done, I turned my attention back to Fish and Chips, hoping that they would stay alive. 

And now I have woken up twenty four hours later to find three fish in the tank and one of those fish looked like Frank. 

Did my brother have more fish and I just forgot about one and that was the one that had died? I checked the notes that my brother had left. Nope. Three fish. Fish, Chips and Frank Finatra. I stared at the Frank doupe trying to work out what was going on. Maybe it was a prank to get back at me for Frank dying? No, my brother was a days drive away and even if he had driven home overnight his car was so loud I would have heard him. He was also not the most quiet person when entering the house either. No one else would have pulled a prank like this on me. 

I looked across the room at the freezer and wondered. Surely, not. Surely this was not Frank.

[nostalgia-tblr]

i feel bad about it but "he killed eighty people in two days" in The Avengers just doesn't seem like that high a number to me? it'd be high for a normal person, but in supervillainy terms that's... a bit crap, really isn't it?

no wonder Thor was so quick to say "he's adopted" the honour of the family is at stake here, you can't let the humans think that's the best any of them can do D:

[missanthropicprinciple]

my brain, all day: no, I don't wanna write

my brain at 4am: yay, writing time!

[warlenys]

megamind 2 i will kill everyone involved in making that shit and then myself i do not have a notes app filled with essays about the perfection of that fucking movie just for some cunts who want money to turn it into a shitty low budget typical family franchise when i get my fucking hands on them

[whatsagirltoblogabout]

Opposite of an Intellectual

“The opposite of an intellectual… you really think you could do that, Caffrey?” Jones asked, reading through the cover description.

“Do what?” Neal responded, blinking at them in confusion. Instead of the overly innocent smile that would usually accompany a question like that from Neal, his face was just blank curiosity. It seemed that for once the con man wasn’t messing with them; he just hadn’t been paying attention. 

“Be the opposite of an intellectual,” Diana repeated for him with an incredulous chuckle. 

Neal’s brows furrowed lightly in confusion. ‘What’s an… intellectual?” he asked, seeming to struggle to recall the word. 

Diana scrutinized him, but despite all the years she had spent working with Neal Caffrey, she couldn’t find a single tell that he was lying. By all appearances, Neal Caffrey genuinely did not know the word ‘intellectual.’

“On second thought, that’s kinda scary,” Jones decided, taking an unconscious step backwards. “Please stop.” 

Neal finally broke, giving them a devious grin and a theatrical bow. Diana had to admit, seeing firsthand how convincingly Neal could become someone diametrically opposed to his actual self was a bit terrifying. The short demonstration had left her heart pounding and breathing slightly shallow. 

“Remember this the next time you doubt me,” Neal warned cheerfully, winking at them before sauntering away. Diana and Jones looked at each other once he was gone.

“That was scary, right?” Jones asked.

“Yeah,” Diana confirmed, “that was definitely scary.” 

Then an idea hit her. “I wanna see Peter’s reaction!”

[drarrily-we-row-along]

October 4: Cinderella Moment

There was no Disney princess part of their love story.

No birds fluttering around them in the air, no perfectly sized shoe to say they’d found the right one. There were no balls, no cliche villains, no dragons to slay. It wasn’t grand gestures and sweeping declarations of love.

They’d earned a love like this. Soft. Quiet. Unassuming. Steady.

There was still bickering, still Harry’s dirty socks on the floor and Draco’s pretentious, expensive taste in… well, everything.

And it was good.

It was so good, the two of them, together, by choice and not by fate.

Theirs was a love that Harry didn’t doubt, couldn’t doubt, because it was something they worked for. It was something that both of them stubbornly held onto and fought for. It was theirs.

And it was enough.

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Written for @flufftober prompt “Cinderella Moment”

[msommers]

ok obviously expanse au (whoever ur feeling) and apocalypse au + riya <3

mwah mwah thank you!! // send an au for 5 headcanons

expanse au [for lucky roll table winner] jorina

a belter born on ceres station. smth smth alienage in the human city of denerim can be a parallel to the belter city that's controlled by the UN. they're both also port cities. coincidence?? i think not. 

her family's hole (cannot believe i have to write that, instead of home like a normal person, to stay faithful to canon) was close to the station’s spin, just underneath the line of being considered too small for a family of 5 to live in. the two bedrooms were split between the parents in one and the three siblings sharing the second, and their living room had a slash in the wall that showed the native rock (never repaired, but her dad would eventually paint a mural there and blend it in). 

her mom was Definitely in the OPA, i don't even have to spend time considering it. wenna would have been a devoted member of the faction, raising her kids on all of the speeches about belter pride and the dignity they were owed, righteous in her anger over their continual mistreatment. so this means she absolutely died in a star helix raid on an OPA hideout that was suspected to be the hub of some illegal activity. it definitely wasn't and in the end it's just another for the tally of injustices done against belters 🤷‍♀️

i may be 9 books into this series and have consumed a bit more sci-fi media in general over the last few years, but my god do i still forget Jobs in these settings so easily. so after browsing a few google results, i'm thinking she'd have doubled down on studying/training to eventually become a chief navigator, with some secondary work in astronomy and geoscience. probably some just-above-standard mathematics and computers thrown in there too for good measure. she's a proper belter, they're always having to learn all they can just to adapt and survive.

she took on numerous small OPA jobs to make ends meet for the family, offered to her because wenna was well respected and nobody wants to see her family starve after she'd passed. jorina only took the ones that were simple and quick, and least likely to tie her to the organization. she believes in their overall values wholeheartedly, but didn't want to become dependent on their sporadic work for income,,,and also, yeah, maybe some of the more hardcore members scared her a bit.

apoc au riya (with classic zombies in mind)

thinks about victor's death translating to somebody finding him already killed and being torn apart by zombies. throws up, wails,, jumps off a cliff,,, at least she's starting off the journey w semi-equal trauma to canon 💜 

the girly who had too much faith in the system and thought everything would be contained in like a week so she didn't worry about preserving anything whatsoever. she's throwing a fit on day 8 because her phone is dead and she can't listen to her comfort music literally what's the fucking point anymore just take her out now-

wanna have her separated from family just for the drama of it. no solid plot reasons, i just wanna see riya having an abrupt and overwhelming breakdown like 2 months in when she realizes she can no longer lie to herself and has to accept she won't see her family again due to distance and no possibility of communication. i fear the daddy’s girl may not survive this, fellas.

unexpected tradeswoman when people realize that she's been hoarding beauty and personal care items since month 1 while normal people were stocking up the usual survival necessities. so fun picking on the spoiled girl for having her perfume in the apocalypse until you desperately want some shampoo and realize she's your only option atm.

kinda funny if riya's battle mage skills translate to her being surprisingly good at picking up combat skills against the undead in this au. 10 minute preparation speech from bastian as he's gearing up to show her how to use a pistol and she ends up sinking like three headshots on the first round, then hits him with the “what, like it's hard???” line. has to use an axe to cut her way out of a corner she was being backed into and she comes out without a scratch but absolutely raging over her chipped nails and the blood that is actively staining her $450 jacket.

[sejanusarchive]

Alright, took a break from Tumblr but I’m back and the amount of drafts I have accumulated is getting ridiculous. Would it be super annoying if I posted a bunch of them? It wouldn’t be well thought out stuff, and some of them are very unserious as well

[jmflowers]

The scene we never got. Maya and Carina finding their home

I decided to have some fun with this and actually write the scene in script format, because I can. This doesn't precisely follow the screenwriting rules, of course, because y'all need a little something more. (And I'll probably follow this up with a genuine narrative version of this idea later.) But! We're yolo-ing.

Crudely watermarked because this is mine, babies. Please don't steal or repost elsewhere or what-have-you.

[buckpaws]

the kill code crew: omg revenant army what are we gonna do :( we can't fight them all theyre too strong

caustic with the solace city fart bomb still sitting in his house:

[ctubbolvr]

cbeeduo fic is going well!! currently at 9.7k words :)) who is excited ‼️ (it’s very gay btw)

[copperweevil]

I swear I'm *this* close to giving up on online grammar checkers. I like using them because sometimes my brain completely skips over a word and then my sentence makes no sense. Of course, I try to handle the primary checks myself (it's vs its, general spelling and tense checking, etc), but I like using it as a back up. But a lot of them ruin the parts of my writing that I think are moreso my style? And a lot of them straight up ruin my formatting (just spent a solid 15 minutes manually adding spaces back in between my paragraphs, clearing the broken formatting from the site I used, and re-adding my formatting.)

Idk I'm starting to think maybe I should just stop with them because I think spending 15 minutes fixing FORMATTING of all things sounds like a nightmare. That isn't 15 minutes a fic, that's 15 minutes for around 3k words, specifically on an UNFINISHED FIC. So if I use that same website, which seemed to have the best corrections imo, I will have to spend another (at least) 15 minutes fixing formatting on the finished draft for this fic. That sounds like hell and sounds like a recipe for making me hate writing y'all.

[wickershells]

not everyone feigns sincerity

[sol-flo]

working on finishing off some games on my unfinished list but the two i'm currently playing are a vn that made robotgirl yuri boring and a game that'll definitely make me throw up from pissing myself off

[phineas-and-herb]

i think its insane that candace was only being paid $3.50 an hour for her first job but then i realized that's also how much i made per hour when i got my first job too

[shiroselia]

Summary: Kafka bothers Silver Wolf while she's grinding her gacha games. Silver Wolf is mildly amused at best. Although it might not be that bad to be interrupted by your hot girlfriend with nice legs. Not always, at least. Rating: Teen and Up (No Archive Warnings Apply) Relationship + Characters: Kafka/Silver Wolf, Kafka, Silver Wolf (Herta and Blade get One (1) mention each) Word Count: 1 099

Hi, I heard none of you wanted me to write more Star Rail. I wrote more Star Rail. This one's for you, Lumi <3 (And me, very much also for me.)

I like to call this one the Kafka Has Thicc Thighs Propaganda.