#yes excellent

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Boldly stolen from twitter

[misc-obeyme]

secret 3rd option (dinosaur brains)

Ahhh so rather than snake or birds, queztalcoatl brains are dinosaur brains!??

You know what, that's far more interesting, headcanon accepted.

I wonder if there are still dinosaurs in the Devildom? I mean if they're still eating their brains then there must be, right? They never got taken out by the meteor that hit earth 'cause they were in an entirely different realm!

There's a whole section of the Devildom where no demons live and only the dinosaurs roam. Brave souls venture out into that area to hunt the dinosaurs just for their brains.

But dinosaur brains was too boring, so they decided to call them queztalcoatl brains instead. It's all a marketing ploy lol.

[transformativeworks]

Everyone in the tags

AO3 Celebrates 14 Million Fanworks

AO3 now hosts more than 14 Million fanworks! If you want to find out how we celebrate our fannish community, read more at https://otw-news.org/ymr8b4cu

[abigailspinach]

A Drop of Corruption: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Robert Jackson Bennett 

Book 2 of 2: Shadow of the Leviathan

The eccentric detective Ana Dolabra matches wits with a seemingly omniscient adversary in this brilliant fantasy-mystery from the author of The Tainted Cup. In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder—and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost. Worse still, the killer may be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud, where the Empire harvests fallen titans for the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn. Din has seen his superior solve impossible cases before. But as the death toll grows and their quarry predicts each of Ana’s moves with uncanny foresight, he fears that she has at last met an enemy she can’t defeat.

[weepynymph]

Do not write fanfiction. One second you're normal and the next you're downloading a calendar from 2004 and tearing your hair out over what specific date every event in your fic happens

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[bookgeekgrrl]

#you know i used to hate this trope less than i do now#but living through multiple times when it became obvious that lots of people BELIEVE THIS IN REAL LIFE#that it is somehow morally superior to NOT choose and thereby let something awful happen to everyone#rather than choose a less than perfect option and thus save at least SOME people#has really made me re-evaluate whether this is something i want to see rewarded in fiction#like i think a lot of people saw this in children's shows and then internalized it as The Truth In The Real World#rather than wish fulfillment that we're supposed to put on our critical thinking cap for the difference between fiction and reality#and as a result they don't realize that the Do Nothing Option is in fact an active choice and not a neutral option#and that when a magical third Save Everyone option doesn't appear then well they played no role in the Everyone Suffers outcome#so i'm just. not interested really in media that does this without making the characters fucking WORK for their third option#no deus ex. if you refuse to choose then you have to EARN that magical everyone lives outcome (@thesporkidentity)

Hate Hate Hate stories that reward characters for refusing to do triage. 'I refuse to choose only one to survive even if it means both die' [plot contrives for this to be the only way both survive] is so weak. Making difficult decisions with no good outcome is not a moral failing

[library-of-the-starless-sea]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN \o/

review critique will be incoming at such a time as i have energy to write it

[lowpolyanimals]

Pigeon from XCOM 2

[benkaben]

Me when I'm an all evil infinitely powerful being

[aniseandspearmint]

California poppies

one of my favorite oranges

Just had a vivid memory return to me of a long time ago one of my mom's friends after hearing I was autistic recommended a book to me with an autistic main character (I never finished it, I just didn't like it. I don't even remember the title)

And the main character, he hated the color orange. Which is fine, I don't even particularly like the color orange most of the time, there are certain bright shades of it that cause my skin to crawl, I get it. He says it's all shades of orange, still fine, people can have preferences. And then he says the reason he doesn't like it is that "it's a color that doesn't occur in nature."

Blatantly untrue! What about tiger lillies? What about sunsets? Tigers? Monarch butterflies? Orange tulips? Those annoying Asian lady beetles? Fuckin' oranges?

It's fine if you don't like orange but it's certainly not an unnatural color!

Everytime I remember this I try to think of another orange thing in nature. I am now an orange appreciator out of spite for that book.

[abigailspinach]

“He had so much reach on me—ridiculous, decadent amounts of reach, between that enormous black sword and his greater height—and he knew how to use it. As I came rushing in low and fast, he took a leisurely step back, then another, flicking lightning-fast cuts at my hands, my face, my shoulder. I barely parried most of them, taking a light kiss of a cut along my cheekbone and a slightly deeper one on the outside of my arm. He didn’t let me close, maintaining his distance with those liquid backward paces and the indisputable argument of his steel. He kept me right in the worst possible place to be: the small and terrible zone where I was within his reach and he was outside mine, so he could strike at me at will but no amount of skill or effort would let me hit him. It was an absolutely disastrous opening for a swordfight; the advantage was entirely his, and it was all I could do not to get cut to ribbons. But I didn’t care about hitting him. I cared about moving him toward that door. And the distance between him and the exit was vanishing with every taunting backward step he took. He started to circle, sliding to the side, and I couldn’t allow that. Time to change tactics.”

— The Last Hour Between Worlds (The Echo Archives Book 1) by Melissa Caruso

[cry-ptidd]

” Am I not right to weep? O my children, cursed children of a hateful mother - ”

[bluerosefox]

Her Astrophel and Sterling

hmmm

Hmmmmmmmm

You know what.

You know those AU's where the Batfam finds or learns about either hidden or thought to be dead Al Ghul Danny! with a deaged/daughter Dani (Ellie) (I should know, I created a few of those storylines) but what if, now hear me out, what if instead of them finding Danny first its Talia.

Do I want Talia discovering her thought to be dead son to be alive? Yes. Do I want her to find him while investigating Amity Park when the League gets reports of 'Lazarus creatures/water'? Yes.

DO I WANT HER TO KNOCK ON THE FENTON'S DOOR, fully ready to pretend/honey talk her way into the house to uncover what the Fenton's know, ONLY TO MEET A LITTLE ELLIE?!

YES.

Ellie whose eyes and hair look like a copy of her Beloved but she can see bits and pieces of herself as well. Talia knows the child in front of her was not fully her's though but everything makes sense when she hears a voice, a voice she hasn't heard in ages but as a mother just knows, speak out.

"Ellie! I thought I said do not answer the door my Sterling."

"But Daddy, yous was busy fighting the hotdoggys!"

Talia's eyes widen when she finally catches sight of familiar black hair and blue eyes.

and she could only lightly whisper a old nickname she hasn't dared uttered in ages, a name she secretly gave her son due to his love of the stars "Astrophel..."

[roxannepolice]

@alexmey-does-an-arts found it!

after the new dw update, had to draw the master tooth and 14 wedding sorry yall…

[vamp-bites]

My Vashwood trans headcanons in diagram form