#you can yell at me in tags lol

[spineless-lobster]

Okay lads I hate (and I mean hate) to be the bearer of bad news here but like… if the captain wasn’t lying and barry in fact was real then… barry died guys :(

The captain, wandering the halls of button house calling out for his loyal friend. A friend who helped him through thick and thin—when the war started, when havers left, when the looming dread of war became too much. Eventually the whole unit starts searching for him, rummaging through bushes and scouting the nearby forest. Even the sweet promise of treats could not beckon the dog from his hiding spot.

Finally, the captain returns to his office. Under his desk he finds the small fluffy body curled in on itself. Lost in a deep slumber.

“Ah, barry, there you are!” He smiled with relief, placing a comforting hand on his companion.

The captain’s heart drops. He’s cold to the touch.

“Barry?” He asks, pleads, quietly. “Come on, wake up old boy.” A lump formed in his throat, the captain struggled to swallow as tears pricked his eyes.

The little dog’s body lay still under his fingers. His soft breathing had escaped his lungs for a while now.

And so the captain sat there, cradling the small creature in his arms. His fur was made wet with tears. Minutes, or perhaps hours passed. It didn’t matter anymore. It was strange, his time spent with barry seemed so short. From the day he brought him home to this moment felt like it went by in the blink of an eye, now time passed so slowly as he quietly sobbed behind his desk.

He tearfully breaks the news to the unit, and they all agree to give him a proper soldier’s burial. Taking the two shabby rifles and limited ammunition they had, a ceremony was held in the garden. The captain slowly laid his dog into the hole. Watching helplessly as he left the warm embrace of his arms into the cold, wet earth.

“He was very special to me.”

More words were said, but his clouded mind could not keep its grip on the reality before him.

Finally, the two-gun salute was fired and flowers were placed on top of him. A blanket of pale petals.

The captain alone buried him. Silent tears ran down his damp cheeks as each shovel of dirt obscured his only friend. Saying goodbye never got easier, despite the captain becoming used to it.

[risingsunresistance]

[iguessmyfishisgay]

I wanna get these TMAGP 8 thoughts written down before the public drops so here's your spoiler warning!

SPOILERS AHEAD

So this "Gifted Kids Program" that the Magnus Institute had is very intriguing. I'm going to throw a thought out there that's kind of a gut feeling, with only OTHER gut feelings to back it up

What if they were trying to make Avatars? I can't help but feel HEAVY Stranger vibes coming from Gerry Keay in this episode. Something was so off about him, and I don't think it's just because he was a much more normal person (apparently, at least) than in TMA. And Sam certainly has tendencies that lean towards The Eye.

I've been trying really REALLY hard not to drag The Fears into this, but this was my gut feeling and I wanted to share. Maybe the new entities (if there are some) parallel The Stranger and The Eye which is why I'm getting those vibes from Gerry and Sam, respectively.

[hayaku14]

gymnast kaito x sharpshooter shinichi meet-cute in the olympics au

[midnightdemonhunter]

PAULARUSSELL NATION STAYS WINNING!

[acaciapines]

rereading random bits of descendants of olympus (as one does) and. vera <3 still soooo obsessed with how she takes lupa's divinity. like MAN.......there is something to how shes had to scrape and claw her way into every single good thing shes ever had. that she's never just been able to KEEP these things, that she is always always always fighting for them. and so of course she takes divinity. she wants to LIVE. and in this world where the fates themselves are trying to control her, its like--yeah. maybe you do need a gods power to finally get like, at least a year of the life you want. the life you werent supposed to have. forever thinking about vera's one line in her chapter thats like 'of course the fates are losing power. because they'd never let someone like leo into my life.' YELLS. FOREVER.

also have we talked enough about minnie I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT MINNIE--

[plusultraetc]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PRESENT MIC, I got you (super)villainy <3

[ratatatastic]

do you write fic on ao3?

unfortunately for everyone involved i do!

[midnightwind]

why is everyone so pissy at me after the Fade!! the Inquisitor just physically fought through hell and all I hear is whining afterwards

[grimvestige]

shuffle your On Repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs that play, then tag 10 people

Thank you for the tag @echo-the-ghost!!!! Time to find...where my On Repeat playlist is... not me just searching for it instead 💀

Don't Forget - Toby Fox, Laura Shigihara

Worst in Me - Unlike Pluto

All That You Are (From "Lost Ember") - Solid Audioworks

Despicable - grandson

UP TO SNUFF! (I'm on Fire) - atsuover

MEGALOVANIA PHONK - Nueki, Tochonov

Toxic - Britney Spears

Tonight Is The Night I Die - Palaye Royale

Shadow Moses - Choir Noir

But Never a Key - Dirt Poor Robins

Oh like, almost all of these are from D&D OC playlists WHOOPS ^^; Most of them are Tiarnan or the toxic Tiarnan & Corrupted Moirin playlist, though there are a few songs from my work playlist, Killian's playlist, and like, one song from my Kasai campaign playlist.

tagging: @theitalianmafia, @emmettkane, @kingxxlink, @trucbiduleschouettes, @jesterdraws99-blog, @solarflame33, @dudebe-nice, @grand-theftautumn, @ninjasylveon, @eldritch-goth !! And anyone else who wants to join, feel free to still tag me if you want <3

[bueris]

okay maybe I should seriously reconsider my path in life and sell my soul to marketing or journalism instead

[rotteneldritchhorror]

im not gonna tag this or reblog or reply to the OP but i need it to be known cause this is actually a little insane to me

reminder that this is a FICTIONAL PERSON. FUCKING OF COURSE IF THE BLOODTHIRSTY VILLAIN OF THE SERIES WAS A REAL PERSON WE WOULD HATE HIM.

i do think that there is a chunk of people who only like rafe cause hes hot and tbh, good for them! finding a villain hot and only liking them cause theyre hot is literally the most normal thing ever- have yall never been in a fandom ever???? the only thing that usually excuses a villain from this is if theyre like- a sexual predator. literally just welcome to fandom culture- BITCHES LOVE A HOT VILLAIN!

BUT ALSO. its just untrue to say that EVERYONE only likes him cause hes hot- like have yall not seen the PARAGRAPHS of analysis that (usually barry x rafe shippers tbh) post??? he's a well written villain! he has explanations for his actions, almost everything has a reason that you can read into- that obviously doesnt EXCUSE his actions (though i dont think ive seen people outright excuse his actions outside of a joking "he can do no wrong" "if evil why hot" posts that are mostly made for thirsting), but HES A DAMN GOOD CHARACTER. Hes pretty well written and EXTREMELY well acted! theres a damn good reason him and JJ are probably the most popular characters on this show- theyre both extreme and traumatised and usually have a sympathy built in, theyre misunderstood by people around them and lean into those misunderstandings- people relate to them, their characters are interesting (jj's isnt the best written like most of the pogues tbh, but thats just cause theyre the main characters and the writers dont handle them very well), and it helps a certain chunk of the fandom that their actors are nice to look at!

IT IS FINE TO NOT LIKE RAFE. YOU'RE NOT WRONG IF YOU HATE HIS GUTS AND WANT HIM DEAD IN THE STREETS. BUT SAYING PEOPLE ONLY EVER LIKE HIM CAUSE DREW'S PRETTY IS IGNORING SO MUCH OF HIS CHARACTER.

you can just say "i dont understand how yall can stand rafe, but go off ig, i feel this way" without tearing down people who like his character for a multitude of reasons, you can go off and yell about the characters all you want, i dont care, i do the same lol, but dude i beg of you to be SO for real. hes a fictional character that people are allowed to like for whatever reason lol. hes not a real person out there trying to kill people- i beg of yall to remember that these characters are fictional

[quatregats]

I was tagged by @thiefbird for this challenge (tysm <33):

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

I decided that I would do this Worse by copy-pasting the horrible little (long) list of all the fics I've ever contemplated and let the people decide. A few conventions: (x) means an abandoned WIP that I'm not planning to finish (but might if people convince me to take it up again), * means that I have actually written some amount of it (and by token of that, lack of * means it is purely an idea/outline), and (CAT) means a fic that I'm writing in Catalan, since there are a couple and you can't tell by the titles. Some of these are the title lyrics, some of them are joke names, and some of them are what I'm actually planning to title them. I'd love to know which ones catch people's attention! And I suppose I'll tag @chiropteracupola @lurking-latinist @sanguinarysanguinity and anyone else who finds this interesting, I forget which of you all write fics so I don't want to mistag anyone 😅

AUBREYAD

4-3-3 (aka The Creative Endeavor) (x) *

the adventures of sweeting and aubrey

i´ll tend to the flame, you can worship the ashes (x) *

untitled machineries of empire au *

the bee’s knees (buzz buzz)

the sticky wicket

de tant romandre fora el món (x) * (CAT)

adéu clavell morenet (canto jo) * (CAT)

dracs als pirineus (CAT)

the curious letter *

the famous flower of serving men (x) *

mostra’m com estimar la mar * (CAT)

anestèsica (CAT?)

trio time *

HORNBLOWER

the ideological travails of hornblower and bunting (x) *

post-wwii football au that came to me in a dream (x) *

hornblower/barbara in mean girls: math olympiad edition

get sick idiots <3 (és tan tendra la ferida del desig) *

hornblower: math dad edition

the sibyl of sheerness

la (no-)presa de roses obrianitzada *

stick him in that time loop *

jedao two

hornblower the tank engine *

the last battle (tengo de xubir al püertu) *

hornblower gets a cat

OTHER

comedy of errors *

dyddiau du, dyddiau gwyn *

ali, the arab

bint el-khandaq

[twomystdunstans]

As per your recent post, may I ask why the whole Magnus protocol thing pisses you off? No obligation to answer, just wondering.

Yo! Ummmm. Hmm. It's mostly from a personal perspective/my opinion/feelings on TMA?

I really did like how the story ended, I thought it wrapped up well, the thought that we didn't KNOW what happened in the aftermath or what happened to jmart & Co definitively, felt really fitting and a nice full circle close on the story as a whole. It ended where it should've and I was really satisfied with that. It had told its story and that was it. Part of TMA (the whole thing you could argue) is the fear of the Unknown so like. Idk it felt fitting.

Around the same time it was ending/s5 there was kind of a big boom in the Fandom, and there was a lot of new fans who binged the whole of 5 seasons in like. A week or two and then wanted, understandably, more?

I don't really have sources to back me up I'm just speaking from personal experience talking w people who I've recommended the show to post-finale and who listened to it post-finale, and this isn't to be gate keepy or try and bash newer fans like. It's a good show I'm glad that people are still discovering it. Etc etc etc whatever.

Its of my PERSONAL OPINION. that continuing the story that TMA told is a disservice to the story itself. I have a post here that I made back when it was announced that kinda explains a little bit better.

I don't mean to accuse anyone working in it or listening to it of like. Being a cashgrab or pandering to fans or anything like that, I'm just personally dissatisfied and a little disappointed about it.

Im just not excited, I'm sure it'll be good? Johnny Sims has a style of writing horror I'm a huge fan of, im sure everyone who worked on it worked hard and im sure they all did an incredible job and I'll probably. Listen to it someday? Im just. Dreading it. Idk. I'll probably ramble jn the tags a little more and be more incoherent but like. Eh. Not excited, seems stupid. Sorry.

TL;DR it's of my opinion that TMA didn't need a continuation, had a good ending for the story it was telling, and tmagp is a disservice to that story. Whatever.

[bluestjayy]

Maybe I'm just cursed 🤪

[giantkillerjack]

Yo I don't know if anyone else is seriously bothered by this but those "good luck" posts where everyone goes wow this post really works you HAVE to reblog it or else you won't get the good thing that happens when you reblog it and therefore it's your fault if the good thing doesn't happen because you didn't reblog the post,

Yeah, those posts. They don't ummmmmmmmm

They don't work.

Like, listen, a little prayer of good luck to give yourself hope is one thing, but every single one of these posts has a comment that is like "this is literally magic I received life-altering amounts of money because of this post REBLOG THIS NOW." And assuming these accounts aren't just also the original poster emotionally manipulating people - And brushing over how foolish/cruel it feels to give false hope and additional tasks to those in poverty AND moving on from how absolutely shitty these posts are for people with compulsion-related disorders or difficulty discerning reality--

it feels to me that the more we make up magic that doesn't exist in this world, the harder it is to see how things really are, and the more it obscures from us the magic that actually does exist. Things like magnetism, electricity, human thought and connection, emotion, storytelling, machinery, fire. That's the sort of magic we have in this world. These magics are real and they can be manipulated in miraculous and terrible ways.

And maybe it's just the way my mind works, but if I am able to convince myself that a photo of a four-leaf clover has any amount of cosmic power over my life, then I am no longer looking clearly at my situation and what I need to do to change it. I am no longer able to truly see the magic that IS there.

I feel the same way about astrology honestly. I don't think it's bad to believe in as long as you're not ascribing it to unwilling people, but I personally do feel like if I believed the shapes the Romans saw in the stars made me who I am, then not only would I deny myself autonomy, but also I would miss out on the magic of the stars as huge lonely nuclear light giants indifferent to and ignorant of the lives of humans in terrifying and beautiful ways. I might even dismiss scientific discoveries that didn't fit my view. And I think I've seen enough of the damage that can do for one lifetime. (I am aware that I probably wouldn't have so many problems with astrology if I wasn't a furious ex-Catholic. But again, there's nothing wrong with faith as long as you're not slapping it onto other people.)

But, gods, I hate these fucking good luck posts.

I am not poor due to the stars or the lack of luck-money posts on my dashboard. I am poor because I live in oppressive power structures that I hope to see burn in my lifetime. I need as clear a view of this reality as possible.

If you want to spread positive magic, you have to spread love and information and images/stories of a beautiful shared future that other people are invited to be a part of.

I'm a big believer in Hope. I believe hope is a sacred thing. But I'm not a big fan of false hope.

So in conclusion, if you reblog this post and then tomorrow something very lucky and seemingly unrelated happens, it had nothing to do with this post.

The only Magic will be the magic of unfathomably huge amounts of data transferring all across the world instantaneously to reach you and show you words that came from someone else's heart and mind.

The only Magic will be however it makes you feel to know that if you need luck, at least one other person in this world wants good things to happen to you: I care that you are found. I care that you are loved. I care that you are safe. I care that you live long enough to find or be found by happiness and that you then live for a very long time after that. And I don't need to meet you to know that I'm right.

Know that I will spend the rest of my life working to build spaces where you would be welcome. And maybe you and I will never meet, but I happen to know there's a whole lot of people like me in this world. And I happen to know that as long as you are alive, there is a chance you will grow old in warmth and comfort, surrounded by friends. There is a chance that your old eyes will be crinkled at the sides with laugh lines. And that's magic. That's real magic.