Lowkey we should create a giant manmade blood device to attract ticks away from humans and its a giant blood container that pumps like a heart and emits phermones that attract ticks and mosquitos and we should call it Mother
so last night i was struggling with a difficult section in a game, and when i woke up this morning i got it on my first try. this reminded me of a documentary i saw as a kid about how mice have maze-exploration brain activity in their dreams after a maze task, and have better performance after, so dreaming is maybe “practice” of daily activities.
anyway, i mention this because i noticed myself conceiving of this sleep-skill-benefit as a “mouse ability”, and feeling gratitude towards Mouse (the abstract spirit of mice) for granting me this boon. this is the gator’s aid all over again
Oh he was fascinated by them, he just GREW to hate them because he wanted to understand what they were and give them a taxonomy and nobody had any idea how many species there were and he was a guy who couldn’t stop something once he picked it up so he got trapped just dissecting stinky dead barnacles in his basement for years while he physically deteriorated and went slightly mad though on the end his four gigantic books on just barnacles are still the most complete work ever written on a single animal group!
I’ll never fall into that trap. Especially since some fool did it for me already 😎
Ok but imagine if Gabriel turned into a prime soul…
This is not supposed to be anything serious or detailed, it’s just an idea that has been on my mind for a while now. I hope my design still resembles him 😭
In my head, he would be so fucking fast and annoying, shit talking and mocking the player but in reality he’s having THE time of his life
His wings could also serve as blades and as a shield, but I didn’t put much thought into it-
i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.
Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.
this is GENUINELY one of the best character development sheets I’ve ever seen. Cuts right to the core of what you and your readers will glom onto, doesn’t waste time on details that don’t directly affect the narrative. Stupendous. Effervescent. Finally, some good fucking food
Once upon a time, there was a MAN. He was, like others of his kind, an instance of the MAN class, which itself was an instance of the ADULT class, which was an instance of the HUMAN class, and this pattern continued up for a very long time all the way until PHYSICAL_OBJECT way at the top. He was generated in the location that fellow HUMANs called “the town of Tussrow,” which was contained within the state known as the “Pax-American Federation.” Upon generation, the MAN, known by the name of “Shane Pelvis,” retroactively recalled exactly 25 years of living; it was as if it was his 25th birthday.
Shane Pelvis finds himself within an unfamiliar building. His memories hold no clues for how he got here; there was no moment before this one, but the last thing he recalls is going to sleep in his bed. Now, he is in a large building. The floor beneath him is a glossy white tile, and the ceiling above him is a mess of scaffolding, sheet metal, and long strips of floursecent lighting all painted white. Empty metal shelves block his view, but the only thing he can see, apart from himself, which is not white is a blue trim on the wall near the ceilings and on what he can only assume are signs that he cannot read from his extreme angle.
[AWAITING INPUT]
What is the “Pax-American Federation?”
[INPUT RECEIVED]
As Shane Pelvis lies atop the tiled floor of the building, he considers, idly, his country of origin. If the history taught to him by classes he retroactively attended is to be believed, it sprung forwards from the corpse of another country known as the “United States of America” with the mission to bring peace to all of North and South America. Supposedly, this was such a virtuous goal that the people in the target area willingly became part of the Pax-American Federation without any resistance. Shane is left to wonder if he is even within the Pax-American Federation anymore.
In order to search for clues, the MAN rises from his supine position upon the floor of the building. He walks over to the sign, which explains that he is in aisle 37, which seems dedicated to exclusively jerky for no apparent reason. The other signs he can see are also for aisle 37, though no shelf visible from his current position holds any products. What he can see, in numerous locations, is a particular logo he knows very well: Walmart was founded hundreds of thousands of years ago, when MAN walked with dragon.
[AWAITING INPUT]
Look inward once more, to ask, “what is dragon?”
[INPUT RECEIVED]
As Shane Pelvis considers the empty Walmart building he finds himself within, his attention is, perhaps for the first time, called to the strangeness of the particular phrase that instantly surfaced in his mind. “Walmart was founded hundreds of thousands of years ago, when man walked with dragon.” He had simply heard it enough times throughout his life that he had been programmed, almost, to automatically complete the phrase, like how everyone knows that the correct order is “blood, sweat, and tears” or how “the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.” But he begins to truly consider: was there ever a time that the flying fire-breathing lizards of legend known as dragons ever existed? But that is, perhaps, secondary in importance to other questions like, “How the FUCK did I get into this place?” Regardless, he is unsure of what exactly he is to do next.
All pages are in the same style: mostly coloured in black, each letter is in a white box. Page one has a planet with a ring around it. It reads: "There is a part of you that wants to devour".
Page two has three rings in orange and pink. It reads: "Is it hunger that drives you? Or fear?". Page three is framed by a set of teeth. It reads: "Power is exerted between the teeth".
Page four has a winding, intestine-looking thing. It reads: "Digest destroy and conquer". Page five has pressed flowers in bright warm hues. It reads: "Do you expect this to nourish you?".
Page six has a pink, ribcage-like pattern. It reads: "Do you think you are safe from what lies within your body?". Page seven has cuts of meat. It reads: "Your flesh and blood will always betray you".
The last page is hectically coloured in black like the others, save for a white spot left in the middle with sharp edges. It reads: "There is a part of you that wants to be devoured".
Talking of disability aids, I did get this cool spoon recently which you can use without any grip at all. It has a long handle which can be bent to fit on your arm and once you get it right it’s really quite effective.
At the moment it lets me about half a meal without help (apart from putting it on) in certain situations with my arm supported, and I can even use it with my hand splints on
ID two photos showing an adaptive spoon with a long, curled grey handle. In the first Photo it’s is lying on a tray next to a bowl of rice and an adapted mug. In the second it’s been around echos wrist while they eat rice sat in bed with their arm supported by a pillow / end ID
( the company I got it from it’s called Active hands)
Okay just checked this website out and ily op!! They have so many good aids omfg!!
Active Hands is one of my favourite sources of disability aids!
They specialise in aids for people who have upper limb impairments and have an incredible range of stuff. It was started by a quadriplegic guy who found it hard to find quality products online/ even know what products exist and it’s like a treasure trove of useful things. I’ve never had a bad product from them.
The range is incredible too: they have things for hobbies (including gym equipment, fishing gear, playing card holders, gardening equipment, kayak equipment), personal care stuff (like tabletop nail clippers, things to make aerosols easier, one handed hair ties) cooking and eating stuff (one handed chopping boards, adapted cutlery of all kinds, jar and bottle openers).
I want to write a book called “your character dies in the woods” that details all the pitfalls and dangers of being out on the road & in the wild for people without outdoors/wilderness experience bc I cannot keep reading narratives brush over life threatening conditions like nothing is happening.
I just read a book by one of my favorite authors whose plots are essentially airtight, but the MC was walking on a country road on a cold winter night and she was knocked down and fell into a drainage ditch covered in ice, broke through and got covered in icy mud and water.
Then she had a “miserable” 3 more miles to walk to the inn.
Babes she would not MAKE it to that inn.
Are there any other particularly egregious examples?
This book already exists, sort of! Or at least, it’s a biology textbook but I bought it for writing purposes:
It starts with a chapter about freezing to death, and it is without a doubt the scariest thing I’ve read in years (and I read a lot of horror fiction).
This book can be downloaded for free on Researchgate, posted there by the author himself:
I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.
Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.
YES
also technology breaks at random, and sometimes you just suddenly feel a thousand years old
everybody has a half dozen names and none of them are their “real” name.
which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.
there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.
getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.
Maximum Horny at all times
be careful what you wish for or you just might get it
Gift Of Prophecy
Illegal Use Of Bones
Holidays are unusual but important and have very specific rites attached
There are curses. Hooboy, are there curses. There are also cursed artifacts, which compel you to inflict their horrors on the rest of the world while going IT’S THE ORIGINAL!!!
It’s really great that so many people are abandoning the word hermaphrodite in zoology, but now we have a new problem. That being the misuse of the word intersex in its place.
Referring to cosexed animal species as intersex perpetuates the exact same misinformation that the H slur does.
What misinformation would that be? The idea that intersexuality is anything similar to the reproductive organization of cosexual species like snails and worms.
Intersex refers to a variation-from-typical in the sex traits of individuals. Examples include calico cats with male reproductive organs, humans with ovotestes, does with antlers, bilateral gynandromorphy, etc
Cosexual refers to a species that had dual reproductive function, such as snails, worms, leeches, etc
These are separate and unrelated things and it is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to conflate them. The H slur conflates them because it is a word originally used for intersex people being applied to cosexual animals. Directly calling cosexual animals intersex DOES THE SAME THING.
This is actually a symptom of growing up while reading primarily from screens, dashboards, and feeds, instead of books and other long forms, though I’m sure it can happen due to other reasons
yeah it’s like… hmmm… what’s that old saying again? treat others as you want to be treated? if you’re an asshole you’re giving everyone else a free pass to be an asshole to you
a few doors down from me my neighbors have a squirrel bar nailed to the tree in front of the sidewalk, not exactly this but something like this:
it’s been there for years and they never “stock” it so it’s just sitting there. anyway, i thought it would be cute to make a little squirrel out of sculpey and leave it on one of the stools in the middle of the night. i also made a little sculpey beer bottle with its own label.
it lasted exactly one day and now it is gone. it didn’t fall off, i stuck it on with tape. what do you think happened to it? your most fantastical and wrong answers only, please
HUGE NEWS HUGE UPDATE
squirrel REAPPEARED today… NOW PAINTED
i wanted to provide another update because there has been more activity at the nut bar
a few weeks ago i sculpted a new patron:
and put him in the bar. the next day he was gone. a couple weeks later he reappeared painted… but with ANOTHER new guest: a 3D printed squirrel based on the first one i sculpted (with a bottle!)
i love ppl who talk in the tags bc it satisfies my deep desire to know ppl’s opinions on everything without needing to have a conversation with them and ask. even better when it’s a side tangent that barely has anything to do with the post, or a personal anecdote, or a joke. tag talker mutuals you’re my favorite. tag talkers rise up
“There are no female aliens in our game because we don’t know how to make a female version of this alien” You know that alien you just designed? That male alien? Give it a female voice actor and have characters refer to it as she. That’s it. That’s literally all you have to do
Make her shorter if you must
Make her BIGGER if you aren’t a coward
Take your male alien bodytype, make her like 4 feet taller, give her an extra set of arms and sharper teeth, and as muscular as shit.
Boom.
Give her natural camouflage and make the man like this
Make them exactly the same size and shape but different colors
Give him a huge flock of babies following him around to show off what a great lay he is
Surprise mPreganté
Exactly the same but one of them has a cool hat (you decide which)
Give her a sensible haircut for successful hunting while he has a big dumb mullet so big and dumb the food can see him coming and book it
Please just for the love of pie do not begin and end with boobs
kinda makes me think of creatures of sonaria on roblox. they often had differences between the males and females
there’s an extremely niche plot in romance fiction wherein our invariably heterosexual leads fall in love after a night of passion leads to an unplanned pregnancy and they’re now bound together by an impending child. I cast no judgment on anyone who enjoys this, but since I’m an evil gay and this is my personal nightmare scenario I want to see a zany romance novel premised on the opposite resolution: a couple falls in love while on a whirlwind roadtrip to obtain a legal abortion
“oh but along the way they realize they actually do want to raise the child together and ultimately keep the baby” no actually they successfully get the abortion and then they get chili dogs or something
neither of them want kids and it’s not because they’re immature or selfish or afraid of commitment or irresponsible or whatever, they just don’t want to be parents and that’s not a flaw they overcome. obviously they have other issues because there has to be some kind of arc to this story but deciding to keep a pregnancy that was unplanned and unwanted isn’t the solution.
some of you are very determined for this to not be a romance, to which I politely say shut the fuck up and get out of my sandbox. these idiots are going on an abortion roadtrip and they are falling in love on the way so help me god.
I genuinely am floored by how hard of a time people are having with the very simple premise “two characters go on a roadtrip to get an abortion and fall in love with each other”
each other. each other each other each other. a person who is pregnant and the person who got them pregnant fall in love with each other on the way to terminate the pregnancy.
there’s something about all the “okay, but what about this unexpected twist!” replies that is pinging weirdly on my brain and I think it’s like…
the point of the ‘twist’ in storytelling is that you’re maintaining interest or raising the states by subverting a baseline state. taking something expected and doing the unexpected with it.
but the scenario as OP describes it, where two people enter in a romance but don’t want and take steps not to have kids, is… not a baseline. this doesn’t happen in media. in all standard instances it’s either they aren’t in love OR they are in love and decide to have the kid. the notion of people wanting to be romantically involved but not wanting kids, the notion of seeing abortion as desirable/necessary healthcare, that already IS the subversion.
the original premise doesn’t need to be spiced up with an Unexpected Twist because it is the unexpected twist. and it’s not going to be boring or played our or cliched until there’s a dozen stories like it and the idea of un-dramatically going to get a healthcare procedure done with someone who loves you is normalized.
i hate to go ummmm, actually - but, ummmm, actually, the movie you’re looking for is Obvious Child with Jenny Slate.
SPOILERS AHEAD
She’s a comedian, he is a good boy, they have a one night stand, she gets pregnant but she doesn’t want the baby. They start spending time together and are really into each other. She realizes that he is a great guy and that they want to be with each other. She gets her abortion on Valentine’s Day, and even though he is not happy at first, they both realize it’s for the best and he accompanies her on the day. By the end, they are together (maybe for now, maybe forever).
It’s a great comedy and the two leads have great chemistry.
where’s the road trip
In a just world with good health care, the road trip isn’t necessary
Like “going on a road trip to a pharmacy” shouldn’t be a thing. If they have time to fall in love on the way to the abortion provider, medical treatment is too far away
(Though i concede roadtrip tropes are fun)
okay, in a just world that’s true. in the world and country where I actually live, many people do not have easy access to abortion services. in the US there are in fact many people who would have to drive pretty far to get an abortion. hence the plot I’m pitching here.
Where’s the OP of the “no make up” post. We have found someone who has suffered as they suffered.
you aren’t gonna believe this but
that was also me
aren’t you also the op of the ‘why would you pin all your little gay hopes on taylor swift’ post? congratulations on being the person having the worst possible pvp experience on tumblr
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