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good times bad decisions --- penny's rp and writing inspo blog

[sonatagreen]

A tradition

In peacetime, the ruler grows their hair long. In war, they cut it short. A ruler with long hair is held in great esteem, for defending the peace. The traditional declaration of war is for the ruler to send their cut-off hair to the enemy ruler. The statement carries greater weight the longer the hair: to receive long hair says that you have angered one who is slow to anger, that you have incurred a wrath not easily woken.

[wakor-rising]

Violent war-mongering leader frantically and aggressively tries to shave just a LITTLE hair off the top of their head into an envelope.

A faraway king receives a heavy wooden crate filled with a coil of the longest hair he has ever seen.

A despised ruler finds hundreds of pounds of cut-off ponytails at her castle entrance, each one belonging to her own people. 

A young emperor refuses to cut their hair and insists on trying to make peace with invaders. The enemy leader steps forward, draws their blade, and cuts the emperor’s hair themselves.

Hellen cuts her hair off and throws it in Cathy’s face at her son’s soccer scrimmage. 

[moonlightduelist]

every male character’s design can be improved by giving them earrings and this is just a fact

[sonickitty]

I was on the subway today, and when the train got delayed, this little kid was like, “fuck,” and a literal chorus of grown-ups went: “HEY.”

[thebeachboys-deactivated2020050]

let him say fuck

[thetinygingerbreadgirl]

I was at a crossing once and a kid’s dad said ‘and we have to wait for the green man’ and the 30 people on this crossing all stood waiting for the green man just to prove to this kid that that’s what you do. I’ve never seen anyone wait for the green man on this crossing before you just go when its clear. But Everyone Waited. 

[captstefanbrandt]

It takes a village to raise a child.

[tallwife]

[quarkmaster]

“The Thing from another world” - Medical Room

Project for Jama Jurabaev course concept art for movies.

A group of scientist from Soviet polar expedition discover an unidentified object in the iceshield. They retrieve something that resembles alien remains.

Joao Silva

[medievalpoc]

“Scene: I’m reading some fat fantasy book set in Yet Another Faux Medieval Europe. Nothing in this story jibes with my understanding of actual medieval Europe. There’s no fantasy version of the Silk Road bringing spices and agricultural techniques and ideas from China and India and Persia. There’s been no Moorish conquest. There aren’t even Jewish merchants or bankers, stereotypical as that would be. Everyone in this “Europe” looks the same but for minor variations of hair or eye color. They speak the same language, worship the same gods — and everyone, even the very poor people, seems inordinately concerned with the affairs of the nobility, as if there’s nothing else going on that matters. There are dragons and magic in the story, but it’s the human fantasy that I’m having trouble swallowing. It doesn’t matter which book I’m reading. I could name you a dozen others just like it. This isn’t magical medieval Europe; it’s some white supremacist, neo-feudalist fantasy of same, and I’m so fucking sick of it that I put the book down and open my laptop and start writing. Later people read what I’ve written and remark on how angry the story is. Gosh, I wonder why.”

—

N. K. Jemisin, “How Long ’til Black Future Month?”  (September 30th, 2013)

SO!! My fave author (and dare I say, friend) N. K. Jemisin is coming out with her first collection of short fiction, and guess what it’s called?

PREORDER HERE

[25pastmidnight]

hey everybody! so i am always frustrated with a lack of inspiration, and i find random story generators help a lot. however, they don’t always have the kind of content i’m interested in, so i made my own. 

here is my random plot generator. (NSFW)

you can also find it by going into my blog menu and clicking “generator” if you’re not on mobile. if you ARE mobile you’ll have to open it in chrome or safari or something, just add /generator to the end of my url.

i’m happy to accept feedback and suggestions and will consider additions! just shoot me an ask. also-also, let me know if you’re interested in a SFW version and if there’s enough demand i’ll make a second one with some stuff removed.

[writing-prompt-s]

Plants sprout above corpses. The bigger the body the bigger the foliage. Adult humans can become large oaks and a butterfly could become a rose. Forests are cemeteries for the dead to sleep, and every tree has the names of the past carved into the base for the future to remember. While out on a school trip to the remote mountains you sneak out only to find a forest down a prohibited path… a forest of small oaks with no names…

[meolog]

a tale of trees and tenderness

[rustfoxes]

Would aliens find human sleep schedules weird? Just the Earth concept of sleep could be odd to them, humans and other animals just shut down for hours. No movement, no noise, even though they’re usually very vocal. Like parrots.

“What do you mean you ‘can’t sleep’?”

Do you need to practice to be able to do that? Why don’t humans just sleep at night like other diurnal animals? How can they also sleep during the day? Is that supposed to happen?

What the fuck are morning and evening people? How can you tell which human is which?

Why the hell is that human up and about and sTILL ASLEEP WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE CREATURES

[rustfoxes]

Also optimal sleeping conditions? The room you store your humans in for ‘bedtime’ needs to be dark, have a soft place for them to lie down (“a bed”), humans will sleep better if they can feel some pressure on their bodies and therefore will need a “blanket”. Some humans prefer sleeping in a pile with other humans, other humans will need more room and want a bed of their own. Also remember to keep your humans hydrated, leaving one (1) bottle of H2O per human should be enough to get them through the night.

[jehra-deactivated20210820]

these weird human posts are all so beautiful

[writing-prompt-s]

One day a voice rings out from everywhere at once: “Thank you all for participating in the LIFE beta. The servers will be shutting down and undergo a wipe in preparation for a full release of the game.”

[henkheijmans]

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

Alexandru Crisan, Breeze, Romania, 2014

[samehat]

[buckupbitch-deactivated20200209]

This is Becky and she mows the grass

[kaible-deactivated20181205]

is she available for hire

[eukaryotic-cowboy]

Becky chooses her own jobs; she will decide

[abduction]

[recaption]

[bigskydreaming]

New trend or trope I would KILL to see in sci-fi novels:

Rich industrialists fund space travel and gain the means to leave the planet and colonize Mars to leave a ‘dying/depleted’ Earth behind. Only the 1% have the means to afford a ticket on board the ships and ‘start fresh’ on the red planet in domed cities or whatever.

And then with the people most responsible for destroying the planet and depleting its resources gone, the remaining 99% of people ‘left behind’ on Earth construct new socialist societies, implement clean energy and redistribute the existing resources while of restoring the planet’s renewable resources and healing the damage done by pollution and irresponsible waste management.

Cut to a few hundred years later where Earth has a thriving population on a thriving planet that is not at all the doomed and dying and ‘used up’ place the Mars colonists thought it was when they left for the planet they’re still attempting to terraform so they can step out of their scattered little bubble cities that don’t allow for any real growth, innovation or exploration.

[bigskydreaming]

Earthborn character to a Martian: “Guess the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, huh? Oh wait, you guys still don’t have grass over there yet, do you? Whoops, my bad.”

[tygermama]

assuming Mars society hasn’t collapsed in on itself when a bunch of billionaire entrepreneurs discover they don’t have the skills to plump a toilet

[imwaaal-cyberpunk]

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