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and there's nothing i can do (pacrim, tolkien, marvel, homestuck. also other stuff. sometimes i write things. you have been warned.)

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I RETURN BRIEFLY TO SCREAM ABOUT TALES FROM THE DRIFT

OH GOSH KAORI

KAORI AND DUC

AND KAORI/DUC

WELL MORE SPECIFICALLY KAORI <3< DUC LIKE WOW SUCH SPADES WOW  W O W  PITCH FOR DAYS

ALSO I WANT 100K OF KAORI BEING VIOLENTLY SCIENTIFIC TOWARDS THE BREACH WHILE HERMANN COWERS IN THE BACKGROUND

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yo everyone writing anything napoleonic-naval-warfare-flavored

or just interested in the general awareness and treatment of scurvy, check this shit out.

I totally thought the antiscorbutic citrus thing was A Thing when it apparently wasn’t, and also I had no idea of the difference between lemon juice and lime juice in terms of protective value. 

h/t roachpatrol

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new puppy! (with a cameo of my foot)

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vastderp may i offer you a floof in these trying times

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hermann Gottlieb/Vanessa Gottlieb Characters: Hermann Gottlieb, Vanessa Gottlieb Additional Tags: Stargazing, Moving Away, First Kiss, Backstory Summary:

Vanessa is perched in the tree outside your window (what is she doing that’s so dangerous). “We wanted to stargaze, and the sky hasn’t been properly clear for a month.” She opens the bag and tilts it for you to see. “I brought my skymap book, and I did up a torch with red cellophane like Mr. Dugan said you should for night vision. C’mon, we might not have another chance.”

She…

She isn’t wrong about that.

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hey gracegotbuns remember like a year ago when i said i’d write you a stargazing thing and then that never happened? i was going through my drafts folder and found the thing and remembered and finally finished it. sorry about that. also sorry it turned out angsty i was going for fluff but then sads happened? but we all know they get a happy ending irl so that’s okay probably. i am very tired so i will end ramble and probably go to bed.

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ADORABLE TINY AGRICRAFT PUMPKINS OMG

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a heads up: in the interests of not getting sucked into scrolling my dash on the occasion that i log in to check something i am ruthlessly unfollowing most of who i’d been following (i’ll likely just unfollow all of them eventually, but some i want to bookmark to check up on occasionally). if i have unfollowed you, it is nothing personal!

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got manga studio! behold the inaugural doodle, a sketch of new fantrolls (purple is Gillis, teal is Cipher). i am not settled on walrusdad for gillis, but walruses are p cute so hey we’ll see. also i realize now that i forgot the tusks oops. XP

these nerds are gonna be the tech support of the rebellion, both being staunch signlessists despite their high caste status.

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plus the ones i don’t remember pt.1

Northern France, 1944 The air of the battlefield was full. Full of explosions. Full of their thunderous echoes. Full of bullets and shrapnel. Dirt. Blood. Screams. Fear. Death.

The air was thick with the souls of the fallen, and were the Valkyrie here to gather warriors for Odin’s Einherjar she would reap a rich harvest indeed. But no, her appointed task was far less easy. Far more... vexing.

“But why can’t I choose from the shieldmaidens of Asgard? What benefit could mortals possibly afford us?”

The All-Mother smiled, mischief in her eyes belying wisdom. “I have my reasons. The time is nigh to when the Valkyrior must ride again. You’ve put your task off long enough.”

The angry tension holding the Valkyrie’s every sinew tight betrayed her insolence. 

“Child, there’s a war on down there. If you can’t find any worthy women, it’s because you aren’t looking.”

“Where exactly would you have me start searching? War engulfs all their realm now, or so I’ve heard.”

The smile returns, wider. “Simple - follow the explosions.” She flicks her hands open gleefully. “Ka-boom!”

So the Valkyrie strides invisible through the battle, watching doubtfully for a worthy shieldmaiden to show herself. Muffled swearing from a ditch catches her attention.

Two women hunker there, one pale and almost waifish, the other slightly darker and more muscular with hair shorn short. The shorn one answers the swarms of bullets flying past with volleys of her own. The pale crawls up the ditch from scouting. “Those smegs have us surrounded!”

“Then we make an opening.” They meet eyes for a moment. Then as one they dart along the ditch, hunkered low for cover. Some yards down, Shorn fires on their hidden hordes of enemies, Pale moves ahead, fires forwards to try to clear a path. Suppressive fire and sharpshooting, and they cut themselves a hole into the woods between them and their people. They run. Their enemies pursue. The Valkyrie follows.

A bullet clips the pale one’s leg. She cries out, but keeps running. They are almost clear of the trees.

The next bullet rips through her chest.

Shorn half-drags Pale behind a felled tree, puts pressure on the wound. “Stay with me, Angharad.”

Angharad wheezes. Blood oozes out between her lips. With one shaky hand she draws a packet out of her coat. “Take it. Dammit, Jobassa, take it.” She stops, catches her breath, reddened teeth clenched in pain. “They need this intel.”

Jobassa looks conflicted for just a second, then takes the packet, tucks it safely in her own coat.

“I’ll buy you time,” Angharad bites out as the other props her against a tree. She gets her gun up. “Go.”

Jobassa moves, stops. Plants a kiss on the other’s cheek and runs.

When Angharad’s soul slips from her body, still angry with battle-fury, she looks up and sees the Valkyrie. “You watch her. You get her home safe.”

Even the Valkyrie can’t help but be cowed, just a little, by the fire in her eyes. “I’m no guardian spirit, lady.”

Angharad’s soul slips away to Valhalla before she can respond. The Valkyrie has made her mind up already, however. In one smooth movement she whirls and fires arrows into the hearts of pursuing soldiers. She had found the first of her Valkyrior.

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do you know what time it is friends it is ILL-CONCEIVED WRITING EXPERIMENT TIME

i am hashing out a mmfr/marvel crossover. it is complicated because of course it is, this is why i can’t have nice things. which is to say, the most dead-obvious cast insertions are thus: furiosa becomes the winter soldier, and the valkyrie becomes the (other) valkyrie. each of these on their own could work pretty easily. both together? probably not a good life decision. i am doing it anyway.

so i’m gonna write pieces to try to hash out my vague ideas (something something let’s rip off the plot of fearless defenders and awkwardly superimpose it on mcu winter soldier but also make shit up wholesale regarding the infinity stones and i have no idea what i’m doing but it’ll probably be pretty cool if i manage to pull it off), and i’m gonna post these super rough bits here because idk i want attention.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

in addition to the above - eventual furiosa/valkyrie, immortan joe is the red skull, the keeper is tentatively the all-mother, i guess the organic mechanic being zola makes sense?? toast and capable probably join the valkyrior. working title is “plus all the ones i forgot”. as this would imply it’s prolly gonna mostly focus on furiosa.

i guarantee nothing re: writing quality of the snippets, nor cohesiveness of them as a group. also don’t assume that pieces will be in order. or show up in the final thing if that ever actually happens. um. yeah. this is probably a bad idea but i’m doing it anyway. hopefully it will be fun. first piece will go up in a few once i check it over for grammar etc. it’s actually val-centric, since i’m working out backstory of how she met furiosa.

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i need this image file hosted somewhere for reasons and am too lazy to figure out image hosting sites :P

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Bëor, Finrod Additional Tags: crackfic, Weird Elf Biology, you know how elves can walk on snow without sinking for some reason?, here's a really dumb explanation for that Summary:

Finrod turned back to the entrance, gave a measured look at the snow, then knelt down to undo some small buckles on his boots. Beor stared as they expanded forward and sideways to almost twice their breadth. “You have snowshoes built into your boots.”

Finrod frowned over the new word. “...Snowshoes? Snowshoes…. Oh! My feet.”

“No, I’m talking about your boots.”

Finrod shook his head. “Feet."

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when you get this, you must give six random facts about yourself, and then send it to 10 of your favorite followers! ❤

1 i’ve ridden horses for 10+ years (not all consecutively)

2 my first slash ship was spock/mccoy

3 my dog is the best dog

4 my favorite character to play in don’t starve (so far) is willow because yay fire and fireproofness!

5 poor software documentation angers me

6 i am not going to be forwarding this on (if peeps wanna do it, considered yourself tagged i guess)

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hauntedjaeger replied to your post “hauntedjaeger replied to your post “z-bot ​ replied to your...”

Got it!

huzzah! if you’re going to send me yours, it might be easiest to just email me and bypass tumblr’s awful messaging system altogether.

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hauntedjaeger replied to your post “z-bot ​ replied to your post “heads up”I don’t e-socialize enough to...”

It ate it. D:

*sigh* because of course it did

trying again!

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neptunes-booty replied to your post “heads up”

i remember you said you were taking this semester off, are you gonna be at CMU in the fall?

yeah! in fact i’m already here, i’m doing research for one of my profs for the summer. then two semesters left and i’m done!

i remember you ended up taking the semester off as well. are you coming back in the fall too? and are you feeling any better?

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z-bot ​ replied to your post “heads up”

I don't e-socialize enough to say 'keep in touch' but I am totally here for any content you DO post in the future, and I hope the internship goes well!

forgetisawyou​ replied to your post “heads up”

Thanks for the update and I hope your internship is going well. *hugs*

thanks guys!

hauntedjaeger​ replied to your post “heads up”

I feel like we've emailed before but I might be wrong and I can't find you in my contacts now. Askbox me?

i askboxed you my email. hopefully tumblr did not eat it. (if it did i’ll try again)

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heads up

yall may have noticed my near total absence the last few weeks? this started because moving and subsequently being without wifi for a few days, and then continued partly bc 9-5 internship.

but the other part is because i am pretty sick of this awful blue hellscape, for a variety of reasons. :/

this is not an “i am leaving tumblr” notice because i’m not. yet? not exactly. if nothing else this is a good place to share my fic and stuff, and there are some cool people here. but i don’t really want to be active on tumblr again bc more than not it is a waste of time and of spoons. i may experiment with ways of still using the site while avoiding what makes it such a time/spoon drain, but let’s be real i don’t social enough through this that it really matters if i check in much. (that said, if you do wanna keep in touch, i would exchange emails or whatever, just ask. i might not get back quickly bc i’ve been checking in very infrequently, but i will look occasionally)

so yeah. i’m not gonna delete since i have a bunch of reference stuff reblogged i’d rather not lose links to. expect to see ao3 links to new stuff (i have three drafts coming along nicely, one is for a monthly thing so that should happen in the next two weeks), maybe some meta posts if i actually write the things i’ve been meaning to. but not a lot else.