bitter-caf

[aemonds-blackfyre]

Maekarling 1 & 2 core

[ho-mad]

Dragon Dunk AU

Dunk doesn't understand Valyrian, he only knows one language, so just use Common tongue when speaking to him.

When Dunk was a child, he transformed into a dragon several times but each transformation was short-lived n required a great deal of energy. As he grew older, he became better at controlling his emotions n the number of times he transformed became extremely rare.

He always concealed his true identity n miraculously managed to grow up without arousing any suspicion (except from his parents n Ser Arlan who obviously knew about the dragon thing).

The transformation that exposed him was undoubtedly in Ashford (trial of seven). While he n Aerion were wrestling in the mud, Dunk was stunned n nearly collapsed, just then uncontrollably reverted to his original form - a massive dragon towering over the Targaryen prince.

Was Aerion terrified? Yes. Was Aerion aroused? Absolutely. His attitude toward Dunk will be one of obsessive love n possessiveness. He will do everything he can to provoke Dunk in order to turn him back into a dragon.

Dunk has officially become the property of the Targaryen (he owes Baelor a debt of gratitude n Egg literally begged him to stay with him). Both Baelorlings and Maekarlings hanging with him? Sure. Where? Dragonpit.

(Last pic belongs to Valaerys12 on twitter)

[rabidheartt]

persephone - cocteau twins

[what-even-is-thiss]

As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

[what-even-is-thiss]

Applies to everything from BDSM parties to your sister’s godawful interior design choices to weird bachelor pad meals eaten over a sink.

Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.

[autumngracy]

[phantomrose96]

Spotify gave me an A.I.-generated song…

[phantomrose96]

And the worst part is the only reason I got wise to it was because the lyrics sucked—which is NOT unique to A.I. necessarily.

And I only got suspicious because I watched a YouTube video about A.I. songs cropping up on Spotify

[phantomrose96]

The singer—to my untrained ear—could pass as a real singer. And I’m not looking forward to this next era of my life where every “oh a new band?” needs to go through A.I. inspection

[phantomrose96]

I was doing chores and not looking at my phone—so the second tip off was very obviously the band name

And at least this one has the decency to be transparent about their A.I. usage.

I think there will be/are plenty of bands (“bands”) that don’t do that.

[phantomrose96]

You should watch this

[phantomrose96]

Good news, it got worse.

Got another AI-generated song today, and this one was an anti-immigration song.

The artist description, which was definitely also AI-generated, is not transparent about the AI usage at all.

So we’ve got AI-generated hate mongering. Great. I love the future.

[bitter-caf]

I hate that we've reached a time where I'm like, yeah maybe that guy with the guitar in the beginning of Detroit Become Human who was all "real music from real humans" had a point. Crazy how the perspective has changed a little bc now I understand the humans anti android side.

[homunculus-argument]

There's people who have a religion, and there's Religious People. The first type is just normal people who happen to have a foundational structure they like to have their world built upon. The latter type are the kind that make me want to lean in and say "look, I would not even want to get into the kind of Heaven that would let you in."

[gorgonsach]

x

[justgfy]

Unions are trash. Theyll Destroy a whole company for firing a shitty worker.

[gorgonsach]

unions are the reason you aren’t paid 2.50 an hour with steel beams about to bust ya head open shut up lol

[explorerrowan]

Unions are why you have 5 day, 40 hour full-time work weeks. Unions are why they have to pay you in actual dollars instead of “company credits” that you can only spend at the company-owned stores. Unions are why there are fucking fire exits at your place of work. Unions are why it’s not okay for your supermarket ground beef to be any percentage human.

You think your company pays you out of the goodness of their hearts? Or even out of “market pressure?” The “job market” is a myth perpetuated by the capitalists. Corporations would pay you nothing if they could get away with it. And you argue “oh, but if they paid me nothing I’d just go to another one.” Wrong. Because to maximize profits, they all want to pay you nothing. Corporations exist to maximize profits while reducing risk for investors. It’s part of their entire function to find ways to cut costs as much as possible, and that includes finding ways to pay you nothing.

Unions are your defense against that. You think all a union does is strike? If you pay union dues, a lot of that is spent on lobbyists in various governments reminding your lawmakers that you have rights as a living human being that a corporation should not be able to stomp all over. Unions hire lawyers so that if you’re fired for bullshit reasons, the union can stand up for you against your boss. They’re called unions because workers are uniting to pool resources so that they can stand up to these corporate overlords with more money than God. Unions exist because you might not have the words, resources, or time to fight workplace injustices all by yourself. That’s the whole fucking point.

And if a business shuts down because a union is striking, it’s because the business was abusing people and didn’t deserve to be in business anyway. Don’t make excuses for the corporations. They already have trillions of dollars and a couple million lawyers to do that for themselves. They don’t need your help.

[mierac]

The erasure of labor history from US history curriculum has caused so much fucking damage to this country. 

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Bosses: If you don’t like how we do things, don’t work here.

Workers: *Go on strike*

Bosses: Wait no not like that

[defilerwyrm]

A lot of union folk very literally fought and died for the workers’ rights we have today. Like no joke, bosses would hire goons to straight-up murder unionizing and striking workers.

All the most basic workers’ rights we have today were all paid for in blood. And conservatives have never stopped trying to take them all away again.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

NEVER FORGET THAT LABOR DAY IS ACTUALLY ABOUT. I know people who legitimately think it’s like a secondary mothers day - you know, for going into labor.

But it’s about workers rights and the people who campaigned for it to be a holiday knew this fucking day would come.

If you are in the US and about to celebrate a 3-day weekend, thank a goddamn union worker.

[gotinterest]

driving in the city is all about using your maximum amount of brain power to avoid a vehicular manslaughter charge while seemingly everyone else around you has made it their holy mission to get hit by your car

[rachiforme]

walking in the city requires you to develop extrasensory perception and prey-like reaction speeds to avoid shattering every bone in your body while every driver is trying to mario kart spin boost off your sternum in order to get to the next red light 0.2 seconds faster

[bitter-caf]

walking in a city is fighting the urge to become the banana peel in mario kart and cause a 5 car pile up.

[depsidase]

[kitsap-carvers]

Some might say Tumblr is a terrible place to advertise a wood carving club. Some might say you can learn to carve wood for free with Kitsap Carvers three times a week from kind people eager to share their special intrests with anyone who wants to learn and there's more info at www.kitsapcarvers.org. Whose to say whose right and whose also right?

[cipheramnesia]

What if we got this post to ten thousand notes, my friends

[spirulin4]

ngl stone soup always sounded so good like you knew the stone had some flavor ...

[bitter-caf]

When I was a kid and sick or it was cold out, my mom would make rock soup. It was delicious and was my favorite meal.

[brian-kinney-apologist]

everyone wake up, new gender just dropped

[gremlinsminion]

[str-dusts]

May I offer this humble contribution

[sunderwight]

Well personally I think the hero's girlfriend got a lot more interesting when she came back wrong.

[sunderwight]

Vultures are important to the ecosystem I think it's nice that we've been seeing more of them around here.

[sunderwight]

Her new look is perfectly fine? Honestly the white dresses and colorful leggings weren't bad of course, but darker and more structured clothing has better utility for hiking around cemeteries.

[sunderwight]

Taking up new hobbies after a traumatic experience isn't unusual. It isn't even difficult to understand. Of course the woman wants to get out more, she was stuffed in that fridge for months.

[sunderwight]

Really it's not surprising that she has such heavy dark circles around her eyes all the time either. She's probably not sleeping well after, well, dying? And the expectation that women constantly cover up blemishes with makeup is quite unfair.

[sunderwight]

I think she's definitely got some kind of nutritional deficiency though. I haven't seen her eat anything since she got back. On one occasion I thought I saw her chewing some carrot sticks, but they didn't seem to agree with her.

[sunderwight]

Did some reading and I think she probably needs to eat human flesh now. A lot of people who come back from botched rituals end up as ghouls, and the hero definitely did not perform thorough research before he was trying to crank her back out of the grave.

[sunderwight]

I mean I don't really see the problem though? There are tons of humans dying all the time. Logistically it might be tricky to handle because of some legalities and taboos but people are always dying in this town. I don't know why anyone moves here.

[sunderwight]

Look I didn't want to just ask her directly because she seemed very embarrassed about it, but I finally did and yes it seems she's a ghoul now.

[sunderwight]

No I'm not going to tell her boyfriend? Why would I? That's her private business.

[sunderwight]

It's actually amazing. She only needs to consume about one corpse every three months and she's basically got superhuman speed, stamina, strength, resilience, etc. She can unearth a grave with her bare hands in less than an hour. I don't know for certain but based on my reading it seems she's pretty much immune to disease too.

[sunderwight]

Can't emphasize enough that is an amazing deal in terms of consumption vs payoff. She's basically taking a bunch of worm food and fueling super powers with it.

[sunderwight]

I mean vampires are even more energy efficient because we only need blood, but still. Remarkable.

[sunderwight]

Unfortunately the hero has been talking about sending her back to the grave. Which I think is just murder at this point but apparently, I just do not properly appreciate that something sinister is afoot.

[sunderwight]

He doesn't even know what it is and he's making this call?

[sunderwight]

Personally I think he could just try breaking up with her if he doesn't like goth girls who eat meat. Ending her existence seems unkind and excessive. She hasn't even killed anyone.

[sunderwight]

Unlike me.

[sunderwight]

Well, I think I'll just invite the hero over for drinks this evening before he gets started on that nasty little ritual of his, hm?

Don't worry darling, there are always more and better fish in the sea.

[mage-ical-character-person]

I can’t explain why this image is so funny to me but it is.

[forthegothicheroine]

Is this Interview with the Vampire?

[mursejesse]

...technically, yes.

[mikatogo]

Odd question but i would like to know! What mythical creature/monster do you think randy and benson would be?

Not an odd question at all omg!!! I'm a huge horror and fantasy fan so this is just YAYYY

Benson would be a Black Dog from the English folklore!! "A dog? Seriously?" BEAR WITH ME!!!!!! (subtly trying to tell you that there is a bear in my room)

The Black Dog is often described as a ghostly hound with glowing eyes. They can disappear and reappear at will, having strong ties to the spiritual but also the real world. Linking Benson to this would be his way of flitting out of Randy's field of vision and reappearing in violent strokes; he leaves Randy with Chris, comes back with the shotgun. He leaves Randy in the living room, slams him into the wall moments later. He is in the background of Randy's conversation with Lisa—Randy seemingly forgetting his presence until he looks over her shoulder.

The appearance of a Black Dog is seen as a bad omen, the announcement of death and disaster. Wherever Benson steps, a bomb goes off.

Most interesting is that they're also said to guard churchyards, and guiding lost travelers. Well, who are we thinking of? Exactly. He's guiding Randy in more than one way, physically and mentally he has his grip on him.

It's also said that they seem to be drawn to certain people... I don't even have to keep explaining.

Randy, oh my god, sweet, angel Randy. Would be a shapeshifter. Something horrific, unexplainable. One of my favourite horror movie monsters is the God Creature from The Ritual. (Brilliant movie... fuckass book).

I saw this in a post a while ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. The Ritual is one of my favourite horror movies, like I have seen it sooo many times. Connecting those two... the genius, woah.

Bloody, a killer at his core. Randy hides something, hides from something his entire life. That urge to follow his feelings and hurt people, to lash out and feel whatever he wants to feel. Combining that canon aspect of him with a monster like THAT is just... Yeah.

In the movie, they're sacrificing people to the God. Randy would hunt, would make a fucked up game out of it. Maybe unconsciously because he is not truly in control of his emotions, of his outbursts. Only halfway there whenever it takes over.

And, holy shit, would Benson worship the ground he walked on.

There is a clear recognition in the movie monster—it's not just killing because the person is there. No, it's actively hunting, actively looking for the person that escaped. There's a mindfulness behind the glowing sockets in the upsidedown torso.

Randy would definitely fear what he becomes. That monster would be his "issue" in a horror au, the thing he is trying to repress but is always turning into anyways.

So, Benson is an omen of death, a caretaker of the lost. Randy is death foretold, he is the one taking, and taking, and giving nothing back.

[nitewrighter]

Couple + Sibling/relative third wheel is honestly an S-tier trio dynamic and I wish we saw more of this in media.

"You are my soulmate. We are forged together by battle and tears and love. Also my brother's coming along."

"Yo."

[nitewrighter]

Bonus points if the non-related half of the couple is just as committed to keeping the third wheel around as the related half.

"Isn't it weird that your brother in law is always hanging around?"

"You've got a problem with Andrew?"

[notebooks-and-laptops]

[sunderwight]

[leadmetothegardenbetty]

the passenger (2023)