this is the nightmare scenario

Jade. She/her. Australian. AO3: aloneintherain.

[redstonedust]

fantasy/scifi discrimination is always such an interesting topic in fiction to me because on the one hand yeah if you have a world where multiple sapient species exist alongside eachother of course theyre going to have major differences and conflicts and stereotypes. but i feel like so many writers try to 'justify' the conflict because they dont want either side to look unreasonable so they'll be like "these are my aliens the scoobles and the blinkies. the scoobles emit toxic radiation and have killed 30000 blinkies just by existing. the blinkies are mean to the scoobles because of this. this is just like racism." and its like hey um. can we rethink the messages a little bestie. just a little. a second draft.

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

[quietwingsinthesky]

painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.

[quietwingsinthesky]

op approved tags. you’re the only person here who sees my vision

[itsgonnabeoak]

is this anything

[fagstaynight]

(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ

[shroomshroomm]

[burnazog]

[thegadaboutgirl]

One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn

[whumpster-fire]

I know we've already had "Incorrect. I can bomb the colony" but I really think ART should get to have an equivalent of Murderbot's rampage when it thinks ART is dead. Some corporate scumbags say they killed its secunit. They attempt to negotiate with what they think is a human captain, having no idea that ART is on its own because it was supposed to be on a cargo mission. There is nobody on board to beg it to stop. The first ship that tries to stop it is cut to pieces by the Debris Deflection Generation System. The second ship tries to hail it on coms and ART goes "Fuck you." (opens all your airlocks) and then turns the now crewless hostile ship's weapons on another corporate vessel.

[just-prompt-things]

best trope and you can fight me over it (i abuse this so hard with my ocs)

[peach-flavored-cyanide]

alternatively

[gayvampyr]

trying to explain why i like horror to people who don’t: ok so you know how it’s fun to be deeply disturbed and unsettled

[skelotan]

Just another day in the life of an NPC! : )

[anasabdin]

Rain over block 9

[taytumtowne]

The book is so fuckin funny man. Just at some meeting and the crew goes 'ohhhhh are you two not dating. Yeah we thought you were just like. Stratt's lame loser boytoy who she kept around for reasons.' and mr asexual is over here like ??????????????WHAT???????????????

[the-iliad-and-the-audacity]

Cutting out these tags for my recipe book cuz y’all are cooking in here

[jewelcoatfish]

obsessed with shane hollander forgetting a word in english and turning to his husband desperately trying to explain what he means using fucking russian AND english and it goes like (russian is in italics)

shane: the fucking thing that we used with the pancake mix

ilya: whisk?

shane: no the flat thing!

ilya: pan?

shane: no, the flip!

ilya: spatula?

shane: YES THE SPATULA! anyway cassie i think our spatula isn’t really good do you gave a good brand you can recommend?

and everyone is confused as fuck lmfao

[scarlct-vvitch]

one day grace hurts his right hand somehow and he's all upset bc he's like gosh dang it now i have to do everything left-handed. and rocky's like ?????still have other hand?? and grace explains the idea of dominant hands and rocky is like. you only have two hands. the FUCK do you mean only one of them can do anything

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[haveasnickerss]

This is just a reminder that Hiccup is an adrenaline junkie. He free falls for fun. He jumps from cliffs, throws himself from his dragon and made himself wings to glide alongside Toothless.

Hiccup belongs to the sky, and he'll never get tired of the freedom he gets from it.

If they made a whole series where it's Hiccup and Toothless just flying and doing tricks and free falling I'd watch it. Just add some John Powell music and you'll have me hooked for weeks

[p-artsypants]

“Hi, I’m Hiccup Haddock. Welcome to Jackass.” *lights fuse*

[lasagnaforem]

Backrooms (2026) - Kane Parsons, A24

[mattymouse16]

The best magicians don't reveal their tricks.

[alastair-1205]

The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."

Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.