For Love of Writing

A place for my short fiction.

[dionysiaproductions]

[commandersheena]

In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

[drizzit]

Happy 10 year anniversary to this post!

[kedreeva]

Tornadoes have a smell??

yes? like a... idk. Like when you put a candle out, but a little sharper, and heavy/brassy, and wet, obviously. listen i barely have a sense of smell, but even I can smell it. surely I'm not the only one, it must be strong if /I/ can smell it. I just don't have enough scents in my experience cache to describe it.

lightning ALSO has a strong smell just before it strikes, which I assume is a part of tornado smell. metallic and twangy. it clicks LOUDLY for a couple seconds, enough to get the FUCK out if you hear it with enough awareness to realize what it is.

[teabeakay]

K this does imply you have almost or actually been hit by lightning

[kedreeva]

Yeah around 10-12 years ago, shortly after I moved into my house, I was sitting in front of my bay window and started to hear loud, fast clicking. VERY weird sound. Activates the hind brain because let me tell you I was out of my chair ready to bolt, no pun intended, in less than a second and I do not move fast for love or money. Hair on my arms was all stood up like a balloon was rubbed on them, not like goosebumps. And it smelled like ozone, metallic and tangy. Watched lightning strike the ground maybe 10-15 feet from my window a few seconds later, and it SHOOK my house, I'm surprised the window didn't break tbh, it felt like it stopped my heart when it hit. Hands down the scariest thing I've ever personally seen, and I'm really REALLY glad I was indoors at the time.

[dollsahoy]

The clicking sound is static discharge--when conditions are building to create lightning, there are usually a lot of potential static electricity paths in an area that could complete the circuit, and not just the path the lightning does take. However, when that main lightning strike discharge does occur, all of the other static paths (they're called streamers) also discharge (last entry here) at varying power intensities.

When I experienced it, I had just enough time to think it sounded like someone had thrown a hand-full of sand or small rocks at the window, then: boom.

[kedreeva]

yeah that's EXACTLY the clicking, like little pebbles hitting glass!

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

[writingdose]

me: I should write

also me: let me play the scene in my head and fantasize about writing it instead

[heycallmered]

people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target

[llama2237]

What... What movie is this.

[heycallmered]

[heycallmered]

ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500

[marmoset-marmoset]

i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady

[teaboot]

Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink

[teaboot]

it was a difficult morning for everybody

[7777777awawawa7777777]

the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

baby girl I don't know what that acronym means. it would be so sexy of you to write out that piece of media's name in its entirety. Just the one time for momma please.

[pangeen]

© takamii

[dreamylittlevalentine]

I would do unspeakable things to have this transitional Edwardian/ Art Deco diamond lace ring from 1916 as an engagement ring. ♡

[calliopechild]

We all like to think we can handle change gracefully, and then someone rearranges our grocery store.

[couldntbedamned]

If you come across anyone who starts off with "Scientists don't want you to know..." you need to understand that they're lying. They're completely full of shit and working a grift.

Because they've never met or spoke with a scientist.

Scientists WANT YOU TO KNOW. Scientists want you to know SO MUCH. Scientists would be THRILLED to teach you EVERYTHING they know in EXPLICIT DETAIL. Scientists LOVE to share information and their findings and their theories. They don't want to hide anything, ever. They are SO HAPPY to share.

[arctic-hands]

The eco fash and eugenicist leftists (yes, whether you admit it or not, you exist) aren't going to like this but I rank the invention of plastic as one of the top 5 best inventions to ever happen to medicine, along with soap, insulin, vaccines, and rehydration salt fluids

[clarityofhatred]

Absolutely! People who want to eliminate plastic production in its entirety ignore how it is used in *countless* ways medically. You know how surgical instruments stay sterile? Plastic packaging to keep them that way. How subdermal implants can be lightweight and comfortable as the body moves (to the point of being unnoticeable) and still disperse the medication for even years before needing to be changed out? Plastic bodies! Do you know what many modern stitches are? Plastic! Bc it has the ability to be fully sterilized and stretchable enough to move without snapping or tearing the skin while keeping the wound closed and in a position to heal.

If you wanna go after plastic: go after the consumer culture that puts ridiculous amounts of kids toys in dumps and clothes made by fast fashion. But this is a strong case of the ironic "all generalizations are bad" truism. I am all for reducing plastic waste and it's damage on the environment, but don't even *look* at the medical industry, let alone blame it until youve "solved" about ten other industries, cos this one improves and saves lives.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I'm on record as a plastic-hater but ALWAYS with the caveat that it's important for medicine

really I think it's gone way too far in all other areas like clothing, but obviously medicine is a whole other ballpark (hell, even in my own life- I wear contact lenses, which were theorized before the invention of plastics but never practical, and my glasses would have broken so many times over the years if the lenses were still actual glass)

someday hopefully medical plastic will be made from not-oil, but please understand that my criticism of plastic NEVER includes the medical field

[astraltrickster]

Plastic is a wonderful, life-saving family of materials with unique properties that allow them to do things that no other known materials can, that unfortunately just happens to be dangerously overused right now for the sake of being cheap.

[cwicseolfor]

We used to make kids’ toys out of lead-tin alloy, and paint everything from toys to houses in lead paint, because that was cheap, too. When something is cheap, it can be produced en masse, and people who never could have afforded it before suddenly can - still the factor driving (plastic) overconsumption today.

One day I hope we’ll look back similarly on this era’s follies: not only the materials we chose, but the sheer quantities of goods we manufactured for one-time or highly disposable use.

We will look back on medical plastics, on the other hand, with sympathy, relief, and gratitude akin to reading about iron lungs or cowpox inoculation today - people doing their best to care for each other as best they knew how, and isn’t it a glad thing that we didn’t stop there and technology has become more precise, more convenient, safer, and preventative at an earlier stage of trouble.

[maryoliveoil]

[earhartsease]

in case anyone is missing the sheer beauty of this french pun, in english it says "ominous" but broken up like a separated head and body - but in french "o minous" means "oh kitties"

[eleilinnrallin]

This is a reminder for those who handmake Christmas presents that now is not too early to start. It may in fact be a good time to start if you have a lot to make/your craft takes a long time. You should maybe start it now, whether that's brainstorming or actually doing the crafts!

[newtsoftheworldunite]

Translating this into tumblr's preferred public service announcement format for this kind of alert:

[bundibird]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need a "This is absolutely NOT mature content" feedback button on posts. You can report a post as missing a community label. We should also be able to report posts as having a community label when they dont fucking need one.