us at first:
the pope in his letter:
us now:
almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

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Monterey Bay Aquarium
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

ellievsbear
YOU ARE THE REASON

Product Placement
Peter Solarz

if i look back, i am lost
NASA

#extradirty
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

Janaina Medeiros
DEAR READER
Keni

pixel skylines
trying on a metaphor
i don't do bad sauce passes
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@dontbother46
us at first:
the pope in his letter:
us now:
I've seen a lot of these "humans are the weird guys of the galaxy" kind of stories and I recalled a scenario. So, humans at last gain FTL drive and start to roam the neigborhood and there are a lot of sentient life on a lot of planets, star trek style. And star trek style a lot of them seems to have origin in the same class (in the cladistic means of the word).
Except humans are the only mammals. Those tall people? Reptiles. These other people? Reptiles. Flying people? Birds, thus originally reptiles. Naga people? Obviously reptiles. The ones that look like turtles? Those too. The dragon-looking ones? Guess!
Basically, everyone on a planet of the same type of Earth seems to be somewhat reptilian in nature. Nearly every single one, with the rare outlier like insect people and yeah, us humans.
And every single one of them is quite wtf at seeing us mammals. Like, big sentient version of those fluffy, rare, small critters that some of them still have on their planets. Some of the most technologically advanced cultures managed to discover how, given more or less the same starting point and a bunch of technobabble, evolution tends to go the same way everywhere.
Until a human scientist talked about that whole meteorite in the cretaceous thing...
Humans Are Weird compared to other aliens because all of their elements they needed for instellar/intergalatic travel are present on their worlds already but we have to invent our own
Alien: what do you mean you created- you cant just INVENT new elements, thats now how this works!
Human Scientist: Well, its not easy, but we made a bunch of them, like time crystals!
Alien: what in the name of the gods of sshlao are time crystals.
Human Scientist: this! (Shows off time crystal)
Alien: ??????????????
Alien: thats not even a real object! How is that an element???
Human Scientist: we dont know, but quantum computing works a lot better with them there!
Alien: YOU DONT EVEN UNDERSTAND THEM?
in case anyone is wondering i am currently deep in brainrot for a pertemis athenide AU bc i reread ttc and Artemis is described by Percy as "her face was so beautiful it made me catch my breath, but her expression was stern and dangerous"
the second Perse comes outta that fountain and sees her adult version she is NOT coming back
this just in. our whole ass pope has politely announced the crusade against slop
Imagine the hunters meeting Percy and being reminded of their mother figure. Everything she does brings back memories.
they're missing her BAD but also watching zoe tweaking from the corner of their eye praying she doesn't crash out and get on a 1v1 brawl with poseidon
every time perse does one of the silly jokes the athenide did they clutch their pearls. perse does a miette joke once and zoe's arrow actually fucking misses for the first time in like 2 millenia
the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.
rare W for the church. clearly underestimated nerd pope geeks out to declare holy war against AI, defeating heretics with LOTR and STEM
someone ran the pope’s 42k (!) long anti-ai manifesto - literally titled magnificent humankind - through a checker and the result said “100% human”. even as a critic of the church i gotta say he cooked with this one i had to smile
someone ran the pope’s 42k (!) long anti-ai manifesto - literally titled magnificent humankind - through a checker and the result said “100% human”. even as a critic of the church i gotta say he cooked with this one i had to smile
SERVICE DOG PSA
So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)
I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up
If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help
Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him
Punk Athenide Au
This still a Ancient greece setting but some adjustments with canon Percy things
The Olympians and Amphitrite don't know about Perse but the minor gods DO they're just not saying anything and ACT surprised when at Perse's (forced) debut ball
Perse and Lester(post trials but separate places with them already dating) arrived together
Their old world is gone and make sure that want happened there doesn't happen here ( keyword: Zeus and Hera's fault)
Perse's domains are poison, rebellion,oaths, demigods, Blood, riptides, guerrilla warfare and loyalty,
Lester is still dorky loser mortal but a Highly intelligent one
Political Clinical commentary of Olympians plus Hades and how they dragged EVERYONE in their drama
Poseidon is Pos of a parent and it talks about with all of the kids at some time
Libyan!sea fam so I finally write a black female percy
Helios is ...okay here not the worst but not the best husband
Perse is raised by Desponia (Persephone's sister) and Lady Styx
underworld and sea goddess Perse.
Apollo is the eldest son here cuz we are the Zeus five wives idea cuz I'm a messy bitch who like drama
Sea kids's relationship with Poseidon
The idea of the domain rebellion doesn't belong to me but to @j-a-n-e--d-o-e
If I feel it like I might make a part two.
You make the idea but with credit plz
Dark Teyvat
6 of 7 Archons
their polyamorous swag
ah fuck im imagining it
why are the windows 7 minimise maximise and close buttons fucking on my dash
Peter trying to open up to the Batfamily while hiding that he is Spider-Man by saying increasingly incriminating shit like:
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“I mean,” Peter said with a shrug, “I used to sell pictures of myself for money. Maybe I should do it again.”
Tim nearly choked on his drink.
Steph blinked. “...What kind of pictures?”
Peter snorted. “The kind people paid stupid amounts for if I got caught in the middle of things.”
Duke’s eyes widened in horror.
Peter kept going, blissfully unaware.
“I mean, it wasn’t THAT bad. My... uh... sponsor made sure I was taken care of.”
Tim stared. “Your… sponsor.”
“Yeah,” Peter said casually. “Found me when I was fourteen.”
Dick’s voice exploded through the still-active phone call Tim had forgotten to hang up.
“WHAT.”
“Honestly, he kinda ghosted me after he was done with me though.”
Steph made a strangled noise somewhere between sympathy and fury.
Duke looked physically ill.
“To be fair,” Peter continued, “I DID crash his—”
He stopped.
“...Uh. I mean, I was involved in a plane crash. Uh. His plane.” Peter rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. “He felt bad afterward and offered me a deal which i turned down?”
“What kind of deal?” Duke whispered.
Peter froze for a second too long before replying, “...An internship?”
Nobody believed him.
Not even remotely.
“After he died I spiraled a little,” Peter continued quietly. “Trusted the wrong guy.”
Tim’s stomach dropped.
Peter rubbed at his face tiredly.
“And then he uploaded a video of me to the internet.”
Jason’s voice immediately cut through Dick’s phone speaker, where he had been listening in on.
“HE WHAT?”
Steph slapped both hands over her mouth.
Duke looked ready to commit murder.
Tim had gone eerily still in the way Bruce usually did.
Peter noticed the silence and finally started looking uncertain.
Determining he should probably just finish the story, he continued, “I tried to fix it, but I screwed everything up and lost everyone.”
The room fell into horrified silence.
Peter looked around. Realized far too late that he had completely obliterated the mood. And promptly panicked.
“ANYWAY,” he announced way too loudly, “I’m broke again. Maybe I should start selling pics again, hahaha—”
“ABSOLUTELY NOT,” Duke said instantly.
“No,” Tim agreed immediately.
Somewhere on the other end of the line, Dick had gone suspiciously quiet with a darkened expression over his face that spelt trouble for the people that hurt his family, and Jason didn't feel like stopping him anytime soon.
And Peter....
Well, let's just say, maybe it might have been better for him if they found out he was Spider-Man.
"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.
"I know a guy" = "I have a useful contact."
"I know a man" = "I am about to tell you a story."
“He’s a great guy” = he is pleasant and fun and well-intentioned
“He’s a great man” = he has saved countless lives and changed the world irrevocably