Dreary Days

He/Xe • a03 writer • druidry paganism https://mtethernal.mmm.page/

[scarlct-vvitch]

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

[scarlct-vvitch]

free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed

[cloudabserk]

rocky is both touched by the sentiment and disturbed by human medical practices

inspired by this grace quote:

[drearymoshiri]

Imagine a spider or two snuck into the Hail Mary and while everyone was in comas, managed to live/breed long enough to adapt to zero g and live off of dead skin cells, so then Grace wakes up and is fine for a few months and then Rocky’s there and then-

Rocky: Grace has friend

Grace: no bud, we’re alone

Rock: Grace has friend, statement. Grace friend right there

Grace: uhhh im not following pal, Theres- Theres no one else here. Are you ok?

Rocky: yes! Rocky perfect! Grace has friend! Is Grace blind, question?!

Grace: ok bud you know I don’t see like you do, im not blind, where is the friend you’re seeing that im not?

Rocky: on back of Grace shirt

Grace, turns and finds the biggest space spider ever clutching onto the back of his “I had potential” shirt: HOLY MOTHER OF CHEESE-

[drearymoshiri]

GUYS WAIT-

PROJECT HAIL MARY

So you know how Grace cant say goodbye in their way because he doesn’t have the grooves?

Idea: bracelets. On one arm, he wears ≈30 bands and on the other a cuff, so that he can rub the cuff over the bracelets to make the sound.

GUYS. GUYYYYYSSSS.

[drearymoshiri]

I really want a patch that says “I WILL EAT YOU” but the “eat” and “you” look like teeth. “Eat” as the top set and “you” as the bottom set- do we see the vision???

[luna-azzurra]

I genuinely do not understand this new, stupid accusation floating around the internet that using em dashes somehow makes your writing ‘unnatural’ or ‘not human.’

Like… are you kidding me? Em dashes have existed longer than half the people making that complaint have been alive. They’ve been in literature, essays, newspapers, journals, letters, and basically every written medium since punctuation became a thing humans fought about.

And I actually tried to ignore this whole topic for the longest time. I told myself, “Just let people be wrong on the internet. It’s not worth the energy.” But there comes a point where enough is enough, where the ignorance just gets so loud and so confidently stupid that you cannot stay silent anymore.

I’m truly, deeply sorry that I want to articulate my thoughts in a way that actually reflects how a human brain jumps, pivots, interrupts itself, and wanders. There is nothing ‘unnatural’ about that. That is literally how people think and speak.

And if you genuinely believe that em dashes are some proof of ‘inhuman writing,’ then my dear, you have never actually read a single book. Because ninety-nine percent of traditionally published authors use them. Classics. Fantasy authors. Romance authors. Literary authors. Modern authors. Old authors.

And sure, yes, obviously no one should use sixty em dashes in a 200-word paragraph. That looks like a punctuation stampede. But refusing to use them at all? Acting like they are some kind of forbidden, suspicious punctuation mark? Absolutely not.

I love em dashes. And I’m going to keep using them forever.

So stop accusing writers of “fakeness” because of punctuation. Stop pretending your personal punctuation preferences are some moral high ground. Stop acting like you’re the gatekeeper of real writing when you clearly haven’t read widely enough to know how real writing actually looks.

And honestly, EVEN if someone does misuse punctuation, even if they sprinkle em dashes everywhere or barely know how a comma works, it is still NOT your business. Take care of your own stuff instead of policing someone else’s creativity.

Mind your own work. Because other people’s punctuation choices are not (AND NEVER WILL BE) your job to fix.

[drearymoshiri]

I looked up “things to get writers for Christmas” to figure out what I should ask of people for Christmas, clicked the first link

Of the 20 suggestions, 11 of them were anti-anxiety pills and sprays.

Apparently all writers are anxious, paranoid people. I didn’t know they knew us like that.

[messysketchess]

Dumping everything now cus I still dont know how tumblr works and refuse to learn

[gleaming-glasses]

Some Nathan and Abaddon from Haunted Hotel.

[spaceboibrainrot]

The creature who keeps huffing paint

[drearymoshiri]

He is my new child.

[gleaming-glasses]

family reunion yaaaaaaay

[pulereen]

local child and her fucked up looking cat

[drearymoshiri]

“The truth is the best lie” and this would’ve been poetic if it were not for the way he were shoveling the taco into his mouth in a blur of tortilla, teeth, and tongue.

“Wrong, its 99 cents.” The other was also ravaging a taco in a particularly distasteful manner, as if he was a starving man in the desert. “Shit’s a dollar but it says it’s not! Lying assholes..”

[drearymoshiri]

Third life scar drawing!! It was just a doodle at first but then I blinked and it was this-

[drearymoshiri]

How did people blow their nose before tissues and cloth? Did they just blow that shit onto a leaf? What if they blew into the wrong leaf and now they itch inside their face?

[drearymoshiri]

I love those fanfics where Midoriya gets kidnapped and then internally (or externally) judges the criminals the entire time.

Midoriya: this is the worst kidnapping I’ve ever seen. Not only was I awake the whole time, but you brought me to your house. Which you live in with your family. One of who is unemployed and stays home all day. My restraints are zip ties. You put me in the bathroom closet, for gods sake!

The kidnapper, who was trying his best: why are you such an asshole

Midoriya: why are you so bad at this? My grandmother could do better and she’s dead.

[drearymoshiri]

Oh, you want to know my prized possession? It’s my 1943 Lippincott’s Quick Reference Book for Nurses that still has first aid treatment for poison gas attacks.