Fantastica

An oppinionated blog oriented at fantastica, i.e. works of science fiction and fantasy. Also whatever tickles my fancy. Property of a bi demisexual introvert disaster; she/they.

[bobbole]

Dave Zackin

[darlingofdots]

my parents are on holiday in their mobile home

they're expected back this upcoming weekend

I just spent ten days in my childhood home to keep an eye on things

I have hidden 100 small yellow ducks all over the house

I am very excited for my parents to be back

[darlingofdots]

a first update: we have a neighbour who empties the mailbox while my parents are away and this morning I got a notification from our front door camera and watched said neighbour find what I know to be a tiny yellow duck in the mailbox (the camera is too far away to actually see), stare at it for a moment, and place it carefully back inside the mailbox

[darlingofdots]

THE FIRST DUCK HAS BEEN FOUND

They just came home after a friend's birthday party and I'm guessing went straight to bed, because my dad just sent a photo to the family group chat of the duck I placed on his bed with only the caption "thank you 😘" which makes me suspect they haven't found any of the others yet. Or noticed that this one has a number on the bottom.

Tomorrow they're going to find more of them and realise what they're in for and that's when the real joy begins.

[darlingofdots]

I just spent half an hour on the phone with my dad mostly giggling maniacally while he complained at me. He thought it was a singular duck and then went to get fresh PJs and "another bloody duck" fell out and now he can't rest until he has found as many as possible. It is half an hour to midnight, he is prowling the house trying to spot more ducks, and he begrudgingly admitted he still loves me anyway. My mother is significantly less invested but not caring does not protect you from The Ducks. I am absolutely ecstatic with how this is going.

[darlingofdots]

If I ever need to explain my parents' different personalities to somebody who does not know them, it will be like this: my dad, upon finding the second duck in his pyjamas, refused to believe that there would be more of them, and then went absolutely feral with the hunting instincts of a particularly determined bloodhound. He found 40 of them within about an hour. He has created an Excel sheet to keep track of which ones are still missing (I wrote numbers on the bottom of each duck). He keeps calling me to swear at me and then grumble that he still loves me.

He did not appreciate it when I told him about zookeepers throwing a pumpkin full of meat into a tiger enclosure.

My mother, on the other hand, thinks the whole thing is hilarious. She loves the ducks. She has accepted the ducks. She's sad that my dad insists on collecting the ducks because she thinks they should just stay where they are and become part of the decor. "I reckon I will find them when I find them," she says. I told her that I had to replace one because the original number 4 dropped on the tiles and got decapitated and she thinks I should dramatically stage it next time I visit.

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[darlingofdots]

As of September 2nd, the official Duck Count is at 79, which is honestly really impressive. The rate of discovery has obviously slowed down a lot as the more obvious ducks have been found, so we've now finally reached the point at which I think even my dad is not so much actively searching anymore as he is Always Ready For Duck. In the last couple of days he found one in a packet of tissues and texted me "there was one in the q-tips today" to which I responded, naturally, "It's been there the whole time B)"

I did spend a night at the house last week because I didn't want to get stuck at a train station at 11pm on a Sunday, and my dad insisted that I must have lied or misremembered when I told him there were a total of 4 ducks in his office, because he has found 3 and is absolutely adamant that there can't be another one (there is. It's in a box of paperclips in the drawer that he likes to keep half-open to rest documents on. It's even visible if you look down at it).

I also told them about the incident with our neighbour and that I had deleted the clip from the security camera's app as well as the clip of me heading into the garage with the keys to my dad's classic car (I stuck a duck in front of the speedometer) and they now think I am a criminal mastermind, which is honestly pretty fun considering my extreme lack of coolness in almost all other regards.

It's my mum's birthday in a couple of weeks and I'm honestly really looking forward to telling this story to friends and family! I haven't come up with a present for her yet but I think maybe I'll include one of the extra ducks I kept, just for fun!

[regonym]

🎶is she german or autistic? by @mumblesplash (x)

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

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themessangerpigeons

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Tears

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[stjohnstarling]

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

Okay guys, we’ve got to wrap it up now with the monsterfucking and find something new to do. It’s getting write-ups in GQ, it’s so over.

[stjohnstarling]

Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

Okay this does kind of rule though.

[stjohnstarling]

Inside the Booming Business of Monster Porn

Teratophiliacs were once a niche group that bonded over their sexual attraction to monsters in obscure forums. Now—as online communities pro

Okay guys, we’ve got to wrap it up now with the monsterfucking and find something new to do. It’s getting write-ups in GQ, it’s so over.

[stjohnstarling]

Sometimes, in their obsession with monsters, humans end up finding other humans. In 2019, Cachét developed a crush on Salad Fingers, the main character in a British cult web cartoon. She drew porn of Salad Fingers and sent it to David Firth, the show’s creator. Firth loved it and followed her back. “He thought I was a guy because no girl would draw porn of Salad Fingers,” Cachét says.

They started messaging. Cachét complimented his drawing of a human-bug threesome and asked for a print. Three years later, Cachét and David got married. The human-bug threesome drawing hangs on the wall of their home.

Okay this does kind of rule though.

[0hellifiknow0]

i love justice smith and i know that there are already several characters who aren't book accurate but i'm very disappointed in heated rivalry's choice to cast such a thin actor as harris. fat people get treated like such shit among gay men and the queer community as a whole. it would have been nice to see a fat man included in a series like this, especially since hr is pretty raunchy and troy and harris have explicit sex scenes in the book. let fat people be portrayed as sexy and desirable. let them have hot gay sex scenes

i can also already picture the anti-black backlash this is going to cause. i understand wanting to add more diversity to an overwhelmingly white series, but they didn't need to get rid of the fat rep to do it. there are fat black actors!

[amnhnyc]

I choose you, kinkajou (Potos flavus)! This arboreal critter, which inhabits the tropical forests of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, is known for hanging upside-down in the treetop while using its prehensile tail to hold onto branches. It also leverages its strong, 22-in- (57-cm-) long tail for balance. What’s more? The kinkajou can run just as fast backwards as it can forwards, thanks to its ability to turn its hind feet in the opposite direction.

Photo: Lina Shatalova, iStock

[pmamtraveller]

Fishing for the Moon by Marco Bellelli

[agentlemanofthevoid]

august 23, 2025 - from NASA's astronomy picture of the day

[bopbop171]

You know a character is goated when the AO3 tags look like this

[qqchurch]

[diespulchra-deactivated20210519]

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

he is turning the tiles brown. he needs to be contained

[dangerous-tangerine]

SCP 

[pair-of-ragged-quarks]

fools. this was a white goat, you can see the white markings on him. he’s been soaking up the brown and he’s only got one square left. let him finish his work

[wickerwight]

HE’S STEALING THE BROWN

[ily-a]

HEATED RIVALRY 1.06 | The Cottage

[sawed-on-shotgun]

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

[botanyshitposts]

love doing something I call ‘the big leaf test’ where I put my hand on a leaf and if the leaf is bigger than my hand I go damn that’s crazy

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