Fiction Addiction

A whole lot of fangirling over fictional cuteness and animals. Enjoy my slow devolvement into chaos.

[king-of-fae]

Summoners Return

“You’re dying. You know that, right?”

“I do.”

“He used you. But you know that already, too. Don’t you?”

“I do.”

“I can help you, if you’d like.”

“And what do you want in return?”

You can’t see her face, but somehow you know she’s smiling.

“That depends… How much are you willing to give?”

He tried to sacrifice you. You were supposed to die there, feeling the blood slip through your fingers, mind getting hazier, body feeling colder. Nothing more than a bloody offering made in desperation. But things didn’t go according to plan. Whatever your friend tried to summon took a liking to you, and now you’ve found yourself bound to something you don’t have full control over. 

Find a way to prove your innocence and uncover the truth about what really happened to the other Summoners. Ally yourself with a powerful demon, a cynical knight-enchanter, an enigmatic witch, a reluctant bard, a dragon scion, and a half-dragon healer.

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Uncover the past of the Summoners!

Running from the authorities!

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The World, It’s Magic, and You

The Empire of Ludia has stood since the dawn of humankind. Built by the hands of both humans and elves, Ludia has become a unique blend of two cultures. Their most prominent achievement, The Institute of Magic, has served to teach both mages and Gifted to control their powers. However, not everyone sees the Institute as the beacon of hope they portray it as.

While some humans and all elves can use magic, Gifted are more powerful than standard mages. They are born with the ability to draw in Essence from around them, so they never need to replenish their Essence like normal mages who have only their internal reserve to draw from, limiting them on the strength and duration of the spells they can cast. This makes Gifted dangerous, as there’s no limit to their powers and they never tire from a lack of Essence.

You live in the Institute as one of several Gifted. You and your friend Callum are the only two Gifted that have yet to discover what kind of magic you specialize in. This means that the two of you are stuck in the Institute, while the others move on and leave you two behind.

Keep reading

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

[systlin]

Sometimes you see a post and just realize there’s some Wild Shit going on in a community you never knew existed

[unicorncryptid]

[carebear-onion-lizard]

Attached for original context

[the-anime-void]

Finally, I understand

[supreme-leader-stoat]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL POST.

[thisisnotacreativeusername]

what's everyones oddly specific line they remember from taz that people don't usually bring up? we all know "im a fully realized creation" and magic brians final riddle but like what's that one underrated line that gets you every time

[wallflowerwaitlist]

Griffin said "the world we got born into was screwed up so bad by previous generations that we had to take drastic measures to escape and we can't be consumed by anger at that because we still have to survive and live but also hold on to at least a little bit of that anger so we can be better than them" and he's so right

[babyanimalgifs]

This is so wholesome

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip

[callmebliss]

I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is

[deadjosey-deactivated20200613]

https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=en heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children. 

[strangeracrossthestreet]

CAT DAD IS BACK

[jackslenderman]

aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;

[aquilacalvitium]

HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!

[midgardian-april]

This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen. 

[trishmishtree]

update:

[lemonsharks]

I love that he kept …. All of them.

[petermorwood]

I’ve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.

This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.

[teashoesandhair]

You’re welcome.

[askfordoodles]

I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ❤

[theminingengineer]

@every-n-anything

[karmic-punishment-deactivated20]

[fierceawakening]

All hail Catdad

[daisy-rivers]

I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.

[pretty-frown-deactivated2026011]

I’M CRYING!?

[instant-karma-official]

CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE

[lilith-hargreeves-official]

I live for cat dad-

[rip-paramour]

Cat dad has saved us all

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[inferno-sytem]

CAT DAD!!

[thekristen999]

I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)

[lmaodies]

He’s got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>

[the-stage-manager-deactivated20]

It’s been over a year? Where is cat dad? Where is he?

[knitmeapony]

Fear not, CatDad is still happily with us:

[petermorwood]

Cat Dad 2022 pic.

[lazylittledragon]

just realised my ex broke up with me before i found out how she makes her guacamole and somehow this is worse than when she cheated on me

[lazylittledragon]

i would like to personally thank everyone who sent me their guacamole recipes in step by step detail

[maple-keenes]

my ex-boyfriend and i broke up before i learned how he made his brownies taste so good, but i managed to stay friends with his brother and i learned that it was espresso powder. honestly this made the breakup hurt way less because i then also had very good brownies

[lazylittledragon]

fuck it everybody leak your shitty exes’ recipes here and we’ll have one giant Petty Party

[depsidase]

[doomhamster]

For any aspiring writers, THIS is how you write small children.

They aren’t “random” or incapable of logical reasoning. They draw conclusions from observations! It’s just that they don’t have enough experience to draw the right conclusions a lot of the time, or to know which ones are within the realm of possible/plausible and which aren’t!

[socialistsephardi]

[thetearsofunfathomablesadness]

mutuals do this

[a-method-in-it]

I am dead serious: If you are a Walmart employee, at any level and in any store — like if you are a high school kid with a part time job stocking shelves — message me any question you have about unions. Like ask me “What’s a union” if you want. I will explain it to you. I am a grievance chair for a white collar union whose workplace only unionized within the last five years and whose management fought as every step of the way, but in the end we fucking won. It can be done, and I can tell you how.

[yorkshirereaper]

Rb to kill wal mart

[notanothercashiercomplaints]

Unionizing is our wet dream I promise you.

[vbartilucci]

I like how it’s described as a union could “cripple American Capitalism” when more precisely it’s just that a union would be so powerful as to force WalMart (or any other company) to pay their workers like human beings. That’s not going to break Walmart. They’ll barely notice.

They’ve successfully convinced us that the unions are the greedy monsters. For so many years, the companies have painted unions as “we want you to pay janitors three million dollars a year and if you don’t we’ll set your stores on fire”. 

But it’s more like “We want you to take an almost imperceptible fraction of your bountiful profits and use it to make your employees’ live marginally better, and maybe give them medical benefits, y’know, so they don’t die”.

Big companies did not stop hiring ten year olds to work in coal mines because they just woke up one day and said “my god, we’re monsters”. They did it because their workers stood together and said “really, enough of this crap”.

Companies are not going to give people raises unless it’s economically necessary that they do so. Anything they can do to lower their expenses, and raise their profits, they are going to do. And no one person can stop them.

But thousands of people, millions of people? Better chances.

[moonybyte]

To anyone that wants to claim it wouldn’t work:

Just another reminder that Walmart Germany was a spectacular fail because of ver.di (which is a national service trade union that has it’s control over almost all trade and service companies in Germany) among other things.

Like, ver.di essentially came up to the CEO of Walmart Germany and was like “Hi, welcome, we wish you the best and that we can work together well :)” and the dude was like “hahaha no” and tried to pull the american concept here so ver.di pulled out a list of all the breaches of german law that Walmart was doing (underpaying workers, trying to avoid paying health care by using part-timers, trying to be open for more than 80 hours per week, firing people on short notice without warning or exit payments, etc) and long story short, they got some massive hefty fines for it. They also set up a list of demands for the workers and organized national strikes to push them through, making the employees of 85 hypermarkets neatly stand in front of the store doors with signs, whistles and chants (and certainly not the “Wallmart! Wallmart!” chant). In the end, that plus other things caused them to bail after 9 years with a gigantic loss (almost a billion just from sales) from one of the best retail markets in the world.

So all those issues like “no healthcare” or “work full-time and need food stamps” or “work on sundays and holidays” and shit? Unions are there to set their foot down against that for you. They are there to keep you safe from the corps wrath while fighting for your rights.

Cause if you, an individual, complain, they just fire you and laugh about it. A union is a collection of hundreds up to MILLIONS of people, supported by lawyers, going against employers for you.

[zvaigzdelasas]

In Denmark, due to union negotiations & refusal to work for slave wages, the McDonald’s basic pay comes out to about $20 US / Hour. The big mac there costs about 60 cents more.

[afro-evolutionary-astrology]

How does the quote go?

Don’t thank god for Friday’s; thank unions.

[thepeoplesmanifesto]

Reblog if you think janitors should be paid $3million a year or want to burn down a Walmart

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 30 2020 - Activists against evictions in New Orleans blocked off both entrances to first city court, which handles evictions for rents less than $3000, blocking many landlords during the day who were trying to get into court to get their tenants evicted. Housing is a human right! [video]

[upsettingandunfortunateclasshate]

This is ace. Proper direct action.

[oceans-foundfamily]

I got a wild idea for a mashup today. I call it “You Can Fight the Hurricane.”

[foxxandraven]

Yeeeeeesssssss💕

[oceans-foundfamily]

I got a wild idea for a mashup today. I call it “You Can Fight the Hurricane.”

[foxxandraven]

Y’aaaaaallll yesssssss

[tiktokmuseum]

he's doing his job!

[pathcend]

[soclonely]

AHHHH  LOVE THAT THEY HAVE BPD

[eggastential-biscuits]

I have three of these

I think

Maybe I have BPD but I can't be sure rn

[krakensdottir]

Oh thank fuck, this is literally the first non-horrible BPD representation I’ve ever seen and it makes me want to cry

[carrion-princess]

“You know, I get it. Being raised as a superstar must be really, really difficult for you.” 
Decided to try out this Artbreeder thing and of course, my first choice was Neil. I couldn’t for the life of me, work out how to get his tan though >:(

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

'kids these days have it easy' thats the point thats the point thats the whole point we're here to make it better for whoever comes after you sad selfish self absorbed puddle of wank

[gardnerhill]

John Adams: “I study war and diplomacy, so that my son may study trade and commerce, so that his son may study art and music.”

[cumaeansibyl]

I wasn’t sure about that quote, so I looked it up, and it’s a fairly accurate paraphrase of what Adams actually said:

I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

(source)

[cundtcake]

Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies 

Arborists often claim that all-male plants are “litter-free” because they shed no messy seeds, fruits or pods. In the 1949 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, which focused on trees and forests, this advice was given to readers: “When used for street plantings, only male trees should be selected, to avoid the nuisance from the seed.”  In the years following, the USDA produced and released into the market almost 100 new red maple and hybrid-maple-named clones (cultivars), and every single one of them was male.

It took a number of years for these new trees to mature enough to start to bloom, but eventually they did and with them came more city pollen and the “epidemic of allergy and asthma.” Many of these same trees are still alive and well and getting even larger, and the bigger they get, the more pollen they shed.

Allergies are rarely triggered by small amounts of an allergen; they are initiated by an overdose. Small amounts of pollen exposure are actually good for us, but if we have highly allergenic trees or shrubs in our own yards or lining our streets, we will soon enough be over-exposed. In order to put the brakes on America’s allergy epidemic, we need to reverse the trend toward male-dominated landscapes and stop selling and planting any more of the most allergenic trees, shrubs and grasses in our cities.

and the kicker:

Female trees produce no pollen, but they trap and remove large amounts of pollen from the air, and turn it into seed. Female trees (and female shrubs also) are not just passive, but are active allergy-fighting trees. The more female plants in a landscape, the less pollen there will be in the air in the immediate vicinity. By relying less on males and paying more attention to the allergy-potential of all the plants in our urban landscape, all of us may one day breathe easier.

[capsgirl19]

ain’t this what happened to the fuckin ents

[riggedforsuccess]

caps youre the funniest fucking person alive