Can I Get A Ranch With That?

she/they, ADHD, autistic, aro/ace, but writes way too much romance, obsessed with fandoms (currently codywan owns my soul) , dark humor is preferred

[byjove]

Someone mentioned how they were having a hard time creating a world for their fantasy fiction geographically because they kept reinventing the island of Britain, which also happened to my good close enemy George R. R. Martin. I would like to suggest North Carolina. I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous but North Carolina has an awesome geographic setup for a fantasy kingdom, I think. Inhospitable barrier islands, constantly shifting shoals in the sound, swamps with alligators, venomous snakes and carnivorous plants, lots of very flat and somewhat sparsely populated farmland, foothills, mines, mountains full of mysterious phenomenon that were originally very difficult to navigate and people still get lost in today. It kind of rocks.

[the-ice-queen-623]

AND VENUS FLYTRAPS ARE NATIVE TO THE CAROLINAS!

[byjove]

There are actually 36 carnivorous plant species native to North Carolina, roughly half of all carnivorous plant species in the United States are found in North Carolina! I added the carnivorous plant detail because that’s something I love about the state. We have so many fucking bugs that the plants keep evolving to eat them.

I love that giant man eating Venus flytraps are worldbuilding staples in untamed tropical fantasy settings but they’re actually native to a small region in the Carolinas.

[byjove]

And I agree with the notes, the Chesapeake Bay + Great Dismal Swamp (partially in NC anyway) and the South Carolina Lowcountry would be good geographic additions to this.

[daisanfar]

a new pfp for june 🧡💛🤍🩵💙

[buckysknifecollection]

i feel like the youth should be reminded that the point of shipping is not for a ship to become canon. the point of shipping is to collect all the canon crumbs like starved mice, run away cackling and make some fun little scenarios with them just for the hell of it.

[bronzeplates]

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PROLOGUE DONE. for more details on whats happening next in this comic go down into the read more

First - Previous - Next

close ups (+ notes) \/

EXTRA NOTES:

sooo prologue is over! im gonna take a break for a bit so i can catch up on the work ive been putting to the wayside. not abandoning this, certainly not, but if i post an update within the next week you should yell at me

from now on the comic is gonna be a mix of bigger arcs like this prologue and more doodles/slice of life bits. just random fun interactions i think of

i do in fact have a timeline semi planned out for the plot of this comic. whenever i lose interest in this (which will likely take a while) ill post the timeline so people know what the story plan was. i always hate when a fan comic or fanfic ends abruptly and i dont know what was gonna happen

big thank you to everyone who's sent me asks, i just figured out how to open asks and so far everyone has been very kind and very cool. i appreciate them all a lot, but i havent responded to anyone because it scares me. just know im really really thankful for all the support and ive read every one of them <3

soooo Teegarden's Star C is a real planet. It's another "planet named after the star but with a letter next to it". The star it orbits (teegarden's star) is a cooler star. which makes it more red. which makes the planet also red. which was a wonderful coincidence because i picked teegarden's star because of it's placement in the path back to Erid from Tau Ceti (based on a kinda shitty map i found of the phm journey, which may be wrong??). WHY exactly the Hail Mary is in this system at all is to be answered in the story

also apology to anyone who hasn't seen phm or iron lung, that last page must be confusing as hell. anyway it'll only get more movie-lore based so good luck to anyone who hasn't seen/read those stories

should i post this on ao3?? i have an account, but i havent posted anything on there ever. an ask mentioned it might be nice to have the comic compiled into one spot like that. but yeah ive never posted anything on there

thank you all again, the support's been amazing and i hope you all enjoy what i have planned <3

[infectiouspiss]

you're mommy's good little printer aren't you? you'll print whatever mommy tells you to because otherwise mommy gets sad and leaves you for one of those free use library printer sluts

[infectiouspiss]

mommy needs you to print this document now and if you don't mommy is going to turn you off at the wall

[infectiouspiss]

listen to mommy okay? if you don't be a good little printer and fucking print my document and i know you want to okay mommy can see it in your print queue if you don't. print. my fucking document. mommy's going to get the hammer

[icedaquarius31]

so... Grace is a middle school teacher, and his students are gonna mention the most random of things to him, as kids do. Things, he might not be entirely sure what they are, but his kids are sure happy to tell him all about their favorite YouTube channels and the crazy videos they watch.

including a certain videogame reactor, who decided to make a movie based on a horror game. They are so obsessed with it that Grace decides to give the channel a chance - and doesn't make it much farther than ten minutes before he nopes out of there. Way too scary for him. Though the reactor guy was kinda cute. He'll still nod along during science club as the kids talk about how cool the movie was, and the complicated lore (the stars entirely vanishing? crazy talk. a blood ocean!?! a radioactive submarine camera!?) and how much blood was used. (Should these kids be watching this?? eh, he's not their parent, it's probably fine)

then, you know, the sun starts dying

(cue governmental kidnapping, and eva stratt breaking all licensing laws and putting the entirety of human digital existence on a ship hurtling out to space, plus one amnesia'd scientist)

Flash forward to Grace living on Erid, when a distress call comes in from an Eridian space crew, talking about how they found a floating submarine covered in a blood substance with a one-armed human, and Grace has the sneaking suspicion he's heard this story somewhere before.

tl;dr Grace is from a universe where Markiplier makes Iron Lung the movie, and his class tells him about it. Once on Erid, Simon ends up coming through a wormhole, and they meet. Grace has access to the movie and Iron Lung game and detailed memories of in-depth conversations with his students about the feasibility of a blood moon

just a fun thought

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[essaimart]

☝️ one

[essaimart]

she needs a lot

[eros-telesse]

Cisco : Barry, describe your ideal partner ?

Barry : Oh! Well I guess someone smart? Funny, maybe sarcastic, can keep up with me, older, and I kinda like the bad boy vibe I suppose...

Caitlin : *Looks at the camera*

Cisco : Did he just-

Caitlin putting her hands on his shoulder : Don't try Cisco.

*Meanwhile*

Lisa : Lenny! Describe your ideal partner!

Snart : The flash.

Mick : Straight to the point.

Lisa : Mostly gay to the point.

[unicornconnor]

Big dog, small dog and very small dog

[unicornconnor]

Forgot the most important part

[ninalinovna]

prime time 😌

[helenofsparta2]

After seing several dozen tiktoks saying stuff like "Percy gave up godhood/ immortality for Annbeth" or "Annabeth is the main reason why Percy gave up godhood", I am eternally grateful for the existence of this segment from "Demigods and Magicians":

"Zeus offered me a reward: godhood. I turned him down flat. I wanted justice for other demigods instead. I wanted the gods to stop being jerks and to pay attention to their kids." (The Crown of Ptolemy)

Thank you "Crown of Ptolemy"

[reverseblackholeofwords]

PSA from your local librarian/book lover: just throw them out. I'm begging you.

[zoestorm]

Hey I have a question for y'all.

From where you are right now, could you reach the nearest sea or ocean by foot in less than a day?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 30

(reblog for sample size)

[infamousbrad]

A City on Mars

Kelly and Zach Weinersmiths' A City on Mars was a pretty big nonfiction bestseller. And, as with many best sellers, that doesn't necessarily mean that lots of people read it all the way through. But having just finished it a couple of days ago, I hope that lots of people do, because this book sits in a very interesting and uncomfortable place:

The Weinersmiths are absolutely space-colonization enthusiasts, very much in favor of humanity expanding across the solar system. And they're huge nerds about it, who've spent years interviewing everybody who's working on space exploration, including a fair number of living astronauts.

And they don't think it can be done, not any time in the next century, more or less, because they're appalled, to the point of being amused, by just how much hand-wavium gets invoked. This is an entire book about all of the things we do not know enough about, and need a lot more time to find out, before we can put any kind of permanent settlement in zero-G, on the moon, or on Mars, let alone anywhere even harder.

Don't get them wrong, that they're space colonization enthusiasts is why, all the way through the book, once they've highlighted a deal-breaker they say that that's why we should be spending research money on answering those questions instead of spending 20 to 100 times as much on "let's just hope it's not a problem."

They're also not shy about how a lot of the anarcho-capitalists who are pouring money lobbying for the idea are doing so for reasons that are almost certain to ignite World War III as soon as they try to do it their way. Even if, as is highly likely, everybody in those first settlements will be dead in a matter of months even if they're left alone.

... a humanity advanced enough to save itself from asteroid impact is a humanity advanced enough to deflect an asteroid into itself. ... in a world of easy access to doomsday weapons, it takes only one society gone autocratically evil to create a nightmare scenario. If some aspects of space-settlement actively increase the likelihood of this outcome, the point becomes even more worrisome. Space geeks often cite a quote by science fiction author Larry Niven: “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!” But ... giant asteroids are rare. Humans haven’t been around that long, while the dinosaurs had a good long run. “Given these possibilities, perhaps the reason the dinosaurs lasted for nearly two hundred million years is because they did not have a space program.”