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jadefyre || she/her writeblr: @keyboardandquill --- 31, blog est. 2011

[jadefyre]

Bad Things Happen Bingo Links to fics under the cut.

Loss of Sight: Insubordinate Functions (The Murderbot Diaries)

Hypothermia: Anchor Point (The Murderbot Diaries)

Bounty: Wanted (The Murderbot Diaries)

Slammed into a Wall: Dangerous Cargo (The Murderbot Diaries)

[detournementsmineurs]

Vintage “Typewriter” charm in gold, pearl, ruby and sapphire.

[hihuddy]

Artist: Tim Brierley

Posting this for my soul cat Kenzie (she passed a few years ago but I still think of her every single day) and for everyone else who has lost someone they love. ❤️

[wizardarchetypes]

i love truck stops in winter bc i love a little good old fashioned reconnaissance. i’m at a wyoming truck stop eating taco bell with a bunch of random truckers discussing road conditions like we’re in a high fantasy tavern & inn and we’re warning each other about monsters and highway men. everyone talking about where we’re coming from and going to and how bad it’ll be getting there.

THE tallest man i’ve ever seen in real life just stopped me in the hallway by the coin operated laundry apropos of nothing and asked “which direction are you going?” i said east and he said “good” and walked away.

i caught up with him and asked why and he said “west’s no good right now. i just came from there.”

apparently a truck jackknifed and has traffic backed up ten miles but he sounded for all the world like he just found his village raised to the ground by an evil mage’s army

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[punkitt-is-here]

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

[totally-cis-offical]

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

[color-palettes]

i keep forgetting what i’m supposed to feel - submitted by tragicgooses

#FEF8D3 #FFB87F #F1896F #C4DED9 #A8C5CE #E05377

[meyerlansky]

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) ↳ now we can find out what it's made of!

[wirenettle]

I see your bloodymary and i raise you: The Hail Mary Diaries

[mevil]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ominous-signs]

Official true sign

[mcgravin]

If that's true, then why do they assemble furniture with so many fasteners?

[ominous-signs]

[kubb-is-a-swedish-lawn-game]

the trolley problem except the guy tied to one set of tracks is your friend and someone you trust and one of the few people in the world that you genuinely like and he's begging for his life and he's saying that you're murdering him and he's screaming and clawing and running like a wild animal. on the other set of tracks is every living thing on the planet. its a no brainer, obviously. but he will still scream. this happened to my good friend eva stratt

[its-arson-time]

type prevs url with your eyes closed in the tags

[waywardsoul-s]

Rereading all systems red and the first 2 chapters are strong contenders for funniest intro to a book series. Jumping straight to action, and mb is giving us absolutely no info about anything. Who are those people? Some weird hippies it's not important. Why are they here? Mb does not give a shit. What is this planet? Fuck if it knows. Here is a small paragraph that fucking states everyone's relationship status like a wiki article that we are never gonna get back to. Ugh there are hostiles that keep us away from our media #our media.

[whumpster-fire]

#murderbot didn't read the info packet to know that one of the hippies is President of a planet#there is zero chance it knows their first names

Prev tags are 100% correct

[black-quadrant]

ADHD affects how I experience time, not how I experience attachment. I love you. I miss you. I just don't realize how long it’s been since I last said that, let alone messaged.

I understand that most normal functioning brains need regular engagement to maintain a bond. Absence doesn’t diminish my affection. My silence isn’t neglect or disinterest. It’s time blindness and object impermanence. The contact gap is purely neurological, not emotional. Thank you for being patient with my inconsistency and holding a seat in your heart for me.

[ace-misplaced]

yao saying "why is he talking to us like we're children?" is the absolute BEST because of course this misplaced middle school teacher is accidentally running on muscle memory when talking to some of the most important people in the world

and stratt's "don't worry, you'll get used to it" means he's probably done this to EVERY SINGLE PERSON involved in project hail mary. and I'm obsessed with that