she dreams in parentheses

with rage tucked under the tongue and fury aching in the teeth, we smile softly (the world is not often kind my dear, and so we must be)

[mouseymightymarvellous]

statement of permissions

i’ve been meaning to restate (as i am pretty sure i have said it before, and i do state in my ao3 and ffn profiles) my statement of permissions with regards to my fic, and since it came up, i figured now is as good a time as any.

one of the most essential things about transformative works, for me, is the iterative and referential processes which make it so that fan creators aren’t just transforming the original text, but interacting with and transforming the existing fanon. having tropes and narrative meta-structures be communal objects is necessary, and i love how much the fact that fan creations are embedded in a larger fandom informs and enriches the reading of those same creations.

as such, while my words are my own, they exist within structures which are communal, and which my words are building with an upon. all to say, i give blanket permissions for anyone who would like to remix, transform, translate, or transpose my fic, characterization, headcanons, and AUs.

if you have any questions or want to clarify, feel free to contact me, but please trust that i am really excited to see what you’ll make.

[trekinist]

> The Stalker says he can take me to the Zone

> I ask if the Zone is creepy or wet

> He doesn't understand

> I light a cigarette and make my speech about what constitutes something being creepy or wet

> He does not laugh and says "The Zone demands respect"

> it's creepy AND wet

[3rdrealm-deactivated20200301]

i think the crux of human misery stems from the fact that our skeleton just wants to sit around and accumulate dust in an ancient barrow (that is the innate imperative of all skeletal remains in-case you didn’t know) but our meat has its own agenda which creates this fundamental conflict of interests

[blazing-butterfly-inactive]

I suppose most people are more familiar with pet dogs than with falconry and therefore calling a dehumanized mech pilot a "hound" is more immediately evocative than calling it a "hawk," but you gotta admit the vibe of the handler as falconer and the pilots as their birds of prey absolutely slaps. If anyone ever does something like mechsploitation but with scifi fighter jets instead of giant robots, pleeeease call the pilots hawks

[themoosebaruniverse]

If i may

[mouseymightymarvellous]

you know it’s a bleak era for star wars content when the girlies can’t even be bothered to get out to post thirst traps of pedro pascal

[padofwan]

The thing is "Padawan. Steal a car." is actually one of the oldest and noblest Jedi traditions. Part of the standard duties of being a Padawan involves securing the getaway vehicle when your assignment has gone sideways six times over and developed into a full Situation. They have all done this. I know in my heart that even Luminara at some point looked at a situation and sighed and asked Barriss to please steal a car before the shooting starts.

[ozth]

what? oh sweetheart no, you're not weirding me out at all. you're weirding me in. keep talking, freak

[butch--dan]

tv from the mid 2000s was so good. if you can look past the everything

[adodora]

Gideon wouldn't read yaoi because she has never really considered that men could be capable of complex feelings and sexual attraction.

Harrow wouldn't read yaoi because the notions of romance and sex are almost as disgusting to her as the concept of men. However, if she had to pick, she would read yaoi over yuri, because the most she would feel towards yaoi is disdain, while yuri would vaporize her on the spot.

Ianthe is of course a fujoshi.

[catchaspark]

ceruleanvulpine replied to your post:

trope: trapped in an elevator

i love that FatT doesn’t have specific characters here it’s just. every FatT

I mean, like, of my favorite interactions in Counter/WEIGHT, which is the only canon with elevators except Marielda which wrote its own elevator slapstick:

Aria & Jacqui: Aria jumps up onto Jacqui’s shoulders and burns a hole in the ceiling, finding as she does that she’s totally right and it is an assassination attempt! The ensuing fight takes place over three different locations, all of which she destroys.

AuDy & anyone: Upon realizing that they are going to be trapped in an enclosed space with a sentient being, it is AuDy’s settled and considered practice to turn themselves off until the experience is over. If necessary, they will instead pretend to turn themselves off and play as many rounds of mental solitaire as is necessary until the other person stops trying to talk to them. This explains September.

Cass & Aria: Aria is about to shoot a hole in the ceiling to stop an assassination attempt when Cass blurts out that the elevator was programmed to stop halfway between the medical wing and the xenobiology wing! So that they can access the secret back access ladder! Aria is thrilled at this evidence of Cass’s foresight; Cass is thrilled that they’re at the point where they can just say whatever shit they want and their friends will buy it as a master plan.

Maryland and anyone: No elevator has ever broken down near Maryland.

Jace & Addax: Jace gets two lines into the “ha ha, guess we should wait for the rescue crew, anyway what’s your sign–” before Addax has already called on Peace to interface with the elevator and they are out of there. Addax gets all the way to Peace’s hangar before he slaps his forehead and turns around to try to get that precious, precious hitting-on time back, but it’s too late, it’s all too late in space. Life is a series of missed opportunities and connections. He turns it over and over in his mind, sometimes as a fantasy, sometimes as a sharp regret, until years later– when Jace is a figure out of time, resurrected and renewed, and Addax by some grace is sitting next to him in bed and going over his dissertation for punctuation errors– Jace is like, “oh, shit, do you know what I just remembered? That time I tried to hit on you in an elev–” and Addax blurts out “SAGITTARIUS.” 

Ibex & Orth: Orth chews off the elevator cable to escape

[elexecution]

there are too many things happening this summer that i'm thinking we are going to need an extra 6-12 months of june and possibly another 3-4 months of july. probably no extra august as the problem should hopefully sort itself out by then. we are also looking into extending the day night cycle to 55 hours and extending the human lifespan to 10000 years.

[onetobeamupart]

Daine the Wild Mage of the Immortals quartet, the original blorbo.

[motherfucker-unlimited]

The Princess has taken on a Death Knight as a retainer, which is exciting.

[lamignonette]

[east-of-nowhere]

“Home is where the trees look normal” is the sweetest, saddest, most nostalgic truth I’ve ever heard.

[vinceaddams]

It's nice that loud noises don't stick to clothes like smells do. That would be really bad if they did.

[brawlite]

i don't want to actually write a fic, i want to create a gross scenario that i can roll around in for forever, like a dog in a bad smell. you feel me?

[brawlite]

i want to marinate in the vibes. but like this, you feel me ?: