stale cup of hope, still worth drinking

lover of ghosts, lover of the living

[notahungrywish]

When Yuna has her “no son(in law) of mine will have inferior brand deals and management” takeover shortly after she learns about Shane and Ilya, how long do you think it takes her to figure out his money situation with his family?

I’m imagining her/maybe Shane playfully ribbing him about how he has no real financial manger or decent investments and what do you MEAN you just let a paycheck like that sit in your account while buying luxury cars every five minutes no wonder your net worth is shockingly low for your value, etc etc. and he’s not even offended he’s surprised and pleased that his new family is so invested in him and also enjoys watching where Shane gets some of his crazy. Like Ilya Mommy Issues Rozanov is “yes please ma’am optimize my finances and worry about my wellbeing harder” while he shovels whatever David made for dinner in his mouth.

But then at some point while she’s (lovingly) harping on his financial irresponsibility he just kind of quietly mentions that actually so much of his paycheck was going back home to his family when he was younger that he needed to blow shit on cars or whatever pretty quick if he didn’t want it to disappear. And she realizes that yeah he’s a little dummy who spent a concerning amount of money on VIP sections last year and thinks bank account interest is investing but he was also a child supporting his entire family in a foreign country with no one bothering to look out for his best interest or explain planning for a future.

David gets treated to impassioned rants every night about how “David I’m not convinced anyone even read that boy his contract in Russian”.

She starts managing him as well, obviously, and she’s kind of disturbed by how easily he just signs whatever she puts in front of him and doesn’t bother asking questions before agreeing to hand over all his management to her. He just seems thrilled she got him a Lamborghini partnership and an invite to fashion week.

The only time he puts up a fuss is when he realizes she’s not planning to take any significant cut of his money because “you’re family sweetheart” and he looks like he got smacked in the head with a shovel and has to go outside on the porch with Shane for a suspiciously long period of time.

Just to make sure it’s not suspicious that Yuna Hollander is now managing Ilya Rozanov she takes on a few more clients too. And if she specializes in managing rookies with no support network or active language barriers then that’s just a coincidence.

[musicboxghost]

YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR MOMMY AND DADDY'S NAMES???????????

Oh, Suvi, my Love. Oh, Suvi 💔

[musicboxghost]

I will write custom fanfic for you if you donate to a Palestinian fundraiser of your choice. What do you say? ❤️

Arcane/ Magnus Archives/ DC and Marvel comics/EPIC the Musical/Dimension 20/ The Arcana/ATLA/Wooden Overcoats/ Hazbin Hotel/The Murderbot Diaries/ and many more. I'm as huge nerd so if you don't see a fandom you've got a hankering for, just ask. There's a good chance I'm in it and can write a fic for you.

Just let me know what tropes or scenario you want to see (as broad or specific as you want). I'll write self-insert, smut, rare pair, etc.

Just DM a screenshot of your donation confirmation and what your request is, and I'll get started on it right away. No minimum donation. Anything helps in the face of genocide.

Thanks for caring. ❤️ Now let's get creating. 🖋️

[musicboxghost]

I wish you liked me a fraction of a percent as much as you love God.

[musicboxghost]

Sometimes an author takes too long to describe a character's physical characteristics. So I've already created an image of them in my head and I simply will not be dissuaded at that point.

Why do you keep describing her with a blonde bob? She has long, somewhat unkempt, black hair with Irish curls.

Pale? Oh, because he's a vampire? So his skin isn't flushed, due to lack of feeding. Maybe that's what you mean. Because that is melanated man. He has warm, dark skin. And you keep calling him pale but I think you're simply looking for the word "undead".

His "thin frame"? I'm sorry, that gentleman is stout. He is a delightful little teapot of a man. Stop slandering. The tragic Russian novel demon with COPD and the Bog King love interest can be all kinds of bony. But the lover of all things cozy and home-y? His body will be well taken care of and plump.

ANOTHER BLONDE??? Why do you keep thinking these people are blonde??? How many blondes have you met????

[thewordslam]

If a story does its job, it doesn’t ever end. Not really. But it can change. This is the nature of folktales. They shift to fit each teller. Take whatever form suits the bearer best. What begins as a story of sorrow can be acknowledged, held like a sweetheart to the chest, rocked and sung to. And then, it can be set down to sleep. It can become an offering. A lantern. An ember to lead you through the dark.

GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

[milquetoast27]

Sherlock Holmes Canon Content Analysis

My Holmie @cinny13 and I ran a content analysis on the Sherlock Holmes Canon, running through each "suspicious" description Watson gives of Holmes's hands. So this means "Holmes clapped his hands" does not apply, however "long thin hands", absolutely does. After gathering all the relevant passages (thanks to the author's personal annotated edition of the Canon), we have quantified the qualitative data.

That Watson may have an obsession with Holmes's hands is obvious. In future when I run over the Canon again I think it would be relevant to compare all of the hand descriptions, with all the rest concerning Holmes's body (e.g. "sinewy neck" or "gaunt limbs").

Anyway, I advocate for using science on the Sherlock Holmes Canon. Never stop being insane because this is what the world truly needs at the end of the day.

[asimovsideburns]

Sherlock Holmes modern adaptation but the main characters (Sherlock, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, and maybe even Lestrade) are all vampires and they’ve just been doing their thing since the time period of the original books

Irene gets to be from New Jersey like she is in canon and she’ll occasionally show up and help Sherlock with a case but they don’t ever date or hook up or anything

[asimovsideburns]

OR… Lestrade isn’t a vampire, but there’s been generations of Lestrades, and they all have to deal with this guy

[asimovsideburns]

the latest one isn’t even a cop she works nights at the 7-11 and Sherlock keeps coming in at 2am to slam two gallons of Monster Energy and ask her what what the fuck an “amogus” is (it’s case related) and tell her how much better she is at lateral thinking than her tragically straightforward ancestor and also is her girlfriend still going to school to be a defense attorney, how’s she handling the workload

[anais-ninja-bitch]

okay, but who turned them and when? bc there is a lot of delicious angst and goofiness to be exlored if say:

irene has kids before being turned and is invested in her descendants

john was already with mary and has to see her age and pass

mrs. hudson is the vampire queen

the lestrades are like. the opposite of the vanhelsings. generational disinterest in vampires, but the holmes enclave keeps roping them back in.

[asimovsideburns]

1) Irene adopts and yes she is The Cool Grandma for generations of children forevermore

2) Mary is also a vampire, she got turned at the same time as John, she and Sherlock have Wine Wednesdays every third Saturday of the month

3) Mrs. Hudson is immortal but she’s not a vampire and nobody can figure out what her deal is

4) absolutely 100% correct

whenever anybody asks how they got turned the response is something along the lines of “that was like. Over five years ago. How do you expect me to even remember that.” or “idk man I just woke up like this” or “got bitten by a mosquito on a case” and it’s never the same twice

[asimovsideburns]

Yes the Sherlock Holmes books exist and whenever they’re brought up Watson gets very upset that this dude stole his writing and considers him his archnemesis despite the fact that Doyle is a totally normal human and dead as hell

[anais-ninja-bitch]

imagine Watson’s frothing rage at the Doyle estate insisting Holmes can never be shown having emotions. like he didn’t personally watch Sherlock weep during the moon landing.

[asimovsideburns]

Holmes and Watson are embroiled in a legal battle against the Doyle estate and have been for almost 100 angry, angry years

this is only ever mentioned in passing for comedic effect

[iamthedukeofurl]

Okay, but consider The Problem (Aka Sherlock Holmes) doesn’t hit ALL The Lestrades, only those that Holmes can rightfully refer to as “Inspector Lestrade”.  Obviously, police inspectors and detectives are affected by The Problem (as family lore refers to Holmes) but, like, subsequent generations have learned how loose the definition is.  Our latest Lestrade, let’s call her Billie, gets called up by her boss one day, and her boss is like “hey, Corporate says somebody at the store needs to know about health regulations and stuff. If you take a couple night classes and get this certification, we’ll give you a bonus on your next paycheck, and one of your jobs will be to sign off that we don’t have mold everywhere”. And Billie is like “Sure, sound good, whatever” and goes to the night classes and takes the test at the end and the tired bureaucrat who runs the course is like “Okay, congratulations, you’re now a Certified Health And Hygiene Inspector (Class D-Small Retail Food Storage and Service)”  And Billie just freezes and is like “Ummmm, is it possible to get something different? Maybe I can be a Health and Hygine Expert? And the bureaucrat is like “No, you passed the test, you’re now a Certified Health and Hygiene Inspector (Class D- Small Retail Food Storage and Service)”   And Billie is just SWEATING as she leaves the building, because she knows about The Problem, but maybe this wouldn’t count? Like, it’s not like she works for the government or anything. It’s just a dumb piece of paper that says she’s allowed to fill out other dumb pieces of paper. That can’t count. It’s not like her JOB changed or anything.  But, as soon as she steps out into the night and makes her way to the Bus stop, a slim figure steps out of the shadows and falls into step next to her. “Ah, Inspector Lestrade, congratulations on the promotion. I have a few questions for you about-” And Health And Hygiene Inspector (Class D- Small Retail Food Storage and Service) Billie Lestrade repeats the three words that have become motto and mantra for her family.  “Go Away Holmes”. 

[pluviatrix]

WISH 9th level conjuration "Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast...you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires...finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast Wish ever again..."

cue the walk of shame back to the cottage cuz astarion forgot his gloves

[musicboxghost]

I am forever guiding those who are lost.

And to be clear, I do NOT mean this in a profound way at all. I mean this in a DEEPLY literal sense.

Lost people gravitate to me. I can be walking down a busy thoroughfare where streams of people pass the Lost person and they grab *me*. I will be out with friends or co-workers, but it's always me that they stop. I've helped people find bus stops, restaurants, graveyards, parks, the library, their car, a better spot to busk, free places to shelter from the elements, good photo ops, etc. this happens at least once a week. Whether it was 4:00 a.m. like last night or the middle of the day. Lost people come to me. The last time I was out with a friend to get coffee, I got stopped FOUR separate times. We were only out for a couple of hours.

And I'm always delighted to do it. I love my city and I know a lot about its history. I cannot tell you how many times folks have asked if I'm a tour guide. No, I just love to steward this town. And I've spent a lot of time in it so I know where to get good food or peak into the mundane divinity of the space.

What makes this even more uncanny to me is the way that it sometimes feels like some ancestral legacy. Again, like some deeply mundane force of magic. Because people would do the same thing to my bastard father. We traveled all the time and without fail, lost people would flock to him, even when he had never been in that place before. And he was usually able to guide them regardless. It was the same with his father. Not the Chosen One like you're going to fight a dragon, but the Chosen One to receive the little uncanny gift of helping someone stressed and displaced find a lovely spot by the water.

[musicboxghost]

I love when Sherlock Holmes ejaculates.

And by that,

I mean that for some reason, "ejaculate" is one of Dr Watson's favorite verbs to describe when Sherlock Holmes is shouting in surprise and delight.

... Which is coincidentally also what Sherlock Holmes does when Doc Watson gets the detective's *Scotland Yard* Scotland hard. 🍆💦

[jojoma]

Awesome piece of animation art 🤯 Reels by alindraws

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[musicboxghost]

I know they're British.

But reading the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, it is still hilarious how often the subjects get themselves into a ✨Situation ✨ because they felt compelled to take a tea break.

[gothamguts-moved83747365]

having thoughts about gotham my beloved wretched city again. i think robin shrines would be a thing

[gothamguts-moved83747365]

gotham citizens creating small shrines to robins, whether to specific ones or to the concept of robin as a whole. each robin would have their own symbolism, like a certain flower or object that people have come to associate with certain robins. sometimes these will overlap when the mantle is passed on, and the representative iconography will also be passed on until the new robin builds their own unique robin identity

it becomes gotham culture to build these shrines in unlikely places - places that a bird would perch. there are shrines next to storefronts and in defunct fuse boxes, and shrines in the archways and rooftops and in a gargoyle's mouth. mostly somewhere the gotham rain won't thoroughly seep through, though robin shrines are more phenomenons than they are fixed locations. some last for years, part of the architecture and gotham commute; others are ephemeral, popping up after the crisis-of-the-week and gone before the next.

the shrines are not religious, thought undoubtedly batman and his brood have their cult followings. rather, the shrines act as touchpoints - a place gotham citizens can leave their thanks, their woes, their memories, and maybe, just maybe, robin will drop by to hear or see what they left behind. everyone knows robin flits around busily - they'd all hope the kid went to school as well as kicking ass at night, so it's not like robin has all the time in the world. that's okay. that's what these little shrines are for. forget-me-nots, IOU's, etcetera

the contents of these shrines are an amalgam of sentiment and practicality. the more permanent ones are practically street-side first-aid kits, just in case the kid needs it. flowers to brighten up the concrete and steel landscape, reminiscent of how robin's colors seem to lighten up the oppressive gotham smog. fairylights or built-in bulbs to light it up at night. robin bobbleheads and plushies, polaroids and scrawled notes, beautiful graffiti that make the shrine an art piece, crude graffiti that are fair game bc it probably makes robin laugh or squint or grumble. gotham citizens like that about robin - the apparent and unabashed humanity of gotham personified in a way that the batman can't always be. hope is a kid, compassion is a kid, tenacity is a kid - and if a kid can be all that, well shit, you kinda have to try be all that too.

gotham loves their robins. gotham needs the batman, and batman needs a robin, and therefore gotham needs a robin. sure, public opinion sways here and there on vigilante matters, but the unspoken law is that no-one ever desecrates a robin shrine. a robin shrine is for every time a robin pulled someone out of a fire, for every time a robin sat on the curb with you until you were alright again, for every time you looked up and saw a flash of red-green-yellow and remembered with no small relief that in this crazy city someone was watching over you.

[moniquill]

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Certified Library Post

[musicboxghost]

The romances in White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton = Hide by Rainbow Kitten Surprise

The romance in Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots = Vampire Empire by Big Thief

Feel free to message and geek out about these books if you know them ❤️ Book fandoms are tiny but my love for them is immense.

[musicboxghost]

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro = O Superman by Laurie Anderson 😥💔

[musicboxghost]

Autonomous by Annalee Newitz = All These Things That I Have Done by The Killers