OztheDM

(He/They) Shakespearean actor and Edgar Allan Poe impersonator.

[thelifeandtimesofacrazyblond]

[thelifeandtimesofacrazyblond]

[foldingfittedsheets]

The excerpt paragraph made me look up and stare at my wife for three solid minutes waiting for them to return to the couch. I couldn’t move on with my life. I had to read it aloud to them to their audible disgust and then they read all the comments with unbridled delight.

Now we keep repeating “Like Zorro.”

[animal-123-crazy]

Im so sorry to subject everyone to this

But genuinely, cure your imposter syndrome guys. Look at what passes for publication. And realize that you are, in fact, better.

[feralplantwife]

Queen you surely did cure my imposter syndrome, but I also miss the person I was 3 minutes ago

[k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl]

currently writing something and...yea i feel about a thousand times better about it wow

[jewishbrucebanner]

said it before and i'll say it again, reanimator/bride of reanimator is a frankenstein story but the Creature counterpart isn't any of the corpses Herbert experiments on or even the Bride it's Dan. Obviously I'm not discounting Dan's agency in the shit he ends up getting himself into, but the very fact that Herbert willingly shares his research and figures out exactly how to appeal to Dan's character flaws to convince him to help are how Herbert takes what seems to at first glance be a very chill and normal guy and peels back the layers to reveal the fellow freak that Dan is at his core. Herbert sees in Dan a man who is obsessed with beating death like himself. The main difference being that for Herbert it's about gaining knowledge and the thrill of breaking one of the fundamental laws of the universe, while for Dan it's about a toxic inability to let go, a refusal to reconcile with a fundamental aspect of the career he has chosen to pursue. And sure there's probably some ego in there too. Even losing one patient is enough to thoroughly devastate Dan so yeah of course he's prime for a little emotional manipulation. What if you could save them, Dan? What if you never had to experience that failure ever gain?

Dan goes from a promising young medical student with a fiance and a bright future to a man who has thoroughly compromised his own ethical code to the point that Herbert has to offer to build him a new girlfriend to keep him from going rogue and leaving him due to how disgusted Dan has become with himself.

It's all just such a beautiful almost inverse take on a Frankenstein-Creature relationship where the scientist loves his creation and will do anything to keep him close.

What if I took you and remade you as monstrous as I am? What if you were seen as completely normal to everyone around you, only to know that deep within, you were a strange broken thing that only I could understand and see you as you are and love you for it? What if I begged for you to stay with me by offering to build you a companion around the heart of the woman you loved?

[kushblazer666]

is baba yaga a mech pilot

[heimai]

reallllly sloppy comic abt a scene from the most recent chapter of sick freak. herbert is insanely jealous (ofc) which only gets worse when hes feeling sniffly i fear

[klosik42]

happy pride month to Herbert West and Dan Cain only

[kristianasquill]

You know what? Forget the discourse. This is no longer my hill to die on.

You wanna ship canonically aspec characters because “aro/ace people can still date/have sex”? Okay, then. LET’S DO IT.  I wanna see an aromantic character with an alloromantic love interest. I wanna see that confession of undying love and the moment when the aro character says they will never feel the same way—not romantically.

I wanna see the asexual character with their allosexual partner. I wanna see that moment when the ace characters tries sex with their partner for the first time because they want to make them happy only to realize that they are 100% sex repulsed.

I wanna see the two demiromantics who don’t even know if what they feel is romantic attraction, but they adore each other and just want to make healthy snacks together and destroy each other at Mario Kart.

I wanna see the two aces who love sensual affection and are figuring out what they define as sexual or not.

I wanna see the romance + sex neutral aroace who happily and consensually does whatever makes their partner happy…but their partner still struggles with feeling undesired. 

Oh, babe. You thought shipping an aspec character would be just like shipping an allo character? 

[carys-the-ninth]

"The magic system is never fully explained" yeah that's how life works. Imagine having a story set in modern day America and the characters have several pages of exposition on combustion engines and telecommunication networks before we get to the plot

[et-in-arkadia]

i think this is absolutely correct and good writing advice but also victor hugo would like to have a word with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1832

[bendingsignpost]

victor hugo would like to have many words with you about the parisian sewer system circa 1831

[morphmaker]

the silmarillion bride

[vansnecropolis]

Yes!

[ozthedm]

Re-animator is Dan’s choose-your-own-adventure story where he makes the wrong choice. Every. Single. Time.

[kinnerations]

Sketch for my skibidiest @qurolo ^^

[eau-de-reagent]

I was listening to the talking heads and thought of this exchange

[automatonwithautonomy]

greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways

[troutfur]

Ultimately, you can like or dislike any character for whatever arbitrary reason. It's neither activism nor a moral failing, don't let the internet convince you otherwise. On the other hand, if you consistently find yourself lacking any interest in the, e.g., female characters of the media you engage with that may be a sign of some unconscious biases you need to examine.

[troutfur]

You say "be aware of your biases" once and all of a sudden your notes become filled with the most un-selfaware people on the whole website tripping over each other to justify themselves.

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[asneakyfox]

and then he's like, i don't know that sounds like a lot more work than a regular garden actually. why don't we just get on with finding mister frodo

[transguyarchive]

the Trans Guy Archive's complete guide to Transmasculine HRT

After a couple months of research and personal testimony, we are very pleased to finally publish this extremely extensive guide on testosterone hormone replacement therapy!

The process of getting and taking testosterone is often daunting. The outside hateful rhetoric from bigots doesn't help either. This guide is aimed for anyone interested in hormone replacement therapy, from newcomers to those already on their HRT journey.

Hormone Replacement Therapy

The all-in-one guide to testosterone hormone replacement therapy for trans guys!

Huge thanks to everyone online and in-person who helped contribute to the guide!

[preserving-tiktok]

[taraljc]

This is an awesome use of what is probably a master's degree if not a doctorate and I am 100% thrilled that she shared it even though it was embarrassing and she squeaked.

[liminalbeauty]

Thank you, adorable scientist, for making people's lives better.

[punchspeedchunk]

As an Australian, THIS WOMAN IS A FUCKING GODSEND.

[notasapleasure]

this is Hannah Fry, Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and president of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

[alex-just-vibing]

looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

[alamogirl80]

Reblogging for the absolute brutal accuracy of this comment

[anachronic-cobra]

And then you're like "fuck it, I'll make my own" and once you've done that you toss it into the goodwill bin to be someone else's prada or container of human teeth

[mjrtaurus]

And sometimes you gotta go with the container of human teeth purely out of morbid curiosity.

[waterme-stories]

The container of human teeth is what I was looking for specifically. If you must know.