Rambles among Stardust

Writing inspo blog. Sci fi. Some fantasy, as the mood strikes me. (call me Rambles, she/her)

[ramblesamongstardust]

Welcome to my little slice of inspiration! Most of my reblogs are thought-provoking posts or art. Inspiration can be found almost anywhere, so expect some non-traditional posts for a writing blog.

I also have some original content/posts- they are tagged with #rambles for those of you who wish only to check out what I've written.

Please enjoy your stay. If you wish to see me write something, or simply wish to know more about me, my asks are always open.

[humanoidhistory]

Partial View of Blast Furnance, Rombas. Lorraine, France, 1992. Photo by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher.

[wlw-whump]

dehumanized characters who reject their dehumanization, who scream that they're a person, they're human, they're just like you!! vs dehumanized characters who embrace their inhuman status, who don't care if they're perceived as dangerous as long as they're not perceived as lesser, who say 'fuck humanity, I'm something different but I'm still worth the same as you'

[quietwingsinthesky]

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

[quietwingsinthesky]

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

[redd956]

When a character is revealed to be nonhuman, or a villain/living weapon while wounded, and the discovering character seems like they're about to point out the obvious in a horrified tone, only to go

"They're.... hurt."

Like yassss characters not caring at all about their friend's true identity. They only care that someone is need of help

[firemind411]

“Take It Easy” Caretaker Vibes 🫂

1. “You’re done. You hear me? You did enough.”

2. “Hey—stop. You don’t have to prove anything right now.”

3. “Breathe. Just… breathe, okay? That’s all you need to do.”

4. “You’re shaking. Sit down before you fall down.”

5. “Don’t make me hold you down just to make you rest.”

6. “You don’t have to keep fighting, kid. It’s over.”

7. “Look at me. You’re safe. That’s it—just stay here.”

8. “You’re allowed to fall apart now.”

9. “Hey, hero—nobody’s watching. You can stop pretending you’re fine.”

10. “I know you want to move. I’m telling you—don’t. Let your body calm down.”

11. “You’ve been through hell. Let it process, go slow.”

12. “If you stand up again, I swear I’ll knock you back down myself.” (half-joking, half-terrified)

13. “You don’t have to burn yourself out to prove you’re still alive.”

14. “You’re not weak. You’re wrecked. There’s a difference.”

15. “Just let me carry it for a minute, yeah?”

16. “I’ve got you. That’s not negotiable.”

17. “It’s over. You survived. Just breathe... That’s the only thing you need to do now.”

18. “You’re bleeding through the tough act, sweetheart.”

19. “You don’t have to talk. Just stay breathe.”

20. “Rest. That’s an order.”

[rooksshinies]

nonhuman whumpee being sensitive to things humans arentttt my beloved…. Maybe them and the team are travelling, when they start to feel nauseous and dizzy? A mushroom’s spores reacting to their lungs in ways they don’t with humans. An enemy/whumper using this against them, pumping some chemical Whumpee’s body can’t handle into a room, using it to capture or harm them? They start to feel dizzy and sick, their head clouding up and eyes unfocusing. Maybe they can’t eat chocolate or grapes like dogs can’t, and they have to use synthetic alternatives? Caretaker having no clie what’s happening as each breath Whumpee takes in, they grow more confused, more weak.

[apostateapologist]

sometimes two characters are codependently, toxically enmeshed, doomed to mutually define and haunt each other forever. and not fucking.

[microsff]

"I've heard that a dragon can always find a princess."

"We can always find," said the dragon, "what we hoard."

"You have been known to gather princesses. You'd know."

"Yes, but..." The dragon hesitated. "If she doesn't know, it's not my place to tell."

"Oh," said the prince. "What if they ask?"

[souperluminal]

05.29 - Blue Blade

[eradacted]

It may not be that deep, but I have a shovel and I will make it as deep as I want.

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[caspercryptid]

If someone is doing things that don't make Sense, try to understand that it is entirely possible that their brain is probably under an enormous weight and fracturing under the pressure. People who have been stabbed will sometimes talk a circle around the fact that they've been stabbed because stress and shock prevent you from recognizing the distress you are in and what you need to do to seek help for it. PTSD will do this also. You will find yourself repeatedly jamming a bag of frozen fruit into the same spot in the freezer where it doesn't fit and keeps falling, over and over and over, focused on nothing but that bag. You will decide that a beanbag chair is 10000% necessary to your life. You will lose your entire shit because you stubbed your toe on a table and that means the whole setup of your furniture is wrong. These are largely harmless examples. People under strain will also hurt themselves and others. Cornered animals bite. And it doesn't heal the bite to go "Hey, are you okay?" But it might get you to an animal that stops biting, so you can start to heal. And before you had an animal that bit, you probably had an animal that kept doing shit you didn't understand as stress signals

[vintage-robots]

EPIC comic covers combined into one spread! RoboForce was one of my favorite toy lines way back when. Wish they'd released multiple waves of these toys. Oh well, Transformers were more than an adequate replacement. Artwork by Diogenes Neves.

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[themythicalcodfish]

that is horror of a different kind

[donatoarts]

Catching up on art posts, very honored and proud to share this oil painting which went live this past Friday, a work created for Elliot Lang's 'Character In Context' show at the A.R. Mitchell Museum in Trinidad, Colorado. Opening is June 5th (sorry, I will not be there) Link to the on line catalog with the few dozen talented artist's contributions with preliminary studies and final paintings in the comments below.

Precipice

20" x 16" Oil on Panel, framed, 2026

A part of my series of works in dialog with our mythological fascination with space travel and our place in the universe.

Character in Context

A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art

150 E. Main St.

Trinidad, CO 81082

June 5 - July 31, 2026

[70sscifiart]

Ed Valigursky, Empress of Mars, 1960s

[permanenteclipse]

Fictional country: average fantasy

Fictional small town in the middle of nowhere in real country: par for the course in any genre

Fictional major city in real country: standard fair, but it's usually clearly based on a real city

Fictional suburb of real major city in real country: strange but I can see the application

Real major city in fictional country: Chicago can be anywhere you dream of