Robin Egberts

Mostly I collect prompts. Sometimes just things that I thought were funny.

[robinegberts]

Prophecies of the Drowned Oracle

I self-published a short story collection last year. I'm still really proud of it :D

It's available as both e-book and paperback on Amazon, and available as an e-book on Ko-fi as well.

A crime of passion forces an aspiring mob boss to seek the council of oracles and prophecies. A zombie victim believes sheer willpower will overpower the virus rapidly taking over her mind. A pair of neighbours deal with a fly infestation that can’t be natural. A woman finds a dear friend in the AI controlling the mysterious fake company that just hired her. A diver encounters a corpse that’s much fresher than it should be.

Prophecies of the Drowned Oracle is a short story collection about magic and other mysterious hidden things. 25 stories of horror, humour and love.

Spirits, death, nature, dreams and nightmares. If you enjoy a bit of magical mystery, this is the collection for you.

[caseyscraftycorner]

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

[mixxling]

Fat person with sleep apnea here. Before I got a CPAP, my resting heart rate was in the 110s. Everyone wanted to blame that on my weight. I lost 100 lbs and my heart rate didn't budge. But I was also constantly tired and napping all day with no relief from the exhaustion. I eventually got a sleep study and learned I had sleep apnea, and within weeks of starting CPAP therapy, my heart rate dropped to under 80 bpm.

Sleep apnea can cause so much harm when left untreated. If you suspect you might have it, PLEASE insist upon testing and treatment. It can change (and save!) your life.

[uququ]

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

[life-of-jauxro]

[anachronic-cobra]

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

[hapalopus]

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

Author: Rachel Bourbaki Category: Philosophy of Mind and Language Word Count: 1000 Can your mind be outside of your body? Typically we think

[thatfandomhoe73]

I think there’s a teaboot(?) post about this with a huge security cam system

[teaboot]

Yeah I get twitchy when I don't have my eyes

[dykepuffs]

Holy shit I got this when I drove tower cranes but I never had the guts to talk about it to my workmates at the time!

Just a powerful sense that if I could see something on the floor, I should be able to sort of levitate it into my hand.

[support]

One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

[monopoison3r]

nearing the 10 year anniversary of banishing editable reblogs

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[srungpot]

The Black Pearl.

[srungpot]

The Black Pearl.

[srungpot]

The Black Pearl.

[feastofsnakes]

they added another luftballon while you were sleeping

[zessdeluxe]

A character idea that's been stuck in my head for a while. A computer/web assistant program desperately trying to justify its own existence as someone goes through their old computer from the 2000s. It's personified as a cat, because of course it is

[zessdeluxe]

[zessdeluxe]

a friend wanted to move it from the recycling bin to a folder with furniture and food pngs

[zessdeluxe]

[unimpressiveboyfriend]

i’d love to talk more about how trans men/mascs actually DO have a an original culture that is so stigmatized that it is almost impossible to engage with it without opening oneself up to harassment and hate crimes, even in queer spaces but i think FAR too many trans men/mascs have internalized transandrophobia surrounding our culture (due to the aforementioned stigma) to not blatantly ignore this discussion out of discomfort. when we ignore our culture as trans men/mascs or dismiss it as a mere caricature, we throw our brothers who resemble it more closely than us under the bus, and for what? to keep placating all the people who want us to assimilate?

trans men/mascs have a culture whether you participate in it or not. whether you find it cringe or not. whether it’s in queer bars and on stages/screens or not. whether you ignore it or not.

[unimpressiveboyfriend]

i don’t like to use the term self-hating but this mentality does nothing but hurt your community. it’s why trying to engage with or even discuss transmasc culture is almost impossible. we have a culture, you’re just embarrassed by it. you hate your community. you hate yourself.

[dykepuffs]

THANK YOU

Long ramble below!

Like, in the late 2000s and early 2010s the combination of recording equipment being comparatively cheap and accessible, and a general air of optimism about transition, meant that there was a whole custom of trans men singing duets with themselves, with the "girl" voice recorded before vocal transition and the "boy" voice recorded after. It wasn't just a white or an anglophone thing, though a lot of the early examples were were either white Australians or Black British guys - I don't know where it started, but it was very common as a format, usually singing or reciting poetry, occasionally doing an interview or a conversation.

Think how much you have to be able to forsee a hopeful future for yourself, to do that! You record the first half, maybe do a few takes or a few different songs, then wait patiently for a few months or years before recording the second half, and then share it to a community that you can trust will not see you as any less-of-a-man for it!

It was beautiful, it was unique, it was something distinctive that trans men and transmasculine people did, which gave hope to younger and newer trans men (because it was a way of seeing comparisons of what testosterone does to the voice, as well as a symbol of how things can get better over time) as well as being something that just boosted the morale of the people who made them.

It died out because first it was mocked endlessly by conservative trolls (because it was "so girly" and unlike anything which cis men were doing at the time), and then by other queer people ("lol okay aydenbraydenkayden shouldn't you be trying to autotune your squeaky frog voice?" "Wow, you did a duet? With yourself? And the lyrics are about loving and protecting each other so it's like it's about loving yourself? So original! Such groundbreaking art!?!") And then finally by more socially-conservative trans men who were disgusted by the idea of trans men having identifiable community and cultural touchstones which weren't completely indistinguishable from comparable cis men.

But it was beautiful! Like, it is so beautiful when trans men transition and then want to be culturally linked to other trans men, rather than just to vanish into stealth. It's beautiful when we pick names that are "trans boy names" out of love for our trans cultures rather than trying to be invisible (and again, this isn't just a white anglophone thing, every culture has its "trans boy names"), it's beautiful when we dress in ways that shout across the room that we are trans and that we want to talk to other trans people.

It feels like plain transphobia, that onlookers always assume that these things are a mistake and a sign that we are silly, childish, careless "girls" who haven't observed cis men well enough to imitate them, rather than being a matter of not wanting to imitate cis men and having our own cultures that we want to participate in.

[diegoalvesisgod]

Horror/spooky Halloween AU prompts

Disclaimer: Well ahead of the spooky season to give you time to write them. As requested, I bring you the Halloween prompts. Some are horror material, some are just cute innocent Halloween stuff. All are free for grabs, just let me know if you write them so I can enjoy them :)

1: We are at a Halloween party and our costumes match, and now people are shipping us, what the hell?

2: We went to your family’s old mansion and the more time we spend here, the more you act weirdly, also the place is really creepy, I don’t like this at all.

3: I’m a writer and I went to grab my coffee in the coffeeshop and now I’m freaking out because you are the main character of my horror novel, I’m either going crazy or you’ve just come alive, what the actual fuck.

4: We are writers working on a novel about a serial killer, now there’s been murders around the town that are spot on like the murders in our book, one of us has to be doing that and now we’re suspecting each other, because how could it be possible if not?

5: I took my kids trick-or-treating, we rang your doorbell and you answered and my kids really scared you, oh my god, are you all right?

6: We are at the store looking for the perfect pumpkin, we both set our eyes on the same one and it’s gonna be war.

7: We are neighbors and we compete in decorating our houses and yards for Halloween every year, now this year is my year, I’m going big, you’ll see.

8: We compete in scaring each other on Halloween, you won last time but this year I’m going to scare the shit out of you, you’ll see.

9: It’s Halloween soon and I want to go as a witch, I’d like your black cat to be a part of my costume but you don’t want to hear anything about it, let me convince you.

10: We are both vampires and Halloween is the only time we can party in the open because we’re inconspicuous, and it’s like our ultimate date night.

11: We are spending the night with friends and there’s a killing monster in the house, you’re the one who’s seen all the horror movies so you know what to do, you’ll get us out alive, I’m sticking with you, okay?

12: I bought this house and found your diary, it’s some scary stuff and… oh my god, from what I’m reading, you’re… still in the house somewhere?

13: You are the creepy guy staring up at my bedroom window every day at the same hour at night and I haven’t had the courage to investigate why, until tonight.

14: I’m at the cinema watching a horror movie based on real facts, you’re sitting next to me and you keep mumbling “It didn’t happen this way!”, like, it’s really disturbing, are you just a nerd or…

15: Someone’s attacked me last night on my way home, you keep fretting over me but I’m pretty sure I scratched the attacker right where you have a fresh scratch, I don’t know what to think.

16: You always get so many trick-or-treaters while nobody ever comes to my door, I want to know your secret, no, I’m not jealous, okay, maybe it makes me a bit sad, is all.

17: I planned a murder on Halloween night to make it inconspicuous, but I’ve come across you in your ridiculous costume and you won’t leave me alone, you’re so annoying, I got people to kill here, would you just go away?

18: I work at the emergency room, it’s Halloween night and you just came in, like who in the world sticks their head inside a pumpkin and can’t get it out?

19: I work at the emergency room, it’s Halloween night and you just came in because you ate so much candy, geez, you are an adult, who does that at your age?

20: You’re the exchange student and you don’t celebrate Halloween in your country, so I wanted to show you what it’s about but now I’ve lost you in the middle of the town that’s all crazy and costumed and oh my god.

21: I’ve just moved into this town and started school, and man, the school is the creepiest place on earth, everyone acts so weirdly, you are the guy that sits next to me and you act like it’s perfectly normal, like… you do realize this is the way schools used to be some 100 years ago, right?

22: I drank some unlabeled bottle in the fridge, because whatever was in it tasted really good, but now you’ve come home and found out and you’re freaking out, oh my god, am I going to die?

[yuumei-art]

Just very berrybrained right now. I'm picking and eating blueberries everyday and I can never get enough! I like to imagine that every berry has a whole world in them ✨

I'm so obsessed right now that I spent a week of no sleep designing blue space berry lanterns. It's still just a prototype and needs a lot of refining, but I'm pretty happy with it so far :)

Plus the usual painting timelapse!

[rainrein]

love it when a location is evil. when a location fucking sucks. when intrinsically it is so bad and evil that it literally is in the air . this kinda works if its only something special can you imagine a parking lot being evil oooooh every time you park into me i subtly adjust my lines so that you're always slightly tilted

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[captain-price-returns]

[headspace-hotel]

My version of "doomscrolling" nowadays is just going to iNaturalist, browsing pictures of animals and fantasizing about where I would introduce them outside of their natural range if I was some kind of ecology-focused evil scientist. I do this when I'm depressed. I don't know if it helps.

[i-love-hyenas]

Bring hyena to Texas put Texas in hyena paws humans can trust Texas to hyena pack yesss

[headspace-hotel]

How could I disagree with such a trustworthy source

[chekhovs-raygun]

animals i really want to introduce to the USA:

-red pandas in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. they can live in those you-pick orchards and delight tourists, and in the winter the big ones can be harvested by the farmers for food and fur. america also has native bamboo, as well as plenty of escaped invasives.

-koalas in southern california. we already have a lot of feral eucalpytus in the state and it makes our wildfires way worse. let's put koalas in there too. coyotes can hunt them like dingos do.

-cheetahs in colorodo, wyoming, nebraska, and oklahoma. we had cheetahs here once, that's why pronghorns are so fast. let's give them something to really haul ass about.

-spotted hyenas in texas and new mexico. did you know there's actually a shit ton of oryx already roaming around new mexico? they were brought in for a game preserve. oryx can fight off lions, but spotted hyenas are actually superior pack hunters with some of the highest kill rates of large cooperative predators in the world. we might have a problem with ranchers, but like: fuck ranchers. they already decimated the mexican wolf populations. they deserve hyenas.

-pangolins. i would drop these guys in arizona honestly. everyone in arizona hates and fears fire ants. i think entire neighborhoods would throw ecstatic parades for pangolins (which smell much better than giant anteaters) at least until a pangolin dug straight through their pasteboard condo.

-new zealand's little penguin in louisiana. they burrow into mud and sand banks during the day and tolerate quite hot temperatures! i think they'd do fine, and louisiana is sliding into the gulf anyway. let's have penguins there. i'd also try them out in new england in case lousiana is just too swampy for them. i feel like new yorkers would go insane with pride over having penguins around. they would act like they invented the whole concept of penguins. we should let them.

-water buffalo. georgia and the carolinas. i just think it would give everyone there some interesting new problems.

-i firmly believe that asiatic elephants would do great in the southeastern united states. it's a subtropical climate that's only going to get swampier as things heat up, and there's plenty of kudzu and tall grass species for them to munch on. they're also smart enough to learn to navigate and negotiate with people, and to follow set routes around human farms rather than tromp through them, so disruption to existing human infrastructure would be minimal but occasionally hilarious. i think it would be so cool to have an american subspecies of elephant. if i ever win the lottery this IS what i am going to be doing with my millions.

[headspace-hotel]

Asunder is basically the most classic way to be torn, and if you're looking to be cleft, in twain is a vintage but stunning choice