ScienceFantasy93

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[worththeroadtomaybe]

🧚🏻‍♀️FairyTale 🧚🏻‍♀️

Some awesome discord friends of mine decided to do June writing prompts and since I have not been writing for ages, I am very thankful they got me inspired again 💜

“It’s almost like a fairy tale.” Zoro stopped in his tracks and looked over his shoulder at that damned woman. “What?” “The woods… They look like those in fairy tales.” With one last look Zoro set himself back into motion. Fairy tales… seriously? Out of all the people Zoro could get lost with… it had to be HER. Captain Glasses… just his luck to run into her, being chased by her and getting lost with her. In freaking woods… reminding her of fairy tales. At first… when they realized they got lost they had the biggest fight, of course. Until Captain Foureyes got attacked by some kind of mosquito and she almost threw herself at him in her panic. Being the clumsy woman she was, they tumbled further into the woods and down some kind of small hill and got lost even more. Which resulted in her profusely apologizing and him just turning around and storming off. Shortly being followed by the marine. They walked in complete silence. Until now. “Did your parents read you fairy tales?” The fu… was wrong with this woman? He didn’t even bother to answer her. What a stupid question. “My dad used to read me fairy tales until…” her voice trailed off and Zoro couldn’t help but to look at her. Her eyes had glossed over and she seemed to stare into nothingness, which was weird and quite concerning, even if Zoro would never admit that out loud. Tashigi shook her head and focused back on him, a small smile played at her lips, something Zoro had only seen once before. Back in Loguetown before she knew who he was. “Anyway… my dad used to read them for me. They were all about princesses and princes, dragons and fairies. They are ridiculous, I know that now but as a kid… I loved them. And the time I got to spend with my dad.” She looked at him, still smiling and Zoro got the urge to say something. “That… sounds nice.” The marine in front of him laughed. Laughed?! “It was. The woods in those stories were always described as quiet, apart from the chirping of birds and the occasional rustling in the bushes caused by bunnies or deer. The light was always a bit hazy, almost romantic, and the protagonists always seemed to wander through the forest, somewhat lost. Just like here. Just like us.” Zoro cracked a smile and shook his head. “Tashigi? You really are something…”

[covey-girl]

"I don't like her... I just get jealous when she talk to other boys and want to be around her all the time"

"He's just my extremely handsome boss"

"Just get married already!"

[mallowmeltmiasma]

crying because lockwood & co and the theme of trust

of trusting in people, even if they don’t seem particularly strong or brave or even good to everyone else. trusting them despite their past, and in doing so, giving them the opportunity to be worthy of it.

maybe all they’ve been waiting on was someone who didn’t write them off.

[sciencefantasy93]

Mass update, it’s completely finished! https://archiveofourown.org/works/50001055/chapters/223836866#workskin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/50001055/chapters/223836866#workskin

[buginateacup]

Every single fic update there is an author trying frantically to find the right balance between a nonchalant aside of "leave a comment if you enjoyed =)" and clinging desperately to the coat tails of a random stranger, dragging along behind them on the street wailing "Please, please! I have to know what you thought! I'm desperate to talk to people about this! Ask me about the alliterative repetition! Ask me about the symbolism!"

[inyourorbitx]

@the-communist-unicorn peak comment

[clonerightsagenda]

Anthony Lockwood is a uniquely teenaged blend of suicidal depression and irrational optimism because he clearly has no plans for living past 25 and throws himself into deadly scenarios on the regular, but he's also convinced his three-person clown car of an agency is going to be London's next top business and when his crush loses? returns? stops wearing? the first family heirloom he gave her he just gives her another more expensive one.

[soni-dragon]

they make me sick

[pfirsichspritzer]

When you go out hunting wicked spirits, it’s the simple things that matter most. [...] Tea bags, brown and fresh and plenty of them, and made (for preference) by Pitkin Brothers of Bond Street, are perhaps the simplest and best of all. OK, they may not save your life like a sword-tip or an iron circle can. [...] But they do provide something just as vital. They help to keep you sane.

-Jonathan Stroud - The Screaming Staircase

[annzayka]

just fan design for Lockwood&CO by Jonathan Stroud - lineup

[shanestyreshop]

If only….

[mallowmeltmiasma]

I’m sorry but… anthony j lockwood in The Creeping Shadow making a point to correct all the mistakes he made in The Hollow Boy

1. didn’t trust/allow Lucy to use her talent vs consulting her and asking for her help

2. asked Holly to assign them to separate cases vs paired himself with Lucy every chance he got

3. made a toast to Hol and ignored Luce vs giving Lucy her own toast and thanking her for everything she did

4. i’m sure there’s more but i have to get ready for church

LIKE. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF IF HE WANTED TO HE WOULD

[sciencefantasy93]

One of the many, many things about modern society that I fucking hate is the way it saps your need to read, to write, to draw, to create. To engage and to critically think and to use your brain for enjoyment. Suddenly entertainment is quick soundbites, short form videos, reels you can swipe past. You’re not thinking. You’re not mentally engaging. You’re just consuming. And when that happens, art becomes secondary. It becomes a request you can punch into ChatGPT. And it’s a slap in the face to creators who actually go out of their way to pull from nothing. It’s so fucking dystopian it hurts.

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[creatingblackcharacters]

BEGGING us to read nonfiction every now and then. Like. Words on page. It doesn't have to be the only thing you do, but you gotta keep in practice with it. No easier people to subjugate than those who question nothing they're told.

[mallowmeltmiasma]

it’s the way that Lockwood has been planning to get Lucy back for four months and coming to her apartment is almost certainly Step 58 of his carefully constructed operation… i’m just picturing a nervous Lockwood putting on his brand new never been worn suit and the tie she gave him because it’s Lucy and everything has to be perfect, including his clothes.

and then Lucy being like “he must be wearing the suit to show how good things are now that i’m not with L&C 😔”

[sciencefantasy93]

I have to add to this: Lucy and Lockwood are the Queen and King of not talking, not communicating, not expressing themselves. So while Lockwood is trying to act all suave and chill, he’s actually a bumbling barrel of nerves. And Lucy is all, “He doesn’t care if I come back, it’s just for one job.” Meanwhile Lockwood is mentally jumping for joy that he’s got her back for a whole job!!!

And then he just lets her go again. Like the teenage idiot boy he really is.

Thank fuck for bad guys and knives, amirite?

[mallowmeltmiasma]

it’s the way that Lockwood has been planning to get Lucy back for four months and coming to her apartment is almost certainly Step 58 of his carefully constructed operation… i’m just picturing a nervous Lockwood putting on his brand new never been worn suit and the tie she gave him because it’s Lucy and everything has to be perfect, including his clothes.

and then Lucy being like “he must be wearing the suit to show how good things are now that i’m not with L&C 😔”

[serialnumber002]

canada lynx voted the animal of all time. Boy why are you so paws

[serialnumber002]

put those thigns away

[5149eszter]

[ariesrin]

Alternatives to 'said'

When character is angry:

Snapped

Spat

Snarled

Hissed

Barked

...or sad:

Choked

Mumbled

Managed

Croaked

Murmured

...or if they're feeling nervous:

Stammered

Babbled

Rambled

Muttered

Squeaked

...and even when flirting:

Coaxed

Purred

Teased

Hummed

Crooned