a revelation in the light of day; Completed, wc: ~22,400
A kazper first words spoken soulmate AU
a heavy heart to carry; Completed, wc: ~27,000
Kaz is stuck in a time loop where Jesper dies each day.
tears of gold; Completed, Part 1 of unbroken, wc: ~47,000
Saints, it was just his fucking luck to be taken by the Shu.
The exchange on Goedmedbridge goes wrong.
the saints can’t help me now; Completed, Part 1 of the Durast Chronicles, wc ~68,000
“Everyone knows Fabrikators are the weakest Grisha order.”
“Sweetheart, you’ve never met a Durast like me.”
Or, Jesper goes to Ravka to learn how to be a Durast and still ends up in Ketterdam anyway.
he has you; Completed, wc ~2,000
The man puffed up, gaining confidence. “Yes, him. We’ve taken the bastard of the Barrel.”
Jesper’s eyebrows shot up, and his eyes flickered to the dark warehouse next to them. “No shit? You’ve got Kaz in there?”
“Yes! We- wait, did you… did you not notice that your boyfriend was missing?”
who is the lamb and who is the knife; Completed, Part 1 of ruination, wc ~10,000
“I’ll take the parem.”
He swallowed hard, looking straight at Nina and ignoring the pair of dark eyes burning straight through the side of his head. “Give it to me.”
Or, Kaz confronts Jesper over his betrayal and Jesper makes a hasty decision
something vicious; Completed, Part 2 of unbroken, wc: ~27,000
Jesper tries to deal with what happened to him.
Kaz tries to help.
It goes about as well as anyone would expect.
this is a gift (it comes with a price); Completed, Part 2 of ruination, wc ~20,000
Jesper wasn’t getting worse.
He just wasn’t getting better.
the joys of being kidnappable; Completed, wc ~2000
“Do not worry, Mr. Fahey, you will not be here long. We will inform your boyfriend of your capture soon.”
“Please don’t.”
“I’m afraid begging will get you nowhere-”
“No, you don’t understand. He is going to be the biggest asshole about this. I’m going to be hearing about this for weeks.”
Or, Jesper gets kidnapped
a well dressed man; Completed, wc ~2000
“I like your shirt, boss.”
Kaz narrowed his eyes at him. This was a trap. He knew this was a trap. Nothing good was going to come from acknowledging his comment. But he was tired and his curiosity demanded he know, so he looked down at his shirt and froze.
AKA, Kaz accidentally wears one of Jesper's shirts
you got your finger on the trigger (but your trigger finger’s mine); Completed, wc ~15,000
“What do you say, Jesper? Do you want to join the Dregs?”
Or, 5 times Jesper called Kaz boss and 1 time Kaz called him Jes
bloodied feet against hallowed ground; Completed, Part 2 of the Durast Chronicles, wc ~24,000
Something like fear flickered in Helvar’s blue eyes. “What is he?”
“I believe your people would call him a witch."
“I’ve never heard of a witch like that, who could control guns.”
“Jesper’s unique, even among Grisha.”
the beast you’ve made of me; Completed, Part 3 of the Durast Chronicles, wc ~23,000
“Durasts aren’t trained to do that, Jesper. I may not know much on it, but I know that.”
unbound; Completed, Part 4 of the Durast Chronicles, wc ~23,000
“You need some kind of closure, Jesper. You’ve been running from what happened to you, and you’re not going to be able to move on until you face it.”
Working on: editing and posting a revelation in the light of day, drafting other small oneshots, & plotting a thief at heart
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
Grace playing “Sisyphus” with the pebbles during recess in his dome where he rolls them in their balls up the hill and then lets go so they roll all the way back down to the bottom before he rolls the next pebble back up the hill.
The pebbles love it, it’s like going sledding given how cold the dome is, but Rocky wants to know why Grace calls it Sisyphus and not sledding.
So Grace explains the myth and the punishment. Sisyphus still thinks he’ll be able to get the boulder to the top and that he’ll still outwit the Gods one final time. It’s only his hubris that is grander than his cleverness and frustration in believing he is capable of completing an impossible task. Trapped forever believing he will be successful in pushing his boulder up the hill.
Rocky watches as Grace, years after arriving on Erid, finally having regained some muscle mass, gently pushes another xenonite ball up the gentle sandy slope of their beach. Rocky can hear the laughing tones of the pebble urging teacher-Grace to push them higher because they want to roll further than student-Ruby. Rocky can hear Graces smile and thinks, one must imagine Sisyphus happy.
”how do i get people interested in my ocs” TAG THEM. BY NAME. HAVE AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER TAG I CAN LOOK THROUGH. PLEADE. SOURCE TAG AND THEN INDIVIDUAL CHARACTER TAG. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE CLICKED THROUGH THREE DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF “#OC” ON SOMEONES BLOG TO GET THE FULL EXTENT OF THEIR ORIGINAL CHARACTER ART I REALLY WANT TO SEE. TOO MANY. THREE HUNDRED POSTS HIDDEN BECAUSE I WAS GOING THROUGH THE “ORIGINAL CHARACTER” TAG AND NOT THE “OCS” TAG ON THEIR BLOG. YOU MUST DO THIS FOR ME.
i just love all the stories about production on project hail mary. they didn't use a single green/blue screen in the whole film. they built the whole interior of the hail mary. the petrova line scene was done practically by putting infrared lights on a chicken wire cage. rocky's voice was one of the puppeteers because he did such a good job during filming that they couldn't imagine anyone else voicing him. and rocky was a practical puppet/animatronic! sandra huller picked sign of the times as her karaoke song and she asked her daughter if it was still a cool song. i just feel like there was so much love making this film and im obsessed
every year small towns and indigenous communities across canada are burnt to nothing by horrific wildfires and americans go on the internet to complain about it and blame us bc the smoke has spread to their state. i’m so tired.
go yell at mark carney or your own local politicians about climate change and urge them to do more to stop it. the namaygoosisagagun first nation had their community destroyed today. you can find a link to donate to them here. donate to your local food bank. go to the beach next week when the smoke clears and you don’t have to think about it anymore while the people who’s lives have been destroyed will have to pick up the pieces and try to move forward when we are already in a huge cost of living crisis across the country.
rbing with other places you can donate to to support those impacted by the fires!
true north aid (an organization aimed at providing support to remote/northern indigenous people in canada)
canadian red cross wildfire fund
ontario spca and humane society (links to their donate page specifically aimed at supporting pets and animals in areas impacted by the fires)
and the anishinabek nation’s page where you can donate to support the namaygoosisagagun nation who had their land destroyed by the fires is still accepting donations
Context for anyone who is wondering: Lamine Yamal's parents won an UNICEF raffle for a charity photoshoot in which Barça players posed with kids, and 5 month old Lamine happened to get 20yo Messi. Which is like. Literally insane
A bit wild to me to see the notion that PHM is apolitical, even from the author himself, because... what? You mean the movie in which the world governments work together to try to solve a climate disaster, and scientists are believed, and it's explicitly said that the nations of the world won't work together to ration food? You mean the movie in which a woman is leading the main project to save the world and is scapegoated for it? You mean the movie in which the main character is seen as expendable partly because of the fact that he has no conventional partner or a traditional family? You mean the movie in which the main character loses all of his autonomy for the greater good and is forced to become a sacrifice? You mean the movie where the main character meets an alien and they share each other's scientific discoveries and advancements and culture? You mean that movie?
