Darklore Circus

I'm Spanner, writer of both original works and fanfiction, gamer, dreamer, wanderer of worlds, Enemy of Sauron, Rebel scum, L'cie, Team Instinct, Mars Division, Sixth House, Blue Lantern, Christian pilgrim, ovarian cancer survivor, and a very proud aunt! Ever so more than twenty. On Tumblr since 2011. My carrd! Mobile header art by elfbingo/SapphireGamgee.

[gloriousclio]

Luke Skywalker put away his targeting computer to destroy the Death Star so I don't need AI to help me write an email.

[starspanner]

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[ficwip]

this week's word is... 

✨ CHAIN ✨ 

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How to play: Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

[starspanner]

"Your mission set off a chain reaction, Captain, and now I'm afraid war has come to your doorstep." --Momentum

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

p.s. I'm coming to Germany soon with my new book of science cartoons. Details at www.tomgauld.com

[bryony-rebb]

Today, I find myself living for the idea of a Heero whose informal written communication consists entirely of emojis. His messages are extremely expressive, but nobody has any idea what he's actually saying...

👍👎🥫🥺🥺🥺😺🥰

(This is obviously a desperate request for Trowa to bring him a can of tuna fish so he can adopt the stray cat that's been hanging around outside.)

[starspanner]

Ha! I've actually done that in my TwiNote...um...fanfic? Solo RPG? My TwiNote thing:

Actually, I think that's pretty clear...

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[babyjanedough]

Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1

[thefugitivesaint]

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

[grammarpedant]

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

[zandergb]

[astromechapunk]

This is how it's done:

[cilceon]

And this is how you homage it:

[everydayconman]

Literally less than a year ago we were adding cool spins to it like “Sliding Up Tokyo Tower” how did we downgrade so hard?

[crimsoncadmium]

We even got live action slide

[bellatrixmelody]

The slide in the first post bothers the fuck out of me because he’s using his right leg to slide on the ground.

So, I ride a motorcycle and I know at least the theory of doing a power slide (still cool but you don’t slide nearly so much and you need a pretty light bike to do it most of the time). You have to lock the back wheel until your back wheel looses grip on the road and then turn sharply to the left. Rear wheel slides and the front wheel turns.

But how do you lock the back wheel you might ask? Well with your rear break of course.

WHICH IS UNIVERSALLY UNDER YOUR RIGHT FOOT! How the FUCK is he locking the back wheel, with his shifter on his left foot??? Not possible. The creators of Akira knew it, and so did everyone that homaged it. The post above gets it right even if he’s likely on a slider and being pulled back.

[vespertinecat]

This is why I love tumblr. Where else could I find gifs of back to back tribute references and a perfect explanation of why the above doesn't work and how you would need to do everything to ideally execute to move in question? Thank you for explaining, fellow tumblr friend.

[starspanner]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Character designs for Robin Hood (1973) by Ken Anderson

[dawn4ngel]

[bbcwhereareyou]

[punchholesinthesky]

[ficwip]

this week's word is... 

✨ RAIN ✨ 

and is a re-run from our very first word game back in 2020!

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How to play: Find the word in any WIP and share the sentence containing it. Reply, reblog, stick it in the tags, tag us in a new post, or keep it private. All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome.

[starspanner]

"Pack up!" Jody shouted over the roar of the rain as the kids shrieked, running between tents. --Momentum

[starspanner]

Sharing a picture of my dog because I want to.

[tofublock]

sunrise

[disturbed02girl]

My favorite image from the GW Preventer manga 💜

[hannahp0calypse]

watching Seven Samurai

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

i wonder how many they'll need

[butch-witches-deactivated202412]

i hesitate even to speculate

[whyenn-reader]

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

[whyenn-reader]

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

[whyenn-reader]

if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it

[starspanner]

"Why do you call Me good?" Jesus replied. "No one is good except God alone." --Mark 10:18