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Jules of Nature
we're not kids anymore.
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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@storieswritteninthesand
small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.
i'm rereading the murderbot diaries and murderbot's utter conviction that it and gurathin are bitter enemies is still so funny. buddy. gurathin got over this months ago. he's just a quiet guy.
one-sided antagonism is so delicious. murderbot diaries i also very much enjoy how surreal it must be for gurathin / to know that the heavily armed rogue secunit holds a grudge against him / and also know that all it will ever choose to do about this is make frowny faces and flip him the bird. / (tags via space-mouse)
Gurathin, like three books from now: hey we’re friends right
Murderbot: no. we fucking hate each other.
Gurathin: awesome check this out it’s gonna make you so fucking mad
MB: I don’t like you
Gurathin, knowing MB calls its best friend “asshole research transport”: Uh-huh.
It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn
Well hello.
It's me. The person who has posted nothing but Avengers/Marvel fic since... Well, for more than a decade.
I have posted a fic. It is not Marvel.
But in my usual way, I have looked around a canon, I have picked up a bunch of background characters, and gone, "You deserved better" and then went off to write them being horribly traumatized by the circumstances of the story.
As one does? (as one does)
Anyway, if you're one of the 1 6 people left on Tumblr who enjoyed "The Martian" and its story of a man left behind on an alien planet due to circumstances, please be aware that guy won't be showing up til chapter 3.
Literally no one is going to read this and I'm okay with that but man. I wrote a really good nightmare sequence here.
Well, no one saw this coming. Least of all me.
I enjoyed The Martian when I first saw it, and then I forgot about it. I tried to read The Martian and it just didn't click with me. (As they say on Tumblr, 'the writer is cooking, I just don't like the food.') Neither made a particularly deep impact on me.
For some reason, when I returned to the movie, I still enjoyed the plot, I still enjoyed Boston Boy Matt Damon being the most Boston ever as he farmed his potatoes and scienced the shit out of Mars.
But my attention was caught by the remaining 5 crew members of the Ares mission, who are living through a truly INSANE sequence of events, for which there is not prayer, counseling, or drugs effective enough to get them through unscathed. And in my usual way, I was caught by these people, who had to make horrific choices under terrible circumstances that are just kind of... Handwaved away by the narrative. As is Mark's return to the fold.
So here I are. Writing a story about people who lose their friend, find out they left him to die alone on an alien world, and burn every bridge they've got to go back and make up for that mistake.
Everyone's traumatized, no one has access to proper psychiatric help, and I'm going to be pulling liberally from both the book and movie canon. I did my best with the reference materials available, but I apologize in advance for any ship/science/tech mistakes I make, because I'm really not here for any of that.
It's a character piece. May it find a kind heart.
Secret sanctuaries 💧
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Simplified bird #175 - mountain bluebird
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"Caramel listening to her ipawd", 2007
I’m thankful for all the different ways I can eat potatoes
Paper Crane Origami. I added coloured pencil especially around the outlines here, to give it some more texture
"Why don't the people of Gotham just move?"
Because it's a massive East Coast city but the property values are probably like $200 a month for a three bedroom apartment, and most Gothamites are like, "Hey, Bane never swore to break my back."
And here's the thing: you're not just moving out of Gotham City. You're moving into the rest of the DC universe. And it has hero-based power scaling.
Oh, Metropolis looks fucking great. But it gets invaded by aliens and robots and demigods, because Superman is there.
Wonder Woman's tangling with gods.
You go to Central City, and some Reverse-Flash motherfucker runs backwards from an alternate future and kicks your balls off at the speed of light.
You could move to the West Coast, and oh, an entire city just gets exploded by Cyborg Superman or some shit.
How about you move to Indianapolis, or Cleveland? Haha, no. They have no protector during the alien invasions, and you're in Cleveland
So stay in Gotham. Sure, you have lunatics, but you know that if you had a gun, you at least have a chance against the Joker or Riddler. Mongo of War-World would crush you. But Gotham just has creeps, and you know you have a chance. Even Bane, R'as Al-Ghul, Killer Croc, and Mr. Freeze are just slightly altered dudes. Oh no, Poison Ivy is going to kiss me to death! Who gives a shit, you kinda wanted to go out that way anyway.
There are super-intelligent telepathic gorilla warlords in Africa and the Greek titans are real and chained in the abyss
This does beg the question of why Gotham has such a horrible in-universe reputation when all its villains are relatively human compared to the cosmic bullshit that most other heroes put up with.
I think it's all about perception. Gotham City has crime. But when Ares sends his undying legions to march upon the mortal realm and Wonder Woman has to punch all of them, people don't internalize that as "crime." That's "a crisis" or "a religious event" or at best, terrorism. Same thing when Superman has to stop Brainiac from shrinking Metropolis or whatever. That stuff is objectively more dangerous but it's on such a huge scale that "crime" is not the word for it. The cops don't involve themselves in this at any point. But the stuff Batman deals with is like, robberies, assaults, gang wars, serial killings. All his villains commit actual crimes, so they go into police reports, which end up as statistics. So when someone compiles all this data, oh look, Gotham City has the highest crime rate in the country, yet again. Forget the fact that 10% of Keystone City's population had their skulls crushed by invading superintelligent gorillas. Who cares that a random guy in Opal City accidentally teleported the entire state to Hell after he found out the hard way that he was born a wizard. Those are not crimes. There's nothing in the police recordkeeping app's drop-down menu for a Gorilla invasion. Closest thing we've got is Random Chimp Event.
So my theory is that while Gotham does have a lot of crime, what it does not have is space catastrophes. And so it ends up being the most dangerous city based on a bureaucratic technicality.
all this is very true, I just wanted to point out that the worst thing about metropolis isn't the alien invasions, killer robots or meta human fights breaking buildings, it's the power hungry scheming ego maniac billionaire who gets enough of a pass from the population, despite the several journalistic exposes about him, that he's been able to run for president and win
at least gotham's billionaire is funny in the tabloids and, even if he's rather ditzy, he seems to be helpful to legit causes, against all odds
The longer it takes for this to come across your dash the funnier it is
Which will fade first? Memories of the Area 51 "raid", or memories of Internet Explorer?
I love the implication that, as Larry is an "unpaid trainee", the dog is paid.
Hmm, maybe I should go back and rewrite everything 🤔
Everything?
Will the alphabet still start with A?
The alphabet will start at 9
Oh good I can sleep in a little.
can I talk to you in the woods about something
A crew of 5000 humans are placed in Cryosleep and sent to another planet to colonize it. When they arrive 1000 years later, they learn that, thanks to advancements in Space Travel, the planet had been colonized by humans for over 500 years.
