#clear as mud

[dailyputnam]

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING — 4.05 'Adaptation' Martin Short as Oliver Putnam Selena Gomez as Mabel Mora

[sunnylighter]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Here's some art for my fic, Clear as Mud. AKA, what happens in the post-reboot Archie comics if both Sonic and Silver remember the old timeline and do not explain it to their very confused friends.

It was getting to the point Sally had to physically stop Tails and Rotor from pulling together a murder board.

"Just ask them," she said one evening while playing keep-away with the corkboard and ball of red yarn they wanted to use. "It's not that hard."

"Actually, Sally-Girl, it is," said Bunnie, who wasn't totally willing to go full conspiracy, but not about to stop the boys from doing it either.

"Every time we try to ask, zere is some interruption or ze answer simply leaves us with more questions," Antoine agreed.

Sally rolled her eyes. "It can't be that bad."

"Silver implied I might be royalty the other day," said Amy, throwing up her hands in exasperation. "I need a straight answer here."

"Sonic implied the same thing about Charmy when we were talking about the Chaotix the other day," added Tails. "And he shut Silver up when he started to ask about someone named 'Fiona' with me around."

"For some reason, they think I should be afraid of orcas and thought there was a Freedom Fighter branch up north," said Rotor.

"I don't know who zis Geoffrey person is, but Sonic seems to dislike ze man with a great vehemence," said Antione.

"An' he had Silver help him use what Ah can only assume was a dummy o' him as target practice," added Bunnie.

Even Nichole piped in to say sheepishly, "I may have overheard a conversation that may have implied a debate on if a variation of Metal Sonic might have had a crush on me. I'd like to know a little more about why they would think that."

Sally stared at all of them and was also reminded of a strange moment where Silver had apparently mistaken her for someone named Elias, and then had gotten distraught when he realized she wasn't him. She'd done her best to console him, and would really like more of an explanation for it, but hadn't wanted to tread on what was clearly a sensitive subject. (Her current theory was that Elias was her future descendant, and she hoped Silver's reaction didn't mean something bad happened to him.)

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Safe to say, Silver's time period did not exactly give them something to look forward to.

"It used to be worse," Silver told them as he led them down the steps to his friend's lab. The lab's owner apparently had all the equipment they'd need to find another Genesis Portal back to their own time.

"That's not exactly reassuring," Rotor told the psychic hedgehog.

"Well, good to know all that time travel wasn't good for something," said Sonic dryly.

Seeming to miss the sarcasm, Silver nodded and continued, "Yeah, I know that doesn't mean things here still can't be better, but I'm hoping we can change things here in the present instead of having to go back to fix it this time. Well, once the Genesis Portals are all taken care of, at least. But if I happen to make things better here while I'm in the past, I won't complain."

Before the Freedom Fighters could make a comment on that hopeful plan, Silver reached the door to the lab and opened it, ushering them inside.

Inside, a red-haired and teal-skinned human(?) and a golden tenrec with a circular mark on her forehead looked up at their arrival.

Immediately, Tails and Rotor's attention was stolen by the sight of the tech around them, and the two geniuses practically started drooling. "I've died and gone to technogeek heaven," Rotor said in awe, and Tails nodded in agreement as three tiny and cute robotic hedgehogs swarmed around them curiously.

"Vy zank you," said the green man, looking flattered.

The tenrec, however, looked at them nervously and the symbol on her head glowed slightly as she glanced over at Silver. "Silver? Who are they? Why did you bring them here?"

Everyone but Silver and the green man jumped as they heard that question ring out not from the tenrec's mouth but from inside their heads.

Apparently, the tenrec was telepathic.

"They're some of my friends from the past," Silver said to answer her question, apparently used to that way of speaking, and sweeping a hand to indicate them. "Meet Sonic, Tails, and Rotor." He then looked to the Freedom Fighters and said, "Guys, these are my friends in my time. Meet Professor Von Schlemmer and Gold the Tenrec. I wouldn't be able to handle the Genesis Portals without them."

[rusholme]

does anyone have the little drawing of a person smelling their dog’s fur and it shows like love going inside them as the smell

[the-serpens]

Drarry Fic Rec: Set Three

Say No to This by @fluxweeed 12,734 words, E

Harry is working late. Draco doesn't know where else to go.

Clear As Mud by scoradh 9,816 words, M

Set post-war and post-Harry’s-conscience…

The Den of So-Called Iniquity by Snegurochka 4,045 words, NC 17

Potter is watching you, as usual, his fingers tight around his glass. You know what will happen if you swallow that potion in such close proximity to Potter – the same thing that has happened every time you've done it so far.

Through His Teeth by @dictacontrion 2,820 words, M

"C’mon then, Potter. Don’t tell me there’s nothing you’ve ever wanted to do to this body.”

What I Do to You by @gracerene 9,114 words, E

These days, apathy fogs Harry's mind. Malfoy's the only one who makes Harry feel anything at all. Harry doesn't really care that the feelings aren't good ones. He deserves it.

This set are all my favorite toxic dynamics, self-destructive romances ft. post-war broken boys, beautifully twisted love(hate)-making and mutually painful relationships. Most of them are all about sex, trauma and the fragile solace of destruction.

'Say No to This', 'Clear As Mud' and 'The Den of So-Called Iniquity' include a fucked-up Draco and morally-grey Harry. And 'Through His Teeth' and 'What I Do to You' feature basically same, just the other way around.

'Say No to This' is actually one of my personal favorite drarry fics, the tired yet so completely charged energy between the two of them is one of the sexiest things I have ever read. 'Clear As Mud' is old but gold, showing a different yet still fitting development for familiar characters. 'The Den of So-Called Iniquity' is low, hot and tragic.

I adore Draco and his very Slytherin mainpulation in 'Through His Teeth', the story is a interesting take on both Draco and Harry and their mindset directly after the war. 'What I Do to You' is sexy but heart-wrenching and I am still wishing for sequel to mend me.

[pttucker]

⸢It was the trickery of the world-line that caused Yoo Joonghyuk to become many.⸥ Yoo Joonghyuk who lived during the 0th turn became the 1st turn's Yoo Joonghyuk, then he became the 2nd turn's. And the 2nd turn went on to become the 3rd – and then, the 4th. Abnormal events of the past and future interfering with each other ran rampant and made everyone forget that crucial fact, but this was the undeniable truth. ⸢A regressor actually doesn't regress. What actually regresses isn't him, but everything else excluding him.⸥ The time for everyone else would rewind, but his own time would continue to march forward. Even though the world-lines had split up and some became the 1864th turn's Yoo Joonghyuk while someone else became the 'Secretive Plotter', but still… ⸢From the beginning, he was just 'one person' who kept walking on one continuous, unbroken path.⸥

Time travel / dimension travel shenanigans. Bound to make you squint and go "uh..." every single time. 😂

But I do love the idea that even if he weirdly ended up in different bodies (due to shenanigans) he has always only ever been one person. 999th isn't some entirely different being, he is Secretive Plotter and Secretive Plotter is "our" Joonghyuk that we've been following this whole time.

And honestly, at this point, I'm just going with everything the story throws at me, even if I can't wrap my head around it all. I'll worry about trying to piece things together better on a later re-read. 😅

[stoportotouch]

went today on a Historical And Academic Outing (to point at things tangentially related to the terror and then sit in a pub, where i was informed that i am now The Owner Of Hodgson, As Depicted In AMC's The Terror (2018). this is both in spite of and because of the fact that i completely forgot about him from episode 5 until episode 9, whereupon i sat and looked at my screen and whimpered for a few minutes. you know).

in any case. when we were in the maritime museum, there was a very unclear tannoy announcement about Dr. James Barry, which we assumed was informing us of a talk about him or something. but because of the nature of tannoys, all we really heard was a contextless, very vague description of him, which was essentially "he was dfab and he had a nasty temper sometimes. anyway bye! :)"

[curiousozsimon]

[ask-an-aussie]