#thesearemywritingposts

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me: "romance is fine but it's not what I'm looking for in media all the time so nothing really stands out for me when people ask what I like to read-"

media: the diety fell from grace for the human they love

me: *tearing up* the diety fell from grace for the human they love

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If I knew then what I know now, I might have said, "It's simple. Freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it."

-Castiel

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But maybe life on earth could be heaven Doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try? My love's the type of thing that you have to earn and when you earn it You won't need it My love's the type of thing that you have to earn and when you earn it You won't need it I'm not gonna give you love just 'cause I know that you want me to If you want love then the love has gotta come from you

Bo Burnham “From God’s Perspective”

this has been living rent free in my head since I heard the song and I wanted to share it. It is even on a sticky note above my desk. These are the last couple lines of Bo Burnham’s comedy song “From God’s Perspective”, and it prioritizes self-love as the most important type of love.

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ship dynamic

childhood friends-->strangers--->enemies---reluctant teammates---->friends--->lovers

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Honestly low-key feeling like rewatching spn NOT cause it’s a good show at this point but because i want to write down every plot point abandoned and never brought up again

I also kinda of want to give an outline for a show that’s SPN but better, which won’t be hard tbh, but it’ll take a while cause it’s 15 seasons worth of content

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I am Icarus You are Apollo I burnt myself trying to get to you

-me

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Powers

I was thinking about Rick Riordan’s character Nico Di Angelo, who has the ability to use shadows to travel around the world. I wanted to build off of that and explore that idea, but fundamentally different than what Rick Riordan created at the same time.

I’m thinking of calling this power ‘Transumbra’, which I got to by stitching together ‘Trans’, which is Latin for ‘across’ and ‘umbra’, which is Latin for ‘shadow’-which combined means ‘Across shadow’

Various abilities a Transumbra user can have all lies in the ability to tap into something I created and call the In-Between. While writing about it, it slowly became this semi-sentient dimension whose only goal is to be left alone. People with the ability to tap into Transumbra power disrupt this by using the dimension as a middle ground/vehicle of sorts. Once a Transumbra user goes into the In-Between, they can use the momentum the In-Between uses to get them out like a canon to shoot from and end up where they want to go.

I made three rules:

1) Nothing stays in the In-Between forever. If something/someone enters the In-Between, they will leave soon after. I set a Maximum time for a master Transumbra user to stay in the In-Between being 3 hours, and it takes a long time to build up to that. It’s about exposure, which is because the more you use the In-Between, the more familiar you become to it, meaning the less ‘strange’ you become and the more ‘accepted’ you become.

2) This rule is applied when a Transumbra user tries to bring things or people with them through the In-Between as a mode of transportation. The rule for that user is Don’t let go. If the user lets go, the person or thing is lost for at most an hour, which at that point they’ll be spat back out where they entered or as close as the In-Between can find. This means that when transporting, a Transumbra user has to be very aware of if their companion is fully out of the shadow before letting go of their hold.

3) A Transumbra user cannot use their own shadows to travel. That’d be too easy, in my opinion, from a story stance. Unless they’re trapped in complete darkness, which also isn’t that concerning, they constantly got an escape and the stakes won’t be that high if things get sticky in a fight. The downside is that it takes away a possible cool scene where they escape by falling backwards into their own shadow, but that can be worked around with some well places dark walls or other floor shadows.

Now, what can you do with this power?

The obvious thing was teleporting like the shadows are portals, and yes, that is one. Other powers could be, as mentioned before, transportation, as long as the user holds on to what/who they are transporting until the thing/person is completely out of the shadows. You can use the shadows to get to hard to reach places (behind walls, into rooms, etc.) and even sneak up on people by popping up behind them from their shadows.

A crazy idea I had was trapped a person (and the user) in a loop like if there was a shadow higher above a shadow on, say the floor. The Transumbra user can grab someone and throw the two into a loop falling through the shadows. This would take up a lot of energy with holding onto the person so they don’t lose the person in the In-Between and because of the excess power usage. To stop this loop safely, they could either just transport to either another shadow and step out of that, or stop holding onto the person they’re carrying after falling into the floor shadow, but before the ceiling shadow and the In-Between will spit the person out automatically after a couple minutes. They can’t do this after the Ceiling or higher shadow for fear of the person being carried falling and hurting themselves, and this is supposed to be a safe exit from the loop.

That’s all I have. Any questions, I’ll try to answer them! Just reblog this with the question or send an ask!

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I think I will find myself

in the woods that I explored as a child

in the state park near my grandparent's home

on the paths I know so well.

I'd travel them down using muscle memory.

seeing the nature and waterfalls

as the ghostly laughter of past-times echo.

I don't know why, but it feels right.

Eerie yet comforting.

Connected yet isolated.

-r