Who Is Watching The Dirt?

The Third Road is a solarpunk/survivalist modern & historical fantasy story with roots in the field of folklore studies. In a timeline much like our own, the Four Horsemen allied with human factions on the political right under a common goal of starting the apocalypse. Across other pantheons, deities of blight, wasteland and mindless destruction cast their lot with the Horsemen as well, forming the Lords of Waste. With Heaven and Hell locked in a standoff and most major gods rarely leaving their celestial realms, Earth's only defense lay in the gods, spirits and creatures keeping the rythm of the seasons, and those dwelling in the wild places of the earth. Now, after many devastating defeats, what few of those spirits survive are on the run... But our story starts far before that, in 1921- when Grendel's Mother, half-Cain and half-Fae, wakes to her first reincarnation in a thousand years.

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[the3rdroad]

congratulations, you condensed Briar's entire character down to a single image

[aroacedavestrider]

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actually ill make my own post. its time for some nose positivity

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reblog to stop the negativity toward diversity in noses and stop the (racist!) assumption that only small, thin, upturned noses are perfect

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affirmations for yall to repeat 👇

i have a nose that deserves love respect and positivity

my nose is amazing regardless of shape size width length or color

i do not need a small nose to be seen as beautiful, pretty, handsome, attractive, or worthy

i do not need a nose job to be seen as beautiful, pretty, handsome, attractive, or worthy

my nose is extremely beautiful. period

my nose is incredible because its unique

my nose is so cool that it can never be replicated even by a surgeon

my nose and its features are always deserving and worthy of compliments

i have the best nose in the world

i am blessed with the nose of my ancestors, my predecessors, my family members, my loved ones

a small thin “naturally fake” nose is way less common than i realize and it is normal and ok not to have one

my nose is beautiful and i am beyond societal beauty standards

i love my nose and i love my body and i love myself

i am more than just my nose and i deserve respect and love regardless of what i look like

dont forget that you deserve the world and diversity in noses is beautiful. you are worthy of representation you are worthy of positivity you are worthy of love and you are worthy of celebration

dont let people make you insecure about yourself. drink some water take care of yourself today

this post has been brought to you by the BIG NOSE GANG 👃‼️💯🔥💥

[valtsv]

my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.

[valtsv]

sometimes the best place for an "oh" moment of realization is while reeling from a punch and tasting blood in your mouth. it's kind of like a fucked up first kiss.

[the3rdroad]

whatever in the fresh fuck Sae & Jessi have going on

friends to crushes/mutual pining -> fake dating bc she was hired to kill him -> attempted murder-by-vampire-bite turned major arson -> weird exes energy for years and for some reason he doesnt hate her -> wait why are they back together again??? -> now its a polycule w two other scary women

[thesnadger]

Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

[ariadne-mouse]

[greeniery]

[cthulhus-left-testicle]

Idea: Idol girl disappears and transitions to become the most boring 40 year old man who works a 9-5 and people wonder why there's photos of that idol girl in his house and he's like "that's me when I was 19"

[quotemadness]

When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.

Lang Leav

[whatadumbasslamb]

effervescent

[kinasin]

[jaubaius]

Diver convince octopus to trade his plastic cup for a seashell

[waffilicious]

imagine if a fuckin……. giant alien just showed up and stuck a huge hand in front of your face and then proceeded to offer you three different houses and wouldn’t stop until you moved out of your old shitty apartment and then helped you fuckin move

and then just left

[writing-prompt-s]

She’s a battle-scarred, jaded super-soldier loaded with biomechanical upgrades and chemical augments. All she wants to do is wear cute clothes and paint.

[the3rdroad]

Briar

[supergrinch]

I'm being oppressed

[the3rdroad]

The first time Briar ate nazis in wwii she got so completely stoned lmao. like yes, human blood has some intoxicating effects on whatever-species-she-is on its own. Yes, she's eaten some parties where everyone had pretty high blood alcohol content. However, nazis were straight-up taking amphetamines during a lot of wwii... and Briar has the monster version of "severe untreated adhd".

[destiel-wings]

i just had a HORRIBLE THOUGHT: what if when jack became god (chuck won or not) he erased cas from dean's memory?? that would explain much

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

ow

hey why does this make sense

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...ok that's pretty brutal, sure... u wanna hear my finale theories? bc they are :) just as bad :)

[destiel-wings]

4. of course i wanna hear them, please!! we're already swimming in a pool of pain anyway, let's add more tears to the water 🙃

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

okay!

The Rusty Nail killed Dean bc at some point, Dean became a demon again (or maybe never fully turned back in s10?). Cold iron stakes through the back usually that have that effect on demons. This is also why Dean begged Sam to not try to bring him back.

Sam's whole "happily ever after" whole flash-forward thing was an illusion. "Blurrywife" was a monster, (probably a djinn, or maybe a fae? minor goddess? who knows), and she Ate Him. She was the one in charge of the vamp-mimes, she probably just walked up behind Sam as he was still crying over Dean's body and... that was it. He never even made it out of the barn. That's why he's wearing the same clothes after he dies.

they're not in Heaven, they're legit just haunting that fucking bridge. the first episode of spn was about Sam & Dean getting a ghost off that bridge, the last episode ended with them as ghosts on that bridge. full circle.

Misc/tldr: Baby is not and has never been a car, she is also haunting the bridge. Chuck Won but Jack got away safely (at first at least). What actually happened to Cas is so so so so so so so much more painful than what's shown in canon.

I have posts on my blog that go into some of this in more detail w sources/clips, if you're interested.

[the3rdroad]

for no real reason that makes sense, I have a VERY specific hc that Kevin('s ghost) is currently in Nova Scotia. However, that has no basis in anything, and I LOVE that fic idea.

as for Cas! whoo boy this one takes some explaining, so bear with me.

the "Chuck Won" theory holds true here, so when "Jack" brought back everyone on earth that was still Chuck in control. Jack got away was unceremoniously yeeted out of heaven by Chuck soon afterwards, but somehow survived this and is doing just fine. There's context for this but it's a Weird Folkore Tangent. Also, Sam & Dean didn't go to Heaven, bc they're on the bridge- so no, there's no indication that Cas is anywhere but The Empty.

...that being said

did you ever read Percy Jackson (or have a Greek Myth Phase in general)?

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[the3rdroad]

ULTIMATE BRIARCORE

[about-faces]

Hi! so I'm VERY new to the dc/batfandom, but already extremely here for the Two-Face side of things (no pun intended). I was scrolling posts on how underutilized Gilda Gold/Dent is as a character, and something in my Terminal Mythology Brainrot started ticking when I saw the names "Gold" and "Holiday Killer" next to each other. I did some digging, and found that indeed, Grendel (the creature, not the Dark Horse Comics character) and more importantly Grendel's Mother have NOT been used to their full potential in the dcu. I think that a take on Gilda inspired by Grendel's Mother/by female midwinter/festival monsters in general has immense potential- either as an actual nonhuman lineage, or (imho the better option) as part of the same fixation on mythology that comes out in her calling Harvey "Apollo" in the comics. Also as a multimedia sculptor myself, I can say that most of us would be THRILLED to build a battle-wearable ogress cosplay and Commit Murder Arson Against Major Holidays in it. idk. women in S.T.E.A.M. (Sculpture, Terrorism, Evil, Arson, Mythology)

While I am personally deeply disinterested in takes on Gilda which cast her as a killer/villain, much less a monstrous figure (for reasons which I've gone into rather extensively, wherein I attempt to explain why I think her pre-Holiday depictions are so important and under-appreciated), I must admit that I am genuinely intrigued by the sheer scope of your vision. Utilizing Beowulf is a truly intriguing proposition, something that no writer would ever think to incorporate with someone like Gilda. While I wouldn't normally be on board with Gilda being in the role of Grendel's mom, this is such a novel concept that I'd let you cook. It's certainly more interesting than how she's usually allowed to be in canon, even if it's not what I specifically want.

Also, I've been lamenting a lot about how characters like Gilda (normal-ass civilian type supporting characters) keep getting sucked into the superhero bullshit, getting their own powers and costumes and such. But having Gilda do it in a way that incorporates her sculpture prowess? Again, not what I'd ultimately wanna see, but your ideas intrigue me nonetheless.

[curiobjd]

Very cool concept @catsconflictscopicsandchamomile!

[the3rdroad]

1) what does "I'd let you cook" mean, I've never heard that phrase before and have been trying to figure it out all day lol

2) be forwarned, this is the TIP of the Harvey Dent (mostly obscure asf Roman) Mythology HC Iceberg, bc despite only being in the dc/batfandom for two (lol) months, I've already managed to make everything about mythology

3) for all the depth of this concept, I am 100% picturing Gilda as that one feral "multimedia sculptor" in every queer friend group who makes art out of animal skulls, would turn Full Anarchist at a moment's notice, is always covered in paint, probably cosplayed Nepeta in high school and would ask a guy out by kin-assigning him a greek god