the paper-hearted ghost

my name's ace, i'm not | they/them | 30+ | comic and ink artist | writer | general mess This is my main/writing/fandom blog! You'll find lots of writing thoughts and posts here, the obsession currently on the menu is Fullmetal Alchemist. I follow from nihidea-art. about me. AO3 ART BLOG ETSY Buy me a coffee? ❤

[theliteraryluggage]

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

finally caved, here it is!

Hostile engaging. Abort mission. I sent it on instinct, even though I knew it was much too late for that. What's going on? I could feel ART poking through my sensor data, trying to figure out what had made my threat assessment spike. Its tone was urgent, but calm. It wasn't sure yet if there was a legitimate threat or I was just having a Moment again. The answer was probably a solid "both". All of my organic parts told me to run. Most of my inorganic parts also told me to run. Feed ID: Negotiator Joslin Gender: fem-neutral I shoved the feed ID at ART. The negotiator?, it asked. She used to work for the company. She'll identify me as a SecUnit.

[theliteraryluggage]

Chapter 2 is up!

[theliteraryluggage]

And Chapter 3!

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet

[sighinastorm]

This is such a "common sense" way of putting it. Everybody memorize this for spitting it back out whenever needed.

[skin-slave]

Never thought I'd have the opportunity to say this again: Reducing women and girls to their vaginas and then forcing them to show those vaginas to strangers is not a feminist ideal.

[rainintheevening]

What is prev to you?

the smell of woodsmoke in the dark

sunlight glittering on drifts of snow

opening chords to a classic song after an ad break on the radio

daisies in a mason jar

the curve in the road you always take a bit too fast

blank notebook with a leather cover

a stone church with carvings and spires and stained-glass

a cool pillow and a warm blanket at midnight

playlist that makes sense to no one else

yellow leaf floating down a clear cold river

silver fog over green hills and warm hands in raincoat pockets

a strain of violin music floating through a crowded subway

Remaining time: 5 days 5 hours

[burntblueberrywaffles]

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[questions-about-blorbos]

Your Blorbo had to eat the last food you ate (not a leftover, but the exact same food that you ate; for instance, if the last food you ate was Jajangmyeon, they’d have to eat a fresh bowl of Jajangmyeon too). Would they be happy about it?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

[proshokk]

A boreal owl awaiting the upcoming hoo-hoo-lidays ✨

[calcifiedred]

"Diver," 2026. Photo transfers onto cotton, freshwater pearls, fish hook, thread, colored pencil, gloss medium, gloss gel. dimensions: slightly smaller than my hand :)

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[longsightmyth]

It's fascinating to see people be like oh this author is terrible and putting money towards evil causes but if I pirate the books I'm not putting money in their pocket!

Well. This is true. But why are you so desperate to read their works. Like. You don't have to.

[longsightmyth]

Nobody's saying you can't (no one can or should control your reading and purchasing habits, or at least no one on this here website, my sympathies if someone irl is in fact controlling your reading and purchasing) but I gotta ask, what makes you so desperate to read those books. Is it critique? Is it a required work for a course? Like. Do what you want, but it's forever a bit of a 'wut' moment when people go 'oh I'll just pirate the books then'

Why

[longsightmyth]

"Sometimes bad people make good art" yes and? This statement does not answer the question. This isn't food or shelter. This is entertainment. There are other good works. Replying 'oh I just pirate the books' is wild. You could read other books.

[possessable]

it's good enrichment for The Character(s) when one of their friends gets possessed and they have to find some way to bring them back. great friendgroup bonding activity. especially if they have to do some exorcism bullshit and it's traumatizing for everyone involved and there's collapsing and sobbing afterward. great thing for The Character(s) to do. highly recommend.

[adhd-alien]

No wisdom from me this week, I don't know WHAT MY ISSUE IS

ADHD Alien Graphic Novel & Stream here: https://linktr.ee/adhdalien

[aropride]

apparently u can't add polls to posts from 12 years ago so i'm screenshotting it

what "level" are you

egg

hatchling

baby dragon

dragon

still a dragon

mega dragon

super hella dragon

UNHOLY OFFSPRING OF LIGHTNING AND DEATH

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

[theliteraryluggage]

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

finally caved, here it is!

Hostile engaging. Abort mission. I sent it on instinct, even though I knew it was much too late for that. What's going on? I could feel ART poking through my sensor data, trying to figure out what had made my threat assessment spike. Its tone was urgent, but calm. It wasn't sure yet if there was a legitimate threat or I was just having a Moment again. The answer was probably a solid "both". All of my organic parts told me to run. Most of my inorganic parts also told me to run. Feed ID: Negotiator Joslin Gender: fem-neutral I shoved the feed ID at ART. The negotiator?, it asked. She used to work for the company. She'll identify me as a SecUnit.

[theliteraryluggage]

Chapter 2 is up!

[theliteraryluggage]

And Chapter 3!

[cogneartive]

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

[apollosunn-moved-deactivated202]

anyone else relate

[midnightclover]

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?