The Octopus Zone

I am an adult. :)

[parkchanwoohoo]

How does this eve-- whatever

[stephfandomdumps]

poll game!

there were ~60 conspirators to kill caesar but they only managed to stab him 23 times. assuming a conspirator got to stab him a max of only 1 time, try to split yourselves into the same percentages as those 2069 years ago

23/60 who did stab him = 38.3%

37/60 who didn't stab him = 61.7%

Voting ended onMar 13

[ancient-rome-au]

go to this random-number-generator website. if you get 23 or lower, click the first option, otherwise, the second option. we can do this!

[heroineimages]

Liking the way you think.

[karis-the-feral-sideblog]

[lurker-lenore]

[clinticalthinkr]

For anyone wondering what Wild Rabbit could be writing about if not minotaur smut.

[sillystringpasta]

gun to my head, you show me the cover and tell me to guess the plot, I a) would never have come up with something as painfully non-horny as above and b) no actually i'm still stuck on point a.

[neenarchive]

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

WIZARD TIP: Pneumanecrosis is mercifully rare; your symptoms likely indicate something more mundane.

[faithdeans]

time to see if my old mpreg player works ahhh!!!

[faithdeans]

IT WORKS!!!!

[faithdeans]

MP3 PALYER

[faithdeans]

[vampiremuney]

[faithdeans]

[conker-shell]

You there boy! What day is it?

[regicidal-defenestration]

[conker-shell]

[inwardhardar]

[egberts]

okay so for my first wish i want you to uncurl every single spring in existence

[wizardshark]

the ducks are going to be upset

[theoctopuscats]

@lizardonatoadstool

[kushblazer666]

my mom’s getting too into the meme game

[lornagonigall]

your mother is funnier than literally everyone on tumblr

[icaruspendragon]

ooooh english literature student….i wonder what she is reading…..

[maxknightley]

okay. listen. I try not to be pedantic about this sort of thing but it’s starting to get on my nerves. the wire mother offers milk but not comfort. the cloth mother offers comfort but not milk. if something is comforting, fun, or otherwise compelling, but lacks substance, that is the cloth mother. if something is boring or unpleasant but has substance, that is the wire mother.

[the-arthropod-queen]

things are heating up in the unethical experiments fandom

[squidong]

I’m about to buy and read the crow plastic romantasy book

Help

[squidong]

Welcome to the fae future, where you can never use a vibrator again.

[squidong]

He recognized her as his ~mate~. She’s Australian, so she keeps casually calling him “mate” as he gets increasingly flustered.

I genuinely cannot tell if this book is terrible or brilliant.

[squidong]

I have many questions. For instance, if his job is to destroy plastic but he spends most of his time hunting monsters, does that mean the monsters are made of plastic? How does that work?

[squidong]

I GUESS

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This looks amazing actually

[resmeae]

I tried to find this book and found several crow romantasy books, none of which match the description. Halp.

[squidong]

The Company of Vengeful Crows: Season of the Crow, by Lana Pecherczyk

The plastic thing isn’t actually all that central to the plot as written.

[squidong]

[squidong]

“I’m sorry” and “thank you” are words that create a debt bond that fae can cash in on?

[squidong]

Also I forgot to mention - our heroine is in her mid to late thirties! She was married to an asshole ex-football (soccer) star for 15 years before the apocalypse happened, he dumped her, and poof she woke up in the fae future.

Blake (the character) is from Perth, and definitely low-brow - that’s why she got dumped in the first place. Shoutout to the notes for introducing me to the term “bogan”. Half the aussies in the notes are like “I know people who talk exactly like that” and half of them are convinced the author has never met an Australian in her life. I’m inclined to side with the first half, since the author is Australian.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Australians seeing something that Australians do in a different part of the country and declaring that no Australian does that is, in itself, very Australian.

[hollowedskin]

Look if she's in Perth this may very well be happening in real life. They do weird shit over there.

[squidong]

PREV TAGS WAIT DO THEY PLAY AMERICAN FOOTBALL IN AUSTRALIA???

I read “footballer” & thought “okay it’s not the US so that means soccer” but the way he’s described does sound more hulking and brutish than I generally think of soccer footballers.

Edit: looked it up. Australian rules football is more like American football than it is like soccer. Neat. This book is teaching me so many things

[squidong]

Did you just call us the c-word?

[squidong]

I’m not confused, dad! I’m just Australian!

River is the MMC, Talo is his dad. Our main couple are still not together despite the soulmate bond thing. She called River’s friend Ash “mate” to get under River’s skin because she was mad at him, and his family misinterpreted drastically.

I love this book with my entire heart. I’m posting the goofier excerpts, but it is genuinely a delightful romp. Not a satire or parody, quite genre-typical in fact, but extremely clever and heartfelt while still being willing to laugh at itself. Highly recommend for those who enjoy het romantasy.

[squidong]

WHO TOLD HER

[squidong]

Word of god, y’all, it sounds like the microplastics aren’t addressed 😔

[squidong]

I don’t think I can describe how poignant the context to this scene is, but I have been enjoying the crow-UV-color layer of worldbuilding immensely. Also, I was wondering about her colorful hair in the original viral post.

[squidong]

THE CULTURE CLASH WORDPLAY CONTINUES

[squidong]

So for context he carved a tree to represent her ex and—

[wiping away a tear] Blake baby you are so fucking perfect

[orpheusilver]

masturbation is evil not for any puritan anti-fun reason but because it has permanently claimed so many verbs

[orpheusilver]

nobody can crank anything anymore. and god forbid you jerk

[orpheusilver]

turning off rbs at 75k btw so get your last reblogs in now

[tributary]

all this talk of “centering [groups]” from people not even close to the playing field

[tributary]

“focus on” ✅

“highlight the experiences of” wordy, but ✔️

“centering” what kind of new age newspeak bullshit is this ❌

[televisionenjoyer]

NOOOO THE SIX ORGASMS PERIOD HACK GOT REBLOGS DISABLED JUST AS I TRIED TO REBLOG IT whatever. I'm trying that next period.

[televisionenjoyer]

Rescued media. Fuck it.

[theoctopuscats]

@valerico

yeah it’s not surprising to me that some version of this would actually work. It’s a shame I can’t try it :/

[probuccalfat]

there is a category 9 vibe shift occurring and everybody’s blogging like they don’t feel it

[clownskribbles]

I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)