Unfortunate Ambition

A Writer's blog with semi-frequent updates. At this point I hope you know what I'm about, https://linktr.ee/erenthebright

[warcraftedtardis]

I have a card for Bad Things Happen Bingo! Please send me requests to my ask box!

I will write any Sander Sides ship (except romantic Creativitwins) but pls specify if you’d like to see the pairing in a romantic or platonic way in your ask. Be advised that I am an adult and may write the romantic pairings in adult situations. (If you don’t want to see that, please specify, I might have phenomenal cosmic powers but mind-reading isn’t one of them, lol)

Per the Rules of Bad Things Happen Bingo, each ask will only count to one bad thing. I’ll mark them off as I get requests and then again when the fic is posted. If you want to make multiple requests, I’m a-okay for that but please consider making them separate asks so I can better track them.

[captainjonnitkessler]

Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.

[buttpoems]

[loveridden1999]

[enbi-ink]

@warcraftedtardis

[warcraftedtardis]

Very stoppable yes

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Can't wait to run across this drama summarised in a three hour video essay

[navpike]

new reaction image just dropped

[life-ennder]

where to download every pokemon game excluding spinoffs

(plain text: where to download every pokemon game excluding spinoffs)

GAMES

pokemon red/blue

pokemon gold/silver/crystal

pokemon ruby/sapphire/emerald

pokemon firered/leafgreen

pokemon diamond/pearl/platinum

pokemon heartgold/soulsilver

pokemon black/white

pokemon black2/white2

pokemon x/pokemon y

pokemon omega ruby/alpha sapphire

pokemon sun/moon

pokemon ultra sun/ultra moon

pokemon let’s go pikachu/let’s go eevee

pokemon sword/shield

pokemon brilliant diamond/shining pearl

pokemon legends arceus

pokemon scarlet/violet

EMULATORS

gameboy

DS

3DS

switch

let me know if any of the links are dead and ill update them as soon as i can!

[life-ennder]

pokemon legends za

[flyingpurplepeopleprogrammer]

[enbi-ink]

@warcraftedtardis this is us

[notaplaceofhonour]

girl unhinge ur jaw

[notaplaceofhonour]

UNCLENCH. I MEANT UNCLENCH

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[charlesoberonn]

"It's so unrealistic for there to always be a tavern in D&D/fantasy!"

Map of Pubs in Britain:

[charlesoberonn]

Don't worry, I got you!

[charlesoberonn]

The most tonally incoherent movie night ever.

[katieaki]

couple’s t-shirt idea

[enbi-ink]

@warcraftedtardis I'm the one on the right you're the one on the left

[warcraftedtardis]

Yknow what, fair

[mapsontheweb]

Nature of most commonly used swear words across Europe

(by u/AgonizingFatigue)

[ceevee5]

[samrobotize]

People in the USA should be reading foreign news.

This is what they did to a Canadian

Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell

A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting h

A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.

Edouard Lallemand, 60, said he nearly drowned during the ordeal last Sunday afternoon after the Coast Guard’s boat “pushed” his boat, causing it to capsize.

Days after the incident, he’s still shaken up.

“I’m never going to be the same,” he told CTV News.

[phynali]

Seconding that Americans should read and seek out foreign news. Seriously. The BBC, the CBC, the Guardian app, GroundNews, whatever. Stop relying on fucking.... the NYT or MSNBC or whatever y'all are watching.

People aren't traveling to the US. Even Forbes is reporting a 29 billion dollar loss to your tourism industry for this year. And literally everyone outside of the US is like "yeah of course that tracks, I keep reading news stories about citizens from my country being detained when they go there".

(to say nothing of the incredible anger amongst Canadians for the annexation threats and tariffs attempting to create economic pressure to capitulate to the orange one's bullshit, let alone stories like what happened to the man in the story linked above. We are NOT taking our tourism dollars south anytime soon)

Begging Americans to learn about the world outside of the US.

[mortalityplays]

U.K. cartoonist Rebecca Burke on her ICE detainment: 'No one should be here' - The Comics Journal

On Feb. 26, 2025, Rebecca Burke became a prisoner of the United States immigration system. Burke, a 28-year-old comic artist from Wales, had

this cartoonist is like two degrees of separation from me socially, she was detained, shackled, held in an ICE detention centre for 19 days and banned from entering the US for ten years. for the crime of visiting as a tourist. no shit nobody wants to travel to the US.

[cricketcat9]

As a Canadian... not going to the US and not flying through the US, unless I would absolutely have to. I stopped even before the Orange Disgrace, to avoid things regularly stolen from the luggage and stupid questions at the immigration.

[political-us]

[ghostseeds]

Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops

While national rhetoric leans on fear and force, mayors in cities like Chicago, Baltimore, and Birmingham are reducing homicides through dat

[enki2]

[sage-hendricks]

Let's not gloss over the fact that the AI drive thru bot getting the order wrong is not always low stakes. I have a tomato allergy, and while it's mild enough that it's unlikely to actually kill me, if I ask for no tomato on something and there's tomato there, I can't eat that thing, even if I pull the tomato off. If they put ketchup packets in my bag, it's fine unless one of them bursts, and if I take a bite without noticing I am done for the night. I can only imagine how much worse this kind of thing could be for folks whose allergies are more severe than mine!

Generative ai isn't just bad when used to replace people in "high stakes" jobs, it's bad when it replaces any person.

[beefcake007]

While we’re talking about censorship, I need everyone to stop playing this little amnesia game where we pretend not to remember what internet and fandom has looked like for the past 20 years. Weird and taboo porn has always existed, it used to be a LOT easier to access, and you won’t die if you look at it. We simply cannot continue placating the crazy mob of people who are scared of sex and love overstating harm, they’ll call you a pedophile literally no matter what, and they’ll roll around in their cognitive dissonance like a hog in mud when you point out that the other group calling you a freak and a pedo are the conservative alt right. Fucking exhausting being a fag and a pervert in 2025.