wait it’s already midnight?

[waterloggedgarden]

barnacles: God's anti-slip mat

[waterloggedgarden]

i feel the bugs and they're touching me

i feel the bugs and want to scream

[waterloggedgarden]

it sings to me,

in sweet japanese.

[magpie-trove]

Oh! So I maybe haven’t been actually surrendering to the will of the Lord so much as just preparing myself to be disappointed which! Is decidedly not the same thing.

[wlw-whump]

I'm a BIG fan of low ranking characters suddenly thrust into a position of authority they're unprepared for. a young princess, too far down the line of succession to merit any training, forced onto the throne when her whole family dies in one attack. a lowly technician on a team who finds themself the defacto leader when a mission goes wrong and every single person above them is captured or killed. a group of strangers comes together for survival, and the only person with any assertiveness gets assigned a leadership role, even though they have no special skills. do these characters rise to the challenge and lead their respective groups to victory? do they crash and burn under the pressure so hard no one ever trusts them again? do they massively restructure their whole society because any system that puts them in charge can't be doing things right?

[leseigneurdelorage]

Lowkey want to write a romance book where the summary makes it sound like it's gonna be one of those smutty cheating-on-boring-boyfriend/husband books, but actually nothing of the sort happens, they are stronger than ever as a couple at the end, and any other guy mentionned in the summary is a very good friend of the family.

[leseigneurdelorage]

Think "1888: 25 yo bride of british a much older politician bore is wasting away in her marriage until the day her husband introduces her to the sulfurous and single Lord Bedbreaker. Despite her reluctance, he will show her a whole new world and take her on adventures she never would have imagined"

What happens: "1888 (the year jack the ripper killed people. It will be plot relevant). The 25 yo bride of a british, much older (he's 30) politician bore (she loves that he's boring, she's boring too) is wasting away in her marriage (because their boringnesses play up each other's insecurities about being boring and tasteless, and they never dare to leave their comfort zone as a result) until the day her husband introduces her to the sulfurous (literally just came back from using sulfur to get rid of an infestation in his house or something) and single (because of the infestation. Also he might be like 15) Lord Bedbreaker (actually an anglicization of some germanic name with no such connotations). Despite her reluctance (because it's super dangerous) he will show her a whole new world (the East End, aka the poorer neighbourhoods) and take her on adventures she could never have imagined (they're gonna catch Jack the Ripper along with her husband and a couple of friends, it's a group outing, she doesnt develop feelings for him)

[canonicalghostbuster]

dashboard is weighing the benefits of trinkets

[apolladay]

Please only vote if you've been driving for over 2 years

How many times have you been pulled over by the police?

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Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[waterloggedgarden]

one of the churches in town has the lower parts of its ceiling painted blue with golden stars everywhere. i think it's pretty and would love to replicate it some day

[eternal-echoes]

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Bigs My Eyes At You

[sunglassesbot]

@hearing-in-color

[smokingrozanov]

T shirt that says “I ❤️ getting laid” & then on the back it says “to REST” with a photo of a coffin + the name & phone number for a local cemetery. Please follow for more advertising ideas

[waterloggedgarden]

good evening i love love love the waves

[waterloggedgarden]

"...because netflix always has to make it gay"

"what about that noah khan documentary"

"no, not him. he's a real american"

[ltwilliammowett]

Fishing boats, by Johannes Holst, 1938

[kazoosandfannypacks]

I don't want dating apps. I wanna meet a man the old fashioned way: I see him across the room at a ball and ask my friend who he is, and when she realizes I've taken a fancy to him, she drags me across the room and forces us to talk to each other.

[prokopetz]

The reason you can't be the next J R R Tolkien isn't because you don't have the talent, but because you're not the right kind of unwell. Tolkien wasn't bent for fantasy worldbuilding; he was bent for constructed languages, and got into fantasy worldbuilding in order to provide a material context in which to ground the notional evolution of the languages he invented. If you want to be the next Tolkien, you can't start with the worldbuilding; you've gotta find something extremely specific to fixate on, and develop it in such depth that inventing a world to contain it is genuinely the most logical next step.