Be Safe and Have a Blessed Day!

Hi there! My name is Lisha, I was born in '87 and blissfully married. I'm a simple little geek with interest in multiple fandoms, genres, and medias. Though that isn't all that I'm about so please don't be surprised at all sorts of other randomness that will appear here. Be prepared to see a bit of Spoonie (Chronic illness) related posts and personal things too.

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re a daycare worker, watching over toddlers, when the imminent end of the world is announced. It becomes increasingly clear none of the kids’ parents are going to show up as the end inches nearer.

[bixbythemartian]

[Audio starts]

“Mom has been texting me for the last twenty minutes. She wants me to come home. It’s a four hour drive, when the roads are clear, and from what I hear everybody is trying to get somewhere right now. There’s no telling if I’d even-”

“Everybody else has left. All the other kids were picked up, the other staff left. They gave me all the keys. I promised to stay and wait for as long as- well. Even if some of the parents show up, I guess some of them won’t, so I’m just waiting. Until.”

[Clears throat.]

“A couple of people came after everybody left. Peter, one of Aidan’s fathers, gave me three hundred dollars for staying. What am I going to do with money? It’s- anyway. I kind of get it. He wanted to give me something.”

[Audio ends]

[Audio starts]

“They’re all between 2 and 4.” Sniff. “They’re so little. Too little to really- maybe if they were older, I’d have to tell them something. But um. I’m just- trying to stay calm and keep them happy and occupied. I think that’s the best thing, right now.”

[Heaving breaths.]

“I normally use this recorder to help me remember stuff. It’s just, uh, habit to talk to it. I don’t know. They’re napping, right now. I’ve got the baby monitor, they know that if they talk into it, I’ll come, so-”

[Sobbing.]

[Audio ends]

[Audio starts]

“Mom keeps texting, so I blocked her. I sent her a text telling her goodbye, first, but. I do. But these kids need me.”

[Sniff.]

“I tried calling their parents again, but I can’t get anybody. It’s just busy signals. I called the firefighter station, 911. I can’t get through to anybody.”

[Shaky breath.]

“I went out into the yard. Um, I think they can play. It’s nice out, and you can’t really see it yet. Little bit of a glimmer, if they ask I’ll just tell them it’s a plane, but it’s nice out and we’ve got hours before-”

[Murmuring child’s voice, indistinguishable.]

[Audio ends]

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[whatthemeepever]

It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[michael-the-rouge]

Do I have to say it?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[amuseoffyre]

My money says that’s what plesiosaurs were like: fast underwater, extra padding for buoyancy, long neck. Look at their skeletons!

It’s just like this:

They’re basically large horizontal penguins with a long tail and spiky teeth.

[autumngracy]

OH SHIT THEY PENGUINS!!

[v0idbird]

OH SHIT PLESIOSAUR PENGUIN!!!!!!!!!

[uncle-beanbag]

This is the inherant problem with most reconstructions. It’s just unknown how much fat the animals really had.

[psiotechniqa]

looks legit

I’ve seen similar points be raised about skeletal reconstructions for hippos if we use that same logic

[nandalorian]

This is pretty much how stories of mythological creatures like the cyclops originated. Just centuries upon centuries of ancient civilizations being baffled af over weird skeletons.

[rcaffa]

In the vein of this post, I strongly encourage anyone to check out ‘All Yesterdays’, a more speculative paleoart book, which features a section on how modern animals could be reconstructed, based on how we’ve constructed fossil species in the past.

[antikate]

The “oh I could definitely write this fanfic in under 5000 words and it really wouldn’t take me that long” voice in your head is actually the devil speaking

[diosmiles]

[royalblueghost]

[mybraiindump]

the true cycle of life

[metautske]

@rayshippouuchiha YOU

[kaelio]

A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

[staarshines]

new ask game: give me an extremely specific assumption you have about me based off of my fanfic. go.

[thehumantrampoline]

Here's the thing about Jareth from Labyrinth right?

He's made up.

That's not necessarily the same thing as not REAL. But he, just like all her friends who show up in her room before her adventure as toys and figurines, exist in relation to her, in response to what she wanted and needed. She told the story and there he was, there he always had been. But she's a teenage girl who doesn't know what she wants yet, and Jareth kind of pays the price.

"but the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and had given her certain powers." He's an archetypal oxymoron. He's both the dastardly baby stealing villain and the royal love interest trying to relieve the heroine's suffering, Cinderella style. He's fucked either way by being both. She doesn't know if SHE wants to be the villain or the heroine until he shows up and then she decides on the heroine, so he has to sneer and menace and challenge but it's too late for him!! it's too late, The King Of The Goblins Had Fallen In Love With the Girl, he's Cinderella's prince too and he has to try, he gives her a poofy dress and takes her to fucking goblin prom, sweeps her around the room like a music box with perfect posture and room for Jesus.

But it doesn't work buddy, it can't work. You're just a story for a teen girl to grow up in, and as the villain you have to be defeated. He's so complex because his tropes contradict themselves, and he doesn't understand why he has to lose when he was only doing the job he was given. In his last scene he is pale as death with shadows under his eyes, backing away and begging for his happy ending with nonsense mishmash promises that belong to both halves of him.

"I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me." I'm sure you are, Jareth. No wonder.

[thymianne]

But of course! That's what his song is about!

Actually, I see a nice paralell here with The Neverending Story's AURYN. You remember what's written on it's back?

"Do What You Wish"

And no, it doesn't mean you should fool around and just wish away whatever you have on your mind. As the Ruler of the Desert of Colors, Gograman explains it to Bastian, it is about following your True Wish.

Bastian thinks he knows what his true wish is. You see? Same as for Sarah. She thinks she knows what she wants. As Jareth points it out to her, "everything I've done, I've done for you" - he kidnapped Toby just as she wished. He gave her a chance to get him back.

"I move the stars for no-one"

This. This is where he becomes threatening. FOR REAL. He is warning her.

Sarah : Give me the child.

Jareth : Sarah, beware. I have been generous up 'til now. I can be cruel.

Sarah : Generous? What have you done that's generous?

Jareth : *Everything*! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for *you*! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations. Isn't that generous?

What Sarah and Bastian both have in common; they don't realize that wishes have CONSEQUENCES.

How you turn my world

You precious thing

You starve and near exhaust me

Everything I've done

I've done for you

I move the stars for no one

You've run so long

You've run so far

Your eyes can be so cruel

Just as I can be so cruel

Oh I do believe in you

Yes I do

Live without your sunlight

Love without your heartbeat

I, I can't live within you

I can't live within you

I, I can't live within you.

[fiwen9430]

#the line you expect#the line he should sing#because it’s a love song right?#it’s almost a love song#the line you want to hear is ‘i can’t live without you’#but instead it’s ‘i can’t live within you’ because he’s a concept stretched too thin#he’s fantasy and sexuality and girlhood and hero and villain and freedom and entrapment and salvation and destruction#goblin and king#and she’ll grow up and change#But he never will#because she needed him THEN#jareth is literally the character of all time he makes me insane indane insane (tags via @lestatslestits)

[egberts]

looks like october is…. octover

[laurassecretlife]

i’m queueing this for next year

[finchjpeg]

Its nowvember

[mythicamagic]

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like:

[metautske]

@rayshippouuchiha @coetiroedd

You have both ruined me and also exposed me to so many fandoms

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[kateawolf13]

Some people have "fuck you" money. You know, that amount you have in the bank where you can look at someone, say "fuck you, I quit" or "fuck you, I'm leaving" or anything like that.

This has now taught me that some people have "fuck you" time. and I could not be any happier with this knowledge.

[gallusrostromegalus]

The secret to developing Fuck You Time is developing Fuck You Skills. In the above example, the gentleman had the Fuck You Skills of

1. Being able to track down the superintendent's doctoral thesis 2. How to check it for plagiarism 3. How to notify the relevant people of this fraud without sounding like a crank.

Since he has these skills, it does not take him MUCH time to preform the Fuck You. Hence, his Fuck You time might be only a few hours a week, but because he's so effecient at the Fuck You, that's all he needs.

Learn a new skill and how to tell the universe Fuck You! today!

[dear-ao3]

[x]

[foxy-sierra]

Not a single motherfucker will give the blessing for this poor browski to be saved from the curse of creating a long fanfic.

[okyverlo]

@rayshippouuchiha

[staff]

if you fuckers do the skeleton war shit again this year we’re deleting the website for real

[savage-flirtation-deactivated20]

[suiheisen]

i watch baseball for the side quests

update: i think you should look at the reblogs for more important baseball hijinks

[rrrick]

[bizarrobrain]

[instantduckninja]

Note from one of your local librarians— if you’re having drug fueled orgies in the library, please tell us!

We are always trying to boost program numbers and if this is a community need we’d love to discuss collaborating by providing snacks and relevant books for inspiration!

[mollybeenoel]

Moo Deng, a famous baby hippopotamus at Khao Kheow zoo in Thailand ♡

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