The End of All Things

I am a 20-something year old brit who lives in New Zealand.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[feministfandomforever]

Can't help but giggle is my favorite genre

[when-angels-come]

Acceptable use of "boys will be boys"

[leonawriter]

Never give up on hoping that your fave fic will be updated!!

I just finished the second in a series I'd been meaning to keep going and I'd published the first-

oh god it was THIS TIME LAST YEAR.

[when-angels-come]

Last week I posted a new chapter for my WiP. Latest chapter published in Jan 2026. Chapter before that was posted in Oct 2022.

Life happened. Then I got a break and my health allowed me to think for the first time in years.

New chapter has like 20 comments astonished and excited about the new chapter being posted.

[orphiclovers-deactivated2026032]

dogs might look like their owners but cat people always have a cat with the same mental illness as them

[gean-grey-blog]

My last cat was owned by my friend's Trekkie uncle who passed very suddenly in a car crash. The family just couldn't take him and asked me to possibly foster him until they could. I almost immediately adopted him.

I would set my computer to play a video for him when I left for work. He got mad if it wasn't star trek. He learned to hit the spacebar to pause and start it.

I am and have always been a Trekkie. One time I was having a shit day bc I was in the middle of MCAS starting to kick my butt and I was just crying on my couch. He hopped onto the table and started star trek for me

Then he just stared at me like "did that work?"

And this was his staring face so yes of course it did

But I'm forever amused that I shared needing the same comfort show, with a cat

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Omg this is amazing

Like learning to pause???

And knowing it comforted you as well???

[gean-grey-blog]

It took him some trial and error, but he figured out pawing the keyboard in the area of the spacebar made it stop and start. And also at my mouse, which he had stolen bc I was paying too much attention to the video, in that picture

He was a very smart and like. Attenuated cat.

[when-angels-come]

I was once doing the depressed over sleeping thing. I was part way through a nap when I woke up to my face being nudged and licked. After I opened my eyes and batted my cat away, she wandered off.

She returned a few moments later, awkwardly carrying my ps5 controller. She put it down beside me and just stared at me until I sat up and grabbed it. Then, she sat on my lap and looked at the TV expectantly.

I started playing my comfort game, and she curled up purring on my lap.

She was not generally a lap cat. But she knew that I liked having her there. She knew that playing games helped me feel better.

She passed in November, but I'll never forget how much love we shared for the ten years she lived with me.

[json-derulo]

endlessly funny that some pets will just decide they are service animals now without any training or feedback from humans. babygirl no one hired you. you do not have a license for this

[json-derulo]

I’m not talking about humans pretending their untrained pets are service animals so they can bring them places they shouldn’t be allowed. I’m talking about my dog, who took one look at the two people with severe ADHD time-blindness and executive dysfunction who adopted him and was like, “Great. I am your Watch Dog now, as in, dog who functions like a watch. That is, if your watch was a seven-pound furby that could run this house like the goddamn navy. I will catapult myself onto your chest and nip at your hands when you fail to get up and Do Things in response to my incessant whining that it is Time For You To Eat Lunch/Get Out Of Bed/Go Exercise/Take Your Meds/Etc Now Now Right Now. This is a service I provide for to Helping You. No, you cannot opt out of the Helping You. Do not attempt to resist the Helping You.”

[json-derulo]

⬆️ Trained Professional

[json-derulo]

[json-derulo]

And he has like a fae-rules understanding of the scope of his duties and authority. He respects that we can and will override his judgment if we determine we do not actually need to do the Thing He Thinks We Need To Be Doing Right Now. But he is absolutely insistent that we give some indication that we have heard him and noticed what time it is first before he will chill out.

For example: My partner usually wakes up at 4AM to go for a run, but some days, he will just decide he needs the rest more than the exercise and turn his phone alarm off without getting up. Toby does Not Allow this and will stand on top of his pillow and stomp his little feet until the slovenly human has at least gotten out of bed and gone to the bathroom or the kitchen for a glass of water or something. But once he has risen and Done A Thing, thus acknowledging the passage of time, Toby will happily follow him back to bed and snuggle up for another few hours of snoozing

[when-angels-come]

My cat lived with me for 10 years. When she was about 7, I became disabled. Here are a few things this previously aloof cat (who barely tolerated sitting on a lap, never mind cuddling) trained herself to do:

- When I got sick, even if it was just a run of the mill cold, she would place herself between me and the door. My partner, flatmate, and best friend were ignored if they came in. Anyone else would get a loud meow, warning them that I'm sick, and warning me that someone was coming in. If it was a stranger, she meowed and then hissed.

- when I got period cramps, she would heave a huge sigh and then sit on my abdomen and purr. She'd seen me with a heat pad, and also seen me burn myself on one. So she decided to be my new heat pad. She would hiss at anyone other than me moving her.

- when I started to lose the ability to walk, she would force me to try. Once, she found a leaf and then stood by it making "I'm hurt, come help me" sounds until I went to her. I saw there was nothing wrong and went to sit back down. She did this several times a day. Likely why I didn't completely lose the ability to walk.

- when I got my wheelchair, she wouldn't let anyone else sit in it or move it.

- when I started to get depressed, she started sleeping beside me, making sure that part of her was always touching me.

- she started to alert me to seizures just before they happened. She would nip at my ankle or toes. She NEVER bit me or nipped at me otherwise (unless we were playing and she did so by mistake, which she always stopped then gave me a little lick to apologize).

- she was never a cat that would knock things off tables or ledges. Never. Until I started taking meds that would give me dry mouth and needed me to drink more water. Then, if I hadn't had a drink for a while, she would knock my drink bottle from the bedside table, directly onto me. She never did this with open containers, only drink bottles. And only on me.

- she started to alert me to oncoming migraines. Usually by attempting to stop me from using screens. My phone would be pushed from my hand. She would sit between me and the tablet. She even learned how to unplug my ps5. She never figured out the switch, so she just put her face over it from behind. About 10% of the time she did this it was because she wanted attention. The other 90% was because I hadn't noticed a migraine coming on (ADHD, if I'm distracted enough, I miss the beginning of a migraine and only notice when the wall of pain hit).

- she noticed I started to skip meals and wouldn't eat unless I had eaten.

- if I missed a shower too many days in a row, she would start cleaning me.

- if I fell down, she would either go and get someone, or stand next to me and scream until someone came.

I trained her in none of this. None. She would more or less only do it with me. The only thing she did for others was if my flatmate was super upset, she'd spend some time with her.

She died last month, and I miss her so much. I'm struggling, but I'm making a point of taking care of myself. I don't know if there's an afterlife for cats or not, but if there is, I don't want her to be worried about me.

RIP Midnight Ranger of the Outer Darkness. You will be missed.

[thedarkrose17]

It kind of sucks being a fan of stuff when you live in the Uk cause legit we get nothing/it's hard to get a hold of official stuff

[when-angels-come]

Think that's hard? Try living in New Zealand lol.

Half the places don't deliver here, and the other half have ridiculous shipping fees.

I once saw $50 shipping on a $3 glove. Not even a pair of gloves. Just the one. (Anti smudge/artist glove).

I can't even pay my MMO sub in my currency. I have to pay in euros.

[tallowandport]

[when-angels-come]

When you talk to your friend about a fanfic idea, but instead you end up with a mental image that won't go away....

So here's an edit of Koromaru being Mona's battle mount that literally nobody asked for.

We decided that for a crossover, Morgana would be able to understand Koromaru and would be high key jealous that Koromaru is such a good boy.

Koromaru just wants to be friends so during combat he just grabs Mona by the scarf and yeets him onto his back to do a Showtime! move.

Also, I headcannon that while Koro-chan is absolutely a good boy, he counts on nobody but the weird metal lady being able to understand him and has a very dirty mouth.

Someome: aww, aren't you such a good boy!?

Koromaru: You bet your little bitch ass I am.

[wrensreverie]

The first time I played through ffxv I was suffering from chronic migraines and headaches so when Noctis was having his I just thought it was funny they made him so relatable and went "damn me too man" everytime he complained about his headaches. Turnes out his headaches were in fact caused by an ancient god trying to talk to him and he was not supposed to be highly relatable or whatever

[when-angels-come]

I related to him through his chronic pain tbh.

Since the attack on him as a kid, he's had chronic back pain. The game doesn't explicitly tell you this, you have to see the clues and put them together.

His default outfit has odd shoes. One is to give that leg some extra support.

When you run for too long, he will show signs of pain. Holding his back, small stretches. Limping.

The way he stands, with his shoulders behind his hips (looks like he's leaning backwards) is a common posture for some chronic back issues.

When he gets a massage in Galden Quay (optional), he reacts in a very familiar way to people with certain back pain.

Being in pain is exhausting. This is likely why he naps so much. The others tease him a little, but nobody actually _stops_ him from napping. They probably understand that he needs it.

The game doesn't tell you explicitly because he's dealt with this pain for most of his life (I can't remember if he was 6 or 8 when attacked, but he was pretty young). He's used to it. He has many small coping mechanisms that he uses. His friends already know about it. It doesn't need to be talked about.

I have chronic pain. I use most of the same coping mechanisms. I don't need to talk about it for my close friends or family to know when it hurts.

Too many disabled characters end up with the majority of their characterization being about the disability. But Noctis doesn't. Even though it affects his magical abilities (one of the in game data sheets mentions this part specifically), his chronic pain has very little to do with who he is. His personality isn't about his disability.

He just happens to have one.

(And yes, it is a disability. Not only does it affect his magic - thus disabling him in that way - but anyone with chronic pain will tell you that pushing through it is all you can do sometimes. Just because you can do something with a disability, doesnt mean that it isnt painful and/or disabling.)

[memeuplift]

[socialjust-ish]

[thegaymertrainer]

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[inkvoices]

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

[inkvoices]

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

[lightningladybug]

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

[inkvoices]

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

[dannnnnnnnnnnnex]

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

[wileycap]

I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.

He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he's going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we're all friends here... and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn't acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you're exempted from bowing and "Your Highness" will do. It's a really interesting lecture.

"Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won't be here next week, me and Aang are going to-" yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka's hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.

One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She's currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you're from the Southern Water Tribe, but it's just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don't think that every person from the South knows one another haha it's just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or...

Sokka looks at her blankly and goes "yeah, she's my sister. KATARA!" which is followed by a faint answering "fuck you!" from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.

Sokka does not teach or study history, but he does sometimes sit in on lectures about recent history. Whenever he does, several doctoral students flock in to sit near him (even if it's an intro course) so that they can eavesdrop on his grumbling. (No matter how they try, an "overheard utterance" is not a valid source according to their professors. No, we have no sources on the Avatar's bison taking part in combat - sky bison are not war animals and...)

He gets regular deliveries with the Beifong family crest on them, and he goes "sweet, Toph must have found some new minerals" and at this point nobody needs to ask which Toph. He seems to have friends everywhere, literally everywhere. Wang was headed out to this massive swamp to study if it's one big organism, and Sokka told him to find some guy named Hue and "don't mind the loincloth." One time the university gets shut down because the Earth King wants to visit. Oh, visit the University? What an honor- Of fucking course not, he wants to visit Professor Sokka, who yells at him and his royal guards for interrupting his day. The Earth King and his many, many royal guards then sheepishly say sorry and file out.

The last straw is when - not a week after he yelled at the Earth King - the assistant head of the Political Science dept walks in to the faculty lounge to find Sokka having tea with a nice normal man dressed in Earth greens for once, and can't resist a little joke. "Let me guess, you're having tea with the Fire Lord." And then she can instantly tell that she fucked up, because both of them go stock still.

So when the two men awkwardly stand up and proceed to introduce the Fire Lord whose portrait she has in her office because she is the assistant head of Political Science as Li, a server at the Jasmine Dragon, she just says "hello Li" and leaves to find a bottle of something strong.

[official-lucifers-child]

the swears that non-native-english-speakers come up with are absolutely fantastic sometimes. my friend just said “she is fuck as shit” instead of “she is fucking shit” and now i cant stop saying things are fuck as shit. the weather is fuck as shit. my homework is fuck as shit. phenomenal.

[when-angels-come]

My flatmate had a good one (though her first language was English).

"Son of a cunt"

I couldn't stop laughing. I think she used this to describe a half brother that had the same dad.

[iphysalian]

Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

[when-angels-come]

This works for sci-fi too. Too many sci-fi plots are Earth but not called Earth.

[briarpatch-kids]

Also the term "severely disabled" is getting stretched pretty thin too, I see a lot of people who are like... talking about how severely disabled they are and how their body is rotting and they're a total lost cause who can do nothing for themselves, and then I look at their blog and they're like... a cane user or something similar.

I really hate to be like "that's not that bad" when someone else is suffering, but it makes it really hard to find people who are in a similar boat as far as being nonambulatory and who need constant care from others. It's taken me a long time to find a precious few friends who share those experiences and that I can relate to and it certainly doesn't make it easier when the definition of severely disabled is stretched so thin.

I really don't think it's helping the impostor syndrome some people face either. There are a ton of people who are in constant pain with mobility issues and stuff like that who are on the fence about calling themselves disabled at all because they see people talking about how their glasses that correct their vision to 20/20 are a disability aid that makes them Visually Impaired and Disabled and want to avoid looking or sounding like them.

There's a lot more nuance to this than I could put into words because holy cow I don't want to hurt people that don't deserve to be but also I want to be able to find and talk to people who are also disabled without sifting through 10,000 "I'm severely disabled because I need to eat microwave meals when I don't have the spoons to cook" people first. I don't have the capacity or ability to do that sifting, it's almost like I'm severely disabled or something.

[when-angels-come]

I have mobility issues. I can't cook. Sometimes I can't even use the microwave. I've had more than 12 seizures today (probably a lot more. I lost count). I commonly have migraines that send me blind. I have days where I can't speak. I haven't showered in a month.

I'm disabled. But I don't count myself as severely disabled. Some might. I don't. 75% of the time, I'm mostly able to take care of myself.

I know my situation is bad. I know I'm disabled. But when I think "severely dsiabled" I think of the people that can't do anything for themselves. That need to be physically cared for.

But there isn't really a definition for it.

Compared to my friends I am severely disabled. But that's a comparison to abled people. It's possible that the people who call themselves severely disabled are comparing themselves to abled people, rather than realizing that they should be looking at where they are in the disabled community.

[chronicpaingirlie]

tbh the ‘anything is better than nothing’ mindset has been invaluable to me, especially as a disabled person. like. half-assing things is the number one reason anything gets done for me.

run the dishwasher even if it’s not full. brush your teeth even if you aren’t going to floss. put away a single piece of clutter to make your space more livable. change your shirt and keep wearing the same pair of pants. eat a snack if you can’t make a meal.

it sucks to not be able to get stuff done as well as you’d like. i get that so much. but you have permission to half-ass stuff as much as you need. literally anything is better than nothing.

[when-angels-come]

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.

[lucid-luck]

I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”

[thranduilland]

I’m just imagining this super ripped guy called Brutus being like ‘YESSS!!! I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE FAKE PROSTITUTE!! Now is my time to shine!!’

[daryltoh]

[tohdraws-deactivated20181120]

so I got inspired… and had to make a comic….

[whowasntthere-deactivated202106]

*wipes away a single tear* Yes.

[sparklyaxolotlstudent]

Miss Congeniality, but with The Rock instead of Sandra Bullock

[misshorrorotaku-deactivated2024]

He looks so ready. XD

“My time has come.”

[kenas-artstuff]

Plot twist she’s his bodyguard

[bisquid]

I specifically went back through my reblogs to find these

[a-teacup-of-golden-cracks]

My dashboard has been blessed by this post again

[i-say-ok]

ok!

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

yeah okay ill reblog that

[greetings-inferiors]

I will never not reblog Brutus my beloved

[briarpatch-kids]

I love how pets interact with disability aids. Mouse scratches her chin on my vent mask and sleeps on the heated hose when I'm in bed. Pumpkin loves to hide behind and around my powerchair so she can observe Mouse without getting swatted at for being too close. Mouse prefers to be carried over the shoulder like a sack of potatoes because that's how I carried her when I used a manual wheelchair.

[when-angels-come]

Midnight will demand to go outside by sitting on my walker (and staring at me).