Nikanaiko: Obscure Defender

Defenders of the Universe, huh? That's got a nice ring to it.

[youareinacomawakeup]

Life to Noah Vale - Chapter 20 - The Unexpected Bond

Latest Chapter on Patreon: Chapter 20 - The Unexpected Bond

First Chapter: Life to Noah Vale - Chapter 1

FREE Chapter: Life to Noah Vale - Chapter 13

Series: Original Work (Life to Noah Vale)

Word Count: >100,508

Genre: Supernatural/Queer Romance

Warnings: violence, character death, brief fatphobia

Rating: T

Status: In Progress (08/02/20 - )

Corey had asked for some time alone. Time to think. Which gave Noah plenty of time to think as well.

And, strangely, with that time, he found himself gravitating toward Vanessa.

Opal and Lana were talking about something between themselves in hushed voices, Caroline and Julia were cuddled up by the fire, having a moment Noah didn’t want to disturb, and, well, that didn’t leave Noah many choices for who to talk to.

What surprised him was that he actually wanted to talk to Vanessa.

When had he become so…extroverted?

“So…” Noah lowered himself into Opal’s chair, beside where Vanessa sat staring into the fire. “How’s the kid? An, right?”

“Fine,” said Vanessa, smiling conversationally. “He likes his babysitter, so he was looking forward to tonight. It’s basically a sleepover for him.”

“Good,” said Noah, who didn’t know how to talk about kids any more than he knew how to talk to them. “So… I gotta ask. How did you and Lana meet?”

Vanessa raised her eyebrows, visibly surprised.

Noah shrugged a shoulder. “It’s just that I’ve seen old pictures of her and Opal with my parents, so I know how they met. I gotta assume that’s how she knows Corey, too. Everyone else here is someone she hired…”

Continue Reading: Chapter 20 - The Unexpected Bond

[rose-madder-gaze]

drawn thin, a FFXV: Episode Prompto 4-koma. Extra:

[beggars-opera]

Now that everyone's over The Odyssey can we please just sit back and watch the only adaptation that matters, the Coen Brothers' 2000 perfectionist classic O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[lap-wolf]

honestly now that you mention it, i sure am.

[un-monstre]

Bloopers are movie aftercare and it’s fucked up that we got rid of them

[captainhaterade]

Found this on instagram and now I’m gonna be singing it all day:

(@thepacificpals on insta)

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[kosmogrl]

I will get my spark back no matter how long it takes

[youareinacomawakeup]

I've been thinking about this for like a month but why are people shipping Simon and Grace again but a NEW Simon and Grace

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

[protectspock]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

excuse me

[protectspock]

Sorry op. That's my friend the Salt Vampire from the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" which first aired in 1966. Blessings be upon you.

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

its just i dont feel blessed by its presence is all. sending love your way

[ngoziu]

[omgcheckplease]

1/?

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[castformi-deactivated20241025]

dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth

[peppylilspitfuck]

Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth.  The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts. 

[slightlykylie]

Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment. 

[darkersolstice]

One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.

[yothobro-deactivated20200505]

This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way

[rooksandravens]

#BECAUSE IT IS

[fuckyeahfeminist]

And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.

[rodserlingofficial]

[yodaprod]

[dietspam16]

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[its-emimi]

Happy Pride month! 🌈

[janlanpan1412]

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i'll be honest thinking about las vegas makes me nauseous.

[fantasmadelaciudad]

like this shouldnt be possible.

[sillyspekter]

Every part of Vegas feels like it's pulled out of fiction and is Incredibly off-putting. It's a major city in the middle of one of the world's most inhospitable deserts

Its famous for recreating other world landmarks on a small scale. It uses this as a trap to bait people into making life ruining decisions. It's motto is essentially "never speak of what happened here". Fucked up