#so... human

[ian-the-existential-crisis]

Oh? I wasn't playing around. I'm totally writing a Kit-centric Jentry Chau fan fiction that's going to be multiple chapters and upwards of 55k long. I just don't know if I want to write it being platonic ot4 or romantic yet.

Long live Kit!

So... Human. [Preview]

Humans were like the big horse fly in the corner of his room that had become the unknowing victim of a predator. The daddy long legs spider had, at some point when his eyes were busy elsewhere, ventured up to the opposite corner of the room, spinning a decent sized web. It was laying in wait for the horse fly to buzz around the room again, for it to land on the soft threads of the spider's webs.

In that way, Kit could see how the horse fly was like a human. That made him the spider then. He was currently weaving a new identity, the supple skin of a young boy for this job. Was it even a job? He lived off of life force, stealing a person's very energy to live. That probably made him worse than a spider. Or were they the same? A spider, he had learned from his short time enrolled in a human schoolhouse on the outskirts of Korea a few hundred years ago, would suck the blood from whatever got caught in their web, leaving the shell of a body wrapped in its silken threads. Is that not what he did, with less blood?

Kit hummed to himself, looking down to select the eye color. A deep brown would go well with the navy blue of the British school uniform he would be forced to wear, but most of the children attending the school had soft baby blue eyes.

Decisions, decisions.

Normally when it came to stalking his prey, he wanted to make himself the most likeable version that he could. Sometimes that meant being a beautiful woman with stunning platinum blonde hair, sometimes that meant being a young boy with baby blue eyes so he could fit in.

He needed to do more research on his prey. Or rather, the child that would lead him to his prey. The shui gui that had bought his services had paid him half up front, and the other half would be given to him once he fulfilled his part of the bargain.

Beihe, he was pretty sure that was the water gui's name, had asked him to bring her a specific woman. The easiest way to get to her was through her son. She was a married, faithful woman of the church, so he couldn't seduce her like he had done for so many others. And he only needed to bring her to the water's edge at night. If he couldn't do that Beihe said he could drop her corpse at the bank of the river, but he hated having to kill. Even if it was necessary. But he had done it before and he would do it again. He had to. The fish that Beihe promised him wouldn't last forever. And the nourishment he got from animals always seemed less filling than that of humans.

[1-jar-of-stars]

On Friendship.

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[neenarchive]

not being able to borrow an ebook because someone else has it on loan is stupid as hell. like babe this is Document. these are pixels.

[gayvampyr]

asking people to be mindful of others when sharing a communal space (especially one you cannot just up and leave from) is not selfish or misanthropic. come on now

[still-searching-for-something]

[vagun1ka]

the original butchfem (dear daniel & hello kitty)

[exhausted-undead]

tried out apothecary diaries the other day, got inspired to do a study, redrew jinmao as Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss", died

ive been sick for a while so excuse the messiness

[mod2amaryllis]

i love being married to a straight guy. this morning we were parallel chilling and i glance at his computer and he's watching a drill fight tournament. as in, guys attaching drills to the same rod and turning them on until one breaks. to find the strongest drill. jose noticed me staring and rolled out of the way so i could see the screen. he knew every drill brand and told me their quality and price. i watched the whole thing without comment. the violence was enchanting. i never would have found this. he's a vector to an entirely alien, often beautiful, world.

[hansoeii]

It was affection.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He should be at the Adventurer's Guild.

[bubblesthecow]

Watching Star Wars in chronological order is so funny.

Obi-Wan Kenobi really took one look at R2D2 in the middle of the desert and said “No, Luke, I’ve never seen this fucking droid in my life. Looks like a real bitch though. Not that I’d know. This is my first time meeting the asshole.”

No one in that whole franchise was Gatekeep-Gasslight-Girlbossing quite like “Ben” Kenobi, regular human-man.

[byjove]

every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”

she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby

[doom-dreaming]

"when i was your age, i was working three jobs to help support my family" and "when i was in college i was sleeping on a mattress on the floor and living off of soup"

YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO DO THAT. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT THIS ISN'T A CHARACTER-BUILDING LESSON, IT'S JUST BAD

[nortism]

This remains, to me, the most poignant Les Misérables quote