#Building Entry

[pixelpurgatory]

dear diary,

my therapist told me it’d be a good idea to start keeping a journal and i keep seeing these junk journals everywhere so i figured— why not make it a little more fun?

it’s official. i’ve just left home for the first time and moved into my new dorm at the university of britechester. obviously, i’m scared. but it’s also so exciting to think about all the possibilities ahead of me. i’m thinking i want to major in art history but who knows how i’ll feel once i get started with the courses.

luckily, i don’t have a roommate. i knew i’d need my personal space and living in a dorm was already going to be enough of an adjustment. hopefully i’ll get along with the rest of the people in the dorm. maybe i could even make a friend or two? :’)

i moved around so much in high school that i feel like i never really got to establish a solid group of friends. i'd love to finally do that here. people always say that you find yourself in college and i really hope they're right.

S.H.

[ghost-bxrd]

“It came from the depths. The water was churning- we thought it was the whales. Just whales. They like coming through these parts, sometimes, you know? Real fuckin’ annoying, those things. But we didn’t— We thought it must be a new pod, coming through. Drawn by our catch. That live mer… its blood must have drawn… it, out…oh, god, those eyes—

We thought it was whales. When we realized it was one single tail… it was too late. [REDACTED] told us not to- stupid, fuck, we all thought ‘what do the dead know’? Idiot got killed jumping into that thing’s tank. Good riddance, ‘s what we all thought. Freed that thing and got eaten. Natural selection, if you’d asked us. Ain’t we ever dumb enough to, no, we’d been careful-

[audio corrupted, three minutes of missing log, irreparable]

— its teeth-…

Oh, god… what have we done? What have we awoken?”

— audio log transcript, sole survivor of the [REDACTED] expedition

File note: Survivor admitted to psychiatric facility, acute distress symptoms persisting, survivor claims “it is still watching, waiting”, transfer to inland facility recommended, hydro- and thalassophobia diagnosed, further diagnostics pending

[m0thhx3]

Another DTIYS on instagram.

im very proud of this one ^^

User in the peice 💗

[yorksnapshots]

St Botolph's Church, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

On a site dating back to at least the 12th Century, The current build was completed in 1876.

[meamiki]

[reverse entry AU]

so glad the work week is over!

no more meetings!

what do you mean its only tuesday.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

A WEBSITE!

I finally got my neocities website up and running!! Thanks to @gildedware for building the foundation!!!!

I'm currently filling the website with all my photos and whatnot for the *checks notes* 668 Pokemon I've crocheted! That's so MANY. I've got even more project-related stuff to do now yay!! And what's also great is that if Tumblr ever does go down, we can still track my progress and have everything documented on the website!! And I'll be able to add a lot of neat stuff to it in general!

I've still got a lot of work to do on it, but go check out what's up so far!!! dailypokemoncrochet.neocities.org !

[garoujo]

no because gojo is absolutely the kind of boyfriend who just randomly shows up at your work place, ridiculously handsome, holding flowers and trying to whisk you away for lunch. it inflates his ego a little bit when he hears your coworkers gushing about how dreamy your boyfriend is, does he have a brother? how can you say no to him? and hes oh so smug about it when he’s deliberately giving you a look, putting on the performance of his life like hes some old romantic who could not survive another moment without seeing his beautiful s/o !!! he knew he had to come and see you immediately !!!

[freckledbastard]

dragon watching luffy throughout his entire childhood be like

[life-spire]

[starburnedkisses]

i had a dream a few nights ago about the most tragic love story imaginable but the characters were named robot and cowboy. incredible

[f-ckup]

[silasbirchtree]

thinking abt how stanley spent years on the road, living in his car, doing anything just for a scrap of cash, and could barely afford food. and then he finally finds his footing with the mystery shack and he's able to afford and eat comfortably for the first time in over a decade

[ghost-bxrd]

— last image captured by drone315 seconds before disaster, image recovered by accessing sunken servers via diving team, incident referenced: Odyssey’s Sinking, access file J16T for further information, section: confirmed incidents

“-obviously the radar’s hung up. There’s no rock field in the area big enough to-

Did you hear that?

… No, I don’t know.

It sounded like we might have hit something. Go look… then turn on the lights. Jesus, it’s like we’re short on tech or something…

Huh? What do you mean the anchor’s gone? How can it be gone-?

Shit! Turn on the lights! Hurry! The radar’s going crazy!

Wh- No it’s not whales you dumbass! Now turn on the goddamn lights! Maybe we can see what’s out there with-

Oh holy mother of- are you seeing this? The hell is that thing? No it’s not a squid- where the fuck did you get your degree, Harold? Squid don’t have scales. Start the drone, we need to get an idea of how large it is. This is phenomenal. I’m estimating a good twenty meters with that scale size. We could be looking at an undiscovered species of sea snake here, if we bring this back to the- ha! Got it! Drone’s up and about! Harold, tell Jess to flip the beamers up to a hundred. Maybe we can spot the thing’s head—

Hold on, hey, Ed, are you seeing this-?

Oh- oh my god. Oh, Jesus Christ, oh fuck, no, fuck- Everyone, abandon ship! Get off the ship! Get off the ship right now! I repeat, get off-!”

— Voyage Data Recorder, audio transcript, recovered from ship wrecked remains of “The Oddyssey”, time stamp: 01:32, no survivors

File Notes:

Second notable incident with Subject J16T (category class: Leviathan) responsible. For first notable incident, access file: [REDACTED] Research Facility

[drewlyyours]

I recently remembered that I never shared my Castle Malloy build in Minecraft with you guys on Tumblr! (sorry about the quality - alas the server no longer exists)

I did it four years ago and I am very proud of it! There was a tunnel that went from the nursery fireplace to the hut and I even had my friend program the bog to inflict damage on people who fell in (a fatal error).

I hope you guys enjoy it!

[tanadrin]

I'm watching season 5 of discovery while I work on this map, and I think my verdict of DIS is that conceptually it is solid Star Trek. It gets Star Trek, like in the abstract. Obviously the last 3 seasons are a lot better than the first two, both because they escape prequel territory and because it just takes a ton of Trek shows two seasons to find the sweet spot. But the writing never really lives up to the ideas. So, so many of the character beats feel completely paint-by-numbers, with painfully generic dialogue, and I find myself mostly skipping over those scenes to get to the high concept SF or the action sequences. The actors really are doing the best they can, and visually it's gorgeous, and it throws out a ton of fun ideas into the Trek universe (though IMO it relies too much on overt callbacks to old Trek, it's not unique in this regard--SNW does this too, it might just be the curse of a long-running franchise). But man. The character writing is frequently not good! The emotional dialogue is frequently not good! And I don't know why; it's not like Star Trek doesn't have this stuff, rich character interaction has been there since TOS and the Bones/Kirk/Spock triad. But even back when you would have, like, Random Character Never Mentioned Before From Someone's Past showing up in an episode only to die horribly, from the older and more episodic Treks, the dialogue around these characters was still more believable and more compelling. And you'd think the more serialized nature of modern Trek would give you more room to build on and use these character dynamics.

I wonder if in part it's the decline of writers' rooms and the spec script market. Maybe something about that shift makes developing good scripts for television, and for genre TV in particular, harder. Part of me thinks it may well be the serialized format, because just like a good high concept sci fi plot often relies on a "hey-wouldn't-it-be-fucked-up-if-this-happened-randomly" idea, so too do a lot of the good character stories in older Trek--when everything has to be tied back in to an ongoing plot and significant character development has to be spread out over 10 episodes, maybe that's harder to do.

I think ultimately I feel about DIS like I feel about Enterprise--don't like prequels, do like some of the ideas, some of the characters are pretty interesting, the character arcs are kind of weak, is too bogged down in referencing other installments in the franchise, needs more Jeffrey Coombs.

[gwibyeol]

Introducing the Old Ways

“Before there were wands, there were names. Before there were spells, there was blood. And before there was Hogwarts, there was the silence between trees—the kind of silence that listens.”

There is a magic that predates the sorting hat. That predates even the Four who built their names into stone and legend.

They do not speak of it in books. But it remembers you.

They call it The Old Ways.

A spell can be a cup of tea, a whisper at a crossroad, the tying of a ribbon soaked in breath and belief. Magic doesn’t come from Latin syllables—it rises from memory, salt, grief, and blood. A grandmother brushing your hair under the new moon. A child burying their name beneath a stone after lying. A drop of your blood on bone dust that belonged to someone who once held you. That is power.

The Old Ways are not clean. They are not taught. They are inherited. Remembered. Sometimes even feared.

You cannot master them. You can only pay their price.

Core Pillars: ☽ Blood – Memory, sacrifice, inheritance ☽ Bone – Death, finality, endurance ☽ Name – Identity, truth, dominion ☽ Shadow – Secrets, the unseen, silence

The Ministry pretends they never existed. Hogwarts forgot them on purpose. But some families remember—Potter. Black. Peverell. And others, nameless in the books but etched in salt and fire.

This is not a story of learning spells. It’s a story of paying attention.