#I want more quarantine

[can-of-slorgs]

I'm personally blaming @starbiology and everyone who has reblogged or commented the other piece for this.

Bonus comic featuring my grundo:

[daboyau]

Hey, for the writing challenge, I'd be interested in seeing 38 for whichever of your AUs you prefer, if you're not overwhelmed!

Also, your latest chapter for the Hunger Games AU is so good! Donnie helping Digi and Gizmo is a little heartbreaking. He wants to be cold so bad, but no. And the descriptions were so excellent. I want to see all the designs! Especially the farmer and the corn haha. That cracked me up a bit:D Thanks for writing, I love to read it!

Sorry this took so long!! For some reason “hole” was just not wanting to cooperate with me! I had a handful of fleeting ideas (Zombie au, raph’s death in the bad timeline, shell rot, after the foot cass joins a cult that worships The Pit instead, etc) but ended up going with something for my Leave AU. I feel like I should have written you something RHG related since you gave me such a kind compliment about the last chapter. 😭 alas, my brain didn’t want to cooperate there. I hope you like this regardless!! @eb177

@boots-with-the-fur-club

It’s the fifth time they’ve run through this drill, but for some reason, Three just can’t seem to wrap his head around it. There’s something in the footwork, and the transition from one flowing movement to the next that he just keeps missing. His brothers are eyeing him nervously now. Their movements slow just a little, trying to give him time to catch up, or the opportunity to see how their steady movements differ from his own clumsy ones and fix his mistakes. 

Draxum has noticed. He’s watching them, eyes narrowed, lip curling with disdain. Three knows he should be better, just like he knows that his blundering and his brothers’ trying to cover for him will mean they get punished, too. He can’t let that happen, so he needs a way to draw all the attention (and all the ire) towards himself. Draxum draws closer, fury in his expression, a look that promises punishment for their unsatisfactory performance. Three’s heart is pounding hard against his plastron, and it’s easy to see that their creator is out for blood. 

When Draxum tells them to do it again, Three waits for him to circle closer. Then, he lets his ankle twist. He lets himself fall. 

One gasps and Four covers his mouth in a futile attempt to muffle his whimper. Two freezes, expression empty but eyes gone glassy and distant. Three barely has time to hit the ground before Draxum’s hand has circled his arm with bruising force, claws digging into muscle as he hauls him to his feet and drags him from the room. His brothers try to follow, but Three frantically shakes his head at them, eyes pleading. They fall back, watching him until the door slams shut between them.

He knows where they’re going. The fear is already rising like bile in his throat, choking him. It’s hard to breathe, and Draxum is so much bigger and he’s dragging him along now because Three is too short to keep up on his own, and the mark his grip leaves on his arm is going to take forever to heal, and he knows that this is going to hurt, and all he can think is at least it’s just me. 

The lab is usually forbidden. The only time Three is taken inside it is when he’s done something wrong. Something bad. Something that will require their creator to pick him apart to discover exactly what it is that has malfunctioned inside of him this time. Three doesn’t like the lab. 

There is a pit, tucked away in the corner. Maybe it used to be used for something good. Like a well, or a place to burn trash. Now it is used to hold them until Draxum has the time he requires to run his tests. To poke and prod and rip and cut and get answers to his many questions and grievances. 

Last time, he’d spent four days down there before Draxum had deemed it convenient to begin. Three trembles despite his best efforts to hide the fear that rises within him. The waiting is almost as bad as the tests. He wishes that Draxum would just get it over with, but he knows he’ll never get that lucky. After all, he’s the one who always puts himself into this position. He should just feel grateful that none of his brothers will be down there with him.

He hovers at the edge of the hole, his position held in the balance only by his creator’s hand on his arm. He wonders how long it will be this time. Draxum’s angry gaze tells him that he won’t like the answer. 

Draxum lets go of his arm. For one terrible, stomach churning second, Three remains where he is. Heels overhanging the emptiness, balanced only on his toes, swaying slightly as he stares up at his creator’s face. Draxum sneers. He presses one finger into the center of Three’s plastron. 

He tips backwards, into the darkness.

[koishua]

first started writing for nct when this place was infested with neozens and then started writing for enha during given-taken when there were barely any engene writers at all and now its the total opposite lmao i find that actually hilarious 😭😭

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

~Erin shows up in a new outfit after a fight~

brain: yeah that makes sense his outfit was torn, he's got a bag that's bigger on the inside, and it ties his color scheme closer to the void dragon

~Kendal shows up wearing a shirt that looks like it's Erin's~

Brain 1: wait hang on did he borrow that from Erin? If so, then Erin had extra shirts. Why the outfit change?

Brain 2: Well Story wise-

Brain 1: I am aware. ignore the symbolism for two minutes. Was that the last of Erin's white shirts? Did he have an extra white shirt but not a tan vest? Is he incapable of mixing and matching outfits and such couldn't wear the darker vest with the white shirt because the gauntlets only work with the sleeves of the grey shirt and you can't wear the vest without the gauntlets or something?

Brain 2: you know sometimes people just change clothes.

[bellamysgriffin]

this is in no way in defense of ariana grande’s ex husband or whatever bc idk anything but between this and joe alwyn, everyone acts like the only reason fame could interfere in a relationship is if the guys masculinity is too fragile to handle someone being more important than them. like that could be true but like having to take security everywhere you go, even though it is necessary, is a very big demand and definitely changes the kind of life that you live

like, let’s not pretend that being the significant partner of a very famous person doesn’t require you to live a certain kind of life that might not work for somebody.

[plushie-lovey]

I hit the motherload at goodwill yesterday. Sooo many webkinz (dw I didn't buy them all, but I wanted to)

[decapitatedmary]

This is the vibe I strive for every day,

[jiatiful]

when hyunjin said that he went one day to wod and saw minho dancing with his team from soul dance in 2016 before minho joined jyp and then they met in 2017 (jyp) and when seungmin said minho probably wouldn't have met the skz members if it wasn't bc they're in the same group now and minho said he would've met hyunjin. soulmatism.

[kiwinatorwaffles]

is my life just a timeless cruel loop of atrocities committed against me

[fluxedbuds]

o boy new life series cant wait to Stop Watching As Soon As Someone Permadies

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

PSA- Always quarantine your new fish, mutuals.

See the tags for a lovely late night rant because I’m stressed the fuck out 💃🏾

[rubberbandballqueen]

the best part abt being enrolled in a calculus iii course is that it means i finally passed calculus ii. i have been enrolled in no less than FOUR different calculus ii courses, three of which failed to work out for various reasons, and literally NONE of this (calculus ii being a necessary course for me to take in college) would have happened had it not been for NUMEROUS FACTORS beyond my control but it's fine it's cool i'm learning NEW MATH for the FIRST TIME in FOUR YEARS and i am LIVING

[quixoticanarchy]

I’d like to clarify one thing about CDC’s updated covid guidelines (as of mid-August 2022): yeah imo they’re absurd and dangerous, but I’ve seen a particular misunderstanding float around that could make things worse. 

Quarantine and isolation are not the same thing. This point has been thoroughly confused by a lot of bad media coverage and messaging, but quarantine is for after you’ve been exposed; isolation is for after you test positive. CDC now says you no longer have to quarantine if you’ve been exposed, regardless of your vaccination status. To be perfectly clear I still think this is stupid, and they should recommend quarantining for at least 5 days after an exposure, if you’re able to do so. But the point I see people confused over is this: “CDC says you don’t have to quarantine if you have covid!” Technically, that’s true... but it’s because quarantine is about exposure, not having covid. CDC does still recommend that you isolate for 5 days after you test positive. (Again, I also think this is bad advice, and you should isolate for 10 days or at least until you test negative.) 

But a big reason I flag this is, for instance, if your boss says you can come to work with covid “because the CDC says so—” No. they do not. CDC still says that you should isolate if you have covid. Don’t let people use this confusion over quarantine/isolation to push for even more unsafe conditions, and don’t take it as carte blanche to be careless while you yourself are sick. 

Caveat: I wouldn’t be shocked, unfortunately, if CDC loosens their guidance even further in the future, and believe me I am well aware that people have been flouting the quarantine and isolation guidelines all along. But the point is, you should know the difference before it’s used against you, and so you can try to keep yourself safe[r]. 

[haemosexuality]

realizing that big boobs are the reason why i have so much back pain immediately destroyed the acceptance i spent years working on about how my chest looks. lol

[little-shiny-sharpies]

*through gritted teeth* don’t trust how you feel about your life after 9 pm or during your monthly hell, don’t trust how you feel about your life after 9 pm or during your-