#as aforementioned in other posts

[keets-writing-corner]

I FINALLY GOT CHAPTER 2 UP

Here's chapter 1 if anyone missed that one

gawd it took me so long I'm so sorry! In my defense it's double the length of chapter 1. Here's a little preview

It started with a boom that rivaled thunder. 

Lilith jumped awake in the dead of night, heart pounding. Around her, animals were chittering, panicked. There was an energy, a tension in the air. She couldn’t quite understand what it was or what was happening. She still could find no source of the noise that had awoken her. 

Another boom rattled the air, followed by actual thunder. Both were accompanied by blinding light from the sky above. The ground beneath her shook, and the plants rattled their leaves. 

Lilith stood and began to run. She could barely see what was going on through the canopy of the trees, but she was determined to figure out what was going on. Normally at night, she wouldn’t have been able to see anything. But with every crash, every shake, every boom, the sky lit up with different colors and illuminated her path. 

When she finally reached a clearing, her suspicions were confirmed but her questions remained unanswered. 

The sky above her was in turmoil. The clouds churned and danced around each other, trying to crush each other and melting into each other. They tugged and pulled, ripped and teared away at each other. Lights would flash from behind them with their deafening booms. It looked like the end of days. 

The only experience Lilith had that was even remotely akin to this was light rain, but mostly only because it’d be cloudy with distant thunder. This-... This was something else completely.

Lilith watched transfixed. Hoping maybe at some point it would let up or fade. But it wouldn’t. At most there would be a longer stretch of seconds between the next flash of light than other times, but it never waned. 

Soon, the battle of the sky stretched into the daytime, distorting the colors of the sunrise around it to a violent red before eventually giving way to day. The clouds remained dark, and heavy, sometimes even black at times. 

Lilith had hoped that during the day it would make more sense, or be less frightening. Instead, what she saw was only worse. 

“Lilith!” a voice called to her, and she turned. Eve was beckoning her, “Come on! I know you don’t like Adam much, but don’t be alone in this!” 

Lilith glanced at the sky one last time before running over to Eve. 

Eve was right. As annoying as Adam was, being alone with that chaos reigning above her would be worse. It seemed however, whatever it was that was happening, was also rattling Adam. For once, he took on a more protective role over the two women, trying to comfort them. 

They spent the day together eating the fruits of Eden, and sitting together looking at the sky. 

When the sun started to set, the sky was still rumbling and booming. The lights distorted the clouds into monstrous shapes before immediately destroying them and then creating more shapes.

“What in Eden’s name is going on??” Adam hissed under his breath. “Is this going to last all night too?” 

It did. 

None of them got much sleep. 

It lasted all throughout the next day as well. And the next night, and the day after that. 

It never rained, and the wind only minorly picked up, as if down below on Eden was completely separate to what was happening above. Lilith eventually grew weary of Adam once again and broke off to be by herself. Clearly, whatever was happening wasn’t about to hurt her. 

Finally, after seven days and seven nights, when the dawn was breaking through the thickness of night, there was a sickening sound that started off as a crackle but devolved into a rattle as a single light flared in the sky and then jortled across it. 

The sky went quiet as that single light began to fall, a smaller piece of it broke off and went on its own trail. 

Lilith could only watch in morbid fascination as the streak of light fell, and when it hit the earth, the ground itself shook, rippling out in waves as if it had turned liquid. 

Lilith grabbed onto a tree for stability as all the animals screeched around her. 

Then it settled. 

The ground no longer shook.

The sky was silent and still. 

Looking up at it however, in the exact trace of the light, the edges of the clouds had been ripped apart, and the sunrise was making it glow an angry red. The air was uncomfortably chilly. It felt as if something had been irrevocably changed.

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And here's the link again for the full thing

[valleysofdolls]

istg i’ve never seen a valid reason used by someone explained why they hate sasuke.

90% of the time it’s basically them saying he didn’t react to trauma the way they wanted him to (or doing trauma olympics using naruto, gaara, kakashi, etc as examples of “thEIr TrAUmA DiDN’t TUrN thEm iNtO aSSHOLes”)

5% is again, using very valid trauma from a 7 year old witnessing the death of their entire clan by their brother and being forced to relive it for 3 days, as a way to say he’s “too edgy and emo”

and the other 5% is used by shippers (mainly SS), shaming him for not reciprocating feelings he never felt for the other character

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i can't stress enough how this is probably like top five interactions between scott and charles for me its so silly

[X-Men Unlimited #1: "Follow The Leader"]

[hana-bobo-finch]

WHY DO MY DREAMS HAVE RECURRING CHARACTERS AND LOCATIONS ITS SO WEIRD I DO NOT LIKE THAT ITS CREEPING ME OUT

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

What's your favourite aquatic symbiotic relationship? It is tue coolest aspect of nature and the largemouth bass post got me thinking about it.

Perhaps a cliche, but I'm just really a sucker for the symbiotic relationship cleaner wrasses have with their fishy clients. A cleaner wrasse must recognise and remember dozens, even hundreds of clients, when they last cleaned a particular client, and how their mutual relationship has been in the past! I think that’s nuts and just super cool!!! Not only do they eat parasites and dead skin from their clients, but cleaner wrasses will even caress and “massage” the fish they’re working on — if only to soothe an angered customer after a painful nip, but I digress. They’re truly valuable to the reefs they inhabit! An old one but a true marine mutualism classic for a reason.

Another one I really like is the symbiotic relationship between moray eels and groupers :) They are like butch lesbians that go hunting together. It’s cool when predators of different species think, “we are different, but we have the same goal, so let’s work together towards that goal.”

OH OH OH I JUST REMEMBERED. I would’ve left this ask at two answers but this one is too good to share. There are several species of mites that live in the gills of freshwater mussels, they’re parasites that eat the mucus and glochidia so not a very fun time for the hosts, but. The mites… the mites have harems. One male and several females, and the males will engage in battles for the females that often end in death. This is amazing to me because all of this is happening inside the bodies of mussels, who have no idea about any of it. There’s a tiny little buddy, and inside that tiny buddy are several tinier buddies who consider the mussel their whole world, and they’re out there crawling along the gills and mantle like grazing herbivores on a field, with their tiny harems and tiny battles and it’s so amazing and tiny…..

[fix-me-sixteen]

tamil is such a language. the pronoun to refer to more than one person ("they" in english) is also the pronoun to refer to someone you respect. the pronoun to refer to a thing ("it" in english) is also the pronoun to refer to children and pets. it's one of, if not the, oldest language. some guy came up with 1,330 couplets of seven words each with complex metaphors and life lessons because why the fuck not. there are two r sounds. there are two l sounds. there are three n sounds. pronouncing a word slightly differently could mean the difference between saying "school" and "lizard". there are several letters that exist but are not used at all. there's a letter that sounds like if you mixed r and l in a blender. it stole letters from sanskrit. it has over two hundred letters. its written version and spoken version could be mistaken for two different languages. it's spoken in the state whose name literally translates to "land of the tamils". it's worshipped like a god . . .

[flamboyantly-understated]

Been playing a real fun game lately called “am I this tired because of hormones, burnout, depression, or new meds” and the way you play is you wake up, ask that question, and then fall asleep for fourteen hours without getting anything done

[tangerinequeen19]

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[frostfires-blog]

S2 is officially in production!!!

[gotyouanyway]

the whole crew’s been tagged in that post already and i’m very sleepy but i love you alllll it brightens my day to come on here and hang out with you!! 🎉💕🩷🙌

[shrimpothy]

shoutout to the tboys, transmascs, butches, and any neu/masc afab enbies on their werewolf week rn

[lieutenantselnia]

Because my new f/os made me wonder about this ...

If you have an f/o who's not usually referred to by their first name, but instead their last name, a nickname, or something like a title or honorific, how to you refer to them? This can apply both to how they are addressed in-universe in their source material and/or how they are commonly referred to in the fandom.

[fixing-bad-comic-art]

just like a quick heads up and bit of housekeeping, for "I was raised Catholic and by fucking God does that mess you up" and "over the years people have made exceptionay kind offers" reasons, going forward I'm going to try to be more active on this blog and with every edit I'm going to be including"like my stuff? support me here" links. Those links will always lead back to various charities helping folk in places like Sudan, the Congo, and Palestine. I'd Uber appreciate it if y'all lent them your kindness instead of directing it at me and preferably played along with the bit however best suits you.

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Due to my clicking habits there are increasingly more videos of feminist men on my Facebook feed

And I don't mind that one bit