#astounding

[dougielombax]

So…that’s a Naruto run.

Kayshon has been picking up on things from his human colleagues, evidently.

Look at him go!

That is amazingly stupid. I love it.

Feel free to reblog if you wish.

[cipher-zoo]

Something, I personally think, some Power Scalers fail to recognize, when they pitch Zoro and Sanji against each other, is that Sanji's Story has never been about being 'the strongest'.

I often see them going on and on about how Zoro could easily beat Sanji and, while not easily, yeah. I agree. Zoro is stronger than Sanji and Zoro could probably beat him.

[even Sanji thinks so, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Zoro that one favor!]

But these power Scalers often try to make it appear as if that is somehow a flaw in Sanji's character when it is not.

Sanji's Story at its core is about healing.

Zoro's is about protection.

You can have one without the other but it won't do you much good.

[brain-rot-central]

here goes my very own Dhampir-hc: it’s established that Dhampir can sustain themselves perfectly fine with human food (some sources say the intensity of their bloodlust varies, depending on how and by whom they were raised, etc.). But I like to believe that feeding Dhampir kids blood would be like giving sugary drinks to small children, making them all hyper and jumpy, enhancing their supernatural traits . Just imagine a Dhampir kid running around like the squirrel in Over the Hedge because it somehow got its milk-fangs into something and drank their blood.

I am in love with this. Thank you so much for sharing. I especially love the mention of their little milk teeth. Drives me nuts.

Tiny little dhampir children with white curly hair and milk teeth wanting to bite everything because they're hungry but still trying to learn how to properly latch so they can drink.

Amazing, perfect, 10/10

Can I add that the quality of the blood influences the level of crazy they get? Like Astarion and Tav realize that the more blood they give their kids, the more unruly they become. Somehow their daughter gets into the stash of "the good shit™️" only reserved for he and Tav. She drinks it and she's immediately climbing along the walls, the ceiling, jumping from one end of the room to the other.

I can see AA having a canary bird shit-fit watching his 7 year old lunge off one wall only to barely make it to the other end, running up and down the halls at top speed. He's yelling "how did you get into it?! What did you do?!" after her like he didn't teach her how to lockpick.

[misforgotten2]

Cover by D. Pattee

[starchaserdreams]

At least once a week for the last fifteen years I've said "I can't believe fanfiction is free."

[ziglikesrain]

y’all be crazy sometimes…

[aliceindaisychains999]

This is peak AI performance

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[angelsaxis]

There's no doubt that people now demand a squeaky cleanliness from protagonists and stories that's become untenable but I'm seeing so many authors write this with the implicit assumption that they or a friend of theirs are writing complex nuanced stories of the same variety as the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.......girl you have published a reylo fanfiction.

[angryaromantics]

Where my romantic love was supposed to be stored, all I got was an endless well of spite, which is honestly an upgrade. This is truly the next evolution of humanity <3

[i-tought-you-where-american]

after the storm in AWTWB

[dougielombax]

Grey foxes are so underrated.

Amazing lovely little beasties.

Look at him! Remarkable little specimen!

Wee man. He is just too damn cute.

Amazing.

Exquisite!

Wonderful beasts. Truly.

[squephalopod]

Loligo pealeii

go mentally deranged yeh. go brainless yeh. go wacky. go positively bonkers yeh. go mad bruv. lose ya marbles yeh. go foolish

[yekokataa]

sad news from the DE wiki today, as it turns out that "relationshit" was a typo and never appeared in the game at all only showed up in early versions of the game

[misforgotten2]

Cover by Walt Miler

[outstanding-quotes]

Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

[bookmaven]

THE MIXED MEN [aka MISSION TO THE STARS] by A.E. Van Vogt (Reading, PA: Gnome Press, 1952) Cover illustration by Ed Binkley. 5,000 copy edition.

(New York: Berkley, 1955) Cover by Richard Powers.

This space opera is an early example of "fix-up" literature, the combination of several separately-published stories into a cohesive novel, a practice van Vogt not only pioneered but informally named in the early 50's. Nominated for a Retro-Hugo Award in 1996.

Contents

"Concealment" (Astounding, September 1943) Illustration by Elton Fax. [adapted as the prologue of the book]

"Lost: Fifty Suns" (previously unpublished) [corresponding to chapters 1 through 7]

"The Storm" (Astounding, October 1943) Cover by William Timmons; illustration by Orban. [chapters 8 - 15]

"The Mixed Men" (Astounding, January 1945) Cover by William Timmons; illustration by Orban. [chapters 16 - 22]

"Is it True?" (previously unpublished) [chapter 23; not present in all editions]