#good-night-space-kid

[meyhew]

If you haven’t already read it, “all the light we cannot see” by Anthony doer is really good!

Personally I love “a separate peace” by John Knowles, it’s a great coming of age story.

I don’t read a lot of fiction and when I do it’s mostly classics, so that’s all that comes to mind off the top of my head, but I’ll definitely be watching the recs you get cause I need some as well!

thanks! personally i think u should check out the ones i mentioned in my post bc they're just so very good. im really picky about which books i tell other people to read bc i have the Always Being Right disease and i can't stand it when people dont love something i rec them but every book on that short list is immaculate within its genre

[shvkespearc]

No idea what your vibe is but I saw your post and my almost name was Peter! I chose it as a contender for Peter Pevensie but there’s plenty of other cool peters such as Pyotr the Great! I ended up with Gene because for me it’s a green name and Peter is orange for me, but it’s still a very good one. Good luck choosing a name, it’s hard!!

peter is so cute 😭 it gives me fairytale vibes. GENE IS CUTE BTW GENE IS GREEN! also ty, ive been thru soooo many names over the years and i've used the same one for like over a year at this point but its like. not fucken working for me really anymore... WE'LL SEE

[icarianiscariot]

Please enjoy these photos of my cat, Annabeth, wearing a cowboy costume. She didn’t love it but it looked sooo cute!!!

While more random, for my job I look for microfossils in sediment gathered by breaking down Triassic rocks, and the other day I found the absolute cutest baby bivalve!!!! It’s so tiny!!!!!!! It’s probably around 300 microns across, very small, very cute.

I know this isn’t much, but I hope you enjoy the cat photos and I’m sorry things are so tough right now. Wishing you all the best and I hope things go well for you <3

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DUDE OMG..... THANK YOU ;w;

this absolutely made my day. LOOK AT THAT BABY!!! and omg that job sounds so interesting!!! thank you for the itty bitty bivalve!!! this delights me and brings much joy to my heart....... ily

[puppyeared]

(SEASON 4 SPOILERS)

Here is the current wip for Dear Wormwood!!

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[opikiquu]

aventurine pl. Plea s e . PLLEEEEEEASE

[deus-ex-mona]

“i’m all alone, but i’m as happy as can be!”

[oceanwithinsblog]

in today's episode of there's never enough lores to get invested in:

i'm now delving into the tøp universe !!!

tbh i've been a casual listener and avid enjoyer of their music for quite some time now (around eight years lol), but i've been exposed to lore-related theories and content only earlier this year. it's been tough postponing the urge to get deeper into fans' theories and more, but i'm finally ready to learn everything there's to know about this world they created <3

aside from listening to their albums on loop and finding curious and exciting connections between some of the lyrics, i'm also watching this wonderfully detailed video on youtube !!! (i'm watching one section of the video per day and the next bit is scaled and icy)

if there's anything else you think might be helpful in learning about clancy, his letters, blurryface, dema, the nine bishops, nico, den and more please feel free to share !! it'll take me a while to watch/read/listen to everything but i'm totally invested eheh

ps. i'm shocked at how complex this universe is, there's literally so much to work with and to investigate on T_T the brain energy of everyone involved in creating and expanding the storyline istg i could never i'm flabbergasted

[steakout-05]

for months now i have had this little story idea bouncing around in my head for an AU of Jetpack Joyride where Barry is stuck inside a big expermental time loop conducted by Legitimate Research to create an army of randomly selected time-travelling soldiers. the idea is very much still rough and i dunno if and when i'll develop it into a bigger thing, but it's a pretty cool idea and it's a twist on the JJ game that i've never really seen much exploration on.

basically, it focuses on Barry, who is the sort of Patient Zero of an experimental concentrated time-fuckery technology LR is working on. every single day, at exactly the same time, Barry goes out to work his salesman job, discovers the jetpack, breaks into the laboratory, takes it for a joyride, eventually gets hit by an obstacle and dies. the next day, Barry goes out to work his salesman job, discovers the jetpack, breaks into the lab, takes it for a joyride and dies. and he does the same exact thing the next day, and the next day, and the next day, and the next day... he's pretty much stuck in a loop of the exact same events happening repeatedly every single day, and he has absolutely no idea about it. that is, until there's a glitch in the system, and Barry progressively becomes a lot more suspicious and paranoid about the situation he's in. the rest of this post is gonna be REALLY spoilery (like i literally just explain big important chunks of the story for several paragraphs) if i ever make this into a full-fledged fanfic, so i'm gonna put it under a keep reading thingy. also it is... quite long and convoluted lol.

as the story goes on, it focuses more on the mental degredation of Barry as he starts uncovering all these weird clues, slowly trying to piece together what's going on and driving himself insane, because every time a reset occurs, his memory of the previous loop ever happening is completely wiped and everything he did that day goes all the way back to square one. since the malfunctioning of LR's technology though, Barry has been getting little nuggets of deja vu and half-remembered fragments of dying before a reset. this eventually becomes him repeating things to himself, little phrases and codes over and over and over in hopes that it will persist into the next reset. this eventually becomes symbols stuck up on the walls of his room and then progresses to entire rituals to help him remember and little behaviourisms like tics and stims to let him know he's in another loop. he becomes more and more panicked and unsettled, paranoid that someone - or something - is watching him closely. additionally, he keeps having disturbing dreams in the early hours of the morning before he gets up to go to work, ones that are symbolic and prophetic, as if they're trying to warn him about something. i've had concepts of him waking up on top of a pile of millions of mangled carcasses that all look exactly like Barry, and having on them them forcefully grab onto his leg and pull him down with the rest of them. it's kinda like the nightmare Woody has in Toy Story 2, but like, dead guys everywhere, lol.

the backstory of this whole thing is kinda insane. basically, Legitimate Research is a sketchy government funded facility that's doing secret time experiments to create the strongest beings for a purpose that's somewhat similar to Brains' Zomb Bomb plan from AOZ (i haven't fully decided yet). Barry is someone who has been randomly selected for their newest version of the concentrated time loop experiment, where patients will be put under looping tests to extract data about their strength, agility and performance and decide what they need to supplement them with in order to create the perfect soldier.

Barry was 22 years old when he was selected. he was actually a relatively normal local Fish N' Chips vendor living in New South Wales, but one day, when he recieved an exciting letter in the mail about a new ambitious job opportunity, he completely disappeared without a trace and seemed to have been entirely erased from the minds of everyone he had ever known. Barry had actually been kidnapped and ensnared into a mind-experiments facility of the laboratory, where they proceeded to wipe his mind, proof of his existence and his entire personhood up to this point, and replaced all of it with fake memories to fill in the gaps. he was then placed in stasis and to be injected with high doses of strength drugs as they crafted a new life for him behind the scenes. a new house, in a new state, all with new stories and memorabilia meant to be lived out by new person. now, he was Barry Steakfries in Queensland, a rough-around-the-edges guy with a passion for action movies and destruction. he was a revel with a thirst for chaos and freedom, but he just didn't have the means to achieve it yet. it was all according to plan.

a big part of the story i want to tell that involves him is that at some point, Barry tries to break free from the time loop by doing something different. this takes a lot of pre-planning, memory rituals and repeating details to himself, but after he wakes up from a reset and gets out of bed, he hesitates, choosing to go to a different place to sell his gramophones that day. he deliberately tries his best to avoid Legitimate Research's headquarters as much as he can, and while he doesn't completely remember why he's doing it, he has a deep gut feeling that he should stay away from them at all costs. so he does. and at first, it goes well. the day is different, his choices seem to actually matter and for once, the feeling of deja vu isn't tearing him apart... until a crazy freak accident happens that forces Barry to die and reset the time loop again, wiping away everything he had done that day. Legitimate Research is now forcefully trying to stop him from knowing what the hell is going on by forcing him to die with each now discovery he makes, and Barry has to figure out more and more creative solutions to averting their surveillance and trying to get the hell out of the loop.

Craig will also be involved with the story too!! i'm not exactly sure what exactly the events leading up to Barry discovering and meeting him would be, but it'd be kinda halfway-late-ish into the story where Barry manages to cut off LR's surveillance of him, breaks into the laboratory and searches through its archives for anything relating to time. during this raid, he accidentally discovers the true Patient Zero to this time experiment: a broken, decrepit shell of a man who has been hooked up to a set of wires and locked away deep into the laboratory, never meant to be discovered by anyone, only known simply as #000 'Craig'. Craig was the very first human they used to run an early prototype of these experiments, but through malfunctions in the threads of LR's technology, he ended up knowing too much and tried to break free from his time loop, which resulted in him being dragged out of reality and becoming completely detached from his own time, stopping his aging process completely and practically allowing him to exist forever and persistently through every reset unaffected. LR relocated him and considered him a catastrophic failure, locking him away in a cell deep in the bowels of the laboratory before destroying and erasing every archive of him ever having existed in any point in time. and now, the same thing is about to happen to Barry if he doesn't figure out a way to stop what's happening quickly. Barry, outisde of LR, is the only one who is aware of Craig's existence in this timeline. Barry makes a vow to make sure that he will never ever forget Craig, no matter what happens to him, no matter how many times his timeline gets reset, because he is the only other person on the whole world who truly understands what he's going through.

at the very end of the story, when Barry finally escapes the time loop and is about to enter into a new reality where none of this ever happened, he reaches out a hand to Craig and offers he come with him to live. Craig, however, rejects the offer, sadly confessing to Barry that because of his disconect from the threads of time progression itself, Craig must stay behind and be erased along with everything inside this one and let Barry live his life. Barry protests, insisting that his life wouldn't be complete without him and that they've already gone through so much together, but Craig assures him that this is the best for the both of them, and that Barry must leave him soon before the window to escape closes. Barry gives Craig once last goodbye, holding him close and basking in his presence for the final time. he closes his eyes, presses his head against Craig's and whispers "I promise I'll never forget you." before he slowly lets him go, not breaking their locked gaze on each other for even a second as he steps into the portal and ventures into an entirely new reality, never to return.

i want there to be an epilogue part where Barry starts his new life and goes looking for a place to stay, and he comes across the place where LR used to be, which is instead occupied with a big square fence plot and a sign that says "UNDER CONSTRUCTION: NEW RESTAURANT TO BE BUILT". Barry stares at it for a moment and reflects on everything that has happened. all the hellish experiments that were once held inside this very plot of land, all the trauma he went through to get to this point, Craig's sacrifice, everything has lead up to him standing here, in the right place, at the right time, to finally live the life he should've had to begin with. eventually, he turns away, continuing to walk down the street. he should go check that place out sometime.

(insert "what a fucked up dream for a baby to have" ending from 'then what' here)

[krynutsreal]

Is Ishida mayhaps in the sky au? and is he mayhaps a solar eclipse?

comes out of the mindscape covered in blood and holding these

💥mind you I'm gonna ramble about my thought process rn be warned💥

GOOD LORD. this ask has been in my mind ever since it was sent and I genuinely could not get a good idea for how he should look like. like . fr

like honestly he's still at a concept stage but I am liking the first image more than my original thoughts for him shown below (plus some more doodles of me trying to figure out his design)

I do like the idea of the staff that he has can also become into a huge scythe (because that is cool fight me.!!! and also kinda references the pickaxe sorta thing that ishida holds in the splash art he officially has)

some ishida notes (mostly for myself to remember):

- ishida's halo looking thing becomes very VERY similar to how Mondo's is, with the light shining out on the sides and showing a more prominent halo but still keeping the little stars he normally has around his head

-his staff becomes a scythe bc I think that is cool and sexy /j but fr it becomes like. A mix of both their staffs,, maybe the combination thing I mentioned once but we'll see

-his expressions are way more intense than they normally are (which says a lot since taka is normally intense)

AND LIKE. I'm still thinking as to what he technically should be since solar eclipses happen every 18 months. And then there's the concept of lunar eclipses too. Like OUGH there's so much to think about and to work with i'm absolutely going to continue thinking about this au for a good while

but thank u sm for sending this ask 🙏

[rimouskis]

suuuuch a good show ugh

[nellasbookplanet]

I've been watching From (terrible title, I know, but good show) the last couple of days, and wow, I haven’t gotten this strong Lost vibes from anything since actually watching Lost as a kid.

Bunch of random people stranded in an isolated location, kept from leaving by possibly supernatural forces? Monstrous, unexplainable things roaming the surrounding forest, picking off people a little at a time? Lots of inexplicable mystery tied to the very location? Delicious.

It isn’t quite as character driven as Lost (to be expected, seeing as it has a 10 episode season instead of 20 and doesn’t have the same space for filler and backstory) but it still portrays its ensemble cast in a complex way that lends even the most unlikable characters to be sympathetic and interesting, and where you can really feel that everyone in this community is important to the story, not just one single main character. It’s been ages since I was this invested in both characters and plot of a show, very much recommend, super excited for season 2!

[saturnspandorabox]

Everyone was like saying that they were going to do Conventional Weapons or MCR5...Mr.Frank Iero looked at this and just went in with a Steel Chair named May Death Never Stop You, and tbh i think he is doing gods work.

[puppyeared]

for like 3 weeks i was wondering why i was sleeping so much and felt listless. and just now I managed to email 3 people and responded to a month old message in the span of an hour because I got back to TAKING MY FUCKIN MEDS..........

[dearestgojo]

the motherland is calling me back. pulling me towards her. she wants me to go home.

[strawberrydykke]

there is something beautiful about being traumatized. and not even in a way like romanticizing it. it’s so hard to heal and it hurts so much and it feels like the only option. but it’s not! a lot of traumatized people choose not to get better, not to work on it, they live their whole life carrying trauma. (they might not know they have the option not to.) and i do it out of love, i love myself and i want to get to a place where i feel safe and cared for and like life isn’t inherently painful. and in doing all this hard work i get to experience joy that i didn’t even know was possible for me. sometimes i cry because i feel happy and it’s so exciting that i even get to feel this way.