#hello? HELLO???

[metanarrates]

fascinating to post a critique of the way mainstream fiction is written nowadays and to get someone replying "yes that's why I only read YA/fanfiction/children's fiction!!" genuine question have you ever tried reading something that challenges you in any way

[azfellandco]

It's been four years and I'm still continually flabbergasted that Good Omens is a big enough fandom that people make stuff like this for it.

[chiefofboatwatsonstittymug]

Just played Rise From The Ashes for the first time. Anyone care to explain to me why Joe Darke is Literally Scott Glenn?

[zibah-ho]

17, 26, 28, 44 (dick)

thank you anon

What's your favorite canon ship?

Clois simply bc they are the only canon ship I think I do enjoy in comics. Not to be one of them but I know more than the writers, their canon ships are not for me I think. Aside from clois. (Linda Wally when I finally read flashfam they’re also 👀) They’re the blueprint. T4T bi4bi workplace romance balance each other out working towards a common goal with a combined skill set them before lois knows them after it’s all so !!!!!!!!

If you got sucked into a comic, which one would you pick?

walking into ga 2001 adoption papers ready let’s do this dad

What got you into comics?

We can all blame batphobique and thequiver for that

Wait no I forgot I did actually read comics before I just had shitty taste so uh. A long time ago baby zibah was watching spider man and this dude rocked up for a special appearance he was so brave and self sacrificing that already anti marriage zibah was willing to break their principles for this combination of lines (captain America) I wanted to marry this guy he was it for me at age 6-8 I was a big cap fan for years and when catfa came out I picked a few cap things up but didn’t really get into comics until I came across Jason via Bucky the whole no one stays dead thing

very embarrassing indeed but we’re here now

What's a song that makes you think about [dick]?

X

[hellishqueer]

we ask that the defense not say "me when i lie" while the witness testifies

[aquariumpacific]

How we weigh an octopus!

[the-golden-dragoness]

I am sorry to everyone who tagged me in some tag game and I never responded. I saw it and thought “aww they thought of me” and proceeded to forget about it right after

[idoodlestuffsometimes]

I need to share how the IT guy at work greeted my department on CrowdStrike Blue Screen Friday. Never have I seen a man so shocked by the sight of perfectly functional computers

(They were off during the update)

[guillotin3d]

[critter-creature-or-beast]

The third one looks cool

[pigswithwings]

the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they've been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[zibah-ho]

people just learn words on the internet and use them in whatever stupid way they want huh

[aesethewitch]

When I was a kid, we moved into a house that had a huge lilac tree out front. It was mostly rotten, and it needed to be taken down before it fell. It took a while, but eventually, it was gone.

Mostly. A couple years later, little lilac babies popped out of the ground in its place. My mom was determined to get rid of them, because she'd planted a beautiful flower garden there, and the lilac trees would overshadow and kill the whole garden. I insisted on saving at least a few saplings. She said fine, but I had to dig them out and put them in pots myself.

So, I did. I spent days digging little lilac bushes out of the ground and putting them into pots. Some couldn't be saved, but some could. When all was said and done, I had five brand-new lilac saplings. Seven or eight years old, and it was my absolute pride and joy.

Three died due to sun scorching, severe drought that no amount of watering could save, and perhaps just being moved from their place in the ground. But two survived, and I was awfully proud of them! I'd go out and talk to them every single day. I watered them by hand and made sure they were fertilized properly. I learned all about their favored environments, and I was determined to make sure they lived.

One of my mom's friends saw what I was doing with the lilacs. She asked if she could have one to put in her backyard, and I agreed on the condition that she take very, very good care of it.

It's now fucking enormous. I'm talking ten feet tall and bursting with beautiful purple flowers every spring. My mom still gets updates each year as they start to bloom, which she forwards to me. And all I can think is, "That's my friend! Thriving some twenty years on, there it is."

The other tree nearly died, too. It lived in a pot for far, far too long. I wanted to plant it somewhere in my parents' yard, but my mom was reluctant. Eventually, we agreed to put it in the far back garden. It grew okay for many years, despite the shade, but in all these years, it's never bloomed.

Last year, the massive tree casting massive shadows over the lilac and the garden cracked in half and fell. It tumbled into the garden, crushing part of the nearby shed and destroying a few plants beneath it.

It missed my lilac by inches.

The clean-up is long done. The rest of the tree has been cut down, and my lilac has full sunlight for the first time in fifteen years. It won't bloom this year, I know. But it's got new shoots up. It's taller than ever. I spent half an hour a few weeks ago praising it for surviving all this time, dreaming about its future and telling it how I believe it'll become the tall beauty it's always been meant to be.

I think next year, I'll see flowers.

[bl00dalchemist]

Bad influence!!!