#kind of stupid plot

[sparks-and-wires]

Purge - 2P England x Reader

⚠️Warnings: The purge obviously, mentions of blood, attempted breaking and entering, Oliver's a stalker nothing new, the reader is not making smart decisions ⚠️

Word count: 1,004

All you see is a blur of strawberry blonde hair as you quickly make your way home. He's following you yet again. It's annoying sure, but what can you do about it? Confront him and be gaslit into thinking you're crazy all over again? It's too much effort, it'd only be pissing him off further. Today would be the worst day for him to be set off, so why would you bother risking it?

You have to take a long breath as you step inside your home, activating the home security system. It's that time again. Fear, death, blood, the screaming you'd hear the moment that the clock hits midnight. You have to make a mental list of people who may actually want you dead this year. Your eyes are trained on the TV, waiting for the blaring alarm and yearly announcement of commencement. You know one way or another, you're screwed.

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Too many people have a distaste for you this year. Even with the precautions, so many people out there are sure to have equipment that could tear through the metal stutters. You'd be left utterly defenseless. A measly gun wouldn't even stun a hunter at this point, but you still keep it close as you bury yourself in the back of your closet.

You have to focus on the set of cameras on the small device in your lap now. You have to force yourself not to panic when you see him walk up your driveway like he would any other day. You think you can see blood staining his clothes but the camera is grainy when he isn't up close to the porch.

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He doesn't even care if he's caught on camera, smiling like a Cheshire cat before the camera feed turns to snow once again. You let out a short scream of anger, you know he broke it. He just had to take out the most important camera in your entire system. You knew he'd get in this year, without a doubt, and you have to force yourself not to panic as you switch to another camera feed.

No matter what you do, what precautions you set up, he will get in. This is the one day of the year that no one will be able to help you. You're left at the mercy of your oh so friendly stalker. You curse the British government for picking up on the American's 'holiday of bloodshed'. 'A promise of economic prosperity' they stated, sure. It's just less people around to oppose the government, since they were exempt from participation.

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You can hear muffled screams and the whirl of machines just outside the metal shutters. You can't dwell on the thoughts of your neighbors, you can't even trust people to stay with you to bunker down due to last year. 'Never again', you promised yourself, you couldn't let yourself become a target for harboring someone else's enemies in your home. You had to feign being apathetic tonight, you could mourn later.

Then there's the harsh sound of metal on metal, piercing your ears as you turn to the camera the sound was emanating from. He was cutting through the shutters with a circular saw. You wouldn't have believed it could be done if you weren't watching it live. You were letting yourself panic now, he's figured a way in this year. A painfully slow way in, but even if got bored and left now others could finish the job for easy prey.

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Then you make what you know is the stupidest decision of your life to save what little protection you have. Praying for mercy, you disable the security system, scaring the absolute hell out of him and almost launching the saw into Oliver's head due his quick attempt to jump back. Then you watched. He'd paused for a moment confused before trying for the door with a lockpick. The circular saw long forgotten as it lays on the concrete outside your back door.

The moment he's inside the security system is immediately put back into place, scaring him once again with the loud slam of the shutters. You can't even say he's trapped inside with you, you could see the blood on him with the indoor cameras as he searched with a feverish curiosity. You're choking on air, just let it be over already.

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As he get closer and closer you can't help but just close your eyes, jumping at every little sound before remembering the gun. You were legally allowed to kill him with no consequences. You drop the tablet and grab the gun, cocking it and simply waiting as you had it pointed at the entrance of the closet.

Seems like hours before he finally entered the room. The tapping of his heels on the wooden floors you once hated gave you an advantage.

"I know you're here."

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You count off in your head as he grabs the closet door. Three. Two. One. Nothing, you can't seem to press the trigger as you pointed it at the strawberry blonde softly smiling at you.

Fucking hell, why did you have to freeze up? You could have shot him! Freedom was right in your hands and you blew it! You curse yourself as he's taking the gun from your hands before you could say a word. He pulls you to your feet and out of the closet with a lovesick expression. There's blood smearing onto your clothes and body and all you could do is wince and try to break from his hold.

"Everything's going to be ok. I'll deal with whatever gets past the security system. Thanks for letting me in dear."

This is not what you expected to happen this year. Between the blood on your body and him coddling you like a child you can finally let yourself shut down. Why put up a fight if he isn't even there to kill you? You let the rest of the night become a blur as you blankly stare into nothingness.

End Note: I'll be jotting down scenarios that come to me as blurbs. Don't forget that what I post will be related to bots sooner or later. Also I am not new to creative writing.

[aroaceleovaldez]

the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.

and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.

And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

…

There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

[alena-draws]

I was thinking I'd like to do some nice clean sprite drawings for my portfolio, kind of like Ace Attorney style. So I had the idea of a Vashwood Dating Sim game where you play Wolfwood who thinks he's in some kind of story/detective game until he realizes he's the protagonist of a dating sim. I think that could be hilarious BUT then I didn't want to do a school setting...So now I thought about a new setting, more mystery style, where Vash and Nai search for Tesla, with the help of Wolfwood. So I'll try my hand at drawing some pretty sprites now!

[anotheryellowapple]

Girl idk I can't write dialogue

[starscream-is-my-wife]

The Decepticon book club gets a new member

(Who came prepared with illegally downloaded yaoi)

[arttsuka]

Yeah me neither

[charmwasjess]

Whatever you do, don’t think about how happy Sifo-Dyas must have been that last time with Dooku on Serenno. He’d been fired as a Seeker, lost his seat on the Jedi Council, had the worst rounds of visions of his life, and finally, finally, someone is listening to him, someone believes him, someone gets it.

He’s back with his best friend who promised to help him save the galaxy, like the two of them were made to do together. Like they always knew they were going to do.

[corseque]

“But the game is DA: Veilguard not DA: Solavellan” hey dipshit, was BG3 about Dame Aylin and Isobel because they have a resolved romance plot in it? Or were they somehow able to tell a story about both? Don’t be fucking stupid

[foggyinphx]

How did Vanessa know Foggy needed to be killed soon??

Foggy didn't even consult with Matt about his strategy on the case and hadn't filed his motion for dismissal yet. The DAs office was equally clueless, based on Kirsten trying to needle the information out of him. Foggy put Benny under protection because of threats.

So where did the info come from?

[eelclaw]

stupid fucking bastard. i am not coping with the leaks

[knowlesian]

seeing somebody argue that a character making a stupid choice is bad writing simply because they didn’t go for the best course of action always baffles me

like my friend have you ever met a single human being, including yourself???? we are constantly making horrible choices, it’s kind of our thing

[beanghostprincess]

"The only ones in need of love are those who don’t receive enough. So evil ones should get a little more" - Laplace's Angel (Hurt people? Hurt people!)

Gifting this edit to my wonderful and beloved mootie (and favorite artist, but don't tell them I said that) @the-orion-inexpirience 🩷

[qoldenskies]

i hope it's okay to message you about this (that bringing it up helps, not makes it worse)

it's about the people who've been being dicks about your writing

this popped up in my dash really soon after your boundaries post, and holy shit the timing

the people criticizing your work need to have this vacuum-sealed onto their brains

not just the people unable to curate their own experiences, but also the people being overly critical of the technical side

i'm gonna be super pretentious and pull the "my mom is an english major" card to try and make myself sound more Qualified To Judge when i say---- your works are REALLY good

you may not be a mainstream-famous author with 30+ years of experience, but seriously, if it weren't for the copyright issue, it would be *more* than quality enough to publish

-with a *good* publisher

so many people love it, and it's also better, from a technical standpoint, than most novels you could pick up at random in a bookstore

because it has a *depth* to it that's so hard to achieve

it anchors its hooks into your mind and steadily reels you in as the darkening atmosphere slowly- almost imperceptibly, at first- curdles, gradually infusing liquid ice, drop by drop, into your blood

the further you read, the further the dread deepens, smoothly and organically, like a spreading puddle of rot seeping from the belly of a discarded carcass

it's so *realistic* in its gradual nature that it feels like you're watching the nightmare develop in real time

it sucks you in

it gets to the point where it feels like the angst has peaked, sucking the breath straight from your lungs- and then the tension *just keeps climbing*, the dread crystallizing into sickly cold shards down your spine with each additional scene until it all shatters at once and you're left trying to remember how to breathe

it's the sort of story that makes you have to stop and stare at the ceiling for several minutes after reading, just to process

whatever people have been criticizing and nitpicking about, it, doesn't change the fact that only *really well written* stories are able to grip your heart and wring it out on your shoes like that, and you should *absolutely* be proud

it's so good

this is so kind ;~; this is probably the most descriptive praise ive ever gotten of any of my writing and idek what to say. need to ss this and squirrel it away somewhere or something cause waow

[shannonsketches]

There's a meme going around to draw your comfort characters as the Steven meme.

Bowser's never been a comfort character for me, but thinking about how great an Illumination Smash Bros movie would be with these two having the dumbest greatest villain team dynamic has brought me SO much joy this year.

[sporesgalaxy]

in my dream last night they released a bill cipher themed soda called Decipher and I tried to go get some but insane wacky nonsense kept interrupting me before I could. I mean the nonsense had to do with the plot of the rest of the dream but it just kept showing up at the exact moment that I was about to get my soda. Ive just remembered the plot of the rest of the dream was that all of the straw hat piratds were there at tbis theme park we were in and some other group of pirates were trying to bully nico robin. the other pirate group was goth btw. their captain almost died from getting splashed with acid (by nico robin) (it was justified). But I didnt see that happen bc really I was mostly focused on getting my dumb soda.