#on a cosmic scale

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Borrowers au When Doc Brown realises there's something living in his lab, he thinks he has an unusually smart rat. To his amazement, he finds himself with a four-inch tall teenager on his hands - a teenager who is lost, and alone, and a long way away from home.

Author: @penny-anna

[omegasmileyface]

im so fucked up. theres a scene in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (the sequel to hitchhikers guide) where zaphod is rummaging through the ruins of a long-destroyed city on a lifeless, abandoned planet, looking for a way off, and he stumbles upon the crumbling remains of a spaceport, and miraculously one of the crafts is still intact, and there's still a quiet hum of power going into it from a connected cable, and it's making a quiet noise. so he rigs up a makeshift stethoscope and listens, and there's a PA system saying something like "we are very sorry for the delay. we are currently waiting for a restocking on lemon-soaked towlettes, for your hygienic and culinary pleasure. in the meantime, we will be serving coffee and biscuits on the deck." and he finds the remains of the arrivals/deparetures board, translates the dates and does a little math, and discovers the delay has been 900 years. spooky, yeah? but he goes on the ship, hoping he can get it flying, and it's perfectly well-functioning and an android flight attendant comes out and tries to force him to sit in the seating area, continuing to apologize for the delay. and when he gets to the seating area, every seat has a person in it. long-haired, long-nailed, and completely silent, but very much alive. and another android comes out with a tray of coffee and cookies, and all of the people wake up and start screaming in agony as she gives them their snacks. zaphod is terrified, so he runs to the control deck and locks the door behind him, and he finds the autopilot computer, which repeatedly tells him to return to the seating area, and he eventually convinces it to talk to him. "have you seen the planet?" he says, or something to that general effect. "there's no civilization! you're not GETTING a lemon-soaked napkin shipment!" and the autopilot says "the most likely path to us receiving our shipment is to wait until another civilization develops on the planet and they can deliver it. so we have put the passengers in suspended animation, and we wake them up once a year for coffee." and then? and then zaphod's friend who he was looking for shows up and the plot carries on and they don't say another word about the ship (at least, as far as i know from my place a couple chapters later). thats it. some classic Space Horror Of Grand Proportions, a doctor who plot, a twilight zone plot, an scp article, an asimov short story— that, when a ship ran out of a luxury amenity and didn't get it fulfilled quickly, the autopilot ai decided that, regardless of plentiful fuel and safety, the ideal way to deal with the situation is to suspend the lives of all of the passengers, waking them up once a year, until a new civilization could evolve around them to produce napkins— and it takes up about two pages total before being put aside completely!

[werewolfetone]

Can't believe that if I want to learn a language I have to actually learn it & put effort into memorisation and continued use of the vocabulary rather than just waking up one day suddenly completely and permanently fluent. just unfair

[arkos404]

fanart for the personality swap au, the lawful joke au, by @chaosaliien

love makes you blind fr, prism bailed immediatedly afterwards, here some of the other fits he tried before tho (yes scrabby reacted the same way to all of them)

,,,,,also tagging @flaint and @rateater2000 bc they said they were looking forward to it 👉👈 sorry it took this long lol, some of the refs below

[ariadne-mouse]

Here's a scene from small works of cosmic scale, now with color!

[theriverbeyond]

EIGHTH SAINT TO SERVE THE KING UNDYING

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i am confusing kali and durga but you did make design of fgo her right? can i ask you to repost it bc i scoured your archive and i still cant find it

It was kali! The actual post is here but I’ll post some of the pictures here as well

I’ve been planing on doing proper ascension-like art for her for a while now, just haven’t found the time between work and making my normal content for the blog ;v;

[dndtreasury]

Tick Tock by Mithral Canvas

[vaguely-concerned]

travis matagot just -- the very concept of him unlocks something deep and feral in my brain, even aside from all the changeling stuff. an angel looked upon you once as a child and, after seeing every possible thread and pathway of the man you will grow into one day, said 'I see no sin here' even as its holy flames consumed your screaming parents and the town around you. that angel, having stumbled head over heels to earth after killing god, later deliberately loses their name to you in a card game so the eyes of heaven can't find them. you and the angel have proceeded to annoy the everloving FUCK out of each other for centuries because you just keep. bumping. into each other!!!! through the power of like Narrative and also simply being two of the only people who've even been around that long. you've kept their name for them this whole time and never breathed a word of it, even though they seemingly never even explained why they wanted to lose it in the first place. you've sworn to die together or not at all.

what if you met an eldritch horror as a child and then became their best (and most irritating) friend/life partner/frenemy/perpetual thorn in their side (affectionate). I'm obsessed with this idea of being divinely judged as unworthy of damnation so early in your life and having to have that in the back of your head forever even as your self-loathing and trauma start piling up over the centuries and you have done so many shitty things along the way. like. is he trying to prove them wrong. is that part of his whole thing about trying to escape the narrative. or is it to prove that 'no actually awful things happen to me because I'm awful, you got it wrong from the start (fuck you btw)' because at least that feels like a choice, like some kind of control to hold on to? what is going on here travis. what the fuck

[amarmeme]

I love me some Gale/Tav, but someone fetch me some God!Gale/Mystra lovers to enemies to lovers 150k, slow burn.

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

Humans do not rank above other animals, or below them. There is no cosmic scale of value, no great chain of being; no external standard by which the worth of a life can be judged.

from Feline Philosophy by John Gray 

[starheirxero]

do you think there's some sort of intense isolation in being one of few kind variants of a mean character. and vice versa. bc i do

[cricketcat9]

Maybe I mentioned

that I have an online job, proofreading and editing translations of the YT videos from Eastern Europe (Polish, Bulgarian, Slovak) to English. They are mostly political, (although one time there were 12 different doctors talking about Vitamin D: we don’t have enough).

The employer warned us that we may deal with racism, sexism, foul language, hate speech. What they did not warn about is OVERWHELMING, UNBELIEVABLE, COSMIC SCALE STUPIDITY.

Polish ones are THE WORST. I’ve read opinions and conclusions about the state of the world by Polish “journalists”, politicians and UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS; comparing to them, Jordan Peterson is a progressive, unbiased, rational, sweet ray of sunshine. Who made the fuckers Professors? Who goes to the meetings with them, and applauds the incredible nonsense they are spewing? Polish followers, I’m so sorry. I never thought it would come to this when I was going to the Solidarity rallies back in the Eighties 😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬

[randomlywanderingmoth]

Microscopic spoilers and/or speculation for FGO (I'm probably super heckin late to this conversation) but I read a while back that the Lostbelts were 1. part of Marisbury's plan and 2. supposed to be destroyed.

Some things that occurred to me, learning this- there were Seven Lostbelts.

Now, can we think of any other rituals, where Seven entities are summoned, fight to the death, and are sacrificed to empower a ritual?

[narwhalandchill]

OH MISHAS OFFICIAL INTRODUCTION IS OUT. Anyway. sound familiar?

let us thank this brave soldier for even the mere crumbs he has brought us humble narwhal truthers in these trying times 🫡🫡 i rest my case

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

This is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen

("Rob Calabro" is apparently a pseudonym of Cosmic Comedian Donald Trump)

(This is the Rob Calabro who went to grad school with me, I swear I am not making this up)