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jaybirdhaswings · 1 year

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#i still dont know how i did that #it just happened #imagine if i was like a god to the fly #i am so much bigger and more powerful than a simple fly that buzzes around for like a week #i live so long i must be ancient to it!#imagine #the fly was just chilling around its god #praying for happy and healthy children #and its god bitch slaps it across the room #'what a wondeful tale!'#the fly thinks #'to tell my children'#'your father was punished by a god and lived to tell the tale'#its children live on in enternal rage against the god that hurt their father #they tell their future children about their father #their children too become angered at the gods #who are they to decide one life is not worth enough to even care?#word spreads #the flys greatgreatgrandson leads the charge #'for my ancestors!'#it cries #the god doesnt even look in its direction simply waving a hand #the fly hits the wall and crumples to the ground #it is alive but only just #it serves as a living reminder #do not go up against god unprepared to accept the punishments and expecting to live #the flies were lucky #so many others #whether trapped in a spiderless web #or crushed by a gods weapon

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crow-caller · 28 days

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as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

#I'm talking about max ride flatmate is watching spy x family #reminiscing on my multiple stories and ocs about this like truly #I think this might not be as universal as i think but if you liked max ride it probably was. my main oc as a tiny child was #a girl who grew up to be an unethical scientist who loved experimenting on humans and children. she could turn into a flying purple wolf bt #maximum ride

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daisywords · 11 months

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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

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shitty-check-please-aus · 1 year

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What we need to do is convince all the disney adults in america that high speed rail would be a preferable way of getting to disneyworld compared to driving or flying. We could maybe harness their fondness for the monorail or something, but this is a group of people that has time, income, and passion that we could leverage. If we could direct 5% of the enthusiasm they have for limited edition popcorn buckets into calling their representatives and demanding high-speed interstate rail, we could get it by 2030

#at this point I don't care whether rail is privately or publicly funded #I'll ride the Mickey Mouse Express if it means not having to drive or fly everywhere #if you're on the disneyland side of the country I just don't have as strong a grasp on your psychology as a demographic #but I went to school with some twice a year disneyworld people #if you are a disney adult and you're reading this please don't take it as an insult #I don't think it comes off that way but you never know

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notherpuppet · 2 months

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