#totally normal spaceship

[bookwyrmsbuttons]

It’s hereeeeee

[geargoyle]

You see, TTOU is a classic example of the maxim, "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."

The Courageous is a perfectly normal spaceship. Her crew are enjoying perfectly normal activities and events for their environment!

You should all try reading Derin's wonderfully normal serial science fiction!

I finally started reading TTOU and I'm starting to think this spaceship isn't as normal as you keep claiming it is, Derin

Help I'm being called a liar on Tumblr dot com

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Having an otherkin awakening thanks to @derinthescarletpescatarian 's wonderful discord full of wonderful peoples.

I am a computer. A big supercomputer (not in an intelligence way just in a; needs to be that large and complex to be sentient) the size of a small country. Non-human in a trans girl way still. I'm gonna think of some new pronouns maybe, to add alongside the she/her.

I didn't even realize this was a thing you could do today, it's wonderful.

No wonder I was so in love with Patricia taxxon's video "the ethics of bonking animal people", is I accepted that someone can be an animal, then I can accept that I'm a computer.

[iamthescalesofjustice]

i get so sucked into a massive webnovel for a few days that im off tumblr completely and when i come back some shit has happened?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH TTOU how is THIS the post that does that I am going to lose my mind

Do you think in the omegaverse there’s a new, awful layer to “the talk” that teens get

[siderusmysteriarch]

Hey, pssssst— if you are looking for something to listen while washing dishes, I've got a list just for you,

● If you're into dark academia but with more trauma, less studying, mysterious British guys who emotionally malfunction, and horror stories that make you say “mood”. Try The Magnus Archives.

● If you’re into small towns where everything’s a little off (actually, a lot), radio hosts who are way too calm about it, and bizarre, inexplicable occurrences that are totally fine, then you’ve found your new home in Welcome to Night Vale.

Tune in, stay safe (or don’t), and remember:

the sheriff's secret police definitely aren’t listening.

● If you’re into road trips that go way off the beaten path, chasing something you can’t explain, and a haunting mystery that’ll make you question every car that drives by—

then Alice Isn’t Dead is your new obsession.

Buckle up, drive safely, and the people you’re looking for might be looking for you, too.

● Does the phrase “amnesiac eldritch horror with a thesaurus” excite you?

It does? Oh, you little freak.

Then you definitely need to try Malevolent. Also there is whimpering, male whimpering.

● Ever wonder what happens when you trap a bunch of dysfunctional coworkers on a spaceship with limited resources, a suspicious number of near-death experiences, and one emotionally complex AI? You get Wolf 359.

It’s like The Office—but in space, with more trauma bonding and fewer HR rules. Next time you're on a spaceship… check the air supply.

● Are you looking for unsettling horror, a sentient city and unreliable reality? Are you looking for a monotonous narration? Are you looking for I'm in Eskew?

Think.

● Have you ever wondered if your summer camp was just a little... off? Like, dangerously quirky?

Maybe it has a nurse with questionable credentials, several mental disorders, and an unsettling love for worms?

No? You haven't? Weird. Camp Here and There.

● Hello from the Hallowoods. A forest where the trees remember. Where silence isn’t empty—it's waiting.

The world as you knew it ended here. But the story? That’s just beginning.

Listen closely. You might not like what you hear.

● There are things that lurk behind the veil of normal. Objects that don’t follow physics. Creatures that don’t obey God.

They find them. They contain them. They pretend the world is still safe.

You were never meant to know. SCP Foundation.

● If you’ve ever clipped through reality and landed in a buzzing yellow hallway that never ends...

Congratulations. You’re already a traveler.

This guide won’t save you. But it might tell you what not to look at.

The Traveler’s Guide to the Backrooms. Mind the damp. And the screaming.

● Now, if you’re like me and sometimes can’t handle complex storylines, freeze up every time a new character shows up, or feel too lazy to open the wiki just to remember who that guy from episode 3 was? I get it.

Try Tales from the Breakroom, Unexplained Encounters or anything from Eriecast Network.

Enjoy the horrors and forget when the episode ends.

● Do you know Japan holds events where people gather to exchange scary stories? Cool, right.

God, I wish my country did too, since it doesn't I guess I have to listen to Kaiden: Japanese Scary stories.

● Do you like magic, dragons, daring quests… and unexpected romantic tension?

The Two Princes is a fantasy audio drama where two rival princes set out to save their kingdoms—and accidentally fall in love along the way. It’s got sword fights, sass, heartfelt moments, and enough gay yearning to power a castle.

If you’ve ever wanted a fairy tale that’s charming, funny, and unapologetically queer—this is it. Adventure awaits. So does Prince Amir. (And he’s very handsome.)

● Love and Luck podcast is a sweet, queer love story told through voicemails—with a touch of magic. Set in Melbourne, it’s about building love, community, and kindness. Short episodes, big heart, no tragic endings. Just good vibes and quiet enchantment.

● Maybe you are not looking for fiction but real things, true crimes, perhaps that send chills down your spine thinking how can humans be like this? as cherry on top?

Look no further for you are looking for Crimehub: A true crime podcast.

● What if vampires were less “terrifying monster” and more “dramatic queer disaster”?

All Vampires Are Gay is a bold, funny, and emotional audio drama that reclaims vampire lore with sharp fangs and sharper wit.

[comicaurora]

there was a post you reblogged a while ago about a webcomic. but now i can’t find it. totally a normal spaceship? i’m getting the name wrong somehow

Time To Orbit: Unknown! Not a webcomic, but a very intriguing chunk of longform sci-fi prose. Be warned that it hooks into the ADHD brain and puts you in Time Prison until you're done.

[eversoslightlybitter]

After years of hearing about @derinthescarletpescatarian totally normal spaceship, I'm finally reading Time to Orbit: Unknown

[denizbevan]

Just putting this here

So many request for part 2 from This Way to Spaceship (2012) ... here's the clip! I had to cut two part to avoid, you know you know ;)

[radiance1]

Hmmm Phantom Planet compliant except I had a random idea about the 4th version of Vlad in the 'Ten Years Later' section on the wiki (Listen I forget stuff a lot so if it's there I use it alright-)

Okay so Vlad, gets flung out to space and flies away from earth, then gets captured and turned into a slave by aliens and because he was the strongest among them, he's used both for work and sport. Where am I going with this? Easy, when Vlad was a slave he unfortunately (in his mind) gets attached to other slaves from other races who could either be adults or children your pick, I guess? So, when he breaks out and escapes, he doesn't do so alone.

This results in Vlad wandering around space with his new 'crew' doing... well, honestly I have no clue? Maaaybe trying to return members who still have a family (and a home) to return to back to them or whatever. Perhaps even because Vlad still doesn't have a good (he's a business man what did you expect?) moral compass, he kinda also steals from a few other planets or something.

Also taking the thing from the V4 where Vlad doesn't remove his shackles despite changing clothes because he wants to remind himself where and how far he came. Because boy do I actually like that.

So basically, space nomad Vlad with a not very good moral compass who regularly steal tech and other such things from planets while doing business with others along with the few members of his crew he's got left with a giant ship that he stole from his captors and also upgraded because he simply could.

Then he pulls up to Earth after a full ten years of being gone in Earth time, finally caving in because his crew wanted to see where exactly he hailed from and that he should totally have the opportunity to go back like he gave the others.

He does not expect for Earth to have changed one bit in his time away, he does expect something to happen when he enters Earth because you know, giant spaceship?

He does not expect to come across Earth after it had recently been invaded by another race.

He also did not expect to come face to face with this 'Justice League' that he's been hearing whispers of in space. He's known of them, of course, but he always thought that they were from another planet.

Not his homeworld.

(Meanwhile, Danny is just kind of there in the background, having faded since the Justice League was formed and they combated against multiple world ending threats. Which is exactly how he likes it, honestly. Normal life hooray!)

[untalented-but-opinionated]

Books I Loved in 2025: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

"No, that's not creepy at all. Being in a spaceship twelve light-years from home and having someone knock on the door is totally normal."

[geargoyle]

Yesss! It was practically one of those 'they said the title!!' kinda moments.

I gotta say, things have been so very good and normal lately I can't quite explain the sense of creeping dread that comes over me when I think about how close they might actually be to the Orbit part! Wowzers!

People should totally try reading a few chapters of excellent normal serial sci-fi from Derin, if they don't have any other plans for tonight.

Don't even worry about what you might need to be doing tomorrow. There's a totally normal spaceship chock full of characters, even!

THE NEW CHAPTER ACKNOWLEDGED THE NORMALCY OF THE SHIP HELL FUCKING YEAH

It's SO normal

[xo-violent]

Lilo Jonathan and

Stitch You.

Note: don’t really like this one. the pace feels fast but i’m too lazy.

—

“Woah, Damian! You have so many pets,” Jon smiled happily, petting Titus. Damian’s head snapped over towards his direction and shouted for Titus to come towards him instead, “don’t let his filthy hands touch you, Titus.”

“Come on, Damian!” Jon whined, “can i continue petting him? It won’t hurt to do so.”

“*Tt* No.”

“Fine. I’m going to ask my dad for a pet then,” he huffed, leaving Damian to continue with his homework in peace.

—

“No. Jonathan, pets are hard to take care of.” Clark tells Jon, holding his shoulder trying to let him down gently. “But-but… Damian has so many, and he won’t let me pet any!”

“I see, so this is this about Damian.”

“No! It’s not, i just want a pet… like a normal family…” That broke Clark’s heart, seeing his son so vulnerable and upset. “How about we talk about this in the morning with your mother?”

Both Clark and Jon flew back home, tired from the eventful day they spent together.

—

Lois walked towards Jon’s room for his daily tuck in and kiss, but froze at the door. “It’s me again,” she could hear Jon talk. Taking a peek inside, she noticed he wasn’t talking to anyone in particular but chose to wait.

“I need someone to be my friend, someone who won’t run away…” he pleaded, “maybe send me an angel, the nicest angel you have.” That melted Lois’s heart, Jon had always been so helpful around the house and world. Entering his room with a knock, she began her daily routine and helped tuck him in.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Gotham. A spaceship fell down and landed in an abandoned building, destroying everything in its vicinity.

Stepping out of the spaceship was a blue creature, laughing maniacally, who travelled around only to stop at an unusual place where things moved.

*BANG*

“Fuck! Did i just hit a dog?” The person immediately called a shelter and brought you in.

—

“…Are you sure?” Clark questioned Lois, glancing over at her to double check with her before looking back at Jon. She nodded, “he has been very helpful around the farm, a pet wouldn’t hurt.”

“YES!” Jonathan jumped up and down, celebrating. “Oops…” he jumped too high and broke a hole into the ceiling, Lois laughed and told Clark to take him over to the shelter before he breaks more things.

Entering the shelter, Jon ran to the room that held all the animals and left behind his father.“hello?” He called out, confused as to why no animals were jumping up in their cages excited to see a person. “Are there any animals in here?”

You immediately ran towards the sound and sniffed the air, head turning to notice a poster with a person and dog hugging. Looking down at yourself, you hid your other pair of arms, spikes and antennas, and ran out.

Sitting on the floor, Jon turned around hearing a noise. “Hi!” He waved. You stood up on two legs, “h-h… hi!” and ran into his arms. “Wow.”

“Dad! I found one!” He shouted, walking out and interrupting Clark and the employee. “What is that?” Clark questioned, while the employee sprung into action.

She held you back making Clark realise something was wrong. He held Jon back away from you, “A dog! I think, but it was dead this morning.” The employee explained, mortified.

—

Going for a totally normal walk and not somewhere where he knew he’d run into one of the bats, and he totally didn’t hope that they would tell someone who could mention it to Damian… totally not his plan at all.

Jon bumped into Dick, “Mr Grayson! I got a dog.” He proudly showed you off, picking you up and holding you too closely to his face.

“Aww…” Dick cooed, only to take a good look at you a pause. “You sure it’s a dog?”

You stared dead into his eyes, “woof.”

“Uh huh… He used to be a collie before he got ran over,” Jonathan casually mentioned, placing you down gently. Dick nodded simultaneously, pretending to understand but froze in place once the realisation hits, “wait, what are you doing in Bludhaven…?”

Jon and Dick continued their conversation, completely unaware of the situation at hand. You were running around and terrorising other dogs with Haley following in pursuit, “boo!” You’d shout and race after them on your back legs, trying to make yourself seem bigger.

Haley followed you, occasionally tripping over her own feet making you turn back and pick her up. Now holding her in front of your chest, you both began to scare off people.

After that madness, Jon made you sit and listen to his lecture. Noticing that you weren’t listening, he drew out a picture of you. “This is your badness level,” he stated, colouring you in red. “It’s unusually high for someone your size. we have to fix that.”

—

Just some scenes…

Damian was in search for Jonathan, something about needing to save the world but found you instead. He remembered hearing Jon during his study session, mention that you could speak. It was stupid and he’s stupid for trying this method out, “okay, talk.” He demanded.

“I know you had something to do with this. now, where’s Kent? Talk! I know you can.”

You frowned at the idea of being framed, standing on both legs and waving your hands up to show that you’re safe. “Okay. Okay-”

*WACK*

“Ouch! That was rude,” you crawled back up.

—

The Justice League was having a meeting and Jon brought you along.

He was talking with this other kid and Damian when they got into a small argument. Damian didn’t pick sides… not that he would say out loud, but his money was always on the Kryptonian.

You held Jonathan back, afraid of him doing something stupid. “Badness level! Remember the badness level!” You cried out until…

“You’ll never be like your dad. Never!”

…

“Oh.”

All three of you froze. Damian, you, and Jon. “Oh,” was the only thing that escaped your mouth.

Damian looked over at you and gave off that look. “Okay,” you piped up, letting him go. Without wasting anymore time, he launched himself onto the other kid. “That’s it!”

Damian took his time to take photos instead of helping the removal of the two kids fighting. Those photos were now hung up on the Justice League’s fridge, revealing the start of the fight all the way to when the Justice League came and broke it apart.

—

“He’s touching me,” you cried out to Jon, pointing over at Kon. “I’m not touching you,” he says, pointing at your direction, showing how he’s not even near you.

“Ah, you’re touching me!” You screeched, moving even closer to him.

“Not touching.”

“Touching me!”

Kon couldn’t deal with this and looked over to Jon for some help, Jonathan on the other hand found this to be hilarious and provided little to no help. “It’s free air!” Kon stated only to get licked by you, “…ew.”

[gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat]

Group H, Round 1, Poll 9:

Propaganda under the cut

Ianthe Tridentarius

She is trying so hard to be the main character by lying and manipulating her sister, her cavalier, her mentor, her ?love interests? (Spoiler???) And also god. Not sure how it's working out for her but she does love to lie and manipulate

Worstie Ianthe is the DEFINITION of gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss. She is one of a set of necromancer twins that are the heirs to their houses rule. Except wait, only she is a necromancer and she has spent their entire lives doing necromancy for the both of them. She is constantly mean to their cavalier, Naberius, who she occasionally nibbles on like a chew toy, before eventually killing and eating him to ascend to sainthood. She goes to gods spaceship with another woman who ascended to sainthood who she has a crush on, this other woman is like…. Both incredibly mentally unwell and also haunted by at least 211 ghosts. Ianthes method of flirting with her? Gaslighting her about the corpse that keeps moving around and hiding under her bed. For no real reason tbh. She is clearly plotting to overthrow god, and at the moment that consists of her manipulating him while he’s too sad about his long term partners betraying him and subsequently exploding to really care. She dresses in terrible outfits and makes soup by burning onions to the bottom of a pot, putting meat in and some vegetables and then it doesn’t taste like anything so she puts in a few teaspoons of salt so it tastes like a few teaspoons of salt. She had her crush amputate her arm and regrow her a new one out of bone and it’s one of the horniest things I’ve read in my life.

"Gaslight = told her lobotomized (she helped), schizophrenic girlobsession that there was no corpse under their bed, even tho there totally was. Gatekeep = girl did NOT share the secret to god-like ascension. She kept that shit to herself until it was time to eat her boytoy, and by then everyone knew already. Girlboss = she has a non-necromancer twin sister, and literally Everyone thinks they r both necromancers because Ianthe is so good at it. She reverse engineered ascending to the aforementioned ascension without even completing any of the supplementary tasks. She held her own in a fight against a 10k year old lyctor. She becomes the figurehead of her entire empire. "

She uses a man as a chewtoy in the first book, literally gaslights the protagonist of the second book about a corpse, and elder-abuses God when he gets depressed in the third book. Nobody is doing it like her.

Dives headfirst with no regrets while basically laughing and covered in blood into murdering her cavalier once she realizes what the gothic locked room mystery/competition leads to while everyone else is questioning it, helps perform lobotomy on harrow so she doesn't remember the person she loves, manipulates everyone to get to the top

idk just everything about her

her relationship with her sister is incredibly Bad, she fosters codependency and views Corona(the sister) as an extension of herself. This does not stop her from keeping up the con that Corona actually has magic (She doesn't, it was always just Ianthe) for 22ish years and every single person who interacts with them falls for it. She killed a man against his will (most dying for this purpose specifically go willingly) and she consumed him and she will be burning his soul for eternity. She's completely repulsive and still somehow incredibly hot.

she takes advantage of the fact that the main character is prone to hallucinations. at one point she gaslights the mc into believing that the corpse under her bed isn't real just because she can. she reverse engineered a set of very complex trials on her own without anyone realizing she had the skills to complete them normally. she's also babysat god through his drunk and pathetic era.

Artist:@starcanist

Remy the Rat

Gaslight- 'hmm? Me? Steal papers? I'm just an innocent little ratty rat.' Gatekeep- I would debate he's gatekeeping food and taste from the other rats because they just don't GET it. Ugh! Girlboss- doesn't he own a rat restaurant at the end?

[finrays]

Talking to “normal people” who don’t read or write fanfiction is hilarious sometimes because lowkey so many of them expect it all to be smut, but you get to inform them that you don’t write smut, watch them relax a bit, then horrify them in a totally different way.

It’s like you’re the weathered shopkeeper sweeping the porch like “No ma’am, the porn is next door, this here is an AU where a woman thinks she’s a spaceship.”

[shippingmyworld]

I know it’s unlikely given how they are in the show, but imagine if Maddie and Jack didn’t take Danny telling them he’s half ghost very well and long story short, gets adopted by Frostbite. So Manny goes to meet Danny’s dad (he knows Danny doesn’t have a mom, just a dad) and meets Frostbite, but instead of being scared of the giant ghost yeti like a normal person, he just shrugs and goes along with it. He probably knows Danny was once a normal human and that he died when he was younger, I mean he jokes about it all the time and it’s almost concerning, but imagine Manny asking Danny if he’s going to grow a tail and horns in the future. Or making another joke like “I can see where you get your tall genes from.”

OKAY BUT THIS WOULD MAKE A REALLY FUN AU ACTUALLY

Like imagine if Danny stayed in his ghost form almost 24/7, even outside the ghost zone, because he didn't take well to being rejected by his parents. The OG Unite group (SB, Timmy, & Jimmy) would of course all know, he'd shift back to human form around them on occasion, but when Jenny and Manny join the team, Danny automatically stays in ghost form so the two just assume that Danny's a full ghost.

And yeah, Manny would totally not bat an eye the first time meeting Frostbite, or the fact that Danny introduces the yeti as his dad. Manny grew up in Miracle City, all the parent/child duos he's met before all resemble each other so of course he'd ask when Danny's horns are supposed to grow in. Danny would laugh and change the subject without answering the question, but Manny's not (completely) stupid, he knows his question struck a nerve he wasn't expecting. He doesn't poke at it, because he wants to respect Danny's privacy, but he does start noticing and naturally picking up certain pieces of information; such as Walker making an off-handed comment to Danny about the "Good-for-nothing Humans" he tossed aside have some new project that's disrupting to peace of the Ghost Zone, or Timmy making a joke about them both knowing what it's like having shitty parents (which is definitely odd because with the way Frostbite was practically fawning over Danny's well-being the few times they visited the Far Frozen, Manny would not use the word 'shitty' to describe Danny's yeti-dad).

Like we know Danny can't keep ghost form when he loses consciousness or falls asleep, so now imagine a scenario in which the Unite Team has a mission that takes them into space in Jimmy's universe. For science/plot reason, they wouldn't be able to return until they got back to Earth, so inside Jimmy's spaceship they're all starting to nod off one by one until Danny and Manny are the only one's still awake. In his exhaustion, Danny rests his head on Manny's shoulder (Manny starts screaming 'FUCK YEAH' in his head), but then he falls asleep and accidentally shifts back to his human form for the first time, nearly freaking Manny out. Because now his totally cute teammate is no long a ghost but a full, flesh-and-blood, human that radiating actual body heat, is asleep on top of him and Manny does not know how he's supposed to process this information.

Danny wakes up when they get back to Earth, (Manny didn't sleep at all) realizes what he did, and will open up about everything. The next day, they'd need to restrain Manny from jumping to Danny's universe and razing Fentonworks to the ground.