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From an upcoming chapter of M.O.W, meet Vitasmaya, powerful vampire lizardfolk muscle mommy and Lexlar's aunt this is not seven lines but i couldnt split it up, you understand:

She was just as tall as his Pa, nearing his seven feet with alarming closeness, and was just as broad, if not more so—a testament to her willingness to feed whenever the mood struck. Her spikes crowned a proud, muscle framed ridge, emerging from the back of her neck, several inches in height, that slipped between her shoulders and trailed down her back. To balance her shape, was her tattered dewlap, protruding from her throat and not finding its taper until the apex of her sternum.  The limbs she called her own were thick and deadly and roped with plump veins, as if someone imagined her form in stone, surged it alive with their blood and sacrificed the brilliance of their eyes so she might see. And what ferocity those two portals beheld! Gleaming like pristinely cut topazes—the most precious, luminous cores of her smoldering spirit—wrapped in fierce red scales, hunted furs and polished bones. These environs and the gauntlet of life ensured that none of her could be called delicate, shaping her instead to be a warrior even Kava would be proud to hoist on her shoulders.

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I fucking love trains

Listen, we're talking sloppy first drafts here (and I have just fixed the wording on this for the second draft), but there's a possible reading of this sentence that interprets the old man as being the one to giggle like a debutante, which I enjoy.

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

when i was very small i assumed this song was about some lady who literally kept a human face in a jar by the door and since father mckenzie buried her that meant that he also killed her and basically i thought eleanor rigby was about zombies until i was like 12 years old

why are so many good names so very catholic

When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-

which is definitely not an omen

[Transcript: Murder or Suicide?

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death. Here is the story.

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide.

He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency.

As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly. Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that Ronald Opus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "A person who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide. That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

In the room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus. When one intends to kill subject "A" but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B."

When confronted with the murder charge the old man and his wife were both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgun was unloaded. The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her. Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, if the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident. It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist.

Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

A true story from Associated Press, Reported by Kurt Westervelt.

Bizarre or what? END TRANSCRIPT]

you should all read this, it’s really interesting! :)

sometimes i think i wasn't made for the digital age, but then i have quests for knowledge

that i just would not have been able to pursue at any other point in history

Pick Your Poison/Burden of Proof/Martini with a Twist

(aka the three chapters in TTDUP that make the chapter titles worth it... ah, the gin puns...)

If you title your chapters, which is your favorite?

Poll for writers and artists

Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:

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Godling

Kendal from @comicaurora

@writernopal did you know it was Frigate Friggin' Friday? Well, now you do.