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unashamed adoration tag
it's time for me to make up a tag again. this time, we're back at it again with the favorite lines, but you have the perfect excuse to share a whole bunch of lines without context (or with, if you'd prefer to give an explanation, I'm not gonna tell you that you can't) that really grip you, personally. whether they mean a lot for a character, or they really set a scene, or you just think they sound really good. or maybe they sound stupid but that's perfect because mr blorbo is a dumbass and you can't control the things coming out of his mouth. I'll write the rules nicely now, for your copy/pasting convenience.
rules: shares some lines you are proud of for their composition, humor, timing, meaning, impact or literally any other reason from your wip (of choice) because you deserve to share and be proud of what you write and sometimes you need a good excuse to do so. drop the lines with out without context at your discretion.
I'm going to use dirt in the doing for this inaugural edition, because that's what I worked on most recently.
-- Jet runs on adrenaline and spite and he doesn’t need or want other people around cluttering up his spaces or plans unless they’re going to listen to him and be useful.
-- Because Copper communicates. Jet shuts everything inside.
-- “I’m making your contact name “angry gremlin,” cool?”
-- It’s too early to be itching for a fight, to admit a new person into his personal circle of protection, to be thinking about planning a murder.
-- Emotion for adrenaline, his favorite trade-off.
-- “Nobody’s as much of a rebel as I am.”
-- Jet finally looks over his shoulder to see Yarrow smothering Shadow with either a hug or attempted murder on the floor. He rolls his eyes and gets back to work.
-- “And you are scared of me. You’re scared I’ll see you. I don’t know why, maybe because you don’t like to look at yourself.”
-- No.” There’s some kind of space after that rejection, though, an empty beat where Rune might’ve said something else but is stubbornly just thinking it instead.
-- “Something has changed,” his brother says, holding out the mug like it’s a magical key that will unlock Jet’s ability explain his emotions to another person.
-- The cool brush of evening isn’t nearly enough to stop the force of burning disdain Jet feels for this person he’s never met. He nods instead of speaking, afraid that he’ll simply explode.
-- Jet burns his tongue on purpose so he can go get himself a glass of cold water and breathe strongly through his nose.
okay! time for you to have unashamed adoration of your wips, too. @writing-is-a-martial-art @ashen-crest @zmwrites @nikkywrites @uraniumwriting @vellichor-virgo OR ANYBODY ELSE THAT WANTS TO, PLEASE JUMP ON THIS OPEN TAG
#tag game#any lines tag but rebranded somewhat#sleepy writing#city story#c: jet#writeblr games#wip: city story
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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.
It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!
But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!
The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.
It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?
Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.
Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.
Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.
Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.
Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.
Lotta problems with lens caps.
For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.
This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:
However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.
#space#space history#venus#NASA#Venera#spost#I will talk all day about venus#ask me about venus floating sky cities#unpopular opinion venus > mars#this is probably my favorite space history story#the surface of venus is made of lens caps#don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor#well#I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe
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It's Danny's first time doing his taxes, and he's reaching out to an online friend to help him.
This is how he discovers that as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Amity Park is a barely contained zombie outbreak.
He'd made an online friend, Bart, and they played video games a lot.
Danny's fulltime job is inventing alongside his parents, and as that makes him self-employed (he doesn't work for his parents just next to them), this makes his taxes a little...scary. And it's his first tax season.
He reaches out to Bart, and asks if he knows anyone who files as self employed and if they'd be able to give him some guidance.
He can't ask his parents because, apparently, they've just been throwing random numbers on the papers and have no interest in actually doing them. Danny would like to do this properly.
Also he would like to know how his parents haven't been arrested? Questions for later.
So he shoots a message to Bart, who's apparently in the middle of some sort of sleepover with all of his old friends. Bart assures him that it's fine, and they'll all pitch in to help.
They just need to know his city and state so that the nerd of the group, some guy named Tim, can look up local state and city tax law.
When he tells them he's from Amity Park, there's no response for a good ten minutes.
What follows is a barely legible request for a phone number to call, and a group of people on the other side shouting and asking how he's avoided dying in the hellscape zombie apocalypse that is Amity Park.
Danny has no idea what the other shit means, but he's not about to dodge a chance to make a dead joke when he has one.
"I mean. If you wanna get technical, I didn't. Is...that something that'll effect my taxes?"
OR: The GIW has been lying to keep the Justice League and Justice League Dark out of Amity Park by declaring it a Disaster Zone, stating that not only is there massive pollutants in the air and soil, but that the undead run rampant and are barely contained.
The wording they use, however, is a little weird upon closer inspection.
It never specifies zombie, and it never says what pollutants.
Danny's not super interested about that, though; he just wants to pay his taxes so that the IRS doesn't kill him in his sleep.
#dpxdc#dcxdp#dp x dc#dc x dp#phanfic#story prompt#tim absolutely digs into whether or not being dead effects his taxes#kon starts questioning whether he should be paying them?#is he even a legal resident of the usa?#tim should he get naturalized?#bart wants to go to amity#because talking and sentient zombies are cool as fuck#cassie is not super on board with going to amity park#she has a few more questions before agreeing to a field trip to go there#and there will be a field trip to amity park#a city of technically undead due to ecto contamination functioning perfectly normal?#fuck yeah they wanna see this twilight zone bullshit
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Your favorite girl
#black stories#black woman appreciation#black girl magic#black girl aesthetic#black tumblr#ebony#sexy ebony#entertainment#love#self love#black beauty#beautiful#black women#blktumblr#city
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littlest furth shop
@laikascomet
#i think i had a little too much fun with this lol#i also wanted to draw road boy and other characters but maybe when they actually get introduced#i do have a sketch of him with a lil chainsaw.. im not gonna be normal when he gets introduced man he looks so sillygoofy#if you squint laika's eye marking is a clover yue's is a crescent moon and mars' is a star ^_^#i wanted to give laika an accessory too but i couldnt think of anything.. maybe a stack of pancakes??#im curious to see the apocalypse side of the story too.. like so far we have an idea of the comet fucking everything up#and im assuming that lead to a ripple effect causing the apocalypse but exactly how bad?? i cant wait to find out#rn im kinda piecing stuff together.. larkspur delivers mail in a beat up van so that might mean all transportation is grounded#the buildings we've seen so far are intact like the observatory and turnip's house but idk if thats the same for big cities#laikas playlist only includes songs downloaded on yue's computer and there hasnt been internet in 20 years.. but radio signals might#still work.. if yue grows his own food we can assume that mass production and distribution also isnt a thing anymore#sorry im a sucker for worldbuilding.. and the furth puns are fun to me. i like to think toronto would be clawronto.. and vancouver wld#be nyancouver.. barktic circle.. mewfoundland and labrador.. canyada....#christ i have so many drawing ideas. willow if youre reading this im so sorry youre probably gonna expect to see a lot of drawings frm me#like. i wanna draw laika in the akira bike pose so sosososo bad. IT WOULD BE SO AWESOMECOOL. ill teach myself to draw bikes if i have to#i also wanted to animate laika leekspin.. man#my art#myart#fanart#laika's comet#laikas comet#laika#mars#yue#furry art#fur#littlest pet shop#lps
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Peach Soda
#original art#character art#original characters#aran and tao#slice of life#fear of falling#comic art#love story#my art#my drawings#new york city
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10 Overlooked 1980s Horror Movies To Consider For October/Halloween
#Horror#Filmedit#Horroredit#American Gothic#City Of The Living Dead#The Funhouse#Ghost Story#Girls Nite Out#Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2#Road Games#Terrorvision#Warlock#Waxwork#CHB#1980s#80s
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it’s 2:41 in the morning, you’re working the register of a Gotham City bodega when you see these three mentally disturbed lesbians patiently waiting in line, WYD?
Commission of my depictions of the Sirens by @frijolbean!!! their art is so rad and they are so rad, and I’m not gonna be normal about this for like at least a month 🫨😵💫😭💝🤪🤪🤪
you can read about them here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/32299885
#selina’s at the bodega for cigarettes harley’s there for an egg sandwich and ivy’s there because harley and selina are there#also she wants a dr pepper#gotham city sirens#trans selina kyle#trans catwoman#harley quinn#poison ivy#harlivy#ivycat#catquinn#harlina#catwoman#don’t ask why ivy doesn’t have arms it’s a long story basically she
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Happy STS! Do you have any favorite lines or a favorite scene from your wips you’d like to share? 😊
you're so cute, Rainstorm, I have A MILLION FAVORITE LINES ACTUALLY
um, I will attempt to be reasonable with the amount of lines. I finally wrote a new scene for dirt in the doing, so I'll stick with that wip.
~ He would break bones for any of them without a second thought, even Hawk, who he still doesn’t actually like.
~ When they’re both quiet, the silence wraps far too thickly around Jet’s throat and threatens to strangle him. He can’t ask for help because he doesn’t know how.
~ “There are people who care about you in this world. You don’t have to mold yourself into their expectations or change yourself to fit inside their lives just right, but you could pick up the phone once in a while and allow them some peace of mind. Got it?”
~ “I’m making your contact name “angry gremlin,” cool?”
~ “You’re bleeding, dumbass,” Rune sighs.
~ “You’ve taken care of me, as much as I let you. Now you let me take care of you, just a little. Yeah?”
~ He hears more than just his name, he hears the urgency in the shape of it, the pleading at the edges. There’s a requirement for a response to that, to make the asker’s agony cease.
~ Jet finally looks over his shoulder to see Yarrow smothering Shadow with either a hug or attempted murder on the floor. He rolls his eyes and gets back to work.
~ There are many reasons why Jet loves to fight, and the satisfaction of seeing his opponent reel away from him in stunned shock is only one of them.
~ And the silence seems to speak volumes, clinging to Jet’s skin in a way he can’t even pretend he likes. Hesitation is not Rune’s style. Vulnerability is not her style. It’s not his, either. But they certainly provoke these unwanted things from each other.
~ “You like to think yourself empty, able to be filled with adrenaline at a moment’s notice, and lid screwed on tightly so nothing can slip inside your cracks. But you are very full, of negative and positive things, the same as any person, and it’s hard to sort out what each of things things are and what they mean to do. It takes effort, and you’d rather be angry than thoughtful, so you are. But if someone can see that this is a defense system rather than a default, you are not unwilling to let them see into you. Maybe they can understand. Maybe they’ll do the work you don’t want to do, and tell you how you feel. But I’m not your babysitter, nor a parent, and I don’t have the answers to all your questions. Neither does Rune. So maybe you could take some time to process your own emotions yourself, and then I wouldn’t have to know you better than you do.”
~ “You see me pretty well. Sometimes I don’t like that.”
~ Jet is going to kill this man on sight, which will be tricky because he doesn’t know what he looks like, but he’ll make it work.
~ Even Copper hasn’t been such a knife that it feels good going in and aches something fierce as it’s pulled back out.
~ And it digs and buries itself under his skin, a truth so sincere and painful that he’s bleeding from the impact.
~ “Yeah, sure,” he says, and it comes out a little mangled, probably from the tears that have been dug up from his back closet to coat his words with emotional residue.
aaaand that's probably enough for today, thanks for asking and reading!
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“The occasion of the first meeting between playwright and player is now, in our fanciful telling, a matter of theatrical lore and legend.”
Jason Schwartzman and Edward Norton as Jones Hall and Conrad Earp
ASTEROID CITY (2023, Wes Anderson)
#asteroid city#wes anderson#filmedit#filmgifs#movieedit#moviegifs#jason schwartzman#jones hall#edward norton#conrad earp#asteroid city spoilers#they're the heart of the story and the film!#they're everything to me!#i love the way the camera zooms out just before the kiss to give them privacy#such a beautiful and touching scene#mygifs#mygifs:film#mygifs:asteroidcity
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Ghost Cores are Dionesium
So! I while ago, I saw a Post about Danny and the Court of Owls, and one suggestion in the comments basically said, "What if Dionesium, the stuff they use to bring back the dead, is just Ghost Cores?"
And that got me thinking. Lazarus Pits are just Dionesium Infused Water, so how would they be created if Dionesium is a Ghosts Core? Well they way I see it, Lazarus Pits can only be formed in 2 Ways.
The first way is for a large number of Ghosts to be Ended at the same time, with their shattered Cores piling up and dissolving into Water.
The other way, if for an Ancient to Die. The Ancients are practically God's, and as such their Cores are immense in Power. When an Ancient dies, and their Core is left to dissolve in the Human Realm, it forms a Lazarus Pit in the exact same way it would take hundreds of normal Cores to do so.
Where am I going with this?
Well, isn't there a Giant Lazarus Pit under Gotham? The Batcave even has one, doesn't it?
The reason Gotham is so cursed isn't because Lady Gotham likes to collect Curses, or because her Ectoplasm is corrupted, it's because she isn't there to stop them anymore.
Lady Gotham is Dead.
Her Core sank deep into the Earth, forming a Lazarus Pit under the entire City, but thankfully far away from her People. She died, and only the fact that she is a Conceptual spirit saved a piece of her Consciousness. She represents a City, she can only fully be killed if the entire City is leveled. That doesn't mean she is still alive however, just that the barest sliver of her mind is hanging on by a Thread.
This is how Gotham possessed Batman that one time, it was her base instincts saving one of her precious children.
If you want her to be a little more cognizant, maybe she is just severely Injured? Her Core is cracked to the edge of shattering and she desperately needs help.
She she calls out to whoever could save her, and a certain Ghost Boy hears her cry for help?
#Dpxdc#Dp x dc#Dcxdp#Dc x dp#Danny Phantom#Dc#Dcu#Lady Gotham#Lady Gotham is Dead#Dionesium is made of Ghost Cores#Ghost Cores are made of Dionesium#Lady Gotham died and her Core formed the Lazarus Pit under Gotham City#I wonder how the League's Pit was formed? Was it a Dead Ancient or a large number of Ended Ghosts?#Either way they died Mad#That's where Pit Madness came from#What would the Court of Owls do when they find out that there is an entire Species that is made of that Immortality Metal they want so much#Maybe a story for another Prompt?#Also#Lady Gotham had been like this for a while#But it's only gotten as bad as it is now recently#Everybody in the city can feel that something is off#They don't know why#But the older generations know that it's been getting worse for years now and it's finally reaching a head#Like the climax of a story decades in the making is about to unfold#But they have no idea what that means to them#Thoughts?
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Radioactive Hero (but not really) au
Danny moves to Gotham, hear him out! There's really good jobs there that pay through the nose and the cost of living is cheap!
Plus, the city is riddled with heroes and vilains! It's so easy to slip under the radar!
Unfortunately, there are so many civilian casualties. Like, all the time. Even in Metropolis!
So Danny, for his first year in Gotham, opens small portals to the Far Frozen and gets schooled on being a field medic. None of his powers can really be used for healing, but they can make people feel better. He just has to be careful to be as far removed from the Phantom moniker as possible, so he can't use any obvious powers.
He gets a bit of a reputation in Gotham; a small time hero of the people, for the people. A hero not invested in fighting, but in dragging civilians away from the danger. He doesn't even have a moniker; people are too busy arguing over the best one for him.
So while aliens are attacking both Metropolis and Gotham, Danny is out in full kit; a gas mask to hide his face, all black, repurposed kevlar from the vests the GCPD did not properly dispose of, no identifying markers.
But one of the clean up crews notices something insanely worrying; the geiger counter they have to point at alien spaceship parts? Yeah. Yeah, it's going off when they point it at the new small-time hero.
That hero's power is radioactivity. Holy shit. It's not at a level that will hurt people, but when he's dodging through fighting the level goes up.
The clean up crew concludes and shares via Twitter that the medic-hero is only a danger to others if he gets too stressed.
Word spreads fast, and pretty soon the absolute second Danny shows up on a scene, all fighting stops.
After all, no one wants to piss off the living Nuclear Bomb.
Basically, Danny's ghost-everything sets off Geiger counters, and now absolutely everyone is convinced that the medic-themed hero only refuses to fight because his meta power is just...being radioactive.
But he isn't.
So now, because it's the perfect cover and completely disassociated from Phantom, he has to play along and pretend like yes; that is his power.
#dcxdp#dpxdc#dc x dp#dp x dc#radioactive hero (but not really) au#did i already post this prompt?#genuinely do not remember#whatever#story prompt#justice league low key terrified of his existence#superman keeps trying to talk him into going off and owning a farm#danny just like#“dude i'm a city kid born and raised i ain't shoveling cow shit”
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A diamond.
#ebony#sexy ebony#black stories#black girl aesthetic#black girl magic#black women#black woman appreciation#city#love#beauty#black beauty#beautiful
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you know what i think kids/teen books do 'fantasy romance/fantasy books' way better than any of the adult fantasy books booktok raves about. i try and read some of them and 90 percent of the time its just smut and abusive relationships disguised as 'dark romance'. then i read books like Keeper Of The Lost Cities, The School for Good and Evil, Percy Jackson, Land of Stories, the Nevermoor series, that kind of thing, and they are all actually so amazing because they have fleshed out characters with flaws and an engaging plotline instead of just badly written romance. and when they do have romance it's well written and about the people rather than the tropes.
#anti booktok#six of crows is the only booktok book i have loved#this is not me being anti- smut#it's just when it's the only thing driving the plot it's bad#it should not be used as a plot device#anything by taylor jenkins reid i don't mean you you are beautiful#keeper of the lost cities#the school for good and evil#nevermoor#the land of stories#percy jackson#six of crows#anti sjm#anti coho#booktok#you know what i'm talking about#blue analyses things
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"Là, sous mes yeux, apparaissait une ville détruite"
Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Ruined City
Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870
#alphonse de neuville#ruined city#jules verne#twenty thousand leagues under the sea#underwater world#ruins#ocean#sea#fantasy#mystery#story illustration#art#gothic romanticism#illustration
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Lexington Street, Soho
Photographed by Freddie Ardley
#photographers on tumblr#photography#architecture#architect#interiors#interior design#travel#london#soho#dark#historic#story#lit#city#urban#writing#inspiration
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