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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯 𝔓𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔘𝔯𝔟𝔞𝔫 𝔅𝔦𝔯𝔡 𝔒𝔟𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔳𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔶!

#Hellraiser #pinhead #park #urban bird #Observatory #eugene #oregon #random #horror aesthetic #terror aesthetic #antagonist #fictional character

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ozzni · 10 months

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"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actually just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Alexandria, who was killed in Brockton Bay by eating 10,000 spiders in 30 seconds, was an outlier adn should not have been counted

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dadvans · 2 months

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hobbies.

whenever i'm facing writer's block, i re-open the fic that is the easiest for me to write without thinking, which is my would-be-about-as-historically-accurate-as-it-could-get-if-it-weren't-omegaverse oregon trail PWP AU (normal), and instead of posting anything, i just keep adding more pretending there isn't a john mulaney-coded voice in my head saying "...could be a series"

#if i were ever to file the serial numbers off of anything #it would be the m/m omegaverse oregon trail work of fiction #for a commercial audience of NOBODY #but write for yourself etc etc #and the gremlin in me who has been reading all the unabridged problematic diaries of overland trailers since i was a child would be sated #i could probably get a doctorate in sexuality on the overland trail tomorrow but that doesn't have mpreg so i'm not interested #delaney writes

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disparition · 5 months

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the Winter Road

it is early January of 2024 and I am about to return to the road with my friends Welcome to Night Vale, performing the live soundtrack for our new touring episode "The Attic"

Jan 9 - Austin - The Paramount

Jan 11 - Tucson - The Rialto

Jan 12 - LA - The Regent

Jan 13 - SF - The Castro

Jan 14 - Sacramento - The Sofia

Jan 17 - Eugene - The Hult Center

Jan 18 - Portland - Revolution Hall

Jan 19 - Seattle - The Neptune (2 shows)

Danny Schmidt (the Weather from episodes 8, 51, 131, and 166) is our musical guest on this leg.

I hope to see you out there! If you have any questions about this tour, our live shows in general, or life on the road with WTNV please feel free to ask!

#wtnv #wtnv live #wtnv live show #welcome to night vale #night vale #night vale presents #austin texas #tuscon #los angeles #san francisco #sacramento #eugene oregon #portland #seattle #fiction podcast #audio fiction #live audio fiction

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mzminola · 1 year

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Because something superhero comics, noir, and fanfic all have in common is leaning into soap opera convolutedness, @alexmaybe & I have come up with the Bruce Wayne Spawn Shell Game AU, in which the middle kids are all biologically Bruce’s.

(Dick really is John & Mary Grayson’s, and Damian is Talia’s direct clone.)

No one finds this out until Batman!Bruce & Robin!Damian are fighting a magic user who has heard rumors that Robin is Batman’s son (rumors started by Damian’s not so quiet comments about being The Blood Son). The mage gloats that they’re going to use a “teleport everyone with X trait to me” spell to yank Robin over, and use the disorientation of teleportation to take him hostage. “I will summon Batman’s direct blood descendents! Mwa ha ha ha!”

Cue Damian staying firmly at Bruce’s side, while Cass in street wear with bubble tea, Jason doing gear maintenance, a random college student studying for exams, and Tim in his pajamas pop out of the ether all within a yard of the mage.

The mage regrets their life choices.

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Now, how did we get here?

Firstly, during the years Bruce is doing his world tour of Learning Batman Skills while still swinging in and out of Gotham, Bruce is seeking physical activity to make his brain shut up, and also seeking intimacy but keeping too many secrets to let himself actually get close to people, so he is sleeping with Even More People Than In His Batman Years. He remembers condoms but always doesn’t use them perfectly.

Bruce meets Sandra & Carolyn Wu-San at their dojo in Brooklyn. Some time later when David Cain coerces Sandra into reproductive sex, she seeks out every male martial artist she vaguely respected or thought had potential to sleep with them too as a Fuck You to undermine Cain’s scheme without openly breaking their deal.

Bruce has a one-night stand with pre-transition Willis Todd, both of them just giving their first (legal) name, no contact info. Figuring out several months later that he’s pregnant but no clue how to find the other father, Willis, who does want kids someday, weighs the pros and cons of “having trouble making ends meet right now, can I support a kid?” with “everyone says pregnancy would be harder later in transition,” and opts to have Jason now.

Sheila Haywood is either a friend or a bribable hospital worker (or both) who agrees to put her name down as the mom so Willis can legally be his kid’s dad without any complicated paperwork. Willis and Catherine never got around to telling Jason before both of them died. When Jason showed up at the camp thinking Sheila was his bio-mom she rolled with it, figuring she could get details of why he thought that later, and then unfortunately [canon ensued].

It won’t be until the spell incident happens that Bruce puts together one night stand Wilhelmina with Why do the pictures of Willis Todd look kinda familiar? Because he definitely never slept with Catherine or Sheila.

Bruce meets, befriends and sleeps with Janet Drake while going on an archaeological research binge. He’s also still having a lot of random bar and nightclub hook-ups.

Some months later, while Jack is out of town on a business trip, Janet complains to Bruce that Jack really wants a son, but the latest ultrasound shows a female fetus. Janet really doesn’t want to deal with pregnancy ever again, but Jack isn’t open to adoption, and ugh if only Janet could just swap this one for a male infant. It would be so easy to nudge Jack into an archeology dig closer to the due date, he’d never have to know!

(No, neither Bruce nor Janet have thought maybe Bruce got Janet pregnant instead of Jack.)

“You’ve got this knack for finding odd things at just the right moment, Brucie…”

Janet knows it’s a long shot, and dubiously ethical because adoption records exist for good reason, and if they can’t find a baby that works she’ll just have to dig her heels in with Jack against trying for a son, but if Bruce could find a baby…

Bruce makes no promises other than keeping an eye and ear out.

Anyway, Bruce isn’t Batman yet, but he’s home between tutors on his World Tour and venturing into the city in various disguises to learn more about Gotham’s underworld, and getting into trouble. So it is Bruce Wayne with a fresh concussion, not a drunk Brucie, who stumbles into an alley to vomit and finds a baby in a dumpster.

It’s a very full dumpster, one half of the lid broken off. An orange cat (who may or may not be Teekl returning a future favor) is curled around the newborn baby boy. The infant has a shock of hair as dark as Janet’s.

Concussed Bruce walks all the way to the Drake townhouse marveling at the tiny hand gripping his finger so tight.

Janet schedules a C-section. Bruce forges Timothy Jackson Drake’s birth certificate and arranges the adoption of Janet’s daughter by a family in Oregon. He keeps tabs on them over the years, preparing a Wayne Foundation scholarship to the college of her choice someday.

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Back to the magic incident: Nightwing and Batwoman were on their way there as back-up when the mage cast the summoning spell, so Dick is able to hug Damian as the kid bluescreens about Not Being The Blood Son.

Bruce awkwardly explains that yes, he ran Damian’s DNA when Talia dropped him off, but when he realized Damian was Talia’s direct clone, he also realized Talia was taking steps to ensure her child escaped the League of Assassins, by attaching him to one of the few people on the planet who can go toe to toe with (and even defeat) her father. Bruce opted to go along with Talia’s choice.

Kate has gotten popcorn from somewhere, munching on it while Bruce desperately thinks back to his Mega Ho Years to figure out how everyone else happened.

Cass is feeling a vindictive sort of smugness about not being David Cain’s bio-kid. He’s still her dad, but he only got part of what he wanted from Shiva.

Jason is pissed at Bruce for not figuring it out earlier, but kinda relieved that Sheila wasn't actually his mom.

The freshman college student from Oregon is really annoyed, she was at study group and she CANNOT fail this class!!! Now she’s on the entire opposite coast???

Tim is having some feelings about how fucking soap opera his origins turn out to be. Bruce slept with his mom Janet, but also she wasn’t his birth mom, he was adopted and no one told him??? Who the heck is his other birth parent??? What were the odds of his apparent bio-parent Bruce being the one to find him??? Wait, was finding baby Tim in a dumpster why younger!Bruce suddenly had Wayne Enterprises put money into improving and proliferating Safe Drop-Off Sites in Gotham???

(He is Not Thinking About his complicated relationship with Jack.)

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Tim, when things are just starting to quiet down: “Wait, so does Talia have XY chromosomes, or does Damian have XX? Because I’ve done a lot of of cloning lab work, and—”

Damian: “Don’t talk about my mother’s chromosomes, dumpster baby.”

Tim: >:(

Bruce, very tired: “Damian, don’t call your brother a dumpster baby.”

Damian, indignant: “But you just told us you found him in a dumpster as an infant!”

Freshman college student: “Dude, it’s still fucking rude? Like how would you like being called a test tube baby?”

Damian: /draws sword/

Dick, pushing sword back into sheath: “No drawing weapons on civilians. Or calling Tim rude things. Tim, I think any chromosome questions are Talia and Damian’s personal medical business, so please don’t speculate on them.”

Tim, sarcastically: “Sorry, I forgot medical privacy exists after how you all reacted to the spleen thing.”

Freshman college student: “Spleen thing?”

Tim: “Don’t worry, it’s not genetic. Speaking of, B, you’re gonna have to update, like, all our medical history now.”

Bruce, even more tired: "Hn."

#post contains infant abandonment and reproductive coercion in fiction #fic ideas #that we are making technically plausible within canon for funsies #Min Writes Stuff #with friends!#Bruce Wayne Spawn Shell Game #DC #Batfam #Bruce Wayne #Sandra Wu San #Cassandra Cain #Willis Todd #Jason Todd #Janet Drake #Oregon College Freshman #Random Gothamite #Tim Drake #also mentions of David Cain Catherin Todd Carolyn Wu San Sheila Haywood Jack Drake #guest appearances by Dick Grayson and Kate Kane

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crimeronan · 8 months

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yesterday a guy at irl critique group whose stuff i Really Really Like was critiquing this week's piece, and as part of his critique, he just straight-up said "okay, this is nitpicky and only because i keep writing fantasy stuff about healing myself, but there's a line here about this healing magic making this girl 'whole' and 'as she was meant to be' that reads...... really ableist." & the guy who wrote it was like "oh wow, you're right and that completely blew past me, thanks" & noted it down.

& i was sitting there trying not to visibly perk my ears like a dog like. SORRY TO BE SO SURPRISED I KNOW I'M BEING BIASED AND CONDESCENDING AS HELL. HEY. YOU KNOW THE WORD ABLEISM???

#i gotta stop assuming that i'm the only person with active leftist politics in. fuckin portland oregon. im doing everyone a disservice #this guy has written very nuanced cool shit in the past he has my fave pieces we've critiqued so far #him knowing the word ableism is not worth its own tumblr post Except.#ohhh my god i'm suddenly so excited to get to talk about the original fiction project.#like it's ugly horror so it might not be well-received. but i now know FOR SURE theres at least one dude whos gonna Get The Themes.#u know. like i see ur writjng magic horror healing for a reason. the critique partner version of soulmateship??#original fiction #autoimmune tag

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auremanaresearchcorps · 1 year

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Oh My God, What Happened in Skinner!

I just binged this podcast and I'm so invested now! It's a true crime style fiction podcast that gets into secretive cult-y religion, charming villains, big important philosophical debates, disappearances and murders, maybe mermaids, and the ethics of sharing things about your friends on the internet. It's on the Rusty Quill Network (where The Magnus Archives comes from). Highly recommend! It looks like season two is coming soon!

#what happened in skinner #whis #whis podcast #skinner oregon #auremana #auremana research corps #cults #fiction podcast #audio drama #rusty quill #tma #the magnus archives

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euphonetic · 11 months

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Ottessa Moshfegh and Sarah Marshall?????

#at Powell’s???#When I am two months away from my oregon life???#also they seem so opposite like Sarah is always saying she doesn’t actually like mfa fiction lol

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academyoftheheartandmind · 26 days

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A Minute

5/06/2018 10:32 AM. Manzanita Beach, Oregon. Amy Cleron. Somedays I wish I could get away from this stupid town. I kick at the sand. The tide is coming in. All is gray. I’m glad I live on the Pacific and not the Atlantic though. I should kick off my shoes and put my feet in the water. It hasn’t warmed up at all yet, still feels like spring. The water is coming in from the arctic in loads of…

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#A Minute #academy of the heart and mind #academyoftheheartandmind #beach #Fiction #Manzanita Beach #Oregon #short fiction #short story

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burnsoregonphotoblog · 1 month

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Harney Born Author with a book that has a fictional High Desert setting.

#oregon #eastern oregon #harneycounty #the great pnw #the old west #oregonoutback #pnw #oregon outback #harney county #fiction #author

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blue-kyber · 1 month

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Kind of happy with how this one turned out. :D

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His heart is pounding with a high priority need to get out. If he could shrink down and hide in the potted plant in the corner, he would burrow to the roots to disappear from the sheer embarrassment.

That sense flushes through my environment and me.

I cringe from secondhand embarrassment.

If I could put a status bubble over his head, it would read, “The river was too deep to ford. Way to be a dumbass.”

#writing #writeblr #fan fiction #The horrors of everyone staring at you because you publicly did something dumb.#I've had this meme saved for YEARS #the oregon trail

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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Hellraiser Park and Urban Bird Observatory in Eugene, Oregon.

#Hellraiser Park #Urban Bird Observatory #Eugene #oregon #pinhead #Hellraiser #antagonist #fictional character #Doug Bradley

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josijosi · 1 month

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one of these days i'll be able to make the case for why The Oregon Trail is a genre in and of itself not unlike Rogue or Wizardry, and should be recognized as such.

just need to download a few more braincells. could take a while.

#video games #the oregon trail #roguelike #traillike #indie games #rogue #wizardry #dungeon crawler #interactive fiction #adventure games

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chantireviews · 3 months

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LIGHTEN The LOAD: Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 2 by David Fitz-Gerald - Historical Fiction, Oregon Trail, Mystery

Once on a grand adventure to a new life with her husband and young family, Dorcas suddenly finds herself the sole shepherd for her children into the unknown, in David Fitz-Gerald’s historical fiction novel, Lighten the Load. Owner of a fully loaded wagon, in a train of travelers on the truly wild western trail, Dorcas must give every decision her full attention. She faces immediate…

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#Chanticleer 5 Star Book Review #David Fitz-Gerald #Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail #Historical Fiction #Lighten the Load #Mystery #Oregon Trail

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penofglen · 3 months

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Rabbit Fever: The novel that predicted the plague outbreak in Oregon

Did I #predict the #future #book #news #oregon #plague #cat #bite #currentaffairs #usnews #usatoday #bubonic #glenwrites #penofglen #future #simpsons #story #novel #bookish #mystic #usa #medical #booktok #bookstagram

You may have heard of the Simpsons writers, who have a knack for predicting the future with their funny episodes. Well, I think I may have done something similar, but with a more serious topic. Let me tell you how. I wrote a novel called Rabbit Fever, about a bubonic plague outbreak in the UK. Yes, bubonic plague, the same disease that killed millions of people in the Middle Ages. You may think…

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#author #bite #book #books #cat #current events #fiction #future #news #novel #oregon #plague #prophecy #reading #simpsons #story #writing

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geoffwhaley · 4 months

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Book 1,014: Find Me Worthy (Safe Harbor #3) - Annabeth Albert

Of the three books in Annabeth Albert’s Safe Harbor trilogy, this one was by far my favorite. I won’t say it’s unfortunate that you need to read the other two to get to this one, because they’re still well written books, but you do have to read the two of them to truly appreciate this book due to the underlying murder mystery that ties them together. Find Me Worthy is the story of Sam, the…

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