Pain has but one Acquaintance And that is Death — Each one unto the other Society enough.

Pain is the Junior Party By just a Second's right — Death tenderly assists Him And then absconds from Sight.

The story follows Kassandra and Brasidas through the events of the game and beyond.

Dib meets one of the tallest in person and uh... is actually rather awed. He kinda gets it now. Zim is like "see?! the tallest are great!"

The story that goes with this is that Dib becomes ill, but oddly, with a somewhat rare Irken disease (stemming from a long term complication from when Zim's PAK attached to him way back when, it messed with something internally in Dib's body). So Zim takes Dib along with him to meet Red, to get Dib some Irken medicine/cure. Red has a huge crush on Zim so he tends to give him whatever he asks for (or gives him SOMETHING anyway, if he can't give him what he wants), and Zim knows this, although maybe a little in denial about the actual crush part.

aka: the "Dib gets to visit Irk and experience a bunch of Irken Culture" fic :D

🩸 remembrance: a time when his blood still ran warm

Question, because I'm curious:

What age were you when you first started seriously writing?

What do you make of the idea of Blackspace kinda fusing with Hellmari after a post-good ending Omori gave her true life, therefore making her the entire realm by technicality? Omori would do that cuz he needs something to kinda fill the void that appeared when Sunny left and he's getting desperate after not finding anything in Headspace to do that...

(woooooooooo explaining my omori au lore-)

Truthfully this is so wildly different to my idea of headspace and omori and after-good ending that i cannot make anything of this! i think that's up to u to decide

fun writing things: planning the most intricate little details, like when to have thirteen refer to herself in narration as "remy", and when to have her think of herself as "thirteen"

compilation of what are theee agnesposts of all time. to me.

opinions on helen of sparta being compared to prey animals? blink blink

*blink blinks back* Then immediately sits like this because of the question.

It's a good question that I'm happy to answer! It just makes me mad.... I sincerely hate the wording of "prey" being used to describe her.

SHE IS A VICTIM! THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS "PREY"!

I can...see how people in ancient times may have used that word and still meant it in how she is a victim... but modern-day English-speaking people calling her that??? (considering how in different languages the word "prey" could have different meanings.) I'll just say that as someone who has been "prey" herself at one point, I REALLY hate that word as a descriptor. Just say victim or survivor. 👍

Honestly to call ANY victim "prey" is so fucked up. "Prey" to me, feels like "it's meant to happen." "Prey" are part of the food chain and so that's what happens. And to compare that to abduction and SA? Almost as if "that's our place"? It also kind of implies something being "eaten" or killed... Helen SURVIVES. She's traumatized and definitely needs healing and support but it's not like she can't find joy or peace ever again. Prey just feels so fucking gross.

Also, if someone calls victims "prey", I hope they know that Moose, Elk, Boars, Bovine, ZEBRAS, etc. are technically "prey". And these are VERY aggressive animals while still being "prey" for some other animals. And also that doesn't mean that "Oh, they're powerful! Clearly they should've been able to stop it." That's victim blaming :P

She is a clever, determined, caring woman who was ripped from her home for YEARS because Paris was a dipshit who decided he needed the prettiest woman in the world despite already having a wife. He didn't care about the fact that Helen didn't want to be there and was already married. He is so selfish that he will not let her go back even when THOUSANDS have died in the war! EVEN HIS BROTHER HECTOR AND PRIAM DO NOT BLAME HER! Granted, we do not know if Aphrodite would have let him undo their deal of "I want the prettiest woman" if he DID end up feeling bad for Helen and he wished to let her go home (I doubt it based on his personality though).

"Oh, if she is so independent/strong, then why didn't she just kill Paris and leave?"

AGAIN! Victim blaming!!! First thing, people who ask that have media literacy that is piss on the poor. You also have no idea about the political implications that would have happened if she DID kill Paris. She literally cries about staying there and argues with Aphrodite about seeing Paris, only to get strongarmed by Aphrodite as, guess what? A GODDESS WILL ALWAYS OVERPOWER A DEMIGOD. (This isn't Percy Jackson where he "killed" Ares as a 12 year old (Percy, you were my childhood, but that's bullshit.))

Even confined in Troy, she ARGUED with APHRODITE about going to see Paris! She is not some meek woman who just does as she's told with no pushback! She argued with a GODDESSS! Very few survive doing that!!!

She's not "Prey to fate", she's a "VICTIM of Fate".

Oh the sacrifices I make for my blorbos (watch boring mob docus)

making my list of The Year of Braxiatel books/audios/short stories/misc with a goddamn key to try and work out in what order I'm going.

sighs. thinks abt angela so hard i get motionsick

Let Me Roam Free in the World's Playground Again - Sam Wister

A little more about this below the cut!

I had to write a monologue and present it for my drama class last year and decided to use Sam's transmutation as the theme! "Let me roam free in the world's playground again" was a line from it that I am very happy about because it explains Sam's struggle after joining the military and becoming a bear chimera! This scene depicts how it felt for Sam and the bear to fuse into one! I also made their transmutation circle which I'll talk about in more depth soon!

it’s hard for me to put it into words but like. why do people hate henry so much. “he did bad things!!!” even if he did, so? he’s a tv show character.

Why don't you like Evelyn Hugo ? Just curious cos I had bookmarked to read it on my next long journey

per my 1 star goodreads review when i DNF'd the book last year:

The writing in this is so so bad. Cliche turns of phrase, repetitive, constantly telling me things instead of demonstrating how the characters think and feel, telling ME how I should feel about what I’m reading, clunky descriptions, preachy little generalised asides of 2014 tumblr feminism about women in show business without really diving into what that means for any of the characters, lack of character depth, framed the story through Monique who is at best limp and lacking in personality and at worst a genuine idiot. I think it’s a cheap shot to compare anything to My Immortal but reading every godawful physical description of a person in this book made me think of that, it was that bad. I’m normally a completionist even when I don’t really like a book, but the writing was so infuriating that I could not justify wasting anymore of my short time on this earth powering through this shite. I’m annoyed I spent money on this book.

I want to write a soulmate au sometime. It’s one of my favorite tropes, personally, and I don’t remember there being that many of them for America/Germany

i think what i need is for someone to read through all the words and snippets I've written and sew them together like frankenstein into one single fic. because do i have 3000 words written in my google doc? yes. do these words come together to create a coherent story? absolutely not