Short DPXDC Prompts #491

Danny finds Hal’s broken car after he crashed it while drunk driving 

The best LGBT+ duo! Sadly they are both ded. Good news, that means they're on the solver express with the rest of the gang!

More info under the cut! (tw: drunk driving, I feel child death is a given warning for this au)

Thad's spirit flower is the African Violet, which is said to bring good luck and positive vibes when burned as incense.

Lizzy's spirit flower is the Pink Carnation, which can symbolize femininity and grace. It also represents motherly love, ironic considering she died on mother's day.

If you couldn't tell by them both being foxes, these two are siblings.

Thad met Uzi after Nate introduced the two, and they hit it off. Lizzy and Uzi? Not so much. Lizzy tolerates the emo bat because of Doll though.

Doll and Lizzy were besties in life, so they're besties in death too.

Like everyone else on the solver, their stories are not happy ones...

(here's where the tw is) Lizzy was calling her mom on the way home from school to wish her a happy mother's day. Unfortunately for her, she was hit by a drunk driver, her mother hearing her screams as she passed. Her mother, as a result, blamed herself for her daughter's death, thinking she distracted her daughter, which left her vulnerable to the driver. She would later die from this grief. Lizzy and Thad's father disappeared soon after, leaving Thad to fend for himself. Unable to make ends meet, he died on the streets a few months later.

Lizzy, Thad, and their mother were reunited in death, so silver lining.

Thad still wants to punch the driver though, which is understandable.

Reminder!!!!

During these tragic times, which I don't think any of us have seen before, I feel the need to say a few things,

1. Irish Rebellion songs go so fucking hard, always have, always fucking will

2. Drink responsibly (((don't drive drunk))) and some of us have work tomorrow, don't get too hungover

I'm just some guy, man...

Plus @kingassblast sent me a meme to draw over with myself which is an excuse for me to post my other booz'n'cruise memes

HELLO MY FELLOW NEURODIVERGENTS

I would like to share with you some information that I unfortunately figured out way too late.

In schools, they always teach you not to drink drive. You always think that you’d never get in the car with a drunk driver.

This is how I have unintentionally been driven by a drunk driver on 2 occasions.

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Them: We should get McDonalds.

Me: But neither of us can drive because we’ve been drinking.

Them: It’s alright, I’ve only had one (the legal limit).

Me: You’ve had three.

Them: No, I’ve only had one.

Me: Oh, okay. I thought you’d had more.

Them: Nope, just one.

Me: *gets in the car with a drunk driver*

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Variations of this are people telling you, “Oh I’ve already sobered up,” or if you’re with someone and they’ve been drinking before meeting up with you and seem like they’re tipsy, but they lie and say they haven’t had any yet.

NOW PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT I WAS SO DUMB FOR THIS. But you know what? I’m not dumb. I’m autistic (and was also drunk myself at the time). I don’t lie, and I take others at face value. This means I am very easily gaslit.

I often doubt myself and grew up my whole life being told my perspective was “wrong”. So that makes me vulnerable to a whole heap of scenarios.

This is one of them. Learn from my mistakes:

Trust yourself. If someone says they drank less than what you’ve witnessed, don’t second guess yourself. Even if you are wrong, it’s okay to be wrong. Better to be wrong and not get in the car than be right and get in.

Apply the law to your scenario. It doesn’t matter if someone says they’ve already sobered up. If they’ve had 3-4 drinks and it’s only been an hour, they will have a BAC higher than the legal limit. Learn your local laws and about how much time alcohol takes to leave your system.

Offer to get an Uber/Taxi. If someone is being really pushy about wanting to go somewhere and you feel in a situation where you’re stuck, just order an uber. Don’t even ask. Tell them you’ve ordered an uber. And yes, it might be expensive, but I promise it is more important to be safe.

If in doubt, just don’t go with them. Don’t let them convince you. Circling back to point 1. It’s okay if you’re wrong about them being drunk, it’s better than being right.

Set boundaries. Now you can apply some discretion here. A friend who’s had a couple drinks and thinks they’re okay to drive and then respects when you decline, is compleeeetely different to someone who is pressuring and gaslighting you. Now sometimes good people do bad things. Sometimes people suffering from addiction make poor choices. But it is absolutely okay to distance yourself or call someone out from someone putting yourself and others in danger.

This has been a PSA. This is the kind of education I needed growing up that I did not receive. I hope maybe sharing can help even 1 person.

On Saturday I was supposed to be part of a creative, kind of silly, but meaningful ritual, but we cancelled it due to temperature and freakish snow. honesty, the whole day had a weird vibe.

I'm going to put a cut here because what comes next is traumatic and involves a drunk driver:

I went to hang out with my sibling and some other folks at their house. We were standing around outside about to go get some food and while my sibling was locking the door a speeding drunk driver blew a stop sign and ran straight into their yard somehow missing 4 of the 5 people standing. My brother-in-law was hit. He jumped but the car destroyed his foot and threw him into a brick wall. The car stopped two feet away from me.

This was hand down the most terrifying experience of my life. The screaming, the chaos and unknown and how each second seems like 5 minutes. The inability to do anything for my little sister in the thought of her terror of losing her partner in her arms.

In that moment you don't know and that is terrifying. We know now that there are dislocations and broken bones, there is a questionable outcome of a foot, but he had very minor head trauma and no internal organ damage. I just keep thinking "it could have been much worse", but it will also never be the same.

The car stopped 2 feet from me.There was plastic, metal, wood, and glass shrapnel from the car, yard decorations, and the beautiful native plants of my sister's garden. Somehow I don't even have a scrape on me. All I remember was turning to see the air bags go off in the car.

Right now my job is do what my sister needs like gatekeep repetitive questions, field the endless offfers of food and rides by people who love and support them, look up reviews of nursing facilities, pick up packages from her porch, clean up the yard, etc. My brother in law is a positive person, very strong, very fit, and very determined. I know he will make the best of his new normal and I want to help make that happen.

Tell the people you care about that you love them.

Don't let drunk people drive.

Drive annoyingly slow in residential neighborhoods because actually people live there and a speed limit is just that, a limit.

footage from a game im working on, "DRUNK DRIVING SIMULATOR". Working title.

i wanted to make something that was over the top violent and bloody and i think im pulling it off well

i think i've mentioned this previously in passing, but do not, under any circumstance, stay out all night without letting ally know where you are and/or occasionally checking in with her regarding the fact that they're going to be home later than expected. ally still has trauma around her mothers death where she expected her to come home before bedtime and then found out she passed away in the middle of the night by a drunk driver, so her mind automatically assumes the worst has happened when someone goes missing in action when they're supposed to be somewhere else. some examples of this include when one of her ex-boyfriends stayed out with his buddies all night, getting drunk, when he told her he'd be back by 10pm. she stayed up all night texting him with no answer and when he came home, well... she was hysterical. just tell her you'll be late & you'll be fine.

wheat vodka

in my soul

my car is

out of control

Still Shining

What is Still Shining?

Made in a week for O2A2 2022, Still Shining is a short story about you going off to stargaze on the cliffside. Soon, you're joined by a familiar face...

Features

987 words

An original music track

Voice acting

2 endings

Content Warnings

This game mentions death, depression, drunk driving, and panic attacks. Please be advised while playing.

You can download and play Still Shining for free on itch.io.

Drunk drivers/killer whales pronouns.

Drunk drivers were buying me a cup of coffee because I was mad at killer whales and drunk drivers wanted to make up. I accept, because while I don't mean to rationalize, drunk drivers can make me such a negative person, but it's all just an act. Just.. it doesn't have to be like this. It doesn't. I hope drunk drivers turn off the engine, get out of the car and start to walk.

I think about killer whales and how there's notes in killer whales' handwriting and drunk drivers can't make it out. It's not a proud race, nor a race at all. We're just trying to get home. I tell killer whales it doesn't have to be like this. Will drunk drivers listen? I hope drunk drivers do.

Hi, for the WIP ask game

Things just as bad or worse

Theon and Jon in the Crypts

Pretty please 🥰

Thank you so much @owlsinathens!

tw: Drunk driving, vehicular manslaugher, child death

Things just as bad or worse

This is hilarious that it is the first one I am being asked about and yet it is the hardest to explain maybe? But that is why it is a WIP lol. This idea has definitely grown over the years. It originally began as an RP modern verse on @theon-sea-reek where Theon had killed two children- Jack and Billy Miller while driving drunk. But now... it has morphed into something... weird. Basically now the idea is that Theon is in prison in Modern Times (Still deciding whether I am making it our world or modern Westeros. Probably our world. I am also not sure if I am going to try to make the Miller's boys deaths closer to canon, or if I even can- we'll see.) Theon begins to make up stories in his head in order to detach from the reality of prison- which includes Ramsay in some form- and from his own guilt. These "stories" begin to take shape as the asoiaf canon we know but different versions of it. Things that happen in the modern prison reality begin to affect how the story in his head goes and it switches- sometimes it is book canon, sometimes it is show canon, sometimes it is more fanon. The stories eventually become "just as bad or worse" as the reality he is trying to escape. Theon begins to wonder if these stories are actually happening the more real they become and the more lost in them he becomes. Is he losing his mind? Which version of him is true? Does it matter? I have a LOT to plan and consider with this one but I'm really excited about it.

Theon and Jon in the Crypts

This was originally supposed to be written for Greysnow Week. (Alas!) It is a missing scene fic for Season 8. Jon is in the crypts staring up at Lyanna's statue and having extreme angst over Ned and the reveal of his true parentage. At some point he realizes that he is not alone in the crypts... Theon has also come to visit Robb's statue and they have a discussion together that mirrors their Season 7 discussion but also turns it on its head. A bit of it is below:

His mother is a stone statue and his father is a lie. Jon stands in the Crypts seething in anger. Ungrateful. He knows he is ungrateful to feel this way, when Ned Stark sacrificed his honor to protect him. But all he can think about is the last time they spoke. The last time he saw the man he thought was his father. 

“The next time we see each other, we'll talk about your mother, I promise,” he had said. Would he have eventually told him? After he had already taken his vows and was safely out of the way? He certainly had no issue with him living out his life in frozen exile. He sent me to the wall without a second thought. 

And what of his true father? What would he have wanted him to become? Would he have loved him? Would he have truly accepted him as a trueborn son, as Sam insisted? Or would he just be another shameful stain on his father’s honor, a lone bastard boy in yet a larger castle?

And then there is the loss… the hollow feeling of losing Ned twice. Loss and love mixed with this new feeling of betrayal. It is too much. And what will Daenerys say? What will his sisters say? He doesn’t need this right now. 

(cue Theon... to be continued lol)

Can’t stop thinking about how Bruno canonly drove drunk from Gallerian’s house after Gallerian hired him (the novel mentioned him staggering a bit drunkenly after 2 glasses of wine, then he left)

as i discovered last night, sometimes sawyer has a death wish. there are times where she gets severely drunk and gets behind the wheel with the subconscious hope that she won't make it home. it's not necessarily a desire to die, it's that she just doesn't know what else to do anymore and wants the universe to make the decision for her. the amount of guilt she feels in the morning is always insurmountable, knowing that she not only put her own life i danger, but so many others as well. unfortunately, that doesn't stop her from doing it all over again whenever her mood drops and she finds herself in a spiral.

she tries to keep those incidences to herself, as she often drinks alone when she's in an episode, and she's absolutely not proud of it. that means no one has actually confronted her, which makes it easier to just continue that behaviour.

nico   hiraga   .   he/him.   cis   man.   ›spotted   at   the   met   steps   ,   ken   alexander   wood   ,   most   likely   listening   to   survivin’   by   bastille   with   their   airpods   pro   .   the   twenty-six   year   old   gained   quite   a   reputation   ,   known   to   be   -loudmouthed   yet   +confident   to   anyone   who   knows   them   .   you’ll   easily   spot   them   when   you   hear   about   cigarettes   put   out   in   antique   desk   drawers,   lines   of   classic   poetry   written   on   bathroom   walls,   and   nerdy   memorabilia   lining   expensive   bookshelves   ,   followed   by   the   smell   of   strawberry   vape   .   latest   nepoupdates   article   talks   about   how   they   drunkenly   crashed   their   father’s   yacht   last   year   ,   but   i   guess   any   reputation   is   good   reputation   .

*˖ ⊹       basics        ☆ﾟ

name: ken alexander wood

age: twenty-six

pronouns: he/him

orientation: heterosexual

place of birth: new york city, new york

occupation: master's student ( philosophy )

zodiac sign: sagitarrius

*˖ ⊹       bio        ☆ﾟ tw: alcohol & drunk driving mentions

ken is the son of a wealthy japanese heiress and a high-profile american plastic surgeon. their second son, he was born in late november during a snowstorm. he was well loved by his mother, babied, brought with her all over the globe as she travelled; though ken was less beloved to his father, who already had the perfect son in ken's older brother. their family, although not unhappy, were rarely together for longer than a few days at a time. his father would fly around the globe to provide expensive surgeries to high-profile individuals, and his mother was busy entertaining guests.

although he tried, ken struggled to keep up with his brother in all aspects of their life. while his brother excelled in school, well on his way to taking residence in his father's practice, ken struggled to understand the difficult concepts their tutors proposed to them. his brother was a well-talented musician, and ken was tone deaf. this wasn't necessarily a point of contention for the two young men, but it meant that there was an ever growing riff between them that didn't allow them to be close, no matter how much ken craved a relationship with his sibling & his father.

his childhood was relatively uneventful. he would fly to different cities with his mother, see the sights, talk to the people whom she surrounded herself with, or he would sit at home in their large, new york mansion, alone. he had friends, always excitable and easy-going, but rich kids themselves they were often out-of-state on their own adventures. when it came time for him to go off to school, like his brother did, ken picked something he thought would be easy: a philosophy major (because he could think, couldn't he ? )

last year, ken, his older brother and his father were out boating with a few of his father's friends. they were drinking, and his father had gotten too drunk. unaware of the boat that was coming at them, the two collided. luckily, nobody was injured, but when the police arrived on the scene, his father was quick to turn the blame onto ken-- fear of losing his reputation and business kicking in. ken, always quick to try and please his father and outnumbered by his father, brother, and the other men on the boat, didn't have the guts to argue with the men he looked up too, and simply took the fall.

ken was sent to a high-end rehab facility for a few months, stepping away from his masters' degree to do so. he wasn't struggling with alcoholism as the accident ( and his father ) suggested, so the motions that he was put through didn't do very much for him. still, he found it relaxing to step away from the busy bustle of socialite life and relax in the comfort of the well-resourced facility that he was a part of. he spent a lot of time participating in sports and other activities,

recently out of the facility, he's gone back to pursuing his masters with a bit more caution about being around his family.

*˖ ⊹       personality        ☆ﾟ

ken is just big dumb jock energy, but like, in the good way. man is a major himbo, and while never really having to experience hardships before, he's just kind of here for a good time, and ideally for a long time, though that is a second priority. there's not much to him, under the surface: his head is empty, and he's just cruising through life. he's a big sports guy, and takes part in a lot of different teams, though he's not good enough to really go professional or anything. he's super friendly and finds it easy to make friends with just about anyone, though he will try to avoid conflict when presented with it ( as he's done in the past. ) he tends to avoid talking about himself, mainly because he doesn't have a good sense of his own identity.

*˖ ⊹       potential connections        ☆ﾟ

tba !