#i promise i haven't forgotten about it

[arosewrites]

Title: killer, thriller Chapters: 1/2 Words: 3,214 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arthur/Eames (Inception), Ariadne & Arthur (Inception)

Summary:

“Sorry,” Ariadne says, wrinkling her nose at the formerly undead corpses littering the floor around them, “I thought this place looked safe.” Arthur looks around, at the ominous bloodstains smeared across the walls and splattered over the toppled shelves of the convenience store they have taken refuge in. He’s relatively certain too that most of the stains were there before they reintroduced their would-be ambushers to death. “Safe,” he repeats dryly.

Finally posting a new fic after a year and a half! I originally started writing this for @inceptionbingo 2021 (lol) but, uh, better late than never?

#some day i'll finish my big bang fic from 2022 #i promise i haven't forgotten about it #inception #inception fic #inception bingo #arthur x eames #dreamhusbands #fanfic #rose creates

[maiaczy]

Quick doodle of the sand guy before today's chapter ✨️

#don't worry i haven't forgotten about the drawing requests #i draw slow af but i will get to them all i promise #eventually #anyways cant wait for the new chapter #s o o n #the jojolands #jjba #fanart #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojos bizzare adventure #art #digital art #jojo #sketch #myart #jojo fanart

[oneluckydragon]

So I decided to spin the wheel by @onefey since I saw so many mutuals getting really cute PMD Teams.

Meet hero Lucky (Girafarig) and partner Biggs (Wimpod). Never in my life have I considered a Girafarig as my potential PMD-sona but here we are despite it all. Even though I was skeptical at first I am now in permanent love.

Gotta think of an Exploration Team name now... hm.

#tagging you per request onefey #what a fun little thing you did thanks for giving me an excuse to doodle #i'm enlightened now i'm a changed person #i've always been kinda “eh” about girafarig especially the shiny but now i think i might genuinely love them #also i'm very average height so the idea of evolving into something tall like farigiraf is hilarious to me #and wimpod... my beloved #i could not have gotten a better partner i love golisopod so much #to all my mutuals out there... if you're reading this i am alive but only barely #i have not forgotten you guys and i think about you daily despite disappearing off the face of the earth #been pushing myself to try and be online again but things have been rough #to anyone that has sent me discord messages that i haven't replied too-- #--i promise i read them and they made me smile #i'll try to talk to you guys soon! <3

[nightly-nightcat]

Night cat eating ramen Noodles

day 62 - mmm delicious ramen that definitely isn't made of infant noodleflies (bowl provided by your local scav merchant)

also this blog's first request!! which are open :3

#daily nightcat #ive had another in my inbox for a while now i promise i haven't forgotten about it 🙏 #waiting for a good day so i could do it justice #rain world #rain world fanart #rain world slugcat #rw slugcat #slugcat #nightcat #rain world nightcat #rw nightcat #nightcat rw #nightcat rain world #rw the watcher #the watcher rw #rain world art #rw art

[tastesoftamriel]

Hello! Just wanted to let you all know that I can see the inbox filling up with stuff re: the website. I see you and will respond very soon! I have a huge backlog of stuff to do for my PhD so I'll attend to things here in a couple of weeks (I have an important meeting coming up so I'm studying).

Anyway I have been bedridden with some horrible flu/covid/whatever god I've pissed off. Nonetheless I went out to a goth night yesterday and I think I'm getting old, my knees hurt from dancing in New Rocks. Hi the person behind Talviel is actually a goth. Pic for attention:

#I promise I haven't forgotten about this blog #Thank you for your patience! #Mod post #Also tell me I look cool #Surprise Talviel is a goth

[lady-harrowhark]

Hello! I saw you mention that Pyrrha remembers pre-resurrection, and I totally missed that!! Do you have any theories as to why?

I have a few thoughts!

Just for context - because I didn't catch that on my first read either until I started going back through! - there are a few instances that seem to suggest Pyrrha remembers at least some of her life pre-Resurrection. Off the top of my head, I know there's one point where she refers to G1deon as G--, just like John does. Nona also says that Pyrrha calls her "Hairy Maclary", which is referring to a series of children's books by a New Zealand author. Here's a link to a picture and some info about Hairy Maclary... I can definitely understand why Pyrrha would call Nona that lol. This one's super interesting to me in that it's such a fantastic example of the way Tamsyn uses memes and references so skillfully! In the previous books, most of the references are fairly organic in that they're things that could conceivably be, you know, just things the characters say; the readers catch it (if they also know the reference! otherwise they're fairly unobtrusive) but the characters themselves aren't intentionally making a reference. This would be the things like "You can't just ask someone why they want to be a Lyctor" and "a hunger that only thumbs could satisfy," etc. The exception, though, is John. The "none Houses with left grief" particularly is SO fun from an exposition perspective (but if I start on that one I'll never stop), and then of course we have Commander Wake Me Up Inside. The implication here being that John remembers these specific things and is intentionally making those references within the context of the story. Pulling that same expository trick with Pyrrha sets them up as both remembering... at least to some degree. The hints that we get from Pyrrha are such that it's pretty unclear to what extent she remembers, leaving a lot of room for juicy speculation :)

I initially touched on it over on this post where I rambled about names, memory, and the Eightfold Word, but I'm copying over the Pyrrha-specific paragraph so that you don't have to dig for it:

When assisting with Harrow’s lobotomy, Ianthe tells her, “If you push your brain too hard, any surgery could simply heal over.” And in NtN, Pyrrha tells Palamedes, “You should be draining and replacing her fucking brain fluid... When Gideon and I designed that trial, I used to crack his skull and sieve it myself, just as a control variable... The only other people I put through that damn trial were Mercy and Cris, because only Cris didn’t mind being trepanned on the regular.” I don’t know exactly where the threshold is for pushing one’s brain too hard, but I suspect frequently draining and replacing one’s brain fluid is in that ballpark. Which is to say, it’s very possible that Mercy and Pyrrha (and potentially others) could have healed over from anything John had done to their brains.

Also, I don't know why this didn't occur to me as I was writing up that other post, but when Pyrrha's telling Palamedes about how dangerous their uhhhhh living arrangements are, and how they're risking brain damage... Pyrrha and G1deon were operating under somewhat similar circumstances for thousands of years. Cumulatively, it's possible that G1deon's brain was racking up damage that eventually eroded away whatever John had done. Another thought is that maybe the fact that G1deon died and Pyrrha didn't is at play here.

It could very well be less dramatic than that, though. We don't know much about how Lyctorhood impacts the brain, although to be completely fair, we also can't say for certain how a typical human brain would function after ten thousand years of runtime either. Our brains are constantly wiring new neural pathways and rewiring and revising old ones. After thousands of years, might we be reaching a Ship of Theseus situation with regard to the neural circuitry impacting pre-Res memories? Which is a fancy way of saying, "Maybe it wore off."

It could be all of the above, too. Assuming that Lyctor brains retain plasticity like we see in typical human brains (and I'm not letting myself think too hard on implications either way, because in sci-fi/fantasy make-believe land, neuroscience can be whatever you want it to be), we'd probably see that effect happening with the other Lyctors at roughly the same rate, but at least as far as we can tell (and that wording is intentional because I'm not taking anything off the table with this series), the others don't seem to remember. So that might be contributing, but not sufficient on its own. BUT perhaps ten thousand years of rewiring PLUS ten thousand years of cohabitation PLUS however long of being "trepanned on the regular" PLUS G1deon dying might override John's meddling.

We've still got so many open questions here regardless of what the specific mechanisms are. Like, I'd love to know when Pyrrha started to remember exactly. And did G1deon remember anything, then? It seems like he was Straight Up Not Having a Good Time so if he did remember, he might not have been relying on those memories much. Whatever's going on, I'm sure it's just as bonkers as the rest of the series!

#'in sci-fi/fantasy make-believe land neuroscience can be whatever you want it to be' i whisper repeatedly to myself #after spending like two hours this afternoon formatting datasets from the neuroscience lab i work in #nah but for real i have zero issue with that kinda stuff being. you know. fictional. i just need to not go down that rabbit hole lol #also sorry about sneaking a little bonus ramble about meme usage in there #believe it or not i had more about that but took it out because it wasn't directly relevant lol #also to the other anon that's sitting in my inbox: I PROMISE I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN #it's just... you opened a hefty can of worms and it's gonna take me a while lmao #ask #anonymous #tlt meta #pyrrha dve #nona the ninth spoilers #tlt #long post

[ozwuv]

Maybe a bit random but it always confused me that weather Oz was a child of ill omen or not was a debate just because he isn’t human when baskervilles aren’t fully considered human and like half of the story making sense if he isn’t one and also oswald literally called him one like am I blind I feel blind why aren’t people talking about this

ngl pretty much any ph-related discussion i witness is against my will so i didn't even know that was a point of contention lol.

this is what i have to say on that topic though

as far as i know it was never specified that children of ill omen are exclusively human. most things in ph are pretty open-ended and leave room for a million different interpretations anyway (despite fandom often seeing it from a black & white lens -- which is part of why i usually avoid discussion about it lol). the things i remember actually being specified off the top of my head are

1. oswald's statement that children of ill omen are "irregular existences produced by the core on a whim" 2. lacie's theory of the core producing children of ill omen out of a desperate need for someone to find her & save her from her loneliness 3. the fact that there have been children of ill omen who were siblings to the glen of their time, aside from lacie & oswald

in any case, i don't know everything so i could be wrong! like you said, oswald did explicitly refer to oz as a child of ill omen buuut it's not an explicit focus in the manga. i didn't even connect the dots myself until like 2019? so i can understand how people could just miss it entirely. but vehemently denying it is kind of odd to me because oz reflects a lot of the struggles lacie & vincent had as children of ill omen. imo break is the odd one out, conventionally speaking. i could go on about that all day tho so i'll spare the details ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#yip yap #btw @ the person who asked me & worstie about allen and oz's adjacency to each other i promise we haven't forgotten fdkjsafdsa

[the-quiet-fire-of-defiance]

Te Hōkioi, and Speculation on the Dietary Habits of the Great Eagles

He Hōkioi, i runga, he Hōkioi, i runga, hū.

(The great eagle, from above, made a booming call)

Kei te āputa koe, nā, o te rangi, e noho ana,

(In the open space, there, in the sky, it dwells)

Te hoa moenga, nō whatitiri mātakataka;

(Death's companion, with crashing thunder)

Hei aha, tērā, e tararua mārire, ona hikumaro?

(Why, then, do its tail feathers no longer split the quiet in two?)

Rua maro tonu, ona hakikau;

(Two fathoms wide, its wings;)

E huhū nei, i runga te rangi,

(It called, above in the sky)

Hōkioi, Hōkioi.

(The sound: hōkioi, hōkioi.)

- poem/chant by the great Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha

For @tolkienofcolourweek, I'm spending seven days bringing Māoritanga and mātauranga Māori to the world of Tolkien! Starting off on day 1 with: what did Manwë's Eagles eat?

Such massive animals, especially flying ones, would have required a huge caloric intake. We have little evidence about what potential prey may have existed in Beleriand and Middle Earth. The Hobbit mentions them eating sheep, and it seems likely that they would hunt other large animals, such as deer or bison. But there's nothing in our modern world that compares to or fills an ecological niche like Manwë's Eagles.

This is where I draw on Māori oral history of the largest eagles to ever live.

In English they're called Haast's Eagles, but in Māori there are several names. Probably the most well-known of the Māori names is pouakai/poukai, but my people called them hōkioi.

They were massive, weighing as much as 17.8 kg (about 39 lbs) and with wingspans as large as 3 metres (about 10ft). Their feet and claws were the size of modern day tigers, capable of punching through bone. They hunted prey more than fifteen times their own size.

(Granted, the eagles of Manwë are much larger than even the hōkioi! Still, it's similar enough for me to draw inspiration.)

[Left image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi perched on a rock. Right image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi attacking the neck of a giant flightless bird.]

The hōkioi's primary prey was the moa, large flightless birds similar to ostriches or emus. With no large land mammals on the islands, hōkioi were the apex predators.

Then, circa 900 CE, large mammals came to Aotearoa for the first time. They also preyed on moa, reducing the hōkioi's food supply. So perhaps it was natural that the hōkioi began to hunt these mammals as new prey.

Unfortunately, those mammals were us.

[Left image: an artist's rendition of a hōkioi attacking a Māori man who holds a spear. Right image: an artist's rendition of a child running from a hōkioi.]

Our stories of the hōkioi, or pouakai, tell of giant birds that could swoop down from the sky to kill and eat even strong warriors. They were also known to carry off small children.

I'm not saying that the eagles of Manwë ate elves or humans. (I think they were probably given firm instructions not to!) It would make sense for them to prey on orcs and other creatures of Morgoth, though. And there's one other group who we know were hunted like animals in Beleriand, due to... misunderstandings. A group who the Eagles may not have initially recognized as sentient creatures. A group who would have been an ideal size to pick up and carry off as a snack.

I'm just saying, I think there may have been multiple reasons that dwarves chose to live underground.

-

(Sources for further information about te hōkioi:

The man-killer that fell from the sky

NZ Birds: Haast's Eagle)

#silmarillion #silm meta #the giant eagles #tocweek2023 #māori-fying tolkien #mine #yes this is a little bit cracky #i fully acknowledge that #so please don't be weird in my notes and inbox #(also i SWEAR i haven't forgotten about my wips and i promise i'm working on them!)

[golddust-if]

Hi, is the game still active? Can you continue to post character intros?

Hi! Yes, it is. I apologize for the lack of posts, classes have just recently started up for me again and it's proving to be challenging to get any free time to myself.

I have some time after class today, and I'm going to go to the library to get some quiet while I work on the rest of the intros for a bit.

I might be able to get one out today, if not then tomorrow since I have a free day.

#i actually like having classes again #but it takes up so much of my time :( #i haven't forgotten about the rest of the intros i promise #gold dust #gold dust if #asks

[funkbun]

twin boys, sniff and whimper

the cigarette company

#(or twins boy and sometimes-boy) #i promise i haven't forgotten about the funkbean twins i just haven't had time to actually draw em #take the grumpling babything doodle of them as compensation #bug game #btw i'll get back to working on those snak requests i just Didn't Want To Draw Stuff today lol

[bitsandbobsofwriting]

How are you doing?

Your last post said you were really stressed for the move so I just wanted to make sure you haven't exploded-

Hello!!!

I have not exploded as of yet!!

I'm due to move in from the 30th, so only a couple weeks to go, and I'm so bloody excited!!!!!!! It'll be a lot of stress, as I haven't been able to take any time off work, but I have Thursdays and Sundays off and my partner has Saturdays and Sundays off. It might take us a couple weeks to fully settle, but I'm not under any pressure to leave ASAP and my partner's current lease doesn't end until June 31st, so we've got time.

I'm trying to get back into writing but I just have no motivation anymore😭 hopefully it'll come back eventually lol

#bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #send asks #send requests #asks #requests #merthur #love yall #promise i haven't forgotten about you

[crashing--waves]

This is probably dirty af 💀, but how would Cove feel about the doggystyle position? (Whether he was on top or bottom)

Your mind may be in the gutter but this is the exact type of ask I love to receive lmao, keep em comin if you have any more 👌🏽

As for Cove and doggy... I feel like he's more of a face-to-face kinda guy when he's fucking. He prefers to be able to kiss u, caress your face, watch your expressions for any subtle signs of ecstasy or discomfort. So if he's topping, he can only tolerate it for so long before it starts to feel weird and he has to flip MC back around to be close to em again!

Now, if he's bottoming, he's a lot more open to it, for a few reasons 👀 Not only is he putty in their hands and willing to do whatever they say/ask, but it's also probably a lot easier for him to handle. He can hide his face, which is obviously beet-red from getting him into this position in the first place, and he thinks he can muffle his moans in the pillows. But one can easily put a stop to this by pulling his hair or holding his hands behind his back til he agrees to be good 😌 If you wanna keep him like this tho you're gonna have to find some way to kiss him while you're at it; it's a non-negotiable part of lovemaking for this man, and he'll get sub-drop n probably cry if he doesn't receive them. He doesn't mind twisting his neck a little to make it work, just keep ur lips on his <3

#cove holden #cove holden headcanons #our life: beginnings & always #cove holden our life #olba #crashing waves #🧍🏽so. it's been forever and a half since i posted here #u know how it is. but i've been thinking about coming back ~casually~ for a while #have A LOT of spicy thots about Baxter in particular but ofc Cove too <33 #so we shall see. send me more reqests tho ill try my best to do em and get to any old ones <333 #promise i haven't forgotten you!!!

[froggydraws]

the girlies!!! they're here!!!

#I still think about them always #yellow girls and blue girls stay winning #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #rinku #vocaloid #froggy doodles #ALSO IM SORRY TO THE PEOPLE WHO SENT ME ASKS I promise I haven't forgotten you #I'm. saving them for when I feel like drawing smth for them djdjjkdjsk

[magnifiico]

if anyone is waiting for anything from me (be it an ooc response in IMs or some sort of beginning to an interaction), please know i'm not ignoring you or not disinterested! (ꈍ ‸ ꈍ✿)

i was sick all week last week and now we're diving headfirst into the holidays, so i've been a bit scatterbrained with remembering to reply to things — i guarantee it's me, not you ♡

ty for your patience; i'm stoked to explore dynamics together!

#˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ 《 ooc 》 #i promise you i'm The Person who will read an IM and then think to myself “i'll reply to this in a sec!” #literally forget a second later #and then just forget the IM is there because there's no notification in my face anymore #that being said tho! i know i've had a few ooc discussions with some of you recently #about starting interactions that haven't kicked off the ground yet! #i PROMISE i'm HERE for those interactions and excited! #you have not been forgotten and we WILL do fun things together <3 #i appreciate everyone being patient in the meantime #also with the pjo show coming out tomorrow that's about to become my entire personality again #comfort content let's go u.u/ #so i'll prolly be doing a lot more blog-hopping and giving my boy leo some extra love but! #none of that takes away from my eternal obsession with this man #and all of the dynamics i've discussed so far + any to look forward to in the future >w> stay tuned~

[taintandviolent]

just a little FYi for everyone!! this is the current standing of my AI generated audio requests -- and I'm starting to run low on character count, so patience is appreciated!! it renews every month, but I won't be able to fill every request immediately!!

ps: I will be doing them in order inspired by (sometimes that's in order of received) unless otherwise specified!! 💗

ps2: any request with a 😵‍💫 emoji next to it means that the ai is fighting me with getting the accent or cadence right! I am still actively trying, but I might work on other audios in between!

Audios:

@tatelangdonsghost dom!Michael Langdon 😵‍💫😵‍💫

@kitswitchbitch Colin Zabel saying mommy. 😵‍💫

anon -- pre death! Kyle Spencer 😵‍💫

anon — Evan moans. (not AI, just a collection of his moans)

anon - Jimmy Darling + p*ssy worship **

anon — Kit & Sistah Jude. 😈 *

anon — domestic but ultimately kinky scene with the nerdy, clumsy guy that has that specific accent that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the character **

@thebabayaga-x Dom!John Wick, knife play, gun play.

Fics:

anon — sub!Kit x dom!Reader

anon — Psychiatrist!JPM and reader

anon — Pietro/Peter x soft and shy female reader with a curvy body type.

@kai-slut — Kai, dinner and a vibrator

anon - JPM x virgin!reader

#requests #texty #ai audios #i promise I haven't forgotten about anyone #current requests

[nagalias-mindscape]

I have a very important question for people who are still paying attention to my Rock-Throwing only run of MTaS. Concerning the new update coming out.

Is having pets fight alongside me considered 'going against the spirit of the challenge'? I've have to compromise before because of story-instances where you have people follow you around, but for everything else... is it against the spirit of the challenge to bring pets along to fight alongside me?

From what it looks like, the Meerkat throws rocks, too. So maybe just them?

Where do I draw the line?

#mtas #text #throwing rock challenge #i promise i haven't forgotten about the run #i've just been so exhausted lately that i haven't the mental stones to play the game.