#in this house we stan neil gaiman

[the-little-fox-in-the-box]

Neil Gaiman is... a special case. An exception. He stays.

#tumblr #neil gaiman #tumblr celebs #in this house we stan neil gaiman

[brainrotallthewaydown1312]

I've been seeing more and more people recently compare the current Good Omens/Our Flag Means Death/What We Do in the Shadows fandoms to the build up from the Superwholock days. and let me tell you, as someone who was just getting into fandom during the height Superwholock but was observing from outside those fandoms, i definitely see it.

similar amount of crossover within the fandom, similar types of crossposting. similar formats of engagement (response gifs, edits, and metas regularly breaching containment and being seen and engaged with by people outside the fandom) and similar intensity of theorizing and analysis. similar desire for comments and responses from writers and actors involved. I can even point out how they are analogous to each other as crossover fandoms.

good omens is the most obvious . it has the angels and demons and religious/mythological imagery of supernatural as well as the fandom engagement and irl stanning with the creators. it shares David tennant and several actors with doctor who. and you cannot look me in my face and honestly tell me that coffee theory and the similar theories don't have tjlc vibes and that the way we talk about and engage with Neil gaiman doesn't have the vibes of how sherlock fans engaged with Steven moffat and Mark gatiss if they weren't massively weird cunts to his fans and kind of homophobic.

our flag means death involves fictionalized and revised history as well as having several stories/arcs that feel like they are coming from different genres but that still fit together like doctor who. it also has the giffability and similar types of analysis for characters and relationships. it has both the capacity for mundane lines delivered so uniquely that they become deeply quotable like doctor who and lines that are so absurd that they are imminently quotable like Sherlock.

What We Do in the Shadows has the long running with a few different iterations thing that doctor who has. to a lesser degree, but still. it has the absurd dialogue and situations that Sherlock had but without the distain for its fans or weird homophobic subtext and queerbaiting. it has the wide representation of mythological and folkloric creatures and stories and consistent random out of context lore notes that supernatural had.

the most entertaining part of this is how deep we all seem to be falling into this. the depth of this crossover fandom hole definitely seems to go as deep as superwholock. I mean I've seen several friend groups that have a similar breakdown to what is going on in my house right now which is

me: has been a Tumblr kid since before the height of superwholock, escaped the curse of supernatural

roommate 1: was a supernatural fan on the Internet during the height of superwholock, escaped the curse of tumblr

roommate 3: was neither a supernatural nor a Tumblr kid but was in the Voltron Instagram fandom and has read more fanfic in total than the rest of us combined

roommate 3: has been busy playing Minecraft and Lego star wars the whole time all that mess was happening. knows nothing about fandom.

all of us right now: losing our collective shit about gay angels and pirates and vampires. at least one person in this house cries about them daily. there is at least one tortured wail echoing down the hall when someone gets a sad edit on their fyp/feed every day. we have regular in depth discussions of characters and head canons and different interpretations. we bribe each other to trade chores or do favors or let us win games by offering one shots of the other person's preference.

and I haven't seen this many people go this feral in this way since superwholock died down. and I'm having fun actually participating this time around

#our flag means death #ofmd #good omens #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #fandom #supernatural #doctor who #Sherlock #superwholock #our shadows mean omens

[i-am-binket]

I started watching the sandman here are my notes

Sandman watch notes

Ep 1 sleep of the just

I'm sorry Neil gaiman but what the fuck. x5

Omfg when will people learn not to revive the fucking dead DDDDD

I want to see this man's face when he realizes death is a black woman

BRO THIS MANS VOICE-

Eyo this dude's cloak- DON'T TOUCH HIS SHIT

Is this man naked? Yes. He is.

Bro this dude IS A FUCKING SKELETON

what is this man's accent?

At least give this man some clothes, jesus

The look on this man's face- no. Alex, he is not alright in there.

Stan Jessamy

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO TYPE IF "THIS BIRD DIES I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD" AND THEN SHE WAS LITERALLY SHOT WHAT THE FUCKKKK JESSAMYYYYYYYYYYY 

Kill his ass kill his ass kill his ass-

Kill his ass kill his ass kill his ass-

RUN BITCH RUN

Gayy?? Gayyy!!

Of course she named her child Johnny

DON'T SHOW YOUR BOYFRIEND THE MAN YOU HAVE TRAPPED IN YOUR BASEMENT

Well, you know, at least we have gays in the 1920s 

This man is a fucking cryptid

*GASP* THERES A CAT

I wonder if his lips just look like that, or if he makes them look like that

I also wonder if that's his natural voice 

Stan lucienne 

There's a character called Matthew the raven and I am excited

Ep 2 

Oof

Corinthias kinda a vibe tho- I mean, he kills people, but he's kind of a vibe

OH MY GOD PATTON OSWALT IS THE RAVEN 

This man is a wet rag

They be Killin a Lotta animals on this show

Stan lucienne

Fuck you, I'm crying- GREGORYYYYYYY

bro, I'm so confused, what is canon in this universe? Jesus? Greek mythology? ???

Even the edge lord is unsettled by the woman deep throating a snake

CLARAAAAA

Girl boss Ethel 

OH, EW THERE ARE TEETH IN HIS EYES WHAT THE FUCK

CORINTHIAS IS NO LONGER A VIBE FUCK CORINTHIAS

oh shit girl boss Ethel

GIRVINGGGGG

I think you're projecting a bit. Able

Ep 3

CLARAAAAAAAA

"Can't keep God waiting I love this woman 

Oooohh this show likes its body horror

Girl boss girl boss girl boss

He's honest

MATTHEWWWWW

SHES GAYYYYYYYY

Bro this show is not afraid of body horror, they go all out

Matthew my beloved

Man's really just trauma dumping out here

Ep 4

Bro what the fuck is happening, this is like an ad-libbing dick measuring contest

Bro you can't die its episode 4

This is a Matthew Stan account

Bro why you hate him so much he's just a dude

"I've met satan. She's a woman."

Ep 5

"I'm mark." "And I'm gay, so."

Bro this guy is sus as fuck 

Ooh he startin shit

You're gonna cheat on your partner while he's in the house?

Man's is just eating a tub of ice cream while 3 different pairs of people are fucking in the background

Ep 6 

There is not a briancell between these two

Cant imagine death being a people person

I'm 20 minutes in and I feel like I've been here for over an hour

Dream bein a Lil sus

CLARAAAAAA

Ep 7

"She is a woman" ah, yes, now you can seduce him

Why do people have sex in other people's beds?

Matthew my beloved

#the sandman #netflix

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

gettin' kinda cold in these painted-on cut-off jeans

gettin' kinda cold in these painted-on cut-off jeans

by HKBlack

It’s a hot day for gardening, but Aziraphale has some ideas on how to “beat the heat”

Or

Bit of a Bastard Angel tempts his husband with a ridiculous outfit choice.

Words: 1035, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Aziraphale loves Crowley, Crowley loves Aziraphale, Crowley coined the term Thunder Thighs, After falling in love with Aziraphale's thighs, Post-Canon, South Downs, Aziraphale is thicc, In this house we stan thick Aziraphale, outfits the angel would never wear, unless he was looking for a certain reaction, Crowley.exe has stopped working, temptation accomplished, Aziraphale is "just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing" (Good Omens), Daisy Dukes, Yup you read that right, Fluff and Crack

From https://ift.tt/WEP5h2Z https://archiveofourown.org/works/40326024

#ao3feed ineffablehusbandz #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthonyjcrowl

[thebestbookrecommendations]

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.

Read if You Like:

Horror

Gothic Fiction

Mysteries

Thrillers

Off-Beat Stories

Female Protagonists

Recommended if You Enjoy:

Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House)

Susanna Clarke (Piranesi)

Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic)

Neil Gaiman (Coraline)

Paul Tremblay (A Headful of Ghosts)

Dawn Kurtagich (And The Trees Crept In)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Movie Adaptation, 2018)

3/5

#Shirley jackson #we have always lived in the castle #horror #gothic fiction #gothic horror #gothic #mystery #thriller #off-beat #female protagonists #the haunting of hill house #piranesi #Susanna Clarke #silvia moreno garcia #Mexican gothic #coraline #Neil gaiman #Paul tremblay #a Headful of ghosts #authors #book recommendations #books #books & libraries #libraries #literature #what to read #what to read next #book reading #good books to read

[lurking-lilibeth]

Get to know me :)

I was tagged by @yandereplumsim, @didilysims and @hazelpuff - thank you!

1.  Favourite colour Gray, probably. Or maybe grey. 2. Currently reading Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, but I don’t have a lot of time to read lately, so I’m only able to cover a chapter or two every few days. I don’t feel that interested in it, too, at least not yet. 3. Last song you listened to Origami by Saint Motel. 4. Last series you watched Loki! Loved it. We stan Sylki in this house. 5. Sweet, spicy or savoury Sweet. 6. Craving A proper fucking happy ending in a western piece of media, please and thank you. 7. Tea or coffee Coffee. 8. Currently working on A reylo art commission. Has been since morning; hopefully I’ll be able to finish it tomorrow. 

Not tagging anyone because I’m a bit late to the party, but feel free to tag yourself if you want to. :3

#ask meme #text post #not sims

[bi-acedbooks]

I'm excited to say that this was the first book I've finished this year that was not assigned for a class!!! I read the entire book yesterday; I had forgotten how amazing it feels to start and finish a new book on the same day.

Book: Coraline

Author: Neil Gaiman

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Synopsis: When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.

But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

Review: I saw the movie a few years ago and kept intending to read it, but I never got around to it until yesterday. There were definitely differences in the book and the movie, although I couldn't tell you exactly what as I haven't seen the movie in a while. I will say that I did prefer the book!

I absolutely loved the cat and I really liked the ending. SPOILERS When Coraline got back I thought there were a few too many pages left for it to be over, so I really liked that she got to talk to the children and I thought it was cool how she beat the hand.

Also Miss Spink and Miss Forcible are a lesbian power couple! We stan!!!

QOTD: What is your favorite reading spot?

AOTD: Mine is in my hammock in my backyard! It's in the shade and it's so relaxing on a summer day.

#coraline #neil gaiman #kids books #bibliophile #book blog #book photography #booklr #books & libraries #mine

[the-dubstep-strawberry]

About Me

It’s that time again, folks... more than you ever needed to know about me, lol

Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you’d like to know better!

Tagged by @gaeadene​! Thanks!

Nickname: Dubs

Zodiac: Taurus

Height: A towering and impressive 5′1″.

House: Ravenclaw

Last thing I Googled: Russian swear words so I could explain what they meant to my friends. (Blyat.)

Song in my head: Doja Cat - Say So

Followers and following: Followed by 176 very cool people. Following 171 other cool people.

Amount of sleep: The sleep to caffeine ratio is mostly in balance. Mostly.

Lucky number: Depends who you ask. Horoscope says 5, 9, 11, 14, 25. Numerology says 2. Who the hell knows.

Dream job: My current gig’s fine. I love my office. Let me write in my spare time and it’s all good.

Wearing: Jeans and a Godzilla: World Destruction Tour shirt.

Fave songs: Well that is a long, long list, my friends. But here are a few that I listen to a lot:

1. The Knocks - Classic 2. Seoul - Stay With Us 3. Powers - Closer 4. The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey - Closer 5. Taylor Swift - New Romantics 6. deadmau5 - Cthulhu Sleeps 7. Fightstar - We Apologize For Nothing 8. Nero - Doomsday 9. EDX - Breathin’ 10. Nora En Pure - Lost In Time

Bonus: The Human League - Human (an all-time fave)

(This is by no means exhaustive. My library is huge.)

Instruments: No. Not a thing.

Random fact: I can say thank you in ten languages - Welsh, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Russian, Japanese and Mandarin.

Favorite Authors: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mervyn Peake, Raymond Chandler. I also stan Shakespeare.

Fave animal sounds: Peaceful birdsong, Strawberry Kitty’s outrage when I give him kisses he wasn’t expecting, and the fearsome beep of the Namibian Desert Rain Frog.

Aesthetic: Think The Color Out Of Space, with Nicolas Cage. Pink, black. Outer space. Kaiju everything. Eldritch plushies. Impending doom, but the happy kind.

I tag: @solesurvivorkat​, @redwing907​, @itsmesaberaltered​, @inforapenny-inforapound​, @prydwencats​, @lamorellenoire6​, @lynnarii​, @ladynyxeris​, @falsenostalgia-sundries​, @pchberrytea​, @thegreatdivide​, @kittinkanin​, @randomfallout4posts, @mojavejourneys, @theartofblossoming, @derelict-blade and @sharonaw!

#about me #posts 'n' stuff #personal... kinda #file in the misc drawer #thanks for the tag! #Dubs liked this

[bottomaziraphale-ao3fanfic]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Rating: Mature Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens) Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens) Additional Tags: Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Bad BDSM Etiquette, Ignored Safeword, No Aftercare, Protective Crowley, Tender Crowley (Good Omens), Ineffable Wives | Female Aziraphale/Female Crowley (Good Omens), Sub Aziraphale (Good Omens), Soft Dom Crowley, Angst, Bittersweet Ending, Mutual Pining, Extremely thinly-veiled pining, Hurt/Comfort, Subspace, Fluff, Cuddling & Snuggling, Sleepy Cuddles, Anxious Aziraphale (Good Omens), Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Rape/Non-con Elements, Healing, Tenderness, Subdrop, Neglect, Spooning, Praise, Dissociation, Implied/Referenced Torture, Aftermath of Violence, In our house we stan aftercare 👏, Possessive Crowley, Implied Sexual Content, Light Masochism Summary:

She'd asked for this. This was her own fault. She'd been told it would hurt and she'd asked for it anyway. She'd gone to the home of a stranger, let that stranger beat her, and she'd let it happen, because she felt it was right.

It reminded her of Heaven's punishments, the watch of eyes as a golden whip struck across her back.

She'd been told this kind of pain could be nourishing, to feel this burn again not because she had to, but because she chose to. It was her choice, and she'd asked for it.

#top crowley #bottom aziraphale #female presenting crowley #female presenting aziraphale #dom crowley #sub aziraphale #ineffable wives #possessive crowley #no smut #mentions of non con #mentions of abuse #mentions of aziraphale/other #mature #complete #august 2020

[vulgarvulcan]

i was tagged by @a-little-bit-side-trekked 💫

rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you want to get to know better!

nickname: uhh most commonly i guess my parents call me “sarre.” also one of my friends most often refers to me as his “goth sister” haha

zodiac sign: virgo

height: 5’0-5’1 (155-156cm not 100% sure lmao)

hogwarts house: ravenclaw

last thing i googled: community (the tv show)

song stuck in my head: “apex predator” from mean girls the musical

following: 95

followers: 607

amount i sleep: 6-9 hours usually

lucky numbers: 47 & 97

dream job: published author

currently wearing: an oversized black t-shirt with a gothic print, light black half length sweatpants & wool socks

favorite songs: i couldn’t possibly pick! they change all the time! i guess one of my consistent all time favorites is “somewhere only we know” by keane, though

favorite instrument: violin, cello & piano

random fact about me: i have been a vegetarian for 9 years this september (since i was 14)

favorite authors: sylvia plath & neil gaiman

i tag: @thesongofvillains @softqueersharpe @enterprisingcaptainkirk @thesadchicken @sidespirk @sporkandpringles @jedileiaorgcna @poe-damnnn-eron @oscarisaac-stan @poetic----nonsense

that’s only 10 tags but i’m literally so bad at communicating with my mutuals i don’t know who to tag🙈🙈🙈 if you see this & want to do this, feel free to!

#tag #about me #thanks for tagging me!

[newdougg]

💫 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW 💫

Rules: Answer the questions about 2018 and tag some people!

Tagged by: @kentuckybarnes again!!! Yayy thanks!!!

Top 5 films you watched in 2018:

Black Panther

Creed 2

Mamma Mia 2

Coco (I know it came out in 2017 but I didn’t see it until it came out on DVD in 2018)

Crazy Rich Asians

Top 5 TV shows in 2018:

Crazy Ex Girlfriend

The Good Place

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Riverdale

DAREDEVIL (BRING IT BACK YOU COWARDS)

Top 5 songs of 2018:

Baby You’re a Haunted House- Gerard Way

Money- Cardi B

Just Like Heaven- The Cure

Thank U, Next- Ariana Grande

Everyday is Like Sunday- Morrissey

Top 5 books you read in 2018:

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia- Candace Fleming

In the Country We Love- Diane Guerro

 Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives From Women’s Prisons- Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi

Sleeper and the Spindle- Neil Gaiman

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark- Michelle McNamra

Five Good/Positive things that happened to you in 2018:

This is probably gonna sound a little awful, but the one lead teacher I work with was let go and honestly work has been much more enjoyable because I don’t live in fear of her anymore and neither do the kids

I got my landlord to install a dishwasher in my apartment lol

I don’t actually care that much about football, but seeing the Eagles win the superbowl and being in the city for the riot and the parade was honestly so awesome?

I started kickboxing and I actually really love it and I’m sticking with it!!!

OMG ALSO I MET SEAN BEAN, ELIJAH WOOD, BILLY BOYD (Again) KARL URBAN AAAAANNNNNNDDDDD SEBASTIAN FUCKIN STAN AT PHILLY COMIC CON IT WAS THE BEST!!!! And I went by myself which is new for me and I think I want to go to cons by myself from now on because no one will complain about waiting on line forever (it really doesn’t bother me that much?) and I can stay as long as I want AND the con next year is on my birthday and I am gonna splurge SO HARD

I tag @sidehowriting @jmberries @captain-ariel-barnes @dragon-cat-tapestry @velvet-chinchilla 

#personal

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Overthinking It

Overthinking It

by PinkPenguinParade

Aziraphale is up to something.

Crowley is curious, and then concerned, and then decides that if he has to roll up his sleeves and seduce his angel for the sake of science, well, that's a sacrifice he's willing to make.

(Story is complete, will post over the next couple days)

Words: 3392, Chapters: 1/4, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Aziraphale Loves Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley Loves Aziraphale (Good Omens), so much sex no smut, magical solutions to neurodivergent problems, we stan a neurodivergent angel in this house, I'm not projecting you're projecting shut up, discussions of consent, I hope y'all enjoy this because it took more than a year to pry it out of my brain, Established Relationship, seriously most of the sex is off-screen I hope that's okay with everyone, angel nerdery

From https://ift.tt/pqnbG5y https://archiveofourown.org/works/39920766

#ao3feed ineffablehusbandz #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthonyjcrowl

[advocatewrites-blog]

Into the Unknown Part 4 Chapter 1

Into the Unknown

Fandom: Undertale, Coraline (book), Over the Garden Wall, Paranorman, Gravity Falls (season 2)

Characters: Frisk, Norman B., Dipper P., Mabel P., Coraline J., Wirt, Greg, the Cat, the Frog; Sans, Toriel, Papyrus, Undyne, Alphys, Asgore,; the Other Mother, the Beast, Agatha P., Bill Cipher, Asriel D., Chara D.,

Pairings: Not the focus. Alphys/Undyne, with mentions of Papyrus/Mettaton, sans/Toriel/Asgore, and Wirt/Sara. Due to the nature of Undertale and the dating segments, there is also interpretable Papyrus/Wirt, Undyne/Mabel, Alphys/Dipper, Napstablook/Norman, Mettaton/Norman, Mettaton/Mabel, Sans/Dipper, Sans/Norman, and Sans/Greg.

Rated a high +K for violence, mild language, horrific elements that may be disturbing to younger readers,  mentions of child abuse and bullying, character death that is sometimes permanent, and mentions of suicide that may be triggering. These elements remain relatively unchanged from their source material, which most all are for children, but discretion is advised nonetheless.

Disclaimer: Undertale was created and owned by Toby Fox. Coraline was created by Neil Gaiman and owned by Bloomsbury and Laika. Over the Garden Wall was created by Patrick McHale and owned by Cartoon Network. Paranorman was created by Sam Fell and Chris Butler and owned by Laika. Gravity Falls was created by Alex Hirsch and owned by Disney. Any other work mentioned or homage are property of their respective owners. This is a fan-made, nonprofit work that only seeks to entertain. Please support the original franchises.

“so I’m a sentry in snowdin forest, right? I sit out there and I watch for humans. it’s kind of boring. fortunately, in the forest, there’s this HUGE locked door. and it’s perfect for practicing knock-knock jokes. so one day, I’m knocking ‘em out, like usual. I knock on the door and say ‘knock knock’. and suddenly, from the other side…I hear a woman’s voice.

“‘who is there?’ so, naturally, I respond. ‘dishes.’ ‘dishes who?’ ‘dishes is a very bad joke.’ Then she just howls with laughter. like it’s the best joke she’s heard in a hundred years. so I keep ‘em coming, and she keeps laughing. she’s the best audience I’ve ever had. then, after a dozen of ‘em, SHE knocks and says ‘Knock knock!’ I say, ‘whos there?’ ‘old lady!’ ‘old lady who?’ ‘Oh! I did not know you could yodel!’

“wow. needless to say, this woman was extremely good. we kept telling each other jokes for hours. eventually, I had to leave. Papyrus gets kind of cranky without his bedtime story. but she told me to come by again, and so I did. then I did again. it’s kind of a thing now.”

The human is still listening, eyes wide and mouth full of burg. Its LV is at 5, meaning it’s still definitely a murderer. But it’s hard to remember that after seeing it pass through the puzzles his bro set up with a smile on its face, watch it engage with them. Watch it Spare.

“one day, though, I notice she wasn’t laughing as much. I asked her what was up. then she told me something strange. ‘if a human ever comes through this door…could you please, please promise me something? watch over them, and protect them, will you not?’ now, I hate making promises. and this woman, I don’t even know her name. but, someone who sincerely loves bad jokes…has an integrity you can’t say no to.”

He doesn’t know what he’s thinking. He can’t shake the boat in a meaningful way; everything is on a schedule, and nothing he does changes. But he has to know.

“do you get what I’m saying? That promise I made to her…do you know what would have happened if she hadn’t said anything? buddy…

You’d be dead where you stand.”

He didn’t mean to speak so forcefully; slip out of his font and use the tone he uses when he Judges. But the effect is immediate. The human’s eyes widen in fear and it runs still.

In a way, that’s all the answer he needs.

But then it starts crying. The other occupants of Grillby’s start to look at them, and he squirms under the attention. It raises its hands and starts to move them. It’s crude Hands, not helped by how much it’s trembling. He manages to get most of it.

Didn’t mean—accident—thought she would stop—didn’t know—not me—not myself--

How old was this kid anyway? It’s shorter than he is, and that’s saying something. Their hands shake too much and there are bruises on their legs and under their sweater. Old enough to kill? You don’t commit genocide on accident, but if they were half as upset about it then as they were now…

What did they mean by not myself?

I’ll fix, they sign. I’ll go back and save her. I promise.

*RESET

He sees it that time. The world stops. He watches it move backwards, like someone were rewinding a tape.

sans wakes up in his bed, like he always does. Usually, it takes him a long time to gather up the energy to restart the timeline again. He’ll lie in bed until Papyrus wakes him up and demands he go to work, and sometimes after that. This time, however, he jumps out of bed and makes some corrections to his notebook.

don’t trust them

Four are the Stars An Undertale/Gravity Falls crossover By the Poor Sap Advocate

Chapter 1

“How’d you think we ended up down here?” Dipper asked as he looked around.

“We fell, of course,” said Mabel, who was in the middle of making herself a daisy chain out of the more squished golden flowers. She gestured upwards, where just the faintest glint of blue skies and sunlight could be seen.

“Do you remember falling down somewhere?”

“Nope!”

“I don’t remember Gravity Falls having any mountains big enough for…this,” said Dipper.

He tried thinking back to what happened. He remembered Mabel was planning a party for the reopening of the Mystery Shack, they were hanging out in the gift shop…flashes of red and blue…then nothing.

“And how are these flowers growing, anyway? There’s like no sunlight down here!”

Mabel looked back down at her daisy chain in confusion.

“Do you still have your grappling hook?” Dipper asked. “Maybe we can—”

Mabel was in the air before he could even finish that sentence. She loved using the grappling hook, especially when she had a legitimate reason to use it.

Mabel scaled upward towards the highest ridge of the cliff. She grabbed onto the ridge with one hand, then jumped as she tried to grab the ledge above. Her hand stop on the sky. There was a loud booming noise, as though someone has struck a gong. The sky began to ripple like waves in a lake.

Mabel tumbled back down onto the golden flowers.

“MABEL!”

“What was that?” Mabel said as she sat back up, as though nothing had happened. “It feels like I just ran into a wall.”

Dipper’s mind started racing. There was something at the top of the mountain, something not normal. More Gravity Falls weirdness to investigate.

He took another look at Mabel and the distance she fell, and decided he would investigate it once they were looking down at it again.

“There’s a cave this way,” said Dipper. “We can probably hike our way down from here and see if there’s another entrance that’s not blocked by paranormal entities.”

Mabel pulled herself off the ground and dusted herself off.  “You lead the way, bro!”

She had a new sweater on, a blue and violet striped design with a red heart in the middle. And for some reason, it felt very familiar to Dipper.

Frisk found themselves in the woods once again.

It was not the Unknown again, they put together quickly. It felt too…different. In fact, if it weren’t for the heat and the sun above, they could have thought they had made it back to the forests in Snowdin. It felt like magic was in the air.

Another thing different from the Unknown was how quickly they were able to find humans. And how many there were in one place. The sounds of crowds and traffic were audible within seconds, and they wandered towards its source.

It was hard to describe what they found. It was less of a house and more of a hovel.

“Alright, step right this way! The first tour of the new and improved Mystery Shack!”

The Cat wouldn’t be able to find them for a while. They could kill time, at least. Frisk wandered into the group and hid behind legs.

They were actually surprised that they were found so quickly. The Mystery Man leaned close to them, one eye inspecting them closely.

“Don’t think I didn’t see ya sneak in, kid,” he said. “Your parents in this group?”

They shook their head and shrugged.

“You gonna pay your way in yourself?”

They had to dig through their pockets a bit, but they managed to find a gold coin from the Underground and handed it to him. What shock he had that a child was carrying gold wore off on him quickly. He inspected it carefully, even going so far as to biting on it, before deciding he was satisfied and turned back to them.

“I don’t see too many kids with solid gold on them,” said the Mystery Man.

Frisk responded by giving him another gold coin.

“Good answer! Right this way, kid!”

Dipper took a step, and fell through the floor.

This was about the fourth time he had done that, and frankly it stopped being funny after the second. Mabel propped herself up on the pedestal and waited for him to come back.

“Hey, Froggit, you’re looking good today!” She called.

The Froggit in question gave an embarrassed burble, dropped a few gold coins, and hopped on its way.

“Why do they have so many puzzles leading up to their house?” Dipper asked as he emerged from the vent system.

“Maybe it’s a monster thing,” said Mabel. “Did the journal have anything about a kingdom of monsters?”

“Not that I remember,” said Dipper. “I just wish Grunkle Stan had given the journal back before all this happened.”

He took another step, and fell through.

Mabel took a bite out of the spider doughnut.

“Ew…crunchy…”

Dipper tumbled back upstairs.

“No journal’s gonna make you good at puzzles, bro,” said Mabel.

“The answer’s down there,” said Dipper. “I just can’t remember it all the way. Here’s another question: why would monsters have puzzles that are so easy to solve?”

“Maybe they’re just waiting for a stupid enough human to solve them,”

“They wouldn’t be waiting for human down here.”

“Toriel was.”

“And you trust her?”

“What?” Mabel asked. “She’s a delightful goat mother, how suspicious can you be of her?”

“I’m just saying,” said Dipper. “We’re stuck in the land of monsters, you were literally bounced off a shield preventing us from escaping, I almost got killed by a flower, and there’s this nice old goat woman who wants us to be her children.”

“You’re just being over-suspicious. She’s perfectly fine!”

“There is something I must do,” said Toriel. “Please stay here.”

She put her book down and made a beeline for the staircase. Dipper’s blood ran cold.

“…perfectly fine….” Said Mabel.

“We’re going,” said Dipper, already running to catch up with Toriel.

“That was a pretty cool snail fact though!”

It was hard to describe the Mystery Shack. If Frisk had to, they would say it was not worth the 2G. The decorations were fake; some insulting so, and some just insulting. The real mystery of the mystery shack was how readily everyone bought it.

They exited through the gift shop, fitting considering the rest of the tour, bought a map of the area with what gold they had left, and returned to the woods.

They had hiked through the forest long enough that they were decently hidden when it started to get dark. The Mystery Man may have taken their gold, but it was unlikely that anyone else would.

There was still no sign of the Cat.

Once they found a clearing far enough away that they wouldn’t be spotted, they curled in on themselves and fell asleep.

They were only asleep for about an hour when they woke up to the sounds of the Cat’s low growl.

He stood in front of them, ready to pounce. His eyes were focused on the bush in front of him, so much so that Frisk wondered if he could even see them. When they shifted and waved at him, he jumped into the bushes.

A very human-sounding voice screamed out.

It took Frisk a few tries of trying to grab him and pulling his tail to get the Cat to withdraw from the bush. Something was in its mouth. No...someone.  They were humanoid, barely the length of Frisk’s arm. Most of their hair was tucked under a red cone of a hat.

It was some kind of monster, Frisk realized. A gnome, if they had to guess.

Frisk looked to the Cat disapprovingly. The Cat rolled its eyes, but put the gnome down all the same.

The gnome didn’t respond. It ran past before Frisk could ask it any more questions.

The Cat said something, complaining about the gnomes trying to capture him and ride him into battle, but Frisk was only half paying attention. There was magic in these woods.

Author’s Note:

#fic #Into the Unknown #Undertale #Gravity Falls #sans #Frisk #Dipper Pines #Mabel Pines #Stan Pines #toriel #the Cat #featured

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Dark Horse and Geek & Sundry today released a special edition of their 6 part series CRITICAL ROLE – VOX MACHINA: ORIGINS. The title can be purchased through the Geek & Sundry online store.

The series is inspired by the Geek & Sundry online series CRITICAL ROLE (which airs on Thursday nights at 7PM Pacific on both the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel and on Alpha (the premium subscription service from Legendary Digital Networks).

    New users can get a 60 day free trial of Alpha by using the code “DARKHORSE”  and Alpha members can get a 10% off discount on merchandise in the Alpha store. 

More information as well as artwork and pages from the title are courtesy of their press release.

Geek & Sundry Releases Special Edition of Critical Role Comic Book Series with Dark Horse

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins #1-#6 Captures the Latest Adventure of Popular Dungeons & Dragons Series and Characters

Geek & Sundry, Legendary Digital Networks’ gaming and pop culture-focused digital entertainment company, has partnered with Dark Horse Comics to release a special hardcover edition of Critical Role – Vox Machina: Origins, the six-issue comic series inspired by Geek & Sundry’s long-running Dungeons & Dragons series Critical Role. Critical Role – Vox Machina: Origins #1 was the fastest- and strongest-selling comic for Dark Horse Digital making it among the top-selling issues and series in Dark Horse Digital history. This new volume brings together Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins #1-#6, which explore the enthralling origins of the Vox Machina team and provides fans with a closer look at the show’s setting, the captivating world of Exandria.

  Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins follows six would-be heroes as they uncover a plot to destroy the small coastal town of Stilben. The comic series is written by Matthew Colville (Evolve, Priest, Thief) with interior art by Olivia Samson, a member of the Critical Role fan community, and coloring and lettering by Chris Northrop. Readers of Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins can expect more than 160 pages of magical storytelling and bonus content.

Critical Role is a live multi-platform role-playing show featuring Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer and a troupe of fellow voice actors Ashley Johnson, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Travis Willingham, Sam Riegel, Laura Bailey, and Liam O’Brien. Each week, nearly half a million viewers tune into Critical Role, with the series racking up over 53 million total views since its launch in March 2015.

“Being able to bring our origin story of Vox Machina to the world through a favored medium like comics has been a surreal dream. Beyond that, being able to work with such talented people in making it happen has been an incredible experience,” said Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer. “This collection allows us to bring the story into your hands as a physical collection, as well as present elements from the story for use in the reader’s home games. I’m still kind of blown away this even exists, and I hope you’re as excited as I am!”

“We’re thrilled to partner with Legendary Digital Networks and Critical Role to bring Critters everywhere these gorgeous collected editions,” explained Dark Horse Associate Editor Rachel Roberts. “Their creation was a true team effort and labor of love, so we hope fans really enjoy them. I’ve been so excited to share details about these books–it’s certainly been difficult to keep them a secret!”

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins hardcover is offered in both limited and standard editions. The standard edition features cover art by Stjepan Šejić with a spot gloss treatment, while the limited edition comes bound in foil-stamped and burnished faux leather, along with a lithograph and cloth portfolio, housed in a faux leather, foil-stamped, and burnished slipcase. The standard edition of Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins is available for $44.99 and the deluxe edition for $99.99. Along with the stunning artwork, readers will find the complete collection of Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins #1-#6, annotated cover process pieces, preliminary character sketches, and character descriptions and stats.

In partnership with Dark Horse Comics, both editions of this amazing volume can be purchased from the Geek & Sundry online store. For further details and order information on Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins, pleasevisit shop.geekandsundry.com.

Watch Critical Role Thursday nights at 7:00 PM PT on the Geek & Sundry Twitch channel and on Alpha,Legendary Digital Networks’ premium subscription service.

About Critical Role

Critical Role is the most popular live-streamed tabletop game in the world. What began in 2012 as a bunch of friends playing in each other’s living rooms has evolved into a multi-platform entertainment sensation, attracting over half a million viewers every week. Now in its second campaign storyline, the show features seven popular voiceover actors (Travis Willingham, Marisha Ray, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Sam Riegel, Liam O’Brien, and Laura Bailey) diving into epic Dungeons & Dragons adventures, led by veteran game master Matthew Mercer. Engrossed in the stories, characters and camaraderie, thousands of people each month discover Critical Role.

About Geek & Sundry

Geek & Sundry is a digital entertainment company recognized for producing award-winning Internet television content, featuring leading personalities in gaming and pop culture. Founded in 2012, Geek & Sundry’s online channels offer a diverse slate of reality, narrative, and comedy content created by and for gaming enthusiasts. Geek & Sundry is owned by Legendary Entertainment and is part of Legendary Digital Networks, which includes content powerhouses Nerdist and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls. To read daily editorial content and watch original shows, visit www.geekandsundry.com.

About Alpha

Alpha is a leading premium streaming entertainment service from Legendary Digital Networks that offers access to fully interactive live and on-demand channels, exclusive shows, and a suite of innovative features that empower fans to experience the programming they love in a unique and personally customizable way. Since its launch in 2016, Alpha has given members unprecedented access to engage directly with on-air personalities and form immersive communities around their passions. Alpha’s slate of original and exclusive shows includes Talkin’ Toons, Sagas of Sundry, Painters Guild, Because Science, Bizarre States Los Angeles, and Critical Role. Try the Alpha experience commitment-free for 30 days at www.projectalpha.com.

About Legendary Digital Networks

Legendary Digital Networks (LDN) is the streaming media and branded content division of Legendary Entertainment and home to leading digital entertainment brands Nerdist, Geek and Sundry, and Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, as well as Alpha, a premium streaming entertainment service that gives members access to new and exclusive shows and immersive community-based interactivity.

About Dark Horse

For more than thirty years, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, the company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent, such as Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Geof Darrow, Brian Wood, Gail Simone, Stan Sakai, and Guillermo del Toro, and comics legends, such as Will Eisner, Milo Manara, Kazuo Koike, Neil Gaiman, and Frank Miller, Dark Horse has developed its own successful properties, such as The Mask, Ghost, X, and Barb Wire. Its successful line of comics, manga, and products based on popular properties includes Dragon Age, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Tomb Raider, Halo, The Witcher, Game of Thrones, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. Today, Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading entertainment publishers.

Preview: Dark Horse / Geek & Sundry release hardcover edition of CRITICAL ROLE – VOX MACHINA: ORIGINS Dark Horse and Geek & Sundry today released a special edition of their 6 part series…

#Critical Role #CRITICAL ROLE - VOX MACHINA: ORIGINS #Dark Horse #Geek & Sundry #Legendary Digital Networks

[maggotsandcream]

The 50 Books I Read This Year, Ranked from Best to Worst

Note that while the ratings score high and I've got nothing below a 4/10 this year, that's more because I am happy to discard books I don't like without finishing them and tend to seek out books I enjoy.

10

Lab Girl -Hope Jahren

The Luminous Dead -Caitlin Starling

The Cross and the Lynching Tree -James H. Cone

Howl’s Moving Castle -Diana Wynne Jones

9

The Ocean at the End of the Lane-Neil Gaiman

Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar

Binti-Home -Nnedi Okorafor

Binti-The Night Masquerade -Nnedi Okorafor

Observing Insect Lives -Donald Stokes

Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gas Mask by Jim Munroe

The Haunting of Hill House -Shirley Jackson

8

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Binti -Nnedi Okorafor

Diary of a Young Girl -Anne Frank

The City We Became -N. K. Jemisin

Split Tooth -Tanya Tagaq

Watership Down -Richard Adams

Dípteros de Costa Rica y la América Tropical/Diptera of Costa Rica and the New World Tropics -Manuel A. Zumbado (illustrated by Fernando Zeledón)

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings- short story compilation, a bunch of different authors

The Lives of Ants -Laurent Keller and Elisabeth Gordon

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable -Michael Bennet

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal -Naomi Klein

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia

Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

7

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical by Shane Claiborne

Summerland by Michael Chabon

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance- Laurie Garrett

The Minority Report and Other Stories -Philip K. Dick

How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse -K. Eason

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man -Mary L. Trump

Squirm -Carl Hiaasen

The Gunslinger by Stephen King

Castle in the Air -Diana Wynne Jones

Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved -Kate Bowler

Surviving Autocracy -Masha Gessen

Battle Ground -Jim Butcher

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy-Jenny Odell

Sabrina and Corina -Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post Religious-Right America -Jim Wallis

6

Peace Talks -Jim Butcher

A People’s History of the United States -Howard Zinn

Preparing for Easter-C.S. Lewis

5

How to Survive a Sharknado by Andrew Shaffer

The Shack by William Paul Young

Inferno -Dante Alighieri

4

Zillow Talk -Spencer Rascoff and Stan Humphries

Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America -Michael Ruhlman

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

#books

[eiael-thinks]

IT: some thoughts by me

I just saw IT and I loved it even though I had some quibble with it. I just want to type my thoughts out really quickly. There will be spoilers for both the book and the movie, so I’ll throw it under a cut.

As I said, I loved it. They movie really captured the terror, humor, and pathos of the book. Over the course of the movie, I laughed out loud MANY times, I got choked up And even shed a tear, and I also hid my eyes at a couple of really fucking scary moments.

As someone who was 11 years old in 1989, I can definitely say they nailed what it was like to be a preteen at that time. the weird freedom to go where ever, roam all over town on your bike, get into it with other kids, sneak a cigarette, curse like a sailor, and be subject to pretty fucked up cruelties from other kids as well as adults. (As an aside, I read the book for the first time when I was 13 fwiw)

The actors who played the Losers Club were phenomenal, and Skaarsgard was freaking off the charts scary as Pennywise. The adults all hit that sweet spot of either menacing or so emotionally distant as to be negligible forces in the lives of the kids. The movie does an excellent job of capturing the sense of “Derry below.” The part of the town of Derry that’s only accessible to kids, and completely under the radar of adults. Some of this is shown to be bc of IT’s influence, but some of it really is just the way adults overlook groups of kids.

Henry Bowers was also very well portrayed, but a lot of the character development that happens in the book with him (i.e.: him slowly going from a vicious bully to someone who tried to kill the Losers to someone who does kill his father) is pretty compressed bc of they constraints of the story. Also oddly, they made his father a cop rather than a racist drunk, for really no reason I can discern other than that it will play into part 2 when they come back as adults.

The thing I missed the most was the ways the kids fought Pennywise, and the different solutions they try before finally going down into the tunnels. In the books, Bill steals his dad’s gun and he and Richie try to shoot it at the Neibolt Street house. IT attacks them as a werewolf, the gun does bubkes, but Richie (forever the joker) has itching powder, his bad impressions, and his jokes... and those DO harm IT. Of course, they focus on the werewolf thing and make silver slugs for Bev to shoot IT with a slingshot (FYI, they change up the kids’ strengths... I’ll come back to that), and the silver does hurt IT bc IT does have some of the weaknesses of whatever form IT’s in, but once again, it’s Richie’s jokes, Eddie shooting it with his inhaler, and (iirc) Bill yelling at IT without his stutter that make the big difference. To me, this part of the book is so important bc it fit’s in with that famous Neil Gaiman quote on the importance of fairy tales. It’s not that monsters exist, it’s that we can beat them... and the theme of these kids, these “Losers,” beating this primordial evil with the weapons forged from their “weaknesses” and the pure beliefs of childhood, which both make them such tasty prey for IT but also the most dangerous weapon to wield against IT, has always meant a lot to me.

In the movie, they jump straight into a physical confrontation with IT at the Neibolt Street house. There is no prep beforehand, no silver slugs, and the entire encounter is very different from the book. However, the whole sequence is scary as shit and the kids all get their moments to shine.

The biggest change the movie makes plot-wise is that the kids decide that IT’s lair is underneath that house, and they are right. This cuts out the whole sequence of them being chased into the sewers by Henry, as well as a lot of the parts of the story where they’re hanging out in the Barrens which are personal favs of mine. But here’s the BIGGEST spoiler (be warned)

~~~~~spoiler space~~~

Rather than gathering together and going off to fight the monster as a group for their own reasons, the movie has Pennywise kidnap Bev to get them down into the sewers. I assume this is to provide a narrative mirror to the adult plot, when Bill’s wife Audra gets kidnapped by Henry and brought to IT... BUT I was not happy with that decision. Bevvie is not a damsel in distress. OTOH, having her have a one on one with Pennywise gave the audience a hint of how they might handle the Deadlights and what IT really is, and that was really cool and well done. It also reinterpreted how “We all float down here” might look, and again, really fucking cool. Bringing Bevvie back from from the Deadlights is done very sweetly, and that’s all I’ll say about that.

For those wondering, the infamous escape sequence (aka tween orgy thing) DOES NOT happen THANK GOD (not that I was too worried it would, but still...)

Now to the thing that bugs me the most: the way they switched up the kids’ strengths. Bevvie is never the dead-eye gunslinger, and she never gets to run point on an attack (she does however save Bill and get in a great hit on IT). Stan’s neat-freakness is never really touched upon, and the scene where he helps Bevvie clean up the bathroom and directs the other kids how to create order from chaos is given to Bill. They also really downplay the amount of antisemitism he faces, which I think is a shame bc so much of the book parallels the mundane human evil that lurks in Derry alongside the more flamboyant supernatural stuff.

Speaking of not addressing social issues, the vast majority of the racism that Mike Hanlon and his family face, the hate crime that burned around 100 black people alive in the nightclub The Black Spot, and the constant torture of Mike by Henry bc of his race is almost completely absent. Again, I think the movie missed a chance to make the points about the evil humans do that King addresses so well in the novel. Also w/r/t Mike... he is no longer the historian of the group. Mike was always my fav character, bc as a kid he’s into history, and then as an adult becomes the librarian. The movie takes that away from him, and that pisses me off to no end. The black character is basically reduced to the muscle in a lot of the scenes, and that’s not cool.

Because the movie mostly does away with the Barrens as the main hang-out, Ben never gets to show his engineering prowess. Rather, he is the kid who knows the history bc he’s new in town and hangs out in the library where he puts together Derry’s fucked up history. Again, I’m disappointed they took the history nerdery away from the black character, and the building/physical labor away from the fat kid.

Oh and FYI, even though they downplayed the racism and antisemitism and ableism the boys faced, boy howdy do they lean into the slut-shaming Bevvie faces.

All that being said, the movie does an excellent job with each of the kids. They all have compelling stories and set-pieces dedicated to their encounters with IT and how that reflects their individual fears and strengths. While I might have made different choices with how to condense the story, I was still very impressed.

This review might read more negative than I mean it to. I really enjoyed it, I will almost definitely see it again, and I am super excited for the adult’s chapter. But I also needed to get some of this off my chest... so I hope you enjoyed the word vomit.

TL;DR: the movie is AWESOME. it dropped the ball in a couple of ways, but it’s still well worth the price of admission.

#it 2017 #stephen king's it #review #horror #my two cents