#not a fan

[marlynnofmany]

Starseed Apples

“Here you go,” I said, putting down the last box. “Uncut fabric, plumbing supplies, and three cases with a fungus biohazard label. Do I even want to know what’s in those?” I cast a curious look at my fellow human as I handed over the signing pad. She was shorter and rounder than I was, dressed in a crisp uniform of a type I didn’t recognize. Big pockets everywhere.

She signed with a wry grin. “Those are dirt.”

“Dirt?” I repeated, looking around the admittedly spotless loading dock of this particular space station. “Dirt warrants a biohazard here?”

“Oh, you have no idea,” she said, handing the pad back. “Organic mulch that could contain anything from decomposed animals to fungus to poop? With uncountable amounts of bacterial life and potential germs? We’re lucky they only focused on the mold aspect!”

“Hm, good point,” I said.

Zhee, who was busy moving boxes off the hover sled, muttered something disparaging. I expected him to complain about how gross it all was, since he was always the first to point out when humans did something to offend his bug-alien sensibilities, but it sounded like he was griping about the strict station rules this time.

The human continued. “We have to keep a clean room between the greenhouse area and everything else. Even there, most things are in pots. We’ve got a great crop from Johnny Starseed right now!”

I’d heard that name before. “Oh, was he the one who sells little potted—”

“Apple trees, yeah,” she said. “Tiny and convenient, but they make an impressive number of apples as long as you feed ‘em quality dirt.” She bent down to pat a box.

Zhee finished freeing the sled. “Reasonable business plan,” he said, sounding almost complimentary.

“The guy named himself after Johnny Appleseed,” I told Zhee. “A human from centuries ago who got famous for traveling around and setting up apple orchards on Earth. Everybody likes a guy who brings food wherever he goes. And drink — I think some of those apples were supposed to be the cider variety.”

Zhee flicked his antennae. “Sounds like a very human thing to do,” he said drily.

“Have you tried the Starseed Reds?” the other human asked. “They’re very good.”

“No I haven’t, but I’d like to!” I said. “I’ve heard good things. I was kind of hoping to cross paths with him at some point. I wouldn’t mind a tiny apple tree in my quarters. Of course, the cat might get at it, and I’d probably have to find a grow lamp…”

She opened a boxy hip pocket, and pulled out the shiniest red apple I’d seen in a while. “Here you go.”

“Thank you!” I said, taking it eagerly. “That’s very generous!”

She waved it off. “Like I said, we’ve got a big crop. And I’ve got a different one that I’m saving for when I get off shift.” From another pocket, she produced a red apple with distinct orange stripes. “Which should be as soon as I get the supplies back to base.”

I laughed. “Is that the booze kind? I didn’t think those were real!”

“Oh yes,” she said with relish, putting it back in the pocket. “Starseed Cider Apples, no fermenting required!”

Zhee cocked his head, faceted eyes looking at both of us. “Poisonous apples?”

“Alcoholic apples,” I corrected, knowing full well that he considered that to be the same thing.

Zhee pushed the hover cart back toward the ship with a dramatic head tilt and antennae swirl. “Now that sounds like a human thing to do.”

“Well, you’re not wrong there,” I said with a smile. I thanked the other human and followed him, taking a bite of my non-alcoholic apple. It really was good.

~~~

The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. More to come!

#hm new posting interface #not a fan #SURELY there's a way to do this without having to add in the paragraph breaks manually #good thing today's story is a short one #annnnnyways... #my writing #the Token Human #humans are weird #haso #hfy #eiad #humans are space orcs #writeblr #science fiction #short stories

[mandalor-the-caffeinated]

Wtf is TumblrMart? Give me back my profile button.

#no #get rid of it now #tumblr update #not a fan #tumblrmart

[e2castiel]

Harvey Dent, The Most Dangerous Man in Gotham

#gotham knights #gothamknightsedit #cw gotham knights #misha collins #harvey dent #tvedit #dcedit #dctvedit #duela #duela dent #here we go! #also this is my first time using the new posting editor or whatever #not a fan

[thundyy]

Decided to make another ✨orochimaru✨drawing,didn’t really like how this one turned out😭but oh well

#fanart #art #artists on tumblr #orochimaru #not a fan

[catfindr]

#petfinder #catfinder #cat #kitten #kitty #not a fan #tx #texas

[themakeupbrush]

Schiaparelli Spring 2023 Couture "Inferno", inspired by the Divine Comedy

(for anyone who may be concerned, the animals are indeed fake)

#schiaparelli #tw animal death #schiaparelli spring 2023 couture #spring 2023 couture #haute couture #couture week #not a fan #the animals are fake btw

[marvelousartcatastrophe]

I don't really like this one ngl, the lighting is so off. But Qi Rong again! Love this guy, can't get enough of him. And ofc, Hua Cheng scaring him off probably. Qi Rong just tryna eat :(

#love my little cannibal freak #hate this tho #i feel like my art regressed two whole years with this one #very not it #not a fan #but posting it anyways cause i gotta throw something at yall #just finished all my college finals #yeah cause i have a quarterly system here so instead of facing finals week twice a year #i have to face it three times #dreadful really #my head hurts #tgcf #tgcf character design #qi rong #qi rong art #qi rong fanart #tgcf qi rong #tgcf season 2 #tgcf fanart #heaven officials blessing #heavens official blessing #heaven's official blessing #heaven official's blessing #xie lian #hua cheng #wraith butterfly #hua cheng butterfly #tgcf butterfly

[tomdayaland]

Zendaya at the SAG Awards.

#zendaya #sag awards 2023 #not a fan #it's Valentino so I'm not surprised.

[twobigears]

Blizzard's opinions about Leaf Head

#not a fan #leaf for eating #Blizzard photos #Blizzard #white shepherd

[axinite25]

Hostess with the Mostess

When Natasha returns from the dead they have to go somewhere safe. Yelena isn't sure why the first place she thinks to go is Kate Bishop's apartment.

Kate/Yelena Nat/Maria

Chapter 1/5

#yelena belova #kate bishop #bishova #bishlova #hawkeye #mcu #mcu fanfic #hawkeye fanfic #bishova fanfic #natasha romanoff #maria hill #blackhill #blackwidow #natasha x maria #gifs are hard! #not a fan #axin writes

[tadfools]

One bg3 fear….

#baldurs gate #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #okay but do the two others say in the camp or do they die #because I can not let any of these 5 messes die #they are my forced found family larian #do not separate them #astarion #shadowheart #gale of waterdeep #the blade of frontiers #will baldurs gate #lae’zel #nonononono #not a fan

[etheriaolympics]

i have not been able to bring myself to watch the last two episodes of pjotv

it’s just so boring. i understand making changes from the book, but at this point it’s a completely different story and not even an adaptation. i also found out that percy apparently knows it’s kronos???? why are they getting rid of the surprise element???

the show is just a walk through of characters explaining things instead of actual action taking place like in the books?? there’s no element of discovery or surprise.

one of the best parts of the books is its silliness. i’ve seen videos of walker on set and stuff and he has that silly percy energy, and yet we rarely see it in the show. they completely deprived the show of its fun aspects to make it serious and “cool”. it’s honestly just so painful to watch as they try to make pjotv some dramatic show.

don’t even get me started on annabeth. annabeth is such a complex and unique character and they just completely stripped her down to rude and mean. so many of her lines in the show just make me cringe. it’s like they took annabeth and replaced her with a completely different character. honestly thsi can be said with a lot of the characters in the show but i feel like it is most prominent with annabeth.

the pacing is horrible. it’s way to fast but also way to slow?? they just focused on all the wrong things. also everyone’s been going on and on about percabeth but they’ve had barely any interaction in the show. they act more like two classmates that got paired up for an assignment than two people slowly gaining each others trust to build a stronger friendship.

I could say much more on the show but i just needed to get some of my thoughts out. i do not care if you like the show. honestly good for you, i wish i wasn’t so bitter. i’m just disappointed that my interest since i was 12 has gotten turned into a horrible adaptation again.

#pjo #pjo tv show #i’m sorry to be a hater but i just had to speak my truth #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #pjo hoo toa #i would love to hear other people’s thoughts on the show rn #i’m not saying that it’s all bad btw #there are some parts that i enjoy but overall #not a fan

[neitherabaron]

Eww, ewwww hate this

#for whatever reason #I hadn’t fully registered that stamps have charles on them now #I wasn’t a big fan of bessie but bloody hell #this is not an improvement #not a fan

[angelscherryblossoms]

ummmm how is this man 27??? like what?? i fr thought he was like 22 and he's fucking 27!?!?!?

#dsmp #dsmp wilbur #wilbur soot #not a fan #??? #wtf #literally shaking #what the fuck #how the fuck #wilbur mcyt #qsmp wilbur #mcyt #hes so babygirl #hes so silly #he so fine #hes so pretty #hes so cute #hes so baby #i love him #baby

[buginateacup]

Hey @staff when are you going to let me turn off Tumblr live permanently?

#i may be late but the update only just rolled out down here and i do not lime #tumblr live #not a fan

[dateamonster]

i dont rly get the decision to make heaths dad hades. i remember in one of the first eps of the series theres a joke where draculaura says "speak of the devil" in reference to her dad and frankie says "no thats heaths dad" so they were def at least intending to go the demon route and then im guessing nickelodeon was like yeah no we cant have any references to hell or demons in childrens cartoon, which is understandable if, imo, kinda dumb. and i guess from there they figured they could just change hell to the underworld and by extension heaths dad being the ruler of the underworld would make him.. hades.... or idk i guess that works in the sense that kids would probably understand that reference, and that way they could keep their plans for heath and hades relationship pretty much the same.

but it does kinda suck i must admit!! like if ur gonna continue to characterize hades as basically just the devil sans horns down to being an evil or at least highly chaotic fire-themed entity, idk i dont see the point in pretending this is a greek god thing all of a sudden. makes me kinda wish they just kept with the g1 lore and made him a species-unspecified fire elemental monster.

#monster high #ungodly screeching #hes just the devil but now with the weird lore implications of being labeled as this totally different mythological figure #not a fan