#reality stranger than fiction

[alyosiuscreightonward]

Dear Diary. Went on a job interview and I am so sure I’m not going to get it. I was probably to much and a tad over exuberant. Oh well. Moving on.

Anyway I don’t know how to feel right now. As I’ve been on medication 💊 for a week or so now, I’m sincerely tempest tossed. Ugh. I’ve been attempting to reach out to a couple people and talk about this experience and I know I can call you but it’s them I want to talk to. I’m also trying to find out how they are doing too. I know that you are working on yourself but I am trying to figure out what their perspective is all.

I’m going back to watching Tarek and then I’m off to the job.

One last thing. When I saw my shrink after the job interview, she said I looked spiffy. Then as I was leaving, she said that whatever was going on with me I should keep it up. Apparently she is liking the new and improved version of me. Bah!! Humbug!!! I’m still a miserable cow.

#dear diary #i wrote this for me #lgbtq #bipolar depression #inside my mind #my words #my writing #no your not the only one #pity party #ramblings #reality stranger than fiction #self love #vomiting #wnq writers #writers on tumblr #journal #self help #self loathing

[craykaycee]

I had a lot of fun drawing a couple scenes from @crazedauthor 's isekai AU fic "Reality is Stranger Than Fiction" as an art trade! While drawing these, I realized that I have never drawn Moon with soft features, always as a pointy gremlin. He has stolen my heart with his sweet sweet face and soft personality, and I'm excited to see how Crazed's story will develop! Making these, a fun painting style has developed :3c excited to work like this more often in the future ^-^

No dialogue text versions under the cut!

#fnaf moon #fnaf daycare attendant #moondrop #fnaf dca #dca fandom #I have realized that despite having no time to draw. I have quite a lil build-up of art xD enjoy! :D #moon x reader #moon x y/n #daycare attendant x y/n #daycare attendant x reader #reality is stranger than fiction

[crazedauthor]

Chapter 2: How Things Change, How Things Stay the Same

Nothing is the same. And yet it all feels familiar. New responsibilities. Same surroundings. Your first official day shift and night shift at the Pizzaplex can only be described as nothing like you expected, but everything you feared. Only with a few new wrinkles in the mix. Namely, you get to meet Moon.

#here we go again #ready for some self-indulgent madness? #sun #moon #reality is stranger than fiction #sun x reader #moon x reader #sundrop x reader #moondrop x reader #fnaf sun #fnaf moon

[herebecritters]

Please understand that, more often than not, works of fiction are a fictional exploration of concepts and ideas rather than a declaration of morality

#there’s a difference between fiction that condones disgusting things and one that’s breaking them apart and analyzing them through fiction #reading comprehension and understanding context is important YALL #please I beg learn how to separate fiction from reality folks #every so often I’ll see people making WILD claims about a person because they wrote a complex and flawed character #most of the people I know who enjoy exploring dark and questionable themes in their work are the kindest and most selfless people I know #while the people who sit atop a pedestal and judge every aspect of a stranger that they don’t know turn out to be the most selfish and vile #i should not be scared to write a story about morally questionable characters finding humanity #but yet here we are #Ive seen this kinda stuff do more harm than good too many times #sorry to post a hot take #just good lord I’m old I’ve seen this shit too many times #stop eating each other #you will see conflict and dark themes in my stories #if you cant handle messy themes in fiction please feel free to unfollow or block me for your own mental well-being #I’m sure I’ll regret posting this later but just putting it out there #hate being reminded that as a creator strangers are staring at you and making horrifying assumptions about who you are as a person

[pr0udn3rd]

This is an image from cinematography award winning Blade Runner 2049

This is my grandmother’s backyard at noon today

WTF.

#canada #fire #canada fires #fucking unreal #the world is burning #wtf is this #wtf is going on #what is happening #comparison #unbelievable #reality is stranger than fiction #post apocalyptic

[bylertruther]

some of you never grew up in a small conservative town as a (gay) nerd that was bullied, harassed, and excluded for years on end for not fitting in and for visibly and enthusiastically liking geek things—geek things that then branded you a satanist in everyone's eyes and as something Other, Lesser, and Undoubtedly Unworthy of Basic Human Decency even though you were literally just an actual child with harmless interests and not a satanist or an evil disgusting subhuman thing, and it shows.

you cannot apply modern views and beliefs to a show that is set in the eighties, especially not when it's set in conservative midwest eighties which is a whole other beast. being a socially awkward and nonconforming geek is something that people STILL get bullied for if you don't do it in a way that the majority deems "acceptable", especially if you live in a conservative, religious area.

your experiences are not universal and your inability to relate to a certain motif or story does not make it "lesser" or "bad writing."

#stranger things #mike wheeler #<- tagging and then disappearing into the mist again bc i don't like it here lol. #girls when they love stranger things because they finally see characters just like them with the same exact experiences written with such #care and respect for those that have been Deemed Other but people who have not had those experiences refuse to believe that they're #realistic and STILL happen to people bc if they're fortunate to have not gone through that then clearly that means that it doesn't exist #and if it does then it's not Traumatic Enough or a good enough plot to cause such inner turmoil in the characters who experience that #💥🛼 #i got bullied for being a nerd in the 2000s and 2010s. you can absolutely get bullied for being a nerd and being a nerd is enough reason #for social exile in some places. when dustin said that no one was nice to him or mike? when lucas said that girls laughed at them? and it's #all because they're deemed freaks and satanists for liking fantasy things? that's Real and it doesn't hurt any less just because you think #it's not a good enough reason to bully someone. #i was called a satanist to my face by adults. people acted like i was some Creature or whatever just because i liked fiction and wasn't #interested in what the majority was interested in and wore dark clothing sometimes. like.. hello. school shooter jokes? the way #that neurodivergent people get treated when they're visibly ''different'' and enjoy things passionately? the way that liking star wars was #a thing to ridicule until it suddenly became Acceptable and Popular to like? i feel like i'm living in a different reality than so many #people here with the way that they talk about certain things in this show. and don't even get me started on the way people approached #the angela and el situation.... #maybe just be glad that these things did not happen to you and stop acting like it's lesser or a bad story bc of that? just a thought.

[dinitride-art]

Mike and Will both would’ve died in season one if someone didn’t save them. They both have dramatic near death experiences that are set apart from everyone else. Will needed cpr when they found him in the library, and Mike actually jumped off a cliff. Those two situations both went far enough that it would have been too late for them to save themselves. And that’s why either of them dying at the end of the story doesn’t make sense. They’ve already almost died. They were already too far over the precipice to turn back by themselves.

Maybe a conclusion to this could be the two of them learning how to live by themselves. In the monologue Mike says that, “[he] doesn’t know how to live without [El].” And while Mike’s just saying whatever he can in that moment, what if there’s truth in that statement? What if he doesn’t know how to protect himself. How to not jump off a cliff and be caught? And Will’s hated accepting help for a while now. But always has to rely on people to save him in the end. Maybe Will’s going to figure out how to protect the people around him- without putting himself in harms way.

Maybe the conclusion to this story is learning how to save yourself. To love yourself as much as everyone else does so you can protect them too. Strength doesn’t come from self sacrifice. Not in this story. Barb, Bob, Eddie- they didn’t run away. They didn’t make sure they themselves were safe. And all their deaths have caused has been pain. Being the hero gets you killed. But trying to live? Will reaching out for his mom when he’s stuck in the Upside Down? She came to find him. Whether they believed her or not. Will was alive, and she went to save him. And when El was on her own in the woods, Hopper put eggos in a box. He took her in, and kept her safe. From everyone- maybe a little too much at times- but he went to her. And he protected her.

But Nancy’s right. “They aren’t little kids anymore.” They’re not going to have someone to protect them all the time. They’re going to have to be strong enough to protect themselves. Strong enough to live. Not sacrifice themselves to save everyone else.

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #eleven hopper #Mike and Will dying being realistic is a weird argument #because this story isn’t about being factual or a historical account of a collective experience #we already expect queer people to die in media. to be left behind. written off #and in real life we know what can happen #a story is about a discussion #fiction isn’t a factual account of our reality it’s a reflection #and in that reflection is a lot of thought about how this society works #and how people think #and what we want to say #and what we want people to see #the meaning is more important than when the second edition of D&D came out #of what song is allowed to be used because of the timeline #what it’s saying with those elements is what we’re paying attention to #because stranger things is sci-fi and historical fiction #but it’s also being made in the 21st century. so it’s commenting on the 21st century as well #killing queer characters in the 80s? that’s different because for one they’d have to have a queer character on screen #and if they’re dying like mike and Will would be dying it would’ve been revolutionary #but doing that now after the shift in queer rights and marriage rights #would be saying something entirely different #because we aren’t in the same place. it’s more important to show to a larger audience #that queer people go through terrible things AND that we can live and be happy after #and during #we’ve acknowledged the pain #and having queer characters on screen has come a long way in even the last decade #what can be said now is that queer people are in fact people and deserve happiness #not just that they shouldn’t be killing us

[touchoffleece]

Seeing people take the joke post from GundamNAInfo from twitter so seriously and suddenly be very defensive about shipping in the show when it involves Guel and Suletta compared to Suletta and Miorine, and calling people pointing out the main couple are Suletta and Miorine "heterophobic" is some levels of Cosmic Irony/Irony of Fate type occurrence. Every time I think G Witch can't get gayer or has peaked in what it gives to audiences, something or someone related to the official production or advertising team proves me wrong and makes things gayer.

#irony #sulemio #fandom meta #rambles #sapphic thoughts #self awareness #internalized homophobia #internalized misogyny #misogyny #homophobia #happy pride 🌈 #reality is stranger than fiction #how the tables turneth #first they gave us that confession scene on christmas day and now this on pride month 💅

[carlyraejepsans]

Hey, anon from before. I haven't read the post you were referring to, so it sucks if it was misogynistic, but I really was just worried. If I find myself getting too upset about fictional characters I try and remind myself they're not real, I wasn't trying to be condescending

alright, i appreciate the sentiment then.

#though i should remind you you are a stranger and presenting yourself on anon is a different thing than saying what you did openly #i can tell the difference between reality and fiction. i assume most people do. you might want to make sure i want/need help next time #before giving advice. once again i do not know you. #answered asks #but thank you for clarifying all the same the sentiment was sweet

[alyosiuscreightonward]

Dear Diary.

Last night I had dinner with my friends from high school. We were so happy to get together and talk. I honestly don’t know how many people can say the same. Seriously, I’ve even got friends that I still have in my life from elementary school. One from 2nd grade and one from like 5th grade. I personally think it’s amazing.

Yes we’ve been through a lot, you know bullshit like marriage, having children, divorce and death and just plain life getting in the way. I work hard to keep these people in my life and my heart. I also know that some people are just not going to say that they are jealous because they don’t know how much work goes into having friends for this long. I also know how hard it is to think about how many friends I’ve lost along the way.

I’m sure i mentioned something about it before. I also know that some people who are years older than I have lost their friends and it sucks. I know I lost my uncle and my father lost his brother. I can’t imagine how much that hurt.

I’ve also been on the other side of the fence and I thought I had friends but they’ve faded away. I think about every once in a while. I remember Betty, Beverly, Victor, Nick and many others who were friends for the road but not for a lifetime. I think of Essence, D’Nitra, Paco, Joey and others who had been in my life. We were running the streets and the these lyrics tell the story: “Runnin' wild/Lost control/Runnin' wild/Mighty bold/Feelin' gay/Boisterous too…”

Now I am swathed in the light of burnished umber and as I approach my autumn years, honey child, I’ve had a great time and I’ve got great memories along with the memories that truly piss me off. Oh well.

I’m in a new phase of my life, my journey, knowing that I’m now living life through pharmacology. This is all new to me. The only thing that I can actually say about this is that (roll your eyes), it has blocked my third eye. As an empath, I felt things and I knew that Marie had passed but I couldn’t actually see it because of the meds. I felt it in my heart and as I was driving around I realized it and had to reach out to Lynn. She confirmed what I felt. It’s okay if you don’t believe me. I can feel things and I can tell you what I feel, but you don’t have to believe me. Like I’ve got two coworkers and I know that they are both using. I can tell you that I know when they are high. I told one person and I said something innocuous about them. Lo and behold, shit happened. I then asked her if I was wrong. She replied nope, you weren’t wrong.

Today is a new day and I had a great time last night with my friends.

#dear diary #i wrote this for me #lgbtq #bipolar depression #inside my mind #my words #my writing #no your not the only one #pity party #ramblings #reality stranger than fiction #self love #vomiting #wnq writers #writers on tumblr #journal #self help #self loathing #empathy

[zero-saber-sam]

Presenting,

real ass photos I’ve taken on my phone that make me question reality: the album

#shitpost #my photos #weird photos #ssbu #reality is (sometimes) stranger than fiction #there are exactly two people on this hell site with any context to these #you know who you are and you know exactly where the fuck some of these abominations came from

[crazedauthor]

hello again sorry for bothering u but i drew more

#submission #made by chickenchirps27 #WEEEHHH THESE ARE ALL SO GOOD!!! #look at these goobers #reality is stranger than fiction

[sins-of-the-sea]

//Me: God, I really need to be careful with how I write my antagonist, I need to make sure they're not so cartoonishly evil and that I'm not making a shallow narrat-

Also me: *just looks at social media*

Me: Actually, I'm probably writing too nicely.

#*remembers that in some historical films #the real life villain is TONED DOWN in the film to seem less 'cartoonish' #when in reality said villain is LEAGUES worse than the film depicts* #fact is truly stranger than fiction #and more infuriating #[OOC]

[thesopwithcamel]

The Three Hat's AU: Large vehicles

The large Vehicles in A hat in Time take many large, in my au I want to give some more technical aspects about them or even make some pretty drastic changes to the lore about them.

These concern the Owl and science expresses, The Trains in the metro, Ol' Stella and the SS literally can't sink which has been abrieviated to LCS(and by extention its younger sister the SS Absolutely Will Not Sink or AWNS).

The Owl Express:

The railway the Owl Express travels on was built in 6478 ATB by an independant railway company in the Confederation of Avian States (C.A.S), the Owl Express isn't the only train in 1HT but it is the first and only mainline transcontinental service. Its quite a surprise how it hasn't been taken over by the goverment due to how many unautharised stops are made each journey, it is also a miracle that the locomotive and rolling stock are in peak condition especially with its use in films and regular incidents.

The Owl express runs on a 1435mm railway gauge and has a consist of around 5 wagons and a caboose being pulled by an oil-burning tank locomotive capable of reahing speeds of 75mph, The wagons pulled by the owl express are around 55.5 feet high and are around 10.7 feet wide albiet the interior is quite a bit larger than the exterior.

The locomotive is an oil burning 2-6-4t which can rumble at speeds of up to 120kph and with its rather sizable boiler can generate enough power to go at these consistant speeds, the reason why an electric horn was the original steam whistle was shot off during production of the 3rd Conductors 1st movie. The current conductor has been trying to recover it ever since. It was built at around the same time the railway was finishing construction

There have been 4 conductor's since the trains construction, including our current one.

The Science express:

Basically 2HT's version of the Owl Express but unlike the Owl express was more serious and made use of many advances in experimental technology, causing the Alice in Wonderland size shennaniganry. The science owls use this train for their experiments and also for transport.

The train is ran by Gregg, Walter and Redd as well as 2HT's version of the Conductor, externally the Science and Owl expresses are almost exactly the same but internally there are many differences which make both of them stand out.

The Science Express was the development location of New Earth's KL-11, an alternate version of the Korean K11 assault rifle , which was rejected by the Metro's police force because of its cost in favour of the KL-7 (K7) Submachine gun, Caitlyn recieves the original KL-11 prototype after she stops the Shapeshifter's rampage.

The external dimensions of the Science Express are the same as those on the owl express.

The locomotive of the Science express uses an experimental steam-Diesel hybrid system, it looks like it's working to since a more conventional locomotive hasn't replaced it yet. (the system exists irl look it up).

Shapeshifter is Natalie's shadow but had been originally contained in the Science express and experimented on for most of her life, when he escaped she decided to go on a murder spree before being kicked into the firebox of the Owl express.

The Metro Trains

Run on a hollowrail system, a system created in the metro seperate of the original railways, originally these rails were served by more conventional diesel-electric Multiple Units on more conventional rails but concerns about hygene and the carbon emmissions caused a full conversion to Hollowrail which started in 6544 ATB and ended in 6611 ATB but due to them being unable to purchase specially built rolling stock and lacking the material to make their own they instead removed the engines and genetically created these giant fuckoff cats to run them.

Can average the same speeds as your average London Tube train while being similar scale to the most up to date New York Subway units, the cat's aren't very fast when pulling the trains but can hit 100Kmh if pressed and without a burden.

The Empress has some say in what funding is put into the Metro since the Nyakuza was originally created by workers running the original Diesel Electric multiple unit's who grew disatsfied but due to several anti Union laws passed at the time they had to form this group to get their opinions and points across, violently.

The Metro's technology far outstrips the rest of the planet unless you count Caitlyn's ship as part of the rest of the planet.

Sirius Model yacht MK 14 conversion 'Ol' Stella'

The above is the full designation of Caitlyn's ship, since it is the 14th conversion of the Sirius Model Yacht.

Caitlyn built this out of a decommisioned Sirius Yacht and whatever shit she had lying around on hand to weild or bolt on which included starfighter engines and a bomb bay in the engine room, turned out to be surprisingly durable which was placed on full display when a prototype starfighter colided with it and Ol' Stella casually strolled away with little to no damage.

Stella's top speed in atmosphere is mach 54 and can has a 7 second accelaration from standing still to lightspeed.

Stella is armed with several pairs of plasma cannons and can be converted into probably the scariest close air support/ground attack platform ever due to Caitlyn's insistance that cluster munitions because they aren't forbidden by any intergalactic treaties.

Due to Stella making so many long distance high speed trips the Time Piece vault was expanded and modifed to feed into the core fragment tank in order to refill it without having to stop anywhere.

The events of A hat in Time were indirectly caused by Caitlyn neglecting proper maintenace on the vault door and the window due to her being far away from anywhere and hoping to get it fixed up at the next space station, while Stella has no interior defences it has an alarm system which can often be either too effective or next to useless. She got hell for it when it was discovered and was banned from flying for a whole Terran year while Stella was retrofitted with the newest technology.

Caitlyn dislodging her friends with a broom is a courtesy not given to many, if the system hadn't activated the emergancy stop the ship would have shot into hyperspace killing all those hanging off (except the Snatcher) in pretty nasty ways.

Low flyovers are not advised.

Literally Can't Sink class (SS LCS and SS AWNS).

The SS LCS was built in 6600 and was originally christned by the Walrus Captain's hero figure, the ship was 128.3 meters long and could carry up to 470 passangers on cruises up to the arctic circle, it weighed in at 6,690 tons and featured technology donated by the Metro. Both the SS LCS and its successor can reach 19 knots in a calm sea.

Its sister ship the SS AWNS was built in 6628 and was originally going to be called the SS Hat Kid but evidence of Caitlyn being the one causing the sinking was found, fortunetally the company who ran the ship decided to cover up this actual reason because Caitlyn rescuing everyone and then saving their collective arses at Times End was enough of a repayment but even so extra security and safety measures were poured into the new ship. SS AWNS is bigger and heavier than SS LCS and has more to pack in its relatively small shell with it carrying an onboard motorboat for recovery of things like Time Pieces as well as two more lifeboats.

The name SS Hat Kid went to the most modern recovery ship built which ended up being a massive help when the calamity occured.

Both the LCS and the AWNS are used as junior crew training ships for younger crew.

The AWNS is famous for the infamous arctic flyover when a Time Piece spotted and collected by the seals as a present for the captain ended with Stella showing up and scaring the hell out of everyone.

The SS AWNS is the largest vehicle in this post while the metro trains are the smallest.

#a hat in time #ahit headcanons #ahit hat kid #ahit arctic cruise #Owl express #the conductor #ahit snatcher #snatcher #a hat in time beta #ahit prototype #nyakuza metro #ahit empress #The seals are fucking adorable #No seriously steam diesel hybrids do (or did) exist #reality is often stranger than fiction #OICW #The Three Hat's AU #I love oversimplifying shit #and I also love overcomplicating shit as well #Hat Kid with a prototype gun #Stella is a modification made out of scrap and a warcrimes machine #hat kid

[noctilionoidea]

Hhhh you ever realise while watching a musical you like that one of the joke characters is actually a local Saint in multiple churches in England and New England with a fuckin feast day

I can’t believe Hamilton historically beefed with an Episcopalian Saint

#Samuel fuckin Seabury #Hamilton #What the fuck #reality is stranger than fiction #hamilton musical #wtf lmao

[touchoffleece]

Me *Desperately trying to go back to sleep*: ...

Memory of Nerissa sharing her joke pregnant with Kiara's offspring vtuber storyline idea shaking me awake

Me: ...

Memory of how shy Nerissa sounded when she tried sneaking in the pet name "love" to Kiara when she directly addressed Kiara in their talk about said pregnant storyline keeping me further awake.

Me: ....I-I did not expect these levels of gay when I started watching Hololive. Memory of Kiara confusing Ultrasound Gel for lube and saying she'll spread it on Nerissa's stomach and get her to spread her legs to check the baby on stream, metaphorically jumping up and down on my bed as I try to go back to sleep. Me: ....that stream was not a fever dream, right?? Aradia *making her rounds to the underside of Jailbird's Beds*: Girl, chill.

#kiarissa #chicken soup #hololive #nerissa ravencroft #takanashi kiara #aradia ravencroft #shower thoughts #reality is stranger than fiction #damn these bitches are gay; good for them-good for them