#short stories about life

[codgod]

something wicked this way comes

[this is a redraw, here’s the original :p]

#.png #double life #pearlescentmoon #dl pearl #changed the caption because i got annoyed by people on the original continually suggesting #that i was talking about those owl books #that i have Never read. i only watched the movie and i don’t even remember 90% of it orz #i think it might’ve been a paul jennings short story or something #anyways look i can kinda draw wolves now! #pretty heavily used a reference but hey that’s how u learn so it’s chill

[too-lit-for-fanfic]

I'm sorry but Grian's last stand!!! hello??!?!? My man took on a 3v1 and was fucking WINNING. He lowered all 3 of them by so much! He alone in that fight dropped Scott from 35 to 12 hearts and Gem from 49 down to 5 (+10 for killing Grian) (I've not seen Impulse's ep yet).

But like?? yes King pop OFF

He even fought until his shield BROKE, fighting till the very last minute!!

Say what you want about this man and his easy flightiness with alliances when they begin to break apart, but this man had a mission and he fucking delivered on it and we stan a committed man

He managed to hold his own against a very good PVP player and he fucking owned it

The tragedy of it? He knew he wasn't going to win. Of course he wouldn't against the best PVP player in the server, a previous winner, and Impulse who consistently performs well in these games. He was surrounded, taking and blocking hits from all directions, throwing himself into the fray when he could have just walked away and waited for a better moment. But no, taking and giving swing after swing, fighting until the very wood of his shield splinters and breaks. He wasn't expecting to win, he could never win with how low his hearts were, but he knew he could bring them part of the way down with him. He just knew Gem and the Scots couldn't be left with their abundance of hearts, and my man sacrificed himself to make sure other players had a fighting chance.

Without him, Gem probably would have won with her stacked hearts

I hope the community milks the ever-loving shit out of this moment

#how ironic is it that a previous winner looks at the most likely winner of a following game #and decides 'absolutely fucking not' #I may not win but you certainly won't either kind mentality #im so normal about this #I might have to whip together a short little story based on my interpretation of events in this scene #trafficblr #limited life #grian #3rd life #24lsmp #last life #secret life #traffic smp #traffic series #geminitay #scottsmajor #smajor #impulse #impulsesv #zombie cleo #secret life spoilers #secret life smp #the roomies #gem and the scotts

[artioprotection]

"haha Bepo is the weakest co captain!! He's a big baby that cries!" ya, and that's why Law has him as co captain. Law has lived such a violent life of seeing people that care for him dying and being used for others personal gain that having his most trusted man be a person that hates to hurt others, is a bleeding heart of care, that seems to really respect Law's choices and orders is perfect for Law. The others in his crew are like this, but not to the level of Bepo which we need to realise is why Law wants around him

#one piece #trafalgar law #bepo one piece #op bepo #trafalgar d water law #I'm here thinking about the fight between the heart crew and blackbeard #How bepo used a huge power up to not fight but save Law #And how Law basically just had his dressrosa acr in the story #meaning he can not fully appreciate the fact Bepo and his crew are looking out for him just because they like him #we know (but is not fully canon) from the short stories Law thinkings Bepo follows him because he saved his life #but now he can see that bepo can literally just leave him but chooses to stay with him out of love #same goes for the whole crew honestly #and when that fully sinks in for him it's gonna make his heart so light #Law loves them and they love Law he can finally let himself feel that #but it might take a bit since he's just letting himself feel that when it comes to Corazan

[worm-on-the-moss]

Missing them! Very much!

#remember when tamsyn muir decided to create an infinitely loving character out of desolation and grief #to give her most wretched characters the experience of whole immutable unconditional love #and to give us all an opportunity to self-insert into the story for hugs and kisses with camilla coronabeth kiriona and pyrrha #yeah :'D #anyway i would very much like to hear everyone's headcanons about camilla and nona and pyrrha #i never would have been satisfied with the time we got to spend in their home life but #it was simply too short! >:'0 #i ache for them! #nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #ntn fanart #the locked tomb #the locked tomb fanart #tlt #tlt fanart #camilla hect #nona palona

[notpostingjustperusing]

I think what attracts people to humans are space orcs stories is not the inherent idea that humans are evolutionarily aberrant in the universe. Rather, it is the solution to the existential crisis of what if we are not alone in the universe. If we are alone in the universe, we are unique and able to make our mark on the universe unhindered. 

But if we are not alone, if there are countless other species, each identically unique, what is there to set humanity apart? How do we make the universe remember us after we have gone extinct. If all species are exactly like us, have things that make them unique and memorable, each grew up on a deathworld, each views themselves as a space orc, each has attributes about them but are multifaceted species, what difference does the existence of humanity make on the universe? Earth having evolved life will matter for the surrounding star systems and any individuals that come in contact with earthlings, but in a million years, will anyone care? Will we make a mark upon the universe, do anything to make the cosmos take notice of us?

And so in a universe of space orcs, what is it that humanity can do to separate ourselves? Space orc is not a prophecy, it is a promise to the stars. The only fear we have is not that we are not alone, it is that we are not unique.

#space orc #humans are space orcs #earth is space australia #humans are deathworlders #There is a David Brin short story about this that I #for the life of me cannot remember the name of #where humans meet aliens and the president of humanity makes up a great big hoax #to trick the aliens into believing that there is something about humans that we are trying to cover up #but there is nothing that sets us apart except for this one joke

[calware]

"i happened to not find this character very interesting or likeable" doesn't automatically mean they're an objectively bland and boring character it just means you have a personal opinion

#jane is a very nuanced character who suffers from both violent childhood trauma and grooming #she's a clumsy teenager still trying to navigate her friendships and social life with her other clumsy teenager friends #and she's not great at it all the time and neither are they but she still cares about them! that's an interesting character concept! #again you don't have to find her interesting if that's not your preference. but that doesn't mean everyone feels the same way #also she is more similar to the fandom's most specialest boy (dave) than a lot of people realize but she's a Girl so she's not allowed to #be treated or viewed in the same ways as him. but i won't get into it #now. if you want to argue that her character arc got cut short and didn't really amount to much? that's a valid argument to make + i can #see how that might make people like her less. but it's less of her being a bland character and more ''uh oh the story had to end'' flavor #of weird act 6 writing that a lot of characters got shafted with #tldr you're allowed to not like jane but don't be surprised when other people do <3

[agender-john]

She finally went to jail for her crimes

#funny story a few days ago me and my bro were calculating how long vriskas prison sentence would be #cause i was telling him about her criems and he got obsessed with figuring out how long she'll go to jail for #long story short she got 75 years and at least 5 life sentences #vrissy did nothing wrong tho her only crime is being within the same general area as vriska U_U #homestuck #homestuck2 #upd8 spoilers #vriska serket #vrissy maryam lalonde #blue's doodles

[thatsmylog]

was only going to have a little amuse-bouche of speirs being all What at dealing with people peopling but speirs gifs are v moreish

anyway here's two more i don't make the rules

#matthew settle #band of brothers #hbo war #too the way the whats rapidly increase in frequency post-victory #lieutenant WHATEVER #i'm mostly ok but that last bit makes me so fucking feral #literally holds up hope at gunpoint rather than accept that Grant's already dead #the grim reaper fighting tooth and nail to save your life #i mean the hand-patting too: also Good #sometimes i suspect i have a Type #dialogue posts #a short story #about what huh what #also names and hope

[ef-1]

A day after Daniel fucks over Yuki, you post a photo of yourself wearing enchante,, you're not slick

Skinny white girl like Ricciardo? Ground breaking lol

it's so tragic how you're just gonna have to die mad about it 💋

#it did give me the giggles though bc HOW DARE I WEAR MY OWN CLOTHES!!! SHOCK AND HORROR!!!! #sometimes tumblr gives me askfm scandal of catholic boarding school fame 😍 like there was this girl that used to live INSIDE my ass #she'd offer me gum and food and ask to plait my hair then we had a massive askfm bullying scandal where the school banned askfm #long story short she was saying the most HORRIFIC things about me bc psycho ig #anyway i have no doubt that you're ugly and a loser and your life is going nowhere fast and also if this was irl youd be meek as fuck #and never look me in the eye #log off and find some friend or a purpose or something. God speed!!!

[zilabee]

love everyone's theories about what George, Paul or Ringo's films might be like, but we have met men before, yeah? four films about the four beatles is definitely code for a three and a half hour bio-epic about John Lennon's important life, and then some half hearted twenty minute mini features about the other three and how much they loved John

#clear that sam mendes has got the rights to john's life story by promising these four equal films #very likely that the other three films are going to be somewhat delayed in a 'never even started them' kind of way #it's not his fault! #we know more about John! #he's just more important! #he's just more interesting! #he has a tragic backstory that the other beatles don't! #we don't know enough about Ringo to make a film! #we just made a sort of animated octopus short instead #what would you even put in a Paul film?????? #he's too bland for a film! #he isn't emotionally complex in a way we've never really seen explored in cinema! #the beatles #sam mendes #john lennon #paul mccartney

[youthofpandas]

I keep coming back to how in Hell Screen when Yoshihide is torturing his apprentices for reference material, that he uses a snake and then a bird, and the two animals eventually attack each other and vanish after escaping the room. Two very Sinclair coded animals... Given Sinclair's already established understanding of Ryoshu + the fact in Demian he is, of course, also an artist even if that aspect of his character has yet to be shown in Limbus, I just really like to imagine in Ryoshu's canto we might get a former apprentice character who she had mistreated before and has now grown up to hate her and consider her an enemy and that Sinclair will get an Identity based off of them...

Relevant passages below for anyone who hasn't read Hell Screen or wants to look at them again.

#kris actually talks #limbus company #speculating about her canto in specifics is a bit difficult given how little we know about her and how short the original story is #but i think the apprentices getting adapted would be cool and reinforce themes of her failing the people she was meant to teach #which then feeds into the parent stuff because lets be real still cant be sure she's actually a literal mother #so it might just be a daughter like figure in her life instead... #which feeds into other ideas i have but i will stop there bc only i care about that LOL #i feel like this is something everyone already thinks about but bc i do not check the tags i dont know this is already a Thing

[cestacruz]

This is just for a very specific HC im having but regardless.

#my art #fate grand order #jeanne d'arc #ruler #i just think she should have issues about not having her short dark hair #i KNOW fate makes it canon that during life she had long blonde hair #consider this tho: i Dont care #i will make her wish she had her short dark hair and thats the end of story #she will be My scrungly butch lesbian #fate apocrypha

[cheddar-baby]

Forever thinking about the art piece in Don Hertzfeldt's short film World of Tomorrow where a clone of a child is put into a tube in a gallery and you watch him age in real time until he eventually dies at the age of 72 then the exhibit is quietly removed without any notice.

#don hertzfeldt #i think his work isnt take so seriously because hes the spoon too big meme guy #but god the movies and shorts he has been putting out all have stuck with me for years #his stories are gorgeous and rich and deeply meaningful and heartbreaking #but i think people get put off by the visual style being intentionally simple stick figure type characters #he uses it masterfully though and the films arent held back by it at all and are incredibly creative visually #his films are stunning visually they have so much texture and life and it all comes together perfectly #i could gush about his work for hours

[liquidstar]

crazy take: aside from actual lesbian romance stories, obviously, nothing passes the bechdel test better than moe "cute girls doing cute things" anime. its always just a group of girls, few to no named male characters, boys and dating are hardly ever brought up beyond the abstract, if at all. like we're focusing on the girls hanging out rn, we dont need to worry abt that shit. mugi just ate mio's strawberry.

#this doesnt mean i think all ''cute girls doing cute things'' anime is feminist btw #thats not my take. the test itself isnt a metric for feminism #im just saying if you take the rules purely at face value. that type of show kills it #but also no the genre isnt for the male gaze! everyone go watch 'a place further than the universe' and develop some emotions #even k on which i joked abt in the post- its actually a bit complicated bc of the way the anime deviates from the manga #but the short of it is the further it gets away from its source and becomes its own thing the more it becomes abt the girls #s2 being all original was the strongest. its a great story about the fleeting nature of youth and lasting friendships actually #ppl dont give it enough credit. yes its slice of life ofc but its really good #also not to mention bocchi. everyone loved bocchi. in that show they literally have a joke where they dont show the dads face #bc no male characters LOL #the acceptation being that one club owner who is meant to be more feminine? manga readers know more abt that tho

[daily-dose-of-writing]

Going a bit insane again thinking about how far could you push the limits of immortality as a plot device?

Rather than just being about No Bullet Can Penetrate Me, I Am Invincible! being civilisations have risen and fallen in the time between my two breaths. I have survived extinction. I have witnessed the heat death of the universe. Like.. how long does it take before an old folk tale about a child forsaken by death breeds new religion?

#sorry but there’s so many possibilities #I only ever see immortality in a relatively short range life #even in things like Doctor who which feature immortals who last up until the end of the universe they’re still.. people. they’re still #semblances of the human beings they once more #let them be monstrous #let them become the wild and ancient terrors that we hear about in thousand year old stories #pleeaaassseeeeee

[marlynnofmany]

Small Noises

The air was warm, the breeze smelled of spicy alien flowers, the sun was a comforting Earthlike brightness, and something kept making a popping noise that was slowly driving me mad.

I tried to figure it out. The hoversled that Mur and I sat waiting on was inert and parked. There was no cargo on it because the client was late (thus the waiting). Our ship lay behind us on a relatively quiet landing pad, with crewmates bustling around inside and a variety of locals going about their own business at some distance.

The door to our ship was closed. Maybe it was something from another ship? I turned my head back and forth, trying to pinpoint the direction.

Mur noticed, glancing up from where he was idly braiding his tentacles like a particularly arts-and-crafts-inclined dark blue squid. “Something wrong?” He sounded like he was hoping I’d say yes, because it would mean something to do.

“I’m trying to tell where that sound is coming from,” I told him, cupping a hand to one ear. Of course it stopped when I was actively trying to find it.

“What sound?” Mur asked.

“The little popping noise,” I said. “It happens every few seconds. I thought maybe it’s that ship over there, but I don’t know.”

“This noise?” Mur separated his tentacles and lay one against the deck of the hoversled, popping it upward with a suction-cup smack.

“It was you??” I spread my hands in exasperation. “I was trying to see which ship engine was making the weird cooldown noises, or maybe somebody on this spaceport chews bubblegum!”

“Nope,” he said cheerfully, popping a different tentacle even louder this time.

Shaking my head, I pulled my lips in and made a popping sound with my mouth. I’d meant it to be a frivolous imitation, but Mur gave me a sharp look.

“You do know that’s a swear word, right?”

“Ha! No, I didn’t.” I grinned. “Good to know.”

Still visibly bored, Mur lined up two tentacles against each other and separated them in a cascade of sound like undersea popcorn. “Bet you can’t do that.”

“You’re right,” I said. “But I can do this.” I breathed on my palms and squished them together in a respectable imitation of squeaky flatulence. Third-grade me would have been proud.

“That’s not a swear,” Mur said.

“Probably for the best,” I told him. “Humans have been known to make that sound accidentally, and I can just imagine the diplomatic kerfuffles that it could lead to.”

Mur twirled a tentacle in assent. “Like we need more of those.”

I thought of another one. “Hey, I know you can’t do this.” I pressed one long fingernail against another, letting it snap back with a tiny click. “This only works when I need to trim my nails.” I snapped away in a flurry of clicks.

“Well, yeah,” Mur said. “You’ve got more hard parts to hit against each other than I do.”

“True.”

“Good thing there are no Mesmers here to put us to shame,” he said. “With all their clicky bits.”

I nodded, picturing the mantislike species that came in wild colors with egos to match. “Yeah, they’d definitely win the clicky-tappy competition. You know, I bet they’d make amazing tapdancers. I should ask Zhee if that’s already a thing.”

“Or you could ask these guys,” Mur said, standing abruptly.

I looked up to see an irritated-looking procession of Mesmers towing their own hoversled in our directions, loaded with shipping crates. There were many taps, clicks, and hissing grumbles.

I did not ask the late clients about tapdancing. Mur and I simply accepted the delivery with patience and grace, making sure everything was accounted for and all payments were squared away, promising that we would do everything in our power to get the crates to their destination in the agreed-upon time frame or better.

The clients agreed in a huff, leaving with a flair of red and bronze limbs, still muttering. Some of it was barely-veiled insults that they clearly didn’t care if we overheard.

I didn’t say anything as they clicked away. Neither did Mur.

But I did swear in his language once they were out of earshot.

~~~

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

#my writing #The Token Human #this one's a short bit of nonsense #those can be fun #haso #hfy #humans are weird #writblr #writeblr #writerblr #I love how no one can agree on how to spell that tag #we 're writers; we have opinions about deliberate misspellings #and we don't necessarily agree #something something spice of life #anyways enjoy this silly little story #I'll probably have something Deep and Significant next week #or different nonsense #only time will tell