Welcome!

1.5M ratings
277k ratings

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
beaft hypokeimena
unpretty

concept: one of those fancy book box services but instead of sending you a full-size fancy hardcover they send you a 1:6 scale miniature version along with a code for the ebook so you still get the book as well as the ability to show off the fancy version of the book but without having to buy more bookshelves. every january they send you a new tiny bookshelf for your tiny books. maybe there's a year on it to display specifically the books you read that year. you can put your tiny books in a jar and pick them out randomly to decide what you're going to read next. also it's cheaper because the boxes aren't as heavy and they don't have to produce a full size hardcover with the edges printed by the like one company that does that.

a product photo of some 1:6 scale books from an etsy shop called Little Things of InterestALT
photo of a 3d printed 1:6 scale bookshelf from a 3d printing model site, with tiny books on itALT

do you see my vision

miniatures
what-even-is-thiss what-even-is-thiss
what-even-is-thiss

You can just dump some cans of vegetables and beans and some broth and herbs and chopped onion in a pot and bring it to boiling and then lower the heat to a simmer for about 20-30 minutes and eat with a side of buttered toast you know. Nobody’s stopping you.

what-even-is-thiss

Yesterday we had patty melts and vegetable soup that I made just like this and I’m eating the leftover soup right now. Do this guys, it’s so cheap and easy. Use onion powder if you don’t feel like chopping and maybe add a little oil. Just do iittt.

just-your-average-cryptid ironwoman359
cheeseanonioncrisps

Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

gio-dude

image

The only other fae/vamp crossover I know of, and like the exact same vein, but with more enemies to lovers

arliedraws elder-millennial-trash
burins

saw someone say that they don't read fics under 10k and had to laugh because more fool you, that is where all the bangers are. obviously I'm biased but truly nothing hits like a 1.5k fic with a lowercase title from some obscure poet where nothing actually happens and yet you emerge blinking with a completely new outlook on the character. infinitely rereadable. like a perfectly crafted pastry. I'm gobbling them up!

this is so real devastated by 1k words
link-the-feral-anon cheeseanonioncrisps
teaboot

You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

ladystardustinblackjeans

If people knew what a fucking atom is and how molecules are defined, at least a quarter of all health related cults like movements and scams wouldn't work.

"Ohh it's a different sugar than refined sugar" it's the same molecule.

"Ohhh my water filtering apparatus making beauty water and cleaning water and alkaline water" Water is H20. What you're doing is reverse osmosis, and if it's alkaline then there is a substance that's not water in there to make it alkaline. You can't purify water to a pH of 12, because pure water molecules have, by definition of how the pH system works and several phyics rules, a pH of exactly 7.

"Ooohh it has ~different~ sodium atoms." That's called an isotope and sodium isotopes aren't created by magic woowoo, and the magical ability of most isotopes is radioactivity.

"Low toxin" what toxin. Tell me their names. What are they doing. "They are endocrine disruptors" what part of the endocrine system? How? Do you have a source that doesn't try to sell you something?

"Just mix vinegar and baking soda to cleanse all the toxins of your fruits" you just created water molecules and CO2, and some calcium and acetate which don't have much chemical property. That's a science fair vulcano. And doesn't have acidic or alkaline properties to chemically influence anything. Just use tap water at this point. "My wood cutting board soaked in an alkaline solution from baking soda to clear out the toxins leaves a nasty looking soup" yeah because you were dissolving the wood with an alkaline solution. Congratulations.

"There is effective microorganisms in this ceramic bead and it can cleanse your laundry and dishes and prevent mold in your fridge and it works for years" what microorganisms exactly? How did you discover them? What are they eating? Are they resistant to 60 degrees and steam? Do they procreate in the fridge? Are they spreading out on all surfaces to prevent the mold or is it an air filtration system that works without airflow or is it just magic? "Put them in your flowers, they can reverse cavities, put them in your walls" what are they eating in my walls? What kind of microorganisms are they? Did you test the safety of those things in human bodies? Are they native to my biotope? How do they survive in those fucking ceramic beads?

"Just use vinegar it's magic" it's a mild acid. Like, cool, sure, it works for several things, but it doesn't have magic properties. It's just a mild acid. Lemon juice is too. And once again, if you mix it with baking soda, they neutralise each other and you get water. Which cleans a lot of things but you dont need to do *all that* to get your hands on some plain water.

link-the-feral-anon writing-prompt-s
writing-prompt-s

During an interview with many of the top-ranked superheroes, it becomes apparent that they're all scared, not of a villain, but of a particular hero. This hero is not the strongest of them. In fact, they're quite average compared to the rest of the top 10, yet even number 1 seems terrified.

link-the-feral-anon

A/N: Oops. This turned into a love story. Ah, well. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink, yeah?

Okay, so, all of them was a slight exaggeration. Most of them, however, are genuinely scared of her though. At first, I didn’t get it. Of course, officially, I still don’t. In my official article, all those years ago, I chalked it up to two things: they’ve seen her fight and we, the public, haven’t, and playful workplace rivalry.

The truth about Vanilla Cream remains off the record. The truth about Vanilla Cream remaining off the record saves people, and gets me inside scoops to other truths. The kind of truths I became an investigative reporter for.

Vanilla Cream. Ranked number 10 among heroes for how many criminals she’s caught- people who were convicted of the crime they were arrested for- as well as for the people’s favor.

Her powers are simple compared to the rest. She can fly and she can create little flies.

She’s bright and cheerful, and picked her hero name for how silly it was. Kids like it, it humiliates villains to admit they got beat by someone choosing to be called “Vanilla Cream”, and adults can chuckle at a dirty joke. It makes her come off as non-intimidating.

Allows her to be underestimated.

“My cousin taught me that skill.” She said, sliding me a whiskey. “‘Being underestimated is a good thing, Sarah.’ He told me. 'Allows you to move in the shadows as well as the spot light.’”

I sipped at my drink. I grinned at her.

The truth about Vanilla Cream staying off the record also keeps me close to my favorite person in the world.

Sarah Bean. The most wonderful, terrifying, beautiful woman I’ve ever met.

She has two powers. Flight, and what she and her cousin call, “Fly on the Wall.”

“Starman, by the way, is doing his best to care for that poor clone of his.” She said, gliding as she moved to sit next to me. I swear! She walks like a beauty queen. “I didn’t have to threaten him, like I would have others either.”

“Really?” I asked, sitting up.

“Really! I just said to him that the poor boy has no idea what’s going on. I asked if he could imagine being made into a world that will never fully understand you, and then being rejected by the vary people who should have loved you.” She said. “I didn’t think it’d work, but he hung his head row low and nodded. Said he’d take the kid in under his civilian identity, have him mostly stay with his parents since they’re much more equipped to help him than anyone.”

“Hell yeah. Good on him.” I nodded. “How’s Mrs. Mystery doing?”

Wife of Mr. Mystery, ranked hero number 2. Not a great guy outside of civvies, apparently. At least, not until Sarah spied on him.

“Wonderfully!” Sarah said, bouncing a little in her seat. “She’s actually planning on leaving him, according to her emails!”

Sarah always made sure to contact victims if it seemed they could accept help. It’s one of my favorite things about her.

“It feels good to help people like this.” She said with a little sigh. “It’s how I’ve caught most of my bad guys as Vanilla, and it’s how Sarah shows the people what corruption lays beneath even simple things.”

I sighed too. She was right, of course. Helping people like this felt amazing. That wasn’t why I was sighing though.

“Gods, you’re beautiful.” The words just slipped out.

She paused in her drink and stared at me, eyes wide. Slowly, she put it down. She put three fingers to her mouth in surprise. Then to her chest.

“What?” She asked, blushing.

I could feel my cheeks heating up too. Shit, I hadn’t meant to say that out loud!

“Uh. I, uh- I said you’re beautiful.”

“I- I heard that. I just, uhm,” she started playing with her hair, “uh, uhm, why? I’m not, like, glammed up or anything.”

I swallowed. In for a penny, in for a pound?

“Your passion for helping people, any means necessary is extraordinary, Sarah.” I said, my own eyes slipping away from her now. “I, uh, I really like you. Have for a while now.”

“Oh.” She said, staring at her drink. I brightened.

“Oh?” I repeated. I knew that Oh. That was the Oh she uses when her cousin guessed something that later turned out to be true.

'Bless you, Allen.’ I thought. 'I’m gonna have to buy you a drink one day.’

“Well.” She pushed her drink away and spun to face away from the island, kicking her feet. “Uhm. I suppose. That. You know.” Her blush spread. “Perhaps, maybe, I might… sort of. Ah, like you, a lot, as well.”

writeblr writers on tumblr andy writes