A skeleton in disguise


isawken

winter nights in the city: oooobh everything is so peaceful…. the snow is muffling sound and reflecting the light from the street lamps making everything glow ethereally….. how lovely :)

winter nights in the country:

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lizardsfromspace

Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha



dogsuffrage

I like when delivery people ask you to sign their tiny shitty screen with your finger like alright sure we can do some free drawing I guess. Some random strokes that evoke the essence of a signature. Looking me dead in the eyes while I play fruit ninja on this blank screen. Why not.


sistersorrow

One trope that always tickles my brain in just the right places is a setting where the Horrors have been around for so long that society has shifted to account for them, and not in a bloodborne "we shaped our entire society around the worship of the blood of a dead god" way, I mean society goes on as usual and has so thoroughly planned around these things that the average person has passing knowledge of how to deal with them and they're treated more like bears: dangerous but ultimately mundane

You open a children's French textbook and see a chapter on how to speak basic French wards against francophone spectres

The local worker owned coffee coop made a land dedication to the ancient sleepers whose strontium bones were buried under the space they rent before the sky had a name

Checking for slumbering Old Ones is standard procedure when doing land and ocean surveys

Australia is exactly the same

There are archeologists who specialise in handling cursed artifacts and neutralising corpses that aren't as dead as they should be

There's an XKCD comic mapping shipping lanes over maps of known Deep One colonies which then concludes that boats, not the people manning them, the actual boats themselves, are naturally scared of sunken cities

The Vatican has the largest known population of bound demons on earth, which are mainly used in the training of exorcists

Scientific American is publishing papers on the buildup of plastic waste in the Backrooms

The price of selling your soul is considered taxable income, has a sales tax, and is subject to inflation

Overly Sarcastic Productions has a Classics Summarised video on the Hanged King's Tragedy

The city council mapped out the exact dimensions of a local ghost's haunting ground and that space is now the unused sub-basement of a shiny new Walmart

Zombie outbreaks are treated as a rare and usually seasonal occurance that is quickly dealt with by the WHO

toreblogallthethings

Duckbunny's tags are ABSOLUTELY worth publishing more widely: #and as always: this is how the real world is#we have learned to extract the tiny biting demons that get out when you sneeze#and we do controlled exposures so you won't be as susceptible to them#but that's an older technology#nowadays we prefer to either kill them and use their tiny invisible corpses#or even better we use harmless tiny demons and we train them to pretend to be the biting kind#our lights work by first moving around the holes where the outermost parts of atoms aren't#and then doing magic with it#we make our clothes and tools and toys from the condensed sunlight of a bygone age#which is also how we power our magic lights and horseless carriages and sailless ships#it's all condensed sunlight we use it for everything#yeah it's making the world overheat but we think we can probably use the condensed sunlight to fix that as well#we're counting on it

lackluster tag 



tedthetalk

I actually do think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes

tedthetalk

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I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.

tedthetalk

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I think it’s better for abusers and abusive characters to realize the harm their past actions caused and seek to do better than be literally or metaphorically executed for their crimes.