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Hi! I'm Casey. | She/Her

I've come to make an announcement: Poor Edward is a bitch-ass motherfucker, he keeps buring me alive. That's right, he took his masked-fuckin' ass and his quilly truncheon out and he buried me fucking alive, and he said "I did warn you to stay away," and I said "This is the seventh time this week," so I'm making a callout feuilleton in my own newspaper: Poor Edward, you've got a low nightmare quality. It's the size of this coffin except WAY smaller. And guess what? Here's what my nightmare quality looks like.

That's right, baby. All anguish, no relief, no sleep — look at that, it looks like a prolonged vacation with The Manager. He buried me alive, so guess what, I'm gonna light him on fire. Except I'm not gonna just set him on fire, I'm gonna go higher; I'M BURNING DOWN THE ORPHANAGE! How do you like that, Edward?! I BURNED DOWN THE ORPHANAGE, YOU IDIOT!

You have twenty-three hours before I dig myself outta this fucking grave, now get fucking going, before I set you on fire too!

I've been thinking about sorrow spiders.

For those who don't know, sorrow spiders are magical cat sized spiders that live in the neath. They:

Talk

Hold symposiums in large caves beneath Fallen London, where they debate philosophy and the nature of existence

Teleport via mirrors and dreams

Steal people's eyes to use as eggs(?)

And perform a sort of reverse mitosis using the red science where they melt together into a bigger, double spider. Sometimes this happens a lot. Sometimes they grow to the size of a house. And sometimes they hunger. And the average neath citizen is simply a delicious friend. They share thoughts, and become known as "trees" to the spiders, or councils to humans.

Sometimes, however, a council grows too big. First, to the size of a city. Then a planet. There's no particular limit to how big a council can grow. So they grow. Into a Senate. A senate has the power, and size of a star.

In the fallen London universe, stars are gods. The most important, powerful beings in the universe, they command armies of dragons, crabs, and bats to destroy their foes. Their very words can burn a planet's surface to nothingness. The bible was written because a human tried to comprehend a judgement, and failed miserably in the lore afaik. So they wrote a book about what it seemed like to them.

But when a spider senate achieves such power? The stars come to stop it. Thankfully, as far as the inhabitants of the FL universe know no spider senate has won a war yet. Yet. If one goes unnoticed, it could become stronger than the stars, the gods themself.

In short, spiders are stronger than gods, and pretty scary in the neath, and I own a pet sorrow spider called Jeremy

Oh right i never showed you guys my other fl oc

This is Treg, he's a Rattus Faber who's trying to use science to extend his lifespan. He only has about a year or so left, and he's absolutely not finished yet. It is, however, difficult to be taken seriously when trying to get into these subjects when you're a foot tall at most and a rat.

Hence the gun.

He's not fucking around.