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The underground society known as the Community, the last known surviving humans on Earth, are facing a serious resource crisis. In order to survive, they must make a grim decision, one person must leave each year. You got the least amount of votes. You must now go up to the unlivable surface.

screamingatanemptyroom

“I’m sorry.”

I looked up from the ground I had been forced to kneel on, lifting my hands slightly, feeling the cold weight of the shackles on them. My eyes met those of the man who I had grown up with, his own colder than I had ever seen them.

My brother.

I smiled at him, enjoying his surprise at the lighthearted expression. I could feel his many emotions from where I was: annoyance, distrust, and a mild anxiety… but no guilt. No guilt whatsoever.

“No you’re not, Benjamin.”

He looked away first.

“It’s not like I had a say in this, Meg. Someone gets chosen every year. It’s a blind vote. Just because I’ve got a higher up position, doesn’t mean I can change it. In fact… “ He looked at me again. “I’m held to an even stricter standard. I’m sorry.”

I couldn’t help but chuckle at his repeated apology. It was just as insincere as the first. He wasn’t sorry.

“Is that what you told Alicia?” I couldn’t hold back and asked with a mild tone, only to fall to the ground with a hard slap. The anger in his eyes burned brightly now, much more interesting now that he no longer attempting any façade at regret.

“Don’t say her name! You don’t understand it. You don’t understand anything.” He turned away. “I’ll see you at the Entrance, tomorrow. I hope your last night on this earth is a pleasant rest, at least.” At his words the prison door closed behind him, and I was left alone in the darkness, awaiting the morning of my sentence.

I was the Chosen, and it was my time to die.

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The next morning, I was woken up, fed a light meal, and moved out of my cell. Two guards walked me towards the entrance, each one holding an arm in a painfully tight grip. The younger of the two I recognized vaguely from school, we had been in the same graduating class a few years ago. He glanced over at me frequently, his expression troubled.

“This has to be done.” The other guard, a middle-aged man with a stern look, noticed his hesitation and spoke up. “It’s the only way to protect the Community.”

The younger looked even more anxious. “What’s out there?” He asked quietly, sending another look in my direction.

“Who knows?” The older guard shrugged. “It’s been centuries since the Time of Darkness drove humanity underground. Every exploration party we’ve sent out since has never come back. Whatever is out there… it doesn’t leave survivors.”

I stayed silent, unbothered by the discussion as if it had nothing to do with me. If anything, the younger guard seemed even more anxious.

“Maybe it’s not too bad? Maybe the world has changed… and no one has just been able to come back to tell us?” His voice trailed off as he spoke, obviously unconvinced.

The older guard scoffed at his words. “Look, Matt. I know it’s hard when the Chosen is a younger pretty girl like this…” he glanced at me then looked away. “Normally it’s an older person. But it’s necessary. We have limited resources in the Community, and too large of a population. The Choosing allows us to fairly decide who gets sacrificed. If you are going to stay in this job, kid, you’re gonna have to get used to this.”

My hand reached out towards the younger man and brushed his skin. I closed my eyes briefly, focusing.

Immediately he relaxed, his posture and tone less anxious. “I was just asking. I didn’t mean anything about it.”

“Good. We don’t question the Choosing. That’s not our job. We just escort them to the Entrance.”

The rest of the trip through the increasingly complex tunnels was passed in silence. I breathed a sigh of relief. I was worried the young guard had gotten it into his head to rescue me. But I didn’t need or want to be rescued.

After all, I was the one who had submitted my name for the Choosing in the first place.

#writing #fantasy #powers #elves #wolves #aliens #betrayal #friendship #writeblr #stories #possible sequel

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amuseoffyre

beggars-opera

The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes

formerlyanon

and we need that! keeps us humble.

dabouse

Then I'm just like WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’RE AN ADULT

tomboy014

It goes the other way, too, because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A CHILD?!!

dabouse

I'm 16, that's like, barely a child

tomboy014

I'm in my 30s. You are baby

digitaldiscipline

I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat.

kabretoss

honestly one of the best things we can do for ourselves is realize that people of different ages than us can still be the same kind of person as us. it's humbling and it gives everyone involved a sense of continuity, and it busts those stupid generational stereotypes media is so fond of.

tyrograph

^True and heartwarming (in the old non-cringe way)

And, "I'm older than both of you in a trenchcoat" is pure gold, stealing that instantly

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chibisketches

nicetomeetmew

This collab was not on my 2023 bingo card

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verberation

prokopetz

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

firemarshallily

absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog

#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit #but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz

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zerachin

and a little bonus as part of that yuletide exchange for volky888

#good omens #good omens fanart

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margle

straight women need to start fetishising sapphic women so there can be more femslash fan fiction. we gotta outsource and get more writers on board. I want it to get to the point where two women cant be on screen together without having a 80k space opera fic written about them. I want show runners to be scared of cancelling sapphic shows because legions and legions of fans will come after them. dont tell me my priorities are wrong.

abalidoth

straight women, you have been summoned for yuri duty.

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lazorsandparadox

memeuplift

hissterical-nyaan

And they actually met 😭

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/solar-eclipse-new-york-teacher/

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29 BILLION?!?!

Go, IRS!! 🤑💰

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Courtship Behaviors of the Southern Coastal Husbro - Mad_Lori - 9-1-1 (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org|Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: 9-1-1 (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Evan “Buck” Buckley & Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV) Characters: Evan “Buck” Buckley, Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Christopher Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Taylor Kelly, Howie “Chimney” Han, Maddie Buckley, Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Karen Wilson, Original Characters, Frank (9-1-1 TV), Bobby Nash, Athena Grant Additional Tags: Getting Together, Slow Burn, like really slow glacially slow, Queerplatonic Relationships, domestic partners, Friends to Lovers, Reddit AMAs, Co-Parenting, post-s5, canon compliant (so far), Christopher Diaz Has Two Dads, Christopher Diaz is a National Treasure, Evan “Buck” Buckley is Christopher Diaz’s Parent, Platonic Male/Male Relationships, Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz Get Together, Unrealistic Recovery Timelines, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Friends With Benefits, Buck Has a Female FWB Briefly, Demisexuality, Demisexual Eddie Diaz (9-1-1 TV), Buck 6.0 or something, Mentions of Casual Sex, Adoption, Good Friend Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Queer Mentors Hen & Karen, Sexuality Crisis, Fluid Sexuality, husbros, Canon-Typical Violence, Evan “Buck” Buckley/Eddie Diaz First Kiss, First Kiss, Smut, Fluff and Smut, Eventual Smut, Oral Sex, Making Out, Frottage Summary:

“I want you in my family, I want us to be a family. Officially. A family can be a guy, his son, and his best friend, right?”

Buck’s lower lip was trembling. “You’re really asking me to be your…what, now?”

“Frank called it ‘platonic life partners.’”

Buck looked stunned, and also…hopeful. “We could really do that?”

—————–

Buck and Eddie decide to become platonic domestic partners and co-parents. They are 100% super normal about it and absolutely nothing is awakened in them, except a mutual annoyance at being referred to as “husbros.”

—————-

I have started posting my Buddie fic! It’s finished, 6 chapters, will be posted one chapter per day.

Source: archiveofourown.org

#buddie #9-1-1 #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie fic #madlori's fic

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cinematicnomad

9-1-1 ▸ buck's on-screen first kisses

#pretty boy

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a-taza

"see? still in shape kiddo"

labelleizzy

Yeah! Round is a shape!!

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notanandalitebandit

fishtrouts

Watch me get progressively lazier with the backgrounds on this one 🙈

Read “How to be a Dragon” on Webtoon!

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k-she-rambles

storm-and-starlight

man the early books of the Young Wizards series are just. I think they fundamentally influenced how I view life and the universe and magic and I just reread Deep Wizardry and now I'm crying

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pillowpunk

memeuplift

hissterical-nyaan

And they actually met 😭

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/04/09/solar-eclipse-new-york-teacher/

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notanandalitebandit

I’m not a gamer, but Dragon Age has had such an impact on my life.

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ehyde

NASA advertising "do you want to be an astronaut" to tumblr users surely means something. What have you found out there, NASA? What have you found that you believe tumblr users, specifically, are best equipped to handle?

mypoisonedvine

they want us to fuck the aliens

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sioltach

Ummmm sometimes you dread the weight of your life and other times it is an early morning in april and there are 5 species of birds singing and also the sun is shining through the baby leaves. Btw