Fic writing prompt game: you transmigrate (somehow) to the setting of the last piece of media you played, watched, or read.

Write the first scene of this self insert fic in media res.

Edit: if the last thing with which you engaged was a fanfic, write your scene as if you'd transmigrated into a fanfic from the same fandom! This is a fun opportunity to lampshade the ways popular fanon diverges from canon, of course.

Oh no I’m going to *die* I played project zomboid! The whole point of that game is “this is how you died”!

Well at least I know the map, roughly. And that the helicopter event is coming. Also that radio signal is about cannibals, probably should just stay away from people. Hope I’m immune to the airborne variant of the Knox event infection like the player characters, or I am dead in like. A day.

Death Note AU where hbomberguy makes a five hour long video about youtuber Light Yagami that's initially completely unrelated to the murders (Light would probably plagiarize or have really unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube)

but halfway through he reveals that while researching he stumbled upon evidence that Light might be behind the Kira murders, and then spends like fourty minutes explaining the concept of a shinigami, an hour explaining how he thinks Light used one to commit murders, and then another hour explaining Light's ideology and why the concept of criminals being inherently evil is flawed

He finishes the video by addressing Light directly and telling him that he (Hbomberguy) had his name legally changed before uploading the video, to something that only he knows, making it impossible for Light to kill him

Now Light. I know you're still watching, and I'm sure you've tried writing my name in your book. Or you've at least considered it - after all, if I die, then it points pretty clearly to you as the killer. But then, maybe Kira is just going to try to kill me in order to frame you. We get it, you're very clever.

If watching this whole video hasn't changed your mind - made you *think* about the humanity of the people you are just callously sentencing to death - then I'm at a bit of a loss. But I do know one thing you don't:

My legal name.

That's right. Before I uploaded this video, I changed my legal name, and have encouraged those in my life to do so as well. Frankly, trying to decide what my new name would be probably pushed back this video's release like, a month.

(Aside: Actually it didn't but we can all just pretend it did, it's way more interesting than the minutiae of real issues that cropped up)

So. Is Light Yagami Kira? I can't say for sure. It turns out, accusing a public figure of serial murder comes with a lot of legal ramifications! You would think I'd have learned by now that talking about people has "potential consequences" like "being sued by extremely litigious individuals. "

I spent a long time thinking how to end this video. The only thing I came up with is that there's no way to judge a person by just a list of actions alone. And yes that includes Light, the wanker. Courts spend weeks and weeks trying to litigate criminal cases and they still get it wrong! So even though I think he may be the actual scum of the earth, I hope I'm wrong. I want to believe that, given the opportunity, he wouldn't take the ten seconds to write down my name and take my life with just a flick of his wrist.

*long beat*

But I still changed my name so don't even think about it you little sh-

*bouncy credits music*

This is breaking containment into the TERF enclosures which I very much expected, but I will happily shout from the rooftops that furry porn artists are more productive and beneficial to society than JKR’s incessant whining on the elon musk dick riding app about how much she hates trans people

1439 votes but 288 reblogs because the TERFs are afraid of the truth so they're just linking it directly to each other lmao

I recently started playing Batman Arkham Asylum for the first time and I now desperately need a fic where the Magnus Archives crew takes over organising and "re-recording" Arkham's archives.

lol I would love that.

Eyeball Antichrist gets enrichment

Beware of Chicken, or: I don't know who the fuck this guy is but he has a dragon as his dishwasher

A majestic view of a rain-laden cloud blasting hard.  When many clouds gather in the sky in this way and their waters fall like this in the same place, here a phenomenon we call the Flood is formed.-

This would make a midieval peasant believe in Cthulhu.

Fam, this makes me believe in Cthulhu, and I have a goddamn engineering degree

This is a CGI animation, here is the original upload by the artist:

He also shared a short breakdown of the animation process on his tiktok here

There is a rare weather phenomenon that looks somewhat similar to this known as cloudburst (also similar are downbursts/microbursts). I can’t verify whether the claim of the phenomena being called “The Flood” in certain areas is true.

if anyone ever asks why return of the jedi is my favourite star wars film i’ll just send them this gif

DELETE THIS POST

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

*clicks play in morbid curiosity*

*hammers reblog button*

I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do

Actually a bit of a bop

sygol framed poll (handle with care), 2024 mixed media on tumblr post

"who knows what they still do on tumblr"

us:

I want a movie or manga or some sort of media where there's a high fantasy party of like 6 people and literally none of them like each other literally at all. and not even in like a jokey way, they all abhor each other to their core. no one knows why they're still together as a party but if one of them died no one would care or protest

The rogue is actively stealing from other party members, the cleric can heal but will not, the mage keeps a force cage around themselves and no one else. does not counterspell. the bard plays music while the others try to sleep, does not help. the barbarian gets into a fight with everyone. no one likes each other and no one knows why they're even a party but god damn are they the fucking best at their job

Alternatively theres only one party member holding everyone together and is the only liked person in the group and if not for them the rest could drop dead

The BBEG is like "i'll kill them if you dont submit" and no one helps while the person in danger actively refuses their help and says they can do it themselves.

They're at an inn and the bard tells the innkeeper the rogue is stealing things (theyre not) and gets everyone kicked out besides themself

The mage constantly counterspells the party every chance they get

the barbarian throwing party members literally into the fight

i want this so bad

The Jedi Exile and her crew

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

#big fan of putting people into situations #and seeing how that changes them #I can believe a lot of supposed ooc behaviour if you show me how you got there (x)

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book.  It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

I love this post

religious conservatives: no sex before marriage !!

asexuals: okay

religious conservatives: wait no, not like that.

#you're supposed to suffer from not having sex#as both a fucked up show of devotion to 'god'#(read: the church and its vision of society)#and to make people marry young#and the only other people in a rush to marry young are other young religious conservatives#locking them into the church's sphere of influence#and preventing them from encountering other ways of living#aces going 'yeah sure fine' and not suffering#undermines the whole social control system

under the red hood

Jason: Bruce, I’ve forgiven you for not saving me, but why haven’t you killed the Joker?

Bruce: oh god is that what this is about

Bruce: Jason, there’s nothing I’d like more in the world than to kill the Joker, but unfortunately, I can’t

Jason: what, because of your principles?

Bruce: no, because whoever kills the Joker becomes the Joker

Jason: ……excuse me

Joker, tied to a chair: it’s true!! I got to be this way by killing the last guy :D

Jason: you what

Joker: oh hey I know how to explain it!!

Joker: you ever see that movie The Santa Clause? it’s just like that :D

Jason:

Jason, frightened: what

Jason, very frightened, pointing a gun at the Joker: are you even the same Joker who murdered me

Joker: ehhh honestly my memories are pretty fuzzy, I’m not sure what stuff I did and what stuff the last guy did

Jason: oh god

Joker: but hey don’t let this interfere with your plans!! if you wanna kill me go right ahead

Jason:

Joker: seriously, if you wanna kill me, just kill me 

Jason: 

Joker: please kill me :D

Jason: Bruce help

i need infinite money forever so i can get everyone so so so many little gifts

duality of man

Running a passenger rail company

……card….dealing….?

causing a plague by kicking over a trash can.

killing an orc.

Farming.

Powerwashing

Making pizzas

Kissing demons

Stealing