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Day 2 - Discovery "...then the film was peeled from my eyes, and I knew the whole world in an instant."

i'll be honest this one SUCKED to make dude, idk how i convinced myself this was a good idea. weird lighting, hands, AND composition? thank goodness i decided not to do it in color too, or else y'all'd have a very depressed Ethan on your hands lol

movies where someone hears an important message only once and retains all the details….

girl if that were me, we’d be fucked. I have to reread emails like 4 times.

Inktober Day 1: Backpack

Im a little late sorry. I hope y'all enjoy! Today's short is in Lucy Bell's POV

Stargazing from the rooftop. The sound of distant traffic drifted up through the night air as Lucy Bell counted the stars visible through the light pollution.

A voice cut through the ambient silence, jumping and dropping like the speaker wasn't fully in control of themselves.

A murmuring built into laughter, sardonic laughter, belted out as if the laugher could cure their discomfort with the volume of their mirth. The discomfort won and the mirth evacuated as laughter turned to wrenching.

Lucy Bell turned her gaze away from the stars she had lost focus on and scuttled across the roof to get a view of the wretch. She saw a plain looking mortal having her hair held back while evacuated the copious amounts of alcohol in her system. The man that held her hair though was anything but plain and a tingle behind Lucy Bell's eyes told her he wasn't mortal.

This man stood with hair almost on end, it glowed in the light of the streetlamp the color of poorly bleached ginger hair. His skin was pale under the night lights as he gently held the woman while she lost her mirth. Something radiated from him subtly, something that reminded her of deep sea documentaries. A touch of the beyond had graced Lucy Bell's night and she recalled Naut teaching her the importance of curiosity.

Lucy Bell knew a hunt when she saw one. She followed the stranger and his mortal companion as he soberly guided her down the path. Her drunken steps stumbling occasionally as she leaned against him for support, still babbling at jumping volumes.

The mortal droned of failures in her life. Scorned at a past lover. Mourned unsupportive friends. Sobbed at the kindness of her hunter. As he guided her, soothed her, and lulled her into calm.

All the while Lucy Bell followed. She stretched her shadows to reach treetops, and to cling to roof sides. Hiding her bones when the stranger cast his gaze back across the skyline. She made not a sound, quiet as a spider spinning its web.

Soon the pair arrived at an abode, the hunted stepping to the door claiming the place her home. She turned to the hunter, a sad look escaping her drunken, bloodshot eyes. It was a look of asking, of wondering, of pleading, as if she longed to stay in his company.

The stranger stepped forward, leaned in, and his mouth expanded. It split, it stretched, and it wrapped itself around her head. The mortals form went limp in his arms. His hair stretched and spread as he blocked the view of his face from the street as he embraced her.

Lucy Bell watched with peaking curiosity. She'd not seen a Stranger do such a thing before. She tensed as well, ready to pounce. She welcomed the hunt to be hers to chase.

The hair returned to its natural state, the face retreated, the man separated himself from the woman. Her head remained intact. Her eyes now glittered with a dreamy daze. She smiled, soft and wide. A sigh escaped her as if she wished the eldritch embrace had lasted longer.

The stranger stepped away, his hunger sated. He directed the mortal to enter her home. Her smiled continued as she stumbled through her threshold with a drunken skip.

Had he drained her sorrow? Her dreariness? Her pain?

Questions filled Lucy Bell's mind as curiosity won out over bloodthirst.

How much had he taken? How long would it last? What was he?

She had to know. He was walking away.

Lucy Bell stretched herself down from her roof on a shadowy thread. Then it snapped and she dropped. She tucked herself into her casing as she hit the ground. The sound causing the stranger to stop.

She peeked through the gaps. Watching as he approached and inspected her fallen form.

"A backpack? Where did this come from?"

He searched the outside for information.

"The Astral Cat Tavern? Who puts a tavern down as the owner of a backpack? Why is this so far away from home?"

He lifted Lucy Bell and strapped her casing over his shoulder.

"Can't hurt to take you back I guess. Must the best tavern in the world for someone across the country to put it down as their address."

Lucy Bell felt pleasure, she had snagged an interesting one. Naut would be pleased with her. Perhaps her curiosity would be satisfied as well.

She settled into stasis as her stranger settled into his own path of curiosity.

It's Inktober!

I don't know how to draw so I'm going to "ink" some short stories for y'all using the prompts! I'm a day late so I will be posting the yesterday's soon and I'll try to get today's prompt done too

My theory of adhd management is that in order to focus there are 4 things that need to be sufficiently occupied:

Eyes

Ears

Hands (or body)

Brain

And if you aren’t occupying them enough or there’s too many things demanding the use of one, it’ll start to wreck havoc on your ability to do things.

So for example, listening to a podcast. This occupies your ears and brain as you focus on both listening and processing what you hear, but it leaves your hands and eyes completely without anything to do. If you tried to sit down and just listen to a podcast by itself you’d probably get unbearably bored and stop doing it.

But if you pair that activity with something that uses your hands and eyes, like a craft, household chore, or commute, suddenly you’re fully plugged in and can in fact focus better on both tasks than you could if you tried doing them separately.

It’s also why you can’t listen to a podcast while doing homework; you’re trying to use your brain for two different tasks. To occupy your ears while doing homework (which is already using eyes, brain, and hands) you need something for your ears that doesn’t require your brain: music. Specifically music that doesn’t use too much brain power, which is why some people prefer instrumentals or songs in other languages.

Hyperfixation and sensory overload change this by moving the threshold for how much sensory input you need to be able to function. If I’m extremely focused on a craft project (eyes, hands, brain) I might not even need something for my ears; my interest in the project makes up for it. If i’ve had a very overwhelming day, trying to listen to an audiobook while I do some stretches could be too much to process. My brain needs a break.

Video games, which pretty much universally occupy all 4 areas, are basically instant, easy focus wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder adhd-havers tend to love them.

If you’re struggling with a task, try looking at which areas it occupies and which are left unattended. Then try to find something enjoyable to fill those gaps, and see if that helps.

an online friend group may include:

guy who is nocturnal.

guy who goes to bed at nine pm.

guy who is inexplicably literally always online.

guy who lives on the other side of the planet.

i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.

it's interesting to see how certain 'lifestyle trends' on social media seem to be a half-baked reiteration of Catholic ideologies, orders, and the like.

tradwife that believes in the importance of the mother in the family? mariology and her role as Theotokos. minimalism? the franciscan order. dark academia and its many iterations (chaotic, light, etc.,)? the dominican order. "i wanna leave society and hang out with my friends in a commune/live alone"? the benedictines, the trappists, the carthusians, and more.

i don't know if i'm on to something here, and i'd love to hear someone else's thoughts.

And after a while you just stop. You stop watering your plants. You stop watching netflix. You stop reading. You stop replying to your friends as fast as you used to. You stop buying yourself nice things. You stop putting an effort into how you look. You stop taking care of yourself like you used to. You stop sleeping. You stop eating healthy foods. You stop petting your dog. You stop socializing.

You stop with everything. You find yourself sitting in your room for hours on end, without doing a single thing. Days feel like years. And you think you can’t do it for much longer.

Rest in Peace Professor McGonagall

Dame Maggie Smith

1934-2024

That thing just needs some moss cement on the outside walls, and it'll be fine. Then just paint the inside your favorite brown, and you have a hobbit barndo

on Zillow like. that is not a house. words have meaning. you cannot call that a house.

You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins

theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment

Could we see the pigeon earrings? If you're willing to share

I have nothing in life to look forward to anymore. All those posts about "it's never too late you have time 💕💕💕" can shut the fuck up because it's not true. Every year that passes that's less chance I can get married and have children. And I'm never going to be able to afford my own home, so I'll be an old maid rotting in a single room surrounded by stuffed animals and books and things I probably should have grown out of by now with nothing to talk about except my stupid craft projects and book plots. While my siblings and long-term friends are talking about important things, like how it feels to be pregnant and a mother and a wife. And I just sit there because it's just more things I'm not a part of and when people ask me "what's new with you" talking about "well, I made pigeon earrings and I read a book and my job is the same" suddenly feels quite trivial and pathetic.

no fucking way

Sign me up, I need a reason to write more

please can we do inbox trick-or-treating this year. can we make that a thing on tumblr. please please please please please

in the ocean

Not me getting vibes of my favorite character from my latest fandom in anything tall, dark, and fishy

Art Credit Autumn Bird

@ethaneldritch Yo that first one is giving me Monty vibes

Mermay by AUTUMN BIRD

It has been Done

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

Pokemon and Premonitions of a Faraway Life. Lol I've already done this, Carrion is basically James in my head at this point. I would like to see what their pokemon teams would be though...

@murphymacintosh :Halcyheh:

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

I wasn't tagged but I wanted to try it

No genre can contain me! Nyahahahaha

@allmymutualswerealreadytagged

Thanks for the tag @thelastplantagenet 😊💚

1. Do this uquiz.

2. Do this picrew.

3. Tag people.

feel free to play if you’d like :)

@buncha-angry-kids-with-no-money @thatoneandlonelyemo2005 @with-the-words-all-wrong

what i say when i'm trying to get people to play ffxiv: there's such an incredible amount of content that there's something for everyone. you get an intricate jrpg plot with fantastic characters and worldbuilding that also makes YOUR character feel like an actual person somehow despite the limitations that come with customisable pcs. there's 21 different combat classes which you can all do on one character so there's always something new to learn and improve upon, but if you want to specialise that's totally cool too! there's raiding obviously but if you're not into that there's all sorts of side things like crafting, fishing (yes this is its own category), housing, island sanctuary, pvp, and so much more i can't even list. the music goes so hard. people are generally super friendly to newcomers and yes it's a meme but there's a super generous trial up to level 70 with no restrictions on playti—

what i should say when i'm trying to get people to play ffxiv: look at this