confirmed fanfic cryptid

The rookie mistake in fiction writing is assuming that short stories will be easier to write than novels because they're smaller. No. This is the equivalent to thinking that it's easier to make a pocket watch than grandfather clock. Short stories are complex engineering problems.

*sniff sniff sniff* ah, i see. you are not an ant.

Got really stoned by accident and been thinking really hard about Coruscant and I have to fucking say something. The concept of a city planet is fucking terrifying on any planet even approaching Earth sized. Imagine if we all right now tried to build a ceiling far above us, higher than the tallest mountains, a ceiling so high it could cover the world? Imagine the little pieces coming up aeons at a time to block out the sun and kill the sky forever for all those people. imagine if every single foot and meter of the new level covering the earth’s space was just endless city. IMAGINE A CITY THE SIZE OF THE WORLD!!! AND THEN YOU FILL IT UP AGAIN AND HAVE TO BUILD ANOTHER ENTIRE PLANET’S SURFACE AREA. IMAGINE IF THERE WAS AN ENTIRE PLANET’S WORTH OF PEOPLE LIVING OVER OUR HEADS HERE ON EARTH RIGHT NOW. WHAT TH FUCK IM FUCKING BOGGLED! THOUSANDS OF LEVELS? THOSE NUMBERS ARE INCOMPREHENSIBLE!!!! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF MANIFESTATION OF A SEETHING COSMIC ELDRITCH BEAST IS AN ECUMENOPOLIS

Let's not cooperate with mama

Always lovely to see how universal the experience of getting a very unwilling and strong minded toddler into the car seat can be.

The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you