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Bedtime Stories from AI: Lessons for Kids
2023.03.22 22:48 No-Distribution-261 Bedtime Stories from AI: Lessons for Kids
Hi everyone!
I've been using AI to create bedtime stories for my children, and I think they're really great! Each story has a valuable lesson that I think other parents and kids could benefit from too.
I'm sharing two of these stories with you today and I would love to hear your thoughts. If you enjoy them, at the bottom of the post, there is a link where you can give me your email and i will send a couple more of these.
Enjoy!
Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's Adventure
Once upon a time, in the dense forests of Africa, there lived a gentle elephant named Toby. Toby had big floppy ears, a long trunk, and a pair of sharp tusks. He loved to spend his days munching on juicy leaves, taking refreshing dips in the nearby river, and playing with his elephant friends.
One day, while Toby was enjoying a lazy afternoon by the river, he noticed a tiny spider named Wido trying to climb up his trunk. "Hey, what are you doing up there?" asked Toby, surprised.
"I'm trying to get to the top of your head to see the view from up there," replied Wido, determinedly.
Toby chuckled. "Well, I can give you a lift if you want."
"Oh, that would be wonderful," said Wido, with a big smile.
Toby carefully lifted Wido with his trunk and placed him on his head. Wido was delighted to see the world from a different perspective, and Toby enjoyed having a new friend to talk to.
As they were admiring the view, they noticed a group of animals in the distance, running frantically. "What's going on over there?" asked Toby, concerned.
Wido squinted her eight tiny eyes. "It looks like they're running away from something."
Without wasting a moment, Toby and Wido rushed to see what was happening. As they got closer, they saw that the animals were being chased by a fierce lion.
"We have to help them," said Toby, bravely.
Wido nodded in agreement. "But how? We're just an elephant and a spider."
Toby looked around and saw a nearby tree with a beehive hanging from its branch. He got an idea. "Wido, do you know how to weave a web?"
"Yes, I do," replied Wido, intrigued.
"Good. We'll use the honey from that beehive to lure the lion away from the other animals, and then you'll weave a web to trap him," explained Toby.
Wido was impressed. "That's a brilliant plan!"
Toby and Wido quickly put their plan into action. Toby broke the beehive with his trunk, and the sweet smell of honey attracted the lion's attention. The lion chased after Toby, while Wido quickly weaved a web in front of him. The lion got trapped in the web, and the other animals were safe.
Toby and Wido looked at each other, proud of what they had accomplished. "We did it!" said Toby, grinning.
Wido smiled. "We make a great team."
As they walked back home, they realized that even though they were different, they had worked together to solve a big problem. "We never have to lose faith in ourselves or each other," said Toby, wise words that he had learned from his wise old grandmother.
Wido nodded. "That's right. With faith, we can accomplish anything."
And so, Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's adventure ended, but their friendship continued to grow stronger with each passing day. From that day on, they knew that they could always count on each other, no matter what.
Kyle and Katie's Big Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kyle. He was a shy and quiet boy who didn't have many friends. Kyle was always nervous about talking to new people and making friends. He attended a school called Bright Minds Academy. It was a big school with a lot of students, but Kyle always felt like he was alone.
One day, while Kyle was exploring the school's library, he stumbled upon a book about outer space. He was fascinated by the book and started reading it. As he was reading, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, that's a cool book!" said the voice.
Kyle turned around and saw a girl named Katie. She had bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.
"Y-yeah," stammered Kyle. "I-I like space."
"Me too!" said Katie. "I'm Katie, by the way. What's your name?"
"I'm Kyle," replied Kyle, feeling a bit more comfortable now that he had met someone who shared his interests.
From that day on, Kyle and Katie became friends. They spent their free time exploring the school and learning new things together. One day, while they were exploring the school's basement, they found a secret door. Curious, they opened the door and found a dark room with a mysterious machine in the center.
"Wow, this is so cool!" exclaimed Katie.
"I don't know," said Kyle nervously. "This looks dangerous."
But before Kyle could say anything else, Katie pressed a button on the machine. Suddenly, the room started to shake, and Kyle and Katie were transported to outer space!
"Woah, this is amazing!" said Katie, looking out of the window at the stars.
But then, they saw a giant asteroid heading towards their spaceship.
"Oh no, what do we do?" cried Kyle.
"I don't know," said Katie, looking scared.
But then, Kyle remembered what he had learned from his space book. He told Katie to help him steer the ship towards the asteroid and to press a button at the right moment.
Together, Kyle and Katie worked to steer the ship towards the asteroid and press the button. They succeeded, and the asteroid was destroyed!
"Wow, we did it!" exclaimed Katie.
"Yeah, we make a great team!" said Kyle, smiling.
As they flew back to earth, Kyle realized that he had made a new friend and that he didn't have to be afraid of making friends anymore. He was grateful for Katie and the adventure they had shared.
The End.
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submitted by No-Distribution-261 to Parents [link] [comments]
I've been using AI to create bedtime stories for my children, and I think they're really great! Each story has a valuable lesson that I think other parents and kids could benefit from too.
I'm sharing two of these stories with you today and I would love to hear your thoughts. If you enjoy them, at the bottom of the post, there is a link where you can give me your email and i will send a couple more of these.
Enjoy!
Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's Adventure
Once upon a time, in the dense forests of Africa, there lived a gentle elephant named Toby. Toby had big floppy ears, a long trunk, and a pair of sharp tusks. He loved to spend his days munching on juicy leaves, taking refreshing dips in the nearby river, and playing with his elephant friends.
One day, while Toby was enjoying a lazy afternoon by the river, he noticed a tiny spider named Wido trying to climb up his trunk. "Hey, what are you doing up there?" asked Toby, surprised.
"I'm trying to get to the top of your head to see the view from up there," replied Wido, determinedly.
Toby chuckled. "Well, I can give you a lift if you want."
"Oh, that would be wonderful," said Wido, with a big smile.
Toby carefully lifted Wido with his trunk and placed him on his head. Wido was delighted to see the world from a different perspective, and Toby enjoyed having a new friend to talk to.
As they were admiring the view, they noticed a group of animals in the distance, running frantically. "What's going on over there?" asked Toby, concerned.
Wido squinted her eight tiny eyes. "It looks like they're running away from something."
Without wasting a moment, Toby and Wido rushed to see what was happening. As they got closer, they saw that the animals were being chased by a fierce lion.
"We have to help them," said Toby, bravely.
Wido nodded in agreement. "But how? We're just an elephant and a spider."
Toby looked around and saw a nearby tree with a beehive hanging from its branch. He got an idea. "Wido, do you know how to weave a web?"
"Yes, I do," replied Wido, intrigued.
"Good. We'll use the honey from that beehive to lure the lion away from the other animals, and then you'll weave a web to trap him," explained Toby.
Wido was impressed. "That's a brilliant plan!"
Toby and Wido quickly put their plan into action. Toby broke the beehive with his trunk, and the sweet smell of honey attracted the lion's attention. The lion chased after Toby, while Wido quickly weaved a web in front of him. The lion got trapped in the web, and the other animals were safe.
Toby and Wido looked at each other, proud of what they had accomplished. "We did it!" said Toby, grinning.
Wido smiled. "We make a great team."
As they walked back home, they realized that even though they were different, they had worked together to solve a big problem. "We never have to lose faith in ourselves or each other," said Toby, wise words that he had learned from his wise old grandmother.
Wido nodded. "That's right. With faith, we can accomplish anything."
And so, Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's adventure ended, but their friendship continued to grow stronger with each passing day. From that day on, they knew that they could always count on each other, no matter what.
Kyle and Katie's Big Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kyle. He was a shy and quiet boy who didn't have many friends. Kyle was always nervous about talking to new people and making friends. He attended a school called Bright Minds Academy. It was a big school with a lot of students, but Kyle always felt like he was alone.
One day, while Kyle was exploring the school's library, he stumbled upon a book about outer space. He was fascinated by the book and started reading it. As he was reading, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, that's a cool book!" said the voice.
Kyle turned around and saw a girl named Katie. She had bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.
"Y-yeah," stammered Kyle. "I-I like space."
"Me too!" said Katie. "I'm Katie, by the way. What's your name?"
"I'm Kyle," replied Kyle, feeling a bit more comfortable now that he had met someone who shared his interests.
From that day on, Kyle and Katie became friends. They spent their free time exploring the school and learning new things together. One day, while they were exploring the school's basement, they found a secret door. Curious, they opened the door and found a dark room with a mysterious machine in the center.
"Wow, this is so cool!" exclaimed Katie.
"I don't know," said Kyle nervously. "This looks dangerous."
But before Kyle could say anything else, Katie pressed a button on the machine. Suddenly, the room started to shake, and Kyle and Katie were transported to outer space!
"Woah, this is amazing!" said Katie, looking out of the window at the stars.
But then, they saw a giant asteroid heading towards their spaceship.
"Oh no, what do we do?" cried Kyle.
"I don't know," said Katie, looking scared.
But then, Kyle remembered what he had learned from his space book. He told Katie to help him steer the ship towards the asteroid and to press a button at the right moment.
Together, Kyle and Katie worked to steer the ship towards the asteroid and press the button. They succeeded, and the asteroid was destroyed!
"Wow, we did it!" exclaimed Katie.
"Yeah, we make a great team!" said Kyle, smiling.
As they flew back to earth, Kyle realized that he had made a new friend and that he didn't have to be afraid of making friends anymore. He was grateful for Katie and the adventure they had shared.
The End.
If these stories interested you, follow the link bellow, give us your email and fill out the Google form. I'll send you additional stories!!!
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2023.03.22 22:38 unsainted The World as you know it...
The battle of the 4 armies was beyond brutal. Beyond a civil war or any other kind of war that had ever graced the planet. The gods watched in mirth and amusement. None were willing to interject too much. Instead, they kept an eye on their experiment and all wanted to see the outcome. Their mirth would be their prison...
As the war raged on, year after year, the chromatic dragons decided that their only hope was to take a side. The debate is that they put their faith in a few brutish Ancient White dragons who double-crossed all of them at the last moment.
The remaining humanoids, creatures, and dragons, dug. Some hibernated, some were caught and culled, some stayed and adapted, and a few with the help of the humanoids of the Underdark were able to push past the mantle of the planet. Through the caverns and underground currents 1200 miles at the thinnest place to find a thriving inner world. A world with adapted races, creatures, and a whole new set and sect of tech, magic, and collaboration.
The 3 Ancient White dragons ruled over the iceball that was once called Pelataria. Their sole intent was to stave off the incursion or intrusion of any other being who made its way topside. They bickered a bit over territory, hordes, and subjects.
The residents that were hardy enough to live topside on the planet were all cold-resistant or had learned to cope with the harsh tundra and moving icebergs that were part of the landscape.
Every few years a small group from the inner world would dare to attempt to kill or catch one of the dragons. 2 years ago, a group of firewards and wizards came forth from the planet. They had pinpointed the lair of the largest of the 3 dragons. The one called GrimHalt in the common tongue, the group attacked quickly and the battle was easily in hand.
With quick work, the gnomes and goblins collaborated with the most potent necromancer in the so-called "Hollow World" to make the dragon appear to be alive to the other 2 dragons. A tactic to make the next attack a surprise. 2 dragons to be felled simultaneously.
The planet's core was warm. The races had become accustomed to the heat in the past 625 years. A new society had to bloom out of despair and necessity. The battle of the 4 armies was still taught in school books and the academies. Everyone was educated here. Not one person could have a life of leisure. There was constant talk and planning of how to retake the topside of the planet. To set things "right with nature" and make the world as it was before the war. The 4 armies had stumbled on to dark magic that tapped into the sacred and profane. The actors upped the ante forcing tech, arcana, and invention into more and more perverse situations until the ultimate weapon was created. A planet-killing device funneled through a space vessel called the Nightmare Cylinder.
As the professor is speaking these words, even this far after it has happened, "Nightmare Cylinder" gives even the heartiest of you a shiver...
The professor, an old balding human, his white hair a stark contrast to his dark brown and leathery skin speaks again.
"Out of the 38 of you assembled here today, we need 5 or 6 of the aptest. Whatever your specialty may be. To come forward, help, and make a foray into the top. "
You look around at your classmates. Some old, some young, all have been training for this moment. Every race, every gender, every walk of life, now all in this place working towards the same goal. Restoration.
The professor squints and adjusts his round spectacles. "Who of you are ready?"
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As the war raged on, year after year, the chromatic dragons decided that their only hope was to take a side. The debate is that they put their faith in a few brutish Ancient White dragons who double-crossed all of them at the last moment.
The remaining humanoids, creatures, and dragons, dug. Some hibernated, some were caught and culled, some stayed and adapted, and a few with the help of the humanoids of the Underdark were able to push past the mantle of the planet. Through the caverns and underground currents 1200 miles at the thinnest place to find a thriving inner world. A world with adapted races, creatures, and a whole new set and sect of tech, magic, and collaboration.
The 3 Ancient White dragons ruled over the iceball that was once called Pelataria. Their sole intent was to stave off the incursion or intrusion of any other being who made its way topside. They bickered a bit over territory, hordes, and subjects.
The residents that were hardy enough to live topside on the planet were all cold-resistant or had learned to cope with the harsh tundra and moving icebergs that were part of the landscape.
Every few years a small group from the inner world would dare to attempt to kill or catch one of the dragons. 2 years ago, a group of firewards and wizards came forth from the planet. They had pinpointed the lair of the largest of the 3 dragons. The one called GrimHalt in the common tongue, the group attacked quickly and the battle was easily in hand.
With quick work, the gnomes and goblins collaborated with the most potent necromancer in the so-called "Hollow World" to make the dragon appear to be alive to the other 2 dragons. A tactic to make the next attack a surprise. 2 dragons to be felled simultaneously.
The planet's core was warm. The races had become accustomed to the heat in the past 625 years. A new society had to bloom out of despair and necessity. The battle of the 4 armies was still taught in school books and the academies. Everyone was educated here. Not one person could have a life of leisure. There was constant talk and planning of how to retake the topside of the planet. To set things "right with nature" and make the world as it was before the war. The 4 armies had stumbled on to dark magic that tapped into the sacred and profane. The actors upped the ante forcing tech, arcana, and invention into more and more perverse situations until the ultimate weapon was created. A planet-killing device funneled through a space vessel called the Nightmare Cylinder.
As the professor is speaking these words, even this far after it has happened, "Nightmare Cylinder" gives even the heartiest of you a shiver...
The professor, an old balding human, his white hair a stark contrast to his dark brown and leathery skin speaks again.
"Out of the 38 of you assembled here today, we need 5 or 6 of the aptest. Whatever your specialty may be. To come forward, help, and make a foray into the top. "
You look around at your classmates. Some old, some young, all have been training for this moment. Every race, every gender, every walk of life, now all in this place working towards the same goal. Restoration.
The professor squints and adjusts his round spectacles. "Who of you are ready?"
2023.03.22 22:29 KorrAn34 [PC windows 98][2000s] Green warty goblin that digs for diamonds underground and farts at enemies using garlic
I will be forever grateful for the creation of reddit if you guys can find this game.
Platform: PC, windows 98
Genre: 2D, side on, grid mining game
Year of release: I believe the 2000s
Graphics: Pixelated (something like Stardew Valley), vibrant colors - the goblin has a highly saturated green face and brown clothing (it is the character that you control), diamonds have various bright colors. While clearing a level there is brown dirt everywhere except for a horizontal stripe at the top where there is grass, a blue sky and a castle to the right if I remember correctly. There is a hud somewhere (at the bottom perhaps?) that shows how many garlic uses you have left (see Gameplay) and how many diamonds you have. The goblin has a pickaxe and digs using simplistic swinging animations, there are soldiers with spears wearing gold and red and mummies wrapped in brown cloth and have yellow eyes in black openings of the wraps. The main menu features a green goblin with a long nose and warts to the left, a spherical cauldron full of bright green bubbling stuff to the right and a fire underneath it and a castle visible in the distance from a window above the cauldron.
Detail: When you press play, the goblin jumps into the cauldron and the first level begins. At the end of each level, a screen with the goblin and an orange background pops up where your score is calculated. Mummies produce sounds that fueled my nightmares as a kid.
Notable characters: Green goblin, soldiers, mummies, red dragons
Gameplay: I believe you start in the top right corner and have to dig through a grid (gravity exists) to collect enough diamonds there which occupy their own grid space, are not inside the dirt blocks and are clearly visible from the start - you know exactly where to go. Unmined blocks have a brighter shade of brown, mined ones are dark (to show that you are making tunnels and there is dirt on the side of the tunnel, the game is from the side view), soldiers wander around and kill you if you touch them but you can collect garlic (similarly to diamonds) to fart and stun them, producing a green cloud. As you progress, the difficulty gets harder and new enemies are introduced - mummies and dragons - as well as blocks that break if you walk on them. I believe you could build ladders to get back up from deeper pits. You as well as soldiers and mummies all occupy a single grid unit but move smoothly without snapping to the grid.
Other details: The interface was in German, I don't know if it was because the game is German or because we did not understand English back in the day and kept pushing random buttons until the game started and may have changed tha language in the settings. The goblin might be a witch but we always called it a goblin. This part I am least certain about - the name started with the letter S or Z
Once again thank you so much in advance.
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Platform: PC, windows 98
Genre: 2D, side on, grid mining game
Year of release: I believe the 2000s
Graphics: Pixelated (something like Stardew Valley), vibrant colors - the goblin has a highly saturated green face and brown clothing (it is the character that you control), diamonds have various bright colors. While clearing a level there is brown dirt everywhere except for a horizontal stripe at the top where there is grass, a blue sky and a castle to the right if I remember correctly. There is a hud somewhere (at the bottom perhaps?) that shows how many garlic uses you have left (see Gameplay) and how many diamonds you have. The goblin has a pickaxe and digs using simplistic swinging animations, there are soldiers with spears wearing gold and red and mummies wrapped in brown cloth and have yellow eyes in black openings of the wraps. The main menu features a green goblin with a long nose and warts to the left, a spherical cauldron full of bright green bubbling stuff to the right and a fire underneath it and a castle visible in the distance from a window above the cauldron.
Detail: When you press play, the goblin jumps into the cauldron and the first level begins. At the end of each level, a screen with the goblin and an orange background pops up where your score is calculated. Mummies produce sounds that fueled my nightmares as a kid.
Notable characters: Green goblin, soldiers, mummies, red dragons
Gameplay: I believe you start in the top right corner and have to dig through a grid (gravity exists) to collect enough diamonds there which occupy their own grid space, are not inside the dirt blocks and are clearly visible from the start - you know exactly where to go. Unmined blocks have a brighter shade of brown, mined ones are dark (to show that you are making tunnels and there is dirt on the side of the tunnel, the game is from the side view), soldiers wander around and kill you if you touch them but you can collect garlic (similarly to diamonds) to fart and stun them, producing a green cloud. As you progress, the difficulty gets harder and new enemies are introduced - mummies and dragons - as well as blocks that break if you walk on them. I believe you could build ladders to get back up from deeper pits. You as well as soldiers and mummies all occupy a single grid unit but move smoothly without snapping to the grid.
Other details: The interface was in German, I don't know if it was because the game is German or because we did not understand English back in the day and kept pushing random buttons until the game started and may have changed tha language in the settings. The goblin might be a witch but we always called it a goblin. This part I am least certain about - the name started with the letter S or Z
Once again thank you so much in advance.
2023.03.22 22:01 No-Distribution-261 Opinions about these bedtime stories for children generated by AI?
Hi everyone! I've let AI write for me two original bedtime stories for my children that i believe are really good. Each story also comes with a lesson.
So I would love to hear your thoughts. Maybe you could read one them to your children!!
If you liked the stories, at the bottom of the post there is a google form where you can send me your email and i will send you some other stories
Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's Adventure
Once upon a time, in the dense forests of Africa, there lived a gentle elephant named Toby. Toby had big floppy ears, a long trunk, and a pair of sharp tusks. He loved to spend his days munching on juicy leaves, taking refreshing dips in the nearby river, and playing with his elephant friends.
One day, while Toby was enjoying a lazy afternoon by the river, he noticed a tiny spider named Wido trying to climb up his trunk. "Hey, what are you doing up there?" asked Toby, surprised.
"I'm trying to get to the top of your head to see the view from up there," replied Wido, determinedly.
Toby chuckled. "Well, I can give you a lift if you want."
"Oh, that would be wonderful," said Wido, with a big smile.
Toby carefully lifted Wido with his trunk and placed him on his head. Wido was delighted to see the world from a different perspective, and Toby enjoyed having a new friend to talk to.
As they were admiring the view, they noticed a group of animals in the distance, running frantically. "What's going on over there?" asked Toby, concerned.
Wido squinted her eight tiny eyes. "It looks like they're running away from something."
Without wasting a moment, Toby and Wido rushed to see what was happening. As they got closer, they saw that the animals were being chased by a fierce lion.
"We have to help them," said Toby, bravely.
Wido nodded in agreement. "But how? We're just an elephant and a spider."
Toby looked around and saw a nearby tree with a beehive hanging from its branch. He got an idea. "Wido, do you know how to weave a web?"
"Yes, I do," replied Wido, intrigued.
"Good. We'll use the honey from that beehive to lure the lion away from the other animals, and then you'll weave a web to trap him," explained Toby.
Wido was impressed. "That's a brilliant plan!"
Toby and Wido quickly put their plan into action. Toby broke the beehive with his trunk, and the sweet smell of honey attracted the lion's attention. The lion chased after Toby, while Wido quickly weaved a web in front of him. The lion got trapped in the web, and the other animals were safe.
Toby and Wido looked at each other, proud of what they had accomplished. "We did it!" said Toby, grinning.
Wido smiled. "We make a great team."
As they walked back home, they realized that even though they were different, they had worked together to solve a big problem. "We never have to lose faith in ourselves or each other," said Toby, wise words that he had learned from his wise old grandmother.
Wido nodded. "That's right. With faith, we can accomplish anything."
And so, Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's adventure ended, but their friendship continued to grow stronger with each passing day. From that day on, they knew that they could always count on each other, no matter what.
Kyle and Katie's Big Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kyle. He was a shy and quiet boy who didn't have many friends. Kyle was always nervous about talking to new people and making friends. He attended a school called Bright Minds Academy. It was a big school with a lot of students, but Kyle always felt like he was alone.
One day, while Kyle was exploring the school's library, he stumbled upon a book about outer space. He was fascinated by the book and started reading it. As he was reading, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, that's a cool book!" said the voice.
Kyle turned around and saw a girl named Katie. She had bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.
"Y-yeah," stammered Kyle. "I-I like space."
"Me too!" said Katie. "I'm Katie, by the way. What's your name?"
"I'm Kyle," replied Kyle, feeling a bit more comfortable now that he had met someone who shared his interests.
From that day on, Kyle and Katie became friends. They spent their free time exploring the school and learning new things together. One day, while they were exploring the school's basement, they found a secret door. Curious, they opened the door and found a dark room with a mysterious machine in the center.
"Wow, this is so cool!" exclaimed Katie.
"I don't know," said Kyle nervously. "This looks dangerous."
But before Kyle could say anything else, Katie pressed a button on the machine. Suddenly, the room started to shake, and Kyle and Katie were transported to outer space!
"Woah, this is amazing!" said Katie, looking out of the window at the stars.
But then, they saw a giant asteroid heading towards their spaceship.
"Oh no, what do we do?" cried Kyle.
"I don't know," said Katie, looking scared.
But then, Kyle remembered what he had learned from his space book. He told Katie to help him steer the ship towards the asteroid and to press a button at the right moment.
Together, Kyle and Katie worked to steer the ship towards the asteroid and press the button. They succeeded, and the asteroid was destroyed!
"Wow, we did it!" exclaimed Katie.
"Yeah, we make a great team!" said Kyle, smiling.
As they flew back to earth, Kyle realized that he had made a new friend and that he didn't have to be afraid of making friends anymore. He was grateful for Katie and the adventure they had shared.
The End.
If these stories interested you, follow the link bellow, give us your email and fill out the Google form. I'll send you additional stories!!!
Click this to acces the google Form
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So I would love to hear your thoughts. Maybe you could read one them to your children!!
If you liked the stories, at the bottom of the post there is a google form where you can send me your email and i will send you some other stories
Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's Adventure
Once upon a time, in the dense forests of Africa, there lived a gentle elephant named Toby. Toby had big floppy ears, a long trunk, and a pair of sharp tusks. He loved to spend his days munching on juicy leaves, taking refreshing dips in the nearby river, and playing with his elephant friends.
One day, while Toby was enjoying a lazy afternoon by the river, he noticed a tiny spider named Wido trying to climb up his trunk. "Hey, what are you doing up there?" asked Toby, surprised.
"I'm trying to get to the top of your head to see the view from up there," replied Wido, determinedly.
Toby chuckled. "Well, I can give you a lift if you want."
"Oh, that would be wonderful," said Wido, with a big smile.
Toby carefully lifted Wido with his trunk and placed him on his head. Wido was delighted to see the world from a different perspective, and Toby enjoyed having a new friend to talk to.
As they were admiring the view, they noticed a group of animals in the distance, running frantically. "What's going on over there?" asked Toby, concerned.
Wido squinted her eight tiny eyes. "It looks like they're running away from something."
Without wasting a moment, Toby and Wido rushed to see what was happening. As they got closer, they saw that the animals were being chased by a fierce lion.
"We have to help them," said Toby, bravely.
Wido nodded in agreement. "But how? We're just an elephant and a spider."
Toby looked around and saw a nearby tree with a beehive hanging from its branch. He got an idea. "Wido, do you know how to weave a web?"
"Yes, I do," replied Wido, intrigued.
"Good. We'll use the honey from that beehive to lure the lion away from the other animals, and then you'll weave a web to trap him," explained Toby.
Wido was impressed. "That's a brilliant plan!"
Toby and Wido quickly put their plan into action. Toby broke the beehive with his trunk, and the sweet smell of honey attracted the lion's attention. The lion chased after Toby, while Wido quickly weaved a web in front of him. The lion got trapped in the web, and the other animals were safe.
Toby and Wido looked at each other, proud of what they had accomplished. "We did it!" said Toby, grinning.
Wido smiled. "We make a great team."
As they walked back home, they realized that even though they were different, they had worked together to solve a big problem. "We never have to lose faith in ourselves or each other," said Toby, wise words that he had learned from his wise old grandmother.
Wido nodded. "That's right. With faith, we can accomplish anything."
And so, Toby the Elephant and Wido the Spider's adventure ended, but their friendship continued to grow stronger with each passing day. From that day on, they knew that they could always count on each other, no matter what.
Kyle and Katie's Big Adventure
Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kyle. He was a shy and quiet boy who didn't have many friends. Kyle was always nervous about talking to new people and making friends. He attended a school called Bright Minds Academy. It was a big school with a lot of students, but Kyle always felt like he was alone.
One day, while Kyle was exploring the school's library, he stumbled upon a book about outer space. He was fascinated by the book and started reading it. As he was reading, he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, that's a cool book!" said the voice.
Kyle turned around and saw a girl named Katie. She had bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.
"Y-yeah," stammered Kyle. "I-I like space."
"Me too!" said Katie. "I'm Katie, by the way. What's your name?"
"I'm Kyle," replied Kyle, feeling a bit more comfortable now that he had met someone who shared his interests.
From that day on, Kyle and Katie became friends. They spent their free time exploring the school and learning new things together. One day, while they were exploring the school's basement, they found a secret door. Curious, they opened the door and found a dark room with a mysterious machine in the center.
"Wow, this is so cool!" exclaimed Katie.
"I don't know," said Kyle nervously. "This looks dangerous."
But before Kyle could say anything else, Katie pressed a button on the machine. Suddenly, the room started to shake, and Kyle and Katie were transported to outer space!
"Woah, this is amazing!" said Katie, looking out of the window at the stars.
But then, they saw a giant asteroid heading towards their spaceship.
"Oh no, what do we do?" cried Kyle.
"I don't know," said Katie, looking scared.
But then, Kyle remembered what he had learned from his space book. He told Katie to help him steer the ship towards the asteroid and to press a button at the right moment.
Together, Kyle and Katie worked to steer the ship towards the asteroid and press the button. They succeeded, and the asteroid was destroyed!
"Wow, we did it!" exclaimed Katie.
"Yeah, we make a great team!" said Kyle, smiling.
As they flew back to earth, Kyle realized that he had made a new friend and that he didn't have to be afraid of making friends anymore. He was grateful for Katie and the adventure they had shared.
The End.
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2023.03.22 21:50 fleet-as-a-fox 36 [M4F] Chicago/Online handsome former athlete looking for fun and flirty
6'1. Former athlete. Bearded. Fit. Blue eyes. Dark brown hair.
Into hiking, camping, traveling, volunteer work, working out, trying new things, photography, and good beer.
I'm open minded, affectionate, straight forward, kink friendly, curious, adventure seeking, and well traveled.
Politically left. Easy going.
I'm looking for stimulating conversation and banter and if you look at my other posts, other things as well.
Chat or message works for me.
Have plenty of photos and video chatting available as well.
Let's skip the boring small talk. Here's some fun ice breakers.
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Into hiking, camping, traveling, volunteer work, working out, trying new things, photography, and good beer.
I'm open minded, affectionate, straight forward, kink friendly, curious, adventure seeking, and well traveled.
Politically left. Easy going.
I'm looking for stimulating conversation and banter and if you look at my other posts, other things as well.
Chat or message works for me.
Have plenty of photos and video chatting available as well.
Let's skip the boring small talk. Here's some fun ice breakers.
- Would you ever have a threesome?
- Dream place to travel?
- Biggest turn on for you?
2023.03.22 21:47 CaptainRobbed Best place to find 60's vintage style clothes
I keep getting served ads on IG and FB about Oxknit.com. I like the style of the shirts but I can't help but feel hesitant about the quality. I am struggling to find much information about the company online.
What I really like is the 60's vintage style like this and this. I was curious if you all have any recommendations for brands that have a similar style. The alternative is hoping to find some treasures in the local thrift stores. Thanks!
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What I really like is the 60's vintage style like this and this. I was curious if you all have any recommendations for brands that have a similar style. The alternative is hoping to find some treasures in the local thrift stores. Thanks!
2023.03.22 21:47 Lord_of_Thus The Nature of Minecrafters - Chapter 4
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Memory Transcription Subject: Shasha, arxur student at the AIS
Date [Standardized human time]: June 24, 2161
The first thing to greet me on the AIS Minecraft Server was a menu. My avatar was a blocky arxur with a pixelated texture generated from my student ID photograph. Luckily I was able to fix up that texture a bit but I still downloaded it to give it a better workover later.
I spawned into the world. Apparently I was on some kind of balcony overlooking a quite large town. It had no cohesive style whatsoever. One building could have come from an arxur history book, the next wouldn't be amiss today on a former federal world and the one beside that was basically a mashup of a Gojid fortification and at least three different human religious buildings.
The streets were busy but not overcrowded and while most traveled on foot some had mounts, based on earth animals. The skies were similarly but less busy, with flying species and the occasional flying mount. And… was that guy rowing a golden boat through the air?
I looked around the room and saw the glances of amazement in my dormmates eyes. In-game the square sun started to set. The others had gathered around me and we're staring at the town as well.
"All right, have you looked enough? We still have some paperwork to file."
With that said I turned around and looked at the building. It was like a massive fantasy castle but with a kind of cyberpunk aesthetic. All over the towers were lights in any and all colors. On a screen that actually gave off light it looked even more amazing than the comics I had read back home.
Following a wide staircase down I reached the immigrations hall. Large screens informed me of where to go to receive full player status. The paperwork included a few questions on general server rules, Netiquette and some personal questions. After a couple of minutes I was trough and left on the other side.
Bill and Bob, who must have entered immigrations after me, were already out waiting in front of a fountain. I sat down beside them and we waited for the others who exited shortly after me. This side of the spawn building looked more like a massive park, with fountains and statues and some trees. Once we all had gathered we made our way over to the guild registry.
The building itself looked like a wealthy artisans house straight out of a fantasy rpg’s illustration. The humans did the actual work here, the others and I just endorsed the funding of our guild called ‘The Thrilling Three’. Of course we were six not three but we hadn’t thought about it and now had to come up with a name on the spot.
Leaving the guild registry we headed over the town arsenal, a relatively unassuming building of muted pastel yellow sandstone. Inside we received some initial gear: tools, mostly of wood, but a single pickaxe of stone, wooden swords, bows and some arrows as well as armor of leather and cotton. Additionally each of us received a full stack of bread each. With this equipment we set off towards the spawn town’s nether portal.
This part of town was much busier than the previous parts. Dozens of people came out of the portal station and just as much got in. The portal itself was inside an underground station, accessible by two stairwells, one for people going to the portal the other for those coming from it. The actual portal chamber was large and except for the floor dimly lit. Our group approached the purple swirls. People before us vanished while others appeared. Our turn.
The purple engulfed me. Aaaaaand… Loading screen!
Moments later we were down in the nether. The portal chamber looked pretty much like the one in the overworld, except the brickwork was red instead of gray. And just like there we were out with the masses within moments. The stairs down were shorter this time and ended in an area overlooking multiple platforms for trains going in all directions. Bob and Bill told us to wait before going down to one of the platforms.
“Any Idea what Bill and Bob are up to?”
“Well” Sorkol said “They mentioned something about knowing server staff…”
“We are” “still in the” “same room” “as y’all,” “you know?” they reminded us “And yes” “we’re talking” “to a friend” “to get us a nice” ”piece of land.”
“May I please have some more garlic bread?” Liria asked.
“Sure” “anyone else?” Bill and Bob responded. And this time I tried some too. Delicious. Now I need to find someone nice to figure out whether it’s truly better than sex. But at least in theory they’re humans and no known species has a libido as strong as them.
A minute or so later they reemerged and beckoned us to follow to the southwards express platform. A train designated 'special service' entered shortly after us. Bill and Bob gave each of us a ticket and we boarded that train.
It started slowly, taking a quite confusing way through turns, climbs and points. Then we reached a straight line of two parallel rails stretching into the distance and the train started accelerating.
The rather boring dark red of the tunnel was soon replaced by a glass corridor allowing a full view of the nether caverns. Below lay an ocean of lava above floated massive ghasts. The ocean flew by in a matter of moments. Between a coast of black rock with a massive lava river and a turquoise forest lay a little village of weird people Bob and Bill called piglins.
But it all flew by in moments. Different forest, lava ocean, tunnel through a red wall of rock. All interspersed with piglins, skeletons, ghasts and magma cubes as well as the occasional station for the slow rails meandering below us. It began to drag on. Another twenty or so minutes later the train started to slow down again.
Another minute or two later we arrived at the half finished station. Instead of intricate lanterns this was lit by torches and candles. Half the walls were missing and exposed various conduits, tubes and pipes. The portal back to the overworld just regular size in a room clearly meant to upsize later. It wasn’t even connected to the central area by stairs but a simple ladder. But this time I was able to see what was up in the upper levels of the chamber: several platforms, some with oversized crossbows mounted to them. A defensive installment.
Another purple journey into a loading screen later, we reappeared in the overworld. The station was just a hole in the ground with a ladder leading out. Nothing more. Up on the surface however there was a small outpost surrounded by a fence. A forge, a storehouse and some houses as well as an empty lot designated ‘tavern’.
Bill and Bob seemed to have an idea of where to head from here so we all just followed. Any question about our destination was just met with “You’ll see” from one, both or the other. And after about one ingame day we saw. Right at the coast of an ocean stood a single, almost needle shaped mountain.
“Our idea was” “hollowing the whole thing out” “add a lake to the top” “with a glass bottom” “and then just build rooms into the side!” the human twins explained.
“And maybe a harbor on the ground…” Sorkol mused.
“And a lighthouse on top” Liria finished.
I looked over at Kalsa. “Sounds good to me, how about you?”
“Sure, as long as I get some balconies to fly off,” she answered.
And so we had found our home in the marvelous world of Minecraft.
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Memory Transcription Subject: Shasha, arxur student at the AIS
Date [Standardized human time]: June 24, 2161
The first thing to greet me on the AIS Minecraft Server was a menu. My avatar was a blocky arxur with a pixelated texture generated from my student ID photograph. Luckily I was able to fix up that texture a bit but I still downloaded it to give it a better workover later.
I spawned into the world. Apparently I was on some kind of balcony overlooking a quite large town. It had no cohesive style whatsoever. One building could have come from an arxur history book, the next wouldn't be amiss today on a former federal world and the one beside that was basically a mashup of a Gojid fortification and at least three different human religious buildings.
The streets were busy but not overcrowded and while most traveled on foot some had mounts, based on earth animals. The skies were similarly but less busy, with flying species and the occasional flying mount. And… was that guy rowing a golden boat through the air?
I looked around the room and saw the glances of amazement in my dormmates eyes. In-game the square sun started to set. The others had gathered around me and we're staring at the town as well.
"All right, have you looked enough? We still have some paperwork to file."
With that said I turned around and looked at the building. It was like a massive fantasy castle but with a kind of cyberpunk aesthetic. All over the towers were lights in any and all colors. On a screen that actually gave off light it looked even more amazing than the comics I had read back home.
Following a wide staircase down I reached the immigrations hall. Large screens informed me of where to go to receive full player status. The paperwork included a few questions on general server rules, Netiquette and some personal questions. After a couple of minutes I was trough and left on the other side.
Bill and Bob, who must have entered immigrations after me, were already out waiting in front of a fountain. I sat down beside them and we waited for the others who exited shortly after me. This side of the spawn building looked more like a massive park, with fountains and statues and some trees. Once we all had gathered we made our way over to the guild registry.
The building itself looked like a wealthy artisans house straight out of a fantasy rpg’s illustration. The humans did the actual work here, the others and I just endorsed the funding of our guild called ‘The Thrilling Three’. Of course we were six not three but we hadn’t thought about it and now had to come up with a name on the spot.
Leaving the guild registry we headed over the town arsenal, a relatively unassuming building of muted pastel yellow sandstone. Inside we received some initial gear: tools, mostly of wood, but a single pickaxe of stone, wooden swords, bows and some arrows as well as armor of leather and cotton. Additionally each of us received a full stack of bread each. With this equipment we set off towards the spawn town’s nether portal.
This part of town was much busier than the previous parts. Dozens of people came out of the portal station and just as much got in. The portal itself was inside an underground station, accessible by two stairwells, one for people going to the portal the other for those coming from it. The actual portal chamber was large and except for the floor dimly lit. Our group approached the purple swirls. People before us vanished while others appeared. Our turn.
The purple engulfed me. Aaaaaand… Loading screen!
Moments later we were down in the nether. The portal chamber looked pretty much like the one in the overworld, except the brickwork was red instead of gray. And just like there we were out with the masses within moments. The stairs down were shorter this time and ended in an area overlooking multiple platforms for trains going in all directions. Bob and Bill told us to wait before going down to one of the platforms.
“Any Idea what Bill and Bob are up to?”
“Well” Sorkol said “They mentioned something about knowing server staff…”
“We are” “still in the” “same room” “as y’all,” “you know?” they reminded us “And yes” “we’re talking” “to a friend” “to get us a nice” ”piece of land.”
“May I please have some more garlic bread?” Liria asked.
“Sure” “anyone else?” Bill and Bob responded. And this time I tried some too. Delicious. Now I need to find someone nice to figure out whether it’s truly better than sex. But at least in theory they’re humans and no known species has a libido as strong as them.
A minute or so later they reemerged and beckoned us to follow to the southwards express platform. A train designated 'special service' entered shortly after us. Bill and Bob gave each of us a ticket and we boarded that train.
It started slowly, taking a quite confusing way through turns, climbs and points. Then we reached a straight line of two parallel rails stretching into the distance and the train started accelerating.
The rather boring dark red of the tunnel was soon replaced by a glass corridor allowing a full view of the nether caverns. Below lay an ocean of lava above floated massive ghasts. The ocean flew by in a matter of moments. Between a coast of black rock with a massive lava river and a turquoise forest lay a little village of weird people Bob and Bill called piglins.
But it all flew by in moments. Different forest, lava ocean, tunnel through a red wall of rock. All interspersed with piglins, skeletons, ghasts and magma cubes as well as the occasional station for the slow rails meandering below us. It began to drag on. Another twenty or so minutes later the train started to slow down again.
Another minute or two later we arrived at the half finished station. Instead of intricate lanterns this was lit by torches and candles. Half the walls were missing and exposed various conduits, tubes and pipes. The portal back to the overworld just regular size in a room clearly meant to upsize later. It wasn’t even connected to the central area by stairs but a simple ladder. But this time I was able to see what was up in the upper levels of the chamber: several platforms, some with oversized crossbows mounted to them. A defensive installment.
Another purple journey into a loading screen later, we reappeared in the overworld. The station was just a hole in the ground with a ladder leading out. Nothing more. Up on the surface however there was a small outpost surrounded by a fence. A forge, a storehouse and some houses as well as an empty lot designated ‘tavern’.
Bill and Bob seemed to have an idea of where to head from here so we all just followed. Any question about our destination was just met with “You’ll see” from one, both or the other. And after about one ingame day we saw. Right at the coast of an ocean stood a single, almost needle shaped mountain.
“Our idea was” “hollowing the whole thing out” “add a lake to the top” “with a glass bottom” “and then just build rooms into the side!” the human twins explained.
“And maybe a harbor on the ground…” Sorkol mused.
“And a lighthouse on top” Liria finished.
I looked over at Kalsa. “Sounds good to me, how about you?”
“Sure, as long as I get some balconies to fly off,” she answered.
And so we had found our home in the marvelous world of Minecraft.
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2023.03.22 21:43 SWOTTDom 27 [M4F] #Ottawa Potent Seed for Fertile Womb
Let’s start with a little about me and hopefully you’ll see that I am the man who should be the father of your children. I am 27 years old and 6'3. I am of English descent and a 2nd generation Canadian. I have short dark brown hair, beard, and eyes. I also wear glasses.
I am a caring, honest, respectable man with a quick wit and a logical mind.
I'm educated, with an undergrad and post-grad under my belt, but not afraid to get my hands dirty. I'm gainfully employed in my field.
I enjoy cooking, soccer, volunteering, podcasts, board games, and history. I enjoy cooking many different types of food but I am by no means a chef. I support England and a local club in soccer. In the theme of european sports I also enjoy Formula 1 but don't cheer for any of the English or Canadian drivers. I enjoy volunteering with local organizations when I have the time. My favourite period of history to learn about is the Roman Empire. As for board games I have a collection too big to name.
I have had the chance to travel through a lot of the US and have been to England as well. My ideal vacation is sitting by the beach and swimming in the ocean.
I am a dominant; I believe that caring for your partner and them putting their faith in you to do so is the greatest act of dominance and love possible. I would say some of my kinks are impact play, (affectionate) domination, aftercare, breeding/impregnation, cunnilingus, bondage, and massages.
I am also committed to being a better, healthier me for this new relationship so I have started to spend time swimming and working out (weights/cardio) every day.
What am I looking for?
I am at the point in my life when I am interested in settling down with someone special. I am not looking for a ONS, hookup, or casual dating. I would like someone local or someone who already intends to make a move to the area in the near future. I am adverse to relocating myself as I recently moved back to Ottawa to be closer to some aging family with the intent of putting some roots down in the city. I want to purchase a house in the not too distant future that will be my/our home where we could raise a family.
I am looking for a partner who naturally is submissive and wants her partner to take the lead. If we share other specific kinks/fetishes that would be fantastic as well.
In my experience I do not have a simple "type" physically. My ideal partner is 18-24 though I am open to women above that age up to 30. I want a partner who is working or who has finished or close to finishing their education (whatever level it may be). I want someone who wants to put love and family first. Preference for someone who wants a large family (3-4+ kids). Hopefully you have interests/hobbies/passions as I love passionate people.
My match will have taken the time to read this post in its entirety (probably more than once) so if you did make it this far please have your message include the word "turtle" in it.
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I am a caring, honest, respectable man with a quick wit and a logical mind.
I'm educated, with an undergrad and post-grad under my belt, but not afraid to get my hands dirty. I'm gainfully employed in my field.
I enjoy cooking, soccer, volunteering, podcasts, board games, and history. I enjoy cooking many different types of food but I am by no means a chef. I support England and a local club in soccer. In the theme of european sports I also enjoy Formula 1 but don't cheer for any of the English or Canadian drivers. I enjoy volunteering with local organizations when I have the time. My favourite period of history to learn about is the Roman Empire. As for board games I have a collection too big to name.
I have had the chance to travel through a lot of the US and have been to England as well. My ideal vacation is sitting by the beach and swimming in the ocean.
I am a dominant; I believe that caring for your partner and them putting their faith in you to do so is the greatest act of dominance and love possible. I would say some of my kinks are impact play, (affectionate) domination, aftercare, breeding/impregnation, cunnilingus, bondage, and massages.
I am also committed to being a better, healthier me for this new relationship so I have started to spend time swimming and working out (weights/cardio) every day.
What am I looking for?
I am at the point in my life when I am interested in settling down with someone special. I am not looking for a ONS, hookup, or casual dating. I would like someone local or someone who already intends to make a move to the area in the near future. I am adverse to relocating myself as I recently moved back to Ottawa to be closer to some aging family with the intent of putting some roots down in the city. I want to purchase a house in the not too distant future that will be my/our home where we could raise a family.
I am looking for a partner who naturally is submissive and wants her partner to take the lead. If we share other specific kinks/fetishes that would be fantastic as well.
In my experience I do not have a simple "type" physically. My ideal partner is 18-24 though I am open to women above that age up to 30. I want a partner who is working or who has finished or close to finishing their education (whatever level it may be). I want someone who wants to put love and family first. Preference for someone who wants a large family (3-4+ kids). Hopefully you have interests/hobbies/passions as I love passionate people.
My match will have taken the time to read this post in its entirety (probably more than once) so if you did make it this far please have your message include the word "turtle" in it.
2023.03.22 21:32 Simonistan_for_real Goddess among goths ( plz provide feedback in this WIP story 🥺 )
With a pounding headache I sat up, muttering to myself as I looked about the room. There were people staring in disbelief and shocked, i sprang up and flew over to the nearest corner which I cowered in.``My goodness Harker, put down that letter opener, at once” The firm voice of a woman spoke and I sucked in lungfuls of air as a man put away a short blade which he had held in a defensive manner towards my person. But the reality of the situation bore down upon my mind and my eyes shut as I drifted into sudden unconsciousness. Commotion awoke me many hours later and I found myself bound to a couch by great leather straps and belts. Though with my vision obstructed by my not yet fully opened eyes, I spied the silhouette of a maid across the room by the door whom looked back at me with a set face and her arms neatly clasped behind her frame. "She is awake, doctor" The maid proclaimed with slight nervousness in her tone though she kept her stoic demeanor as a man came into view before my eyes. Shocked, I attempted to move about but bound by the leather belts that bore uncomfortably into my skin, I was restrained. "Young woman, please ease yourself. My name is doctor Van Helsing and I shall not harm you" The elderly man said as he stowed away his Coke-bottle glasses in his dark coat as he loosened the belts to allow me to move a little. "Feeling better now? Good, now may i ask for your name, young lady?" I nodded as i straightened myself and relaxed my muscles. "Izae '' I sighed through dry lips, spying my cap and leather satchel on the table next to me, untampered with, it seemed. I sighed in contemplation as I felt my Asparian Revolutionary Socialist Party member cart still in my breast pocket. I felt a sudden fear that they had discovered Simonov's revolver and believed it to be mine. Strangely it dawned upon me that something was amiss. This was not Simonistan. This was somewhere else. Judging from the ornate furniture and with trembling hands I realized i had gone back in time, maybe hundreds of years before Simonistan existed. “Dr. Van Helsing, dinner is ready. Miss Mina and Harker are awaiting in the living room ” The maid said, causing the doctor’s expression to change from curious puzzlement to slight surprise which confused me greatly. “Say miss Izael,would you like to attend the dinner with us?” I nodded as I felt a terrible hunger gripping my stomach. The doctor and maid seemed contempt with my agreeing nods and moved to free from the leathery shackles that kept me to the couch. I got to sit up, moving about my arms and legs to enact a proper blood flow to my numb limps. Adjusting the collar of my uniform and grabbing my visor cap which sat on the table, I stood before Dr. Van Helsing and the maid who turned to face the door but whom seemed to sense my caution as my hand began to reach for my Koubila which had been placed on the table whilst i was still unconscious. Van Helsing’s face garnered a additional wrinkle as he raised an eyebrow at me, causing me to seize my action and freeze in place. “Do you believe it necessary to carry a weapon, dear?” My eyes swept from Helsing’s stern gaze to my outstretched fingers. “It is not necessary but preferable, Van Helsing. could I be allowed the courtesy of bringing my blade with me?”
Moments later we descended the grand staircase of the house which the polite Doctor Abraham Van Helsing had told me was a manor. I had much to ask and discuss but consigned my thoughts and burning questions to later moments which could be more beneficial to make use of.
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Moments later we descended the grand staircase of the house which the polite Doctor Abraham Van Helsing had told me was a manor. I had much to ask and discuss but consigned my thoughts and burning questions to later moments which could be more beneficial to make use of.
2023.03.22 21:31 JewelerMinimum6418 IF YOU TAP YOU WILL CUM
 | IF YOU TAP YOU WILL CUMIF YOU TAP YOU WILL CUMIF YOU TAP YOU WILL CUMhttps://i.redd.it/4ykh588wocpa1.gif This story continues on directly after my previous story, Two Fridays – Part 1. In the morning I woke up, and wondered if it had all been a dream. My come-stained shirt, lying in the corner near the head of my bed, where I had tossed it before getting in, showed one thing- the part about wanking myself was certainly true, but what about the rest? I showered and put on fresh clothes for the day, and a short time later, Tina came to join me at breakfast, straight from her bed, and wearing her nightie and brunch coat. Although as usual, we talked and chattered over breakfast, Tina said nothing about last night, which suggested to me that maybe I just dreamt it, but it all seemed so real. Then, if it was real, and Tina showed no sign it ever happened, that probably meant she was ashamed, and it certainly meant it wasn’t going to happen again. I thought it was best not to bring the subject up, unless Tina did it first. I noticed that, straight after breakfast, and before she even had a shower, Tina stripped her bed and took her sheets to the laundry, putting them straight in the washing machine, but even that wasn’t unusual for her. Our mother was still having her Saturday morning sleep-in, and as Tina walked from the laundry, our eyes met, but she said nothing out of the ordinary. The entire weekend went by, with no hint of anything from Tina, but a couple of times when her door was shut, I had to wonder if she was in there, touching herself like she had done for me, pleasuring herself the way she had done on Friday night, and my throat would go dry, and that familiar need to take matters in hand would make itself known. I masturbated twice that Sunday without using a porn magazine for inspiration, just re-running the events of Friday night in my head. Monday, of course, was a school day, and after school, Tina and I caught the same bus home as usual, but when we got off at our stop, I saw Tina walking with Katy in the direction of Katy’s house. I went home and changed into some shorts and a casual shirt, did a little half-hearted work on a school assignment due later in the week, and then watched some TV. Tina came in the back door, about an hour after I got home, still in her school uniform, and as soon as she walked into the family room, she said, “Look at this.” She reached into her school backpack, took out a DVD case, and handed it to me. I could see straight away it was a porn movie, and the title on the front was Heatwave at Station 69. There was a picture on the front, of a busty, bare-breasted blonde girl, wearing an open fireman’s jacket over stockings, suspenders and white lace panties, and holding the metal end of a firehose, the way a girl would hold a man’s cock when she was giving him a hand job. I turned it over and on the back there were some stills from the movie, and it said, Things heat up all over when a charm school for young ladies opens up next door to a Louisiana fire station. Polish your helmet and you can come, too. Let’s all go for a ride-along with these good old boys and their southern belles “Where’d you get that?” I said, handing it back to Tina. I couldn’t help smiling. “Katy,” she answered, cheerfully, “She was snooping around in her father’s bedside table and found it in the drawer with some other ones. She didn’t think he’d notice if she borrowed one for a few days.” “What are you gonna do with it?” I asked, chuckling. “Watch it, Dickhead. What do you normally do with movies?” Tina smiled, “When Mum’s not home, of course.” She took the DVD, and went to her room, and came out a few minutes later with some jeans and a pink top on, and watched TV with me until our mother came home from work. The week went by, and almost before I knew it, Friday night came around again. I forgot all about the porn DVD, and as usual on a Friday night, after cooking us our dinner, our mother got dolled up and left in a taxi to go and meet her unofficial boyfriend, Steve. I don’t know why, but for some reason, although she had him over a few times, and he got on okay with Tina and me, she never let him stay the night, and didn’t like anyone referring to him as her boyfriend. Women can be strange sometimes. Tina was wearing a short skirt, made of white denim, and a cream coloured top, with short sleeves and a square neckline that showed some of her modest cleavage, and her hair was in its usual ponytail. We sat and watched some comedy shows on TV, and then after they ended, I looked at the TV guide, to see if there was anything worth watching. One channel had a rerun of Dirty Dancing, but I’d seen that at least half a dozen times, and there was nothing interesting on any of the other channels. Tina came in from the kitchen and said, “What’s on?” “Crap,” I said, “Dirty Dancing is on but not much else.” “Patrick Swayze’s a hunk, but I’ve seen it so many times I can practically recite the script,” Tina said, without much interest. She sat on the couch next to me, and said, “Hey, let’s watch that dirty movie.” She was smiling, a little mischievously. “Okay,” I smiled. I’d forgotten about it, but Tina got up and went down the hall to her room, and came back a minute later. When she bent to put the DVD in the player, I caught a glimpse of pink cotton panties under her short skirt. She came to the couch, kicked off her sandals, and sat next to me. Like any guy my age, I had seen a few porn DVD’s, but to be honest, I had never watched one right through, because I usually got so horny I had to wank myself before it was over. This one went for forty minutes, and like most dirty movies, it showed people fucking missionary style, doggy style, cowgirl, there were pussies licked, cocks sucked, even a lesbian threesome with two female firefighters, and a girl from the charm school. As usual, the flimsy plot was only there to link a series of sex scenes together, but it was a pretty arousing movie. A few times, I looked over at Tina, and her eyes were glued to the movie, and if it was making me horny, I wondered about how it was affecting her. She had not said a word all week about last Friday night, but I still wondered about that, too. I didn’t know how many dirty movies Tina had seen, but I doubt if this was her first. During the movie, there was one scene where a fireman named Johnny Hardacre had arrived for work in his old pickup, and the principal of the charm school, a voluptuous redhead called Miss Vee, was waiting for him outside the fire station. She was wearing a big, floppy sunhat, and she said, “Mister Hardacre, I’ve been waitin’ for you.” The fireman slammed the pickup door, and strode over to her, kissing her, hot and hard on the mouth, and when they broke their kiss, Miss Vee had said, “Why don’t y’all come next door for a while, Mister Hard-acre? I got a li’l ol’ fire burnin’ inside, that needs some of yo’ ex-pert attention.” The two characters had kissed passionately, with lots of tongue, and plenty of mouth exploration, and had then gone next door, leading to a hot sex scene in Miss Vee’s living quarters, where Mister Hardacre had licked Miss Vee’s pussy, she had sucked his cock, and they had fucked missionary, legs over the shoulder, and then doggy style. Mister Hardacre had finished up by coming on her back, and his cock was massive. There were plenty of close-ups of the action, not just in this scene, but right through the entire move, and seeing those pussies being licked, especially in the lesbian scenes, had its effect on me. After the movie, Tina got up as the credits rolled, and walked down the hallway towards our mother’s bedroom. I was taking the DVD out of the player when she came back in the room, wearing a big, floppy sunhat that belonged to our mother, and it was very similar to the one that Miss Vee was wearing in the movie. Tina stood at the doorway, in her short, white skirt, and cream top, with that floppy sunhat on her head, and standing in the same provocative way that Miss Vee had done in the movie, she said, “Mister Hardacre, I’ve been waitin’ for you.” She even nailed the southern accent. I stood at the TV stand, and chuckled, and Tina said, “You be Johnny Hardacre, and I’ll be Miss Vee.” I stood there, looking at her, and she said, “Come on. Kiss me like he did in the movie.” I said, “Well, he slams the door, and …,” then I strode over to Tina, taking hold of her like Johnny Hardacre had taken hold of Miss Vee in the movie, and I kissed her, trying to do it like the fireman had kissed Miss Vee. Naturally, I felt a wave of excitement going through me as I kissed my sister’s soft mouth, gently exploring hers with the tip of my tongue. When we broke our kiss, Tina recited Miss Vee’s next line, “Why don’t y’all come next door for a while, Mister Hard-acre? I got a li’l ol’ fire burnin’ inside, that needs some of yo’ ex-pert attention.” Once again, she took off the southern accent perfectly, but when I recited Mister Hardacre’s line, to the best of my memory, I didn’t try to do the accent myself. We kissed a little more, as per the movie, but gradually we got out of character, until we were just kissing each other’s mouths for the pleasure it was giving us, holding each other close, kissing in a hot and sexual way, like lovers. We had a break for air, and Tina moved back towards the couch, and sat down, tossing the sunhat over the back onto the floor. I sat next to her on her right, and she moved close to me, and put her right arm across my shoulders. She moistened her lips, and kissed me again, a soft and sexy kiss, but a fairly quick one. Then, with our faces close, she said, in a soft voice, “That was a sexy movie, wasn’t it?” I sighed, and said, “Yeah.” “Do you get excited when you watch movies like that?” Tina asked, still speaking softly. Her face was close enough to mine for me to feel her warm breath. 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2023.03.22 21:27 maximusaemilius After beeing "impregnated" by a new alien race a male ship captain has to deal with his ships crew, his superiors and and awkward call home to his parents...
The entire crew was there, or at least all of them who could make it.
They were sitting in the chow hall, staring at the door and waiting.
There was conversation of course, but the real issue was something far more interesting, which was about to walk through that door.
Sunny sat with them, a mixture of worry and gleeful amusement.
A scrape on the floor caused the entire cafeteria to turn and go completely silent, as the commander shuffled in through the door.
His hair was a ragged mess, his eyes were red with exhaustion, attested to by the dark circles under his eyes. He wore a pair of shorts, and a somewhat rumbled top, unbuttoned down the front. Not out of any need to show off, but probably because the buttons wouldn't be likely to button over the six, black alien eggs nestled flat against his stomach.
He walked over to the far counter to pour himself some orange juice, and when he turned around it registered in his head that he was being stared at.
The frown that crossed his face was a rather awkward mixture of annoyance and embarrassment,
"The hell are you looking at?”
He growled to the room, and they quickly turned away, pretending not to stare, which was difficult to hide since they all totally were.
Commander Vir grumbled, grabbed a plate, and then two of the pancakes, before walking over to the table at which Sunny sat, throwing himself down next to her, shoulders hunched.
The marines that sat at the table with them exchanged glances, grinning stupidly at each other.
"How did you sleep last night commander?"
Wondered one of the marines. She almost pulled off sounding concerned.
But only almost, her bright smile betrayed her true intentions.
Commander Vir lifted his head, eyeing the group of them,
"Horrible, I can't sleep on my stomach... I always sleep on my stomach."
He turned back to his food, shoveling pancakes into his mouth with careless abandon.
"I think my wife has an old pregnancy pillow you could use."
Ramirez choked on his juice.
The table finally broke into a fit of giggling, contained since the man had walked into the room,
"You know what, fuck you Palensky, and your stupid hair!"
That just caused another eruption of giggling about the table, as the man tried to ignore them going back to his food.
"You might want to slow down there commander, they aren't going to grow legs and run off."
"I'm HUNGRY, so sue me."
"I'm not entirely sure hungry is an apt description."
One of the marines pointed out, watching as the commander pilfered a plate from one of the marines who was conveniently looking the other way.
"Sorry, “ravenous”, I just didn't want to use words too big for you jarheads."
He tucked in as the unfortunate marine turned around and noticed his plate missing, before sighing and getting up to retrieve another one.
"Chairforce."
Came the retort
"Bullet Sponge."
"That's army."
"Fine you're ugly and stupid."
"At least I'm not pregnant."
The bright green eye turned an angry glare on the grinning marine,
"I'm not 'pregnant' I have a parasite."
"Pretty sure that's a synonym for pregnant."
Sunny added smugly, as the commander turned to glare at her.
"Coming from someone who doesn't even speak english."
He sighed looking down at his stomach,
"These are exogenous egg sacks that have attached themselves to my organs and are now feeding off my innards."
"Kind of like how an egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and then attaches itself to your innards..."
One of the female marines wondered innocently,
The angry gaze turned to her,
"I hope the next time you're on your period you have a sneezing fit."
She frowned,
"That's cold... wait... how did you know about that?"
"I have a sister, so don't jump to any stupid conclusions."
He sighed,
"My back hurts."
More giggling.
"Shut up, these things are heavy ok, like five pounds each."
It was just then that doctor Katie and Krill made their way into the room. They appeared to be discussing some charts, speaking animatedly with each other before walking over.
Katie squeezed in next to him and one of the marines, while Krill floated at her side.
"How are we feeling this morning, commander?”
"Friggin' fantastic, can't you tell?"
He gave an exaggerated crazy person smile, before going back to frowning.
She placed a hand on his forehead, turning to look at Krill,
"No fever, which is what he hoped for. No signs of rejection."
"Great."
The man grumbled, trying to pull away from her, as she continued to examine him.
"Dry skin..."
She glanced down,
"Excessive hunger?”
He shot another glare at her,
"Mood changes."
"Sounds like a protein deficiency."
Krill muttered
"In under a day?... seems a bit unlikely."
The doctor waved his hands,
"Well so does one of our crew members getting together with an alien, but here we are."
Giggling.
The commander turned to look at them,
"Ok, first of all, I did not, 'get together' with her, I'm just the incubator."
"If any of us was going to get it on with an alien, it was gonna be him."
One of the marines muttered.
The commander slammed his fork down on the table,
"Alright THAT'S IT."
And before anyone could do anything, he was across the table and was reaching for the marine who had opened his mouth.
Sunny, strong as she was, caught him around the legs and hauled him back,
"Alright, That's enough. Why don't we go see if the doctors can figure out what's wrong?”
She carried him away, glaring back at the table of giggling marines.
”Yeah that’s good, show him how to properly carry a whining baby, he’ll need it.”
The whole table lost it and burst into laughter.
[…]
Turns out, they weren't entirely inaccurate on the protein assessment. As a primarily carnivorous species, the eggs were taking heavily from his already existing protein. If this were to continue, he would probably see an extreme drop in weight.
By the time he returned to the bridge, his mood from that morning had significantly improved.
"Feeling any better, commander?"
Sunny ventured, unsure which man she should be expecting.
He turned, his signature lopsided and rather rueful smile,
"A lot better, thanks... there is some amount of good news to this whole thing."
The bridge crew looked up from their work, interested as he took his seat,
"I can eat whatever I want whenever I want in whatever quantity I so please..."
He tried adjusting his jacket over the concealed eggs.
Beneath the rather, bulky leather jacket, one might have simply assumed the man was carrying a few extra pounds instead of some alien egg sack.
"Ok, now that's just not fair."
The crew turned to look at the lieutenant, who had crossed her arms angrily over her chest,
"When I had kids I was so hungry I could have eaten everything in existence, but they told me just to eat an extra yogurt. This is bullshit."
Commander Vir smirked,
"I guess I have that going for me."
The smile then slipped from his face,
"Now to.... make a couple of calls. Specialist, get me the admiral and the Galactic assembly chairwoman on a conference line, they will probably want to know what's going on."
He leaned back in his chair as the projection leapt up in front of them. They had to wait a good five minutes for the call to connect, and the screen split into two separate feeds. One was the face of their admiral, she looked tired with dark circles under her eyes barely visible against her deep skin tone. The commander couldn't have said what the Rundi chairwoman looked like, they weren't exactly known for their mobile facial expressions.
Honestly, she just looked like some bizarre ant-headed ostrich as always.
"Commander, I received your transmission. You said it was urgent?”
The Rundi chairwoman shifted in her place, dark robes flowing about her strange alien frame,
"This isn't about your first contact with the Adaptids, is it? We were hoping for your report yesterday."
The man shifted nervously in his seat,
"Well... yes, this is in fact about our contact with... what did you call them, the Adaptids."
"Well, I am assuming you are here and alive, so I assume things went well?”
He shifted again nervously,
"Well... actually... ma'am, we caught a bit of a snag."
The Rundi chairwoman sighed and shook her head,
"I was worried something like this would happen. Did they reject our overtures of peace, did something go wrong. Did we offend them somehow?"
The commander lifted his hands,
"No, no... nothing like that. I... it's just... well. They agreed to ally with us as friends."
The admiral leaned back in her chair,
"That is good news isn't it, commander?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Then I hardly see the snag?"
The Rundi chairwoman nodded her head in agreement.
The commander sighed,
"Were you aware of the Adaptid's... peculiar... mating rituals?"
The admiral shook her head, but the chairwoman nodded,
"We were aware of their trigender system."
The commander's eyes narrowed slightly,
"Were you also aware of their ability to borrow and lightly rewrite the DNA of other species?"
"Yes, we were passingly aware of that as a matter of fact. We theorized that's why they look so... how shall we say... thrown together. Almost as if other creatures had been assimilated."
"So than you have only yourself to blame for what happened."
The commander accused, leaning forward in his seat.
The admiral leaned forward in confusion,
"What are you talking about, commander!?"
She was ignored for the moment as commander Vir and the Rundi chairwoman locked eyes,
"You were completely aware of this, and decided not to warn my crew before going out there..."
She remained very quiet for a long moment,
"Oh no..."
"Oh no what!?"
The admiral demanded,
"If Someone doesn't tell me what's going on in the next five seconds I-"
She was cut off as the commander unzipped his jacket, allowing the leather to slide off his shoulders and onto the chair behind him. He was standing now, and from the back he looked almost completely normal, at least to Sunny. A structure made up of powerful corded muscle flexing smoothly under the sheet of pale, scarred skin. But when he turned, the issue became more than abundantly clear,
"You knew this might happen!"
The. commander growled, as the Rundi chairwoman covered her face in stunned horror.
The admiral leaned in, eyes narrowed with confusion and fascination,
"What the fuck is that, commander?"
Commander Vir turned to look at the Rundi chairwoman,
"Why don't you go ahead and tell the admiral what these are?”
The admiral did not appear particularly happy, glowering at her screen and, what must have been, an image of the Rundi chairwoman,
"Go on."
The chairwoman dropped her hands from her face and sighed,
"We discovered the adaptids a little over two cycles ago. At first, we weren't sure if they were sentient, based on the way they communicate. It took a very long time for even our best linguists, along with our best chemical analysis to determine that they were, in fact, communicating in some rudimentary way. Of course... while we were there, we did notice that they had a strange mating system. The common binary male and female pair, but with the addition of the third gender to incubate the eggs, a third party without which they would not survive, a trigender system if you will. Of course, we also noticed that the eggs had the DNA of all three parents."
"No... no, don't tell me you're going where I think you're going."
She kept it up with a sigh of frustration,
"When they implant the eggs, they are attached first to the skin, but then send filaments into the body which take nutrients and DNA from the third parent.... it does not require a specific reproductive system for this third event to be accomplished."
The admiral stood nearly knocking over her chair,
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO MENTION!?"
She waved her hand wildly at the screen,
"You neglected to share information, as was your duty, and now one of my men is harboring an alien parasite that is borrowing his DNA... and now we are going to end up with some sort of arachnid-human hybrid!"
The chairwoman slumped in her seat,
"We had no idea that the queen would do this without discussing it first... the other times we tried-"
"Now hold the damn phone for just one second. The FIRST time you tried! Are you telling me you tried to make OTHER hybrids. Not to mention that these things can BARELY communicate and you expected it to have the foresight to ask permission first... no no, you know what; you gave it permission when you decided to experiment... what were you even doing anyway?"
She slumped further down in her seat,
"We thought that if they were able to use the DNA of a host species, then the offspring might have the ability to use language, to communicate like the rest of us. Their particular abilities make them invaluable in the GA, on ships, everywhere. Can you imagine what would happen if we crossed them with something like the starborn... what they could do...?"
"Screw you, screw that. You had no idea what you were doing, and now one of my men is having alien babies! Not a sentence I ever wanted to fucking say, you absolute bag of-"
"I would watch your tone admiral, what's done is done, and I am still head of the council."
"A council that has withheld information from one of their most important assets, and now you are responsible for whatever abominable human hybrid is going to come out of those things."
She paused for a moment eyes darting towards the commander,
"... unless we... get rid of them."
"NO!"
The two figures turned to their screen in shock, as did the rest of the crew as the voice rang out across the bridge.
Commander Vir had taken a step back from the screen chin dropping over his exposed neck, shoulders hunching hands held slightly out to cover the eggs,
"No, you are not killing them!”
The admiral turned her head in confusion,
"But commander…"
"No, I agree with you that the chairwoman and the council were out of line when they neglected to warn us about the potential consequences, but I will NOT let you or anyone else hurt them."
"Commander, it is in your best interest to get rid of them!”
Over the screen, the man's single green eye was cold and still,
"Is that an order... because if it is I will tender my resignation right here and now, and you can find someone else to command this fleet."
The room was dead silent stuck in place with shock and surprise.
Sunny didn't even notice that her mouth had fallen open.
Adam loved his job, he would never.
Silence, and then the admiral sighed,
"No, commander, that is not an order. Calm down, I was only exploring our options, but clearly this is not one, though I hardly understand why..."
Commander Vir took his seat,
"It isn't an option because, while I'm not exactly pleased, and it wasn't exactly my first choice, well... there are worse things I suppose. I'm just feeding them and keeping them warm."
"And allowing them to borrow some of your DNA."
The admiral pointed out.
"Yes, let's hope that they get my vocal cords."
The admiral sighed deeply head in her hands,
"Very well commander, but I want you down here immediately, so we can keep an eye on your for the foreseeable future. I don't want to lose one of my men if things go sideways."
"Yes Ma'am. I will be sure to keep in contact."
The admiral nodded and then turned her steely amber eyes upon the Rundi chairwoman,
"And you, you are going to send someone down here to assist us. You've made your bed, now lie in it, cut transmission."
The screen went dark, and Adam slumped back in his chair head back,
"Well, that went about as well as expected. Specialist, send the next transmission to my quarters if you would. The number one spot on my personal contact list. Make sure you get permission from the UNSC for this one."
[…]
He was actually more nervous about this call than he was about the first one, which is why he had roped Sunny into being his support system.
She sat herself at his desk, head tilted curiously as he paced about the room waiting for the transmission to go through.
"Why did you say no?"
She finally queried,
"This could all be over if you wanted."
He lifted his head from his contemplation and looked her in the eyes,
"Curiosity... But mostly... well I. I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. It's not hurting me physically or psychologically, it's no different from a parasite, causes less problems, and if not, they may eventually be useful to us."
"Do you really want this to be the first use of your DNA?"
She ventured curiously.
He tilted his head,
"You make it sound like they are actually my kids. Look if someone took my DNA and made a homunculus out of it, I would feel the same way I do now. I am a means to an end an adaption for them."
He turned away from her,
"Besides it's not like my DNA was being put to any particular use anyway, might as well let someone else borrow it."
She shook her head, but whatever thoughts she might have had about the situation were cut off as the transmission tone came on.
"Accept transmission."
The commander said, taking a seat on a chair opposite of Sunny.
"Adam, are you alright?"
A wry smile,
"Can't I just call my parents because I love them?”
"Did you gain weight?”
He frowned,
"Serious mom, that's what you notice?"
The human woman in the image crossed her arms,
"Only in conjunction with the bags under your eyes. You look exhausted, are you ok?"
"Yes, mother, I'm fine... well mostly fine."
Her voice rose a few octaves,
"What do you mean mostly fine? Adam what happened. Honey! Come here, something happened to Adam!"
"Mom, calm down its ok. You don't need to bring d-...father…"
"Adam, what's all this about something happening to you... did you gain weight?"
He huffed,
"Ok, no I did not, and both of you need to stop with that... see it's really no big deal. I'm fine, everyone is fine no one is hurt or dying or sick, and as far as I know…"
He griped,
"No one has gained an exorbitant amount of weight."
"I'm sensing a but in there, boy, so spit it out."
He sighed and sat back on his chair,
"Look, I was sent out to make contact with another alien species, like I normally do.... there was a.... miscommunication."
His father's eyes narrowed,
"What sort of... miscommunication? Boy…what did you do?."
"They.... incubate their eggs at high temperatures, the higher the better usually around 90 degrees, but they also require a... host to survive, and since we were making a peace overture, the queen thought that the best way to show her interest in what we were saying was to..."
He was cut off,
"Oh no, no no no, Adam please don't tell me what I think you're telling me."
Instead of answering, Adam reached up and gripped the zipper of his jacket,
"Promise you keep this secret. No one said anything out right, but I'm assuming it's classified."
His mother moaned in inner emotional pain,
"No Adam, please no."
He unzipped his jacket, tossed it on the bed, standing straight and holding his arms out so they could see the six, painfully obvious fist-sized black eggs attached to his skin.
His mother screamed, his father spit out a line of truly horrendous curses Sunny wouldn't have expected him of knowing.
"That's it! We are coming up there right now! Whose alien ass do I have to kick to-"
"Mom"
"The audacity, the sheer nerve of that c-"
"MOM!"
She went silent, though the thunderous look on her face remained,
"I'm ok, honestly they're just attached to the outside, and yes ok maybe they are borrowing my DNA and.... my lungs and my liver, but no big deal. Krill says they should be gone in a month."
His father held up a hand,
"Now hold on… Son, did you say DNA..."
He sighed deeply,
"Yes, sir, DNA. The male and female are the primary donors, but then they have a third... sort of host who supplies the rest. It appears as if they can assimilate DNA from any species as long as they can survive."
His father crossed his arms,
"So, to put that bluntly, my next grandchildren are going to be some kind of alien human hybrid. Is that what I'm hearing?"
Adam sighed deeply, punching the bridge of his nose between finger and thumb squeezing his eyes shut,
"No, that's not what I'm saying, dad, not in the way that we understand it anyway. Technically these things will have less than a third of my DNA, they won't be structurally human in any way, but they may adapt to take the traits which may be best to survive. It's Evolution but scaled incredibly quickly."
"That all seems like semantics to me."
His father continued stubbornly.
Adam sighed.
"Can't you just get rid of them?"
His mother wondered, Adam frowned,
"Why does everyone keep suggesting that. Did you ever suggest that to my sister?"
"I thought you just said these were parasites, not children."
His father pointed out, Adam groaned,
"Yes, and no... ahhhg, look, I'm not getting rid of them, and that's final. I just wanted to call you guys and let you know what's going on. I am going to be fine, and who knows, we may be able to communicate with these things once it's all said and done."
His mother did not look convinced,
"I don't like this Adam, not one bit. Why do you constantly insist on getting yourself into trouble with aliens, and then once you do, you defend them. Sometimes I really wonder what’s next, a religious alien jihad and you try to teach them about better religion? Meeting a giant ass space dragon and you try to ride it like a pony? Getting trapped by hideous aliens like some sort of weird space parrot? I swear you always do the weirdest sh… stuff, the weirdest stuff."
Sunny remained silent; she knew exactly who his mother was talking about.
She had never liked Sunny much, not after she learned what she had done to Adam during the war.
"Because I'm not nearly as angry at them as you are. Besides mother this is just two months, it isn't going to change my life, and it may actually be useful. So, my decision is final."
He crossed his arms over his chest,
"I have to go... oh, and mom."
"Yes Adam?"
"Don't let Jeremy and my other siblings know. I'd never hear the end of it, transmission over."
The screen went dead and he slumped back into his seat with a groan.
"Are you alright?"
Sunny ventured quietly, Adam threw up his hands in frustration,
"I'm beginning to wonder if I should be more upset about this than I am. Everyone else seems to think it's some horrible issue. It's just two months, and I'm ok."
Sunny stood and walked over to sit next to him, placing a hand on his arm,
"Not so many people are as forgiving as you are. A violation of their privacy, a decision made for them against their will?"
He snorted, leaning his head against her arm,
"Yeah because my abs are such a great violation of my personal space. Now if she had laid them down my throat, I think I might just take issue with that."
"Well, they did attach themselves to your liver."
"Yeah, one of the organs that I can grow back, ohhh I am so offended."
Sunny shook her head,
"You're a strange man, Adam."
"I know, but you love it."
"Do I?"
He closed his eyes,
"Yeah, you do."
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They were sitting in the chow hall, staring at the door and waiting.
There was conversation of course, but the real issue was something far more interesting, which was about to walk through that door.
Sunny sat with them, a mixture of worry and gleeful amusement.
A scrape on the floor caused the entire cafeteria to turn and go completely silent, as the commander shuffled in through the door.
His hair was a ragged mess, his eyes were red with exhaustion, attested to by the dark circles under his eyes. He wore a pair of shorts, and a somewhat rumbled top, unbuttoned down the front. Not out of any need to show off, but probably because the buttons wouldn't be likely to button over the six, black alien eggs nestled flat against his stomach.
He walked over to the far counter to pour himself some orange juice, and when he turned around it registered in his head that he was being stared at.
The frown that crossed his face was a rather awkward mixture of annoyance and embarrassment,
"The hell are you looking at?”
He growled to the room, and they quickly turned away, pretending not to stare, which was difficult to hide since they all totally were.
Commander Vir grumbled, grabbed a plate, and then two of the pancakes, before walking over to the table at which Sunny sat, throwing himself down next to her, shoulders hunched.
The marines that sat at the table with them exchanged glances, grinning stupidly at each other.
"How did you sleep last night commander?"
Wondered one of the marines. She almost pulled off sounding concerned.
But only almost, her bright smile betrayed her true intentions.
Commander Vir lifted his head, eyeing the group of them,
"Horrible, I can't sleep on my stomach... I always sleep on my stomach."
He turned back to his food, shoveling pancakes into his mouth with careless abandon.
"I think my wife has an old pregnancy pillow you could use."
Ramirez choked on his juice.
The table finally broke into a fit of giggling, contained since the man had walked into the room,
"You know what, fuck you Palensky, and your stupid hair!"
That just caused another eruption of giggling about the table, as the man tried to ignore them going back to his food.
"You might want to slow down there commander, they aren't going to grow legs and run off."
"I'm HUNGRY, so sue me."
"I'm not entirely sure hungry is an apt description."
One of the marines pointed out, watching as the commander pilfered a plate from one of the marines who was conveniently looking the other way.
"Sorry, “ravenous”, I just didn't want to use words too big for you jarheads."
He tucked in as the unfortunate marine turned around and noticed his plate missing, before sighing and getting up to retrieve another one.
"Chairforce."
Came the retort
"Bullet Sponge."
"That's army."
"Fine you're ugly and stupid."
"At least I'm not pregnant."
The bright green eye turned an angry glare on the grinning marine,
"I'm not 'pregnant' I have a parasite."
"Pretty sure that's a synonym for pregnant."
Sunny added smugly, as the commander turned to glare at her.
"Coming from someone who doesn't even speak english."
He sighed looking down at his stomach,
"These are exogenous egg sacks that have attached themselves to my organs and are now feeding off my innards."
"Kind of like how an egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and then attaches itself to your innards..."
One of the female marines wondered innocently,
The angry gaze turned to her,
"I hope the next time you're on your period you have a sneezing fit."
She frowned,
"That's cold... wait... how did you know about that?"
"I have a sister, so don't jump to any stupid conclusions."
He sighed,
"My back hurts."
More giggling.
"Shut up, these things are heavy ok, like five pounds each."
It was just then that doctor Katie and Krill made their way into the room. They appeared to be discussing some charts, speaking animatedly with each other before walking over.
Katie squeezed in next to him and one of the marines, while Krill floated at her side.
"How are we feeling this morning, commander?”
"Friggin' fantastic, can't you tell?"
He gave an exaggerated crazy person smile, before going back to frowning.
She placed a hand on his forehead, turning to look at Krill,
"No fever, which is what he hoped for. No signs of rejection."
"Great."
The man grumbled, trying to pull away from her, as she continued to examine him.
"Dry skin..."
She glanced down,
"Excessive hunger?”
He shot another glare at her,
"Mood changes."
"Sounds like a protein deficiency."
Krill muttered
"In under a day?... seems a bit unlikely."
The doctor waved his hands,
"Well so does one of our crew members getting together with an alien, but here we are."
Giggling.
The commander turned to look at them,
"Ok, first of all, I did not, 'get together' with her, I'm just the incubator."
"If any of us was going to get it on with an alien, it was gonna be him."
One of the marines muttered.
The commander slammed his fork down on the table,
"Alright THAT'S IT."
And before anyone could do anything, he was across the table and was reaching for the marine who had opened his mouth.
Sunny, strong as she was, caught him around the legs and hauled him back,
"Alright, That's enough. Why don't we go see if the doctors can figure out what's wrong?”
She carried him away, glaring back at the table of giggling marines.
”Yeah that’s good, show him how to properly carry a whining baby, he’ll need it.”
The whole table lost it and burst into laughter.
Turns out, they weren't entirely inaccurate on the protein assessment. As a primarily carnivorous species, the eggs were taking heavily from his already existing protein. If this were to continue, he would probably see an extreme drop in weight.
By the time he returned to the bridge, his mood from that morning had significantly improved.
"Feeling any better, commander?"
Sunny ventured, unsure which man she should be expecting.
He turned, his signature lopsided and rather rueful smile,
"A lot better, thanks... there is some amount of good news to this whole thing."
The bridge crew looked up from their work, interested as he took his seat,
"I can eat whatever I want whenever I want in whatever quantity I so please..."
He tried adjusting his jacket over the concealed eggs.
Beneath the rather, bulky leather jacket, one might have simply assumed the man was carrying a few extra pounds instead of some alien egg sack.
"Ok, now that's just not fair."
The crew turned to look at the lieutenant, who had crossed her arms angrily over her chest,
"When I had kids I was so hungry I could have eaten everything in existence, but they told me just to eat an extra yogurt. This is bullshit."
Commander Vir smirked,
"I guess I have that going for me."
The smile then slipped from his face,
"Now to.... make a couple of calls. Specialist, get me the admiral and the Galactic assembly chairwoman on a conference line, they will probably want to know what's going on."
He leaned back in his chair as the projection leapt up in front of them. They had to wait a good five minutes for the call to connect, and the screen split into two separate feeds. One was the face of their admiral, she looked tired with dark circles under her eyes barely visible against her deep skin tone. The commander couldn't have said what the Rundi chairwoman looked like, they weren't exactly known for their mobile facial expressions.
Honestly, she just looked like some bizarre ant-headed ostrich as always.
"Commander, I received your transmission. You said it was urgent?”
The Rundi chairwoman shifted in her place, dark robes flowing about her strange alien frame,
"This isn't about your first contact with the Adaptids, is it? We were hoping for your report yesterday."
The man shifted nervously in his seat,
"Well... yes, this is in fact about our contact with... what did you call them, the Adaptids."
"Well, I am assuming you are here and alive, so I assume things went well?”
He shifted again nervously,
"Well... actually... ma'am, we caught a bit of a snag."
The Rundi chairwoman sighed and shook her head,
"I was worried something like this would happen. Did they reject our overtures of peace, did something go wrong. Did we offend them somehow?"
The commander lifted his hands,
"No, no... nothing like that. I... it's just... well. They agreed to ally with us as friends."
The admiral leaned back in her chair,
"That is good news isn't it, commander?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Then I hardly see the snag?"
The Rundi chairwoman nodded her head in agreement.
The commander sighed,
"Were you aware of the Adaptid's... peculiar... mating rituals?"
The admiral shook her head, but the chairwoman nodded,
"We were aware of their trigender system."
The commander's eyes narrowed slightly,
"Were you also aware of their ability to borrow and lightly rewrite the DNA of other species?"
"Yes, we were passingly aware of that as a matter of fact. We theorized that's why they look so... how shall we say... thrown together. Almost as if other creatures had been assimilated."
"So than you have only yourself to blame for what happened."
The commander accused, leaning forward in his seat.
The admiral leaned forward in confusion,
"What are you talking about, commander!?"
She was ignored for the moment as commander Vir and the Rundi chairwoman locked eyes,
"You were completely aware of this, and decided not to warn my crew before going out there..."
She remained very quiet for a long moment,
"Oh no..."
"Oh no what!?"
The admiral demanded,
"If Someone doesn't tell me what's going on in the next five seconds I-"
She was cut off as the commander unzipped his jacket, allowing the leather to slide off his shoulders and onto the chair behind him. He was standing now, and from the back he looked almost completely normal, at least to Sunny. A structure made up of powerful corded muscle flexing smoothly under the sheet of pale, scarred skin. But when he turned, the issue became more than abundantly clear,
"You knew this might happen!"
The. commander growled, as the Rundi chairwoman covered her face in stunned horror.
The admiral leaned in, eyes narrowed with confusion and fascination,
"What the fuck is that, commander?"
Commander Vir turned to look at the Rundi chairwoman,
"Why don't you go ahead and tell the admiral what these are?”
The admiral did not appear particularly happy, glowering at her screen and, what must have been, an image of the Rundi chairwoman,
"Go on."
The chairwoman dropped her hands from her face and sighed,
"We discovered the adaptids a little over two cycles ago. At first, we weren't sure if they were sentient, based on the way they communicate. It took a very long time for even our best linguists, along with our best chemical analysis to determine that they were, in fact, communicating in some rudimentary way. Of course... while we were there, we did notice that they had a strange mating system. The common binary male and female pair, but with the addition of the third gender to incubate the eggs, a third party without which they would not survive, a trigender system if you will. Of course, we also noticed that the eggs had the DNA of all three parents."
"No... no, don't tell me you're going where I think you're going."
She kept it up with a sigh of frustration,
"When they implant the eggs, they are attached first to the skin, but then send filaments into the body which take nutrients and DNA from the third parent.... it does not require a specific reproductive system for this third event to be accomplished."
The admiral stood nearly knocking over her chair,
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO MENTION!?"
She waved her hand wildly at the screen,
"You neglected to share information, as was your duty, and now one of my men is harboring an alien parasite that is borrowing his DNA... and now we are going to end up with some sort of arachnid-human hybrid!"
The chairwoman slumped in her seat,
"We had no idea that the queen would do this without discussing it first... the other times we tried-"
"Now hold the damn phone for just one second. The FIRST time you tried! Are you telling me you tried to make OTHER hybrids. Not to mention that these things can BARELY communicate and you expected it to have the foresight to ask permission first... no no, you know what; you gave it permission when you decided to experiment... what were you even doing anyway?"
She slumped further down in her seat,
"We thought that if they were able to use the DNA of a host species, then the offspring might have the ability to use language, to communicate like the rest of us. Their particular abilities make them invaluable in the GA, on ships, everywhere. Can you imagine what would happen if we crossed them with something like the starborn... what they could do...?"
"Screw you, screw that. You had no idea what you were doing, and now one of my men is having alien babies! Not a sentence I ever wanted to fucking say, you absolute bag of-"
"I would watch your tone admiral, what's done is done, and I am still head of the council."
"A council that has withheld information from one of their most important assets, and now you are responsible for whatever abominable human hybrid is going to come out of those things."
She paused for a moment eyes darting towards the commander,
"... unless we... get rid of them."
"NO!"
The two figures turned to their screen in shock, as did the rest of the crew as the voice rang out across the bridge.
Commander Vir had taken a step back from the screen chin dropping over his exposed neck, shoulders hunching hands held slightly out to cover the eggs,
"No, you are not killing them!”
The admiral turned her head in confusion,
"But commander…"
"No, I agree with you that the chairwoman and the council were out of line when they neglected to warn us about the potential consequences, but I will NOT let you or anyone else hurt them."
"Commander, it is in your best interest to get rid of them!”
Over the screen, the man's single green eye was cold and still,
"Is that an order... because if it is I will tender my resignation right here and now, and you can find someone else to command this fleet."
The room was dead silent stuck in place with shock and surprise.
Sunny didn't even notice that her mouth had fallen open.
Adam loved his job, he would never.
Silence, and then the admiral sighed,
"No, commander, that is not an order. Calm down, I was only exploring our options, but clearly this is not one, though I hardly understand why..."
Commander Vir took his seat,
"It isn't an option because, while I'm not exactly pleased, and it wasn't exactly my first choice, well... there are worse things I suppose. I'm just feeding them and keeping them warm."
"And allowing them to borrow some of your DNA."
The admiral pointed out.
"Yes, let's hope that they get my vocal cords."
The admiral sighed deeply head in her hands,
"Very well commander, but I want you down here immediately, so we can keep an eye on your for the foreseeable future. I don't want to lose one of my men if things go sideways."
"Yes Ma'am. I will be sure to keep in contact."
The admiral nodded and then turned her steely amber eyes upon the Rundi chairwoman,
"And you, you are going to send someone down here to assist us. You've made your bed, now lie in it, cut transmission."
The screen went dark, and Adam slumped back in his chair head back,
"Well, that went about as well as expected. Specialist, send the next transmission to my quarters if you would. The number one spot on my personal contact list. Make sure you get permission from the UNSC for this one."
He was actually more nervous about this call than he was about the first one, which is why he had roped Sunny into being his support system.
She sat herself at his desk, head tilted curiously as he paced about the room waiting for the transmission to go through.
"Why did you say no?"
She finally queried,
"This could all be over if you wanted."
He lifted his head from his contemplation and looked her in the eyes,
"Curiosity... But mostly... well I. I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. It's not hurting me physically or psychologically, it's no different from a parasite, causes less problems, and if not, they may eventually be useful to us."
"Do you really want this to be the first use of your DNA?"
She ventured curiously.
He tilted his head,
"You make it sound like they are actually my kids. Look if someone took my DNA and made a homunculus out of it, I would feel the same way I do now. I am a means to an end an adaption for them."
He turned away from her,
"Besides it's not like my DNA was being put to any particular use anyway, might as well let someone else borrow it."
She shook her head, but whatever thoughts she might have had about the situation were cut off as the transmission tone came on.
"Accept transmission."
The commander said, taking a seat on a chair opposite of Sunny.
"Adam, are you alright?"
A wry smile,
"Can't I just call my parents because I love them?”
"Did you gain weight?”
He frowned,
"Serious mom, that's what you notice?"
The human woman in the image crossed her arms,
"Only in conjunction with the bags under your eyes. You look exhausted, are you ok?"
"Yes, mother, I'm fine... well mostly fine."
Her voice rose a few octaves,
"What do you mean mostly fine? Adam what happened. Honey! Come here, something happened to Adam!"
"Mom, calm down its ok. You don't need to bring d-...father…"
"Adam, what's all this about something happening to you... did you gain weight?"
He huffed,
"Ok, no I did not, and both of you need to stop with that... see it's really no big deal. I'm fine, everyone is fine no one is hurt or dying or sick, and as far as I know…"
He griped,
"No one has gained an exorbitant amount of weight."
"I'm sensing a but in there, boy, so spit it out."
He sighed and sat back on his chair,
"Look, I was sent out to make contact with another alien species, like I normally do.... there was a.... miscommunication."
His father's eyes narrowed,
"What sort of... miscommunication? Boy…what did you do?."
"They.... incubate their eggs at high temperatures, the higher the better usually around 90 degrees, but they also require a... host to survive, and since we were making a peace overture, the queen thought that the best way to show her interest in what we were saying was to..."
He was cut off,
"Oh no, no no no, Adam please don't tell me what I think you're telling me."
Instead of answering, Adam reached up and gripped the zipper of his jacket,
"Promise you keep this secret. No one said anything out right, but I'm assuming it's classified."
His mother moaned in inner emotional pain,
"No Adam, please no."
He unzipped his jacket, tossed it on the bed, standing straight and holding his arms out so they could see the six, painfully obvious fist-sized black eggs attached to his skin.
His mother screamed, his father spit out a line of truly horrendous curses Sunny wouldn't have expected him of knowing.
"That's it! We are coming up there right now! Whose alien ass do I have to kick to-"
"Mom"
"The audacity, the sheer nerve of that c-"
"MOM!"
She went silent, though the thunderous look on her face remained,
"I'm ok, honestly they're just attached to the outside, and yes ok maybe they are borrowing my DNA and.... my lungs and my liver, but no big deal. Krill says they should be gone in a month."
His father held up a hand,
"Now hold on… Son, did you say DNA..."
He sighed deeply,
"Yes, sir, DNA. The male and female are the primary donors, but then they have a third... sort of host who supplies the rest. It appears as if they can assimilate DNA from any species as long as they can survive."
His father crossed his arms,
"So, to put that bluntly, my next grandchildren are going to be some kind of alien human hybrid. Is that what I'm hearing?"
Adam sighed deeply, punching the bridge of his nose between finger and thumb squeezing his eyes shut,
"No, that's not what I'm saying, dad, not in the way that we understand it anyway. Technically these things will have less than a third of my DNA, they won't be structurally human in any way, but they may adapt to take the traits which may be best to survive. It's Evolution but scaled incredibly quickly."
"That all seems like semantics to me."
His father continued stubbornly.
Adam sighed.
"Can't you just get rid of them?"
His mother wondered, Adam frowned,
"Why does everyone keep suggesting that. Did you ever suggest that to my sister?"
"I thought you just said these were parasites, not children."
His father pointed out, Adam groaned,
"Yes, and no... ahhhg, look, I'm not getting rid of them, and that's final. I just wanted to call you guys and let you know what's going on. I am going to be fine, and who knows, we may be able to communicate with these things once it's all said and done."
His mother did not look convinced,
"I don't like this Adam, not one bit. Why do you constantly insist on getting yourself into trouble with aliens, and then once you do, you defend them. Sometimes I really wonder what’s next, a religious alien jihad and you try to teach them about better religion? Meeting a giant ass space dragon and you try to ride it like a pony? Getting trapped by hideous aliens like some sort of weird space parrot? I swear you always do the weirdest sh… stuff, the weirdest stuff."
Sunny remained silent; she knew exactly who his mother was talking about.
She had never liked Sunny much, not after she learned what she had done to Adam during the war.
"Because I'm not nearly as angry at them as you are. Besides mother this is just two months, it isn't going to change my life, and it may actually be useful. So, my decision is final."
He crossed his arms over his chest,
"I have to go... oh, and mom."
"Yes Adam?"
"Don't let Jeremy and my other siblings know. I'd never hear the end of it, transmission over."
The screen went dead and he slumped back into his seat with a groan.
"Are you alright?"
Sunny ventured quietly, Adam threw up his hands in frustration,
"I'm beginning to wonder if I should be more upset about this than I am. Everyone else seems to think it's some horrible issue. It's just two months, and I'm ok."
Sunny stood and walked over to sit next to him, placing a hand on his arm,
"Not so many people are as forgiving as you are. A violation of their privacy, a decision made for them against their will?"
He snorted, leaning his head against her arm,
"Yeah because my abs are such a great violation of my personal space. Now if she had laid them down my throat, I think I might just take issue with that."
"Well, they did attach themselves to your liver."
"Yeah, one of the organs that I can grow back, ohhh I am so offended."
Sunny shook her head,
"You're a strange man, Adam."
"I know, but you love it."
"Do I?"
He closed his eyes,
"Yeah, you do."
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2023.03.22 21:26 SimpOf2DCharacters My sleep walking child was taken and killed infront of me
I (34 f) am a single mother of 1 and he's 9 and his father and I had divorced when he was 5. He had lived a normal life going to his dads on weekends so I could have time by myself.
1 year ago he started sleep walking and would do werid stuff such as throwing pillows off the sofa and throwing plastic cups. But this year he has some how been getting outside of my window and watching me.
The first time it happened i went toilet in the middle of the night and I went back to bed and saw a figure outside of it. I shit myself and saw it was my son. He was staring into darkness and I ran outside to grab my son and bring him back inside the house.
He was confused as I was yelling at him. I put him back to bed and it was then a week later that he did it again, then again. He did it everyday and I had started to notice stuff missing form the house. My son wouldn't take it as i had cameras around the house to keep an eye on him while he was sleep walking.
There would be nothing showing up and the stuff will be gone. My son then started saying he felt ill and he was really sick. I took him to doctors but they said there was nothing wrong with him.
Last night I watched him sleep and something happened. I never had cameras in his room as he would get uncomfortable and wont sleep so i took them out. But i had to find out what was happening so i stayed in his room watching him.
Then in his window I saw a all dark figure making me shit myself and grab my son. I ran out the house and went to the car i had looked away from my sleeping son for a second and when i looked back I saw the black figure on all fours with my sons body in half and in its mouth.
It then ran away. I had called the police but they say im crazy. Even my family. I don't know what it was but I'm happy it took my son and not me as I was about to eat him myself. I couldn't do it he was my own son but I had been starving for to long and i was going to eat him that night. But today i had some police officer so its fine.
ALL FAKE
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1 year ago he started sleep walking and would do werid stuff such as throwing pillows off the sofa and throwing plastic cups. But this year he has some how been getting outside of my window and watching me.
The first time it happened i went toilet in the middle of the night and I went back to bed and saw a figure outside of it. I shit myself and saw it was my son. He was staring into darkness and I ran outside to grab my son and bring him back inside the house.
He was confused as I was yelling at him. I put him back to bed and it was then a week later that he did it again, then again. He did it everyday and I had started to notice stuff missing form the house. My son wouldn't take it as i had cameras around the house to keep an eye on him while he was sleep walking.
There would be nothing showing up and the stuff will be gone. My son then started saying he felt ill and he was really sick. I took him to doctors but they said there was nothing wrong with him.
Last night I watched him sleep and something happened. I never had cameras in his room as he would get uncomfortable and wont sleep so i took them out. But i had to find out what was happening so i stayed in his room watching him.
Then in his window I saw a all dark figure making me shit myself and grab my son. I ran out the house and went to the car i had looked away from my sleeping son for a second and when i looked back I saw the black figure on all fours with my sons body in half and in its mouth.
It then ran away. I had called the police but they say im crazy. Even my family. I don't know what it was but I'm happy it took my son and not me as I was about to eat him myself. I couldn't do it he was my own son but I had been starving for to long and i was going to eat him that night. But today i had some police officer so its fine.
ALL FAKE
2023.03.22 21:22 CIAHerpes I had an uncle with thirteen fingers. There were things in his mansion that shouldn't exist (part 1)
I had an uncle with thirteen fingers. While he was a strange man, I don’t believe he was guilty of the crimes the townspeople later accused him of. In fact, I know with absolute certainty that he was innocent, regardless of what the police and media would later say.
Regardless, I was always afraid to go to his rural mansion when I was growing up nearly twenty years ago. It had dozens of rooms spread out over four floors, and sometimes, the rooms seemed to move around on their own. On the fourth floor, there was one mahogany door in particular at the end of the hallway with a painting of a robin on it that gave me the creeps. The door usually opened onto a small closet, but sometimes when I opened it up, there was a room that looked like it was at least the size of a football field, despite the fact that this was physically impossible based on the dimensions of the house. The fourth floor perimeter would have had to extend hundreds of feet past the other three floors, and yet I knew that, in reality, a massive lawn followed by a never-ending forest of pines and oaks stood beyond this spot.
The secret room was so big that I had never found its far wall; rather, it just faded into darkness. And it wasn’t empty. There was always something in there.
When the room was there, I had gone inside a few times, though never very far. I felt eyes on me and saw the silhouette of something huge and black slithering in the darkness far back in the chamber. The silhouette I saw looked about the height of a tall man, but the way it moved was anything but human.
While I knew my uncle was a wealthy man, the amount of precious stones and metals hidden throughout the room when it did appear was astounding. There were desks after desks covered with ancient-looking leather tomes, some of them in Arabic, Tibetan or Sanskrit, and one time, I swiped a couple rings I found in one of the dusty drawers of the desk closest to the door. My dad looked at them and told me they were nearly pure gold with small diamonds and opals embedded in them. The gold and diamonds alone were worth a large amount, not even taking into account the potential historical value of such antique jewelry.
“Where the hell did you find these?” my father asked me, raising one eyebrow. His lined face looked down at me with suspicion. I averted my gaze.
“Someone just dropped them on the sidewalk, I guess. Near Uncle Lawrence’s house.” He stared at me for another few moments, as if trying to read my thoughts, then nodded.
“Well, we’ll ask your uncle if he knows who they might belong to,” my dad said, taking the rings from me. As expected, my uncle had no idea whose they were or where they came from, and my father just ended up keeping them as family heirlooms to pass down to me when I was older.
One time, I had asked my uncle about the mysterious shifting rooms and the one room on the fourth floor in particular, and he just smiled.
“There are more secrets in this house than you could ever imagine, William,” he said to me, rubbing his thirteen-fingered hands over his face and sighing. “You should avoid that room on the fourth floor. There isn’t enough money in the world to convince me to go through that door, and I tell the maids and staff members the same thing.
“I would block it off with a wall if I could, but I doubted it would even work. A handyman I hired once tried putting a padlock and chain around the handle and attaching it to a fastened metal anchor on the wall one time ten years ago. By the next morning, it looked like something had chewed through the metal. The broken chain and padlock were hanging off the door, with twisted metal and what looked like teeth marks marring the entire thing. From then on, I just told everyone to avoid it. And that’s what I’m telling you. Stay out of there.”
That was all he would tell me. Being just a kid, and a curious one at that, I mostly ignored his warning, though I never went more than ten feet or so inside before running back to the door in a childish panic, as if something would grab my foot from under the desks one time if I stayed inside too long.
We went to visit my uncle during Christmas when I was eleven. Despite all his wealth, my uncle was a very private- and lonely- man. He had never married and never had any children. He lived in this massive mansion surrounded by miles of woods, generally all by himself, except for the staff he would hire to clean, cook or maintain the property. He often seemed sad and would drink himself into a stupor at nights with bottles of Cognac, sitting in his library and study room, sometimes shouting at people that weren’t there or crying himself to sleep at his desk. I wanted to ask him what was wrong on occasion, but when he got in those kinds of moods, I felt somehow afraid of him.
The guest room I stayed in was above his study, and I couldn’t sleep. He usually seemed far worse during the holidays, so my father insisted on bringing me and my mother to spend time with Uncle Lawrence. But I heard him yelling at ghosts or memories from his youth in his study, and personally, laying in bed in the dark staring at the ceiling in the huge lonely suite was giving me the creeps. So I got up from bed, sneaking upstairs in my cartoon pajamas to explore, wondering if the secret room on the fourth floor would be there.
As I sneaked past the room where my father and mother were sleeping, I heard the loud snores of my father which told me he was deeply asleep. He generally shared a few nightcaps with my uncle on the holidays, and had passed out early tonight.
I walked down the long hallway of the fourth floor, past the endless doors on both sides. The carpet had a pattern of vines and ivy that intertwined all the way to the end of the hall, looking almost hypnotizing as it disappeared hundreds of feet in front of me next to the door of the closet where the hidden room liked to appear.
I put my small hand on the bronze handle. It felt almost warm beneath my touch, as if it had an inner life to it. Taking a deep breath, I turned it and opened it up. The endless chamber revealed itself behind the mahogany door, disappearing in shadows far away. A musty, antique smell emanated from the room, along with something harder to identify- a smell like sickness, vomit and copper.
I looked at the old grandfather clock ticking away the seconds at the end of the hallway. My heart was racing, my adrenaline pumping. I felt more nervous than I had the other times I entered, but I didn’t know why.
“Don’t be a baby,” I whispered to myself, walking quickly through the door and looking around.
The room seemed to change slightly every time I entered. Ancient-looking writing desks would be moved around, sofas that looked like they were from the time of Al Capone would be arranged in a line one visit, then pushed against the wall facing each other and covered in sheets on other visits. Someone or something was moving the objects around in the room, but who? My uncle? For some reason, I doubted that.
I went to the nearest desk. I saw leather-bound books covering the desk, stacked neatly in piles, with a couple daggers and some silver goblets behind them. I read the titles of the books quickly, seeing “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” “The Gospel of Judas,” “The Book of Lies,” “The I Ching”, as well as other more esoteric spiritual or religious texts I had never heard of in my short eleven years on Earth.
“Weird,” I said to myself, lifting the Gospel of Judas from its place on the bottom of the pile and blowing a cloud of gray dust off of it, which got me coughing. Once I had recovered, wiping my teary eyes and trying to ignore my asthma, I looked back down at the tome. “I’ve never heard of this.” My parents had taken me to church my whole life, and I had even read parts of the Bible and all of the Gospels, and I had never heard of such a thing as a Gospel of Judas.
As I flipped through the first few pages, I heard a slamming sound behind me. I jumped, nearly pissing my pants as I spun around. I expected to see some huge monster standing there, grinning at me.
But instead, I realized the door had simply shut behind me. This had never happened before. I ran over, feeling that strange warmth in the handle again as I put my small hand on it. I tried turning it and pulling frantically, but it felt like it had been welded shut. There was absolutely no give, no matter which way I turned the handle or how hard I tried pushing or pulling on it.
Then I heard the slithering sound, and it was much closer than I had ever heard it before. I turned around, raising the large leather-bound book that I still held in my hand up over my head like a weapon, and whispered into the air, “Hello? Is someone there?” No reply came. I heard something wet and slimy running along the hardwood, however, but with all the shadows and the dim lighting, I couldn’t see where it was coming from. I was truly starting to panic by this point.
Then I remembered the dagger next to the piles of books. I sprinted towards the desk where I had picked up the Gospel of Judas, knocking the rest of the books aside in blind fear as I reached for one of the daggers behind it. I had only just grabbed it when I heard something directly behind me.
I turned instantly, raising the Gospel of Judas in my left hand above my head like a shield as I gripped the rubies and emeralds of the dagger’s handle in my right. The weapon felt cold, the stones hurting my soft palms as they dug in deep. But there was nothing behind me.
Then I heard hissing from under the nearest desk. Without the light coming in from the hallway, the room had become darker and harder to see inside, with many spots around the far walls and around the furniture being so dark that I could see nothing at all. But as I squinted and focused, I saw white glowing eyes under the desk, like the eyes of a possum with headlights reflecting off of them- though these were far bigger than any possum or racoon eyes I had ever seen.
Then the hissing grew louder and became a gurgling, choking sound, and something huge began to crawl out. It stood taller and taller, towering over me, looking down with black eyes. Shining scales covered its entire body, and its mouth unhinged like a snake’s, sending out a spray of dozens of worm-like, writhing tentacles that began to unfurl towards me.
I instinctively raised the book in front of my face as the one closest shot out like a whip. It hit the hard leather covering, sending my hand flying back and smashing the edge of the tome into my nose, which immediately began to gush blood all down my face. Now screaming in horror, I began to swing the dagger back and forth in front of my face in a frantic effort to keep those tentacles away. Most of them stood hovering, winding in the air in an S-shape like flying snakes.
One tentacle shot out under my raised arm and, moving faster than my eye could see, hit me right in the gut. I saw only a blur, followed by a burning pain as I felt dozens of tiny teeth bite into my skin, then the tentacle retreated like a slingshot after being fired. It took a circle of my flesh with it, and the pain galvanized me. I stopped screaming, shocked and horrified as I felt a torrent of blood rush down my stomach, then ran forward and plunged the dagger into the bottom of the creature’s mouth with an uppercut motion. I had lost the book somewhere in the fight.
The rest of the tentacles retreated immediately and the thing began to shriek, an ear-splitting noise that almost made me drop my weapon and cover my ears. It sounded more like a machine than an animal- almost like a high-pitched tornado siren. It felt like it would never end.
As it closed its mouth, it ripped the dagger, which was still stuck in its chitinous armor, right out of my hands. With a swift slithering motion, it flew away from me at an incredible pace. I saw it had no legs, but only the body of a snake on its bottom half. It stood upright as it moved, however, its long, crooked arms and razor-like chitinous claws held close to its body as it disappeared into a dark corner of the room.
I wanted to cry, to yell for help, to bust the door down, anything to get out of that room. I knew that evil things lived in there now. Quickly and without thinking, I grabbed the second dagger from the top of the desk. This one had an obsidian handle and a silver blade with an eye engraved into it. Underneath the eye, in small letters, there was a stamp in Latin: “Vincit qui si vincit.” I would later learn the engraving meant, “He conquers who conquers himself.”
Sprinting over to the door, I threw my entire body weight against it. It didn’t give at all. The shock reverberated painfully through my shoulder, traveling up the entire length of my body.
Turning, trembling, I started to walk deeper into the chamber, a small boy with a small dagger fighting unknown eldritch abominations.
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Regardless, I was always afraid to go to his rural mansion when I was growing up nearly twenty years ago. It had dozens of rooms spread out over four floors, and sometimes, the rooms seemed to move around on their own. On the fourth floor, there was one mahogany door in particular at the end of the hallway with a painting of a robin on it that gave me the creeps. The door usually opened onto a small closet, but sometimes when I opened it up, there was a room that looked like it was at least the size of a football field, despite the fact that this was physically impossible based on the dimensions of the house. The fourth floor perimeter would have had to extend hundreds of feet past the other three floors, and yet I knew that, in reality, a massive lawn followed by a never-ending forest of pines and oaks stood beyond this spot.
The secret room was so big that I had never found its far wall; rather, it just faded into darkness. And it wasn’t empty. There was always something in there.
When the room was there, I had gone inside a few times, though never very far. I felt eyes on me and saw the silhouette of something huge and black slithering in the darkness far back in the chamber. The silhouette I saw looked about the height of a tall man, but the way it moved was anything but human.
While I knew my uncle was a wealthy man, the amount of precious stones and metals hidden throughout the room when it did appear was astounding. There were desks after desks covered with ancient-looking leather tomes, some of them in Arabic, Tibetan or Sanskrit, and one time, I swiped a couple rings I found in one of the dusty drawers of the desk closest to the door. My dad looked at them and told me they were nearly pure gold with small diamonds and opals embedded in them. The gold and diamonds alone were worth a large amount, not even taking into account the potential historical value of such antique jewelry.
“Where the hell did you find these?” my father asked me, raising one eyebrow. His lined face looked down at me with suspicion. I averted my gaze.
“Someone just dropped them on the sidewalk, I guess. Near Uncle Lawrence’s house.” He stared at me for another few moments, as if trying to read my thoughts, then nodded.
“Well, we’ll ask your uncle if he knows who they might belong to,” my dad said, taking the rings from me. As expected, my uncle had no idea whose they were or where they came from, and my father just ended up keeping them as family heirlooms to pass down to me when I was older.
One time, I had asked my uncle about the mysterious shifting rooms and the one room on the fourth floor in particular, and he just smiled.
“There are more secrets in this house than you could ever imagine, William,” he said to me, rubbing his thirteen-fingered hands over his face and sighing. “You should avoid that room on the fourth floor. There isn’t enough money in the world to convince me to go through that door, and I tell the maids and staff members the same thing.
“I would block it off with a wall if I could, but I doubted it would even work. A handyman I hired once tried putting a padlock and chain around the handle and attaching it to a fastened metal anchor on the wall one time ten years ago. By the next morning, it looked like something had chewed through the metal. The broken chain and padlock were hanging off the door, with twisted metal and what looked like teeth marks marring the entire thing. From then on, I just told everyone to avoid it. And that’s what I’m telling you. Stay out of there.”
That was all he would tell me. Being just a kid, and a curious one at that, I mostly ignored his warning, though I never went more than ten feet or so inside before running back to the door in a childish panic, as if something would grab my foot from under the desks one time if I stayed inside too long.
We went to visit my uncle during Christmas when I was eleven. Despite all his wealth, my uncle was a very private- and lonely- man. He had never married and never had any children. He lived in this massive mansion surrounded by miles of woods, generally all by himself, except for the staff he would hire to clean, cook or maintain the property. He often seemed sad and would drink himself into a stupor at nights with bottles of Cognac, sitting in his library and study room, sometimes shouting at people that weren’t there or crying himself to sleep at his desk. I wanted to ask him what was wrong on occasion, but when he got in those kinds of moods, I felt somehow afraid of him.
The guest room I stayed in was above his study, and I couldn’t sleep. He usually seemed far worse during the holidays, so my father insisted on bringing me and my mother to spend time with Uncle Lawrence. But I heard him yelling at ghosts or memories from his youth in his study, and personally, laying in bed in the dark staring at the ceiling in the huge lonely suite was giving me the creeps. So I got up from bed, sneaking upstairs in my cartoon pajamas to explore, wondering if the secret room on the fourth floor would be there.
As I sneaked past the room where my father and mother were sleeping, I heard the loud snores of my father which told me he was deeply asleep. He generally shared a few nightcaps with my uncle on the holidays, and had passed out early tonight.
I walked down the long hallway of the fourth floor, past the endless doors on both sides. The carpet had a pattern of vines and ivy that intertwined all the way to the end of the hall, looking almost hypnotizing as it disappeared hundreds of feet in front of me next to the door of the closet where the hidden room liked to appear.
I put my small hand on the bronze handle. It felt almost warm beneath my touch, as if it had an inner life to it. Taking a deep breath, I turned it and opened it up. The endless chamber revealed itself behind the mahogany door, disappearing in shadows far away. A musty, antique smell emanated from the room, along with something harder to identify- a smell like sickness, vomit and copper.
I looked at the old grandfather clock ticking away the seconds at the end of the hallway. My heart was racing, my adrenaline pumping. I felt more nervous than I had the other times I entered, but I didn’t know why.
“Don’t be a baby,” I whispered to myself, walking quickly through the door and looking around.
The room seemed to change slightly every time I entered. Ancient-looking writing desks would be moved around, sofas that looked like they were from the time of Al Capone would be arranged in a line one visit, then pushed against the wall facing each other and covered in sheets on other visits. Someone or something was moving the objects around in the room, but who? My uncle? For some reason, I doubted that.
I went to the nearest desk. I saw leather-bound books covering the desk, stacked neatly in piles, with a couple daggers and some silver goblets behind them. I read the titles of the books quickly, seeing “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” “The Gospel of Judas,” “The Book of Lies,” “The I Ching”, as well as other more esoteric spiritual or religious texts I had never heard of in my short eleven years on Earth.
“Weird,” I said to myself, lifting the Gospel of Judas from its place on the bottom of the pile and blowing a cloud of gray dust off of it, which got me coughing. Once I had recovered, wiping my teary eyes and trying to ignore my asthma, I looked back down at the tome. “I’ve never heard of this.” My parents had taken me to church my whole life, and I had even read parts of the Bible and all of the Gospels, and I had never heard of such a thing as a Gospel of Judas.
As I flipped through the first few pages, I heard a slamming sound behind me. I jumped, nearly pissing my pants as I spun around. I expected to see some huge monster standing there, grinning at me.
But instead, I realized the door had simply shut behind me. This had never happened before. I ran over, feeling that strange warmth in the handle again as I put my small hand on it. I tried turning it and pulling frantically, but it felt like it had been welded shut. There was absolutely no give, no matter which way I turned the handle or how hard I tried pushing or pulling on it.
Then I heard the slithering sound, and it was much closer than I had ever heard it before. I turned around, raising the large leather-bound book that I still held in my hand up over my head like a weapon, and whispered into the air, “Hello? Is someone there?” No reply came. I heard something wet and slimy running along the hardwood, however, but with all the shadows and the dim lighting, I couldn’t see where it was coming from. I was truly starting to panic by this point.
Then I remembered the dagger next to the piles of books. I sprinted towards the desk where I had picked up the Gospel of Judas, knocking the rest of the books aside in blind fear as I reached for one of the daggers behind it. I had only just grabbed it when I heard something directly behind me.
I turned instantly, raising the Gospel of Judas in my left hand above my head like a shield as I gripped the rubies and emeralds of the dagger’s handle in my right. The weapon felt cold, the stones hurting my soft palms as they dug in deep. But there was nothing behind me.
Then I heard hissing from under the nearest desk. Without the light coming in from the hallway, the room had become darker and harder to see inside, with many spots around the far walls and around the furniture being so dark that I could see nothing at all. But as I squinted and focused, I saw white glowing eyes under the desk, like the eyes of a possum with headlights reflecting off of them- though these were far bigger than any possum or racoon eyes I had ever seen.
Then the hissing grew louder and became a gurgling, choking sound, and something huge began to crawl out. It stood taller and taller, towering over me, looking down with black eyes. Shining scales covered its entire body, and its mouth unhinged like a snake’s, sending out a spray of dozens of worm-like, writhing tentacles that began to unfurl towards me.
I instinctively raised the book in front of my face as the one closest shot out like a whip. It hit the hard leather covering, sending my hand flying back and smashing the edge of the tome into my nose, which immediately began to gush blood all down my face. Now screaming in horror, I began to swing the dagger back and forth in front of my face in a frantic effort to keep those tentacles away. Most of them stood hovering, winding in the air in an S-shape like flying snakes.
One tentacle shot out under my raised arm and, moving faster than my eye could see, hit me right in the gut. I saw only a blur, followed by a burning pain as I felt dozens of tiny teeth bite into my skin, then the tentacle retreated like a slingshot after being fired. It took a circle of my flesh with it, and the pain galvanized me. I stopped screaming, shocked and horrified as I felt a torrent of blood rush down my stomach, then ran forward and plunged the dagger into the bottom of the creature’s mouth with an uppercut motion. I had lost the book somewhere in the fight.
The rest of the tentacles retreated immediately and the thing began to shriek, an ear-splitting noise that almost made me drop my weapon and cover my ears. It sounded more like a machine than an animal- almost like a high-pitched tornado siren. It felt like it would never end.
As it closed its mouth, it ripped the dagger, which was still stuck in its chitinous armor, right out of my hands. With a swift slithering motion, it flew away from me at an incredible pace. I saw it had no legs, but only the body of a snake on its bottom half. It stood upright as it moved, however, its long, crooked arms and razor-like chitinous claws held close to its body as it disappeared into a dark corner of the room.
I wanted to cry, to yell for help, to bust the door down, anything to get out of that room. I knew that evil things lived in there now. Quickly and without thinking, I grabbed the second dagger from the top of the desk. This one had an obsidian handle and a silver blade with an eye engraved into it. Underneath the eye, in small letters, there was a stamp in Latin: “Vincit qui si vincit.” I would later learn the engraving meant, “He conquers who conquers himself.”
Sprinting over to the door, I threw my entire body weight against it. It didn’t give at all. The shock reverberated painfully through my shoulder, traveling up the entire length of my body.
Turning, trembling, I started to walk deeper into the chamber, a small boy with a small dagger fighting unknown eldritch abominations.
2023.03.22 21:16 maximusaemilius Empyrean Iris: 1-128: Keep them warm Part2 (by Charlie Star)
FYI, this is a story COLLECTION. Lots of standalones technically. So, you can basically start to read at any chapter, no pre-read of the other chapters needed technically (other than maybe getting better descriptions of characters than: Adam Vir=human, Krill=antlike alien, Sunny=tall alien, Conn=telepathic alien). The numbers are (mostly) only for organization of posts and continuity.
OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
Typed up and then posted here by me.
Proofreading and language check for some chapters by u/Finbar9800
Future Lore and fact check done by me.
Whaaat foreshadowing and spoilers? Noooo, I don’t know what you are talking about…
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The entire crew was there, or at least all of them who could make it.
They were sitting in the chow hall, staring at the door and waiting.
There was conversation of course, but the real issue was something far more interesting, which was about to walk through that door.
Sunny sat with them, a mixture of worry and gleeful amusement.
A scrape on the floor caused the entire cafeteria to turn and go completely silent, as the commander shuffled in through the door.
His hair was a ragged mess, his eyes were red with exhaustion, attested to by the dark circles under his eyes. He wore a pair of shorts, and a somewhat rumbled top, unbuttoned down the front. Not out of any need to show off, but probably because the buttons wouldn't be likely to button over the six, black alien eggs nestled flat against his stomach.
He walked over to the far counter to pour himself some orange juice, and when he turned around it registered in his head that he was being stared at.
The frown that crossed his face was a rather awkward mixture of annoyance and embarrassment,
"The hell are you looking at?”
He growled to the room, and they quickly turned away, pretending not to stare, which was difficult to hide since they all totally were.
Commander Vir grumbled, grabbed a plate, and then two of the pancakes, before walking over to the table at which Sunny sat, throwing himself down next to her, shoulders hunched.
The marines that sat at the table with them exchanged glances, grinning stupidly at each other.
"How did you sleep last night commander?"
Wondered one of the marines. She almost pulled off sounding concerned.
But only almost, her bright smile betrayed her true intentions.
Commander Vir lifted his head, eyeing the group of them,
"Horrible, I can't sleep on my stomach... I always sleep on my stomach."
He turned back to his food, shoveling pancakes into his mouth with careless abandon.
"I think my wife has an old pregnancy pillow you could use."
Ramirez choked on his juice.
The table finally broke into a fit of giggling, contained since the man had walked into the room,
"You know what, fuck you Palensky, and your stupid hair!"
That just caused another eruption of giggling about the table, as the man tried to ignore them going back to his food.
"You might want to slow down there commander, they aren't going to grow legs and run off."
"I'm HUNGRY, so sue me."
"I'm not entirely sure hungry is an apt description."
One of the marines pointed out, watching as the commander pilfered a plate from one of the marines who was conveniently looking the other way.
"Sorry, “ravenous”, I just didn't want to use words too big for you jarheads."
He tucked in as the unfortunate marine turned around and noticed his plate missing, before sighing and getting up to retrieve another one.
"Chairforce."
Came the retort
"Bullet Sponge."
"That's army."
"Fine you're ugly and stupid."
"At least I'm not pregnant."
The bright green eye turned an angry glare on the grinning marine,
"I'm not 'pregnant' I have a parasite."
"Pretty sure that's a synonym for pregnant."
Sunny added smugly, as the commander turned to glare at her.
"Coming from someone who doesn't even speak english."
He sighed looking down at his stomach,
"These are exogenous egg sacks that have attached themselves to my organs and are now feeding off my innards."
"Kind of like how an egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and then attaches itself to your innards..."
One of the female marines wondered innocently,
The angry gaze turned to her,
"I hope the next time you're on your period you have a sneezing fit."
She frowned,
"That's cold... wait... how did you know about that?"
"I have a sister, so don't jump to any stupid conclusions."
He sighed,
"My back hurts."
More giggling.
"Shut up, these things are heavy ok, like five pounds each."
It was just then that doctor Katie and Krill made their way into the room. They appeared to be discussing some charts, speaking animatedly with each other before walking over.
Katie squeezed in next to him and one of the marines, while Krill floated at her side.
"How are we feeling this morning, commander?”
"Friggin' fantastic, can't you tell?"
He gave an exaggerated crazy person smile, before going back to frowning.
She placed a hand on his forehead, turning to look at Krill,
"No fever, which is what he hoped for. No signs of rejection."
"Great."
The man grumbled, trying to pull away from her, as she continued to examine him.
"Dry skin..."
She glanced down,
"Excessive hunger?”
He shot another glare at her,
"Mood changes."
"Sounds like a protein deficiency."
Krill muttered
"In under a day?... seems a bit unlikely."
The doctor waved his hands,
"Well so does one of our crew members getting together with an alien, but here we are."
Giggling.
The commander turned to look at them,
"Ok, first of all, I did not, 'get together' with her, I'm just the incubator."
"If any of us was going to get it on with an alien, it was gonna be him."
One of the marines muttered.
The commander slammed his fork down on the table,
"Alright THAT'S IT."
And before anyone could do anything, he was across the table and was reaching for the marine who had opened his mouth.
Sunny, strong as she was, caught him around the legs and hauled him back,
"Alright, That's enough. Why don't we go see if the doctors can figure out what's wrong?”
She carried him away, glaring back at the table of giggling marines.
”Yeah that’s good, show him how to properly carry a whining baby, he’ll need it.”
The whole table lost it and burst into laughter.
[…]
Turns out, they weren't entirely inaccurate on the protein assessment. As a primarily carnivorous species, the eggs were taking heavily from his already existing protein. If this were to continue, he would probably see an extreme drop in weight.
By the time he returned to the bridge, his mood from that morning had significantly improved.
"Feeling any better, commander?"
Sunny ventured, unsure which man she should be expecting.
He turned, his signature lopsided and rather rueful smile,
"A lot better, thanks... there is some amount of good news to this whole thing."
The bridge crew looked up from their work, interested as he took his seat,
"I can eat whatever I want whenever I want in whatever quantity I so please..."
He tried adjusting his jacket over the concealed eggs.
Beneath the rather, bulky leather jacket, one might have simply assumed the man was carrying a few extra pounds instead of some alien egg sack.
"Ok, now that's just not fair."
The crew turned to look at the lieutenant, who had crossed her arms angrily over her chest,
"When I had kids I was so hungry I could have eaten everything in existence, but they told me just to eat an extra yogurt. This is bullshit."
Commander Vir smirked,
"I guess I have that going for me."
The smile then slipped from his face,
"Now to.... make a couple of calls. Specialist, get me the admiral and the Galactic assembly chairwoman on a conference line, they will probably want to know what's going on."
He leaned back in his chair as the projection leapt up in front of them. They had to wait a good five minutes for the call to connect, and the screen split into two separate feeds. One was the face of their admiral, she looked tired with dark circles under her eyes barely visible against her deep skin tone. The commander couldn't have said what the Rundi chairwoman looked like, they weren't exactly known for their mobile facial expressions.
Honestly, she just looked like some bizarre ant-headed ostrich as always.
"Commander, I received your transmission. You said it was urgent?”
The Rundi chairwoman shifted in her place, dark robes flowing about her strange alien frame,
"This isn't about your first contact with the Adaptids, is it? We were hoping for your report yesterday."
The man shifted nervously in his seat,
"Well... yes, this is in fact about our contact with... what did you call them, the Adaptids."
"Well, I am assuming you are here and alive, so I assume things went well?”
He shifted again nervously,
"Well... actually... ma'am, we caught a bit of a snag."
The Rundi chairwoman sighed and shook her head,
"I was worried something like this would happen. Did they reject our overtures of peace, did something go wrong. Did we offend them somehow?"
The commander lifted his hands,
"No, no... nothing like that. I... it's just... well. They agreed to ally with us as friends."
The admiral leaned back in her chair,
"That is good news isn't it, commander?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Then I hardly see the snag?"
The Rundi chairwoman nodded her head in agreement.
The commander sighed,
"Were you aware of the Adaptid's... peculiar... mating rituals?"
The admiral shook her head, but the chairwoman nodded,
"We were aware of their trigender system."
The commander's eyes narrowed slightly,
"Were you also aware of their ability to borrow and lightly rewrite the DNA of other species?"
"Yes, we were passingly aware of that as a matter of fact. We theorized that's why they look so... how shall we say... thrown together. Almost as if other creatures had been assimilated."
"So than you have only yourself to blame for what happened."
The commander accused, leaning forward in his seat.
The admiral leaned forward in confusion,
"What are you talking about, commander!?"
She was ignored for the moment as commander Vir and the Rundi chairwoman locked eyes,
"You were completely aware of this, and decided not to warn my crew before going out there..."
She remained very quiet for a long moment,
"Oh no..."
"Oh no what!?"
The admiral demanded,
"If Someone doesn't tell me what's going on in the next five seconds I-"
She was cut off as the commander unzipped his jacket, allowing the leather to slide off his shoulders and onto the chair behind him. He was standing now, and from the back he looked almost completely normal, at least to Sunny. A structure made up of powerful corded muscle flexing smoothly under the sheet of pale, scarred skin. But when he turned, the issue became more than abundantly clear,
"You knew this might happen!"
The. commander growled, as the Rundi chairwoman covered her face in stunned horror.
The admiral leaned in, eyes narrowed with confusion and fascination,
"What the fuck is that, commander?"
Commander Vir turned to look at the Rundi chairwoman,
"Why don't you go ahead and tell the admiral what these are?”
The admiral did not appear particularly happy, glowering at her screen and, what must have been, an image of the Rundi chairwoman,
"Go on."
The chairwoman dropped her hands from her face and sighed,
"We discovered the adaptids a little over two cycles ago. At first, we weren't sure if they were sentient, based on the way they communicate. It took a very long time for even our best linguists, along with our best chemical analysis to determine that they were, in fact, communicating in some rudimentary way. Of course... while we were there, we did notice that they had a strange mating system. The common binary male and female pair, but with the addition of the third gender to incubate the eggs, a third party without which they would not survive, a trigender system if you will. Of course, we also noticed that the eggs had the DNA of all three parents."
"No... no, don't tell me you're going where I think you're going."
She kept it up with a sigh of frustration,
"When they implant the eggs, they are attached first to the skin, but then send filaments into the body which take nutrients and DNA from the third parent.... it does not require a specific reproductive system for this third event to be accomplished."
The admiral stood nearly knocking over her chair,
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO MENTION!?"
She waved her hand wildly at the screen,
"You neglected to share information, as was your duty, and now one of my men is harboring an alien parasite that is borrowing his DNA... and now we are going to end up with some sort of arachnid-human hybrid!"
The chairwoman slumped in her seat,
"We had no idea that the queen would do this without discussing it first... the other times we tried-"
"Now hold the damn phone for just one second. The FIRST time you tried! Are you telling me you tried to make OTHER hybrids. Not to mention that these things can BARELY communicate and you expected it to have the foresight to ask permission first... no no, you know what; you gave it permission when you decided to experiment... what were you even doing anyway?"
She slumped further down in her seat,
"We thought that if they were able to use the DNA of a host species, then the offspring might have the ability to use language, to communicate like the rest of us. Their particular abilities make them invaluable in the GA, on ships, everywhere. Can you imagine what would happen if we crossed them with something like the starborn... what they could do...?"
"Screw you, screw that. You had no idea what you were doing, and now one of my men is having alien babies! Not a sentence I ever wanted to fucking say, you absolute bag of-"
"I would watch your tone admiral, what's done is done, and I am still head of the council."
"A council that has withheld information from one of their most important assets, and now you are responsible for whatever abominable human hybrid is going to come out of those things."
She paused for a moment eyes darting towards the commander,
"... unless we... get rid of them."
"NO!"
The two figures turned to their screen in shock, as did the rest of the crew as the voice rang out across the bridge.
Commander Vir had taken a step back from the screen chin dropping over his exposed neck, shoulders hunching hands held slightly out to cover the eggs,
"No, you are not killing them!”
The admiral turned her head in confusion,
"But commander…"
"No, I agree with you that the chairwoman and the council were out of line when they neglected to warn us about the potential consequences, but I will NOT let you or anyone else hurt them."
"Commander, it is in your best interest to get rid of them!”
Over the screen, the man's single green eye was cold and still,
"Is that an order... because if it is I will tender my resignation right here and now, and you can find someone else to command this fleet."
The room was dead silent stuck in place with shock and surprise.
Sunny didn't even notice that her mouth had fallen open.
Adam loved his job, he would never.
Silence, and then the admiral sighed,
"No, commander, that is not an order. Calm down, I was only exploring our options, but clearly this is not one, though I hardly understand why..."
Commander Vir took his seat,
"It isn't an option because, while I'm not exactly pleased, and it wasn't exactly my first choice, well... there are worse things I suppose. I'm just feeding them and keeping them warm."
"And allowing them to borrow some of your DNA."
The admiral pointed out.
"Yes, let's hope that they get my vocal cords."
The admiral sighed deeply head in her hands,
"Very well commander, but I want you down here immediately, so we can keep an eye on your for the foreseeable future. I don't want to lose one of my men if things go sideways."
"Yes Ma'am. I will be sure to keep in contact."
The admiral nodded and then turned her steely amber eyes upon the Rundi chairwoman,
"And you, you are going to send someone down here to assist us. You've made your bed, now lie in it, cut transmission."
The screen went dark, and Adam slumped back in his chair head back,
"Well, that went about as well as expected. Specialist, send the next transmission to my quarters if you would. The number one spot on my personal contact list. Make sure you get permission from the UNSC for this one."
[…]
He was actually more nervous about this call than he was about the first one, which is why he had roped Sunny into being his support system.
She sat herself at his desk, head tilted curiously as he paced about the room waiting for the transmission to go through.
"Why did you say no?"
She finally queried,
"This could all be over if you wanted."
He lifted his head from his contemplation and looked her in the eyes,
"Curiosity... But mostly... well I. I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. It's not hurting me physically or psychologically, it's no different from a parasite, causes less problems, and if not, they may eventually be useful to us."
"Do you really want this to be the first use of your DNA?"
She ventured curiously.
He tilted his head,
"You make it sound like they are actually my kids. Look if someone took my DNA and made a homunculus out of it, I would feel the same way I do now. I am a means to an end an adaption for them."
He turned away from her,
"Besides it's not like my DNA was being put to any particular use anyway, might as well let someone else borrow it."
She shook her head, but whatever thoughts she might have had about the situation were cut off as the transmission tone came on.
"Accept transmission."
The commander said, taking a seat on a chair opposite of Sunny.
"Adam, are you alright?"
A wry smile,
"Can't I just call my parents because I love them?”
"Did you gain weight?”
He frowned,
"Serious mom, that's what you notice?"
The human woman in the image crossed her arms,
"Only in conjunction with the bags under your eyes. You look exhausted, are you ok?"
"Yes, mother, I'm fine... well mostly fine."
Her voice rose a few octaves,
"What do you mean mostly fine? Adam what happened. Honey! Come here, something happened to Adam!"
"Mom, calm down its ok. You don't need to bring d-...father…"
"Adam, what's all this about something happening to you... did you gain weight?"
He huffed,
"Ok, no I did not, and both of you need to stop with that... see it's really no big deal. I'm fine, everyone is fine no one is hurt or dying or sick, and as far as I know…"
He griped,
"No one has gained an exorbitant amount of weight."
"I'm sensing a but in there, boy, so spit it out."
He sighed and sat back on his chair,
"Look, I was sent out to make contact with another alien species, like I normally do.... there was a.... miscommunication."
His father's eyes narrowed,
"What sort of... miscommunication? Boy…what did you do?."
"They.... incubate their eggs at high temperatures, the higher the better usually around 90 degrees, but they also require a... host to survive, and since we were making a peace overture, the queen thought that the best way to show her interest in what we were saying was to..."
He was cut off,
"Oh no, no no no, Adam please don't tell me what I think you're telling me."
Instead of answering, Adam reached up and gripped the zipper of his jacket,
"Promise you keep this secret. No one said anything out right, but I'm assuming it's classified."
His mother moaned in inner emotional pain,
"No Adam, please no."
He unzipped his jacket, tossed it on the bed, standing straight and holding his arms out so they could see the six, painfully obvious fist-sized black eggs attached to his skin.
His mother screamed, his father spit out a line of truly horrendous curses Sunny wouldn't have expected him of knowing.
"That's it! We are coming up there right now! Whose alien ass do I have to kick to-"
"Mom"
"The audacity, the sheer nerve of that c-"
"MOM!"
She went silent, though the thunderous look on her face remained,
"I'm ok, honestly they're just attached to the outside, and yes ok maybe they are borrowing my DNA and.... my lungs and my liver, but no big deal. Krill says they should be gone in a month."
His father held up a hand,
"Now hold on… Son, did you say DNA..."
He sighed deeply,
"Yes, sir, DNA. The male and female are the primary donors, but then they have a third... sort of host who supplies the rest. It appears as if they can assimilate DNA from any species as long as they can survive."
His father crossed his arms,
"So, to put that bluntly, my next grandchildren are going to be some kind of alien human hybrid. Is that what I'm hearing?"
Adam sighed deeply, punching the bridge of his nose between finger and thumb squeezing his eyes shut,
"No, that's not what I'm saying, dad, not in the way that we understand it anyway. Technically these things will have less than a third of my DNA, they won't be structurally human in any way, but they may adapt to take the traits which may be best to survive. It's Evolution but scaled incredibly quickly."
"That all seems like semantics to me."
His father continued stubbornly.
Adam sighed.
"Can't you just get rid of them?"
His mother wondered, Adam frowned,
"Why does everyone keep suggesting that. Did you ever suggest that to my sister?"
"I thought you just said these were parasites, not children."
His father pointed out, Adam groaned,
"Yes, and no... ahhhg, look, I'm not getting rid of them, and that's final. I just wanted to call you guys and let you know what's going on. I am going to be fine, and who knows, we may be able to communicate with these things once it's all said and done."
His mother did not look convinced,
"I don't like this Adam, not one bit. Why do you constantly insist on getting yourself into trouble with aliens, and then once you do, you defend them. Sometimes I really wonder what’s next, a religious alien jihad and you try to teach them about better religion? Meeting a giant ass space dragon and you try to ride it like a pony? Getting trapped by hideous aliens like some sort of weird space parrot? I swear you always do the weirdest sh… stuff, the weirdest stuff."
Sunny remained silent; she knew exactly who his mother was talking about.
She had never liked Sunny much, not after she learned what she had done to Adam during the war.
"Because I'm not nearly as angry at them as you are. Besides mother this is just two months, it isn't going to change my life, and it may actually be useful. So, my decision is final."
He crossed his arms over his chest,
"I have to go... oh, and mom."
"Yes Adam?"
"Don't let Jeremy and my other siblings know. I'd never hear the end of it, transmission over."
The screen went dead and he slumped back into his seat with a groan.
"Are you alright?"
Sunny ventured quietly, Adam threw up his hands in frustration,
"I'm beginning to wonder if I should be more upset about this than I am. Everyone else seems to think it's some horrible issue. It's just two months, and I'm ok."
Sunny stood and walked over to sit next to him, placing a hand on his arm,
"Not so many people are as forgiving as you are. A violation of their privacy, a decision made for them against their will?"
He snorted, leaning his head against her arm,
"Yeah because my abs are such a great violation of my personal space. Now if she had laid them down my throat, I think I might just take issue with that."
"Well, they did attach themselves to your liver."
"Yeah, one of the organs that I can grow back, ohhh I am so offended."
Sunny shook her head,
"You're a strange man, Adam."
"I know, but you love it."
"Do I?"
He closed his eyes,
"Yeah, you do."
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Thanks for reading! As you saw in the title, this is a cross posted story written by starrfallknightrise and I'll just upload some of it here for you guys, if you are interested and want to read ahead, the original story-collection can be found on tumblr or wattpad to read for free. (link above this text under "OC:..." ) It is the Empyrean Iris story collection by starfallknightrise. Also, if you want to know more about the story collection i made an intro post about it, so feel free to check that out to see what other great characters to look forward to! (Link also above this text). I have no affiliations to the author; just thought I’d share some of the great stories you might enjoy a lot!
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.
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OC Written by Charlie Stastarrfallknightrise,
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Whaaat foreshadowing and spoilers? Noooo, I don’t know what you are talking about…
They were sitting in the chow hall, staring at the door and waiting.
There was conversation of course, but the real issue was something far more interesting, which was about to walk through that door.
Sunny sat with them, a mixture of worry and gleeful amusement.
A scrape on the floor caused the entire cafeteria to turn and go completely silent, as the commander shuffled in through the door.
His hair was a ragged mess, his eyes were red with exhaustion, attested to by the dark circles under his eyes. He wore a pair of shorts, and a somewhat rumbled top, unbuttoned down the front. Not out of any need to show off, but probably because the buttons wouldn't be likely to button over the six, black alien eggs nestled flat against his stomach.
He walked over to the far counter to pour himself some orange juice, and when he turned around it registered in his head that he was being stared at.
The frown that crossed his face was a rather awkward mixture of annoyance and embarrassment,
"The hell are you looking at?”
He growled to the room, and they quickly turned away, pretending not to stare, which was difficult to hide since they all totally were.
Commander Vir grumbled, grabbed a plate, and then two of the pancakes, before walking over to the table at which Sunny sat, throwing himself down next to her, shoulders hunched.
The marines that sat at the table with them exchanged glances, grinning stupidly at each other.
"How did you sleep last night commander?"
Wondered one of the marines. She almost pulled off sounding concerned.
But only almost, her bright smile betrayed her true intentions.
Commander Vir lifted his head, eyeing the group of them,
"Horrible, I can't sleep on my stomach... I always sleep on my stomach."
He turned back to his food, shoveling pancakes into his mouth with careless abandon.
"I think my wife has an old pregnancy pillow you could use."
Ramirez choked on his juice.
The table finally broke into a fit of giggling, contained since the man had walked into the room,
"You know what, fuck you Palensky, and your stupid hair!"
That just caused another eruption of giggling about the table, as the man tried to ignore them going back to his food.
"You might want to slow down there commander, they aren't going to grow legs and run off."
"I'm HUNGRY, so sue me."
"I'm not entirely sure hungry is an apt description."
One of the marines pointed out, watching as the commander pilfered a plate from one of the marines who was conveniently looking the other way.
"Sorry, “ravenous”, I just didn't want to use words too big for you jarheads."
He tucked in as the unfortunate marine turned around and noticed his plate missing, before sighing and getting up to retrieve another one.
"Chairforce."
Came the retort
"Bullet Sponge."
"That's army."
"Fine you're ugly and stupid."
"At least I'm not pregnant."
The bright green eye turned an angry glare on the grinning marine,
"I'm not 'pregnant' I have a parasite."
"Pretty sure that's a synonym for pregnant."
Sunny added smugly, as the commander turned to glare at her.
"Coming from someone who doesn't even speak english."
He sighed looking down at his stomach,
"These are exogenous egg sacks that have attached themselves to my organs and are now feeding off my innards."
"Kind of like how an egg attaches to the lining of the uterus and then attaches itself to your innards..."
One of the female marines wondered innocently,
The angry gaze turned to her,
"I hope the next time you're on your period you have a sneezing fit."
She frowned,
"That's cold... wait... how did you know about that?"
"I have a sister, so don't jump to any stupid conclusions."
He sighed,
"My back hurts."
More giggling.
"Shut up, these things are heavy ok, like five pounds each."
It was just then that doctor Katie and Krill made their way into the room. They appeared to be discussing some charts, speaking animatedly with each other before walking over.
Katie squeezed in next to him and one of the marines, while Krill floated at her side.
"How are we feeling this morning, commander?”
"Friggin' fantastic, can't you tell?"
He gave an exaggerated crazy person smile, before going back to frowning.
She placed a hand on his forehead, turning to look at Krill,
"No fever, which is what he hoped for. No signs of rejection."
"Great."
The man grumbled, trying to pull away from her, as she continued to examine him.
"Dry skin..."
She glanced down,
"Excessive hunger?”
He shot another glare at her,
"Mood changes."
"Sounds like a protein deficiency."
Krill muttered
"In under a day?... seems a bit unlikely."
The doctor waved his hands,
"Well so does one of our crew members getting together with an alien, but here we are."
Giggling.
The commander turned to look at them,
"Ok, first of all, I did not, 'get together' with her, I'm just the incubator."
"If any of us was going to get it on with an alien, it was gonna be him."
One of the marines muttered.
The commander slammed his fork down on the table,
"Alright THAT'S IT."
And before anyone could do anything, he was across the table and was reaching for the marine who had opened his mouth.
Sunny, strong as she was, caught him around the legs and hauled him back,
"Alright, That's enough. Why don't we go see if the doctors can figure out what's wrong?”
She carried him away, glaring back at the table of giggling marines.
”Yeah that’s good, show him how to properly carry a whining baby, he’ll need it.”
The whole table lost it and burst into laughter.
Turns out, they weren't entirely inaccurate on the protein assessment. As a primarily carnivorous species, the eggs were taking heavily from his already existing protein. If this were to continue, he would probably see an extreme drop in weight.
By the time he returned to the bridge, his mood from that morning had significantly improved.
"Feeling any better, commander?"
Sunny ventured, unsure which man she should be expecting.
He turned, his signature lopsided and rather rueful smile,
"A lot better, thanks... there is some amount of good news to this whole thing."
The bridge crew looked up from their work, interested as he took his seat,
"I can eat whatever I want whenever I want in whatever quantity I so please..."
He tried adjusting his jacket over the concealed eggs.
Beneath the rather, bulky leather jacket, one might have simply assumed the man was carrying a few extra pounds instead of some alien egg sack.
"Ok, now that's just not fair."
The crew turned to look at the lieutenant, who had crossed her arms angrily over her chest,
"When I had kids I was so hungry I could have eaten everything in existence, but they told me just to eat an extra yogurt. This is bullshit."
Commander Vir smirked,
"I guess I have that going for me."
The smile then slipped from his face,
"Now to.... make a couple of calls. Specialist, get me the admiral and the Galactic assembly chairwoman on a conference line, they will probably want to know what's going on."
He leaned back in his chair as the projection leapt up in front of them. They had to wait a good five minutes for the call to connect, and the screen split into two separate feeds. One was the face of their admiral, she looked tired with dark circles under her eyes barely visible against her deep skin tone. The commander couldn't have said what the Rundi chairwoman looked like, they weren't exactly known for their mobile facial expressions.
Honestly, she just looked like some bizarre ant-headed ostrich as always.
"Commander, I received your transmission. You said it was urgent?”
The Rundi chairwoman shifted in her place, dark robes flowing about her strange alien frame,
"This isn't about your first contact with the Adaptids, is it? We were hoping for your report yesterday."
The man shifted nervously in his seat,
"Well... yes, this is in fact about our contact with... what did you call them, the Adaptids."
"Well, I am assuming you are here and alive, so I assume things went well?”
He shifted again nervously,
"Well... actually... ma'am, we caught a bit of a snag."
The Rundi chairwoman sighed and shook her head,
"I was worried something like this would happen. Did they reject our overtures of peace, did something go wrong. Did we offend them somehow?"
The commander lifted his hands,
"No, no... nothing like that. I... it's just... well. They agreed to ally with us as friends."
The admiral leaned back in her chair,
"That is good news isn't it, commander?"
"Yes ma'am."
"Then I hardly see the snag?"
The Rundi chairwoman nodded her head in agreement.
The commander sighed,
"Were you aware of the Adaptid's... peculiar... mating rituals?"
The admiral shook her head, but the chairwoman nodded,
"We were aware of their trigender system."
The commander's eyes narrowed slightly,
"Were you also aware of their ability to borrow and lightly rewrite the DNA of other species?"
"Yes, we were passingly aware of that as a matter of fact. We theorized that's why they look so... how shall we say... thrown together. Almost as if other creatures had been assimilated."
"So than you have only yourself to blame for what happened."
The commander accused, leaning forward in his seat.
The admiral leaned forward in confusion,
"What are you talking about, commander!?"
She was ignored for the moment as commander Vir and the Rundi chairwoman locked eyes,
"You were completely aware of this, and decided not to warn my crew before going out there..."
She remained very quiet for a long moment,
"Oh no..."
"Oh no what!?"
The admiral demanded,
"If Someone doesn't tell me what's going on in the next five seconds I-"
She was cut off as the commander unzipped his jacket, allowing the leather to slide off his shoulders and onto the chair behind him. He was standing now, and from the back he looked almost completely normal, at least to Sunny. A structure made up of powerful corded muscle flexing smoothly under the sheet of pale, scarred skin. But when he turned, the issue became more than abundantly clear,
"You knew this might happen!"
The. commander growled, as the Rundi chairwoman covered her face in stunned horror.
The admiral leaned in, eyes narrowed with confusion and fascination,
"What the fuck is that, commander?"
Commander Vir turned to look at the Rundi chairwoman,
"Why don't you go ahead and tell the admiral what these are?”
The admiral did not appear particularly happy, glowering at her screen and, what must have been, an image of the Rundi chairwoman,
"Go on."
The chairwoman dropped her hands from her face and sighed,
"We discovered the adaptids a little over two cycles ago. At first, we weren't sure if they were sentient, based on the way they communicate. It took a very long time for even our best linguists, along with our best chemical analysis to determine that they were, in fact, communicating in some rudimentary way. Of course... while we were there, we did notice that they had a strange mating system. The common binary male and female pair, but with the addition of the third gender to incubate the eggs, a third party without which they would not survive, a trigender system if you will. Of course, we also noticed that the eggs had the DNA of all three parents."
"No... no, don't tell me you're going where I think you're going."
She kept it up with a sigh of frustration,
"When they implant the eggs, they are attached first to the skin, but then send filaments into the body which take nutrients and DNA from the third parent.... it does not require a specific reproductive system for this third event to be accomplished."
The admiral stood nearly knocking over her chair,
"AND YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS IMPORTANT TO MENTION!?"
She waved her hand wildly at the screen,
"You neglected to share information, as was your duty, and now one of my men is harboring an alien parasite that is borrowing his DNA... and now we are going to end up with some sort of arachnid-human hybrid!"
The chairwoman slumped in her seat,
"We had no idea that the queen would do this without discussing it first... the other times we tried-"
"Now hold the damn phone for just one second. The FIRST time you tried! Are you telling me you tried to make OTHER hybrids. Not to mention that these things can BARELY communicate and you expected it to have the foresight to ask permission first... no no, you know what; you gave it permission when you decided to experiment... what were you even doing anyway?"
She slumped further down in her seat,
"We thought that if they were able to use the DNA of a host species, then the offspring might have the ability to use language, to communicate like the rest of us. Their particular abilities make them invaluable in the GA, on ships, everywhere. Can you imagine what would happen if we crossed them with something like the starborn... what they could do...?"
"Screw you, screw that. You had no idea what you were doing, and now one of my men is having alien babies! Not a sentence I ever wanted to fucking say, you absolute bag of-"
"I would watch your tone admiral, what's done is done, and I am still head of the council."
"A council that has withheld information from one of their most important assets, and now you are responsible for whatever abominable human hybrid is going to come out of those things."
She paused for a moment eyes darting towards the commander,
"... unless we... get rid of them."
"NO!"
The two figures turned to their screen in shock, as did the rest of the crew as the voice rang out across the bridge.
Commander Vir had taken a step back from the screen chin dropping over his exposed neck, shoulders hunching hands held slightly out to cover the eggs,
"No, you are not killing them!”
The admiral turned her head in confusion,
"But commander…"
"No, I agree with you that the chairwoman and the council were out of line when they neglected to warn us about the potential consequences, but I will NOT let you or anyone else hurt them."
"Commander, it is in your best interest to get rid of them!”
Over the screen, the man's single green eye was cold and still,
"Is that an order... because if it is I will tender my resignation right here and now, and you can find someone else to command this fleet."
The room was dead silent stuck in place with shock and surprise.
Sunny didn't even notice that her mouth had fallen open.
Adam loved his job, he would never.
Silence, and then the admiral sighed,
"No, commander, that is not an order. Calm down, I was only exploring our options, but clearly this is not one, though I hardly understand why..."
Commander Vir took his seat,
"It isn't an option because, while I'm not exactly pleased, and it wasn't exactly my first choice, well... there are worse things I suppose. I'm just feeding them and keeping them warm."
"And allowing them to borrow some of your DNA."
The admiral pointed out.
"Yes, let's hope that they get my vocal cords."
The admiral sighed deeply head in her hands,
"Very well commander, but I want you down here immediately, so we can keep an eye on your for the foreseeable future. I don't want to lose one of my men if things go sideways."
"Yes Ma'am. I will be sure to keep in contact."
The admiral nodded and then turned her steely amber eyes upon the Rundi chairwoman,
"And you, you are going to send someone down here to assist us. You've made your bed, now lie in it, cut transmission."
The screen went dark, and Adam slumped back in his chair head back,
"Well, that went about as well as expected. Specialist, send the next transmission to my quarters if you would. The number one spot on my personal contact list. Make sure you get permission from the UNSC for this one."
He was actually more nervous about this call than he was about the first one, which is why he had roped Sunny into being his support system.
She sat herself at his desk, head tilted curiously as he paced about the room waiting for the transmission to go through.
"Why did you say no?"
She finally queried,
"This could all be over if you wanted."
He lifted his head from his contemplation and looked her in the eyes,
"Curiosity... But mostly... well I. I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone is making it out to be. It's not hurting me physically or psychologically, it's no different from a parasite, causes less problems, and if not, they may eventually be useful to us."
"Do you really want this to be the first use of your DNA?"
She ventured curiously.
He tilted his head,
"You make it sound like they are actually my kids. Look if someone took my DNA and made a homunculus out of it, I would feel the same way I do now. I am a means to an end an adaption for them."
He turned away from her,
"Besides it's not like my DNA was being put to any particular use anyway, might as well let someone else borrow it."
She shook her head, but whatever thoughts she might have had about the situation were cut off as the transmission tone came on.
"Accept transmission."
The commander said, taking a seat on a chair opposite of Sunny.
"Adam, are you alright?"
A wry smile,
"Can't I just call my parents because I love them?”
"Did you gain weight?”
He frowned,
"Serious mom, that's what you notice?"
The human woman in the image crossed her arms,
"Only in conjunction with the bags under your eyes. You look exhausted, are you ok?"
"Yes, mother, I'm fine... well mostly fine."
Her voice rose a few octaves,
"What do you mean mostly fine? Adam what happened. Honey! Come here, something happened to Adam!"
"Mom, calm down its ok. You don't need to bring d-...father…"
"Adam, what's all this about something happening to you... did you gain weight?"
He huffed,
"Ok, no I did not, and both of you need to stop with that... see it's really no big deal. I'm fine, everyone is fine no one is hurt or dying or sick, and as far as I know…"
He griped,
"No one has gained an exorbitant amount of weight."
"I'm sensing a but in there, boy, so spit it out."
He sighed and sat back on his chair,
"Look, I was sent out to make contact with another alien species, like I normally do.... there was a.... miscommunication."
His father's eyes narrowed,
"What sort of... miscommunication? Boy…what did you do?."
"They.... incubate their eggs at high temperatures, the higher the better usually around 90 degrees, but they also require a... host to survive, and since we were making a peace overture, the queen thought that the best way to show her interest in what we were saying was to..."
He was cut off,
"Oh no, no no no, Adam please don't tell me what I think you're telling me."
Instead of answering, Adam reached up and gripped the zipper of his jacket,
"Promise you keep this secret. No one said anything out right, but I'm assuming it's classified."
His mother moaned in inner emotional pain,
"No Adam, please no."
He unzipped his jacket, tossed it on the bed, standing straight and holding his arms out so they could see the six, painfully obvious fist-sized black eggs attached to his skin.
His mother screamed, his father spit out a line of truly horrendous curses Sunny wouldn't have expected him of knowing.
"That's it! We are coming up there right now! Whose alien ass do I have to kick to-"
"Mom"
"The audacity, the sheer nerve of that c-"
"MOM!"
She went silent, though the thunderous look on her face remained,
"I'm ok, honestly they're just attached to the outside, and yes ok maybe they are borrowing my DNA and.... my lungs and my liver, but no big deal. Krill says they should be gone in a month."
His father held up a hand,
"Now hold on… Son, did you say DNA..."
He sighed deeply,
"Yes, sir, DNA. The male and female are the primary donors, but then they have a third... sort of host who supplies the rest. It appears as if they can assimilate DNA from any species as long as they can survive."
His father crossed his arms,
"So, to put that bluntly, my next grandchildren are going to be some kind of alien human hybrid. Is that what I'm hearing?"
Adam sighed deeply, punching the bridge of his nose between finger and thumb squeezing his eyes shut,
"No, that's not what I'm saying, dad, not in the way that we understand it anyway. Technically these things will have less than a third of my DNA, they won't be structurally human in any way, but they may adapt to take the traits which may be best to survive. It's Evolution but scaled incredibly quickly."
"That all seems like semantics to me."
His father continued stubbornly.
Adam sighed.
"Can't you just get rid of them?"
His mother wondered, Adam frowned,
"Why does everyone keep suggesting that. Did you ever suggest that to my sister?"
"I thought you just said these were parasites, not children."
His father pointed out, Adam groaned,
"Yes, and no... ahhhg, look, I'm not getting rid of them, and that's final. I just wanted to call you guys and let you know what's going on. I am going to be fine, and who knows, we may be able to communicate with these things once it's all said and done."
His mother did not look convinced,
"I don't like this Adam, not one bit. Why do you constantly insist on getting yourself into trouble with aliens, and then once you do, you defend them. Sometimes I really wonder what’s next, a religious alien jihad and you try to teach them about better religion? Meeting a giant ass space dragon and you try to ride it like a pony? Getting trapped by hideous aliens like some sort of weird space parrot? I swear you always do the weirdest sh… stuff, the weirdest stuff."
Sunny remained silent; she knew exactly who his mother was talking about.
She had never liked Sunny much, not after she learned what she had done to Adam during the war.
"Because I'm not nearly as angry at them as you are. Besides mother this is just two months, it isn't going to change my life, and it may actually be useful. So, my decision is final."
He crossed his arms over his chest,
"I have to go... oh, and mom."
"Yes Adam?"
"Don't let Jeremy and my other siblings know. I'd never hear the end of it, transmission over."
The screen went dead and he slumped back into his seat with a groan.
"Are you alright?"
Sunny ventured quietly, Adam threw up his hands in frustration,
"I'm beginning to wonder if I should be more upset about this than I am. Everyone else seems to think it's some horrible issue. It's just two months, and I'm ok."
Sunny stood and walked over to sit next to him, placing a hand on his arm,
"Not so many people are as forgiving as you are. A violation of their privacy, a decision made for them against their will?"
He snorted, leaning his head against her arm,
"Yeah because my abs are such a great violation of my personal space. Now if she had laid them down my throat, I think I might just take issue with that."
"Well, they did attach themselves to your liver."
"Yeah, one of the organs that I can grow back, ohhh I am so offended."
Sunny shook her head,
"You're a strange man, Adam."
"I know, but you love it."
"Do I?"
He closed his eyes,
"Yeah, you do."
Intro post by me
OC-whole collection
Patreon of the author
Obviously, I have Charlie’s permission to post this and for the people already knowing the stories, or starting to read them: If you follow the link and check out the story you will see some differences. I made some small (non-artistic) changes, mainly correcting writing mistakes, pronoun correction and some small additional info here and there of things which were not thought of/forgotten or even were added/changed in later stories (like the “USS->UNSC” prefix of Stabby, Chalar=/->Sunny etc). As well as some "biggemajor" changes in descriptions and info’s for the same stringency/continuity reason. That can be explained by the story collection being, well a story collection at the start with many standalone-stories just starring the same people, but later on it gets more to a stringent storyline with backstories and throwbacks. (For example Adam Vir has some HEAVY scars over his body, following his bones, which were not really talked about up till half the collection, where it says it covers his whole body and you find out via backflash that he had them the whole time and how he got them, they just weren't mentioned before. However, I would think a doctor would at least see these scars before that, especially since he gets analyzed, treated and goes shirtless/in T-shirts in some stories). So TLDR: Writing and some descriptions are slightly changed, with full OK from the author, since he himself did not bother to correct these things before.
2023.03.22 21:13 throwawaytrpguy Texture bug??
Please help me figure out what's causing these bugs. I don't think it's VRAM causing it; I have 8k of memory and game uses up 45%.
https://imgur.com/a/ofUm0Lc
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2023.03.22 21:09 throwawaytrpguy Texture bug?
 | Please help me figure out what's causing these bugs. I don't think it's VRAM causing it; I have 8k of memory and game uses up 45%. submitted by throwawaytrpguy to skyrim [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/r5xsjdcmkcpa1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=84223ebee78b60e821d36602817196a31716db9f https://preview.redd.it/eualo6jokcpa1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=a9417b715f212d72334eeec991ea840f10327079 https://preview.redd.it/uoc2v6eqkcpa1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=af6d745e65d4e16b9632db41b88dd1df409ccd9d https://preview.redd.it/ct0wa0nskcpa1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a9fd4e760a7a77b42cfa7851192683c0baf4e9e Mod list:
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2023.03.22 21:03 cleverthrowaway456 I'm not attracted to my wife anymore
Tldr; Read title
My wife and I have been together 10 years and married for 8. We have two beautiful children and I love the family we've built together. Before children my wife and would be intimate daily, but at the very least most days of the week. We had our first kid about a year and half after marriage and other than the recovery time we still remained fairly intimate, although I started working an extremely physically demanding job right before my kid was born so I was exhausted most days. A few years later she became pregnant again, but we lost the baby at 11 weeks. This is when everything started to go downhill FAST. She no longer wanted to have sex, which is understandable, but she also stopped showing me any sort of physical or emotional affection. She began setting up physical boundaries between us in bed, on the couch, refused hugs and and turned her head to my kisses. Eventually she wanted to try for another kid, but by then I've become so emotionally and physically unattached that it's gotten to the point I have a hard time climaxing. A few months after starting to try again we finally get the positive test. Baby born 9 months later and has been the most clingy, difficult infant I've ever seen. My wife is the only one to get the baby to stop crying, the only one that can hold it, and I honestly think she honed in on that because she focused her entire everything into the baby. She kept up all her barriers, still refused to hug and turned her head to my kisses. She wants sex constantly but refuses to hug me or kiss me unless it's sexual.
I feel used and unloved. It's been 3 years since my youngest was born and it still has not changed. There is still a pillow (the same exact one since the miscarriage) between us in bed, she still doesn't kiss me on the lips or hug me unless she wants sex. By the end of the day when we have more time for each other she says she's overstimulated from both kids needing her all day. I try to combat that as much as I can by sending her on weekend trips and keeping the kids with me for hours after work so she can have quiet time, but because she refuses to set boundaries with the kids she is immediately overwhelmed within a day or two of coming back.
Because of all this I feel like I've lost my emotional and physical attraction to her. I feel like I'm only a part of the family to be used for my money, house, and for sex. It's gotten so bad that one of those Snapchat bots attempted to friend me, saying "Good morning babe. Click here for a good time" and even though I knew it was fake and a scam it made my heart feel warm and loved. I've talked to my wife about how this all makes me feel (minus the loss of attraction) and it doesn't seem to affect her. I'm pretty much at a point where I'm ready for divorce but it would financially break me and I don't know which is worse- be divorced and unhappy because of finances or be together but unhappy with the marriage.
I really need to finally say something, this is where I begin.
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My wife and I have been together 10 years and married for 8. We have two beautiful children and I love the family we've built together. Before children my wife and would be intimate daily, but at the very least most days of the week. We had our first kid about a year and half after marriage and other than the recovery time we still remained fairly intimate, although I started working an extremely physically demanding job right before my kid was born so I was exhausted most days. A few years later she became pregnant again, but we lost the baby at 11 weeks. This is when everything started to go downhill FAST. She no longer wanted to have sex, which is understandable, but she also stopped showing me any sort of physical or emotional affection. She began setting up physical boundaries between us in bed, on the couch, refused hugs and and turned her head to my kisses. Eventually she wanted to try for another kid, but by then I've become so emotionally and physically unattached that it's gotten to the point I have a hard time climaxing. A few months after starting to try again we finally get the positive test. Baby born 9 months later and has been the most clingy, difficult infant I've ever seen. My wife is the only one to get the baby to stop crying, the only one that can hold it, and I honestly think she honed in on that because she focused her entire everything into the baby. She kept up all her barriers, still refused to hug and turned her head to my kisses. She wants sex constantly but refuses to hug me or kiss me unless it's sexual.
I feel used and unloved. It's been 3 years since my youngest was born and it still has not changed. There is still a pillow (the same exact one since the miscarriage) between us in bed, she still doesn't kiss me on the lips or hug me unless she wants sex. By the end of the day when we have more time for each other she says she's overstimulated from both kids needing her all day. I try to combat that as much as I can by sending her on weekend trips and keeping the kids with me for hours after work so she can have quiet time, but because she refuses to set boundaries with the kids she is immediately overwhelmed within a day or two of coming back.
Because of all this I feel like I've lost my emotional and physical attraction to her. I feel like I'm only a part of the family to be used for my money, house, and for sex. It's gotten so bad that one of those Snapchat bots attempted to friend me, saying "Good morning babe. Click here for a good time" and even though I knew it was fake and a scam it made my heart feel warm and loved. I've talked to my wife about how this all makes me feel (minus the loss of attraction) and it doesn't seem to affect her. I'm pretty much at a point where I'm ready for divorce but it would financially break me and I don't know which is worse- be divorced and unhappy because of finances or be together but unhappy with the marriage.
I really need to finally say something, this is where I begin.
2023.03.22 20:55 Zaplitai Worst sensory overload ever
My dad was talking too loud, I tried to read, rushed to wash my face with cold water to calm myself (usually works), but the lightbulbs of the bathroom just got changed and the light was way too bright and cold, so I started weeping, then my dad called me an annoying childish idiot. So I rushed back to my room but it was already too late. He was talking so damn f-ing loud that I could STILL HEAR HIM through headphones blasting death metal (i extremely hate loud noises, or just noises and people talking in general, so I hoped the music will muffle him) By this time I scratched myself badly, ripped off my own shirt because it suddenly felt dirty and nasty, and continuously banged my head against the table. I can’t to anything in these situations, I just simply hate how I have limbs and in fact a body. All I’m asking for is quiet and dark, but my dad is watching some loud crap on the tv and all the lights are up ( I have a glass door) but if I go out to explain my situation he just gonna call me names and I’m gonna have an even worse tantrum like rant. So 20 minutes after this action series I finally stopped crying, changed to comfy clothes and lying in bed with my comfort pillow. I hate sensory overloads, but at least it’s the evening, I have headphones and I’m home. But today I had a horrible overload, at school, before my classes started. I did horrible things that I’m extremely embarrassed about and people called me a loads of bad names)-: Any advice please, I can’t do anything about stopping the overload itself, but how could I calm down quickly or just not have any visible reactions to it?
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2023.03.22 20:50 magical_elf Would anyone from the UK like a free Avana Kind orthopaedic bed pillow set? I no longer need it.
I have a Avana Kind bed pillow set that I no longer need/use. Would anyone like it? They can be a bit pricey (~£200) and I'd like it to go to someone who needs it.
The pillow would be free, and I'll happily pay £50 towards the postage if you're happy to cover the rest (assuming it's more than that, which seems unlikely).
No catch - this sub really saved me during some really low times with Long Covid and I wanted to say thanks.
We have cats and dogs. Non-smoking home.
It's this set but in a dark brown https://www.onbuy.com/gb/avana-kind-bed-orthopedic-support-pillow-comfort-system-with-bamboo-rayon-cover~c13498~p52651549/
This massively helped my back when I was stuck in bed!
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The pillow would be free, and I'll happily pay £50 towards the postage if you're happy to cover the rest (assuming it's more than that, which seems unlikely).
No catch - this sub really saved me during some really low times with Long Covid and I wanted to say thanks.
We have cats and dogs. Non-smoking home.
It's this set but in a dark brown https://www.onbuy.com/gb/avana-kind-bed-orthopedic-support-pillow-comfort-system-with-bamboo-rayon-cover~c13498~p52651549/
This massively helped my back when I was stuck in bed!
2023.03.22 20:34 LouvreLove123 Towards a Unified Theory of Harmonious Dressing, Part 2
 | This is continued from my previous post: Towards a Unified Theory of Harmonious Dressing, Part 1 submitted by LouvreLove123 to DressForYourBody [link] [comments] (I'm sick today so go easy, I just felt like posting but I may not be as sharp, sorry.) Step Two: Organize Your Own Basics In the previous post, I talked about how I think the three most useful style theories when it comes to actually creating a chic, functional, flattering wardrobe, are:
Again, I'm not a stylist, and I'm not selling anything, I'm just working through my own opinions about all this. Most articles about basics wardrobes online will tell you that you need all kinds of things that you don't really need. At least, you don't necessarily need them. You need whatever pieces suit you best, that serve a particular function. For example, you may not need a trench coat or a motorcycle jacket, but you do likely need a lightweight spring jacket of some kind. Maybe a classic trench and a moto jacket are exactly what you want and need, but maybe not. I tried to make an example of a basics wardrobe that omits some of the more clichéd items that you see in lists of "must have" basics, while still respecting what a basic really is: a foundational piece in a neutral or neutral-adjacent color that can go with pretty much anything. Let's say this is for a baker named Jane who lives in a city with a moderate climate. She likes to look polished sometimes, but mostly dresses down. The items she finds herself most drawn to buy are sheer boho tops, flowy dresses, big printed cardigans, and vintage band tees. She's 5'7", a Kibbe Dramatic Classic, and has a dominant Natural Kitchener essence. https://preview.redd.it/nmjj1zk65cpa1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f5ea14e4652ca52cf4497099bdf9dac88c88ef9 I tried to stick to the bare minimum here. As you can see, it is missing some of the usual suspects. There is no silk blouse, no striped top, no trench, no blazer, no little black dress, and no leather jacket. However, I've added a classic blue Oxford, a denim work shirt, and a utility jacket. What matters is that the seven necessary item categories are filled:
In building our own basics wardrobe, we can then ask ourselves: what kind of items from the seven categories will most suit my own Kibbe ID and/or essence type? A Kibbe soft dramatic might replace a cotton button-up with ones in silk that flow over the body, or with a wide-neck peasant blouse to preserve the T-shape in her outfit. A Kitchener or Kibbe dramatic might want to include black leather pants. A gamine might include four different pairs of shorts. A romantic might have more than one little black dress, and an ingenue might want to add a little white dress, etc. etc. Most importantly, what do you actually spend your days doing? What sorts of things from the seven categories will best serve you in that? And once you determine the kinds of clothes you really need and want to be wearing, what versions of those clothes will work best on your body? Because there is never anything wrong with your body. There are no wrong bodies, only wrong clothes! If you gather all of your own basics together, what does it look like? What is working? What's missing? The idea isn't that you will then only wear these neutral clothes, although you can if you want to, but having a solid basics wardrobe will make getting dressed every day so, so much easier. I think the stylist Gabrielle Arruda described it as being like the rounds in your town—the basics are what can get you from point A to point B, while your more exciting pieces are like the landmarks. It's worth it to spend the time to get these basic items right. Thanks for listening to my rant! To be continued! |
2023.03.22 20:25 withadancenumber Recipe websites just got more user friendly thanks to AI.
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2023.03.22 20:19 Independent_Round579 My experience with lifelong derealization
Preface
This is a self-reflection and analysis of my experience with chronic dissociation and relevant complications. I am not clinically diagnosed with any dissociative disorders. Any and all thoughts, advice and criticisms are appreciated. Trigger warning: some trauma and mild injuries are described.
Trauma and Dissociative Amnesia
I say "my experience," but I hardly remember anything from middle school, and almost nothing from elementary school and before. Notably absent from my memory are two particularly traumatic-sounding experiences that occurred sometime during early childhood (less than 9 years old); the only reason I have knowledge on them is because they were described to me by other people.
The first major early childhood trauma was caused by monkeying around alone in the basement weight room. My mother said she told me many times before not to climb the exercise rack. I must have fallen and hit the back of my head on a floor-weight because she said she screamed and freaked out when she saw her child come out the top of the basement stairs bloodied-up, and at the hospital I got stitches. My mother also asserted that I was inspected and I hadn’t suffered a concussion, which means the amnesia was psychogenic (dissociative). Unique to this trauma, my mind formed a false memory of what happened leading up to it, as I was surprised to hear that over a decade later that this memory must have been fiction. I remember it being midnight, putting on a leotard, going to the basement, mounting a treadmill, building up spin-momentum, and then falling towards floor-dumbbells next to me — my memory cuts off before I hit the ground; however, the injury occurred during the day, I didn't own any leotards, and we didn't have a treadmill.
The second major early childhood trauma was a jump-scare that sent me into flight mode. I do remember the situation leading up to the point of the scare; I was in our house office focusing-in on the computer monitor. Someone explained to me that a guardian tricked me into playing a scary-maze-esque game and thought my extreme reaction was hilarious. Unfortunately, it's not so funny when the perpetratee is ~6 years old, as it was described to me that I ran far from the situation and it took a long time to calm me down. I refer to this second trauma as "major" because it evidently had a large impact on my psyche. Following it was years of intensely fearing that fictional monsters lingered around every corner; this persisted throughout the entirety of elementary school, deescalated in middle school, and pretty much entirely dissipated by high school.
A few other quasi-traumatic things I don’t remember purportedly transpired during childhood, e.g. almost choking to death on Hawaiian bread. I don't think they were necessarily particularly impactful per se, as virtually everyone has unpleasant childhood experiences. The only one I do remember is falling off a bulldozer, and I've had acrophobia ever since.
Derealization
The result of all of this was commonplace derealization. In public schooling I would regularly drift off to what my parents coined "la la land," and snap out of it minutes later with a teacher waving their hand in front of my face. Particularly intense is an incessant fogginess that bogs my perception; it makes it so reality feels somewhat vague, granular and phantasmal, as if my being has a disturbed connection to reality — kind of like an old, staticky TV or radio. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school due to a consistently poor ability to focus. However, I believe this was a misdiagnosis, as the "H" in "ADHD" necessitates a motor-hyperactivity which I don’t experience, and dissociation contrastingly entails hypo-arousal which I do experience:
Other Dissociation-related Complications
I've experienced a few other bizarre symptoms that I've read categorized under the dissociative umbrella:
Conclusion
The most intriguing dissociative symptom I experience is a palpability of memories and dreams, which is caused by dissociative absorption and reinforced by derealization. Dream journal entry 7/19/21: "I'm in my old house basement with all the lights on. One by one, I turn off the lights in each room of the basement. To finish, I go to the top of the basement stairs and turn off the last light. I then gaze down the dark stairway. A dark blue mist forms at the bottom. A figure emerges from it and starts up the stairs. I try screaming but my voice is faint. I turn and run while glancing over my shoulder. It feels like running through water. He reaches the top of the stairs. He is right behind me. I wake up."
The extent of my mental disorderliness seems to be acute derealization, perhaps via secondary structural dissociation. My derealization symptoms are less intense than they were a decade ago. I am now in my early twenties, and I am able to maintain my happiness and well-being by practicing healthy routines.
Thank you for reading my experience. Again, any and all thoughts, advice and criticisms are appreciated.
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This is a self-reflection and analysis of my experience with chronic dissociation and relevant complications. I am not clinically diagnosed with any dissociative disorders. Any and all thoughts, advice and criticisms are appreciated. Trigger warning: some trauma and mild injuries are described.
Trauma and Dissociative Amnesia
I say "my experience," but I hardly remember anything from middle school, and almost nothing from elementary school and before. Notably absent from my memory are two particularly traumatic-sounding experiences that occurred sometime during early childhood (less than 9 years old); the only reason I have knowledge on them is because they were described to me by other people.
The first major early childhood trauma was caused by monkeying around alone in the basement weight room. My mother said she told me many times before not to climb the exercise rack. I must have fallen and hit the back of my head on a floor-weight because she said she screamed and freaked out when she saw her child come out the top of the basement stairs bloodied-up, and at the hospital I got stitches. My mother also asserted that I was inspected and I hadn’t suffered a concussion, which means the amnesia was psychogenic (dissociative). Unique to this trauma, my mind formed a false memory of what happened leading up to it, as I was surprised to hear that over a decade later that this memory must have been fiction. I remember it being midnight, putting on a leotard, going to the basement, mounting a treadmill, building up spin-momentum, and then falling towards floor-dumbbells next to me — my memory cuts off before I hit the ground; however, the injury occurred during the day, I didn't own any leotards, and we didn't have a treadmill.
The second major early childhood trauma was a jump-scare that sent me into flight mode. I do remember the situation leading up to the point of the scare; I was in our house office focusing-in on the computer monitor. Someone explained to me that a guardian tricked me into playing a scary-maze-esque game and thought my extreme reaction was hilarious. Unfortunately, it's not so funny when the perpetratee is ~6 years old, as it was described to me that I ran far from the situation and it took a long time to calm me down. I refer to this second trauma as "major" because it evidently had a large impact on my psyche. Following it was years of intensely fearing that fictional monsters lingered around every corner; this persisted throughout the entirety of elementary school, deescalated in middle school, and pretty much entirely dissipated by high school.
A few other quasi-traumatic things I don’t remember purportedly transpired during childhood, e.g. almost choking to death on Hawaiian bread. I don't think they were necessarily particularly impactful per se, as virtually everyone has unpleasant childhood experiences. The only one I do remember is falling off a bulldozer, and I've had acrophobia ever since.
Derealization
The result of all of this was commonplace derealization. In public schooling I would regularly drift off to what my parents coined "la la land," and snap out of it minutes later with a teacher waving their hand in front of my face. Particularly intense is an incessant fogginess that bogs my perception; it makes it so reality feels somewhat vague, granular and phantasmal, as if my being has a disturbed connection to reality — kind of like an old, staticky TV or radio. I was diagnosed with ADHD in high school due to a consistently poor ability to focus. However, I believe this was a misdiagnosis, as the "H" in "ADHD" necessitates a motor-hyperactivity which I don’t experience, and dissociation contrastingly entails hypo-arousal which I do experience:
- To this day my perception is mildly hazy and bendy. There is a day-by-day variability in my visual acuity and I see slight size differences between perfectly congruent objects. I also experience photophobia (bright light sensitivity), which is easily the most annoying visual impairment.
- I easily detach from my surrounding environment. I speak in an excessively soft voice, I’m prone to ruminating, and I often wander and forget what I just did; I’m a bit of a germaphobe so the latter-most one often leads to redundant action. For example and most commonly, I take a shower and am able to deduce afterward I in fact just showered, but I don’t remember washing myself so I take another shower.
- I have (more or less) an average tolerance when I do notice pain, but I don't always realize physical injuries. For example, one winter I went tobogganing with my friends in Wisconsin. It was nighttime. There was an accident and the sled we were riding tipped over, and the side of my face scraped downhill along the frigid snow. I didn't feel anything, but when we got inside someone pointed out that my face was all cut up and bleeding. The sensation I most commonly fail to realize is hunger as well as the fatigue that proceeds it, as I habitually forget to eat food.
- I have a poor stress-tolerance, and I occasionally get (what I think are) cluster headaches.
Other Dissociation-related Complications
I've experienced a few other bizarre symptoms that I've read categorized under the dissociative umbrella:
- When someone says something to me while I’m dissociated, it doesn’t immediately register with me but I still, in a sense, capture what was said, as I’m able to snap out of it and then replay the noise in my head. For example, if you were to say “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” while I’m dissociated, I wouldn’t immediately hear it; I would then snap out of it, mentally playback the “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” *soundbite* from ~5 seconds ago, and then think and respond. I presume this just means that my current derealization renders me distant, in contrast to the completely detached “la la land” I experienced when I was younger.
- I occasionally experience auditory and olfactory (smell) hallucinations of, for example, someone calling my name or hearing a vibrating noise, or smelling food that isn't present. The auditory hallucinations are by far the most concerning and unsettling of all the symptoms I experience, and it acts up when I'm stressed. As aforementioned, I experience visual distortions but I don't think they qualify as hallucinations, with the worst of it being a tolerable vertigo.
- I've experienced a sort of possession a few times after zoning out. For example, when I was ~10 I was standing at the refrigerator. I felt a presence behind me and, seemingly out of nowhere, I spun around and landed a punch to the stomach of the adult who was standing there. I immediately felt very shocked and sorry for what I did. Similarly, when I was 12 I was chilling with my friend on the couch. I completely dissociated and then (out of nowhere) I did basically the same thing to my friend. Luckily due to the circumstances (it's difficult to harm someone with a punch when you're 12 and sitting down) they weren’t hurt and assumed it was horseplay. Regardless, I felt super shocked and embarrassed. These two particular examples instilled an intense concern in me, and it hasn't happened ever since.
- I sometimes do things that I don't remember doing: during and around sleep. This came to my awareness after attending university. Firstly, my former dormmate told me that I often hit the snooze on my alarm 5-or-so times before getting out of bed, which at first I thought was a joke. Secondly, my mother sometimes called me while I was still sleeping. I did not know this was the case until one day I was surprised by an unexpected visit by my mother at my university. She told me that an hour ago we had a conversation, and sure enough this appeared on my phone log. Thirdly, I had my wisdom teeth removed while attending my university. When I came out of anesthesia I had my phone in my hand, and I was sitting upright and facing my mother as if we were just having a conversation. These are just 3 clear-cut examples; but this evidently occurs often. (I heavily doubt this is DID, as it's constrained to sleeping and anesthetics: both of which affect memory.)
- I have a deficient sense of identity and don't really recognize my past self. They're objectively the same person as the one writing this post, but their interests and temperament just feel off. It's as if I lack a sense of continuity over time where every life-chapter doesn't have something to connect it to the one before and after. I think this hints towards borderline features in personality.
- My attachment style is definitely (at least) strongly avoidant. I'm quite bad with eye contact: often having long conversations with people without ever looking them in the face. I think I often come off excessively aloof, as I have been called "nonchalant" by multiple people before despite that on the inside I feel concerned about many things. I haven't told anyone about my problems before because it feels impossible to allow vulnerability. It only feels safe to get this off my chest on an anonymous medium over a decade after it all started.
Conclusion
The most intriguing dissociative symptom I experience is a palpability of memories and dreams, which is caused by dissociative absorption and reinforced by derealization. Dream journal entry 7/19/21: "I'm in my old house basement with all the lights on. One by one, I turn off the lights in each room of the basement. To finish, I go to the top of the basement stairs and turn off the last light. I then gaze down the dark stairway. A dark blue mist forms at the bottom. A figure emerges from it and starts up the stairs. I try screaming but my voice is faint. I turn and run while glancing over my shoulder. It feels like running through water. He reaches the top of the stairs. He is right behind me. I wake up."
The extent of my mental disorderliness seems to be acute derealization, perhaps via secondary structural dissociation. My derealization symptoms are less intense than they were a decade ago. I am now in my early twenties, and I am able to maintain my happiness and well-being by practicing healthy routines.
Thank you for reading my experience. Again, any and all thoughts, advice and criticisms are appreciated.