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babbushka

Zannah’s Masterlist of Masterlists

Hello everyone! Here is the compilation list for every single one of my reader insert writings that I’ve done here on babbushka.tumblr.com

Because there are so many of them, I’ve decided to give each character that I write for their own individual post. Each post is broken down into 3 categories: chaptered fics, oneshots, and then ask responses. Within those categories, they are sorted by genre, and are noted for any N*FW content so that you guys can better search for what it is you’d like to read! 

I hope that this helps you discover some writing you maybe might not have read, or helps you find old work you’ve been looking for again. Thank you all so much for reading, and I’m sending everyone my love! 

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bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

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bogleech

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

forms of eldritch horror include but are not limited to - nobody will ever believe you, you must live alone with this knowledge - you will never feel safe again, and you realize you were never safe before - everything that was familiar is now strange and abhorrent to the point anything that now seems normal should be held in utmost suspicion - having this new knowledge has opened doors that will continually reveal new equally cursed knowledge without end - death and madness are no longer escapes

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darkersoul

I’ve always felt that the idea of madness or sanity in an eldritch horror sense were misnomers. If anything, I feel a better term is a change of perspective. There is nothing inherent in seeing a greater being that “drives you insane”, it’s that this being doesn’t fit into your previous worldview at all and you have to wrestle that. Every character can and should react differently, changing in ways that “make sense” for them. It’s either a change in worldview or attempting to fit the greater being into your preexisting one. Both will have negative results, but will be interesting as hell to explore.

You know what? Unironically, I think this is the best comment I’ve seen on this post.

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miiilowo

tumblr is great because no matter how many followers i get it doesn't stop me from being really fucking annoying. other places i will perhaps think before i post. Not here. not here

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[Image ID: There a two images. The first one shows the Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Neil banging out the tunes for 18 years now' to Cas' 'I love you'. The second one is a photograph of a rat in front of a colourful toy piano. It's front paw is lifted up so it looks like the rat is playing the piano. The image is captioned with 'Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006'. /End ID]

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tranxio

Before you post on Tumblr, THINK!

T – Is it Terrible? H – Is it Horny? I – Is it Ignorant? N – Is it Nautically themed? K – Is it Kringe?

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