It had night or darkness in it’s name and the plot was you died and homonculous brings you into an escher style room and gives you a card that lets you time travel to prevent your death.
Somewhere during your time travels, you accidentally take a waitress back to medieval times and she becomes married to the duke. You also meet the alchemist.
It turns out the alchemists son blames you for his sister and fathers death so he has been killing you with a time travel device given to him by his future self and when you go to stop the alchemists experiment that kills them, you accidentally cause it and cause homonculous to be born.
Shit happens and the son gives up and it turns out homonculous didn’t give a damn about you and just needed you so that he could be created.
So I just woke up and my first thought was “what if in the four horsemen of the apocalypse, pestilence was one of those anti-vax moms?”
quite frankly the four white suburban soccer-moms of the apocalypse would scare me way more
War is the one constantly screaming at retail workers
While Famine grins from a gaunt face with hollow cheeks and tells you about the diet she’s on that “you just HAVE to try!”
Susan down the street has her whole family on gluten-free, lactose-free, raw vegan meals. You’ve stopped bringing snacks to soccer practice because of the ever-expanding list of things she says they’re restricting. Sometimes you catch her son and daughter watching your daughter with hungry, sunken eyes as she runs down the field with the ball in her control, and you feel a shiver run down your spine.
Nancy’s rage is legendary. The baristas at the coffeeshop on the corner all freeze the moment she walks in, their smiles turning rictus as she rattles off a long and impossibly complicated drinks order. You saw one of the girls ask her for clarification on one of her ingredients, once. A solid hour of screaming and the involvement of three supervisors and the manager later, Nancy walked out with a $50 gift card and the drink she’d ordered. You never saw that girl again.
“Do you know what they put in those things?” Helen asks you, when you ask if her small herd of under-twelves have had their flu shots yet. She’s prepared with a long list of multisyllabic chemicals, which she rattles off like a schoolchild listing the 51 states. You know that most of those chemicals are only traces, and your uncle still walks with a limp from the polio, but you feel a deep, dark dread welling up in your lungs anyway as she drones on hypnotically. Across the aisle in the Whole Foods, her youngest son stares you directly in the eye as he wipes his freely-flowing nose on his sleeve.
Amanda’s been head of the neighbourhood association for as long as anyone can remember, but you hardly ever see her. She’s busy, everyone says, on all sorts of committees, volunteering here and there and everywhere. Making the world a better place, in her own quiet, unassuming way. She comes to your door one afternoon, saying she can’t help but notice your grass is getting a little overgrown. She’s thin, almost gaunt, and you wonder if she’s been following one of Susan’s diet plans. Her face is taut with plastic surgery, skin and dwindling time both stretched out thin, barely covering incredible bone structure.
When she smiles at you, wide, with her lips curled back so you can see almost all of her gums, her teeth are sparkling white.
I never knew I needed soccer mom au four horseman fanfiction until now
No but seriously though that’s just so condescending and rude what the hell.
If I didn’t have a special little paper that says I have a really shitty anxiety disorder I’d be considered just as illegitimate as these people. That just makes me so uncomfortable.
There are some people with such bad anxiety that they won’t even go to a doctor to get it checked out. Does that make it any less legit?
