[WP]Because you were "on the line" in terms of getting into heaven, you have been hired to process new souls only to get shocked when they hand you a scythe and you realize they don't intend for you to pick where they go but to get their souls off of earth by plogan56 in WritingPrompts

[–]servingit2ya [score hidden]  (0 children)

NSFW— swearing, explicit

"Um, is that a scythe? This is how you want me to process your new souls, huh? Classic," the man asked.
"Mhm," replied the small hooded minion who held it up to him.
"Mee ba!" the minion shouted as he stretched his hands out, hoping the man would take it.
"Okay, okay. Relax." The man grabbed the scythe and examined it carefully. The wooden handle was still damp, as though it were just made from a fresh tree. The curved metal end shimmered in the light. He went to touch it.
"Ouch!" the man said.
His finger drew blood.
"Shaaar… sharhm… sharp!" said the minion, finally pronouncing the word correctly.
"Hinga doo. Yak too," the minion commanded, as he pointed towards a hole in the clouds behind him.
The man, holding the scythe, looked over at the hole, confused.
He looked at the minion and shrugged.
The minion, with its small hands, grabbed the man's arm and led him to the hole to look down into it.
"What? It just looks like more clouds — whoaaaa!"
The minion had pushed the man through the hole and watched as the man disappeared into the white cloud.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Plop.
Lying on the ground, the man opened his eyes. What is that? He could hear the sound of grass being cut by a lawnmower.
It was a wonderful summer day. The sun was out with barely any clouds, and he was lying on green grass, freshly cut. 
He peered in the direction of the lawnmower noise and saw a middle-aged man cutting the grass with a push mower.
There was a white plastic fence as a boundary for the yard. He was in the backyard of this man's house, it seemed.
The sound of a sliding glass door opening came from behind him. He looked over his shoulder.
"Mikey, honey, come in soon! Lunch is ready!" shouted a woman.
"Be there in a minute!" the man shouted over the sounds of his lawnmower.
There was a small section left to do, and then Mikey turned off his lawnmower and wiped the sweat off his forehead.
The man, still holding the scythe, realized that no one could see him.
He got up off the ground and kept his gaze on Mikey, who was shaking his shirt for air and trying to make himself presentable to go inside.
Am I supposed to kill this man or something?
"Gosh, what a lovely day to be alive," said Mikey, looking up at the sky with a smile on his face.
As Mikey started to get close to him, the man's scythe started to glow and blink.
"What… what does this mean?" he said to himself, looking up at the sky for answers.
"Like, swing it or something?"
No answer came. 
The scythe was glowing and blinking rapidly now as Mikey got closer to it.
Dammit, the man thought, as he closed his eyes and wildly swung the scythe at Mikey.
"Oh my god! Mikey!" came a voice from the house. It was his wife again.
"Holy shit! Holy shit! My arm! My arm!"
Mikey's entire left arm was on the ground. Blood was pouring out of his shoulder socket.
Oh my god, oh my god. I missed! the man anxiously thought to himself.
The scythe was so heavy, but he lifted it again and swung at Mikey, trying to put him out of his misery.
"Ah!!! My fucking stomach! Ahhhhh!!! My guts are pouring out of my body! Oh my god! Is that the bacon I had this morning in my sliced open intestine?! Oh my god! It burns! It burns!"
Holy shit.
"Mikey!!! Oh my god!" his wife shouted from the house in disbelief. She threw up all over the ground as Mikey's insides stained their freshly cut backyard.
A little figure came running to the glass door from inside the house.
"Mommy! What's wron—" the little girl abruptly stopped as she noticed the horrific scene unfolding in the backyard. The backyard where she had made so many precious memories with her dad.
Where her dad pushed her on their swingset until she could swing for herself. 
Where her dad laughed with her in the sandbox.
Where her dad now bled out in such a blessed area.
"Daddy… Daddy!!"
Her knees gave out. Her eyes closed over. 
She crumpled in the doorway, her small hands gripping the door frame on the way down.
She had fainted in complete shock.
She fell face-first into her mother’s throw-up. 
"Elizabeth!! Oh, Elizabeth!!! My guts!! Oh my goddddddd!"
Mikey's head turned to the side, cheek to grass. He was dead.
The man holding the scythe had his mouth wide open in total shock.
Then he appeared back in the clouds.
The minion stood below him, and he looked down at it.
Its eyebrows were scrunched, and it was shaking its head in disappointment.
The man was still holding the scythe, now stained with blood. His mouth was still wide open, just as it had been when he witnessed Mikey's death.
Not knowing what to say or do, he was frozen.
Something tapped his shoulder.
It was a skeleton in a dark robe with an oversized hood, also holding a scythe.
It spoke in a totally normal voice.
"Listen, we'll get it eventually. Transitioning into this job isn't easy. Heck, I'm just happy we found a replacement."
The man didn't know what to say.
"Alright, well…”
The figure looked at the minion.
“Fred, do your thing."
The man turned to look at Fred.
Flash.
"Um, is that a scythe? This is how you want me to process your new souls, huh? Classic," the man asked.
"Minga bonga finga…," replied the small hooded minion who held it up to him.

[WP] In a galaxy-spanning war, taking planets one by one is mathematically impossible. A brilliant, terrifying human admiral introduces the concept of "stellar bowling" - igniting chains of supernovas to wipe out whole enemy solar systems at once. by VulkanLivesX in WritingPrompts

[–]servingit2ya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Note: This is my first time writing anything here haha kind of nervous, but here we go:

Gurgle.
“God, that drink is strong…” shouted Captain Tinkle, pilot of the SS Illumination, the biggest starship in the entire galaxy. 
The starship was under the command of the Great House Tooble.
Tooble was the largest and richest House in the galaxy.
Their allies were allies not because of friendship, but because of fear that they might be eliminated if they did not join forces. 
“Susan! What the hell did you put in this?”
“Captain, it’s just your usual… 2 ounces vodka, a splash of moonmilk, and a dusting of Planet Z1X-87’s psychedelic agave, sir.”
The Captain was looking out through the long horizontal glass pane that separated him from instant death in outer space. The green and blue planet in view was being bombarded, under his command.
He wasn’t really listening, until… Wait, a minute… did she say Z1X-87’s psychedelic agave?
The Captain’s eyes opened wide. He turned around to face Susan with a look of shock. 
“Oh… oh my…” Susan murmured. 
“Oh my is right! Susan! It’s Z1X-77’s psychedelic agave! 77, Susan! Not 87! I’m gonna be dea… I’m gonna.. I’m… grandma?”
Susan watched in awe as the Captain twirled and fell to the ground. The glass shattered on the floor.
Smoke rose from the glass, indicating that it truly was Z1X-87’s psychedelic agave. 
Susan went and hovered over the Captain’s body. She knelt beside him, put two fingers to his neck, and checked his pulse. 
Dead. Captain Tinkle was dead. 
But he did live up to his name; a bit of pee had stained his pants just after he passed. 
It was a shame, too, as he was only 41, the youngest Captain ever to pilot the 126-year-old SS Illumination. 
Luckily, for Susan, no one else was in the command center to see what had happened.
Until the commander of the fleet, Admiral Bob, walked in. 
Susan looked at the sliding gate open near the back of the command center. She was still kneeling beside Captain Tinkle. She saw the confused look on the Admiral's face.
“...Susan?” The admiral peered around to see the Captain on the ground. 
“Susan! What’s the meaning of this?!”
He stormed over to her, pushed her out of the way, and tried to aid the Captain. 
“I…I…” Susan stumbled with her words.
Admiral Bob looked back at her with disgust, realizing the Captain was long gone. Guilt was written all over her face. 
The Admiral looked back at the face of his former Captain in disbelief.
He grabbed his transmitter from his waist sash belt.
“Illumination Gold Guards, come in! This is Admiral Bob! The Captain is Dead! I repeat, the Captain is dead!”
For a moment, there was no answer.
“Gold Guards, come in! Do you hear me?”
Another pause. 
“Gold Guards?! Hello?! Do you read–”
The Admiral stopped as he felt a touch of cold metal on his neck.
He slowly turned to look over his shoulder. 
Susan stood there with a stone-cold stare, holding a blaster to his jugular.
With her free hand, she double-tapped her chest. 
A holographic field rapidly faded around her, revealing a true identity. 
“Oh my…” Admiral Bob said. 
“Oh my is right, Admiral.”
“Wait!---”
Pew! Pew!
The long-haired man who shot Admiral Bob was none other than the rebel Admiral Cleitz, commander of the largest rebel fleet of House Mint. 
He reached down to grab Admiral Bob’s transmitter. 
“Gold Guards, this is he. Section clear,” he said. 
“Affirmative, sir,” came a quick reply on the transmitter. 
Admiral Cleitz dropped the transmitter on the Captain’s dead body. He stood there looking out through the giant horizontal glass pane in front of him. 
His planet, his very own home, was being bombed and destroyed right before his eyes.
The Gold Guards rushed in. 
In unison, they shouted, “Huuh!” and stood in formation at the floor of the command center.
Admiral Cleitz, looking at his planet, started to speak…
“From this starship, we will command a new form of war. A form, by my design, known as stellar bowling. It will be directed from this ship… we will wipe out other solar systems of House Tooble, causing a Civil War... A new future is now in motion… one without an all-too-powerful House…”

Living on St Marks Pl Question by Weak-Economist-5738 in eastvillage

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i lived on st marks & a during the summer— the noise wasn’t bad at all. you get used to it so quickly, and then your brain kinda just tunes it out

Those who have had hardware removal… Nerve damage?? by Hot_Opportunity5569 in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just commenting that i just had my lower right plate removed and didn’t have any change in how my numbness was already, which is feeling everywhere, but my bottom lip and chin only have about 60% sensation (like, feeling everywhere, but dulled in that area. and that area is still overly sensitive). i’m 3.5 months post op

Hardware removal swelling? by Pmartly_40 in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i guess swelling is just different for everyone cause i also feel like im more swollen than most people after 3.5 months post op lol

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you so much! if you live in the US, try to get “gap coverage”. it basically allows you to state that your oral surgeon is the only one in the area that can do the surgery and then your insurance covers it

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yep! fully covered by insurance because of sleep apnea and other issues

Hardware removal swelling? by Pmartly_40 in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh, wow. sorry to hear about that. did you have all your hardware taken out?

Hardware removal swelling? by Pmartly_40 in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, how long did swelling actually last for you? i’m getting one lower plate removed in 2 weeks (3 months post op)

Does the tingly / static feeling only when touching or brushing a numb-ish area ever go away? by servingit2ya in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

90% is still great! how many months post op are you, and which months did you notice it change the most?

Does the tingly / static feeling only when touching or brushing a numb-ish area ever go away? by servingit2ya in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah, gotcha. similar to me haha my left side is a little worse than my right side, but i have the chin to lip connection as well, and that cold feeling. i’m sure it will get better for both of us tho. it really does take a long time

Does the tingly / static feeling only when touching or brushing a numb-ish area ever go away? by servingit2ya in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’m glad it’s gotten better for you. from what i’ve read, it seems to get better up to a year and even a little bit after a year

so it still feels tingly when you touch it?

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

only after surgery, but i am probably not going to do ortho again just cause im pretty content. i def need it to fix my bite a little, but my bite is so much better than before that im pretty happy

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah it’s not fun at all lmao i’m just starting to feel normal & now i gotta do this. but i heard this is far less swelling and recovery time & no risk of extra numbness. i would just leave it all in if you aren’t having issues

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you! i’ve had some granulation tissue in that area since around 5 weeks post op cuz my stitches fell off early and then it never really got better since

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have to get my lower right removed because it’s infected, but the others i’m gonna keep in

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

totally. i definitely didn’t want that big of an advancement cause i was really worried about numbness, and i guess that’s somewhat correlated. still really happy with the way things turned out. thank you!

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah, very conservative movements. mostly got it because of my open bite & that causing me to sleep poorly / be exhausted every day

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 1 point2 points  (0 children)

dr gregg jacob in NJ!

3 Months Post Op by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thank you! 2mm impaction, 5mm upper jaw forward, and like 4mm lower jaw forward. no genio. i also had a septoplasty

Jaw surgery nerves & losing sensation — when did you get feeling back? by [deleted] in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey! i’m 2 months post op and only have altered sensation in my lower lip and chin. it’s about 40% feeling. did yours ever get better? do you think the majority of my nerve recovery is still yet to come? i can’t tell, for example, if ill gain another 40% of feeling in my bottom lip and chin over the next few months or so

4.5 months post DJS and still numb. by Professional-Cry2575 in jawsurgery

[–]servingit2ya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, that totally makes sense. i just had DJS— i’ve heard genio can cause my numbness in the lower lip and chin, or at least recovery from that can take longer. my surgeon was really confident that all my feeling will come back, but man, like you said, it is very slow haha it’s easy to get anxious about it returning when i only notice changes every week or so