#becoming less human

[zillychu]

Consider this: ghosts are actually exactly what the Fentons think they are.

They're snapshots of a longing so strong, unfinished business so deep it reaches out beyond life. Lingers just a bit longer. And if it happens to meet a dense cloud of ectoplasm (invisible to the naked eye, but omnipresent even in the mortal realm), it coalesces. The ectoplasm fits into the shape of it. Which, when the desire is strong enough, it's got a rough idea of its self-image. This tends to mean a more humanoid figure, though it's more often warped in some way–a self-reflection, skewed by said desire. The warping varies on the dead soul’s perception of themselves, the intensity of their desire, how much time passed after death, and how much ectoplasm was present.

In short… no matter how “normal" a ghost looks or acts, it really, truly isn't human. It's animated ectoplasm with a single goal: an obsession. Nothing else. They're more akin to plants than animals, following a single drive with no emotion. They react to stimuli, recognize threats (including other ghosts), and can even imitate human speech and mannerisms to obtain fulfillment of their obsession.

Not “evil" by any stretch, but they're entirely driven by instinct. A tree doesn't pause to consider the rocks it breaks with its roots. A cordyceps doesn't torture its host for fun, or kill with malice. It just does. It follows code in its DNA to survive and multiply–And ghosts just follow the code in its ectoplasm to fulfill its obsession. The more powerful a ghost, the better it's able to overcome obstacles preventing this–whether through brute force, or manipulation. This power is always directly proportional to the amount of ectoplasm present at the time of formation, and how much time passed since death.

What then, does this mean for Danny? Danny, who's previously come to the conclusion that he's only half-ghost, which surely explains how he retained his mind? His independent thoughts and emotions?

What does this mean for Phantom, who experienced an entire world’s worth of ectoplasm condensed as a singularity, at the exact time of his death? Whose strength only grows and begins to exceed every limit they previously thought possible?

If a ghost was as strong as him… could it mimic a human perfectly? Down to a molecular level?

Could it, in its desire to fill an obsession… trick its own fake mind into thinking it was still human? Or half-ghost?

#Danny Phantom #zilly squeaks #it's the greyed out morality for me dude #on one hand it shows how dangerous ghosts are. how you can't reason with them. how they aren't *people* #and yet. you can still find ways to work with them. there's reason to show them mercy when possible #even if it's not really 'pain' it still cries out and bleeds when struck #i just love this kind of angle where there's a solid reason to find co-existence but also like #knowing full well these creatures are more or less. potentially deadly trees. do u feel me #when does sentience bloom from code? #what caused our ancestors to become sapient? #Danny getting Real Fucked Up about possibly being a full ghost who's just really good at pretending to be human #when really... does it even matter? #(for double the pain: add headcanon that ghosts feed off of human life for additional power)

[gorgynei]

happy to report that scavengers reign completely nails the body horror and psychological horror and has a SUPER awesome setting that makes it all feel believably horrific and beautiful at the same time. the planet is functioning perfectly but sadly for the survivors on the planet its quite fond of merging things together! which is! not pleasant for humans!

#i won't say more but im the first episode there is a ''person infected by spores rapidly becomes more & more fungus & less human'' scene #ramblings #scavengers reign

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 87

“Mother, I crave violence.” 

  Danny paused in the middle of his work, turning off the torch as he turned towards Dan. Who had once again be de-aged for destroying a world a few years before. (Ellie had cackled for hours about her being the older sibling now) The currently-six year old was scowling, definitely not pouting. 

  He raised an eyebrow, setting his tools down. “Jordan, we’re literally in an assassin’s den right now-” Honestly running into someone he’d met in his time-traveling was rather interesting, apparently his old rival had become so ecto-contaminated that he was immortal now. “-and I know you just got out of sparring, so are you really ‘craving violence’ or are you just bored?” 

  Dan pouted, sorry, he scowled. “Your ‘friend’s’ kids kept tryin’ to copy me and got in the way.” He hopped up onto one of the chairs, visibly not happy about not being able to fly as he glared at tiny legs. Tough shit, he knew better than to destroy worlds, they couldn’t always reverse time. 

   Danny sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “They’re just trying to play-” Maybe to a human they wouldn’t, but honestly everyone here was so liminal they were probably closer to ghosts than anyone except for Amity. Which had also been displaced in time after getting dragged to the ghost zone, so it had been soaked in ecto longer anyway. 

   “They got in the way and I almost stabbed Dusan!” Dan whined, despite what he’d insist. ���At least Elnath can go intangible and Nyssa can dodge!” Ah, that was the issue. He’d been worried. 

   “Little sunbeam, you don’t have to worry,” Danny soothed, scooping up the ghostling. Even though he had been an adult, the chemicals in the brain and body were still that of a child’s. A young child at that. “The trainers are there to keep an accident from happening.” 

  Not to mention that he was rather confident that between Ras and himself they could keep any injuries to minor ones. Sam would have loved to meet him, Danny thinks. Honestly they would have been best friends, but Sam was off on another world on a mission to collect every plant in existence, so good for her, and Tucker was back in the reincarnation cycle. 

  Oh well, at least he wasn’t waiting for them alone, and maybe Dan having more siblings would help stop another timeline-breaking accident from happening. 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #Danny fenton #league of assassins #ras al ghul #Danyal & Ras met when Danny was doing a time mission & trained together a bit #Ras was not expecting his old friend/rival to reappear hundreds of years later looking unchanged #Danny deserves to have white hair in his human form as he becomes more ghostly lol #morally grey danny #space core danny #his obsession is less general protection & more protecting what is His #Is Ras and Danny together Or are they platonically co-parenting #Honestly up to the writer #Hilariously Dusan definitely looks like he could be Danny's kid with the white hair and lazarus green eyes lol #Naughty ghosts get de-aged #sun core dan #moon core ellie #Ellie/Dani is named after the second brightest star in Taurus

[dykedvonte]

Fallout should really get more into the micro mutations that the radiation has caused. Like both with already mutated creatures and non-obvious ones.

Psykers, Night-kin, tunnelers and multiple other variants of mutated things exist so why can’t humans with other slight mutations? We know that radiation and FEV have affected how things have evolved, so it’d be really easy to say that these tribes or factions can do this cause they are slightly mutated to better fit their environment.

Perhaps Mojave people that live in very high areas have just noticeably long limbs due to all the climbing. Perhaps those who live in dark areas have larger pupils and borderline night vision. Perhaps rando NPCs that just mention having webbed hands cause their families live around water.

Like I’m not saying a bunch of new mutants or factions but just like humans who are more obviously slightly mutated.

#like how Harold is a ghoul but he mutated differently to become a tree #cause like the enclaves whole thing is that everyone is slightly mutated due to air FEV and radiation #so why not have it be shown more cause the humans ins fallout 1-2 look…. odd #and that’s being generous but why not make them weird and thus more #hypocritical that humans so often discriminate against less appealing mutations #fallout #fallout new vegas #fallout 4 #fallout 3 #fallout 2

[spacedustmantis]

charlie slimecicle is like barbie in the sense that he too can be anything

#a fish. a god. a zombie apocalypse survivor. a grieving father. danny phantom but less misogynistic. #a pile of goo that consumes a hundred souls. a pile of goo that has a normal human amount of bones. autism incarnate (who also becomes god) #a gay little twink who fucked up bad. some guy. etc #slimecicle #buggy thoughts

[uncanny-tranny]

So often, twink death is framed as a bad thing. However, the "twink death" for trans men* is frankly one of the most healing things you will bear witness to (pun intended).

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #honestly i hated being called a twink pre-t because so many people treated me like... lesser for it? #like... 'i think you are effeminate (and less of a man)... but i /guess/ you're still a man🙄! hope that helps' is how it sounded to me #and so often it seems like 'twink death' is just... fear of aging in a world that hates the realoties of the human body #i have compassion for the fear of aging however it will pretty much always be harmful to the person experiencing it... #...in that they too will age. no matter what you do to prevent aging it will still happen... #...i don't think fear is the fault of the individual - it's a systemic issue. however i think it's needless suffering... #...you certainly do not have to /like/ aging and it can truly suck at times. i just want people to think about why they fear it y'know? #anyway that's what i think motivates this apprehensive attitude about people and how they change and whatnot #though my twink death isn't me becoming a bear (in the future who knows but for now not so much)

[squuote]

Realized how often the Narrator anthropomorphizes things in the Ultra Deluxe in order to encourage or bait Stanley. Which is so much different than how he was in the past endings, specifically the apartment ending. The way he now refers to all the different quotable and memorable objects in the game as Stanley’s friends.

There’s just something about the way the Narrator does at least deeply try to relate to Stanley’s need as a human, understanding more that we are sociable creatures. Giving us the bucket as something to cherish and playing along with the notion (despite getting very obviously upset when Stanley gets too attached to the bucket and then tries to break down that narrative). The attempt made to actually reach out to Stanley in a human-like way.

I don’t know where I’m going with this but the attempt at connection through the similar actions of a person or something like that. Acknowledgement of human needs, even if it's more or less the bare minimum effort.

#the stanley parable #there’s just something about the change in the narrator as a character through the various editions of the game #how he acts in the original mod vs how he acts in the ultra deluxe #again this falls all the way into my whole the narrator acting more human as time goes on #and stanley becomes less human as time goes on concept i got brewing in my head at all times #sorry I’m always so chatty about this game btw I feel like I may be too annoying with it #if I am plz know that I’m sorry for it. fixation’s insane with this one #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #<- technically ig #edit: edited it just a smidge hehe #my friend brought up a good point and I wanted to add it :-)

[norringtondeservestheworld]

In a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is Ben Lambert and 10 is Matt Vladimery, how much you bonded with your own character?

#dbh #detroit: become human #detroit become human #dbh ralph #dbh daniel #ralph wr600 #daniel pl600 #matt vladimery #ben lambert #bryan dechart #neil newbon #I'm sorry for this post it's so silly #it's just that tomorrow is my first day on a new job and I am nervous so to feel less nervous I did this

[voidedjuice]

"By the time she had finished wrapping up the wound, it had already healed under the bandages. They both pretended not to notice."

#arknights #arknights andreana #arknights whisperain #continuing to think about my whispey + andie soggy iberian adventure au #as they keep going through stuff everything keeps getting Worse and they find themselves becoming less human #for some amount of time they can at least pretend not to see it though :) #my art #my artwork #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Big shout-out to the ocs and lore that depicts physical/appearance changes due to high concentration and uses of magic btw that shit is so cool. Whether your wizard's hair turns blue or straight up grows an extra arm due to the excessive amount of powerful magic they use everyday I eat that shit up. Bonus points if it's a rare/newly discovered condition or if your wizard is just straight up unrecognizable from arc 1 to arc 4. Bonus bonus points if the wizard gains a disability from it and has to learn to adapt to their new condition

#holly steelcry was shroter than average before the paradox in empyrea thing. they grew 3 ft after that #also got personal hcs of shadow magic in particular having physical and mental adverse effects to those who practice it regularly #i froth at the mouth whenever i see wizard ocs that have extra or atypical features due to their magical experiences #i actually have an eldritch wizard au where they slowly become less Human and more Thing. personality wise theyre still chill- #-but physically they look like Nyarlathotep #one random shadow magic hc - physical scars start to form on your body based on that person's biggest mental block/trauma #shadow practioner young wizard has strange scars that looks like a clawed hand wrapped around their throat or an azteca constellation #<- due to their unresolved guilt over azteca #or scars over their stomach that look like monsteous spider legs stretched outwards due to their guilt of being fooled by gf spider #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts #ALL WIZARD OCS ARE BOMB BTW I DIDNT MEAN JUST ONE TYPE OF OCS. EVERY OC IS AWESOME #i just get the Good Feelings whenever i see that specific type of oc/lore for some reason

[thebramblewood]

Apologies for ruining your weekend.

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It's not necessary, but if you want to learn more about the events Grace is describing (particularly the spellcaster who sacrificed herself), it originated in another story you can read here (chrono link for desktop only). I'm sure there are some inconsistencies because I had no idea I'd be doing more with it and my storytelling was more casual and gameplay-oriented then, but it might help fill in some gaps.

[rapid knocking at the door]

Caleb: …Morgyn? 

Grace: Caleb-

Caleb: Why are you in your nightgown? Are you crying?

Grace: Caleb, I-

Caleb: Where’s Morgyn? Council meetings never go this late.

Grace: [sniffling] Oh, Caleb… The Sages, they’re… they’re…

Caleb: What happened?

Grace: [strangely detached] I’d already gone home. Almost everyone had. There was an… attack. No one saw it coming. Dark magic… ancient spells… malicious… forbidden. How did he even find them?

Caleb: [impatiently] Grace, you’re not making any sense.

Grace: [distantly] The Realm is secured. Someone stopped him before he could tamper with the portals. A teacher, I think, from the children’s school. She sacrificed herself to drain his power.

Caleb: I don’t care about the goddamn Realm! What about Morgyn?

Grace: [sobbing] I’m sorry, Caleb. I’m so sorry. They were ambushed. They had no chance to defend themselves. Faba, Simeon, Morgyn… The entire Council is… dead. Oh my god. Caleb, are you okay?

Caleb: Stay back!

Grace: But-Caleb: I mean it! You’re not safe around me like this. Go home, Grace! Now.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #story: hzid #caleb vatore #grace anansi #for some reason caleb's jaw/chin area is slightly more pronounced in his human form... not sure how that happened #i hope it makes sense why his dark form takes over at the end! #it's sort of like the vampire equivalent of going into fight or flight mode #it's like their bodies' defense system so it can kick in automatically if they feel overly threatened or overwhelmed #and as a result they become more easily driven by base instincts and less in control #which is why he tells grace he's dangerous! #since he's so disciplined he would probably be able to restrain himself from hurting her but he'd rather not leave even a small opening #(and besides it's a convenient way to tell her he'd prefer to be left alone) #death tw #gif tw

[atomicengineerdetective]

I've been watching Hazbin Hotel in prime. Just watched episode 5 and I gotta ask

Why, oh, WHY DON'T I SEE MORE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT "MORE THAN ANYTHING" WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE HAZBIN HOTEL MUSIC???

Like I get it, the song before it "Hell's Greatest Dad" Is a bop reminiscent of other music from the era its parodying. I loved it.

BUT why are you only putting clips of that song when this MASTERPIECE comes a few minutes after

I honestly don't even know where to begin with this song. The visuals are beautiful, especially when we get moments like this where you can just see the absolute LOVE this man has for her daughter is so sweet and Heartwarming I just-

The voices are fenomenal but what else can you expect from the broadway talents of Erika Henningsen and Jeremy Jordan.

There is also the whole Symbolism with passing the baton to the next generation and stuff. I- I can't even get into the specifics right now Im too emotional.

But above all else THE LYRICS

ESPECIALLY THAT LAST ONE

"I'M GRATEFUL YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER/FATHER MORE THAN ANYTHING"

DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY?? CAUSE I AM. I AM BAWLING MY EYES OUT RIGHT NOW.

It's just so fucking beautiful man. Probably the best song I will hear all year. Obviously my favorite from Hazbin.

#Call me Sir Pentious cause Im crying like a baby over here. #WHY HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING THIS GEM FROM ME. THIS ABSOLUTE DIAMOND #I didnt even mention lyrics like “I've been dying to find out who you are. looks like the apple doesnt fall far.” #“You are a part of who I am” “you are the only thing worth fighting for” that just BREAK ME #but oh well #BTW of course I was gonna watch and become obsessed with Hazbin Hotel. I am a theater kid that loves animation. It was like meant for me #could do with a little less obsenities but thats alright its a staple of the show #On another note I almost went insane when I found out lucifer was Jeremy Jordan. #Like its insane how that man always ends up in my obsessions. Newsies. Tangled the series. The Death Note Musical #(Im team L btw in death note but GOD Jeremy's singing made me reconsider for a milisecond in Where's the justice he is just THAT GOOD) #Erika I knew from the mean girls musical which I also deeply enjoy #its Insane the Talent this show brought in. my theater kid heart is ELATED #Last thing is I gotta say I LOVED Lucifer #Like I thought I was gonna hate him because everyone was talking about charlie's daddy issues #I thought he was gonna be neglectful and manipulative #BUT NO. He is a silly (little) father who just loves his daughter but doesnt know how to show it #And had DREAMS and AMBITION and fate in humanity. And he is just such a fun character to follow I had such a riot with this episode #Hazbin Hotel #charlie morningstar #lucifer morningstar #charlotte morningstar

[descendantofthesparrow]

Remember when the Audrey villain leaks came out and then we saw the offical c4 and s3 outfit reveals and saw the c4 on the isle and the s3 in an auradon forest and we all thought there had been some sort of time spell where Audrey twisted time and instead of the c4 coming to Auradon it was the s3 so Audrey stayed with Ben and there was a whole adventue to fix the timeline? no? just me? okay

#i remember the theories they were so interesting #like how dr. Facilier ran an underground motorrace and the vks had to race to get the key to Hades lair #and we all thought Harry and Gil had dyed their hair blue becuase that reveal photo of the s3 looked so odd for Harry's hair lighting and i #looked blue #and we all thought Audrey had gone to a wishing well like in ouat and had cast a time spell and the vks had to work together to get their #timeline back #Uma #Mal and Audrey and Hades are the only ones who remember the last timeline #aka demi-gods #person who cast the spell #and god #and Mal goes to see Hades and confronts him cuz hes a god and might know where cronos sundial is so she can get her timeline back #but she also notices alto of the isle is-way better than what she and her friends had done?? theres fresh food-no one is wearing ratty old #clothes that were trash from auradon #the air is better #and theres no propagana pictures #Mal asks-not so descretly-what happened and Hades just goes 'uma.' #Uma made it her whole ass mission to make the isle a better place in gernal becuase even if they're steadely getting kids off-its still a #really bad place and-ya know-HUMAN RIGHTS #Ben is very supportive and the isle becomes less an inhumane prison and more just a isle of solitude where the villains live without magic #the barrier was edited personally by FG and Uma to allow fresh air and water in and out of the isle becuase it was really fucked up that #once ANYTHING gets in it cant go out so the isle waters were really really poluted and bad and FG was like- "how did i not know it was this #bad!?“ and uma is just like ”....really?“ #anyway i have feelings about the fandoms old theories about d3 #anyway Mal goes through teh deliema of either going back to her timeline where the isle is still really bad but shes happy or #stay in the timeline where the isle is much better but she's still stuck and not with Ben/becoming queen #so she has the same choice in this alt timeine that she gets in d3 but its much more-just on her-becuase she knows Uma wont twist back #the timeline-shes happy #Harry and Gil are happy-lots of kids are already off the isle #and Ben looks happy too...hopefully

[bruciemilf]

If there’s one advice I can give you, it’s this: take math classes, dude. YouTube tutorials, tutoring lessons if you can afford it, online quizzes, ask your math whizz friends for help. because as someone who’s math incompetent and had a brutal situation at work, that shit WILL be an obstacle. I know math absolutely sucks, but trust me, it’s everywhere, and you WILL need at least the basics

#text #currently I’m crying abt not knowing how to do math even with a calculator in front of me #let me tell you #it’s not fun #I often wonder what becomes of people like me — who aren’t gifted #with a sharp affinity for logic and academics. I ask myself ‘why can’t you just understand what’s so simple for everyone else #and I don’t know!!! #but I do know I’m just as much of a human being as everyone else. I deserve nice things and decency because no human deserves less #regardless of their shortcomings

[sukunas-wife]

I’ve been going back reading the manga, and i NEED TO KNOW WHY YOROZU WAS SO UPSET WHEN SUKUNA HINTED HE KNEW WHAT LOVE IS

And she GOT LIVID “THATS NOT TRUE LOVE”

Like hold on a minute- I might need to knock off Interview with a Vampire and find Yorozu

“Interview with a Woman who wanted my husband: Yorozu”

Only one question: “who the hell or what the hell did he love and can you elaborate in detail??? We’re all gonna jump him, because excuse me???

Every article says he never had a wife or family, he SAYS He was an unwanted child, eXCUSE ME??

*turns to sukuna*

Hold on if your an unwanted child, power hungry who and where did you experience love??

The only LOVE you better have is how you loved the food Uraume cooked for you and not Uraume

Tell me you had a concubine and a child you loved

imma flip this fr and theorize so hard it was YOUR SON Yuji AND MAYBE JUST MAYBE after being unloved as a child you said “This is my child, I’ll kill anyone who hurts him”

and he’s the reason you really fell in battle when you were betrayed. You tried to protect him! But what happens when you have a weakness? IT GET EXPLOITED

so when you came across him reincarnated, it pissed you off he was so nice and soft boyish you snapped and hated him even if he was your son.

That’s why you wanna break him, you want HIM TO BE YOU, to feel that hate, that rage, to let himself be consumed by the darkness you let yourself be consumed in when you were unwanted as a child-

STOP HURTING BABY BOY YUJI RYOMEN

I bet before you were labeled ryomen sukuna your name that you stripped away had “ITADORI” in it

Fight me-

Someone @ Gege tell i NEED to write this out

Read the tags btw i kept elaborating 😭

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@sakuxxi @mercymccann @simpforyoubitch @certainduckanchor @domainofmarie @najiiix x @bakugou-katsukis-wife i need opinions here 😭

#sukuna ryomen #daddy sukuna #jjk anime #ryomen sukuna #jujutsu kaisen #sukunas wife #sukunas wife speaks #not really a theory #jjk theory #👀 sukuna? #who the hell or what the hell did you love?? #Yujis your boy you can’t tell me now #something something #character development #bro would die to see Yuji become evil #if Yuji becomes cursed or a curse i called it #i see it now Sukunas on the floor yuji’s about to off him but Yuji looks less and less human #and Sukuna just before dying hit him with #I was Your Father Yuji Itadori #i was Itadori- *dead* #Star Wars shit going on #then it curses Yuji Like Yuuta #bro turn into a curse just like his daddy #and Sukuna lives on like the curse inside of Yuji #Yuji sinks into the darkeness and become Ryomen Sukuna Reincarneted Carnage #when he summons his curse like Yuuta it’s Sukuna at full power and massive size and ngl #Yuuta&Rika V Ryomen Sukuna and Ryomen Sukuna Reincarnated Carnage? #no Chance the Itadori tema would lose 💀 #yuji itadori #jjk yuji

[volpestarks]

sanderson ‘s characters continued Kal + Syl

#illustration #brandon sanderson #stormlight archive #Kaladin Stormblessed #Syl #I prefer the interpretation of Syl in a less humanoid form tbh #because in my mind whenever she takes on something resembling a little human lady it becomes a tad too much like Peter Pan 🥲😭 #visualize her as constantly shifting like water