#lane the lurker

[creepypasta-fan-page]

“Ice-scream„

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-:Jeff the killer: Mango ice cream is his go to. He usually puts Chamoy in it. Masky thinks that is absolutely disgusting. Now Jeff goes out of his way to make sure he eats it when Masky is in the Manor.

-:Eyeless jack: Jack is a Cherry Garcia guy. He doesn’t like chocolate or super sweet sugary things so the sweet fruit ice cream flavors are his favorite.

-:Laughing jack: Cookies n cream. He can’t help the fact that he has to stick to his aesthetic. He also may just really like the Oreos in the ice cream…

-:Jane the killer: Orange sherbet ice cream. She prefers popsicles but some sherbet every once in a while is nice.

-:Sally Williams: Chocolate! She really likes the taste and it’s been her favorite since she was a baby. It was also the first ice cream flavor she ever tried.

-:BEN drowned: BEN is an average discord MOD. Mint chocolate chip. He thinks it makes up for not brushing his teeth.

-:Slenderman: He doesn’t eat ice cream. He eats kids. But he prefers the ones that haven’t gotten a vaccine.

-:Masky MH:Like the old man he is, pistachio. Literally no one understands why he likes it. It was just a popular flavor when he was growing up and he grew accustomed to it.

-:Hoodie (MH): He likes salted caramel flavored. Bonus points if there are caramel chunks in it. He also gets annoyed when people pronounce it “cara-Mel” and not “car-Mel”

-:Ticci Toby: he’s a slut for coffee flavored ice cream. He loves the smell and isn’t aloud to have coffee so it’s a win-win for him.

-:Clockwork: Clockwork was raised in the outskirts. She can’t help it that Rocky Road is her favorite. It has multiple different flavors packed inside, who wouldn’t love that?

-:Nina the killer: Neopolitan. She either mixes all three flavors or eats them individually.

-:KageKao: Matcha. Since he is Japanese he grew up eating a lot of matcha stuff. He prefers the strong matcha over the sweetened.

-:Bloody Painter: Oh how he loves some blueberry ice cream. He also only eats ice cream in those chocolate dipped cones.

-:X- virus: Our neighborhood science freak loves ube flavored stuff. That purple potatoe flavor just gets him everytime.

-**Special~

-:Lane the Lurker: Lane kinda gives me moose track vibes. The vanilla ice cream with crushed Reese’s and fudge? Sign him up.

Lane the Lurker is an OC by @raythekiller ❕

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#creepypasta #creepypasta headcanon #creepypasta headcanons #jeff the killer #slenderman #ticci toby #ben drowned #laughing jack #masky #x virus #Sally Williams #lane the lurker #ray.oc #bloody painter #kagekao #Nina the killer #clockwork #mh masky #mh hoody #jeff the killer headcanons #eyelessjack #jane the killer

[raythekiller]

Ticci Toby , Jeff the Killer , Eyeless Jack , Ben drowned and your OC with a reader who likes to be make them jealous?

🗒 ❛ S/O Making Them Jealous ༉‧₊˚✧

Featuring: Jeff The Killer, Ben Drowned, Ticci Toby, Eyeless Jack, Lane The Lurker

#Notes: yall like to play with danger

pronouns used: none, gn! reader

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꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Jeff The Killer

Not amused in the slightest. He's super possessive, just the thought of you paying attention to someone else makes his blood boil. Will either give you the silent treatment or scream at you about it, asking what the fuck is your deal. If he sees you flirting with someone else, they're dead (you might be too). You have to understand that, when dating this guy, that means you're his.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Ben Drowned

Takes him a while to notice, he's a little slow. Once he does, he's a mixture of upset and angry. Why are you doing this? Do you not like him anymore? Will be very aggressive when questioning you about it - he needs a plausible answer or else he's gonna flip. Not exactly possessive, but he has his limits.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Ticci Toby

Genuinely feels like crying. His abandonment issues get triggered and he immediately thinks you're going to leave him for someone else and it's his fault. Will give you more attention in a desperate attempt to make you stay. If you keep doing it, he might just freak out and kill you in a fit of raw emotion.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Eyeless Jack

Gets extremely upset. He already thinks he doesn't deserve you, so when you pull a stunt like this, it just solidifies that idea in his head. Not possessive or impulsive enough to kill you, but might very well break up with you. If he's not good enough for you, there's no reason for you two to stay together in his mind.

꒰⸝⸝₊⛓┊Lane The Lurker

Oh, real funny, Y/N. Not happy about the situation in the slightest. They don't even understand why you might be doing it - their ego is too big to consider the fact you might ever be interested in someone else. The only explanation they can think of is that you want attention. Their idea of how to give it to you is... Suggestive.

#creepypasta #creepypasta headcanons #ray.writes #creepypasta x reader #ticci toby #ticci toby x reader #jeff the killer #eyeless jack #ben drowned #jeff the kiler x reader #eyeless jack x reader #ben drowned x reader #oc.lane hellshire #lane the lurker x reader

[brewed-pangolin]

What's the point?

Why are we here?

If I left, would it change anything?

Probably not.

Existential crisis?

No.

Just me trying to figure out why some moron is driving slow in the left lane and steadily moving me towards vehicular madness and violence.

#pangolin speaks #left lane lurkers #the bane of my existence #i might be slightly aggressive behind the wheel #it's only brought on by massive amounts of stupidity i swear

[bluebudgie]

That announcement trailer is so uncanny because all the places are so familiar but then Tarir looks like this

and what I assume to become ogre lane in the final release is having a dark mode moment

Weird stuff to look at in the year 2023.

#i think that would be ogre lane???? #none of the other hive places have the ground layout like that? ...do they? #it looks so off #also only zappers in the trailer. no other small chak models ready at the time? #would be funny if they were the og chak design. considering how much more prevalent the lurker/drone/drainer model is ingame

[nzmistressv]

Hahahaha I just told a lurker to send tribute, 'it' told me to get a job ... I make a 6 figure income you geek, from draining losers and lurkers like yourself m, stay in your lane and off my page if you're not paying me 🤑🤑 I have no time for bottom feeders who enjoy my page but give nothing back.

Enjoy a pic of my new shoes, the 6th pair in the last 5 weeks 👠👠

#dommelife #welcome to my twisted mind #domminatrix #domme/sub #alt domme #domme mommy #findom humiliation #feetish #pay2play #humiliation slave

[authormeat]

*cough* anyways

Lane The Lurker belongs to @raythekiller as always and forever

#creepypasta oc #creepypasta #ghost boy #fanart #they are fashionable #It also flew over my head that Lane was British and Irish

[happiness-of-the-pursuit]

2023 Fic Round Up (Part 1: Fic List)

I have been tagged in about a million different round ups of sorts, so here's Part 1: A Comprehensive 2023 Fic List sorted by month posted (if a multichap, I listed it the first month it posted), featuring the major details and a single-sentence summary/quote (so a fun challenge for me).

I'll post Part 2: Favorite Quotes and Part 3: Channeling Nora Holleran to Bring You My AO3 Data over the next two days (for the data I want to wait til the last possible day).

Without further ado, here is my 2023 Fic List:

January:

Nothing, I was still a lurker.

February:

Prince Henry and FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions (T, 2.4K, YouTube Script Fic)

10 Things Alex Claremont-Diaz Can’t Live Without (T, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

10 Things HRH Prince Henry Can’t Live Without (T, 2.5K, YouTube Script Fic)

March:

Prince Henry and FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz Take a Couples Quiz (T, 5K, YouTube Script Fic)

The Super Six Take a Lie Detector Test | Vanity Fair (M, 7K, YouTube Script Fic)

Baby's First Pride (E, 10K, WIP Multi-Chap)

Post-canon, canon-compliant (ignoring bonus chapter) look at the Super Six celebrating their first pride after the emails—I want to come back and finish this (I got interrupted by Life) but my writing has evolved a lot since March and I'm daunted by all the editing I'd have to do, lol

ALEX CLAREMONT-DIAZ COMMUNES WITH HIS ANCESTORS WHILE EATING SPICY WINGS | Hot Ones (T, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

April-June

Trying to survive the end of the school year as a teacher before I left my job :)

July

PRINCE HENRY SENTENCES US TO THE DUNGEONS WHILE EATING SPICY WINGS | Hot Ones  (M, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

August

FirstPrince Sings Queen, Lil Nas X, and Taylor Swift in a Game of Song Association | ELLE (T, 2.5K, YouTube Script Fic)

Claremont 2008 (M, 26K, Complete Multi-Chap, Canon Divergence)

A world where Ellen gets elected in 2008 instead of 2016, and the friends-to-lovers path that puts Henry on. If you want to relive the early 2010s, enjoy epistolary fics, or want a glimpse of a world where Alex & Henry go to college together, you might like this.

September

How well you play...that's up to you (M, 4K, FirstPrince Week)

Grey's Anatomy-Inspired AU, where Alex & Henry are both surgical residents—currently a one-shot, but I plan on writing a multi-chap prequel for this at some point.

Keep this Love in a Photograph (T, 2.6K, FirstPrince Week)

Post-Canon: Henry finds Alex's old photo album and they take a stroll down memory lane.

The Starwand (T, 1.7K, FirstPrince Week)

Three vignettes from Alex's life (two featuring Henry) where a sparkler makes an appearance—both a kid fic of Alex and Alex with his kids.

Somebody Call 911 (M, 2.4K, FirstPrince Week)

College AU where Alex is sneaking around with Henry behind his roommate's back—until it all goes to shit.

October

Sets on the Beach (M, 4K, FirstPrince Week)

Crack Treated Seriously, Alex and Henry are on rival queer beach volleyball teams.

Water over Blood (G, 3K, FirstPrince Week)

Post-Canon 5+1 of five times Henry's niece loved Alex, and one time she loved Henry

L(ate) S(leepy) A(morous) T(exting) (M, 1K, FirstPrince Week)

Text-fic of a missing moment from the book, because I am convinced that Alex did, in fact, study for the LSAT (it's just more realistic if we're to believe he scored well enough to get into NYU)

November

Freaky Friday (I woke up in my enemy's body) (M, 9K, Halloween, Huh?)

Canon Divergence, Freaky Friday-Inspired Body Swap AU, Crack Treated Seriously: Between Cakegate and Alex's visit to London, the boys swap bodies and proceed to learn a lot about each other. And themselves.

December

Alex Claremont-Díaz Answers Your Questions | Actually Me |GQ (M, 2K, YouTube Script Fic)

Super Six and the Siren's Call (T, 111K Total, Posting Bi-weekly)

The Percy Jackson AU, co-written with @read-and-write- and @inexplicablymine. Quests and Greek References abound! Check out more @auntiepezzasupdates

(Dil)Do It Yourself (E, 16.7K, New Traditions Advent Calendar)

Alex attends a DIY Dildo Workshop for the holidays, where he meets Henry, who's helping to lead the workshop—and eventually, helps Alex in other ways. The tags will tell you all that you need to know.

Thanks to @rockyroadkylers @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @kiwiana-writes @welcometololaland and anyone else who tagged me that I missed! I was waiting to post all my fics for December before I did this :) Since I'm pretty late, I'll tag @ssmtskw @matherines @affectionatelyrs and an open tag to anyone who's made it this far and wants to do this!

#rwrb fanfic #red white and royal blue #firstprince #rwrb #fanfiction #rwrb fandom #fic list #year in review #happinessofthepursuit writes

[reverseblackholeofwords]

Hi, just wanted to remind you that I still love all the ego stuff you wrote. I was a big lurker during the time you actively wrote it but dude it was so fucking good.

When I think about the egos, I mostly think about your stuff bc it made the characters come to life. It was so good. I can’t say it enough.

The stuff I’m pulling from memory rn is Anti’s time in The Forgotten. Like my bro, my dude, my homie. That shit pulled at my heart. The fact that he was only gone for like a day or smt in our dimension but he had actually been gone for like 10 years in that dimension experiencing horrors unknown. AND NOBEDY KNEW???? Good shit.

The relationship between the Host and dr. Iplier. Still one of my fav bromances. Like the trust between them and how it was made through hardships. It came to a point where Host even trusted Doc with his name??? Which gave him power over Host, something he was so afraid of. Doc made him a better man. Stopped him from being too cruel. But than he had to forget it bc he went insane. BUT BECAUSE HOST IS AN ASS, HE MADE DOC AND ANTI FORGET EVERYTHING. My guy, that’s your platonic husband and adopted son. Yes I was screaming about that. That still gets me going.

There is so much other stuff too though. Like Anti and Doc becoming family. The egos all getting closer. Phantom being an absolute menace every time he appeared. The Googles becoming more and more human over time.

You introduced me to Wiggles. Didn’t know anything about PJ before I started reading your works.

What it all boils down to, is me wanting to thank you. I don’t know how you look back on those ego stories but it got me through some dark times. You updating it always made my day better. I still carry a piece of it with me everywhere I go and has also inspired me a lot. So thank you!

Oh man, thank you so much for taking time to send this! It's honestly insanely encouraging to hear those stories stuck with you. I still love them a lot myself, cringe or no, because they're such a fun time capsule of that period in my life, and this blog and all the people who followed it (lurkers and all) also helped me get through college in one piece.

Gosh I did put Anti through so much, but in my defense, it was for character development! He and Ollie were always one of my favorite dynamics to write, personally. I mean, the computer glitch demon and the sentient android with a heart of gold? I still haven't made up something that good since. Also the Mare and Phantom dynamic, which they were always managing to screw up somehow. Unhealthy sibling dynamics are the best.

It's also insane that so much of the Host stuck with you because he was always my favorite to write and the one that felt the most like mine at the end of the day. The fact that Mark announced he'd retired him as a character and we all collectively agreed to kidnap him and give him a story is still one of this fandom's shining moments in my mind. In fact, I've kinda snagged Host for different original stories I'm writing now just because I miss writing him so much. I've also kept The Forgotten as a concept, which is definitely getting used in a setting I'm working on now because the angst potential is indeed too good to deny.

Also, while we're strolling down memory lane, what one writer gets to wipe their entire canon midway through and start over again in an alternate timeline whilst using references to the previous timeline to terrorize their readers? Ending one timeline of the blog to begin another was a wild but fascinating experiment on my part to see how I could use it to play with foreshadowing and all that jazz. Plus nothing will ever quite beat letting the audience reach into the narrative and start making their own waves from time to time.

But even though I do mostly original stories now, I'm still loving writing found families and platonic soulmates and maybe the redeeming of one or two villains, so I appreciate all the practice and the feedback I got from these stories! I'll probably keep sneaking Ego references into my stories forever. I'd also be curious to know which story arcs stuck with other people??

#i forgot how much i love talking about these stories though #its been too long!! #markiplier egos #jse egos

[olderthannetfic]

Anyone got observations on anti culture outside the Anglosphere? I'm a lurker from a smaller Asian country, and popular creators I happen to see online (twt pre-That Guy) who say they're from the region tend to stay in their lanes re: preferred ships and warn accordingly. Users who don't share their own work are pretty chill too, less DNIs from hell. But posting in EN only seems to correlate with proximity to wank vs engaging with non-EN content (both in their local language + others)

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That particular contagion seems to spread most strongly from the US.

When people have brought up stuff in the past, it's more likely to be their local flavor of fundies openly hating on queerness or all explicit art rather than the queer-but-subtextually-fundie US flavor of busybody.

[kwebtv]

Charles Richard Moll (January 13, 1943 – October 26, 2023) Film and television actor known for playing Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, a bailiff on the NBCsitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992 and voicing Harvey Dent/Two-Face in the DC Animated Universe series Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman

In 1979, Moll played the part of Eugene, a gangster on the television series Happy Days in the episode "Fonzie's Funeral". In 1981 he had a small part in the Mork & Mindy episode "Alienation", where he appeared with future fellow Night Court TV series cast member John Larroquette.

Moll made an appearance in the first episode of Highlander: The Series as Slan Quince, the villain who reunites Connor MacLeod with his kinsman and the show's protagonist, Duncan MacLeod. Moll made a guest appearance on Babylon 5 in the episode "Hunter, Prey" as a lurker criminal who was holding a VIP hostage, and as a gangster on Married... with Children. Moll made another guest appearance in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, playing the cyclops in episode two, "Eye of the Beholder".

In Super Password, Moll appeared with Judy Norton Taylor, Nancy Lane, Markie Post, Gloria Loring, Florence Halop, Debra Maffett, Elaine Joyce, and Kim Morgan Greene, with Bert Convy as the game show's host from 1984 to 1987.

Moll played himself in The Facts of Life (Season 9, episodes 1 and 2: "Down and Out in Malibu").

Moll appeared in The Flintstones and Casper Meets Wendy, both TV spin-offs. He played the drifter on the Nickelodeon show 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd.

Other TV series and movies he appeared in were The Rockford Files, How the West Was Won, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Best of the West, T.J. Hooker, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Due South, Combat Academy, Out of This World, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and many others.

IMDb Listing

#Richard Moll #TV #Obit #Obituary #O2023 #Night Court

[sitp-recs]

Z - what’s your drarry fandom story? How did you get into the reccing business? ❤️✨

Thank you so much, anon!

That’s a really great ask! I got into the Drarry fandom right after watching the second movie in theatres. I was already familiar with anime fanfic so it wasn’t too hard to find HP stuff in my native language. Drarry was my instant OTP because enemies to lovers is my kryptonite but I’ve read a fair amount of tropes and multiple ship combinations with Harry, Draco, Snape, Hermione, Remus and Sirius. Ah the good old days, so much untagged dubcon 🌝🤌🏼 it’s a shame that I didn’t keep track of my reading back then, so much got lost over the years :(

I was on and off fandom for the better part of the last 20 years, mostly as a lurker. I’d leave occasional comments on ff.net and ao3, but I didn’t feel confident enough to approach other people to discuss fic. That changed a bit after I joined the MCU fandom (and Tumblr) in 2013. I started interacting with a few creators, but only tried my hand at reccing years later. I started small on this sideblog for a smaller fandom, and it was the best way to build up my confidence until I created Sitp-recs during the pandemic. I had only done a couple lists (again, for a much smaller fandom) so writing single recs was a completely different monster and I loved the challenge! I’ve always preferred the single recs over the rec lists tbh, they allow me to get more creative and personal about my thoughts but I realize they’re not as helpful - or quick to make - as lists. I hope I’ll feel inspired again to write a few more!

Thank you for this ask, love these trips down memory lane 💜

Fandom ask game

#ask game #anon

[creepypasta-fan-page]

“Lane The Lurker„

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-: I wholeheartedly believe that LTL is the type of person to go all out for holidays.

-:Like for Halloween they decorate the manor with fake cobwebs and those ridiculously huge blow up Disney characters.

-: They also does the whole combat boot in (fake?) blood going up to the door or around the house.

-: They also raid spirit Halloween for those “Creepypasta” costumes. Like the really poorly made Jeff the killer mask that has the name is “Austin the Error”

-: for Fourth of July they have “America the great” playing. They also paint the American flag. On the manor. Yes they have gotten in trouble for doing this.

-: And don’t get me started on Christmas… They get the Mickey Mouse blow ups, the fake snow, stockings for everyone (they decorate them and Sally’s is most definitely covered in pink glitter)

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!!LNL DOES NOT BELONG TO ME AND BELONGS TO @raythekiller !!

-:Also, They’re a Disney parent..

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#creepypasta #creepypasta headcanon #creepypasta headcanons #slenderman #jeff the killer #ticci toby #ben drowned #laughing jack #masky #creepypasta fandom #Sally Williams #Jane the killer #lane the lurker #ray the killer #holidays #Disney parent lane

[raythekiller]

can we get an oc X reader?? can be nsfw? just an obessed lane with their lover :3

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Featuring: Lane The Lurker

#Notes: already did headcanons so it's time for a drabble. also slowing becoming a lane only account

pronouns used: none, gn! reader

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"YOU'RE so beautiful," Lane purred against your neck, pampering your skin with kisses and soft bites as their hand worked their magic inside your underwear, your pants only barely undone and not even half way down as they got too impatient to take them off properly. You whimper at a particularly skilled movement of their hand, earning a gentle chuckle and a smirk from them. "Mm? You like that, baby? Like it when I make you feel good?" After you nod in response, they grab you by the chin with their free hand, giving you a short but deep kiss. "I know you do," Was their response after they pulled away, kneeling in front of you and finally taking your clothes off, their hands grabbing each of your thighs to keep them apart.

They were quick to take your sex deeply into their mouth, their tongue piercing cold against your sensitive skin, making you throw your head back. They groan with satisfaction as they devour you, the vibrations sending more chills down your spine. "God, tastes so fuckin' good," They keep pulling away to speak, replacing their mouth with their hand whenever they do as to keep you stimulated. "I'm the only one who can make you feel good like this. Got it? You're mine." As they talk, you can't help but feel like you don't have a choice in the matter.

#creepypasta oc #oc.lane hellshire #ray.writes #lane the lurker x reader

[maxwell-grant]

Sorry, I see you already answered that question in 2021, found that post.

My new question is: what is “the shadow”?

(Art by Dan Schkade)

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows…” The maxim that the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, intoned at the start of every program, was biblical in its sternness. The Shadow was an Old Testament avenger, a ruthless slayer of the wicked, very befitting the Depression decade of his greatest strength. The Shadow was both the force for good and lurker in the darkness. - The Shadow Scrapbook

The Shadow, also known as The Master of Darkness, The Dark Avenger, The Master of Men's Minds, Weird Creature of the Night, Identity Theft Georg, That Guy Who Lives in Lamont Cranston's House, "Shads" and other many names, is a mysterious figure who fights evil by turning it against itself. He is a former globetrotting aviator-spy-soldier (revealed to be named Kent Allard, 7 years into the character's run) turned crimefighting paladin who fights to protect and uplift the innocent and bring justice to victims of strife and calamity, and he does so with the black-clad design, domineering charisma, sinister cackle, Machievellian theatrics and ruthless efficiency of a villain.

In action, The Shadow loomed as a cloaked figure, materializing from out of the night, rescuing helpless victims and striking terror into the hearts of evildoers. However, he reserved such theatrics for a logical climax. Between times, The Shadow proved himself a master of deduction as well as disguise.

While his major missions were to stamp out mobs or smash spy rings, he often tabled such routines in order to find a missing heir, uncover buried treasure, banish a ghost from a haunted house or oust a dictator from a mythical republic. The Shadow was such an incredible character in his own right that almost anything he encountered was accepted by his ardent followers. - Walter Gibson

The Shadow began life as the spooky narrator of publisher Street & Smith's radio program, whose sibilant, mocking personality and sinister cackle were dramatically more interesting than any of the programs he was narrating, and so when listeners started asking Street & Smith for a Shadow Magazine that did not exist, they had to make one of their own. To that end, they recruited a young magician turned newspaper writer and former associate of Houdini's fraud-busting network, Walter Gibson, to write the adventures. Gibson was extremely acquainted with the ins and outs of illusionism and sleight-of-hand and worked personally with many of the greatest magicians at the time, and would extensively use said knowledge in crafting The Shadow's character and adventures.

And so The Shadow Magazine began, reviving the "hero pulp" format that had died out in the pre-WW1 dime novels and redefining the mold of crimefighting "pulp heroes" from that decade onwards, as well as many superheroes from that time period inspired by him and his successors. He is currently more famous for being plagiarized by the chief inspiration for a certain guy who runs around with bat ears and for his general role as a highly influential forerunner and influence in forms of storytelling still extensively used today.

On the taxonomical chart of Western comics he’s a common ancestor for a sizeable chunk of the marketplace. Every street vigilante, every masked crime-fighter, every necessary monster: he’s in the DNA of them all. A living fossil, a coelacanth or goblin-shark for the comics world, swimming in waters of ice and ink - Si Spurrier

The Shadow maintained a fluctuating radio career over the 1930s to go along with his highly successful magazine, and he'd eventually reach newfounds heights of stardom from 1937 onwards thanks to the debut of a new radio show, initially starring Orson Welles in the titular role. Said radio show would become an audience hit well into the 1940s and would introduce new fixtures to the character such as friend-and-companion Margo Lane and an invisibility superpower, which were eventually integrated since into the comics and pulps and other media. You can still easily find many of the character's radio adventures online as well as his exploits in comics and pulps (harder to find now, but still possible if you know where to look). I'll pass along my personal recommendations here.

(Art from Matt Wagner's The Curse of Blackbeard Skull, in The Shadow #100)

In the taxonomical history of American crimefighters he sits in between the hardboiled detectives of the 1920s and the 1940s superheroes, and although the 1930s pulp heroes were in part defined largely by imitating him, he is no traditional square-jawed do-gooder: he is a tall, gaunt, cadaverous wraith with the mask of a Western bandit and a vampire's cloak and the clothes of 19th-century cartoons of saboteurs and anarchist bombers. The barest glimpse of the man beneath is that of a judgemental patrician's aquiline nose and intense, sharp eyes, like icepicks probing the back of your skull. He makes a point to show every now and then how easily he can reshape that face to suit his needs, and make it your own, even doing so in front of you to make a point.

He is Dracula meets King Arthur, Sherlockian brainpower and Lupin trickery joined forces, centerpiece to urban thrillers turned into fairytales as The Big Bad Wolf switches sides to save us. Though his setting looks the part, The Shadow is no gritty film noir creature: he is what happens when the cutthroat gangsters and invincible spymasters and predatory businessmen behind it all meet the actual scariest guy around: Death itself, as the ultimate master and servant joined in one, who found a higher calling fighting for us instead, breaking and bending and controlling the rules and tipping them ever so slightly in the favor of those who are usually in no position to fight back.

(Art by Giovanni Timpano, for The Shadow #25)

As we discussed The Shadow, I suggested an opening scene with a cloaked figure emerging from a night fog to prevent a desperate young man from taking a suicide plunge from a high bridge. Thus befriended, the young man would swear loyalty to his rescuer and thereby become involved in exciting adventures with otherp persons who had been aided by the same benefactor, all being united in a common cause against crime. - Walter Gibson

That is where the Agents come in. As The Shadow is a distant living puzzlebox, we are very rarely privy to his thoughts and feelings, he glides through many stories scarcely-seen until he needs to be, and so we frequently experience things from the viewpoint of proxies, whether they are agents or characters swept into intrigue that only The Shadow can save them from. The first Shadow story opens up with a broke and depressed young man named Harry Vincent, ruined by the Great Depression reality of the time and trying to commit suicide, who is saved from it by The Shadow, and upon accepting a new purpose in life as his agent, grows into a dependable and strong ally, friend and even leader to people once like him over the course of the following adventures.

Across his history The Shadow has had agents and allies among all walks of life: redeemed/pretend criminals who use their reputations to provide The Shadow with inside knowledge, war vets, police officers, prison reformists, troublemaking journalists, government agents, politicians, criminologists, psychologists, high society chameleons, streetwise cabbies, janitors, the homeless, even crooks who once worked for those that The Shadow opposed, with some stories dedicated entirely to The Shadow playing guardian angel or working to provide second chances to those who've turned to crime. Community leaders with opposing viewpoints, rebel spies, prostitutes, historical figures such as Amelia Earhart and Nikola Tesla, robots, political activists and freedom fighters, doctors, birds, boxers, actors, magicians, beavers, and a list too big to get into here. There was a crimefighting dog at some point also and he was a very good boy.

Said list also includes the guy most people initially assume is his secret identity, a wealthy globetrotting man-about-town named Lamont Cranston. The first on-screen meeting between The Shadow and his secret identity Lamont Cranston consisted of The Shadow showing up in the dark at Cranston's bedside, wearing his face and telling him in pristine detail how much he's usurped Cranston's life, and effectively blackmailing him into leaving town so he can continue being Cranston uninterrupted. It is considerably less known, however, that eventually Cranston and The Shadow became weird friends following this ordeal and worked together several times, with Cranston turning out to be a pretty entertaining hero in his own right even besides his designated purpose of being rich and useless, even he was not immune to The Shadow's ability to enact positive change on his allies. Which is one note I'll end this post on: that The Shadow and his surroundings can be a lot more layered than given credit for.

I make the argument again and again that The Shadow is an intriguing character with much more to him than simply the gun violence and spooky laughter and murderousness that he's frequently reduced to, even if he isn't quite consistently so (as expected of one who's been around in virtually every medium for over 90 years). He can be compassionate, thoughtful, cautious and consequence-minded in his approach to effectively combat crime and protect others, ridiculous, eccentric, flawed in ways big and small and humanizing, for better or worse depending on who's writing him. He is a versatile shapeshifter as well as an unassailable force of personality to throw into any gathering, any circumstance, any narrative, and remain unique.

(Art by Michael Kaluta, from Hell's Heat Wave)

With those other “masked avenger” pulp types, their masked identities are an act, at least in part. Underneath the hat and mask they are regular guys with relatable motivations. With the Shadow, the guy in the hat and scarf IS the real guy, and his motivations and feelings are largely kept from us.

When we see him in his “civilian” identity, THAT is an act. So there’s a kind of brutal simplicity to his dialogue.

He is what he appears to be, and says exactly what he means. - Chris Roberson

And that's about it as a summary. I have a masterpost pinned at the top because, evidently, I have a lot more to say about the character and more I can't cover here. If you want, feel free to shoot me any additional questions and let me work out my fixation on the weird crime spooky murder man. I have to go off about him at least once a month or else I start eating my furniture so, help me out here.

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I'm not personally baffled by it, I expected it. I do wonder, though, how many others have been seen this and have been like, wooooah, pick a lane and stick with it, bruh!

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26.a scenario that you’ve replayed multiple times?

as if i don't constantly talk about it around here like a broken record? haha, ok... 🩷

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hanging out with a friend and doing some normal stuff, like movies or gaming. something that involves us being physically close but not in a sexual way. and yet it always leads to us being more affectionate, or maybe play wrestling, or just a little more touchy-feely with each other... in an absolutely platonic way, of course.

i don't usually think about hooking up with strangers or acquaintances. i like having a solid connection with people i'm intimate with, so it's not uncommon for me to fantasize about situations with "friends," which doesn't necessarily mean any of my actual friends. it's about a partner you have trust and a strong established bond with, someone you know well enough to really understand your emotions and expressions - like, how you are and how you process information, etc... they know you...

when i think about having a friend get closer to me, i feel safe with them (and i know they they feel safe with me, too). we're friends! so, of course, we know what each other's intimate desires are - we're best friends!! it makes total sense that they'd want to feel how much of my fat titty they could fit in their hand...

is it really so wrong to want the most trusted person in your life to care about you too much... as if you were always more than just a friend to them? a "real friend" would never betray your trust like this, but a true "partner" would never let you feel unwanted. the old classic slow burn, friends to lovers, with an emphasis on some cnc nipple play because i'm a complete slut for it!

i think about something like this almost every time i touch myself. the special relationship between two idiots who are in love with each other, but they don't know it bc they keep everything within this blurry lane between 'friend' and 'partner'. i've just always been smitten with the idea. it resonates with me. i may have watched too many hallmark movies, but i think this is a really great concept and totally will happen to me one of these days. i'm so sure of it, i mean... why else would i even have these big tits if not to be caressed and fondled by my most favourite person in the world?. 🥺

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