#screw canon they all deserve a break

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#my art #artists on tumblr #fanart #digital art #the mandalorian #star wars #sw #luke skywalker #dinluke #but like very subtle #its found as in found family btw #screw canon they all deserve a break #once din lands he's joining them under that tree #grogu is...a frog in a potato sack #i had to stop myself from periodically zooming in on him instead of finishing the piece #that's partially why a lot of it is kind of scribbly #but i was going for a picture book/crayon kind of style anyway

[9haharharley1]

I'mma keep it coming with I wanna see your head canons for Danny tbh I wonder if we're similar about the boy. So I guess 002

How I feel about this character:

I love him, I really do! I had such a crush on Danny when I was a teen, made worse (or better, idk) by the fact that when the show aired, I was also just entering high school. So it was one of those, "oh look! A socially awkward teen also has to deal with the stress of living! He's just like me fr (minus the ghost powers on my part)!"

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Romantically? Vlad, Valerie, Clockwork, and Dan, but mostly Vlad.

Want to see him get railed and ruined and crying? Dan, Nocturne, Skulker, Wulf, Walker.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Tucker and Sam (provided Sam can get over some of her holier-than-thou attitude)

My unpopular opinion about this character:

This boy doesn't have a dominant bone in his entire body. I don't like reading top Danny fics, my boy deserves a break, and I'm also not a fan when he's taller and beefier than Vlad either. I stan a short king and I will take no criticism.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

It's a kids' show, so I know this was never gonna happen, but I would have loved to see him have a full psychological break. I'm talking an entire episode dedicated to Danny having a complete and total panic attack, Batman the Animated Series style. Parents want to catch and study him, one of his best friends keeps pushing him to do the superhero thing, parents and peers are pressuring him to date said pushy friend, he's failing in school, he can't retaliate against his primary bully, his future is screwed if he doesn't watch himself, the ghosts keep coming and they won't fucking stop, his sister keeps giving him these worrying looks like she's worried, why should she be worried? He's fine, everything's fine, he's only half-dead, what's the big deal?

Danny eventually has that panic attack the closer he gets to graduating, unsure of his future, scared he's gonna fail and never be able to leave Amity Park, terrified that all he has to look forward to is fighting ghosts and running/hiding from his parents. His future is forever uncertain because the alternate time line, and his friends can't understand, even if they're trying, but they just can't know what's going on with him, and he sees the fear in their eyes every time he brings up that dark future. He could go to Clockwork, but Clockwork will only give so much advice. He doesn't share more than is necessary to keep time in tact, so he eventually breaks and goes to Vlad. Who else could possibly understand if not the only other halfa in existence?

Basically, I would have loved to see him become increasingly overwhelmed until he had no choice but to run away and go to Vlad's. They make a temporary truce long enough for them to bond over their shared plight.

my OTP:

Pompous Pep, of course (you will pry this ship from my cold, dead hands)

my cross over ship:

None

a headcanon fact:

Danny totally had a crush on Vlad the first time they met. He thought he was handsome and charming and all that gross first crush stuff, and he actually enjoyed talking with him, even if him hitting on his mom was super fucking weird. Danny could look past that because he knew his mom wasn't interested, was happily married, and when Vlad wasn't focused on her, he could be pretty cool. Too bad he had to go and ruin it by revealing his evil intentions.

#thank you for asking!! #i may have made it too peppy #my bad #harley answers #asks #pompep #pompous pep #harley writes

[rozcdust]

Chasing ghosts

Platonic Pairing: Bonten x GN!Reader, Sanzu Haruchiyo x GN!Reader

Genre: Crack, SMAU

Word count: 1.9k

Warnings: Canon divergent, profanity, ooc, violence, blood draining, gore, drug abuse, conspiracy theories, religious trauma, cancer, religious items, mentions of religious trauma, allergies, seeming disordered eating, Kakucho needs a break

Day 1 of Promptober

A sharp gaze prickled at the back of your neck, making you want to squirm, yet your stubbornness didn’t allow you to show discomfort, your all too damned pride forcing you to keep your focus on the work at hand.

So what if Sanzu was staring at you accusatory the entire past week? You didn’t even do anything, not to him at least, not that you would remember anyway, and even Kakucho told you to not worry about it, that Sanzu was just in one of his drugged-up episodes, and that you had nothing to worry about.

Still.

You were trying to peacefully do your job, and Sanzu was just standing and staring, like a fucking creep.

Ugh.

Mikey should have kept his rabid puppy dog chained.

“Why do you always do that?”

Your head snapped up, an eyebrow quirked.

“Do what?”

“Drain them of blood.”

Sanzu and his stupid fucking questions.

“Because it’s easier to chop them up and turn them into fish food that way? We all do this? Ran literally taught me how to do this. And why are you even here? You’re not doing shit!”

He shrugged, still eyeing you suspiciously, his face nestled into the crook of his elbows as he watched you work.

Rolling your eyes, you choose to ignore him, focusing.

Bodies won’t disappear on their own.

“Kakucho, I don’t know how to convince you, but I’m telling you, y/n’s a fucking vampire. Or possessed. Still not sure which one it is.”

Kakucho's head was buried within his palms as a sound of sheer desperation escaped his throat, his eyes screwed tightly shut to avoid looking at his one true current problem.

Sanzu.

Sanzu spewing bullshit conspiracy theories, precisely.

God help him.

Taking a deep, shaky breath, Kakucho opens his good eye to peek at the pink-haired maniac.

“Do I even want to know how you came to this conclusion?” His voice was wary, tired already. This was utter nonsense, and Sanzu should have known it, even if his brain was* utterly and completely fried on whatever the fuck he snorts in his free time.

“Probably not. Wanna see anyway?” The grin playing on the scarred man’s lips made Kakucho nervous.

“No.”

Sanzu stood up from his chair, stretching like an irate cat, and with a quick, unstable step, left the room.

Kakucho thought he was free, and he just breathed a sigh of immense relief when he heard it.

The scratching sound of shitty, rusted wheels on marble floors echoed in the hallway, followed by Sanzu wheeling in a pinboard, a photo of your face thumbtacked to the centre of a true shit show, multiple strings of red yarn connecting it all back to you.

Kakucho almost wept.

He doesn’t get paid enough for this.

Sanzu started by presenting a series of incidents.

Sanzu always found it odd you only ever worked at night, no matter how hard Mikey tried to drag you into meetings in broad daylight, you always refused, persistently and stubbornly, firmly stating that ‘Sun is a horrendous creature of misery and deserves death’ and ‘You’re more of a night owl’ and how you’d rather die than have that disgusting thing ever touch your skin.

Suspicious.

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

“Okay, and? That proves nothing, Sanzu.”

“Kakucho, shut the fuck up and listen.”

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ ( :̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

Sanzu has been to your house a few, very few, times, as you were always cagey about your personal space and tried to kick all of them out as soon as possible, even if it was your turn to host the poker night and even if it was your turn to be the designated driver and let them sleep off the drunkenness in your house.

But he noticed something… Well, odd.

The blackout curtains.

Thick, dark fabric draped over every one of your windows, covering every possible entry point, blocking the entrance to the balcony and forbidding any and all natural light to as much as shyly try to enter your house.

You almost scalped Kokonoi when he tried to open them once, jumping onto him and forcing him down on the ground, sitting on his back, not getting off until he let go of the curtains and until you could close them all the way shut, muttering about the damage the UV light does to skin or some shit.

And the very few times he did see you in the sun, it was only after you lathered your skin with thick layers of sunscreen from a suspicious bottle with only the words ‘Ew ew sun’ written on it in sharpie.

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

“Listen,” Kakucho groaned, running his hands down his face, “I get their fear of the sun is weird, and a little excessive, but dude, come on. Their mum died of skin cancer, and she died in their arms, it makes sense they’d be cautious.”

Sanzu frantically shook his head.

“No, because listen, there’s more.”

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

You barely ever went to dinner with them.

Whenever you were invited, your most likely answer was ‘No, thanks’, and the few times you did agree, you never ordered any food, no matter who was paying, instead opting out for some wine or whiskey instead, under the guise that you don’t really feel hungry.

Every.

Single.

Goddamn time.

You never ate at the headquarters either, or at least, Sanzu has never seen you eat, only ever seeing you sipping on coffee or boba at your desk when he barged into your office unannounced.

He has tried feeding you, but you refused like a stubborn mule every time, coldly saying you don’t trust his cooking before returning to sipping on damn Starbucks.

It was suspicious enough that Ran asked you about it, and you simply explained you have a couple of severe food allergies and don’t feel like dying on a fucking Tuesday from an anaphylactic shock, which did get Ran and Koko to shrug and leave you be, but not Sanzu.

He opened your fridge when he was at your house, just to check what you had in there if you never ate out, but all he found was a block of cheese and a carton of strawberry juice.

Suspicious.

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

“You dug around their fridge?”

“Kakucho, I don’t think you’re hearing my point.”

“They have allergies. You have no points.”

Sanzu sighed, frustrated, but that quickly got replaced by a smile.

And jazz hands.

“But wait! There’s more!” In his best showbiz tone, Sanzu continued rambling.

Kakucho was ready to cancel his subscription to life.

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

Rindou sometimes wore crosses.

Not to show his huge devotion to Christianity of course, no, more as an accessory, one that looked damn fine on him if Sanzu was to pass any judgement, the silver crosses with ruby red jasper stones dangling from Rindou’s ears making him seem somewhat sophisticated, giving him the charming energy of a wandering ghost.

You absolutely hated Rindou’s silver cross earrings, a scowl twisting your face anytime you saw them, but you usually chose to say nothing.

Until Rindou noticed, and with an offence that bordered on hilarious, asked you what the fuck your problem was.

You merely sighed.

“Don’t like it when people wear crosses, that’s all.”

Rindou leaned back into his seat, now with a sneer.

“What, you hyper-religious or what?”

“Nah, try to go more ‘growing up with religious trauma’. Crosses just make me uncomfortable.” Shrugging, your gaze went back to your laptop, but Sanzu noticed the way you flinched if Rindou came closer to you when wearing his earrings.

.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚.˳⁺⁎˚..˳⁺⁎˚˳⁺⁎˚ (:̲̅:̲̅:[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳˚⁎⁺˳

“Honestly, you’re starting to sound like an ass. They’re bi, and grew up in a super religious household, of course they’re not all up for fucking religious items.”

Sanzu’s seemingly infinite well of reasons you’re possessed apparently to dried up, and he slumped into his chair with a sour look.

“I’m telling you, and you’re not listening.”

“You honestly sound like you don’t have shit. You literally just misinterpreted their trauma and allergies and made them into some fucking monster, and really dude, that’s fucked.”

Sanzu huffed.

“They’re also allergic to silver! How do you interpret that, huh?!”

Kakucho truly wished to bang his head against the wall.

“They’re allergic to nickel, you piece of absolute ass, as is half the human fucking population, and all silver has nickel because silver by itself is too soft for jewellery.”

Sanzu sunk into his chair, arms crossed, pouting.

Kakucho forced him to write you an apology card.

Even with Kakucho trying to knock some sense into Sanzu, he was still convinced.

There was something off about you, and he knew it.

So as he Googled vampire lore, and possession symptoms side to side, about a thousand tab bars open on his laptop, he stumbled upon something that gave him pause.

Reflections.

You have a reflection, he knew that much, he has seen you try out clothes and pose in front of any fucking shopping window that was polished enough, but there is a catch.

Apparently, vampires in medieval folklore don’t have a reflection because old-timey mirrors are made with silver.

Silver, which you just so happen to be allergic to, and no, fuck what Kakucho said, he’s stupid, Sanzu knew it was silver and not fucking nickel.

Modern mirrors are made with aluminium.

Sanzu took a pause, and in a quick moment of putting two and two together, he texted Kokonoi.

You barely registered Sanzu sneaking into the break room next to you, being too tired at this late hours of the night to focus on anything but the coffee you were brewing.

“Hey, didn’t expect you to be here so late-“

You never got the chance to finish your sentence, because someone is a bitch and that someone just grabbed your fucking arm out of nowhere and started dragging you away.

“Wha-“

“I know what you are.” Sanzu briefly looked back at you to flash a grin, his nails digging into your wrist.

“What the fuck are you talking about?”

He didn’t respond as he kicked the doors of the men’s bathroom open.

“Sanzu, what the hell-“

Before you could process it, he grabbed your shoulders, shoving you in front of the mirror, giddiness mixing with glee visible on his stupid, stupid face as he stood behind you.

Your own tired eyes stared back at you.

He blinked.

“Wait, let’s just-“ He carefully pushed you out of the mirror’s reflection, knocking on it as if it were a broken TV, before pushing you back in front of it.

Still just your tired eyes and large eye bags.

“Huh.” His fingers sneaked to the side of your mouth, pulling your upper lip up to reveal small, if a little crooked canines.

Huffing, you wrestled out of his grasp, arms crossed over your chest.

“Mind explaining what the fuck is this about, Haruchiyo, my beloved? If you wanted to look at me you could have just DONE THAT!”

He scratched his head, confusion written all over his features.

“Sorry… Uh, thought you were a vampire.”

You quirked an eyebrow.

A beat of silence passed before you sighed, letting your arms fall to your side.

“Yeah, I get that a lot.”

“Sorry.” He slightly bowed before scurrying away, slamming the doors to the bathroom shut, and leaving you alone.

Sighing, you turned to look at yourself, fixing the little bit of makeup that smeared under your eye.

Choosing to think you look presentable, you paused just as you were about to leave, a sort of glee forming on your face as you flashed yourself a grin.

Your canines scratched your bottom lip, drawing just a bit of blood.

You knew that replacing all the mirrors was a smart choice.

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[pizzaboat]

What do you think of Eda’s nightmare? Where not only is she captured by her mom and sister, but seeing her dad who was apparently hurt by her again.

I think it did an awsome job telling us more about what I already suspected about Eda's whole mental state. (You probably didn't ask for an analysis but I'm giving one lmao)

It told me that Eda is still afraid. She's afraid of how the curse impacts her life. She's afraid of the progress she made with her sister and her mom being erased and she's afraid of being a monster

And I think her dad is like, the symbol of her inability to forgive herself. Dell already lost his eye and his ability to carve to the owlbeast. The implication of her taking his last remaining eye and blinding him forever would be devastating.

Dell represents there being no hope of redemption of forgiveness for Eda in this dream. He's covered in blood and crying over how she could do this to him and that he'd already forgiven him and in canon Dell could never get Eda to accept his forgiveness because its implied it would just turn into an argument

Eda wasn't ready to repair things (accept that she could move on and accept his forgiveness in part) because she was afraid that at any time she could break that forgiveness and lose control again.

Which is what the nightmare is telling us happened to her.

And I think having Lilith and Gwendolyn turn their backs on Eda again here makes me think that a part of Eda believes that it was a mixture of her and the curse that turned her sister and mother against her.

Now, that's not really how things went down in canon, but it's a messy bunch of emotions that she'd have felt during the whole thing. It's not hard to imagine that Eda felt abandoned by Lilith and Gwen.

Like, its a fact, and she did have that episode where Gwen has to realise that she's been making Eda feel isolated and unwanted for a very long time. When gwen tells Eda that she loves every part of her, including the curse it brings on a shift in how Eda treats her own kids

Because again, she starts to believe just a little bit, that she's not so broken and so monstrous that her loving King and Luz like her own won't screw them up. This isn't a complete mental shift in her of course because she's still shown to be insecure and she spirals pretty quickly in episode 7 of season 2

And since Eda has spent a long time feeling abandoned, believing she deserves to be abandoned, that there's something wrong with her and that she's too inadequate to function as a person that makes changes in people's lives its really easy for her to forget all of what gwen said to her and the good times she's had with her kids

Cause when you're mentally ill and you're spiralling it's so easy for the things that are triggering you to dwarf and block out all the good things. And it's not as simple as being told one or two really needed positive messages once, to fix decades or just years of really bad trauma and a mentality like that

And her relationship with Lilith? That never got resolved in canon and I feel like the show acknowledges it with Lilith being back in black and looking at Eda with no familiarity or love anymore

There was never time to fix their relationship in canon. Maybe we would've seen more of a change if we got more seasons but we'll never know now. But it is important to note that Eda tried to connect with Lilith emediatly in the first episode of season 2 and nothing ever came of it because Lilith brushed her off

And then she left 3 episodes later for nearly the entirety of the season

What gets me about it all is that dispite how angry and hurt Eda should rightfully be at how Lilith treated her and her kids, she emediatly tries to have some sort of a relationship with her again

Which doesn't say great things about Eda's uh, self worth? Like. No boundaries are set down after all of this. And from what happened in episode 7 and everything we learned about how Eda views herself as a monster

It really gives "you hurt me, but if I push you away or set a boundary now then you'll leave me and I'll be alone."

That's sorta how I read it, as someone who can be like that I found myself recognising it in her and it makes a lot of sense to me because Eda sees herself as this unfit, monstrous person deep down, or atleast she's afraid that's what she is

And I think that all of this is important to remember when we see Lilith back there in this dream. Maybe Eda is afraid that all of her efforts to fix things between them will never be enough? That them falling out again will be her fault

It's super interesting that Eda acts so close with Lilith and Lilith with Eda at the end of the show, like how they ran to hug eachother and cry. Like this pure familial love that is sweet

But the nightmare kinda overshadows that for me when I remember just how not okay Eda is. Like, Lilith has healed somewhat but still needs so much therapy to be able to love herself and others and Eda just needs therapy.

Tough thing is I don't ever see Eda willingly going to therapy like Lilith would because Lilith has been told she needs therapy and brought to that conclusion and feels receptive to it and Eda would insist that she's fine and that nothing is that wrong with her

It would probably take Raine on her case because they saw her try to kill herself months prior and Lilith or her family learning more about how she's thinking, for them to decide to start talking her into it

But ultimately it would be Eda's decision. A lot of heartbreak would lead up to it to be honest

But back to the nightmare!

My conclusion is that

Dell represents her ability and right to be forgiven and redeemed by both herself and others

Gwendolyn represents Eda’s right to exist as a person in society

Lilith represents Eda's internal beliefs about herself. A bit about how much she deserves to demand and how she blames herself

They're all kinda different forms of how she blames, devalues, distrusts and dispises herself. (Look at all that alliteration!)

And the final obvious thing is that she's in chains, and starts of in the dungeons after hurting her dad because deep down she's terrified that people are right to want to persecute her, that there's no version of living where she lives freely and no one gets hurt (that others are better or without her) and that being locked up and caged is away is exactly where she belongs

#god shes such a poor meow meow #the owl house #toh #eda clawthorne #toh eda #edalyn clawthorne #lilith clawthorne #toh lilith #gwendolyn clawthorne #dell clawthorne #toh analysis

[cambrioleur]

a totally not sarcastic guide to the 'Lupin' ships

Assane Diop x Claire Laurent

all-time failmarriage (although they do both genuinely adore their son)

when "I can fix him" goes very wrong

Assane is Claire's catnip, apparently

it’s not a real 'Lupin' season if it doesn’t end with Claire breaking down in tears because of some insane family-ruining bullshit that Assane has just pulled

possible portmanteau nicknames: "classane"; "diorent"

you like this couple: if you're only interested in canonical pairings; if you enjoy watching a woman's Polyanna-esque willingness to hope for a better future get repeatedly crushed into oblivion; if you're a little bit in love with Ludivine Sagnier it's me, I'm the one who is a little bit in love with Ludivine Sagnier, to the point where I even liked her in that recent Starz period drama 'The Serpent Queen' in which her character is a deranged villainess who bathes in gold (it's as weird as it sounds)

Youssef Guédira x Sofia Belkacem

geek + tsundere dynamic

do they actually have any chemistry though? Discuss

possible portmanteau nicknames: "beldira"; "youssefia"

you like this couple: if you simp for tall women who wear combat boots and could kick your ass in virtually any individual sport; if you're a huge anime fan

Assane Diop x Benjamin Férel

VERY popular on Tumblr and AO3, to the point where people were somehow all over this even back when Ben had about 5 total minutes of screen time in Part 1

funnily there's an official tie-in book which implies that Ben might be aroace

either way, the showrunners absolutely declared war on the Assane/Ben shippers with the second half of Part 3

possible portmanteau nickname: "diorel"

you like this couple: if, much like (seemingly) a solid 25% of the internet, you have a tendency to sexualize any and all same-gender friendships

Assane Diop x Youssef Guédira

the other pairing that’s especially popular on Tumblr and AO3

per the series’ timeline we’re currently about 16 months into "if a rivalry lasts longer than 7 years then you are no longer rivals, you are GAY"

Chapter 5 in Part 3 is Assane/Guédira enjoyers’ Roman Empire

possible portmanteau nicknames: "lunimard"; "guédiop"

you like this couple: if you're a fan of a good (fr)enemies-to-lovers arc; if you think that "giving each other corny nicknames that are based on shared interests" is a love language

Youssef Guédira x Fleur Bélanger

short-ish king meets short queen

probably won’t help the Paris police department beat the corruption allegations (to be fair the allegations aren't exactly inaccurate)

possible portmanteau nickname: "guélanger"

you like this couple: if you’re a Guédira stan who isn’t interested in shipping him with Assane but at the same time you like watching Belkacem get screwed over

Claire Laurent x Benjamin Férel

this ship does indeed exist in the wild and it's more common than you might think

together these two max out on "good" but maybe not so much on "lawful"

possible portmanteau nickname: "clérel"

you like this couple: if you’re mad at Assane and think both Claire and Ben deserve better (and honestly, you're not wrong)

Assane Diop x Juliette Pellegrini

I'm sorry but if you're into this then we can't be friends

#lupin netflix #assane diop #claire laurent #benjamin ferel #youssef guedira #sofia belkacem #fleur belanger #juliette pellegrini

[look-how-they-massacred-them]

Preliminary Poll

Damian Wayne

Submission reason:

pretty much all the bats get screwed over but I think damian deserves it the most since he constantly gets character development before canon sets him back to Feral Murder Child with no Empathy and no Friends despite the fact that his most popular runs are where he learns empathy and redemption (son of batman) and where he gets to be a child (super sons) theres also the potential racism that comes from it sinces hes half asian but were not getting into that rn bonus is that all his friends get screwed over as they either get Erased from canon (Collin Wilkes, Maya Ducard) stuck in limbo (maps mizoguchi, tho a lot of us think she'll be the next robin so this may not be true for long) or they decide to break off the relationship because writers think that's ✨️interesting✨️(Jon Kent, the teen titans) tldr: writers write him as feral and evil even though he's shown plenty of times he's not and it even screws his friends over too

so the first thing you have to understand about damian is that he was raised by assassins. the second thing is that hes vegan. hes a very kind and caring and half-arab boy! and yet the only thing 99% of dc authors do for him is write him being mean to tim. and they wont let damian be "the" robin because tim has to be "the" robin despite damian being better at being robin. also they keep drawing damian as white despite him being. yknow. half-arab. they keep blaming him being evil on his Evil Arab Mom despite him 1 not being evil and 2 his mom being the one who for like 40-50 years kept telling her assassin dad to stop doing assassinations.

Propaganda:

homeboy has the dc editorial curse

#look how they massacred them poll #look how they massacred my boy #dc comics #dc #dc damian wayne #damian wayne

[caretaker-au]

you’re probably offline again, and I don’t know if anyone is gonna see this. but your au is genuinely one of my most favorite Undertale AUs ever. I have been in the Undertale fandom for a LONG time, but I don’t think there will ever be something as well written as the Caretaker AU again. the amount of research and love put into it is so cool. it truly does feel like something that could possibly happen in the actual canon and I LOVE it.

your version of Chara is also one of the most best portrayals of them I’ve EVER seen in the entire history of the fandom. when you began releasing the final chapters for the AU, I remember just sitting at my computer and rereading Chara’s lines over and over again. because their character was just so interesting to see in action. even when it was still a comic, their goddamn expressions and words are just so memorable to me. I still and always will have that little sadistic smile ingrained in my brain. (that also includes literally every character in comic even the background ones.) I love how you handle Chara as well, how you made them a horrible person but not totally unrealistic. like that one asker said, you feel bad for them, but just a LITTLE TINY bit. because they always screw up everything for themself and then go blame a 12 year old for it.

speaking of Frisk, your portrayal of them is definitely so very canon to me. I love their design and personality so much. they are so just relatable too, possibly one of the most realistic 12 year olds I’ve seen in a comic. they remind me a lot of me in a way, especially when I was 12 lol. I’m beyond happy they got a happy ending, they deserve it after, y’know, everything.

I wish you all luck on any other projects you may be working on. and I hope you are proud of what you have accomplished. :) you crafted a truly beautiful story. now if you don’t mind me, I’m just going to go reread everything again.

(take a shot every time I say ever lol, sorry for any spelling mistakes, thank you for reading it all)

Thank you so much for your kind words. Caretaker truly was a huge labor of love. I remember back when Ellipsis came up with the concept how it just gripped me like a bear trap. I couldn't stop thinking about it! Eruto felt the same way and was saying we should make a comic, and I was like, "no no, I don't want to do all that line art" but then she was like, you won't be alone we can draw it TOGETHER and then to demonstrate she took one of my super rough sketches and lined and colored it. And I was like, wow okay maybe this is feasible.

The resulting 3-ish years it felt like we were spending every waking hour working on Caretaker. I carried my sketchbook everywhere and would draw out thumbnails during my breaks at work, I'd be thinking about it on the drive home, and then we'd get on a discord call together to draw, line, and color for hours at a time. I could go on but the bottom line is that I LOVED IT. Each finished page (drawn or written!) fills me with pride and I look back fondly on the time spent creating and maintaining this blog together. It was exciting, compelling, and at many times exhausting, but worth it.

As far as the characterization goes, glad that you appreciate it! We reminded ourselves to never lose sight of the fact that Chara was still a human being--full of contradictions and ego and multiple-facets--but we didn't want to justify their behavior either. We all know people who are selfish, manipulative, and arrogant, but what happens when a person like that gets naïve enablement and never has to face any repercussions for their behavior? Without the correcting force that is LIFE, a cynical, angry, cruel child like Chara didn't have any reason to second-guess their worldview. Of course anything that goes wrong must be the fault of someone else!

This has already gotten kinda long, so all I'll say on Frisk is thank you and glad you agree! Personally, I knew some friends of the family who had kids about that age so I tried to reference their behavior in my mind when it came to writing Frisk. (Though most of Frisk's behaviors boil down to "RUN!!") Through the many discussions and occasional rewrites of this story, we always planned on ensuring Frisk had a happy ending. ♥

Thanks once again for the ask, and I hope you enjoy the reread!

#mailbox #spade-the-space-witch #minty says #you caught me online!

[hermesmyplatonicbeloved]

My PJO Disney+ Content

This is part twelve of my masterpost (that had too many links so I had to break it up lol).

Anyways, this section is all about the PJO Disney+ tv show. I'm constantly editing and adding new links and content so please check out the original post on my blog for the updated version.

Enjoy!

General

PJO S1E3 Memes (not mine)

Ep 1x5 Memes

The gods should have come across as less human and more otherworldly/dangerous (not mine but I agree)

The tv show overall as an adaptation is kinda disappointing. (not mine but I agree)

"Not ALL gods." -> An interesting perspective the show is taking; clearly labelling some gods as shitty and some as redeemable.

Guessing the Percy Jackson TV Show Episode Contents

I don't want a season 2 -> They fucked up season 1 too badly imo

Meme: Rick screwing up yet another adaptation

Was Hazel in that field of asphodel that the trio passed through?

Percy is not actually an idiot, Sally taught him well + Rick girlbossed Sally too much and changed her characterization

The TV show never explained that the gods don't have DNA so now all percabeth shippers are going to look like inc*st shippers

Hades's scene kinda flopped - it didn't have the "he was the first god that I met that actually looked godlike," energy

Charon and Hades's vibes should've been swapped - Hades the intimidating one and Charon the cool one in the funky suits

Bad writing in the tv show: the kids walking into traps all, "i know this is a trap"

Things I liked/disliked about episode 7

The change for the solstice passing while the kids are in the lotus casino makes sense

Percy Jackson

THEY SHOULD HAVE KNELT AT THE CLAIMING SCENE

I'm worried that some people might see Percy actually being stupid/incapable instead of seeing that it's Percy's unreliable perception of himself

The show did a good job with neurodivergence in the beginning episodes

The pinecone line was Percy questioning Zeus's power, not dissing Thalia

The happy goofy Percy scenes never sat right with me - because he lost his mother 1-2 days ago and we never see him mourn - only be really happy and occasionally angry (at his dad)

Analysis of how horrified Percy was to see his mom in the underworld

Poseidon (and Amphitrite and Seafam)

Interesting detail in the Poseidon cabin: Poseidon is looking directly at Percy

Poseidon decoration cabin 3 for Percy 12 years ago

Poseidon's ppl and Atlantis know about Percy and care for him theory (not mine but I agree)

Poseidon is paying child support + here too

Poseidon snatching Percy out of the air like he's a toddler

really sweet post on Percy and Poseidon's relationship

A short thing about Medusa and Poseidon: was there consent?

It hurts more knowing that Poseidon wanted to be there (and had a good reason to stay away) vs. thinking that Poseidon just being uninterested

Changing it to four pearls was a good change (especially for Poseidon's character)

Seafam in the tv show: Poseidon is like a cartoon kid holding back a closet (aka. his entire domain) from spilling out and beelining straight for Percy

Gabe Ugliano

Unpopular opinion: Gabe in ep1 does not deserve to be murdered by Sally.

Sally Jackson

The scene with young!Percy being scared of water and Sally yelling at him was a bad take for many reasons (not mine but I agree)

Sally and Poseidon parenting Percy

Zero resentment between Sally and Poseidon (ep 7)

Comparison between tv show Sally and book Sally

Article about Posally and the longing/yearning (Poseidon/Sally)

No resentment between Posally - the ep7 moment was beyond amazing

Ep 7 Posally: 2 parents who are still in love but cannot be together doing their best to protect the product of their love

Amazing analysis why Percy is so different from Poseidon's other children (and how the show fucked that up)

Sally has canonically never raised her voice to Percy in the books - wtf was the tv show doing

TV show Sally is not book Sally - critique

Book Sally would never make Percy feel like a burden. TV show Sally on the other hand...

Hermes

Hermes is a good father by godly standards - he cares so much

Hermes did not waste Percy and Annabeth's time: he gave them a crucial tool to completing their quest

Clarisse LaRue

Clarisse La Rue

It makes sense that Clarisse is so angry and competitive (short analysis)

Annabeth Chase (some of this is critique, you have been warned)

Annabeth's stalking and why its a serious problem (that escalates in the books)

Percy had valid reasons for thinking that he and Annabeth would never be friends.

ppl mad at percy for the “thought we could never be friends” line but from his perspective it’s actually so valid

Percy fully 100% clocked the way Annabeth has been nothing but unkind to him from their first interaction on.

Vent: ppl will easily analyze how tv Gabe is abusive, but choose to remain blind at how Annabeth is abusive

Annabeth stalking Percy, reaction

The TV Show made Annabeth far more capable than she is in the books, and removed the element of suspense and uncertainty from the show.

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy #pjo tv show #pjo disney+ #navigation #masterpost #masterlist #mine

[mistycreativelilacs]

A God Out Of Time

Summary: Set after the events of Loki season 1. Loki goes to an old friend in hopes she can save the timeline.

Authors Note: a one-shot (for now 😉) written for my friend pinchie ❤️

CW’s: Angst, manipulation, mentioned canonical character death

“You don’t have to lie to me, Loki.” Your hand aches to reach out to him, even just a reassuring gentle brush of fingers. But you hesitate, that quiet inner part of you replaying a lifetime of scenes just like this one, all seeming to answer the question you ask yourself every time. Can he really change?

“I know. I just don’t know how to stop.” He doesn’t even bother to change the line. He’s slipping, perhaps out of practice? Or more likely screwed something up so bad, he’s desperate.

“You must have truly, utterly screwed up if you’re desperate enough to try this trick on me again Laufeyson.” The world around us begins to bleed into an even older memory, a field of wildflowers sprouting up around us. I turn and begin walking in the direction that would lead home… if any of this was more than just a parlour trick. A trip down memory lane intended to sway me into breaking our sacred laws to assist whatever half-baked plan he had conjured up this time.

I'd be a liar to say this trick doesn't still affect me. I’m lost to the memory as arms wrap around my waist. “It’s cruel of you to taint one of the handful of good memories I have to try and gain my favour.“ His arms tighten as he drops his head to my shoulder.

“Please Ver, I need your help. You’re quite possibly the only being I know who can help me now.“ I indulge in childish fantasy for a lingering second, re-memorizing the way it feels to be wrapped in his arms, even if it’s merely an echo of our past. Urd doesn’t let me revisit these memories, afraid I’ll get stuck in them. Perhaps she was right.

“You truly have succumbed to the caricature of yourself the universe has painted if you believe you can charm your ex-lover into saving your current lover.” I push out of his arms breaking the illusion once more. This time the swirls take the shape of my most hated memory, that bloody ship.

“ I have mourned you time and time again Lo-lo. But this is the only time where I truly believed you wouldn’t return to me.” My feet lead me to the vision of his body, a crumpled heap on the ground. “That was the day I lost all hope. Our world was destroyed, my home, our sacred tree just gone. And you, lying there completely motionless, like all the times before, but it was different this time. I’d seen your string after all. I knew where it ended.” A few tears escape my eyes as I turn to the living imitation of the man I used to love. “Even having seen your string some small part of me hoped Skuld was wrong, that this was going to be another one of your tricks. You had changed so much and had finally reconciled with your brother. You deserved the chance to be the man I always believed you were. The man I finally saw a glimpse of again after nearly 300 years. My Loki. “ I look once more at the body of my Loki before returning my gaze to this variant, my gaze hardening. “ But he died this day and you… you are nothing more than an interloper, a remnant of his past… my past. A god out of time and in love with himself.”

His gaze hardened in a familiar way, one that threatened to tear at the ache in my chest. That flash of pain was followed by impenetrable ice walls erecting themselves around his heart. He’d only levelled that look at me once before in our millennia of life when we broke each other's hearts. The day my Loki disappeared for 300 years, replaced by the caricature standing in front of me.

“The Norns rules are law… greater law than even the one who remains sacred timeline. A mortal fool, playing at being a god.” I flick my wrist and the world around us begins to swirl into nothingness. “What’s done is done. I can not, and will not interfere.”

“You would doom us all out of spite?” He jeers at me, playing a hand built off the ideals of the girl he used to know. But I’m not her.

“I see you still have the listening comprehension of a child. I am not dooming us all, and even if I were then that is what was spun by fate itself.” We are standing in darkness now, these temporal visages of who we used to be flickering in and out of existence. “Do not stand there and pretend like you are asking me to break sacred laws because you care about the fate of the universe, of time itself. You care only of yourself and your precious Sylvie… although I guess that’s the same as only caring for yourself.” I’ve gotten closer, a careless mistake for which he seizes his opportunity.

This kiss is new, not a memory. The desperation, the need for me to understand him, all poured into one bone-crushing, teeth-clashing kiss. A hello, a cry for help, and a goodbye all wrapped up in a 30-second embrace.

I pull away forcefully. “You’re not him, and I’m not sure you could ever be him.” I turn unable to gaze at this imitation of my love any longer. “But thank you, for giving me the goodbye I never got.” With that the dream fades, and I awaken with a sob.

#loki laufeyson #loki series #mcu loki #loki x ofc #loki x original female character #marvel mcu #mcu fanfiction #angst #manipulation #semi factual Norse mythology #norns #oneshot #loki #marvel imagines #marvel #fanfiction #original character

[maegalkarven]

An interlude. What now?

Happens between Empty Prayers and Dreams of Red.

Nemo tries to be serious and Think of the Future. It backfires.

Characters: Dark Urge (Nemo), Enver Gortash, Astarion, Karlach, Wyll, Shadowheart, Gale, Lae'zel.

TW: mentions of cannibalism, questionable way to raise children (Nemo wtf), canon-typical Durge behavior.

Info about Nemo's assassins:

https://www.tumblr.com/maegalkarven/732101148639707136/so-i-actually-created-most-of-the-notable?source=share

"You do realize we all are doomed, right?" The question comes out of nowhere amidst of one of the calmest nights they have. It breaks the feeble illusion of peace right away.

"Now, you don't have to put it like that," Gale tries. "We still have some choices-"

"Blowing yourself up is not a choice," Wyll cuts out, uncharacteristically sour.

"But-"

"No, Gale," Shadowheart agrees. "No more stupid self-sacrifices for the gods who do not deserve that. Besides, you remember what Gortash said? What if you have done as Mystra wanted you to and detonated the orb in the illithid colony, it would turn every parasite-infested person into mindflayer?"

"I'm not sure how much we can trust a word of the former Chosen of Bane."

"Fair," the former Chosen of Shar agrees. "I wouldn't trust him either. But something tells me this time he was telling the truth."

"He also sits just across you, if your memory is that fragile," Gortash comments. "And thank you, not like I was thinking of impending doom and our deaths for every hour of every day now."

"Not like you kickstarted this whole event," Karlach comments.

"And what would you have me to do, let Orin kill Nemo?"

"Well, you could have not tried to conquer the world using the extremely dangerous magical artifact and, you know, the Elder Brain."

"You keep saying that, but I have yet to hear a single idea how to fix it and for us, you know, not die drastically and like fools."

"Everyone always dies like a fool," Astarion comments. "Death is dumb like that."

"If you'd only let me finish," Nemo raises his voice. "And stopped this 'woe are us, we are doomed' crying-"

"We are listening," Wyll tries. "Oh, well, at least I am trying to."

Nemo sends him a grateful look.

"Alright, let's start it anew, you literal bickering children-"

"Hey-"

"Gortash started it-"

"Oh, fuck off-"

"Quiet," and surprisingly, they all quiet down. This is who Nemo is forced to work with these days. Unbelievable.

"We are screwed. This is not me being overly dramatic, this is not me being pessimistic, this is the actual truth we're dealing with. The Elder brain has one stone and if it wasn't breaking out of the hold before - which he was, very much - it's clearly out of it now. Now, the questions why it hasn't turned everyone into mindflayers and why it's playing laying low for now is a mystery, but-“

"It's luring us back to it," Astarion comments. "What? Can't we offer our thoughts too? I didn't know it's One Man show you're having here."

"You have no idea how many people have been stabbed over interrupting him mid speech," Gortash comments. "Me included."

"Oh yeah, well, maybe try to not talk over me, asho-"

"I wasn't talking over you-"

"Just like you aren't doing it now?" Nemo glares at him. "You're lucky I need you alive."

"Thank you oh so kindly, the gracious one-"

"Tsk'va," Lae'zel interrupts the quarrel. "You two desire to tear into each other’s flesh so much it makes you stupid. Go get the urges out of the system and come back when you're capable of being rational."

This comment, made with intention of calming things down, has rather the opposite effect.

"You're the one to talk," Nemo hisses as his face reddens.

"I do not ‘desire to tear into his flesh’," Gortash argues.

Astarion laughs.

"Yes, and I am not a vampire spawn."

"Can we not fight?" Wyll, an unfortunate voice of reason amidst this chaos.

"Oh, I don't know," Gale smirks. "I rather find it amusing to watch."

"You know what?" Nemo snaps. "Go on, detonate this orb. I'm done with it."

"Now I'm not going to, purposely because you asked me so nicely."

"I fucking hate this family."

"Karlach, you already said that."

"It doesn't mean I hate it any less."

"I miss my children," Nemo suddenly chimes in. "They listened to me."

"Your who?"

"Oh, please," Gortash snorts. "I once saw one of your children stab her brother over something minor."

"It was their brother and it was nothing minor. He took their target, that's just rude."

"I'm sorry," Gale tries. "Can we backtrack now? What children are you talking about now?"

Nemo blinks at them.

"Oh," he exclaims. "My assassins, of course, the ones I personally brought into the fold."

"And the reason you address them as children is because..?"

"They were orphans Nemo picked up from the streets," Gortash mentions. "At least that's what I was told."

"Excuse me, what?" Karlach, indignation flaring with her fire. "You stole children?"

"First of all, it's kidnapped and not stole. Second of all, they came willingly," Nemo scoffs. "And really, do you think they had any other choice? Do you think any good life was waiting for them? I saved their lives."

"You've abducted children into the cult and made them killers," Wyll speaks. "Nemo, this is-"

"Wrong?" He interrupts. "How wrong can it truly be? They would die without me, or better yet, get killed. Do you think there's mercy for a girl who took a life of her stepfather? Whose mother blamed her for the murder even if said stepfather was in dire need of killing?" He pierces Wyll with a sharp stare.

"Do you think Flaming Fists would save a little tiefling boy with too much magic in his blood? Do you think they'd get to the mad crowd in time and protect the boy from it? Do you think they'd even care?  A tiefling child, an evil child, a hellspawn. No one would miss him, no one would cry for him. And," he smiles and this smile looks poisonous.

"Do you think your honorable father would spare a child whose survival was linked to the deal with the fiend? Do you think he, who exiled his own son, would look at destruction of the House Et'rris, at the only surviving its member, linked to a devil, and help them? Save them?" His voice drops to a low tone.

"How dare you judge me? You were not there to save these children, I was. What did I do but gave them a second chance? What did I do but gave them home? Where else would they go? Who else would feed starving orphans on the streets, Duke Ravengard?" He laughs an ugly, bitter laugh.

"The Council of Four? Don't be ridiculous, they never even looked down to see the low folk struggling. Those children, all those children would die if not for me. From the so-called justice, from an angry mob, from prison, from starvation. I found them, fed them, cared for them. I made them best of the best, the perfect murderers, the perfect shadows of the night. And who can hurt them now, when they're the worst things haunting Baldur's Gate? Who would dare to strike at them but their own? I made them strong."

The stunned, eerie silence falls over the camp.

Then Karlach raises her voice.

"What did you feed them with?"

"This is irrelevant."

"No, it's not."

"It was a good meat: not rotten, not touched by any diseases, I even cooked it-"

"I fed children the human flesh?!" Gale asks in horror.

"Of course you'd assume it was human," Nemo scoffs. "It was elven too, you know. Some dwarf meat, even halfling or tiefling there and there-"

"You did what?!"

"It was that or starving on the streets! And anyway, I was fed humanoid flesh my entire life and I turned out alright-"

Astarion scoots a little closer to Gortash.

"He did not turn out alright," the pale elf whispers, watching the argument rising to new, dangerous heights. "And you knew that, didn't you?"

"What Nemo eats flesh?" Gortash hums. "It wasn't a big secret."

"And what he feeds his...children the same?"

"It's a Cult of Murder," the man shrugs. "One expects some level of atrocities from it."

"That's not the answer."

"That's the one you'll get," Astarion watches Gortash watching Nemo, a small satisfies smile dancing on his lips. "I don't particularly care what he feeds his assassins, only what all of them seem to care very little for table manners."

"So I'm guessing you've met them?"

"Yes."

"...What are they like?"

"Why don't you ask their benefactor that and not the man who saw them once or twice?"

"Because their benefactor is currently in a screaming match with our companions," Astarion's shrugs. "Though he seems to be holding his ground just alright."

Gortash snorts.

"He used to lead fifty or so bloodthirsty murderers and made it look easy," another long, heavy look at Nemo. "He is good at handling people. Bhaal convinced Nemo the best thing a bhaalshapwn can be is a perfect blade, which is a shame, really. Nemo would do wonders in high court; he has enough charisma and intelligence to wrap the nobles around his fingers without them so much as noticing it.”

"It sounds like you admire him," Astarion comments, trying very hard not to feel slighted at that. Of course tyrant admires his nearest in dearest, it was to be expected. And anyway, doesn’t Nemo deserve to be admired?

But why does it sit so ill against his skin?

"Of course I admire him," the tyrant replies, not even looking away from the assassin. "He is brilliant. His part in our plans is not to be overlooked; everything came falling apart the moment Orin replaced him. Bhaal might have been content with a mad woman who could not control her urges, but our plan could not. She made a mess of things, ruined several of carefully constructed plans and hadn't even noticed. The amount of people I had to tadpole simply because Orin was acting unwise is-" he sighs. "Where Nemo would just waltz into the room, smile and bullshit his way through everything, Orin made things worse."

Astarion hums.

"I once saw Nemo convince an orthon to kill his minions, then his pet, then himself," he mentions. "So I can easily see him doing that."

"An orthon?" Gortash looks surprised. "Where in the Nine Hells did you find an orthon?"

"In a Gauntlet of Shar," Astarion shrugs. "He made an ill-fitted deal with Raphael and tried to get out of it. Nemo tricked him into false getaway."

Three's a long silence after that.

"Raphael," Gortash speaks slowly, as if tasting the words. "It's been a while since I've heard that name. How did you stumble into him?"

"More like he stumbled into us. He appeared from the thin air, laid heavy on those sweet talks of his and tried to talk Nemo into a deal. Probably still trying, all things considered. I am not sure what exactly he wants from Nemo, but he is insistent."

Gortash grows silent once more.

"I would advise against strikingly any deals with that particular devil," he comments after a pause. "Deals with him are even fouler than the deal with the devil would be expected to be. Raphael is clever; he is patient and knows how to play the game. Worst of all, he is at advantage of knowing Nemo while Nemo does not know him, and in the position where he is holding a grudge against the dear assassin of mine."

Astarion bites down the bitter taste of the way Gortash claims Nemo as his.

This can wait. His questions would not.

"Why would he hold a grudge against Nemo?"

Gortash actually laughs, a short lived and curt sound, but laugh none less.

"Because Nemo has done something Raphael failed to do. Raphael has been lusting after the Crown of Karsus for millennia, but was never able to relieve it from Mephistopheles' vault. Together Nemo and I successfully orchestrated and executed the plan what brought the crown into our hands."

So this is what Raphael wants.

"He is after the crown," Astarion comment. "And he thinks Nemo will be able to get it for him."

Gortash nods.

"And I can't express enough how this is absolutely a thing what cannot happen. Raphael is bad enough without a otherworldly power what is the Crown of Karsus in his claws."

"So," Astarion studies the man closely. "Better the crown in your hands then?"

Gortash smiles.

"Providing what we can get it off Elder Brain first and live," he comments. "But yes."

#empty prayers au #dark urge: nemo #bg3 #dark urge x gortash #gortash x durge #lae'zel really said: you want to fuck each other so bad it makes you look stupid #it is like 1 line she has bc I have hard time writing her but isn't she valid for it #nemo is petty bitch but also OKAY-ish stepparent of turned out OKAY-ish 8 children. don't judge him he did his best #what's a lil cannibalism in the family #nemo saying: 'i was fed flesh and turned out alright' the same way ppl say 'i was beat up and turned out alright' like sweetheart. baby #you didn't turn alright #you're so not alright it's tragic #girl who killed stepdad is clotilda #the tiefling boy is vivias #he's also the brother some assassin stabs #i wrote 'brother' and then realized vivias is the only boy nemo adopted so #sorry bby #the assassin stabbing him over a kill is writt #they're a bitch and I love them so much #gortash not mentioning a thing about maybe knowing raphael...dude I see what you're doing #also everyone desires the crown of Karsus...EVERYONE #Gortash's new goal is to get crown of Karsus for himself now ESP after he found out Raphael is trying to talk Nemo into giving it away #shadowheart who probably ate humanoid flesh several times in the course of her life bc it's shar's thing too: *is suspiciously quiet* #astarion: nemo talked an othon into killing all his allies and then himself #gortash: nice!

[anti-katsuki-lounge]

Tumblr doesn’t let you reply using your side blogs so this is the best I can do 😭.

Anyways, here’s why I hate Hitoshi:

Simply put, he’s a hypocritical dickhead.

The first time we meet him, he’s taunting 1-A for getting attacked by villains, a traumatic moment for the class. That already doesn’t paint him in a good light, which would be fine if his writing’s good, but it’s not. We then see him mind control his OWN TEAMMATES, which is fucked. Him doing it to an enemy team I understand. It’s part of the competition. But he did it to his own team, who didn’t even get a chance to answer him before he did so? That’s kinda fucked up and breaks a lot of consent boundaries. He also leeched off of them and relied on their abilities to win. Other than the basic “hide in the shadows technique” he did nothing but spam his quirk.

Secondly, a lot of people criticize Izuku for not training his body beforehand, but the fandom somehow forgets that Hitoshi doesn’t either. In fact, he’s even worse in that he hasn’t trained at all. Izuku at least took to analysis, but Hitoshi does absolutely nothing. He got beaten by an Izuku with a broken finger, and in that fight all Izuku did was push him and then flip him. Hitoshi throws a hook at him and it does nothing. I get that Izuku’s at peak physical strength, but if Hitoshi actually trained his body, he’d be able to at least stun him or try judo throwing him or something. Instead he just flops around pathetically and cries. While we never see Izuku learning how to fight prior to U.A, I have two theories on this: either the extra training he did while working for OFA that made him collapse was fight training or he knew how to fight beforehand but wasn’t strong enough to really use his skills effectively. Keeping these two possibilities in mind, what’s Hitoshi’s excuse then? And if Izuku never learned how to fight, it just makes Hitoshi look even worse since somehow Izuku was instinctively able to pick up on some basic hand to hand combat skills while Hitoshi was bitching about his life or some shit.

Third, he’s a hypocrite in that he hates 1A and the other hero courses for their powerful quirks yet he has a powerful quirk himself. Yeah, it’s not flashy, but it’s still stronger than Toru’s (and despite what the fandom thinks, it’s not canon that the robots have an off switch of some kind so if the invisible girl can get in, he has no excuse). He also solely relies on his quirk for the Sports Festival, unlike some of the other characters who’ve actually utilized strategies (Izuku literally didn’t use his quirk for the first part of the Sports Festival or when fighting Hitoshi after freeing himself from the mind control). So Hitoshi seemingly hates people for doing what he does, which is dumb.

The narrative also sucks his dick off, trying to make the audience feel bad for him and letting Shota train him despite him not doing anything that shows he’s worthy of receiving said training. Sadly any attempts at making me sympathize with him doesn’t work for me cause he comes off more as a whiny bitch than someone screwed over by society. If anything, in his flashback, we actually see people praise his quirk, which lowers the impact of his backstory. He also comes off as entitled, as if he thinks just because he got bullied for his quirk it means he’s deserving of being a hero. Sorry, but he didn’t do shit to achieve his dream nor does he possess any heroic qualities. Literally the only reason he wants to be a hero is because his heart desires it, which I’d let slide if he didn’t feel like he was owed a seat despite not working for it. You got other characters who suffered and still worked their asses off to reach their dreams, characters he made fun of and demeaned after they faced such a traumatic moment (the USJ) just because they were born with “strong” quirks (which again is kinda hypocritical of him since his quirk’s better than a good chunk of 1-A and 1-B’s).

In conclusion, he’s a hypocritical dickhead who gets handed things on a silver platter, kinda like Katsuki. I honestly consider him to be Katsuki-lite. Both are dickwads with a superiority/inferiority complex who think it’s ok to be a jackass and never get punished for doing so. The only difference between them is that Hitoshi isn’t a vile abuser who nearly kills his victims, hence why he’s the “lite” version of him. Once again, he’s another character with a solid concept but is poorly executed because Hori forgets that the little things are what makes a character. Had he shown Hitoshi training and more of his backstory, he’d be in a decent place, but Hitoshi comes off as a whiny hypocritical bitch rather than a passionate individual filled with cynicism due to having been dealt a bad hand in life.

#anti bkdk #anti katsuki bakugou #anti bakudeku #anti bakugo katsuki #anti bakugo #anti bakugou #anti hitoshi shinso #anti shinso hitoshi #anti hitoshi #mha critical #shinso critical

[theslayerbrother]

Trollhunters Rise of the titans: the rise of the mess

i was a big fan of the Show i watched 3below first and i Liked it but Loved Trollhunters a lot more, at first i didn't like Wizards but i grew to respect it in time. now for the Movie: it feel like a Spit in the facte that everything we are told for in the whole 3 shows i Like the First half the Movie mainly because My girl Claire finally showed her true punk form lol. and Toby was comedy gold. however after that everything turned Soar, i feel Like the Writers thought that Steve was a character form American Pie cuz the Logic that he will have babies with Aja through kissing can only be logical for this type of movies not for a magical show like TOA. his Character Deserve soo much better and yet he turned into a joke by the writers themselfs which only show that the writers who work on the Movie were soo disconnected form the Show. the Death toll felt very much like they writers we going for a Killing sprig with the deaths of Nomura and Especially Strickler.

Jim didn't feel like himself i hating that i have to say it but the Writers watch only the first episode of trollhunters and then came back for the last episode of Wizards form the way Jim was written with in this movie. The Villains didn't have any development at all not hating on the Order but they could've been soo much better but that's a problem that started in Wizards.

the 3below cast felt sidelined with Krel make only one funny scene in at the start and Aja been there to create internal conflict and to have the babies with Steve obviously.

now for the Ending i Hated that Toby died don't get me wrong but the Movie Should've ended with him dying or if you can't kill toby bring him somehow without screwing time and resetting all the character development. cuz he really don't fit the role he was the one who brought Claire, Jim and Nana happiness Alongside ARRRGHHH ofc and Blinky making him have to deal with the burden of being the trollhunter will Just break him and i feel bad for the Poor guy, the relationship between Jim and Blinky would never exist and While Jlaire could work it wouldn't feel the Same.

So Pretty Much for me the Movie either Ending with Toby Dying or coming back to life somehow if you can't kill him. or not canon at all.

#trollhunters #3below #wizards #jim lake jr #toby domzalski #claire nunez #blinky galadrigal #arrrrgh #aja tarron #krel tarron #rise of the titans #toa trollhunters #toa steve

[thranduel]

SPOILERS

i’m so disappointed and devastated

just because something is canon doesn’t mean it’s good writing. i felt nothing during that entire monologue. that was the most predictable bullshit i have ever seen

it’s all just pathetic and unfair

using will’s feelings as a way to further develop mike and el actually makes me sick. he doesn’t deserve this bullshit. he cried during most of his scenes and it’s breaking him yet he still remained selfless and kind to everyone around him and put them first like he always does. he deserves so much better than this crap

who the fuck thinks it’s okay to use a young gay character who has suffered enough to make a straight ship work out? they couldn’t even work out their own relationship but needed will to push them???? HIS painting, something that was supposed to be special and meaningful for HIM AND MIKE ONLY, was turned into a plot device to further their relationship… screw the writers

and then they made mike say that his life started when he met el in the woods when everyone knows that’s bullshit because he was planning to “send her back to pennhurst or wherever she came from” and only let her stay to help find will

not to mention how it felt like a recycled moment when will got possessed when he said asking to be his friend was the best thing he’s ever done

there was also no explanation for the way he treated will and why he was awkward

any bit of character development and growth for mike went down the drain these last 2 episodes and he’s just reduced to el’s boyfriend

will’s love for mike didn’t even get confirmed and dumb morons are gonna try saying he’s not gay. they could’ve just confirmed it properly

this is all bullshit

#byler #stranger things #stranger things spoilers

[palmettoshitposts]

seth (finally) gets what he deserves (seth lives kefu style)

for all that seth claimed he wanted to leave palmetto, he found leaving really hard. he may or may not have ended up drunk on wymack’s couch one time. he’s down the road in columbia as a trainee social worker; he feels so out of his depth, it’s harder than he thought to see these kids in the worst situations imaginable and parents who just refuse to fucking learn.

he’s started confronting the fact he grew up around a shit tonne of prejudice and that he’s been a dick to people who have stood beside him. he knows he’s made progress when allison - who’s become a bizarre sort of friend - reveals she’s dating renee, a trans woman, and he doesn’t feel the disgust he used to. he’s genuinely happy for her and happy she’s moved on from the unhealthy shit they had together. it probably hurt both of them more in the long run than any kind of enjoyment that had at the time would let them believe. again, he’s maturing.

he ends up with a lot of lgbt kids on his caseload and begins to really hate himself for being just like people who’ve hurt these kids. parents and siblings who acted like he did that have hurt them, made them runaway or even hurt themselves. his mentor, carmen, is a very brusque older black woman who tells him it’s in the past. he needs to leave it behind and recognise the fact he doesn’t do it now and actively hates it as progress. matt comes down every couple of weeks and they work out together. seth rants about all of this. he’s so fucking angry and matt’s just smiling. when the rant is over, matt just says he’s proud of seth. seth tells him to fuck off.

there’s one particular case that seth cant get his mind off of. he knows he should do what carmen says and just leave the cases at the desk but seth just cant. dante is twelve year old who is so fucking angry at the world because of how its treated him and everything he’s seen. every placement seth finds for dante lasts no longer than 3 weeks and time and time again they end up at the office, dante with his singular bag in tow and pissed off expression firmly on his face. one night, they cant place him at all and seth resigns himself to a night in the office with this now thirteen year old.

“god, you little asshole. maybe i’d be able to sleep if it wasnt for you,” seth sighs at one point, entirely exhausted. dante just genuinely laughs for the first time since seth has known him.

dante eventually just refuses to speak to anyone other than seth. the next morning, he’s refusing the singular placement the entire team have been able to find. seth’s like fuck it, and becomes his temporary foster parent. dante lives with seth for two weeks, and seth has no clue how to be a parent, but dante doesn’t care. he has a bed and a door that locks (andrew hands seth a lock that weekend in columbia - something thats become a tradition for all of the foxes from the canon year to attend. he just goes ‘for the kid. trust me.’ and seth does it without question. he and dante work together to screw it to the inside of his bedroom door), food and clothes. some dude that will play video games with him and call him a loser and buy his favourite foods and doesn’t expect him to be polite or ‘normal’. he promises seth he’ll try at his next home. it sort of breaks seth’s heart because he’s fairly certain the issue is the foster parents, not this damaged kid who reminds him of a fox in almost every way.

it lasts six months before dante runs away. he shows up at seth’s house with a black eye and a duffel bag, and a nonchalant attitude that is entirely fake. he begrudgingly tells seth the foster father found out he’s gay and ‘didn’t like it’. seth wants to kill him. dante is 13 and a grown man has raised his hand to him because what? he likes boys? fuck that. when dante is in bed that night, seth gets the closest to relapsing he’s been in years. he didn’t know dante was gay and it doesn’t fucking matter at all. he’s so fucking angry at the world and at his past self. there isn’t an ounce of disgust directed towards dante but seth is too fucking mad to see that for the progress it is. after a text to matt, he passed out on the sofa, exhausted from sheer anger. matt arrives then next morning to help them both out for a couple of days and seth realises he has a fucking family.

seth is still fuming the next morning and isn’t going to hide it. he makes it very clear it’s not directed at dante, though. dante is touched at how angry seth is about this. because it’s on his behalf, and in his defence. and the fact that seth allows him to see that anger, and that this isn’t okay. dante hasn’t had that before.

after that point, seth becomes dante’s long term foster parent. he sits dante down and offers to have him live with him until he ages out of the system. the ball is entirely in dante’s court. dante thinks seth is mad if he thinks theres anyway he’d pass up on that offer. seth is the best thing that’s ever happened to him and he tells him as much. it’s the first time in as long as seth can remember that he cries in front of someone else. dante is stunned and in awe of the sheer vulnerability of this scary looking asshole. dante is so fucking glad he doesn’t have to leave.

lilly devi is a bad ass family lawyer who’s been on the edge of seth’s social circle for years. a proud south asian trans woman with deep purple hair, a range of facial and body piercings and cochlear implants she takes off as soon as possible - shes about as unlikely a lawyer as seth is a social worker. shes close with renee and allison and comes to seth when a bunch of allegations about a foster parent appear on her desk. it turns out dante was just one in a line of kids abused by the same man. seth spends that night at the gym with matt, furiously working out until he can no longer think about how broken the system is.

lilly seems to keep her cool while dealing with the case. seth cant understand it - he’s still so fucking angry (something matt and dan seem to find weirdly endearing when they had dinner together?) - but he can appreciate her hard work. with minimal disruption to dante’s new, calm life, lilly navigates a successful motion to remove the bastards fostering licence and hands over the evidence she’s collected to the criminal courts. it’s out of their hands now but it’s been so swift and successful that seth is slightly in awe of this woman.

lilly swings by his office that night with a wicked grin. seth has privately thought shes stunning for a long time but hasn’t acknowledged it properly. it wouldn’t have been appropriate. besides, she knows about his shitty past attitudes.

but lilly surprised him.

“ren’s swinging by to see dante if you fancy a drink,” she says.

“to celebrate the case?” seth clarifies, a bit dumbfounded.

“as more, if you fancy. ball’s in your court,” she said, that grin still in place.

(for the record, dante has always thought lilly was a fucking badass and was thrilled when he found out they were dating)

(seth begins learning sign almost immediately. the first time he tells her he loves her, it’s in asl. it’s not lilly’s first language because of a shitty family who refused to learn for her but it is her preferred one. lilly gets down on one knee then and there, proposing with a random ring off her own finger. seth cherishes it forever)

#seth lives #and redeems himself!!!! #admin: 🔮 #all for the game #aftg #psu foxes #kefu shenanigans #palmetto shitposts #tkm #trk #tfc #seth gordon #meet our ocs! #oc dante #oc lilly #we wanna marry lilly #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #from our chat archives #aftg fanfic #aftg fic #palmetto state university #palmetto state foxes #matt boyd #renee walker #allison reynolds #andrew minyard #neil josten #kevin day

[awellboiledicicle]

In the au Gale's going to have two built in reasons to not follow Mystra's command to blow himself to hell, plus a friendly neighborhood Justice going "That would be unwise."

Which is good, because he canonically only needs one.

The fun part is going to be him processing Mystra telling him the path to redemption is death. By which i mean Hawke rolls up his sleeves and goes "here we go again" while Anders just waits for Hawke to be done. Because if there's one thing Hawke's been doing since Kirkwall its been convincing Anders that he doesn't need to die to make up for doing what he thought was the right thing.

Is starting a riot to force a revolution comparable to trying to measure up to impossible standards set by a literal goddess when you're grasping for a way to stay relevant? No, in no way really.

But the fact remains they are both repentant about the aftermath, if nothing else. And they both convinced themselves they didn't deserve to live and that death would somehow fix things.

This all manifests in the three of them sitting somewhere and talking about how maybe she fucked him up a bit. Maybe having a literal goddess go from your childhood mentor to sleeping with you might screw with your head a bit.

Because Gale's problem is he's still in the 'hurt but has not contextualized what happened to him' stage. Like he got the break up thing, he got that part. But he hasn't conceptualized the similarity to say, a powerful elven mage having done a similar trajectory would be obviously fucked up. Exploiting his love and enjoyment of magic itself to apply it to herself, and bestowing the title of chosen on him to really cement the hold she has. Exploiting the learned childhood pattern of wanting to please her and get her approval. Holding the fact she IS the weave over him as an unacknowledged threat if he ever displeased her. He hasn't processed that he was groomed from a young age to be hers, to be used by her. Hes not putting his own actions into context in that way, because he doesn't even seem to have reached the moment of going "huh that was fucked up" yet. All he's running on is how everything effects Mystra, because she was his whole life for so long.

So sitting and talking about it very much is going to feel raw and upsetting for Gale. He very much views himself as the villain and the idea that--while he absolutely did fuck up with the book/orb--Mystra fucked up bigger and worse. And worse still, she did it on purpose. Because she absolutely did not NEED to sleep with him to make him a chosen or teach him magic. That was all her. Which means he'll need to admit that he was a victim and Mystra was an aggressor. Which would be a 'very good thing the orb is stabilized because he is about to be very emotionally distraught' conversation. Even if he didn't eventually agree with their assessment, the fact he'd have to concede is that killing himself wouldn't solve anything. Sure, lets say it destroys the main powerbase of the Absolute-- there's still infected people out there. What happens to them? There's still uninfected cultists you now can't track down because all clues you COULD have gotten out of the stronghold are now smithereens. And the world would be one Gale shorter, which is bad. And probably the whole party, because there'd be no way in the hells he gets in there on his own and they manage to get clear at the same time. He doesn't even know the range of it; for all they know it could level the coast and everyone's fucked regardless.

I can see Gale most definitely leaving the conversation convinced that the other two were misreading the situation with Mystra, as much as he's bolstered by their care for him. And then the night comes and he's alone with his thoughts about it. And things start popping to the surface of his memory that--were it anyone but Mystra doing them--would seem suspect. Which is going to be rough. Gale's going to be going through it for like a solid day before starting to come to terms. Largely that fast because there's not a lot of time between wandering the shadowcursed lands and resting after shades kick their asses. The final scene with the starry sky probably happens as they near the towers and he realizes that--complicated feelings about Mystra aside for now--they're right. He wants to live and if they say he deserves to, then he just might at that.

I just. nnn emotions.

#handers gate au

[fraudulent-cheese]

[ACT III AND IV - Crescendo of a Descent] or : Gwen in the TQCC AU

For context, this is for the au i just detailed here, but have been fleshing out for a while!

Originally, Gwen wasn't a huge part of it, but over the last month i've gotten way more interested in her character progression and journey over the course of the entire show and i thought that hey! exploring it sounds fun!

So i'll start with this: Yes, the cheating plotline still happens, the way it resolves itself changes; Gwen is sorry, and does break up with Duncan in the EX Files episode, then votes herself out in the Australia episode, not before trying to apologize to Courtney for the cheating in the first place, but she gets pushed out of the plane before she can finish.

Since the episode hasn't aired yet, the most recently aired episode is London. The eliminated contestants and Aftermath crowd were too busy celebrating Alejandro being eliminated at all to question him about any events that had happened since Noah's arrival, so they all found out as the episode aired.

Right before Gwen arrived at the Hotel they're staying in.

Needless to say, she is not welcomed well by the other cast members, with reactions ranging from people going after her again for her stupid love life ; remember, some of these people were hard on her for the Gwent break-up during Action, and it was nowhere as bad as this. That and the likes of Geoff hate cheaters, and wouldn't be nice to 'the other woman' to me, especially not when she was aware of the relationship Duncan was in. Not many like Courtney, but they can agree she didn't deserve to have her one friend on her team betray her like that!

Gwen's been through the whole song and dance of being painted as the vilain in romance drama, but this time it's different. It's different because she knows she's in the wrong, she wants to make up for it, and to her she already has right? She's dumped Duncan and apologized to Courtney!

But the cast isn't aware of that yet. They're still processing it even happening. And frankly, she knows the following two episodes won't paint her in a better light considering this is Total Drama. Most of the cast settles on giving her the cold shoulder for now, with some being more hostile towards her. It's highschool all over again.

Hey! At least she doesn't have to share her room with anyone right? That, and not every camper's hostile towards her; outside of Leshawna who was willing to hear her out, there's Noah who's generally disinterested in romance drama (and was considering betting on how fast it would fall apart but shush) and there's Alejandro, weirdly enough. She's not sure why he'd want to interact with her, she figures it's just because he hasn't screwed her over on the show.

She generally doesn't go in the common room of the Hotel anyway. She'd rather be alone than deal with the weird tension that settles in whenever she's there, it's just awkward enough that no one feels distrubed enough to call it out, but still present and felt by everyone there.

Eventually, Aftermath Aftermayhem rolls around and mostly stays like in canon, aside from possibly Blaineley trying to press her about Duncan again before the musical number, and she blows up a bit before immediatly trying to walk it back. She stays quiet for the rest of the episode afterwards.

By that point, most of the tension around her has defused and none of the cast are activally hostile towards her as the episodes air. She still mostly sticks around the few that didn't turn on her after the whole Duncan debacle; hanging out with Leshawna and Trent during the day or when she's feeling sociable, and with Noah and Alejandro whenever she wants quiet but not solitude, and sometimes at night.

Yeah she's part of the titular "Quiet Corner Club" after the third aftermath. Izzy's also sometimes there, and she's the one who coined the name (Gwen was on board, Noah thought it was neat and Alejandro thought it was ridiculous but had to go along with it anyway)

And that's mostly it for the TDWT period! That's not the end of her arc however, she knows for a fact the second the season's over and she'll go back home that the backlash for her actions this season won't be fun to deal with. But for now, she settles on rereading her warrior cats collection, trying out painting and playing Uno with the other cast members right before any episode airing.

#cheese posting #td gwen #TQCC au #total drama au #total drama #tdwt #if you're wondering about the ENA reference: it's mostly because i have the PERFECT reference for the inbetween period #and i wanted the TDWT Gwen post to match it #String cheesing