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cutie-lumi · 6 months
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The Five Eccentrics
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zombeikid · 12 days
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Day 1, Pre-canon
He vowed to never become his father. She wanted to be just like her mother. A village chief? A royal court magician? It was the worst thing he could imagine. It was the best thing she could imagine. But at least he wouldn’t be alone. And at least she wouldn’t be alone. Falin would be there. Until she wasn’t. He took a deep breath. He could figure this out. She took a deep breath. She could figure this out. “I’ll get Falin back.” No. "We'll get Falin back."
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rainia · 1 month
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my “research for a research position” has taken me to Switzerland. Why does every picture of Switzerland look fake. Why are the rivers that colour. Why is everything so clean. What’s going on there that it remains so picturesque. Unsettling
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creationsabyss · 4 months
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Glory To The Faithful (The World Screams In Its Anguish)
His hands twitched, his skin rubbed red and raw, his breaths escaping his chest with a rasping wheeze. Apologies carved into his chest as he claws at his arms, the stain of gold stark on his skin. He had not left the cell in days, scrubbing at the stone bricks in vain. Glowing faintly in the dark, he sobs tearless cries at the cruel reminder of his mistakes, as the waters bleed crimson. His blood over his God's, though now he began to doubt his claim of fervent devotion, he has no right, but he is far too greedy to offer its sacrifice just yet. Cradling his vision close, bloody streaks tracing the engraved constellation he knew was his, proof of his status even if he were to fall from grace. Memories with jagged edges that tear and spill open the truths he wished not to see. Iron to his eyes and thread through his lips, he can not hear and no longer can he feel, penance for his sins. A warden of a prison that holds only one. He burns alone, deep beneath the dark waters.
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tanglepelt · 1 year
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Run ghost run 7
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The last week has just been one mystery after another. More to dig into, more to investigate. Static in the ears, secret government, missing persons cases, radio silence, being grounded and a cruel and unusual punishment no more coffee. Who cares if he’s been analyzing videos or waiting for blood results for the last three days. Tim just wanted to know just as much as anyone else why he glowed green.
Sleep was for the weak.
Forcing him on house arrest was not going to get answers. Forcing him to sleep was going to get anyone anywhere. Just a waste of time. Going out and investigating could. But here he was stuck in the Batcave with the demon child. Cause of course it was the two of them out of everyone.
Not to mention the sudden lack of communication from the batgirls. Barbra couldn’t trace them neither could he. Following their trail via camera went dead quick. They just had to infiltrate that base in the middle of nowhere Illinois. There were no public cameras or even privately owned ones they could get into. Just farmland. Corns, soybeans, and 27 million acres of farmland.
Their comms and trackers were just standing still. They just stopped communicating three days ago. Barbara tried sending signals to try and get them to unfreeze. She wasn’t successful neither were his attempts.
Bruce went missing child hunting.
Then the mystery kid showing up just to vanish.
Duke had been waiting for him to leave the library. It should have been child play to track Danny and see where he went. Duke lost him to a shadow blob monster thing. No clear image was available. It was more corrupt than the picture of the kid.
While Dick and Duke were out looking for him, Tim was in the Batcave investigating. Barbara was stalking cameras assisting Bruce. Who knows where Damian was. Not his problem.
Danny’s search history went from concerning to this is bad to why. A town that didn’t exist. So-called Fenton’s only exist at a college event. More specifically for an event three people ran. Jack, Maddie, and Vlad masters. For some ghost portal prototype. The first two had no online records, no driver license, not even any bank account. In all but college they don’t exist.
Looking into masters would be in order. Masters had always liked to brag. Tim can recall Vlad talking about a college reunion. He had been bragging about how he was going to host it. That was roughly 6 months ago. If the three had been acquainted those two were likely at the reunion. Vlad would have posted about it somewhere.
For the last four months Vlad’s accounts had been inactive. This could have been just after the reunion. Was he now involved?
Buried away there was a single article. By one Harriet Chin. It was only due to a deep dive that he found it. It cited the reunion. It had Vlad Masters name. This article got her discredited from her original job. It’s now posted solely on some sketchy websites. She claimed these “ghosts” possessed a Jack Fenton. Then that he manages to unposses himself. She had interviews in the article from Jack, Fenton, Maddie Fenton, and Danny Fenton.
This article was posted five months ago. Harriet’s socials have also been inactive for the last four months. Those associated with the Fenton’s just seemed to be disappearing.
Whatever Fenton Works was. It didn’t exist digitally.
The entire ant-ecto acts. Which is a pure act against the meta protection Acts. Provided no proof of their findings. The single politician who had these acts written out was kicked out of office. He hadn’t even lasted a term. The day after the bill went through, he was relieved of his position. There was nothing on the guy after he was kicked out. Another mystery to solve. For a later date.
The pages available were obviously biased with no real facts. Just saying their dead must mean they're pretending. Multiple statements even contradict themselves. Citing that some entity destroyed the entire town to bring back the forest. If they were non-sentient, why did the entity only act when the town was supposedly chopping down trees?
It directly brought a reason why it acted. It didn’t just come out of nowhere and attack. It targeted a single town, not named in the acts, only after an event happened.
The unnamed town had to be this, Amity Parks. In every regard, it no longer existed. He had looked at the same sites as the so-called Danny “Cosmos”. Nothing new there. Tim did use Internet Archive to look at previous versions of websites. Amity Park used to be in government records, roughly 10 years ago. Which isn’t shocking, the proof it existed had already been found. The fact It had been removed from everything official was a piece of resistance.
Someone had to have erased it. Any previous records are gone. Records of any politician or mayor is gone. Looking at past renditions of websites he could find them. This wasn’t a town going ghost. It was a town being wiped out of existence.
It had to be a two-way information block. This Danny was likely Danny Fenton had clearly no knowledge of heroes at all. Barbara said he had seemed confused all while doing his research. He had searched What are metahumans? That’s common knowledge. Then looking up are heroes real? really sealed the deal. Even searching how did anti-ecto acts pass? to find no results. Anti-Ecto Acts? also with no results.
It’s a cover-up. Bernard did tell him there was a secret government agency plotting to destroy the meta-protection acts.
It was the only thing that made sense right now. A hidden law and a hidden town. People disappearing history being wiped out. This was prime conspiracy evidence.
The acts shouldn’t have passed. Playing off as an environmental bill and forcing the vote in the same session. Red flags right there. The league has people who are supposed to watch for this. Even when it passed, they should have been informed.
This wasn’t just a law against humans. It specially targeted a group of non-humans not in their jurisdiction. Whatever these beings where it wasn’t a ghost. Ghosts don’t act how these acts describe these entities. They are essential acts of war. Allowing the United States government to exterminate and experiment on them at their discretion. It mentions ecto-contaminated as well. That implies these beings can infect another. If a normal human was infected this could allow the government to experiment on anyone. They had a whole ghost investigation ward to handle this. This whole mess could lead to the loss of rights for any individual.
Why didn’t this get flagged?
Tim was happy he wasn’t going to have to tell the league about this.
Now all they had to do was get Danny somewhere safe. The fact he had no idea who any of them were was going to help oh so much. His searches for them gave him so much joy. Is Batman a demon? Why is batman a cryptid? Does Batman work with the government? Who is red robin? Why did red robin name himself after a restaurant? Why does a child have swords? Does Robin stab people?
This was going to be a headache.
Those rope burns didn’t come from nowhere. Not to mention on top of them were marks from cuffs. It’s very possible he’s considered ecto-contaminated. The way he nervously looked around, the way he reached for his throat, the look of panic, and the search history all added up. Unfortunately, the case presumably the government caught him and did experiments on him.
He was stumped by the last thing he looked up. Do birds and bats get along? Where do birds and bats co-live? Where do starlings and noctules live?
Somehow the starlings and noctules fit in. He wasn’t sure how yet. Tim would figure it out.
It was only when the kid vanished they regained connection with the batgirls.
The two fed them small amounts of information. The two were in a lab in Amity Park. Releasing a boy from the lab. Somehow got frozen in time. It was all connected. They needed to find Danny.
Bruce was heading their way now. Stephanie had a drive with all the data from the lab. Once it got here, they’d have to organize the data.
Bruce had already contacted the league.
The three would be back at the cave tomorrow night at the latest. They wanted to look scout the town. Get a better picture.
A beep on his phone alerted him to the time. While doing his research and finding all the connections the night was nearly up. It was right around 4 am.
Nightwing: Spotted the kid. Choose to nap on the roof of an abandoned building.
Good. That means the answers are almost at hand. Just a matter of convincing the kid to let them help. Considering Danny was looking up if Batman was a demon, their vigilantes’ personas could be useless. Civilian forms trying to help may work the best.
Red Robin: looking at his search history I wouldn’t be surprised if he ran the minute he spots you.
5 minutes had passed before the response.
Nightwing: He jumped… off the roof. With a peace sign
Nightwing: then just vanished.
Nightwing: no splat
Tim just didn’t know how to respond to that. Maybe he could find more info on the ghost ward. Nothing popped up the two times he’s searched. Maybe the third time is the charm.
Before he could begin his search, he was promptly getting kicked out of the Batcave. Tim’s said it once hell say it again. Sleep is for the weak. He took like a 20-minute power nap yesterday. He was fine.
All he needed was some coffee. He was over the house arrest. If going out the window is what it takes. It’s what it takes.
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Danny expected to wake up to the sun. Not a ghostly chill going through him. His ghost sense? This was even smaller than the incident yesterday. Just a simple chill no blue breath coming out.
Looking around he couldn’t quite spot him, more felt. He knew there was at least one entity watching him. Grabbing his backpack and slinging it across hi back he started to walk towards the door. The plan was simple. Get into the building away from prying eyes.
He was prepared this time. Fully expecting something to jump out at him.
Danny did not fall on his dairy-air this time when a child dressed as a traffic light landed in front of him. Not just any child but Robin. The sword wielder, who has probably stabbed people. He was not dealing with this.
Robin had to have been the one who set him off. He could feel lingering death and some mix of ectoplasma. It wasn’t quite right.
Danny was fairly positive he heard someone in the distance cursing.
He really wasn’t paying attention to Robin as he spoke. More concerned with the impending danger. His heart was beating, he could feel the blood rushing to his head.
At some point Nightwing got in front of him. Now both him and Robin were in front of the door. It looked like the blue one was scolding the traffic light. Maybe he heard something about being grounded. Stuff about staying point and not going off on his own. Maybe something about the color green.
All he knew was he was trapped.
Looking at the edge of the roof and back towards the blocked door his decision was made. Ignoring the way blues hands went up.
This certainly wouldn’t be the first roof he’s jumped off. The first while injured and powers on the fritz. But it was better than being trapped. He is not too sure how he got to the edge of the roof. He knows they tried to stop him.
Just looking at them he flashed the peace sign as he jumped.
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ava-does-dumbassery · 2 years
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God I love Renfield. Like, beside all the asylum stuff, he’s just such an “I’m sorry, WHAT?!?” of a character. Half of the things he does are at least a little impossible. You get the sense that he knows something, but what that something seems to be changes drastically from chapter to chapter. He just shows up in the plot suddenly at random times, and then leaves. Unlike basically everything else in the book, most of the things surrounding him are never explained, so you’re just left there like “wait, no, go back, HOW and WHY did he fucking do that?”
All of his scenes kinda feel like the reading equivalent of seeing someone walk into a crowded street, fire a gun directly up into the air a few times, and then walk quietly away.
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electronicdesire · 11 days
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why did they make fear factory album covers so horny
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osterby · 7 months
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Baldur's Gate 3, via Osmosis
So I think I played the first Baldur's Gate game for like an hour at a friend's house back in college, and all I remember about it was how delighted I was by the miniature giant hamster. I didn't even know there was a second game until I started hearing people get excited about the third one. That's about the sum of my knowledge of this franchise.
So without more ado, here's what my tumblr dash has taught me about these blorbos (I got @malaloba to huck the screenshots at me, so I didn't spoil myself on the names)
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I want to say this one is Shadowheart, but that's too on the nose. She's probably .... Mythrin... Mithras... Mithotyn... Nope, I haven't got it.
She looks grouchy, and like she has a very good reason to be grouchy, and I would assume she's a combat class from her armour, but that's all I've got.
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Gale (or Halsin) I know this one! He's the one who turns into a bear in The Cutscene that broke the internet for a few days. That means he'd be a Druid, right? I think he cross classes or something, though.
I hope the furries are having a great time drawing him as an anthro bear with a very large weenie.
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Astarion! This vampire twink was all over my dash long before the game was released. Apparently he has a tragic backstory and is a jerk about it in a way that is either annoying or endearing, depending on the player's opinion of vampire twinks. His main role in the game, however, seems to be comically failing to pick locks. This means he's a Thief. Apparently the thing with the bear just had Astarion as the player character, and he isn't canonically dating the bear guy. Oh well.
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Halsin (or Gale) The Other One who is Not a Bear. I would have said Bard for his class, but he's glowing a bit much for that here, so maybe a caster? I feel like he's more popular in areas of Tumblr that don't cross my dash.
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Karlach or Karlak or something (not Karkat, that's a Homestuck thing).
Lesbians love her! She is large and angry and apparently really easy to romance just by approving of her chopping things with her axe. I think she was a child soldier? I see a lot of jokes about her crappy ex. I think her ex is actually her god and not her ex, though. Anyway, she seems like a prototypical Barbarian, good for her.
EDIT: I just remembered that she has PLAGUE, and is on a quest to Stop Having Plague. This is apparently her ex's fault
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Laz'el. Lae'zel. La'zael. Something along those lines. I've seen treatises on her backstory and characterization, and she sounds like a really interesting character. Grew up in a cult of some kind, got dead or something, got abandoned by a crappy god (who might have also gotten dead or something), and is now wandering around trying to figure out how to exist in a world that isn't a cult. Apparently Other Players don't like her and dont't get what's up with her, which is a sore point for her fans (It's very possible that I'm mixing up portions of her backstory and fan reception with Karlach's) Her nose weirds me out (some uncanny valley thing between a skeleton lack-of-nose and a nose-nose), but I think she's pretty neat.
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Ok, so if the blue lady at the top of this post isn't Shadowheart, then this one is Shadowheart. When I first saw the name Shadowheart, I thought it was someone's OC, and then I thought it was a generic name for the player character. From what I can gather, she's Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way with the stupid scraped off. She seems to be younger than most the other characters; she and the red tiefling are the kiddos of the group (Astarion doesn't count, because vampire). I think she grew up all sheltered in a weird little cult, too. Did ALL these characters grow up in weird cults? Is that a theme? Did I hear one backstory and apply it to a dozen different characters?
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I happen to know for sure that this guy's name is Wyll. Good for me.
I don't know beans about him but I suspect he might be my favourite character when I do finally get around to playing, just from how his peronality is conveyed in fanart.
I get the impression he's the Only Sane Man to all these characters who grew up in cults and divorced dead gods and got vampire'd and whatnot, but he also has horns in like half the fanart and screenshots and is clearly Haunted (metaphorically, figuratively, literally, probably all of the above), so who knows.
As for the second figure here, I know the premise of the game is you've all got brainworms, who are in leage with a mindflayer con man who you can bone but who is also running some sleezy marketing scam, so maybe that's the brainworm made manifest?
I also see a lot of talk about character called Dark Urge, and the fan art doesn't look like that, but if Dark Urge is a manifested brainworm, then it could take various forms.
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smallsafespace · 9 months
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Strawberry outfits pt 1
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nami-moittli · 3 months
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Low quality meme about what’s going on rn
Anyway, my heart goes out to Shelby who had to deal with his abuse and fuck Wilbur
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eccentricwearsgoggles · 2 months
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bro. someone stole my jacket AND beanie at work. smh.
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starcrossedwitness · 28 days
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If someone could put a knife to my throat right now, I think I would let it happen.
It already takes so much effort to restrain myself from wanting to bury a shard of broken glass into my thigh sometimes.
It's just really exhausting acting like I have it all together when in reality I feel like I'm close to being split apart.
It's selfish of me to think like this, but sometimes I'd just really want to be allowed to breathe without feeling like someone will grab me by the throat for it. Without feeling like I'd insult someone just for breathing a certain way or being labeled as aggressive because I'm a "mean uncaring mexican." I'm tired of being scared, so I have to stay silent. I'm tired of being silent out of fear. I'm tired of being scared of being hated. Why can't I get over the fact that people will lie, people will stereotype me, people will hate me, and I just need to move on with it? When will I accept this?
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quibbs126 · 7 months
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But I swear, the most frustrating thing about Evoland and especially Evoland 2 is that I have a lot of thoughts on it, but absolutely no one I know has played the game, and so I either have to keep myself quiet or I basically have to talk to a brick wall, since I have no form of social engagement when it comes to talking about the series
*sigh* I wish more people played this game, I really do love it and want to talk about it with other people, despite some of its faults
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ace-dodo · 2 months
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I love learning choreographies cuz whenever I hear the song I just play it on autopilot
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do-you-read-me-00fu · 2 months
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girljimmyenjoyer · 3 months
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I hope my drawings on that thing actually sent because I think one of them was kinda funny
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