#the alternate timelines don't exist

[koytix]

RoseMary <3

#Kanaya Maryam #Rose Lalonde #RoseMary #Homestuck #koyart #I like to think that nothing bad every happened to them #they got married and stayed happy after the gane #the alternate timelines don't exist #they are just happy kids with crushes #they love each other sm

[morninkim]

Rise of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Minh Mendoza

just for fun, and bc i can't stop myself once i have an idea, here's the second member of Olivia's new Power Rangers; Minh Mendoza!

she's the daughter of Trini Gomez and Richie Mendoza, and was the result of an IUI from a donor who happened to be Vietnamese American

#my art #rotmmpr #rotmmpr future #mmpr #power rangers #mmpr once and always #minh kwan #i need to work on neo toku things but instead i'm doing. another rise au #(which is an alternate timeline to distant thunder since it can't exist in the same one for. reasons.) #her suit power is invisibility to reference her great uncle howard bc i think its funny - also why her suit has more white on it #thimking about making some rise versions of other canon dino (or otherwise) rangers members of this team #not necessarily w their canon colours but idkkkk #maybe part ocs/fankids part canon idk #i KNOW i wanna make zack and angela's son the black ranger since here was that whole rumor/casting thing about zack having a son in O&A #still don't know what was up w that and how it happened #anyway. #edit: i do not need to use other rangers to fill this team out actually. i had more thoughts

[kayvsworld]

everything i learn abt infinity war and engame makes me feel like i am actively hallucinating

#hi. i just spent an hour trying to understand steve's ending and i am laughing hysterically #HE WHAT. HE DID WHAT. HE WENT WHERE. WHAT #''maybe i should watch these to understand fatws/the next cap movie better'' #no false wrong faux incorrect. i was right in abstaining im allergic to time travel and i hate it thank you #very funny very very funny. why'd they do any of it. fascinating #i watched th. the. th. old cap scene old elderly cap and i do not know how to process this. real media that's real and exists #ANYWAY friendship ended with mcu avengers now avengers assemble/fatws is my best friend #jesus #kayvswords #I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND I DONT UNDERSTAND THE DIRECTION. OF IT. THE DIRECTION THEY WENT IN #also imma need to look up some stucky enjoyer opinions on this because hi. joint hatecrime movie #they killed my boy they killed that ship in a back alley. bewildering #ALSO I W. I WENT TO WATCH EXPLANATION VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE ABT IT #just confusedly typing ''captain america old endgame ending. explanation'' in my searchbar with increasing desperation #and this dude says that due to something something time travel. something something branching alternate universes #that thanos. dies in 2014 and there's a BRANCH OF THE TIMELINE #WHERE NOTHING POST CACW HAPPENED?????? #but we don't get to live there we have to live in the old steve dead tony dead nat universe. okay alright okay #anyway if i see endgame steve its on sight that mans an imposter and i dont trust him <3

[bidokja]

am i missing something why do so many people think ORV is an infinite timeloop

#like. yeah yjh is stuck in his regression loop but #AND I COULD BE MISSING SOMETHING FOR SURE #but like. isn't the whole point of orv that No Other Turn OR alternate timeline has kim dokja in it (or well. not alive at that point) #this is the first and only time he has ever been on that subway when the star stream started on earth #it is only this turn. in this universe. that he has made it there #cause this is also the only turn where he and [redacted] met and therefore paradoxically the only turn where [redacted] could write wos #and stop kim dokja from [redacted] #it's not a case of they loop and forget and do it all over again. this is the first time this story has existed #in order for a loop to happen they'd need to re-start/re-enter the star stream #(which i suppose hsy + yjh + biyoo do post-[redacted] but we dunno if they'd remember or not) #but yeah idk #PLEASE TELL ME IF I'M MISSING SOMETHING WHERE IT SAYS OR IMPLIES ORV ITSELF IS ALL ONE BIG LOOP THEY HAVE DONE BEFORE OR DON'T ESCAPE #CAUSE LIKE. THAT'D BE A PRETTY HUGE THING I'M MISSING/FORGETTING AND I WOULD REALLY *REALLY* LIKE TO KNOW

[yesyourstalker]

Octarian superior: ALL RIGHT EVERY ONE UP!! I DON'T CARE IF YOUR HUNG OVER GET UP!!

Inkling caption: we have pain killers and meds for upset stomachs in the medical room.... Get dressed in your uniforms and line up after breakfast. The mission starts today.

Soldiers: *mumbling*.....*moaning*..... Yes sir.......

_______________________________________________

Baja: so I joined after my folks kicked me out they told me either get a job, go to school or join the military...... And here I am today.... What about you Princess why are you here?

Warabi: oh...... uhhhh..... Will my parents cut me off from all their money and they told me to get a job and I did but they also wanted me to join the military or at least have some experience in the military so they sent me on this mission. That's pretty much it

Baja: wow sounds like something my folks would do if they were rich. Hahahahahaha

Warabi:hahahahahahahaha

Baja: You're all right princes- Warabi ......you said you work in the barnacle and diamond mall?.......... I went there once and it was pretty cool..... 5 years ago

Warabi: they remodeled a couple years back. You should see it looks really nice

Baja: hhhmmmnm.... Sure, maybe I can visit you too .......if you're still working there

Warabi: hehe... We'll see........... I like the tattoo. What is it?

Baja: oh it's an anglerfish skeleton. pretty sick right? I got it after a metal show.... Chum slingers.... You heard of it?

Warabi: I've heard of-

Neta:..*UGHH*...* Cough* .......* Cough*......uhhh.... shit.....*sniff*................. morning................. What are you kids talking about?........ Fuck my head...............

Warabi: look who decided to show up... Thought you'd stay hunched over that toilet the whole day.... you could of missed the mission

Baja: hahahahaha You were trashed!!

Neta: shut up!................. Nice Chum slinger tattoo you went to one of their-.... Oh...shit.....

Baja: what?

Neta: nothing, nothing. * Clear throat*........ you like Chum slingers?

Baja: Yeah I was telling Warabi..... I went to one of those shows and......... Holy shit! Are you Neta? You used to play for squid squad! I went to one of your shows! Dude you're amazing!

Neta: hehehe... Good to see a fan! Most people just get mad at me for replacing ikkan

Baja: No are you kidding me? I love ikkan, a big fan of his work but you. You match their energy a lot more when you joined. The way you use slap bass technique for splattack is amazing!!

Neta: hehe well.... hahaha thank you

Warabi: I'm going to go make a phone call

Baja: you think I can get an autograph...

Neta: sure.....

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Neta: Warabi!? Warabi!?...... Hey Where'd you wander off to?

Warabi: hmm oh uh I was just trying to make a phone call........ Trying to get mahi.....

Neta: oh did they answer?

Warabi: no... They probably went to work already.... Fuck I should have saved their number...*sigh*That's my last phone call too.

Baja: you can have my phone calls.

Warabi: you don't need to do that

Baja: No I insist. I have no one important to call anyway.

Warabi: oh thank you

Octarian superior: I NEED EVERYONE'S ATTENTION NOW!

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Inkling caption:.... Okay everyone. Unfortunately this is going to be the last day that you will see all three of us.

Random soldier: thank Cod!!

Other soldiers : *agreeing*

Inkling superior: SHUT UP YOU MORONS!!

Inkling captain: We have to separate the Splatoon in half, and you'll have new leaders. Here they are.....let me introduce you to........ 'the captain'........that's all they wrote down for their name. Strange...but ok ......Colonel Kane, lieutenant Reeves and General Anchor

Koi-koi: Good morning everyone!!

Captain 3 :

Neta: Koi?

Warabi: ikkan's mom!! ??

Koi-koi: It's good to see such young and vibrant faces..... Some familiar too.....*clap*.... Let's cut to the chase. My Splatoon is going to transport the great eel to the underground...... The other Splatoon is going to have to capture it first.

Lieutenant Reeves: everyone who is a fish or urchin comes with Anchor and I. All the cephalopods will be with Kane and The captain.. is that clear?

Soldiers: YES SIR

Koi-koi: Anchor do you have anything to add?

Lieutenant Anchor: No, what about you captain?

Captain 3:

Koi-koi:......... Okay....... not that much of a talker I like that...... all right... It's very stoic......hehehehehe.......EVERYONE TO THEIR STATIONS

Soldiers: YES MA'AM

Baja: so... I guess this is the last time we're going to see each other............ here take this. It's nice seeing you Warabi.

Warabi: oh........Thanks.

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Koi-koi: ohhhhhh my little boys!! My talented step son and my future son in-law!!! It's good to see you two!!!!!! [kisskisskisskiss]

Warabi: Hi Mrs Kane!

Neta: Hey Koi....Merv treating you well?.... marriage is good I hope?

Koi-koi: as well as a 35 year marriage can be........... Speaking of marriage..... Let me see the ring...... ohhhh it's beautiful......*sniff*..my little boy is getting married!!!!... I can't believe this!!..... Not to air out his dirty laundry, but he's.... He's not really one for romance or relationships...... hehehe Don't tell him I told you though hahahah... *Sigh*

Neta: he's romantic when he wants to be

Koi-koi: that's nice.....What about you sweetie pie? I saw you talking to that young man a couple minutes ago

Warabi: uhh no we're just friends... Hahah.... he just gave me his number to talk about stuff..... Music stuff

Koi-koi: Hay! What about you Captain? you have anyone in your life?:

Captain 3:

Koi-koi: ........hmm guess not....... Well.... Back to work boys.... Just check the radio... and the sonar. If you receive a message that they found the eel notify everyone else so they can open the cage.......

Neta: that sounds pretty easy......... Considering that we're doc, do you think we can get off the boat I just need to visit-Hay!

Koi-koi: nu ah-ah! I don't allow smoking in my ship...... You can smoke outside or you can smoke off the boat. Which you are allowed to leave but you have to be back in 1 hour..... We may be family, but on this ship I'm your superior and I'd like to keep it that way.......

Neta: technically I'm a major.... I just didn't get to go to my promotion

Koi-koi: maybe you should get to that... And I'm still a higher rank

_______________________________________________

Warabi: ok.... They better pick up this time.......hey..... Mahi....... MAhi!!!! .....*crying*......You stupid idiot! I've been trying to contact you the past 2 days!!!!....... No, I'm not crying!! You're crying!!!!............ I'm not dead you asshole! Why would you think I would have died!!........ Okay that is true..... Yeah I would do that but I didn't and I'm fine...... What have you been doing?....... Wahoo world??? I want to go to wahoo world!!! .........That's it. When I come back I'm taking you to Wahoo land.......... Yes, I know it's a lot smaller than wahoo world but we've already gone to waterworld many times. All righ? We have better food anyway. Give me a break..............I miss you and I want to spend the whole day with you when I get back........ Tell you everything about this mission....... I also need to tell you about this cute guy that I met............... I don't know. It feels weird cuz he looks like you a little bit... ..... No, he's a lot taller and broader and his fin is a little bit shorter. He also has this really cute goatee............ I don't have a picture of him.... Well how the fuck was I supposed to know I'd run into a cute guy. I don't have a phone either....... Shut up!............. He's a tetra like you......... He doesn't look like you because he's the same species!! I didn't mean it like that!! He looks like you because .... he has .. similar eye shape........ You know what I'll text him when I get back and he'll send a picture. Shut up!!.... Love you bye..... Oh fuck. wait! Put ikkan on the phone......... Hey ikkan..... I'm doing good. You know I'm surviving..... I didn't know your mom was a colonel.... Yeah she's on the boat right now. You want me to get her....... Hello?........ Hello?... He hung up..

Mahi belongs to @fish-at-fish-fish-resort

#yay! agent 3 I mean my bad captain 3 #and ikkan's mom yay #If there is a wahoo world #wahoo land must exist #a lot of squid squad fans don't like neta because he replaced ikkan #squid squad fans would be low key toxic I just know it #Warabi is making friends #of course he would get close to ' alternate timeline' Mahi #colonel Reeves in Colonel Anchor Will be referred to as fishling superior and urchin superior #did Warabi do a microaggression? #ikkan loves his mom he just doesn't want his ear talked off right now #if he want to hear endless yapping he would of called Neta

[riskbvsiness]

// don't mind me, just fixing my tags

#; AOS — the strongest argument for the existence of destiny #; TOS — to boldly go where no one has gone before #; SNW — a whole deck of wild cards #; IC — i don't believe in no win scenarios #; ask memes #; isms #; queue it so #; DASH — two for transport #; pre-AOS — we change or we spend the rest of our lives fighting the same battles #; AU — so you're telling me that there's an alternate timeline where i'm not the captain of this ship #pre-TOS — he's not above relying on charm or even luck

[stormxpadme]

Not me, doing the chapter cover for the Tuesday update and getting stupidly excited once more.

#x men #everything after x2 didn't happen sue me #x men original timeline movies #fanfiction #this is why i love this series part so much #something to be excited about in every single damn chapter #behold the entrance of the queen coming up #waiting for the first hate anons about the faceclaim tho lol #silently points at tags #bc you know nothing except for x1 and x2 exists in this verse #meaning the alternative timeline can fuck off with their emma :-) #and we don't acknowledge wolverine origins in this house either #save for taylor kitsch #there are ok faceclaims in the movies not part of this verse #and there are the ones who make such zero sense #that i don't even want their damn faces in this

[hollow-prey]

The connection I have with Errol is honestly so fascinating to me, it's hard to describe. Because yes while he's an angry cruel unhinged bastard in canon, I feel very close to the version I've imagined/rewritten/developed in my mind through my self ship and my writing. With Errol I can easily envision myself getting close to him, I can see him and Cyr being vulnerable and honest with each other, I can see them bonding and sharing affections and being intimate (in a non-spicy way...usually) together. That kind of emotional closeness and intimacy is not something I feel often with my f/os unless I've been with them a long time, or I'm very attached to them, or, in most cases, both (like Grimm). I mean, it's not surprising considering how much mental and creative effort I've put into my writing and self ship ideas for Cyr and Errol, obviously it's going to result in me being Mega Attached to him and feeling that intense emotional connection with a fictional character, but it still feels like an unironic "you wouldn't get it" situation

#dumb #krimzon reign #when I say 'you (the J.ak community) don't know him like I do' this is what I mean #like I've created this whole alternate timeline/multiverse/whatever in my head where Errol gets all kinds of redemption and development #and it is completely unknown except to one other person and incomprehensible to anyone else #how do I explain how deep his character goes when it only exists in my imagination and literally no one else would get it #ellie rambles

[flickering-nightfall]

could you tell us more about the gift? :D

Oh, sure! I can stick some of my Gift drawing backlog in here while I'm at it~

The Gift is an unruly creature whose presence begets chewed wires and headaches wherever it goes. It's spunky and mischievous with a penchant for violence, and it revels in its job: to kill as much rot as it can without getting eaten by it first.

It exists only in an alternate universe where Pebbles is stopped before Moon collapses. Moon is damaged but alive - and after many long talks, Pebbles begrudgingly allows the other iterators to assist him with his rot.

The Gift's campaign uses the points system with an emphasis on rot kills. The gross cyan mixture on its spears is - via interacting with their stomach, in true slugcat fashion - weird altered barf. On contact with targets, "immunospears" explode like a spore puff and damage everything Five Pebbles related within their radius. This means you can kill even Mother Long Legs with good aim and enough food pips. Unfortunately, this does also kill neurons and inspectors, so the Gift has to be a little bit careful on its path of carnage.

Notably, Gift's goal isn't to eradicate the rot, just to help control it. If there's a way to cure the rot, this one silly creature can't do it for a whole superstructure.

It's been specially made (with love and care) by the other iterators so that Pebbles' inspectors don't target it. This is also why Pebbles won't murder it unless it shows direct violence towards him. His local group worked hard on this wretched being and they'll be very upset with him if he kills it. Plus it is actually good at its intended purpose. He just has to count the days until it keels over on its own.

Gift probably has some scavenger in there somewhere too, and maybe a bit of lizard. They're strong, but outside of fighting, I wouldn't say they're the smartest slugcat...

I've also played with the possibility of Arti and Spearmaster existing in this timeline. It ends as well as you'd expect. (I thought it would be funny if you could team up with Spearmaster and piggyback them around as your living spear generator though.)

There's some other stuff to the idea, such as a repeatable campaign where your strength and food requirement goes up every time you replay it, and a random pool of pearls you spawn with addressed to either Moon or Pebbles. I might go ahead and post that old campaign writeup still, so there'll be more in that!

#I feel like some of this would be a headache to code in an actual campaign #But I would have no way of knowing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #flickerdoodles #rain world #art #ask #anon #text #long post #the gift #ocs

[feyascorner]

Alternate timeline for TFBU where Astarion goes to the underdark with the other vampire spawns? He still leaves the group permanently after you kill Cazador without giving him the chance to choose to do it himself, but he never actually comes back.

He spends decades—maybe even a century in the underdark while you spend the rest of your days with that day haunting your dreams. You never pick up your lyre again, you eventually stop coming back to the house to your other companions at all, and you become a ghost of the city. While everyone moves on, you're just numbly existing in a time that only freezes for you.

But you still make sure to visit Astarion’s grave every few days. You don't know how you managed to find it, but you'd recognize the name carved into the headstone anywhere. And every day you leave flowers, and it’s the most you can do to cope with the unresolved feelings he’s left behind.

He spends years with the other spawn, mending his relationship with some of them but finds himself constantly thinking back on the day he left you. The day he nearly killed you. He's not sure how long it takes, but eventually, after so many years, he begins to understand. Living without Cazador’s dreadful presence makes him realize that perhaps power wasn't what he needed along—he only wanted to be free to live. This, of course, makes him realize how much in the wrong he was for reacting that way toward you, and he finally ventures back into the city.

But when he gets there, you're no longer there.

Too much time has passed. Too much of which he hadn't even noticed, because the sun doesn't rise in the underdark.

He finds his own grave where there’s a pile of dead flowers surrounding all parts of it. And despite how old it is, his tombstone is far cleaner than he remembers it, as if someone was taking care of it until recently. Carefully. Lovingly.

Then, he sees it. And he cannot deny how his stomach drops.

Your own headstone, on the opposite side of the graveyard.

Yours, is stuffed in the way corner, where nobody but the ones who actively search for it would ever notice its presence. It lies under a tree, and he doesn't have the heart to even read the years etched into stone, because he fears knowing how much time he wasted in just being able to understand you. To understand you'd done what you thought to be best for him.

He places a hand on the top of the stone. You feel cold now. No longer can he feel the warmth of your skin, see the gleam of your eyes, hold your soft hand against his face. No longer can he do what he came here to do, if you'd pity him enough to allow it. Instead, all he can do is stare at a stone with your name on it.

This is not you. You are not here anymore.

He rather wishes he'd just died the day of the ritual in Cazador’s plans. He would've died knowing how your warmth felt, but now—all he has is the memories of someone he threw away.

If there’s truly any merciful god left in this world, he's sure they'd kill him now.

#posting drafts because I have nothing else #tfbu #astarion ancunin #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate astarion #bg3 astarion #astarion x tav #astarion x reader #astarion #bg3 x reader #fluff #bg3 #angst

[absolutely-esme]

About Dan

Something I would like to see addressed more in Danny Phantom fanworks, especially crossovers, is that Dan is not Danny.

Just to be clear, I don't mean that in a "Danny didn't take that path and didn't become that person" way. A lot of stories tend to refer to Dan as an evil version of Danny from another timeline, but that's not what he is.

Dan is not Danny.

He never was.

Dan is not Danny's evil future self. He is not Danny from an alternate Timeline. He is not Danny at all.

In Dan's timeline, Danny and Vlad both got split in half. The ghost halves of both merged and became Dan. Dan is a new entity who was made from half of Danny and half of Vlad. He is not a version of Danny any more than he's a version of Vlad.

Dan actually has more in common with Vlad both physically and personality-wise. Physically, Dan has Danny's hair color and face shape, but he has Vlad's eye color, skin tone, fangs, ear shape, and hair texture. Personality wise, Dan got Vlad's cruelty, ego, lack of empathy, some of his manipulative tendencies, and his flair for the dramatic. He got Danny's impulsiveness.

There are similarities between Dan's origin and the "evil future self from a bad future" plot that is so common in superhero stories, but that's not what Dan is. Danny doesn't exist in Dan's timeline. His human half is dead and his ghost half was part of the materials used to make Dan. This is spelled out pretty explicitly in the show. The Boo-merang doesn't track Dan because it's locked onto Danny's ecto-signature, not Dan's.

You could compare Dan to an offspring of Danny and Vlad. It would certainly be closer than calling him a version of Danny. That said, I think the better description would be that, whatever Frankenstein's creation was to the people whose graves Frankenstein robbed to make him, that's what Dan is to Danny and Vlad.

Danny's fears regarding the Dan timeline would not be about his own potential to go bad, but about Danny's friends and family dying, Danny being left at Vlad's mercy with no support system, and Vlad experimenting on him in a way that results in Danny's death and Dan's creation, and Danny ending up in a bad enough state of mind to let him do it.

I noticed that a lot of Danny Phantom and DC crossovers especially tend to simplify Dan into an alternate Danny who had a villain arc, and it occurred to me that a lot of people approaching from the DC side of things probably never watched The Ultimate Enemy and don't know the actual story behind Dan.

It's really too bad, because I think there's a lot to be done with it.

#danny phantom #dpxdc #dcxdp #Dan #TUE #the ultimate enemy

[dcxdpdabbles]

DCxDP fanfic idea: Timeline Prevention Squad

Clockwork is trying to catch up on paperwork because even the gods had to do tedious work. He is flipping through pages and pages of time concerning reports when he stumbles across a particular request stuck between three old Speed Force crimes reports.

A request from Mordecai Wayne asking the time accident for help to his original time. It was filed through a ritual of one of his lost temples.

Clockwork gapes at it, suddenly realizing he forgot to follow up and had left Mordecai Wayne - better known as Bruce Wayne - to fling around the timeline.

Clockwork, when he was young, had allowed humans to set up temples and given them direct runes to send their burned parchment to him for requests. Initially, he designed the request ritual to enable humans to help or prepare for future disasters.

Give them a little warning in the form of deviation.

Then, humans turned it into trying to control the future. Or to change what had happened by having altered the past. They started thinking he would move the times to fit their desired outcome.

Tried to offer people sacrifices when he ignored the requests. Clockwork can watch the timelines like an observer over a parade, but humans put on the parade at the end of the day.

It was their free will that gave him a show. And it was this free will that cost lives that shouldn't have ended because of other humans' greed.

He closed his temples, scrambled his runes, and let his temples rot.

Clockwork thought he got them all, but he obviously left behind some crumbs of his old worshipers.

Those crumbs were enough for Bruce Wayne to painfully piece together and redo his ritual to send him a request for aid in his time placement.

He hadn't even read it, having flung it into one of his filing cabinets to look over later and... didn't.

Clockwork snapped his fingers, pulling up Bruce's timeline. He winces when he sees it too late; it's past the point, but luckily, Tim Drake pulled him out and brought him home.

People don't know that Clockwork can't undo timelines- he just makes new ones that stream off his intervention.

The most recent time he stepped in was with Danny Fenton in a universe created due to Merlin asking Clockwork to save his lover Arthur, and thus, certain events did not come to pass- like the finding of Gotham.

He rescued Daniel's family by freezing them just as the explosion happened, allowing the young hero to think his dark future had never come to pass. That was not true.

There is still a world where Daniel's family died in the explosion, and it existed right allowed side the one that they didn't.

He could do the same and step in to prevent Bruce from ever getting hit with the Omega Beams, but that would create six different timelines, which would be a pain to file for. Daniel was only two, and he-

Wait. Daniel.

That's what he could do!

He couldn't make up the fact Bruce Wayne got lost in time and asked for aid. But he could send compensation in the form of one eager gooddoer who would help him in his ultimate goal.

Make Gotham safe.

And who better than a child with a strong sense of justice and the power of a minor God?

After all, Bruce's request wasn't to get back home. He thought he was going to die from the overlapping beams. Bruce thought there was no more hope for him.

Instead his request was

Please allow me to ensure my kids are okay and will be alright once I pass.

He picks up his sticky notes, scrambling a quick message to Danny. He pauses momentarily, wondering if he should admit his mistake, but that would.....ruin his reputation.

He chooses to lie by omission.

Dear Daniel,

Please come to my Keep. I have a mission that requires your assistance in an alternate timeline.

You must help keep Bruce Wayne and his kids safe. Whatever the costs are, as is his request for aid from a higher being.

Daniel couldn't resist a mission that sounded like he was a hero, and it didn't mention who the aid was requested.

To ensure Daniel will never learn he will....tell him that the Waynes could never see Phantom or......or he be trapped there forever!

Yes perfect.

A few seconds after sending the sticky note through a portal, Clockwork senses Daniel pick up the note.

And suddenly, he sees events flash before his eyes. Scenes of Daniel following Gotham's hero. Rescuing them from their worst rouges while Bats. Circling through the nights to stop the more minor pity crimes that they were too exhausted to handle.

Enrolling into Gotham Academy to ensure their civilian safety and status. Getting close to the younger Wayne and even obtaining an internship with Tim Drake to help him at WE.

Then, Daniel gets more substantial and robust due to all the deaths that drenched Gotham. It would be just like a Kryptonian on a planet of a Blue Sun.

It would make him more robust than a yellow sun, and Daniel would flush there!

Clockwork smiles as the visions end. He did a great thing making this suggestion. Phantom will be fantastic in Gotham!

Now, hopefully, that pesky free will won't ruin his plan-

A vision of Daniel being worshiped as a Phantom as different Gotham natives start to believe him, and an unlock god appears.

Clockwork winces, but he figures if no human ever sees Phantom unless he is there for righteous heroism, he can understand why they were confused.

Which isn't so bad-

A different version of Daniel possibly appears in the future. This one shows Daniel in a bright red suit at WE with Tim Drake hyperventilating not too far away. Apparently, he suspects Daniel of being Phantom, but his hormones are getting in the way of his logical thought.

This wasn't so bad as it wasn't a cult. It was just risking Daniel's secret identity. Then again, he could honeypot his way out-

A different future appears. One where Daniel accidentally convinces the Bat children that he's stalking their Father. They think Daniel fancies Bruce Wayne, despite the alarming age difference, and try to block him at every turn.

This is okay; there were different outcomes, but nothing bad.

And it's already been done. He can't change the past, not without making more timelines.

He sighs.

Hopefully, this will all work out. Somehow.

#dcxdpdabbles #dc x dp crossover #Timeline Prevention Squad #Clockwork send Danny on a fake mission #Danny takes it very seriously #a whole new dimension for him to play in? #yes please #There could be so many outcomes that Clockwork can see #some are crazy

[bumblebeeenby]

hey um sorry we left your boyfriend in an abandoned lighthouse. yeah, he risked his life to help total strangers save the world from a guy with godlike reality-bending powers in an alternate timeline. we don't like to think about it because it's too traumatic so we doomed him to a life of permanent isolation, ignorant of what could have been. yeah we didn't tell his brother he exists. sorry.

#ninjago

[k-looking-glass-house]

Sam's new "rabbit" year sale!!! Alternate outfit~ Crewel Divus

Did you know did you knowwww??? If we took a special timeline your dear alchemy teacher is a rabbit in the chinese zodiac!!!

....A rabbit him.....no rabbit fur definitely!!

Sooooo a special outfit for him!

"How old am I...?..... Are we going to talk about my hair again??"

"New year, new me!....more like new wardrobe darling~"

"....Don't smoke...Be a good boy/girl!"

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Asset game extract from @alchemivich and twst game

“Twisted Wonderland” concept belongs to Yana Toboso

Divus Crewel "fire rabbit" alternate outfit concept done by me

The actual kimono design exists, I took some big inspiration from them!

-> You can find the special photoshoot here

#divus crewel #twst divus #twisted wonderland #twst #ktwstedit

[comicaurora]

hey red !! have you seen the news about the batman beyond film that got turned down by warner bros? what are your thoughts on it?

Hmmm. Mixed?

Don't get me wrong, Batman Beyond rules and I'd love to see a crisp high-def installment that's more of what I liked. But in my experience, the longer any given superhero property goes on, the bigger chance it has of going bad just because the concepts get fatigued or the writing team changes or it gets handed off to someone who doesn't understand what makes it work or someone upends the entire status quo because they're bored. Batman Beyond is an incredibly solid show, but it's off in its own little 90s bubble, and aside from some tie-in comics (which are nowhere near as consistently good) it hasn't had a chance to be fucked with.

Not to mention the fact that the batman canon has changed significantly since Beyond was written. Damien Wayne, for instance, didn't exist at the time, and the DCAU is heavily implied to have no Jason Todd. This further isolates Beyond safely in its own little timeline as an implied alternate future, but some of the comics have tried to loop it back into the Main Canon they're currently going with - hucking Tim Drake into the future to wear the suit, or bringing in an Evil Grown-Up Damien running the League of Assassins. And like every attempt DC has ever made to unify their continuity, it's messed up every timeline involved.

Also… they'd have to do it without Kevin Conroy. So that'd automatically make it not as good.

#asks #not aurora

[therainscene]

There upon a rainbow is the answer to a Neverending Story: Will's time-travelling coming-of-age

[Spoilers for The First Shadow ahead, though they don't begin until after the cut. And obligatory disclaimer that I haven't seen the play for myself yet.]

Will Byers is a character haunted by his past.

I mean, obviously, right? After the awful events of S1, Zombie Boy finds himself getting literally hunted down by a giant metaphor for trauma; by S3, when all his friends are starting to grow up, Will is still clinging pathetically to childhood escapism while that trauma metaphor continues to bristle under his skin.

That's not to say that Will's refusal to conform to other people's ideas of what growing up means isn't one of his strengths -- but there's a difference between that and refusing to grow up at all, and Will is very much digging his stubborn little heels in when it comes to the inevitable changes of adolescence.

Because Will is also a character haunted by his future.

As a gay boy growing up in an era that despises gay men, Will's fate has been quite clearly spelled out for him: if he's lucky, he'll just be looked down upon as a pervert; if he's not, he'll get murdered or become an AIDS statistic.

It's hard not to be a late bloomer when you know how quickly undesirable flowers get pruned.

So the prickling at the back of his neck doesn't just flare up in moments that remind him of his past, but also in moments that remind him of his future.

The dark intimacy of the cinema and the sweltering eroticism of the sauna remind him that his feelings for Mike are developing into something new and terrifying...

...while Milevn's heteronormative antics remind him of how unlikely it is that Mike would ever want that sort of future with him anyway.

Even his debriefing on the Mind Flayer's return hints towards his struggle to accept this truth about himself:

Will describes his encounters with the Mind Flayer as like being frozen in place, and I think that applies to his timeline too: the Shadow surrounds him on both sides, boxing him in, preventing him from moving forward or backward.

The only temporal direction open to him is sideways... towards that equally frozen realm the Shadow came from in the first place.

And he's not the only one in this predicament.

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Like Will, Henry was trapped in an alternate dimension as a child, and like Will, the Mind Flayer followed him home and possessed him -- allowing past and future to torment his adolescent self in tandem.

Brenner pressures and manipulates young Henry to give in to the dark urges demanded by the Shadow, sending him helplessly down the path towards becoming Vecna.

It's the classic self-fulfilling prophecy that dooms many a "difficult" (traumatized/neurodivergent/queer) child whom the adults in their life have no idea how to handle: Henry is deemed too broken to be worth treating with patience or compassion, and when the abuse finally does break him... well, that's just proof they were right about him all along.

The Shadow possessing Henry in 1959 somehow presents not as a formless cloud of particles, but as the spider monster he himself would shape twenty years later...

...and I think this is evidence of a predestination loop.

El didn't just banish Henry to Dimension X, but sent him back in time, allowing him to create the same monster that possessed him as a child. The Shadow was never an alien -- it was a manifestation of Henry's worst possible future, bootstrapped into existence by Brenner's meddling.

Note that this means El is also trapped in a self-creating loop:

If El hadn't used her powers to send Henry to Dimension X, then he never would have been able to sabotage his own childhood... which means Henry might never have become an asset to Brenner, which means Terry would never have been injected with Henry's blood, which means El would never have been born with powers.

To be clear: I'm not saying that El or Henry brought this on themselves.

This is all an allegory for the cycle of abuse, so the self-sabotage going on here isn't about these characters literally being to blame for what Brenner did to them, but about how they self-blame: internalizing the abuse and perpetuating harm in turn.

Let's return to Will and consider one of the show's biggest mysteries: why was he taken in S1?

The play heavily implies that Henry's powers were acquired in Dimension X, and outright states that the lab kids' powers came from Henry's blood, so it's unlikely that Will was born with powers.

Maybe Will was just in the wrong place at the wrong time... but then why was it so important that this random kid be spared from Vecna's plans to kill everyone in S2? Perhaps something happened during his week in the Upside Down that made him an asset to Vecna... but given the similarities between Will's connection to the Mind Flayer and Henry's, I propose an alternative explanation:

Whatever made Will a target in S1 is something that won't happen until S5. Because Will is also trapped in a predestination loop.

If predestination loops are what happens when a self-sabotager is linked to the supernatural, then frankly it's almost impossible for Will not to be trapped in one.

Every season since returning from the Upside Down, Will has sacrificed himself to help his friends fight the horrors... and all three of those sacrifices have been deeply entwined with his feelings for Mike.

In S2, Will was willing to die to save his friends from the Mind Flayer after Mike's heartfelt monologue broke through his possession.

In S3, Will bottled up all the pain he was feeling after his fight with Mike and refused to address it again once he realized the party was going to need his help with the Mind Flayer.

And in S4, Will pretended that his painting was actually from El in an attempt to support Mike -- and save the day once it started to look like a S2-esque monologue from Mike was needed once again.

Over and over, Will takes the love he feels for another boy and channels it into The Greater Heteronormative Good as though he's trying to atone for something. But the older he gets, the less effective that becomes:

S2's sacrifice was crucial to saving the day.

S3's sacrifice was helpful... but like... his role was to be a glorified Geiger counter; he didn't exactly need to shut down emotionally to pull it off.

S4's sacrifice did fuck all to save the day, and he definitely didn't need to meddle with Milevn's relationship by injecting a lie into it -- the painting could have passed as platonic if he wanted.

If this pattern holds, then we can expect Will's next move to start causing harm.

I usually interpret Troy's above line as Vecna foreshadowing... but what if it's actually foreshadowing how Will's nearly-adult self is going to start the chain of events that lead to 12 year-old Will's kidnapping?

Homophobes often accuse gay men of being a threat to children, which is rich because homophobia is the actual threat to children. In his desperate efforts to suppress the desires that make him a target to homophobes, all Will has accomplished is to hurt himself on homophobes' behalf. He's become a homophobe.

And thus he dooms an innocent child to needless horrors.

It's tempting to believe that Will's S5 coming-of-age is going to involve breaking the loop and undoing all the horrible things that happened...

...But I don't think this is likely to be the sort of time travel story in which the past can be undone. For one thing, Will breaking the loop would also undo the entirety of Stranger Things; for another, this show isn't really about defeating abuse so much as surviving it.

My bet would be that Will can't destroy the loop any more than he can destroy 80s homophobia. But once the loop completes, he'll also be free to leave it in the past and take a brave step into the future -- one in which he fully accepts his right to be in love and lust with a boy.

As scary as that future is...

...he might be pleasantly surprised by what he finds there.

#stranger things #the first shadow #time travel #byler #willel #will byers #henry creel #el hopper #mike wheeler #mind flayer #my analysis #tfs spoilers