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jellywizard01 · 2 months

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redraw of this post

i am re obsessed with tbs and the old line up was bothering me.......

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monster-gut · 9 months

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❗️Spoilers for the bright sessions (safe house part 1)❗️

Been obsessed with this podcast for awhile now, literally can't get enough of it

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the-mechanisms-system · 1 year

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I need you all to know that Damien from The Bright Sessions is definitely cluster B (ASPD and/or NPD) and YES he a villain and all the characters hate him but I love him sm he deserved better and at least to me hes a very sympathetic villain (as in I sympathize with him, not that he is sympathetic to others).

I really need someone to get what I'm talking about here bc I personally think hes a really great character and good cluster B rep, esp because he DOES have those toxic traits and he isnt always (or even usually) trying to be a good person but you get a glimpse into his motivations and desires and feelings and GOD I feel things ab him.

Anyway. I am so normal about this.

#the bright sessions #actually npd #npd in media #npd rep #cluster b #actually cluster b #cluster b rep #the bright sessions damien #damien tbs

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itrin · 1 year

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many worlds like this one

(concept taken from splitting-infinities's post)

There are many worlds like this one.

Robert is small enough that he has to shift onto his knees on his chair to lean over the dining table. There's a cake in front of him, big and round with white icing he helped slather on. There's rainbow sprinkles and Skittles and M&Ms he'd slapped to the side, and it took the better half of the evening to make, mostly because he wouldn't stop getting in the way, so impatient he was.

There are seven candles on top, burning. His parents were singing Happy Birthday, and he was just old enough now to feel embarrassed at the attention. He sat through it though, and then finally Robert leaned forward until his face hovered over the burning candles, birthday hat sitting askew on top of his head, and closed his eyes to make a wish. And then he took a long, deep breath and blew his candles out.

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Robert was old enough to hate being sung Happy Birthday to -- it was awkward and he never knows where to look. Robert was still young enough to want it anyways. His parents started singing, and stopped when Robert cringed, then started again, then stopped again until the conflict made them start coughing. Then they stopped coughing because Robert didn't want them to.

Robert, sat in his chair, and leaned over the dining table to see his cake with thirteen burning candles on top. It looked just like any other cake he wanted. Robert glanced up at his parents, and they stared back blank-faced. Robert brought his face close to the flames, closed his eyes, inhaled and blew.

There are many worlds like this one.

Robert is in a lavish penthouse suite, all greys and neutrals and off-whites and egg-whites with floor-to-ceiling windows. Someone, probably the owner, was throwing a birthday party and so was Robert, in a way. He had a slice of cake and couldn't find a candle, but there's a group of people that managed to surround him, and they wished him a "happy birthday!" And they started singing Happy Birthday just for him but it was discordant and they quickly grew confused as to who he was, why he was there, why they were.

Robert made a hasty exit and realized that drunk people were...messy. He stepped outside onto the street, and it wasn't busy, no crowds. He started making his way back to his equally lavish, upscale apartment, closing his eyes for a moment before taking a deep breath and blowing it out.

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Damien sat on a sandy L.A. shore looking out over gentles waves. He had his knees drawn up to his chin. He thought--

Damien was in a car, tearing down the road with L.A. at his back. He thought he could actually spend this day with them, but he couldn't. Turns out he can't. He squeezes his eyes shut against it, briefly because he's going 100 miles per hour. He inhales, he exhales.

There are many worlds like this one.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Damien-" that's not right.

Someone is throwing a party in a bar to celebrate, and it's a big chorus of happy laughter and awkward singing and of course the guy is feeling embarrassed at the attention, he doesn't know where to look. It's so easy to pretend, though, just for today, for right now. Damien sits at the edge of group. He doesn't drink but he has a glass in hand that he clutches for dear life, and his friends -- this guy's friends -- are singing to him.

Then one of the girls, also at the edges, turns to him, face beaming and sings Happy Birthday to him, and it's nice until she trails off like she doesn't know why she started singing to a stranger. Damien knows his cue to leave, and he wants the bartender and the girl to not remember him. He steps outside, the streetlight blinding compared to the dimness of the pub; the flinches his eyes closed against it, and lets out a shaky breath around his constricting chest.

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Damien is on the open road at three in the morning, and the ground is nothing but fluid blackness under his tires. There's peace here, a peculiar feeling of timelessness, like he's detached from reality and floating away into the vacuum of space. Nothing matters, nothing exists, except his foot on the accelerator and the horizon in front of him.

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Damien is drunk on a kitchen floor, calling a number on his phone.

There are many worlds like this one.

Damien is sitting at the kitchen table in Somewhere, USA in the good ol' state of Fuck All. The days have been slipping by and he feels timeless in the what's-even-the-fucking-point way. Damien, nevertheless, still knows what day it is, and he wasn't going to do this, he wasn't -- but he passed by a small, round, stupid vanilla cake.

Damien leans over the table until his face hovered above the flame of the single candle burning on top of the cake. Damien can't help but think it's missing essential candy pieces slapped onto it, and it was so ridiculously expensive that he may as well just make one himself next year. Boxed cake mix and sprinkles, it's not hard -- he did it on his own for his fourteenth. It's not hard.

Damien is too old and not nearly pathetic enough to sing Happy Birthday to himself, so he doesn't. He does, though, close his eyes, takes a deep breath, and blows out his candle.

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#happy birthday damien #its not even his birthday why am i like this #happy late birthday bc I got inspired tonight #damien gorham #the bright sessions damien #the bright sessions #tbs damien #long post

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spacizia · 9 months

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I haven't listened to TBS in like. almost a year, but I had to draw this. it was my calling

#fanart #the bright sessions #damien gorham #mark bryant #text meme #i have an idea for another one.. maybe ill draw it later #tbs #he 100% lied through his teeth on that test

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misterpoofofficial · 9 months

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miss this pathetic man

#damien #damien gorham #mark bryant #tbs #the bright sessions #poofy doodles

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taste-obsession · 4 months

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Heartb r e a k

Damien is just so... He's just so tragic and wonderful. I love him so much. He means everything to me.

Mixed Media (Acrylic + Ink).

#mine #the bright sessions #tbs fanart #the bright sessions fanart #traditional art #mixed media #acrylic painting #acrylic and ink #damien gorham #first finished piece of 2024!!

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grendel-menz · 2 years

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the bright sessions

#tbs #the bright sessions #damien tbs #damien #dr bright #joan bright #robert gorham #cw needles #podcast #podcasts #fan art

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thelaurenshippen · 11 months

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oh! also! while we're on the subject of pride month and Damien and A Neon Darkness, that character of course would be NOTHING without the incredible voice behind him - Charlie Ian. the audiobook of AND is sO GOOD CHARLIE IS SO GOOD and also Charlie is a trans woman and uses she/her pronouns and she and I both thought people might like to know that!!!!

#the bright sessions #damien #and yes she was cool with me making this post!!!!!#i also told her that - like - through the years we had sO many lesbians email and be like #'i'm a lesbian but damien does something to me'#and i'm just saying....the lesbians knew #they knew they were listening to a sexy woman #incredible foresight on their part tbqh #charlie ian #and YES she's still going by charlie!#she's fully out now and when she saw my AND post she texted me and was like 'you should a make a post that's like btw charlie's a woman now #so that's this post! she's not really on social media she never has been #so if you talk about charlie and her amazing work she/her is the way to go!#obviously all my old posts talking about her will be using the wrong pronouns #so this is an update on that

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awnrii · 1 year

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ive been missing him lately I need him GONE! anyways damien gorham timeline

#awnrii art #tbs #the bright sessions #damien gorham #damien tbs #I hate this guy (he’s my all time blorbo)#he makes me sick

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0-patches-0 · 5 months

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Drew this a while ago for a friend and was reminded of it because I'm trying to draw them again but drawing ladies is so much easier and nicer

also I wanted to draw some of that toxic yuri I keep hearing about

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jellywizard01 · 2 years

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full lineup

from left to right :

mark , joan , chloe , sam , adam , caleb , rose , damien

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jadlz · 6 months

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sorry but mark being the person who teaches damien how to care for others again after a lifetime of viewing them as essentially puppets is so powerful . Intentional on marks part or not he literally ripped open damiens ribcage and pulled out his beating heart ! Its no wonder damien is so obsessed w mark like he literally taught him what it meant to love . After mark we see damien open up to people like rose enough to actually make a friend and (in SFP) he talks abt how he regrets everything and . Man.

#i dont have a thoughtful way to end this post im just thinking about the power of love #the bright sessions #damien gorham #mark bryant #damiark #tbs

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itrin · 2 years

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damien gorham/owen green

[cracks knuckles and digs out a pan and a spoon] fine, I guess I'll have to feed myself.

my ideas about damien gorham/owen thompson, a (massively) rarepair ship:

I haven't listened to nor do I know anything about the AM Archives so disclaimer

criminal bf with upstanding citizen bf is something I die for

Damien's grumpy, wet racoon vibe paired with owen's golden retriever energy is so, so compelling to me

like I love damien with all my heart but this man is a pathetic and wet and Owen is better is most aspects and the two of them together fulfills my heart

this grumpy, growling man with [insert negative integer] social skills, no interpersonal skills, and no good and healthy relationships to speak of ever paired with a chipper, financially stable man who is used to atypical people and situations , is emotionally stable and embedded in a shitty institution but tries his best to be as morally upstanding as he can -- good food to consume

ik in the beginning damien despised agent green for his history with Joan but I take that to be more childish possession than any actual feelings of attraction towards Joan, like "this is my friend u cant be friends with them" elementary playground type beat and ik owen was/is in love with joan but we can just ignore that here, does not register and is not perceived thank u very much

,maybe its ooc bc tbs is not fresh in my memory

okay so aus i've fumbled around with in my head (long paragraphs ahead):

after owen gives damien money on the street and damien finds out from Wadsworth that green actually lives on the other side of the city (damien interacting with Owen here and all of damien's interactions with Wadsworth is A+ imo), damien decides to stalk green bc he hates being lied to, hates not knowing shit and being outta the loop and also he's very curious. so he stalks him and then he blinks and suddenly greens gone?? just disappeared and Damien's glancing around trying to spot him and then turns around and Owen is fucking standing right behind him -- the professional creep got out-stalked by a golden retriever and Owen, in a gesture of goodwill, invites damien into his house for tea ig?? damien does bc he's deeply unsettled that someone got the drop on him without being atypical, and there's a violin in owen's house bc he's been meaning to learn and damien, for reasons unknown to him, offers to teach him and Owen readily accepts bc its a chance for damien to learn how to interact positively with human beings and Wadsworth is aware and likes having green keep a physical eye on damien. ANYWAYS DAMIEN TEACHES OWEN AND HE HAS TO STAND ON HIS TIPTOES BEHIND HIM (damien gives off short guy energy I dont make the rules) AND HE LEANS AGAINST HIS BACK AND HOLDS HIS FINGERS OVER OWEN'S TO GUIDE HIM INTO THE PROPER POSITION!!!!!!!! screaming its domestic and cute and they're both so dismayed like "im falling for him?? of all people...okay ig... :/"

phone conversation au??? Wadsworth passes off the duty of calling damien in the morning onto Owen and at first its short calls to receive updates and keep proper tabs but eventually its grows longer and damien tells him stuff like what he's cooking, how he learned to cook, his recipes and how he learned them, and Owen describes his day-to-day paperwork and stuff, his own house, what he's cooking and they both complain about stuff like laundry piles or the streaks left when u mop the floors (its initiated either by damien complaining and grumbling about something trivial and mundane or Owen hearing the sounds of sizzling and asking what's cooking); eventually it gets into deeper stuff like respective childhood trauma and each of them feels seen and heard by the other and idk they meet up once in a while for "dates" that they dont admit are dates. Wadsworth gets suspicious, Joan bright gets suspicious, mark gets suspicious -- idk but conflict comes and tests their new and unexpected relationship and either it breaks or it holds (fingers crossed for the latter)

damien having a panic attack bc he saw or thought he saw his Parents on the sidewalk and collapses shaking against green's door or just randomly on green's route; OR damien crawls bleeding into green's house thru a window he jimmied open after getting beat up yet again in a manipulation-gone-wrong-moment but either way Owen is left with the task of taking care of a physically and mentally vulnerable damien, a damien with no defences, no walls, just raw emotion and honesty and this inside peek into damien gorham is enough for Owen to ~fall in love~

damien is kept by the AM like how mark was, to be experimented on and he either guilts or goads Owen into delivering some news from the outside and this leads to them talking some more about random stuff until eventually Owen falls in love, recruits someone (mark or sam idk probs mark) to break damien out and idk they run away together, forever moving on the run from the AM and wadsworth and its what damien is used to?? ig he finally gets the roadtrip of his dreams?? owen insists on visiting the giant ball of twine

id say this last au is purely self-indulgent but literally everything in this post is anyways damien got the powers beaten outta him and after some lost meandering, eventually sets up a house for himself somewhere remote-ish (maybe its ithaca, maybe somewhere else) and ends up taking in a rejected atypical kid on the run, abandoned by their family, and damein knows all about being alone as a child so yeah he takes 'em in. and then another kid comes, same circumstances, rejected by family, friends and the world and hurting and alone. then another kid, and another until eventually its like the Gorham Home for Runaway Atypical Kids Or Something — he has his hands and house full of kids that need a home and someone to understand them and accept them for whoever and whatever they are no judgement. idk specifically how it'll work but green reaches out and develops a kind of professional "business" relationships where kids are exchanged between the Gorham Home and the AM (like if the AM cant "handle" or if the kids wants institutional help idk but Damien absolutely does not give them up unless the kid themselves want to leave) and ofc damien calls during owen's off-hours bc he wants to check up on the kids he sends him and does not give a shit about his hours so damien has to listen to background noise of Owen cooking or doing laundry (spicy: damien calls when owen's masturbating and there's a lotta ways this scene could go down) and yeah

i have so many thoughts about them...and so should everyone im clinging onto them like a raft

#the bright sessions #damien gorham #agent green #Robert gorham #tbs #rarepair #damien/owen #au idea #owen thompson #the bright sessions damien #the bright sessions owen

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femmehysteria · 4 months

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I'm doing a series of "Best Character Named X" polls where all the characters have the same first name but are from completely different media, feel free to send in name/charcacter suggestions, I'm posting one poll a day, check my pinned post for active polls

#best character named x #poll #poll game #damian wayne #damien tbs #damian leigh #damian desmond #damian of mensis #damien darhk #batman #the bright sessions #spy x family #bloodborne #arrowverse #mean girls

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nebou · 9 months

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it belongs to Him

#tbs #damien gorham #raccoon doodles #got i want it so bad #the bright sessions

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