#this probably makes less sense like this

[leroibobo]

some of the architecture of zinder, niger. zinder rose from a small hausa village into an important center of trans-saharan trade during the 18th century, culmunating in it becoming the capital of the sultanate of damagaram in 1736.

#niger #hausa #architecture #my posts #in case you didn't know: hausa is a part of the afroasiatic language family (same family semitic langs are in) #there's a lot of theories about how exactly afroasiatic speakers spread & there isn't a consistent cultural/migration pattern #like w/ indo-euro languages #but hasua is probably to arabic/hebrew/syriac what english is to bengali or assamese (except even less similar) #i can pick out some hausa words myself ('sama' is 'heaven') but tbh im not sure how many are loadwords from arabic (since they use #'dunya' for 'world' for example). most hausa are muslim so itd make sense if they took some arabic words

[quadrantadvisor]

Alright new Jason Todd headcanons in a dpxdc setting:

Danny is a "liminal" ghost, rather than a "half" ghost. He's alive and dead at the same time. (He's like Jesus Christ (in the church denomination I grew up in), fully ghost and fully human.) Danny, in human form, can go through a ghost shield, because he IS a living human.

Jason, however, is a reanimated corpse. He isn't a ghost, wouldn't have a ghost core, etc, he has a normal human system that runs ON ectoplasm. Jason CANNOT go through a ghost shield, because he is always an ectoplasmic entity. Danny can go through the Fenton Ghost Catcher and be split into a ghost and a human; if Jason went through the ghost catcher, he would straight up die.

(For my purposes I'm gonna say that Jason became an ectoplasmic entity upon his resurrection, but wasn't very stable. Dunking in the Lazarus pit stabilized his system but also poisoned his ectoplasm.)

I do think that Jason could learn certain ghost abilities if he learned to harness his ectoplasm, especially if they detoxed him off the Lazarus waters. He's probably already enhancing his stealth and strength in ways he hasn't really noticed. I think he's held back by the amount of physical matter he's lugging around, so maybe he couldn't fly, but I'm imagining temporary invisibility, or intagibility of like, a limb at a time. Maybe he can't walk through walls, but in a fight he can dodge by instinctively making the targeted part of his body intangible.

#i saw someone call jason a 'revenant' in a fanfic once and that is juicy as hell so I'm stealing that- that's what he is in this au #Jason's ectoplasm does react to other ectoplasmic entities so they can sense eachother #but for ghosts he's fucking weird because he doesn't have a core for them to resonate with or w/e #danny would probably think that he's another halfa/liminal at first but the more time they spend together the more that doesn't add up #so I know that I'm trying to give Jason ghost powers but honestly this whole thing is kind of a bum deal for him #he gets all of a ghost's weaknesses and barely any of the benefits #honestly I'm conceptualizing this as more of a disability than a superpower #discovering that youre less alive than you thought you were and you're technically just a walking talking corpse running on supernatural goo #is fucked up and creepy and upsetting! #and it's something that he would have to come to terms with before he could start exploring what new opportunities it might give him #and i think that's really interesting #it's part of why I love messing with Jason in dpxdc stories so much #danny is fully ghost and fully human and he never feels like he fits in anywhere already #Jason is not quite human and not quite ghost so you can imagine how that would go for him #anyways i think they should be best friends and visit frostbite in the realms to make sure jason is healthy and also they should maybe kiss #and listen to the black parade together and talk about dying and stuff #danny fenton #jason todd #dp x dc #dpxdc #danny phantom #dc #batfam #my rambles

[caffeinatedopossum]

I actually find it really bizarre and counter intuitive that clinically speaking, you cannot legally be diagnosed with a personality disorder until you're at least 18. The reason given for this is because "the personality has not fully developed before this age" like ???

Ah yes, my favorite strategy. Not diagnosing the problem until it's already been virtually cemented into your brain for life! Wouldn't it be easier (and more painless) to address the problem before it's fully developed?

#im also certain that the age that personality fully forms at is not a universally agreed upon number #like idk. maybe this raises less questions about age and more about the potential consequences of pathologizing personalities #it feels a little fucked up to me that some mental illness are 'just' mental illnesses while others are deemed a thing synonymous with you #and i can understand if some people with personality disorders do really heavily identify with their disorders #thats fine! #i also think the average person has a concept of personality which is relatively stagnant and thats just not realistic tbh #i mean if you think personality is stagnant then yours probably is so in rhat sense youre not wrong #but personality can absolutely change and i dont think it makes you a 'different person' #i think its a natural progression #anyways. got a little derailed but the point im trying to make is #lets find a way to give people with personality disorders a more realistic hope for recovery without invalidating them #and also lets maybe try to treat personality disorders preemptively so they don't get worse

[leonisloresmith]

Finally came up with more about my take on JD’s husband. His name is Drew

#trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #trolls john dory #john dory #drew styles #oc x canon #me art #I like to think it’s less that he can’t sing because he’s grey and more he’s found fulfillment despite being grey #he would’ve probably done all the tech work on Rhonda #yes they share the same pair of gloves #and jds covers up his wedding ring so that’s why no one notices #they hold gloved hands cause I headcanon jd as vaguely autistic in a way that he hates his bare hands touching things #idk I’ll make it make sense later

[actual-haise]

#sun tzu #art of war #yuri #quote #so true #history #epic #meme #bazinga #this probably makes less sense like this #cause I made this as a QRT #but #i bet youll like this #girls love

[cozy-the-overlord]

Catching up on the whole watcher situation because I ironically stopped watching their channel regularly because I didn’t like how expensively produced their shows were compared to Buzzfeed Unsolved’s simplicity

#i didn’t have a problem with them changing the way they did things or anything #like it made sense that they would want to have a significant departure from their Buzzfeed style after leaving Buzzfeed #i just didn’t like it as much #so i would only watch occasionally if i needed something to listen to in the background #the fact that they are now trying to put their content behind a paywall #because production is so expensive #is wild to me #like imo the production actively made the show less enjoyable #why are you spending money you don’t have on it??? #idk it just makes me sad #like i know the YouTube documentarians i watch are probably going to end up doing videos on this #usually with those videos i’m the one from the outside looking in on some drama around a person i’ve never heard about before #but i was a fan of ryan and shane since high school #I have some of their Buzzfeed unsolved merch #it’s sad that people i looked up to turned out to be so out of touch on so many levels #watcher

[thebramblewood]

Apologies for ruining your weekend.

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It's not necessary, but if you want to learn more about the events Grace is describing (particularly the spellcaster who sacrificed herself), it originated in another story you can read here (chrono link for desktop only). I'm sure there are some inconsistencies because I had no idea I'd be doing more with it and my storytelling was more casual and gameplay-oriented then, but it might help fill in some gaps.

[rapid knocking at the door]

Caleb: …Morgyn? 

Grace: Caleb-

Caleb: Why are you in your nightgown? Are you crying?

Grace: Caleb, I-

Caleb: Where’s Morgyn? Council meetings never go this late.

Grace: [sniffling] Oh, Caleb… The Sages, they’re… they’re…

Caleb: What happened?

Grace: [strangely detached] I’d already gone home. Almost everyone had. There was an… attack. No one saw it coming. Dark magic… ancient spells… malicious… forbidden. How did he even find them?

Caleb: [impatiently] Grace, you’re not making any sense.

Grace: [distantly] The Realm is secured. Someone stopped him before he could tamper with the portals. A teacher, I think, from the children’s school. She sacrificed herself to drain his power.

Caleb: I don’t care about the goddamn Realm! What about Morgyn?

Grace: [sobbing] I’m sorry, Caleb. I’m so sorry. They were ambushed. They had no chance to defend themselves. Faba, Simeon, Morgyn… The entire Council is… dead. Oh my god. Caleb, are you okay?

Caleb: Stay back!

Grace: But-Caleb: I mean it! You’re not safe around me like this. Go home, Grace! Now.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #story: hzid #caleb vatore #grace anansi #for some reason caleb's jaw/chin area is slightly more pronounced in his human form... not sure how that happened #i hope it makes sense why his dark form takes over at the end! #it's sort of like the vampire equivalent of going into fight or flight mode #it's like their bodies' defense system so it can kick in automatically if they feel overly threatened or overwhelmed #and as a result they become more easily driven by base instincts and less in control #which is why he tells grace he's dangerous! #since he's so disciplined he would probably be able to restrain himself from hurting her but he'd rather not leave even a small opening #(and besides it's a convenient way to tell her he'd prefer to be left alone) #death tw #gif tw

[synthshenanigans]

Something about how Heart is being compared to mythology, Minds referencing the bible & Soul being the one to use both of those things

#its so fun to my brain. its interesting to me #idk if that actually means anything i just find it neat #Heart being referenced as Juno [the greek moon goddess] #Mind referencing the bible [he does it mainly in TME but also the whole judgment & punishment talk as well] #then there's Soul with the end of Dream & all of Two Wuv [also a couple extra lines in TSE NMtK & such] #this has probably been said before but i still find it interesting #also to add in. Whole does none of those things really #not including some songs since they're more CJ centric/not Whole based [if that makes sense] #but Whole is much more literal non-metaphorical way of explaining things/singing #the most he talks about anything that's a metaphor is like the Time Machine bits in TMR #THO whats also kinda fun is that when he sorta talks less literal. its in the back & forth part in TWWaY #like showing all separate parts of HMS are there but as one person #again idk if im making sense #im rambling now but its interesting to me #chonny jash #moss post

[salad-storm]

I love sashisu because they all very much love each other and are best friends but the shoko erasure is so blatant that it makes for a very interesting dynamic. Like yeah obviously she was part of everything that happened. Not that any of them would realise if you asked them though.

#shoko included btw. shes like yeah im not getting involved in whatever those two have going on <- literally already involved #this isnt talking bad abt sashisu btw. i love sashisu. i think theyre so so interesting #like theyre so questionable! they love each other! none of them have Actually Spoken to one another in 10 years! #me when i was there too idiot #ik theres jjk takes where shoko isnt as important to stsg/just there to be the lesbian friend and i hear those takes! #and reject them immediately. #look i just rlly love shoko and i think sashisu are soo cool and fun and horrible and queerplatonic #but its time to recognise that all three of them (and also canon and also the fandom) are making shoko smaller/less important than she is #we have all that stsg drama and shoko (there for it) just goes yeah okay. bye i guess. #god i just love them.. trio of all time fr... its very late so this probably doesnt make sense but whateverrrr #gojo satoru #getou suguru #geto suguru #ieri shoko #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #sashisu #sss trio #stormy in here #theyre my faves..

[wellnoe]

criticisms of cape comics fall back on ideas of 'bad characterization' so often, either implicitly or explicitly delineating eras of 'legitimate' characterization from eras of 'illegitimate' characterization. and while i think that can have merit in some extremely specific cases i think a lot of the time its not a very specific or even like. personally helpful critique.

which is not me saying that like. you can't dislike characterization. you absolutely can and i do sometimes but i am starting to think that the more valuable critiques are about what is accomplished by shifts in characterization, what these changes can communicate or what themes or messages they serve, rather than if the characterization can be traced back to some comic. bc if a character has been around for a couple of decades and is at all prominent it probably can! even if its a comic you (read: i) would rather not address when talking about the character's continuity.

#isk ig i am trying to shift how i think about comics and continuity and such #or maybe less how i think (tho that too) and more how i talk about it bc i think like. there are probably better and less frustrating #ways to think about cape comics that maintain the parts of my engagement w them that i enjoy yk?? #idk if this makes any sense #w.me

[no-truce-with-the-heroes]

i can't believe there's still people out there who genuinely think Ochako would "kill Toga on sight" at this point

like, okay, there's the anime-only people who aren't aware of manga developments or are actively avoiding spoilers, and of course there's all the people who clearly stopped giving a shit ages ago (yet somehow still feel completely secure making blanket declarations about a franchise they no longer keep up with???)

but even then, and even if you're not a shipper or just don't like the characters-- how can anyone have ever believed that makes any sense ever? like we're not even talking self-defense apparently? just "on sight"? who do you think Ochako is, the Punisher in pink?

like i don't think i'm especially media literate myself, but-- how is it possible for people to be this bad at reading where a narrative is going?

because of course that's exactly what the Togachako plotline was leading up to, clearly the ultimate endpoint of developing Toga Himiko as a sympathetic villain important to Ochako's heroic actualization was a teenager unquestioningly enacting the extrajudicial murder of another teenager

that's exactly what MHA is all about, right? that's the sort of person Ochako is, the kind of hero that she wants to be? that's definitely good storytelling and not at all inane or grotesque? ugh

#don't want to cause/deal with any drama and it'd be doubly not worth it on a post that wasn't even about togachako #i just need to vent somewhere or i'll stew on it for ages #an offhanded comment in tags is so not worth this amount of anger and yet ohhhh i am mad #honestly this is probably less about that post and more about all the similar shit i saw on That Hellsite when the 391+ spoilers dropped #bakugou stans i have so much respect for you all i would be dead within a day if i had to deal with this BS as often as you do #mha spoilers #bnha spoilers #not really any actual spoilers but ig the vague allusions are still worth tagging for the previously-mentioned anime people #rest of the post sounded like shit opinions too but i didn't really get the whole context and not interested in looking further #this shit has already lived in my head rent-free long enough #no but seriously as a togachako OTP shipper there are in fact a lot of rational reasons for why the ship shouldn't work #canon is currently laughing maniacally in the face of your rationality but at least those reasons do make sense #why would you choose this goddamn Ochako slander as your reasoning instead

[beaulesbian]

this is insane! zoro wasn't even at the first discussion where luffy said he doesn't want to be a hero, with his whole "heroes had to share their food" analogy, yet later he repeated almost the same words.

at that time zoro was locked in the ryugu castle in the cage dangling above water with usopp and brook, when luffy and jimbei had this discussion (chapter 634):

and then at the end of fishman island arc, as they're leaving (escaping), zoro explaing in almost the same words to princess shirahoshi why that thought of being a hero makes him feel sick, bc that'd mean he had to share his drinks (chapter 649):

(and nami was there to hear both versions of this analogy! the things she has to deal with them around)

#this is just!!! i love them so much! #either luffy already said that before around the crew and zoro just took it in and thought it made perfect sense to him bc he felt the same #or they really do share just one braincell.. or even less than that #zolu #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #fishman island arc #mine #one piece manga #gif:op manga #gif:zolu #their characters and how they think about stuff! this is just amazing i love them so much #the way zoro really gets how luffy thinks about things like that probably without even talking about it with him. he just knows! #(that's luffy's first mate who will rlly have his back in these situations askdjs even if its used as a silly gimmick i love it i dont care #makes me even more not normal about them;-;

[iammyowncryptid]

I want Amity Parkers who just have no concept of the outside world. They all have very complex understandings of ghosts and amity-specific politics and news but national news? Who has time for that, the Box Ghost got in again and they have to chase him away with a broom like a weird raccoon. Celebrities? They have Ember McClain! She’s literally a rockstar! Political controversies? Oops the whole town got pulled into an alternate dimension for a whole week, guess there’s no time to read about the latest election.

Basically I want Amity Parkers that are so completely out of touch with the rest of the world, that when the justice league shows up to investigate no one knows who they are and some random kid maces Superman with an anti-ecto spray bc they saw the costumes and assumed they were all ghosts. I want the local grocery store to lock up their fish behind anti-ecto containers bc they assume Aquaman is like the Box Ghost but with fish. I want middle schoolers to ask Batman why he’s a furry.

I want the JL to have to deal with an entire town that has no idea who they are and does not take them seriously in the slightest

#the only person who knows who they are is Wes #but that only makes ppl take the JL less seriously #bc if Wes says something’s true #then of course it isn’t #he accused mayor Masters of being a vampire just last week he’s obviously just a conspiracy theorist #besides if the JL was SO important wouldn’t they have come sooner? maybe during the whole pariah dark thing? #nah they’re just ordinary ghosts with an inflated sense of self importance #like most ghosts #although someone should probably tell Pandora about this ‘wonder woman’ they might be related #danny phantom #batman #dp x dc #danny phantom x batman

[shippersonfire]

i don’t think snow’s feelings for lucy gray meant that he wanted to literally own her. he was obsessive, but i don’t think there was an intention to possess? maybe an intention to control, but different, i think, than wanting to keep her as a toy or trophy wife. as much as he failed her in the end, snow never thinks of lucy gray as malleable or easily controlled; those aren’t the things he admires about her, or if you go with the (IMO wrong) idea that he’s seeing what he wants to see and not who she really is, they aren’t the traits he projects onto her as worthy of his admiration.

basically — in a universe where she went back to the capitol with him, i don’t think snow would want lucy gray to be caged, although that might have been how it worked in practice.

#i think it was less ‘she’s mine so i get to keep her’ and more ‘she’s mine so i have a duty to protect her’ #if that makes sense? #although the way he wanted to protect her would probably entail some form of limited freedom #so more like ‘she’s mine and i have to keep her to protect her’ #seeing the way people interpret their relationship in fanfic is sm fun #snowbaird

[a-s-levynn]

(source)

#sleep token #here is a thing #there are certain moments when Vessel looks.. no he rather feels.. small #i mean his.. aura? presence? but not in the non-captivating way but as in an emotionally vulnerable way #i don't really have the words to describe this but just like on this picture #bear with me for a minute because this is either gonna sound completely unhinged or make some sort of sense #it's probably just me having a little more time on my hand than i should and just want to see things but.. #sometimes he feels so present in a here-i-am as-i-am take-me-as-you-will this-is-all-i-am i-can't-give-more-nor-less it's-just-me sorta way #he feels so human in the rawest sense possible and yet so deep in character maybe even more so than when he creatures or teefs and all #like.. he is just vessel in it's simplicity and without the 'divine' if you will.. simply just vessel #in his barest of existance #a shadow of someone who used to be but not quite anymore #he is in pieces and it is willingly laid bare under the mask and all that bodypaint oh so clear to see for anyone #and that is not the outstreched hand of you-are-not-alone but the outstreched soul that cries you-can-find-yourself-in-me #and that is what i find so heartbreaking about him #this kind if raw openness because the lore says vessel is a conduit for sleep #for us vessel (and the the others) is the conduit of our emotions #and he is there somewhere inbetween the truths #just him a simple human being who sometimes seems to wish not to be human which makes him more human than anything #and that is what i can't describe better than 'sometimes he feels small' and at time even maybe makes me cry a little

[corviiids]

how do i get viz media to let me just write and publish a new death note light novel because that's basically what im writing at this point

#i mean who's logging into ao3 to read an entire death note spinoff au a la L change the world and it's like canon typical levels of yaoi. #rookposting #maybe less even just because i dont have a foot scene in mine #i mean i could add one. i guess i could add a foot scene pretty easily #this makes more sense as a normcore officially sanctioned fanfiction than an actual legitimate fanfiction is all im saying #feet or no feet #l change the world is less than 45k words... maybe if i just keep it to that somehow... can i make it short #dont mind me. i missed talking in the tags #usually i just force my beloved friends to view every inane thought that enters my brain on twitter but this is probably more polite