#((The dreams are super weird.))

[nerdpoe]

Young Justice is always a little...concerned. With Phantom's living situation. Now they're outright afraid for him, and Bart has decided it's time to Ask An Adult.

It was the little quips. The tiny little things. Stuff that didn't seem to matter to Phantom at all, or appeared to be normal for him, that he didn't realize weren't normal at all.

"Oh, better not hope my mom catches me." "Doing what, staying out past bedtime?" "Nah, using my powers; she'd vivisect me!"

"Another stab wound. Great." "Don't worry Phantom, I've got the med kit-" "Oh, I'm not a baby or anything, I can handle it just fine. Just gimme a sec to take it out."

"My dad has better aim than that." "...Like, when he's hunting, right?" "...At what other times would he be shooting at me?"

"Huh. Not as bad as my parents place. Look; they have a decontamination shower!" "Phantom, this lab has been vandalized to the point of needing a hazmat suit." "Did I stutter?"

Finding out each others identities did nothing to soothe the worry. Tim quietly told the others that every time he tried to run facial recognition, he kept hitting a government firewall he couldn't breach. Phantom never told them his last name, just his first, and 'Danny' is super common.

The thing that really did it though, the thing that made Bart snap and run off to ask Max, was when Danny had a nightmare.

He was talking in his sleep.

"No. Don't-stop. Stoooop. I need...my skin. Mom, no. You can't...peel off...my skin..."

Bart didn't even wait for them to wake Danny up before he was standing in front of Max, talking a mile a minute as he tried to figure out what to do, with Wally staring in horror over a plate of waffles as he computed everything that Bart was saying.

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Danny had a dream about his mom and Skulker arguing about how to skin him. He wouldn't really call it a nightmare, because it was just Skulker, but the scariest thing was Skulker insisting to his mom that it was possible to skin him with a potato peeler. Dream mom was arguing that it was not, and that from a scientific standpoint that was a really piss poor way to preserve a specimen.

He hadn't been begging them to stop hurting him, he'd been whining at them to knock it off.

But when he wakes up, it's to a room full of worried friends and an old man who calls himself Max.

"Kid, I think we need to talk."

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #first convo was with cassie #second was with bart #third was with kon #fourth was with tim #max is fully prepared to take in another kid #bart is fully prepared to share #wally went to dick to ask him to put his detective training to work and find phantom's parents #wally was just visiting max #catching up #shooting the shit #when suddenly bart comes in and just trauma dumps about one of the other young justice heroes #who is apparently in a super abusive situation #and probably needs help #body horror tw #skinning tw #but only mentioned in the context of a super weird dream #danny's living situation COULD use some improvements #but it's not as bad as everyone thinks #anti ecto acts are still a thing #but as long as danny is with young justice the GIW leave him alone so #eh #not like they're good at their jobs anyways #max is about to blow his mind with the following information #“you are not okay. it's okay to not be okay. but kid. you need help and we're offering.”

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Waluigi appeared in the Super Mario Bros movie and he was voiced by Weird Al.

#dream #text #waluigi #super mario bros #movie #super mario #weird al #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue #voice acting #acting #animated movie #game #gaming #animation

[hajihiko]

OVA: it's about Nagito and what's essentially an Izuru adjacent AI. ...oh also Fuyuhiko is th-

Me: OH BOY CONTENT

#An art #Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Hajime hinata #nagito komaeda #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #danganronpa goodbye despair #danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2.5 #Kuzukoma #Hehe why not #Honestly I gotta do more with the complicated mess that is Hajime souda and hiko being besties IRL and Nagito souda and Hiko being besties- #-innthe dream world and Nagito was an antagonist in the real world and Hajime was an antagonist in the fake world and-like do you see how- #-weird that's gotta be. I see it. Anyway. #Cue people being shocked I drew a neato komeda

[zu-is-here]

Can you draw baby aim holding cross finger after just been born?

warm

#zu art #post dark cream #cross!sans #dream!sans #aim!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #the moment I started thinking about the birth process everything went super weird XD #I mean I'm 100% sure Cross gave birth at home (was ashamed/didn't trust doctors) & Dream was with him trying to calm him down with the aura #omit all the details— #such a sensitive and /intimate/ moment was really uneasy to draw ;w; #and b-baby Aim... so smol.... (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀) #I wonder if Cross was happy cause it's over or cause all of that was worth it? ♡ #preg!cross #(well not pregnant already but the topic is x)

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

This team gets nothing done.

#super sentai #donbrothers #shinkenger #zyuohger #kiramager #saru brother #oni sister #shinken blue #kiramai red #jyuoh human #jyuoh eagle #its my weird little artists team again! #hi yamato! youre here too #just like the toqgers ‘stand behind the white line’ if you try and attack the team before yamato can get his uncle outta there you get hit #jyuoh eagle divebombs you and you die lol #just let my little artist types be artist types #yoshiko's dream sentai team!

[feroluce]

Lucid Dreamer (2/2)

part 1

Gepard stalls almost a week before he finally goes out to the safehouse, and it takes him a couple days to find it because Sampo didn't have the time left to be wasn't super specific about the location. But he does find it.

It's pretty bare bones, really. Gepard knows that was probably to be expected, but… It feels crushing, when he realizes there are so few personal things here. It's nothing specific to Sampo. Just some food, some medical supplies. A cot and a heater and a lot of mismatched blankets. Nothing to remember someone by.

But he does find the letters, in a metal box stashed away under the bed.

There are two for him. Three for Natasha, and two for Seele. One for Hook, one for Serval, one for Pela, one for Bronya.

Bronya's is mostly business. They knew each other from the whole Stellaron incident, but not much beyond that, and the incoming catastrophe is a more pressing matter. Seele's is actually two copies of the same letter, and Gepard realizes why when Seele is so angry she rips the first one up without reading it. He gives her the copy a couple days later, and she slinks off without a word.

Pela seems completely normal after hers is delivered, but Gepard knows better than to trust that. The next day, he finds her asleep in bed with Serval, bottles abandoned on the floor, both their eye makeup smeared and running and Pela's glasses horribly smudged and crooked on her face. Serval doesn't read hers in front of him, but she's clingy with Gepard, Pela, and Lynx for quite a while after. She throws herself into her work a lot. She insists the heater from the safehouse is busted and she needs to keep it. It's too dangerous for use by someone who's not an engineer. Might burn their house down or something. Gepard doesn't argue.

Hook's letter is short, with easy to read words. The rest of it is actually a treasure map, and she and the moles spend the next several days running through the Underground, finding hidden candy and toys. Hook asks them when Sampo is coming back, because one of the marbles she found from his map looks green, just like his eyes, and she wants to give it to him. Natasha shoos Gepard out of the clinic before he can even begin to think of an answer.

Natasha refuses to let him see what's in her letters, which ok, fine, he'll respect that. He hears from Bronya who heard from Seele who heard from Natasha herself though that one of the letters was a map and the other a catalogue, with all of Sampo's hidden "warehouses." Gepard promptly marches himself back out to the frontlines, where he can turn a blind eye. If a ton of stolen goods suddenly enters the black market, and if the orphanage and the clinic suddenly have new supplies, well, technically that's none of his business.

Gepard goes to bed, curls up under mismatched blankets and closes his eyes.

He doesn't dream.

One of Gepard's letters was also business, like Bronya's and Natasha's. He and Bronya follow everything meticulously, down to the letter, because there has to be some good to get out of all this, there has to be. Gepard can't let it all be for nothing, it would bury him.

And so the catastrophe passes. Not without casualties, and not without a lot of damage and destruction. But Belobog survives.

And after that, time just kind of…goes on. Gepard has been a part of the Silvermanes since he was old enough to enlist. The Fragmentum had gotten so much worse in the years before Welt sealed the Stellaron. He knows the statistics, it is literally his and Pela's jobs to keep track. He knows when he sees a face everyday in the camps and then it's suddenly gone. He's not unfamiliar with things like grief and loss.

He still catches himself checking the trashcans and the supply crates and soldiers' footprints sometimes, though.

But there comes a night where Gepard goes to bed, holding the mismatched blankets to his face, and he dreams. And it's strange, it's off, it sticks with him. Sampo doesn't look the same. He's thinner. His muscles have atrophied. He looks like how Gepard has seen soldiers after months in the hospital.

The most unsettling difference is there's a scar across the left side of his head, Gepard can see it over his ear, peeking out past his hairline, carving towards his cheek. Sampo is always careful about his face. Gepard once saw him dodge a Fragmentum monster and literally let it cut across his neck just to keep his face clear. He wouldn't let that happen for nothing.

Their actions in the dream itself aren't new. Sampo seems tired, run down and worn out, but he announces his presence with aplomb by lobbing a bunch of smoke bombs off the rooftops and sending his soldiers scrambling. Same shit, different day.

The new part is what he says when Gepard chases him out to the edges of the camp, tackles him into the snow. Gepard pins him to the frozen ground to detain him and Sampo doesn't even fight it, just looks up at him like he's seeing sunrise for the first time in months.

"I'll be home in one week."

#sampard #gepo #hsr gepard #hsr sampo #gepard landau #sampo koski #hsr natasha #pelageya sergeyevna #serval landau #bronya rand #hsr seele #hsr hook #honkai star rail #my fics #lucid dreamer #I was initially just going to let Sampo stay dead because I love that kind of thing #but I ended up liking this ending so I guess I'll let it stay haha #I love thinking about Sampo's relationships with the rest of the cast and their reactions to all this #he was a founding member of Mechanical Fever. he still plays shows with Pela and Serval. #Pela is constantly giving him second chances like in the museum event and letting him volunteer with the Silvermanes. #And Serval could say SO much about him but all she says is 'hah that guy' and mentions Gepard is going to catch him someday. #I need the three of them to be a weird trio of buddies fdksaljfdkl #Sampo is seen with Seele plenty and he's with Natasha so much that Hook literally thought he was horribly ill for a long time. #I love them having some kind of odd comraderie #and oh my god I am the biggest Hook & Sampo stan ever they're so so cute and sweet and precious and WAH #so I think Sampo would want to be prepared for just in case he didn't make it back. that he would have a contingency plan for everything. #and he would miss these people and this city enough to show up in their dreams one last time. #but I'd like to think he saved Gepard for last #and it is not just because he has a crush or any kind of romantic feelings for him. There's more to it than that. #(If I'm being super honest I don't even really ship them with romance involved. I have a hard time picturing them like that.)

[the-punforgiven]

My brain last night was trying to dream about watching the movie Jaws with my beloved, but I have never actually seen the movie Jaws so the "footage from the movie" my brain conjured up concerned the titular creature "Jaws", a bizarre undersea millipede-like creature with a shark's head (This was a false head to deter predators when it wasn't hunting.)

It had a thick carapace lined with small venomous spikes that held an insanely powerful numbing agent. "Jaws" was roughly the size of a small dog (initially, though was still noticeably longer) and covered in small gnashing teeth alongside nearly the entirety of the creature's underside. When it needed to hunt, "Jaws" would bury itself in the sand of shallow lakes, waiting for a human to step too close. Once they did step too close, the human's leg would be rendendered fully numb by the creature's venom and "Jaws" would latch onto and wrap around the leg, using both its teeth and its apparently sharp legs(?) to gruesomely rip and tear the numbed flesh down to the bone, before quickly leaving the unfortunate human and scuttling the fuck off into the sea to apparently molt into something roughly double its size. By the end of the movie it had grown to the point it was wrapping around and attempting to devour entire cargo ships.

I don't know what the FUCK creature that was, but even I know that sure as shit wasn't Jaws

#also worth noting is that I guess my brain was super super excited about this monster premise #because I only got to watch it hunt like twice #once on the beach and once in a Stock Horror Movie White Guy's house #before my brain got too excited about weird creature and fully abandoned its own premise and became Laios Dungeonmeshi infodumping about it #the cargo ship thing even looked like it was a still shot ripped straight from the anime #truly the dream ever lol #pun's text posts #Pun talks Dreams #''Jaws''

[haunted-xander]

redrew my fav CG from sdr2 hehe

#i love weird and off-putting dream sequences and while this one was very short #it delivered #hajime hinata #danganronpa #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art

[damian-lil-babybat]

Damian al Ghul Wayne

"I'm going to choose my own colors."

#dc comics #damian wayne #fanart #dc #robin #batfam #damian al ghul #robin dc #dc robin #Primary colors never suited me anyway. Except for reds. And maybe blues. Blue's are nice." #Still hoping for Damian to be Flamebird and Jon to be Nightwing. I know this is like the minority opinion #but a fanartist can dream. #Intrusive thoughts: But weren't Flamebird and Nighgwing lovers in Kryptonian mythos? #Counter rationality: Yea? So what? Fight me! I want my super sons #and previous Flamebirds have been alternate Bette Kane!Batgirl #and even men #Jimmy Olsen #donned his persona #so it checks out. Don't be weird brain! #No hate please

[pissbuddys]

had a dream last night i was playing an rpg and it had a bathroom meter (that filled pretty fast lol) and your character would piss themselves and get really embarassed if u didnt relieve it every so often, other npcs would react too 😳

the character i was playing was super cute too he looked like h4wkwood

#a rare k1nk dream from me #usually i just dream super weird stuff

[flowerbloom-arts]

Just watched the movie today, don't know if anyone has done this before because it's such an obvious meme to apply to them but... It's too fitting.

#art #pixar elemental #ember lumen #wade ripple #ember x wade #someone will die #fun fact I had weird dreams about them since I watched the trailer so I feel like there's some weird connection made there??? #it literally never happened before so idk #anyway I cried and Ember is so me actually #people are so pessimistic about the movie like smh can't you spare a little whimsy?? suspend a little disbelief?? #let the allegory not be super literal or perfect??? some people are so jaded I swear

[redwinterroses]

Doc: "So now as we're all in happy giving attitude... give me back my diamonds." Ren: [laughter] Jevin: "Grian..." Doc: "There's still some missing!" Impulse: "Are you serious??" Pearl: "And back to the diamonds again." Impulse: "Oh gosh..." Doc: "Here." [puts down shulker] "Here. There's still some missing." Grian: "Alright -- I'm off the hook. I gave mine." Doc: "Yes?" Jevin: "I don't have it. You can kill me if you wanna see." Doc: [unintelligible] Pearl: "Do we need to kill each hermit one by one to see who has them?" [laughter] Doc: "No--" Martyn: "The plot twist is that I took them all and I'm never coming back!" [cackling] <InTheLittleWood left the game> [hermit laughter] Martyn: "See ya later!"

#hermitcraft charity livestream #hermitcraft #i'm not tagging all of them lol #super fast clip mode #fun fact I had the WILDEST case of deja vu transcribing this #like i dreamed this whole sequence #very weird

[detonatethegemapples]

Ever since I unlocked the Crowned mask, it's been strapped to my face.. Having festival and the mask on made me think Magolor would look so lovely with feathers ◕_◕

Plus him with the parasol!

#Kirby #Magolor #kirby's return to dream land #Kirby's return to dreamland deluxe #Kirby Magolor #My art #Leel's art #Leel's doodles #<<<???? these were super quick but I feel like they're a weird intermediate between doodle and ''polished'' things #I advocate for happy Crowned Magolor he deserves it #Kirby's return to dreamland deluxe spoilers #I am certain most people know about the grand twist but just in case!

[33max]

I had a dream I pegged max last night and honestly he was really into it

#I accidentally forgot to take my meds which means I’m dreaming super vivid and weird #but now I’m like… maybe I should forget again tonight wow

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

#young justice #young justice cartoon #batfam #batman #dick grayson #thoughts and headcanons #the heart wrenching inability to cope with the fact that you've lived a fully realized life #you've loved and lost and loved again in the face of every unending tragedy #until you've forcefully carved out this one little safe haven for yourself #only to be thrust back to the beginning of one of your greatest traumas - esp one you're partly responsible for! #gotta love it #anyway i am and always have been obsessed with dick grayson and no one can stop me #the simulation was fake but some psychic bs means real world elements filtered in #cue several children with weird dream-memories of half-lived experiences and a massive sense of deja-vu #when they wade into the superhero world #all i can picture is the spiderman pointing meme but it's the batkids at dick lol #my favorite idea is that once Dick gets his grubby hands on Jason and Tim it's all over from there #he's pulling late nights and researching and scouring facial recognition databases until he finds his kids #(he blurs the lines a lot when it comes to considering them his siblings vs kids #on the one hand they're not super far apart in age bar Damian #on the other he hasn't been a kid in any meaningful way since he was 14 and he very nearly raised half of them in some way #(plus side to an au is that i can space the ages out more as needed compared to the show haha) #jason and cass are firmly siblings close as they are to his age #steph tim and duke fluctuate depending on how in trouble or injured they are #i will die by dick being damian's dad tho lmao #babs is more platonic life partner than sibling but very firmly family regardless #this is the dick grabs on to any shred of family he can with both hands and drags them in kicking and screaming if he has to au

[calumthoodshands]

pls do specify in the tags if yes and what kinds of dreams if you want to cos i'm genuinely curious (also pls reblog?)

#i have like several dreams that i randomly remember every now and then out of nowhere in the middle of the day #and it's SO WEIRD cos some of them are super non meaningful/not eventful at all #they just left a really specific impression???? and i remember them super clearly #but every time it happens it's jsut unsettling to me #bc why those dreams #and why do i still remember them #some of them are from when i was fucking 14 or something #it drives me insane