#but most of the time it didn't work

[nelkcats]

Overprotective Father

Of all the things that Danny imagined when he decided to release Dan from his prison, he never thought that he would become his father. And while it was a little weird, he could see the point in it. Dan wasn't his future self, he was a combination between him and Vlad (something he really hated to think about), meaning, technically his son.

Dan also seemed uncomfortable with the new arrangement but he seemed much happier, and since being given access to the castle garden he was actually quite calm. Probably because of his unlimited access to ghost fruits. Who knew that all it took to stop his attempts of world conquest was a couple of ghost strawberries?

The father/son thing continued to be awkward, but they actually grew to like it (as much as Dan denied it). And that was okay, until Dan started... dating people.

And that was fine, really, Dan could date whoever he wanted (although he was too young in the halfa's opinion) but his choices weren't ideal: King Shark, Metron, Constantine, Darkseid, Bane, Morpheus, Brainiac, Deadshot, and more were added to the list. Even as the Ghost King Danny had a headache just thinking about it.

Danny didn't know what the hell Dan was seeing in them, but he decided it was time to interfere. Unfortunately for the Justice League, Danny decided to act like a father just as Dan started dating one of their members. So now an overprotective Ghost King was giving the entire meeting a shovel talk. Ellie was laughing in the background as Dan covered his face, his father was fucking embarrassing.

#dpxdc #ghost king danny #Dan is the ghost prince #he has a lot of power #but he doesn't use it anymore #he's happy with his new dad and the ghost strawberries #Dan love strawberries #dp x dc #dc x dp #He actually like his partners #but most of the time it didn't work #it's fine #they ended on good terms #dan phantom #he dated gods #and some world enemies #Danny was sad because his son was growing #overprotective danny #he's a good dad #The JL is confused #they knew Dan but not his title as ghost prince #and now the Ghost King is there #Ellie is happy to be excluded #the situation is fun for her #Dan is embarrassed #Ghost Prince Dan #He usually does not mention his title or power when introducing himself

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[andisupreme]

I moved recently to start a new job and part of my commute now involves one of those high capacity toll booths where a two lane road suddenly flares out into 5-7 lanes of total anarchy with no lines anywhere, and then narrows back down to two lanes again, and we're just supposed to sort ourselves out? Who designed this

anyway I dreamed up this helpful anatomical guide on the drive home

#thought of flipping it upside down for it to read correctly but then it didn't feel like the driver pov #oh also yeah aside from generally pulling back from online spaces for the most part I've started a FAST-PACED full-time job #after on and off contract/part time work since 2020 #I am WIPED #all the time #exhausted #I'm told I will adjust and I am trusting these people but holy shit I'm capital B Bushed #you will not see me frequently anymore but do not mourn for me #I am adjusting to my new fish tank... #I will be thriving #by the time I turn 30 next year I will be able to hit my 30s at a run #I'm feeling it mr krabs

[ultipoter]

Pokemon Legends Arceus fan comic, where Jirou has disappeared and Volo has complicated feelings about it. (And maybe figures out that there's a bit of a God in that little phone of Jirou's)

#pokemon #volo #adaman #irida #sabi #pokemon legends arceus #original character #ocs #Jirou #fanart #mine #tagging all the characters because I caaaaaan #hhrhhghhg #I've been sitting on this idea for a while ever since I noticed in one playthrough that NPCs acknowledge quest markers on the Arc phone #And I thought about how Volo might want his hands on that #I had a week off from work and what I did with that time was Draw A Lot #I didn't expect this to turn into an 18 page monstrosity #I expected like 8 or 10 at most #but I got to draw Volo a lot. And Jirou. It was fun #this has been brewing for a while and I finally did something with it #Kinda proud about that #Finished a big project! #Now I'm mortified about showing it to people! oh well! #I only watched House MD while drawing and I got to the end of Season 3 #that's a lot of hours spent drawing

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #er.... i'm too tired to have anything to say..i worked several days on this. #wait.. didn't i say just recently here that i probably wouldn't ever depict 'what if alaira is qifrey's sort-of ex'. What's going on #i don't even remember deciding to draw this..it's all a blur..i'm not sure why i WOULD decide to draw delicate scenes in my head #that i wouldn't really want to share with anyone/discuss so why did i draw it... #some part of me really really wants to draw things that are more and more true to myself... #maybe because of my alienation with most romance/shipping/dynamics the rest of the world depicts. #orufrey really is perfectly suited to me - what i read in the text and what is in my head. well anyway #i am TIRED of drawing poses and angles and..maybe now i will actually take a break from drawing bc of the tediousness of Angles #btw it really is a 'stretch of time' . . . assuming witches graduate age 18-20 #well orufrey are canonically 30-ish. they've only had agott around for presumably about TWO years (?) bc she took the test age 10 #and it feels like oru moving in/unknown atelier acquisition/building (?) .. i guess that could be a year or so before agott at most #(she was the first disciple) so... ????????? What about the other 7 or so years ?!?!?!!?!?! Unemployed Brimhat Hatred era #that time is very nebulous. after qifrey went to the tower i feel like it's been implied he and oru drifted apart a little. #certainly they didn't live together at first... no way. that doesn't feel like how it is based on things oru has said about becoming Eye #idk. I'm tired now. i don't usually think of alaira as necessarily qifrey's ex and this being how things went in that 'sliver of time'. #i usually prefer the idea that they have their first kiss with each other in their 30s cause That's Just The Orufrey Lifestyle #just felt like making a more relatable alternative view of my own Cai Orufrey Canon one time. btw im a big monoshipper and it hurt a bit #let's leave it there. this is surely the most i've worked on a 'single' art - though now i realise just how much longer the fic took :')

[ye-xiu]

HAN JISUNG + BLIND SPOT ⤿ for @hyunsung​​ ♡

#han jisung #han #stray kids #forhanji #midolsedit #*gifs #hyunsung #happy birthday beloved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i didn't have time for a gfx bc work work work but i wanted to gift you a little something after all ;; <33333 #i love you i hope you have (had) the most wonderful day today !!! bless you bless you i hope this year is kind to you <3333

[screwpinecaprice]

Stranded at work today so I decided to sneak a draw on the workplace's computer.

#Yes... yes I do bring a spare drawing tab to work. #I just like using it more than using a mouse. #connverse #Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #valentines #Yus I manage to draw something for Valentines #:] #Connie molded those chocolates herself #I swear he didn't give her another knife #I intended to continue where I left off on my current commission But with people looking at the monitor while trying to draw? #That's just going double the chances of messing up. So awkward. #Go away Benjie. smh #I have a hard time seeing what I did wrong with my freshly finished drawings but I'm pretty sure I messed something up here. #With how awkward I felt during most of the drawing process #I just hope it's not so bad. #my shiz #Steven Universe #SUF #SU fanart #EDIT: Fixed Steven's left sleeve. I forgot I changed it from full sleeve to 3/4. The rendering wasn't to much affected by the change of line #work anyway and and it's quick so figure I could do that

[determunition]

sometimes you just have to put old people in the most bonkers fashion you can find on pinterest

p03's of course got a combination of corny tech aesthetics and cowboy vibes (as soon as i saw those CD pants i knew i had to put him in them); mag's got an eye-searing cosmic 80's-core thing going on, as he should; grimora's rife with goth/punk statement pieces that were equal parts fun and annoying to draw; and leshy is a goblincore nightmare

i hope you all enjoy gazing upon these fashion crimes as much as i enjoyed throwing them together lmao

(pinterest boards for poe, mag, grimora, and leshy are linked here if you'd like to see my references, pieces that didn't make the cut, and also a handful of cursed vibe pics thrown in for good measure)

#inscryption #retyrement au #p03 inscryption #magnificus inscryption #grimora inscryption #leshy inscryption #i've had the world's most cursed pinterest boards for these guys sitting around for too long #now we all suffer the consequences of my actions #you probably haven't seen the last of the pics on those boards either #if something didn't work out for these pieces i'd wager i'll find an excuse to draw it another time lmao

[thepetesimp]

Me being totally normal: I can surely figure out what page he's at if I stare at it for too long

Also me, staring at it for too long: Wait...is he reading....the foreword...? I can't believe it took me this long to realize Vegas is reading the first page here. It might not even be the foreword, it might be info about the author, it's so funny. But don't worry, the good news is that he's actually reading the book in this scene:

which, of course, you can make the claim that beforehand, he was not in a good mental state (Vegas? not being mentally well? No fucking way right?) so he was trying to distract himself from whatever the fuck the whole thing he's doing at the safehouse is, but after him and Pete talk and bond and all of that good stuff, his mind can focus and actually read the damn book. Sidenote Because I'm a bit insane and very committed in finding things to obsess over with my hyperfixations, I estimated the possible percentage of the book he might be currently at, then went to the appropriate page and found this line there: "He felt very gay and light-headed, and quite forty years younger, as he walked to the door."

I swear to God, it was there, and I laughed so hard they must have heard me over in Thailand.

#this is the shit that occupies my brain every day #I might have a problem #I'm actually in the process of reading Childhood's End for a fic idea I got at random and would really like to see if it'd work #me sweating above the pages: how can I make it connect to Vegas???? #surely they didn't make him read this book specifically only for its title right? RIGHT? #(the most probable answer is that yes it's because of the title but where there's a will there's a way) #(and I have a wild imagination when it comes to connecting two completely different and unrelated things together because I love them both) #(stay tuned for a fic that's coming in December for that lol) #anyway have I said how much I love this show yet? #I love this show and the brainrot it's given me #I hope it stays for a long ass time #kinnporche the series #vegaspete #vegas theerapanyakul

[mattodore]

it takes a lot out of me to remember myself. i turn my face away from it and my body cracks open, spilling glistening hot viscera onto the floor for the audience to coo at. scenes flash behind me—dark corners, the breeze from the window, the floorboards creaking, a shift in the air. close to me, you look over my shoulder. you tell me, “you kept yourself so still when you were younger.” i want to ask how you know that. how do you know? but you reach out to touch my open body, press my hand to your chest, hold my face. it’s in your eyes. you were a boy once. just like me.

#cw self harm #cw injury #cw blood #simblr #the sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 edit #river dipping #theodore doe #matthias evanoff #echthroi #a burning house to live in #🦇 #the link in the caption is to the full version of this image if anyone is curious about the actual details in this edit....... #i'm beating tumblr with so many hammers rn btw #the caption itself is pretty long but i didn't want to cut any of it to make it easily digestible bc theo isn't easy to digest anyway #i don't even know where to begin with this edit... #he's getting up from his knees in the first pose and then limping in the second and slowing to a stop in the third #the first pose is actually meant to be in reference to the sunflowers memory from his 60 questions... :/ #his teenage self is definitely the one i put the most work into every step of the way... it's a time for him i don't really talk about #but it's definitely the years that shaped him the most as a character and well... theo doesn't really confront his past #but matthias mirrors theo in a lot of ways and through matthias theo meets himself again #hm. yeah. also doing the lighting from scratch was interesting. the light source here for theo is matthias and vice versa #if you look at the higher quality version of this and zoom in you can see that theo is actually crying pretty blankly in the second pose... #the blood running down his knee came out really well... wish you could see it in the post version :( #also i made a pose where theo is held up in matthias's arms hiding his face in his neck which is attached to this pose set but idk. #decided not to include that picture... plus i'd have to edit it first which would've been... so many more hours. #but anyway... theo's birthday was on the 28th but there were. circumstances. waves hands. so now we're posting this two days late. #in the same vein as matthias's birthday edit from april: here's to the first person to ever show theo love.

[penofwildfire]

Plagued by FSM thoughts tonight

#HE WAS A CHILD. HE WAS A CHILD. #HE HAS BEEN IN WAR AFTER WAR AFTER WAR SINCE *BIRTH* #JUST A LITTLE BABY #HE FUCKED UP HIS KIDS FOR SURE BUT LITERALLY HOW WAS HE SUPPOSED TO *NOT* FUCK UP WHEN HE HAS NO CLUE HOW PEOPLE WORK??? #ITTY BITTY LITTLE GUY #ninjago #ninjago fsm #fsm #first spinjitzu master #I imagine he didn't really ever have a name and was referred to as something like “the child” in dragon/oni most of the time #then he invented spinjitzu and decided that was gonna be his whole identity #I say “he” but there's no way this kid is a normal cis dude #agender aromantic asexual icon

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

How are they not giving them enough time? They're not rushing these shows out, took nearly two years to get another season of Wheel of Time and looks like it will be just as long, if not longer, for Rings of Power. Whether you like these shows or not, saying they the studio is rushing them out is just nonsense.

#wheel of time #the rings of power #lord of the rings #wot on prime #making these shows takes ages #wot is still filming s3 almost a year after it started #although the most recent filming could be pickups or reshoots #they didn't have writers during the majority of filming due to the strikes so i expect some stuff might be getting reshoot #probably anything that doesn't require fx work or sets to be rebuilt #but it is almost certain we won't get it this year #even early next year feels too optimistic #i think we'll get rop autumn this year and then wot next summer or autumn

[mariocki]

Lalla Ward makes a brief appearance as Lady Augusta, intended bride to an ill-fated aristocrat, in A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (BBC, 1975)

#fave spotting #lalla ward #doctor who #a ghost story for christmas #the ash tree #1975 #romana #romana ii #spoilers for the ash tree ig???? #i mean it's pretty obvious from the outset that Ed Petherbridge's aristo is not in for a good time #i mean he's a Jamesian protagonist for one thing.... #lalla had been acting since the beginning of the decade‚ with a fair number of one off appearances on tv and the odd film to her name #(most notably Hammer's Vampire Circus). she was still a few years off DW and genre immortality at this point #it isn't the most rewarding role; James (who i don't think many would argue that he wasn't a bit of a chauvinist) rarely featured #significant women characters in his work (a large number of them being academical in setting didn't help). actually the ash tree #is something of an outlier in that regard‚ as it does feature a significant female character in Mrs. Mothersole‚ but we can hardly consider #her a positive feminine presence... actually one of Lawrence Gordon Clark's regrets about this particular entry in the Ghost Story for #Christmas canon is the failure of him and writer David Rudkin to make a true villain of Mothersile; Clark felt that their shared sympathies #for the historical victims of witchhunting prevented them from capturing the 'evil' of the character (tho it's debatable how much James #himself intended her to be truly evil; this is just Clark's opinion after all‚ and fwiw i think Rudkin's greater complexity of the #character is more interesting‚ more believable and more appropriate) #i rambled. anyway yes‚ not a meaty role perhaps‚ but Lalla sinks her teeth in all the same and in just a few brief scenes successfully #creates a vivid and fully realised character‚ a charming and flirtatious fiancée with something of a rebellious streak #no ash tree post bc i made one the last time i watched it a couple of years ago

[disregardcanon]

thinking about how desperately the yellowjackets are still trying to slot each other and themselves into these clean little boxes even years later. “lottie’s the crazy one” even though they all are. “misty’s the violent one” even though they all are. “nat’s the one with a fucked up romantic past that keeps hurting her years later” but they all are. “shauna’s the one who lost a baby” even though they all are. “tai’s the one that clawed her way through life despite the difficulties” even though they! all! are!

#sarah watches yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #like obviously shauna was the one that physically birthed the kid and miscarried #that was a trauma for all of them #misty? that guilt is still weighing on her years and years later #lottie was so sure that they could make it work #but then it DIDN'T she's the FOREST PROPHET and she was WRONG #and then she got beaten three quarters of the way to death over it #and tai's clearly shouldering most of the burden of shauna's emotional state #they all wanted that baby so much #and it died. #(except ben. ben left the building a loooonnnngggg time ago) #yellowjackets meta

[ratwithhands]

I made these guys earlier in the christmas break, anyways carnivorous plant alien submas AU :7. (Don't mind the simple doodle style, I was in a bit of an art block when I made this)

The race is called Sapioflora, and they're basically half flesh, half plant matter. There's a couple different types in terms of species, but generally most rely on photosynthesis and absorption through roots. The difference with these two is that they are carnivorous and rely less on sunlight and soil than others, hence why they're fine having more covering clothing. Their civilization has managed to develop to the point of spreading to other planets in the same star system, and running into other alien species. As of right now I'm debating between a few different versions of this concept to write about since there's:

one where the story focuses solely on the twins as conductors and no other characters from pokemon are present

one where other characters from pokemon are present as other Sapioflores

one where other characters from pokemon are present as other alien species

one where the twins work as bounty hunters (and may or may not run into other pokemon characters)

The last one is particularly funky since it delves into Sapiofloran colonies on other planets, interspecies relations/conflict between Sapioflores and other aliens, and how the twins use their abilities to their advantage.

Oh speaking of that, it was pretty fun to mess around with how their designs work! Emmet is a much more vibrant colour, and his body is much more soft and flexible due to him constantly regrowing his body and making new vines. He wears shorter sheer clothing to take advantage of the sunlight, and has a wide open panel on his back to leave room for him to sprout new vines in the event of battle or to just help with a task. He eats an absurd amount of food in order to get enough energy to make this constant growth and replacement possible.

As for Ingo, his body is much more woody and solid, so he tends to move slower but hit harder (and take hits better). He sprouts leaves when more sunlight is available, draining them dry and discarding them once he's had his fill. He tends to wear more thick clothing to protect from harsh temperatures/prevent moisture loss, though he has gaps and slits all over in order to allow him to sprout as needed. Here's a sketch:

There was more but I can't remember what it was, anyways here's some bonus doodles. Have a good night and let me know what you think :7

^ doodle of Emmet's vines. Emmet is mostly thorny, he's also able to make modified thorns into blades. This is more prevalent in the bounty hunter version concept, but he can still do this in the others (Ingo can do this too! Depending on the situation they'll either make blades or saws)

^ Emmet will use his vines when he doesn't want to do something directly, usually to do two things at once, but he'll sometimes use it when he's tired

^ Emmer :7 fun fact his teeth are just weirder thorns, so they have the same colour as them. (I still haven't decided whether Sapioflores have eyes, but they'd probably sit under the leaves on their faces)

#submas #submas au #au #emmet #subway master emmet #subway boss emmet #subway master kudari #emmet pokemon #kudari #ingo #subway master ingo #subway boss ingo #subway master nobori #ingo pokemon #nobori #fanart #digital art #The whole time I was concepting these guys I was like “this is the most manwhore fit I've made for them” #anyways their hair is made of leaves :7 fun fact the official work uniform for their subway has clear hats #just didn't draw it because I wasn't in the mood #but also I think they wouldn't wear them too much anyways since it'd dent their leaves #Gonna debate a little longer on what concept I want to work on #probably a toss up between bounty hunters and all sapioflore cast #see you guys later and stay safe :)

[imminent-danger-came]

Lady Bone Demon: "I've seen it countless times before your meager existence. I've witnessed cities rise and fall. I've seen the world suffer famine, disease, war, and endless turmoil—an eternity of needless pain. I thought if I helped someone with real power, guided you to be better, I could make a true difference in the world! But I now see the only true way to create the perfect world, is to start with a clean slate."

(3x13 Time To Be Warriors)

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Azure Lion: *laughs* "I'm flattered, truly, but...were it not for Sun Wukong bringing us all together, I- without you, none of this would be possible! Your courage to stand up to the celestial host has inspired us to finally take a stand, to make a true difference in the world! And I can think of none other more suitable to lead us on our conquest than you brother."

(4x02 New Adventures)

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Make a true difference in the world.

#oh my god oh my god LBD and Azure just wanted the revolution and they didn't want to work on making a better system #Don't look at me don't look at me I'm on the floor #THE MOST CHARACTERS OF ALL TIME. TO ME. #LBD and Azure my favs. Truly. God. I love them #The twitter leftists #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk parallels #lmk LBD #lmk Azure Lion #lmk theme: better than we found it #I THOUGHT IF I HELPED SOMEONE WITH REAL POWER. GUIDED YOU TO BE BETTER. #I COULD MAKE A TRUE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD. #THAT'S LIKE. That's kinda Azure @ Wukong. Tbh. #I don't feel like explaining how I got here but. You just gotta trust me