#by the third time it’s happened

[teecupangel]

I have a habit of starting most time travel stories with the protag(s) crashing through the ceiling (universe) in an unavoidably public place and everything being silent for half a second before protag(s) either have an existential crisis at wtf just happened and/or recognize what time they’ve been transported to based on surrounding clues, OR go(es) “SHIT” and books it thru the now-screaming crowd as fast as they can while the hole in the universe seals up behind them mysteriously.

So anyway I was reading your protocreed asks and I was struck with the same scenario, but where Virus!Desmond and Not-A-Damn-Templar!Doctor Mercer crash thru a hole together in, idk, Alex’s university where he studied or something? During a lecture?

And a second later Desmond is panicking going “WHAT THE FUCK ALEX is that YOU??? Why are you at a university. Why are you also still next to me!!! WHY ARE THERE TWO OF YOU. Why is the year on the blackboard wrong oh fuck oh SHIT is it timetravel?? Alex we’ve goddamn timetraveled, I’ve never timetraveled before, idk what to do. Alex. Are you listening to me. Do you believe in time travel??”

“I’m a fucking virologist, Desmond.”

Total deadpan delivery. Man is still lying on the floor where he fell and just totally done with the universe and everything about it, thanks.

Anyways this isn’t a prompt or anything, I just wanted to share that image with you :)

The two ProtoCreed ideas I have. The old idea I have and a ProtoCreed idea with @thedragonqueen1998

That would make a very funny image and, also, if we’re going for AlexDes (AlexMond? AlMond XD?), Desmond crashing from the ceiling could absolutely be a meet-cute scenario for Past!Alex.

Oh, man.

I’m just imagining this will end up with an unnecessary love triangle with Future!Alex being the jaded arrogant bastard that he is that wants Desmond both because he’s a fascinating specimen and because he’s sexually attracted to him and Past!Alex who still has that sliver of hope inside him that maybe there’s people in this world he could actually trust both vying for Desmond’s affection.

Past!Alex is already on that edge of becoming the arrogant lone wolf that Future!Alex is and Desmond knows this, even noticing how he had been dodging Dana’s calls for weeks now. Desmond isn’t sure, of course, but he has a feeling that the moment Past!Alex stops taking Dana’s calls, that would be the final push so he tries to stop it and pretty much just annoying Past!Alex to try and help him.

Future!Alex has no time for Desmond’s good samaritan bs and he keeps getting in the way because he believes it’s a lost cause and also because Desmond should be focusing on assisting him to find a way to get back to the present.

Desmond doesn’t really care because being in the past meant that he could change it, contacting the Assassins and making plans of his own which includes being able to save Clay and fucking Abstergo's plans up (especially Vidic's).

What he will do about Past!Desmond though, he hasn’t really thought about it yet. Sooo… he’s just gonna ignore that.

(an ending could either be Desmond getting an Alex harem or Alex and Desmond returning to the future with Desmond giving the address to Bad Weather to Past!Alex and asking him to be nice to his past self, giving half-consolation price and half-hopeful ending to Past!Alex)

#ngl #the idea of desmond just crashing from the ceiling #to start crossovers would be funny #by the third time it’s happened #he’d be like #“groan not again” #btw #i’m just imagining bg3!desmond crashing on the grove after the ship crashes XD #or in withers’ tomb XD #anyway #ask and answer #assassin's creed #desmond miles #prototype #alex mercer #protocreed #teecup writes/has a plot #fic idea: assassin's creed #fic idea: prototype #fic idea: crossover

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #Yungmeng Jiang training arc AU #I wanted to try out a different paneling style for this one - sorry I'm a day late! (there will still be a post tomorrow to keep on track) #The original 3 panel comic idea was fine but the point of this new schedule was to take time to push myself a bit more. #I was taking a look back through some comic artists I felt inspired by #and I really loved how Lynda Barry fills her gutters with patterns and doodles! #Obviously I'm not going as absolutely wild with it as she does but it was a great exercise! #I truly think the gutters are the most important and most overlooked part of any comic. There's lots going on in that space. #It's the same with timeskips. The implied movement between moments that we don't see changes depending on how wide that gap is #You're here for the funny tags so here's some that ties this time talk together: #I think LWJ was thinking about that second note from day 2 but it took him 7 days of hazing to commit it to paper. #I think he sends it a day later and immediately regrets it. Chasing down the messenger and everything. #You know if something actually happened to his brother he would never ever forgive himself for putting the bad vibes out there. #Third time skip was the hardest because there was so many possible flavours of jokes here. Day 8/9 was a personal favourite. #day 14 was also funny (week by week). I think the debate on 'how long does lwj take to catch feelings' is more or less: #'how long does it take for him to arrive at a particular stage of grief and yearning (and awareness of it all) #This is a symphony. There is an act by act structure. Every day he is fighting to keep his old sensibilities. He is losing so badly. #(I'll be returning to the main comic soon but there is more of this AU to come!)

[madootles]

happy october third!

#asfhadlgajda #AU: ed has an iota of self-control #fullmetal alchemist #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #edward elric #art #fan comic #it's october third y'all #I really picked the best time of the year to fixate on this show #this was so fun I hope it's as funny as I intended although I fear it is not #oh welllll #I have many more sketches and things to finish later but I work tonight so this is it for now #love!!!!! #shout out to the person who pointed out in the hashtags that this just couldn't happen bc ed wouldn't be able to stop himself from reacting #you are correct lmao #I stand by it tho for comedic purposes

[simcardiac-arrested]

day 30 - videogame (undertale, fnaf, etc)

somebody get this man some chapstick

#(voice of a guy who’s desperately trying to not give in and watch the movie for the third time in a row) So how’s everyone doing #i haven’t drawn mike in like 5 months this is simply unacceptable. unsustainable #he could fix everything that’s wrong with the world #i have once again changed his design but it’s ok #but yeah as you can see i am very interested with the concept of mike adjusting to living in human society as a weird alive corpse thing #fuuuuckkk AUEJGHHHH i seriously do like movie mike so much i think he and game mike can live in peace and harmony #something so awful is happening to me and it’s past midnight i should NOT be allowed to think aboht my favorite characters #myart #cringetober 2023 #michael afton #mike schmidt #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #can anybody hear me. help. help. MICHAELLLL DONT LEAVE ME HERE UEHGH OUGH MICHAELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[theminecraftbee]

Once upon a time, there was a cave, and there was a tree.

Oh, that's not how most people like to start to tell the story. The thing about telling stories is that it's often easiest to start from the ending. From tumbling down cliffsides and rings of cactus and dying just barely out of reach of your king, just barely after him. Of things constantly burning, of the first time being the first to die, of bunkers in the desert and a group of five standing around an enchanting table, waving a flag. Of clocks, and betrayals, and things that weren't actually betrayals (even though they seem like they should be), of firing squads--

That is not how the story starts.

It doesn't even start with a creeper, although I would guess if you asked them about it, more than one of them would probably say it did.

No, if I were to tell the story, I would tell it like this:

Once upon a time, there was a cave. Everyone had gathered in it, with crafting tables and beds. They were being attacked by phantoms. They're chatting about how to solve the phantom problem, because they are friends. They step outside to kill the phantoms, because they can, and because it's funnier, and because they don't know how to be afraid yet.

Once upon a time, there is a tree. It grows right under one of them, trapping them in its branches. "Help!" she cries out. "What's happened?" Everyone scrambles to help cut down the tree together. When she escapes, they all agree it was a close call. It would be awfully silly, they think, for someone to die this soon, and besides, aren't they all working together?

They go back inside and they laugh. They are all green. None of them have an idea of what happens when they aren't any longer. They are all happy.

This changes. It also doesn't.

I start this story with the tree because they all, together, agree that the tree is ridiculous and silly, but all help to cut it down anyway. I start this story with the tree because by the end--

Well. My point is that the tree is a far happier story, in my opinion. My point is also, maybe, that starting with what it would become, well, that won't do at all. Starting with the part of the story that's sad, dramatic, ridiculous--that rather misses the point.

The point is that it started with a cave, and a tree, and everything else came collapsing down after it. It's easy to bury the memory of a time it would be safe to all hide in a cave together, laughing, and save one another from a tree.

It does not do to forget.

#a bee fic #3rd life smp #HAPPY THIRD LIFE ANNIVERSARY i had to get at least a LITTLE something out there #ANYWAY DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE TREE THAT ENARLY KILLED CLEO #oh good times. a time before we had ANY IDEA what was happening next huh. #trafficfic

[jestroer]

What I love about Jimmy being out first every single time Is that it's not even that he is so bad at the game, he is just so fucking unlucky at all times. Like, the best example I can give is Last Life, where he spawned with two lives, which is in itself very unlucky, didn't gain any and still he died seconds before Mumbo who spawned with 4 and in the same ep as the others who had more lives than him. Like, he barely ever died in some epic battle where his PvP skills just weren't good enough, it's always some shit like falling from somewhere, traps not meant for him, accidently looking at an enderman. It's always a chance he dies first and the chance somehow is always against Jimmy. Like I know we love calling Jimmy bad at the game but for me it's much more interesting that his skills are genuinely not the main reason he dies first. Bad luck omen as well as death omen he's not fucking beating those allegations boys

#shitpost #this boy can fit so many bad omens #was thinking of this since Last life ended #kts very interesting #I was thinking surely it wont happen fourth time in a row but no #hes so #jimmy solidarity #solidarity gaming #trafficblr #last life #third life #double life #limited life

[spursthatjinglejanglejingle]

The way that Kim breaks his one cigarette a day rule if Harry doesn't ask him to join precinct 41 at the end of the game but not after the tribunal when he (depending on the ending) kills two people, gets the shit beaten out of him, and watches his partner almost die breaks my heart. Especially with how the cigarette he smokes after the tribunal is described as "having medicinal properties", it implies that being left behind is more painful to him than getting beaten until he's concussed.

#gets sooooooo sad about Kim again #for like the third time this week #disco elysium #de #kim kitsuragi #rannbles #kimharry #disco elysium spoilers #de spoilers #anyways do you ever learn about something in this game you had no idea could happen because you're too much of a Kim simp #it sucks!

[bowie-boy]

Can we talk about how Morph is being textually placed as the third in a love triangle with Wolverine and Jean

#the way he keeps being like ‘hey logan let’s spend time together’ #and then Wolverine leaves him to find Jean??? #this is exactly what happened btwn logan and jean (with cyclops as the third) #like are we being so fr right now #jack’s posts #x men #x men 97 #wolverine x morph #logan x morph #wolverine #morph

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 256

Look, Bruce had had no plans to be a cryptid, he swore. 

Vigilante? Yes. Dark abomination of the night? No. And he was, he was technically just a dude. A well trained (and maybe feral) human, but still just a human! Apparently not to the rest of Gotham, and he honestly should have nipped those rumors when they first started. 

But like, it was also perfect for his secret identity. No one exactly expected an undead shadow-beast to have a secret identity after all. Or an undead shadow beast and some sort of ghost child to have ones, as the small child- which turned to small children- he’d taken in discovered. 

Which, look, he had tried to get Dick (and later Barbara, and Jason, and Tim, and Steph, and by the time of Duke and Cass had given up) to stop. He had tried everything he could but no, nothing could stop them. Literally nothing that he had done could stop any of them, so he had trained them instead. 

And the children were all little shits. At least by the fact that Nightwing had lead the newly-made Justice League right where he was perching, continuing to chitter and giggle near hysterically as he ducked behind him. 

And somehow they were here to try and recruit him. Great. 

#Prompts #Cryptid Batfam #Cryptid Batman #Justice league #DCU #DC #The Robins are all lil shits & convince others they’re some sort of creachur #Gotham knows Robin is a fae-ghost child hivemind thing that came from the Bats blood #They know Signal is the bat signal brought to life #They know Nightwing is the first Robin who mutated under clear skies one night after being taken from Gotham #They know Red Hood is what happens when a Robin dies for a second time & they all don’t want to know what happens a third #The JL don’t know shit and just have all the rumors they can find about Gotham’s….erm… heroes? #They run into Nightwing first & Dick is a lil shit who leads them on a merry chase #Before acting like a lil bby cryptid to hide under his parent’s wing-cape #Does Bruce and them have wings or capes? No one knows- it could be Both #Yes they have fake blood that flakes away to dust after a few minutes once dried across their bodies #Yes it glows under ultraviolet light #cryptid batfamily #batfamily #batfam shenanigans

[sonchus-arvensis]

cannot believe david tennant is a real person. he's like a character made specifically to be a tumblr doll. but real

#nothing happened. just a thought i have every third time i see him #david tennant #doctor who #good omens #moje

[princeson]

Tome used Lesbian Beam... It was super effective! 🧡🤍🩷

Tome and Dimple are here to wish y'all a happy International Lesbian Visibility Week and Day! ✨️

Dimple Friday #17

#tome says “let's go lesbians and gayliens!” #what a koinky-dink that lesbian visibility day also happened to land on a friday hm? #have a very happy lesbian visibility week and day!! #happy dimple friday as well y'all :) #dimple friday #lesbian #lgbtq+ #2slgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gay #pride #international lesbian visibility week #lesbian visibility day #international lesbian day #let's go lesbians #tome kurata #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mob psycho #ekubo #mp100 ekubo #dimple mob psycho 100 #dimple #dimple mp100 #mob psycho 100 fanart #mp100 fanart #my art #sorry for posting this a third time guys I'm being a little silly rn :P i changed the backgrounds and will delete the old ones eventually

[useful-boy]

Tfw you get random chest pains spaced a few seconds apart while you're at work and think your time is finally coming but you're still alive a minute later

#real and true events from today #random pain hit me and made me put a hand over my heart because 'ow. that hurt' #and it happened a few more times after that #on one hand yes please kill me #on the other hand man i coulda stayed home today if i was just gonna die at work smh #on the third hand me dying at this store would be horrible for their rep. kill me after all

[princeasimdiya12]

What is it with Pinocchio being (indirectly) responsible for driving villains to make their egomaniacal dreams come true?

#shrek #pinocchio #puss in boots #prince charming #rumpelstiltskin #jack horner #shrek the third #shrek forever after #puss in boots the last wish #villains #eddy's screencaps #here's to hoping it happens a fourth time in the next shrek movie

[usernameyettocome]

alice the computers are being gay again

#alice dyer #on her way to annoy her coworkers for the third time this day #hope nothing bad happens to her #my art #artists on tumblr #the magnus protocol fanart #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp fanart

[its-an-art]

[ID: A Naruto comic. Sarutobi stands in a bright white void and says, "Mm, so this must be the after--" He looks forward and sweats. "... life." Looming in front of him are Minato and Kushina, fists in palms and their eyes shadowed but expressions coldly furious. Sarutobi says, "Ah--" End ID]

——

‘I promise to take care of Naruto.’ He said before ditching a four year old pariah alone into an apartment, tossing some money at him, and telling him to figure it out.

It’s a love/hate thing with the Third Hokage when it comes to me.

My art

#on one hand he did some nice things and was generally kind #on the other he let way too much messed up stuff happen and oof #minato namizake #kushina #kushina uzumaki #Naruto #third hokage #hiruzen #funny #afterlife #it’s danger time #uh oh spaghettio

[ssunflowerfieldsz]

Risks are what make life worth living ❤

bonus cause I liked the colors here:

#the ghost and molly mcgee #tgamm #tgamm spoilers #molly mcgee #scratch mcgee #smol draws #whatever happens im not readyyy ;~; #third time's the charm in trying to post this lol </3