#dying city

[elizabethanism]

Thomas Bernhard at his best.

When I am tired, I bow my brain across the square

and let the feet trample and set the vileness of the butchers to

psalms.

From the hole of a tram car I look into the sky,

distracted by the trembling of the leaves and the lip-twisting of girls

#Thomas Bernhard #Fragments #Tired #Dying city

[notacluedo]

how the ride back from skyros went

#Imagine ur Pyrrhus and ur like 13 and this random middle aged dude takes u to an island to a guy who’s dying #That HE voted to leave on the island and he’s like lol steal his bow <3 #Also love that these two are the ones who alleged threw astynax off the walls of Troy in different versions😭😭😭😭 #Pyrrhus #neoptolemus #Odysseus #the iliad #greek mythology #my art #My mum still only knows Odysseus as the guy who threw a baby off a wall bc we watched Troy fall of a city together

[grapecaseschoices]

some of the extremely supportive but slightly[?] unhinged things wyll can say to the dark urge as they fight the wyll [haha] to peel off his face.

#wyll x durge #my favorite not included is that he just says: 'shit' #when durge tries to bite him #wyll ravengard #he's so funny and so fucked up #it's just so like 'welp. this is bad bad. huh?' #yes wyllyam. tis. #kaeliana x wyll #bg3 #whew #cracked up so much from his reactions #like on a level it says so much about him. but on the other im dying bc ffs wyll. #the last is what he says when durge GROWLS at him???? #wyllyam. we need to speak. #baby #like i know -- you spent your seven years in the wild just fiends and monsters as your company. but -- #the first makes me sad and givesme so many feelings about wyll. 17. having to rise up and meet the gazes of what meant to hurt his city. #gaze of the devil who entrapped him. the gaze of the father who scorned him

[gummybearstastelikesadness]

The Bat kids trying to do more civilian things to be less suspicious. But Steph ends up being the one to plan everything, leading to them all ending up doing things from a “25+ Things Your Teenage Daughter Can Do For Fun” webpage.

Duke: “Ok so number 12 says get your ears pierced.”

Dick: “I know a place!”

•••

Tim and Cass: *looking at earrings*

Damian: “Richard are you sure this establishment is… sanitary?”

Jason: “Oh is the great blood son afraid of a,” glances at store name, “Claire’s?”

#batman #damian wayne #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #jason todd #dick grayson #tim drake #duke thomas #batfam #batkids #would Gotham even have a Clare’s? like would they have to go to a different city entirely to find one? #batman prompt #They all end up getting their nails and hair done with half of them also getting it dyed #they get new experimental wardrobes. crash a prom. talk about boys. etc #they don’t even realize the list isn’t an actual teenage activity thing and just end up getting multiple news stations talking about them #doing random things and end up with memes about all of them within hours

[flowersforfrancis]

#I’m dying loves #anyway <3 #romanticism #dark academia #chaotic academia #classic academia #books and literature #dark romantica #academia #the secret history #if we were villains #dark aesthetic #aesthetic #academia aesthetic #light academia #vintage academia #red academia #brown academia #old aesthetic #city aesthetic #university aesthetic #books and reading #books and libraries #museums #art galleries #black coffee #cafe aesthetic #arts and culture #anyway

[boygirltreehouse]

obsessed w how bitter and upset duke is w Bruce in this arc. and he has every right to be! he knew Bruce almost personally at that point, and his parents were joker gassed in a recreation of the wayne murders in an effort to get to batman. they were collateral damage and duke had been suffering pretty much alone as a result. his whole ideology is that robin doesn't need batman but on a more personal scale, you can see why he thinks that! when he needed Bruce he wasn't there, when he needed batman he wasn't there either. And he'll fret like he didn't care like it didn't matter but it DID

Ik I talk abt this panel often but that's bcs KTZZZZ ITS SO CRUCIAL TO DUKES CHARACTER!! He becomes completely self reliant, isolates himself he can't wait on batman to save the city, can't wait on batman to find his parents or wait on batman to save him, he's all he could rely on, and that self-reliance later grew into an almost cynical worldview. it's why his whole "emphasis on the word 'we'" thing at the we of WAR meant so much. he had hope in not just his own beliefs but in others' as well.

ANDDD it's why his and bruce's dynamic drives me up a wall but that's another post for another time..

#the signal #duke thomas #bruce wayne #thought bubbles #signal interlude #batman #dc comics #the thing is that he was supposed to do something at least he promised he would #and not that bruces batmaning is healthy but the one time he chose himself over the mission is when duke needed him most #to find his parents to keep him out of the system to do anything..dukes lucky he made it out the way he did and didnt end up like his foil #character in WAR #like rationally none of it is bruces fault and he should be allowed to live a normal life and thats exactly why duke doesn't yank him back #immediately you can see him debating it everytime duke runs into a memoryless bruce #but he cant keep bruce from himself at this point not anymore not when the city was literally dying without him #it isnt just abt duke atp its about all of gotham

[shyjusticewarrior]

Dick is bad at being unrecognizable.

First off there's how Tim recognized his quadruple flip.

When he was Batman the Riddler knew it was a different guy (tho not who specifically.)

Gaggy hates the og Robin cause he subconsciously recognized him from when the Flying Graysons replaced him at the circus.

Duke figured out his identity when he was Spyral.

#dc #dc comics #comics #comic books #a lonely place of dying #gotham city sirens #we are robin #media analysis #character analysis #dick grayson #nightwing #batman dick grayson #spyral #robin dick grayson #batfam #batfamily #batkids #rogues gallery #media commentary #funny #motifs

[notedgyanymore]

DpxDc

An entire city has appeared out of nowhere, The Justice league goes to the location to investigate, there they notice that the whole area seems to be stuck in the year of 2007 and upon further inspection another strange phenomenon is uncovered.

Some residents of Amity Park appear to be replicas of people who already existed before the city materialized out of thin air, these citizens of Amity Park have the same DNA and look exactly alike to the individuals they seem to be a replica of, especially when compared to the pictures of these people in the year of 2007.

One of the few witnesses to what happened to the city Daniel James Fenton is in a deep coma without any apparent cause, his family, however, is awake, and they are now the biggest clue to the mysteries of Amity Park.

#danny phantom #dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp crossover #dc x dp #What happened here? Well that's for to you figure out! #Buuuut if I was the one writing this story it would go something like this: #Danny found out that his universe was dying #he knew that he couldn't save the entire world #But he could try to at least save his city #So he used his ghost king powers to move Amity Park to a more stable universe #The cause of his coma is a crack in his core created out of overexertion.

[lily-ohfally]

WoL QotD: What made you choose your WoL's name? Does it have any important meaning or did it just sound nice?

Follow up: Is it lore accurate? If it isn't, why not?

#Lily's name is mostly chosen bc i thought it would be cute to name a muscular man something cute #like a flower. hence lily! also bc i love lily of the valley's #if it wasn't obvious his name is literally lily of the valley #i'm still unsure if it's completely lore accurate #but from what i could understand viera (rava) choose new ''city'' names when they leave the forest #i think i still have to formally explain why he and his surrogate siblings left but i wanna do something big for it #like a comic :) bc i love torture (currently drawing a meme comic and im dying squirtle) #but yeah! tldr: i love lily of the valley's and i thought it would be cute! #wolqotd #wol qotd #wol questions #wol question of the day #ff14 #ffxiv #ffxiv qotd #ffxiv wolqotd #ff14 qotd #ff14 wolqotd

[absentlyabbie]

reading this book and it describes this fantasy tiered city built on the side of a mountain and it has one "impossibly long" stairway for traversing from one tier to another

and all i can think is "wow that is awful urban design."

without even getting into the inherent ableism (but hey! fantasy city with fantasy races which are naturally superior and therefore pretty much never experience disability, of course, because that's what superiority means) of the apparently sole system of traveling between levels of this city being stairs and only stairs, it's a freaking deathtrap.

one impossibly long unbroken stairway across the breadth of a tiered city built into the side of a mountain? no landings are described, even. without some kinda natural break, one moment of clumsiness or an unfriendly shove and someone is having a long, long tumble to a broken neck (and broken everything else.)

#at MINIMUM it should be gently sloped wide stairs between each level with the next staircase set off to the left #and the next off to the right and then back and then forth again #so that if someone SHOULD have a terrible accident they at least stand a chance of a shorter fall and maybe not dying #but how tf also is freight carted around this city #please tell me there are ramps or even freight elevators somewhere #also also #THINK OF THE TRAFFIC JAMS even on foot yikes #worldbuilding nitpicking

[silverwhittlingknife]

good coping mechanisms [not pictured]

nightwing 116 & red robin 12

#is it self-sacrifice or self-destruction? why not both #dick grayson #tim drake #i think tim's red robin fight is probably better known bc dick fans tend to focus on the angst at the beginning of the renegade arc #instead of the angst at the end of the renegade arc #HOWEVER at the end of the renegade arc blüdhaven is exploding #and dick - who's been extremely down on himself and convinced that maybe he's kind of a bad guy - #gets a brief new lease on life by being highly-motivated to charge into the exploding city with a borderline suicidal plan #which very predictably ends in him charging into an explosion and passing out and getting rescued by batman #(bruce is then a jerk about it but never mind that for the sake of the parallel) #and so dick spends his whole charge-into-the-city-on-fire soliloquy thinking about how he's gonna do things RIGHT now #and he's BETTER now - no more shades of gray!! only black and white!!! #and on the one hand this is clearly genuinely felt and it's a huge relief for him to be able to see himself as a hero again #but it's hard to miss that. like. the actual plan that he has. #involves putting himself in extreme danger with no backup and probably dying #and there's a strong implication that maybe to dick that part is a feature and not a bug

[mera-kiin]

LOOK AT ME. I CANNOT END.

#disco elysium #mine #shivers #that game where the looming threat of nuclear catastrophe hits just as hard as the worst breakup of your life #the worst break up in the world #the break up of all break ups #that game where the city loves you so much she wants you to live more than you do #because she is dying and oh theres that looming sense of dread again #it makes you sob small sobs while you hug your loved ones and cry I love you into the space between their ear and neck #I dont want to end I want to stay here with you #I love you

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

"YES HE IS HER MATE" Thankyou Sarah thankyou for this 100% indisputable confirmation of what we already knew but some people don't get

#hunt and quinlar anti's can stop trying to twist themselves into knots trying to say they're not mates and they won't stay together #they are mates #they are staying together #they're not breaking up. hunt's not dying. az is not bryce's actual mate #quinlar #crescent city #sarah j maas #hunt athalar #bryce quinlan #hosab #hofas #leave my soft angel boy alone #sjm live

[diskoteek]

disciple

#rain world #rain world downpour #rain world oc #hiii i made a scav oc #she is a lone scav who has lived in moon’s city all her life #and shes like. obsessed with moon in a religious sense #because shes literally her home #its a story about two women of very different forms of life alone in a dying world #she likes to bring moon gifts and scav graffiti her town with portraits of her puppet #just exploring scav concepts of religion with her #me art

[funkbun]

eoues doodles. eoues wahooies

#that burger gave them the worst stomachache ever and they were 100% sure that Was It. They're Gone. They're Dead. They're Dying #world saddest most scared grumpus eats the worst burger in the city. will they suffer? #bug game

[moeblob]

Ohiwe (lady) and Ohime (man) aka the fire deity after they get punished.

Originally just "Oh", the fire deity had a bit too much fun with punishing humans and so in a means to stop them, the elder gods split them into two. So now they have to be together in order to have their "full" power but as before the split, they get restless and like to wander. So while one stays in their city, the other gets to go out and travel and see the world and check on the other deities.

Also, as a whole/singular being Oh would use they/them. After the split however, it's definitely not the same and so Ohiwe likes using female pronouns and Ohime uses male pronouns. That way when discussed as one, it's back to they. That feels best for them.

#my characters #i posted the unified base version to my side blog but they arent very exciting it was just a lil doodle #however as i sit here waiting for my throbbing headache to go away im dying squirtle i figured id try to doodle #before i work on the comm and unfortunately my head still hurts so back to medicine i go #also also ohime is much more mild in his commentary where ohiwe is sharp and harsh #and ohiwe is definitely more fond of running the city than ohime but that also means she gets more restless quicker #so he unfortunately is stuck in the city more than she is because she needs to wander #she still does most of the planning as she wanders and then talks it over with ohime when she returns #i wanna make a funny joke about how they are indeed the last two brain cells type of thing #but also they are on the same wavelength almost all the time cause they started as the same person #but its always a bit of a jump in their logic to other people while they remain on the same page #like ohiwe says something and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS #and everyone else is like no ??? but ohime is like WE HAVE TO TAKE A NAP #or something and ohiwe is like exactly ! glad one of you in the room knows whats up