i was looking through the daily wikipedia things, as you do, and this was fun
the Ruddigore; or, The Witch's Curse, and the picture of the day:
depicts a scene from the opera in which the ghosts of Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd's ancestors step out of their picture frames and accuse him of not having committed a crime every day in accordance with the family curse.
which i didn’t guess was a common theme but i should’ve. there has to be a meme about the amount of times a ghost has come out of a portrait to haunt a relative.
then there is this about the song “When the night wind howls”
When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in the moonlight flies,
And inky clouds, like funeral shrouds, sail over the midnight skies –
When the footpads quail at the night-bird's wail, and black dogs bay at the moon,
Then is the spectres' holiday – then is the ghosts' high-noon!
that had an ancestor in the song “The Ghost to his Ladye Love” and it goes
Fair phantom, come! The moon's awake,
The owl hoots gaily from its brake,
The blithesome bat's a-wing.
if this isn’t dpxdc content waiting to happen. what with all the bat, bird, and ghost imagery.
Someone in Gotham has a problem. There are strange happenings happening and they call for help.
This might involve the Bats. This might involve a charity party. Like murder mystery.
The “owl hoots” could be a reference to the court of owls
Maybe there is a gathering and the ghost of the talon’s mothers come to seek vengeance instead of being ancestors to a cursed lineage
(could just be the ghosts of the unwilling talons.. the place has a lot of them, who’s to say they don’t see them as expendable)
(i don’t actually know much anything about the talons or the court :D)
(MAYBE it’s just the bat family being the cursed lineage even through adoption and they have to deal with this every century or so)
(well. i mean, anyway)
The gathering is in one of the high rankings house, i have spontaneously decided it is that hotel owner i just barely glanced through
or for higher level of indulgent story telling, it could be happening at that Orchard Hotel that was founded by the father of guy who got talon-ed for running away to the haly circus (and maybe, say that it was conveniently where the talon-ed guy was stationed at? and maybe also dick’s talon-ed great-something-grandfather is there too,, for fun and profit,,,)
Understandably, there are no picture frames but there might be files and copies. Imagine a hurricane of pictures and papers surrounding the host and angry faces sometimes peaking out of them, maybe pointing hands and claws
The women/people become a murder of ghost harpies (meaning snatchers, more wikipedia✨, they were said to steal food from their victims while they were eating and carry evildoers (especially those who have killed their families) to the Furies, the three main girlbosses on revenge and judgement of mortals(?) “spite, anger and destruction”
(tho this could mean anything, like the three furies could be three main ghosts/mothers that became more powerful than the others or
actually be tucker, sam and danny sharing monarchy custody, as it says they are “daughters of hades and nix” meaning, yknow, death
and darkness, so you could also say they are batman and red hood and nightwing in this context, idk)
(and that could mean that the someone calling for help was the harpies, which means maybe ominous messages and blood letters, maybe screaming and breathing on a call, or plain “anon tip” call for help)
this mostly has a little to do with the original start but i’ll find som- wait
bonus!
it’s ya boi john constantine!!!
he is the cursed!! the 👏 cursed 👏 lineage!!
Hear ye, this man already knew of the curse, and the curse is that he has to make deals with demons. trade his soul/firstborn or whatever away,
but he decided he didn’t want to just do that, it’s his soul and he decided to break tradition and began what he is known for
the ancestors are a little impressed but still
every once in a while he will trade a bit of his soul to keep the ancestors from nagging too much.
and once he hit the required age to ride that malefice roller coaster/curse, he got a too big family reunion of too cunning (read:smartass) and annoying relatives
the thing is that his house is so magical that most ghosts of his ancestors could be there the whole time
this is like dora the explorer only they are telling swiper to swipe, and so, john to deal with demons
So:
if i want to involve danny in this as the ghost king, and of course i do, it could be about him finding out:
1, the amount of paperwork he has because of this guy, why is this his afterlife
2, the guy is actually a heritage student in the very exclusive school of cursed,
and 3, well, 3 is that now he has to help this guy become uncursed to stop the pile of work on his desk from growing and safeguard the poor smithereens of John’s soul
and his first order of business: being horrified by all the soul thing and tired from looking at the work ahead of him,
second, because he doesn’t know about the curse, is to be indignant because why are these ghosts just encouraging him to trade his soul (something already terrible) but also make him more paperwork
and then indignant and angry because they are shaming this guy into it and berating him “you haven’t done your chores”-style like What the hell?
Cue finding out that it’s a condition and being sympathetic and deciding to help
Bonding???
Bonus bonus?
constantine ancestors: this one came like this, we are moderately proud
john: 🕵️♂️🤷♂️✨
danny: 👀👄👀
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tbt, tumblr rp trends version. repost and bold the trends you have taken part in, leave untouched the ones you’ve seen but haven’t taken part in, and cross out the ones you can’t remember or have missed.
photoshop replies. / formatting by making a line break before the end of the text field to create a block of text that never looked good on themes. / doing the aforementioned but also trying to make the lines looks even with spacebar. / the first rise of promos being two vertical images side by side. / “straight outta __” promo trend that lasted like less than 12 hours. / making shitpost promos specifically for april fool’s day. / c.rystal r.eed, d.ylan o’b.rien, and n.ina d.obrev are the only three faceclaims in the world. / everyone’s period faceclaim is adelaine kane in reign. / ian somerhalden at 35 years old works as a fc for a high school student. / amb.er h.eard is the only faceclaim in the world.
cutting threads who. / container themes. / container themes at an angle. / container themes and the links blend in with the background. / themes with a gif as a sidebar. / themes with full-width or height sidebars no one really knew how to make look good. / update bars separate from the rest of the theme. / tacky-looking autoplays. / autoplays but this time the player is tiny and in the description and starts from the beginning every time the page loads. / autoplays but this time the horizontal player at the top or bottom has a transparent layout. / “you can’t see the expression in 100x100 icons”. / insanejournal icons. / rping with big gifs. / rping with big gifs but this time it’s ironic. / “#ignore the text”
‘greeter' open starters for new followers / “hey how about we do this reblog karma thing where you send a meme if you reblog it bc no one is doing it” / “i will block you if you don’t reblog the meme from the source” / torn paper effect mobile banners. / mun faceclaim. / small text. / double small text. / triple small text. / magic anons. / rping with personals via anon asks. / a border inside the icon and an initial on the bottom right corner. / taking icons off hollow-art and just putting a psd over it. / red text on black background or vice versa no matter how difficult it was to see bc Edgy. / “multimuses are bad”. / all the mun information on the caption of the promo, including experience and formatting preference. / video promos.
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