#is he plotting your murder?

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Fuck whatever DC is doing with the al Ghul's characterizations and story lines, I've decided that from now on the al Ghul's are gonna be DC's version of the Addams Family instead.

Now I don't mean just give the various al Ghul's the exact personalities of the various Addams and call it a day. That's boring, that erases all the interesting parts of the al Ghuls, that's just using "find & replace" and not actually adding anything. I mean give them the vibes of the Addams Family.

Keep the al Ghul's as the al Ghul's with all their scheming and machinations and world domination attempts but give them all the unhinged energy, the casually insane view of the world, the deranged levels of love and devotion for family. Make them that group where objectively they are batshit insane but also you cannot argue with the fact that they are indisputably the most stable and functional family in the entire universe.

They're creepy, they're kooky, they're mysterious and spooky. Ra's many opulent homes and impenetrable fortresses are a museum and the al Ghul's really are a screa-um whenever people come to see-um (or when they lay waste upon their enemies in a surprise attack that has been planned for months and is just the first domino in a series that will ultimately lead to achieving a far greater goal).

They all love each other and want each other to be happy, they express this primarily with stabbing and murder attempts (its fine, death is a thing that happens to other people).

And forget the League of Assassins being a cult. Just make the whole vast globe spanning organization a collection of cousins/aunts/uncles/dear old friends ect. No one (not even the al Ghuls, if they cared to keep track of such things) is sure who is actually related to them and who just got absorbed into the ever expanding family tree based on their vibes being right.

(Is Sensei Ra's father you ask? Well he's certainly someone's father - probably.

Anyway have you heard about Cousin Cheshire? Despicable poisoner of a young woman, capable of the most horrific things imaginable - yes she is the sweetest dear. Like I was saying though, she just had a baby!

Everyone in the family is just so excited to throw a baby shower to celebrate! Ubu has really gone all out with the spike traps, he does so love getting to welcome a new addition to the family.

Talia of course has cultivated a brand new strain of the most toxic plants imaginable to make a brand new kind of necrotizing poison. You know, as a nice little romantic gift for Cousin Cheshire and that young man of hers. It really is so important to make sure you take time for you and your partner to go on dates and have a few pitched battles to the death on dark rooftops in the pounding rain when you have children.

Now there is some to-do about it all of course, you know how family get together can be. Everyone is arguing over who should get to give little Lian her first weapon and what it should be. Nyssa is pushing for grenades but Ra's is insisting on a sword - he's traditional like that you know - but Dusan has the vote so far on throwing knives. You know the kind that have the little divots along the edges of the blades them to make it easier to get the poison you dip them in to stick.)

I'm just saying that the al Ghuls should be a delightful cross between the Bond Villains they were originally conceived as and the lovingly unhinged Addams Family. It just feels correct in my heart.

(Again keep the interesting aspects of the characters and the nuances of who each of them are like their drive to save the world through destroying humanity and their strong environmentalist leanings and their constantly playing 5D chess and everything, but like, take away the racism and the cartoonishly evil for no reason bullshit and give them some fun feral energy to go along with it).

#batman #ra's al ghul #al ghul family #talia al ghul #nyssa raatko #cheshire dc #sensei dc #no more racism and fucked up dark family dynamics #the al ghuls aggressively adore each other #violence and schemes is their love language #in the full au version of all of this i'd like to imagine how canon plot points change with the al ghuls having these vibes #Just imagine Damian still trying to kill Tim when he first ends up in Bruce's care #but instead of it being a ploy to get rid of a threat its because he's just so excited to meet one of his big brothers #and attempted murder is just how you tell someone in your family that you love them #Tim just SO CONFUSED because Damian is talking so animatedly about how happy he is to get to have some brotherly bonding with Tim #while ACTIVELY trying to run him through with a sword #idk how things change with Cass exactly but i feel like they would in this #like either David Cain isn't an absolute monster or the al ghuls catch wind of what he's doing & are like #This is NOT how al ghuls treat family! what is this shameful behavior! She can't even insult you while you fight! #fighting and violence is a perfectly healthy way to express your love but only if there's actually LOVE involved! #The Heretic & other Damian clones still get made but only because Talia just misses her son so much that she makes more of him #Nyssa has just been bopping around the world for a few centuries & pops up every now and then to have a death match with her baby sister #i just have a lot of strong feelings about the al ghuls deserving better and combined that with the vibes of my favorite unhinged family #Dick still hates Talia but Talia takes all his insults as her darling step son telling her how much he loves her #which only drives Dick even crazier #Tim rocks up to the League of Assassins during his whole trying to prove Bruce is alive thing already seen as an al ghul #Oh yeah that's Cousin Timothy he's one of Talia's kids - never met a truer al ghul in your life #You see how he blew up all those bases? Ra's cried he was so proud #Ra's spoils his grandkids absolutely rotten which is giving Bruce SO MANY gray hairs

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#lmao #he is so dumb your honor #i love him so much for it #omitb #omitbedit #omitbedits #only murders in the building #charles haden savage #mabel mora #selena gomez #steve martin #gif #gifs #gifset #tobert #jesse williams #3x6 #spoiler alert #plot twist #oliver putnam #martin short

[strangesickness]

okay i know we all love big brown doe eyed eddie but. can we please talk about how he has blue eyes in the book.

because like yeah in the book he's described as having greyish blue eyes. but like. eddie kaspbrak with weezer blue eyes. imagine it. right now. imagine tiny eddie like staring directly into richie's eyes to deliver an impassioned speech about infections. just staring. staring right into his very soul. now that would make the IT movies scary. or in the scene where henry stabs eddie and eddie's closing the shower curtain and he's like half laughing. imagine that scene and he has just. freakishly blue eyes. TERRIFYING.

#i imagine eddie to be the kind of person who makes really intense and prolonged eye contact #like not normal socially acceptable levels of eye contact #but staring directly into your soul not blinking eye contact. #and i feel like when he has brown eyes its kinda cute but also unnerving but if he had blue eyes it'd be like “is he plotting my murder???” #i am always talking shit about the “staring into your soul” blue eyes but i've never met someone with blue eyes that gives that vibe #EXCEPT for myself. i am so bad at eye contact (make it too intensely) and i have weezer blue eyes. match made in hell <3 #eddie kaspbrak #it 2017 #it 2019 #it stephen king

[s-wordsmith]

Something I really need Stranger Things fic writers to know is that no one in rural America was locking any doors in the eighties apart from the government and businesses. I remember when there was a big stink about "we gotta start locking our doors now how am I supposed to remember that every time I leave the house." People didn't lock the doors when they were home until at LEAST the mid-aughts, a lot of people STILL don't. "Oh we can't get into so-and-so's house/car because we don't have the keys!" You do not need the keys, just open the door. "I'm alarmed because I went over to so-and-so's house and their front door was unlocked so I instantly knew something was wrong." It would be much weirder if it was locked. If I showed up at my friend's house and the door was locked I would immediately assume something was wrong. If I lived in a town regularly invaded by monsters and patrolled by mobs of government agents/Russian spies/jocks with guns, I would assume my friend was currently being hunted.

#stranger things #pretty sure Will just walked into his house in the first episode #I know Mike did when he brought Eleven home #None of these doors are locked #Please stop including it as plot points because it takes me right out of the story and leaves me staring into space #Also while we're at it: #VHS tapes will not fit in Steve's back jeans pocket #That's not happening #And it is completely normal for the Wheelers to not know where their two oldest kids are #Parents in the eighties expected you to show up for breakfast and for dinner and that's it #Sometimes you bike to the other side of town to get up to trouble with your friends and that's just how it is #If you were inside they were concerned about your health #And no one was particularly stressed about being able to reach anyone because that was the usual state of things #Sorry for the rant #So many of you are too young to have known the carefree days of the height of serial killers lol #Kids rarely went missing and most people had only ever heard of murders and other serious crimes in the big city #No one in Hawkins is concerned except the people who have dealt with the monsters

[lilywily143]

You guys think that we are just way too obsessed with Murder Drones so we know way too much about the details than casual viewers like MatPat?

#lilywily post #murder drones #i don't really know how to feel about it becuase if it's your first few watches of MD; it'd get it if you don't understand things clearly #But it's MatPat's ENTIRE JOB to overanylaze things to the point he overlooks the main plot of things........ #Like come on “mario is a sociopath and villian?”

[vicciouxs]

@tricoufamily duo challenge !! meet arlo and asher🐎

dynamic: the gruff loner and the child they've somehow adopted genre: western & crime

s i m⠀o n e : ARLO KELSEY [ 35 yo ] ⠀trait: kind ⠀hair: ginger and medium length ⠀extra: scars

‼️ Arlo is a former police inspector whose career went down the drain after being accused of stealing evidence in a murder case.

s i m⠀t w o : ASHER MURRAY [ 12 yo ] ⠀trait: mean ⠀hair: ginger and medium length ⠀extra: freckles

‼️ After the strange death of his mother, Asher has no choice but to move in with his uncle in Chestnut Ridge.

#after both sims came out the same I had to make them family #in truth #asher is not a mean child #he is just hurt because no one seems to be trying to solve his mother's murder #btw there are two genres because I accidentally took two screenshots but theyre both fine with the plot 😔😔 #tricoufamily duo challenge #my sims #oc: arlo #oc: asher #show us your sims #the sims 4 #ts4 #sims #sims 4 #the sims #ts4 screenshots #simblr #s4 simblr #the sims community

[shady-timetraveler]

RIP Kim. He just wants to beat one racer in a fair fight to prove he's the best but everyone is trying to kill babe before he can do it

#pit babe the series #im only on episode 5 so maybe not all the facts yet #but kim seems like your average asshole who got thrown into a murder plot #EDIT: I change my mind hes not an asshole #hes the only one i trust #everyone else is confused af but kim knows what tf to do

[favvnsongs]

@ap-pren-tice: The vibes are not Fukuzawa approved

#i stg he's murdered someone. he has to have had. junichiro unhinged murderous b-plot lmfao #the 'dazai shooting aku in the face' vibes are through the roof. the 'ill jump you and steal your shit dont test me' #the interrogative 'hey where's my sister tell me or I'll break your legs' vibes #bestie babey smol uwu child of my heart why are you so SINISTER WHAT IS HAPPENING

[distraughtlesbian]

sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room

like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!

during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her

like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

#maeve speaks #playchoices #choices #pixelberry #blades of light and shadow #bolas #choices bolas #choices valax #bolas valax #blades valax #valax #princess valax #valax x mc #JENNY HOLZER VOICE INCORRECT MERCIFUL IMPULSES POSTPONE THE CLEANSING THAT PRECEDES REFORM. #YOU TASTE BLOOD AND KNOW THAT LIFE IS LOVELY FRAGILE AND YOU REMEMBER THAT THE OPPRESSED ERUPT AND MURDER. #the conflict between the shadow and light realms and the nature of the ash empire’s war is interesting. #valax using the mc’s pain as a means towards the ultimate end of a better life for her people is interesting. #but you can’t focus a whole story on revenge—you can’t give your big bad a partly-justified revenge quest—and then just not talk about #forgiveness and vengeance on an interpersonal level. nia forgives aerin no problem. mc forgives valax no problem. #can we get fucking real? and also a grip? and also a clue? do you think i come on this stupid fucking app to swallow rage the way i do irl. #aerin at least acknowledges the myriad ways that he wronged nia and nia gets to be impacted by his actions even a full year later #but EYE am barred from any meaningful discussion with valax abt her misdeeds bc she’s sad and hot? #who let the blades 2 writing team cook 🗣🗣💯💯 #bro out of recipes again 🔥🔥‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣 #bro turned the stove off he aint cookin 🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣‼️‼️ #etc etc. just so many great plot points and characters and FUMBLED execution every time.

[quietwingsinthesky]

crowley would literally be so happy to be dean’s soon-to-be-murdered wife. he would have a ball with it. he would take every threat as flirtation and be so secure in his place in dean’s life as affirmed by an ancient murder curse.

#like he’s not going to let dean kill him because he has some self-preservation #but he is going to find it hot that dean tries. because every time he does dean can’t ignore the fact that <3 crowley is his metaphorical #curse wife. #crowley and rowena catfight where crowley is so so smug about getting remarried (<- note: not actually married. dean didn’t even give him a #ring.) and rowena goes FERH-gus. your husband is plotting to murder you. 🥺 i’m worried he’s going to take away my darling boy. #and crowley just goes 🥰 yeah 🥰 he is isn’t he #there’s so much wrong with them #drowley #crowley spn #dean winchester

[msfcatlover]

*slams hands on the table in sudden realization*

STAR SAPPHIRE DAMIAN WAYNE

#iwctw (time travel) #my writing #mine #damian wayne #damian al ghul #prerobin Damian wayne #batfam #batfamily #batman #bat fam #bat family #// #IT WORKS IT WORKS IT WORKS!!! #HE HAS CARRIED SO MUCH LOVE!!! HE HAS SUFFERED SO MUCH LOSS!! HE LOVES THEM STILL DESPITE IT ALL AND AT GREAT PERSONAL COST!!!!! #And /YES/ that applies to /all/ of my time traveling Robins but Dami’s actively fuckingaround with space shit alright alright #Oh my god imagine meeting the newest Star Sapphire to be active on Earth and it’s this. Fuckin’. 5yr old boy dressed like a magical girl. #The first thing he does after introducing himself is pointing out a major weakness thatmakes it very easy to kill you so you can work on it. #He comes up to your hip. He has a pink fuckin’ lightsaber. You’re pretty sure he’s quietly plotting your murder as we speak.

[musicalchaos07]

They really put Jonathan (and his anxiety issues) on the road trip from hell with teen gays going through relationship problems and a man who’s the mental equivalent of Steve but permanently high and people have the audacity to say he didn’t do anything this season. My man was barely holding it together for a week

#I love Argyle but that man has NO CLUE what is going on #I love that for him #Jonathan didn't do anything Jonathan was trying not to kill people sweetie #convinced the ONLY reason he didn't kill Mike is because that's his brother-in-law #he was like I am already in enough trouble with Nancy I guess I cannot kill her brother #Nancy would ok the murder if she knew the circumstances #I'm going through screenshots and Jonathan keeps looking at Byler like pls shut up and kiss #stranger things #jonathan byers #byers family #byler #but seriously imagine you're just plotting to escape to check on your gf and your brother is having reconciliation with his bf IN YOUR ROOM

[isdalinarhot]

I assume 17 is the Alethi/etc age of adulthood? Because of 17 on Roshar being roughly equivalent to 18 on Earth and also because of Shallan being 17 when she does All That but also Sadeas is 16 in ob 3 committing crimes against humanity with zero parental supervision whatsoever so it’s like ???????

#I’ve always had it so Dalinar and Sadeas first hooked up when they were 21 and 18 respectively #just to make things feel absolutely comfortable in my brain #I think Sadeas had a thing for Dalinar from the moment he met him but Dalinar sort of slow burned from #’this is a fucking infant’ (when he’s 18 and Sadeas is 15) to ‘I need to suck him sloppy style posthaste’ (when he’s 21 and Sadeas is 18) #and it was very gradual. but hey there may come a day when your brain finally lets you process #that your best buddy states very intently at your naked torso when you’re changing in front of him #and you’re like does….. does sadeas….. Like Me? 😳 and then you’re a blushing mess for like 10 minutes #until the thrill kicks in and you forget about cute boys and start thinking only of murder #luke.txt #i have lost the plot

[thychesters]

lucci: ah, straw hat. so you’re here to learn the truth about cp9, and now that you’ve uncovered our plot –

luffy: what? no. didn’t ask, don’t care. robin, are you done? can we go now?

#are you done with your murder assassin playdate #lucci: you aren't interested in this undercover government plot? #luffy: if i was i would have asked. but i didn't so i'm not. #he's concerned with the fact iceburg got shot because he's a cool guy and you hurt paulie ohhh you guys are playing secret society #ok whatever. can robin go now? it's time to play pirates again. is iceberg okay? #kate watches op #water 7

[weavewilled]

gale is 200% that nerd who goes to lectures, buys the signed book, and generally vibrates in delighted wonder. unless it's bad or poorly researched, in which case he will sit in polite yet disgruntled judgement and then go home and furiously write a novel about why it's wrong

#;; & headcanons. #( imagine while they're in bg he's like #this famous wizard is giving a lecture on abjuration we mUST GO #tav: gale there's a giant murder plot in the city #gale vc: they're selling signed books >( #tav: yOU HAVE A TADPOLE IN YOUR BRAIN )

[ishkabibblethings]

Just hear me out...

(thx @blackashbluephoenix for planting this one)

#harvey specter #john wick #the importance of a good tailor #cars and not talking about your feelings #being fucking miserable when someone threatens your puppy #and by miserable i mean actually murderous #nothing to lose once he's gone so let's get into our rampage era i guess #violence can be the answer #pissing off your boss for funsies as a background plot #the strange effects of broken unhappy men on my psyche