#original content (kinda)

[starry-bi-sky]

my body's aching like a knock-down drag-out

and my poor heart is an open wound A Childhood Friends Au snippet that very briefly delves into Danny's life post-accident. CW: Mild Mentions of Blood, Violence, VERY mild gore ig. Danny briefly recalls getting impaled during a fight.

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What they don't tell you about being dead is that it hurts. That it can hurt. That it can hurt more than when you were alive. That when you die, the emotions you die with stick with you like a leech that just won't let go. That emotions are ugly little thorns that stick their barbs into you and grow beneath your skin; or, at least, whatever’s left of it. 

Danny is familiar with anger. It kept him warm in Gotham, when his parents weren't home from work and he and Jason were crowding Crime Alley with their presence. It kept him warm in Amity, when the fresh sting of moving was still needling into his heart and he wanted nothing more than to rip and tear into the closest person next to him.

He's familiar with violence. With fights. With death. He's seen people die in Crime Alley probably every day. From overdose, from gunshots, from stab wounds; anything that can kill, rest assured he's seen it. He's familiar with getting his own knuckles rough and bloody when other kids turn and bare their teeth at him and Jason; they're all just starving dogs stuck in a fighting pit, primed and ready to rip out each other's throats. 

Black eyes, stomped hands, bloody noses. You name it; he’s had it. Gotham is paved with the blood of her children, and Danny likes to imagine that when he was born, the doctors handed his mother a file and told her; “Take it. He’s going to need it for his teeth.” 

Danny’s mom (and dad, for that matter) was too busy trying to keep him and Jazz fed, so Danny stole the file from her drawer with Jazz’s help, and did it himself.  

He’s familiar with anger, he thought he was getting better at it these days. It doesn’t come to him as easily as it did before. Of course, that was before Jason died. 

Danny is less familiar with grief. Caring kills and Gotham kills the caring, so Danny cares very little about other people. Or he tries to. But grief hurts. His grief hurts. It hurts too much. It hurts like a bug trying to crawl out of his chest; like a rat chewing a hole through his heart. Some days he wants to dig his hands into his hair and split himself down the middle. Some days he just wants to scream. 

He’s dead. He’s dead. He’s dead. 

He wants the whole city to hear him wailing, some days. It sticks itself in the back of his throat like bile, and Danny is one wrong retch away from letting it loose. It sticks in his lungs like all the tar he’s smoked in since he was nine. It pushes and aches at his temples, in his head, like his brain is trying to swell out of his skull. His thoughts becoming so loud they threaten to commandeer his tongue.  

He has no mouth, but he must scream. 

Something they don’t tell you about being dead is that it hurts. That it hurts more than when you were alive. Something they don’t tell you about being dead is that it’s violent. That it’s bloody. Or as bloody as it can be when everyone has no blood. 

Another thing they don’t tell you about being dead, is that it’s a lot like Gotham that way.

With no threat of death, Danny’s enemies forget death itself. Blood comes easy, like water, and teeth are encouraged. Bring your own fangs to the fight. Dying is something you can just walk off. 

Danny’s been dead for three months. He can’t say he’s been walking it off easy. He’s perfected the art of turning his nails into claws since his heart was still beating, but he can’t say he’s perfected fighting other ghosts. 

Scrappy is just not enough. 

He feels like he’s back in Gotham again. Back in her death-shroud alleyways, fighting someone bigger than him. But there’s no Jason to watch his back, and Danny has to get himself out of there alone. Or he might just not get up at all. 

Black eyes, busted lips. It’s familiar to him like an old scent, Danny isn’t quite sure that he’s missed it. It’s more familiar than his fights with Dash. 

But there’s no one else who can do it but him. Not Sam, not Tucker. He can’t lose them too. He can’t. He can’t. He can’t. His heart can’t take another break, he already feels like he’s going insane. 

With no threat of death, Danny’s enemies fight like death themself. He learns why when Technus puts a street sign through his stomach one day. It pins him to the asphalt like a moth pinned by its wings. 

Danny claws at the metal like how an animal caught in a trap chews off its leg, and every move is blinding pain. He thinks he was howling, but it’s hard to tell. He couldn’t recognize the sound of his voice. 

He bleeds green. It mixes in black with the pitch blackhole in his heart, which throbs and twists and cries in time with his reckless panic. The finger-choking terror of dying again strangles out the air he doesn’t need. His blood evaporates, only to reabsorb into him. It just bleeds out again, cycling like a snake eating its own tail. 

Danny breaks his nails clawing at the metal, and eventually gets it in his mind to pull it out. So he does, and the end drips ectoplasm green as he gets to his feet. In red-vision, Danny sends the sign back with snarling, vicious fervor. The pain is irrelevant in his rage.

Only after the fight does the hole the pole left start to close. Danny doesn’t shift human until it’s gone. Unlike other injuries, a scar stays behind. Ugly; mottled, it aches for a week with every twist and stretch his body makes. He hates it. 

Being dead is agony. 

Every part of him is in pain. Every step, every word he speaks, everything he does, it is prerequisite with pain. The body is temporary, but the soul is forever, and death has carved into it with its freezing green hands and left him with never-ending heartache. It has torn from him and stolen what of him it could, and in return it’s left him with sorrow. 

His pain is his grief, and he’s sobbed in the safety of his room more times than he can count. It’s still as fresh as the day he heard the news of Jason’s death. He knows, instinctively, that it will stay fresh forever. 

In his room, Danny shoves his hands over his mouth and shrieks in whatever, muffled way he can into his pillow. It’s not enough. It’s never enough. He needs to be louder. He needs to be heard. He refuses to be. 

Being dead hurts. 

#tw mild gore #cw mild blood #cw mentioned violence #dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dead on main #dp x dc au #dp x dc fanfic #cfau #cfau danny #obsessed with the fact that danny just has the WORST fucking time after jason dies and baby i can make it worse #*kills you and makes you a banshee and puts you in an irrevocable state of grief* #delicious angst. danny is having the wORSt time ever lol. lmao even #was originally meant to explore the idea that danny can survive lethal injuries as phantom. which briefly got mentioned. #but i got away from myself. leaning reaaal heavy into the fact that danny's a banshee. At 19 he's got a pretty good handle of himself #but imagine being a fresh out the gate banshee. usually they get time to themselves in the zone to cry until their heart's content. #sorry danny. you have school tomorrow and family sleeping in the bedroom next door #kinda proud of myself. you can kinda see how Rath would've occurred here. #danny is going through it rn #was gonna add a snippet about the city's thoughts on phantom but couldnt fit it in

[nightcatssketchbook]

Hey I actually ended up finishing that piece! Baroque-inspired Percy de Rolo portrait.

#Critical Role #Vox Machina #Percival de Rolo #Percy de Rolo #my art #I kinda wish we had a little more time getting to know him before the Briarwood arc in TLOVM #so heighten the impact of ‘oh he’s a little fucked up actually’ #also I just want to prolong that arc cause it was cool haha #I should just rewatch the show #I tried listening to the original campaign but my brain can’t process that format of content unfortunately 😔 #I have the graphic novels tho >:]

[jacobhubertusart]

Monday, 2023/06/19, by Jacob Hubertus.

#diary #visual diary #dark art #dark aesthetic #gothic #forest #black and white #monochrome #kinda depressing #depressing shit #trees #art diary #original photographers #original photography on tumblr #original content #artists on tumblr #art #artoftheday #original art #treescape

[ailius-suffers-through-art]

started binge playing the professor layton games and managed to make it to last specter so have some memo pad doods

#you can really tell who my favorite characters in the series are #idk why but liar characters will forever hold a special place in my heart #oh by the way i am SO FRIGGEN HYPED FOR THE NEW GAME!!!!!! #when i first saw the trailer for New World of Steam i didn't really get the hype and was kinda like 'meh' #BUT NOW THAT I'VE PLAYED THE GAMES?? #god i have been brainrotting about it all week #i will pass away when the game releases #prepare for some older!Luke content cause whoooo boy his design in the trailer is fun to draw #i love his lil bowtie #professor layton #original art #clive albatross #clive dove #hershel layton #future luke #luke triton #kudos to whoever guesses which scene i was drawing in that last doodle (hint: it made me audibly wail)

[galahadwilder]

Derision AU where Kim wasn’t trying to prank Marinette and is confused as to why she freaked out, he just thinks giving people a box of spiders is peak romance

#category 5 autism event #le chien kim #derision #ml derision #ml derision spoilers #derision spoilers #ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #Marinette dupain cheng #marikim #kinda #if you squint #original content

[front-facing-pokemon]

#something is very obviously different about these two compared to my normal images on this blog. i acknowledge this #also the sv model is Really good. and since they always stare straight at the camera anyway… and no one pays attention to the background… #and the only high-quality phantump model i could find was so horribly shiny that its eyes were just white voids #in my defense‚ phantump always just stare straight at you in game #the lighting is different‚ yeah. that's probably the dead giveaway. beyond the background. but like. i'm the only being on the planet who #really likes phantump anyway. i feel like it's a generally forgettable pokémon to most folks #phantump #HELLO this one is a weird one. i have some explaining to do. so when i did this one i didn't know how to edit models really at all #and when i got the models for these‚ the xy models were super shiny. shiny to the point that it made their eyes fuckin invisible #and i decided that since you could barely tell it was phantump‚ i needed a different way to get these images #i remembered that in the SV dlc‚ every time you find a wild phantump‚ it just fucking. stares. at you. and i was like. aha #i kinda remembered because of the test stream that i did. tumblr user alligayytorr (am i getting the right amount of Ys) said #“haha i am getting a sneak peek” when i zoomed the camera in on a phantump. and i remembered that. and i was like. i can utilize this #and ended up using just an in-game screenshot of SV in replacement of the regular content. later on‚ after that #once we got into gen 7 and it became less and less reliable to find models‚ i had to learn how to edit them manually to remove the shine #i am a software dev. not a 3d modeler. this ended up coming down to editing the code of the models directly (which i ended up writing a #script to automate). now‚ today‚ january 22nd (the day of me writing these tags and updating this post)‚ i remembered this post was in the #queue and was not normal. so i went back‚ ran the script on the phantump and trevenant models‚ and unshinified them #then edited these two posts to be normal. i have left the original pictures i took under the cut for reference and as bonuses #because i really enjoy phantump. so that's why those images are there‚ and that's why these tags are here #just for posterity's sake‚ the folks who come here mostly for my commentary‚ i've left the ORIGINAL tags of the post when i initially #made it with the SV pictures up at the top (i wanted to rearrange them‚ but tumblr makes that Very difficult‚ so i left them as-is) #so if these tags are confusing to read i Apologize. but i hope now that you're at the bottom you understand what happened #i'm gonna go edit the trevenant post now

[thecatspasta]

BARRENCLAN HAS BREACHED CONTAINMENT. THE FANDOM IS NOW IN POLLS. SLUGPELT IS AN AVATAR OF THE LONELY. Admire her in all her glory.

@barrenclan

#yea im coming back with more barrenclan tma content #yes i was the original creator of the au #and for some reason its kinda caught on #i feel powerful #tma #the magnus archives #art #my art #the magnus archives fanart #pasta scribbles #pinepaw and the forgotten world #slugpelt #patfw #slugpelt patfw #warrior cats

[sailing-through-hawkins]

ready for your bite

✧ written for 'suck' ✧ word count: 480 ✧ rated: T ✧ cw: none ✧ tags: vampire!eddie, confident steve, suggestive ✧ @steddiemicrofic (〜￣▽￣)〜✧

"Hello? Is anyone here? I'm sorry to intrude, but there's a terrible storm -"

"And so you enter my home?"

Steve gasped, spinning around to find a man, watching him from the shadows. "Please," he says. "Allow me to stay for just the night, until the storm passes."

The man stares at the droplets running down his skin. "Of course. Come, I'll show you where you can dry off."

Steve inhales when he hears the window click open, the hinges somehow quiet despite it being so large and heavy.

He stays silent as a weight starts to creep on him, tangles of curls brushing against his bare skin, only letting out a sigh when a feather-light touch grazes down his throat.

"What a pretty bride you'd make."

The words are soft, almost wistful, and his heart races, which means the game is over.

"And why," he drawls, opening his eyes to stare up at the shocked Edmund above him. "Would I not be a groom?"

"I - you're awake?" Edmund says and Steve almost coos.

"Is this the part where you ravish me in bed?" He raises his brow, moving his body languidly across the sheets, watching as Edmund watches. "Where you tie me down, bite my skin and suck the life out of me?"

"I don't - you knew?"

"Oh come on," Steve rolls his eyes. "A big spooky castle in the middle of dangerous woods with a single occupant who has no reflection?"

"How could -" Edmund sputters, still caging Steve to the bed. "There are no silver-backed mirrors here!"

"Brought my own," Steve grins, shifting along the sheets again just to see Edmund's eyes flicker down.

"You're a hunter," he accuses, but he doesn't move.

"Something like that," Steve agrees, and he strokes a hand up Edmund's arm and shoulder, curling it around the nape of his neck. The vampire's eyes never leave his but damn, the way they widen. "I'm really just a man, looking for some shelter from the terrible storm outside."

"The storm passed an hour ago," Edmund says, even as he follows Steve's hand pushing him closer.

"Mm, but it's so cold out there," Steve pouts, both of his arms wrapped around Edmund's neck, his bare chest pressed against the silk of Edmund's shirt. He watches him swallow with a smile. "Will you leave your poor fiancé to shiver just after you promised me forever?"

"I - you - this isn't how it's supposed to go?!"

Steve pulls him in closer, pushes Edmund's face into his neck, relishes in the sound of his gasp. "Why not? Everything's going according to your plan, I am simply asking if you intend to get my blood all over these fine sheets."

"What are you?" Edmund says softly, nervously, into Steve's skin.

"Why don't you start drinking," Steve grips his hair with a smile. "And find out?"

#EDIT: IT WAS THE WRONG WORD COUNT FIXED IT NOW #sailor✧writes #steddiemicrofic #au content: vampires #steddie #microfic #i cranked this out in half an hour and it didn't go the direction i originally intended but this was way too fun not to keep #the vibes of human (kinda) steve being so confident over flustered vampire eddie is just immaculate really #did steve mean sucking his blood or sucking his di - #you'll never know

[eileensdress]

Netflix realized the witcher franchise is going to shit and their gut reaction was ‘more bard’ and ‘make things gayer’ and guess what both decisions were correct

#cant wait for season 3 honestly if this is the kinda content i can look forward to #they said FUCK. love wins i guess. #also shout out to Joey Batey for literally holding the witcher together by THREADS rn bc jesus christ #the witcher #the witcher: blood origin #blood origin spoilers #(?) i guess #blood origin #jaskier #witcherposting

[izayamoriarty]

Has this been done yet? Any of this?

#redrawing random photos is way more fan for me to stop #I found every references while wasting my time on Pinterest #so no i dont think i can find them again #izayamoriarty art #lazytown #latibær #afram latibaer #glanni glæpur í latabæ #i may do this again #i think we can all agree that i have absolutely no idea how to draw a chestplate #also #it would be nice to have more content of ithro having a nice time with his daughter or niece #whatever you prefer ella being daughter of Glanni or Robbie #i love both versions #so it's really up to you #drawing original kids was fun #i kinda wanna draw them again

[saltv2]

Okay people.

It is done. wow, what a great way to show off her redesign.

#saltv2 #original content #original character #original art #please care about my ocs #oc #oc artwork #body pillow #why are we still here #she kinda bad tho

[pagesofkenna]

me days ago: i want to get some marcille/falin figures to match, but theres no falin merch yet :(

me: i'll get the marcille popup parade figure for now, in the hopes that someday they release a falin popup parade figure to match

goodsmile company, making my day and taking my money:

#SHE'S HEREEEE #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #delicious dungeon #i literally decided on the popup parade instead of the marcille nendo just because it was a little bit cheaper and it PAID OFF #though they might announce a falin nendo in a few days for all i know lmao #they kinda... cant?? mild spoilers ahead #because like the other thing is i was worried when they released a falin figure it would be of her redesign #i dont actually. love her redesign #so i was really hoping there'd be an original flavor falin and there she IS and im so happy about it! #but that means a falin nendo if they make one would probably be of her redesign which makes way more sense #theres not enough content for original flavor falin design to do multiple faces and poses and props

[bobsquatley]

fem whitney makes me feel things

#bob squatley original content 🔥 #dol #degrees of lewdity #whitney dol #dol whitney #whitney the bully #i wanted to add more accessories but i kinda gave up

[jacobhubertusart]

Tuesday, 2023/06/06, by Jacob Hubertus.

#diary #visual diary #dark art #dark aesthetic #gothic #forest #black and white #monochrome #kinda depressing #depressing shit #art diary #original photographers #original photography on tumblr #original content #artists on tumblr #art #skulls #animal bones #carcass #mystery

[rottmnt-residuum]

Send me an ask on what spoiler you want and I might answer it lmao

#residuum #rottmnt residuum #*gun to you head* pick the cut content #jk pick what you want lmao #the raph angst is just what was going through raphs head before everyone got kidnapped #like as in the night before #alternate roof top endings is kinda self explanatory #the cut content is stuff the got cut for time or was changed to something else and thus no longer applies #like donnie is a bit different now if youd like to know what he was originally gonna look like

[monitorkernelaccess]

does anyone remember when team salvato had that “for fans by fans” fanart merch contest, but like it had a backstory that monika “wasn’t allowed to participate” cause “she always wins and it would be unfair :(” but like all images of her and mentions of her name were glitched out, and in the background of the promo art there was a piece of paper with her poem “Hole in Wall” mostly erased (and not even in her font asset, just in the neutral/MC handwriting font) so all signs pointed to monika’s file being deleted

but then literally none of that was ever directly acknowledged in the posts or the merch for the contest, or in ddlc+ lore, or on other posts from team salvato’s twitter or monika’s twitter account? so, though it probably wasn’t intended to be lore to begin with, we never got any context for it, even within the constraints of the “backstory” for this specific contest?

…no? just me? ok.

#ddlc #original post #silly post but this is one of the ddlc things that lives in my head rent free #that and the anniversary stream from the same year with the fanmade mod #i forgot what it was called #brain blanking #i miss back in 2020 when team Salvato was trying to generate excitement for ddlc+ so ddl #*ddlc got a bunch of internet content and like a big celebration for the anniversary #but also cause. that’s around the time I got into the game and entered the fandom. so I was spoiled as a new fan #and now I am left to my own devices to generate content…and also fan content of course #anyway. i don’t actually know what to make of that whole contest thing #and any possible lore implications #so I’m just making this post where I go ‘damn that was crazy’ #i still kinda like the idea that. the girls didn’t do anything to Monika. she just did that for attention #and they were like. ok. fake your death then whatever #we’re still not letting you win #or that’s what happens when Monika doesn’t get enough attention. like tinker bell #OR the more actual lore MatPat esque theory #that Monika’s file was ‘gone’ because she somehow escaped #and the other girls were covering for her with the contest and the explanation that ‘ohh well we didn’t want her to win so…yeah…’ #TWITCH WRITES that’s the other thing I was thinking of #and btw. i wrote the end of this post like that on purpose. :3