#the future before the past

[squuote]

ive done a piano drop joke before and by god ill do it again. piano crashers

#the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tspud #tsp #crows art #the narrator #stanley #GOD FINALLY GOT MYSELF TO FINISH #AND IM HAPPY WITH THE RESULT THANK GOD AAGAHHHHH #realized halfway that ive already made a piano drop gag joke thing before but. again. history repeats itself /SILLY #nah fr tho i didnt wanna just abandon it x-P #waving to the future from the past (queueing this the night before lol :-P )

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 198

Now Bruce was not expecting to reincarnate upon his death. At least he thinks he died, he’s pretty sure he did. There wasn’t any other reason for him to be a well, literal baby. Around two he thinks, which fits well with the fact that it’s around that time that babies start forming memory recall, if he, well, remembered correctly. 

But while he knew about reincarnation thanks to Shayera and Carter, he’d never exactly given it much thought towards himself. Because seriously, what were the chances of such a thing as him being given another chance? 

So he was quite surprised at his situation, experimentally opening and closing pudgy hands that looked well, just a tiny bit off. He’d never been that pale before, he thinks, even back when he never went outside like, ever. 

He turned his gaze towards the mobile above him with a sort of idle curiosity- a mixture of bats (ha) and other trinkets he wasn’t familiar with. It also caused him to get his first good look at his parent, asleep on a rocking chair right next to the crib. 

Huh. They had the same pale skin he did, albeit in the light it looked like it was slightly tinted blue, and while their hair was white they didn’t exactly look old. They looked surprisingly well rested for raising a toddler too, unless they had a nanny or something similar… He rolled over, managing to very shakily push himself to his feet with the help of the crib. 

Why was standing so hard as a toddler? And why did he have his memories of everything except how he had died anyway? 

His head whipped up from where they were staring at his feet when he heard a snort, finding his parent awake and standing. Somehow silently enough that he hadn’t noticed- or he was that easily distracted by the unfamiliar giddiness bursting in his chest. 

“Morning little bat,” his parent easily picked him up and held him while he inwardly sighed at the nickname. Of course his bat motif would follow him into this life. A low rumbling almost caused him to jump, his body relaxing before he could fully register the sound. The… purring? 

Oh. 

He wasn’t human this time around. 

#Dcxdp #Dpxdc #Prompts #Vlad is a young-adult dad to a reincarnated Bruce #After the hospital he drowned his despair/distress in any way he could & ended up with a baby boy #Bruce’s main suspected species of what they were was vampire before the ghost reveal lol #Bruce can’t say shit about Vlad’s thievery but he has the most judging expression for a toddler #Then he also sees his new dad develop and try to figure out powers #Vlad was terrified to pick him up when he first discovered his ghost fire #Yes this very much changes Vlad’s relationship with Danny #The reunion has 14 year old Danny meet a Very Smart 8 year old Bruce #Yes Bruce clocks teenage vigilante instantly #And look he Would try to get Vlad to stop the possession shit but as long as it’s actual assholes he can’t exactly judge #He blackmailed SO many people in his past life… he's trying Not to be a hypocrite here #Why yes Bruce IS very liminal from having a half-ghost dad #Vlad panicked more than he did when his fangs came in (Bruce has made a file about both himself & everyone he meets) #Just because he’s now baby doesn’t mean he’s no longer Bruce #At some point someone from his world might find their way to this one but that would be a very long time in the future lol #Vlad (unaware of his core being able to feel his ghostling’s big emotions): Wow raising a child is surprisingly easy

[unsanctitude]

pretty kitty

#chien-pao #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #scvi #scvi spoilers #my fave new pogey for sure tied with the snail one #not sure if or when ill play scvi but i at least enjoy the ruinous legendaries a lot #theyre so out of place it makes me wonder if theyre gonna be reused in a china themed region #i think itd be neat if they did another game based in the past like arceus before these pokemon were imprisoned #however i dont have a lot of faith in the future of these games 🧍‍♂️ #look at the funny weasel

[charlietheepicwriter7]

I'm obsessive over my Constantine Jr Au (which still needs a fic name for, I'm open to suggestions) because

this is a cranky danny. he's spent years fighting with no end in sight, with parents who he can't trust and his only companions never truly understanding what he's going through.

he vapes CBD for the pain he's constantly in. he drank alco/hol once to help him sleep, but his parents smelt it on his breath and, just like with their research, took that to believe EVERYTHING they'd ever suspected about danny to be true: that he drinks, he does dru/gs, he's in a gang. the only thing they've never suspected their son of--being a ghost--is the one thing he actually does.

then, right on the cusp of eighteen and freedom, he gets outed. AND transformed into a seven-year-old.

this is not a danny who is willing to play at being a child. and if anyone tries to, they're in for a foul time.

Danny was 17, transformed into a 7 year old and hides in Bludhaven, and is 8 when the police finally figure out that, hey, this weird kid who keeps altering us to crime scenes is usually right on the money about who the killer is, we should investigate that. Officer Grayson is on the case!

And discovers that he absolutely can't STAND this kid.

He thought he liked kids! Everyone thought he liked kids! but this kid...

This isn't called the Constantine Jr AU because Danny is a supernatural detective, or because Danny might be Constantine's kid. Its because Danny is an unrepentant little bas/tard and he makes it everyone's problem.

Danny vapes and blows bubblegum smoke in Grayson's face.

He takes out a flask and Grayson's grabs it, learning its full of orange juice. Danny then takes out a second flask, this one with vod/ka.

He wears a trenchcoat he found in the trash (the same trenchcoat Nightwing wears in DC vs Vampires, if you know you know) but the end and the sleeves are cut off for his hands and legs. the pockets are roughly around his knees.

Grayson is desperate to figure out more about this kid, but he doesn't go to batman because, time-line wise, this is right before red hood starts running around. Jason is dead/alive-in-hiding, Tim is Robin, and Dick is mad about it. (ages-- Bruce: ? Nightwing: 24 Jason: 19 Tim: 15 Danny: 8 Damien: 7-8)

he doesn't really bond with the kid until they're both kidnapped by a gang for hostages, and Danny's big kid emotions get a hold of him (he thought he could escape them bc he's an adult, he's gone through worse, but nope! child brain chemistry). Grayson is worried that he's hurt and in pain, but Danny confesses that he's always in pain. he has nerve damage all over his body, and the only thing he really trusts is CBD. He feels like shit for taking his juul away, but more importantly, because he's been treating Danny like a irritant and just a little kid.

they get rescued and Grayson tries to take him back to his home, but Danny reveals he's homeless, saying something like "I sleep where it suits me, just drop me off whereever."

Absolutely not, Grayson is taking kid back to his place for a bed, food, and a shower, in whatever order the kid wants.

Danny stays semi-perminantly at his apartment, but Nightwing tries not to push it, because this kid practically screams flight risk. unfortunately, the paparazzi have nothing better to do and snap a pick of Grayson and Danny getting dinner together, speculating that Dick's taken after Bruce

Danny doesn't care too much; I think his ghost form is the same, if glitchy, so his parents don't know about the deaging. Grayson is mildly panicking, but its not like he HASN'T been considering adopting the evil troglodyte. Even Bruce, Tim, and Alfred aren't the problem.

No, the problem is the Red Hood, a crime boss who just cut 8 people's heads off, seeing what looks like Nightwing pulling an innocent kid into the neverending fight against crime and Seeing Green.

Edit: Had to censor sh!t because ths wasn't showing up in the tags

#constantine jr au #dp x dc #dc x dp prompt #deaged danny fenton #c: danny fenton #c: dick grayson #c: jason todd #dp crossover #dc crossover #i love the idea of nightwing just HATING danny before getting to know him #because he's still hung up about the Tim problem #but also because danny is just a little sh!t #I really want Jazz to be involved in this story somehow #as nightwing's eventual love interest #but the main point of this story is for dick to break past danny defenses to give him a loving parent again #damien's going to HATE danny in the future #bc danny's smart and grayson HIS batman adopted him and takes him out on cases as civilians #damien clearly is going to try to compete with danny for nightwing's attention and love #despite it not being necessary

[tervaneula]

@witchofthemoss

Well. I have now. And let me tell you how these sudden feelings just kicked me in the chin and sent me rolling down the hill towards Emotions Town 🥺🥺🥺 Ilysm this made my NIGHT

(i listened to this on repeat while drawing, i think lyricstranslate has it in english if anyone's curious)

#I spent wayyy too much time trying to find a ref for the pose and then just decided to wing it ahjdfg rip #it's way past my bedtime but i refused to go to sleep before i got this done. harrumph. i needed the gay so badly #y'all also went bonkers in my askbox omg i'm never gonna run out of prompts now THANK YOU SO MUCH #leoichi #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #samurai rabbit #usagi chronicles #peepaw leo #future leo #future leonardo #yuichi usagi #usagi yuichi #tervdraws #nqk adjacent #pehmoaino - valssi

[arromantica-lucha]

the fact that my friend discovered she was demisexual and aromantic because she met me and i explained what those were is why its so important that aspec identities get talked about in the real world and not just online cause a lot of people just wont ever be in these spaces

#and im not saying its the job of every individual aspec person to inform the public about everything #but if there are groups you are capable of talking about it with or there are ways to sneak it into the mainstream more and more #thats how more people get to stop living miserable lives since they didnt know these identities were possible #cause she was MISERABLE thinking about her past romantic relationships and being in any future ones #and now we have sex and hang out and thats so much more fulfilling for both of us than how we lived before #aromantic #arospec #aspec #asexual #aroace #aroallo #alloaro #queer #acespec

[re3koning]

gay rep be like “kyaaaaaah!!! i like a boy but… im a boy >////<?!?!” meanwhile queerbait will be like “There is so much more to you than you know. Not just pain and anger. There is good, too. I felt it.” and “I want you by my side. All of us together, protecting each other. We want the same thing.” and “You abandoned me! You took her, and you abandoned me!” and

#now this has to have been done before #cherik #xmen #x-men #x men #xmen first class #x men first class #x-men first class #xmen movies #x men movies #x-men movies #first class #xmen days of future past #x men days of future past #x-men days of future past #days of future past #dofp #xmen dofp #x-men dofp #x men dofp #Charles Xavier #Erik Lehnsherr #the seer speaks #1k

[user-without-a-cool-acronym]

Sensei Wu, flying in a spinjitzu tornado, while looking kinda depressed

#that‘s it #that‘s the post #ninjago #ninjago wu #master wu #sensei wu #for context: #this is from one of these old and very much not canon ninjago comics #this is the one where he has to fight against a bunch of enemies from his past #included a six armed dude with an inifinite amount of axes #a ninja who lives his life a second in the future and see your every move right before you do it #and master of dreams #oh and a sentient flying mask like the one from crash bandicoot #it‘s evil #maybe i‘ll make a post about that comic when i have time tomorrow #anyway #Wu in a tornado

[snoweylily]

skyfall x dolce

or, in other words, emotionally-repressed blond serial killers and their curly dark haired sarcastic bitch boyfriends surrounded by paintings with far too many metaphors

#hannibal #james bond #hannigram #00q #skyfall #its the little things #they're both bloody big ships #before you and after you #indeed #Q and I have begun to blur #staring at afterimages #so you're not dead? #where does the difference between the past and the future come from? #it lies within an exploding pen #i can tell you that much #mischa and m #now is the hardest test #not letting rage and frustration and forgiveness keep you from thinking #always makes me a little melancholy #the inevitability of time #if i saw you everyday forever #i would remember this time

[godofstory]

I've seen this film before and i didn't like the ending

#marvel #loki #mcu #loki series #tom hiddleston #mobius #owen wilson #loki spoilers #lokius #me before you #loki was Mobius' past present and future #he has nothing without him #and i'm unwell

[aldoodles]

Hiccup and windwalker are bundles of trauma and anxiety while toothless just has the ‘song that never enddds oh it goes on and on my friends’ song stuck in his head and imagines biting people and eating snacks.

#(wodensfang has cosmic horrors of past present and future flashing before his eyes) #it is so hard for me to write in print no one look at me lol #httyd #httyd books #book!hiccup #windwalker httyd #windwalker #book!toothless #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #how to train your dragon #doodles #al chatters #my art #fanart

[tittysuckersworld]

@lotus-pear uhh congrats on 5k!!! this is first time doing a dtiy and am sorta still new to famdom but yee was fun draw(exept the face hand oh gob-) hope have nice day

(also is with fem dazai because...... women<3<3)

#only reason have still gottem these out is because wanted get some more these done before work on promised peices/comissiom- #now am gonna only work on those so see a ranpo guy or gal soon in future and expect a small pause #because next projects i wanna work on are comission above all else and more comic type things or an animatic because love those #yee no clue whats exactly up for me drawing wise next but i know it will probs be a break from brain rot constantly so can work more on #oc comic stuff and working out art work style stuff #also if you noticed the past 3 dazai faces ive drawn are pretty much the same no you havent. i will draw more expresive faces soon i promi- #gonna do face studys soon to figure out style stuffs ya yee #okay enough rambles got off topic heres tags uhhh #lotuspear5kdtiys #my arts<3 #bsd dazai #bsd fanart #bsd #dazai bsd #bungou stray dogs dazai #dazai osamu #fem dazai #wow so much less tags when only one character huh #also lissened to hailey kiyoko wile drawing so. yknow #<3<3<3

[gravioli]

Here are the first four pages of a frender comic idea I had! I don't think I'll keep making it but I thought I should share what I started.

#frender #futurama #was gonna be about bender realizing he's in a reality where fry never came to the future #and bender going to the past to live with him in the 2000s #i wrote this before leela moved in with them if that makes it less confusing

[mayasaura]

I just want to talk about the nursery being painted and the purpose of the Tomb to be without a door. Anastasia had a family - and putting to the side the pact with Alecto there's some implicit symbolism to John asking for the workers of the Ninth to die constructing the Tomb with that image of new life. (Still can't articulate my disbelief that he went and didn't think that asking Anastasia of all people, The one who lost her cavalier to him, would have problems)

Yeah. Especially finding this out about the Ninth, where nurseries becoming tombs is a thing we're sensitive about.

On one level we've always known Anastasia had a family. Like, we know she's Harrow's direct ancestor. You can't be heir to the line of someone who never had children. But the nursery.... Yeah. It really hammers it in. Her friends painted a nursery mint green for her children.

And now it's a tomb.

#that's what the Anastasian is now after all #you're right there's really Something there #I've noticed something in John I think ties into this thematically that I really hope Kiriona is going to help us explore #John doesn't believe in a future #I said in my last Anastasia meta that Anastasia outsmarted John by making herself immortal in a way he couldn't understand #she left behind something she created to outlast her #John hasn't built anything to outlast himself and he doesn't think of the future at all #he mourns the past and fights like hell to live in an eternal present where nothing ever ends #you know #immortality #and a part of that—maybe most of that—is about despair #even way back before the world ended even before he had magic powers he didn't think of a future #I think he couldn't imagine one #and like. I get it dude #don't imagine the future and maybe it can't hurt you #how many people have you heard saying they don't want children because it seems cruel or irresponsible #they can't imagine forcing someone to live in the world they see coming #climate anxiety is fucking everywhere and for a lot of people in our generation—John's generation—it's coalesced into despair #but Anastasia did imagine a future #she had a family #and now John has a daughter but he still can't imagine a future for her #she's just as dead and eternal as the world he loved so deeply he killed it rather than watch it die #what did Gideon say when she saw the First? it had the look of a picked-over body but hot damn what a beautiful corpse #that's gonna be you baby girl #the final expression of the art of the nine houses #John gave up on hope ages ago #so it doesn't really surprise me at all that he still asked the builders to die in the tomb #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth

[mrs-n-uzumaki]

Erik stares with incredible wonder, who is this boy?

#dadneto #erik lehnsherr #peter maximoff #pietro maximoff #dadnetoedit #xcuedit #dofp #x-men: days of future past #my edit #I will never get over this small but significant moment #where erik shows genuine interest because this kid impressed him so much #this kid who saved his life twice in just moments #if he had followed through with his army plan you bet your ass peter would be the first person he would track down #and then shows up at his door only to be answered by his ex who he hadn't seen in over a decade #OR he manages to track peter down and follow him but before he would approach peter's mum steps beside him #can you imagineee #the confusion on his face #why is peter associated with his past love #someone please write this I'm going mad from withdrawals

[lunamond]

I just adore the way Paul's visions are presented in the new movies.

The way it is never quite clear if they are symbolic, if they show possibilities. Both? Neither? Do they all come true?

The way that the people shown in them aren't even necessarily representing themselves.

Like how many of the visions in Part 1 later on in Part 2 get flipped around.

There is the obvious one with Chani taking Paul's place in the fight sequence from his vision, but there are so many more:

Chani holding the bloody knife vs. Paul after the duel with Feyd

Chani leading him through the desert and showing him the coming battle vs. Jessica leading him through the desert towards death and destruction (both wearing flowy white gowns)

Chani whispering his name vs. Alia doing so post water

Kinda interesting how much Chani, his lover, ends up being a stand-in for either his mother or sister.

Jamis killing Paul and holding his hand as he dies vs Paul being the one to kill and comfort Jamis

Chani stabbing Paul/betraying him vs. Paul being the one to betray Chani

Chani being exposed to a nuclear blast, and her face being severely burnt vs [redacted]

It makes them disorienting and confusing, and they are meant to be, Paul is also never quite sure what they mean for most of the movies.

But all of this changes once he drinks the water of life.

Prior to the water, they were always accompanied by an orange-gold glare and intercut with brief flashes of various imagery (fire, a bloody hand, expanding shadows, etc).

But as the visions themselves tell us: to see the future clearly, he needs to know the past.

So, once he gains access to his ancestral memory, his visions become clear.

They are no longer undercut with flashes of other images. Both the vision of the ocean in the desert and the memory of baby Jessica and the Baron are shot in a way that is undistinguishable from the rest of the movie. Before this, either the editing, the flares, etc. sth was always helping us differentiate between vision and reality. But from this point, they appear as real as the present.

Also, the fact that Alia is both the first person he sees after the water and the first to actively talk to him through the visions. She is also the first one (since Leto) who doesn't seem to put conditions on her love.

All of this makes me super excited to see how Denis is going to approach Paul's visions in Dune Messiah, knowing how important his experience of them are for his character.

#dune #dune part two #dune messiah #dune part one #paul atreides #i can't wait to watch the sad twink lose his grip on reality #just love it when a god is being fucked up by their own divinity #the way that alia is the only one who understands #“Tell me little sister what is before?” #when past present and future are experienced simultaneously #paulalia #but even she can't fully comprend it