#to keep upright

[lazycranberrydoodles]

english translation book 5 baby we are in the ‘people assuming kid form hua cheng is xie lian’s son’ era 🔥🔥🔥 / follow for more hualian silliness

#so the part of the book where kid hua cheng suddenly sits bolt upright #because he senses something in the room #and this 7 year old is just 👁️👁️ and radiating immense killing intent #hes so fucking funny 😭 #i love him being weird and strange and offputting #‘dianxia why does the high schooler that hangs around your house sometimes have glowing red eyes and know things he definitely shouldnt #and crush things into dust with his bare hands and seem to hate the sun an-‘ mind your own fucking business #drawing baby hc was so much fun i hope i do it again soon #the secret is that xie lian is JUST as deeply weird as his husband but in a less obvious and threatening manner. #guy who has to keep his internal monologue internal because he is thinking things like “wouldnt wanna get choked by those hands!” #out of every god character he is the one who seems to have changed the most from immortality #dying presumably hundreds of times and being alone for hundreds of years does something to your brain #“xiao hua why does your cultivator talk weird and wear the same clothes and eat the same food and-” HE IS AUTISTIC!!!! AND JADED BY THE #PASSAGE OF CENTURIES!!! YOULL NEVER KNOW WHICH IS WHICH!! #my art #tgcf #tian guan ci fu #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #art #tgcf meme #mxtx #天官赐福 #lmao #hob #heaven official's blessing #the people have spoken...

[lunarcrown]

Renthubs commission for @dioslab from @plumelagoon from their fic "eros and psyche" ~~ please read it and get all misty eyed like I did at a tale of curses, arranged marriage, lunar kings and demon princes! And also check out the official matching art piece that @briseise did for their collab a bit back right here!!!! it's beautiful as all things honey does of couuurse!!!

#renthubs #hermitshipping #rendog #ethosab #bdoubleo100 #my art #can i say i LOVED thinking about what body language i wanted everyone to have #it was SO FUN #bdubs: arms thrown around and head tucked into rens hair as he chatters #etho: more upright and less leaned in but one hand resting over rens massive thumb and the other resting on top of where its holding him #ren: holding them close and careful and avoiding any tight grip or claws and happily talking with etho while also keeping one ear turned #to listen to bdubs as well AND ALSO TAIL WAG OF COURSE

[phoenixcatch7]

Wayne doll house: demon children.

Idea: each of the batkids is theorised to have a different origin.

Thing is, there's so many of them. The oldest is actually the youngest in body. It seems to be able to share memories with those who follow. It changes design right before a new bat appears.

The hero in the town over is definitely one of them, but what's it doing over there?? Asking just gets non-answers.

What happened to the ones that the Joker tried to destroy? One - the oldest and smallest - came back, but different, whereas the other - the purple and orange one - came back for a while and then vanished again for good.

None of them seem to age??

The first, smallest, oldest, it seemed to be some sort of circus performer? It gave its acrobatics to the blue one when it arrived, grew clever and defensive. It gave that to the skull headed red one, focused on technology and detective work after the Incident. Then again, and again, and one time even the bat changed along with it, but though the bat returned to normal the little Robin didn't, and now it's just as stabby and creative as it is small and creepy.

It's a good sort of creepy now, after over a decade of beating up bad guys and comforting victims, Gotham has gotten used to it, but outsiders don't much like it.

The justice league have a different opinion.

They know, or at least can observe, that the... Souls? Brains? Programs? Switch around, that it's not memories but persons that bring the new bats to life.

They just don't know where batman gets them. The new one, especially, is very circumspect.

For all this talk of the blood son, all the bats calling it demon child with varying levels of fondness, the way batman doesn't deny the claims...

Thing is the bat doesn't have blood. Everyone's well aware of this by now. Whatever sulpheric black tar he and the bats leak probably-certainly isn't blood, or at least... Not anything with dna.

So... What blood?? If not the bat's, why does it tie the newest mind of Robin to him?

Captain marvel is the first to think of an idea.

A blood child of a demon for a blood ritual for a demon.

Constantine and Zatanna second the notion - it's perfectly possible. Reasonable, even. The bat admitted himself he had no way to procreate the way humans did, nor any interest in doing so. Wanting a legacy was perfectly normal.

Except he already had, what, seven, eight, nine kids? He loved all of them, it was clear, and he'd always seemed happy with them. He'd even sighed over how many he had, had rebuffed the teasing about getting more. The new Robin mind had been a surprise to everyone, and the old one in a new body had been a little salty about it.

So the new theory was that batman hadn't decided to get a new Robin. Maybe the old mind had been ejected unwillingly! It had happened at roughly the same time batman had gotten a new personality - maybe the incidents were related?

But if batman hadn't done the ritual... Who had?

Who would do something like that???

Cultists. Cultists would do something like that. But giving the bat a son unwillingly seemed... A very odd goal, even for that type.

So... Had they messed up? Had they tried to summon the bat with a blood sacrifice ritual, and summoned a demon instead? Had it partially worked? Was the bat susceptible to demon summonings?? Did the summoning damage his own mind/consciousness/soul in some way, and that led to the creation of the new demon child while the bat changed until he'd healed????

How kind of batman to take it in!

Tldr; the league thinks Robin V is a demon born/created through a failed summoning ritual involving blood sacrifice that made batman like puns until he healed. The truth is the canon events of Damian arriving at the manor only for b to get tossed into the time stream, becoming the Robin to nightwing-batman while Tim, who is much less annoyed about it than canon, focuses on getting him back. Lmao.

#Batman overhearing this absolute conspiracy of a theory: *head in his hands* #Nightwing: *struggling to stay upright through his laughter* how are they so close and yet SO VERY FAR #Damian: father. I have decided on a new origin story. I wish to tweak it to include the league of assassins however. #Batman: I can't believe I'm saying this but please just keep using the pun about wood. #One theory considered and rejected is that Alfred created Damian #However Alfred absolutely would not have done it without B knowing and approving lol #batman #possessed doll au #bruce wayne #damian wayne #Dc Robin v #cryptid batman #cryptid batfam

[satans-knitwear]

i SHOULD be a painting

Treat me ~ Tip Me ~ More of me

#Paint me like one of ur renaissance French girls. #One tiddy out for the aesthetic ofc #satans knitwear #Relying on my corsets to keep me upright and held together as usual #At least i look rather delicious #alt pinup #pinup girl #pretty lingerie #Underbust corset #Corsetry #bi girl #cheeky #uk girl #wlw

[ave-immaculata]

if a teacher at a Catholic school is a poor role model of the moral life in a public way, they should be fired, simple as. if a teacher at a Catholic school cannot accurately describe and vocally affirm the teachings of the Catholic Church when asked, they should be fired, simple as. if a teacher at a Catholic school is known publically to be a non-practicing Catholic, they should be fired, simple as. Close schools if there aren't enough staff. I don't care. I'm sick of our Catholic schools disobeying the Bishop, the Church at large and pushing relativistic nonsense onto students as Catholicism.

#TAKE AWAY OUR PUBLIC FUNDING IT IS THE WORST THING TO HAVE HAPPENED TO OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS #we are public schools with crucifixes on the walls #the teachers are ministers of the faith and the Church has the right to select her ministers #literally it would be better to only have one Catholic school in the whole county that is upright and Orthodox than the entire school board #that we have now #if you want to teach at a Catholic school THAT badly be well catechized vocally support the Church and keep your disagreements and or #deviations private

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Stand at the Edge

Prologue- Next

Ao3

Damian was irritated. This was not uncommon, surrounded as he was by idiots, but today especially he was, as Todd would so eloquently put it, pissed. This was because, for reasons utterly unknown, Greyson had gone insane, obsessively cleaning the spotless mansion (until Pennyworth ordered him to stop) and incessantly bothering him about his appearance, all because of an interrogation. Why Father had decided to hold this particular interrogation within the Manor itself was yet another source of Damien’s irritation. Apparently, the suspect’s emotional involvement with Todd justified the clear risk posed by allowing this stranger into their home, despite the fact that all background checks and past interviews showed him to be a clear and dangerous unknown. If anything, Todd’s involvement with the suspect only increased the likelihood of this “Danny Nightengale” being a danger to the family. Damian did not believe that Todd was an irrational madman in constant need of supervision Father seemed to think he was, but he did not pretend the man did not pose a possible threat. There was also the possibility that Nightengale recognized how deeply compromised Farther was when it came to Todd and was using him to gain access to the family, be it as the Bats or the Waynes. If that was the case, then Damien was sure Father would not mind granting a temporary reprieval of the No-kill rule. For the family’s safety, that is. Not because he cared about Todd or any of his other siblings or their feelings, thank you.

The main area of concern surrounding Nightengale was not what they had learned, but what they hadn't. So far, he had avoided all interviews with concerning success. Furthermore, no family member had actually managed to get a photo of him. Attempts to look him up showed only that he was a student at Gotham University studying Astrophysics and Aerospace engineering, that he had a sister named Jazmine who worked as a counselor within Arkem, which was concerning within it's own right, and that he had lived with said sister until moving in with Todd three months ago. Footwork provided a few more details, such as that he worked at the Iceberg Lounge as part of the band playing the violin and that he seemed to have a number of pet birds, specifically ravens, though these birds seemed to come and go as they pleased. Neighbors reported that he was pleasant enough, though there were a number of noise complaints regarding both the birds and his apparent activity as an engineer. What was truly concerning was the total informational whiteout predating his arrival in Gotham. The transcript he had used to get into university was a forgery, as was his social security number, birth certificate, and driver's license. He had no social media presence of any sort and there was no one they could talk to who had any idea where he was from. The same went for his sister, they were both complete blanks. What was most interesting, at least according to Drake, was that the photo used on the fake driver's license looked to have been doctored, as if someone had taken an old photo and artificially aged it. None of them could think of a reason someone would need to do that.

“I still do not understand why we are bringing Todd and Nightengale here.”

Damien said, doing his best to tie his tie himself with mediocre success.

“Because,” Bruce explained, stepping in to help and rescue the tie from Damien’s increasingly frustrated attempts, “he is dating Jason, and as his family, we have every reason to want to meet him.”

Damien raised a brow. That seemed unusually irrational of Father. Perhaps the presence of Todd in the equation was interfering more than he had expected.

“Given how slippery he has proven in the past,” he continued “this is our best opportunity to engage him while minimizing both his suspicion and his likelihood to run. Furthermore, he is far more likely to be forthcoming than he would be if operating on his own turf. This gives us the upper hand more than if we attempted to meet him elsewhere.”

That was better. If there was one thing Damien appreciated about Father, it was his direct, analytical nature. Meanwhile, Greyson shouted something about needing to hide all of the chairs. Suddenly there was a knock at the front door, and a loud bang as Greyson tripped himself attempting to open it. Pennyworth, appearing suddenly at the door when Damian could have sworn he was in the kitchen, opened it before Greyson had a chance to right himself. Standing there was Todd and, assumedly, Nightengale. It suddenly occurred to Damian that he had never actually seen the man up close before. He was tall, with dark hair and brilliant blue eyes. He was thin as well, concerningly so, his joints sharp where the bones shone through. His skin was so pale, like freshly fallen snow or bleached bone. There was something terribly familiar about him, but so was probably any other pale man with black hair and blue eyes. As he grew closer, Damian noticed, snaking up Nightengale’s right arm and peaking up from the collar of his turtleneck, a Lichtenberg scar. Something in the back of his head stirred, but he couldn't think what it could possibly be. Greyson was shaking this man’s hand, offering some kind of greeting, but Damian couldn't hear it. Suddenly, Nightengale’s head snapped. Now he was looking right at Damian, his blue eyes boundless and staring as a grin stretched far wider across his face than should have been possible, wider even than the Joker and with teeth like a cat, sharp and predatory. He thought he maybe should have been frightened, though he wasn't sure why.

“Little Prince!”

Nightengale embraced Damian tightly, lifting him slightly off the ground. He wasn't sure how he had gotten so close so quickly. His skin was cold, but as comforting as an ice pack on an injury; the relief of a cold shower in the height of summer held in sharp and narrow arms. Something about this situation seemed wrong but he couldn't pin down just what it was.

“It's been so long! Look how big you’ve gotten. Ancients, the last time I saw you, you were just a shade!”

Wait. That was it.

“What do you mean, ‘last time’”

Damian willed his muscles to tense, his hands to clench into fists but they remained stubbornly relaxed.

“Dami, little light, ya sitti, don't you remember me?”

Nightengale gently set Damian and for a second he was blinded as the man was wreathed in rings of light bright as the sun. When the light faded the man had... changed. The most obvious shift was his hair, once black and now so blindingly white that it made his face shadowy and difficult to see, as well as luminescent, Lazarus green eyes, the sclera black as night. Rather than the simple black turtle neck and slacks he had come in, he was now wearing a black hazmat suit with a white belt holding what looked like an old-fashioned radio and, oddly, a thermos. He had white gloves, though they became sharp and claw-like at the tips. There were other, more subtle changes, such as how his skin grew grey, like someone who had been dead for hours, and the faint glow of the fractal Lichtenburg just visible through the suit. Damian became aware suddenly of pressure that had been building in his ears and only just released.

“No.”

“Oh...” the Man, he was not Nightengale, seemed to deflate.

“No... I... It's not... You can not.”

Damien was faintly aware that he was not making sense, but seeing that this made two of them, he felt little need to correct it. Finally, enough of his brain cells managed to collide for him to form a sentence.

“What are you doing here?”

“Damien,” Father said, careful to insert himself between his son and whoever, whatever, was floating just slightly off the ground before them, “who is this? How do you know him?”

“His name is Phantom. When I was a child, I would make up stories about him and the strange land he ruled.”

Hearing his name, Phantom smiled a much smaller, more hesitant smile than his Joker-esque grin from before. He waved slightly. Meanwhile, Father looked as if he were about to have an aneurysm. Looking about, that seemed to be the consensus amongst the onlookers, albeit Todd who laughed. Hard.

Tag Cultists

@mur-ururu @krzys2000 @soren1830 @fisticuffsatapplebees @emergentpanda-blog @heirxofxtime

#danny phantom #damien wayne #jason todd #bruce Wayne #alfred pennyworth #dick grayson #dc x dp fic #dp x dc #Underland #not sure about this #and I'll be honest #no idea where I'm going either #Jason finds this situation unreasonably funny #to be fair if you found out your boyfriend was your baby brother’s very own Harvey rabbit #you'd probably have a hard time keeping upright too #Bruce has good intentions #he's just an idiot #In the background Dick is just like “HIDE ALL THE CHAIRS WE CANT LET HIM KNOW WE SIT!!!” #and honestly #respect

[mxtxfanatic]

Ok, so here’s the thing: Lan Wangji does not love Wei Wuxian to the exclusion of his morality.

What I mean by this is that Lan Wangji does not love Wei Wuxian, and it is only incidental that Wei Wuxian is also a good person. Lan Wangji loves Wei Wuxian because he is a good person, someone whose morality matches his own, a like soul, if you will. Lan Wangji choosing to stick with, support, and protect Wei Wuxian in his second life isn’t simply because he doesn’t want to lose wwx a second time, but because he wholly believes that wwx is in the right and there is no need to second-guess him (unlike in wwx’s first life where lwj was torn between clan expectations and wholeheartedly supporting wwx). These things are inherently intertwined in wangxian’s love narrative, to the point where it is actually out of character to suggest that Lan Wangji would come to care about someone he did not believe was righteous, let alone someone with confirmed dubious morality. Because Lan Wangji is also a morally upright character, and that is not a trait of his that he is willing to compromise for love.

#mdzs #human metas mxtx #so please keep this in mind for any future metas #kinda tired of seeing great metas and headcanons #that then go on to suggest that lwj’s love supercedes his morality #rather than acknowledging that both work in tandem #there’s no world in which lwj would choose love over morality #because there is no world in which lwj would not choose wwx #and there is no world in which wwx is not morally upright

[magnolia-sunrise]

my god, it's the last Wolfgang Wednesday of the year! happy Wolfgang Wednesday!! give it up for our favorite nonbinary android!!

#original character #art #oc art #wolfgang #they started the year in balenciagas and so i simply had to draw them wearing balenciaga heels one last time #thank you wolfgang for keeping me somewhat sane through these months mwah mwah #i realized its the last wednesday of the year and bolted upright and had to run to draw them #but it had to be something quick because my plans for the evening are very important (drinking beer and watching game of thrones w gf

[rampagingnoble]

my favorite vaxleth crumbs because i miss and long for them i cant wait for you know what *high five* kshsjdh

#tho i doubt it'll come anytime soon #but pls do #i miss and long for them #my parents #THE HANDS LOOKS AT THE HANDS #VAX'S ESPECIALLY #special favorite be the one with kiki in his arms when they were thrown by the percy slash orthax #also the one where vax had his hand on kiki's middle to keep her upright #critical role #critical role c1 #the legend of vox machina #vox machina #keyleth #vax'ildan

[zeb-z]

bbh finally realized his insistence on revenge at the cost of himself isnt worth it and hurts his loved ones! and it only took seeing someone he loves also burn themselves in their hunt for vengeance in a way that’s somehow far more deadly and self destructive

#bad watched cellbit dig past bedrock and realized rock bottom is not where he should be #it only took four bodies to get the point across #crazy how that gives someone perspective I guess #anyways. here’s to hoping bad can do what everyone else has done for him which is dig in with their heels and keep him upright by sheer will #the power of love WILL prevail. or I’m going to blow things up #mcyt #qsmp #q!bbh #q!cellbit #cellbit #bbh #z speaks

[goldenshrine]

ghulehs! ft @frankenbridez

brr

#my art #🎁 gifts #phantoms plush is sitting upright because hes keeping watch btw

[jointpainfaggot]

So i went to the hozier concert last night and it was lovely, it was great and he was amazing but we genuinely need to change something about the way we do concerts.

Over the course of about three hours, he stopped the show four or five times because someone in the audience fainted or wasnt feeling well. Not in a “omg im so excited to be here look at him” kind of fainting, but lack of hydration and fresh air fainting. It’s super messed up that venues don’t let you bring even a small water bottle inside or air conditioning/air exchange set up when they host concerts. Thousands of people dancing and singing, of course the air quality will be bad after an hour or so.

And expecting people to stand in line with a hundred of other people to pay 5€ for a small water bottle or worse, only offer alcoholic beverages??? That’s a nightmare. Seriously.

Just let people bring their water. Ffs.

#concert #concert venue #hozier was lovely in making sure people were ok before he continued but. if it happens that often that people can’t keep upright during a #show then theres a problem. i even saw people being walked outside by others while obviously not doing well. so something needs to change

[trans-axolotl]

looking up para ballroom dance....always so lovely for me to remember that i will have options!!! like even if i keep declining like i am rn i feel. confident that i could still find a way to have dance as a part of my life.

and i love watching the world champs they r all sooo good. i am very impressed with the technique

#personal #there's so many steps that just look cooler in a wheelchair tbh #you can compete combi with one standing partner and one partner in a wheelchair #or duo. where both partners are in wheelchairs #really love seeing how you can do the style even without the footwork #have been having a really hard time this week with the fact that i might not be able to dance for much longer #currently i was dancing 6 days a week. 16 hours minimum a week #but i've fainted at every single practice so far #it's taking so much muscle strength to keep myself upright and stop shaking that it's hard to do proper technique #and idk. just always really important to me to see how adaptation and accessibility is not a tragedy #chronic illness tag

[small-spark-of-light]

day 5 was more figure studies, but specifically quick gestural ones!! these are messier than the ones id post normally but thats kinda the point XD

#sparks creations #figure studies #anatomy #i love figure drawing :DDD i used to do 20-26 figure studies a day(most of the time 20-23 but still) #i love figures i love anatomy i love the human body and how it bends and moves/gen #im aroace so its only aesthetic attraction but MAN/pos #i honestly had more trouble FINDING references than actually drawing them ;A; #these took me 3 mins each but an extra like 20 mins to find them and keep my phone upright #these are what my sketches look like before i clean them up with the thin pencil i normally use! #30 day challenge

[moeblob]

I started fanart today but my thumb kinda hurts so I can't finish it so take OC art I never posted as my 'art of the day'.

Melo (mute) and Lody (can talk) are the twin advisors to the demon lord Sascha. They're probably his two most trusted demons and they adore him and respect him. While everyone in the demon army calls him "boss", Lody addresses him as "my lord" or "our lord" if with Melo.

Their pink/yellow eyes are actually a link of sorts. Whatever Melo sees, Lody can see. Whatever Lody sees, Melo can see. So they often travel apart from each other to have a wider range of what's going on in order to help Sascha determine the wisest course of action.

#my characters #i wish i could post the fanart but it feels WRONG to post only two of the four characters lmao #they are friends do not separate if possible #anyway eventually reynold finds out the twins admire sascha and view him as a fatherly role #so he volunteers to be the mom since the twins want to keep sascha in high rank #and so when lody next greets him (while she is next to melo and sascha) she says hello mother #and reynold beams and is SO HAPPY and sascha is too shocked to say anything bc #reynold has joked or so he thought it was joking about adopting the demon army as their kids #and now one of his advisors just called him mother #there is something unusual about this and it takes reynold all day to click #so while in the middle of the night he just sits upright and goes YOURE JEALOUS ARENT YOU #and hes right actually...... sascha is jealous #so reynold convinces him to just tell the girls they can call him dad or father or something omg this is so cute #and sascha ... does #anyway sascha named the twins after finding them years before #and their names are two halves of a Melody #and they honestly adore their names and when reynold hears their names hes like that is #the cutest thing i have ever heard omg i love that you two have such cute names #and lody doesnt tell reynold that sascha named them but she DOES tell sascha that reynold approved

[sketch--booked]

After going to Legoland I’ve been in Ninjago brain and I got an Overlord mini figure today which got me super excited to expended that energy in drawing him. 💜💖💛🖤

Transparent variants underneath.

If you wanna use these for like a phone background (I know I will), pfp or something, you can that’s no problem 💙💙💙

I also won’t lie I’ve had RotTMNT on my mind so excuse me if some Shredder got in there ghhghgh.

#ninjago #look sketch got an art tag #ninjago overlord #lego ninjago #he is made of smoke this armor is the only thing keeping him upright #I’m really good at tagging guys I promise #this took too much time off my life but worth it in the end #3-4 hours of my life #im slow leave me be