I had a cute thought and want to ask your perspective in something with the danger noodles. What if, in terms of draconian customs and such, to gift a dragon with a piece of you're hoard is a very, very significant event or milestone. Like... sua Ink gave Error one of his paintings or canvases, that'd be hugely significant to them because that's a piece of Ink's hoard and it's like Ink is saying "I trust you with that which is most precious to me and you are my family/life partner." The context varies based on relationship, bur you get what i mean right?
I know exactly what you mean, and kinda have this in TTS already! Though less in terms of gifts, and more storage?? Dream, Ink, and surprisingly Nightmare constantly are passing their hoards around to people as an unconscious way of saying they trust you to take care of it in their place!
Dream leaves his pillows/blankets everywhere in the castle and at the Stars’ homes, and usually has clothing from each of his friends that has been offered/claimed into his hoard that the others still wear, like Killer’s and Horror’s jackets, Ink’s scarf, or Lust’s vest, etcetc.
Ink is constantly leaving his art and supplies in the antivoid and, for a while, in Cross’ empty world (before Nightmare claimed him, a fact that will be important later 👀), both to de-clutter his home, and allow Error and Cross to use it as they please (mostly Cross). That’s not even mentioning the many pencils and pens and such the others often take home that Ink doesn’t even bat an eye to.
Night just trusts his boys to remain safe under the others’ watch, hence his irritation when Ink blew up on them in the first chapter. He understands the circumstances, but he still feels a bit betrayed.
I absolutely ADORE the idea of gifting from the hoard being something even more special, though! I had been playing more with the idea of giving one of the dragons more items to hoard, and the significance to that (again, something I’ll get to soon… cries in Violet 4), but you’re absolutely right, giving someone a piece of their OWN hoard would be so incredibly important. That’s beyond just trusting them to keep it safe. That’s trusting them to keep it.
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recoloured this old warmup to repost cause I had it on my mind.
If Clark is going to be in earth 19 (gotham by gaslight universe) (they're publishing more gbg and clark is going to be there), then listen to me listen to me, he needs to be a cowboy. Superman needs to be a cowboy in the big city. I am SOO serious about this. I am on my knees, DC, let me write for you, I would add so many themes about modern technology versus traditional knowledge and sprinkle in some anticolonialism PLEASE.
You could have a cute little Daily Planet that has to struggle against yellow journalism in a smoky little backroom & setting their own type, a la The Truth. You could have gentlemen's clubs. You could have a brutal war against unions in the streets and one lone titan of industry giving into their demands. You could have the exact same 3 batkids from the movie, there's literally nothing to improve on there. You could have Clark tear down a barbed wire fence with his bare hands, in a futile attempt to unravel colonialist ideas of private land ownership. Imagine the alien knows more about the earth, the real earth, than the knight in his city does. Imagine the American dream failing Clark, who has to go back east to the big city, failing Bruce, who lost his parents, failing everyone over and over until they decide to build something without it. In an era of rampant exploitation, what do real heroes look like?
Or you can make the justice league fight big steampunk robots ig I'm excited either way.
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The way Percy talks about himself in the show though, having ADHD and dyslexia, saying he knows that something is wrong with his brain, it’s heartbreaking.
Because stepping aside from the magic and monsters, this is a kid who’s internalized the ableist messages and bullying that’s been directed at him. He believes that having ADHD and dyslexia means that something is broken in his head. Not that his experience is natural, another one of the many different ways that people go through the world, but that his difficulties mean his brain is broken, and by extension, he is innately wrong.
It’s this out loud recognition of the struggling quiet part of someone with a learning disability, who can’t figure out what is going on with themself. They don’t know why they are the way they are, they don’t know how to manage it, and they certainly haven’t accepted it as a part of them, trying to fit into the expectations of a neurotypical society. All they know is that according to everyone else, they’re ‘wrong’. So they must just be ‘wrong’.
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