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foxghost · 1 year

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Back in 2009, Samsung sold these netbooks that shipped with win7 starter that could boot to something called "phoenix hyperspace". This is fascinating if you're a nerd.

#fox is a nerd #phoenix hyperspace #this is a deep dive into an obscure operating system #and a cool piece of random history now i guess #it's such a haphazard #and twisted way to do things #it's VERY 2009 #can you imagine it was also the year of the dragon age #dragon age was happening while netbooks were pulling this shit #queued #it was also an instant dual-boot #which is magical and uh #kind of metamophoses like

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kagekitsuneoflight · 1 year

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It’s kinda funny that Jason is, in every sense of the word, the most normal Robin. Unironically, there wasn’t anything uniquely special about him before he was Robin. He was a street kid. His dad was a goon (which makes sense for Gotham. It’s a goon breeding ground) and his adoptive mom was a girl who fell in love with the bad boy, got disowned by her upper middle class parents and adopted her boyfriend’s infant son. Even his biological mother isn’t anything special! She was just a doctor who ended up becoming corrupt.

Jason Todd was no circus kid who could do an impossible signature trick. He wasn’t being scouted by some evil hidden organization.

He wasn’t the rich boy genius who lived next door.

He’s not the son of a supervillain (as lame as cluemaster is, he still *counts*).

He’s not the secret son of Bruce Wayne.

And he’s not a metahuman, nor did he led a whole organization of teens to fight when Batman couldn’t.

He’s the most regular boy to ever enter become a hero in Gotham. He wanted to do good things for the sake of doing good. He grew up poor with regular parents, where bad things happened to them. The kinds of things that could happen to *any* person living in Gotham.

There is nothing about him, pre-Robin and as Robin, that makes him Not Like Regular Kids.

His dad was a goon (who, depending on the run, was either killed by Two-Face OR. Just sent to prison and killed in prison! Which makes his backstory even PLAINER-) and his mother was a drug addict with cancer. Jason ends up homeless, and almost steals the bat mobile tires. The only thing that makes him stand out from any other tragedy befallen kid in Gotham is the fact he was bold enough to do that, get Batman’s attention, and continue to be bold enough to go against a crime lord (who was apparently his grandmother, the most interesting person in his family, but since she’s almost never brought up, she’s likely no more significant than a one-issue villain in the crime lord power hierarchy). Batman realized that Jason wasn’t going to really stop, and honestly he kinda grew on him, so he decided to adopt Jason, and eventually allow him to become Robin.

There just isn’t anything amazingly special about his backstory. The few moments where something could have been done to make it more interesting (like his biological mother) but ended up taking the most boring option. You can’t do much of anything now to enhance his past without upsetting much more well established canon, and not without making people wonder “well if his grandmother was such a big name in crime, why hasn’t she been brought up before?”

Jason Todd was a wonderful Robin (providing that he actually has a writer who likes him). He has a golden heart, he’s the voice of reason. He’s everything that a Robin needs to be for Batman. But compared to everyone else, he was nothing special. In a way, his lack of Not Like Regular Kids makes him stand out in a much more subtle way.

As if someone asked the question “Do I need to be someone special to be Robin?” And the answer was “You don’t need to be someone special, you just need to be brave, like Jason Todd was.”

#jason todd #robin jason todd #seriously they could have made anyone his biological mom. to add drama. to add spice #but they instead said ‘well. he’s a simple kid’#everyone else is some delicacy food at a dinner table. and Jason? Jason is like. tomato soup.#HOWEVER. i will NOT forgive the disregard of making Jason stand out from his siblings more.#everyone has a specific niche that they noticeably can excel #or like. a very specific villain is like ‘YOU. i want to train YOU to be MY sidekick.’#or or. the backstory alone is enough to make them stand out.#Jason gets uh. crime? he’s good at killing people.#which isn’t even consistently his Thing by the way since no one knows where to put him on the hero to villain scale #if only there was something he could have that no one else does!#\*i stare long and hard at the All Caste and Magic*#shut up kage #edit: I’m so!! CLUEMASTER. ITS CLUEMASTER.

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redladydeath · 1 month

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Okay, so last night I decided I wanted to do something with Vox and body horror and this story concept ended up manifesting in my brain. Massive CW for psychosis that's not actually psychosis, as well as self-harm and body horror.

Vox and Alastor meet in the 1940s while they're both doing electrical engineering work for the war effort. Vox is only 22, so he falls fast and hard for Alastor, who decides to use the younger man's infatuation with him to his advantage. One night while they're out drinking, Alastor convinces Vox to make a blood oath with him. He tells him it's just symbolic, but in reality, there's magic involved; if Alastor kills him, he'll get all the years Vox was supposed to live added to his own lifespan, which is dwindling. He lures Vox into the woods and tries to murder him, but is shot by a hunter who happens upon the struggle. Vox nearly loses an eye, but survives the encounter and is able to go on with his life, albeit with some pretty intense trauma.

Twenty years later, it's the 1960s. Vox has been a successful television presenter for 10~15 years now. He's rich and is married with children, but is less than an ideal husband/father. When he's not at work, he's usually with Valentino, a young male prostitute who he's been having a secret affair with for the past year or two. The two of them are currently somewhere between a sugar daddy/baby arrangement and a legit relationship. Vox is overall pretty content with his life and hasn't thought about Alastor in years. That is, until he starts feeling everything change.

At first, it seems like it's just a bad cold; his joints are stiff and he has the chills constantly, but that's nothing too unusual and he continues going about his daily life. But then the delusions start. Vox begins hearing strange things whenever a radio is on– words and phrases that shouldn't be coming out of it, said in a familiar tone of voice. He starts seeing shadows moving just out of the corner of his eye, but when he turns to look at them, they're gone. When Vox looks in the mirror or watches clips from his show, there's something different– uncanny– about his own eyes that make him feel like he's looking at a stranger. It must be stress, he thinks; he's been working himself too hard.

But things only get worse. Vox's body is stiff and jerky and cold– suddenly very cold to the touch, although no one other than Vox can feel it. Food and drink and cigarettes lose their taste. His emotions feel muted– all except fear. He starts hearing this loud, irritating humming when he's in the studio and it makes it hard for him to work. People are starting to get worried. He's acting erratically, asking if they can hear or feel things that simply aren't there. His wife thinks he's building towards a nervous breakdown, but Vox knows that's not true. Something's happening to him, something no one can perceive but him.

Things continue to deteriorate. Vox thinks he can hear metal creaking when he moves. His face won't show up on camera anymore; the footage always ends up damaged somehow for reasons no one can explain. He smashes the family radio in front of his kids when he clearly hears Alastor's voice coming out of it, taunting him. He asks Valentino, who hasn't even been to church in the past decade, to connect him to his childhood priest because he thinks he's being possessed and wants an exorcism— if the Protestant God won’t help him, maybe the Catholic one will. It still doesn't work.

Things come to a head one night when Vox, desperate to prove to himself and everyone else that he's not crazy, takes a knife and cuts deep into the hand he used to make the pact with Alastor all those years ago. He cuts and cuts and cuts until finally– finally– he sees it: metal and wires and no blood. He was right. He tries to show his wife but only succeeds in scaring her out of her wits. He flees the house and takes the family car: he needs to go see Valentino, show him, ask him for help. He crashes the car into a lamppost while trying to drive with one hand. A cashier working late in a nearby television/radio store tries to help him, bringing him into the store to wait while he calls an ambulance.

When the cashier leaves him alone to go make the call in the backroom, Vox hears it again. He hears Alastor's voice coming out of the radio, telling him that his time is up; he's been living on borrowed (or rather, stolen) time for the past ten years and now it's time to come join him, down where they both belong. Vox can feel his "bones" cracking, his skin stretching and tearing; he can't hear anything except Alastor's voice alongside the blaring static emitting from all the TVs and radios in the store. He's dying he's dying he's dying– until he stumbles into a fusebox and the whole store is engulfed in an electrical fire.

When the firemen dig through the rubble, they never find a human body.

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hecksupremechips · 7 days

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Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

#jhariah #this one just rawrrfrrr #and then uh another line thats like ‘tell me did you raise a man?’#nice #im just listening to the new album to cope with nasty sickness and feeling out of it #god this album is really good it has every emotion in there like this song for example just the part where they scream the chorus its like #hnnnghhh #hm some other moments from the album im liking a lot uhhh i love re: concerns a lot #the part where hes like reading off the complaints and then the part where hes just screaming and its like BAM BAM BAM BAAAM #sasuke is so good and the bit at the end where its like ‘i just want you to know im so so...’#like hes gonna say sorry but cant seem to say the word for whatever reason and i know nothing about sasuke #but i has to imagine the fan girlies are eating gravel over that one lol it gets me #and theres just that like spooky echoing afterwards #the intro to fire4fun goes SOOOOOOOO hard i was losing my shit its awesome #the entirety of trust ceremony is giving me big feelings but specifically that part towards the end where its all quiet and you hear #its like whistling i think? like a marching band is coming in maybe #but it also kinda sounds like nature too and idk i like got a little bit um magical at that part cuz i was driving down a big hill #and it had been raining but there was a clearing in the clouds and the sun was bright and like at this particular hill #you can just see everything like the land stretches for miles theres trees hills the river farms all that shit #and idk with the extreme stress and depression ive been feeling its hard to have these moments where life seems worth it #and its hard to really feel anything anymore or to feel in the moment but idk i was just going down that hill seeing everything and it was #very majestic so yeah that song is definitely gonna have the same effect as pin eye for me #which i must mention pin eye again its still OOOOGHH very good it came at a pretty good time for me #yeah basically this album is uhhhh whats keeping me somewhat grounded rn i recommend 👍

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tinycowboyart · 16 days

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Woah girl, you ate that, wanna make out

If you’re my player and you see this, no you didn’t, scroll away. I don’t think any of them follow me here but uh

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #dnd #dnd art #dnd character #digital art #character art #dnd villain #IF YOU’RE ONE OF MY PLAYERS DON’T READ THE TAGS PLSS #anyways this is Nova #she’s going to be a main antagonist in my dnd campaign #she’s one of the first humans ever and she commited the first sin #eating a person #she was then punished with immortality and is now looking for a way to uh perish #but her conclusion is that’s not possible unless you remove all magic from the entire world which will cause catastrophic consequences #anyways small lore dump I can’t want for my players to meet her #tw: gore #tw: cannibalism

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zoneofsmites · 5 months

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I have been thinking about my dark urge's childhood lately, which includes a childhood friendship between Sylas and Enver too. so baby Enver is also there.

Sylas Maeve was found and adopted by Violet and Mayric Maeve - he is one of three 'outcast' children they have taken in. His older sister is a drow girl named Ashlynn, and his younger brother is a half-orc boy named Fynn.

and yes, Sylas has always looked a little... weird.

fun childhood facts are that he hated having his hair done but his mother loved the bonding experience so he never actually cut his curls off. And that little artificer Enver made them a pair of sending stones that they essentially used as walkie-talkies playing in the streets of the lower city.

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thegoldenavenger · 4 months

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finally drew some svsss ponies! started with yqy and sqq

#kamaeteDRAWS #svsss #mlp #yue qingyuan #shen qingqiu #shen jiu #yue qi #yqy's brand gets covered up with a xuan su cutie mark that occured during some kind of magical explosion in the caves #uh his horn gets damaged (his shizun Fixes That >.>)#sqq gets an underground cover up tattoo which was dangerous and means his cutie mark wont ever manifest #but which he thought was VERY NECESSARY #im SO sorry for putting blood in the mlp tag :/ listen svsss cannot be deblooded

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dungeons-and-dragon-age · 1 month

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Anders buddy i have barely done anything 😭

#anders when you show him a bit of basic kindness: you have my deepest gratitude and devotion and i am madly in love with you #buddy. friend. please raise your standards ToT #poor guy is so starved for affection #(& misses the vigils keep gang probably (no bioware i dont believe u that they hate each other now))#laya plays dragon age #also liams start of his friendship w merrill is so. he never really agreed to bring her along and kinda is uncomfy around her #cus of her whole blood magic deal any everything #but shes also so genuine and lonely and sweet?? and he doesnt have the heart to tell her uh no id rather not come visit regularly actually #(which is true for his friendship with anders too tbh LOL he wanted to keep his distance but also hes so sad and lonely)#((this is ALSO mutually true for him and varric lmao))#his and varrics first shared trait: getting accidentally attached to people xdd #my ocs #oc: liam hawke #since i got rambly abt him in the tags again lol

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daily-fantasy-ideas · 1 year

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What if various energies (Magical, Elemental, Solar, Electrical, etc.) occasionally just sorta condense and collect into glowing humming crystals.

These crystals could be embedded into weapons or armour granting whoever wields them a power boost that charges their actions with the type of energy that formed the crystal.

You could even have especially talented magic users create items wholly out of these crystals granting an even greater power boost to the person wielding them.

Also, why not have the crystals in their natural state be just a wee bit dangerous occasionally discharging some of their power seemingly randomly, sometimes at living targets.

#fantasy ideas #fantasy setting #fantasy magic #fantasy items #world building #some of you in the audience are no doubt asking ''wait like energon?''#to which my response is nu uh! it's also like solitarium #and probably other substances in both transformers and mecha fiction in general #cw weapons

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ttomeposting · 20 days

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hey remember the situation with kirb and zetto in the webseries? just asking. for no reason in particular. : ]

#my art #tome rpg #greyhat #terrain of magical expertise rpg #i remembered i technically have 2 self inserts for this game (one of which actually has a speaking line in there) and uh #it'd make a *lot* of sense if Threefold had an illegally registered alt account. just to yknow. play 'normally' every once n a while #especially considering how i rewrote him and his whole. Thing about zetto #at first i think his player would rlly just be using the alliance to get to zetto after hearing theyre participating in The Event #and then realizes “aw shit i like these people actually....”#so he sticks around! just. also with an ulterior motive . as a treat #can you tell i havent finished the game and/or cannot get over kirbzet as a character?? because i h

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jahiera · 7 months

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every time gale is like "ohhh surely you have called out to mystra once or twice as a sorcerer--" I just picture a sort of record scratch scene where lakhesis stares at him in silence for a solid 5 minutes as he gets increasingly uncomfortable remembering that she, in fact, was raised by a cult dedicated to malyk in the underdark. lakhesis vc brother gale I dont even pray to that fucker let alone a PRISS like MYSTRA-- [instantly smited]

#lakhesis who thinks she's mildly haunted by the minor drow god of wild magic: Uh. Lol. Lmao.#would love to write the conversation where she's like.#yeah haha the whole time we've been in the underdark I've been seeing shadowy figures again. Im sure its fine though #gale: ?????????????....SURE...#your scary halfdrow wife who loves strange rituals and forbidden magic so so much. which is fine because Gale does too he just has a little #oh lala what if mystra is mad at me for it moment in act 2 #playing bg3

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imminent-danger-came · 8 months

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About Macaque's death- it's been raised that in the flashback, we can see what looks like a battlefield around him. Some have even spectacled that the mountain Macaque brings MK to in his debut episode is the same battlefield.

And...when Sandy flashbacks to what seems to be Sha Wukong's memories...what do we see but a battlefield?

I think your thought that there was two battles between Macaque and Wukong, if Wukong did kill Macaque (I believe he didn't), is correct. However, Wukong spared Macaque the first time, probably bc Macaque hadn't done anything too bad to the pilgrims. The second, he didn't...

Because Macaque succeeded in killing the pilgrims.

Let me set up a screenshot conspiracy board real quick:

I swear these are all related (I've mentioned this before somewhere). I don't know how or why, but deep in my heart I want to believe this battle will be touched on.

Now, I don't know if the battle that took place is related to SWK & Macaque's fight or not, and I'm also not positive that there even were 2 fights (I was just throwing stuff out there), but Macaque killing the pilgrims (or more likely just having a hand in their death, "I didn't do this!" "You weren't not involved" anyone?) is definitely something to consider.

#Is me writing on screenshots in red pen unnecessary? yes #is it fun while also contributing to the vibe? also yes!#idk lmk could bring anything back they literally brought the 1x03 sandy tape joke back ''Maybe we could find some magic tape?''#Which *looks at MK breaking the pinball machine sadly*#*picks up phone* Oh yeah? Yeah. Uh-huh. yeah I'm thinking too much about the lego show again. Yeah. Like I do every night. Uhuh.#lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk theory #asks #My ultimate crack theory: Macaque helped past life (aka EAMK) MK kill the pilgrims #Schrödinger's theory. Can be neither proven or disproven atm

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kaesaaurelia · 2 months

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Today was incredibly terrible in real life so imagine my surprise when I got this extremely cursed toy out of the Neopies???? (For those of you who don't go here, that's a good thing. OMG.)

Anyway, a while ago I played with a neopoints-only Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie custom and ended up with this very silly concept, so I might go for a silly hacker-related pet name (I found one that's free!), but I should not make these decisions this late at night.

#kaesa op #neopets #omg omg omg #I should really go to bed but I'm coding this fic for ao3 #and the fic is about 18k long so uh #yeah #omg the other amazing thing is my gallery is plushies and I will have the non-magical MSPP left over for my gallery!#which is exciting #for the record I also recently got a fountain faerie quest that allowed me to get an alien aisha #which!!! is something I've wanted since I was a kid #so I'm doing really well on getting Hard-To-Obtain Pets With Weird Colors

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phoenix-before-the-flame · 3 months

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everyone in the guild has Some kind of burn scar from natsu

Ha yeah I can see it! I think in most cases they dont get any worse that say, minor burns like when you grab a hot pot or something. Everyone's gotten used to it and he's mindful enough now to not let it be super bad burns (versus like when everyone was kids and still learning how to deal)

But most of em's gotten a minor burn from him at least once

[It's headcanon night! Send headcanons]

#fairy tail #fairy tail headcanon #natsu dragneel #i think a neat thing is that natsu does have anger issues and it affects his magic #but apart from the obvious comedic moments hes never seriously burned anyone #which lends to the idea of him still havin a decent amount of control over his emotions despite actin otherwise #uh im gettin off track here hi 👋👋👋

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makeitlookdecent · 5 months

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