#'the unfathomable power'

[fisheito]

EVeryONE STOP SENDIGN ME THE mOoncake YAKUMO IM NOT OK!!!!!!!!+++++++++

[padmestrilogy]

i bring a sort of "the jedi lost the second they went to war using a slave army" vibe to "the jedi wouldve won the war and things would've been perfect if this one dude hadn't fucked it up" posts that jedi discourse bloggers don't really like

[deesi-academia]

desi girlhood is planning everything you'll do once you're finally independent

[distort-opia]

So I get that a guy might be working through his complicated homosexual crush on his boss via writing a genre-defining novel in the 19th century, in which their boss becomes a vampire aristocrat that seduces and kills people all over the place. Sure. But it's weird that it happens fucking twice? Both with John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897)?

Polidori bases off Lord Ruthaven on Lord Byron, for whom he worked as a personal physician and travel companion for a short while; all while admiring him immensely and being obsessed with him and resenting him too, for his literary talent and status in society. They had a tumultuous relationship, and the history of The Vampyre as a published story is also very interesting, but... Bram Stoker apparently also based Count Dracula off Henry Irving, a famous actor he worked for as a business manager for like 27 years? And their relationship is also described as extremely close, with Bram Stoker being a huge fan of Irving and constantly catering to his needs, to the point of people around him describing Irving as the most important person to him. And the fact both Byron and Irving were described as distant and mean-spirited to Polidori and Stoker, with the former being a lot worse than the latter. In both The Vampyre and Dracula, the suave vampire noble is, in some ways, an incarnation of the male main character's forbidden and complicated desires-- made evil because of their simultaneous emotional and societal inaccessibility, turned into supernatural leeches that must be defeated and who interestingly seek out mostly women as their victims. John Polidori's story ends with Aubrey dying and Lord Ruthaven draining his sister after having killed his lover, but Bram Stoker's novel has Jonathan kill off Count Dracula and Mina surviving after Dracula caused Lucy's death. And John Polidori ended up committing suicide, but fortunately Bram Stoker lived on. One exorcised their demons better than the other.

...I just did not expect to go on this vampire obsession spiral because of Nosferatu (2024) and end up with the new perspective of "Wow, poor Aubrey/Jonathan/Thomas, they took your gay Count away and made him mainly an expression of the female character's repressed desires." Goddamn.

[horrendoushag]

thinking about how smart jack and maddie fenton are. like it's actually insane the kinds of gadgets they've made. the specter speeder is par for the course as far as sci-fi goes, but it's one of the few vehicles in the show that floats, no wheels. they built an entire portal to a different dimension in their basement. they have force fields. the ecto-skeleton. the crammer, which shrinks and grows people. maddie has an ecto lightsaber?? and all that only scratches the surface. their level of genius is paralleled only by danny's op-ness.

[ofthecaravel]

I don't know how to not caption this with lyrics from Piano Man

[jacenbren]

Deeply fucking unsettling things about the Honored One himself, Satoru Gojo

Thanks to his ability to fuck with gravity, you put him in a blank, empty room with identical walls, floor, and ceiling with no doors or windows, he'll quickly lose track of which way is up. Realistically this situation would probably never happen, but the concept freaks him out ever since Geto made a joke about it once.

Gojo's body maintains a perfect thermodynamic equilibrium, making his skin creepily cool to the touch. He can go out in a blizzard with shorts on, and between that and Infinity, he'd be perfectly fine. It makes for a cool party trick, because he can stick his hand in a candle flame or put cigarettes out on his arms with no ill effects.

He's unsettlingly clean at all times, because dirt can't touch him. Gojo hasn't needed to use stain remover on his uniform in years.

He quite literally has six eyes. He keeps four of them shut and all of them hidden most of the time, though, because a) looking into all six at once would liquefy the brain of your average human, and b) his Six Eyes are constantly feeding unfathomable amounts of information into his brain every second. Even with his tolerance to his powers and mastery of the reverse curse technique, there's only so much stimuli a human brain can process without completely shutting down, and Gojo doesn't want to find out what that'll do to him--in a nutshell, just because he can see things that mankind can't even hope to comprehend doesn't mean he wants to.

He can perceive the entire electromagnetic spectrum, meaning he can see shrimp colors. Everyone else desperately wants him to describe the shrimp colors. Gojo continues to smugly refuse.

Because of his reverse curse technique constantly refreshing and regenerating his body, he just. doesn't really need to eat anymore. or drink. or even breathe. His body is basically frozen at peak physical condition, and it's very likely that he is functionally immortal.

Sometimes, Gojo forgets what pain feels like, because nothing can touch him. Pain feels almost like pleasure to him, because nothing can hurt him. Nothing can even touch him, and Gojo has secretly developed a perverted interest in seeing how badly he can mutilate himself before he's forced to reengage his technique and heal.

Gojo can bend and contort himself in ways that aren't humanly possible, run faster and farther and lift heavier objects than anyone alive, because his body can repair itself almost as fast as it's damaged, depending on how severe the injury. Basically, he has permanent hysterical strength, letting him push his body past its limits to perform feats that would kill a normal human with no ill effects.

Gojo doesn't sleep. He literally can't unless he releases his technique, because his body is constantly being refreshed and doesn't need to shut down. Oh well, it's for the better. He's most vulnerable while he's sleeping anyway, and it opens up his schedule by a lot.

His teeth grow now, almost like a rodent's. He has to file them down to be able to open and close his mouth properly, along with much more frequent trimming of his hair and nails.

His skin is oddly smooth, and unnaturally pristine. Gojo hasn't recieved a single scar since Toji sliced him open, and all the ones he'd recieved before are healed flawlessly at this point. His hands are so soft they make it look like he hasn't fought a day in his life, because calluses aren't able to form anymore.

Gojo's been around the world countless times now. He can go wherever he wants with a thought; the only cost is his sanity. Warping himself across the Pacific for lunch in San Francisco is fun, but he can only do it a few times a week if he doesn't want to have another... ah, episode.

These episodes involve blackouts, gaps in his memory where his powers manage to slip their leashes from overuse and literally short-circuit his brain. He's only had a few so far, and every time, he wakes up in the infirmary completely unscathed, with blood all over his clothes and an awful fucking migraine. Nobody knows what happens or where he goes, and all Shoko's been able to tell him is that when it happens, he seems to go into a giddy fugue before blasting his way out of the compound and vanishing for anywhere from days to weeks. Gojo's absolutely terrified of these episodes, because he's wholly aware that if he lost it for real, nobody would be able to stop him.

He looks human enough, but if you look closer, he quickly starts to set off the uncanny valley effect. It's like a wolf in sheep's clothing--because you know how dangerous he is, even though he appears relatively harmless at first. Everyone who meets him has the same fear response clawing at the back of their mind as their hindbrain screams at them to fucking run, because Gojo is an apex predator in the body of a prey animal. His very presence awakens primal fear that's been entrenched in every human since the dawn of time--the fear of things that go bump in the night, of cosmic horrors beyond what mankind can even hope to comprehend.

His eyes glow all the time now, and the energy crackling in the air around him feels like the static that comes before a lightning strike. Satoru Gojo is insistent that he's still human even though he's the strongest, but... is he, really?

[calcifiedcadaver]

Look past the facade and see it for what it really is....

See them for what they really are.

(Or, what if Ink could see the creators and totally isn't maybe still a little resentful over being abandoned, haha, what made you think that?)

[appleciderjulie]

this is literally them ok

agent 24 week is in a week ouuhhgggff…

[pyre-sea]

More sketches that I forgot about: Notebook edition.

[deweystuber]

Gales confession

[asketchcat]

Sometimes I sit and think to myself, “hey wait I have an art degree”

Then afterwards I wonder “how do I have an art degree”

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc prompt #41

When Danny allowed Nocturn to put him to sleep for a while to adjust to his new kingly power without damaging his surroundings or family, he was under the impression that it would take a ‘couple years’. He said goodbye to his friends and family with the promise that he would be back as soon as his powers were stabilized.

None of them stopped to wonder how an ancient’s idea of a ‘couple years’ could differ from their own.

Centuries after King Phantom entered his slumber, a mad Vlad Plasmius rampages across the US after his major scheme to bring back the ones he loved falls through. The JL are sent from place to place to talk with the powers that be that could stop Plasmius, and are eventually shuffled to Nocturn, who decides that it’s finally time to wake the Slumbering King.

For Danny, it only feels like he’s been asleep for two months.

[palespawn]

astarion’s love language for anyone interested is unsurprisingly words of affirmation and acts of service, like helping him ascend

[sixerstanley]

I need you all to know before this I haven't written in Months. I had a very bad case of writers block for the fandom I was in and had been in for three years, and I was really depressed about it.

And this was just in the span of a WEEK??? the power of Stancest.....

Also I just need to write the sex scene and then the fic will be done >:)

[mylittlesecrethaven]

Does Anyone Else Just Get Intrigued At The Thoughts Of Barbatos Walking Places?