#Dark Nemesis

[tatakaeeren]

Geto and our his girls 💖

[julls]

Durgetash sketchpage by wonderful @mureh ♡!! Scenes of Gortash x Durge Juria before and after "my wife has amnesia" bg3 events (⸝⸝ᵕ ᵕ⸝⸝)

[kifaprokumiv]

Combining my obscure 2005 toxic yuri into one

[truuskn]

Tfp Prowl arriving in season 2, reading the reports: What the frag have you all done while I was gone?

optimus prime, i left you unsupervised only for a couple years, what the hell!

[robbiebear540]

Happy Star Trek Day!

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

elsewhere in 13th century french england, alia just awoke. pulled herself to sitting, shedding days' worth of suddenly brittle roots, and felt an odd, but unmistakable, sense of loss

[rikebe]

down atrocious akihiro

[idontwikeit]

They only calcified her determination to find others she could better relate to.

requested by @kazzsbrekker

[hunniegl4zed]

*yeets another fankid to you*

My boy Obsidian the Dark, my mephinite fankid 🖤💎💜

Created by Dr Eggman, he's a scientist that studies the dark & arcanian magics. Wielding both Mephiles' and Infinite's power, he will use his smarts during battle. He's the mean gay that will judge you silently and gives you the side eye. Also, he's Krush's love intrest and Obsidian is in NO WAY intrested in him (Awww, the irony 💀💅) Annihilation and Obsidian should NOT be in the same room together 💥

Obsidian doesn't know who his original parents are, viewing Eggman has his real father.

Obsidian is one of the scientists that worked on the project to created @toasterfuloftoast soggy's potato, Oblivion. But after The Incident, Obsidian would carry guild all the time and starts to bond with Oblivion as his bigger brother. ✨✨✨

[specialagentartemis]

speaking of Rowland, what changed your mind on grimdark stories? You used to post about how much you hated them lol

Hopepunk started to annoy me more lol.

It's been several things. Partially, it's just been years; I've gotten older, read more books, found authors I really really loved writing really bleak really sad really upsetting and really fascinating books.

Partially it's that I don't really believe in the definitions people use about grimdark anymore; the more I read, the more I feel it's a strawman stereotype that barely exists moreso than it's an actual social force in literature.

Partially I do stand by my irritation with a lot of dark and gritty remakes/reboots of mostly A/V media; Star Trek does not need to be a dark and gritty war story, LOTR doesn't need to be sexy, etc. They feel lazy and trend-chasing more than they feel like a genuine creative endeavor. Too often, they can feel like they're jettisoning the aspects that made me like them in an attempt to be more Mature by adding Violence and Swearing and Sex. I stand by that Star Trek Discovery wasn't good, and the fact that it felt like it was embarrassed that it had to be Star Trek when it really wanted to be Game of Thrones in Space was a big part of why.

But honestly that seems to primarily be happening in TV/movies, and it's stopped being nearly the inescapable social force it was 6-10 years ago. The zeitgeist moves on and new trends annoy me. In sci-fi/fantasy books, the movement seems to be in the other direction: hopepunk and cozy. And they have just. been bad books. So many of them have been bad in new and frustrating ways. In the same time period that hopepunk and cozy were on the rise in the sff zeitgeist, I also read books like The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, and The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez... heavy and sad and serious and unhappy and with brilliant artistry that feels like it actually has something to say and isn't ignoring how humans actually act by saying "well it wouldn't be a problem if everyone was just nice :)" I read the bleakest, most upsetting, most depressing sci-fi book I've ever encountered, Harmony by Project Itoh, which he wrote while he was in and out of hospitals dying of cancer and it shows. It's unsettling and unnerving and upsetting and different, and you can tell it comes from the heart. Is it grimdark? Maybe, yeah. And it has value as literature, and I got a lot more out of it than I did from a lot of things touting how important they are for being Hopeful and Cozy and Conflict-Free.

Honestly, part of it is my natural plain contrarianism. When making fun, hopeful, funny, campy, or adventure-y things Dark and Gritty and Violent was held up as better and more inherently mature writing, it annoyed me and made me dislike it; now that violence and selfishness and cruelty and pain in stories seems to be considered immature and unnecessary, and rather hope, softness, gentleness, happiness, cheerfulness, conflict-aversion, and harmony are the Morally Correct and Mature ways to write stories, I resent that too. It ends up feeling trend-chasing and reductive, and when bland nothing books are held up as The Most Ethically Correct And Best Writing Because They Are Hopeful, it makes me just as annoyed as when dark and gritty TV is held up as The Most Mature And Serious Prestige Television.

Also, honestly, the world kept getting worse and sometimes I want media that acknowledges that I feel afraid and hurt and angry, and that things aren't all sweet and good and nice actually. It often makes me feel better, more seen, more understood, than media that goes actually everyone is nice and and problems are easy to solve and the world is basically just and people can be trusted to all be mature and good and reasonable. (And if you're ever impatient, or selfish, or snappish, or mean, or insufficiently hopeful... then you don't belong in our utopia. As someone who *gestures above* can be impatient, snappish, and mean... that doesn't make me feel all that hopeful.)

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

(“Where’s Venom?” I wanted to highlight other characters since Venom is the fan favorite for this kind of poll.)

[m4gp13]

Some thoughts I had for the Trials of Ares au

It starts basically the same as normal TOA, dumpster, Meg, Jacksons (Meg's presence is the only reason Percy doesn't kill Ares on the spot because Ares significantly lacks the goodwill that Apollo has), and then camp. I think it was Owl (???) who mentioned this but Ares has been raising his kids to be bullies pretty much and when he shows up at camp, these kids realise they have power over someone they dislike and used to fear, so they basically terrorise Ares and kick him out of the cabin. So Ares would either be awkwardly hanging out in the Hermes cabin, or he'd be able to get a room for himself in the big house (which could be used to emphasise his isolation and loneliness due to his own actions), OR one of my personal post-pjo hcs is getting a separate cabin built for unclaimed demigods to free up space in the Hermes cabin and Ares has to go there (I like to make it a Hestia cabin ^^). And Ares' isolation and general bad time can contrast the very fun time Meg is having by contrast (kinda wish we got more of Meg hanging out with her Demeter siblings in toa).

Anyway, pretty early on, maybe in the labyrinth or maybe in the forest, they come across some monsters and Ares gets a tiny little spark of god powers, just enough to summon Ethan's ghost. That little spark dissipates as soon as Ethan gets there so A) Ares isn't controlling him and B) Ares can't send him back. Ethan isn't really being ordered around by Ares but he fights the monsters mostly out of instinct and because Meg is there. Ethan assumes Ares is a random son of Ares and isn't happy with him for summoning him from the dead, and he is even less happy when Ares gets offended and proudly attests that he is actually Ares. They argue for a bit and Ethan demands to be sent back to the Underworld, which doesn't work great because Ares doesn't have his powers anymore so he can't do shit and Ethan is stuck with Ares and Meg. He's pissed but there isn't much he can do other than follow Meg and Ares out of the wood and sees camp for the first time since he left before the Titan war. And he sees the Nemesis cabin.

The point is that it helps establish Ethan's motivation to go along with Ares and Meg. First of all, he can only get sent back to the Underworld and move on if Ares has his godly powers, so if Ethan wants to return to his normal afterlife, he needs to help get Ares his powers back. Second, the Nemesis cabin is there. Ethan has a cabin and a sibling and proof that he didn't die for nothing, but now the victory he earned is under threat again, this time from the Tri, so he has something to personally fight for. Also, this would probably come into play later, but the existence of the Nemesis cabin is also proof that the gods can change and be better, so when Ares starts getting character development, Ethan can feel like it's worth it to see that development through and see where it will lead.

[transingthoseformers]

wait could Unicron theoretically control Trypticon / the Nemesis because of the events of Flying Mind???

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i want a tma malev crossover where it's early series tma but later series malev and elias takes one look at arthur and is like "oh goddammit one of the other avatars is stealing my great awesome ritual idea. and they're so much further along than i am. fuck. who is in charge of this guy i have to kill them." unaware that no, nobody is grooming him to be a focal point of anything or whatever, this is completely divorced from any intentional ritual thing, arthur lester is just the universe's least favorite human

[mateushonrado]

Every Star Trek film to date

Status Post #11093: This excludes feature-length episodes or multi-part episodes edited into films for home media releases.

[crusaderguy]

Fuck it.