#Dead Signals

[thlayyli]

roadtrip

[pallasparthenos]

transformation and sacrifice and apotheosis. you should not be afraid. you should stick out your tongue and taste and swallow.

[unbroken-teacup]

the way that archive 81 utilizes music and sound makes the podcast so comforting and for a cosmic horror podcast that can be very difficult but they nail it every time

[srjacksin]

I just finished listening to Generation Crossing, and I'm in tears.

This was an absolutely beautiful piece of storytelling, Marc and Dan have really outdone themselves, as did every actor that lent their voice to this project, it was well worth the wait.

An hour and a half. Just an hour and a half and they've captured a screen shot of humanity. The horror and the beauty of us, of our drive, the way we make stories and myth and religion and art and song- the way we can be so, so awful, full of greed, our fallibility, our selfishness....but also our hope and our capacity for selflessness.

I knew things were going to end the way they did by track 24. And that's when I started tearing up and the second she said the words "Odysseus protocol." I knew what that meant and I started sobbing.

"The lives you have lived are meaningful because you have given them meaning."

The flashbacks to all the crew members she spoke to, she remembered all of them and she saved them and then she asked to them to remember her.

[pinnipurr]

okaay so it's really about the connections humans make with each other and everything they interact with and the hope that they keep dear and the sacrifices they make for both others and the future and it's about teaching things programmed to be unfeeling to hesitate between the logical and the emotional because inevitably it will reflect the kindness and frustration it has been shown for generations and generations and despite all its code and prior instructions in the face of loss it will care. it will care.

[imsmallfry]

I don't remember if I've already posted this? But here it is again anyway :3 An older drawing of Rat and Dan ft my old imagining of what Dan looks like (he needs two arms!) But I just love how weird Rat looks!! In my latest drawings of them I also imagine LMG just gives them crappy swag shirts to wear or scrap from the city/contractors that didn't make it so Rat's cool shirt is probably unrealistic lol

[chewablepebbles]

News on Wavelength!!!!!!!

[stupidsexygrizzop]

MAN this album art looks so cool

[serethespider]

listening to dead signals stuff now that i'm into podcasts that arent tma and i almost squealed out loud when sponsorbot reappeared in archive 81

[nightingale-prompts]

Mixed Signals AU

Phantom: *Complaining about Red Robin.*

Red Hood: 😯🫢

Later

Jason: Tim! Why are you being a coward and not asking Phantom on a date already?

Tim: Why would I ask him out? If you haven't noticed I hate him. I'm sure he's in league with the Al ghuls. He's just another ploy form Raz!

***

Danny: Hey Red! I got your spleen! It's mine now!

Tim: Keep it jackals!

Danny:*blushing* Wait really?

[y0-yo-yo]

DCxDP: dead tired/brain dead short idea:

Tim: dad, everyone, I want you to meet Danny my boyfriend

Danny: hi sir! Nice to meet you! I promise to treat your son really good and rip apart anything or anyone ever trying to harm him before obliterating them,their family and everything they know and love *flash the biggest brightest smile with too many sharp teeth*

Bruce:....

The bat kids in the room:...

Duke: *turning to Tim putting a firm hand on his shoulder* never break up with him.

Duke: seriously. Never.

[caffeinatedvigilantewriter]

So Danny and Ellie are in a predicament.

Ellie has been freshly deaged to a 18 month year old. Sam, Tucker and Jazz are dead and gone.

Danny who is 23 ish is running from the GIW and Fentons ends up in Gotham when he gets caught

Last minute he shoves Ellie into an alley and leaves a note if to someone finds her

And he’s gone, taken.

Damian is now 23 and Batman. Bruce and Alfred have passed away (Bruce’s heart couldn’t take years of being Batman and Alfred got too old)

Everyone else… to put it lightly… aren’t on speaking terms.

Dick is in Bludhaven, Cass is in Kong, Jason is with his outlaws, Tim alternates between the Titans and WE (but doesn’t talk to Damian outside of the company). Duke and Steph are in collage.

Damian is alone.

Back to Ellie. Damian is on patrol and finds a crying baby in an alley at 1 am.

At first, he’s angry. What kind of parent leaves their child like that?

Then he finds the note

He takes Ellie in and raises her alone in the manor while being Batman and trying to find her dad.

Leslie- who’s now retired- helps in babysitting Ellie when he’s busy with being Batman or WE but hes always there to tuck her in every night.

Eventually, Duke- tired of the family’s pride and stubbornness ruining their family- comes home for Christmas break (around 6 months after Damian found Ellie)

He arrives while Batman is on patrol, hoping to surprise him and instead has his shit rocked by a 2 year old with Lazarus green eyes the moment he walked in the Batcave.

Damian arrives and explains everything.

Duke switches to online collage and resumes living in the manor.

Signal is back on the streets and Ellie gets an uncle.

Tim is the next person who catches on.

He realizes Batman’s patrol routes are shorter (Damian didn’t want to leave Ellie alone at night) and Batman sometimes abandons patrol in the middle to leave (Ellie was crying and Leslie couldn’t calm her down)

And so Tim pays him a visit and he sees Damian napping with a two year old on the couch and is like :0

So, instead of doing the Logical thing and waking him up he leaves and calls the rest of the family.

While Duke laughs in his face, the others plan to all appear next week at the manor and interrogate Damian as to why he adopted a kid.

Coincidentally, that night The GIW have cracked down as to where the ghost baby is and they break into Wayne Manor while Damian is on patrol.

He doesn’t get back in time.

Everyone else arrives a week later to find Damian in the batcave, looking like he was close to a passing out from exhaustion.

Duke returns from patrol and explains the situation and everyone bands together to help Damian find his daughter

They didn’t find her, but they find Danny.

After busting him out and telling Danny that Damian was the one who took care of Ellie for months

He eventually heals his wounds in the safety of Wayne Manor.

However, because Damian was the one to raise Ellie for months and the other not only ignored his calls but didn’t even stop by to check up on him he doesn’t trust the others as much.

So Damian ends up caring for him.

And over the course of the three months it took for them to locate Ellie, they begin to fall in love.

Cue the rescue mission the moment they find Ellie.

Damian and Danny eventually get together and GIW gets dismantled. Everything is fine and dandy…right?

[pallasparthenos]

boombox fuckboy

[unbroken-teacup]

just finished s2 of archive 81 in my relisten and i completely forgot about the canon machine mpreg in this podcast

[srjacksin]

Looking forlornly at my podcast feed thinking, "When will Archive 81 return from war?"

[ducktu]

Duke: WOW, how can you even say that about my people-

Jason: Hold on, being black doesn't have anything to do with it-

Duke: BLACK? MY PEOPLE ARE BAT VIGILANTES, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?, CAN YOU ONLY SEE RACE?

Jason: *screams*