#Hey! Douglas

[quotespile]

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

[beumdi]

little douglas doodle since i missed him.. </3

[gogandmagog]

The Blythes are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery

[flowery-laser-blasts]

If I got one euro for every glasses wearing nerd boy who's first name starts with a D that eventually turns blue..., I'd have two euros. It's not much but weird it happened twice.

I need to rewatch Freakazoid again, it's been too long.

[junibyrd]

Sink me!

I found soooo many good memes on this lovely platform, that I've decided to contribute with my own! The last two is a pair, I came across this library tweet and I immediately thought about our Percy so I had to make that new version! (Also to me Percy gives off such golden retriever energy!)

The memes are also from the books so there is a tiny spoiler I guess in those😅 Honestly read them books!!! The first 5 is sooo good, there are also some really great things in other parts, jut read it! Btw I LOVE the fact that the audience at the time demanded all these new adventures and the Baroness was like listening!!! and serving!!! and gave us almost 15 books, basically fanfics about her own characters💅🏻

Also shoutout to the MUSICAL, (still pisses me off how forgotten it is!) Douglas Sills as Percy is pure perfection, the soundtrack and the LYRICS are just out of this world soo why are u still reading this and why aren't you violently typing it in Spotify or YouTube or Idon'tknowit'southerepeoplesodoyourselfafavorandgiveitalisten! Ok, Love u💋

[socialprawn]

This is the start of something beautiful

[crayonverse]

i do really love the thematic different ways Douglas and Giselle both went about their androids. Douglas crafted a single android with a specific face, body and life. He created artificial life that had a entire life he wrote and crafted, all for him to leave his hand-made creation in a pile of rocks and to act like nothing ever happened.

Giselle's androids all have unique appearances, but underneath their superficial appearance, they are all the same. She doesn't need to hand create all their personalities and lives, as a majority of her androids are just props to her. They can change face and body at any needed point so there's no point in giving most of them a name. Troy probably had many different faces and voices throughout his creation. He could be anything.

Douglas wanted an android that he could replace easily with his own kids, and Giselle wanted an android that was strong and smart and would actually listen to her. Douglas needed the androids Giselle made, and Giselle wanted the android Marcus was.

[crimsonscloud]

bunch of things about my lab rats oc because i have brainrot.

( will add a moodboard for him later )

name: adrien trevor abernathy

nicknames: dre, trevor

gender: male

birthdate: 1973. still have to give him a birth month

age: early forties. he just doesn't lie about it like donald does /j

hair color: dark brown, starting to gray

eye color: blue

faceclaim: pascal langdale

occupation: robotics engineer for davenport industries ( formerly; later reinstated )

i haven't had any time to rewatch and formulate anything so we're coasting on vibes only. prepare for word vomit and canon divergences

started working for davenport industries after college, was friends with both brothers. he and douglas had a crush on each other, but never said anything since they were both still in the closet at the time.

then the incident with douglas faking his death happens.

in my version of canon, donald finds the kids after douglas' "funeral" because... idk, i just like it better. hurts more that way.

[slightly related: daniel doesn't exist in my au.]

he doesn't tell adrien about them, but adrien figures out he's hiding something. combined with the grief over douglas (and adrien not believing he's dead, or thinking that donald had something to do with it because the brothers were fighting more just before it happened) they start drifting apart and fighting a lot.

adrien leaves the company at some point after this. i haven't figured out what he's up to in the space between here and the beginning of the show, but he pops back up at some point in the first two seasons (before the reveal that douglas is alive).

he's pissed (and hurt) that donald didn't tell him about abc because for god's sake donald, those are children and if you told me back then i'd at least have made an effort to treat them that way. it calls into question, for him, how much donald really trusted him. if donald ever trusted anybody but himself.

then he also has to find out that he was right -- douglas is alive. oh, yeah, and is also currently a villain. with another kid that is solely intended to help him get the other three back. that's a clusterfuck.

so much of this is just adrien going what the fuck davenport(s)

come season three (which i remember a little more of, yay) he hasn't forgiven either brother much for lying to him, but he can't fault the kids for that so he sticks around. he's sorta like the cool uncle.

he helps douglas sneak leo out of the hospital after his arm's crushed, and helps him work on the bionic arm. it's one of the first real opportunities they have to talk some things out.

rise of the secret soldiers- specific things, because there's a couple things here:

because adrien isn't bionic, he uses a pair of gauntlets he worked on pre-canon as a prototype and kept around. they're designed to absorb energy, so in practice they give him enhanced strength but he reworks them a bit (patterned after leo's bionics) so he can also generate laser spheres through nodes on the palms.

however, they have a limit to how much energy they can absorb before the user's body must take on some of the strain. krane overloads them, severely injuring adrien and putting him in the hospital (instead of donald).

everything else happens similarly to canon -- leo uses energy transference to save adrien, almost dies, the bionic soldiers save leo, etc. because of the gauntlets backfiring adrien now has scarring on his hands and experiences tremors / pain due to the nerve damage.

of course his response to this is i need to invent something better so he completely redesigns the gauntlets during season four / afterwards. the new design allows him to wear them all the time, disguised as simple bracelets when inactive.

other things about him:

not a power, but he can mimic voices. even if the voice is nowhere close to his. it's a disney show i don't care about logic, this is funnier /j. he and bree (since she has it but as an actual power) use it to prank the others by "switching" voices and leo is like "don't ever do that again"

douglas gave him a bracelet. initially adrien no longer wears it / doesn't mention it so douglas thinks he got rid of it, but after they talk during you posted what?! he starts to wear it again.

donald and leo both admit adrien (who is basically if ":) (threat)" was a person) scares them. leo had to clarify that it wasn't a compliment.

douglas, donald and adrien all have a habit of calling each other by their middle names when they're upset with each other / making fun of each other.

adrien's "dre" nickname comes from when he first met the brothers -- donald kept thinking his name was andre and adrien corrected him multiple times until he got it. douglas, however, thought this was hilarious and so the "dre" nickname stuck.

adrien and tasha friendship by virtue of being the mostly sane adults dealing with a davenport's nonsense is so real to me

gay as hell and definitely tells perry she's definitely barking up the wrong tree. and also no she can't have douglas, he was there first

[desire-mona]

Monnnnaaaaaa

THIS IS SO CUTE OIUGGHUTG HELLOOOOOO!!!! i need to make a clown oc soon to be honest i made a clown danganronpa oc for my now MIA friend back in 2020. man. i miss her i think her name was emiko. the oc not the person their name was saturn

[morgan-aleghieri]

Apropos of nothing I just remembered some key plot points in Mostly Harmless and got hit with a wave of despair.

That was a book, huh.

[quotespile]

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change, and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

[beumdi]

i got bored

[donutcats]

thinking about my two main detectives and their reactions to the bobby/douglas routes in book 3 if you decide to go alone (which I replayed both routes and had to choose because it just gives More to the story) but like;

cassandra is in the bobby route and she can not Stand this dude. they had a terrible break up and he continues to get on her nerves and so when she’s asked her opinion after the auction it’s all “absolutely where do I sign to wipe his memories?” NO hesitation nuke the fucker. I wish twc gave me the option to have angry make out sessions with him though because I’m SURE she’d give in at least once. relive the toxicity when she’s having a terrible time. (she’s romancing adam ok she’s not known for healthy relationships. adam pulls away for the upteenth time and insists they can never be together? she’d absolutely call bobby a washed up hack and pounce on him the next time she saw him just to feel wanted)

meanwhile siobhan is in the douglas route and she can’t help but take this kid under her wing and try to choose the option that would protect him the most. he had a little crush on her and she’s far too kind to completely shut him down but she also has the energy of ‘oh sweetie I’m a lesbian…’ plus like. how can she not want to take care of him when he has such a shit relationship with his parents and siobhan KNOWS how that feels!! she had a mother who continued to promise to be better but never really showed up. she’s been handing her mother ‘second chances’ for years now. she wants to give him something she never had!! which was someone willing to look out for her and ask if she’s ok.

[texanmarcusdavenport]

I dislike when people say that Douglas was/would've been a better father than Donald. They both sucked.

[theboost]

Attempting to watch the psych episode that’s just a send up of twin peaks and I’m not sure I can do it