#I call myself Jack

[kinardsevan]

I’ll finish the other prompts when I get home. Blowing out of this joint in the next ~45 minutes. Thank you for filling my time with all the feels.

[avituses]

Ignorance is bliss

Batman 48 got me feeling feelings again goddamit

[i-eat-vinilinum]

Divorce Killed children selfie

he got beat up

[cairavende]

Worm Arc 21 thoughts:

Well that was sure a turn around from last arc's "I'm going to rally the students so I don't get captured."

I know my daughter has made some . . . mistakes, but I'm not a fan of her turning herself into the openly corrupted and also bad at their job parahuman cops.

(Parahuman cops as in "cops who police parahumans" not "cops who are parahumans")

Like look, I get it. A precog told her to cut ties. I can't say it's wrong to follow that advice. But she could do that in a lot of ways that don't involve the PRT.

The second not from Dinah just being "I'm sorry" is brutal.

But before she can turn herself in she has to absolutely fucking crush the PRT/Protectorate for outing her civilian identity.

I love how fucking simple taking out the entire PRT headquarters was for Skitter and her girlfriends!

Who needs anyone else? Bitch brings muscle, Tattletale brings information, Skitter brings battlefield control. Lesbian polycule power activate!

Was it an overboard response? Maybe. Was it badass how she just took out so many heroes and PRT troops with ease? Yes.

Poor Dovetail has one of the most embarrassing introductions ever. First time we see her and Skitter is wiping the floor with her and thinking about her "crummy power".

God I hate Tagg so much that he makes me miss Piggot. Like she was absolutely terrible, but he's worse! And making me miss Piggot makes me hate Tagg even more!

Kindly old cemetery groundskeeper who doesn't pay much attention to the news! Never a bad trope.

They gave Butcher 15 to Cherish???!? Like sure they give all the reasoning for it but like ... it just seems like a really high risk situation. If she ever gets out it's going to suck. A lot.

THE SCENE AT RACHEL'S PLACE OH MY GOD!

SHE IS BUILDING A COMMUNITY! I LOVE HER SO MUCH!

Rachel just over here finding everyone like her and giving them a place. Legit crying. Look at that fucking growth!

(Also shout-out to my wife for having basically done the same thing. It's how I met her. It's how I met one of my girlfriends. And so many other important people. So ya. I fucking love this.)

Also you ever like a girl so much you try to give her an entire planet? Cause Taylor sure has.

"Rachel I don't want you to be sad when I'm gone so you can basically have this whole other planet we found."

GGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Imp let Regent take control of her . . . welp. Like, I'm not really surprised by this. And in a different situation I wouldn't even really find it that weird. I'd do it with the right person. But combination of age and the situation they are in and Regent being Regent annnnnd ya. Welp.

I did love how much of the interactions between Skitter and Regent/Imp really was just her struggling with parenting two teenage supervillains.

IT'S NOT SO EASY, IS IT CHILD?!? MAYBE YOU'LL CUT ME SOME SLACK AND LISTEN TO MY ADVICE IN THE FUTURE!

(She won't)

I fucking LOVE that she made the bible themed hero kneel. Absolutely fucking amazing.

Oh shiiit, Skitter just flat dropped that guy multiple stories. Is she going to far?

. . . wellll, these guys do literally worship the Endbringers so I guess a little aggression is ok.

Damn, Valefor sure has some fucked up powers, I wonder what they're gonna do abou-

. . .

. . .

. . . . . .

. . . wellll, these guys do literally worship the Endbringers so I guess a little aggression is ok.

. . .

Yep.

. . .

. . . I think I preferred when she just used a knife.

So anyway

Not a fan of Taylor having more alone time with Brian (not because I have any issue with the idea, but because I think she needs to be focusing on her girlfriends), but I am a fan of her using bugs to clean her dress and fix her hair afterwords while Brian just kinda sits there and has to contemplate what he has gotten himself into. Queen shit.

Flechette was SO mad that Parian wasn't "cute" anymore, I couldn't stop laughing. Sure, she said "You had to take the playfulness away? The joy?" but we all know what she meant. Of course, it's won't take very long for the new costume to get Flechette's attention. (I have to mention that this is basically exactly what I said when reading the scene, and the interlude a few chapters later just proved me right.)

Flechette is just so hopelessly gay

Miss Militia is actually getting very mild respect from me right now. Like, she's still working for the cops but she is actually agreeing to silently push against some things. Now, she says she doesn't have more power then that but she is a very well known hero and if she would publicly speak out about certain things there is a decent chance she could do more. That would of course be putting her position at risk though. Which is why she only gets very mild respect right now.

OH MY GOD I DIDN'T JUST GET TO SEE TATTLETALE'S MURDER WALL, I GOT TO SEE HER ENTIRE MURDER ROOM!

Fucking multiple bulletin boards with threads connecting them. Everything color coded. Reference numbers to files with more details. Multiple TV screens, computer with constant information dump. God. It's like a literal representation of the inside of my mind while I read Worm. SO MANY THINGS TO FIGURE OUT!

I love a lot of characters, but Tattletale always stays near the top. She gets me.

And from the fucking joy of getting to see that setup I come crashing the fuck down.

Like, I have completely figured out at this point that Skitter is turning herself in. I know what is coming. She's had her moment with everyone else and Tattletale is the last one.

And then. Then just . .

No goodbyes.

😭😭😭😭😭

HOW DARE THIS BOOK MAKE ME FEEL MY OWN FEELINGS!! I'M TOO GAY FOR THIS!

I do find it hysterical that the PRT officers working the front lobby don't all recognize Skitter on sight. Fucking gas station employees will manage to keep track of people with pictures on the "bad check" board, you'd think the PRT could manage to have their officers keep track of the face of one of the most well know villains in the country, if not the world, who also controls their city. PRT is forever bad at their job.

That one guy did notice her eventually though, so I guess he gets to be employee of the month.

The Number Man interlude thoughts:

The inside of this mans mind is one of the sexiest things I have ever seen and the constant reminder of the horrible things he is helping Cauldron do to all their prisoners was very helpful because it was the only thing keeping me from deciding that The Number Man is a perfect soul that can do no wrong.

I have no illusions here. I am weak. This man is a monster and I should not have any trouble remembering that.

But fuck shit fuck oh god fuck I don't even need him to touch me. I just need him to TALK to me. I just need him to get high with me and let me pick apart how his mind works!

He understood numbers, and through them, he understood everything.

That line. Absolute killer. Fucking take me.

. . . anyway yes it's a very interesting interlude!

Loved seeing more of the inner workings of Cauldron

I very much want to see the final level of their basement that only the Doctor goes into because I said that I thought Cauldron had a dead (for values of dead that are non-definable) higher dimensional being in their basement back during arc 15 and now I know for sure that there is something down there. I wanna know if I was right!

Oh my god he was friends with Jack

"Friends"

Look I make everything gay ok? It's not my choice! Sure it means I get to enjoy every tiny bit of Wolfspider and Chatterbug cause I see all of it. But it also means I see the ships I don't want to think about!

I men what was I supposed to think when Jack said “We can live this. Together. Every waking second…”?

Gay

Parian interlude thoughts:

And speaking of gay!

Fucking Flechette just full blown "Fuck all of this I want you to tell me what to do for the rest of my life!"

Full U-Haul lesbian.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

This is Parian's new costume having an effect.

Just so gay. I love it.

Also Bitch just so fucking ready to break Skitter out. So fucking gay.

And the incredible loyalty, which is gonna hurt if she ends up feeling betrayed by Skitter.

Still gay though.

Tattletale, basically without powers, just completely giving Accord the "fuck off, we're in charge" was amazing. All she had to do was promise to consider his binders and he was all in. This poor man just wants somebody to read his ideas! He's like a aspiring screenwriter just begging people to read his script.

[heroesriseandfall]

Fanon mischaracterization of the Drakes is how I end up making a post defending Tim’s parents from baseless fanon bashing only to immediately after make a post complaining about their canon parenting.

[inkybitts]

./hug

(c!bitterduo reconciliation was all i needed in my life)

[krotiation]

i decided i absolutely had to make a love triangle AU because let's be real, rhys' pov in tales is pretty damn close to that (i'm delusional)

SO INTRODUCING whatever this mess is, i have no idea what to actually call it

[shadow0-1]

Daydream

[ihateornithologists]

posts i made this night. idk this is peak comedy to me

[vickyvicarious]

I kept away from my friend for a few days, so that I might notice if there were any change.

Echoes of Dracula creeping in again here. Seward is also calling someone being held captive by him/someone over whom he is in a position of great power "my friend". He is also spending so much/such regular time with him that it is the time apart which are notable exceptions, even if he's not mentioning every visit. Of course, the nature/length of these interactions is going to be different from Dracula and Jonathan's nightly conversations, but still, it reminds me of this line:

Last night the Count left me early, and locked himself into his own room.

Jonathan knew that Dracula was up to something because he 'left early', thereby telling us that they were still spending plenty of time together as a rule. I imagine Renfield too noticed Jack's absence for several days and realized it meant the doctor had something in mind; he'd certainly pick up on the break in pattern, at least. I wonder if him introducing the bird was just the right timing for his plan regardless, or if he went for it during that gap in visits deliberately so it would be harder for Seward to stop him before he's got it established into his food chain.

Of course, in this case it's less that Seward is off doing something new so much as he is trying to be able to better notice the new things Renfield is doing. There's two ways to take this line. One is that he wants to see if Renfield is getting up to anything wild/different when he's not being directly observed/visited so often (removing Seward as a variable). The other is that Seward recognizes he himself needs distance in order to notice any changes that may be too gradual for him to observe directly when he's visiting more often. Either could certainly work, and there may be an element of both here. But the latter is kind of wild in how it points to Jack recognizing he's too close to the problem... even as he uses the very informal/familiar language of "my friend" to refer to his patient in the very same sentence.

[ellzilla]

One day my silly ol' dnd Warlock will be free of his LJ origin shackles [loud incorrect buzzer]

[thebramblewood]

In which Helena hears some hard truths and has her evening plans decided for her.

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Transcript under the cut.

Yuki: [zoned out]

Charlie Jack: [nudge nudge] Here she comes. Helena! HELENA!

Yuki: I see we're embracing sloppy chic. That's certainly a... choice.

Charlie Jack: Oh, God, I can't stand to look. Sweatpants, Helena? Really?!?

Helena: Yuki? Charlie Jack? What are you guys doing here? Since when do you even know each other?

Charlie Jack: Since about eight hours ago. When you make your dramatic return to social media with a dozen sad selfies in a row, people are going to worry.

Yuki: You didn't respond to our DMs, so we decided to team up and come to your rescue. The situation is obviously dire!

Helena: So I got a little tipsy and accidentally posted my entire camera roll. [laughs joylessly] Happens to the best of us!

Charlie Jack: Girl, be serious.

Yuki: Do I need to show you the evidence?

Helena: Please don't.

Yuki: This was a clear cry for help!

Helena: Thanks, but I'd truly rather keep wallowing in self-pity on my own.

Charlie Jack: Your girlfriend left you. It sucks. We get it. But that relationship was kind of consuming you whole anyway.

Helena: [visibly cringes]

Charlie Jack: It might be tough to hear, but you high-key ghosted all your friends as soon as you moved in with her!

Yuki: That is, if you hadn't already ghosted us before then.

Helena: I'm... sorry. I didn't realize I was doing that. It just sort of happened. [heavy sigh] I was in love.

Charlie Jack: Well, luckily, we're not mad.

Yuki: Yeah, we're not here to bitch you out.

Charlie Jack: We're here to help you get back out there!

Helena: [recoils] Get back out- CJ, it's been, like, two days!

Charlie Jack: Two days too long in my book!

Helena: I just think it's way too soon.

Charlie Jack: Au contraire, my friend. The quicker you rip the band-aid off, the better.

Yuki: Dig something sexy out of your closet! We'll be back around 10.

[thegreatbuttoneer]

“Stare” 6x8 b&w acrylic painting

Testing out a new style :)

Relative songs:

Out Getting Ribs - King Krule

Gallowdance (forever and always 🖤 lmao) - Lebanon Hanover

lucy~ - Corbon Amodio

The Lobotomy (yes I’m a basic bitch) - Maebi

What Did You See? - Cemeteries

Dog Nightmare - Jack Stauber

[orangesand-lemons-234]

I know JoJo is his newsie name, but I personally headcanon that people close to him call him Jitterbug, or Jitters.

[aeb-art]

dca fixation started last year! happy anniversary, my beloveds 🥰

[doctorwhoisadhd]

thinking about putting together a murray gold leitmotif fakebook