#I have a few more things

[lucyhblack]

Nightmare headcanons:

(It's mainly about his corruption, but there are a few other things)

His corruption does not have a distinct taste. It will have a taste for each person, but they will all have unpleasant tastes. Not necessarily something bad or disgusting, but something that reminds you of an unpleasant experience.

For example: if a person suffered a painful breakup in a garden, upon tasting Nightmare's corruption, that person could taste flowers, which would automatically take them back to that specific memory.

(in other words, the “taste” of Nightmare’s corruption affects more than just the sense of taste)

Nightmare can also control how "unpleasant" the experience is, "intensifying", so to speak, the unpleasant taste/memory.

(from a simple uncomfortable memory, to something really tragic/traumatic)

The corruption is constantly “oozing,” but it doesn't come loose or stick to other things unless Nightmare wants it to. He can use his corruption as a weapon by throwing it like projectiles, but these parts are soon drawn back to him.

Technically Nightmare doesn't get dirty, as anything that falls on him is soon “washed away” by the corruption… with the exception of Ink's paints or Error's ropes. Therefore, he doesn't need to take a bath (even so, he does it because he likes it. Especially baths in the bathtub).

Nightmare knows many languages, but many he can only read, not pronounce.

He cannot use a gasterblaster or bone attack, but he can make his corruption take the form of bone projectiles and even shape it into a blaster, even if it cannot fire.

He has bones, but they are so “saturated” with corruption that they can be moved and readjusted as he pleases. At this point he's more slime than skeleton.

Its consistency is also like that of slime. Soft, but not necessarily sticky. It is not cold, but slightly warm, giving the unpleasant sensation of something alive.

Corruption can cover everything he is wearing or not wearing, as he wishes.

A long time ago he stole an outfit from a Sans Classico from a genocidal timeline, soon the outfit became dirty, destroyed and had to be replaced. For a time he continued to steal clothes from dead Sanses, but soon realized that if they covered them with their corruption he would not need to worry about cleaning or damaging them and would not need to replace them.

He can change his clothes (making his corruption recede) and prevent the new one from being covered by corruption if he wants… but why so much trouble?

Sans's classic outfit isn't something he particularly prefers, but in a way it's kind of thematic, isn't it? Even though "his boys'" have some differences, they are similar enough to seem like a team (with the exception of Cross who stands out horribly)…

Not that he wants to match them or anything! But they are practical and comfortable and don't stand out (not that being discreet is of any use when you're covered in black goo and have 4 tentacles on your back).

His Corruption is quite sensitive and can capture even the most subtle changes in temperature, pressure and especially intentions. Despite this, none of these things physically affect Nightmare (he may register that he is cold, but it doesn't affect him).

One cannot practically cause permanent physical harm in their corruption unless they are imbued with a great positive force.

It can be sliced, crushed and even exploded, but none of this damage is permanent unless it is done with great and powerful positive energy. Which makes it almost indestructible, as it is very difficult to cause damage to something when 100% positive.

The only people who can really destroy it/deal prolonged damage are: Dream, Ink (especially if it is fused with Fresh), Lust and Reaper.

Others can cause you damage (even extensive to some extent) and force you to retreat, but only the ones above can cause long-term damage.

Error is a good example.

The Destroyer could be a terrible enemy, despite not being able to directly cause permanent damage to it.

His ability to mess with codes could mess things up for Nightmare (it doesn't affect him directly, as he is an outcode and therefore “inaccessible” to Error, but the Destroyer could control/alter the perception of others and make them capable of to cause serious damage to Nightmare). Other than that, the Destroyer's simple magical strength is more than capable of making the Lord of Negativity retreat and avoid direct clashes.

Error's ropes can trap Nightmare, but they don't do much damage (Error also doesn't like using them on Nightmare because the feedback he receives from the ropes when they are around Nightmare is unpleasant).

Nightmare doesn't like anything that alters his perception, so he never gets high or drunk (although he can sometimes overindulge in wine, he makes his corruption “burn off” any effects of alcohol, preventing him from getting drunk or having a hangover).

Although most common poisons do not affect him, he has a type of “allergic reaction" to large doses of chocolate (especially dark chocolate)).

He has no need to eat or sleep unless he has to recover from some injury, even so he likes to disconnect from the world for short periods (and from the dreams he has in those little naps).

The same goes for food. Even without the need for it, he likes to eat and try new things.

He has a sweet tooth and tries to hide it because he thinks it doesn't look “good” with his image.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[krysmcscience]

I have some questions about karaoke night, Alex Hirsch. Very Important Questions. Which I will happily scream at a poor hapless baby triangle who can have no answers for me, and possibly also does not have object permanence yet.

Follow-up that is I guess suggestive, but let's be real here, Bill's a fucking triangle:

Dude slipped right into his birthday suit, lmao

this is so stupid :D

Anyway, I don't care what anyone says, this brilliant individual knows what's up - Bill is absolutely way more of a monsterfucker than Ford could or ever will be, full stop.

[mamawasatesttube]

BTW... PSA.... even if we arent mutuals if youre in my notes regularly theres a Very high chance i am still fond of you. yes im vaguing someones tags on the compliment the person u rbed this from post. but like. positive vaguing? THE POINT IS im weird abt following ppl but IM STILL SENDING U FOND VIBES...

[oars]

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[catmask]

okay i think i am learning.... something

[periwinkla]

Goodmorning kiss... ♡ what's with me and kissy narumitsu sketches lately...?

[ministarfruit]

"...why would I become a monster?"

[egophiliac]

giving the people what they want (jokes about spreadsheets)

anyway, Twst continues to prove that it is aimed at me specifically by giving us not one, but now TWO extended scenes of characters being incredibly difficult about signing an NDA. you just don't get this anywhere else.

[reineydraws]

✨️ BROTHERS! ✨️

(shouto will live out his idle childhood daydreams, even if he has to reverse their roles himself haha)

[whetstonefires]

You know what I realize that people underestimate with Pride & Prejudice is the strategic importance of Jane.

Because like, I recently saw Charlotte and Elizabeth contrasted as the former being pragmatic and the latter holding out for a love match, because she's younger and prettier and thinks she can afford it, and that is very much not what's happening.

The Charlotte take is correct, but the Elizabeth is all wrong. Lizzie doesn't insist on a love match. That's serendipitous and rather unexpected. She wants, exactly as Mr. Bennet says, someone she can respect. Contempt won't do. Mr. Bennet puts it in weirdly sexist terms like he's trying to avoid acknowledging what he did to himself by marrying a self-absorbed idiot, but it's still true. That's what Elizabeth is shooting for: a marriage that won't make her unhappy.

She's grown up watching how miserable her parents make one another; she's not willing to sign up for a lifetime of being bitter and lonely in her own home.

I think she is very aware, in refusing Mr. Collins, that it's reasonably unlikely that anyone she actually respects is going to want her, with her few accomplishments and her lack of property. That she is turning down security and the chance keep the house she grew up in, and all she gets in return may be spinsterhood.

But, crucially, she has absolute faith in Jane.

The bit about teaching Jane's daughters to embroider badly? That's a joke, but it's also a serious potential life plan. Jane is the best creature in the world, and a beauty; there's no chance at all she won't get married to someone worthwhile.

(Bingley mucks this up by breaking Jane's heart, but her prospects remain reasonable if their mother would lay off!)

And if Elizabeth can't replicate that feat, then there's also no doubt in her mind that Jane will let her live in her house as a dependent as long as she likes, and never let it be made shameful or awful to be that impoverished spinster aunt. It will be okay never to be married at all, because she has her sister, whom she trusts absolutely to succeed and to protect her.

And if something eventually happens to Jane's family and they can't keep her anymore, she can throw herself upon the mercy of the Gardeners, who have money and like her very much, and are likewise good people. She has a support network--not a perfect or impregnable one, but it exists. It gives her realistic options.

Spinsterhood was a very dangerous choice; there are reasons you would go to considerable lengths not to risk it.

But Elizabeth has Jane, and her pride, and an understanding of what marrying someone who will make you miserable costs.

That's part of the thesis of the book, I would say! Recurring Austen thought. How important it is not to marry someone who will make you, specifically, unhappy.

She would rather be a dependent of people she likes and trusts than of someone she doesn't, even if the latter is formally considered more secure; she would rather live in a happy, reasonable household as an extra than be the mistress of her own home, but that home is full of Mr. Collins and her mother.

This is a calculation she's making consciously! She's not counting on a better marriage coming along. She just feels the most likely bad outcome from refusing Mr. Collins is still much better than the certain outcome of accepting him. Which is being stuck with Mr. Collins forever.

Elizabeth is also being pragmatic. Austen also endorses her choice, for the person she is and the concerns she has. She's just picking different trade-offs than Charlotte.

Elizabeth's flaw is not in her own priorities; she doesn't make a reckless choice and get lucky. But in being unable to accept that Charlotte's are different, and it doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Charlotte.

Because realistically, when your marriage is your whole family and career forever, and you only get to pick the ones that offer themselves to you, when you are legally bound to the status of dependent, you're always going to be making some trade-offs.

😂 Even the unrealistically ideal dream scenario of wealthy handsome clever ethical Mr. Darcy still asks you to undergo personal growth, accommodate someone else's communication style, and eat a little crow.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

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[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[deus-ex-messina]

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