#IMO signs

[starry-bi-sky]

"Stillborn? No, still born" Danyal au -- VLAD MASTERS THE BITCH HIMSELF

*Points at Vlad* THIS MFER GOT SOME TEEFS TO HIM. !! Okay okay, Vlad Masters in the stillborn au is different compared to most of my other aus in the fact that I am far more heavily leaning into his original ambitions of wanting a family and being desperately lonely. Because you know what wanting a family implies? Wanting to be a parent.

Fucked up father figure that could've been Vlad. Complicated love-hate relationship between the only two halfas in existence.

Danny hates Vlad, but he hates even more that he's genuinely considered his offers of mentorship. Vlad is the only halfa around, and they both have fire cores. Danny has these powers he doesn't understand, can barely comprehend some days, and can't control. But Vlad does. Vlad can. And Vlad wants to help him. He's the only other person who can get close whenever Danny runs too hot. Whenever his igneous hair cracks, splits, and spits back out into magma and his friends can't get close, Vlad can.

His hair is made of magma, which runs so hot that people need specialized suits in order to get near it. He physically cannot get close to the living as a ghost unless he's calm enough for his hair to cool into igneous rock. Which isn't as often as he would like. And sometimes he's too hot for other ghosts to get near unless they have fire cores -- which Vlad has.

There have been many times when Danny's having a meltdown (literally) and gone somewhere to be alone, to let his anger and hurt and loneliness overflow and spill out, that when he's come back to, Vlad's right there with him as an anchor. It's desperately frustrating, it's the only time they can get along. They don't say anything, Danny just turns and clings onto the only person he can touch as a ghost.

Its not fair. Vlad wants to kill his foster dad, and Danny can't let him do that. But he wants to be trained by the man, he wants his help and wants what he can offer. But Vlad can't step away from his revenge long enough to let him. It's just not fair. He thinks for a moment that maybe it could work, and then Vlad does something to remind him that no, it can't.

Vlad Masters sees too much of himself in Daniel Brown -- from the way he holds himself, to the defenses he puts up, his quiet anger that builds and builds and builds until it explodes. That simmers beneath his skin. All the way down to the fact that they have matching cores. This boy is cut from the same cloth as him, and by god does he want to help him. He's always wanted to be a father, and Daniel Brown is too much like him for him to ignore. He genuinely, truly cares about Danny and his wellbeing.

He wants to help him, child just let him help you. Let him kill your foster dad so he can adopt you himself and help with these powers that terrify and intrigue you -- he knows what that's like to have something that you can't control, to have a heat that you can't cool down from. "We're in the same boat you and I, let him help you please."

But his methods are all wrong, and Danny is too much like him -- stubbornness and all -- for him to agree when they oppose each other so greatly. But again, Danny is much like him -- which means that Vlad is equally stubborn, and in every single one of their fights he's parental. He's annoyingly parental. He drops his interest in Maddie to focus his efforts in trying to coax Danny onto his side. It's like trying to get a traumatized cat to trust you, and on some levels it works. It's like he makes some progress, and then moves too quickly and the cat immediately runs off and you have to start back from square one.

TL:DR; Vlad and Danny both want to find family in each other but they're too different to get along and ultimately they are doomed by the narrative to be at constant odds with one another unless one of them is changes, and it doesn't matter who.

[clowwwnbytes]

slay the princess pristine cut spoilers etc

i was brainstorming with buddies on discord and started thinking about damsel ch3 having the blade with her, already pointed at her heart, then just started thinking about the blade as a tool.

i think about the blade so much. a cold reminder of your mission in this world, something so tiny that represents a huge wall between you, your ability to be willing to understand others, to understand yourself.

if you bring it with you you've chosen to take a defensive stance against something and someone you don't understand, but it's so comforting, it gives you options, it gives you control over any situation given you don't underestimate the person standing in front of you. even when you don't want it, when you think you don't need it, it will come back to you. a nagging feeling. you're given the option to be distrustful even when you don't literally have it in you, it's what you've been taught is safety, it hangs over your head and dangles above your heart at all times.

and in damsel ch3 it goes from a tool given weight by the role you're supposed to play, to the same thing but looming over her this time. the expectations of what you're supposed to want and what's best for the people around you and what keeps you grounded, the narrator sang the same tune before, and he hurt her and he hurt you. he hurt himself and his humanity in the process. and now he's taken the backseat and is forced to see how messed up that is by having the smitten be the one pulling the strings of the construct, someone with a perspective so different, but one that ends up hurting everyone all the same, even if he doesn't intend it to do so.

everyone is forced to look at themselves in the mirror.

carrying that blade is suffocating for anyone.

and now im thinking about mr. "let's throw it out the window" contrarian, the only voice you can bring to her heart along with the hero, someone that refused to engage with the narrative and someone that is well aware that his perspective is annoying and unneeded for its purposes.

and then he meets the whole of her, and she tells him about how his courage is beautiful. he's the part of the long quiet that knowingly or not, is more willing to throw aside any kind of logic in order to understand a situation in a way the rest don't want to, and he's *now* realizing that his existence is an important aspect to have.

[thissying]

Drivers did not become drivers to become role models and F1 decides which already censored radios they broadcast and it's never the basic, boring ones.

[l-in-the-light]

So I heard Oda wanted to make Law a villain originally... this is probably how it went:

Oda (probably in One piece magazine or in interview): I planned Law as a villain, but this rascal ruined my plans.

Law: You wanted to pick my fights for me? There's no way I would let you order me around!

Oda: But! I had a full plot ready and you destroyed it. You destroyed it all!

Law: Deal with it. It's not my problem.

Oda: Urgh. Fine, if you destroyed my plot, then I will make you suffer for it. Every. Single. Arc.

Law: I have seen hell before anyway, bring it on.

Oda: Oh it won't be me. All I have to do is to make sure Luffy sticks with you like glue and makes you look like a pathetic fool.

Law: ...

Law: please don't-

Oda: TOO LATE. SUFFER!! SUFFER TILL THE DAY YOU DIE!!

[robo-dino-puppy]

hfw: burning shores | seyka 13/?

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

[atompalace-official]

🩵♏️🎀

[sciroccoorion35]

Lucy insists on dressing skull up for halloween

[xofemeraldstars]

when bobby mentioned the notebook in 7x9 i completely forgot that it was an actual scene from s1!!

[royalarchivist]

Richarlyson: [ What happened? ]

Roier: Richarlyson, I'll tell you what happened, ok? I'll tell you what happened. What happened is... Quackity was murdered, he was murdered by Maximus and Badboy because they thought it was the best decision, but...

Son, sincerely, I don't think it was, because Quackity is now very angry, and we know that Quackity is– well, I know at least, that this Quackity is not my carnal, he's not the friend I know. Everything is very strange.

Richarlyson: [ Is pa Quacks dangerous? ]

Roier: I think that right now he is, that's why I was going along with him, because... I had this feeling that maybe it was actually him. You know? But now, with the way everything has happened…

Richarlyson: [ Like a friendly feeling? ]

Roier: Yes. It kind of felt like it was him and everything was fine, and we were friends– and we are! But now he's mad, and I don't know what he's planning to do. I'm afraid for your life, and everyone else's, because everything is surely going to go to hell. I'm sorry Richarlyson. It's hard.

Richarlyson: [ I'll be fine, pa. I have you and my other papas on my side. ]

[sapphicwizards]

I've been thinking a lot about Wyll and how his character arc is a tragedy no matter what choices you make because he's a Hero who must always Do The Right Thing.

How could he put his own self-determination over the lives of everyone in the city he loves so much? It's a painful decision, but not a difficult one. Not for him.

He knows the consequences of letting Karlach live, but how could he not? He can't put his looks above her life. That's not what a hero should do.

Then when he's only months away from being free from Mizora, she puts another ultimatum in front of him. And this time, the decision isn't clear cut. Yes it's his father's life, but in exchange for his own soul? What parent wouldn't give their life for their child's soul? But the choice is Wyll's. Maybe he signs the contract, giving one of the few things he has left for the greater good. Or maybe he says no. No more. His father wouldn't want this if he knew all the details. Does his choice finally take him off the path?

If you're playing as him, the choice to turn into a mindflayer gains several dimensions. On one hand, let Orpheus do it and he never fulfills his destiny to bring peace to his people. Let Karlach do it and what was the initial sacrifice worth? She deserves to live all the life she has left.

But Wyll... he has sacrificed parts of himself over and over again. There's so little of him left that he wouldn't be giving as much as the others... maybe. And maybe as a soulless mindflayer, he's out of Mizora's reach.

[witchcraftandgeekness]

No but Matthias being tempted to "drag Smeet back and make Kaz perform the trick again" is so deeply funny to me

[yustinamishka]

When the only edible food is the chimken....

[minijenn]

Fuck it one more bc my brain wont shut the fuck up

[queen-boudicca]

Okay it's two am here (happy pride everyone lol) but I just finished rewatching the new doctor who episode and I'm still blown away by how well done the "his last name is coombs" scene is. Like before that it was a kind of generic episode where there's a bad situation and people are escaping it and the main character seems kind of dickish and incompetent but presumably their arc is to grow and improve over the course of the episode and there might be a moment where this more capable person who's helping them sacrifices themselves to save them and—

And then we get the first big subversion and when I tell you that hit me like a fucking truck and the whole perspective shifts and you realize that this is not the story you thought it was

[jellybeanium124]

water signs: cancer, scorpio, pisces

earth signs: taurus, virgo, capricorn

fire signs: aries, leo, sagittaurius

air signs: gemini, libra, aquarius