#Lovely Assistant (character)

[dukeofthomas]

I find the fact that the confrontation at the end of UTRH is often summarized as Jason asking Bruce to kill the Joker for him fascinating.

Because that's not what happened.

Jason holds a gun up to Joker's head, gives Bruce another, and tells him that if Bruce doesn't do something (shoot Jason), he will kill Joker.

Jason doesn't give the gun to Bruce so that he would shoot Joker. He isn't expecting Bruce to pull the trigger on the clown. He's asking Bruce to do nothing. To be inactive. Because that will still be a choice, and despite having done nothing, everybody clearly agrees that Bruce would still, at least in part, be responsible for Joker's death.

...And to me, this moment is a kind of- microcosm, of the rest of Jason's point. Because after being captured and carted off to Arkham, the villain will escape again, and will kill more people. The only way to truly prevent that from happening would be to kill them; Bruce refuses to do so, and I respect his right to choose such a thing for himself, but it is still a choice, and if we agree that Bruce's inaction during the confrontation would leave him at least partly responsible for the Joker's death, then we must also agree that his inaction in permanently preventing the Rogues from killing more people means he is also, partly, responsible for all of those deaths.

[tangramkey]

i love my Basketbot Portal AU

[yippee-optimistically]

mods r asleep post humanized 4x

finished catching up on tpot it was peakkkkkk but i am so scared of one. also working on little clay and felt dolls of 4 x and 2

[poirott]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 1x06 "Triangle at Rhodes"

[aroaceleovaldez]

what do you think about the charters (Nico, Percy and others) using mobility aids? (Especially after all the wars, fights, and other general injures they've probably got over the years)

I may be biased as someone who uses mobility aids, but I definitely think more demigods should have mobility aids in general. Nico in particular definitely could use it with how often he collapses and with how he generally exhibits some symptoms of low blood pressure at the very least if not POTS or EDS. I'm particularly biased to drawing him with my own crutches, lol (they have knee rests!!!!).

Also I always love seeing Grover with crutches. He was introduced as having a muscular disease - i know that's implied to be just cause he's actually a satyr, but also he's the only satyr to be described as "walking like every step hurt." So give him crutches!!!! He needs them!!!

I dont have any particularly strong opinions for other characters, except maybe usually giving Leo a prosthetic leg so he can thematically match his dad and sometimes crutches alongside that, and my friends and I have talked about Jason using a rollator before, particularly in Jason Lives!AUs. But regardless I always love discussing comorbidity between various other conditions and disabilities with ADHD and dyslexia and a not insignificant number of those comorbidities may require mobility aids. Functionally demigods are kind of more like intensive athletes with magic healthcare, and very few are on the level of like Nico where they've been through the wringer so much that it has lasting effects on them - actually very few in general seem to get a lot of physical damage that doesn't get healed quickly (i think in part cause most campers don't actually go on quests). mostly just psychological damage - so i don't think every demigod would need mobility aids, but like statistically there should probably be more just given the comorbidity stuff to begin with. Everybody who's come back from the dead should probably have more going on with them though imo.

[moeblob]

So in the base plot she isn't really mentioned but there is lore that one of the bartenders (James) is the work dad to the hot bartender. And he's got a girlfriend who is never mentioned by name. Buuuut in the Royalty AU there's a young woman named Erin who is hired as the new head gardener at the castle and while she is getting adjusted to the role, she has some assistance from someone she used to work with at the flower shop in town. And that's the hot gardener!

So basically, Erin exists more in the AU than she does in canon/base but I'm stressed and wanted to design her.

For those that are new/don't know my OCs, Hot Bartender (HB) will never be given a name. That's just him now. He's the hot bartender. He's got a huge crush on Paul (another side character). That's Erin's work son vicariously in main and her work son directly in AU.

[total-drama-brainrot]

World Tour Assistant Noah AU (where he is always an assistant):

After the gross kiss failed to stop Alejandro's flirting... Noah begs Duncan to convince Alejandro, that Noah is too dorky to date... but Duncan has an even better idea; make Alejandro jealous for fun!

(In this AU, Duncan and Courtney had broken up before Season 3, so Duncan isn't a cheater!)

Duncan: "Thanks for letting me return to the show, handsome.~" 😘

(Duncan kisses Assistant Noah's cheek.)

Alejandro: "Duncan, I will DESTROY you!" 😡

Noah: "I just want to be left alone!" 🙄

Wait hold on... hold on... this is just the premise of my favourite Dunnoah fic series but with an assistant Noah twist. And extra Alenoah flavouring. That's not to say I'm against the idea.

Though I can't really imagine Duncan ever committing himself to flirting with Noah unless the two had struck up a deal prior- Duncan's that specific brand of 2000s era bigoted where being seen as anything but straight is a social crime (despite the fact that Duncan is definitely a boykisser, just in denial), but he's also aware of just how much of a threat Alejandro is in the competition and the latino's huge obvious crush on Chris' personal assistant, so I think Duncan could push aside his own internal biases to at the very least propose a similar idea to Noah.

Really, it'd be beneficial for the both of them; Noah gets to subtly-not-so-subtly tell Alejandro to back off by responding to Duncan's advances but not his, and Duncan gets to rile up Alejandro enough to redivert his attention away from the competition itself thus increasing his own chances of winning. It's strategic, really, nothing more.

It's that line of logic that has Noah eventually conceding that, for all intents and purposes, it's a good plan. So he deigns to play along, at least for a little bit, just to get Alejandro off of his back.

And, canonically, they're both shown to be at least half-decent at flirting, so whatever displays they have planned to annoy Alejandro would be just convincing enough to really get under his skin. Especially since Alejandro's shown in canon to be the protective/possessive type (mostly in All-Stars, in how he reacts to José insulting Heather) and likely wouldn't take too kindly to Duncan swooping in on "his amor" or whatever Spanish nickname he'd substitute it with.

Which all eventually leads to the scenario you proposed; Duncan plants a wet one on Noah's cheek and Alejandro sees red.

Noah's already exhausted by default, but feels weariness seep into the marrow of his bones as a seething Alejandro glares poisonous daggers towards Duncan, who's committed enough to their little ruse to in turn shoot a wink and a pair of finger guns towards the assistant. Deciding that he isn't paid nearly enough to deal with the inevitable confrontation between the two idiots who've apparently taken an interest in him (Duncan's, of course, being a known ruse), Noah leaves to go and do his actual job.

...

And then, Alejandro confronts Duncan directly in the Economy cabin, claiming that he doesn't deserve to so much as look at Noah, and that he (Alejandro) was the one Noah kissed and therefore the object of his attraction so Duncan better lay off. This is news to the punk, and adds a whole new layer of complexity to their plan. And perhaps something he can later exploit to give himself a leg up in the competition.

But why does the idea of Noah kissing Alejandro make his chest tighten up with envy?

And then maybe Duncan finds the untamed passion of Alejandro's genuine fury kind of hot and he too enters the metaphorical boxing ring of feelings? Aledunnoah endgame? The intern server has been posting a lot of Aleduncan lately so letting those two get together (and with Noah in there too, as a bonus) just seems natural to my brain at this point.

[booplesnotts-art]

I don’t think those two would trust each other at all but manhandling corpses is sure easier with two 😂

AHDISJSJS I LOVE THEM SM AHHHH

Lucille is no good as a cook but she sure is good at slicing and dicing- that is her one use in a kitchen. She (reluctantly) would agree to work with Maria because yes, manhandling a corpse is indeed easier with two. Teamwork !!🥰🥰

I think they would have maybe just a little mutual respect for each other because they both butcher bodies; Lucille does that and Maria cooks them because Lucille is a horrid chef.

I also think Lucille would also agree that some people would be better as a stew

[deerteatime]

here he is, finished at last!! this ref took me 5fucking ever. my beautiful, horrible son. casual ref and bonus music under the cut :3

click for better quality!

[jadetheblueartist]

Okay okay this is the updated reference for Frida from my au bc she’s not getting chin stripes till she’s a big girl

Oh and while it technically was there before I’d like to draw attention to that forearm scar Miss Frida has. What a peculiar scar, I wonder how she possibly got that hmmmm idk but it couldn’t have had anything to do with any childhood relational trauma no no no that would be preposterous (*cough cough* @plumsodapop *cough cough*)

Here’s a masterpost nyehehe

[dallieart]

I had an idea I couldn't unsee, so it had to be drawn. Meme time with The Boys (including

@heybiji's drow warlock, Dande and our favorite DMPC Jalester). I may have spent a little too much effort on this meme....

[love-is-a-pearl]

I watched the entire Journeys series to try to find something I liked about it, rather than finding reasons to defend Goh's character and execution, I found more reasons why he is one of the (for me) worst main cast characters the franchise has ever had and his captures are not even half the problem although they are also (Was the character's hate exaggerated? Yes, but as a bonus he has 15 other problems that made me dislike him even more)

Eh, I think calling him the worst main chara when Tracey exists and Brock and Misty never got to do much from Kanto to Johto because they couldn't steal Ash's spotlight is personal bias ngl Like, cmon, what about Clemont, whose only struggle is handling his gym and that's solved in ep9? How Cilan's biggest character trait is being a hobbist and nothing else? Male companions in pokeani were never that good and Goh is honestly one of the best.

He was part of a complicated season, with cool ideas that weren't properly executed, and more importantly: Ash's last season. Goh became a escape goat for "ruining Ash's departure" which is hilarious, cause he's a fictional character with no free will???

That said, he is far from being my fave so I sorta get it LOL He falls prey to the idea of "so perfect they cant do no wrong" that they puleld with (XYZ)Serena and part of the Alola gang that makes me very disinterested in him :/ Like, he never shows ugly emotions; no action of his causes a negative reaction; he rarely fails and when he does fail at something, it was because he was trying to do right and BLEH.

I get why they did that with him and Serena and special, they NEEDED the fans to like them! She was the love interest and he was the co protagonist, they had to be likeable! But when you make a character so perfect they just sound boring to me personally :T

[pharawee]

You guys said it wouldn't get worse but ep 6 is so much worse I can't do this anymore I'm-

[perenlop]

okay so as a gen 5 stan who does adore the story in bw and bw2, and now that gen 5 has experienced both a vicious hatedom that wouldnt hear a single positive thing about the games, and now a super protective fandom that insists they were perfect and had zero flaws... can we admit now that the bw1 story at least was. a little mid.

[moeblob]

AU where Brent is a drone to help out at crime scenes and offer input after Right finds the drone. And basically he befriends the really weird guy possibly controlling the drone but has his doubts as to how human the drone's source can be. So Right and Brent just go around trying to solve crimes while Right just calls the drone "Fuckwad (affectionate)".

[joyfuladorable]

Art trade with @vadfannypack!!

Frida's not feeling too hot right now, but her bestie, Casey, has her back!!