#Pairing: Poisoned

[crimescrimson]

Junpei Iori & Chidori Yoshino in Persona 3 Reload (2024)

[dlartistanon]

Cuttlefrog...?

[mataurin]

Shoutout to @jamjoob who so subconsciously inspired my Selina design I did not realize it was theirs until I was about to post smsodhsidb

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when a character says the name of the episode

[gayciate]

Keep writing Disney crossover yuri in your free time so long as you please; it's more imperative than ever

ADSFGGHFASD??? Thank you so much for this!! I must continue to contribute to the Crossover Yuri Ecosystem, rejoice - wlw be upon ye!!!!

[anghraine]

Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.

I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).

Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.

I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.

(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)

[rhymesswith]

20 year old Rin ilysm

(The demon/human cultural dissonance of Rin wanting to learn self defence so that she "doesn't have to rely of Lord Sesshomaru". To demons, the stronger ones in the clan protect the weaker ones and that's how it's supposed to be. The idea of Rin not wanting to be a burden doesn't quite compute to poor Sesshomaru. He's like tf? does she not think me capable any more ?? What have I done to lose her faith ??? )

[tiodolma]

what do you mean, "does he look like a killer?" the force moves darkly near a creature that is about to kill.

[nonoel-art]

Has this ship been done before? Because Reiju/Smoker is quickly turning into my new favorite rare-pair 😏 Regardless, I had fun drawing them 😊

Someone on Discord decided to call this ship “Poisonous Gas”😂

[prideprejudce]

how many more joker movies do we need before hollywood has effectively beaten us to death with it

[jestroer]

Gay rats

[le-sluagh]

#13 Incorrect Batman: Vigilante (My AU)

Joker: So, what’s your type?

Lex Luthor: Green eyes, green hair, crazy, oblivious, has a good sense of humor sometimes.

Joker: Sounds kind of like me. Too bad we’re just friends.

Lex Luthor: Did I mention oblivious?

Joker: Yeah, why?

Lex Luthor: Okay, just making sure.

*****

Riddler: I am in charge of this disaster!

Scarecrow: I have a name, you know.

*****

Joker: How are you today?

Two Face: Please don’t make me think about my life.

*****

Harley Quinn, trying to flirt: So, you come around here often?

Poison Ivy, confused: I mean, this is my lair, so yeah.

*****

Scarecrow: I think I should be allowed on ghost hunter tv shows.

Mad Hatter: I think that would be dangerous for the ghosts.

*****

Riddler: There are no friends when playing board games. I am here to win.

*****

Scarecrow: I love murder mysteries!

Bane, trying to impress him: I've been a suspect in four murder cases.

*****

*talking on the phone*

Mad Hatter: Remember how I said that March Harriet and I were going to have a calm night out for once?

Riddler: Yeah…

Mad Hatter: Well, we’re in jail.

Riddler: *hangs up*

*****

Harley Quinn: You're ignoring all your problems.

Two Face: I know.

Harley Quinn: You also know it's an unhealthy coping mechanism?

Two Face: I'm ignoring that fact as well.

Harley Quinn:

*****

Catwoman: Damn, Riddler, are you secretly cool?

Riddler: Well, poker is just math, so I guess it depends on if you consider the mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss, cool.

Catwoman: I do not.

[valeriannnn]

you wish it was a nightmare: fleeting and disturbing in equal measure, and easily dismissed by a rational mind but knowing both your history and his that degree of subterfugre doesn't seem so farfetched after all

Wolcred Week 2024 Day 4: Heal/Harmony | Sweet Dreams*

I didn't participate last year, so I'm subbed in this prompt from the previous list!

also here's panel 4 without the Nightmare/Soul Overlay since I spent way too much time on it:

[spirk-trek]

not to be hetero but uhhh i need more sarek/amanda content

[fallershipping]

Looker, at least the way I see him, feels like the anime trope of people going "he's kinda weird..." at first by superficial "he's not bishie and cool..." type of people, but then he does something that shows off his genuine, sweetheart side and he gets flocked by admirers like a stallion being chased by mares.

I still think Olivia must have hit on him and it's funny to think that maybe Jupiter hit on him too in the games instead of just a scene in the anime.

Looker wouldn't be exactly oblivious either but he would most certainly be either deep in thought by another thing or trying to find a way out of being flirted on.

It would actually be funny if Looker had some Croagunk-methods in how he escapes too. Like he's a secret agent with some literal ninja techniques.

So he ACTUALLY uses "Substitute" pretty effectively. You turn away and there's a log with goofy glasses where Looker was, as the man is nowhere to be found. He would probably also have a smoke bomb but he hates using it.

[variousqueerthings]

VERY RAMBLY BUT I think rose and martha are like the inverse of one another in terms of narrative, in that they both meet a doctor who is deeply deeply hurt, but the doctor interacts with them about it so differently, because of where they're at with that hurt, and the doctor is like "hey, I'm suave and vulnerable beneath the surface, which is quite attractive, want to travel in space and time in my whimsical timeship?" and they both go "oh heck yes!" and then it's like splintered glass from that point on, like martha lives in a funhouse mirror of rose's story -- up until she makes it her own of course and she does call the doctor out on it relatively early on, although rose continues to have that haunting effect

so rose has this bubble created around her that is perfect and unchangeable almost, in which nothing bad can ever happen (except for all the times it does but huuush, we'll be together forever forrealsies don't look at that big ol hurricane hurtling our way), which then inevitably bursts, but is always there-as-memory, because rose becomes something of an impossible ideal to some extent

and martha isn't protected at all, and has all the badness spilling out on her because the doctor is unable to contain any of it (and maybe is relieved to finally give up on being strong), and subsequently all of the promise of wonder has an air of sourness to it, and the doctor will always feel incredibly guilty about how it all ended

but crucially there's a lot they have in common, that is quite different to, say, donna (who is woven in in her own, interesting, way) -- they both become attracted to this powerful, interesting, and suuuper traumatised being, they're both taken along on a journey of promised wonders, they're both incredibly reliable to the point that the narrative is retroactively fitted around how much the doctor's belief-systems revolve around belief in their companions, with many others from the past given their dues (starting with sarah-jane), and they both do see wonders beyond their comprehension (and so does donna, but again, there's something a bit different there to poke at in another post...),

except where for rose this wonder helps her break out of the path that was set down for her and become who she always had the potential to be in a way that is mostly framed as a positive (although with some -- I think -- under-analysed caveats...) and she will be forever thankful for the doctor arriving in her life, martha's is more like an awe that the universe is so hostile and so lonely and so heartbreaking, and so she needs to become more resilient and more ready to make choices that are terrible (from travelling the broken world for a year to the osterhagen key....), and so there's another story about someone who becomes strong and tough (just like rose) but it's because the doctor wasn't really able to be there for her, and while I don't think the show (from memory) ever has her totally regretting the doctor dropping into her life, there for sure is some solemnity to how her story ends, a bit of a dampener in comparison (even tbh in comparison to donna, who yeah, gets her memory taken, but is suggested -- now confirmed perhaps? -- to get more of her life in order/feel more self-confident, also partially because of that subliminal influence of her time with the doctor)

and this isn't to say that it's all-bad for martha! her working for UNIT and Torchwood has a lot of very interesting facets to it, and she is fulfilling her potential to be this impressive, capable person, but the ways all of this was built up to is so heartrending

rose coming in and "saving" the doctor, except it was a bit of a lie, because the second she wasn't there they crashed even harder than before, and martha coming in with the idea that she could save the doctor and walking away when realising what it was doing to her life, and both rose and martha irrevocably changed to the point that the person pre-doctor is barely recognisable in them anymore, both take on the doctor's self-sacrificial traits...

and also the idea that rose gets the fantasy, but it's the fantasy a-bit-to-the-left (funhouse again) because there's always something a bit disconcerting about the lengths the doctor goes to to maintain the bubble, to the point of offering up the alternate-him/tentoo so that she can still have it, even though the actual physical doctor that shared it with her isn't actually there! and martha gets the glimpse of the fantasy, and then has to come to terms with the fact that she's not the person it's "for" and reassess her relationship to the idea of a fantasy in the first place (it helps that martha is an incredibly practical, pragmatic person, but it's still so... ouch)

I don't think it was intentional, but this also fascinating from the perspective of rose as a white woman and martha as a black woman -- who is the fantasy for, to the extent that strange and universe-breaking events go into maintaining it, and who has to be practical and pragmatic and self-reliant?

and also, it's got more tragedy in both cases -- rose as a spectre/haunter of the narrative is always a little bit intangible when she's looked back on (even though in the story she's in she's incredibly real and well-rounded, every time I go back to s1 I am struck by how grounded she is in reality), and I think that's something interesting in terms of her mother's warning in s2, how if she travels with the doctor "forever" she'll become something else, something not her

and martha's mother warns her as well, although she's not completely sure of what, and in contrast to rose this warning comes into very painful fruition, harming her entire family (except, maybe her brother? I wonder if there's anything written about that), but where rose is so omnipresent, martha tries several times to take herself out

(also something about both of their mothers being their anchor-points)

there's something there that's at the centre of both rose's and martha's arcs:

is the change they're going through because of the doctor... good? good for them? good for their families? good as in they're becoming better people than before? good for the world they inhabit? is it good for the person they used to be? did they become better than that person? can they ever truly deal with or even begin to comprehend how these events made them who they are? can they even connect who they are now to who they were then? was this good?

they both become these larger-than-life people, somewhat without noticing on both parts (but the narrative does notice), one of them a ghost, and the other a soldier -- one of them an increasingly intangible, ever-present idea, and the other someone who has to fight every step of the way

it's just a bunch of things I've had going through my head that I can't quite formulate in coherent essay-like sentences, but for sure it's there

opposite sides of the coin, rose tyler and martha jones

I do wish they'd had space in the story for them to talk