#Rambling into the ether

[ethereance]

Au where Keith gets a few more future flashes in the quantum abyss than he did in canon. Now armed with the knowledge of many future plot points, he sets out to make things right.

Or at least. He tries.

[chaosinstigator]

[thingscanalwaysgetworse]

Best genre of character is “they’re not tired of being nice, but they deserve to go apeshit”

[chaotic-gender-fluid]

Aaron Minyard is THE character of all time. cause this man is playing college level sport with at least 4 hours of practice a day, a med degree, spend his Fridays travelling for games and then partying, still manages to spend time with his secret girlfriend, get through a murder trial and play video games with Nicky.

[territorial-utopia]

This is what it was all for

Happy Midsummer's Eve!!!

[chvoswxtch]

i’m never going to fucking shut up about this look at THEM

now I know exactly how foggy felt in season 3 when he sees matt at josie’s and asks him if this is real

pls excuse me while I scream from the rooftops

[pyralart]

The abyss stares back

[sourw0lfs]

Okay, but hear me out.

Comphet gay Steve Harrington on the Titantic with his arranged fiancée Nancy Wheeler. And while she's nowhere near as digustingly awful as Caledon Hockley is in the movie, she is easily jealous because Steve is a handsome man and gets attention from ladies of all age.

Never mind when he starts wanting to spend all his time with third-class passenger and wild card Eddie Munson, a jack-of-all-trades who just happens to be good at both music and drawing.

And in those few days together, Steve gets to actually live and be happy and realize things about himself and life that he never even dreamed about.

But also give them a happy ending where the door is strong and buoyant enough to hold the weight of two people without sinking into the water.

[chiliger]

*stands with hands on hips, staring at the floor* Look, I know we love to have the Command Batch be close brothers in art and fics. I am a staunch lover of the trope myself.

But what about, like in real life, where the people we grew up with or went to school with, they just fall out of contact. The friends made in high school don't always remain lifelong friends.

Yeah, they can say "we'll call each other and message everyday," or "we should hang out when our leaves overlap." But the war gets in the way of everything, like it tends to do. Slowly but surely the messages in the group chat peter out. There are too many things to do, and duty takes first priority over keeping contact with the people they knew as kids.

It's not for wont of trying, the commanders would still send little messages to each other, but it could be hours, days or weeks before there's a reply because of conflicting zones, lack of signal, or other messages pushing the chat further down the list.

There's also just the fact that the commanders find their people. Meaning, through time and shared experiences with their battalions, other clones click right into place, possibly even deeper than their batchmates. The camaraderie in surviving a massacre with only two of your men surviving is different than the experience of constant dehumanization on Coruscant.

It comes to a point where the Command Batch become, for lack of thinking of a better word, almost strangers to each other. They still keeps tabs on one another, just to make sure they're still alive, but that's pretty much as far as it goes now. Maybe they'll chitchat when their battalions work together, but the mission has to come first, so most of the talking is planning and strategizing. Even when their leaves do overlap, the thought of messaging for a meet-up might feel like a nuisance, because surely your batchmates are exhausted and don't want to be bothered.

So it goes, the commanders may have been close once, but that connection has been stretched and warped by war and time. They still have love for each other and it won't ever be forgotten, because how can anyone forget the people you grew up with. They were the right people they needed back then, but they're no longer the right people now.

[ethereal-feline]

Know what have a rambling headcanon before I go to bed

Hawks doesn't scold Tokoyami.

Half the time he treats him like a peer, other half he's treating him "like a kid", but Hawks doesn't really have a concept of that because HPSC reasons. So for Hawks showing Tokoyami any sort of genuine positivity probably manifests as either gift giving(like when his mom got the Endeavor plush), and acts of service(being a hero). I headcanon he always get food. Favorite burger place, favorite restaurant(like in Team Up Missions, that waitress said Hawks ONLY brings people he likes), heck they probably have a favorite street vendor or two.

There's also like a 25% time of Hawks purposely babying or even pranking Tokoyami if it isn't under "treating like a peer", but the spoiling and professional annoying babying is mostly in private with the sidekicks. Gotta protect that street cred...sort of lol

Point is Hawks doesn't really lecture Tokoyami. He tells him to lighten up, learn to joke around(birbs eating birbs, its funny!), but doesn't go full "okay kid, serious talk, pop a squat" you know? He'll call out risky moves, but doesn't go "that was super dangerous, young man! do you know all the ways that could have gone wrong?" Lectures are boring, he isn't a teacher.

But there was ONE instance. Two versions.

Version 1: Maybe Tokoyami had been a little reckless during a villain encounter the same day Hawks was supposed to be doing Super Spy things, so Hawks was a bit more anxious than he would like to admit. All anyone heard was Hawks, top of his lungs, with a certain tone, go:

"TSUKUYOMI NO MIKOTO"

Tokoyami freezes up. He doesn't know what to do. Hawks has NEVER used that voice before. Its new. Its alarming. What has possessed him?

Meanwhile Hawks is giving The Look. He is fully aware he just shouted in a very un-Hawks like way and needs to save face. How exactly? Well, do something Hawks-like of course! He just...picks up a still confused Tokoyami and flies off while looking so Done TM.

Its a meme within the hour. Now all Pro Hero students have "full names" like Redius Riotson or some shit. I'm thinking of that one Batman post of Batman wanting ti full name his kids but using their vigilante names because secret identity.

Version 2: If it was in private like at the agency, I can see the sidekicks being equally as confused especially if it was triggered by something small and mundane by comparison like dropping some glass. If its in the privacy of the agency, Hawks goes go Mother Hen mode and starts fussing. Tokoyami just silently takes the sudden lecture but the anxiety of this being some joke builds up until he realizes Hawks is serious. It also takes Hawks a solid moment to realize he's lecturing and by then he's on a tangent ("should I have picked up a book about parenting? Probably! Where was I going with this? I had a point-")

Does Tokoyami get him back with a "WINGARDIUM HAWKINGTON" or scientific name for some hawk species? Maybe but only after one of the wars, and ONLY when its just them because Tokoyami is still a little shy even after all this time.

Dark Shadow has no such reservations. Its on sight with increasingly ridiculous names.

This went on longer than I expected, good night lol

[wereh0gz]

Amy: weird question, but do you ever wonder what death feels like?

Sonic: oh it doesn't feel like anything

Amy:

Amy: what?

Sonic: like. You can't really see or hear or feel anything. It's just kinda dark and quiet. And you can't really think either so you don't feel scared or sad or anything like that. But you still feel cold somehow. It's weird

Amy: why do you say that like you've died before

Sonic:

Amy: Sonic is there something we need to talk about

Sonic:

Amy: Sonic

[ethereance]

More allurance lifespan angst:

Time was always going to take Lance from Allura. That was something they’ve known for a long, long time. And she’d accepted it, knowing that they would just have to make every quintant count, every varga, every tick, all moment precious when he can barely live a tenth of her life. But as they grow older, Lance greying as she does not, a sight so so painfully human, Allura’s heart clenches, and she knows that soon she will have to let him go.

And she finds she cannot do it. Losing her father, her mother, her planet, it had been devastating. She cannot do it again. Not with him.

Her life has barely just begun. And they’re meant to take this journey together.

So, she utilises the alchemist in her veins. Looks for ways for a life to be prolonged, even just for a bit. Any time is precious.

But the answer lies in quintessence. In poisoning a mind past recognition so a stranger can live out those years. It’s just another form of death.

Allura cannot let history repeat in such a way, nor wish this upon Lance.

And then she remembers project Kuron. The clones. Her ability to transfer a consciousness over.

An idea forms.

[jesncin]

This lil' sequence in Birthdays is a reference to the iconic issue Hold Me (by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean). I hit it with the middle-grade-graphic-novel beam :p but generally still wanted to pay homage to its essence.

[thingscanalwaysgetworse]

Okay but like!! It’s about the failure of abstinence-only education. It’s about the adults making teens think that any sexual feelings are unnatural and “evil.” It’s about how none of this actually stops them from having these feelings, it just leads to them having an irrational response when they actually do want to have sex (cough Grace cough). Idk if I’m making sense but you get what I’m saying

[mrultra100]

LISTEN UP, EVERYONE! LISTEN WELL AND LISTEN CLOSE!

Starting next Tuesday, things are gonna get Ethereal, as this October will become ETHER-TOBER!

Now that the entire Ethereal family of Monsters has been completed (barring any Rares or Epics), I say it's time for both sides of the family tree to finally meet up, and what better way to get a truly monstrous gathering going than Halloween itself? From Ghazt to BeMeebEth, we got 31 Ethereal Monsters to draw, and 31 days to spare.

For anyone wanting to join in, there's alot of ways that y'all can do so; If you only have time in your schedules to draw up only a few Ethereals, that's A-OK. Things like digital/traditional art, papercraft, animation, etc aren't only cool within the guidelines of the challenge, they're also ENCOURAGED. To everyone joining it, feel free to go wild on your submissions!

As for me personally? I'm planning to get started on the prompts myself this week. Life has been kinda busy for me, so I wanna use the free time that I currently have right now to stay ahead of the curve, and have a nice, consistent workflow that these pieces release in. Also, the main hashtag for the event is #Ethertober , for anyone curious.

Ether-tober starts next week on October 1, 2024, so stay tuned, folks!

[wordsmithmuse]

idk anymore

its kinds funny. No alot funny. How sua died looking at mizi, Ivan died looking at till. Died while looking at the ones they loved. Died because they wanted to die for the ones they love.

But Till?

Till didn't want to die. He looked at Luka, and see how he saw Ivan? Instead of mizi. He saw Ivan, Luka knew till would carry the burden of Ivan's death, unlike how Ivan thought he wouldn't.

Till smiled when he looked at mizi, stretching his hand out to her, like he did in R6 flashback. He stretched his hand and was shot down. Before he could reach his unattainable "God"

He died thinking of ivan. He died seeing mizi. Touching neither of them.

I'm gonna be physically ill

BUT HEY FAM, AS I SAID IN MY PREVIOUS POST!!! HE AINT DEAD UNTIL OUR LOVELY VIVINOS SAYS HE IS. Same for Ivan

No cause what if???? IMAGINE??? I do hope they'll be like a conclusion, sequel.