#SORRY THIS TOOK A WHILE!!!!!!!

[tactician]

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major arcana questions

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01. the magician: how does your muse feel about fate? do they believe they can change their own destiny? reides puts a lot of trust in fate, tbh!!! maybe surprisingly so? like, he's very free-spirited, so the stereotypical approach to it (i.e. the thought of being stuck on a set path, regardless of what one does - a total lack of free will) would obviously disturb him. and ofc he grew up with that mindset all around him, since he's royal blood and all. but his personal approach to it is pretty... fluid. he doesn't see himself as its pawn, but as an active participant in collaborating with it. it's pretty similar to his approach to religion. he does his own thing but he has faith that he's being guided in some way to the stuff that's right for him. it really helps him with staying optimistic, even if it means relinquishing a lil bit of his self-confidence. he mostly just thinks that some stuff is too important to attribute to luck - for example, he wasn't trying to be mushy or poetic when he told aske that they were destined to meet lmfao.

02. the high priestess: how does your muse make decisions? do they trust their instinct or would they rather trust their heart / their logic? i think trusting your instincts is pretty much the same as going with your heart, and reides is 100% the type to go with that first rather than his logic. i definitely don't want to undermine his analytical side because it totally does exist - he is A Smartypants, the resident 22int wizard of the gang - but he has to have this moment after he leaps up wherein he catches himself and reminds himself that he should probably think stuff through.

03. the empress: does your muse have parental / nurturing figures in their life? how do they impact them? OH BOY!!!!!!!! LFDGKDL;HKDFK well... he is very close to his mother, of course. arlyn taught him a whole lot about the world and protected him from stuff that even he has no idea about. i think her personality informed reides' a lot, too, since they have very similar senses of humor. and ofc they're both total troublemakers, though reides is a bit less cunning about it LMFAOOO. reides still struggles a bit with being overly trusting of others so he has to channel his mother's way of thinking (as he understands it) whenever he does things that require... slyness. for example, during the interrogations at the ball during our current campaign arc, he is totally thinking 'WHAT WOULD MY MOM DO!!!!!!!' at pretty much every moment LSDFKGJDFG. he missed her terribly when they weren't in contact with each other and looks back on their time apart with a whole lot of sadness. he's beyond grateful that they've since reunited and tbh i think he's going to take her lessons a whole lot more seriously now, since he's gonna be dealing with various courts a lot more from here on out.

as for his dad... his relationship with khavas is extremely complicated. it's gone from very cold to Horrifically Rocky to very... strained. but regardless of that, khavas has a huge impact on reides, even if reides would be loath to admit it. he thought he could never earn his father's approval no matter what, so he tried to convince himself to not care about getting it as a means of avoiding that sting of rejection over and over again. it's only recently that reides is more open to the truth of the matter, i.e. that he failed to convince himself about not caring and he wants his father's approval, even if it's the absolute bare minimum of just... gaining his respect. in that sense, i think khavas does motivate reides to do his best, but atm it's more like a steady, uncomfortable pressure versus something healthy.

related to that, reides' conversation with arlyn about khavas kind of implied that reides simply Doesn't Know how to pick up on khavas' support, so who tf knows what'll happen. they definitely have a ways to go - but despite all the pain that khavas has caused him, reides would never say that he hates his father. 04. the emperor: how much respect does your muse have for authority? why is this? as someone who was born into authority, reides has always been able to see what a ruse it is ;LFDKGLDF;KG OK NO JOKING ASIDE: he doesn't really respect authority figures simply for Being Authority Figures all that much. he has to see what people do with the power they've been given versus just accepting that he needs to listen to them simply because they have a particular job or title. admittedly, it's a stance that comes pretty easily to someone who is literally a prince. he really admires good leaders, though, so it's not like he's gonna be haughty to any of them by default.

09. the hermit: how introspective is your muse? how often do they self-reflect? reides journals a lot (not necessarily in the "DEAR DIARY, TODAY I SAW A SQUIRREL" way, but also through drawing, writing random quotes; very stream-of-conciousness stuff which might make no sense to anyone who happened to stumble upon his work lol), so with that comes a lot of self-reflecting. he tends to keep that sort of thing limited to his books, though, since expressing the darker side(s) of what he's going through can be a little difficult for him and he doesn't necessarily want to burden anyone with all o' that. 10. the wheel of fortune: how well / badly does your muse take setbacks on their goals? very badly lmao. reides is really stubborn so he's likely to try to push through the setback no matter what. i think he's probably seen some success with pushing through in certain instances, but, you know. he's definitely not one to just be like "oh damn that sucks :(" and throw in the towel. if he has to take an L he will be upset about it for a while before getting himself together and moving on.

16. the tower:  what event drastically changed your muse’s life? do they resent that event or are they glad of it? well you know... there's been a lot of lifechanging events in reides' world in the past year or so, but - first and foremost - the one literally involving a tower comes to mind. L;DKFFKG when khavas locked him away for his initial request to go to the surface, it definitely marked a huge turning point in reides' life. he had to start questioning everything; he fully thought that he lost everything. and he had to build everything up out of the wreckage. he will never be glad to have gone through it because it fucked him up quite a bit, but he's happy that he's managed to like, recover from it (for the most part) and gain strength despite having gone through it.

[pigswithwings]

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[theladyeowyn]

You shall live to see these days renewed. And no more despair.

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[xxplastic-cubexx]

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finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[stil-lindigo]

scorched earth.

a comic about a princess who died in a fire.

(this is a sequel to bite of winter, a comic about Snow and what became of her after her death.)

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[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x04 - “Paint the Town Blue”

[yourlocalabomination]

Tick Tock, Teddy-Bear.

[jabesa0]

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[chio-chan2artbox]

Step Forward - Part 3 They are going on a date!!! Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 Check out my tags for fun facts XD

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[peace-hunter]

I like the idea that the Matrix was said to contain "The wisdom of the Primes" and while it kind of DOES, what he actually got was the ability to commune with the Primes, and while everyone expects them to be a well of wisdom they're kind of just normal people and tell Optimus that Megatron's a glitch.

He's basically just got 13 older annoying siblings.

some times collective wisdom means knowing how to build and lead an entire army while restructuring your entire society after decades of oppression.

others it means knowing that mixing the cybertronian equivalent of vodka and tequila is a Stupid Idea and you will definitely regret it oh my god-

and being the youngest of fourteen sometimes means knowing that and doing it anyway lmao

but yeah that's basically it! that's kinda the point of the au! yeah they were wise and intelligent and almost divine but they were still people! and the concept of wisdom can be very subjective when there's thirteen of you and you have thousands if not millions of years of Opinions™ aklsjdlalds

haunted au

[fridgrave2-0]

hehe ghost-turbo haunting felix au

turbo is connected to the last piece of his code in the whole arcade - a trophy he gifted to felix in mid 80s as a symbol of him genuinely caring about their relationships on par with being the best racer. felix also gave him one of his medals and both kept their gifts next to other rewards, but when roadblasters and turbotime were unplugged, the medal was gone with everything else

now, after burning in cola-lava turbo is basically dead, but scraps of his code still were intertwined with the trophy (after all, it was his first winner's cup, but felix never knew about it), giving turbo an opportunity to exist as a shadow incapable of interacting with anything and anyone besides felix, who kept the trophy even after the roadblasters incident

also I went crazy in tags, feel free to check them out

[venusinta]

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[abyssalzones]

can you tell us about your interpretation of the better world universe!!!! especially curious how stan/mystery trio works into it

hell yesssss I definitely can. ABW is maybe my favorite niche gf thing and probably the only "AU" I care about but that may be due to the fact that it's an AU that exists in the canon and we know so little about it. so it has an established foundation that you're left to fill in the details with yourself... it's like a poke bowl to me. you can put anything in there

and since I felt like it here's a bonus pic of them living their best lives pestering ford

[explanation-y stuff under ze cut because I got very longwinded]

as for specifics of how I see everything working out, there's a few key points that establish why things happened differently from canon, the most important being:

Stan agrees to hide journal #3 somewhere

Ford reunites with fiddleford and they begin working together again

both of these are already confirmed in canon, the first being the most obvious "schism" between timelines. literally everything in ABW is the way it is because stan made a different decision. kind of crazy in terms of its implications: I feel like that moment in the basement is a really good example of how stan gets so few opportunities to shape her own life (while ford is in the picture...) because of her role as the 'black sheep' twin. it's not exactly a premeditated decision to push ford into the portal, it's her acting on feelings that have been bubbling unaddressed under the surface for 10-something years at that point, and only then does she have any sort of power over the "narrative" of both her life and the story itself, something that from her pov has been ford's story. and in the canon timeline, she says no.

so like, what the hell made her say yes in ABW's timeline? this question kind of haunts me because I feel like it has to be entirely dependent on what the inside of stan's head looked like at the time. it's possible something influenced her, but overall I think it's more interesting if ford did and said all the exact same things up until this point and it really was entirely dependent on stan's decision internally.

so stan says yes, goes on a big trip to the other side of the world somehow, and buries journal 3 somewhere probably never to be found again. yay! but, uh, going on a trip like ford was suggesting would... take weeks. that would leave ford alone again. and not to have my established thoughts informed by new material or anything but bill did give him 72 hours.

so, next order of business: how in the fuck would ford convince fiddleford to rejoin him??? I'm unsure between journal 3 and tbob's information how ford may have tried to reach out to him but it seems like fiddleford was pretty adamant about staying away from that guy, out of guilt or fear of bill/the portal or both. I don't think logically it would just be a matter of ford calling him enough times or finding out where he lives- and I think that's kind of getting away from the point of why ABW is the way it is too. if stan is suddenly making decisions that are influencing ford's life, I think it would be similarly interesting if fiddleford also possessed some unique autonomy in this scenario.

aka I think ford got fucked up badly (possibly involving losing an eye) and fiddleford found him half-dead while trying to burn his house down. [mabel voice] romance!

to clarify: I don't think fiddleford is obligated to take care of ford. a major part of him leaving the project was finally making the decision to leave a situation that was hurting him, that he'd been staying in entirely because he still cared about ford and felt on some level he could still help him (which gets broken with "I don't need you!") and I think that's a very reasonable decision on his part. but I also do have to think about all the times ford has been "the hero" in situations where fiddleford ends up hurt and helpless because of something traumatizing. I think it'd be fascinating to see that reversed and have fiddleford actively making the difficult, messy decision to take care of that guy even when they're on miserable terms. and so begins like a solid week of these two desperately trying to look out for eachother in a nightmare scenario where one of them probably needs to go to a hospital + keeps getting possessed off and on and the other is going through the worst addiction/withdrawal cycle of his life irt the memory gun. yay! (part of the reason this even works To Me also is heavily informed by the lack of secrets: if fiddleford is actively dressing that guy's wounds he can't really keep it all to himself anymore. crushingly intimate perhaps...)

stan gets back eventually. such is the context of this pic

from there it's a nebulous grab-bag of things I think could happen up to the foundation of the institute.

how do all three of these incredibly fucked up individuals get along? well they don't but then they do.

how do they get bill out of ford's head without performing amateur brain surgery? idk. my best guess is a fiddleford and stan bonding trip into ford's mindscape that potentially helps answer the first question. possibly utilizing the memory gun. shrugs.

what's up with that one picture you drew of parallel fidds holding the memory gun up to ford's head? well. okay that one might or might not be something that actually happened but the idea was just that ford is coping badly with a few specific things and I liked the idea of fiddleford "holding onto" something for him to remember and work through later when he's ready to deal with it, it's an interesting reversal of how he's normally more of a memory sink.

from the point in canon about them stabilizing the portal so that bill can't use it to get into their dimension anymore onward, I think it just becomes a matter of them living the lives they could've always had in canon without realizing it. hence "a better world." some cool tidbits I like to think about:

stan gets to transition much earlier (late 1990's perhaps?) and probably starts going by "lee" instead

she's also the institute's CMO and is mostly in it for going on business trips abroad with ford. and the money. obviously.

the institute probably also legitimately changes the world on a sociopolitical scale outside of just interdimensional travel since their research renders them uniquely untouchable and all three of them are trans (I'm cartoon logic-ing a little bit here just let me have this one)

ford is the eccentric bill nye esque face of the company, fiddleford is the backbone. that isn't to say ford doesn't do anything as I think he'd always moreso be in it for the science than the fame (though it is nice to be more than comfortable financially) but it's an open secret fiddleford keeps tabs on literally everything, he's still very security-oriented.

the northwest family now has a more prominent ongoing rivalry with the pines family that could be very funny to think about. they've taken all the LOGGING JOBS with their damn SCIENCE

part of the reason I thought ford should lose an eye is because I think having him wear an eyepatch would be a neat way to parallel stan's "role" as mr. mystery visually! stan wears an eyepatch for no legitimate reason to keep up appearances as a schlocky tourist trap host, but it also alludes to her being more than she seems under the surface. ford's eyepatch does sort of have a legitimate reason to exist, but he also could just wear his glass eye and it would probably be less "conspicuous." he chooses the eyepatch instead because it's part of his image as Stanford Pines, Founder of Oddology, and because it keeps him safe. there's also a little residual scarring there from damage to his eyelid/tarsal plate which could easily represent him hiding the more "damaged" aspects of himself under his successes. ouch.

I'm unsure if ford and stan would ever feel comfortable getting back in touch with their parents. I know a lot of people go that route with fan material but I don't think they should have to. I think they're much happier now having healed the rift between them on their own and getting to live successful lives for themselves, rather than to prove something to their father.

that being said I do think fiddleford gets in touch with emma-may and his son again and they end up on better terms with time and a Lot of effort. tate's family is now composed of his father, mother, "uncle" ford (in the ye olde gay closeted sense of referring to your dad's partner as an uncle), and auntie lee, and I like to think they go out on trips to the lake together often :]

also ford and fiddleford tie the knot unofficially (in the eyes of the government anyway) in 1990. owed to stan somehow getting "ordained" as a rabbi. don't ask me how.

the pines twins start visiting the institute from a younger age than they do irt visiting stan in the show-- but they're only permitted to come along on heavily-supervised interdimensional excursions once they turn 12. cue antics!

anyway, hopefully this extremely longwinded and loosely structured mess helped answer your question. I like ABW sooo so so much you guys

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

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There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

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