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bhruv I'm telling you don't. i know Andrew's Spiderman like the back of my hand, don't you dare kill one of the Carpenters or i will throw hands
Bro Tara's probably safer than Sam atp. Police captains have shit luck in the spider-verse 😭
I love the Carpenter sisters so much (as in they literally own me) so the thought of killing either of them off hurts yk 😔
Gonna let my down badness and angst loving side battle it out
To be transparent tho, nothing is set in stone soo it could go either way
If it helps, I'm a very proud Miguel O'hara anti so that might help with my motive to go against any canon events
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some old stuff
#devil may cry#dmc#dmc dante#dmc vergil#devil may cry fanart#dmc fanart#dante sparda#vergil sparda#devil may cry dante#devil may cry vergil#and by old these were made like. months ago LOL#the 2nd one came about cause i was walking back to my dorm after class and it was storming like shit and i had btl playing in my mp3#lovely experience#dont ask me why vergils coats are so damn shiny im bad at rendering
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I'm back at it again
bonus (inspired by a note):
this is true love y'all
#gangle's out there asking the real questions#they are couple goals if your goal is to live a miserable life/hj#the ribbun fever strikes again#right after pride month too#i'm sorry about what's to come for the next post#the calm before the storm#foreshadowing#ribbun#tadc gangle#tadc jax#tadc fanart#the amazing digital circus#gangle x jax#jax x gangle#the usual#okay i know i said tomorrow last time#but my dumbass drafted it instead of posting#didn't noticed for an entire day
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nothing (besides everyone ignoring Orym's deal) has made me angrier than watching Dorian keep up this facade. Dorian Storm has always been a type of mask he's worn. At first he called himself a liar because of it. The happy go lucky bard was a way of escaping for him. He was escaping Brontë so he created Dorian. He didn't believe he was Dorian. Until the Crown Keepers made Dorian real. And for a while, he really believed he was Dorian. That he has this new family and new life and he could be who he truly wanted to be.
And then his brother came back and made his problems Dorian's problems. Until he had to put Brontë back on. Because even if the Crown Keepers + Cyrus called him Dorian, he was Brontë. He had to be who his brother thought he was.
When Cyrus dies, the thread to Brontë had snapped. He was going to see Orym, back to the Bells Hells, back to Dorian Storm. But the foundation of Dorian had shattered. Dorian was created in order to run from his place in life, family, Cyrus. Now he was gone. The Crown Keepers had fallen apart. His friends fell through his fingers and he couldn't do anything to stop it. He was once ready to side with a betrayer god for these people and now they're in the wind.
So Dorian shows back up to Bells Hella and he's completely broken. The foundation of both of his lives has been thoroughly rocked. No brother. No Crown Keepers. The two things that forged Dorian Storm. He wears that mask so fucking well. Because he still wants to believe in it. He said it live on stage that he should "believe his own backstory". The one he made up. The one where he was a bard.
He wants to be Dorian so bad. He spends all his money on Orym, he spins the bottle so he can kiss his friends, he flirts, he blushes and giggles at compliments. Exactly how Dorian would, should.
But he wears the gold of the heir. He has a festering animosity inside his chest. He doesn't sleep. He's thinner than he was. He doesn't sleep. He sicks abominations after their creators. He talks to God's without an ounce of self preservation, daring them to strike him down. He does not acknowledge them as they taunt him.
The god of beauty and magic calls him beautiful and he does not smile.
#silver sending stones#cr spoilers#cr 3 e 107#dorian storm#got carried away in both the post and the tags again#this was supposed to be an add on from those tags yesterday#but i went off the fucking rails so hard im gonna have to make another post#and listen.#i know people are ✨ multifaceted ✨#but i think its interesting to peel apart the layers of dorian storm.#because i do think all of this is just dorian.#like the rest of us he would not be here if not for his family. his brother. the crown keepers. bells hella.#he is informed by the things that happened in the past. none of these identities could have happened on their own#but if we're looking at the arch as a whole#theres the bronte era. the dorian era. and then era where they got very muddy. and the era now.#i dont feel like he's suddenly a secret third person now#but you know how we all look at the past versions of ourselves and wonder how theyd feel about us now?#dorian just has names for them#and because there was a mixing of both his lives i think dorian is having a hard time reconciling into one#he tries very hard to be both himselves#the man contains multitudes for sure#and idk i just keep picturing him as a little bronte. and exu dorian is smiling and singing with him. he tells him all about their friends#and current dorian looking at them. afraid to approach. afraid theyll ask about their future. afraid to tell them.#but theyd probably figure it out. hes wearing gold after all.
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Dick and Bette Kane - part 1
I started writing this as an answer to the people who claim they love Dick's "petty" side/him not being welcoming to specific people he supposedly has a grudge against. The problem is, those same people tend to mention Helena Bertinelli or Jean-Paul Valley as examples of that happening, when it doesn't reflect at all the relationship he had with either of them in the New Earth continuity (which is generally the one being referred to).
I will do a breakdown of Dick's relationship with those two in separate posts, but it got me thinking about a "heroic" character Dick's been consistently uncomfortable around in that same continuity, and one he openly doesn't appreciate much : Bette Kane, a.k.a Flamebird. Yet people do not seem to ever list her among the characters Dick's not very fond (for very good reasons).
Bette Kane's an interesting concept as a character, because she's not a very good super-heroin, but she's extremely competent in other areas of her life. As a teenager, she began playing tennis in competitions, and she was so good at it she quickly became "a pro", and was considered something of a celebrity.
Yet Bette dreamed of something very different. She openly admired Robin (Dick) and wanted to imitate him by becoming a super-heroin of her own. She even designed her costume as a tribute to him, and chose the code name Flamebird. That's somewhat ironic considering Flamebird was originally Nightwing's partner back when Nightwing was an identity Superman had used.
Bette as Flamebird's New Earth origins are recounted in Secret Origins, vol. 2 annual 3, which is focused on a mental attack Dick suffers at the hands of the Gargoyle. Here Gargoyle narrates one of the first acts Bette did as Flamebird, which was saving Navy men hanging to lifelines attached to an air-craft carrier that was being lifted into the air. Other super-heroes helped resolve the situation, and that teamwork is what prompted the creation of Titans West.
Secret Origins, Vol. 2 Annual 3
Interestingly, you can see that Dick wasn't really aware of how much he'd inspired Bette, and this mental fight with the Gargoyle happened several years after his first meeting with Bette as leader of the Titans, and years after his first meeting with Bette at all.
At first glance, this may seem surprising, given that Bette was obsessed with Robin and wasn't remotely subtle about it. After becoming Flamebird and rescuing the Navy men, she was part of the unofficial first meeting of Titans West along with Gar, Hank, Dove, Charley, and Lilith. And her first reaction was to be delighted at the idea of seeing "Robin" again, calling him "a cute hunk". When Lilith asked her to tone it down and be serious, she instead went further by commenting on Dick's legs.
Secret Origins, Vol. 2 Annual 3
Then when it became clear the newly formed Titans West would have to seek help and go see the official Titans in New York, all Bette cared about was that she was going to work with Robin.
Secret Origins, Vol. 2 Annual 3
When the two teams finally met, it wasn't love at first sight. Once they finally started discussing the case they were working on, Dick suggested a plan of action that involved the two teams splitting up. Bette cut him off as soon as he said it to contradict him and affirm that she was going with him, which she ended up doing.
Her behaviour was honestly creepy. She cut off Dick just because she'd decided that she was going with him. She didn't refer to him by his code name, but only by the part of his body she'd commented on before, calling him "legs". She took his face between her fingers. And the sentence "I've waited too long for this", coupled with the nickname, would've made my skin crawl. It sounds like she'd fantasized about Dick for a while, was going to have what she wanted no matter what, and had no problem announcing it out loud.
Secret Origins, Vol. 2 Annual 3
After the case was over, the two teams had a fight over what team had done more to solve it, and over the legitimacy of Titans West. Wally criticized the way they'd come into the headquarters like they belonged, Bette said they did because they were Titans too, and appealed to Dick to validate her opinion - calling him "legs" again, which implies that this was the nickname she gave him the entire time they worked together.
Dick said he wasn't sure whether it was a good idea for the others to be Titans, because he wasn't sure he would be able to lead two teams, one of them long-distance. Members of Titans West were affronted by Dick's speech, including Bette. She went with the others, talking to Dick again to tell him that "[he'd] never know what [he'd] missed", making her departure partly about a romantic/sexual golden opportunity Dick didn't take. Appreciate the fact that she called him "Robin" again now that she was irritated by him.
Secret Origins, Vol. 2 Annual 3
Titans and Titans West had a couple other team-ups before Titans West disbanded, during which Bette learned Dick's secret identity. From the way Bette acted during the one team-up recounted in details in New Titans #56, we can deduce that every time she met Dick she kept trying to seduce him, persistently, relentlessly, in obnoxious ways that sometimes border on sexual harassment.
It was well-known that Bette was obsessed with Dick - not like Bette was trying to be subtle about it, she had no problem making her intentions clear and that publicly. There's a panel I couldn't include in which Hank scoffs at the idea that Lilith "trusts" Dick and tells Charley that "she's got the hots for him. Just like Bette."
I'm sad I couldn't include it because there's this hilarious exchange after in which Hank bemoans "Man. That burns me. What's he got that I haven't ?" and Charley answers "Look in the mirror and weep" (lmao).
But as I was saying, Bette kept trying to hit on Dick. In the panel below she asked him whether he needed help (the "sure" implying it's not the first time she asked the question), only to say that it was "[his] loss" when he said no. Dick was very polite in his answer, thanking her for her offer, but was turning her down all the same.
New Titans #56
Not long after, Dick told off Hank and Charley who'd gone in an argument over leadership and about their association with the Titans, before having the conversation about Dick I mentioned above. Bette immediately cheered him on, calling him "handsome" as she got close to him. Dick ignored her.
New Titans #56
During a fight she called out to Dick to warn him about an assailant, and had to sneak in a comment about his butt (whoever said this kind of things was recent was lying). Dick was clearly uncomfortable, answering with an embarrassed "Uhh, thanks, Flamebird" - the "uhh" plus the two commas in a three-word sentence indicate he didn't know what to make of her comment. He also corrected her to make sure she knew he'd seen the assailant she was talking about. It was a way for him to reaffirm his skills as a crimefighter (she's not the first one he said those things to), but also a way for him to reject her attention.
New Titans #56
She was also very physical around Dick. I can't include all panels of her, but she seemed to be near Dick most of the time, would touch his shoulder for no reason when they came in a lab, or, like in the panel below, latch onto his arm. Dick wasn't shown shaking her off, but he wasn't seen reciprocating either.
New Titans #56
So in the end, it's not a surprise Dick had no idea Bette'd wanted to become a super-heroin because she'd been inspired by him. Not when most of their interactions revolved around her attraction for him, not when she kept making comments about his looks.
As an aside, this is one of the reasons I can't take seriously anyone who says it's Devin Grayson's fault if Dick's been sexualized. Hard to do that when you have an entire character who could've been one of the best tennis players in the world but decided to become a crimefighter because she was obsessed with Dick, and kept gushing over his legs and butt. Dick's been dealing with that kind of things since the 80's, guys.
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#dick grayson#bette kane#bette kane : the original dick grayson stalker#the truly fun part is after#here there's only the basis - bette throwing herself at dick#and dick being like “thanks bette but don't go near me”#which is going to turn into “thanks but no thanks bette go away”#i must once again comment on the “look in the mirror and weep”#bwahaha this alone made me like charley#also i think the titans west reaction to dick's speech was misplaced#like duh they wanted to call themselves titans#it's normal that the official titans team should have a say in that#or that the leader assumed they wanted to follow his lead#i mean sure dick could've maybe asked#but he wasn't impolite or anything - he just told them he couldn't see himself handling that responsibility#they could've just been like “well we're not asking you to”#instead of storming off like dramatic prima donnas#but hey it's always dick's fault didn't you know ?
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i'd like to think that rusalka biology is a little like sharks wherein they kinda regularly shed and can easily regrow their teeth. which brings us to vila who has inherited this trait and just. kinda pops out her teeth every once in a while.
for the longest time she was ashamed of the whole thing and would try and discard the teeth as discreetly as possible but upon getting into rayashki the townsfolk help her shed the negative bias to a point that she sometimes gives them away to the people she really likes (which. pretty much a lot if not all of them) as little trinkets.
which brings us to a situation where one day vila randomly feels a tooth coming loose so she pulls it off and casually offers it to windsong in the middle of the rayashki cafeteria.
in a collective moment to tease the shit outta the two because of whatever thing that's been brewing between them, everyone there acts like vila dropped down to a knee and proposed to her lmfao
#reverse 1999#vila#windsong#certified storm moments#the moment tooth fairy hears of the whole teeth thing do you think she immediately starts to seek her out#tennant windsong friendship after the former scams her and then toof vila friendship because she asked if she can look at her teeth#was going to make the vilasong angle about shark courting behavior but. uh. sharks just start biting the fuck outta their mates so#that's not very safe for work to discuss here. i wrote something about it ages ago though
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I love that the premise of r1999 is basically just "what if the y2k bugs happened to the actual timeline" and then they made it Emotionally Devastating
#Genuinely though I think there is a decent bit of y2k influence in the premise because the storm only moves within the 20th century#Not before not after#(Well. Not yet)#(Idk how mondlicht/dikke/charlie/etc are going to be entering the picture)#r1999#reverse 1999#ask to tag
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what do u think reigen smells like. i think he smells like mens deodorant and tobacco
i think that at work he has a really nice mens cologne that he wears, (not too expensive but not cheap) after all first impressions are very important. he feels professional when he wears it, like someone to be respected. like someone,, serizawa likes it and also feels a little intimidated when reigen walks by and he smells his nice cologne
i think the new office smells a little scentless and bright like spring flowers, and the old office smelled like tobacco and tiger-balm
i think naturally his home and casual clothes smell like a mix of different incense scents. he sort of smells like tiger balm, sea salt and hot pavement on a summer day (sweaty). if you stand near the balcony, it still smells faintly of cigarettes but its not as strong as it was since hes quit (and also scrubbed it clean when 10 year old mob said something "rude to say to grown ups, especially his mentor").
#anon you got a big storm comin.#i think about the way things smell Very hard#my autism super powers#reigen arakata#mp100#i do think he quit smoking#but he had 1 dart he hid in his underwear drawer that he smoked half of after the events of mob asking tsubomi out#that serizawa gave him a stern talking to about#he let the rest of it burn out on its own after that but not before showing serizawa his cool smoke trick#and then spending an extra day in recovery from coughing too hard with a fractured rib
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silly soulmate au where everyone has the first words their soulmate said to them on their body somewhere and anakin’s are “excuse me sir, your shoelaces are untied” so he walks around with his shoes untied as a way of trying to bait life into giving him his soulmate
But one day he’s like super done with it and cranky after a bad day and someone taps his shoulder while he’s waiting at a crosswalk and says “excuse me sir your shoelaces are untied” and anakin snaps “your shoelaces are untied”
and obi-wan “afraid to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known enough to be loved” kenobi says “I’m not wearing shoelaces” kinda flabbergasted because he’s spent like 30 years wearing untieable shoes so no one can ever tell him “your shoelaces are untied” only to be thwarted by a beautiful, aggressive soulmate of a stranger
#obikin#Kit’s silly lil AUs#before you ask yeah my shoelaces are untied#and many many strangers have told me#anyway I think it would be funny if obi-wan is so gobsmacked#that the light changes#and anakin is like ‘congratu fucking lations then’ and storms off#OR neither of them really notice/clock the other person is their soulmate#and then meet at a party a year later with no memory of each other#because it was just a brief interaction with a stranger at the end of a long day#over and forgotten#but then they fall in love and date after the party where they meet#and it’s an amazing relationship and very strong and perfect#and anakin starts wearing shoes that don’t have shoelaces because he’s terrified of meeting his soulmate now that he has obi-wan#OR maybe they meet again and become close friends but they don’t date#and they pine over each other for months but don’t want to risk their friendships#and anakin starts lacing his shoes/wearing boots because he doesn’t want to find his soulmate when he’s so in love with obiwan#only for obi-wan to start wearing shoes with laces because he needs to find his soulmate because he’s in love with anakin and that’s awful#will ruin him#(in that version they don’t know what the other person’s mark says)
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What do you think the next Mame show after BNW will be??
My bet is Love Director, because the book cover was sprinkled throughout Love Sea THOROUGHLY, and despite being part of the "Love" series of titles, to my knowledge it doesn't tie in to Love Sea. It's tied to Love Sky.
I don't know the plot of the book, but I think it would be before Love Sky? Not sure.
Update: @letmereadinpeace4 let me know it takes place AFTER Love Sky, so Pai and Sky could absolutely appear!
Of course, I always hope I'm wrong and Mame swings backwards in the timeline and goes with Love Sand. I'd ADORE a Love Sand show, it's my favorite novel of hers (so far).
There was also a show that was supposed to happen but was canceled or put on indefinite hold. They'd announced a cast. I think it would have come out after Wedding Plan. It's possible they return to do that one.
#ask#love director#love sand#to my knowledge the 'love' title series maybe were published one after the other and so they're linked in just that way#but love storm love sky and love director are all linked through Prapai and his family#and Love Sand and Love Sea are off on their own under the TharnType umbrella#I know all of Mames stories exist in the same universe and link through different ways#i just mean in terms of how closely they're linked
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dandelion is indeed the worst but if he’s not present in the next book i would legitimately be sorrowful as the whole thing will become a slog . you basically cannot have the “short stories” era-of-the-timeline iteration of geralt without dandelion, it would be like eating unbuttered bread.
though it’s not like season of storms did them dirty, i wasn’t disappointed with it (… with regards to them), but since it’s literally been over 20 years since the saga was finished i’m trying to prepare for any potential reality
#however i will accept an absence of dandelion IN THE CASE OF we get to see geralt and yennefer living together in vengerberg#but if it’s regular geralt day in the life then if dandelion’s not there it’s gonna suuuuuccckk#i mean as in geralt’s life sucks without him. badly#and it also? sucks with him. good-ly.#it’s august and we don’t have a title yetttt 🥲 and they said 2024 … hmhm sure#i just feel like rupaul ‘and don’t fuck it up’.gif#like i’m excited but also wtf? new witcher book? are we on punk’d?#it’s not going to be the best but i’m hoping it will be at least as good as season of storms. not a high bar ok!#this from the person who was optimistic about the n*tflix show. don’t trust me i like to believe in the future#i was going to say ‘and i trust sapkowski more than i trust n*tflix’ and then i laughed.#i don’t trust him—i don’t even trust the version of him from the 90s and 00s!#one side of me can’t believe i’m still here after the guardswomen of kerack. and the ‘well i’m only gay for clout’ villain motivations#the other side of me is intensely curious wtf geralt will get up to this time and how witcher could maybe even denigrate further#but season of storms ending was actually good and = well it’s not like sapkowski forgot what it was about#then again it’s been 10 years and a bad adaptation since then so im biting my nails#all i ask : please stick with the naming convention of the other books. i don’t want to write an absurdly long or short name or acronym out#sooooo weird that in a few months i will be saying: there are 9 witcher books.#actually rn i just say there’s 7 and discount season of storms as a legitimate heir but mention it as footnote lol#i just hope i can survive until this new book and until its translation LOLLLL#they said translation in 2025 but you know the track record#new book: *releases winter 2024* | english translation: coming 2045!#jk i think they finally figured out that witcher is a money printer so they will be eager to translate it now and not waffle around#they kicked their butts into gear with the hussite trilogy so ! and they made new hardcovers.#the elbow-high diaries#new book 2024
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Also, wait, wait, here me out.... ✨️Black Cat✨️
Jealous Tara would be so- 😍
Ok, sorry for the spam. Your fics (especially this one) just awaken my adhd in the BEST way! 😂
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I'm soooo not opposed to that idea. I already have a character in mind who I think would be a great black cat. You guys were actually super close to getting a black cat scene in chapter two...
Your asks are more than welcomed, I love hearing all your thoughts and feedback!
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#that first gif... he is deadly#james spader#alan shore#boston legal#*#favorite#there's a full-length shot in this scene where you can see his belly. stretching the fabric of his shirt just above his waistband. ougghhh#trying to focus on how sexy this is but this episode was so. soft and suffering alan#once again everyone expects the worse from him. they ASK it of him for their own benefit#and he doesn't disappoint. he is the worst and he loses his temper and finds himself on the ledge again#when he storms out of denny's office so mad he can't even look at him. went home alone and furious and upset#drank himself to sleep for the first time in months if not years bc after a good run it feels like things are falling apart again#the way they always do. because that's what alan shore deserves#he thought it might be different this time. he thought well my parents didn't care about me. my wife died. I got fired. everyone leaves#maybe this time will be different. but now he's in the hotel room where he lives. without his best friend. about to be disbarred. stupid.#this was always going to happen because he doesn't deserve any better. they were all right about him. they were right to run away#everything is fixed the next day he and denny go on a field trip 🤠 but GD!!!!!#alaaaaannnnnnn 😭
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in the words of a certain meme: if i had a nickel for every time my favorite character in their respective series was associated with a storm, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
decided to share one of the random things that live in my brain
#look i know that it's not that rare for a character to be compared to a storm#but it's more like they both have known titles about storms#don't ask why it looks like they're in a fighting game#it was funnier in my head#dmc#devil may cry#dmc5#vergil#vergil sparda#dmc5 vergil#dmc vergil#devil may cry 5#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#chuuya nakahara#bsd chuuya#don't expect activity from me after this#im sorry vergils hair looks weird#it's impossible for me to draw
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#entire neighborhood been helping ppl prep and put shutters up for 3 fucking days#nonstop#and this morning. some ass in the gc goes ''so we just fled in a hurry and didnt put our shutters up. can yall do it! TY''#motherfucker?#no.#like its a 2 story house. the storm bands have started.#sorry yall not gonna die falling off a ladder to protect ur windows after yall saw us doing this FOR DAYS#like u had every opportunity??? to ask for help prior to this#i am SO cranky
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thinking about how Macaque usually smiles when being more aggressive. Thinking about how monkeys usually ‘smile’ to show aggression. Thinking about MK smiling a shit ton durinf the Azure fight. THINKING ABOUT THE WARRIORS AND MKS REPRESSION GODD
Watching MK go completely unhinged while fighting Azure moodboard:
#but part of me was cheering with SWK#THAT'S MY HARBINGER OF CHAOS. THAT'S MY BOY#HE SHOULD YELL AT PEOPLE MORE OFTEN#(Wukong)#(He should yell at Wukong)#It's the fact that they love each other so much that makes SWK V MK fuck so hard#MK *loves* to repress/ignore problems that impact his worldview. He is so messy#Like I love the way he deals with LBD in s2 because it's absolutely abysmal.#He handles the problem without actually handling the problem. Does not go to monkey king. Does not talk to his friends#He trains but he also doesn't make any effort to try and stop LBD's plans or learn what those plans are#And then after being bitter at Wukong for a whole season he pretends it did not happen in s3. Like MK my sweet boy#you are not handling anything with any amount of grace#AND THEN he tried to do the same thing with his Monkey Form. But Monkey Form did not let him#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk MK#asks#solarartzz#like can you believe they ended s4 on such a high note. And then also said that s4 was the ''calm before the storm''#can you believe s4 was set up. THAT IT WAS SET UP#Like oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooo. MK's s4 arc ended on too much of a high note#Especially because it resolved like nothing about his identity & his relationship with SWK#And they totally hinted at the SWK V Macaque fight being revealed later#Like god. We really are so fucked I'm telling you
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