#also this got long af

[docsbestkissedoperative]

On matters of the past and the future.

(Dialogue under the cut!)

Doc: Deimos.

Deimos: Hrm?

Doc: When this is over, what do you intend to do?

Deimos: Huh. Hm.

I dunno, never thought about it. Maybe I'll get out of Nevada, see what's out there.

Doc: No plans to keep on fighting?

Deimos: Why would I? I'm tired of this crap already. Death follows me everywhere, and I'm waiting for the day it goes fuck itself.

Anyway, what about you?

Doc: ...

Deimos: Doc?

Doc: I don't know either.

Deimos: You don't-

Doc: At the agency, they don't teach you anything more than murder and hatred.

They teach you to hate someone you've never met. And they expect you to die fighting.

Sometimes, you don't even know why any of it matters. Sometimes, you suddenly realize YOU don't matter.

Just another corpse in a stack of unnamed fools.

Death follows you, and you follow it with that same obsession forever.

Leave the agency if you want, but you'll never forget what it taught you. It's all I knew for so long, I don't know what else to be.

THIS IS WHAT FEELS NATURAL.

...

...

...

Deimos: Doc.

Doc: What.

Deimos: You should go with me.

Doc: What?

Deimos: Go with me. With Sanford. Drag Hank with you if they complain. When this is all over, let's go find something stupid to do.

Doc: But you said that-

Deimos: I know. That's why we'll find it. Together. With the guys who'll drag your corpse out of hell a million times over. No matter what.

Doc: And kick it out there with YOU bozos?

Deimos: Hey! We're YOUR bozos, mind you.

Doc: ...Heh. Alright.

We'll find it together.

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Actor Au!

Where Batman and Co. are the most popular TV series and they’re currently filming Jason’s death.

Only Bruce goes so deep into acting he breaks down for real upon the part where he arrives at the warehouse and digs through the rubble for his child.

[ryliith]

POOKIE! who does atlas like the most besides shane 🥹 and like id loveeeee to know his vibes on jas.. does he ever hang out w her 💕

About Atlas and Jas, he hangs with her ! :) At first they were a bit distant because she is kinda quiet around strangers, but Atlas is very determined to be friends with people, so eventually they grew close.

He had A LOT of doubts about being among humans and how to do basic stuff. He is living with no idea on how to interpret social cues or interact normally. Things were so much simpler at the dawn of times 😮‍💨. He knows he can't go to an adult and ask stuff like "hey, what is this 'money' thing people keep talking about?". So he asks the kids 'cause they won't be so weirded out and suspicious. He learns Jas is very smart. She thinks he's an idiot (affectionately).

And about who Atlas likes the most, at this point definitely Kendall ! Kenny is one of Atlas's favourite people (mortals and immortals included!)

But if you mean someone from town, then it would probably be Emily. She has this really positive bubbly vibe that Atlas absolutely loves, and she is a fierce believer in general. Emily was one of the first people Atlas ever told about his secret, and since then she hasn't stopped with the questions 😅

[thirdeyeblue]

“Nine would have treated Martha better than Ten did”

I need to talk about this argument that never seems to stop circulating.

Note: Not a venomous/anti post. There’s more than enough of that across fandom spaces as is, and this is supposed to be a place for ✨sweet, blissful escapism✨

When making this argument, people seem to envision a scenario in which Nine never met Rose.

While I can appreciate a good hypothetical, recognizing Rose's significance to the Doctor (Nine and Ten) is essential to understanding why things with Martha played out the way they did in the first place.

In the third series, the Doctor is grieving. This grief is deliberately threaded into nearly every script, whether spoken aloud or not (and these are just a few examples):

He's burning in Rose’s wake the entire time Martha travels with him, which is why it’s so frequently called upon: It’s 100% deliberate in framing his grief. He grieved as Nine too, of course— having been fresh on the heels of the Time War — but then he met Rose, which changed everything.

Back then, he was still a rude, traumatized pain in the ass, but we watch Rose soften more of those jagged edges with every episode as they grow closer; as he lets his guard down and forms a deep connection with her.

He falls in love (against his better judgment) and it's game over.

And yes: provided S1E1 had been titled 'Martha', one can realistically assume things might have unfolded similarly to how they did with Rose. However, it wouldn’t have been that way just because the Doctor was Nine and “Nine was different” — it would be because he wasn’t already in love with someone else. The same can't be said for the start of S3.

Think of it like this: if Rose AND Martha had been in that cellar — if Nine had taken both of them along with him in S1 — we’d eventually be looking at the most melodramatic love triangle ever, what with him living in close quarters with two brilliant, gorgeous, compassionate young women... But Doctor Who is plenty “soap opera” as is with just one woman in the TARDIS.

(I certainly wouldn’t object to reading that fic, though)

Now, regarding the unrequited elephant in the room…

His inability to be romantic with Martha isn’t because he thinks her lesser, nor is it for lack of compatibility. It isn't because Rose is any better than her. It certainly isn’t just because he’s Ten.

It’s really only for one reason, which can't be denied — and now I’m a broken record:

He is still in love with Rose.

(cut from a tenrosedaily gif)

Nine is Ten, and Ten is only such a mess in S3 because he’s just lost the love of his life. Martha merely got caught in the crosshairs of a volatile Time Lord in mourning, and yes — it sucks. Absolutely.

But it also feels dismissive to chalk Ten and Martha’s relationship up to little more than some sort of mindless dance of pining, jealousy, and toxicity.

Ten trusted Martha with his life over and over again — and hers, with him. He constantly praised her brilliance, happily carting her around time and space with no intention of letting her go. In the BBC’s extended universe of novels/comics/cartoons/etc, there’s so much depth to their relationship: love and trust and trauma and sacrifice. They had their own special bond as mates, their own complexities — so it’s a bummer that it's forever overshadowed by the other things.

I’m not denying that there was a lot of stuff that sucked/was for sure toxic about Ten's S3 behavior, but so many of the things I've seen him catching flak for can be directly attributed to being A Clueless Fucking Alien Idiot (not a trait that’s unique to Ten) — as well as his flat-out obliviousness to Martha’s feelings.

So yes, I agree: if Rose never existed, he would have treated Martha differently as Nine. He also would have treated her differently as Ten. Certainly.

But Rose did exist, and when discussing canon, it matters.

“He tells me that he absolutely, 100% loves Rose... He tells me how my daughter; my wonderful, beautiful, clever little girl saved him from himself before… And he says that’s all because of me! I made her into the Rose Tyler that saved him.”

-Jackie Tyler, Flight Into Hull!

Martha got the short end of the stick in S3. She came round at the wrong place and time, but that doesn't mean it was all bad. It doesn't mean the Doctor didn’t adore her. It certainly doesn't mean the time they spent together was wasted or worthless. They were brilliant!

Sure, he could be a twat, but let it be known that he was a twat with Rose as well, both as Nine and Ten. I’m sure Tentoo can be plenty infuriating, too. So while I'll defend Ten (and Tentoo) into the ground forever and ever and ever, I'll concede that he's fucked up.

The Doctor is a certified Pain In The Ass. It’s one of the things I love so much about this character — dynamics.

But never forget that Martha was goddamn tough as nails and overcame every bit of it. She moved on with her life, and the Doctor moved on with his. One can only pray that, when they inevitably drag her back onto the show (which feels inevitable if I'm honest), we see at once that she's been living her best life for all these years.

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[astrolotte]

Genuinely intrigued by the potential of Peri and Irep's dynamic but only in a platonic way so I end up not vibing with the fandom's portrayal of it 😔😔😔

(No but listen LISTEN they were kinda-almost-friends when we last saw them in FOP, yeah? Now they're enemies, with both actively fighting each other, and Irep going so far as to try and kill Peri's parents. What happened? When? What influenced it? Did they ever become friends, or did it nosedive the moment the cameras turned off? What about Sammy? How do Irep's parents factor into this? Could it ever be fixed? There's just so much we haven't seen, and romance just feels like too easy a solution to me. Let their friendship be easy to break, fragile. Let them have to work to keep the connection. Fairies and Anti-Fairies are literally made to be opposites, so what happens when two genuinely and truly become friends?)

((and yeah I guess a lot of this could factor into a romantic angle but ALAS the fandom seems to be leaning heavily into the funny toxic yaoi angle 😔 I don't mind it! By all means, please have your very harmless fun! But it ain't my jam :P Perhaps I'll have to write a oneshot myself...))

(((see tags for more rambles i guess. whoops a bitch spoke too much in there as he always does)))

[roaldseth]

Josef was already made for me, but I really was given the question what if he was made even more for me. (Been calling angel!Josef a "Featherchampion," but that's subject to change)

Since it also was a popular question, and by popular question I mean I thought about it to then be asked about it in quick succession: he gives "wing hugs" by going under the arms and around the torso. He is not immune to Alain's pleading face.

[midnight-wood]

yes. yes i will. c’mere and let me hold youuuuuuu

[hood-ex]

I have seen you talking about Dick & Dami's relationship and Dick & Tim as well,but what are your takes on Dick and Jason actually?

Like how you wish their relationship should be portrayed today and where are them missing when it comes to making those two acting like siblings?

Do you think in the past their dynamic was better?

How Dick views Jason and how Jason views Dick?

This is difficult to answer because there are like 8 different stages to Dick and Jason's relationship with various dynamics. They also view each other a bit differently depending on which stage we're talking about.

The way I would like their relationship to be portrayed today isn’t necessarily possible thanks to Jason’s integration into the family and acceptance of the no killing moral code. For me, their ideal dynamic is portrayed in Outsiders #44-46. And I know people are gonna find that regressive as hell but, tbh, that dynamic is far more interesting than the kinda awkward thing they have going on now.

Although, I don't mind that they acknowledge their brotherhood in a serious manner now. Like before they'd kinda be like, "Eh... I mean... we were adopted from the same guy but... brothers? Eh..." And now they're more firmly in the, "We're brothers," camp. So that development is interesting.

Character progression wise, it wouldn't feel right for for them to be super close in the way that, say, Dick and Tim are (unless we saw a lot of trust and relationship building between them), but at the same time, there is part of me that kind of wants them to have that older sibling bond (except Jason is closer in age to Tim than he is to Dick sooo actually let's just leave older sibling things to Dick and Cass... not that Cass is much older than Jason though so LOL this is why Dick has to lone the oldest sibling thing by himself... which is funny because Dick is technically no longer the oldest sibling, he's a baby brother now... except Dick and Melinda's relationship really hasn't progressed much sooo you could say they share blood but don't consider each other family yet, in which case, Dick is still the oldest... I mean, regardless, Dick is the oldest sibling of the Waynes... god why did they have to make all of this so difficult 😫).

[somethingsomethingcomic]

they stayed up too late

[jasontoddsno1simp]

@jjaysontodd

Yeah, asks typically stay off because I've been on this hell site for ten years (made my first account back in 2013) and I've been subjected to some SHIT!!

Could be convinced to turn them on, though~

Anyway, the name of the game when it comes to Jason Todd is gaslight gatekeep girlboss, because there is no way in hell some of these bitches rly think he's as bad as they say he is. Especially when you compare his shenanigans to the shenanigans of characters like Bruce or even Tim.

Yes, he kills people. Yes, he can be pretty uncaring about the collateral of his plqns.

But guess what?!

SO IS EVERYONE ELSE!!

The only difference is that we, as Jason Todd enjoyers, know what we're here for.

As for the Helena stans and their beef with Jason, idk what to tell ya, mate. Well, other than it's madness, of course!!

There's definitely a convo to be had about male characters getting more space to be complex than female characters, but that's not what's going here. What's going on here is a treasure trove of fandom feminists have decided that Jason has far too many ~feminine~ traits and that he doesn't deserve to have the support he has within the fandom. Why they’ve come to this conclusion is so inane and idiotic, I refuse to dignify it with a response, but it’s that type of shit why I rly want us to go back to the days of decentralized fandom spaces. Spaces where mods actually had the power to cull and reject nonsense, before it started to spread like a virus. It wasn’t perfect (it bred an air of smug exclusivity that stank of unwashed ass), but it’s better than having to deal with assholes spreading liberal nonsense like”Jason Todd is a cop cause he kills and uses guns���.

As if cops are only dangerous because of the extra judicial killings and the apparatus most associated with them 😒😒😒

Anyway, I would bet money that most of those so called Helena stans don't even care about her like that as a character; they just hate Jason.

Which kinda sucks, cause I find Hintress - like all the Gotham vigilantes - to be fascinating characters. But my want to actually pursue any new info on her has been dead on arrival, because her stans are fucking assholes.

Bottom line, Jason’s story resonates with a lot of people. If you don’t get it or can’t bring yourself to understand, then like… Don’t. You don’t have to. The world would be so much better off if people learned that sometimes… the media you consume is just as personal as it what it says about you publicly.

[lost-in-yahargul]

Playing bloodborne pvp for the first time in literal months feels like what I imagine getting a full spa treatment does to most ppl

[eatingpeanutbutterwithmyfingers]

LEO DIDNT HAVE A CRUSH ON KIRAI, SHE WANTED TO BE KIRAI!1!1!!!1!1

[starcunin]

@fiendishfinesse | cont’d from here.

He leans back, draping himself effortlessly across the velvet chaise like a king upon his throne, one hand carelessly holding his golden goblet of fresh blood. The room is lit in low, flickering light——shadows painting every inch of his grand, cavernous foyer, reflecting the dim, oppressive atmosphere of his domain. The heavy weight of Cazador’s palace, now his palace, sits like a crown atop his head. A kingdom of blood and stone, secrets and shadows.

He raises the goblet to his lips, watching Raphael through half-lidded eyes. There’s an amusement in his gaze, a glint of sharp teeth as he takes a languid sip. The robe of sheer white silk drapes loosely over his form, revealing pale skin beneath——smooth, unblemished, except for the marks of his old life, the scars that Cazador carved into his flesh like some cruel masterpiece. The fabric clings to him in all the right places, making him seem more specter than man, ethereal, untouchable. His beauty is a weapon as much as any blade, and he wields it with the ease of someone who knows exactly how much power it holds. A laugh escapes him, dark and bitter, echoing through the cold stone chamber. ❛ How quaint. ❜

His gaze sharpens, eyes narrowing as he studies the devil before him. Raphael, ever the enigmatic schemer, ever the slithering serpent with his barbed tongue and cryptic riddles. It amuses Astarion, at least for now. But he’s grown tired of this game, the constant dance of words and veiled intentions. He doesn’t have the patience for it anymore——not when the weight of his newfound power presses down upon him with each passing moment. The Elder Brain, lurking deep beneath his domain, an ever-present threat, gnaws at the edges of his control. Its violent will thrashes against his own, a beast that refuses to be tamed, and Astarion, for all his arrogance, knows it. Feels it. The whisper of madness creeping in, the strain of controlling something that was never meant to be dominated by one alone. It infuriates him. He is more than they ever were——those pitiful mortals who dared to wield such power. The Dead Three. Gortash. Orin. Ketheric. They were nothing compared to him. Nothing.

And yet, the Elder Brain’s resistance gnaws at his triumph. A sharp reminder that perhaps even he ( ascended, immortal ) has limits. But he won’t show that to Raphael. Not ever. Astarion’s eyes glint dangerously as he pours a glass of fine wine, the crimson liquid spilling into the chalice like blood. He moves with a predatory grace, extending the glass toward Raphael but not quite handing it over, making the devil come closer if he wants it. His smile doesn’t reach his eyes.

❛ Tell me, darling, ❜ Astarion says, voice dropping to a silken whisper, low and teasing, ❛ Why must you always insist on these riddles? We both know what you want. ❜ His smile widens, flashing just a hint of fang. ❛ The Crown, yes? ❜ He steps forward, closer, his robe whispering against the cold floor. The scent of old stone and rich velvet fills the room, mingling with the heady aroma of expensive wine. He leans in, his voice barely a breath away from the devil’s ear. ❛ It’s amusing, really, to see you’ve come to grovel for something that was never yours to begin with. ❜

Astarion pulls back, his expression darkening, the playful glint in his eyes fading, replaced with cold, calculating scrutiny. He is tired of this game.

[5231045]

attempting to map out 221b

[minijenn]

Ok so I finally settled on an actual design for Link in my upcoming Wind Waker fic Shades of the Sea. He does through a time skip and in that time skip, experiences Trauma and ends up stuck in an alternate dimension (the World of the Ocean King) for about 5 years or so. Fun stuff. Decided to make look more piratey because well, he’s gotta match his cool pirate girlfriend somehow. He’s such a dork I love him so much your honor so fuckin much so I drew him so fuckin much. Pls ask me all about this fic I wanna talk about it but no one has asked hhhh