#and doesn't sound like. weird lol

[fitzfunnymoments]

okay so this episode has so far reminded me that out of every character Stripy definitely sounds the best

[bruhstation]

special thanks to these pez dispensers for accompanying me during my stay at the hospital. glory to canada

[puppetmaster13u]

You may regret this @phoenixcatch7 lol, what if I start spamming you /j

Less cryptid Batman in this particular WIP since it's semi-outsider pov lol (one of two outside person not unnerved by them lol)

🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇👻🪆🦇

   Clark knew Batman wasn’t human, even before that disaster of a mission where he had let it slip to the others. 

   He’d known for a long time, from one of their early meetups, when Batman had first referred to him as Clark Kent instead of Kal-El, and he had panicked. He hadn’t ever lied to his teammates when he said that the cloak prevented him from seeing his body, but his ears still worked. 

   He’d tried to listen to a heartbeat, to see if his at the time temporary ally was lying when he stated he wasn’t going to tell anyone and… Nothing. There was no heartbeat, no breathing, nothing even remotely human, and if he didn’t know any better, nothing even remotely alive about the silence. 

   He couldn’t help but to pay attention more, to seek out the strange almost silence-feeling that accompanied the Gotham vigilante each time he felt it. It was… almost comforting, like the swaying of branches and the rustling of cloth over stone. Familiar, compared to the hustle and bustle surrounding him in the city. 

   The first thing he had noticed, physically that is, was Batman’s ears. Previously he’d thought the man unemotional, what with the rough voice, expressionless white eyes, cloak-covered body and the gas mask covering a good chunk of his face. 

   Yet the longer he watched, even idly, the more he noticed that while the man’s face or body didn’t show much, his ears did. 

   While Batman could stay silent and still for hours, the long ears twitched and swiveled, catching on the hood that he’d always wear around them. They’d pin back sometimes, a near silent sound he couldn’t quite place accompanying the movement, while other times they’d twist a near full three-sixty, as though searching for whatever sound it had caught. 

   Sometimes, when he’d startled the other vigilante, there’d be rattling noise, like wood and metal clacking together before it was cut off. It was a strange sound, one he’d not heard anywhere else, except with his… friend. 

   Were they friends? He’d like to think so. 

   The next time he was reminded that his friend wasn’t human was when he saw him get injured. It hadn’t been a bad injury, even if the Gothamite’s head had hit the wall with a very loud cracking noise, but he’d still smelled what he’d eventually come to recognize as blood. There was an almost pickle-like scent to it though that wasn’t quite it either. 

   Honestly the closest he could think of describing it was some sort of formaldehyde. And once he focused, he could pick out other things beneath it. Maybe not flesh and blood in the traditional sense, but still. 

   There was always that scent of cloth and wood, but he could smell the black liquid, paint, a metallic thing underneath like iron and steel. No heartbeat, no breath, but life all the same. It was honestly beautiful in a way, like a part of the city the other vigilante called home had come to life. 

   And it wasn’t like Batman minded whenever his own human mask slipped. Clark may have been raised by his Ma and Pa, whom he loved, but it didn’t make his body any more human in nature. There were just some things that he couldn’t change, and it took effort to move like one all day as a civilian when his body wasn’t designed to do so.

   So he stayed quiet for the most part when their group of three grew, and people started to speculate. He diverted the conversations whenever it turned to him, lightly admonishing over the various rumors. 

   It didn’t matter if Batman wasn’t human, he was still his friend, their ally and teammate. Was he curious? Oh of course, he’d gone into journalism for a reason after all, but it was still his friend. If he wanted to tell, he’d tell, and Clark wouldn’t break his trust. 

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

NaNo 2024: Victory!!

Hello, world, here's my tidied desk in the aftermath of FINISHING ANOTHER BOOK!!! It took me EXACTLY four (4) pens this year (I was literally writing my wrap-up stats in the back of the notebook when the in on the last one started to go!), on 82 pages across two (2) notebooks, and preliminary* word count is 71,541!! (*subject to change once typed--I count by hand and tweak as I type haha.)

Also featuring: the NaNo Earrings, Volumes 2 and 3 of the Bitch Journal (where I whine about writerly things and also Reflect On My Process--I learned very much this year and got a lot of dopamine from it!!), the tiny watch that kept me company in my tertiary writing space, the earplugs that made working at home Tolerable (mostly), and some of the frantic scribbles on scrap paper (I got a LOT of mileage out of a dead receipt that Panera misprinted for me lol).

Now, onward to TYPING!! I would love for this not to take most of December, so I'll probably have more Unhinged Goals About That (I don't know why I am the way that I am), but! The hard part is done!!

[avichor]

this has yet to come up but i forego honorifics when writing characters whose language uses them ( mostly korean or japanese ) just because it's implied they're using proper honorifics when speaking in the language, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

[m00nj3w3l]

Since I'm on it. Miscellaneous DMMD thoughts I have that I'm compiling in here cus if I wait for "the right moment" to make a separate post about every single one of them I'm never getting that shit done (I'll reblog this anytime I have a new addition lmao):

>I usually don't talk about them but I think more about ViTri than I'd like to admit and just. Ugh ok this is mainly based on something @/asarigg (not tagging her, this is just for reference of where my thoughts on this started) said while responding to an ask but the fact that Sly never fronts with them despite always coming forward every other time Aoba's being assaulted/mistreated makes me think he's doing it out of spite. Yes ok Aoba did try using Scrap on them with no success cus the two are empty shells with no real desires of their own other than to have fun but. Trip downright says something along the lines of "now you have more of an 'older brother' image, and we'll break you until that falls apart" which is why Sly never fronts. He knows they do all that horrific shit to get him to come out and he doesn't want to give them the time of day, the situation would suck anyway so he wouldn't even get an adrenaline rush from it like he does every other time. It's spite.

>Again thoughts on ViTri but yes ok it was probably an aesthetic choice to fit with their posh vibes buuuutttttt I do kinda wonder if them getting black-blueish Allmates was also connected with their obsession for Aoba. I don't have super coherent thoughts on this but something something them wanting to emulate him/break him so bad to the point where they get Allmates the same color as his and then use them to abuse him so he can somehow go insane faster blahblahblah help.

>I know it's insane to say this about the MC of a BL eroge please don't kill me but I can't get ace Aoba out of my mind. Reasons are that he mostly never seems to really crave it? (and other times actively protests against it up until he's convinced) (I think the only time he's the one initiating sex is Clear's Drama CD but I also need to listen to the others, so uh)* and mostly goes with the flow of whatever is happening. Like he may not dislike sex but it never seems like the first thing that comes to his mind when he's with a LI, contrary to Sly (who's a WHORE (lovingly)). I wonder what part of it is him being homophobic to himself cus he's so down in the closet he found Narnia, and what part of it is him genuinely just not caring for it.

>Speaking of Aoba. Has anyone ever thought of the fact of him having phantom pains over him losing his limbs in Clear's BE (I don't think "pains" is the word for it but idk how else does one describe the feeling of when you lose a limb but still feel it) because aghhh.

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

i want top neuvillette who's still femme and a crybaby my god is that so hard

[californiaquail]

well boss said reese has no indication of any uti or crystals only a tiny amount of red blood cells which can be caused by the manual expression. coworker insisted there was no point in taking rads to see if he's blocked from the string so going to try some laxaire and hope 😬🤞🏻also then my boss gave me a ride to the bus stop so i didn't have to carry the huge crate which was uncharacteristically nice of him 🤨

[sleepy-crypt1d]

i'm gonna be autistic about borderlands for a sec, everyone stay with me okay

i do not understand why the borderlands games try to make moxxi so important to jack, i dont get it, genuinely it doesn't make sense

so, spoilers for BL2, the pre-sequel, tales from the borderlands, and BL3 moxxi's heist- the general info you need is that jack and moxxi canonically dated for a period of time between the first game and TPS, how long this was we arent sure but we can make a guess that at the VERY most it was less then six months of them being together

we can piece this together by the vague timeline of TPS happening about a year or less after the first game

(this is estimated by the fact that Athena said she worked with jack five years ago, meaning TPS happened five years ago by the time the second game takes place and five years is also the amount of time that's passed between the first and the second game so- TPS took place in a very short few month period after the first game)

now we know that they couldn't have been together for long because moxxi was together with BOTH mordecai AND jack during this only a few month period of time between games- this is confirmed in a line of dialogue from BL2 where mordecai says moxxi left him for jack at the end of BL1 but then in TPS moxxi and jack are already broken up, which means they could have only been together for a few months for the timeline of five years to make sense! at the VERY most they were together for like, three months or even just a few weeks. all that matters is that it was not very long

in BL2 there's also a line about jack destroying moxxi's fighting dome because he thought she cheated on him, which is a thing he does AS handsome jack not as the normal dude jack he was when they broke up, the reason for which is still unknown but we know it was Vaguely Messy which is like whatever, sure, that sorta makes sense for him to do but what DOESN'T is the games trying to convince you that jack is in love with her.

okay you still following? cool

in TPS jack is visibly uncomfortable around moxxi and doesn't like working with her, even going as far as asking her to stop calling him 'sugar' a request she just, ignores and continues doing anyway, also during TPS is when jack gets together with nisha, his canon girlfriend he's had through the five years between BL1 and BL2. jack is INSANELY in love with nisha, we see this in the after credits art of both TPS and BL2 same with the way he talks to her/about her in TPS and in outside game material where he literally stutters when talking about her AND in the way he proudly displays her hat in his office in TFTBL alongside his most prized possessions.

he LOVES his woman with his entire heart, he gave her a whole town to prove it!! nisha is his everything outside of hyperion so, tell me, PLEASE why BL3 tried to tell us that jack was still in love with moxxi? because i do not get it at all

what im talking about here is 1. in moxxi's heist timothy is in love with moxxi, this is made canon in TPS where he fumbles through trying to flirt with her and in the heist dlc this is brought up again and timothy has a line about how jack asked moxxi on a date during his reign as handsome jack and sent timothy to go as him because he was busy but like, why would he do that? we know that jack is insane about nisha why would he then?? ask his ex that he visibly hates on a date??? and then 2. they added a fucking painting of her in his office in the casino.

i do not even know where to begin on how much i hate that detail

when you get to jack's office in the casino there are two paintings you find, one is of angel- makes sense, is his daughter who he loves even if he is really bad at it, it's the same as him having the picture of her in his office on helios, he loves his daughter, a painting of her being here is in line with everything else!! plus it's really pretty and i like it

then across from that is a painting of moxxi, which makes no fucking sense!!! why isn't it nisha!! it SHOULD be nisha!! the woman he is CURRENTLY TOGETHER WITH AND MADLY IN LOVE WITH????

i have DETESTED this detail since i first played the dlc, as much i love moxxi's heist and credit it as my favorite borderlands dlc the whole 'moxxi is jack's true love' thing makes me so confused?? they dated for MAYBE three months between BL1 and TPS and then he got into a five year long committed relationship that is never properly explored in the games and then the devs have the gall to say they wish they had done more with nisha like!!! good news you still could have!! but you didn't

anyways, i apologize for this, it has just been bothering me for months and i had to get it out and see if anyone else had noticed this and was bothered by it?? because it makes me go a little insane every time i think about it

then again maybe the character writing in BL3 is just bad

[meownotgood]

stupid ass wizard.......... I totally fucking lied about this being under 20k btw

[zoeology31]

Hey everyone. It's the depths of the offseason and it's been one hell of a week. For my coping strategy I made more RPF memes. Here's to not letting rich people dictate how we live and feel.

It turns out making memes is easier than actually finishing any of my fanfics lol. I've devoted so much brainspace to putting these men in Situations and it's been quite fun despite the very limited actual artistic results to show for it. The Alcala meme is from about four layers deep in my fanfic universe because I love inventing things and thinking about them forever. I'm working on a list of ship names at the moment.

Bonus: I pulled this off the broadcast this summer and made an attempt at giffing it. This was the City Connect debut/Kepler walkoff/Flo Rida postgame concert game, and Jeffers and Duran still managed to fit whatever these vibes are into all that.

I don't have a meme for this but there should be one. I can't get over it, this little mutual moment in the middle of the postgame dugout traffic. Jeffers didn't even play in this game (Duran did, he pitched two scoreless innings for the win, which is presumably what the conversation was about), he just decided to do that. It's great.

[welcometogrouchland]

EXTREMELY CRUSTY but I’ve been working on oc designs in between DC prompts. My little meow meows im so sorry i neglected you (i will inevitably do it again </3)

[13thpythagoras]

vibing like

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[torra-and-the-toons]

I saw a drawing somewhere in the depths of google search that triggered a new idea and I should be in bed right now but I HAD to doodle it real quick. I lost the original image that inspired it when I stupidly closed the tabs... 

Basically the premise is:

Eddy and Ed try to “prank” Kevin by handcuffing his motorcycle to a road sign. Before he even does it, like an idiot, Eddy tells Ed to swallow the key. Immediately Eddy somehow gets himself stuck in the handcuffs.

Not to worry, Ed has an idea, but he needs Double Dee! He goes and finds Edd and locks him on the other side. How is this going to help?! Nobody knows, but now Edd and Eddy are stuck together and they spend the entire afternoon trying to get these things off while shenanigans ensue. Cue something stupidly embarrassing like one of them really needing to piss or something.

In the end, they discover they were never actually locked by sheer happenstance.

[girlivealwaysbean]

okay okay queer people on tumblr please put in the tags how you came out to yourself/ realised you were queer