#and now that’s happened! to Oswald!

[markerofthemidnight]

so tell me about this hatchetfield oc you have

Ok so I’ve had him for literally not even two hours at this point so it’s subject to change, but his name is Oswald.

His main inspiration was Mortimer Grey from Dreams of an Insomniac (or the fanon version of him, at least), though he also pulls from similar characters such as Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.

His story (so far- again, subject to change) is that he used to be a member of the Church of the Starry Children back in the Waylon era. A literal Starry Child, that is, as he was just a kid back then.

I haven’t decided yet if he’s actually a Waylon or just the son of one of their followers, but regardless, he was a member of that devoted little family just like anyone else.

Or at least he was, until the Hatchetmen came for them, and one by one massacred his family, and all he could do was run and hide.

(note: I’m pretty sure it was never stated when exactly that took place but if anyone has a specific date please tell me in case I need to change this)

As the Hatchetmen searched the house, the poor young Oswald, who was probably around 10 or 11 at that time, could only cower and pray that the gods he had worshipped his whole life would save him.

And, in a rare moment of mercy for the Lords in Black, they intervened.

One member of the Starry Children was never found during the attack on Waylon Hall. Just disappeared into thin air… or perhaps, into the Black.

Decades later, in the modern day, a strange man- looking to be no older than about his mid-20s yet dressed like some sort of stereotypical, monochrome magician, and with a speech pattern even more outdated than his outfit- appeared in Hatchetfield.

A man going by a name that hadn’t been heard in years.

The main concept behind Oswald was basically just “what if Miss Holloway, but reminiscent of the 1920s-40s instead”. He’s very rubberhose-cartoony.

There’s a lot of parallels between the two, as well: Holloway is associated with music, and Oswald is associated with art. Holloway has plenty of identities, whereas Oswald has none.

Holloway’s relationship with the Lords in Black is very parasitic since she’s basically just using their powers for her own needs and they get nothing (but entertainment, that is).

Oswald’s relationship with his ‘uncles’, as he calls them, is far more symbiotic. Wherever he goes, they follow, in a way. Though I should stress that he’s not a bad person by nature: rather, he was made a bad person by his upbringing.

Yes, he does their bidding and also finds murder funny, but that’s because he was conditioned to. And he also doesn’t understand why anyone would hate his uncles, but like… of course he doesn’t! They literally saved his life!

Anyways, that’s Oswald. Any further questions or corrections about lore inconsistencies or such… well, my ask box is always open!

[vexahlla]

yet another cartoonishly evil thing i can explain I CAN SHUT UP!!!

first of all, this show is an exaggeration of itself at this point. we should just acknowledge that before anything else. but i do have actual things to say about this lol

let's be clear here, this is an absolute batshit decision from the writers. the song is pure camp. but the rest of it has some actual grounding.

penguin wants power, respect, and adoration. all things lacking from all the times he's been underestimated. he saw an opportunity to take gotham (fortune favors the bold!) and he took it. he grabbed power. he can force respect. he can be the sole provider of ammunition in his now ruined city.

now adoration on the other hand... he cannot grab or force that.

he's not talking about love here. he's talking about adoration. he may NEED love, but he's acting on his WANT.

ed's right here (i mean he shouldn't have said it about HIMSELF on the penguin-suffers-but-ultimately-gets-whatever-he-wants show) and it's a DIRECT result of his mother spoiling him.

oswald craves love but doesn't know how to give it. this was at the core of his and edward's initial conflict, this is something ed saw in him. he puts himself first. he grew last season in terms of martin, in terms of edward, but they are the exceptions to the rule. he valued his own revenge over his friendship with butch.

and so he starts season 5 with no friends, by his own hands. and it's different from all the way back in season one. he only had himself before. now he has less than nothing. he only wanted power then. now it's all he has. and it's corrupting. "i was not a good friend, to you or to anyone, it's why i'm alone." he's spiraling and everyone in gotham is collateral.

...speaking of adoration, let's talk about ed.

the reason oswald "fell for" ed was because he saw someone who would give himself entirely to him. ed is always desperate for the approval of authority figures. it's why he prioritizes finding "an enemy or a teacher" when he's trying to claim his identity. it's why he attaches himself to both oswald and lee.

if ed hadn't caught onto the cruelty and betrayal of trust with isabella, penguin would've used him the same way.

ed craves love but doesn't know how to recieve it. this was also present in their initial conflict. the reason ed shot os is because he couldn't face the truth of being in love with him. of being just like the man who took his girlfriend's life (how many partner's love interests has he himself tried to kill again?) the most repressed man in gotham city 💚

[r0setyler]

thinking about the roses on this makes me -

[mysecretwindowuniverse]

1x10 | Lovecraft

'I'll find your mole for you. Trust me - he'll belong to Fish'

[antisolanum]

Oh my god Ozz cares about Vic so much it hurts

[aerithisms]

i think the weirdest 2013 discourse brained doctor who take i've seen is people who came back to watch capaldi era, realised it's good and that they really like the twelveclara dynamic, identify all the things that are compelling about it but then say "moffat doesn't know he did this though." bc they can't budge from the position that he's a hack so they have to convince themselves it's, like, only accidentally good

[mimiscappinisideblog]

Imagine: Oswald (Alfred Molina fancast, hehe) in a serious meeting.

Everyone in the meeting is terrified of him, his mere presence makes them all weak at the knees. Too scare of even looking at his direction afraid they'll catch his gaze.

They were too scared in fact that not one said anything or even told him about the kiss mark on his cheek.

[ossydrawsthingz335]

i find it funny that so many adults talk about how bad the internet is for teens but like ive made so many more friends because of the internet and like the internet made me so much more confident in my art and myself

like of course theres bad ppl on the internet. theres bad ppl irl. bad ppl exist. its crazy i know.

the only age group that shouldnt be on the internet is little kids. like 8-7-etc years old.

[meep-meep-richie]

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[infernothechaosgod]

You know since I've seen people talk abt how they see oswald diffrently depicted any time he shows up and share some headcanons and takes on him I thought id share mine too

I like to imagine oswald's voice wasnt this close to normal and a raspy even, he wanted to be taken more seriously when angry + stand out more from others so he purposfuly made his voice like that

At this point its his defult voice, kinda how an actor sometimes does the gag/a part of an act out of play bc he's so used to it after practicing or playing out a role for a huge amount of time

His oryginal voice was (unlike mickey's) very gentle and soft, if he were to sing or humm any kind of song it would almost always sound like a lullaby but also it would be easy to miss him saying something if he didnt rise his voice

Accualy his first voice was pretty gentle too (well for the time being, comparing to mickeys "hot dog" at least)

Oswald is Just a cool character to think about

I honestly dont know when I came up with that or how But I like it, its one of those things you like, you forget you made it up and then feel a little happier when you remember it was you who came up with it

Unless there is someone else who said that But If there was I missed them

[unwritten-fanfiction]

Idea for Doctor Who story:

The adventures of plastic Rory guarding his Pandora box, Captain Jack Harkness, Me (meaning Ashildr, not me as in I), various Claras, and various Susan Triads, throughout the centuries.

I have no idea what they'd do. Probably fight off aliens trying to hurt humans, and fight off humans trying to hurt aliens.

Maybe they can run into little Melody Pond in the 30 year gap between when she escaped the Silence in New York and when she met her child parents. Who knows, maybe one of these guys brought Mels to England. Plastic Rory happened before the River/Melody reveal if my memory doesn't betray me, so that'd be a thing between Rory and Mels.

[dandelionjack]

continuing yesterday’s discussion, the only card-carrying hypocrite in this house is, apparently, me. why do i resent how river (and to a lesser extent amy) are written to have their whole lives revolve around the doctor, but it’s completely fine by me when clara’s whole life does too? no idea. drawing from my own previous opinions i should hate the impossible girl arc. however, for some inexplicable reason, it fascinates me in a way the others didn’t. after all, consistency doesn’t really matter when discussing a show that doesn’t value it

but i do have an answer of sorts. the fact remains that clara’s s7b arc is not gender specific. she could have, in a hypothetical gender-neutral world, been the impossible boy, and nothing would have changed plotwise (the touches of sexist attitude towards her bear no relevance on the narrative). amy, on the other hand, with her schroedinger’s pregnancy, marriage dilemma (‘should i take my husband’s name?’) and ‘love triangle’, as well as river’s highly sexualised ‘wife’ role, are gender-specific and therefore misogynistic. yes, you could say that being the impossible girl makes clara a “manic pixie dream girl”, unrelatable to the average viewer and a Walking Plot Device, predestined by fate itself to meet the doctor, etc etc, but that doesn’t fall under sexism, and it’s not out of place in a series in which moving the story forward takes priority over anything else. nobody says this stuff about rose, despite her bad wolf impossible goddess of time arc being in fact quite similar! tl;dr obviously i haven’t gotten to later seasons yet, and my thoughts on her might change, but for now i stand by clara oswald. her arc coheres. her unreality makes her real

[eclipsecrowned]

if i had a nickel for every time i was encouraged to roleplay a canon guy i actively crave to ship with my oc, i'd have so many nickels. it keeps happening. i have so many nickels and so few ships.

[divinekangaroo]

just enough to let me drown - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | (Ch 5)

During S6-E5, starting with Tommy meeting Diana at the narrowboat, how he gets back to Arrow, that particular Dinner, through to Tommy returning home after dropping Jack Nelson off at the train.

Tommy was running out of women who didn’t look like other women. If Lizzie found out, he’d have only redheads left to fuck in his old age.

No. No old age. Only this.

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Diana Mitford/Tommy Shelby, Diana Mitford/Oswald Mosley, Past Oswald Mosley/Tommy Shelby, Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Past Oswald Mosley/Lizzie Stark, Jack Nelson, Charles Strong, Small Heath Sex Worker, David the Butler, Frances | Reference to Incest, Dehumanisation, Cigarette Burns, Disassociation, Racism, Class Issues, Intrusive Thoughts, Extremely Dubious Consent, Post Rationalisation, Flashbacks, Dyfunctional Relationship, Self Harm, Oral Trauma, Trauma, Plausible Deniability, Close POV/Unreliable Narration, Horrible Dinner Parties, Prostitution, Shame, Hurt/Comfort, Eating Inedible Objects, Vomiting, Pre-Seizure Markers, Where Fascism becomes a Personally Targetted Sexual Nightmare, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Falling Off the Wagon, Unreliable Memory, Hoarding, Orgasm Control, Innuendo, Ethnic Slurs, Trying (so fucking hard!) to Communicate (emotion is the enemy of oratory!), Spiralling, Purposeful Ambiguity, Failed Love Confession/s, Bullying, Verbal Humiliation, Mixing Medication and Alcohol, Alcoholism, 1930s Pop Culture References

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[jacksintention]

I can't with the previous post. It's just so good applied to Levi, Lacie, Oswald and even Jack.

Levi has his hands tied by the Baskerville system that is a sort of scam by the Jurors‚ like every Glen. But he says "let's just create a change" and gives a will to the Core. And he does so with the full intention of changing the narrative, if just to avoid the boredom of spending eternity watching the same thing happen over and over again from a sit in someone else's mind.

Lacie goes along with it because of her desire to ease the Core's loneliness, but in her idea of the children of misfortune being a consequence of this loneliness and her feelings of doubt or reservations, perhaps, revealed even before the tree scene in the scene in which she talks about this with Oswald, we could interpret this as her desire to end the existence of the children of misfortune and thus the cycle.

Jack plays into this in his attempt to take the "real" world to the "Abyss" world, but when he most consciously twists the narrative the Jurors had settled was when he intently made the decision to take the power from the Baskervilles. And I do think it has to do with ending the very system that doomed Lacie and Oswald and he deemed cruel and like torture, but mainly it is so that no one would interfere with him in the future.

Oswald tries to destroy the new narrative Jack has or is creating first by trying to stop him, but later on by trying to stop Levi's schemes before everything happened, resettling the narrative he was controlled and doomed by, serving still as their tool. And then he literally faces the truth, in the most explicitly way no one ever has been told this in that "real" world before, and threatens to kill the instigators of that narrative. And then just renounces, in a lack of action that is him at his most active ("not with a bang but a whimper", how fitting is that?!!!).

Ultimately there is a middle ground but the narrative is changed for good. For better or worse. With uncertain future consequences. But it is changed, and it feels kinder. And as a thank you the source of every narrative, the ink and paper of the narrative, lulls someone who shouldn't have existed but changed the world to sleep by telling him a different story. Because that's it. They're stories, and Oz deserved to go with a kinder one, because the ink and paper of the narrative loves him. And it's so interesting how that works metanarratively too. The author tells the story, but the author tells the reader a story about the stroy telling a softer version of the story, so that the reader too will get it alongside Oz. That works on several levels and it's so so interesting.

[oculusxcaro]

🍉 - What is something they have done that they feel the most guilt over? How do they handle this guilt?  Does the guilt ever get resolved?

Random Headcanons

There is one other thing that Khare feels like absolute shit about and that's not contacting her family as soon as she was able to, if only to let them know she's still alive. She'd been missing for months after all so naturally her family back home would be worried out of their minds, right? Only... the thought of hearing their voices after so long, to tell them she's okay when she's very much not okay is just too painful to bear. Khare often looks at phones and debates ringing them every time, perhaps even sending them a letter but she fears those at the facility finding out somehow, maybe even going overseas to bring trouble their way. Khare had her passport on her when she was abducted, which would no doubt provide valuable information leading them right to her family which would only be another way for her captors to find her. If her family doesn't know she's alive and haven't heard from her, they can't possibly be targeted, right? It's safer for everybody both that way, the only way she's able to protect them from her situation. She's not sure how they'd react if they knew she was alive, if they'd actually go as far as coming to America to get her which would only put them in even more danger. Better for everyone involved she just... waits a little longer, to make sure things have quietened down enough while she finds a way to purchase a ride back to Britain without getting arrested or uncovered as the monster she's become. Her resolve wavers every time she looks at her phone, knowing her loved ones are just a few buttons away if only she had the nerve to call them.