#and technically NEITHER are true

[mar-zom]

i often forget that southern dialogue in terms of grammar is very loose and wobbly and then i go into twitch chats and the streamer has a hard time reading what i wrote bcuz the grammar just makes so sense.

it’s so hard trying to write a coherent message super quickly when american southern drawl mushes words together without a second thought.

i’m so extremely sorry 😭

[dawnofiight]

I offer to the public: Black Sam!

So. Erm. :D

Peep the way I didn't feel like doing plaid

Taglist:

@achios

@angel-shaw (I just felt like you should be @ ed for this particular drawing-)

@ashertickler

@aurorialwolf

@dukecollinsbf

@infinitelovewiithoutfulfilmentt

@moronkyne

@pandoraroid

@plaqying

@porters-fangs

@professionallyyappinabtangst (I literally just showed you this)

@puffin-smoke

@skunkox

@starlogician

@sunsickcrab

@themeridian

@tunacatfishes

@www-dot-why-are-you-here-dot-com

@zimix-whispers

[sammygender]

look i like to defend john winchester from fandom mischaracterisation as much as the next guy but ‘he did nothing wrong he was only doing the best he could!!’ well that’s simply not true is it

[starry-bi-sky]

more about og tue timeline twins danny and dan/jamie

very touchy with each other. you might even say. ccclingy. its to be expected, they're two halves of a whole after all and all they've got of each other. worryingly co-dependent. do not separate. ever.

Danny was really weak and sick after the initial separation, and was for a while after. Jamie knew internally that if Danny died, he'd take the whole world with it. He was the one sole caretaker for him while he got better -- not for lack of trying on Vlad's part, but without his ghost powers he was nothing more than a feeble (albeit handsomely rich) man, and James looked ready to bite his head off if he got within ten feet of either of them.

Vlad is intimately aware that James (or Danny, if he tried) could snap his spine in half like a twig, and is uncomfortably aware of his own lack of ghost half now. It makes him feel self-conscious and exposed, so he never fully returns back to "cocky and self-assured billionaire Vlad Masters". Making deals with other brands feels a lot harder now that he can no longer possess them anymore.

Speaking of, he very quickly has to come up with a cover story as to why there's now a James Daniel Fenton to the public, when no records whatsoever of him existing existed prior. Lots of forging false government documents on his end. James and Danny do not help because it's his fault this happened in the first place.

(Regardless of whether or not Danny actually willingly chose to rip out his ghost half/humanity in canon is true, or if that was Vlad Masters speaking out of his ass, a large part of the blame still falls on Masters.)

(As his primary caretaker and guardian, it's his responsibility to ensure the health and safety of his charge, and since Danny was in clear emotional duress at the time, it can be argued that he was not in the mental state to make such a decision. And, allegedly, couldn't do it on his own which is why he asked Vlad for help.)

I chose "James" as Dan's name since it's a popular fanon middle name for Danny, and since he's half of Danny, it felt like it just made sense lol. Also because of the ensuing comedy of the two of them introducing themselves as "James Daniel Fenton" and "Daniel James Fenton". It's got the same energy as "danny with a y" and "danny with an i" and it's the exact kind of name bullshit you expect parents to give their twins.

I don't have their exact personalities down, but something I am actively writing into this au's bible is that I think Danny should be the quiet and (ig technically) meaner one. There's a lot to go into about interpretations for ghosts, halfas, and the incident itself, but TL:DW; Danny is technically soulless, or at the very least missing half of his soul (altho Jamie is too just in a different direction).

Pair that with the trauma of losing his family in front of him + having his ghost half ripped out + all the trauma he would've sustained as a hero, and he's not doing too hot mentally! i think if the twins met good timeline!Danny, Danny would've mistaken Danny for Dan and Jamie for the original half.

He comes off to others as pretty apathetic and indifferent to a borderline terrifyingly calm degree. He doesn't go out of his way to insult people, but he also doesn't care enough to consider the other party's feelings so he doesn't filter himself, which makes him come off as rude. The only times he looks truly comfortable is when he's near Jamie or talking to him.

His standoffish, ice prince demeanor makes Jamie look like a saint in comparison. When really he's not all that much better? He's more outwardly emotional than Danny, whether that be positive or negative, but at the end of the day he doesn't trust or care about anyone else any more than Danny does, and he's got a bit of a sadistic streak. Danny reigns him in when he starts becoming too destructive.

(Which I think makes sense. Danny asked Vlad to rip out his ghost half specifically so he could stop feeling his human emotions. Dan, despite his monotone voice, does exhibit emotions. He's smug when he asks Valerie if he likes his ghostly wail, sardonic when he reunites with Sam and Tucker, annoyed, shocked at Danny's ghostly wail, etc. He enjoys wreaking destruction and chaos.)

(If Danny had survived his encounter with Dan and if Vlad was successful, then I imagine he'd be rather apathetic to his other half as a whole. That'd be interesting.)

Overall though they're both hurt, bitter, and distrustful of the world around them, with abandonment issues a mile wide. They can get better and they can heal, but it takes time and patience and proper support.

On the DPxDC side of things, they do genuinely hold some kind of respect or regard for Bruce. They also don't become vigilantes for a while. Neither of them are jumping at the bit to enter heroism again, not when it was heroism that killed their family in the first place.

In fact when they find out Bruce = Batman they think he's foolish for it. They think its a fool's errand, and they've been so spurned by their time as Phantom that for a few weeks, Jamie even refused to call Bruce anything but Sisyphus. Danny called him Tantalus, and the two of them had a faux-argument about which one was more accurate.

Bruce does, though, worm his way into both of their hearts, and that's like, the main reason they become vigilantes to join him. So that they could keep him safe and not because of any desire to return to the heroic life. Relearning to care and finding satisfaction in helping others was an unintentional side effect.

(Bruce is so very smug)

Essentially:

The Twins: this is our squishy and fragile adoptive father. If anything happened to him, we're becoming mass extinction events.

Bruce: Nnno.

[fantasykiri5]

Fabian and Riz to me are like. They’re like the definition of “a secret third thing” to me but not like in a qpr way. Their thing is just Their Thing, like they’re inseparable they drive each other fucking bonkers they care so deeply and they’re stupid teenagers and I don’t think they would even really think about it at all. I don’t think either of them can imagine a world where they’re not at least around the other, and like whatever their thing is definitely isn’t allo but it’s definitely not regular besties shit. They just like being around each other, I don’t think either of them would really even think to put a name to whatever it is they’ve got going on, and I definitely don’t think either of them would ever put enough thought into it to even figure out what a qpr is, much less label themselves in one. They’re just Fabian and Riz. The Ball and Captain of the Owlbears. They’re just them I think. Idk man.

[menlove]

the most hysterical thing abt my identity is like I guess I'm technically nonbinary by all definitions but I never, ever use that word to describe myself like. yes I am but. no I am not 🫶

[the-apocalypse-is-upon-us]

Mukuro Ikusaba,they could never make me hate you

[just-bendy]

4, you are not a mistake! You are wonderful and unique in your own way and you wouldn’t be doing anyone a favor by hiding yourself! If anyone says otherwise they are wrong and an idiot because you deserve to have friends and be loved like everyone else!

I'm... not a mistake...?

But, I wasn't born lookin' how I was supposed to. I'm imperfect, no one would want to look an imperfection like me. How could anyone accept somethin' like that?

And why would you... say somethin' so untrue?

[@faecelessfiend]

I... can't draw.

My hand is too messed up ta do that.

[allalrightagain]

The problem: ADHD.

The solution: alternate studying, writing, and work tasks so I never get bored!

The flaw in the plan: What if I just... wrote out Hogwarts syllabi using coding courses as a framework and--

[mars-ipan]

god i wish this website understood nuance and individual situations better

[queen-scribbles]

Tagged by @haledamage to do this ship meme, and Ardrali won out of the...four or six things I was considering. 😂

no-pressure tagging.... @starsandskies @undyingembers @actualanxiousswampwitch @shynmighty (and a tagback for Rhi if you have another ship you wanna do 😘)

[loveletterworm]

problem i have is that  i really struggle with the tendency to just sort of make characters with the same like three personalities over and over  and also reusing random concepts or design elements in what are supposed to be entirely unrelated things (the latter is kind of normal i guess actually but it compounds the first problem a bit)  so whenever i realize i have two different ideas with unusually similar characters i always have to go like.  Well damn it which one of you gets to live cuz i can’t ever show my face in the world if people know i keep making the exact same thing over and over

[empressofmankind]

I am pretty sure this is news to precisely no one. Considering if people know anything about me, they know I am constantly extolling the virtues of The Best Blue TM which is chrysocolla blue, a cyan that everyone and their dog insists to me is a green. NO. It is a blue.

HOW DO YOUR PERCEIVE BLUE AND GREEN?

[asexual-levia-tan]

apparently there's a theory among the fandom that the MoM is light. which is pretty cool considering that's been my thought since he mentioned to babynort that he never takes his coat off because he's too scared (said in a joking way, but was it a joke?)

my thought was that he wasn't always a being of pure light, but that he shed his form after his friends fell to darkness during the first(?) conflict with darkness. the darkness also used to "look like us" until it realized it was more powerful without a form, so maybe he took a page out of its book and went formless

the problem with this theory is that according to him, he and his 6 apprentices are to be vessels to hold the darkness. which i would imagine would be difficult to do if you were 1) a being of pure light or 2) dont actually have a body to contain it in

[arolesbianism]

Most of the sekai cast are like completely irrelevant to the main plots of the random card au but that doesn't stop me from thinking abt them from time to time. An Kohane and Haruka are more historical figures which ofc means tragedy but also they r kinda silly to me. Goat and boar so caught up in their echo chamber that they forgot how to actually hide it well in front of a normal person (Kohane)

[quixoticanarchy]

Coming back to this - I think the frank statements about just how grim things are here also point to something interesting in the interstices between LOTR and its readers. Sometimes I observe that LOTR is imagined as a story that wields hope as a cudgel against despair and so its readers ought to do the same (distilled further into the somewhat grating sentiment of 'hope™ uber alles / you MUST have hope or else!'), which I don’t think is necessarily borne out. There is plenty of despair openly voiced in LOTR, and critically it is not just the purview of Denethor, pigeonholed as the archetypal failure to hope hard enough. The characters most often cited for possessing estel-flavor hope also brush up regularly against despair and certainly do not speak of hoping for a good end or for much of anything. The present is very dark and the future is also dark - they cannot see it and they have very few expectations of it. When they speak of the future it is frequently in the context of emphasizing that things will never be the same again or return to what they were. In the face of that enormous uncertainty, what they still do is act, in spite of not knowing/thinking/believing that it will matter. As Elrond has it: "There is naught that you can do, other than to resist, with hope or without it."

With hope or without it! Hope is not the opposite of despair here; if anything is, maybe it's action. And solidarity; as Elrond adds, "But you do not stand alone."

LOTR has its iconic lines about hope and all, but don’t forget these gems of a  somewhat different cast:

“No need to brood on what tomorrow may bring. For one thing, tomorrow will be certain to bring worse than today, for many days to come.” (Gandalf, ROTK)

“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.” (Frodo, ROTK)