#as impossibly broken

[bunclebee]

Wherever you are on Cybertron is where I'll be.

[naamahdarling]

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[bet-on-me-13]

Bruce dies in the Past

So! When Bruce was sent back in Time and got stuck in the Past, he was never saved. Tim failed to bring him back to the future, and Bruce was stuck in the Past for the rest of his Natural Life.

Then he died, came back as a Ghost, and regained his Lost Memories.

He didn't really know what to do, he was stuck Millenia in the Past, his Family won't be born for Literal Ages, and most of all he is Dead. He doesn't really have alot of options.

If you go with the Idea that Batman is a Liminal, then you could say that his Obsession was Protection. And that Obsession was focused primarily on Gotham and his Family.

So what is a Ghost to do when the object of his Obsession had been ripped away from him? He breaks a little. Bruce kind of goes Insane.

He decides that if he is going to he stuck in the Ghost Zone, he may as well protect it as if it were Gotham. So, he finds the quickest way to do that...by becoming the Ghost King.

So, he finds the Castle of the Ghost King, and challenges him to Single Combat. And he manages to Win. But the King needs to choose their Title, and he doesn't think he wants to include the name of Batman in the distant Past. It may affect the Future.

So, he chooses the name, Pariah Dark.

Bruce Wayne, is Pariah Dark.

He started as a Good King, but gradually he let his Broken Obsession get to him. Becoming King did nothing to fill the void in his Core, so he fell more and more into Insanity. It didn't help that he became the King in such a vulnerable emotional state. The sudden Power Increase caused his mind to fracture even more.

The Seven Ancients didn't seal away Pariah Dark just to save the Zone, they also did it to save Pariah himself.

Then one day, Pariah's Seal is Broken and he is presented with a Portal to the Human Realm. A Human Realm where enough time has passed that Gotham finally exists again. He may have gotten a little overexcited, he'll admit.

Thankfully, Danny was there to knock some sense into him.

He took the Throne and the power associated with it from Pariah, leaving him as just Bruce Wayne again. The existence of Gotham and his Family in the present world helped mend a few of the Cracks in his Core, and for the first time in Centuries Bruce Wayne felt somewhat whole again.

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Basically, Bruce dies in the Past, goes Insane because his Liminal Obsession was broken, and becomes Pariah Dark when he takes the Throne of the Ghost Zone.

Unfortunately, his Broken Obsession was only aggravated by the sudden Influx of Power, and he went Insane. When Danny took the Throne from him, he took the power that was clouding Bruce's Mind and helped him heal a bit.

Thoughts?

[ziracona]

Uhg I’m fucking miserable

The dialogue writer and voice actor really both performing at 1000% here. Stupid, stupid, stupid man.

His “Why couldn’t you just join us” amidst the insults and complaints, the egging you on, the insults. The fucking “he’s not angry. Not red at all. Just sad.” The fact that they had the little dark one call hostile ‘red’ since it’s the color he sees. With Pavel and the main enemy faction being reds. For the line ‘he’s not red at all. Just sad.’ Christ. Egging you on to kill him and miserably fighting to the death. Stupid, stupid man.

I hate it. His begging and calling you his friend and confused and terrified in the hell of damned souls, and begging to just be killed if you start to leave him. The using the knife he gave you when you first met and escaped together and holding it to his neck every time you fight him. The tenderness of putting the gas mask filter on him while he’s unconscious and pulling him close to look at his face and lifting and kind of sitting him up

Christ

The Pavel being saved by you when they’re going to hang him to death when you’re escaping the reich and you waking him from the ghosts to put his mask on and saving his life when you’re friends, and then putting a mask filter on his unconscious body to keep him breathing one last time, if you forgive him.

The parallel of Artyom destroying the dark ones out of love for his home and duty and fear, convinced it was the right thing in that moment, and being a mass murderer trying desperately and miserably to find some kind of redemption in Last Light, and Pavel being a red line major who betrays you and then uses a bio weapon and wipes out an entire depot of civilians out of duty and love for his home and fear, convinced it was the right thing in that moment, trying desperately and miserably to end things with you. Forgiving him, forgiving yourself, in a game about if people deserve to be forgiven or can or should or will be regardless of it. Taking care of this little baby dark one whose people you wiped out. I’m losing my mind. And that whole level leading up to it, you can or can not listen to it ask you not to kill other mutant creatures. It explaining what they’re doing and why to try and stop you from killing. And going “I don’t understand.” for the first time. “I don’t understand. He’s not red at all. Just sad.” and for the first time Artyom can so easily understand that. Because it’s a human, broken, familiar contradiction. It’s his first journal entry in the game. The sadness at being told to go kill this baby, the guilt and worry he was wrong, but going to do it anyway because of duty. Just sad.

And they set it in Dead City.

[madamescarlette]

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[nibbelraz]

ive been really tempted for ages to write a fic from mu qingfang's pov about how sqh's injuries gradually get more and worse. trying to subtly approach the subject, leaving certain medicines within easy stealing access. desperately trying to talk about it when he comes in one day with a dislocated shoulder, a shattered elbow, and an arm broken in two places. hes just clumsy! he fell down the stairs! nothing to worry about shidi everythings fine! he said its fine. stop. asking. questions. please.

Mu Qingfang is so worried about him, He's really only trying to help and Shang Qinghua definitely seems the type to just straight up not go to the doctors if he can help it so he probably had WAYY more injuries that he hid

Shang Qinghua definitely would just laugh it off like "I'm fine. Im fine! I do so much work I'm bound to get an injury here and there!" Except he's been continously getting injured and to such a degree it's CONCERNING

I would love to see a fic about a concerned Mu Qingfang trying his best to help the resident god that can't seem to control his shit very well

[hyohaehyuk]

thejamlore: jacob on the church scene being the most memorable to film (a 4-day shoot) because it set the tone for season 1/the show, which sam agrees with:

J: that's the point where me and you [sam] were like, “this is what we're doing”

Video: Rotten Tomatoes IG Live with Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson and Bailey Bass [2022]

J: "we got sort of practice…" Oh i'm sure

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And let's not even star talking about the wrist hickey and payback hickies

[fiercestpurpose]

essay writing hack: when i'm struggling with a long paper, i will simply convert my inquiry question into a series of smaller questions, type out the questions as like shorter-answer prompts for myself with rough guidelines as to word count (e.g. 200 words, 400 words), and then answer the prompts. it circumvents the part of my brain that is worried about formatting the essay correctly AND it allows me to get my ideas down without being daunted by the size of the task.

[abla-soso]

Deku didn't sacrifice his quirk and his arms - and did all that ridiculous emotional labor to reach out to Shigaraki - for you bitches to accuse him of not caring enough or not trying hard enough.

Deku is not a mind reader. He's not a therapist. He's not a wise spiritual sage. He's just a kind, empathetic kid who wants to save people. There was no fucking way for him to fully understand Shigaraki after Shigaraki refused to explain himself beyond "Society hurt me and this is why destroying everything is good".

Deku did everything humanly possible to offer help. Shigaraki failed himself when he refused to put any effort into helping Deku understand him. He failed himself when he refused to accept help until it was too late.

"This teenage boy MUST save this grown-ass man who tormented him and his loved ones, or else he's a failure! His entire worth should be defined by how good he is at playing therapist to a brainwashed terrorist" shut the FUCK upppppppp

[mikefrawley]

Their Very Last Page

Her lover lives only in a picture frame I know him well and share his name Their stars aligned save for the years leaving him to write a love story in tears Now broken hearted and ancient in age with sorrow he pens their very last page

[zoennes]

25 NOVEMBER, 2019 ✦ MAANDAG, 20:02

[nollatooru]

Okay this new picture confused me enough to post about it.

It's lovely, love the cat. But I'm confused, what exactly are they're going for here? I'm supposing this:

But the problem is they didn't bring Saito's arm and the cat actually in front of Okita (btw Okita's referring to this). All three of them are depthwise on different level, though Okita's finger is too perfectly close to look like he's touching the kitten's nose. Yet being on different levels they're all staring at different things!

I mean this is the supposed side view of that picture.

[novathesheltie]

such a difficult life

[enden-k]

got to play kaveh's hangout and i understand him as a character so much better now but he's too much like me that i'm like "woah, hold it, haha wait a min-" still love him 🫶🏽

i think majority of people are like that with kaveh. hes so relatable, its interesting to see how many click with him/see bits of themselves in him

idk how to describe it but everything makes him feel so close and more human than other characters in there

(but i get it AHAHH i was the exact same with haitham bc he like me fr and i love every trait and thing about him that i used to find tiring about myself until i got tricked into self acceptance. kinda funny ending up loving a character whos like you and makes u learn things)

[dennisboobs]

the funniest thing about writing charden is that they can either fucknasty with approximately zero leadup or be like two opposing magnets that I'm trying to push together

[nbmudkip]

rehyperfixating on a children’s game that came out in 2015, is one of the least popular entries in its series, and has minimal content, the vast majority of which i’ve seen before. the series has been dead for nearly 10 years, nothing has happened recently that would warrant anyone’s returning interest in it, very few of my friends give a shit about this specific game, and those few who played and liked it in the past have no reason to give a shit about it at all right now. i have been coasting through on a playthrough i’ve been doing with a friend who’d never seen the game before and who was kind enough to let me show it to them, but we just beat the game, and after we play the epilogue we will have nothing left to do, and on top of that they really have just been humoring me as they have their own very strong current hyperfixation they would much rather be thinking about. also i am depressed enough right now that literally nothing else except for waiting to play this game with them and playing this game with them and watching them enjoy it at least a little has been able to briefly quiet the constant cacophony in my head screaming how much of a worthless, lazy, constantly-failing miserable excuse for a living person i am and how much better everything would be, especially for myself, if i stopped existing lately. would anyone like to volunteer to 🔨💥⚒️Kill Me With Hammers🔨💥⚒️ because i would really like for someone to 🔨💥⚒️Kill Me With Hammers🔨💥⚒️ right now