#ask a dunk

[dunkleosteus-official]

How do you feel with being depicted on a canvas

What’s a canvas

Also I would be so honored to get to see that!!! I love knowing that dunks are appreciated and seen. Makes my fishy heart smile.

[greenglowinspooks]

Alright, since it’s no longer 2 in the morning and my head’s a bit clearer, I present to you:

Liminal Riddler

So, not everyone in the DC fandom knows about this, and I’d bet that even less people in the Phandom do, but at one point, the Riddler had cancer. Had, past-tense, because he cured it. With the Lazarus pits.

And yeah, not everyone who gets dipped in the pits has to be liminal, but one would assume that the sudden replacement of a large number of malignant cells throughout the body is gonna do something.

The Riddler already acts quite a lot like a DP ghost in some interpretations anyways. He’s got a strict gimmick that he genuinely can’t part ways with, he’s campy and fun, he’s incredibly violent, etc.

Also, the way that he would react to this whole thing would be funny as hell.

Do I think the Riddler would really care if the GiW was after him? No. This is Gotham, the government is constantly going after him anyways.

Do I think he would care if Danny was being hunted down by the same people, and his parents were involved? Somewhat. He probably wouldn’t care about Danny specifically, at least not right away, but a young boy running terrified from his own parents would definitely bring back some bad memories, and he would probably give him a hand (if for no other reason than to get back to plotting crimes instead of dealing with childhood trauma).

Do I think the Riddler, whose entire thing is being smarter than everyone else, would care if the GiW somehow let slip that they thought he didn’t have human intelligence? That they believed him to be nothing but an echo of human life?

It’s not even a question. He would be the most insufferable person in Gotham within the hour. Genuinely nothing could stop him, especially not if Danny was helping jailbreak him from Arkham every time he got caught.

Almost every major road is closed. Every warehouse on the Docks is on fire. Somehow, they managed to color the clouds and smog a bright green.

The natives of Gotham would probably get those anti-ghost laws and acts overturned faster than the Justice League, if only to make the Riddler stop. His traps and games aren’t even lethal at this point (due to Danny’s insistence), but they’re so genuinely annoying that the general population is about to beat the GiW agents to death themselves just to get the Riddler to quit it already.

Also, I think that during this whirl of chaos, the Riddler would become quite fond of Danny.

He’s a bright young boy who’s very fond of wordplay, and inventive enough to keep up with him. Aside from the inevitable crisis of “oh god I’m becoming the bat,” he’d probably be happy to take on Danny as his protégé. Even if the boy won’t let him kill anyone (rude), he’s a terrifying getaway driver and can turn the both of them invisible and intangible, making Arkham escapes a breeze.

Hell, the Riddler would probably be willing to make a false identity for the two of them, just so he could get the boy proper schooling.

(Yes, he thinks that the entire education system is a sham and that he could do much better, but Danny wants to go into aerospace engineering, and the Riddler isn’t one to squander someone’s interest in learning.)

(Also, Echo and Query would find the whole thing hilarious)

[codacheetah]

Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

(SCARE CHORD)

Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

[elizakai]

kai you should draw dream in lolita clothes 🥺

yes dear <3💫

[vvunderkind]

ryomitsu dump

the sketch for first pic is by @hewoweens :3 little collab

[fuzedatti]

so how the fuck would am meeting wheatley go? Just.. this tiny ass ball and this giant ass computer monolith mf.

im sorry

i had like 2 other asks relating to wheathley and i had 0 idea who tf he was lol this was my first time drawing him

[a-s-t-a-r-i-o-n]

make me choose» @courtesanofdeath asked: shohoku vs ryonan or shohoku vs sannoh

[crustacean-menace]

Hello BIONICLE fandom. Allow me to bother you over something very silly i made to pass time.

Feel free to argue.

[gunsatthaphan]

GMMTV Outing 2024 out of context (not that it would make more sense with context) - part 1

[punkitt-is-here]

every so often the phrase "tits & beer gender liberalism" pops into my head and it remains one of my favorite things god bless that one anon hate you got

It's a pretty primo turn of phrase I think

[dunkleosteus-official]

What bothers dunks the most?

When there’s not enough food. Also when other dunks invade our personal space. If those two happen at the same time, we will try to eat each other.

Usually the dunklings are the first to make these mistakes… I don’t do what some other dunks do, but sometimes the dunklings get eaten. It’s the circle of life.

Also, we get bothered by water temperatures being off. Like if it’s too cold there are PROBLEMS. If it’s too hot there are PROBLEMS. It’s not ideal :(

[pocketgalaxies]

sucks that beau seems to hate laudna. they have so much in common with this ep and the 95-96 eps of c3

tea! yeah it's sad bc i think that dynamic could've been rly fun but 1) marisha absolutely did not have her head screwed on straight enough to pull off a beau/laudna conversation and 2) i think they're both characters that require a significant amount of chipping away and also knowledge of a Lot of backstory to really see and understand all those commonalities, and beau (in this context) would absolutely not entertain laudna's company long enough for them to get to that point dkfjskdjfsd

speaking of which, i actually think it's a little interesting in itself that they weren't able to be on any level to chat with each other. it's a symptom of the fact that they both Present themselves a certain way that is vastly different from the way they are when amongst their closest friends and confidants, and those chosen Presentations are very different from each other. when meeting strangers/new acquaintances, beau is standoffish, rude, blunt, pessimistic. laudna is excessively bubbly and excitable and fills the space with both her body and her voice. extreme opposites. but in private and trusted spaces, they both fall closer to some middle ground. this is different from people like jester, orym, chetney, etc. – people who are more consistent in their behaviors across different social contexts (obviously i'm speaking in relative terms here – everyone is a little different and more vulnerable when they aren't meeting strangers). but that intentional masking of their more authentic (insecure, lonely) selves makes it a lot harder to put them in a space in which they would believably broach those topics with each other. idk i just think they're neat!!

[foodtruckery]

Oh oh I’m obsessed with the idea of Stan pretending to be an alpha for years since he’s impersonated Ford!!

Stan’s personality has always been loud and brash so taking on the role of an alpha wasn’t hard for him and really only required heat suppressants and scent hiding deodorant or something. I bet he doesn’t even think about it anymore and is confused on why Ford is utterly obsessed and not normal with finding out Stan is actually an omega.

(Also kinda like the idea of role breaking omega stan who’s actually dominant in bed despite being an omega)

oh my god YES. like i love the idea that when it all happens it's heat and instincts and kind of everything ford always imagined. because he went from teenage fantasies straight into "i do not give this any meaningful attention" and never really moved beyond that box of "alphas fuck omegas."

but the AFTERMATH? when stan just goes right back to being himself and is like oh yeah, i prefer to do the dickikng down unless i'm out of my fucking mind on hormone surges like that. get on your back.

cue ford, who has not lived in a Society for many years: ??????

[meanbossart]

Ah, I was nervous about sending you this but it kept rattling around in my brain so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The original text was going to be different but I thought better of it ;;

The blue guy is my Dnd oc. He's also beefy. And a bard.

A VERY UH

UNFORTUNATELY CORRECT ASSUMPTION

THE DROW'S RECEIVED THE CONDITION SPEECHLESS (LASTS 5 TURNS)

[lxgentlefolkcomic]

so i gotta say, i loved the first chapter of this, well done, so just curious, would Quincey know someone like Pecos Bill?

i...i think this guy would break lxgf...

[respectthepetty]

Joong, please learn how to cry on that First, Khao, Gun level baby, because Style is a sexy seducer, and he is gonna wreck Fadel!

LOOK AT HIM!

You don't wanna give him your heart.

BUT LOOK AT HIM!

Your brother is the one who started this entire thing!

And even though you think you can protect your heart,

LOOK AT THIS MAN!

He is going to fuck you up.

So please, go ask your seniors how to cry those thug tears (First and Khao think about being split up and tears start following; Gun thinks about how he is the prettiest man ever, and it makes him sad to know no one else will ever be as good as him), AND GIVE ME A RIVER! I want to build in ark with the flood of tears that will come from you.

You will open your heart to this man, and he will betray you.

I'm investing in flood insurance because I have faith in you babe. Make me take that betrayal personally. Yok in a wheelchair style. You hear me? I still haven't forgiven Gawin for a character he played because First cried so well, so make me hate this pretty bitch.