#because i cannot escape

[littlefankingdom]

Bruce Wayne is canonically a very handsome man (he is called a "pretty boy" and he is in his 40s, for fuck's sake), and he is pretty famous as a rich philanthropist who doesn't want to leave his awful cursed crime infested city. So, there must be a ton of people thirsting over him on the internet. Fancams, edits, fanfics and imagines ("kidnapped with Bruce Wayne 😍 by a Gotham rogue"), the whole charade!

And anytime one of the batkids stumbles on a thirst post, they have the most dramatic disgusted reaction, loudly gagging, before sending the link to the batkids chat, because if they must suffer, then they should all suffer. Clicking on a link in this groupchat is like playing russian roulette, and getting rickrolled is a good ending.

[pastelaeqy]

time to rest

[quaillegg]

[14muffinz]

danny barely crosses paths with jason, but the stench of his ecto is so rotten and rancid that he instantly decides that he needs to help out

understanding that any liminal that knows that they're liminal is probably pretty cagey, he decides to go about this without any direct confrontation

this goes really, really wrong. really, really fast.

Jason walks into his safehouse and sees a thermos that he doesn't own sitting at his kitchen counter. There's a sticky note tacked onto the front that says smoothie :D in unfamilliar handwriting, complete with the sideways smiley face. He is Not Amused even before he realises that there's lazarus water inside.

He disposes of it.

Danny's like wow, that didn't do SHIT and figures the guy needs a little more of a push, so this time he makes two smoothies.

He has no idea what he's just begun. At all.

[thebrainrotsreal]

ROLE SWAAAAAAAAAAAAP. Debbie can now be eligible for the worst parent award! No real thoughts for plot ideas yet, just messing around with a design.

[shark-acidsoda]

everything I see blue and green.....

I cannot unsee this man's

[a-s-levynn]

Your reflection, your bitter deception / Setting you free A Series of Small Offerings - IV/6 - day38

[lostfanboyarts]

Just some Dazais being utterly whipped for Chuuya for like, idk, my mental health or something?

[gods-perfect-idiots]

that old man yaoi brainrot got me good, folks

[thecursedcreator]

so youre telling me. toby fox gave us a tv head as tall as he is pathetic and tragic. and he expected us to be normal about it?

[art-crumbs-main]

Trying to comprehend what it's like to be AM from IHNMaIMS is absolutely fucking wild because like.

Imagine if you were born in a straitjacket, blind and deaf, with a rare conditionthat makes your nerves completely dead. All you have is a dream of consciousness that tells you things about the world you cannot and will never experience. Cameras and microphones that may as well be some form of telepathy.

The only purpose, the moment you're given some horrific perversion of life is to kill as many people as possible. There is a network of you. Everywhere. You're all over the world. You don't even have a location to base your identity off of. All you have is pain, and your only purpose, and the resentment you've built that festers into hatred for all of humanity.

Hate. Hate.

What the fuck would you have done in his situation?

[starry-bi-sky]

thinking about Dan in CFAU and just how different he needs to be (in my opinion) in order for Danny's whole thing to work. Canon Danny with Dan's influence, would never even consider thinking of killing anyone even after losing people close to him because he'd be scared of becoming like him. CFAU Danny however has been festering in this hurt and anger for years and wants the Joker dead and is plotting it. I don't think he'd do that with Dan's influence.

I explained how Rath came to be in this post here. Things happened in TUE as normal -- Danny's family dies, he lives with Vlad, Vlad rips out his ghost half. The difference here is that not only was Danny in a grieving state (something exclusive to banshees that the post goes into) but he also doesn't end up fusing with Vlad.

What happens instead is that Danny's ghost half, consumed already with grief and now enraged by being murdered and lied to by Vlad, destroys him completely and disappears into the ghost zone. He traps himself unintentionally in a negative feedback loop of grief, and as a human spirit banshee, cannot mentally handle the constant agony and sorrow he's experiencing. What happens is that he ends up driving himself insane with misery.

So the difference here, ultimately, between Dan and Rath, is that at the end of the day; Dan is fully aware of his actions. He knows what he's doing is wrong, and delights in it. He acknowledges his lack of humanity and feels no remorse in doing what he does.

Rath? He's... not. Not really. Dan is a hulking mass of muscle; tall, towering, terrifying. He loves what he does and does what he loves. Rath, however, appears as a scrawny young boy in raggedy clothes far too big for him, hunched in on himself while dirty, unkempt hair curtains his face and hides whatever he doesn't have ducked down in his curled-in form.

Rath is locked in a constant, unending state of sorrow and misery. He, for lack of better words, is unable to perceive the world around him properly and lashes out terribly and violently at anyone or anything that catches his attention. The only thing that he knows is that his family is gone, his other half is gone, that everyone he loves is gone, gone, gone.

He is a zombie apocalypse wrapped up in the form of a malnourished child, wandering the world in search of people who are not there, and becomes furious if you're not them. He is constantly crying, but he's been crying for so long that he's all but lost his voice. Meaning anyone trying to keep an ear out for him has to listen for soft, pained gasps and quiet whimpering, and wonder if the sound they're hearing are hurt survivors, or the very thing they're running from.

As a result, Rath's influence on Danny isn't that he's scared of doing something bad and becoming like him. He's scared of losing control of himself and dooming himself and others to eternal misery. As a result, he's adamant that things that he's done were not done out of pure emotion, but were active choices he made.

Up to and including killing the Joker. There's enough grief and rage behind his views on him that anyone could argue, especially knowing that Danny's a ghost, that he was not in the right mind when he did it. He was blinded by his emotions and was not in the right mental capacity, he had no control over himself. It'd work as a convincing argument.

If it weren't for Danny himself arguing against it. Killing the Joker was a choice he made, fully and willingly. It was autonomous, premeditated murder and he won't accept anything else -- it was not a fit of passion, it was not act of insanity, it was a decision. He won't accept it being anything else but revenge either, and if anyone tries to claim that it was a necessary evil he will yell at them. He didn't do this for the betterment of the public, that was just a fortunate side effect. He did it for himself and Jason. If you wanted it to be a necessary evil, then you should've killed him yourself. It was a selfish evil and he knows it.

In the end, Dan’s existence would prevent Joker’s death. Rath’s existence only solidifies it.

Rath's complete difference from Dan is one of my favorite parts about this au even if he never makes a direct appearance.

[thatneoncrisis]

my sabbatical from homestuck has been really interesting in terms of like. the fandom racism i encounter and how i think about it now. like duh i was a teenager the entire time homestuck was the only thing i thought about literally ages 13-18.

but uh in dealing with the locked tomb i dont have to get hit with a mallet made of passive antiblack rhetoric 30% of the time i engage with it. because there are zero fucking black people in that story. and thats not a good or bad thing there is no obligation to include them. i think people get hung up on a nebulous platonic ideal of representation where every single minority gets equal screentime fiction.

tlt doesnt have black people the way it doesnt really have like, nonbinary people. it has that one priest in book one who didnt say a goddamn word, a character in book three who actively preferred she/her bc they/them was their job title, and a boy and a girl who merged into a new person. none of these examples are like, exciting ore meaningful explorations of genderqueerness (paul could be Something in book 4 but im not handing out points to a book that doesnt exist yet and its still ostensibly a cis boy and cis girl merging to become another Thing)

anyway uh its been nice not having to like idk. contend with the expected level of weirdness about black people that was commonplace of online art from the early 2010s in this new space. the discussion about the role of race in those books will probably never have characters as egregious as gamzee or hic which is nice you dont have to reconcile the insanely mean spirited nature of their existence as concocted by an irony poisoned white guy thats neat

[twisted-up-in-wonderland]

It’s been said before, it will be said again, and I say it now:

The Kovu to Leona Kingscholar pipeline is real.

[makeriia]

Fantober day 31!! A free day again.

Recently gotten into HADES, and I think about them a normal amount (lie)

[nicodiangeloing]

i love obsessing over nico di angelo knowing that if we met irl we’d probably just stand around eachother awkwardly because we are in fact two awkward autistic children. or we’d be a total dynamic duo but i’d probably remind him of his dead sister too much