#but in revers

[ghost-bxrd]

Hello! I don't really know how this works, but I'm asking about a reverse Owl Song, like say Jason is older, and when the Court is destroyed he escapes, and finds a recently orphaned Dick who is hellbent on revenge. Jason adopts him, desperate for connection after years of being a Talon, and Dick kinda imprints on him because he's never really been alone before. And eventually, Bruce finds not only the boy he wanted to adopt, Dick, but also the missing Talon he'd been looking for

Awe yeah, they find each other and help each other. And while Jay is older than Dick and much more cynical than Talon!Dick ever was, it’s recently-orphaned-Dick’s rage and sadness but still undeniable kindness that draws him in.

And while Talon!Dick was protective but still so very unsure of himself, Talon!Jason would be the fiercest guardian ever right away because he’s never had as much of a moral dilemma. He doesn’t feel nearly as much guilt about killing as Talon!Dick does. It’s just a part of his life, and now that he’s not with the Court anymore he’s allowed to strictly kill only the bad guys. Which is a comfort in its own way. Meanwhile Dick isn’t very happy about this weird owl(?) dude that seems hellbent on bundling him in blankets and heaping dead mice on him???? But hey, anything’s better than foster home. And the guy’s showing him some awesome moves with those knives.

Dick tracks down Zucco with Talon!Jason’s help within a couple weeks tops, but when it comes down to it Jason refuses to let Dick kill him and does it in his stead. Dick is kind of furious with him for a bit but Jason is wholly unapologetic. He may not have a problem with killing, but he knows that tiny humans shouldn’t do that and it’s wrong. (And he was afraid that doing so would have killed the light in his eyes the way it did to Jason).

They’re off to a bumpy start but in the end they manage. Dick teaches Jason how to be human again and Dick learns how to fight and protect himself (and others).

Also, Dick teaches Jason about cuddles. Jason doesn’t know what this warm kind of semi-smothering is supposed to be but he really likes the warmth of it and promptly starts throwing together his very first nest (it’s what the owls do when they have young and want to keep them under their wings, so humans must do this too, right? Right????)

(Dick is confused but he’s not complaining because the strange pile of pillows and blankets is really damn soft and warm and Jason’s starting to get real good at cuddling.)

[wormtime123]

actually i’m still thinking about it who else is doing d&d like cody walsh. he’s an ex-mall goth he swears his life and soul to every cool person he sees he's convinced he’s cloud strife he keeps accidentally stabbing himself with his own sword. he’s marrying a demon puppet chimera abomination to save the timeline because he reminded him of jack skellington he’s facing down the demon king of nightmares and he’s just nearly killed himself with his own sword again. and all he can think about is his broken fucking moped

[yashley]

You are thrust out of your communion. With enough force that you hit the back of the wood, and your eyes burn like you had been staring into the sun itself.

[mulderscully]

Your spine's a ridge I'd die climbing.

[jellystreet]

zutara week 2024 | #4 reverence

greeted early by his favorite sight

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giving our girl the statue we didn't see in lok

---disclaimer: the background art is taken from the show, only the statue painting + zuko drawing are mine

[another-goblin]

He's into arts and crafts now. Good for him.

We are having a ladle appreciation party

[buggachat]

side note i am still vibrating on the edge of my seat waiting for the upcoming hit release of clear future GOTY contender Miraculous: Paris Under Siege, coming to Xbox and Playstation and Switch and Steam. every day i wait in agony for October 25th.

[pamietniko]

autumn

Reading, Massachusetts

[waambles]

Art inspired by the song “JUDAS” by The Reverent Marigold. Because I love queerness mixed with religious imagery it scratches my brain in such a perfect way <33 trans people are divine 🏳️‍⚧️

[solaneceae]

CHAINSAW PEOPLE, RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT

CHAINSAW GIRL, CANNOT REPENT, REPENT, REPENT

i miss q!baghera so much. please let her come back broken, let her rage, let her be angry and flawed and bitter.

commission, art by the very skilled @blackberry-s0da

[marty--party]

M for … MURDERER

The Prime Minister Ishimaru Kiyotaka’s Inaugural Parade

[virtualplushy]

sobbing on the kitchen floor just saying to myself “but i loved her! i loved her. i loved her,” wondering how i can bear the grief. and the answer coming back to me in that same way. “i loved her. i loved her. i loved her.”

[deadsetobsessions]

Tim Drake, Danny’s human identity in this universe, is a boy trapped in an empty manor with absentee parents a low socialization.

Danny Phantom, on the other hand, is Gotham City himself. He could fly, he could interact, he could be the heart of his city like he needs to be. From the lowest of the lows to the highest of the highs, Danny loved the people that were his. Well, most of them. Child molesters often found themselves crossing paths with a vengeful, mostly recovered Robin.

He is the city, he is Gotham. And with his status came more changes, ones he welcomes more readily that the changes that came with his title of Ghost King.

Being a city couldn’t change him as much as it would have, had he gained the title before becoming King. But now, his shadows are dark, curling around his shoulders and curling away what little light he allowed into his city. His skin, having once glittered green with stars and galaxies and black holes, clouds over just a bit. It gives him a misty quality. His hands become sharper, stronger. Gargoyle-like. He wonders what he looked like to Batman, holding his broken son cradled safely to himself. He’s crueler, now, but that’s easily balanced by his years of being a vigilante himself.

He loves these changes. They are loved in a way changing into Dead Danny Phantom and Ghost King Danny Phantom will never be loved. And even though his human features are different in a way he never had to deal with as Danny Fenton, because it was his body that he died in, Danny finds himself enjoying the distinction. And he enjoys when they combine, because in the end, they’re just facets of who he is, now.

Gotham flies through his city, and enjoys it as a whole. A bigger picture.

Tim Drake walks through his city, and enjoys it as an individual. The smaller picture.

Being Gotham reminds him of what he had to protect as a whole. A duty he gladly bears.

Being Tim reminds him of the people he’s meant to help, the stories he doesn’t get as Danny. A connection he gladly encouraged.

Gotham is power. He is duty, he is fierce love. But for the good of the whole.

Tim is kindness. He is choice, he is gentle devotion. But for the good of the individual.

He’s both.

Danny. Danny Phantom.

Phantom glides through the smog.

The ebb and flow of people is his life blood, the thrumming of life and death and fear and hate and love and everything the city is sung through him and Danny sung back with everything he had. Danny is the gargoyles perched high, watching everything. He’s the stone curves of the sewers, sheltering his rats and mutant murderous crocodile man. The is no love comparable to a city’s mutant rats and their sewers. Ancients, he loves his city.

It would be nice, Danny thinks wryly, if they’d love me enough to stop blowing up buildings.

The sting of destruction to his city would hurt much more, had he not also been King. Regardless, every time there’s an explosion or general large scale property damage, he feels a stab of mild pain. Catching sight of his Bats, Danny stays invisible while following them. He wills the shadows to cradle them, to hide them further. He softens the stone, the mortar, the steel, just a hint. Their footsteps, silent and aided by the city himself. The wind steal away the noise of the grappling guns, so when Danny’s favorite vigilante duo (a fascination he shared with original text!Tim) broke into the building, not a single soul aside them are aware of the intrusion.

Batman skulks across the support beams, Robin following with an anticipatory grin. Danny floats, invisible, undetectable, besides them.

“C’mon!” A goon grunts beneath them. Danny tilts his head. A… Dresden Aberthy. Wow. That’s one hell of a name.

“Hurry it up! Boss said Batman’s going to get here soon!” Another goon- Robbert- said, waving around a gun like a moron at the terrified hostages. Danny could tell half of them were part of a tour bus, mostly because the other half were his Gothamites, bored and unfairly used to this kind of thing. The tourists… He’s fond of them, having kept track of their progress through his city. He doesn’t care for intruders on his haunt, but tourists like to appreciate his city and its doubtlessly Sam-approved architecture. Most of them. Rude tourists get pigeon shit on their heads and food stolen by his lovely rats.

He’ll have to make sure none of the bullets hit the tourists. He likes this group, even if he has enough awareness to question their sanity in choosing his city to sightsee. He knows it’s a mess. It’s Danny’s mess though, so whatever.

——

All said and done, Batman whoops ass and Robin rescues the hostages just fine. Danny grins proudly as Robin knees a guy in the crotch and punches a lady’s throat in order to incapacitate them.

After they tied the goons up, and interrogated them for Two Face’s plans- explode a quarter of Gotham to distract the Bats from his diabolical plan to murder half of Gotham’s judges and lawyers that have been going after him and his people- the duo retreats to the rooftop.

“Didja think Gotham saw that?”

Batman goes to reply, but Danny beats him to it, coming back to visibility with a wind touched laugh.

“I did, little Robin.” Danny smiles, fangs and shadows on display as his vigilantes startles and whips around to face him. “You did well.”

Robin- Jason!- gapes at him.

“I see you’ve recovered, little bird.”

“Gotham! Oh. Wow. People always said Gotham was a lady, but you’re a guy!”

“It was a Lady,” Danny confirmed. “It’s complicated, little bird.”

“So, you’re really… you’re really Gotham? The city?”

Danny looks at Robin with the weight of the city behind his gaze.

“I think you know the answer to that. But yes, I am your city.”

“Constantine,” Batman starts. “He said that city spirits only appear in times of grave danger.”

There is deference in his words. Batman is Batman for Gotham, after all. Danny just wishes he could… well, be friendlier with his knights. May this is a good place to start.

Are you in danger? What threats do we need to handle? How can I help? How can I protect? Please, let me help.

His Knight always felt more than he ever says. Danny smiles.

“Was Robin’s wellbeing not in grave danger?” Danny floats closer. “I am your city. You protect me, it is only right that I protect you, no?”

“Thank you for saving me, Gotham!” Robin’s grin is a touch more sincere than usual.

“Of course, Robin. You are loved.”

“Is there… a reason you’ve shown yourself today? Gotham.”

Danny chuckles, understanding the awkwardness that was Batman addressing someone with deference.

“I wanted to tell you that you did well tonight. Those tourists weren’t harmed in the slightest. Well done.” Danny gave Robin a playful but sincere thumbs up.

“They weren’t a match for us!”

“No, they weren’t.” Danny ruffles Robin’s hair, noticing how still he grew at it. “Robin was too fast for them. That maneuver at the end was masterfully executed.”

Batman clears his throat and Danny resists the urge to laugh at him. It would be mean.

“Thank you, for the… praise.”

Fuck it. He’s played well behaved for too long.

“Yes. I read in child rearing books that positive reinforcement is necessary for healthy development. You did well, Batman.”

Despite trolling Batman- and somehow holding a straight (and hopefully wise face)- he meant every word.

Allowing a small smile to slip at Robin’s chortles and Batman’s quiet sputtering, Danny moves on.

“Where is Nightwing, Batman?”

“He’s still on a mission...”

“If it is awkward to refer to me as Gotham, Phantom will do.”

Batman dips his head once. “In space, with the Teen Titans.”

“I see. Please tell him I request his presence,” Danny barely waits for Batman’s oddly acquiescing agreement before summoning a pigeon.

“Follow her,” Danny instructs the duo. “She’ll lead you to the places with explosives. I will guide you through her, to Harvey Dent.”

Danny winces as another explosion rings out.

“Your face is cracking!” Robin exclaimed, worried. He surged forward to stare at the hairline cracks appearing on Danny’s jaw.

“That would be the explosives. Any damage to the city will be shown on me.”

“Well take care of it.” Batman growled, shoulders straightening once more into an imposing symbol.

“Yeah!”

“I know you will. Stay safe.” Danny disappears, spreading his awareness and directing his Birds to the explosives that will go off the fastest.

Batman and Robin share a glance and leaps off the roof, ready to save their city once more.

——

Tim Drake wanders around Crime Alley, and meets a blonde nine year old trying to throw hands at her absentee Riddler knockoff of a dad. He dodges the brick en route to his face and kicks the guy’s knees out.

“You okay?”

The girl blinks. She stares at her dad, groaning on the dirty street of crime alley, and flicks her gaze back up to Tim, who waits casually.

“Yep. I’m Stephanie. We’re gonna be friends now!”

She grins at him, a baby tooth missing, and Danny melts.

“Heck yeah. Tim!” He introduces himself for the first time in a long time.

Maybe with Stephanie around, he’ll finally use the name Tim? Maybe he’ll get used to it, finally!

[canisalbus]

Building on the favourite animal ask, another Very Important Question: favourite PREHISTORIC animal? And why? (I've always loved gorgonopsids and pterosaurs like anurognathus, but a new favourite is aquilolamma the eagle shark. They're just very cute).

I feel like my top favorites are pretty pedestrian, but I like prehistoric deer a lot!

Megaloceros giganteus aka Irish elk

Sinomegaceros ordosianus & Sinomegaceros yabei

Eucladoceros dicranios

Cervalces scotti

[sam-reid]

All... fragments. Shackled on the boat. The brothel. My maker's purchase.

Assad Zaman as Armand INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2.04: I WANT YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD.