#but they won't commit to it!

[bet-on-me-13]

Danny commits to the Bit a bit too hard...

So! For the first few weeks after his accident, whenever Danny would try to help the people of Amity Park, he would be treated as a Villain.

No matter if he had just defeated the Big Bad of the Week or saved a Cat from a tree, everybody in town only saw him as a Monster or Villain to he feared and hunted down. Danny was really getting sick of trying to get them on his side, until Sam made a suggestion.

"Why not just...play into it?" She said, barely looking up from painting her nails.

It was just an offhand suggestion, but it stuck with Danny. Why shouldn't he lean into it? The people of Amity Park already saw Ghosts as Evil, and they already assumed he was in cahoots with the Ghosts attacking the town. Why shouldn't he just...play into it?

So he does just that.

From that day on, whenever Phantom was spotted he would dramatically monologue about his Evil Plans, or claim that another Rogues attack on the City was his own act of terror.

Box Ghost destroys the towns Warehouses? It was on his orders.

Ember mind controls masses of Teenagers? All part of his Plans somehow.

Every Adult in Town is kidnapped by Young Blood? Danny gave them over to a friend as a Gift.

He crafts an identity for himself as the most Vile and Horrible Ghost that has ever attacked the City, using his own infamy to cement his legend even more firmly. The town only sees a Monsterous Villain, who has eveded capture near effortlessly for months on end, who constantly attacks their City and gets away with it.

Of course he still needs an excuse for how his plans keep getting stopped, and he gets it when his girlfriend Valerie becomes the Red Huntress. Before that, he just claimed infighting or the Fentons getting lucky, but Valerie becoming the Town's Hero meant he had a plausible excuse for how he kept getting "Foiled".

Val was suspicious, because she was not as involved as Phantom painted her to be, but in the end she had no proof of him faking his defeats. And she couldn't come up with any explanations for why he would do that in the first place. I mean, who would fake being a Supervillain? It had to he something else.

This did come back to bite him a while later, when the Justice League decided that enough was enough, and dispatched Justice League Dark to recruit Red Huntress and help Deal with him.

Coincidentally, that was the same day Pariah Dark attacked the Mortal Realm and sucked Amity Park into the Ghost Zone.

And honestly? Danny had spent over a Year proclaiming himself as a Villain who commanded Ghosts to attack the Human Realm, and he had heard about the Right of Conquest being Absolute in the Ghost Zone, so why not make it official? Why not overthrow the Ghost King, become the Ghost King, and cement his identity as a Villain while also forbidding Ghosts from entering the Human Realm without his permission?

He may have gotten a bit carried away and forgotten that the Villain thing was a disguise...but hey! He was still preventing Ghost Attacks! ...mostly. That's got to count for something right?

He may have let the Bit run a bit too far...

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Check the tags for more context!

[fiercestpurpose]

my current feelings are i want wednesday/xavier endgame but with lots of beautiful wednesday/tyler angst in the meantime.

but ALSO somebody said "netflix gave us two cardboard cutout love interests and the whole fandom just ran with it" and like yeah. they did. we did. you got me there.

[appropriatelystupid]

[fizpup]

valentine, you're a horse ❤️

[astrolavas]

my art style is too simple for this but just know that when i draw post-ttt hunter, in my mind he has central pink-brown heterochromia. like this, kinda:

[starry-bi-sky]

danny and officer martinez's relationship in "late at night, when the nightingale sings" in a nutshell:

Martinez: FREAK! GET YOUR FUCKING KID!

Battinson, on the other side of the crime scene: he don't bite

Martinez, with Nightingale firmly attached his arm, visibly biting him: YES HE DO!

*points at them* Danny is the Bugs Bunny to Martinez's Elmer Fudd.

Another Officer: i can't believe you're fighting with an actual twelve year old. Martinez: i swear to god that is not a twelve year old, that is a little hellion that crawled out of batman's shadow one dark and stormy night and decided to dedicate his existence to tormenting me. Officer: Are you really that mad about him putting a sticky note on your back-- Martinez: thats not the point

in danny's defense: the word "freak" is. a mini beserker button for him for.... obvious ghostly reasons, so like, even if its not directed at him, he still very much unappreciates Martinez's insults at Battinson. Danny may or may not be projecting.

he's not going to hurt the guy! not in any serious or permanently disfiguring way at least! But he is going to leave mean sticky notes on the square part of his spine that he can't reach, and stick salt in his 3AM Late Night Crime Scene Coffee, and kick the bottom of his heel while he's walking so he stumbles. And other petty, infuriating things that tally up and boil over, over time.

[celestialrealms]

Fun fact: In Barbatos's intimacy storyline in Nightbringer he ends up living with Solomon and MC at Cocytus Hall temporarily. Here's a highlight from his 40 intimacy call:

The way he makes Solomon sit in the corner. 😭 You cannot convince me he didn't raise this man.

[backpackingspace]

Consider young odysseus and Penelope courting by going on adventures together (committing crimes)

[kwillow]

will theo ever be happy

Maybe in another life.

[hercarisntyours]

tfone character card descriptions

elita-1, ironhide, brawn, trackers, optimus prime, starscream, d-16 (x2), jazz (cogged), b 127, wheeljack, sideswipe

"Elita is a dilligent worker and a leader who always gets the job done, no matter the odds. She always puts dedication to her job first. Elita is proud to have overcome difficult challenges with her peers and come out on top."

"Ironhide, a low-level miner on Cybertron, was inspired by Orion, who had obtained the Transformer Gear, to participate in the revolution to overthrow the rule of the Autobots, and eventually followed Optimus Prime to become a warrior of the Autobots."

"As a classic character in past stories, Dahan (brawn i think idk) was still unknown at this time, just like other Transformers who became famous in the future. He made a special appearance in the movie as a miner without transformation gears."

"Silver Trackers are elite law enforcers under the command of the Enemy and Black Woman (airachnid??), responsible for maintaining order in Iron Fortress and ensuring the safety of the Enemy. They are good at quickly eliminating threats before they take shape."

"Optimus Prime inherited the will of the original Kongs and became the leader of Cybertron. Chosen by the leadership module, he will fight for all sentient life, resist oppression and defend freedom." (I assume original kongs mean the primes)

"Starscream is the leader of the High Guard. He is not afraid to challenge anyone who threatens his leadership, but if he finds that the chances of winning are slim, he will decisively give in."

"D-16 is a hard-working man, and his excellent physical strength always comes in handy when needed. As one of the best miners, D-16 is satisfied with his current life, but he also has a side that desires to break the rules."

"D-16 is one of the best miners, but he also has a desire to break the rules. Under the entrustment of Alpha Trion, D-16 obtained the transformation gear left by (some prime idk) and gained the ability to transform into a Cybertron tank."

"As a low-level miner on Cybertron, Jazz was inspired by Orion, who had obtained the Transformer Gear, and participated in the revolution to overthrow the rule of the Autobots. He eventually followed Optimus Prime and became a warrior of the Autobots."

"B-127 has been alone deep underground in the Iron Citadel for a long time. He has not spoken to other Cybertronians for a long time. When he finally met new Cybertronians, he was always aggressive and chatty, but he meant no harm."

"As a classic character in the past stories, Wheeljack was still unknown at this time, just like other Transformers that became famous later. He made a special appearance in the movie as a miner without a transforming gear." (i dont get it either)

"Death trackers are elite law enforcers under the command of the prime and the airachnid, responsible for maintaining order in the Iacon and ensuring the safety of the prime. They are good at quickly eliminating threats before they take shape."

"As a low-level miner on Cybertron, Sideswipe was inspired by Orion, who had obtained the Transformer Gear, to participate in the revolution to overthrow the rule of the Autobots, and eventually followed Optimus Prime to become a warrior of the Autobots."

these guys are SNATCHED LOOK AT THOSE WAISTS oh my days

[ventique18]

- translation rant -

Yeah you can think the twst fandom is shit sometimes, but it can't smell even close to how shitty other joseimuke fandoms are. Mistranslating extra materials through AI, mischaracterizing because they "cleaned up" the translation when they don't actually understand the language, and then SELLING the full version. 💀

I would have forgiven them if they were just genuinely trying to contribute to the community, but the audacity to profit off of it is insane.

There are five levels of fan translators:

Those who are good at both the original language and English. Ideal.

Those good at the source language but not good at English. You can still fuck up a material with misinterpretations if you have a poor English vocabulary.

Those good at English but don't know the source language. They should not be translating.

Those who use AI translations and preach them. Please consult with a knowledgeable friend or a reliable figure in the community to confirm.

Those who use AI translations and sell them. Deserve to be sent straight to purgatory.

I myself am not the best at Japanese. But I do take lessons and try my best to study, just to have a bit of confidence that what I'm contributing to the community is passably accurate and is something I worked hard on. If something is off, then I can apologize with a clear conscience and try better next time. So to witness others using AI to pretend to know the language and scam people's money with it is vile to me.

Honest translators who do these things for free spend hours and hours of studying in the background just to selflessly share their knowledge with those who don't have energy for it. For reference, Japanese takes 4800 hours to master, Chinese takes 2200 hours, while English needs 1000. So it should be a crime that people are taking 0 hours of studying, relying on a machine that doesn't know nuance nor context nor the proper vocabulary to use, and then extorting others off of their hard earned cash for misinformation so misinformed that it might as well be fanfiction an Elementary School student came up with.

[prolibytherium]

Would kill to read animal POV fiction that has the animal POV’s interaction with humans be like, semi realistic to the level of caution most predators take with large prey and/or competitors (including humans).

Like instead of the usual - “the human is such a weak, pathetic creature... so slow, no claws, blunt teeth… completely helpless without its 'Fire Sticks'. how is it the master of the earth?” type crap it’s like, the bear protagonist or whatever approaches some dude who spreads their arms and yells and the bear is like “FUUUUUUUUCK THAT THING JUST GOT HUGE. IT'S LARGE AND MAKING NOISES. HOLY FUCK.”

[anime-villian-irl]

I love the idea that Martha and Thomas killed people during their reign of Gotham and when they died they expected their son to turn out like them. To be cold and jaded by the world but instead he sees the light. He feels the pain as well as the joy and by God as his witness he won't make others suffer as he had. At first they were shocked then a little disappointed. But after seeing rogue after rogue after rogue be rehabilitated every street criminal gets a job every former member of the mob fixes their mistakes all they can feel Is proud. Proud that their son became Better. Proud that their son rose above. And proud that he used their name for such good deeds.

[ghouldtime]

I feel like König can absolutely melt your heart like this in the kitchen while a big pot of stew is simmering. Feel like it would be mid winter, a cozy fire going in the living room, probably a smudge of paint on his face from having just completed the miniature diorama he made of your wedding day or something. I JUST FEEL LIKE HES SECRETLY A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/CZRSbWa5D1b2ryCA/?mibextid=uSdriS

(If you don't want to click the link, it's cool. It's like a really slow beautiful old timey princess kind of dance. Lots of twirling and the holding hands behind your back kind of thing?)

I'm sorry I'm bursting yet another bubble here 😭 while that's a sweet thought and he has plenty of romantic actions to boot, he's not a hopeless romantic or even close to it.

A hopeless romantic is someone who believes in love conquering all and they have an idealistic view of it. They're someone who believes in love, no matter what they've seen or their past. They're someone who holds onto love above all and usually centers their life around it.

He doesn't even come close. Truth be told, he's extremely pessimistic and is near the polar opposite of that 😭

He's seen a lot, experienced a lot, and has never been one to feel that way. After being ruthlessly bullied as a kid for simply existing as himself and seeing his comrades torn into meat confetti for stepping one foot too far, he's doesn't exactly have a pearly world view. He doesn't think about love first, or second, or even third, fourth, or fifth. Love wasn't a focus for him or an interest - it wasn't a necessity in that department, he's been without romantic love most of his life, why would he need it then or now?

Love didn't stop bullets from spiraling towards you on the field, love can't conquer all when things like hate, retribution, and vengeance are sung much stronger in his world. Love could motivate but it destroyed many from the inside out. He wasn't going to start believing in love or wanting it just cause.

Sure, he had familial love. He loves his parents and that did wonders in a world that was usually otherwise cruel towards him. But romantic? He wasn't ever particularly interested. To him, it's usually yet another complication in the line of things. And anyone who is nice to him, he's usually suspicious of. He doesn't let people close for a reason.

Quite frankly, he usually thinks others have ulterior motives, especially if they're trying to cozy up to him. All his life, he's pretty much been an outcast. People tended to only be nice when they wanted something. He can count on one hand the few people who have genuinely been nice to him without WANTING something from him, whether that be his perks with his rank or just to have him as a human shield as they charge into battle.

He was the awkward kid, the loner, the one no one talked to in school. He never had a romantic life there. And he went straight to the military which left him no time or room for one - not that he cared for it. It's just not something he cared for or went after because he hadn't really experienced it and it wouldn't do him any good. He's seen how many marriages end and heard of all the troubles.

He was never actively looking for it or thinking of love. He wasn't seeking it because he's seen how miserable people are in and out of it. He's very much "if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, I'm happy with being me." König is a very independent man, he's fine on his own and is content with himself and where he stands.

I actually wouldn't describe him as any kind of romantic aside from unintentional because it's not a conscious thought! He's not doing it to woo or impress or to be a big gesture, he's just doing it because he likes you and wants to see you happy. What he does isn't born out of romance or desire or the want for either - it's just from the heart. It's an instinct.

He's not thinking of how romantic it would be as he plants your favorite flowers in his garden. He's growing them because he wants to see you happy and wants to put more of what you like in the world. He stocks your favorite drinks and snacks in his house because he wants you over - he wants you happy, comfortable, and enjoying his company. His actions are how he shows how he feels, but he's also not actively doing it because he's enamored with love itself or loving and how it feels. He doesn't care about the idea of love in particular, but he cares about you and what he feels for you.

He isn't making a diorama of the wedding because it's a romantic gesture, he's doing it because it captured how you both felt that day - and how truly beautiful you were in that moment, outshining the stars that danced above that night. He's memorializing his love in every brushstroke and clay flower, making sure to take extra care on the model he built of you. If he could relive any day over and over, it would be that. Sadly, he doesn't have that power, so he'll stick for the photos that captured it and the replicas he could make to truly memorialize it in the physical realm for years to come.

König's love isn't flashy, it isn't showy, it isn't meant to be something grand or fairytale levels of romance. It's simply his. Will he make you a ballgown if you wanted? Absolutely, but he's no prince, nor a king despite his name. Will he dance with you like that if you wanted? Absolutely. But that's not his first thought or a fantasy he really thinks of unless you implement it in his head. He's just him, living in the smaller moments of life. He doesn't need to show off to the world, he doesn't need it to be extravagant or formal, he doesn't need it to be by the books romantic - all of what he does is heartfelt, that's what he knows matters. And it has to be with and for you 💚 that's what matters the most

He's more one for holding you close and slow dancing in the kitchen as the water in the kettle boils, with no rush to be anywhere else. He's not hopelessly romantic, he's not even intentionally romantic, the only thing he's hopelessly in is love 💚

Besides, he's gotta save some moves for the wedding to make it that much more special 👀(he's signing you both up for ballroom dancing the second you express wanting anything like that. He's already picking out the fabric for the dress too)

[auspicioustidings]

Meet cute with Kyle being that you were both after the same boy. You actually both got to dating this guy without realising he was dating someone else behind your back. The first time you two meet is at your boyfriends door as you both thought you'd pop by for a visit. He's in there all right, with another fucking person. You're both the same level of hurt and petty about it so you very snidely say it's no bother because actually you two are planning on dating anyway do how 'bout them apples?

[somewhereincairparavel]

I'm so immersed in my jason grace new rome uni fic that I'm studying ancient roman law terms using this as an excuse. help.