#can you tell i am not normal about this

[theatrehearts]

brb babe im just crying to the french version of les mis and how the epilogue includes the line 'un rêve peut mourir mais on n'enterre jamais l'avenir' (a dream may die, but the future can never be buried), which slaps and harkens back to fantine singing about how her dream has been killed. the french version is just so much more explicit in its revolutionary message than the english lyrics which mainly focuses on the afterlife. the french version literally says 'pour une seule barricade qui tombe, cent autres se leveront demain' (for every barricade that falls, a hundred more will rise tomorrow).

because it is not just about individual suffering and redemption after death. we as a society can learn from our collective flaws and shortcomings, but we need to both recognize and empathize with the pain caused in order to create something better. and because we as humans have the ability to do that, the future is never truly lost. so fantine's dream is dead but that dream meant something, and it echoes. by god it echoes and i am crying

[ghosted-jazz]

I like to think breaking the canary curse via dying in the void had some effects on Lizzie

[starry-bi-sky]

don't you want to be a cult leader? - danyal al ghul au

this is mostly a joke post but i thought it was funny and had to share so--

his first mistake was, obviously, inheriting his father's inability to see an injustice and stand still. -- actually, danyal's first mistake was his lair being so big. a mountainous island with a large temple in the center resembling his old home in Nanda Parbat? With sprawling foliage and rivers and streams and waterfalls galore? What was he going to do with all that space? Let it go to waste? He had plants there! Native trees of the ghost zone growing from the soil! He couldn't let it all be left unchecked!

So naturally after helping a fellow teenage assassin ghost -- who he later learns is named Akihiko, -- from Walker of all people, he sent them over to hang low at his lair until it was safe enough for them to wander around the Zone. Walker couldn't get through Danyal's astrofield if his life depended on it, and trust him -- he's tried. Danny was clearing out debris from his stupid transport vans for weeks.

Honestly it wasn't so bad, he and Aki really quickly became fast friends and Danny loves having a sparring partner close to his level again -- he hasn't had this much fun fighting since he left the League. Aki was very dedicated and levelheaded, the both of them clicked really well because of it.

Nonono, the real trouble began after Danyal met some long-passed League members and allowed them to come join his island as well. Apparently they had made a few enemies of the zone, and maybe Danyal still felt some loyalty to the League. He couldn't just let them be left to rot. Their zealotry could be overlooked so long as they kept it contained and helped him take care of his island.

And it.. snowballs from there? He meets a teen squire aptly calling himself Ambroise -- whether that was his living name or not is yet to be seen -- who died during feudal france, who is just about as dramatic and passionate as every french stereotype makes them out to be. He calls Danyal "my moon and great muse" -- which is both flattering and little uncomfortable, but Danyal's grown up in the League as the Grandson of the Demon Head, he is used to mild worship. he passes it off as nothing more, nothing less. -- and while his energy is overwhelming on the worst of days, he helps Danny draw out of his shell more in ways that Sam and Tucker still struggle with.

Him and Aki butt heads a lot, but the two seem to hold the other in at least some positive regard, so Danny doesn't worry too much about them fighting while he's gone. It only becomes a mild issue when Aki also begins calling Danny "my moon". It's a little sweet, so Danyal brushes it off.

Then he takes in a troupe of ghosts some time after he defeats Pariah Dark and they begin calling him "great one" just as the yetis do in the far frozen. This is where he meets the twins -- a pair of sibling ghosts who call themselves Trixie and Missy (short for Trick and Mislead) -- who aren't quite as passionate as Ambroise but more energetic than Aki. Eventually they also start calling Danyal "my moon" and attach themselves to his hip, even within the living. They like to hide in his shadow and cause trouble for the rest of the students. He makes sure they don't hurt anyone.

He's pretty sure Aki is jealous, same with Ambroise, but he can't be too certain other than the fact that they become much more lingering (re: clingy) whenever he visits the island.. Something he's trying to do much more often these days due to the increasing amount of people living there now. Since when did he become so popular?

Then there's Pēnelópeia from the Greater Athens, who ran away from home and joined his Island after he ran into her while she was being chased by Skulker -- and he's pretty sure the reason was because of her chimeric appearance. Her strange eyes and mismatched wings and lion's tail and talons. She assimilates into his friend group very easily, she gets along well with Ambroise and Trixie and Danny usually finds the three of them climbing the trees to pluck the most fruit from the top. They can fly and he knows it, but they prefer to climb.

Then finally there's silent poet Akkara who comes from ancient mesopotamia, who gets along most with Aki -- which is no surprise there considering their similar personality dispositions. he watches Aki and Danyal fight each other and leaves comments on this or that that he notices. He writes Danyal poems on clay tablets and leaves them by his room.

They're one big mismatched group of outcasts, and Danny's got the other ghosts on his island to tend to, because they're living on his island and he wants to be hospitable even if he struggles with that. But he spends the most of his time with them.

Sam and Tucker are making fun of him. Tucker jokingly tells him 'careful Danny, at this rate you're gonna start a cult'. Danny really wishes he had taken that joke more seriously.

He just. keeps. collecting people. Wayward souls lost in the zone, looking for shelter or refuge from something or other -- whether that be another hostile ghost, or a past afterlife, or just a purpose. Danyal finds them, he takes them in, offers them a place on his island until they are ready to leave. Many seldom do. He's not complaining -- he has the space, and it feels like it's only ever growing.

His close friends, his "inner circle" as he's heard the others call them, keep insistently calling him "my moon". He starts calling them his stars, because then it only feels fair. They're his stars, this is his constellation. It becomes a thing; little star halos begin forming behind their heads, picking them out from the rest. He loves them so much, it's hard to place. Sam and Tucker are also his stars, but they reside in the living realm, they're his tie to Life. Meanwhile, his friends here know what it's like to be dead, and sometimes its nice to relate.

Those living on his island keep calling him "Great One" and he's beginning to notice zealotry in their care for his island. He really, deeply appreciates it. His close friends gain nicknames -- as his stars, it's only natural for him to pick them out from the cluster in the skies. Akihiko, his Sirius and bright star. Trix and Missy, Castor and Pollux, the twins and troublemakers. Ambroise, his zealous Antares and close friend. Penelopeia, chimeric and loyal Vega. And Akkara, his Arcturus and strength.

It's ridiculous how long it takes for him to notice; he is, of course, a deadly trained assassin. He is meant to be observant -- and normally he is! But somehow this becomes a blind spot. One that becomes too big to be dealt with by the time he realizes it.

He should've noticed when Aki, his Sirius, stood beside him one day while Danyal looked over his island and saw the sprawling spirits carrying on about their afterlife and bowing to him as they saw him, and said: "I looked down into the depths when I met you; I couldn't measure it." They aren't one for flowing prose, it took him so off guard he was silent for over a minute before he finally spoke.

Danyal should've recognized devotion for what it is, and yet he didn't. He should've recognized it when Antares began spouting praises about him, crowing about his radiance and resplendence to the heavens. He just brushed it off as Ambroise being Ambroise. He should've recognized it when Trix and Missy nearly broke Dash's leg after he knocked Danyal's books out of his hands, he excused it as them being protective. Of them coming from times where such violence may have been customary -- after all, that's what he used to be like. What he was still like, sometimes, when his emotions nearly got the better of him.

He should've noticed it when the people living on his island followed his word like gospel, looked at him like he hung the stars in the sky. When his friends gifted him a shawl with the moon phases delicately embroidered into it, with silver, shimmering thread and moving stars lovingly stitched into it. Their constellations seen clear as day in the dark fabric. When he found small shrines dedicated to him -- but they lacked any image of him beyond stones carved to look like moons, so he ignored it. When the religious imagery began popping up.

He really, really should've noticed it when a bunch of cultists accidentally summoned Antares, and Antares had turned to him when he arrived and called them heretics. But he was so centered on the fact that they had kidnapped one of his stars, that he hadn't paid much attention to what Ambroise had said.

Sages say that faith is blind, they should also say faith in you is even blinder.

It really only hits him one afternoon while he's sitting in Sam's room studying with Tucker, Missy and Trixie lounging at his feet, Aki sat on his right, Penelopeia braiding his hair, Ambroise draped against him, and Akkara lurking over him. Its one of the rare few times they're all in one room together.

It hits him like a bolt of lightning. He looks up from his textbook. "Oh Ancients," he says in no amounting shock. Everyone looks up to him.

"I've become my grandfather."

[puppppppppy]

good morning sifloop nation

[itsdefinitely]

Nighttime routine

[sentientsky]

words by Trista Mateer

do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?

[cosmic-meteorites]

Long haired Vincent nation 💥RISE💥

(Edit: They have a tumblr)

Inspired by @skymaeda

[bred-is-a-dumb-name]

Thought I would try my hand at drawing this guy...

[ultra-raging-ghost]

"THE THING I THINK I LOVE WILL SURELY BRING ME PAIN / INTOXICATION, PARANOIA AND A LOT OF FAME"

[solar-eclippse]

I'm 100% in camp "Jinx faked her death and got out" and I'm currently absolutely shattered over the thought of her self-hating little heart deciding that Vi would be happier with Caitlyn than with her, and deciding to take that choice away from her, "for her own good".

Even more shattered over the fact that, especially after their reconciliation in act 2, it's a decision that makes sense. If it came down to it, Vi would choose Jinx. Yes, she loves Caitlyn, but Jinx is her anchor, and has been all her life. Following Jinx would put a target on Vi's back, but if push comes to shove, she would do it, and Jinx couldn't let that happen.

Y'know. This is fine!

[autoraton]

same as it never was.

[sciderman]

Curious, how much Spidey merchandise do you own?

i'm really normal about spider-man and have a completely normal amount of spider-man merchandise.

[blazeys-planet]

Somethin about Devotion burgies

OKAY SO i've seen a lot of people talking about the headcanon that inspekta doesn't finish the devotion burgies right, i thought that was a really interesting observation and wanted to see more! since Inspektas desk changes every chapter i figure theres probably a timeline of things to get an idea of if he is actually finishing them or not so i went through each segment and heres what i found

SPOILERS INCOMING!

GROVE COVE/BEGINNING OF MILLDREAD: Burgie fully in-tact, food untouched save for some fries (same bestie)

END OF MILLDREAD/BEGINNING OF HOBBYHOO: Burger partially eaten, buns are gone and most of the fries are too. Only thing left is the meat and tomatoes.

BEGINNING OF BUZZHUZZ: All the food is gone, including the meat and Inspekta is doing his silly burger song, same place ya get the 'Being a god is uh tasty affair!' line from, so in my mind its implied hes actively eating in this scene before you interrupt him?

END OF BUZZHUZZ/BEGINNING OF SPIRE: 4 new burgies, only thing touched is the fries. also worth noting this is the first time the medical tape asset is used but thats not the point of this particular post.

OKAY So in my mind this particular sequence of events moreso implies Inspekta is in fact eating the burgies, just that hes doing so in parts and rather slowly. Delving back into headcanon territory for the moment, i also tend to do this as a neurodivergent person but usually for the sake of eating the best part last.

So if following that logic, uh, yea. I think you know where that train of thought is headed.

I mean, wouldn't a cut of flesh from your most loyal followers heart and made into a meal be a divine flavor to a god? much to think about.

[feligayzed]

rings dinner bell FOOD IS SERVED

originally i was gonna post his ref with Painter's but i can actively feel myself getting lazy and i just want to get this out into the world :,3 BEHOLD SURFACE SEB in all his angsty glory

this ended up looking more like brain vomit than i intended but OH WELL i'm not touching it anymore ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[potatobugz]

eek! scary!

[front-facing-pokemon]