#chosen of secrets

[fourwillows]

Exalted Secret Santa Post!!! @shiftingpath Hat tip to the host

(The second portrait is by AnnaCory)

Kingfisher is a Sidereal Chosen of Secrets. He's just got the one outfit. Feel free to design new stuff, though, within his color scheme (he's like a kingfisher, duh, a saturated cool deep base color, and maybe variations on the base, with small warm accents.) He likes asymmetrical clothes and showing some skin. You don't work for abs like that and then cover them up. You can check out my inspiration Pinterest board here:

If you'd like to do a combat scene, he practices a martial art that uses the sword or trident, called the Malachite Fangs of the Tide. I didn't do a mechanical writeup for it yet. Visually, think of sea snakes; it's fluttering and coiling, a thrashing ribbon, exploiting flexible weapons and striking with fingers like fangs.

Visual motifs: feathers, wings, the trident and star-disc. Contrast between skintight and drapey clothing; knotted cords.

His anima is a slowly expanding, many-petaled flower, like a lotus constantly opening. At the outer portions, the petals gradually become elongated and feather-like; they split at the margins and become elongated. It acts like ripples of something moving across water; every so often, a lotus opens at his Caste mark and stays in place while he moves past it.

I'd prefer not to see any injury or horror stuff. Demons being weird but not gory/violent are fine. Please notice that all these characters are dark-skinned, not European light.

[jarjaross]

So I actually started an Exalted art challenge years ago with no intention of doing it in 30 days as just a way to keep in practice. When I saw someone starting it up again with a 4 week version on the Exalted Discord I decided to join in. This is the first challenge of PC or NPC so I did an image of the first character I did for the Exalted challenge last time. I can actually feel how out of practice I am with how poorly I ended up doing this (I fused a bunch of layers and then had to deal with the repercussions. So the light and shadows aren’t as nice as I would like.)

As for any information on the character. Well thats a secret isn’t it.

[bluerosefox]

To Protect Them

Another DPxDC idea with twins Danny and Damian.

'He knows.'

That was only message Danny received before he felt like he had dropped in freezing cold Arctic waters naked and felt if he remembered to breathe at this moment he would see his own breath, even though he had an ice core and no longer felt actual cold anymore, and for a moment the world around him faded into nothing.

No sound, no touch, not even smell.

Nothing.

Then like a supernova, everything around him exploded.

Everything was too loud, to strong, his skin felt hot and cold at the same time somehow. The feeling of dread crawled up his body.

He needed to go.

Run.

This message was his only warning. The only thing his birth mother could send him in regards of help. He knows it, he knows she can't do anything else but this. He also knows she wants to do more but in order continue to be the eyes and ears inside of the hellhole he once called home, a place he both hated and feared yet somehow still loved if only for the memories of his mother and brother, she could not do anything more.

"Hey Dann-o! Anything good in the mail today!?" Came the loud voice of Jack Fenton, his adopted dad, from the doorway. The same man who took one look at a muddy, dirty, tense, untrusting, almost fully feral little six year old Danyal al Ghul who held onto his only daughter hand when she dragged him home after finding him behind the Nasty Burger looking for food, and decided point blank that he was now a Fenton. That Danny, Daniel was his son as if he always was.

Danny could feel his lip tremble when he realized if he ran, if he booked it out of Amity now, the people he loved, the people he would happily die for, would be targeted. It wouldn't matter if he faked his death, or just left with no warning and never contacted them ever, ever again.

They would be killed for just knowing him.

For their deaths would be his punishment.

Danny could feel the rest of the mail in his hands, the ones he had went outside to get before breakfast cause his mom asked him to, fall out of them, the only one staying was the message from his birth mother. He took in a shaky uneven breath and turned around.

His face no doubt was pale, paler than it normally was, and his body trembled, and Danny had no doubt that despite all the training he had learned when he was in the League that even if he brought it out and pretended he was fine, his dad would be able to tell something was wrong.

Because his dad's happy cheerful face shifted to a concerned worried frown, a frown Danny hadn't seen in a few years, a frown that was common when Danny would wake in the middle of the night screaming, begging, or cursing in his native language or when he would be spooked enough to reach for a knife. But even with those moments the man never ever found fault in Danny, instead he would lower his voice and speak softly to Danny, waiting until he calmed down before asking if it would be okay to touch or hug him. Then he would sit with Danny for hours, keeping his normally loud and booming voice soft as he talked about random things, like family fudge recipes and how they came to be.

"Danny?" Jack asked softly as he took a small step forward, one of his hands lifted up as if asking permission to reach out.

Danny wanted nothing more than to rush into his dad's arms and hide in his large frame. Hide from the world around him but Danny knows he didn't have time, none of them did.

He took in one more breath and could feel his body stop shaking, his mind no longer chaotic, and his nerves steeling up. For the first time in a long, long time, he wasn't Daniel 'Danny' Fenton anymore.

He was Danyal al Ghul again.

"Dad. Get mom and Jazz into the GAV. Now." Danny ordered, his eyes narrowing as he clutched the message in his hand tight.

His dad knew something big was going down.

And he trusted Danny enough to do so quickly.

Danny closed his eyes as his dad ran into the house, yelling for Maddie and Jazz to get into the GAV. Danny opened them when he could feel the message in his hands slowly being covered in ice and knew his eyes were now glowing green.

He didn't have a lot of time. He needed to get his family, Tucker, and Sam out of Amity.

He needed to get them someplace safe.

He needed backup. More than his family and his friends.

He needed-

Danny nearly jumped when he realized who he can call to help.

In a flash he took his phone out of his pocket and quickly dialed a number he barely liked calling but needed to do so at this moment.

He waited, it felt like ages and it was agonizing, before the person on the other line finally picked up.

"What do you want-" came a somewhat same but rougher sounding of his voice but Danny cut him off.

"Dan, he knows." was the only thing Danny needed to say because he could hear the sharp intake of breath.

"Get them here now." was the order.

"Already on it. Is Ellie and Vlad with you?"

"Yes."

"Good. We'll be there shorty. Keep them safe."

"And then what?" Came the gruff question.

"Then... Then we'll prepare and call in Father and Damian. We need all the help we can get."

".....He won't be happy... About everything. Our... your fake death you know."

".... I know. But hopefully Father and the rest of his batclan will keep him from lashing out too much, especially with civilians and innocent lives on the line."

The two, Danny and Dan fell into a silence for a moment. Danny could hear his dad trying to hurry his mom and Jazz into the GAV despite their questions

".... Explaining all of this is going to be a shit show isn't it." Came Dan's voice after a couple of minutes.

Danny winced because yeah, not only explaining his actual past as Danyal al Ghul to the Fenton's, Tucker, Sam, and to Ellie, and Vlad but also having to explain his new life to his birth father and twin brother, a brother who thought he was dead, was going to be a hell in a handbasket.

"Yeah... it will be." Came his only response as he heard the GAV starting up and the garage door opening. Dan must of heard it over the speaker phone and said "Get Sam and Tucker and get here soon. No stops. We'll fortified Vlads dumb place in the meantime."

Dan didn't wait after that and instead just disconnected the call. Danny removed his phone from his ear and quickly pull up the group chat he had with his friends, sending them a quick message to meet him now. He used the code they had set up incase the Fenton's didn't take to him being Phantom well, he never had to use it since they took the news good, well as good as one could be after finding out their invention had half killed their son and that they had been hunting his ghost side down, but since this was important he needed them to be ready now.

He frowned as the Fenton GAV pulled up towards him and knew that what happens next would be...

Stressful.

[nibbelraz]

THANK YOU @neatnete FOR TALKING WITH ME ABOUT ORV AND SVSSS

Thinking about Plotter and Bingge doing monthly meetings with wine to discuss how they weren't chosen by their readers and have to talk it out while all the kkomas and Bingge's wives hang out.

Han Sooyoung and Shang Qinghua being friends as they make fun of their readers and protagonists.

Kim Dokja seeing how tragic and interesting Shen Jiu is, Bingge new to this type of heartbreak while Plotter has lived a very long time to understand and move on.

And of course Uriel and Liu Mingyan being THE BEST of friends writing fics about everything together ✨️

[amira-house]

"I don't want to lose Cosmo and Wanda..."

Timmy has no idea what he's done.

He had fervently hoped not to lose them, that the magic that slept within him responded to his desperate longing, and fulfilled the wish.

[wormtime123]

thinking hard. about last life grian saying about etho “he has no loyalty to you, he’s just immediately teamed up with the next guy that’s come along. if he loved you why didn’t he give you a life" and secret life etho saying about grian “he had to move on with his life, what was he supposed to do, mourn the whole time?" both projecting their own reasonings for ‘abandoning’ certain alliances when they turned south. these two being teamed and staying loyal until the end. can anyone hear me

[little-pondhead]

Unknown to the time-traveling Dan, Danny and Dani Phantom, Bruce Wayne is actually their great-great grandson.

They just don’t know which Phantom line he belongs to, because none of them have actually gone back in time yet to an era that would match up with the Wayne family tree.

[illmoraineakoi]

As much as I adore the idea of Alan being like a dad to the Color Gang, I am absolutely feral for interpretations where that’s not really the case.

Or, more specifically, when those feelings are very one sided.

The CG look up to him and adore him as a parental/guardian figure, loving him almost like a father, especially Orange in particular who 110% sees and loves Alan as a father figure, while Alan himself sees himself more as a tolerant friendly landlord; just a dude who’s letting five stick figures live on his computer and not really interacting with them (except for Orange) very much beyond playing a few games for them or sparring with them. And even with Orange, it’s more of a friendship relationship than a parent-child one. Just generally pretty emotionally detached/distant towards them, not really feeling very strongly about any of them. Sort of how IRL Alan speaks about them as characters; fond, but not loving*. He still largely just sees them as stick figures. Like smart little living desktop pets.

Which makes all of the potential scenarios where they meet on more equal grounds (Stick!Alan AUs and IRL!Sticks/Human!Sticks AUs) potentially very juicy.

The CG and Orange in particular are always very excited to meet and actually interact with Alan, and Alan just feels overwhelmed and awkward by all the affection/attention. Or perhaps even confused about why they seem to like him so much.

Which can very quickly turn into a situation where the Gang notices that Alan doesn’t seem very comfortable around them, that he’s not nearly as excited and enthusiastic about finally being able to touch and hug them as they are with him. That he seemed to be kind of distant from them, withdrawing away from them. Oh, he’s friendly and polite, and he’ll talk to them, he’s not being mean or ignoring them or anything, but it’s not really like how they always imagined meeting him would be. It’s not as happy and joyous. He doesn’t interact/engage with them on his own. Doesn’t offer hugs or pats or much affection at all. He’ll do it if they initiate or ask, but he never gives anything of the sort freely.

Perhaps they think it’s because everything is so new and fresh, that maybe he’s feeling a bit overwhelmed. Maybe he just needs a little time to get used to them.

But when they give him that time…nothing seems to change. And they’re just left even more confused and concerned. Why was he acting like this? He was never like this before… (or so they think.)

Or perhaps a situation occurs where it’s revealed that Orange sees him like a father, or perhaps Orange even calls him his father, and Alan denies it. Corrects him. Tells Orange that he’s not his parental figure, that he always thought they were just friends. That all of them were just a bunch of sticks he was letting live on his computer. He wasn’t their dad, where in the world did they get THAT weird idea from? He was just Alan, the owner of the computer they made their home on. He barely even knew them.

And the Gang is both shocked and heartbroken. They hadn’t known Alan felt that way, just as Alan hadn’t been aware of how they felt. It was so easy for misunderstandings and misinterpretations to happen between them when they couldn’t really communicate very well.

But Orange, Orange is devastated. It hurts, so bad, because Alan literally created him. Alan was his creator, the closest thing to an actual parent he had. And yet Alan didn’t want to fill that role towards him, didn’t want to be his father. He could have seen and understood Alan not considering himself the others’ parent, since Alan hadn’t made them, but Orange was undeniably his.

But Alan didn’t want him like that. Didn’t see him like that.

He was just a stick figure who frequently helped him animate and lived on his computer. The fact that Alan made him appeared to be irrelevant.

So Orange puts on a smile and accepts it, apologizing for misunderstanding. But inside, he’s raw. The rejection feels so awful.

And it stings just how relieved Alan looked after his apology, like he was grateful that they weren’t arguing about it.

Because they don’t. What more was there to say? Alan had made his feelings on the matter very clear, and who were they to try argue against that? To challenge him, and demand he change his feelings towards them? To demand he love them? No, that’s not how things worked. That wasn’t how love worked.

You can’t try to force someone who doesn’t love you to love you.

Instead, Orange goes to his room, and sobs. It hurts so much. It feels like a chunk of his heart has been ripped out, leaving a giant empty gap where it had been. He can’t stop thinking about why Alan didn’t love him even though he made him. He can’t help but wonder if it’s because somehow he wasn’t good enough. Or if he’d done something wrong.

Or if it was because he was just a stick figure. Not human. Not a “real” person in Alan’s eyes.

He doesn’t know, but it hurts all the same.

The others, too, mourn the loss of the only parent-like figure they’ve ever known. They never knew their own creator, whoever the person who actually made them even was, they only ever knew Alan. It stings, how all of his weird recent behavior now makes sense. He hadn’t needed time. He had never loved them as much as they, apparently mistakenly, thought he did in the first place. It leaves them feeling empty and bereft, at a loss for what to do with themselves now.

And Alan is left totally oblivious to just how badly he’s just hurt them all.

And totally oblivious to what he himself has just lost, the potential for what could have been.

…At least, until he goes through some Character Development and inevitably has some Realizations that “Oh shit, those actually ARE my kids, oh fuck what have I done?!” And he needs to claw back the gangs’ love and affection and trust they’d since given up on.

* - [Or at least that’s how it always felt for me, watching AvG reactions, though that could just be because IRL Alan just sounds kinda bland and introverted in most of his commentary on his own animations lmao “I mean I like Orange.” Bro that is your main character that has been spearheading your entire career for a literal decade, why do you sound about as enthusiastic about him as if someone just asked you about your favorite weather type lmao jk jk]

[itslilacokay]

CHOSENWEEK DAY 2 : REST

referencing this

heres the (OPTIONAL) promptlist and the announcement for context

[mars-ax]

MARS. POST THE DOODLE OF SCOTT AND CLEO CUDDLING AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

so I don't usually post doodles because I'm very self-conscious about their quality, but just for you harper

So that doodle was actually in a series of other doodles all in the theme of "literal sleeping together" because that's one of my favorite things ever, so I might as well put them all here then

[crossdressingdeath]

Another thought on Gortash never using Durge's name in documents, even though he presumably knows it: maybe he never uses it in anything someone else could read because they're not supposed to have one.

I mean, they were created to be an embodiment of Bhaal's will. There's a reason that their default name is literally just "The Dark Urge" and that that's how they remember themself even if you give them a different name. Why would Bhaal name his glorified meat puppet? And if he didn't I doubt anyone within his cult would for fear it'd piss him off. It's entirely possible Durge only has a name because someone from outside the temple (their foster family, some friend or lover they had in the past, Gortash himself...) gave them one, or because they chose to name themself whether Bhaal liked it or not in a moment of rebellion. If that's the case it would make sense for Durge to keep their name quiet, which it turn would make Gortash refusing to use it in any documentation that other people could see and definitely not using it in his memoir make a lot more sense than it does if it's just... a name.

It also makes Durge telling Gortash their name an actual big deal. If this is something they shouldn't have (because they're not actually supposed to be a person), then there's a fair chance that Bhaal wouldn't appreciate them introducing themself like a normal person rather than the destined harbinger of Bhaal's apocalyptic designs. But... there they are, telling Bane's Chosen their name. The name Bhaal did not want them to have. Even if Bhaal decides not to make a fuss about that, there's a fair chance they'd be worried he would. Whether you play it as them taking a risk right out the gate to really solidify their alliance at the start (with Gortash not realizing until later what a big deal that was) or them keeping their name to themself for a while and only sharing it with Gortash once they trust him (in which case he knows what a big deal it is right away), the concept of Durge's name actually being something they have a reason to keep quiet about and then choose to give to Gortash is both very good shipping fuel and creates a solid reason for him to not share that name with the world. After all, it was a gift that Durge gave to him as a show of trust. It would be a betrayal to share it with the world, especially after their apparent death.

[lilac-hecox]

Smoshblr Secret Santa Exchange 2024!

I wanted to throw together a Secret Santa for our smoshblr fandom and after polling you guys, you seemed into it so here it is!

I'll give you a little breakdown of the explanation/rules:

This event is 18+

The exchange is open to fics, art, Gif Sets, Moodboards, Playlists, edits, other fan created content

Sign-ups are from now (November 15th) until November 22nd. (If you missed sign-ups and would still like to participate you could sign up for pitch-hitting fill-ins in case we have drop outs!)

Pairings for gifter/giftee will be done on November 23rd.

Gifts will be posted between December 23rd-25th

As this is an event where you are making something for someone else secretly, we ask that if you do not think you can create something in the timeframe to please not sign-up as we do not want to have people not receive a gift.

Please fill out the Google Form for information on what you like, don't like, and what you're willing to create and receive.

Any questions, comments, concerns please reach out to me!

Reblogs are appreciated!

Huge credit to @shaynesunderstudy for creating this super cute graphic!

[gojoest]

lowkey had a very scandalous idea earlier this week, still very undeveloped though

[wildersfanart]

[amira-house]

How does Timmy feel, knowing that Vicky and Cocker are now good and nice and actually care about him?

Timmy can always count on them for help and he really appreciates them so much.

They both helped him as he learned to control his newly acquired magic, even though it proved to be too destructive.

(Making time flow normally could destroy the world or reality itself, so he stopped trying...)

[ethogirltournament]

Mumbo is a fellow redstoner and admirer of Etho’s work, joining the ranks of the hermitcraft ethogirls. Despite knowing him for years, being around Etho still makes him nervous! Josh is the man who made and ran ethopedia, a website to look up all things Etho. It is shut down at the moment, but he has plans to return to it in a few years.