#cool question

[kingofthewilderwest]

What’s your favorite star/constellation (if you have one)?

I don't have a favorite constellation or star, but your question immediately threw me back in time. In the fifth grade, we studied constellations in class. We took empty black film canisters and poked holes in them, so that when you looked into the canister, you'd see the constellation. That was a hands-on element to go with a report. My research project was Canis Major.

I'd forgotten about this, but your message hurled me back in time with full force. That class had some of THE most unique science units and projects I've had in school. Thanks for the fond memories. :)

Today, I'm only smart enough to recognize Orion and the Big Dipper immediately, though the Big Dipper was *right* outside my porch the other night and stunningly bright. That was epic. Between Orion and the Big Dipper, I like the Big Dipper better. I'm usually wheeling about trying to find it on a clear night.

Really do need to learn my constellations rotflh.

[olivish]

Cast this hypothetical Superhero project!

Who is the hero?

Who is the villain?

Who is the love interest?

Who is the army grunt who dies in the last 10 minutes?

Who is the hero's mentor?

Who is the villains henchman?

(And Bonus: is there a happy ending?)

YOUR POOL OF ACTORS & ACTRESSES:

Jennifer Connelly, Sean Bean, Nicole Kidman, Leslie Odom Jr., Amy Adams, Emily Blunt

Hero: Leslie Odom Jr. Villain: Jennifer Connelly Love interest: Emily Blunt Army Grunt: Sean Bean (sorry Sean but you owe this fandom a death one way or another...) Hero's Mentor: Nicole Kidman Villain's Henchman: Amy Adams (but it's less of a henchman and more of an administrative "Get me an oatmilk latte, extra hot, and I mean hot" sort of thing)

I think it can be a happy ending. Leslie challenges Jen to a dance-off and despite alot of very intense training and a few dirty tricks, the good guys win in the end. Amy is released from her job-from-hell so she can pursue her journalism career and despite her crushing loss on the dance floor Jennifer proposes to Emily and they get married and live happily ever after. (Wait. By love interest, you meant the *villain's* love interest, right???)

[the-laridian]

Hi! How you you pronounce Gunnar? Like gun-er or goo-nar? I've heard the name both ways in media and your post about their names made me wonder if I'm using the right one for him

I pronounce it "GUN-arr." That's a more Americanized pronunciation, but he is American by birth and that's how he's always pronounced it.

It doesn't stop people from pronouncing it "gunner", though!

(Rowan is the other one whose name has variable pronunciation, and some friends were surprised to realize we have different ways of pronouncing his name)

[fallingsatellive]

ok question: as a bird do you ever see something on the ground you want to look at more closely and by impulse feel the urge to grab it with your foot (talon) to lift it and inspect it more closely before remembering that you cant do that bc human feet (esp when shoed) are not that dextrous??? I get this impulse regularly enough that i notice it and it's making me wonder if there's a Bit of Bird In Here Somewhere or if it's something else.

Not that specifically, but I definitely do constantly want to grab things with my feet. Usually not while I'm wearing shoes because I mean, my bird brain can tell I've got shoes on lol. I don't ever really want to lift things closer to my face to look at them better, I'm more likely to like. You know.

Because not just bird going on in here. But I do pick things up with my feet when I feel like it. It doesn't bother me that I can't because I actually can usually lmao. After I got top surgery I was opening doors and turning the sink on and shit with my feet no problem so it's never been a dysphoria for me. It probably would be if I couldn't though if that helps you with the questioning. My dysphoria is less "can't use feet as hands" and more "why do I have hands AT ALL these appendages are fucked up"

[scaip]

What cakes do you like?

My guilty pleasure is the mixture of chocolate and any kind of berries. If not, then chocolate and lemon

[notbecauseofvictories]

I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael is the cool FNAF older brother to Gregory

[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."

[cherryfennec]

Summer Times

Hi! I'm finally back from my two week abroad trip!

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

I think Duke Thomas should get to give off eldritch horror vibes to all JL-associated magic users. As a treat.

[gascreates]

a new star

[absollnk]

can D05 feel anything or is the best she can get is like, pressure on her body

She can't technically feel anything physically, but she's learned to make guesses based on other peoples' description of whatever she theoretically would be feeling- like if someone were to punch her in the gut she'd probably say "ow" because she knows it's supposed to hurt. Kind of like when you say ow when you get hurt in a video game

[bartistic]

tim, drunk and coerced into a game of two truths and a lie with jason, dick, and steph: okay ummmm i— haha. i have the highest body count in the family, Lobo has a contract out on me and… PFFT i’m dating a guy

jason, also drunk: well the gay thing isn’t news but i call bullshit on the body count, you’re like 15. the fuck did you do to get Lobo after you?

steph, the only sober one, eager to sow chaos: oh Lobo would never kill Tim, they’re buddies. they’re going out for disc golf on saturday.

dick, possibly the drunkest: tim. tim what do you mean you’ve got a body count higher than B’s. our father is a slut.

tim: nonono Bruce doesn’t kill :( that’s his Ruleeee

jason: TIMMERS. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU’VE GOT A BODY COUNT.

tim: ahahaha do you guys have any idea how many assassins i’ve blown up?

steph: TIM. WHAT

tim: [cartoon explosion noises]….KERPLOOEY

[umblrspectrum]

hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags

[chloesimaginationthings]

Abby finally meets FNAF game Michael Afton