#diego week

[myhyperfixationisiforgot]

"If the Hargreeves had phones every season would end in two episodes!" Babe if there were cell phones in the Umbrella Academy it would be so much worse. Not a single person in that house is capable of conveying information in a coherent manner. Diego has them all blocked. Viktor only listens to his voicemail in bulk once a month. Five developed his own shorthand during the apocalypse that he truly thinks is coherent to other human beings (it is not). Luther, by nature of who he is, absolutely Does Not Text for any reason and keeps calling the others. Klaus is carrying at least four conversations in the same thread at any given point in time. Even if they all managed to remember that they owned phones (unlikely) and then proceeded to convey relevant information in a timely fashion (even less likely), not a single one of them would figure it out. Allison could probably muster the braincells necessary but would not under any circumstances manage to stay on task long enough to do anything about it. Phones would absolutely not help with anything at all.

[local-space-gay]

still thinking about how the squire took a video of himself trying on his celebrity crush’s armor, probably thinking no one would ever see the video, only to have to show it to HIS CELEBRITY CRUSH because it had evidence on it that would prove him innocent of murder charges

[littlecrittereli]

DECODED

"Martin was the self-sacrificial type. He was the one who woke up every night just to pull Chris out of a nightmare. He was the one who tested the more questionable technology Aviva whipped up. He was the one who took on extra tasks when someone wasn’t feeling well. He was the one who would take the blame when the brothers landed themselves in trouble. He was the one who would carry the burdens of everyone else around him, while locking his own away in a dark corner, and never once complain.  And Chris knew for a fact, the only reason Martin didn’t trade places with him when Diego dragged him away and locked him within his own mind was because his brother couldn't work miracles. But Chris didn’t think he could share this burden with Martin. He decided he wouldn’t even give him the choice."

Reprogrammed part 2: Decoded's first chapter will be posted this Saturday.

Also special thank you to @nervousloveheart for suggesting the name "Decoded"! It's honestly stuck with me and I kinda just started subconsciously referring to the fic as that before I even officially chose the title lol

[corviidwrld]

happy steel ball run day 🫶🏼nothing bad ever happened! everyone was friends at the end and they got to live peaceful, happy lives 🫶🏼🫶🏼 peace n love on planet earth

[izloveshorses]

rebelcaptain appreciation week | day 3: partners

trust goes both ways.

[scary-monsters]

i hc that modern au diego considers brit rock to be the golden standard and he rarely listens to american rock but he’ll make an exception for the strokes

[sharkneto]

It was supposed to be a simple date night. Patch, Diego, some cheap Italian food and a movie. Instead, Diego has gotten in over his head chasing down a gang, and now Patch has to make nice with his other girlfriend, Lila, to save him. And Five has invited himself along to help, too. Just great. Diego is going to owe her big time when this is over.

Sharkneto? Writing a ship fic? It's more likely than you think. More likely than Patch thought, too.

[essektheylyss]

concept: gamechanger masks that say "I'VE BEEN MASKING THE WHOLE TIME"

[sigelfire]

Seriously, this picture tho...

[non-plutonian-druid]

look guys i actually did some spirit designs

[ID: the Hargreeves' spirits in the Paranatural au - or at least, the five of them that are kids in this au.

Luther's is an ape that looks like his body from the comics. Diego's is a creature that looks a bit like a small porcupine. Allison's is a large snake with its mouth duct taped shut. Klaus' is a blue raccoon with three eyes and a pink tail, and Viktor's is based off of the White Violin from the comics, except its head transforms into reaching arms. End ID.]

sorry, the ID got REALLY long this time. that's a summary for anyone scrolling, theres a more detailed one under the cut!

[ID: Luther's spirit is labelled First Simian In Space: THE MARTIAN APE. He looks like the ape that supplied Luther's body in the comics, drawn in the paranatural style; blue, with one eye. He is wearing an astronaut helmet and sitting in a coin operated rocket ship that is much too small for it. He has transformed the world around him into a scifi martian landscape; cardboard standups with doors and lockers scribbled on them are the only indication of the real world. Luther is sprawled on the ground staring in shock, while the Martian Ape says "Y'know, you should totally just kill your dad".

Diego's spirit is a very small creature that looks a bit like a porcupine.

Panel 1: Diego holds his spirit in his hands and says, "So, what's your name?". His spirit responds "I am called..."

Panel 2: A caption appears; Projectile Extraordinaire: KRAKEN. The image is in full color, focusing on Kraken, which glowers cutely and shows off her spines.

Panel 3: The same shot as panel one, except Diego now looks very skeptical. He says "..." and then "Why." Kraken responds "It sounded cool."

Allison's spirit is a giant green snake coiled around a tree branch, with a pattern down his back that looks like open mouths.

The first two images are centered on Allison, who is scowling in both. Someone unseen says "It can force people to do things, honey!" and "It's too dangerous to leave you alone with it." and finally, "So we fixed it."

The final image is of the spirit. He is captioned Muzzled Mind Controller: THE RUMOR. His mouth has been duct taped shut. He does not look pleased.

Klaus' spirit is a blue raccoon with dark purple legs and a fluffy striped pink tail. It also has three eyes.

Panel 1: The large colored closeup of Klaus' spirit. It is captioned Mystical Conartist: THE SEANCE.

Panel 2: Klaus asks it "With a name like that, what's your power?" The Seance, its nose just high enough to fit into frame, replies, "Oh, I can sense ghosts"

Panel 3: Klaus looks supremely unimpressed. In the background, a ghost says "Hi" to Allison and Luther, and they say "Oh, hey" back.

Panel 4: Klaus asks, "Seriously?"

Panel 5: The Seance, viewed from above, says "Hey, I can sense them even when they're not visible! Like behind walls and stuff!"

Panel 6: The Seance adds "Also I can float." It is demonstrating, floating about eye level with Klaus and emitting a cloud of cyan spectral energy as it does so. Klaus looks more pleased with this and says "Okay, that one's pretty good."

Viktor's spirit is a Wight, a spirit so warped by rage and pain that it has permanently been changed, its spectral energy has become white, and has gained massive, devastating power. It looks a lot like the design of the White Violin in the comics, but it manifests too many or too few arms from where its head should be.

There are three images of it. In the first, it is kneeling. It has manifested six arms in varying degrees of completeness, and all of them look sad.

In the second, the matter of its head has split into many small pieces that almost look like parts of mouths, save for two clawing hands. It screams, in the Wight spirit language from Paranatural, WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME.

In the third, the largest, its knees buckle as it stands and manifests one reaching hand. It is captioned Violent White: THE WHITE VIOLIN. End ID]

[the-babygirl-polls]

Diego Brando - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

[linkneol091]

I saw a post by @sealsdaily and knew I had to draw this ( esp with diego ( along with johnny ) being my sbr fav)

Bonus

SILLY!!!!

[citree]

Hi! I think your TUA art is super cute and I especially love how you draw Diego and Lila. Can I suggest this prompt to you https://www.tumblr.com/deyathemuniz/718337695398658048

I envision Lila as Ken here. The vibes are very asylum era XD

oh they SO are

Later when they're all cutsey and domestic i like to think they have their first couple photo up on the wall like your typical family does, except their first picture together is a degraded mugshot from 1960's texas that prompts more questions than answers whenever they have company over

[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

We hold several editions of emblem books from the 16th though 18th centuries, including several early editions of Emblemata by Andrea Alciati, the progenitor of all printed emblem books. It was quite by accident that I encountered this little emblem book, Idea de un Principe Politico Christiano Representada en Cien Empresas (Idea of a Christian Political Prince Represented in 100 Maxims) by the Spanish diplomat and essayist Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (1584-1648), published in Amsterdam by the noted map and atlas publisher Jan Janszoon (1588-1664) in 1664.

I was quite taken by the 103 emblematic copperplate engravings illustrating the book's 101 (not 100) anti-Machiavellian essays on the education of a young prince intended for the son of Philip IV of Spain. The first edition was published in Munich by Nicolao Enrico in 1640, and was subsequently published in several editions (including this one) and translated into several languages. It is often thought that the first edition was published in Monaco, as it appears on the title page, but the Latin name for Munich is Monacum.

The choice of the emblematic form by Saavedra follows the example of Erasmus that, in order to teach the maxims to the prince, one must "present them to the memory intently, at times with a sentence, at times with a simile, at times with an example, at times with an apothegm, at times with a proverb." I am charmed by all the engravings, but I think my favorites are the beehive with the epithet Nullipatet (Null and Void) and the last image with the epithet Ludibria Mortis (Games of Death).

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections

[scary-monsters]

two flavors of him ✌🏻😳