#discocritic

[lyralu91]

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For every "🌹" received in my inbox i'll post one random sentence of a random WIP i'm currently writing!

“Look at him,” she said, smiling at Blue - the mouth breather - wearing the biggest, breathiest sun grin on his face. “So bloody pleased with himself.” “He is, isn’t he?” Tom agreed, and the sweet, low chuckle in his chest sounded almost proud.

Cradling his cup of tea in both hands, he sat leaned forward a little as he admired his dog. His best mate. “Little bugger,” he scoffed with a smile, but there was something tired to his voice, like a parent envying the simple life of their child. "Could use some of that myself, couldn’t I. Yeah? You wanna share?” Blue reacted to the questions and trod over to investigate, settling for strokes at first then putting his paws on Tom’s knee. “Not my tea, mate, you can’t have that.” 

OKAY, I KNOW, IT WAS MORE THAN ONE SENTENCE but I felt like sharing a bit more of this scene! 🤭

This is from my Tom Hardy RPF - which I haven't touched in ages... Had fun opening it up though, adding a few things/making changes!

The story is about him and Blue meeting/getting to know/falling in love with a woman named Lyra... 😌 (and her dog Embla! 🐾❤️) Here are some pictures I've kept for inspiration!

[discocritic]

Summary: While on a routine trip through the Zones, Jet Star finds a boy all alone in need of immediate help. Instead of parting ways afterward, Jet and the boy form an unlikely companionship.

here’s an old piece of a fic (originally it was going to be longer but i never finished it) i was writing back in like 2021 that i found and was convinced to publish! just in case anyone that’s still active in dd is still following this account <3 

[andpierres]

vaya and vamos? 🥺

cannot BELIEVE i hadn't drawn them at all until now..... goo

[graffitibible]

why do you not usually use the diner as a setting?

lot of reasons, principle among them being that the way i write the fabulous killjoys, they're just way the hell too high profile for them to have a static home base. they are in CONSTANT motion; the trans am is the closest thing they have to a "home" structure.

ive noticed that a lot of fanon tends to hold the diner as this kind of home base and the ubiquity of that mindset has always kind of puzzled me considering that we really only see it in a handful of shots in the "na na na" music video. everyone spends most of that music video on the move pretty much perpetually.

but i don't knock it! it's just not something that suits my understanding of the universe. the killjoys are hugely wanted targets and being in one consistent location is incredibly, incredibly dangerous, particularly with the girl in tow. no way are they risking indulging in anything as traceable as a consistent location! they have to be sporadic even when checking up on allies like dr. death, again by necessity - BLI wants them bad and they can't afford the risk of becoming predictable.

add that to the fact that the idea of "home" and "family" are pretty central themes to the way i write the canon, i like the idea of those things being tied more to people than to objects or locations. the killjoys' home isn't with any particular building and it's not even really the trans am - their home is each other, first and foremost.

so thematically and logistically, it's just not a location i utilize a whole lot. that being said in my version of canon the killjoys do have to hole up in the diner setting for a good six weeks (they're all very used to their nomadic lifestyle so they pretty much all hate it) and for this bit i've been stuck revising, i'm taking time to sort of dwell on how being stuck in one physical location has taken its toll on some of them psychologically.

[hyperthrust]

top 5 things u can find in kobra's pockets at any given time

clippings of wires and yarn (sometimes tangled up to make the nastiest texture)

keyrings (no keys attached)

nifty little knife (useful)

piece of rubber (not useful, likes the way it smells and to chew)

Smooth Ass Rock

[noiselessbuck]

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[enby-jetstar]

do you have any favorite jet star hcs? 🥺

Yes!!! 💜🌟💜😍💜🌟💜 In no particular order:

Purple hair!! He rarely if ever bleaches it, just puts the dye in on top of his natural brown hair, so it's a really dark purple that can be hard to see except in the sun.

Chaotic fashion!! He wears crazy mismatched stuff all the time, and it's always an amazing outfit that no one else could pull off.

Nonbinary!! Jet's amab and still has some connection to his assigned gender, but he is decidedly not a man. He's tried using they/them, she/her, and a few neopronouns, but none of them fit and he likes he/him, anyway. He also likes to keep his chest covered up for gender reasons.

Dad bod!! Jet's got a nice combination of fat and muscle, with big strong arms and a soft chubby tummy. This means he gives excellent hugs.

Blind in one eye!! This hasn't appeared in any of my fics yet bc it's a relatively new hc, but he got injured during a fight and his eye was damaged. He doesn't usually wear an eye patch though, not since the wounds healed.

T4t king!! He only dates trans men and nonbinary people. This isn't an intentional choice, he just realized one day that he's only ever really formed deep romantic connections with other trans people.

I think that's it!! I love jet star very much..... As you know..... :') 💖

[voughtcorsair]

can i have an airplane fun fact? 🥺👉👈

No.

the circles on world war-era allied aircraft (i don't recall if they're still there currently) are not, in fact, targets as i thought- they're called roundels and they just serve as markings for what side they're on. additionally there's currently a soft ban on aircraft nose art (in the military at least- unless you professionally redo your own aircraft under supervision of an aviation mechanic or pay ppl to do so, you have to register your aircraft as experimental) unless you go through a whole lot of bureaucratic red tape, and usually they only approve very patriotic designs (no pin-ups :-( ) BUT some people do still draw nose art with chalk and simply wash it off later. the black and white stripes painted on wings and occasionally fuselage are known as invasion stripes & were painted to avoid friendly fire.

[sleevesareforlosers]

you 🤝 me solidarity on having baby kj ocs and i think that's fantastic of us

hell yeah!!! go us!!

[killjoynest]

worst food texture is undeniably warm brussel sprouts

i am in distress why would you make me consider that texture awful bad terrible disgusting i am filled with anger at the mere idea of the texture

[lyralu91]

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“Oh but I own it. I own the trees and the rocks and all the animals that try to hide in it...”

From a scene where James meets Julia, one of my OC's! 🐺🌲🏹

[starman-trashcan]

what are some antics kobra and ghoul like to participate in during their free time?

What do Ghoul and Kobra get up to?

-pranks (each other and others. When they gang up on others though it’s definitely more power than either of them should be allowed to have...)

-blowing things up

-sparring/fighting with one another. Sometimes this is for fun, sometimes it’s just because they hate each other a little bit sometimes

-tell dirty jokes (obviously)

-drinking

-partying (kinda includes drinking but it’s different)

-crime

-shenanigans of pure idiocy

-causing trouble for themselves and everyone around them

-racing

-Anything that a normal person would look at and say “that’s a bad idea”

——examples of those bad ideas:

finding a parking deck and a shopping cart and attaching bottlerockets to the bottom and sitting in it and zooming around the parking deck

“let’s see if we can stand on top of the car while it’s going 80 and see which one of us falls off first”

Strapping rockets to Show Pony’s skates, a scooter, a skate board, or anything else with wheels and no already present motor that they can get their hands on

Picking a fight with a whole squadron of Dracs that one time

A party they threw that ended badly

Giving people unauthorized haircuts, dye jobs, fashion changes, etc

The many many times they’ve tired to fly

Messing with sleeping teammates

Messing with sleeping friends

Messing with sleeping joys they didn’t know

Messing with sleeping BL/ind people

-drugs

-smoking

-plotting

-building things which are more often than not dangerous

Honestly, they’re both just really stupid and impulsive and sometimes manic and they probably shouldn’t be trusted alone together nearly as often as they are...

Credit for most of these goes to my gf and also to Ax, who now has a tumblr! @corvi-of-the-raven

[newsagogos]

2, 15, and 30 for the song asks?

2:the first song you remember loving.

You're gonna laugh, boom boom pow by black eyed peas, heard it back in 2009,life altering event /j, I'd play it all the time

15:a song to listen to on rainy days.

Hmm i never thought about this before, I feel like buried water by dead man's bones is a good one

30:a song with really good lyrics.

I'm bad at listening to lyrics but

Inni mnih by mashrou' leila (i just think they're neat)

(Some Translated lyrics: Since you own nothing, you have nothing to lose/And I got bored of my own company/I wanted to change the world, I don't know how the world changed me/ I wanted to carry the sky on my shoulders. Now I have trouble carrying myself)

Song asks

[graffitibible]

what's the resulting wound from getting hit with a raygun blast? a burn or a cauterized hole?

i actually have a whole-ass explanation for why i think that an injury sustained by a raygun blast would not be cauterized. I HAVE AN EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING AS IT TURNS OUT LMAO

honestly there is a lot of variation in what kind of severity raygun blasts will do to you between the mvs and the comics and it might have to do with power settings, battery settings, the quality of the gun, etc. i don’t think the music videos were allowed to show anything super grisly, but there are some indications that most raygun blasts will smoke and bleed if they come from bli.

jet’s iconic death on top of the hood of the trans am gives us an excellent example of how the site of the injury is visible - again, i don’t think they were allowed to show a whole lot (they had to beep out all those nasty fuckwords in “na na na” after all) but it looks like there’s definitely a suggestion of bleeding there.

in the comics they can get away with way more. we see a couple people bleeding upon being hit with a raygun blast, most prominently volume (sorry volume, you were sorely underutilized and we love you very much). the wounds definitely smoke a lot too, which is probably a result of the, uh, flesh getting cooked by the extreme heat. which does not sound like a happy and painless way to go. love that!

SO from an inductive standpoint, which is how i like to do a lot of my work in this universe, i’m inclined to believe that raygun injuries are fully capable of bleeding. and if anyone wanted justification for this in the context of the world, i think there’s a very good reason why BLi-manufactured rayguns would be purposefully constructed to not cauterize injuries on top of it.

this goes back to general ballistics. there are a lot of different types of bullets out there and different ones will be needed for different scenarios; armor-piercing rounds, for example, are obviously used when you’re coming up against an armored target, but aren’t generally used when it comes to dealing with civilians since the deep penetration risks damaging targets behind who you might be shooting at. a lot of police enforcement in some parts of the world favor a certain kind of projectile known as a hollowpoint bullet - while this isn’t legal in use of international warfare, it’s completely legal for police enforcement to use it in their own internal affairs. which is horrifying, i know, but bear with me.

one of the advantages of a hollowpoint bullet is that it’s good at…damaging people, essentially. it’s designed to disperse upon impact with the body. the bullet isn’t deep-penetrating like an armor-piercing round; it will fragment upon entry and disperse into as wide a diameter as possible and therefore maximize the amount of damage that can be done to a single target, which makes the target more likely to be incapacitated and therefore easier to control.

now let’s roll back to lasers. it’s possible that laser blasts can run hot enough to cauterize wounds, but at that point you have to question whether BL/ind would want that. a cauterized wound doesn’t need to be sealed up. if your laser blasts cauterize the injury, there’s no bleeding and a decreased risk of infection and further damage. in other words, your target isn’t going to be very incapacitated in the long-term or very much in the short-term either unless you hit them in the right places.

when firearms made the switch from ballistics to lasers in this universe, i think it’s completely reasonable that BL/ind would want the general idea of how law enforcement currently operates - weapons that emphasize maximum damage and therefore allow the maximum chance of incapacitation - to remain fully intact. hell, especially if they’re going to be arming the unreliable dracs, who collectively rank only a little higher than stormtroopers on a marksmanship scale. i can see them almost certainly wanting to ensure that even if dracs aren’t making all their shots, that the ones that do hit don’t need to be lethal to do damage.

so with all that out of the way, that’s just what you’re gonna end up with if you want to arm an unreliable security and enforcement department with a weapon that’ll still do its job in incapacitating unruly folks with as little wasteful battery power as possible: you get guns that burn hot enough to sear your flesh, but not so hot that they cauterize the injuries.

someone who’s bleeding out is much easier to restrain and capture or kill than someone who isn’t.

and since i’m guessing a lot of the weapons that zonerunners and killjoys use ultimately come from BL/ind, i’d be willing to bet that most of their rayguns will do the same.

[hyperthrust]

who's most likely to eat a slug and pretend it's escargot?

kobra definitely.....

[enby-jetstar]

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