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ladies and gentlemen are you seeing my vision
#like are you picking up what i’m putting down??#tony dalton#doctor strange#marvel#stephen strange#dr strange#marvel comics#actor#doctor strange variant#way of the weird#doctor strange way of the weird#fancast#lalo salamanca
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I think she took his slingy? Can’t be sure though.
I tried redrawing this iconic scene from Multiverse of Madness in the Chris Bachalo / Way of the Weird style. Way of the weird will forever be a staple and the foundation carrying my Doctor Strange obsession, I freaking adore those comics. Easily my favorite run in the history of ever and I will never not praise it because it’s so underrated.
Anywho, it’s nowhere near as flawless and whimsical as Chris Bachalo’s works, but I think this will be a fun thing to redraw in the future if I study his style more so- attempt one (maybe?).
#Doctor Strange Comics#doctor strange#Doctor Strange fanart#doctor strange multiverse of madness#wongstrange#wongrange#Wong#Way of the Weird#doctor strange way of the weird#chris bachalo#seriously#read way if the weird. You will regret it but in the best way.
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Media and it's effect on me (positive) -- how I read words
Russian Roulette = Lady Gaga in Poker Face.
Wyd = Isabella, Phineas and Ferb. No explanation needed.
That guy gets it = That Studio C episode, "Disneyland Lincoln Ride Gets Scary". Just watch it.
Omg/Oh, my god = Christine when Stephen runs into the hospital with the Ancient One. Just. The way Rachel McAdams says it scratches my brain in a way I can't possibly explain. Just trust me.
Not really = Whenever John says "Not really" in BBC Sherlock. I can't remember when it was said, but just that. I also can't explain why.
#if anyone has gifs of these scenes lmk#weird things i say#media#i say things weirdly#i read these this way and say it irl as well#i say 'a bit not good' a *lot* around my friends#lady gaga#phineas and ferb#isabella in phineas and ferb#studio c#abe lincoln#christine palmer#doctor strange#stephen strange#the ancient one#john watson#sherlock holmes#bbc sherlock#sherlock#benedict cumberbatch#martin freeman
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I'm so excited to see what Ncuti Gatwa I can do as the Doctor! So far everything he's been in for trailers and stuff has shown him as being pretty charismatic, which is nice of course, but I'm also really hoping that he can pull off the weird awkward dorkiness that is also critical to the Doctor's personality.
Like, Ncuti Gatwa as a person seems very cool, but I'm hoping he can be a little uncool too as the Doctor. It's important to me
#Doctor Who#Fifteenth Doctor#I am talking#I am just some guy (gender neutral)#this is so strange because we've had so much longer than normal to think about him in the role#also I saw someone say (maybe jokingly I guess? but I'm autistic so it's sticking with me anyway)#that because of how revealing his outfit is and the line with David Tennant and Isaac Newton that they're going to have like.#gay sex scenes in his season? and I cannot stress this enough how much I do not want there to be any sex scenes in doctor who#and I cannot possibly stress how much I do not want there to be any sex scenes in Doctor Who. regardless of the genders involved#my logical brain knows that is incredibly unlikely because Doctor Who is so established as a family show#but like. please do not force my sex-repulsed self to watch sex scenes in order to engage with my special interest. please#anyway that's not strictly relevant to Ncuti himself#but people are speculating about him in kind of weird ways based on as far as I can tell nothing more than a v-neck shirt
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When I'm really depressed, at some point, I have a dream about running into Doctor Strange or he comes to save me. What's extra weird is I always know it's Benedict Cumberbatch in costume but, for some reason, he gets all of Strange's powers when he puts on the outfit. It's weird
Anyways last night I dreamt he came to help me clean up some chaos at an art studio I worked at and I made him some tea with violet petals
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Ugh….so I need friends
Okay but why can’t I find IRL friends who also like to nerd out about Marvel Comics. I’m rereading all of the Doctor Strange comics….
(okay MOST of them ‘95 and on, idk if it’s just me but the older comics meant for print don’t translate well over to digital and they ✨hurt my eyes✨ I plan on purchasing the older ones in print because I’m literally incapable of reading the digital versions without getting a headache)
BUT I JUST WANT FRIENDS TO TALK TO ABOUT THEM. Like…
His inability to interact with the opposite sex,
BATS, my baby boy BATS THE GHOST DOG.
His interactions with Spiderman are so wholesome
Him trying and failing to be a total slut
HIS FUCKING SUICIDE ATTEMPT (Which was oddly therapeutic and validating?)
THE INCONSISTENCIES THAT CONFUSE TF OUT OF ME BETWEEN SERIES THAT MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I MISSED A WHOLE ASS CHAPTER.
Also the whole him and Dead Girl thing had me dying (pun intended)
I’ve come to the conclusion that my ability to make friends is on par with Stephen Strange’s….in that we do not make friends…
and when by some miracle we do make friends we feel like a total inconvenience and think they all hate us 💀
But also listen my attention span for the crossovers and team ups was slim to none, I loved em don’t get me wrong but I skimmed them a little TOO much…except the New Avengers (2010) because I actually loved every moment of that shit.
#im so lonely#marvel#comics#marvel comics#doctor strange comics#im not gonna lie I haven’t gotten around to reading House of M so don’t judge me#my attention span is nonexistent#I skimmed a decent amount if the illuminate stuff im sorry#SOME OF THESE ACID ENDUCED STORY LINES HURT MY BRAIN#DONT JUDGE ME IF I DONT KNOW EVERYTHING#also my memory is hot garbage…don’t do drugs kids i got the memory of a former opioid addict#Stephen Strange#doctor strange#his alcoholism made me feel so validated#like idk it was therapeutic#im going through it#also his inability to make friends is a little TOO relatable#i too am awkard around women#the way of the weird was amazing#please be my friend
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ive been experiencing attraction....
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#(says experiencing like its a constant when its only happened twice for just a few seconds.)(same guy tho)#aroace me does not know what to do.#its entirely justified tho i think. david tennant as the 10th doctor is a famed good looking guy. i think.#its just... some edits ive seen. man. <3#i dont feel attraction. not like that. so every time i DO. it fucking shocks me.#i dont even see him like that. its just. the character in a very VERY specific action. i dont even know what.#shit hits like a truck oml.#listen i am not. complaining. its fun. sure.#but it is SO out of the ordinary for me. ew#i cannot stress how weird this is but. gotta move on ig 6=w=9#strange ways <3#sillyposting
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tiger by hoshi is actually unironically so good like…the traditional instruments and the vocalisations which imitate the roars of a tiger and THE CHOREO??? especially that one part where hoshi just crouches in the middle as the backup dancers run in 2 circles beside him which makes him look like a tiger running. horanghae for real
#SO SO GOOD#of course he is ver babygirl with his weird hnng noises and also the doctor strange part is just so insanely hilarious in an ironic way#but the CHOREO and the CHORUS <333 he is catering huperspecifically to me with the hot guy voice beat drop#hoshi#svt#diana.mp3
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my situation is bad but i could make it worse
#oh jesus i was trying to think whether or not my mother knows ive had suicidal thoughts which like lol obviously but no ive never said it to#her face i dont think…my dad knows#im just trying to weigh out on a scale of how likely it would be that she would attempt to put me in a psych hospital#and how likely she would to actually succeed…#shes a weird mix of pro mental health and pro therapy and anti doctors sooooo rlly who fucking knows LOL and shes bipolar.#cause shes cried to me drunk a lot telling me not to kill myself cause i was a strange child but i never actually considered it until#after i left her house#so it would obviously worry her but also we dont live together anymore so ultimately it is up to my father and hes always been pretty passiv#about this stuff like he knows and hes worried but hes never actually gone out of his way i mean not to say he doesnt care cause he does but#like…white man who grew up in iowa and enlisted in the military so…#ugh i do just wanna kill myself and get it over with but its such a fucking hassle man
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a note on "fordtramine"
just a thought while im working on a comprehensive history of bill.
by now i'm sure it's common knowledge that stanford's favourite colour is "fordtramarine", a colour only him and bill are able to see due to bill rewiring his optic nerve as a gift, but something i find very interesting is this page from thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com
specifically, that note at the bottom on the "beautiful" paintings ford submitted to (unsuccessfully) demonstrate the colour. most of them are normal, including a self portrait in gouache until you get to "(E) A muse, oil on canvas".
not only that, but in the abstract ford writes that "specific two dimensional entities may act in the same way as a prism, refracting light.... new perceptions"
something something devoting a painting to your muse in the colour that they let you name, that they gifted you with the ability to see. something something bill acting as a prism, like the crystals ford keeps all over his house, that ford can look through, like a doorway into a world entirely made of the weird and wonderful that you connect so deeply with. a world that you can never show anyone else, your canvases are always blank and no-one else has the eyes that you do, your study is rejected and no-one will hear you out.
do you think bill felt that way? growing up, able to see what others couldn't, "its not your fault you have that strange eye", "the doctor says three sips a day will make the visions go away", able to see an entirely different dimension to his own parents, always too different and too strange and too weird.
CODES: "THEY'LL SEE" "THEY'LL ALL SEE" "THE EUCLYDIAN DEPT OF VISION SUPERVISION"
growing up in a world where it seems that seeing beyond the norm is heavily punished, it's kind of telling that bill's gifts to ford are often relating to seeing or knowing things that ford would never experience without bill (new colours, new directions for his research, his mindscape, the portal). the gift of vision from a god who grew up being blinded. bill really is his all-seeing eye, in a lot of ways.
in the same way, fiddleford's gifts to ford almost always revolve around very human comfort (gloves to fit his hands specifically, a pet to keep him company, a snowglobe reminder of the time they spent together) comfort that he was too distracted to devote to his wife and child, only ever to ford who broke or threw them away.
fiddleford accepted ford for who he was, and he showed that through his gifts. all of ford's strangeness and brilliance, gloves made specifically to protect and warm six fingers, a pet that looked like him for him to ramble to when fidd is gone. bill's gifts were brilliant and tailored just for ford, but they were isolating. experiences he could only have with bill, things that made him stranger, more alone, pulled him further into the weirdness, the grey area. all in preparation for the day bill would take things too far, and pray ford, so alike to him, would join him.
#eden rambles#gravity falls#thisisnotawebsitedotcom#billford#fiddauthor#bill cipher#stanford pines#gravity falls meta
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Hi Jade!! I love your writing so much! you wrote a few fics of postprison!reid with kinda shy!reader like the one where she faints and I loved that dynamic and that Reid, do you think you could write some more? pls pls pls <3333333
cw non-consensual drug use /reader is spiked
Spencer is quite gorgeous. He has a great smile, soft and a little shy without teeth, exuberantly bright like a commercial with teeth. He’s smiling like he can read your mind now, fishing for your hand, and taking it into both of his. Your pinky in one hand and your index the other, he wriggles your hand back and forth and laughs softly. “You don’t handle inebriation well.”
“What?” you ask, startled. You can’t believe he’s touching you like this, casual, like he’s your boyfriend. Your hot boyfriend.
“You think I’m hot?”
You squint at him. “What?” you ask.
He covers your hand gently with both of his. “Nevermind. Do you want something to eat now?”
“No.” You’ll throw up. Chunks, probably, your breakfast. And it wasn’t even a healthy breakfast. It was waffles and whipped cream and then a donut on the way to the office, Spencer will be able to tell, he’s too smart, he’s too everything.
“I’m not that smart,” he says kindly.
That’s a straight up lie.
He laughs heartily, at odds with his quiet talking, and you’re so confused because it’s like he’s reading your mind? Can he read your mind? There’s so much stuff about yourself you don’t want him to know, your chest hurts thinking about it, you don’t want to tell him anything—
“I think I’ll go find you a hot chocolate,” Spencer says, the sleeve of his shirt falling down unbuttoned to his wrist as he stands. He pushes it back up. He is surprisingly underdressed today and you’ve no idea why. “Does that sound nice?”
“I don’t think you should leave.”
“I don’t want you to tell me stuff you don’t want to tell me,” he says.
“But if you leave I’ll be by myself.” You sound strange to your ears. Crackly, like a garden fire.
Spencer perches himself on the hospital bed next to you. You’re sitting cross-cross on the tight white and blue sheets, waiting for something? Something was supposed to happen, you know that. A doctor was going to take your blood. You look down at the crook of your elbow to find they already have, a cotton pad medical-taped to the skin.
“I’m not going anywhere if you don’t want me to go,” he says, taking your arm into his hands with the same care he’d shown your fingers. He lifts the corner of the tape and begins to pull it away from the direction it had been stuck in, stretching it, and removing it from you without any pain.
“Where did you learn that?” you ask.
Spencer holds your arm in his hand now the cotton ball is done. “Learn what?”
You’re not interested in asking him again. Weirdly, your throat feels dry, but you won’t tell him because he’ll offer hot chocolate again and you don’t want him to go.
“Hey,” he says, “not going anywhere until it wears off. Not if you need me.”
How does he always know what to say?
“You know, why don’t you get into bed and lay down for a little bit? You must be tired, sitting up. It’s so late.” His voice is a sheet of silk.
“I thought we were going home?” you ask.
“We can’t, bub,” —that’s a new one— “not for now. But we will tonight, I promise.”
“Why not now?”
He smiles sadly. “‘Cos you’re coming down, Y/N.”
You frown. “Oh.”
“I know.” Spencer wraps and arm around your back. “But you’re not alone.” He ducks in until your faces are almost touching. “You know? It’ll go away soon.”
You don’t know why you say it, but you say, “You’re so nice to me. Even when you’re scary.”
“Am I scary?” he murmurs.
You look at him long and hard, feeling the warm rub of his thumb as he smooths a short line into your back. Spencer is intimidating, maybe, because you hadn’t known him when he got out of prison, and he's pretty like a model, or a movie star. But he isn’t scary. That’s not the right word.
“No,” you say. “I guess not.” You pause. “I feel weird.”
He doesn’t laugh like you, just hugs you tighter. “It’ll get better.”
#spencer reid#spencer reid x reader#spencer reid x you#spencer reid x y/n#spencer reid x fem!reader#spencer reid imagine#spencer reid fluff#spencer reid fanfic#spencer reid oneshot#spencer reid scenario#spencer reid drabble#spencer reid fic#spencer reid fanfiction
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Please don’t ban me for not censoring bad words. Slur TW(?)
I found this really funny text post meme on Pinterest and thought of this, but then soon after discovered a tumblr post which used the meme with a more visually hilarious interpretation. Heavily referenced from lycantropy14’s work.
IF THIS OFFENDS ANYONE PLEASE SAY. THIS IS NOT MEANT IN A MALICIOUS WAY.
#doctor strange#doctor strange way of the weird#doctor strange multiverse of madness#doctor strange comics#wongrange#wongstrange#wong#f slur tw
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You get pregnant HCs
!!REBLOGS APPRECIATED!!
characters: Kurapika, Illumi, Chrollo, Feitan, Leorio
warnings: slight yandere vibe to Chrollo and Illumi, mentions of sex
Kurapika
-honestly he’s been wanting to bring up the idea of trying for a baby but didn’t want to put that burden on you until he had more time on his hands
-so it was a nice surprise to hear you were pregnant! He started crying, putting his hand over your belly and crouching down to kiss it.
-he waits on you hand and foot for your entire pregnancy. You want a snack? He’ll get it for you. You’re sore? He’s massaging you.
-if you’re not married yet he makes sure a ring is on your finger as soon as possible once you tell him you’re pregnant. You’re his, and he wants it to stay that way.
-can’t get enough of your baby bump. He’s always caressing and kissing it, keeping a hand on it when you’re sat on his lap.
-he just can’t believe he’s created life with you, and tears up just thinking about how his mother would have wanted to see her grandbaby
Illumi
-he already made it clear that having children was one of your duties as his wife. After marrying you, he’s been stuffing you full of cum every night he’s home.
-when you give him the news, he’s calm, nodding as he calls up a doctor. For the entire pregnancy, a team of doctors and nurses is kept on standby, ready to examine or care for you. You’re giving him an heir after all, and an heir to a Zoldyck is worth more than gold
-you’re out on a strict and healthy diet, not allowed to skip meals or complain. He wants the baby to be healthy, and more important for you to be safe. Illumi doesn’t show it much, but he loves you in his own way, and he shows his love by controlling every aspect of your life to ensure you’re safe and taken care of
-of course you’re given lavish presents and pampered for carrying his baby. Not like you weren’t already sitting in the lap of luxury, but now it’s dialed up to a ten
-he’s always been a bit possessive and controlling, but now you never get any time away from him. Illumi is always by your side, and takes off of work for your entire pregnancy. He won’t admit it, but he gets severe anxiety and paranoia when you aren’t in his line of vision
Chrollo
-chrollo never really wanted children. He’s lived a pretty selfish life, and didn’t want to involve a child in it.
-but when you tell him you’re pregnant, he feels strangely… warm. Telling you to get rid of it doesn’t cross his mind. Instead, he’s preparing a nursery and trying to find a home to settle you down in.
-He never thought he’d be a father, but now the very thought of losing you or the baby fills him with dread. Chrollo has this weird fantasy of having a normal life, one without the lingering trauma of his childhood, where he can truly enjoy being a father without it being tainted.
-but reality was cruel. His trauma caused him to be protective, treating you like a caged bird. Even before your pregnancy you hadn’t had many freedoms, but now you were stuck in a single room, doing the same thing every day. You woke up, got a check up from some doctor, ate, slept, did bits of exercise, then slept.
-sometimes he wondered if you hated him, hated what he had done to you. But he’d watch you smile faintly as your fingers traced your baby bump. You knew he was just scared, and would tolerate it.
Feitan
-he literally looks at you like you’re crazy and says to get rid of it. Bluntly.
-when you start to tear up he freezes. Oh fuck, you were being serious.
-now he’s stuck comforting you as he tries to comprehend the fact he’s knocked you up and that you want to keep it. Is he ready to be a father? Hello no. Will he step up because he loves you.
-fuck. Yeah, he will.
-he hates getting teased as he steals baby clothes and diapers during heists, but relaxes at home when you waddle his way. Surprisingly, he… does thing your baby bump is cute. He has a soft spot for you anyways, and the thought of a little one growing inside of you…
-he’s really gone soft.
-he still steals things and kills people, but now he’s thinking about the future and trying harder to stay uninjured in battle. He has a lover and child to come home to, he couldn’t possibly leave you all alone.
Leorio
-he freaks out when you tell him. Leorio knows very well that pregnancies can be hard on a woman’s body, and honestly he’s terrified that it’ll hurt you.
-once he finds out it’s over for you. Every single morning before he leaves for work he gives you a check up, monitoring your morning sickness and making you eat and take your vitamins.
-he’s taking you to the hospital he works at weakly for exams and checkups. If he doesn’t he’ll go ins and with worries about you and the baby.
-Leorio starts saving up, wanting to make sure every little thing the baby could ever want or need is neatly stored in the nursery before they arrive.
-he’s very lenient with you, and folds every time you give him those teary eyes and ask for chocolate. You’re so spoiled and you know it
#cw pregnancy#kurapika x reader#chrollo x reader#illumi x reader#leorio x reader#illumi x y/n#illumi x you#kurapika x y/n#kurapika x you#chrollo imagine#chrollo headcanons#chrollo fanfic#chrollo fic#chrollo x you#chrollo x y/n#illumi headcanons#leorio x y/n#leorio x you#requests open#x reader#anime x reader#reader insert#headcanon#hxh x reader#hxh imagines#hunter x hunter x reader#anime x chubby reader#chubby!reader#chubby reader#fat reader
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Dp x Dc au: Normal is Good
Okay so hear me out— i see lots of “you can’t control Danny he’s a wild child” premises and like, I agree, I love that, but JUST hear me out. Danny who is just entranced by being treated like a NORMAL KID.
I think for best results this should be done with de-aged Danny so he’s a bit younger, but it can def work with regular Danny too.
Danny winds up running around Gotham for one reason or another doing INSANE SHIT to try and help or just survive and his family is out of the way. The explosion, Bad Fentons, etc— and one of the bats picks up Danny. This can be a dad!Jason, or dad!Dick, or classic Bruce Adoption. But they see this little shit running around and are like “no fucking way, not on my watch you little maniac”
Now, a lot of people use the “Jazz practically raised Danny” card, and I love that card and fully support it, but she was also a kid. With no other parents to consult. Who was raised by the Fentons originally and def has no clue what normal parents are like. So she probably didn’t exactly measure up to how a kid is MEANT to be raised. So Danny still had an incredibly strange childhood that just was Not Normal, but I feel like we see Danny with a deep desire to be normal. He doesn’t even really like being a superhero that much, he just wanted to be a kid.
So he gets bat adopted, and Danny is just functioning how he did growing up with the Fentons, which is No Restrictions Do What You Want. And then his bat dad (using Jason for this) is like “No. It’s Bed Time.” And Danny. Danny is ALL for that. He’s bewildered. Mystified. He’s not grumpy about being told what to do at ALL, because he’s just so shocked.
“You’re serious? You’re fucking dead-ass serious? It’s bed time? Oh my god this is so cool. I’ve never had a bed time before! This is great!” Because this is the first time he’s EVER been treated like a normal child by a parental figure. He just got sent to bed. Wow.
Having a parent who is in charge of keeping him healthy and actually enforces Danny taking care of himself is kind of cool.
“Eat your vegetables, they’re good for you.” And they won’t try to eat him back? Fuck yeah, he’ll eat his vegetables!
“No you aren’t allowed to go out at 2 in the morning, go back to bed, you have a doctors appointment for your yearly checkup tomorrow.” oh ancients, Danny has always heard other kids complain about not being allowed out at night, but to have himself told he can’t? This is so weird. And he’s never been to a yearly check up before!
“Brush your teeth before bed” “I can’t get cavities, I’m dead!” “Ya know, for some reason I don’t believe you. When was the last time you went to the dentist? Are you sure you can’t get them?” Danny has 7 cavities.
The first time Danny gets to actually use the “my dad said No” excuse, he is ECSTATIC. Jack and Maddie have LITERALLY never told him he can’t go out somewhere. Ever. He’s in a whole new world where he doesn’t have to fight ghosts, or be a hero, or anything and he loves it. He has a normal kids room without deadly weapons in it and normal kid hobbies and a fridge full of normal food and a parent who enforces a bed time, and it’s weird as hell and it’s great. Normal is pretty damn good, he has no clue what Sam and Tucker were always complaining about. Shits sweet.
#Danny is accidentally the best behaved child in Wayne Manor#dp x dc#dpxdc#dc x dp fic#dc x dp prompt#dp x dc prompt#danny phantom#danny phantom x dc#fic prompt
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It should have been Martha that John Smith falls in love with in Human Nature. Martha is always looking after him cuz the Doctor is in there and she promised to keep him safe but John interprets it as courtship and becomes totally enamored with this strange, out-of-place woman (he’s always felt out-of-place himself).
Martha gives in to the temptation of dating her crush but feels super guilty about taking advantage of him (insert the scene where she watches back his tape for guidance and is frustrated that the he didn’t consider falling in love, but this time it’s way more emotional) and it’s weird cuz John is similar to the Doctor in some ways but sometimes shockingly different (he could be racist but in a way where it actually has to be explored because he’s in love with her, or just find other ways to make him an undoctorlike type of prick).
When the time comes to open the watch, John tells Martha that the Doctor won’t love her in the same way. Martha tells him that there are more important things than romance. When they saw the vision of the future, it reinforced John’s desire to live, but it made Martha realize that this isn’t what she wants; she wants to return to her time, to be a doctor, to see her family again, and to have her friend back. John gets upset that she cares more about what she wants than about his life, his love for her, that she only ever loved him as a shadow of the Doctor. Martha tells him it’s his decision (her doctor ethics) but that the world needs the Doctor (“the world” clearly also means her). It seems like John is going to refuse but the same fakeout happens and the Doctor is back.
Once the Family of Blood is defeated, the Doctor apologizes to Martha for putting her in a tough spot and says that he didn’t know she fancied him. Martha says she’s over it now and that she missed having her friend around. The Doctor says that he doesn’t want to lose her forever, so the next time he asks too much of her she should just leave. Martha is like haha no way you could never ask too much of me bestie!!!! Roll credits.
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Does anyone else feel a strange sort of dread waiting for new deltarune chapters?
It sounds crazy right? I admit it's a weird feeling for sure, and I'm not even 100% sure if dread is the right way to describe it. But as more info is revealed and the next chapter inevitably gets closer and closer to releasing I can't help but feel a strange sort of, melancholy? Longing? The only way I can describe it is "when you know the goodbye is coming". The strange somber feeling when you know you’re going to have to leave stuff behind, but aren't quite ready for it yet.
warning: words. Homestuck
In 3 months Chapter 1 will be 6 years old, and in 2 months Chapter 2 will be 3 years old. Deltarune is ostensibly in Early Access but this release schedule puts new chapters closer in time scale to whole sequals if anything, which they most assuredly are not trying to be. This has created a strange situation in the fanbase that I don't think I've ever truly seen anywhere else. One where, In the time between chapters It feels like everyone has had their own chance to decide what Deltarune is to them. To create their own version of this story, to write their own themes that they want to see explored, to imagine their own events and plot twists they want to see play out.
@lynxgriffin Paper Trail Comic Being an Alternate Story following off of chapter 1
@lilybug-02 The Chara Timeline Being one of many interpretations on the popular Asriel & Chara roommates headcannon.
@huecycles Andromeda Chapters being their interpretation on the full game
The innumerable Deltarune Theorists and analysts like HalfBreadChaos, Andrew Cunningham, Stuffed Alpaca, etc. etc.
@vyletbunni Deltatraveler being a whole ass fangame based around a chapter 2 meme that it has long since outlived
And that's kinda the thing isn't it? Once more deltarune comes out, a ton of these projects will just become outdated, it's an inevitability. So what will happen to them? will they become forgotten? maybe, maybe not, it's impossible to tell. but either way it feels kinda sad to think about yknow? that one day all the time and effort spent and all the memories made might one day just cease to exist.
There's a lot more I could say on this topic if given the chance but to keep this tumblr post from morphing into a 2 hour long video essay in text form let me leave off with this.
In the age of the internet and social media there will always be a fan of something. Nothing truly dies quite like it used to anymore, regardless of whatever influencers want you to believe. But that doesn't mean things stop changing, that there wasn't a past that has since been left behind. I'm a Homestuck fan. more specifically I'm a Late Homestuck fan, one who came in after the comic had already ended and it's peak in popularity was long behind it. The fandom's still around all these years later. But it'd be foolish to admit that, 8 years after the comics controversial end, the inescapable trend of new fans replacing old fans has left the fandom wholly disconnected from the monolith that it once was. the only remnants of which lie in decades old discourse and fanfiction. Like old relics of a long forgotten city, waiting to be excavated under a fine layer of dirt.
Before I close out here I just want to make it clear: I'm not saying that we should be trying to return to some nebulous "glorious past" that never really existed. I'm not trying to deride Toby Fox for not working in the sweatshop hard enough to produce more content™, or whatever you wanna try and spin-doctor this post into. It's just a thought that creeps into my head every now that I wanted to share, see if anyone feels the same, yknow?
Besides it's not all doom and gloom. For those of you OG Homestucks who read till the end. You remember Heinoustuck? Guidestuck? Nightfall? Fucking Ke$haStuck? yeah those are still going by the way! after years of inactivity they've now started back up again. some under new authors and some by the same author but still!
You could say a lot about that but to me at least, it makes me feels hopeful in a way. That, even if not everything will survive. we'll at least have some mementos to remember what came before.
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