#for the real shocker:

[radiance1]

Damian: [brushing his teeth]

The shadow hanging over his shoulder: [Gets its teeth dangerously close to Damian's shoulder]

Damian: [Shoves a toothbrush into said shadow move and starts brush]

The shadow: [Pauses before starting to let out a contented purr]

Damian then spits out the foam and washes out his mouth, then makes the shadow do the same and then picks out pjs.

Damian: [Currently decided if he should go with the cat, dog, or knife imprinted one]

The shadow: [Starts getting dangerously close to Damian with, toxic green spirals it calls eyes]

Damian: [Throws the dog imprinted one behind him at the shadow and takes the cat imprinted one for himself and tells the shadow to put it on]

The shadow: [Stares at the clothes before hesitantly putting them on before letting out a noise of distress]

Damian: [Turning around to find the shadow somehow stuck in the pjs, lets out a sigh, then starts to help them fit]

Damian then moves over to the bed, he points to one side and tells the shadow to go there. The shadow listens, laying down as Damian also lays down, grabbing the sheets and covering them both.

It barely took a few seconds for the shadow to fall asleep, and Damian stared at it. Damian wasn't quite sure why the shadow of his dead twin was following him, nor why it was even able to and seemed to hide itself from anyone who isn't Damian.

Nobody besides him knew about it, and Damian decided that he liked it. This could have been his younger brother, if the other had survived, and they would have probably been told to fight to the death to decide an heir.

At the very least, that won't ever happen.

Even if his brother was slightly unusual.

===

Danny did not remember much of the before, he remembered people with blurred faces and features, blurred colors. He remembered a lot of colors, then red, then white, then pain.

He doesn't like pain, he believes.

Then he remembered going to sleep, and then he woke up. It was dark and slimy and cramped when he woke up, especially when he realized someone else was in their with him.

Then he fell asleep again, then woke up to that same dark and slimy place, then fell asleep again, all in some weird cycle. Then, moving, and pain.

It hurt, and he was sluggish when it eventually stopped. Then came pain again, and he was asleep.

Then he woke up, again.

He didn't know what was happening, wasn't really aware of too. But he woke up next to the other who was in that dark and slimy with him, and decided he wanted to stay with them.

He wasn't aware enough for most of the things that happened when Damian grew up, but he still stayed regardless, and hide from everyone else.

Danny loves his brother, and he thinks his brother loves him too. Even if he was slightly unusual.

[johnslittlespoon]

thinking about how we all talk about gale's rocky family life for obvious reasons– between him and john, he's the only one who we really hear talk about his family in the show.

what about what we can infer from john's silence about his family?

as far as we can assume, he had living family who just... didn't write him the whole year and a half he was a pow in germany?

(if we pull from real info for backstory/writing purposes, he had two sisters and a mom, and a dad who died a few years before the war. factor in the endless archived newspaper articles of the other men's families speaking about them, sharing news of their pow status, writing back and forth to the pows, sending gifts and pictures...)

radio silence for john.

it must've been such an isolating feeling, knowing he had family back home who didn't care enough to write to him, wondering whether they even asked after him, if they read the newspaper to find out how their son/brother was doing overseas. having to see the others receive packages when they wrote home asking for certain things, getting to look forward to letters from loved ones and having something to occupy them through the emptiest days.

i'm sure it made gale's chest hurt too, knowing he'd never get a letter from his parents, but he at least had marge to write to, something to get him through the endless mundanity. john had nothing. (well, he had the motivation of getting gale back home safe, but beyond that?)

was he just not close with his family in the mota–verse? or did his parents treat him unkindly the way gale's did? was he the black sheep of the family? as much as he said he enlisted because he wanted to fly and join the fight, was it also to get away from whatever was wrong back home?

so many unanswered questions, so much angst drabble potential, so many hugs needed for that poor boy. </3

[fishnchip3011]

once again sebastian is shocked to discover that rowan is (GASP) someone with genuine goodwill and kind intent

[iwantmochisoup]

mochi do you feel like drawing souheki /p because theyre definitely the besties ever

hii hello moot!! Thank youuuu so much for this request!! :3 i had so much fun with your request <3

also i 100% believe in your vision, they would be THE besties fr LMAO i imagine them playing chess and gossiping all the time, and that comment also inspired the first drawing i did! (the one i wasn't happy with) vvv

AJHFGJHSD I REALLY HOPE YOU LIKE IT!! I REALLY REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND LIKE YOU ALREADY KNOW, I REALLY WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING SO NICE!!

[just-prime]

Hilariously, I never actually read The Road So Far (This Time Around) it's just sitting in my open tabs as my TBR List.

In reality the longest fic I read this year was @xx-vergil-xx's wonderful Hounds which is a whopping 390,159 words and just a joy (and a tearjerker) to read. Highly highly recommend.

I 110% believe that @softest-punk @moorishflower @cuubism make up my main author percentage, given how much of this is skewed Sandman. They're all powerhouses in the fandom and all their work is wonderfully fun.

Plus @salparadiselost is another regular I for who's page i just have open and regularly and refresh to see what new goodies have been posted, so yeah that's no surprise either.

I'd have not guessed that Canon Divergence would have ranked so high, but I'm also suspicious of it. It certainly tracks, it's just more one of those tags I stumble into instead of seeking out on my own.

Well that was fun! I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you too want to see your AO3 wrapped, the link is HERE (with instructions included)

It's not totally perfect, but certainly fun if nothing else!

[mdverse]

that heatstroke twt art trend that i wasn't even gonna do but. i blinked and my hand must've slipped oops

[yurasita]

csp is being weird but a little wip of some art of my keyframes mc … she’s a fall type she’s just got a small case of rbf LMAO

hoping to post a full introduction of them later on in the week…i love her

[catofoldstones]

Sansa doesn’t accept Sweetrobin as her suitor but she accepts Tyrion? Did you read the books? This is another nail in the ashford theory’s coffin besides the obvious fact that lady Ashford didn’t marry her suitors and valarr married another lady and soon died

you’re right, you’re right. instead sansa is going to marry sandor because dunk disturbed the tourney or whatever copium is it that you lot snort

[mintaikk]

I know DAMN well that the Venom Movie is NOT getting me into body horror romance-

[voltrixz]

Giggling over this stupid fuckin electro shocker doodle I found when looking through my Freeform boards

😭😭😭HATTEEE HATEEE THESE GUYS

[uselessgay10101]

Laws are fine and dandy but the real power lies with peoples perception of societal norms

[valeechtine]

Its still insane to me that people claim that transandrophobia is real when what they are describing is either 1. General transphobia 2. Misogyny, because people don't see them as men 3. Bioessentialism that impacts transfems more then it does us. Like yes it sucks that people get weird about it when we start T or are masc or whatever but thats due to the weird bioessentialism that is Especially rampant in leftist spaces on tumblr where masculine = bad scary and harmful, and that absolutely effects how people treat trans women as well

[sagereidxx]

hi so rebrand underway!

also introducing my prementant tag list! if anyone wants to be added please met me know!

@hearteyes-wheeler

@lebylershipper

@tender-emotional-music

@wallywise

@paloma-ascends-into-hellfire

@drowninginideas

@dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies

@daydream-of-a-wallflower

@soiwillgotothelakes

[no1ryomafan]

I realized more and more how my “robo autism” as I call it differs from other people’s obsession with robots because I’ve seen people who like robots completely looking un human as possible and there also be little humans within in the media, they just want robots, meanwhile the reason I enjoy robots is when they are used as a way to look into the philosophy of being human.

I like robots that are made to look human and interact with human for the conflict it causes of “how human can you make something that’s not human? Is it worthy of being accepted as a person?” since it brings up a lot of existential and interesting questions. I only tend to like robots that don’t look super human if they’re mechas cause they still have a relationship with humans, the sentience can go either way as even if I do like robo sentience not every mecha story needs it and I oddly prefer the route of “it can’t speak but it’s alive” rather then it talking, because it just feels more eerie then a giant talking robot.

I know to some people if they see this I’m gonna come off boring and like yeah maybe I do cause I know robot designs have more potential when they aren’t bound to human stuff, and I’m not saying anyone who enjoys the other way is bad, but this is just why I realized certain robot media clicks with me and others don’t. (Also my brain makes everything needlessly complicated lol)

[arachnerd-8-legs]

just saw an article saying how arfid is on the rise (it's good to raise awareness of it) but like

i feel like it's been there the whole time but people just called it being a picky/fussy eater and made it a thing of "it doesnt have to be your favorite" if not even force people to eat stuff that made them sick, instead of acknowledging that this could be a real thing.

kind of like with autism diagnoses where ppl say its 'on the rise' when people just bullied you for it in the past without thinking

[faceeeeee]

Age chart thingy that may or not change in the future. This is just a rough estimate