#for yk saving the world

[clumsypuppy]

wait for me

[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."

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[cometblaster2070]

so hey yk how in literally the 4th episode of the show there's that bit where adora's like glimmer I don't think your mom likes me and glimmer's like what are you talking about my mom loves you! and then adora corrects her and says that she loves she-ra, not adora.

and do you ever think about how there's always been some sort of expectation on adora like expectation to be a good loyal horde soldier, expectation to be force captain and lead the horde to victory one day and it just segues into the expectation to become she-ra and become a paragon of goodness and strength and all.

and how adora's self-worth is actually genuinely fucking shit because she feels that she's under so much pressure from everyone around her to always be the best version of herself and how she's supposed to always be perfect and do everything perfectly and she's never allowed to make mistakes because then she could disappoint the people that rely on her. but she always feels like she's disappointing everyone and that she never does anything right and that her best will never suffice.

just like adora feeling that she herself is not good enough, will never be good enough, but maybe she-ra will; she-ra is supposed to be good enough and is supposed to be perfect, so that's what adora will be if it will make those around her happy.

(edit: might have a mini side-rant on adora vs. the expectations vs. catra who doesn't expect anything from adora and just wants her)

[ddenji]

beautiful panels i love when fujimoto treats us to something small & intricate but also some good imagery! i feel like anytime we see stuff like this its always a social hierarchy commentary like within the worldbuilding because everyone here is fighting to be on top, essentially to survive, and in moments like this we see even the ants are part of this chain, some way for the little man to be big still. if that makes sense

[taa4m]

this game's only purpose is drawing the cringiest corniest self insert ship art you could only ever dream of

[octag0nall]

this verse but it's destiel

[evienyx]

Even though I'm months away from it being a possibility, I'm already thinking about possible fics to write once the current two, along with Fractures Book 2 and Broken Mirrors and Fragile Things, are through.

And boy am I liking the idea of an ATLA Time Travel fic.

[funky-sea-cryptid]

meljayvik roleswap au thoughts:

mel -> viktor. foreigner and zaunite swap SWEEP. glorious evolution to prove that words can save. science can save the world there is no need for war. also i think that she'd kind of serve cunt in the academy uniform.

viktor -> jayce. adopted by some noble piltover family as a charity project and desperately trying to prove himself worthy of any kind of respect. please dont get exiled youre so sexy king.

jayce -> mel. dude WHERE is he from also i could kind of see him playing up the dumb himbo act and then people SPILL state secrets to him he's charming that way.

[legendarceus]

hey guys thinking about oneshot and pokemon legends arceus and thinking more

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silver and silver

[leechlets]

pennyworth series enjoyers (and others): by the end of s3 alfred had fucked no less than 2 heads of states for different countries (one of them being queen elizabeth)

[nintendont2502]

making sure im not getting something out of nothing here, i feel there are deeper overarching themes in The Magnus Archives about the nature of power and how absolute power corrupts absolutely. am i going insane

NO BECAUSE IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS,, ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF THE MORE RECENT EPISODES

spoiler for uhh everything up to mag 104 under the cut but

the fucking. to become an avatar of a fear, you have to kill the parts of you that are human and replace them with what you worship, right? you *cant* wield the power of the fears without being changed and corrupted and turned into something inhuman. fuck, even if youre not a full avatar it still takes its toll on you. still corrupts you. i mean fuck even leitner, who didnt (as far as i can tell) have any entity associations (although he is slightly Eye aligned what with his whole "keeper of knowledge" bullshit) is still the living embodiment of that shit - the more books he got, the more power he had, the less he cared. people died and he didnt give a shit. he just hired more people to get thrown into the meat grinder, and got upset that their families blamed him for it.

absolute power corrupts absolutely. the more power you gain, the less human you become. i CANT stop thinking about that in the context of the Eye and its followers because... god.

Elias is so fucking. he seems to be purely operating on the concept of the ends justifying the means, i guess? binding everyone to the archive and Watching them and clearly not being above killing people if necessary (Leitner, Gertrude, threatening Melanie, that whole exchange between him and Tim) - and its justified, right, because he knows (or he thinks he knows) that this is what he has to do to stop the Unknowing and protect the Archive. Gertrude sacrificing Michael to the Spiral to stop the Twisting and being fully willing to destroy the Archive and kill *everyone* linked to it to stop the Unknowing. Elias being completely fine killing gertude to protect not the employees, but the Archive itself. especially with the Eye, with how it encourages Knowing and Observing and never once interfering and the inherent detachment that has to come along with that (jon barely caring when he finds breekons body....),, theres a specific elias quote im thinking of that i cant find rn, but its him telling Jon that this is what the Institute is for. This is what theyre here for - to Observe terrible things happen, and never do anything to try and help. why should they? theyre marked by + follow the Ceaseless Watcher. on some levels, they are the Ceaseless Watcher. theyre not meant to act. theyre not meant to care. its not in their natures.

i just. idk. definitely something there. becoming an avatar is like the culmination of all that, yk? which makes me.... deeply concerned about Jon (especially now that hes clearly growing into that role - hes started Knowing things he shouldnt, started Compelling random people to get what he needs. he still cares so much about everyone else, still has those anchors holding him down, but.... how long are they going to last, yk? especially if he keeps trying to cut them off and disappearing for weeks on end)

(some relevant thoughts from my liveblog of,, i wanna say 101 and 103?)

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

i find it interesting how rn one of my closest friends is a cis straight(?) guy who is probably one of the most accepting people I know over like most of the other queer people in my life so..

[loganswdc]

i don't even have words for today's trainwreck lol !!! i'm just at a loss this weekend and i need news about where logan is going soon because i don't think i can wait until winter break to know lol .

on another hand , logan seemed so mad on the radio after quali and he didn't apologize and i'm so proud of him for that !!!!! there's no need for him to apologize when he did what he could with the shit car he has . i'm so so proud of him :')

anyways , here's logan being cutie patootie because i'm so mad about today that i can't form any words other than screaming !!!

via logan_defender on twitter

[celestiarambles]

Hi it’s me probably reading too much into things again HAHA, but everyone talks about Jack and Lars’ friendship, but not about Carmen and Angela’s.

Like before she had Sanjay, Carmen was known to be a bit grumpy and short-tempered to most of the members of the Bureau, (excluding Elliot in this one because he’s a kid and Carmen also has a soft spot for kids) always wanting to get straight to the point. But when it comes to Angela she’s ALWAYS super patient with her. When Angela kept complaining about Lars being indoctrinated, Carmen just comforted her instead of demanding for the autopsy results immediately. Then I also know Angela was carrying her sleeping daughter this one time but she literally told her to “take her time”, like Carmen, who’s known to be extremely impatient, telling someone to take their time???

Also Carmen would get even more worried than Lars whenever Angela would randomly go missing? In the first time she did so (which was in the desert) Carmen immediately jumped into the conclusion that she could be dead or in danger (She was gone for hours, but Lars just said that she was MISSING) then quickly went searching for her, and when she found her she wasn’t even angry, she was just yelling at her out of worry.

And in the second time (which was in Seoul) Carmen was the only one to note that Angela was gone for TWO hours and then went searching for her, noticing that something was wrong with her, like she was very worried for her in that span of two hours??

I could just keep going on and on about their interactions. Carmen calling Angela ‘girl’, Angela helping Carmen be a parent to Sanjay, Carmen complaining about her matryoshka doll being ‘angry’ to Angela, Carmen being almost just as devastated as Lars upon figuring out that Angela was the mole… yeah you get the point lol

Also, since Carmen being a lesbian is pretty much canon at this point, I would also like to note that the only time she pretty much snapped at Angela was when she was flirting with Lars in front of her in that train case xD We all ship her with Michelle, but I hc that Carmen had a tiny crush on Angela at one point, she just didn’t act on it because ofc Angela’s married

[travalerray]

Chengxian AU where there's no war BUT WWX gets de-aged Detective Conan style and while the two of them are freaking out over it and have to present a cover up for why JC's roaming around the jianghu with a child that suspiciously resembles WWX. So on one hand you have the de-aging villain conspiracy, on the other hand you have Madam Yu getting closer to a heart attack from a wholly different set of rumors.