#good god this is long

[ronanceautistic]

Nancy Wheeler 101, today we’re discussing how, throughout the entire show, she’s never lived for herself.

At the beginning all of her motivations are to do with Steve, putting her friendship with Barb to the side, her studies, her relationship with her family. After Barb goes missing everything she does revolves around her. She throws herself into danger, absolutely no regard for her own safety, for the sake of finding her. She puts what Jonathan did at the party aside because she knew they could help each other. She puts the slut-shaming in the back of her mind because it wasn’t important right now.

For the first part of Season 2, Nancy is definitely lost. She wants to live for Steve again, being almost inseparable with him, but there’s also so much of her heart and brain dedicated to Barb. But Barb is gone, and she has no idea how to process that grief. It tears her apart, causing the outburst at the Halloween party. After Steve breaks up with her, she doesn’t talk to Jonathan about the breakup, she only talks about Barb. And then spends the rest of the season on a mission to bring the Lab down, not for herself, but for Barb. Once again, throwing herself into danger by willingly getting kidnapped by them just to gain information.

Season 3, while she is very independent and self-assured, her motivations are still egged on by the prejudice she faced from her bosses. So much of what she did, she did out of spite and stubbornness. During the second half of the season, she repeatedly throws herself into danger to protect the kids, going so far as to pretty much sacrifice herself to them when she puts herself in front of the car when Billy is speeding towards them.

Season 4 gives me the vibes of someone who is persevering because there is nothing else they can do. She’s just lost Fred, and looks so lost and tired on that roadside. It’s clear that she just has no clue what to do with herself now. Note now that investigative instinct kicked in, asking the cop if he’d looked into Victor Creel. He quickly, but gently, shuts it down. Despite the fact that she’s been shut down and only dug her heels in further previously, she looks completely defeated from that one interaction.

But then, the gang arrive with news that it’s Upside Down related. And so she keeps going, because she needs to. But she loses, Max dies and Vecna lives, and add this with the vision of her family dead, I think it’s going to make for a very interesting Season 5 for her.

TLDR everything she’s done, has been motivated by other people. She’s never had any regard for her own safety, always put herself in dangerous situations for the sake of saving others, and never seemed to find actual happiness or peace. In Season 5 she’s got a lot on her plate, the prophetic visions from Vecna, feeling the responsibility of the world on her shoulders. She’s got a very big obligation to keep living, and I truly believe that once it’s all over, once they’re finally at peace, she’s going to suffer way more than she realises, because it’s going to feel like she has nothing left to live for.

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[walkerrenee]

sometimes i randomly remember how insane maggie stiefvater was for making ronan lynch—a man that can create reality—a man of god, when he himself is a god of a man. then to take this man and have him be not only in love with, but a literal soulmate of a man named adam. parrish. adam parrish. who, mind you, lives above ronan's very own place of worship. and is the namesake of the first of mankind that the bible says god made from the literal dust of the ground (adam parrish: comes from nothing, hair "dusty" in color) and appoints him to care for the garden of eden (adam parrish: sacrifices himself to ronan's sentient forest). then has adam viewing ronan as a god and ronan saying "maybe he dreamt (created)" adam???? like who just fucking writes that and goes about their life?

[gongyussy]

this is porn. to me.

bonus: okay you guys get it

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[pants-lint]

Just had a Thought and now I'm curious. What's you guy's strangest comfort media? It doesn't have to be strange as in like creepy/fucked up/whatever, it can just be smthn a lil odd.

[mxyzptplk]

*Runs into your askbox full speed*

Ramble about something you like! We're all curious! 👀

A while ago I stumbled upon the rabbit hole of early game pokemon glitches. Pokemon red/blue/yellow are held together with sticks and glue (think AAA game today on release glitchy), and a few key glitches break it wide open.

The most famous of these glitches is the cinnabar island glitch, which occurs when you surf up and down its east coast. The devs forgor to program encounter data (the data that determines what pokemon you encounter on a specific tile) on these tiles, so the game uses the encounter data previously loaded. So you can go to Diglett Cave, encounter a pokemon there to load the encounter data, and then fly to Cinnabar Island and you will encounter Digletts on the east coast. But what happens when the game loads the encounter data for a place that has no encounters? It actually loads glitch data, from code that is meant for something else! This is responsible for a lot of glitches, such as what glitch items do. Anyway, there shouldn't be a way to encounter a Pokemon in a place that has no programmed encounter data, but there is one spot: the Old Man that gives you the tutorial. When he shows you how to catch a Pokemon, the game considers it a wild battle and loads the glitch data, in this case pulled from the player's name. So, after the tutorial, if you fly to Cinnabar Island and surf on the east coast, you can encounter very strange pokemon. For one thing, sometimes their level is above the level cap of 100, going all the way to 255! Secondly, encountering these pokemon will duplicate the sixth item in your bag, so you can have infinite master balls. With 255 of a quantity of item you can perform a glitch that lets you obtain glitch items, some of which are very useful for things like editing raw data or playing Pong, and some of which are very useful for fucking up the game beyond belief. Back to the Cinnabar Island glitch, its third application is the most famous: out of bounds Pokemon. Surfing up and down the east coast you can encounter oddities such as the L-shaped "MISSINGNO." or an even stranger "# 'M ^". (This is an approximation. Most glitch pokemon have glitch characters in their names, which I obviously can't type out here.) MISSINGNO is an L-shaped glitch block that has the cry of a Nidoran. It's pretty unremarkable in Red/Blue/Yellow. # 'M shares a Pokedex number with it, #00, so they have the same sprite, moveset and stats. # 'M has one weird property that its sibling does not however. When you battle and catch a # 'M, the game is like "lmao nope" and even though its sprite is gone you still have to battle it after you catch it, which I find hilarious. If you catch it again, the battle will actually end and you will have caught 2 Pokemon: the # 'M, and a Ditto. Nobody knows where the fuck the Ditto comes from and nobody wants to question it. After you catch one of these badass looking guys, you may want to battle with it. Is it stronger than Mewtwo? Does it obliterate everything? Well, reality is often disappointing, and MISSINGNO. is not as strong as it's portrayed in fan games and creepypastas. It has only one good stat, being Speed, and every other stat is awful. Its base Defense is actually 0! It has a terrible moveset too, with only four moves it can learn. # 'M fares the same. So is there a way to get a Pokemon stronger than any other? Well actually yes! Every Pokemon has an ID number corresponding to the order it was created. Rhydon is #001, and the cast of Pokemon have IDs going up to 191, with # 'M as #000 and MISSINGNO. padding out the holes that were once filled by Pokemon cut from the game. #192 to #255, however, house the real strange and dangerous Pokemon. Some of these have cries that infinitely loop, some switch the colors to grayscale or fill the screen with glitch tiles, some have movesets or names that corrupt your Pokemon and item data, and a couple outright crash the game. If you want a super strong Pokemon, PC 4S H has better base stats than the highest non glitch Pokemon throughout every game. If the game loads an opposing PC 4S H's sprite, it freezes, so you can also use it to troll your friends! You can obtain it by exploiting the system that sends Pokemon from Gen 2 to Gen 1, because encountering it in the wild will also freeze the game.

Oh also in pokemon yellow there's a way to beat the game in under a minute. Humans can do it (in fact I did once after 10 minutes of attempts) but I like it best as a TAS. Here's a video:

[hinamie]

sidelong

[winkle-pickers]

Covenant

[televised-eyes]

the way crowley’s lil head bobble lines up perfectly with aziraphale touching his back, it’s as if the touch caused an involuntary shiver up crowley’s spine…

[huang-er-jiejie]

i. i just realised something about the kiss.

the way when aziraphale puts both of his hands on crowley's back, you can see them kinda shift so aziraphale isn't leaning. he held onto crowley for stability, and leaned in. pushed closer to him. he leaned forward. anyone ever says he didn't want the kiss im going to hunt you down because HE HELD CLOSE!!! HE KISSED BACK!!!!

EDIT: also im like WELL aware he kissed back i was even when i first watched it like its not a big revelation, its just that SOME people☠️ on TIKTOK☠️ KEEP SAYING HE WAS DISGUSTED BY THE KISS???? like i swear some people are watching a different show entirely

[kettlefire]

Prepare for the unexpected. (DPxDC)

Everyone knew about the reign of Pariah Dark. Even those who did not dabble in those realms have heard the tale of the tyrant. A power-hungry man who ruled over the dead with an iron fist.

Following the rise of Pariah Dark, his realm had been effectively cut off from communication. Many mystics and magic users knew better than to open the door of nightmares that could arise if Pariah Dark's reach went further than his own realm.

Except, the universe had plans to bring the realm of the dead back into the cards.

A new opponent, one that had all of Earth's heroes scrambling for options. A being with powers of a god over weather, destruction was on the horizon. A world ending threat.

It's the only reason the Justice League was doing this. In a deep bunker, far from close civilization as a precaution, the heroes looked on with grim expressions.

The world was already being threatened. It would be destroyed regardless of what the league did. So it only made sense to make the last ditch effort. To summon someone strong enough to defeat the threat.

No one wanted to do it. No one wanted to be the one to pull the realm of the dead back to the living. The consequences were untold if this succeeded. If Pariah Dark was freed and defeated the threat, whose to say he won't want control?

That was a problem for later. For the aftermath. For now, the league could only watch on with bated breath as Constantine completely the summon ritual.

They watched on as the shadows in the room seemed to darken and grow. As the sigil sputtered to life with a glow that was growing increasingly brighter. A sudden gust of wind rushed through the room, the temperature began to drop with eaching ticking second.

And then it was all gone.

The room stood perfectly still. Just as it had been moments before. Nothing changed. No giant king standing before them, no sign that the ritual worked.

The room stood deadly still for another beat before the murmurs started. The team trying to make sense of the situation, figure out what went wrong.

Constantine swore up and down that this was the correct ritual, taking offense that they would even think the problem was on his end. It only made it better when it finally happened.

A loud sound ripped through the room, pulling everyone's attention back to the summoning circle. Just in time to see a tear appear in the space above the circle.

A thin tear that ran the length of eight feet. The fabric of the dimension seems to curl at the edges, pulling back to reveal a deep glowing swirl of greens. A dark gloved hand reached through, fingers curling around the edge of the tear, stretching it even further.

A portal. The ritual had worked, but there had been a delay. A delay that had every hero nerves on edge. Each team member tensed, weapons at the ready as they watched the being stretch the portal to the right size.

Then, a foot stepped out with a heavy thud. A dark boot that looked otherworldly despite its similarity to mortal clothing. A deep black that seemed never-ending. A second foot quickly followed before a full body emerged from the portal.

Not many people in the room have ever seen Pariah Dark, let alone know what to expect. Based on what Constantine and Zatara had said, this wasn't Pariah Dark.

A man had stepped out of the portal, standing at almost seven feet tall, and built like a brick house. One glance at the glowing white hair, deadly red eyes, and shard teeth was enough to know this being was not to be messed with.

But there was no giant show of armor or royal garbs. There is no large crown at the top of his head or jewelry from the infinite realms laced around his neck.

Instead, the man stood before them in combat boots, worn-in ripped jeans, a graphic t-shirt, and a spiked leather jacket. Despite his almost normal clothing choice, the man's jacket seemed to be a never-ending depth of the dark night sky. If one was to look closely enough, the cosmos could almost be made out in the sea of darkness.

None of that would have prepared them for when the man spoke. His tone sounded more bored than anything as he took a step forward.

"Oh, so now you need the help of the dead." The man had spoken, running a hand through his hair. When Batman took a step forward to speak, the man raised a hand. Immediately commanding silence in the single gesture. "I'm on babysitting duty and have yet to have a cup of coffee. I'll be right back."

Just like that, both the man and portal vanished into thin air. Leaving behind a group of stunned heroes. Not only was the man not Pariah Dark, but he was also supposedly babysitting.

"Did that just-"

The Flash had been the first voice to speak up, his eyes trained on where the man had once stood. Except he had barely made it through the first few words before the man was suddenly back.

The man that now had a child hanging off his shoulders and another teen being held up by his scruff. Unlike the man, these kids looked human.

Too human for Bruce's liking. The dark black hair and bright blue eyes had every heroes eyes flickering to Batman for just the briefest moment.

"This isn't fair! I'm not even the king. Why do I have to be here!" The teenager had been complaining the moment the man had reappeared. Arms crossed tight over his chest and seemingly used to being held dangling. "Besides, who brings kids to a show down! Wait til I tell mom about this."

"Aw, come on, Danny. This is gonna be fun!!" The younger girl seemed in much better spirits than the teen, Danny. She had climbed up the large man, sitting on his shoulders and resting her arms on the mess of glowing hair. "It's like take your kids to work day! Ooo, Dan! Can we fight too!?"

Unlike the two kids, the man looked purely exhausted and annoyed. The man, Dan, dropped Danny like a sack of potatoes as he took a long drink from the travel cup in his hand.

It didn't take a genius to recognize the look of an exhausted parent in Dan's expression. A look many of the league members were well acquainted to. A look that even had Batman grimacing with sympathy.

"Can it, little shits. You two were grounded, remember." Dan had growled at the kids before shifting his focus back on the team of heroes before them. His glowing eyes set in a deadly glare. "Pariah Dark isn't coming, and he never will. He's been dethroned and banished. We're the best you've got."

A summoning that started with a group of on edge and scared heroes looking for the ghost king, ended in a way no one expected.

No one was even sure if it made any sense. They weren't sure if they should feel hopeful or in despair.

Because truly, what was a ghostly man with two seemingly human children against a godlike foe with the control over the weather?

The unspoken question of power and ability seemed to vanish following Dan downing the metal travel cup of coffee, and crushing it in his fist.

He tossed it to the side, straighting up his posture as he looked over the heroes. Dan might not be a hero, but he's been playing family for too long.

An almost feral, bloodhungry grin spread across the man's face, sharp fangs on full display. The look made the man suddenly look even less human. He looked closer to a demon from the pits of hell rather than the exhausted parent he looked just a few seconds ago.

"Point me in the direction of this bastard. It's been too long since I let loose and had some fun."

[egophiliac]

crossing my fingers and wishing upon every star that chapter 10 finally brings us the tweel cards 🤞🤞

[heartorbit]

find another role, carry on the show

[gongyussy]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera