#greater universe

[porahten]

Low quality image I did a bit ago. Kind of cute so I thought I’d share it

[narutothoughts]

Kakanaru au where kakashi gets hurt on a mission and passes out in the middle of a forest on the way back to Konoha.

When he wakes up he’s neatly laid out in the middle of an old shrine, with fresh bandages wrapped around his stitched up wounds and warm tea at his elbow.

The fact he remained unconscious through someone moving him and closing his wounds was discontenting even if it wasn’t particularly surprising. He did lose a lot of blood and chakra after all.

Now that he’s awake, kakashi knows he should leave. He knows better than to test his luck staying in place for too long anywhere outside of the village.

But…he’s curious. And despite the stitches, he’s still in danger of infection considering Konoha is over a week away in his current state.

So he leverages himself up, and tries to look around as much as he can. But the entire shrine is empty. Not a single sign of the one that helped him.

When he wakes up again a few hours later there’s a pot of warm tea at his side to replace the old cup, a little pile of fruit, and new bandages. The day after that, there’s sake and plum wine added to the mix.

Kakashi doesn’t really know what’s happening but he’s never been one to sit idle nor has he ever been an ungrateful man. So as soon as he’s able to get up without his head spinning he gets to work. he sweeps the floors and dusts the cobwebs. Even polishes a little golden fox statue he finds tucked behind a wooden alter.

It’s the least he could do for his hidden host. The caretaker of this place maybe?

Kakashi’s body and chakra recovers faster than he anticipated. After five days he leaves even as the Hatake part of him that lives in back of his head keens.

Before he goes he pats the golden fox on the head. It was oddly cute compared to the 9 statues of snarling stone foxes surrounding it, though there was undeniable beauty in those too.

A few months later he’s injured again and realizes the shrine is on his way back to Konoha. He stops there to rest for the night and heads out in the morning, only taking the time to drink some of the tea and wipe down the alter, barely noticing how his chakra coils have refilled already.

And it keeps happening whenever he gets injured. He comes, he rests, he cleans, and goes with a pat to the gold statues head.

Until one day he wakes up to a long limbed blond at his side instead of the usual tea and fruits. When the blanket shifts to reveal a bare back and smooth tan skin he thanks every god out there for his mask covering his blush. Sleepy blue eyes blink open at him right on cue and honestly? Kakashi thinks he deserved that for not putting the pieces together earlier.

This is blatantly inspired by @rayshippouuchiha

[rascallyrose92]

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[ohholydyke]

Actually the Great Commission is about generating a culture of love and care between diverse interconnected global communities not about colonizing and trying to convert groups because you think their way of life is somehow lesser unless they approach the Divine from a Christian lens

[warlenys]

like twelve spent 4.5 billion years being tortured and then was gonna rip the universe apart for clara and yet a kiss was where they drew the line. a kiss would’ve been too much. most romantic romance of all time. so romantic that kissing was worth more than the universe. normal

[brucewaynehater101]

i'm gonna be real idk if your the right person to go for young justice core four headcanons but you give the best replies by far so heres my own idea idea

I was listening to the Roblox Soundfont remix and now the og Gone Angels and now I'm thinking . . .

Tim became Robin to prevent Batman from ceasing to be the symbol of heroism and good he started off as

The symbol that spiraled into destruction of even the self with Jason Todd's death

imagine a world where Red Robin becomes the very thing he swore to destroy with his own death

he dies along with Bart and Kon. Cassie due to this and maybe other factors fucking looses it, Batman post-Jason's death but pre-Tim becoming Robin style

or maybe instead he dies but the rest of the core four lives. either way Cassie still looses it, by herself or with her other teammates

And maybe, just maybe, they get nobody to be the Third Robin to their Batman, no Third Robin to Tim's Second Robin

likely improbably in canon but the idea of Cassie and maybe even Bart and Kon having a villain arc (maybe Black Silence style) is too good of an idea not to share

(Side note; imagine a Gone Angels cover where the survivor(s) sing and for the itallian lyrics in the midway point the deceased sing)

((extra side note: imagine this is what gets Batman and maybe the other Bats to reflect on the time before and after Tim become robin, post Jason's death; seeing their history repeat with Young Justice))

((hell maybe the Justice League realizes as wells))

"you give the best replies by far." Thank you. Sometimes, it takes a bit to reply to asks cause I'm taking a few hours to really answer the prompts/ideas/questions people pose. I also sleep at random times, so apologizes in advance to any asks that take a while!

My image of YJ is a codependent platonic polycule. They are Young Just Us because they didn't receive proper support from their mentors. This is part of why Cassie and Tim fell apart after Kon and Bart died. This is why, in their own weird ways, both of them tried to get a form of Kon back. Tim tried the scientist cloning avenue, and Cassie tried the cult.

If you want Tim's death to inspire Cassie and YJ to go evil, might I suggest Tim sending proof of Bruce being alive in the timestream and then succumbing to his spleen injury (perhaps an infection)? This would create a delicious amount of angst, anger, and mental breakdowns.

Cassie, the only nonretired YJ member alive at the time, didn't believe Tim about Bruce being alive. This was in part due to the cloning stuff but also in part to trusting Nightwing (or Batman at the time). If Tim didn't make it out of that alive, Cassie may be desperate to find anyone to blame but herself for that. She was a kid, she was lost in her own grief, and Tim should have had the support of literally any other hero.

The entire hero community turned against a teenager in his time of need that he resorted to conspiring with the LoA and ended up losing his life. Whether she chooses to be mad about nobody believing him (Tim's possibly a better detective than Bruce and people have revived before, but his evidence at the time was flimsy), she can be very pissed that not a single hero offered to help him. They didn't even need to trust in Tim's decision. They could have just accompanied Tim until the teen gave up or proved himself right. They could have treated it as a grief road trip while Tim found himself.

Anyways, losing the last nonretired YJ member that way may cause her to just snap. The JL was already on thin ice with the YJ for their lack of support to her generation of heroes. Them failing YJ enough that two children died in the field and one died as a direct result of their actions? She would, rightfully, loathe the JL. On top of that, she does already not trust the government for what they did to Secret. If she can't prosecute the JL, she'll become their enemy.

Cassie lost all of her main polycule. She wants revenge.

After Bart and Kon come back, they see how JL left Cassie and what they did to Tim. Cassie is part of their ride or die, and she has been treated so horribly. Tim has died. They obviously join her.

Now, with Bart there to give evil ideas (Bart is the scariest member of YJ and you can't convince me otherwise), YJ is a force to be reckoned with. Maybe some of the other members come out of retirement, maybe not. They would be unstoppable with Tim helping them, but that's the problem. They don't have Tim. Tim isn't there to help them nor hold them back. That's why they became "evil" anyway.

I like to imagine someone, probably Nightwing, screaming at them from across the battlefield. "This isn't what he would have wanted! He became Robin to stop Batman from destroying everything. This is the antithesis of why he became a hero!"

For a split second, YJ would pause. There's merit in those words, after all. Cassie would recover first as she shakes her head. "He became a hero to be the leash to Batman's rage. He's not here now. He's not here to temper our rage, and you did that. You abandoned a child." She plants her feet more firmly and points her sword at Nightwing. "We won't let you do that again."

It's dealers choice on whether YJ win the battle or not. Also, I do believe YJ would be obsessed with trying to bring Tim back. Perhaps some of their evil deeds truly stem from them trying to find ways to bring back Tim. They are incomplete without him just as they were incomplete without Kon or Bart and would be without Cassie.

Now, is Tim actually alive or does he stay dead? Did Ra's revive him using the Pit? Did Ra's lie or misguide the Bats while keeping Tim hostage? Will Tim come back, either after being brainwashed by Ra's or escaping, to find his platonic polycule has officially lost it and turned evil?

[spockvarietyhour]

Stargate Universe "The Greater Good"

[everythingroyalty]

Rather than writing articles about Californian jam, a press independent of the British Royal Family and unafraid of repercussions for asking legitimate question would question William and Catherine's systematic delegitimisation of women's sports.

William, as FA president, couldn't be arsed to fly out for his federation's World Cup final – i.e. the biggest final a federation can achieve.

Catherine, All England president, attends the women's singles finals sporadically but always makes sure to attend the men's singles finals.

William, a lifelong Aston Villa fan, is regularly seen attending its men's games privately, yet he has never been seen at a women's game.

Between them, they have brought their children to major sports tournaments like Wimbledon and the UEFA Euros but only to see men's singles finals and the England men's football team.

For a constitutional monarchy that has no other purpose than serving as a representative institution to actively partake in the branding of women's sports as inferior to men's sports in the year 2025 is simply repugnant and delegitimises the very ground on which the monarchy exists.

[porahten]

It’s finally Christmas!

[cdlikesstories]

Camu Camu: What do you want? Mr Ali, hungry: *whispers* The souls of the innocent Iruma, also kinda hungry: A bagel! Mr Ali: *whisper-shouts* No! Iruma: Two Bagels

[finz-art]

More comic practice, yay! Yeah, so, turns out touch can at times be a huge trigger for Eddie due to some past trauma ;-;🖤

[fandom-trash-xl]

Do you think "Frieza Race" Time Patrollers in Xenoverse are given a tough time?

Unfortunately, the sticker of association with Frieza never really comes off. Heck, even the species name in-game sticks with just "Frieza Race". I know it's because there was no established canon name for their kind, but imagine if aliens met the human race and instead of bothering to learn that we called ourselves humans they just referred to us as "[Notable Figure] Race". Even worse, if it's named after a particular bad egg, a dictator. "Frieza Race" almost feels derogatory.

Their coworkers become jittery around them after one too many Namek missions. They get the whole speech of "good on you for choosing the path of justice" as if they were predisposed to evil and this is their act of resistance. They have to learn to be trusted in general when everyone else is given courtesy right out the gate.

Just because of one major villain.

[uncaffeinatedbirb]

Jayvik and the Hayao Miyazaki treatment. They don't need to kiss or outright say "I love you" the love is just there, whatever type it may be. It is there and it is theirs 🫶

[twosides--samecoin]

Being a Logistically and Materially Sound post-apocalypse has never been one of Fallout's goals, even going back to the Interplay games. It's fun to look at Fallout with a "wait how would this work in the real world" lens (I did this when figuring out how much fuel a vertibird would need if it were crossing North America, also for research into much work would be needed to recover irradiated soil vs the "plants fruit 3 days after planting!" Fallout 4 gardening system, because I was curious about figuring those things out) but sometimes I think it's useful to remember that this is also the game series where aliens and a dude that became a tree is canon. Sometimes you gotta throw your hands up and be like "yeah this universe contains 0% realism sometimes and it's fine". Nobody ever asks about the veracity and logistic possibility of the Prydwen or Robobrains or aliens with pew pew guns or disembodied talking brains floating in formaldehyde because we can all suspend disbelief for those things, but point at the Unrealism of the Armoured Exoskeleton which is like. One of the more plausible aspects of this entire game series and the crowd goes wild. People approach me to consult about Fallout worldbuilding for their mod and fanfic writing and even as the "here's how I would think this Fallout Thing would work in the real world" person even I'm like "yeah sure go figure it out if you want but it's ok if you don't, not everything needs an answer"

As a greater critique of Gaming CritiqueTM, I think ludonarrative issues in games is a fascinating topic, but I also think ludonarrative dissonance is a term that's often misunderstood & misused to illustrate someone's dislike of a mechanic or whatever, rather than being accurately used to describe moments where ludonarrative issues are happening. I'm gonna say that staring at an empty power armour shell and saying "but WHERE'S my TEAM OF ENGINEERS and MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX and IS THE STEEL HAND-POURED OR RECYCLED" isn't one. Something not having an answer in-universe doesn't make it a ludonarrative problem! It's just an unanswered detail! Like sometimes video games can't be built to address every plausible explanation for every possible worldbuilding question the player's gonna come up with; this makes worse media when creators start trying to stay ahead of fans like that. Also, fuck, there are fanfic writers who have written stories about the Brotherhood of Steel that has plausible logistics/resources planned out. It's ok that the answer isn't contained in the game with a neat lil bow on top u feel me

[arguablysomaya]

Greater Justice League Polycule v.2

Who'd I miss?

[spockvarietyhour]

The Starship Destiny (and random alien ship of the week) "The Greater Good"