#he also blinded his mother

[restinslices]

Idk who needs to hear this but it’s ok to agree with The Darkling’s ideas but not his methods.

The Darkling had every right to hate non Grisha and his plan made sense. Make it so Grisha are no longer mistreated and use the fold (which I’m pretty sure is an accident in the show and the books, but I could be wrong) as a weapon so Grisha can never be attacked again. It makes sense. He wants to be a savior for Grisha. His methods though? Fucking atrocious. Saying he did absolutely nothing wrong is wild asf to me. He manipulates and becomes so codependent when it comes to teenage girls. He manipulated Zoya, he allows Genya to be assaulted by the king so she can be a spy for him then later scars her, he manipulates Alina, tries to control her powers, threatens to skin her alive if Mal can’t find the second amplifier, he kills several people and I’m pretty sure threatened to murder an entire orphanage plus the other crazy shit he did in the books. He had a great idea that I can stand behind. He’s not wrong for fighting back. He’s wrong for the other wild shit he did and refuses to apologize for. And even if he did apologize, it probably wouldn’t be enough.

You can like The Darkling as a villain. You can find him hot. I love Ben Barnes and I love villains. I have been a Loki lover since Thor. I loved Bucky as The Winter Soldier. The Alpha Pack from Teen Wolf will always own my heart. But this mf Alexander is like Thanos; spitting real shit but has a shit plan. Thanos was spitting when he said the world doesn’t have enough resources but committing genocide instead of just doubling the resources when he had the power to do so is crazy.

Back to The Darkling, you can like him but don’t act like he did absolutely nothing wrong cause I’m never letting go of the bullshit he put Genya through.

[velveteencosmocrat]

Y'know as much as I love the new lore drops of Bill's backstory after so long and the new works and headcanons and aus made with Bill's parents, I am kinda sad that it essentially dethrones @pengychan 's flat dreams fic from what a lot of people probably accepted as his backstory, even if just fanon. If only for the sole purpose that Liam wouldn't exist.

but then I remembered I could do whatever the fuck I want.

So in my personal au, I like to think that Liam does exist and still is Bill's brother, but their roles would be reversed (ages can stay the same or swap, either would work for different dynamics). Bill would be the treated irregular child. Liam would be the 'right' one. Just an average triangle in Euclydia, with normal eyes not made to see the stars. I think he'd still read to Bill, still spend whatever time he can with him. Not because it's all he can really do constrained, but because of his own love and care for his brother, accepting even if he doesn't exactly understand him. Liam would be happy for the most part, healthy, and just living his best life as he can.

And Liam would be purple.

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

So idk if this is a super surface level take, but I think the most heartbreaking part about Paul's journey in part 2 is like. how he kind of knows even from the beginning what he'll have to do in the end. And even in those moments where he thinks he's maybe in the clear and forging his own path (the "taking off the ring" scene for example), I think he knows deep down that it won' t last. That the most he can do is delay the inevitable. But he'll still try to delay it as long as possible. He knows what going south will do to him. He knows what the water of life will do to him. He just doesn't know how bad it'll be. I think up until the last possible moment he still has some desperate hope that he won't give in fully, that he'll be able to have a win-win scenario and give everyone what they want while still remaining uncorrupted.

I've compared it to LOTR before but it really is Like That --- every good person who possesses the ring at some point thinks "maybe I'll be the one to resist it though. Maybe it'll be me who's able to remain pure of heart." I think Paul is the same way - he sees himself changing drastically, but still thinks maybe he can avoid that fate while still stepping as close to it as he feels he needs to. And those steps get closer and closer until he falls off the edge, as he was doomed to from the start.

[softer-ua]

I wanna see Masaru do dad things

He falls asleep on the couch but will instantly wake up the second Katsuki even thinks about changing the channel

One minute he’s loudly sawing logs the next it’s “Don’t even think about it Kats, I’m waiting for the weekend weather forecast” and Katsuki let’s it go with a grumpy “stupid old man” because he’s now secretly hoping this means his dads planing to take him hiking

(Later Denki and Katsuki quietly bond over their shared fondness of weather reports)

Masaru constantly reminds Katsuki not to touch the thermostat (even though Katsuki’s literally NEVER once touched the damn thing!!)

Masaru dropping random bits of “fatherly wisdom” out the blue in lulls in conversation or even just as the the start of a conversation that are so wild and uncalled, but undoubtedly good advice

“Looking nice is a respect we pay to other people and is the first step in getting them to treat you with respect”

“Never panic, if you panic you die.”

“Always apply for things you think don’t qualify for, at worse they tell you no, at best they’ll train you to qualify and then you can apply even higher”

*shows him a handful of water* “This is all it takes to drown.” (This was said to me one school morning while I was sleepily eating a bowl of Cheerios and the only other thing he said was that he’d meet me in the truck to take me to school)

“Go out and listen to live music as often as you can, even if it’s not good, it’s good for you”

“remember Katsuki if you need to get rid of a body at sea dismember it first, decomposition happens slowly at cold temperatures”

“Always know your exits and the quickest ways to them”

“When in doubt throttle out” this was said when snow-machining because if you get scared and break suddenly you might get stuck waist deep in the snow and have to dig you and your machine out, but it’s also just sold life advice

“If you leave it to the bystander it’ll always be left by a stander, always call out to one person specifically to call 911”

Being very open about his job but in spite of that no one actually knows what he does. Yeah he works in fashion, could be textiles could be a model, who knows, not Katsuki that’s for sure.

Teaching Katsuki how to spot animals while hiking in a way that’s so vague & makes no sense but sticks with him so he some how just gets it but now he can’t explain it either

Denki:I don’t see a deer anywhere??

Katsuki: Just look for the thing that doesn’t fucking belong!!

(the secret is of course that trees and shadows don’t move)

Katsuki calms his city kid friends with the same things his dad told him as a kid, which are of course not comforting if you have no lived through context

Hanta: what if we get attacked by wolves??

Katsuki: with how loud y’all are we’ll be lucky to see a squirrel

Eijirou: okay, but what if we see a bear?!

Katsuki: trust me you’ll smell a bear long before you see it, and again your too loud to just stumble upon one

And most importantly Masaru just randomly telling Katsuki how proud he is of him, how much he loves him, giving him random treats, big long hugs, praising how smart he is, telling him how he will always support him no matter what, how glad he is that he grew up to be so strong willed, and a dozen other acts of soft fatherly support

Katsuki needs him to offset the poor example of his mother so so desperately 🥺

[swallowtail-ageha]

Head empty thoughts full of the antigone incest essay

[fellhellion]

Miguel’s actions literally do not make sense if his fear of dimensional collapse reoccurring and his empathy towards the more horrible “canon events” ISNT sincere and yet there are still people genuinely proposing theories like maybe he’s just lying about this for incomprehensibly stupid reasons.

[ofcourseitsafurry]

The(3)main player characters

Aka my main monster prom OC and his friends along with their drinks to help describe their personalities or aesthetics

First Sparkles Glowbright,ex-prince of Villa of Monocerotem, a very magical adept White Unicorn

Sparkles is my main monster prom oc. He's calm, collected, and goes with the flow(Yes, like Brian.)Unlike Brian, he's more energetic, he enjoys dancing, walking, and magic tricks with physical requirements. He's also much more thoughtful than most of the monsters in Spooky High, resorting to murder less, more education-focused, and less sexually interested preferring to take it slow. Sparkles, despite(hopefully)what a lot of future art shows isn't actually in Spooky Academy, his reason for being there along with his actual school is to be discussed later for his backstory.

Next is Draco Lung, the son of a Western fire dragon and an Eastern lightning dragon(also the brother of an Eastern water dragon).

Draco, short for Draconic, is a stereotypical greedy dragon, he doesn't steal damsels and force them to marry him as he finds that sexist and weird. Unlike Vera, Draco is lazy, stealing from shops, kingdoms, and even fountains for his fix of money obsession. (Hell, that last one was how he met Sparkles in the first place.)Another example of his laziness is his obsession with sleeping, likely due to the energy of being such a huge beast. While he isn't a complete jackass he's rude and just as quick to violence as several monsters threatening to fight someone if they annoy him enough.

Next up is Feng Xuang, a FENGHUANG not a PHOENIX or a VERMILION BIRD

Feng is the one I have the least plot thought out for. He likes astrology and astronomy due to the real-life monster corresponding to Celestial bodies and beings. He's obsessed with fire, not like just an arsonist, he likes playing with it, eating it, looking at it. Fenghuang mating rituals have two Fenghuangs doing a mating dance of death that combines both parents' personalities into one egg making Feng an orphan. He hates to be referred to as other similar mythical bird species. He's cheery and upbeat but a general everyman who enjoys preppy culture.

Last but not least, Mh'athra.Deity of Sacred Secrecy and darkness

Mh'athra is technically canon, but I'm giving her a non-canon design. Sparkles became a mortal contact for Mh'athra when he snuck into one of the cult headquarters on his way to Monstropolis and read a book that allowed it to come into the monster realm with his magic. Mh'athra is an asshole, she’s extremely dismissive of Zoe and her choice of becoming part of mortal kind, like the carnival mirror event, unlike the mirror event Mh'athra is actively cruel and even dead names Zoe while alternate Z'gord is dismissive but tries to talk her into rejoining her "purpose." While it's evil, it's not actively malicious, not currently into recreating the Nothingness.

[official-saul-goodman]

It's so sad that jim croce died less than a year after his son was born :(

[joyglass]

okay. real talk I don't like the antagonism between percy and annabeth in the tv series it's just unnecessary like the thing about them is that they were NEVER enemies to lovers (not in my book anyway) annabeth was apprehensive and maybe overly critical but that changed to ride or die real quickly. what happened to annabeth saying she'd fight by percy's side AGAINST her mother if it came down to it midbook 1??? like they're supposed to be friends 😭😭 im sure it'll come later but I liked seeing the gradual buildup, the banter, the camaraderie except it was never framed as antagonistic in the books as it is in the tv series.....

[exquisiteagony]

obvs i’m still a finnish music rpf blog but i do have the asoiaf brainrot and have been writing little fics i never shared since like 2015 so

[grandapplewit]

FMA AU where Trisha Elric wakes up in an alley some six years post-canon for [insert vaguely spoilery plot reasons] and is stumbled upon (quite literally) by none other than Brigadier General Roy Mustang, who proceeds to take her to Madame Christmas and absolutely does not realize who she is.

Coincidentally, Ed rolls into town for the first time in six years.

[saviourkingslut]

wholly forgot scientology is real until i was minding my business browsing wikipedia and found out it's listed as a cult/sect in germany and france and tom cruise is a huge missionary (not old enough to remember the scandals) anyway then i remembered my dad once told me he went on a trip to amsterdam as a teenager (alone) to buy a jacket and got roped into doing some test for them?? and he handed it in and then he just waited there but it took too long until they came to get him again and he had to get home so he just?? left??? and he had no idea what the fuck it was for until years later he saw an item on tv abt scientology in the netherlands and he recognised the fucking building lmfaooo

[shidoukanae]

wanted to do another TME sketchdump (that i actually finish coloring ;;;) and so i did!!!

been thinking about TME almost literally 24/7 (and the other time is spent on OCs lol) and i still can't get over how this story is literally everything ive longed to see (as well as full of things i didn't know i longed to see. hewwo Empress Arne and Emperor Christopher).

[lionblaze03-2]

personally I don’t hate gray wing nearly as much as everyone else because he’s a great example of having rose colored glasses just because ‘well, he’s family’, and not realizing until far too late that that essentially ruined his life and made him amount to almost nothing. Because clear sky is his brother, he wants to assume the best of him. Surely, my brother would never. Surely he didn’t mean it like that. Surely he’ll do better next time. He’s my brother. He COULDN’T be a bad guy. So he keeps giving him chances, over and over and over again, until it’s completely destroyed him. Until he can no longer breathe, his lungs full of toxic smoke that clear sky abandoned him to breathe in, until he is under his claws, nearly killed under the moonlight, until his people are battered again and again, until borders become inevitable. But he never, ever realizes, because- it’s his brother. Surely, his brother will do better next time. Surely, he didn’t mean it. Surely, he will change.

And believing that is the death of him.

[nervoustragedyluminary]

Being misgendered repeatedly by an ex friend because I'm on T and apparently I'm therefore not allowed to be "they /Them" anymore & must be he/him while my flatmate repeatedly corrected him while he tried to tell them I was crazy /concern troll them about my mental health because I'd had enough of his abuse & gone no contact has got to be one of the most ridiculous things that's happened to me this year ....

[bluerosefox]

Tears once again.

My God I love how they're all characterized in this.

Tiny Danny wants to trust, wants a family, still loves his insane mother but knows she's not the best, wants to a child and not an assassin heir or a vigilante at all.

Older Danny is paranoid, needs to knows everyone's motivates towards his younger self, needs to double check everything, he can't blindly trust anyone, especially with people he doesn't know.

Tim is great, he knows he has to take time and patience with Danny, slowly gain the tiniest bit of trust with the kid, i love his reasoning about not telling Dick, he's a great guy and all but he would accidently be a bit overbearing (and most likely Damian and Bruce don't know as well cause they would most likely say or do something that would make Danny run again)

Jason and Alfred are wonderfully great in all this. Most likely not going say anything to the others until they know it's all good, that Danny won't go running off into the night anymore. (I have a feeling Jason was the one that broke something when he heard Danny admit to being tossed in the pits, next time he sees any LOA or Talia he isn't going to be gentle with them tbh.)

I love where this is going and I can't wait to see who Danny meets next. Maybe Cass cause I feel like she would be the best person to take note of his emotions, back away if he needs space, 'talk' about her time in the LoA and why she herself ran away when she could and would be very gentle with a skiddish Danny (maybe before he meets Bruce and Damian, he's nervous and although he has learned to trust the rest of the fam, he still is unsure of his dad and brother. Only Cass calms him down, signs its okay and that despite being Batman he would never make Danny into something he doesn't wanna be and that Damian despite being rough around the edges does care for him and wouldnt try to make him his copy)

Assassin Heir? Crime Fighting Furry? NOPE NO THANK YOU!

"Danyal, its time to end this game and return with me."

Danny should had known Clockwork had something in mind when he sent him on this mission. He knew he should had been suspicious of the time keeper when he noticed the little 'this is going to be fun' smile on his face when he sent Danny off into the portal.

"Get back here you demon spawn 2.0!"

But how was he supposed to know that he'd wake up in this world version of himself in a pit full of corrupted (AND NASTY) ectoplasim at the tender age of five or that when he swam up to the surface he'd be meeting face to face with what was apparently a cult.

"-O just spotted him a block away! I'll try to cut itty bitty bridie off!"

An Assassins Cult his, new to him, loving yet a little insane mother was in charge of (though during the few months he stayed in the compound he heard rumors and gossip from maids and others alike that if his grandfather returned from the dead he'll take over once again, no doubt punish Talia for creating another heir after the failure of the last one, most likely was going to kill Danny and that... that was can of worms Danny didn't wanna deal with yet)

"Ten bucks says they try to stab RR when we get the feral thing home"

"...Losers bet...."

Danny had lived with his mother for a while after being brought back from the 'dead' for apparently the first time, it turned out training a five year old with an actual sword and a dumbass hidden revenge seeking teacher was a terrible idea.

"I swear if this one tries to murder me like the others I'm asking Zatanna if there is a curse on me."

He dealt with her high demands of perfection, the endless training, and the constant comparisons to his apparent older brother Damain... Who didn't know Danny, or rather Danyal existed.

Nor did his father (when Danny, using his powers he's kept hidden since 'waking' up in this Realm, he sneaked his way around the base and discovered how he came into the world. And tbh he couldn't blame his mom how she made him, she was an assassin first and foremost, being naturally pregnant would had painted a target on her for to long... but he also felt it was unfair and an asshole move on his unsuspecting father as well)

"As your elder brother I demand you to stop running!"

Now don't get him wrong, he did like his new mother (total badass assassin lady and all that) and he knew she loved him in her own... deadly way. But yeah, she really shouldn't be taking care of kids. He could tell she struggled with wanting to be a normal mother but her first instinct after so many years was to be an assassin first.

Something she was trying to engrave into Danny with as well.

"Ah, hello Beloved. I see you've learned of our Danyal."

"Talia. Back away from him and leave Gotham now."

"I can not do that. The League needs an heir and since Damian refuses to return... I have decided to create a new one and I shall not be leaving until he returns with me."

"Talia."

Hence why when Danny, or rather Danyal al Ghul had gotten decent control over his powers he decided to leave the League. Again nothing wrong with the life his mom leads, to each their own, but he... really, really didnt want to be an assassin. Or an assassin heir.

So here he was, after almost a year on the run, using his powers and training to out smart and out maneuver his mother and her many band of Assassins, in Gotham. One of the last places he ever wanted to run to cause he knew his father and brother lived here.

It was just his luck that his mother had managed to intercept his train ride that passed into Gotham for a few hours and forced him to run into the city...

Add her assassins into the mix and running into Robin, who heard from Oracle his mother had been spotted chasing a young boy across the city, that same night.

After that it became a full on "catch me if you can" chase for not only his mother but for the batclan as well.

And after two whole days of chase, it seemed like the final showdown was about to begin because everyone was on top of this rooftop, his mother and her assassins on one side, his father and the batclan on the other and Danny well... he was right in the middle of all of it.

He just had to hope no one would notice him once the fighting started...