#he is his own force of nature

[tiger-grace]

Damian standing outside of the police precinct because Jason (notorious crime lord) got caught for busting an illegal poaching and harvesting scheme

Damian: free my man he ain’t do anything wrong

Commissioner Gordon: he cut off their hands-

Damian, slowly pulling a batarang out of his pocket: I said, free my man. He ain’t do anything wrong.

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 11: Firebreak

A strip of land that has been cleared, plowed, or planted with fire-resistant vegetation to prevent a fire from spreading.

[linkbetweenlinksau]

Some more concepts. Sky’s outfit seemed plain to me without the sailcloth cape but I really hate the cape so I didn’t want to keep it. It’s folded up in his belt rn. But I did notice that the headmaster and the teachers for the knight academy all have that sash stuff around their shoulders, and since Sky more or may not be working in the academy at times, I gave him one. Idk, his design is giving me trouble lol. I need to figure out what he’s actually doing. I also moved his feather down on his belt cuz I can’t handle drawing that thing in his earring anymore. And Minish’s design also seemed plain so I gave it a more leafy texture to actually fit a Minish, plus darkening it cuz idk it kinda looked weird. I might lighten it a tad so that it doesn’t blend in with his headband. And lastly Windy…. I still don’t know if I wanna do this, but I kinda am playing with the idea of him being 14 instead of 17. Idk it’d just be easier not to try to fill in all those years you know? His design won’t change too much, but I did cave in and gave him a red bandana

And lastly Warriors and Time being brothers <3

[leupagus]

Say what you will about Martin's writing style (and I've said plenty) but I do think he's got the White Walkers' mythos worked out for a future book and IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO NICE IF THE SHOWRUNNERS HAD DONE 1/100TH OF THAT WORK SETTING THEM UP

Gus: I am mad all over again that there was absolutely zero explanation given as to why/how the Night King operates or how his powers work or why he chose now to attack or ANYTHING ELSE

Gus: on the plus side it means I get to make up a whole subplot that, not to brag, I'm comfortable saying is at least as good as anything D&D could've made up IF THEY HAD EVER EVEN BOTHERED

Gus: but like - okay so craster's infant sons get sacrificed to the Night King, who them magics them into White Walkers as babies

Mardia: Yep yep

Gus: so does that mean there's a white walker nursery

Mardia: Omg

Gus: do they have to change diapers

Mardia: LOOOOOOOL

Gus: is there a white walker daycare center

Gus: how does the night king TEACH his lil adopted monster babies

Gus: is there like storytime around the - well not fire

Gus: does the Night King remember what it was like to sit around a fire?

Gus: does he miss being a human and all his rage at the spell the Children of the Forest put on him to kill the First Men has curdled his brain?

Gus: what was he DOING for like 8 millennia, just hanging out?

Gus: did he get really good at ice fishing?

Gus: DO THEY EAT?

Gus: where the fuck do they get their snazzy outfits from

Gus: are there white walker tailors

Gus: what's the currency situation

Mardia: Lololololololol

Gus: I'M JUST SAYING

[theladyfae]

42 / lost brilliance, rita dove

[gh-0-stcup]

Another example of the massive power discrepancy between Armand and the rest of the coven - it takes how many vampires to control Louis, Claudia, and Madeline? 4-6, working simultaneously? On three badly weakened vampires, one of whom is a fledgling, another is a child, and all are under a century old. And they can barely keep hold of them.

It takes one Armand to control the speech of a full theatre.

[the-busy-ghost]

Me normally: Let people love what they love

Me, after a Test Match Special commentator expresses their belief that the new All Creatures Great and Small is somehow "better" than the 1978 version: This is pure insanity and TMS can no longer be trusted on anything, how can they even be trusted to know about cricket, do they have no TASTE

[melancholic-pigeon]

Okay this is the *actual* last comment, for real, but I just found out Spider is now smearing me as a convert and accusing me of being involved with drama I was not involved with because he mistakenly attributed my apologies for his public temper tantrum as being about something unrelated.

THIS IS A FALSE ACCUSATION and I do not appreciate having yet another bit of fake malicious intent falsely ascribed to my actions and* attributing a completely unrelated attack to me.

Also, it's very sad and disappointing whenever a Jew gets mad at a convert because something else is going on in the Jew's life and the convert happens to be in the splash zone and the Jew falls over backwards to smear the convert and invalidate her faith.

Just....the childish aggression is making me so, so sad and disappointed, from someone I used to think very highly of, who is now lying about me and publicly smearing me with false accusations based on a conflict he started because he misinterpreted something I said and I went out of my way to give him the benefit of the doubt when trying to clear up the mistake HE MADE that led him to decide bullying and attacking me for three fucking days was appropriate and okay and that I'm the bad guy for saying it's wildly unprofessional to behave like this in public to a former customer face.

Sorry, but facts, reality, linear time and the truth of what I actually said and did are on my side here, and I will not stand for being smeared and attacked and shat all over because I had the gall to try to kindly resolve his uncalled for, unjustified temper tantrum.

I am also not sorry that I left a side note in the tags that it was also unacceptable for HIM to drag his daughter into a stupid internet slapfight based on his own reading comprehension failure. Because it was and is unacceptable, and she needs to hear that message from someone.

End of story. Keep digging that hole as long as you like, Spider. It's not helping your case and is continuing to make you look progressively worse and more unreasonable, and the only person you have to blame is yourself.

*revised for clarity

[the-arilouverse]

Lore Drop... 2!!!

Many thousands of years ago, Phobius was not born, in the traditional sense. He manifested in the Dream World, before gaining enough strength to manifest in the physical world, in a place that would one day be named New Moon Woods.

When he popped into existence, he was largely left alone. As a being of fear, pokemon avoided him like the plague. This was fine, for the freshly minted legendary. He didn't know how to be lonely.

He lived like that for about 20 years.. then one day, a pokemon wandered through his neck of the woods. A Mienshao.

Mienshao was on the older side, too old to be chasing after prey anymore. He'd come to the woods in search of berries, not knowing why everyone avoided the woods as they did.

That's when he bumped into Phobius. A feeling of fear crept up on him, but he didn't flee. Mienshao just smiled, and offered Phobius a berry. In his experience, it tended to make other pokemon less hostile.

Phobius just blinked at him. He'd never eaten before.

Mienshao asked Phobius about himself and where he lives. He mostly responded with "I don't know."

He didn't have a name, he didn't have a home beyond "here" and he didn't seem to know how to feed himself. It struck Mienshao as odd. The Darkrai was as clueless as a newborn kit.

He invited him back to his home, which Phobius had no reason to refuse.

Mienshao's home was a burrow underneath a tree. He offered to let Phobius stay there as it turned to night, but the Darkrai grew agitated. He didn't like it when he couldn't see the moon.

Mienshao set about making a nest for him in the branches of his tree, just so he could look at the sky.

After that first night, Mienshao continued living with Phobius. Teaching him about life as if he were his own son.

As the years went on, however, rumors spread of a dark wood where a horrible monster made its home. The now father and son tried their best to avoid people and the rumors they spread, but it was growing more difficult by the day..

Especially since Phobius's idea of defending himself was knocking his opponents out and giving them horrible nightmares.

This habit would catch up to him in the worst possible way.

An angry mob tore through the forest, intending to hunt down this nightmare causing monster.

Mienshao, scared for his son's life, implored Phobius to run and not look back. Mienshao stayed behind, intending to hold off the mob for as long as he possibly could..

It was all for naught in the end. The mob caught up with Phobius, and there were simply too many for him to fend off. He was killed just for the crime of being too different and too frightening.

After the deed had been done and the dust had settled, Ho-Oh came onto the scene, shocked by the sight of Phobius's body, now still and cold.

She had met him previously after hearing the rumors, but deemed him to be harmless. She was appalled by the cruelty of the pokemon that supposedly looked up to and followed her.

What else could Ho-Oh have done, if not undo the damage that had been wrought? Using her powers, she resurrected Phobius, so that he could have another chance at life.

After Phobius wakes up, he wants to search for his dad. Ho-Oh escorts him, and they find the limp body of Mienshao not far from the two's home.

Phobius is confused and upset at the sight. His dad looked like he was sleeping, but.. he couldn't sense him? Why couldn't he sense him??

Ho-Oh's heart broke at the sight of younger legendary trying to wake his father, to no avail. Phobius was so young, he hadn't yet learned what death was. And now, he had experienced it first hand.

Ho-Oh took pity on the slain fighting type, opting to resurrect him like she did Phobius. But, her powers tend to work differently on mortals, and the Mienshao's form warped and changed into an unrecognizable shape.

Phobius scooped up his father in his arms- finding it easier now than ever before. To his relief, he could sense him again. He was alive.

This new version of Phobius's father would go nameless for some time, seeing as he was a brand new pokemon. Eventually, the people of their region came up with a name for him- Marshadow.

After everything that transpired, Phobius was a broken 'mon beyond repair. He would never trust strangers again, never let anyone get close to him for fear of being killed again. He would defend himself and his father fiercely from intruders in their woods.

Marshadow did his best to never let pokemon get that far, to discourage would-be intruders at every turn. It was easier than ever, with his new and spectral abilities granted to him by Ho-Oh.

To this day, Marshadow and Phobius remain in New Moon Woods, undisturbed now as all the pokemon in Calio have heard the warnings and myths about the fearsome nightmare pokemon known as Darkrai.

[mbat]

its not really a new thing for me to say that i kinda hate the whole 'werewolf pack' kinda thing for a few reasons, but i dont like, entirely hate it yknow

like my main thing is i like characters having a sortve isolated angsty ass time(i wonder why /s), and werewolves are great for angst! so putting the two together is like. oh hell yes. but thats just a me thing

but also for some reason almost every depiction ive seen of werewolves and werewolf packs has been like... 'their nature/instincts/whatever makes this happen' like, they cant resist it because its something theyre basically forced to do by their biology. ive seen it be blood families, ive seen it be random people who just met and theyre basically bound by the universe i guess, blah blah blah

and idk, i hate that. of course, almost everyone and almost every species has it in their nature to be social and need connection, but its not portrayed like that in these cases. its portrayed more like theyll basically die if they for whatever reason reject it or something, and that their loyalty is their entire life or whatever. idk, its hard to describe.

i think its kinda obvious that im leading this up to found family. who doesnt love found family? who doesnt love when people and characters choose the people that they want to spend their lives with, whether blood is involved or not.

and theres no instinct part of it for me, its just people who want/need support from others, and they find people they love, and you could call it a pack but i just personally wouldnt. its just like any other relationship tbh, but its obv cuter as a group :p

and if it happens to be other werewolves, or other monsters, or even just humans... thats their people that they chose.

[petrichorium]

even if it’s not what i think it’ll be i’d love to hear your yan jing yuan thoughts 🙏

Okay in essence I think,,,,,,,, the impulse is there and he actively shoves it down 🫣

Like it’s there!!! He sees you smiling at someone and there’s a tugging feeling in his gut and he knows he could drag you away and lock you up for millennia without lifting a finger, and he really does consider it; imagines being the only one who can see you, imagines you with nothing to do but be pampered by him all day, always in his bed or his garden, never having to find you laughing and spending time with anyone else. Nothing to do with yourself but accept his adoration. How much has he given to his people, to the Luofu? Surely he deserves to be selfish with this one thing.

He could collar you without batting an eye. All his, for the rest of your nigh-infinite lives. He likes the thought, he really does.

But that only lasts a millisecond. Because above all else the Arbiter-General Jing Yuan is clever, and he knows the consequences of that line of thought—not that he’d be stopped, not at all, but that you would never truly love him if he went through with it. Sure he’d wear you down eventually but that would never be the same, and he would lose any chance of his genuine affection being returned. And his pride might never recover from that wound.

Sure, he could make you his pet, and he’d find some satisfaction in that. But it would be fleeting. He holds you too highly to want to break you; yes, he deserves to be greedy with you, and that means he doesn’t just want you in his arms. He wants your love, your life, and he wants to earn it honorably. You’re a discerning little thing, giving him a run for his money, but he’d be lying if he said he hated the chase. It’ll make it all the sweeter to win properly.

He needs you to choose him, freely, of your own accord. He needs you to want him even a fraction of how much he wants you, and he needs that desire to be your own.

[basofy]

i feel a little bad remembering how in my mother days there was this rly common perception of thinking 'well lucas would be so pessimistic after what happened and he would hate flint cuz he sucks and he would hate everything!!' and i would believe it just cuz i was still relearning a lot of things i didnt know if that was what i was supposed to think but it always felt like people who saw things this way wanted to force others to do too

[myrmica]

my reading of lifesteal season 4 is so personal and involved at this point that even if i was going to post more character analysis i would not know where to start. it would require footnotes to documents that don't exist. listen to luddites and lambs by everything everything and you'll get half of it though

[mishy-mashy]

*COUGH*

The Resistance has PTSD of AFO using Cynthia's piano theme

*COUGH*

[citrusai]

i started inquisition when i was like. fifteen i think. and even then i really didn't get the numerous fan posts about how annoying solas is / up his own ass when the game time & time again feeds us tidbits of a broken down shell of a man who's going on a suicide mission to fix what he thinks he broke when he cast the old gods out. yeah his attitude about the dalish at the start of the game is insufferable but if you play as a dalish inq regardless of your rs w him he clearly admits he's blinded by his own bias to have recognized that the dalish are trying their best to reach for something long gone, revered only in tales & tomes.

[ford-ye-fiji]

You know, ngl, Niles kinda carries the entire show