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[gangueshade]

now that we're alone (my zero follower dragon age sideblog) i've got a gay varric theory that'll knock your socks off

[justanotherrandomperson]

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X DC PROMPT #28

(#) = Notes at the end of post

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Chartreuse

Due to the high levels of ambient ectoplasm, all the citizens of Amity Park gained a permanent change in eye color. They don't glow or flare in response to rampant emotions like true ghosts or the halfas though. They're just an unnaturally bright yellow-green.

The thing is, nobody else on Earth has this eye color, and it's never been seen in the human race until the recently graduated Amity Parkers started branching out to other cities to find jobs.

Nobody paid this any mind at first, though. Many just thought the individuals liked strangely colored contacts or it was a trick of the light. It's not until Danny and Tucker are both hired for positions in Wayne Enterprises that questions start popping up.

At first, the other employees thought the two might be related. It could happen, it's not that strange. However, when both of them said they're nowhere near related, just childhood best friends, it left everyone confused. If they aren't related and they aren't wearing colored contacts, then what are the odds of too completely unrelated people having the exact same strange and unseen eye color?

After a while, everyone just stops asking questions. After all, both men are easy to get along with and are excellent at their jobs, so a strange eye color isn't really something to complain about. Their stares were just a bit more intense than most people, and honestly, they've seen stranger things.

It helps that they've started seeing other people with the same eye color popping up in celebrity, sports, and activist circles. (1)

However, It's not until the power goes out during a late meeting/presentation, and Tim Drake accidentally turns on and shines his cell phone light into Tuckers eyes, that he starts seriously digging.

Needless to say, the animal-like green shine of his pupils scared the shit out of him and got him wondering if two of his new employees were part of a previously unknown alien race that'd recently settled on Earth without anyone noticing. When he looks into the middle of nowhere town they came from, this idea is even further cemented when he sees every person he finds a photo of have the exact same shade of chartreuse eyes. Ignoring the ghost rumors and "sightings" as just a strange tourist trap for the strange little town to make extra income, he brings the info he found to the other bats and birds.

They aren't exactly welcomed when they go snooping around Amity Park, unfortunately... (2 & 3)

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Now. To make this a bit more cracky, when confronted, do Danny and Tucker just come clean or do they milk the idea of them being aliens for all it's worth? (4) Add in a few strange, but perfectly normal for them, things they do that have people scratching their heads and make the assumption even worse/more irrefutable. This includes the unexplainable eye shine Tim discovered.

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(1) Paulina became a supermodel and is coveted for her striking eye color and beautiful complexion. Dash became a coach for a well known college in Metropolis, while Kwan became a fitness trainer and sponsor for health related items that actually work, also partnered with the college Dash coaches at. Sam became a notorious environmental activist and is the enemy of many companys who are determined to turn the world into a toxic wasteland. With the help of Danny's parents, she's found many eco-friendly chemical compounds that dissolve many of the toxic substances damaging ecosystems around the world. Etc, etc.

(2) Ectoplasm exposure has made everyone a bit more territorial over the town, including their protectors. They don't need outside heroes/organizations interfering with their work and don't/won't take kindly to the sudden interest hero organizations gain over them and their strange little town. That hasn't worked out too well with other government sanctioned organizations in the past and they don't want a repeat, thank you.

(3) Maybe Team Phantom even established themselves right around the same time or even before the Justice League was formed and they just flew under the radar until now. Maybe Amity Parkers feel a bit superior due to their seniority in having an excellent team in the know about the supernatural/non-human side of the world/universe? Who knows? You pick! Amity Park has been through a lot by themselves, so it's no shocker if they have an extreme amount of solidarity towards those they call their own.

(3 cont'd) Also! Since Amity Park has become so rich and saturated in ectoplasm over the years, they were eventually annexed/became an outside part of the Ghost Zone. Jack and Maddy are border patrol and any ghosts coming through need a passport now. Amity Park is basically a vacation hub for ghosts? Ghosts can freely roam the streets, they just don't wreak havoc anymore. That'd basically be terrorizing their fellow citizens at this point anyway and that's a no no. That means jail time with Walker. Amity Parkers also aren't afraid anymore and in fact CAN hit back now. This does not stop the Bat Clan and eventually the Justice League from thinking they're a town full of aliens tho. Some are just more human looking than others. Or they've been on Earth and procreating long enough with humans that their hybrid offspring have also started looking more human, is the ongoing conclusion.

(4) The Anti-Ecto Acts are not an issue here! Team Phantom already dismantled and annihilated the GIW years before they even thought of leaving Amity Park on its own. Before graduating highschool even. Yes, Team Phantom is perfectly self-sufficient and able to handle their own problems and have kept the city-wide ghost infestation pretty isolated outside a few events that were handled quickly and with the world none the wiser. So the world is still pretty ignorant of the existence of ghosts/the Ghost Zone. Would Team Phantom and Amity Park prefer to keep it that way though?

[lizzyaka]

I have not once seen anyone talk about the fact that henry tried to kill charles????? He went for his third murder so casually???? He tried to kill CHARLES????? Guys?????

[buckingham-ashtray]

hey do you think if sher-[gunshot]

[dearmyloveleys]

the way I can tell mdzs was written more seriously (tone wise) than the other two bc there’s no sword rental or immortal discord servers in there

[theoppositeofprofound]

wen zhuliu in a t-shirt that says I’M NOT THE DAD WHO STEPPED UP I’M JUST THE EVIL MINION WHO HAS SEXUAL TENSION WITH THIS KID’S MOM as he gouges jiang cheng’s golden core out of his lumbar region.

[itsrainingbubbles]

Law once got so drunk he showed up on the sunny, flowers in hand, and asked Luffy to be his boyfriend

They were already dating at this point

When told this he changed his question and asked Luffy to marry him

Luffy was about to say yes but Nami hit him on the head and told him he shouldn't accept when law is drunk off his ass and Luffy just pouted all night long as he waited for law to sober up so he could finally say yes

[ominous-horse-noises]

main takeaway from certain fan reactions to the finale is this:

the final scene with ankarna was so meaningful to the bad kids' arcs and how they made peace with being wronged by people they loved, and if all you can focus on is that the rat grinders didn't get much screentime, then you don't love dimension20 and you don't love this world: you want to be playing your own hs themed dnd campaign and you're mad the oc versions of the rat grinders you made up in your head acted ooc. these are not your characters and this is not their story.

[notdysfunk]

they'd make for a good couch

[excelsior9173]

i am not seeing enough of this photo going around and just want to bring it to the dash because it might be one of my most favourite photos ever :)

source

[iknowicanbutwhy]

wait. did one of the loops actually become a red giant? petition to call that one Loop-king (like looping. get it. hahah. ill see my self out.)

Haha yeah!! Loop-king, King of Loops, figurehead of the universe, constellation formed by the collapsing stars and wishes that bind them, that define them, a responsibility and love born of generations of dying stars and supernovas and stardust and new stars - or something like that!

A Loop, certainly. We're all Loop in these parts.

[mulderscryptidbootyshorts]

Can we talk about how Mulder got a call from Scully to come to the oncology ward at the hospital. Can we talk about how he must have been a little worried about her because the first thing he did when he got to her was ask her if she was okay. Can we talk about how he showed up WITH FLOWERS. And then made a joke about it to downplay the fact that he brought his partner a fucking BOUQUET in an ONCOLOGY WARD when he had no idea WHY she asked him to meet her there? Can we talk about how this was his first impulse in this situation, which for all intents and purposes probably looked like a Work Event™️ from his perspective until he saw the look on her face? Can we talk about the instant denial that something he couldn't fix had hurt her? Can we talk about how that reaction was immediately followed by a wall of faith that there was a solution out there, that the answer was out there, that the truth was out there to save her? Can we talk about the fear and self hatred behind the wall? Can we talk about the roses?

[communist-hatsunemiku]

She's here....

[coolfunstrawberry]

What I would do to have a fic which has billford past and developing billdip omg 😵‍💫 bill trying to date and flirt with dipper out of revenge AND to get attention from ford, dipper would never EVER date bill and he quickly realized wtf bill is trying to do and is annoyed. But throughout this whole push and pull between them makes bill realize that he's slowly liking dipper more and more. That now he genuinely just wants to spend time with him rather than acting this shit out for Ford.

[saurongorthaur9]

The ROP trolls and antis seem to really be showing their true colors (ie that they don't actually know the real Tolkien lore) this time around. Like, there were some legitimate criticisms for S1. I had quite a few reservations about S1. And I'm sure S2 won't be perfect, but the troll complaints are getting more and more ridiculous the more I see.

But I think the most ridiculous one I've seen so far is one that I've seen several times in the last twenty-four hours: that they made Sauron too complex of a character.

After spending S1 complaining that the characters are too one-dimensional, now the problem is that they made the villain too interesting :/

I've seen multiple people ranting that Sauron should be a one-note villain of all-consuming evil and that they are trying to make evil sympathetic and misunderstood. And I'm just like, have you ever even cracked open the Silmarillion??? Do you actually know what "misunderstood" means? Showing him struggling with whether or not to repent is not "misunderstood"; it's character development, and something Tolkien explicitly says that Sauron went through at the beginning of the Second Age.

As far as complaining that Sauron should be a one-note villain (apart from the fact that Sauron isn't a one-note villain in the Silm), having interesting, complex characters - including villains - is simply good storytelling. Why would you not want interesting, complex characters?

I'm getting the feeling that the antis are starting to panic a little bit, because this season is getting more positive attention and now there's a dedicated fan base who are pushing back and standing up to defend it now that it's getting out of its growing pains. In any case, the repeated criticism I keep seeing of it are spiraling into increasing levels of ignorance of Tolkien's lore and sheer ridiculousness.