#idk just pondering things

[mercymorn-was-right]

Been thinking about the parallels between Harrow and Jod lately

Like how Harrow puppeteering her parents around for years echoes John’s usage of Odysseus and Titania.

Or how John is said to have meddled with people’s memories and Harrow meddling with her own.

Their relationships to Alecto, as people Alecto chooses.

And that leads me to my thesis: Harrow will resurrect Gideon. I mean, it’s something that I would experience happen outside of these similarities, but hear me out: Jod got the power to resurrect through Alecto but it took the thanergy of the solar system to do it. I think because of what he is, Jod has more thanergy than the average person — hell, the sun is tied to his life! — so if Harrow kills Jod, what if the thanergy is enough for just one resurrection?

[formerprincewille]

Something that really sets Wille and Simon apart from other queer ships is that when we say their love language is physical touch, IT REALLY IS PHYSICAL TOUCH. And I’m not speaking of just sex. Over the course of the show, the amount of touching between them is astronomical. And that’s really something rarely seen in queer media. There may be moments here or there, but often times there’s a lack of physical contact unless it’s for “the plot”. Wille and Simon feel like a real couple in the way they’re always physically reaching out for each other.

[dukeofthomas]

I don't want Jason as a declawed version of himself, all 'murder Is Wrong' and part of the batfam, but I also don't want him as an evil 'I blow up schools and shoot people for fun' villain.

I also once saw someone say a big part of the divesiveness here comes from how Robin!Jason and Red Hood!Jason are practically different characters. If you want villainous Red Hood, you make Robin Jason more aggresive, angrier, you make him more like what he'll become as an adult. And if you like Jaybin, you explain his murders and mistakes as side-effects of the pit and make Red Hood nicer and more agreeable, like how he wss before.

But I feel like both are a disservice to his character, but the 2 extremes of him are also really hard to reconcile.

[lightbulb-warning]

so has anyone figured out WHY there is the Need To Share our Artworks™ or is it just the vibes and our Soul apparently

[astrolotte]

i haven't been able to get into perirep but tbh looking at it from a QPR angle... I can see it

world's first toxic yaoi queer platonic relationship

[grapecaseschoices]

vivienne is --

giving me a lot of conflicting emotions. particularly as a black woman.

[puppetmaster13u]

Meat Marionette #11?

Thinkin about the rogues in this Au, and like, the difference between their relationship with the bats vs this Au. 

 For example, Selina. I’ll admit I take a bit of inspiration from the 2022 movie and mix it with comic depictions along with the different cartoons, which honestly isn’t too different from each other by too much. Now, I don’t think that Catwoman would flirt with this version of Batman, what with his body being a meat puppet that is visibly not human and off putting. There’s also the fact that she would have been an early-ish rogue of his, at least in order of encounters. Which means that she probably encounters the Bat for the first time while Bruce was still getting used to said gifted body, which in turn was probably terrifying. So there’s still a cat and mouse game happening, but it’s more akin to Selina doing her darn best to avoid the Bat no matter what, because to her it isn’t above trying to kill. It’s like seeing a lion where you figure you’re safe at this distance, until it starts moving and you realize that you are definitely not far enough away. 

 Another rogue that I am thinking of is Harvey and Two-Face (Which DC, give Two-Face a proper name :/ he’s his own dude even if they share a body). Harvey was best friends with Bruce, hell they were practically high-school sweethearts in some cases! And Bruce still visits him in Arkham, canonically still talks and interacts with both his friend and TF. Now if anyone is going to notice the changes to Bruce, it’s going to be Harvey. He’s going to be the first to notice how Bruce’s movements are now dangerous and downright predatory, with too much grace even for a dancer or martial artist. There’s something familiar about that movement, and Harvey isn’t an idiot, TF isn’t one either. They know there’s something wrong with Bruce even if he insists he’s fine. In canon Harvey straight up broke down and cried when he found out Bruce was Batman, so I’m wondering what their reaction to this version of the bat would be…

 There’s also rogues like the Riddler and the Joker who are downright obsessed with Batman, but would they still be with this one? I could see Joker slowly becoming obsessed as the creatures continue to thwart him over and over again, but I’m still rotating Riddler. 

 But y’know who would definitely be obsessed with the batclan?

Scarecrow. The man is obsessed with studying fear, with the effects it has and how to cause it. So the bats, who bring terror wherever they go, with something about them continuously tingling at the back of ones’ more instinctive mind that this is something to fear? He would be utterly enthralled, he’d need to know more, he’d need to know Everything. Especially if his fear toxin doesn’t work right on them. After all, how would a gas effect something without lungs? How can you inject something that doesn’t have blood, that’s not quite alive, not in the way that we as humans understand? How can you cause fear of something that has stared into the Tunnels’ heart and lived? Or something like that lol. 

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AU is a combo of my cryptid batfam and @phoenixcatch7 's Possessed Doll au, go check them out, they're amazing

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Also I quit my job of what would in about a month or two have been 10 years, and perhaps now I will get to actually be a human being again.

[fitpacs]

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[drawfee-quot3s]

around the age of like... thirty, i became a big baby because i learned what mortality was

at thirTy you learnt what mortality was??????

- julia + jacob

[arabella-strange]

holy shit I just had a CRAZY Ludinus endgame theory

(spoilers thru c3e89)

we learned in e89 that Ludinus is building something on Ruidus

we know that the Ruby Vanguard have promised the loyal Reilorans that they will be relocated to Exandria when the mission is fulfilled

we also know that Ludinus's prior inventions include a siphon for sucking the powers and indeed liveforces out of other creatures, and that this is how he's survived so long

What if the huge device/machine/THING that's he's building is a MASSIVE siphon to draw the lives/power from everyone on the moon??? What if the value of 10s of thousands of Ruidian lives (Reiloran and otherwise) is, to him, enough lifeforce to propel him to godhood? Or, conversely, what if it's enough lifeforce to break open a local divine (prison) gate and feed that power into Predathos (wither-and-bloom style)?

Also a tickle at the back of my mind says the Somnovem plot in Aeor and Ludinus's plot here are... if not actually parallel, then at least rhyming in the basics. (Dunamancy got us into this mess, let's pray to the Luxon that Dunamancy gets us out.)

[meowsticmarvels]

screaming to the crowd. zero escapers i need to know your thoughts/hcs on 1904!phi and her partner.... im thinking a lot about phis insane ass backstory. need to Know.....

[chocosvt]

thinking of honey boy compared to her makes me laff 😭 i can't reread honey boy anymore bc at the time i had already proofread it enough to act it out on stage lmao, but sometimes i trace scenes back just to see if i can still enjoy it. which i do!!!

but in terms of my writing, honey boy is like a little toy block while her is this massive play structure 🥹 but i think that just comes from the differences in plot. honey boy is not rly supposed to be a super deep narrative, it's more romancey and fun and flirty and sometimes it gets a little messy but it's easy mess. so i think it's more digestable!

but her is not like that. it's just too nuanced. the characters are soo layered in comparison. and it's depressing 😭 you rly have to work to reach the payoff/catharsis and to me, that's what hits the nail on the head. like i absolutely need the suffering, the angst, the turmoil, the tension, the horrible fallout, the bitter acceptance, having to live with your choice, and the slow rekindling. and by that point you're so freaking desperate u could cry 😍 those b1tches touched hands! win.

IDK. is this a confession that i like being emotionally edged? 😭 ejriwuhfgeurghwg honey boy is my blog's magnum opus and i understand why :3 but it's like.. damn... her is not the same. i think if i were a reader/outsider to my work, honey boy is effortless to revisit. but i would have to be in a certain mood to engage with her just bc of the emotional baggage 🤔 or pushed to the edge of having a breakdown and this story is my safety cushion wuefhwiquf

[averlym]

@remylong :

[grapecaseschoices]

me: you know i like varric. he's cute and funny, but i think he's really better suited for a friendship with hawke

me, after playing maior against him for two seconds: wow. i cant wait until they get married!

me: meh. i dont get the anders hype. it really depends on how they execute his plot, and i'm not really hopeful. i guess it's nice that they have an average looking ro, though.

me, after playing noah - who really just wants money and avoiding bad notice [though he does have Feelings, obviously as he is an apostate]: wow, when are they going to kiss?