Amity Park absolutely adores her little ghostling, her little Gatekeeper who was of her own ectoplasm, reborn from her own blood in the center of her new heart. She absolutely adores her baby, practically a newborn, being only a year dead!
So of course she had to gush and boast about her little phantom to the other city spirits! They all got together to gossip sometimes after all. And both Smallville and Fawcett started to gush about their own little ones back!
Gosh they should set up a playdate at some point, her little phantom could use some friends in the mortal realm. Well some more friends, three is obviously not enough. Oh, Gotham and Bludhaven have come over as well! It’s a playdate then!
Now if only each of their world’s timelines were synced up, but at least everyone is around the same age!
Calvin Rose finds a catatonic teenager roaming the streets and… well, the poor kid looks dead on his feet, and it’s raining cats and dogs, he can’t just leave him there.
And, it’s fine. He’s just passing through (can’t risk more with the Court still at large) and will be back on the road come morning. And he’ll sleep easier knowing he kept the kid from certain death.
So, really, how the hell did he end up with the very same kid riding shotgun and nagging him to turn up the radio to Phoebe Bridgers?
Thank you so much to @saexy for bringing my self-ship with Kaji to life. It’s always such a big thing when you get something for a new ship and I’m so glad it was you because it’s everything I could’ve hoped for and more. I’m literally always in awe of you and you’re incredible work.
Zen managed to bring my Kajo headcanons to life with this, and I’m so in love I can’t stop staring it at🥺
more of them :-) the first one is based on a promotional photograph for the 1928 film and the second is based on an extremely ugly lamp i found in an antique shop. please don't tag as body horror or anything similar [id in alt text]
It's all about Nagi living alone in a tiny one bedroom, one bathroom apartment with zero personality and Reo having a whole floor for himself but still living surrounded by tacky-expensive home decor with no apparent traces of his actual personality, either. It's all about how Nagi's parents haven't visited him in 2 years nor taken an interest in his life since, while Reo's are content to live floors apart from their teenage son, only taking an interest in what value he can bring to Mikage Corp but being otherwise uninvolved in / dismissive of his actual life. It's all about them being surrounded by people and still not knowing how to form a meaningful connection with another person before meeting each other. It's all about them being so starved for genuine human warmth to combat their bone-deep loneliness that they both treasure memories of tiny, inconsequential moments where they were spending time with their parents. Something something it's this line,
and how it describes them both despite being said about Reo. It's them being awkward 17-year-olds who had never before had an equal who would just respect them as they are and unconditionally look their way. In this essay I will-
i think having poppy worldwide's angel in that one space riders au is so funny actually, bc to me they totally had a whole DIVORCE with the prototype before fleeing the cult. if it was an animated series (and tbh we all agree that au would be perfect as an animated series, right? the vibes and writing are just right!) worldwide angel would be the mentor figure who's revealed to have had a connection with the big bad during a dramatic moment, and then after explaining stuff to the main group things make more sense. and then the next episode worldwide angel and the prototype are in the same room they have a whole ass "divorced couple having an argument" fight /hj
you can't "just add a few codexes". you have to write those codexes. you have to write them in the proper voice and style and so it doesn't just fit ONE specific person's worldstate but anyone who also may have made the same decision as them. (you might even have to write multiple variations of the SAME CODEX to account for gender/race/class/romance) you have to edit them. you have to decide where those codexes are going to appear. you have to put them somewhere where people who want to read them will find them. you have to program them showing up. you have to flag it so it only shows up in sPECIFIC versions of the game. (because god forbid it doesn't and breaks someone else's immersion) you have to bug test that. you have to hope it still works when it ships.
and after all that the people complaining might still pick up said codex and close out the window immediately. or run past it entirely and complain that they made a selection in the worldstate that never paid off.
and then you've just spent all that time fleshing out something that's just a small nod to a very small percentage of players. time you could have spent on the current plot or companions. time you could have spent on making *active* decisions matter. these things can easily take up weeks or months like you wouldn't fucking believe.
mr. knightley asking harriet to dance after she's so visibly snubbed by elton is the best romantic gesture in all of fiction maybe and every damn time it sneaks up on me and makes me want to sob my face off in the nicest way
nah i'm not even finished with the show but i'm so upset at the missed opportunity to see klaus reacting to no humanity stefan and caroline. like okay he's off on his own spinoff show! BRING HIM BACKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i miss his crazy ass i wanna see how he'd react to his ex bestie and self proclaimed love of his life both without humanity and fucking nasty like GUYS IT COULD'VE BEEN SUCH A FUN PLOTLINE,,,,,,,,