#im very happy about that too

[arecaceae175]

trick or treat! :D

(First part) (<- Previous Part) (Also, AO3 link!)

Everyone was gathered around Time and Malon’s long dining table. Even with the table extension, it barely fit the ten of them, but it was enough. 

Before they called the others in, Wild and Malon took great pride in setting up the feast on the table. They had a whole roast cucco, two bowls of pumpkin soup—one of Twilight’s recipe and one of Sky’s—, focaccia bread handmade by Wild, corn, three large platters of devilled eggs, roast and mashed potatoes, steamed pears, and vegetable curry. On a separate table, since they couldn’t quite fit, sat three pies and bowls for the ice cream waiting in the freezer. For drinks, they could choose from water, milk, tea, or Malon’s special Concoction, as she called it. The underage heroes were not allowed to try the Concoction. 

The other heroes entered the room with wide eyes and blinding smiles. Every dish would be passed around, but they still all chose seats in front of their favorite food. Sky and Twilight immediately placed themselves in front of their respective soups. Legend went for the steamed pears. Hyrule switched the platters for the corn and the mashed potatoes so that both potatoes were directly in front of him.

Time sat in front of the devilled eggs with a large glass of milk. Malon sat beside him and put a hand on his arm with a smile. “You’re going to regret that.”

“Let me have this.”

Malon raised her hands in surrender with a smile. “Don’t come crying to me when you remember you’re lactose-intolerant.”

Time leaned over to kiss her temple, then dug into the devilled eggs.

Warriors eagerly sat in front of the bread, and Wild in front of the cucco. Wind and Four looked conflicted, gazing hungrily at the entire table. Eventually, Wind decided to sit in front of the curry and Four took the last seat.

As they started to gather food on their plates, Time stood up and cleared his throat. The chatter calmed down as everyone turned to listen to him.

“I had a… strange upbringing. Family was a foreign concept. Now, after meeting all of you…” Time trailed off, placing one hand on Malon’s shoulder and squeezing. Malon kissed his hand and covered it with her own, leaning into the touch. “I understand how important family is. I love all of you.”

Smiles turned teary all around the table. Legend was the first to break the silence, letting out a wet laugh and rubbing his eyes. “I love all of you little shits, too. Now can we please eat?”

The emotional tension broke, and everyone laughed quietly. 

“I just have one more thing to say. In the spirit of spooky season… the moon.”

A pause. Time sat down and started to eat. 

“Is that it?” Sky asked.  “Just ‘the moon’?”

Time nodded and smiled around a mouthful of devilled eggs. Twilight started to laugh hesitantly, then the others joined in and it grew until it roared. 

“That was not your best line, old man,” Warriors said.

Time pointed his fork at Warriors. “The moon is scary!”

“If you want to be scary, you have to tell a story!” Wind said. 

“Let me guess, You want to show us how it’s done?” Legend asked, elbowing Wind playfully. 

“If you insist!” Wind slammed both hands down on the table and leaned forward. “It was a dark and stormy night. The light of the mood was lost behind the clouds.”

They ate until they were full, and then ate more dessert until they were stuffed. They told stories and laughed late into the night. When the heroes finally drifted off to sleep, it was full hearts and happy souls, with their family safe under one roof.

[kendyroy]

I love how we can pretty much call this Logan “Wade’s Logan”

That’s HIS man. No one else’s. That’s his little honey badger. That’s his big boy. That’s his peanut. That’s his Wolverine.

He actually adopted this guy into his family and now he’s gonna be his for the rest of their never-ending lives.

[shepscapades]

Contrary to popular belief etho and bdubs are not divorced and in this essay I will

[spacerockband]

Legend tells of the carp that leapt over the Dragon Gate at the crest of a river and became a stand up comedian.

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[chloesimaginationthings]

HBEBEBEBEBEB UR WILLIAM DESIGN IS SO SILLYYYYY THAT SKRUNKLY OLD MAN IS GETTING THE CHAIR <3333

The worst man ever 💜

[umblrspectrum]

do you ever like wanna make something cool but you dont know how so you just sit around like a moron for 5 hours straight pretending you know how

me neither

on a more serious note i know ad astra as a whole isnt over but i still want to thank daybreaker for their fics. what friends are for was the very first md fic i ever stumbled upon when trying out ao3 for the first time, and prior to joining the server i was checking it near daily for uploads. god knows if i'd be as deep in ao3 as i am now if it werent for this story and convenient timing. Thanks for the story.

[daily-basil]

My idiot son . Whom I love so much (MS Paint doodle yet again)

The process for this required taking progress pics, so :)

[lilybug-02]

Wow. That could not have turned out worse.

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This comic will be on Holiday Hiatus this December and January! While on a cliffhanger? What a scam! >:/

[beresaad]

there's nothing like rubbing your horns together in sappy displays of affection with your wife

[laughing-gods-corpse]

stargazer

a stargazer is a catchall for those who (nomadically/frequently) travel in a non-normative sense, such as reality shifters, time travelers, astral projectors, system travelers, etc., especially those who pursue multiple/many/all

trans-stargazer

the above is a flag for those who consider themselves trans-stargazers (consider their stargazer identity "trans" in any way) and wish to take particular pride in or simply specify their trans identity with a flag. the original stargazer flag is inclusive to trans-stargazers

[spinostarz]

i made them real they are going to see the world

[haisfan]

obsessed with the way you name your files, I was looking in awe at your siffrin art and then I look at the file name and just died laughing at cock n balls. you killed me with cock n balls.

it seems to be a very effective craft towards the king as well!

[daftpatience]

comp of my little smurchin sona (smurchin stands for sea urchin that u can smooch)

[starry-bi-sky]

finally giving fem danyal her own au and fulfilling my 'danny is an animal whisperer' agenda at the same time: mother of monsters danyal 2.0

i say "2.0" because TECHNICALLY 'mother of monsters danyal' is an au I made back in June for Dark fem!Danyal (who I promptly named Layal). However, I haven't posted much for her yet, and I like the "mother of monsters" premise too much to leave it only to Layal. Plus Danyal in that au was going to become the mother of monsters anyway, just with significantly less world domination and mass extinction.

'Animal whisperer' Danny has been something I've been thinking about since my latest DP 'wolfpack au' post and it's! So fun to think about, and who no better to assign the idea to than Danyal Al Ghul? Who comes from a family infamously known for their love of animals and nature?

Fem Danyal is just purely self-indulgent. *gestures wildly at her* i just lomvb,,, her,,,, I've only really mentioned her in context of the 'Things in Threes' au/my first Danyal al Ghul au with the facial scar, but she's!!! I love her. She deserves her own au <33

So kill three birds with one stone! Make a post about it.

Anyways, Danny has a large lair. Similar to cult leader danyal, her lair is a giant mountain region resembling nanda parbat with a big temple/palace-like area built into the mountain. It's large, it's overflowing with natural flora, with its own mini-floating islands hovering over some areas, and it's also completely empty.

Danny takes one look at her lair upon first meeting, -- noting that it looked relatively smaller from the outside -- and promptly, with the elegance of an Al Ghul, goes "What the hell??" Because yes, while she does enjoy her own solitude and privacy, this is a bit ridiculous.

For heaven's sake, there's even a massive lake in there! What's she going to do with all this space? Can she make it any smaller? Why is it so big in the first place? This looks borderline like one of the mega-islands!

She finds out later that apparently, the amount of ectoplasm a ghost has can have an effect on the size of their lair. And since she has such a large core, her lair reflects that. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, it's bigger on the inside so it doesn't take up "too much space" on the outside. Don't worry about it too much.

Danyal isn't totally opposed to having such a large lair, she's just... a bit baffled by it. It feels like so much wasted space is all. All this flora and no fauna to enjoy it with. It's practically eerie.

She decorates her temple-palace area, transforming rooms to match her needs as she sees fit. In the center of the inner gardens is a massive tree that she likes to climb, with twisting, winding branches. Sam and Tucker have honorary rooms, even if they can't safely leave the specter speeder for long periods of time, even with proper safety equipment. So does Jazz. Ali (Dani) has one too, but he can actually use that one, and Danny brought him to her lair so he could decorate it himself.

She has a personal garden, but for the most part she lets the flora exist as it is. Too much space to cultivate it en masse anyways.

Skip to a few weeks later, on her next visit to Clockwork. She developed a habit of going to see him semi-regularly just because. She enjoys his wisdom, and he has a lot of stories to tell, and when he's not being the cryptic and esoteric timekeeper, he's a bit goofy.

(pushing my dadwork agenda here,,, i think Danny deserves to go 'hey, Lord Clockwork, do you want me to buy you something' while she's at walmart, only to receive a singular glowing sticky note that says 'cucumber gatorade'.)

(She insists on referring to him with his proper titles even for the most mundane of things because it's proper, but Clockwork sees a future where she eventually calls him "Cee" and by all things in existence is he determined to get there. Anyways,,,)

On her next visit to Clockwork, just as she is about to leave, Clockwork stops her and goes; "Ah, I have something for you. Hold out your hands."

Danny does as such, and Clockwork doesn't give out things often, so her curiosity has spiked to the highest levels. He turns away from her for a moment, using his staff to summon whatever it is he needs, and when he turns around.

He drops a fish into her hands. Granted, a fish in a small glass tank. But a fish nonetheless. A small one, roughly about the size of her finger, with a blue-black, eel-shaped body and four sets of glowing eyes. She can see thin, almost translucent, but spiny fins down its back and the start of bioluminescent markings. It's swimming around in circles in its small container.

"Lord Clockwork." Danyal says all too calmly.

"Yes, Danyal?"

"What is this?"

"That is an adolescent leviathan, Danyal." She’s transfixed onto the tank, but she doesn’t need to see Clockwork’s face to hear the smile he’s stifling.

The myriad of emotions that runs through her all at once threatens to overwhelm her, and she can’t tell if the feelings are negative or positive. So she carefully closes her eyes to breathe in through her nose.

“Clockwork.”

“Ah, I see you’ve dropped formalities.”

She ignores that.

“Why have you given me an adolescent leviathan?”

She's expecting the trickster to look amused when she opens her eyes. Instead, he just looks endeared. "I know you're fond of animals," he says, "and you always look amazed when you come across an animal of the realms. So I thought you might enjoy taking care of the young beast, it's mother is dead so it has no one to care for it."

Oh.

"But, if you don't like it," Clockwork's hands reach out for the tank, "I can simply take it back--"

Danyal shifts the tank out from his reach and hugs it possessively. "I never said that. How do I care for it?"

And so clockwork gives her a list, and when Danyal returns to her lair, she sets up a large tank in her room for the leviathan to swim in -- it's much too small for the lake right now, she thinks. She'll feel better if it's somewhere she can find it. She names him Suhā.

Suhā grows quickly, and by the end of the mortal month she transforms one of the rooms into a large pond for him to swim around in. He's a very loyal beast, recognizing her as it's mother of some kind. Danyal takes great care ensuring that her beastie gets quality care, and Suhā swims to the surface to see her when he senses her in the room.

It spirals from there. Somehow, Pandora catches wind that Clockwork gave her a leviathan, and so the next time Danyal visits the Greater Athens, she gives her a baby chimera. It's eyes are still sealed shut, Danyal can't bring herself to say no. She names the little beastie Firas.

Frostbite hears about it too, and not to be outdone, gives her an animal she's never even heard of. Infinite-realms born, apparently. A fox-like creature with two small horns like an impala, four eyes, and tall legs. The name isn't something she's quite sure how to write down, and she's positive that her friends won't be able to comprehend it. She names her Eira.

Getting the three of them used to each other was... interesting. Suhā tried to eat Firas when Danyal first introduced the two, and they've hated each other ever since. Firas and Eira are seemingly getting along. Her island already feels full enough with the three of them on it.

Of course, that's not the end of it. With her luck, she begins stumbling across other monsters. Realms-borne or otherwise. An injured hydra in the Grecian islands that, through lots of trial and error, Danyal is able to rehabilitate and heal. It routinely comes to visit her afterwards.

A griffin with a broken wing that she moves permanently to the island that likes to keep to itself, but tends to come down when she's near. It gets along best with Firas.

A panther-like monster from the Shades Woods that had six legs and three tails, with ends that reminded her of a venus flytrap. It stuck around the heavy foliage and she can only make out where it was when she saw its golden eyes reflect.

She befriends a young indrik with its leg injured, and much like the hydra it follows her back to her island, and stays there in the mountains. It comes out when she's alone, much like her other beasts.

She receives two more leviathan -- one from clockwork, and one she finds herself while exploring the deeper and darker recesses of the Ghost Zone. It was huddled against the carcass of its mother, and she managed to befriend and get close enough to it to bring it back to her island. Suhā is fully grown by then, with a head bigger than Danyal herself and he still likes to stick her head out of the water for nuzzles when she's near.

He's not very happy with his new siblings, but he's not trying to eat them when she's not looking. So she calls it a win in her book.

And it's not just large beasts either; smaller animals begin popping up when she's not looking. Bird-like creatures and small mammals, and she swears she saw a doe (or something resembling a doe) grazing in the forest while she was walking by.

She takes back with her a lone snake egg once, and it grows so big it wraps around her island and sleeps with its massive head on the mountain beside the temple, like some smaller breed of Jörmungandr.

And on and on it goes. Some of the beasts she comes across never step foot onto her island, some of them follow her back, while others she has to carry back. Not all of the ones that follow her stay, and Danny rehabilitates the injured and releases them when they're fully healed.

It's hectic, and busy, and frankly she loves it. Some of her rehabilitated beasts return to visit her, or to have their children somewhere on the island, or whatever it is they need to do.

She becomes a bit infamous for it. She goes to visit Dorathea once, and as she's walking through the streets she can hear some of the denizens whispering while she walks past.

"Is that her?"

"Her highness' friend? Yes--"

"--that's the one--"

"--Mother of monsters--"

Danny's not sure how to feel about that.

Although, she can't say she's opposed.

Danyal Al Ghul, Mother of monsters, raiser of beasts. It has a nice ring to it.

[scryillo]

playing too sweet by hozier on loop and they got summoned