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Hi coming in with another silly idea Imagine that the Player is in early Nevada, and around the time Nexus is supposed to fall they fall into a type of coma. Jeb goes through with his plan (painfully without the player by his side), Hofnarr turns into Tricky with his last thoughts begging for the Player to come back. Phobos' fight being much more easy due to the fact he thinks his god abandoned him. Then the Player comes back like "hey sorry about that" and Jeb starts wailing while Tricky goes YIPPEE and runs around them like an excited dog.
Why is everything you draw so cute omg š, everyone is so adorable here. It's honestly a little weird to see the Employers look so huggable, I love it.
To actually get into the scenario though, my thoughts on this are far too long to make it into a normal ask response, so you're getting some sort of unofficial hcs instead lol. Enjoy!
<The Player Falls into a Coma before the Fall> ft. Jebus, Hofnarr/Tricky, the Employers & Phobos
(TW: Yandere)
There was no warning for your sudden coma whatsoever. At most, you felt a tad more exhausted than usual at the end of the day, but this can be attributed to many different things, so of course you wouldn't worry about it. Neither would anyone else either, for that matter.
You had absolutely no idea that when you slowly fell asleep that night, you wouldn't be waking up again for a very long time.
It certainly wouldnāt take long for those you know to find out about your condition either. For one, Hofnarr and Jeb would want to recap their plan with you before going through with it, so naturally they stopped by for that. However, they find you unconscious and completely unresponsive to their every attempt to wake you. To make matters worse, there isn't a sign that you'd been awake at all in the past few days; the buildup of dust on your furniture and the letters in your mailbox shows as much.
Despite their worry, theyād eventually have to leave your side, if only to get more medical supplies and other things to help you. This opens up a window for the others in your life to finally take action, those being the Employers.
The shadowy figures had been keeping tabs on you all the time, so when you just didn't wake up, they would probably be the first to know - even if their actions came second to the Nexus Scientist's.
(You didnāt send the Deliberator a āgood morningā text and he started panicking. What could possibly be so bad that you didn't speak to him? A cursory call to the worried AAHW agents the Auditor had sent to tail you was proof enough that you'd deviated from your usual schedule, and you weren't the type to ever be late.)
They were quick to take you from your home and to a more secret place, so that they could keep close observation over you.
Honestly, despite how much the Employers might brag about knowing you better than anyone else (a privilege they gained from being the first to realize your existence), they truly know little about your anatomy. However, they can tell that sleeping for full days isn't normal at all, judging by your previous behavior.
They're also far too stubborn to ask any other mortals for help as well, so they simply resigned to try to help you themselves while keeping you safe with them. They couldn't do much else, so hopefully you'd understand that once you awoke in a strange place.
Nevada rots without your guidance and the grunts you were close to were left reeling by this (unintentional) abandonment you committed.
Phobos loses much of his drive due to his own emotional frailty as he grappled with his uncharacteristic self-doubt and questioning. As it happens, this also makes him more zealous as well. In his last moments, he has a second wind, believing that if he just fights hard enough, you might decide to come back and help him in his battle against Christoff.Ā (But you don't. You couldn't.)
Jebus' feelings are surprisingly parallel to the Director's in terms of worship and near zealotry. Except, he believes it might be his fault that you left, which only increases the fervor he has to complete his plans. It will be painful without you there, but this agony is his repentance for the sins which he has wronged you with. It is only through this that he believes you might show your presence once more, even if itās not now.
Unfortunately, Hofnarr's transformation into Tricky was just as painful as it would be otherwise, and the pain of abandonment just makes it worse. Funny, how the pictures taken of you with him and Christoff were miraculously unscathed within Hofnarr's lab even after Tricky came to be. The zombified clown must have found some value in them, even if he couldnāt remember the complete reason why he felt so warm when he looked at them.
Of course, you did actually awaken eventually. You had no idea how much time had passed when you woke up, so seeing the Employers look so uncharacteristically worried when you woke up was really odd. You honestly think theyād be weepy if they had the ability to cry.
You really didnāt know how to react to the news that youād essentially been in a coma for thirty years. Your first course of action is to find Jeb and Tricky to find out what actually happened since you feared your early appearance mightāve had an impact on the timeline regarding Nevadaās fall. This leads to very different reactions.
Jeb isn't one to typically show much vulnerability, but seeing you again completely shatters those walls he's kept up for so long. At first, he thinks you're just a hallucination; the culmination of all the longing he has for you finally taking its toll on his broken mind as almost a cruel joke.Ā
The first words he speaks to you after thirty years is a short, "You're not real", said as more of an insistence to himself than anything. But when he comes closer and you donāt disappear, and he reaches out a trembling hand to rest lightly on your shoulder, and you stay, he just breaks. The warmth of your form washes over him like it used to, and suddenly he feels an uncomfortable tightness well up in his throat as tears gather in his eyes.
You reach up to hold his taller form closer to you, sinking to the ground with him as he buries his face into your neck andĀ sobs. His hold on you is soft, and his hands are still shaky; he's holding you like he's scared of shattering you, and he only gets weaker when you whisper soothing words and apologies to him.
Compared to Jebus, your meeting with Tricky was a lot more upbeat. Itās probably because he was spared much of the reflection and sorrow that Jeb went through due to his rather unstable mental state, but that didnāt stop him from somehow recognizing you. Itās almost like a switch flipped in his mind, and he went from violently slamming his sign into some poor grunt'sĀ face to freezing at the sight of your face.
He then tosses the sign away and almost launches himself at you to envelop you in a tight bear hug, screaming excitedly while you grin back rather tiredly. (You hope your eardrums will be okay after this.) But in the next second, he's whirling away from you, flailing his hands as he continues to talk.
Itās like being greeted by your dog after being away for months; he never stops moving or asking hurried questions about where youāve been, intermittent with little words about how much heās missed you.
Both Jeb and Tricky are very clingy after this. Even if they don't get along now, they're not willing to let you leave their sides after this, especially not when you go to sleep. (What if you fall into a coma again? Someone has to be there to take care of you.)
Deep down, they also have a striking suspicion that someone was behind your coma. They didn't know who exactly, but there was no other explanation to them than this. How else would you, Nevada's most powerful being, fall into such a state?
(In the near future, when you come across Hank and the others, let's just say that your scientists won't be deterred from leaving your side quite so easily. You'd been gone for thirty years, so you should only expect their companionship to remain more permanent for the coming years.)
#the Player looks very tired which is a vibe#idk what this answer is exactly but I hope it's satisfactory lol#ask#distressedwalnut#mutuals āØ#other's art#fav#it's about gd time#tw: yandere#madness combat x reader
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f2l with katsuki but thereās nobody who rides harder for you two being a couple than izuku and not even in a weird pining threeway kind of way. just genuinely, from the bottom of his heart, heās always believed you two should be together. heās always watched you two growing up, heās always chased after you two, heās always seen the way you both lean into each other and still find space to pull him up too. he thinks you and katsuki deserve each other, he knows you two are meant for each other. itās excruciating for izuku to watch you two not realize it for so long, heartbreaking to watch kacchan figure it out but not say anything, and the worst pain of all is watching you date other people because youāre too stubborn to realize your soulmate is has been right next to you your entire life. itās exhausting, and izuku is bitter about it.
and petty. whenever you mention you have a date, his response is always āis it with kacchan?ā āhuh? no, itāsāā āthatās too bad then.ā he pretends not to remember any of your boyfriendsā names and somewhere along the way he just stops pretending and really doesnāt care to learn them. heās sweet and all smiles with everyone else, but the second someone other than katsuki is interested in you, thereās a straight frown on his lips. heās out for drinks with katsuki and heās noticed some guys eyeing him from across the restaurant, so izuku goes to greet them while katsuki is in the bathroom, all bright smiles and hero facade beaming as he signs the shorter oneās baseball cap with a sigh, ākacchan is handsome, right? you should see his girl, sheās stunning too,ā capping the sharpie and any potential plans for flirting for the evening. heās spent many nights gossiping with mitsuki and inko about you two, crying about how seeing you two dating other people is harder than any other mission heās ever been sent on.
sometimes izuku just wants to shove the two of you in a locker and keep you in there until you decide to be together. he spends so much time with his chin in his palm, sighing with such yearning for a relationship that isnāt even his own. his eyes are soft right now, watching you and katsuki in the communal kitchen of the agency. thereās a slight glare shining through the glass walls, but he can see your smiles bright as day. you lean with your back to the counter, stirring your tea mindlessly as katsuki faces you, arms crossed but posture relaxed, no doubt saying something to rile you up judging by the slick grin on his face. youāre much shorter than him, but izuku remembers the days when you were taller than both of them back in second grade; he thinks the height difference panned out nicely. kacchan could lean down and kiss you right now, izuku wishes he would. a soft smile paints izukuās faceāthey only keep that tea in the cabinets for the days you decide to visit, and katsuki only teases to hear your sharp tongue counter him. he must be in a particularly good mood todayāor maybe, heās happy because youāve visitedājudging by the way he throws his head back with a hearty cackle after youāve said something to him. thatās good, hopefully youāll keep his spirits up when they leave for patrol later. izuku gets so caught up in his daydreaming that heās startled when thereās a knocking on the glass, and now youāre next to it smiling at his startled face and waving to him. he looks at you, then back to katsuki, whoās shadowed you to the glass wall, hovering protectively like he always has. izuku shakes his head in disbelief, but waves back. he finds the glass fitting, a window heās looking into. he just hopes the scene changes to something more romantic sooner rather than later.
#heās legitimately about to tie you two up and make you get together himself LMFAOOOOO#heās sweet about you two and petty when he needs to be but heās gonna snap. trust heās about to snap lmaooooo#heās calling mitsuki every other weekend sighing dramatically like auntie ive tried. i have really. i fear iām gonna have to take more#drastic measuresā¦ā¦#mitsuki is the number two shipper of you two btw but she doesnāt meddle like izuku does#she just watches with that all knowing mom smirk ykā¦ like she knows itāll happen. katsuki is stubborn but heās not dumb#also part of the fan club is shoto and if he can figure out your feelings before you two can then you know youāre in deep#every gd day shoto shows he has no media training bc heās like oh yeah i love them together#and the news is like ??? theyāre together ??? and shotoās like are ā¦. they not?? (youāre not)#shotoās key part in this f2l journey is being the pr nightmare honestly#and holding izuku back from capital murder every time someone asks you out#bnha x reader#mha x reader#katsuki bakugo x reader#bakugou x reader#izuku x reader#mha smau#bnha smau#bnha texts#katsuki x reader#š
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The idea of Riley introducing Arcade to Yes Man has been eating my head for ages- It's gotta be the most awkward first meeting imaginable.
Basic rundown: Shortly after first visiting the Legion Fort, pissing off Caesar and retrieving the platinum chip, Riley decides to open up to Arcade about what he found in Benny's suite after he initially ran off: a new friend with a potential plan to throw all major parties out of New Vegas. So he promises to eventually introduce the two, and imagine Arcade's surprise (or lack thereof) when this 'friend' turns out to be a giant reprogrammed securitron robot.
First impressions are... interesting. I feel like Arcade would definitely be a little unnerved at first, but surprised at the potential for an independent Vegas.
#Fallout#Fallout New Vegas#FNV#Fallout Fanart#FNV Fanart#Arcade Gannon#Yes Man#FNV Yes Man#Courier Six#Courier Six OC#Riley#Riley Haddock#Arley#Arcade: A bit unnerved (and has some ethical concerns regarding YM's programming) but warms up to him a bit.#Yes Man: Unsure about other people being brought in- but happy to meet Arcade anyway.#Riley: DEEEESPERATELY wants them to get along.#Out of all the companions to introduce to Yes Man- Arcade would probably make sense.#Being very vocally pro-independent Vegas and everything.#Might touch on this idea in a more detailed way at some point. Maybe.#But I like how this turned out :')#Also- FINALLY found a way to draw Arcade that I'm 100% satisfied with.#All this time in this gd fanbase and I never feel like I draw him right.#Anyways- love these 3 so much. :')
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i think thereās something really incredible about how phannies immediately moved past caring about whether thereās a shared bed in the tour bus and have immediately taken the bunks across from each other and made in canon in every fic and thoughts in our minds
#something something about accepting the truth and not needing our crazy hcs#itās enough to know that theyāre tall lanky men in their 30s on an already fancy tour bus and they can get comfy in other ways#they canāt feasibly share a bunk and should be able to survive that given how much gd time they spend together#but itās just really sweet and silly seeing everyoneās interpretations of it#does this make sense#dnp#dan and phil#phan#randomthots
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"Perhaps I should assume control... Just out of curiosity, if you were in controlā" "I'd shut up and kiss you." ... "It's funny, I don't feel in control." BOSTON LEGAL 5.11 "Juiced" (Deleted scene)
#gd damn. happy birthday to me I guess#james spader#alan shore#boston legal#favorite#*#onscreenkisses#he just DEVOURS#so hungry and needy and desperate and generous and... thorough#just watching this I can feel his tongue down my throat. who told him to do all that#that's what I was saying the other day!!! a spader on-screen kiss is..... not like other kisses#remember that thing jim said about how as an actor you really have to feel what your character feels#if your characters are in love you have to fall a little bit in love with your costar. I think he really does every time. he's so giving#and it's simultaneously just his job. hmm thinking things#that I'll save for another time. when I'm not distracted by how hot this is
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TUVOKTOBER Day 2: Lunch Break [Interrupted]
#tuvoktober#bea art tag#1000% directly inspired by that post about how Tuvok should eat tupperwear salad like a teacher#It's so true!! He literally WAS a teacher !!!#he's listening to monks chanting - his favorite music bc he's a gd freak#It's SO his favorite that Neelix knows about it. I really wanna know how he knows.#Probably 'he just asked him' but funnier: They went on an away mission and he had monk chanting playing the whole time#Neelix: (internal) This is fucking hell on earth (positive spin) At least I know his favorite music!#Everyone whose been in an older relative's car as they blast choir music (the car is always SO hot) understands#it's torture but also it's kind of comforting??? it always makes me want to got to sleep#Tuvok seems like he eats salad without dressing (maybe a light drizzle of like lemon or vinegar on top) and looks down on people#who do otherwise <3 annooooying <3#Janeway: (early in their knowing each other) Can I join you~? I'm also having a salad!#<- did this specifically to try & bond with him#Tuvok: -gazes pointedly at how much dressing she put on it- I could hardly tell.
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Hey do you ever think about Orym being a self proclaimed romantic who is āsuper lonely all the time, especially at nightā and how guilty he feels about wanting romantic connection because he still loves his husband, and sees Willās face every night before going to bed, but heās starting to realize his deeper attraction to Ashton as something real and realize his pining for Dorian as something he shouldnāt ignore, but he was supposed to be with Will and heās come to terms with Will dying, but sometimes it hurts so much, and yes he wants romantic connection and heās so lonely, but he still hasnāt gotten revenge for Willās death, and he may die soon so why pursue anything if heās gonna be with Will again in the afterlife, BUT he may die soon and why hold off on admitting how he feels when he knows that despite losing Will the time they had was real good and he wouldnāt trade it for anything, and what if he doesnāt die what if it all turns out okay and maybe he now really has a reason to want and hope for not just *the* future, but HIS future because that future could include Dorian or Ashton and is it bad to not want to be with Will sooner or is it better to want to live and be with someone who cares for him because thats what Will would want and he wants romantic connection and he is so lonely all the time, especially at night, and what if I started chewing the drywall huh?
#Hello My Brain Is Only Thinking Orym Thoughts#Liam canāt just drop that Orym is super lonely all the time especially at night and expect any of us to be normal about it#critical role#cr spoilers#orym of the air ashari#this is your chance to get a peak into my craziness#ashrym#dorym#again Iām not much of a dorym girlie pop#BUT#I see the vision#and if Robbie comes back for a long time and can give me the good good slow burn I desire? what then am I to do but agree#but Iām still on my ashrym bull shit#Iām so deep in my ashrym bullshit my passive perception is 48#a forehead kiss and loneliness admission makes me lose my gd mind#I admit that this is excessive but blame the adhd hyperfixation I am just along for the ride
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so many people in the notes of my hysto post being like "lol it would be nice but i'm in my 20s and not a cancer risk so they'd NEVER give ME one nice try op" meanwhile "op" got a hysto by choice at 20 years old and the purpose of the entire post was to remind ppl that it was indeed possible
#you don't have to be a cynical well actually guy all the time you know like you can think for a minute about why the post was made and why i#was the one to make it#also people asking if hystos 'work' for fat people bc plan b doesn't...my darling sweetheart please go back to high school anatomy i am#begging and pleading good gd#mine
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for our phantom menace rewatch this week we are doing a āqui gon touch countā to count how many times qui gon (bad) touches anakin
#and also the other characters (they wanna know how many times he touches shmi but idc about that iām here for groomer reasons)#my prediction is: ANAKIN then shmi then... i go back and forth on whether it's padme or obi wan#i want it to be padme and obi wan in dead last (for extra pathetic and sad unwanted padawan reasons)#it's so hard to age out of being an (unwanted) boywife and be replaced by a bright shiny young thing#but if padme even PADME gets touched by qui gon more than his own padawan#damn lol#touch starved obi wan real#but unfortunately for me i think he touches obi wan thrice that i recall and i can only think of once (or maybe twice?) with padme#but that's why we're doing the touch count!#i will report back with my findings tonight#i'm so gd excited#the phantom menace#pt#star wars#qui gon jinn#anti qui gon jinn#if implying that qui gon is a child molester is considered anti I GUESS#prequels touch count
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here's something no one asked for: bats fallout 4 au
cass: made as an institute courser and the best of the best with a perfect clear record until she was ordered to execute a traitor and she bounced, she drifts for years anywhere and everywhere, eventually ending up in goodneighbor and through Coincidences into the office of one Barbara Gordon
babs: a doctor in goodneighbor specializing in human/machine interface and neurobiology, aka railroad agent oracle she and her partner Dinah run the memory den, part therapeutic establishment part front for synth liberation activities Babs helps deprogram synths and let them lead normal lives
Jason: he was taken into bruce's vault after his parents died, he was born human but turned into a ghoul thanks to a near death experience and a radiation bath, by the time we meet him, he's a drifter blown into goodneighbor hiring out his services as a merc, steadily moving in organized crime through some maneuvering
duke: a psyker (kinda like the forecaster if you played NV), he has the ability to see into the future if he concentrates, however it leaves him with huge migraines, his parents went missing after a raider attack and he joins the minutemen (honestly what is more MM than WAR) to try and find them
steph: both she and her mom are prewar ghouls (all of the cluemaster stuff still happens but he doesn't survive the bombs in jail), they used to live in diamond city until all the ghouls got kicked out, they lived in goodneighbor for a time, with steph working at the local clinic, run by leslie, eventually they both moved north to the slog (a settlement run by ghouls in an old swimming pool) when crystal wanted to get clean, steph works there as basically the town doctor
tim: (spoilers for a ten year old game but:) kinda like synth shaun he is a permanently stuck at the age of like ten, still a tech genius but like.... litol (did I say this just cause I thought it was funny.... yes)
alfred: a fuckin mr handy
bruce: vault dweller that imprinted on said mr handy like a duckling after his parents died
dick: you can literally keep his backstory intact and he makes perfect sense, haley circus is just from new vegas, after his parents murder he joined up with lyons pride and moved east with the brotherhood of steel, when the new elder rose to power after the lyons' death dick started to see the writing on the wall of fascism and jumped ship leaving that life behind, joining up with duke's new and improved MM to protect people from people he swore brotherhood to
damian: obv still bruce and talia's kid, talia is a pre war scientist and businesswoman, keeping herself and her half siblings alive and young as long as they keep their father and his weird artifact locked up. damian grows up in the closest thing to pre war luxury the post apocalypse has to offer. Eventually he wants to go out and see the world, meet his dad, write a guide to wasteland fauna. talia hires jason to guard him so he stops trying to rush down feral ghouls with a sword.
#bruce wayne#dick grayson#jason todd#cassandra cain#tim drake#barbara gordon#damian wayne#duke thomas#alfred pennyworth#stephanie brown#batfam#every time i make one of these posts im like oh gd now to tag them all#bread talk#fo4#batout au#anyway#literally no one asked for this but the concept of courser cass came to me and i couldn't Not#its perfect#im in my fallout era again (never left) so im thinking about it#anyway ask me about this ig i wanna hear ideas that don't come from my head#babs and cass in this au are So important to me#i think steph as a dr or medical anything is so much fun can u tell i kinda latched onto that lmao#i haven't decided what vault bruce is from nor what it's experiment is#probably 81 ig#okay im done looking at this and just gonna hit post
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New (Cursed AF) Invader Zim Headcanon:
Barring the potential for major acute blood loss, Irkens can actually survive a full decapitation.
And I brought substance to make the case with.
Cockroaches, one of the most infamously durable of real life animals, can live for several days, sometimes even weeks without their head. And for the most part, they still even act like normal roaches- crawling about, reacting to touch, standing around, etc. it seems the only reason this eventually catches up to the critter is because no mouth = no way to keep bringing necessary food and water into the body. If that were bypassed, however, it stands to reason the little zombie could thrive just as much as a headed roach.
Almost disturbingly, the head itself can actually last a surprising amount of time solo as well. Experiments with decapitated roaches show that after body separation, roach heads can still move their antennae for hours before succumbing- much longer even if kept refrigerated and supplied with nutrients.
One of the neat things about roach bodies that makes such a feat possible is how their nervous system is set up- simplified ref against what yours looks like below
Now, anyone who has ever said a roach can survive for a while without its brain is not being entirely accurate. Functionally, they actually have two sort-of brains: the main point of nerve centralization is contained in the head, which for the most part is a primary brain responsible for movement coordination, certain technical functions, interpreting stimuli that comes in from the antennae, and more. The second main point of interest in this system is a series of nerve clusters running down the insectās abdomen known as ganglia (singular: ganglion). These bundles of neurons are not exactly brains in their own right, but they do function as an extended CNS that handles the control over the digestive tract, reacting to stimuli, leg movement, and other more basic bodily functions. These can operate the body on a primitive level after the loss of the main brain, up until thirst/starvation begins to run the wind out of the sails.
You know what sort of creature actually DOES have two entire complete brains? One up top, and an auxiliary backup a little further down?
If you were nodding along and saying āirkens!ā Then you would be correct! One peanut and five more days in the bunker for you š„ ~
As is obvious to anyone familiar with the show, the PAK is an essential cybernetic addition to Irken biology, holding their gear as well as an entire digital backup of their personality and memories. While it serves many functions to the user, the first and foremost priority of one is to protect the existence of the meaty entity it needs in to carry itself around.
To that end weāve seen some autonomous acts from time to time with Zimās close calls. If you recall āPlague of Babiesā, heā¦ kind of died for a moment there, caught up in a wave of GIRās lethally amplified stupidity. In response, his PAK appears to resuscitate him with a quick jolt. ļæ¼The would-be events of ā10 Minutes to Doomā emphasize the necessity of the PAK for any Irkenās survival beyond several minutes, which directly implies PAKs facilitate a major biological process their natural bodies are no longer capable of alone. Personally, I think it might be something either neurological or related to respiration, on a hunch.
Well, whatever it is, they are toast without it in swift manner, and the PAK doesnāt prefer to be without its other piece anymore than the body does. Dibās revelation about the technology described their relationship with its body like that of driver and car, but I think heās missing something. The PAK is actually more than capable of carrying itself around without the bodyā¦ at least for a time.
When I think about those things, a little dilemma pops up in my head concerning how they.. well, how theyāre powered. It is never explained or demonstrated that they are given time off of the body in order to charge; however, irkens are probably advanced enough to have some smaller and sci-fi wildly potent and small energy source up their sleeves, but actuallļæ¼y, that wouldnāt quite make sense here. ļæ¼Because Irken bodies still produce their energy the same way every other lifeform in the known galaxy does, with food. Lots of food, actually. They can mow through snacks at about the same rate as Augustus Gloop. PAKs donāt need to produce their own independent energy source, they just need to efficiently make use of what this organism is already evolutionarily fine tuned to do naturally. Now thatās smart engineering.
And so, like any respectable auxiliary life support feature, they hļæ¼old some of that energy in a reserve for those crisis moments like in āPlague of Babiesā, and also in a deleted scene made for āAbductionā!
Fun trivia fact, but originally that episode was supposed to feature a sequence where Zim ļæ¼nearly game overs again. He takes a gnarly hit and a literal plunge through open flames that knocks him out in a free fall.
Despite his incapacitated state, the PAK extends its spider legs in order to catch a walkway railing, both saving his life and proceeding to keep carrying his limp body to a safer location, until of of course, he comes to about a moment later and carries on.
And neither of these are the only times itās sprung into action the moment it detects something has gone horribly wrong. When accidentally detached from its own host, an emergency response will be triggered within the PAK in an attempt to reattach with its body. Failing that, it attaches instead toā¦ well, whatever it can find.
In ā10 minutes to Doomā, this was unfortunately Dib, an incompatible match (or maybe it just picked an improper attachment site), and in the comicsā¦ things got interesting at a point or two.
So, I already know what happens when you separate an Irken from their spinal brain, but what about the cranial one?
Because, they actually donāt seem on the same level of urgent necessity? Now that I think about it?
The time machine kerfuffle and the brain eating parasite escape were both events this guy evidently survived, albeit not comfortably or ideally until the problem was fixed (I have to assume in part with GIRās or the Computerās help). Now that I think about it Zimās incredibly fortunate that most of these more serious mishaps happened inside of his base. But itās theory time.
So, we do this, to a hypothetical green bug bastard
For fun letās say, hypothetically again, like the hardy earth roach, he blood clots quickly.
Well, first and foremost, that higher up nervous system blackout is probably going to cue the PAK in to begin the following protocol:
1. Activate an emergency response to quickly access the situation.
2. Immediately scurry the body the hell away from whatever manner of threat just shaved a little too much off the top, engaging in all possible defensive measures if necessary.
3. Devote the entirety of its remaining backup power (of which it would have much more stored within the headless body than if it were itself detached) into making a beeline for the coordinates of the nearest Irken source of assistance. On the homeworld, or any fully colonized planet, this would be a cut and dry matter of finding the nearest theoretical space clinic or whatever those freaks have (maybe those dbz regeneration tanks? Idk that would be cool wouldnāt it?). For the lone invaderā¦ home base is the next best alternative, being a secured location with plenty of resources and advanced technology at the ready. I would bet my own head that situations like this are a huge highlight to the prime value of a personal SIR companion.
Now, best case scenario for what this help looks like depends on whether we can save and bring the head along too. Reattachment and repair at that point should be a pretty simple matter at the tech level we are working with, afterall. But thatās again, ļæ¼the ideal case scenario. Could they justā¦ regrow the head eventually? We donāt really have a clear answer on what the limits and capabilities of what the Irken healing factor is, but I want to at least guess that having a personal lab and assistant on hand is going to help. Bare minimum, a solution can get worked out to supply the body with needed blood sugars again to buy more time.
The PAK itself retains a pretty much perfect digital backup of its bodyās memories, experiences,ļæ¼ and identity, so itās not like information has been permanently been lost with primary brain damage. Replacing the primary brain entirely might be as easy as backing up your iPhone and downloadingļæ¼ everything into some shiny new hardware. Hell, it may not even need be Irken hardware!
Do you know the real disturbing things from āDark Harvestā NOBODY brings up are???
Why the fuck was an instantaneous organ-swapping device already just something Zim was carrying around in his toolset?
And
Zimās morphology was horrifically receptive to those dozens of xenographs.
Those human organs were actually beating, pulsing, absolutely redundant and unnecessary in his body, but completely still functional and healthy in the name of selling his act to the school nurse. He didnāt just clumsily cram a bunch of offal into himself, he competently integrated them into his biology and somehow wasnāt suffering likeā¦ the tons of complications youād expect from trying a stunt like that.
And in the comics, thereās this other fella I just adore for how skrangly he looks, and believe it or not, his actual fucking name is Skrang.
Heās a smart guy, though. Donāt be fooled. And I mean like, a smart guy. And itās all thanks to a little help from a little upgrade heās been fitted with :)
So, I hope you take all the implications Iāve been building here and make what you will of them. I genuinely think an Irken has a decent chance of making it out of a beheading alive to seek ļæ¼sadistic vengeance another day. Do I think ZIM could do such a thing? Tbh, I think heād have to rely on GIR to come in clutch, and we may know thatās a complete roll of the dice in any case.
Wow, this got morbid, but, par for the course really.
#invader zim#iz headcanons#iz analysis#irkens#cool bug facts#cockroaches#iz skrang#scarlet talks about things#long post#anyway now I just want the hypothetical where dib reacts to this scenario#cause that would mess me up for a long time#like just picture a fight with your nemesis gone HORRIBLY wrong from some accident#and then dude just shows up the next day in class likeā¦ fine but pretty pissed off about the whole thing#and then he jumps over the desk and strangles you when you make bad puns about the whole ordeal#comedy/horror GOLD#HELP ME THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SHORT POST BTW#NOT ANOTHER GD ESSAY#oh boy here i go hyperfixating again
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Hank Green on Dimension 20: Pelicans--
Entire rest of the cast: immediately erupting into nervous giggles
Hank Green:
#d20#dimension 20#hank green#mentopolis#he knows exactly what he's doing#and he's so pleased with himself#hey brennan if u hurt the fix i'm going to come to ur house#i'm not going to hurt u but i am going to dramatically sob at you until u feel sorry for me#d20 spoilers#specifically for the tags#gd. the oxygen deprivation/co2 buildup fact was chillingly timed#also the fucking flkdjshfkjlds taste receptors in the urethra fact like#sir i remember that from delete this u can't fool me that's from a conversation about tiktokers dipping their balls in soy sauce#back to brennan: please dont hurt the fix that's my emotional support hulking murderer w a heart of gold
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[ID: 11 doodles of Umbrella Academy characters in a style imitating the webcomic Paranatural. Allison, Luther, Diego, Klaus, Viktor, and Lila are drawn as kids, approximately 12 yrs old. Ben is a similarly aged ghost. Hazel, Cha Cha, and the Handler are present as well, all looking vaguely villainous. Five is drawn to be maybe in his twenties. All of them have colorful smoke rising from them indicating the powers from Paranatural, except for Viktor and Lila, for whom the smoke is white. End ID.]
Look, a Paranatural au! I wish I had been hit by this muse in time for Masked Author/Artist, but alas it was not to be. If you've read Paranatural is you can probably guess.... basically everything there is to know about this au. If you haven't read Parantural, you should!! It's a wild ride! But also I rambled for a super long time about it under the cut
Everyone has cool spirit powers and can see the dead, so Klaus isn't special sorry Klaus. I'm making up for it by making him directly possessed by a spirit that gives him superpowers, instead of everyone else who has to use a possessed object to get superpowers. I didn't put a ton of thought into what Cool Accessory (possessed object) to give the kids so I could change that later, but for now Allison has a megaphone, Diego has a yo-yo, Viktor has his violin, and Luther doesn't have anything because his dad thinks he needs to learn to control spirit energy on his own. Klaus doesn't have any either because he's possessed directly. I adjusted the rules of Parantural slightly because [Paranatural spoilers!!] in the comic someone with white energy can connect with spirits whose energy is any color. Viktor's should absolutely be white by show rules, but that power set suits Lila a lot better. So in this au, the rules are adjusted so that white can only connect with white, and Lila's is actually colorless (IE, it only looks white now because the background is white). She can't bond with any one spirit for long, but she can bond with any of them for a short time.
Hazel, Cha Cha, Five kind of, and the Handler are all members of a version of Paranatural's Consortium, which I'm just going to call the Commission again because why not. As you may be able to guess, it's slightly more villainous in this au than the Consortium. I wanted AJ to be a high ranking member, but if I made him the Handler's spirit then we wouldn't get to see him ever, so I made him Five's. This was before I remembered that people possessed by spirits look more and more like their spirit over time so the fish head thing could still totally work, so I might revisit that. Hazel and Cha Cha's spirits look like thier masks, of course. I didn't spend much time on the mask/spirit redesign so they're not as fun and funky as I'd like, but they're still reasonable stand-ins. The Handler is this version of the Boss Leader because.... duh. If you've been keeping up with Parantural and are wondering about how That One Thing About Boss Leader translates... I haven't decided yet.
Five is the Mr. Spender of this au. He is possibly the least Mr. Spender-like character to ever exist, but look me in the eyes and tell me that acting as the teacher-supervisor of a club of unruly kids that can see ghosts who is secretly part of a nefarious (?) organization is not where he belongs.
I have a few more doodles of this waiting in the wings! Mostly of Five because I love him. But also if you have stuff you want to see, send it in. No promises I'll draw your suggestion, but the main obstacle between me and drawing more of this is not having concrete ideas for situations to put characters in
#tua#the umbrella academy#allison hargreeves#diego hargreeves#klaus hargreeves#viktor hargreeves#luther hargreeves#lila pitts#five hargreeves#ben hargreeves#the handler tua#hazel and cha cha#hazel tua#cha cha tua#paranatural#for good measure#LORD#every time i make an ensemble art piece i forget what a gd trial tagging it is#anyway this might be the first time ive posted art featuring my bowlcut baby viktor agenda?#the agenda is that if youre drawing baby viktor in an au where he transitioned as a kid i firmly believe he would have a bowlcut#i tried out a new hairstyle on allison too#oh lmao also the worst thing about this style is that it goes all in on the eyes so pupil + iris#so for the first time i had to go figure out what color everyones eyes are LMAO.#i did not bother w this for the handler and hazel and cha cha bc i was sick of looking up reference by then#oh god dammit#i forgot to tag#my art#again. smh#paranatural au#extranatural
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#kaji ren#ren kaji#wind breaker (satoru nii)#wind breaker#king talks#thats it thats the post#i love this kid sm you guys hes such a good kid#let me be real fuckin annoying about him rq#THE THING HE LIKES? EVERYONE IN HIS CLASS#HE WANTS TO GO ON A TRIP WITH EVERYONE IN HIS CLASS#HE LIKES HANGING OUT AT HIS FRIENDS HOUSE#HE TRIES SO HARD#(AND HE DOES GET FAR !!)#HE DOESNT KNOW HOW TO BE A GOOD SENPAI BUT GD IS HE GONNA FUCKIN TRY#also not good at any subject#fuckin same my son#HE KNOWS HIS LIMITS AND IS NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT THEM#HE KNOWS HE CAN RELY ON HIS FRIENDS AND DOES SO VERY FREQUENTLY#HES SUCH A SWITCH CHARACTER FROM WHAT I EXPECTED AND JUST#I LOVE MY SON???#IVE NEVER BEEN PROUDER OF A CHARACTER IN MY LIFE#HIRAGI š¤ME - BEING SO PROUD OF KAJI#he listens. he may not know what the fuck to say or do but my god does he listen and do what he CAN do#its been a long time since i loved a character this much but holy fuck#absolute favorite character in wind breaker#LIKE I LOVE SO MANY OF THEM BUT KAJI IS TOP OF THE TOP
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so many meals can be bolstered by just throwing a handful of frozen spinach in there while you cook it. scrambled eggs? add some spinach. ramen? add some spinach. mac and cheese? add some spinach, baby!
#eliot posts#specifically i use a bag of frozen spinach so you can just dump some into the pot#the frozen blocks do NOT work for this purpose#unless you wanna add way too much spinach or go at the block with a gd icepick#and i prefer frozen to fresh bc fresh needs to be Kept Track Of or else it will go yucky in your fridge#frozen spinach is fine with being forgotten about for months#idk how much nutrition the spinach actually adds but it at least makes the meals FEEL less depressing#and prevents the dawning horror of ''dear god i cannot actually remember the last time i ate a vegetable'' from occurring#this is no longer a sad 30 cent brick of ramen in sad packet broth. now there is leaf! sometimes even egg/onion too!#i will still eat it directly out of the pot bc i am too depressed to clean a bowl tho.
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#that first gif... he is deadly#james spader#alan shore#boston legal#*#favorite#there's a full-length shot in this scene where you can see his belly. stretching the fabric of his shirt just above his waistband. ougghhh#trying to focus on how sexy this is but this episode was so. soft and suffering alan#once again everyone expects the worse from him. they ASK it of him for their own benefit#and he doesn't disappoint. he is the worst and he loses his temper and finds himself on the ledge again#when he storms out of denny's office so mad he can't even look at him. went home alone and furious and upset#drank himself to sleep for the first time in months if not years bc after a good run it feels like things are falling apart again#the way they always do. because that's what alan shore deserves#he thought it might be different this time. he thought well my parents didn't care about me. my wife died. I got fired. everyone leaves#maybe this time will be different. but now he's in the hotel room where he lives. without his best friend. about to be disbarred. stupid.#this was always going to happen because he doesn't deserve any better. they were all right about him. they were right to run away#everything is fixed the next day he and denny go on a field trip š¤ but GD!!!!!#alaaaaannnnnnn š
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