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the humorous upside to Jason really doubling down on being the kind of Red Hood who is at best morally grey and makes a habit of chopping off heads and shooting anyone he doesn’t agree with is that he is 100% Batman’s obscenely scary dog. the second he puts that bat symbol on his chest it’s over, even if it’s a mockery or a message or whatever. Gotham’s underbelly shits their pants when they see Red Hood. and therefore, Batman — brutal as he is, but so much less lawless, in a way — is suddenly the nice cop in his own city. the city where he routinely cracks skulls, stalks targets in the shadows, and throws people off buildings to get information. Jason makes him the “easy” option in Gotham, and while I’m sure the whole Jason thing keeps Bruce up at night for other reasons, that must be so frustrating? here you have a little shithead upstart elbowing into YOUR city and breaking the rules and suddenly goons are being nice to you? or they’re acting out because they’re more scared of the “other guy.” only a father could love that kind of prodigal son without strangling him.
#just the hilarious cracky image of Bruce failing at an interrogation#trying to intimidate info out of a goon#and he has to suck it up and see if Jason is nearby#batman#bruce wayne#dc#morning rambles#Jason todd#red hood#this is the part where I mention that Jason can be Prince of Gotham#and Bruce can be pissed about that#but what it really means#is that Bruce is the king now#and he just doesn’t realize that#there’s some things you outsource#sure Bruce Wayne is a prince of Gotham still#but only because he hasn’t raised a successor up#Batman tho???#he’s a king#he just never realizes it#he’s trying to play Prince right against his sons#that’s why he has all these problems#he needs to realize how much power he has#and how much THEY want to give it to him#they want to do the groundwork and bring it back to him for audience#etc etc#okay I’ll shut up now#batfamily#batkids#batdad
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Tragic: Guy you based your entire villain backstory on doesn't even remember you
#art#comic#sonic the hedgehog#sth#shadow the hedgehog#infinite the jackal#sonic fanart#sonic#sonic forces#My funny BTS on this comic is Shadow's initial response was 'sounds like cope but okay' but I wanted something less internet-pilled LOL#I've drawn more Sonic Forces fanart than I intended but it is EXCLUSIVELY because I think Infinite is SO funny#I'm gonna shove him in a locker#Bro lost a fight once and it shattered his self esteem#He's been practicing his evil laugh for months and when he finally gets his chance Shadow hits him with the 'I don't know you'#Also since this is taking off I want to clarify: I am a hater in the silly sense. I understand why Infinite has fans#The bones of a good character are there it’s just the writing of this game failed him So Bad#Forces is my least fave Sonic game but I can’t stop thinking about it because of its missed potential#Forces tries to make a lot of very serious plot points but the impact is just not there. It becomes unintentionally funny as a result
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They just seem so tired!!!!!
#the way both Ororon and Ifa have eyebags is just funny to me#what’s wrong with them#tired doctor and cringe fail boy are exhausted#Kinich has to deal with Ajaw so guess what!! I’m throwing him in!!!!#p.s. I wish ifa was a five star but it’s okay#my savings will go towards Kinich cons#artists on tumblr#art#digital art#fan art#genshin impact#my art#genshin#kinich#natlan#malipo kinich#genshin ifa#ifa#ifa genshin#ororon#genshin ororon#genshin comic#comic#can we have more guys hoyoverse please#I’m gonna get eye bags next because I’m TIRED OF THIS SOBBBBBB
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CATCH ME (firefox-official) ON @electronicmail

PLEASE STOP MAKING ME SAY IT
#it’s time to move on#thank you for sticking around#it has been a wonderful/horrible six years#FAQ:#this blog is NOT THE OLD BLOG#yes they emailed me i missed the email#it was trademark infringement#i am not active on THIS BLOG anymore#the blog is terminated which means the url will not come back#it was not tumblr failing to be okay with gimmick blogs it was just straight trademark infringement
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theyre bffs guys
#ty vivimeng for actor au#my art#art#digital art#fanart#ozzy stick to one fandom challenge (FAILED INSTANTLY)#alnst mizi#alnst#alien stage#alien stage fanart#okay guys tell me why it keeps suggesting trolls tags#I HAVENT POSTED TROLLS RELATED ANYTHING IN MONTHS LEAVE ME ALONE#also NO THIS ISNT SHIP ART BOOOOOOO#thats a lesbian and a gay man#alnst ivan
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get this boy out of the magnus institute NOW
#cosm's art!!!!!#magnuspod#the magnus protocol fanart#the magnus protocol#samama khalid#jon sims#the wires behind him are supposed to look like canary wings#This is another reach piece#IM GONNA FAIL HISTORY I FUCKING DREW THIS INSTEAD OF DOING MY ESSAY IM GONNA DIE#but it's okay#Hashtag dropout
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AND your superpower is that you just... start? You just do it? I live in such a permanent state of ADHD-induced perfectionist terror that the vast majority of my potential projects remain just that, potential, because I'm too scared of messing up to start them. I don't know how you do it, you go "think I'm gonna make a Redwall for real mice," and then you just DO it.
Oh the trick is just bombing a lot. If you fail enough you both get better at making stuff and get over the fear of failing. And you learn how to fix stuff when it does fail!
And it helps if what you're making is very silly. Like, this whole project is going to be shat on by rodents. The bar for success is low. It's easy to go, it doesn't matter if this is good. A mouse is going to poop on it either way.
#sometimes when something fails you go okay well i guess that's one of my thousand bad paintings that i have to get out of the way#before i can make Great Art#glad to have that over with#time well spent.
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The road to forgiveness is paved with miles of bullying
#okay this is the last drunk JD art for a while HFJEJFKCJEJEJ#i just cant resist a fail girl#trolls#trolls 3#trolls band together#trolls branch#branch trolls#branch#john dory#trolls john dory#john dory trolls#brozone#comic#tw drinking#tw alcohol#cw alcohol#alcohol mention#probably should do this for the other ones
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i think marinette is worse at resting when she's sick but adrien is worse at sitting things out if he's injured. i have no explanation, these are just the vibes
#ml#marinette dupain cheng#adrien agreste#okay i lied i do have justifications#adrien probably just. would love being taken care of if he's sick#it's maybe something his mom used to do but not ENOUGH#and marinette would absolutely spoil him#but marinette is all I AM FINE IT IS JUST A COLD I AM FINE meanwhile she nearly falls off a rooftop in a dizzy spell#but adrien hate being kept away from ppl he loves. hates not being able to protect them. and an injury is more long-term and isolating#meanwhile...idk marinette feels to me like an injurt would leave her more defeated. she'd feel like she failed somehow#like she is SUPPOSED to be ladybug she is SUPPOSED to keep herself together to keep the city safe#so i think that would take a lot of her energy she'd be frustrated about it yes but also sort of...admit defeat#adrien would find ways to cheer her up though 🥺
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DC X DP - Mirrors
Did Danny want to live in Gotham? No, of course not. Did he have a choice? Nope. When does he ever?
Now, he may be technically homeless, but he's also technically dead, so human laws technically don't apply to him. So, naturally, he pics out an empty mansion so big even if the owners were to come home, the chances they'd run into each other would be really low, and settles in.
This 'mansion' happens to be Drake Manor. Look, Danny lived in nowhere Illinois and kinda had his hands full dealing with ghosts, a double life, bullies, and being actively hunted. He doesn’t know much about celebrities. If you tell him the name of someone super famous, it might sound vaguely familiar, but that's about it. What he knew was superheroes and vigilantes (some of them, okay, give him a break). That's about it.
So the name Drake in connection with Gotham didn't ring any alarm bells. He did some surface level research: the Drakes are dead, survived by their only child, Timothy Drake-Wayne, who now owns their house but was adopted by some other super rich guy called Bruce Wayne and doesn't live in it, leaving it empty for the foreseeable future.
It was the perfect place!
Danny didn't explore much, partly because he didn't care to and partly because he was too tired to from healing. He cleaned up after himself, used only his bedroom (chosen for being tucked way back and out of the way), the attached bathroom, and the theatre occasionally as a treat. He lived off of the provisions packed for him, ectoplasm and water from the sink.
Cut to, few weeks in.
Danny's got a new routine, he's taken his stitches out, and is still super fucked up, but a lot better than when he arrived. He hasn't been outside since he arrived, but ghosts don't need Vitamin D anyway. Is he slightly depressed? Maybe. But he's also dead, so, bigger priorities.
Tim is looking through his stuff for something or other, and it occurs to him he probably left it next door. He hasn't been to Drake Manor in months, but he sort of really needs this thing, so he sucks it up and borrows a car because like hell is he walking the several miles from this front door to that one.
He goes to his old bedroom, opens the door, and comes face-to-face with himself.
And Danny doesn't know what he's supposed to do in this situation.
Listen, Danny doesn't always make the best decision in the moment. It's a very normal flaw to have! So he tells who can only be Timothy Drake-Wayne himself when asked, that his name is Timothy Drake, and this is his house, and, actually, who are you and how did you get in?
This causes Tim to assume Danny is himself from another dimension who he accidentally dragged to his dimension by messing with the Time Stream to get Bruce back. Danny continues to accidently fuel this misunderstanding without meaning to.
(This is not helped by the fact that a DNA test doesn't disprove this. Danny's DNA is corrupted, but what Tim does get is identical to himself. This is how Danny finds out he was adopted, and how Tim, much later when misunderstandings are cleared, meets the identical twin brother he never knew he had.)
#dc x dp#dc x dp prompt#tim and danny are twins#neither of them know it#tim thinks danny is himself from a parallel universe#or something along those lines#danny is an idiot#tim is an idiot#but like smart idiots#danny has no idea how the terrible bluff ended up working out but he's glad the cops haven't been called#danny is playing along#tim is a great detective#but clockwork is also a meddling dick#and danny has ridiculous luck#it's either really good or really bad#usually really bad#misunderstandings#danny phantom#danny fenton#dpxdc#tim failing at keeping danny secret from his brothers#bruce being emotionally constipated#probably#i mean that man is not mentally okay
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it's hailing today and the gloom outside is casting peculiar shadows around my room...
#aesthetic#academia#dark academia#light academia#academia aesthetic#new zealand#skipped my class today so currently failing at the academia aesthetic actually#it was about research ethics tho which i dont need yet for the project im doing#(im going to do unethical research /j)#its okay tho im going to both my classes tomorrow and the additional classics seminar which is going to be about early christian lesbians!#so slay i guess
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Fic where Su Xiyan lives but she's like, a huge asshole about it.
Tianlang Jun still gets stuck under the mountain, see, and Su Xiyan's been thoroughly betrayed by her own master, and seemingly not just him but also all the other major sects too. They all sided against her and against her lover based on prejudice. The fact that they were tricked likely wouldn't be known to her, from the outside it would just look as though they all readily dogpiled on at the first opportunity to take down a heavenly demon, even though he never did anything wrong.
Plus her own reputation has been ground to dust, going from the respected head disciple of the second greatest sect to being slandered as a honeypot who seduced a demon emperor in order to bring him down. She was used to destroy the man she loves, she almost died trying to keep her baby, her cultivation's probably taken a massive hit and she has no chance of getting to that mountain and digging her lover out from under it. Even if she could, he believes she betrayed him, so what kind of reception could she hope for?
Not that this will stop her from trying to dig him out anyway, but it's not like she can just snap her fingers and get him out. There's a whole mountain on him, and she's on the run with an infant.
So she decides she's going to make this everyone's problem as much as she can.
For a couple of years she lays low, just trying to rebuild her cultivation and look after the baby. If she's being honest, she's not great at it. She loves her son but maternal instincts don't really kick in, he's kind of a shriveled ball of misery and mess, and she doesn't really see the appeal. It gets better as he starts to get bigger and more of a personality asserts itself, and she can start treating him more like a small human than a wailing parasite that's latched onto her tit.
She would still hire someone else to look after him at the first possible opportunity, but she's paranoid about some aspect of his seal slipping and giving them away. With no body ever recovered, Huan Hua Palace is still looking for her. So she's stuck with childcare and she hates every minute of it and spends most of her time changing diapers just seething about dropping her old shifu into a mountain of shit and watching him suffocate.
Once Binghe is big enough to walk, and Su Xiyan is well enough to fight, they make for the borderlands. Su Xiyan starts teaching her son the earliest forms of cultivation he can learn, but his demon heritage is still sealed and right now he's too weak and small to risk unsealing it. So she focuses on herself, on rebuilding her own strength, turning to demonic methods and forbidden techniques (why not, when one has already been tarred and feathered and was never particularly precious about righteousness to begin with?) and hunting other cultivators just as often as demonic beasts.
Time passes and Su Xiyan begins to build a reputation even worse than Wu Yanzi's. A deadly rogue cultivator known only by some epithet or other who kills even powerful disciples of mighty sects. She experiments with what it would take to destroy a mountain, how much force, and what could provide it. Sacrificial arrays that feed off of the energy of cultivators or demons. Rituals and artifacts that demand high prices. Ways to summon demons or open gateways for them to possess others. She even considers using her son -- his blood is heavenly demon blood, his body is the closest thing she has to a suitable vessel for Tianlang Jun.
It would probably work, is the thing.
As the thought turns around her mind and she washes the blood from her hands, she decides that she's got to send her son away, actually. He's too weak and burdensome (and the fact she'd even consider using him such a way means that not even she is fully safe for him to be around any longer, not with the kinds of things she's doing, not with the kind of creature she's becoming). Now that he's big enough to survive on his own, she can ditch him somewhere to level up and bring him back once he's got enough strength to actually make himself useful.
So she sends him off, tells him not to come back until he's strong, ignores the tears and the hands gripping her robes until she finally has to wrench them away and strand the boy in a city far enough from her hunting grounds that he can't easily get back on his own.
Of course, he does still try, but he's lost and doesn't know where he's going. A kindly washerwoman takes pity on him and takes him in. The now-named Luo Binghe (his mother only ever called him 'son') isn't sure what he's supposed to be doing, but he suspects it's not just keeping house with his new caretaker. However, at the ripe old age of five he doesn't really know what else to do, so he stays and gradually the memories of the cold-eyed woman he called mother start to fade, until he wonders how much of it was merely a dream.
When his second mother dies and encourages him to go become a cultivator, Binghe decides that sounds right, so he goes to the Cang Qiong entrance exams and gets taken in. There's something familiar about his new shizun. Not in his looks, really, but in the way he acts, how he snaps and sneers, how he seems to hate Binghe but also claims him. Luo Binghe finds himself utterly desperate for the man's approval, even though he can't completely explain why. But it feels like, if he could just get this person to love him, the world might make sense.
Shen Qingqiu doesn't love him, though, if anything he hates him, and that only seems to change at random after a qi deviation. Which at first drives Luo Binghe slightly mad trying to figure out what he did and guarantee he can keep it, but gradually his thoughts and feelings on his master start to shift as, it seems, the man becomes someone completely different.
Meanwhile Su Xiyan has built up enough strength and information that she has a plan to move a mountain using a legendary blade that can open portals. She's also gradually begun to infiltrate her old sect again, using dark techniques to turn some of her former shidimei into puppets. By the time the Immortal Alliance Conference comes around, she's built the underpinnings to take the entire sect out from under her old master, and the chaos of the conference provides the perfect opportunity.
Shen Yuan has no idea what he did to cause the Huan Hua Palace Master to get ripped apart by demons during the invasion, and he's even more confused by the woman who materializes during the final hour and does him the favor of throwing Luo Binghe into the Endless Abyss herself, saying something about needing him to fetch a sword for her before she'll welcome him back to her side.
#scum villain#svsss#scum villain's self saving system#tianxi#su xiyan#tianlang jun#bingqiu#long post#shang qinghua is also confused but even more because he actually recognizes that woman#what do you mean he actually DID save su xiyan's life?! he thought that mission failed!#meanwhile the system is just like okay great job everybody mission accomplished the protagonist is in the pit!
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3 days late but had to draw my annual birthday pinkie
#mlp#my little pony#pinkie pie#my art#and yeah I did kinda#fail my inktober#that’s okay#college is hard
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I've been brewing this post for far too long in my drafts, but I need more doomed!Bruce and Jason throughout universes. And it is not even always about the same Jaybin, dying in the warehouse scenarios!
Sometimes Jason is just a kid, who died in front of Batman, who maybe jumped in between Batman and the villain recklessly, to keep him safe, and whose blood stuck under Bruce's nails. His face haunts him in nightmares, still.
In other realities, Bruce meets Jason as a teen, and they never even get to become father and son officially - but they slowly get into each other's lives, until something awful happens, leaving a ghost of a smirking kid stroll behind Bruce's hunched figure for the rest of his life.
Or maybe it is one of these realities, where Jason crawls out of the Alley Crime himself, and manages to become famous in Gotham; the one, where he opens a charity fond, dedicated to people, who fight with the drug addiction. Bruce Wayne is sympathetic of a kid he meets during some of the events, and as they slowly start contacting each other more often, getting closer, he promises himself to protect him. Expect, Batman is late to save Jason Todd from the hands of yet another villain.
It could be the priest Jason Todd that meets bleeding out Batman on the stairs of the church, and who helps him out, for what he later pays with his life. Or they are not really vigilantes in any of these universes - just father and son.
And in some of these universes, they reconcile. In one of them, some of the medics connect the dots that a catatonic boy, who is covered in dirt, calling for his dad, for Bruce is Bruce's Wayne dead son, and try calling him. In another, LoA!Jason with his memory still being in a haze, crosses his path with Batman, before getting dipped in the Lazarus Pit.
But the point stands.
In all of them, Bruce Wayne is too late. In all of them, Bruce Wayne fails to save Jason Todd.
#i actually have a specific scenario in my head#basically early 20tish Jason who works as a bartender in Alley Crime#and Bruce (still Batman) who never picked up anyone after Dick#but his relationship with Dick is still strained#they try to mend things but more often than not they can't find a common ground#Bruce once visits this bar where Jason works too tired and mourning his parents that day and Jason amuses him#Jason not instantly understands Bruce is Wayne until he leaves him tips higher than 1k dollars lol#Bruce starts visit more#Jason shares his lore a little - he was picked up by the owner of the bar as a kid#they talk about books and about the fact that Jason saves money for college#Bruce helps him out ofc#he invites him to meet Alfred and Dick#everything is okay#and then... Joker happens#he takes Jason as a hostage bc he figures out that Batman knows the boy#Jason atp knows that Bruce is Batman but never confronts him about it#this time Batman comes in time#Jason tries to kill Joker but Batman stops him#so Jason doesn't kill him#they hug#and when they hug Joker shots Jason#of course Batman blames himself lmao#he might or might not fail to keep himself in check and kills Joker after this#but he instantly leaves his cowl behind because he can't allow himself to live with what happened#if you want a happy ending red hood can return in the same manner as in canon but without beefing bruce ofc#jason todd#bruce wayne#red hood#batman
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i did not think this out much...at all, but drawing it was a lotta fun!
also i almost made lloyd veronica but i changed it to nya before i even started working on the. actual heather trio so yay!!
#ninjago fanart#ninjago#ninjago nya#ninjago lloyd#ninjago ninja#teshfarts#i should draw the nextgen as them actually....they fit way better LOL#can you tell i gave up putting any more detail for everything below their knees. there should be awesome LACES on their big long boots#but i got LAZY!!#first thing i thought while drawing kai was “this makes no sense why is his sister veronica. why would she let zane kill him” then i thought#“zane is so sad. why did i make zane JD this is so sad im sorry zane” and then i stopped thinking#btw in this. drawing theyre just dressing up. hence why cole is miserably failing to hold his laughter#heathers#sorry for the eyestraining background colour i drew this at 3 am in the dark . i did not think it through#okay teshi i think thats enough yapping
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the few faces you ever got to see (x)
#posting this on its own like i said i would because i like it. ive been thinking abt this for ages so good to finally draw it....#isat claude#isat mirabelle#isat loop#sasasaap siffrin#sasasap#start again: a prologue#isat fanart#isat spoilers#in stars and time#in stars and time fanart#lucabyteart#i wonder how loop feels about claude. one of the things they saw every loop for so long being mira's mourning of her#and never having that hope. resigned to the fact they'd never save her.#then poof! there she is. saved by someone else. ha. cool#and claude. trying to be the hero. realising she's failed and taking to her fate. resigned to it.#after the high of the celebration is over how does she feel? everything was okay in the end... but it was someone else#as much as she loves mirabelle.. does it sting?#i feel there is an intentional parallel here. yknow
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