#its for tension control

[moonshynecybin]

Hi! I have been thinking about Marc and the ways he expresses his anger... giving the cold shoulder... the silent treatment if you will (he will speak ABOUT vale but not TO vale let alone WITH vale)... need your input please....

hmm good question.... this got. STUPID long sorry

uhhh marc is, in general, good at keeping his (negative) emotions in check. like i think marc loooooves to think of himself on track as a mature, controlled, and rational dude. above distraction. a killer. a cyborg. idk his dad has talked about how he doesnt really complain much about injury and there's also allll these stories about what a mature kid he was... so i think that when he was young - ESPECIALLY in a racing sense because he was so much younger than most of the people he was competing against - he internalized that in order to do all the stuff he wants to do racing-wise, he reallyyyy has to keep a level head and not well. act his age! and i think that extends to a lot of how he manages his emotions today (at least in a public setting). even in places where im pretty sure hes PISSED (sepang. phillip island 2013.) he just kind of. visibly contains himself. not a confrontational dude in the outright sense he'll clench his jaw and try to work through it.

which is part of what makes his valentino-oriented crazy so interesting. bc people were noticing that marc in 2015 was kind of. being weird. as his and valentino's relationship deteriorated. like they were both outwardly very much like we can keep it on track :) until the big fallout towards the end of the year but uhhhh. well marc has said that vale started pulling back in september of 2014 like he was noticing SOMETHING, and they clashed on track A LOT in 2015, and i think marc sensed vale cooling on him and freaked a lil. hashtag neurotic 22 year old moments. he is my favorite crazy ex girlfriend. like usually he IS good at separating that stuff out and managing his emotions in the racing sense but in assen that year when vale overtook him off track after they made contact he raised a BIG stink with race direction and actually had some uh. not especially chill quotes about it. (it should be noted marc was also flopping for the first time in his motogp career. like in his brain he stopped winning AND vale stopped talking to him he was goin through it) adn all the reporters noticed too they were like. why werent you sucking and fucking in parc ferme. like vale's left turn wrt to spaniard sabotage comes outta nowhere but people WERE noticing that things were changing. i bet marc noticed too. BUT they are not the type of people to talk about these things so they keep it to vague flirting in presscons and escalating on-track tension slash proxy wars waged in race-direction contexts... liek truly you are 22 you are not going to keep your championship title and your hot sports idol bestie is no longer flirting with you on twitter and you COULD just talk to him about that but you'd rather DIE so youre going to ask honda to back you up to race direction about your last race where you DEFINITELY lost bc winning is the ONLY thing thatll make you feel better. even though thatll help convince your hot sports idol that you are engaging in a benedict arnold level betrayal scheme against him. an insane time to be marc marquez. 2015 really kind of is a study on how both of them handle losing: NOT WELL.

and then the thing about sepang is that then the lid is blown clean off and marc spends the ENTIRE race being annoying on purposeeeee. hes so fucking pissed and hurt at valentino that he decides to get under his skin for REALSIES instead of focusing on his race. like idk he probably would have fought hard for the win without the drama that how he works but uh. i think he was being annoying specifically to bite at vale's edges. and part of that is bc marc is naturally and effortlessly annoying. but i think part of it was SPITE. like his team advised him not to speak on anything from that presscon and he didnt, but he can still fuck him over on track. get under his skin. like he cant tell vale to his FACE that he's angry and confused and hurt. but he CAN let him know on that fucking racing line. where he cant be ignored. idk like i cant see marc letting anyone else get under his skin like that.

AND another big ass exception to the marc marquez anger management philosophy is from misano 2019 where vale messes with his qualifying lap. a lovely anon sent me some videos of marc talking to the press and jesus christ i dont think ive ever seen him angrier oh my god. AND the anon also linked the race from that weekend where he won and he celebrated harder than ive seen him celebrate some TITLE wins like he went. notably nuts. the commentators were all like uhhhh. he mustve REALLY wanted to get one over on vale adjfhlkdh... idk if any of this answered your question but his relationship to his emotions fascinates me hes so weirddddd. and its interesting to me that he can shrug off jorge ruining his last race at honda and be friendly but also be like. kind of aloofly pissed at bezz. because of valentino! he can repress the rest of it, but valentino shines through the cracks.

[parab0mb]

Really love the vibe of the first-person cutscenes/sections, feels like something straight out of an ENA animation.

What the fuck man?

[sort-of-a-hero-that-way]

Dennis shielding Dee whether it's physical harm or a verbal confrontation. And thinking about ada's tag alongside the gifs

They're both of equal threat to him...

[abirddogmoment]

Rory's first session with steadiness training and she's crushing it!

[thatscarletflycatcher]

I was surprised when I first heard people say the first Lord Peter Wimsey novels were too caricaturesque, because I don't remember a time I felt more identified with a character that when Lord Peter gets so focused, worried, and disturbed by his discovery of the nature of the crime in "Whose Body?" that he goes on a full blown PTSD attack. And then he is so very tired. And needs several days of rest to recover. But he's talking it in the exasperated philosophy of "going on a stupid little walk for my stupid mental health". Extremely relatable to me, whatever that says about my mental health state.

[jeremiahthefroge]

Every appearance of the red-haired menace that is early Laurence forces me to sit here and stew upon how I will fix his introduction in the rewrite. As a coping mechanism. Unfortunately since I can't remember the parts where his character isn't just harassment so I can't cook with the themes the way I'd like to. Like the way he calls Aph "my love" after she very explicitly in the text of the game tells him not to do that... bad vibes. I think I could rock with his character if he'd done the same sort of approach in hitting on Aphmau as heavily, but the moment she lays down an actual boundary, he backs way the hell off. I could even fuck with her trying to be subtle about the boundary and him not getting it and continuing to make her uncomfortable before she snaps at him and he apologizes, saying that he truly didn't mean anything by it, and he respects the boundary she lays like his life depends on it from then on out. It would create some immediate complexity in his need for explicit communication, and backs up the sort of deeper character hinting they seem to try to do when he's talking about Castor and Cadenza, this idea that he deeply cares, if being a bit pushy on accident. It would also make a good detail fueling the conflicts later on with the love triangle that can sort of prevent Laurence from looking like TOO much of a dickhead (him being unaware or misinterpreting situations, and the delicate nature of it making him uncomfortable asking questions, is a compelling reason to see somebody hurting his friends' feelings, and makes him significantly more sympathetic, opening him up for feelings of remorse and guilt).

[perenlop]

i know in OBT, damini is clearly the worse parent because she didn't even attempt to raise dielle and clearly sees her as a failure, and she wouldn't have been a good parent even if she stayed.... but damn it, the deviantart comments are so annoying about mateo that i'm this close to stanning her anyways. very epic of her to subvert gender roles by being the deadbeat dad. hashtag feminist icon.

[jekyll-doodles]

How are things between Nigredo and Rubedo after they wake up? Wouldn't it be awkward knowing the things they did together?

Things they did together, to each other, to the others,

Its one of the more difficult topics to talk about while in foundation custody; their assigned therapists are making slow progress with it. And it does occasionally cause an awkward or tense moment.

For those two in particular, its created a situation whether niether feels they can trust themself alone with the other. Afraid they might harm the other. Suppose of the lords, they've both seen each other at their worst the most.

Both feel this way without realizing the other feels the same. Both take the awkward moments when they are left alone to be the other Not Wanting To Be Near Them.

Both actually trust the other not to harm them. Niether would harm the other.

They'll figure that out eventually. Hopefully before the body morphing ability becomes apparent and an issue. Probably not though.

[bmpmp3]

also guess which complainer about cevio/voisona's supposed lack of vocal dynamics controls finally Looked Up. and Discovered.

[fellhellion]

one of the most interesting dimensions to shiori and juri's relationship for me is the fact reciprocation isn't the point of tension between them. their feelings for one another aren't at ALL unrequited. the issue that plagues them beyond juri's arc about begining to unlearn her own self hatred, is the gaping maw that is shiori's lack of self worth <- the thing that drives her to hurt juri. in no world can shiori healthily reciprocate juri's feelings until she stops hating herself.

[coppersunshine]

Nothing makes me madder than good points made stupidly. YES planned obsolescence is bad but OF COURSE a $200 beginner level sewing machine is gonna be made of cheap (plastic) parts. Good sewing machines have all-metal internals but beginners and casual sewists don't want to pay the $800+ for a quality machine. Offering a lower-quality entry level model is not the same thing as planned obsolescence, it's the result of cost vs quality trade-off

[shroomsnail]

i knit a square! every stitch made me hate doing it but i kept going out of spite and managed to get the hang of it! maybe ill hate it less when i work on it more :)

[zorkaya-moved]

dreams are a wonderful, never-ending tapestry of interconnected fantasies - unique works of the imagination, all interwoven by discreet threads their owners are not even aware of. only the god of wisdom, accomplished dream walker, can easily see and follow those threads, her consciousness blanketing all dreams like a protective blanket. to say that she can see them all at once would be a bit of an overstatement, but to say that she is aware of them all at the same time would bring the attentive observer closer to the truth. which is why the god of wisdom can sense it - the unusual darkness that spreads through the tapestry, cold fingers reaching into her own awareness and sending shivers up her spine. buer decides to follow the trail; and sure enough, a nightmare is what seems to be causing this dreamer some disruption. but -- oh, what is this creeping feeling scratching at her surface of her mind? what a hostile, violent dream... nahida approaches, battles the nauseating, sickening feeling that grips at her throat...

and jolts awake with a gasp. she had ventured to walk around in the nightmare, but in all her five hundred years of dream-walking? she cannot recall every encountering one so vile, violent, and bone-chilling. and she cannot forget the face of the woman she knows the dream belongs to.

"are you okay, miss sokolova?" nahida asks, the next time she and the professor find themselves in each other's vicinity - concern written all over the archon's face... alongside a faint, but persistent glimmer in the depths of verdant eyes. curiosity. "i sense someone having very difficult dreams last night, so i couldn't help but investigate... i promise i did not pry too much, but... it seemed like a rough night."

@maquiscursed

Dreams are creations of one's mind, a combination of memories and experiences and emotions brought out by past events. However, what is a nightmare for one is a reality for another. The mind and dreams are interconnected to the secrets that must not be exposed, a lucid dreamer may be able to control said awareness and such creation but not everyone can do it. The mind is a tricky part, a human can reach enlightenment through brain's ability to piece thoughts and puzzle pieces together to create a full picture. However, sometimes, piecing together the whole picture creates gates of abyss that cannot be easily trespassed, the guardians might be soulless monsters and mirages from the past - creations of ice, of thorns, of bones, of death.

The dreamland of the Amurta scholar, decadent in its nature, would remain a viciously hostile environment as the creator of this dreamscape is none other than one who desires to gain knowledge for control. And anyone who dares to step into it will be deemed a threat, a liability, a weakness, a taint, a speck of dirt that must be erased and eliminated immediately. Violent, vicious, cold, and controlling. It seems that Dendro Archon's presence only intensified the chilling winds and howls of the dream, making it appear as even more hostile: leave, leave, leave.

Leave, leave this body of mine! I enjoy nothing anymore but my wretched dreams.

Zarina didn't sleep well that night, waking up with a headache that caused her to groan in pain and skip her intake of medicine for the sake of recovery. Her mind attributed it to overworking conditions and her late-night stays to finalize documents to get certain scholars off her back alongside closing several deals on the black market. Each and every secret that hides behind the appearance of the sun, an everloving and everlasting in her humor, warmth, and help to those who struggle to be like her. A beloved of many, a celebrator of more, a light of countless, a savior of thousands.

The one who bears the last name of the bird's of prey remains ignorant to the reason of her tough night. It was another similar dream like alway, a reminder of her past and a deep dive into her subconsciousness that exposes the monochrome world, the monotone viewpoints, the seekers of indulgence and the corruptor of the living. However, it all becomes crashing down when the Dendro Archon approaches her, worried and concerned yet there is another glimmer in her eyes that doesn't get to turn on the lightbulb inside the researcher's mind until she hears the words spoken.

Immediately, her mind screams from offense and tuning in on the Lord Kusanali as an enemy, as someone who dared to influence her mind or attempt to enter it without any consent or possibly even attempting to take information from her mind. Or is it possible? Her mind travels back to the Akasha Terminal, finding it as disturbing and invasive as the words just spoken now by Nahida. For a moment, her eyes become cold, sharp, but also dull as if she sees nothing but a target (a prey) to kill and eradicate to ensure her personal salvation and her personal survival.

You are my enemy, aren't you? You dare to invade my privacy and wish to control me?

No, this is Nahida, Lesser Lord Kusanali and the Dendro Archon. Her eyes do not show malice and she's proven herself to be kinder than what mind speaks inside. Control, control, control. But it's essential to give boundaries, such as now. And yet, it continues to bother her, the words spoken by Kusanali are: I promise I did not pry too much. 'Too much', she says. How much did she pry? What does 'too much' mean to her? Is it enough to give reasons to continue prying or is it something that'll cause her to need to double check everything in her inventory, hiding it all away all over again. Paranoia doesn't help but it doesn't register on her face, keeping a sudden cold expression on her face for a moment before it melts into a seemingly apologetic look.

Play your role, dear actor, this is your life-long theater.

"My apologies, Lesser Lord Kusanali," she says, using her own moment of tension as a way to set up another stage. Her words sound sincere yet her mind is insulted and raging: do not touch my mind, do not touch me, do not dare to use your godly powers on me, I will not be controlled. Sadly, it matters little that Nahida is not one to do so. She is too self-centered in this moment, a mind of a survivalist taking over for that millisecond out of need. Connection to one's mind, the Akasha Terminal, the Dendro Archon... "I did indeed have a painful nightmare," she lies, it wasn't a nightmare: a memory, a true look of the world beyond these walls. Indulgence, sin, murder, manipulation, and so much more remains restless behind closed doors where shadows reign under moon's watchful gaze. "But I do not wish to discuss it in detail. Pardon my attitude, but it's invasive to– to touch my dreams like that without my approval. It happens around time of the year. You have nothing to worry about it. It will not cause a decline in my work today, that I can promise you."

Do not dare attempt to invade my dreams, Archon, you are not welcome there. My mind is mine and not your playground. Even if your heart is true, I trust no one and will wither alone if such must happen.

[andi-o-geyser]

haha guess who finally bit the bullet and watched The Solitary Clone. it was me. *cries*

[skylordhorus]

my physio worked on some of my knots today and gOD theyre like painful shitty marbles in there

[starry-bi-sky]

MOVING THIS TO RBS bc i have my laptop and can actually give a longer response now. >:]. And man where do I start. Mmmmmm.

When Danny finds out he's a clone is v v important to me because in clone^2 he acquires Lil Damian after finding out he's Bruce Wayne's clone (rather than Batman's) and it offers a lot of weight and introspection to their relationship, but I also want to follow your post's canon. MMMM. I'm putting a pin in it for now bc im running circles around in my own head, and deciding for now that Danny knew he was a clone before he and Kon started dating, and waited to tell him because being a clone is very personal to him, and it's not something he tells just anyone. Only his close circle of friends and family know he's a clone, so him telling Kon was a huge show of trust and vulnerability.

Also, for no other reason than I think it's hysterical, but when Kon tells Tim about his boyfriend being Batman's clone, he has no idea about Damian. He knows Danny has a little brother he adores, but they've never met and Damian isn't really that rare of a name.

That's because Danny's pretty secure (most of the time) in the knowledge that nobody will piece together that he's a clone regardless of if he knows he's Bruce's/Batman's clone, since A (if he knows he's Bruce's clone): the current general public know Bruce Wayne as a he is currently; a well-dressed man in his late thirties-early forties with a Captain America build (among other things), and Danny is a 17-18-ish year old boy with a sleeper build and long hair and a preferred fashion of "baggy alternative that forces people of all kind to question their sexuality"

(Genderfluid danny for the WIN)

and B (if he knows he's Batman's clone): nobody knows what tf Batman looks like.

Baby Dames is a whole other story, since Damian Wayne is in the public eye quite often, Danny thinks Dames is at a bigger risk of getting recognized despite being significantly younger than his template. Which means he's a bit more protective/wary about introducing him to people, although they've been lucky so far.

Danny introduces Kon to Damian about a week or so after telling him about being a clone, Kon's positive reaction to the reveal gave Danny the confidence and security to introduce him to Damian. He doesn't outright state Damian is also a clone, but Kon connects the dots instantly upon meeting him, but is smart enough to keep mum about it.

ALSO, to switch gears again, I love the implication here (to me at least) that Tim knows about Danny, but hasn't quite met him yet. I think he'd clock Danny being a clone pretty quickly (not instantly, but quickly) due to the sheer amount of research/stalking he went into with Bruce. Iirc he even knew what kind of paintings he liked, so I think he'd definitely (even if its eventually) recognize a younger Bruce Wayne in Danny.

Like, oh, yeah, his best friend is dating some guy from the Midwest and Kon's probably told him everything under the sun about Danny -- like how he does this cute little grunt when you catch his attention, and that he has a habit of chewing on the end of his pen or thumb nail when he's lost in thought, and he scrunches up his brows sometimes when he's confused, and he has a smile that could light up a whole room, and eyes as bright as glaciers, and -- and it's to the point that Tim probably knows everything about the guy and they've never even met.

He doesn't even bother looking him up, because damn, he already knows what Danny looks like just from Kon's description alone. The one time he decides not to be an obsessive little freak and it comes around to bite him in the ass, because Danny is apparently a clone of Bruce. He finally goes and looks him up and goddamn, the similarities are right there. He even has Bruce's goofy-ass bat-wing shaped eyebrows.

How did this go under the radar for so long.

AND -- because the ADHD is hitting and i'm hopping topics like a mallet in whack-a-mole -- the meetcute. Obsessed with thinking about how Kon and Danny met, and imo the only appropriate (/j) way is that it was as mutually civilians. Except I wanna explore the concept, so instead of it being a coffeeshop meetcute, it's something else.

Danny is in Metropolis with his family for something and was exploring the city during the rare few moments he's alone, and it's very important to me and only me to mention that he's been having a rough go of it lately. Just the new-usual and monthly identity crisis, so he's gone and stuck more holes in his ears. With the added bonus of a brand spanking new eyebrow piercing and lip piercing. If he doesn't like it, he can just take them out and let them heal.

Anyways, he's standing at a stoplight and waiting for the crosswalk to go, Kon was standing next to him and they were relatively ignoring each other. They're standing at a corner with relatively low traffic, and the crosswalk lights up. What happens is that Kon is walking somewhat in front of Danny, when a car comes veering around the corner. It's going fast enough that it would've most certainly hit Kon, if he weren't half-kryptonian.

And also if it weren't for the fact that Danny is faster. Before Kon can dive out of the way of the oncoming speeder, an arm snakes around his waist and he's yanked back and onto the ground. Seconds later, the car whizzes past, a hairsbreadth away from Kon's feet.

"Shit." He says without thinking, slack-jawed and shocked for multiple reasons, and he continues to not think as he tacks on; "Good reflexes."

He turns to look at his supposed savior, and sees a boy with long, dark lashes and even longer hair, pretty blue eyes, and propping himself up on his elbow. The boy gives him a sarcastic smile, "Thanks," he says, "made them myself. You alright?"

"Just peachy." Kon manages to get out, and watches the boy unwrap his arm from around his waist and get up, and then thinks to get up himself.

"You'd think that guy was being chased by the Bat himself." The boy quips dryly, brushing himself off. "He's in the wrong city for that, Gotham is the next storm cloud over."

Kon snorts, and somehow manages to get the pretty boy's name and number, offering to show him the best places in Metropolis as repayment for "saving" him. The rest is history. They start out friends, and only start dating half a year later. Kon was visiting Metropolis to visit Clark and Lois, and heads back to Smallville after he's done -- which is fortunate. Because it's about five hours closer to Illinois than Metropolis, which makes popping by Amity Park to see Danny occasionally just a liitttle bit easier.

Over 900 prompt

Okay I love the Danny is a clone of Batman aus but I've never seen this done.

Danny and Kon dating and Then Danny learning his parents cloned Batman thinking he is a ghost only to find out he isn't and kept Danny as their kid.

Just think of the hilarious reactions

Caue this immediately popped into my head.

Kon: *muffled screaming into Tim's couch*

Tim: ....you good?

Kon: danny is the clone of Batman

Tim: ...

Kon: I'm the clone of Superman

Tim:...

Kon: AND WE ARE DATING!