#jack is mean

[renaultphile]

So is Ralph just trying to be deliberately annoying in that scene?

So on the back of all these kisses, I wanted to revisit that chapter two 'ellipse'. Not that it matters, but I'm in the 'no kiss' camp, probably my main reason being that Ralph says this afterwards:

"Now you see what I mean, Spud. It would never have done, would it? Well, goodbye"

Which bears a striking resemblance to this thing he says in the 1953 edition after giving Laurie the mystery painkiller and being asked what it is:

"It's probably addictive and you're having chronic pain, so I shan't tell you." It occurred to Laurie that, from most people, he would have resented this.

Why would Ralph say 'it would never have done' like that? The man's an absolute comedian. Maybe that's why Laurie says 'Sorry dearie' to him on the boat. It's revenge. Maybe it wasn't a nice innocent kiss at all, because Ralph was trying to prove a point. Maybe Ralph was doing that really annoying thing of saying or doing something hurtful so that Laurie would stop hero-worshipping him and fall out of love with him and forget him.......which never usually works in fiction 😉

[catboyralphlanyon-archive]

(re prev prev post) also kinda funny how much ralph dislikes sandy despite how many parallels you can draw between them -> unhealthy self-destructive coping etc

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[blackkatdraws2]

[Toon x Mobster] Only he can make him laugh like that...

Jack Desmond is the silly guy. Gavriel Huffman is the scary guy. They come from different worlds that has contrasting genres, one more cartoonishly comedic and the other much dramatically darker.

It's kind of a running gag that Sir Huffman is unable to laugh without looking absolutely wicked. Both in the cartoon world and his own world.

That doesn't stop Jack from being completely smitten with him though, his voice is the most mind-melting thing he's ever had the pleasure to hear

[AUDIO USED:] Men I Trust - show me how

[lilianade-comics]

the face of a man who neither regrets his answer nor is aware of his imminent violent demise

[jerich0two]

Jazz cat! (Lest we forget who my favourite is)

Been seeing a few posts with overlord-era Husk playing the saxophone and I am ALLLL for it. This post is for ME. I am the demand for Jazz Saxophonist Husk Content. If only I knew how to draw a sax... or someone playing one... oh, well!

[lempeeartz]

DayQuil and creepypasta have been my saviors recently

[boltlightning]

james norrington + being a royal bitch (inspiration)

[worfs-glorious-hair]

Ninejack walked so that Fifteen x Rogue could run

[the-thing-inside-your-closet]

Danny and Ellie are forced to flee Amity Park. And find themselves in Coast City.

I started writing this with the intention of only writing a short prompt, but then I just kept going until I felt like I’d written enough.

Danny gets caught up in yet another fight with Skulker, only this time it wasn’t because Skulker had come for Danny. No. He’d come for Ellie. And she was already weak from fleeing the GIW who had shot at her the moment she arrived in Amity Park.

Whether Skulker is after Ellie for Vlad, or because he wants her pelt can be up to you.

Either way, he manages to beat Skulker and captures him in the thermos. Just as he lets out a long sigh of relief he hears the sound of an ecto-gun being fired and then his side is burning and he’s falling. He’s falling too fast and it hurts and he can’t stop-

Danny guys the ground hard. His head is spinning, his skin feels like it’s burning, and he can hear the stomping of feet as someone runs towards him.

He needs to get up. He needs to get away. Find Ellie and make sure she’s safe. He’s needs to MOVE- but he can’t. Black spots for his vision as he manages to stand up and his eyes meet the end of his mother’s gun.

Before anyone can speak, he’s falling again, handing face first in the dirt. And the familiar feeling of de-transforming washes over him.

The last thing he hears before loosing consciousness is the grief stricken sound of his parent’s voice as three voices shout in unison.

“OH MY GOD DANNY!”

“DANNY ARE YOU OKAY?!”

“NO, GET AWAY FROM HIM!”

When Danny wakes up again, he’s in his room, the curtains are drawn but he can see the sliver of sunlight pouring in through the gap underneath. He notes that his body aches, but not as much as usual after a fight like that. And there’s a warmth enveloping his hand. It’s soothing, and he almost considers going back to sleep when he notices that there’s a ghost in the room. And all too fast he’s sitting up and staring into the exhausted, red, puffy eyes of his mother looking back at him from where she’s sitting holding his hand in hers.

Just behind her he sees Ellie floating just above the ground talking quietly with his dad.

“Danny,” his mother’s voice draws his attention along with Jack and Ellie’s. “How are you feeling, sweetheart? Are you in any pain?”

He didn’t notice when she’d helped him to lay back down again. “Do you need anything? Ellie here was just telling us about how regular pain medication doesn’t work as well for the two of you. But I’m sure we could find something for you that might-”

“Mom,” Danny rasps. Man his throat was dry.

As if reading him mind Ellie appears by his mother’s side holding out a glass of water with a straw in it. Maddie helps Danny to sit up a little more so he can drink.

“Mom,” he tries again, sounding better this time, “I’m okay. I promise. It’s not that bad!” He starts to lie as the panic sets in. He de-transformed in front of them. He knows he did. And the fear shows on his face, it must, because before he can even begin trying to think up an excuse his mother is crying.

“Oh Danny, it’s okay. We know. And we’re not angry at you. We love you. So much.”

And Danny’s heart swells at hearing it. “You don’t hate me for being Phantom?” He asks quietly.

“No! We could never hate you Dann-o!” His dad’s cheery tone doesn’t disguise the sadness and guilt etched into his face. “We’re just…so sorry that we never noticed before. And that we…” he can’t finish his sentence but he doesn’t need to. Danny already knows what he’s apologise for.

“I’m okay. I promise. I heal fast!” Danny tied to reassure them.

It seems to help a little, though his parents still have a grim look in their eyes. As they make connections in just how Danny would know that about himself.

And Ellie, with perfect timing to cut the tension, announces happily, “Danny! Good news! Your parents said I could stay with you!”

Ellie had told his parents while Danny was unconscious about being his clone. She saw how they fretted over Danny, cleaning and dressing his injuries with the love and care she only imagined from a parent that truly loves you. And they had accepted her almost right away. Jack even crying as he proudly declared himself a father of three.

Jack soon excused himself, saying he’ll go see if Jazz needs any help with cooking lunch. Danny and his mother share a look, and with a final kiss to his head says she’ll go make sure nothing gets brought back to life. And she asks Ellie to please make sure Danny stays in bed and rests.

Danny and Ellie are left alone in his room, and it gives Danny the chance to really revel in everything. His parents accept him. They love him, both sides of him. And they accepted Ellie too! And said she can stay! She doesn’t have to be alone anymore.

Now, a lot can happen in the span of a few seconds, let alone minutes. In the time it took for Maddie to reach the kitchen, their front door was kicked down and a group of GIW agents had stormed in demanding they hand over the ectoplasmic scum they were harbouring.

Jack and Maddie drew their weapons and planted themselves directly in front of the GIW agents. The agents state that a ghost shield was put up around the house to prevent any ghosts from escaping, and by law any ghosts within the premises were ti be handed over for destruction immediately. Jazz runs upstairs to Danny’s room to warn them that the GIW were inside the house and that they needed to run. They need to get to the portal NOW.

With all the authority of an older sister Jazz tells Ellie to grab the go bag Danny had insisted on having prepared, and picks Danny up despite his protests that he could walk. Or well, fly. Ellie turns them all invisible and intangible and takes them down to the lab.

They can hear the sound of shouting, and something breaking and a gun being fired all coming from upstairs as Jazz opens the portal for Danny and Ellie.

Another shot rings out. And then another, and more shouting.

“Quickly you two need to go!”

Another shot.

“Aren’t you coming with us?” Danny, now Phantom, asks suddenly as he and Ellie are preparing to enter the Ghost Zone.

Two more shots.

“Someone needs to be here to deactivate the portal in case the guys in white make it down here. I’ll be fine. Mom and dad will be okay, they’re not here for us so you two need to go. Now!” There’s banging on the lab’s door and Jazz shoves both Danny and Ellie into the portal. The last thing Danny hears before the portal closes behind them is another shot being fired.

Danny is scared and angry as he and Ellie are forced to fly through the zone with no currently known way to get back to his family. He needs to make sure they’re okay. He needs to protect them.

But right now Danny is still hurt, and he needs to get himself and Ellie somewhere safe. They begin to slowly make their way through the zone, looking for somewhere to rest and avoiding any ghosts that might want to pick a fight.

Ellie isn’t sure how long she and Danny have been moving for. It feels like it could have been days, or hours, or even minutes. But Danny can’t fly as quickly right now. He’s trying to keep a brave face for Ellie’s sake but she can see the exhaustion beginning to take hold of him.

So Ellie makes the executive decision to touch down somewhere to rest. She tells Danny she’s tired. Danny knows she isn’t and it’s only because she’s worried and wants him to rest. So he goes along with it and they make their way to the next floating island they come across and thank the ancients it’s empty. The two halfas touch down and Danny slumps over as he sits against a nearby rock. Ellie pulls out some energy bars that were tucked away in the go bag and hands one over to Danny.

They do this a few times, stopping to rest, as they gradually make their way to the Far Frozen. Ellie had insisted on going there, Frostbite would know what to do, and he would be able to help Danny with his injuries that had started bleeding again in all the commotion of escaping, and then flying and hiding from ghosts known to attack Danny regularly.

But unfortunately luck is not on their side yet again as a natural portal rips open directly in front of them, and closes behind them after spitting them out in a city they didn’t recognise.

That’s how Danny and Ellie find themselves in Coast City, hiding out in an old warehouse by the docs while Danny heals and they figure out how they’re going to get back home.

That is, until now.

Danny stares up at his little sister and sighs with the resigned tone of an exasperated older sibling.

“Ellie,” he takes a breath, “what did you do?”

“I’m my defence,” Ellie glares up at Green Lantern, who has Ellie scruffed by the back of her hoodie, before looking back at Danny, “I simply do not vibe with the law.”

[renaultphile]

Unreliable Ralph

l have been thinking about this for a while so I made a little compendium of Ralph’s unreliable behaviour the first couple of times he meets up with Laurie……..

So, he nearly didn’t come to his friend’s birthday party at all because he nearly ‘forgot’

When Laurie says he doesn’t want to be rude to Alec by leaving early, he says "If it's Alec you want, I'll fetch him for you."

Alec tells Laurie it was just as well they’d got rid of Harry because "Ralph if he'd got back and found him here would have walked straight out of the place." (having already promised Laurie a lift).

Then Ralph tells Laurie he is about to be ‘bloody drunk’ and has to be reminded he is supposed to be giving him a lift later, to which he says ‘Don’t worry Spud’

Then he goes off to take Bim home, leaving Alec begging Laurie to stay while he contemplates sleeping in a bus shelter.

While on their mission of mercy, Ralph leaves him to freeze in the car while he gets the first aid kit, because he ‘couldn’t get away’.

Then he has to stop in a lay-by to sober up ('one party too many') so he can drive back.

It doesn’t get much better the next time, what with Ralph’s irritable driving and Laurie sitting quietly in the car trying not to attract the ‘lightning’, Ralph opting for gin over tea and ending up supine and comatose.  He briefly gets up to offer Laurie a lift before realising how drunk he is and not even being able to remember what he was or wasn’t drinking before delivering my all-time favourite Ralph line: “Push off, Spud, I’m going to sleep”.

He does make up for it later, but I do kind of love how despite all this, Laurie hangs in there.

[catboyralphlanyon-archive]

when you think about it ralph is actually really girl coded -> cutting off hair (beard whatever idc its hair) during a moment of extreme mental distress

[meduseld]

Oh no. In addition to Furiosa calling him "my Jack", apparently he weakly replies "my Fury". Which beyond this being THEE dying declaration of love since it looks like there is no exit and they are at that point choosing to only see each other and ignoring their soon to be killers, leaning into each other and breathing each other's air....... my Fury.

Not just a nickname for Furiosa but. What she will be. She does become a Fury in the Erinyes sense who avenges his death and everything taken from her upon Dementus with Greek Myth levels of retribution, and it is Fury that drives her, a righteous grief that powers her to try to give the Wives a better fate.

[hood-ex]

The timing for WFA to come out with an episode of Dick taking care of Jason when he's having a PTSD episode and also having Robin Lives come out this week where Dick comes to talk to Jason while Jason is dealing with his trauma and PTSD.

WFA #120

From the DC Vault: Death in the Family: Robin Lives! #1

[sketchy-noodles]

EVERYBODY SHUSH RIGHT NOW

IS NOBODY GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT DESPITE IT BEING THE CATALYST OF C!JACK’S NEVER-ENDING BEEF WITH C!TOMMY-

HE STILL FOLLOWED HIM ONTO THE BRIDGE IN THE NETHER?!?!?!?!?

Lest we forget that their whole thing happened because Jack was worried about Tommy in exile and went to check on him, only to get pushed off the Nether bridge by Tommy himself because he wasn’t in a good place mentally and wasn’t thinking about it. Jack then crawled up out of HELL and REFUSED TO STAY DEAD because he was so upset and wanted revenge.

AND YET! AND YET!!!!! HE TRUSTED C!TOMMY TO LEAD HIM ON THAT VEEY SAME BRIDGE WITH NO FEAR OR APPREHENSION

CAN WE ALL HAVE A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR FUCKING CHARACTER GROWTH EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!

[castielsprostate]

the confession scene but it starts with castiel saying, "i'm out of minutes, dean,"