#just nightmares in general actually

[starry-bi-sky]

do yall ever think about bruce/batman!clone danny standing in front of his bathroom mirror after finding out he was a clone and silently tracing his face. The slope of his jaw and point of his chin. The high angle of his cheekbones and the shape of his eyes, the curve of his brow bones and the shape of his nose. The volume of his hair and the way it curls and gets fluffy when it gets too long.

His hair is black the same way a crow's wing is black. His dad's hair is black the same way a black bear's fur is black. His dad's eyes are blue like the ocean is blue. Danny's eyes are blue the same way a glacier is blue.

His dad has a square jaw and straight flat hair, and he tans and gets a face full of freckles when he's out in the sun for too long. Danny burns like a lobster and his face remains untouched. Danny has a sharp jaw and tall cheekbones, and Sam says when he's not smiling there's almost something regal about him. You would never call Jack Fenton "regal" when he's not smiling.

Sam says when he's not smiling he looks scary the same way a stone statue is. Jack Fenton when he's not smiling looks scary the same way that german shepherd staring at you across the street is.

Do you ever think he grew up wondering if he was adopted. Because of course, he has black hair and blue eyes like his dad. But having the same color doesn't make you someone's child.

Or, worse, things he's heard from the other kids and the other parents and even some of his teachers growing up; that he was the product of an affair. And that his dad was just too stupid to notice. And Danny would defend his parents until the day he died, because Jack Fenton wasn't an idiot and Maddie Fenton wasn't a cheater.

But doubt comes in with fickle tongue. his parents swear up and down that he is their child when he asks about either. That Danny just had his grandparents' features, but he was their son and they loved him.

But Danny doesn't look like either of his parents. His mom's eyes are blue like an aquamarine and Jazz's too. And they burn like lobsters in the sun too, but Jazz gets freckles on her face and so does Maddie. And as Danny grows up he doesn't bulk up or get stocky like his dad did, and when he hits puberty he doesn't shoot up like a tree like Jack Fenton did.

He stays small, and they say he's a late bloomer (and he is), or that he just has his mom's height. But he's fast and has good stamina, and some days it feels like he's built entirely different from his family. That the things they went through growing up just didn't apply to him. Jack and Maddie Fenton both had acne and breakouts when they hit puberty, and Jazz inherits it and he's seen the amount of skincare products she keeps on her side of the bathroom.

And then he hits puberty and breaks out maybe once or twice, but his skin stays clear for the most part and the problems and changes his dad went through just don't happen to him.

And the truth is worse than all of the lies.

How horrifying.

[warning-heckboop]

Hazel, Jasmine, and Winn find their plans to mend fences disrupted when they discover Anti-Fairy magic is evident in Dev's reoccurring nightmares.

So do you guys ever get so invested in a fake episode that you made up in your head that you make a fake title card and synopsis for it? No? Yeah, me neither.

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I was wondering, does Fiddleford still have a wife in your Halloween au? And if yes, does she know about him being a vampire?

I've been sitting on this ask for a bit, but I think I should finally answer.

In my AU, Fidds is actually pretty old-- not like ancient or anything, but surely a few centuries?

Anyway, so way back, when he was human, he did have a wife and a kid!! But when he got bit and became a vampire, he actually outlived them :(

He tries to think about them often, but it's definitely one of the things he chooses to erase when he creates the memory gun

[averymuddysparrow]

A few months ago I zoned out and hedgehogs happened, I decided Tumblr should see them

[wr-n]

slowly slides mouse nightmare some coffee-flavoured cheese

Fun fact! Caffeine is actually really bad for mice and rats! :D

[randompajamaalt]

my take on general caterpillar from alice by the mechanisms!!

this was actually super fun to draw. the design is loosely inspired by @/reegis (love their work btw go check them out)

i loooove caterpillar ough. love them so much. had fun with the markings

took about an hour and 15 mins on ibis paint x :)

[thegreatyin]

do you think lark would like the Scoundrel or the Silverer.

probably no to both. he'd hate the scoundrel (but suck up to them anyway) and be utterly terrified of the silverer (but also suck up to her anyway)

[godslittlesadge]

watching link click and the story's great i love it but also most of my reactions so far have been. good god the gang needs a HR guy so bad

[cloudsoffire]

big godzilla fan but i will never in my life interact with the fandom based on what i've seen on here

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

the fact that six seems to have more lower body strength (jumping further and being able to prop mono up) while mono has more upper body strength (the only one between the two of them to wield and utilize weapons) is sooo silly to me

[telesodalite]

I need to be weirder about the scavengers and cannibalism...

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

The Batman (2022) isn't perfect by any means, but it is still a phenomenal film and one of the best pieces of Bat-media in recent memory.

Firstly, the aesthetic. Seemingly small but an incredibly important part. BTAS was broody, '89 was gothic, Forever was campy, TDK was... bad. And TB I think finds a real sweet spot in between vibes. It's dark, serious, it's got a technological noir, and yet still has vibrancy and color and (the key to my heart) neon.

One scene, you'll be sitting in an abandoned tunnel with shadows and muddy colors, the next you'll be surrounded by police under white lights, and the next you'll be in a night club with LEDs of every color you can think.

The fights. This film has some of the best Batman fights I've ever seen period. Really just action in general. The night club, the hallway, the finale. It's not like TDK where every fight is slow, precise, methodical, and honestly boring. Each fight or chase here is energetic and entertaining. The choreography is excellent, the stakes are legitimately high, and the settings are always unique.

The night club is crowded and overwhelming, with people swinging, shouting, and grabbing at Bats who aren't even apart of the fight. His skills and equipment save his life multiple times, whether it's block a bullet with a precise pipe throw or survive a shotgun blast with his armor. When he finally grabs Penguin you feel as overwhelmed and animalistic as he does.

The precinct escape is tight and tense. From the punch to the jump, every second makes you feel the absolute abominable stress of trying to escape a building like this. Officers pouring out of every room, bullets whizzing by and beaming off his suit. Merely seconds to get the flight suit on before they come pouring out to the roof. We experience the fall with him as his nerves spike, all culminating in a quick second decision that ends with him crashing into the side of the road.

Gotham. The beloved city feels full here. Subways are crowded, streets are packed. The crime feels real. Vandals, gang violence, thieves, assassins, crime families. It's not just militants and killers. We see the systemic issues in place that cause these. We see the feelings and social strains that make people do this. It's like you're taking a peak into another world with context and history you don't know but understand. It feels right.

The characterizations. I'm not a huge fan of the whole "Bruce Wayne is the mask, Batman is the real you" thing inflamed by TDK. And I really don't like "the Waynes were corrupt and did bad things, even for good reasons".

I think there's so much more to say about the two very different, very real sides to Bruce's personality. The one that comes out as billionaire playboy philanthropist, and the one that comes out as a violent and vengeful demon. Both who are willing to suffer for their causes. And I think there's so much more when the Waynes die from a mugging. That the crime is so bad it took the highest. That it could take anyone at any time, even the beloved elite.

However it does something right that most other Bat-media fails at. It makes Batman a symbol of hope. It demonstrates a growth in himself. That he can do more good to inspire the people than to instill fear in them.

Pandaredd made a good video on this, but in Crisis On Two Earths, Bats' opposite is represented as the ultimate nihilist. This means that at his core, Batman is really the ultimate optimist. And that makes sense. You don't put on a suit and fight crime, you don't try to create resources to help people, you don't befriend and reform your own Rogues gallery unless you believe you can change something. That all the work you do, all the suffering you experience will be worth it when you get to know the world healed.

And that's something The Batman understands. Batman started as a symbol of fear. So that every criminal hesitates at an alley. Panics at a shadow. But he became something else. A symbol of optimism. So that people can walk the streets at night. That they can get the help they need. That they can look into the sky with hope.

[llycaons]

it's still fiction and so won't be 100% realistic, but it's actually so satisfying to see characters respond to the trauma they've experienced and act as someone WOULD in that situation...I think a lot of authors get caught up in wanting bad things to happen to their characters for drama (and plot) but either don't want to deal with the realistic repercussions because they want their character to still be a certain way, or want to only show the fandomizable/or appealingly angsty parts. which isn't necessarily a bad thing. fiction doesn't have to reflect reality 1:1 to be a good or engaging or exciting story - I love killua, another kid-forced-to-murder, and I don't think HE'S exactly realistic - but it can get annoying when hyperbadass competent fighters who only slightly (or rarely) react to their trauma is all you see so, it's really refreshing to see a story that depicts absolutely horrific violence and then doesn't shy away from exploring what impact that violence would actually have on a relatively regular child/teenager (individual variations between both real people and fictional characters notwithstanding). thorfinn at this point in the story is hardly a suitable shonen protagonist like killua, but he's an excellent depiction of what someone who has lived his life might be like

[attempts-of-fawnclan]

why is beetle so minty and pretty

bro I will find you <- @ beetle (threat)

unfortunately, i dont think he can hear you.

[brynn-lear]

I never got too deep into enstars but there are days where I miss Mama 😔

[lilacthebooklover]

i finally finished watching hey melissa and got a little inspired by it. so i may have written a fun little 3000-word paul-centric piece for it here on ao3 based on my bad things happen bingo card. 'dehumanization' was too good a prompt to pass up >:]

EDIT: For some reason, this linked to a completely different fic by someone named DanieXJ before I fixed it? No clue what was up with that loll, many thanks to @charismabee for pointing that out. Legend