#kill me now lol

[adoriwintry]

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[solargeist]

c'monnnn play my fucking gameeee

[lilybug-02]

Pain is a great motivator…

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—Full Series—

Meanwhile Toriel:

(Loud noises don't wake her up usually.)

Artist note: I’m so proud of this :))) I know it’s a lot of dialogue and reading, but dialogue is grueling work for me. I’m glad with the art and for the amount of pages I made in such a relatively short time span -w- page 5 was super fun to work on. A lot of blood, sweat, and hours here... :) The backgrounds were a big bore tbh, but I finished them! Yippie!

[quinns-art-box]

"and then... be friends after you escape, okay? i think you'll all be the best of friends."

finally done with this piece i've been messing with for a really long time :] just something about kaede's impact on everyone else and all their attempts to get out of there

[bpdfox]

Soon I will be starting a new diet called Completely Out Of Money, looking forward to seeing results

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 266

Back on my Danny & Ras frienemies/rivals/maybe-lovers-nobody-can-tell-their-signals-are-very-mixed train. 

See, Danny has gone through time a lot. Often. It comes with being Clockwork’s charge-son-thing and honestly he finds it fun. And several times he’s used this time travelling to get some training in. Enter Ras, stage left, also a teen at the time and also learning swordsmanship from the same person. 

And they… utterly despise each other. They would kill the other for an apple slice, if the other one would die! But also, only they can kill the other, as it is obviously their right! 

And well, they keep running into each other. It has been a hundred years, surely the other would die by now? But of course their rival would live through utter spite. Probably to spite them specifically. 

The amount of times they have ended up sparring- trying to kill each other or not- the moment they see the other is actually ridiculous. But time is also passing. And… Danny understands, not having another to talk about things people are forgetting, or have already forgotten. 

How they ended up actually talking without a murder attempt was a long story that included a demon, a dragon, a pair of fae, some bandits, and a lot of alcohol, but it happened. And then it happens again. And again, and now it’s just kind of normal to share a drink after their spars, talking about things that no longer exist, and things they miss. 

Sure Danny can go back in time again, but he knows better than to do it willy nilly. He’s matured, he’s been an adult for a hundred years now, he knows there’s consequences for messing with time, even with Clockwork’s blessings. 

The first time they got married was technically for an undercover assassination. Well, Ras was there to assassinate someone, Danny was there to grab an artifact that should Not be in the realm of the living. And they got divorced after, it was fine. 

They just, also got married again when they met a few years later, for another job. And… okay, so maybe they have gotten married over a dozen times now and only divorced like half of those times. Half of those were for the bit or while drunk! 

And even if technically they’re married or shared a bed, it’s not like they're exclusive! As Ras’ daughters’ existences attest to (adopted in one case or not). They don’t exactly have a label for their relationship, despite others asking for one or trying to put a name to it themselves. 

Now Danny knows Ras isn’t exactly a good dude, or at least on the side of ‘good’ as he’s a literal assassin. But he also knows that good? Bad? Rather relative. He had gotten labeled as a villain when he was just trying to help all that time ago after all, and really who was he to tell someone else how to live their life? 

Which brings him to now, where he’s run into his old frienemy-rival and his youngest daughter. Who has a braindead teenager and a small toddler. Which is fine, really- but also, Talia dear, why are you using a brain dead teenager to guard your three year old son? 

…

Okay, Talia dear, Ras (Derogatory), why are you using your brain dead son and grandson to guard your younger son and grandson? Do you not have the Pits, which you were soo proud about Ras? Yes, he will spar with you, but for Realms’ sake, heal, what’s his name? Ah yes, go heal Jason and he’ll actually stick around for a few years, deal? Good. 

[olasketches]

two sides of the same coin

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[choccy-milky]

seb vs. clora's Childhood Friend™️ 😇🥰 ((from my new chap! ao3/wattpad))

[cappycodeart]

CONCEPT DOODLES for an AU I dabbled in with a few friends after the winter king episode but kinda forgot about after the Fionna and Cake finale... I decided to revisit it and explore a little more after coming to terms with everything LOL... So, it's another "Winter King doesn't die immediately after his crown gets nuked" AU, but THIS TIME he's just dying really slowly (like Simon in the Betty episode) and ALSO joins Fionna, Cake, and Simon on their search for magic crowns. There's no logic behind this tbh, we just wanted to put him through The Horrors. And make them all friends. But mostly The Horrors. :) (he only gets to live as a treat, because I think he's funny).

Bonus (old screenshot), because this is still funny to me:

[adoriwintry]

Genshin Impact Is not What It Used to Be (Natlan rant)

If you'd rather not read this, go ahead.

I write this to cope.

The world of Genshin Impact is magical and fairytale-like with inspirations from ancient myths and traditional motifs. They have stunning character designs that have an ethereal feel despite having its ups and downs in the inspiration from traditional culture (We know these issues with Genshin and I’m not talking about them here). Yet, it still is a wonderfully made world with its music and environment design. That is why I was attracted to Genshin.

But recently, Genshin’s newest nation was released and it just didn’t feel the same to me.

Sorry? Is this truly the Genshin I fell in love with?

Break dancing? Pixel video games? Short jean shorts? Graffiti elements? DJs?? MOTORCYCLES??? Now, I am not saying I don’t like these characters and aesthetics. I love them, of course, but they were suddenly added in this game that I loved for its traditional and mystical inspirations. It felt more than out of place for me. Since the very first teaser in July was released, I never felt more disappointed. Especially with the cultural representation problem.

But while writing this, I realise that Genshin had this slow (not really) transition toward something more modern like its sister game, Honkai: Star Rail and perhaps Zenless Zone Zero. Was it that Genshin needed to be more popular like these other games that they had to add these new, alien elements? Maybe. But back to the time transition. I noticed that when we first arrived in Fontaine, it was definitely set in a later time period than the rest of Teyvat’s nations. Because Fontaine had cameras, robots (robots didn’t feel too out of place because of the ancient mechanical beings we found in Inazuma and Sumeru) , more modern law systems like in the 19th century, outfits inspired by that era, etc. But even with all these, Fontaine still felt magical and cohesive with the other nations while bringing a new, different vibe. And it makes some kind of sense that even with this Industrial Revolution, not all the nations, especially Inazuma, are moving up to speed with it yet.

But things started to worry me when a certain character was released.

Clorinde from Fontaine.

In the entirety of Genshin splash arts that changed slowly over the years, she is the one that represents the farthest style change compared to the earliest splash arts and character designs in my opinion. While yes, I do realise that many electro characters have splash arts that have modern, electric motifs like Razor and Cyno, this one particularly was very techno-style to me. It might make sense with Fontaine being a more modern nation but I still believe that the splash art’s style seems like it reminds me too much of the sister game because of the pattern that’s too intergalactic space reminiscent.

Even Mona’s splash art, which is based on a space and stars motif still feels magical and soft, not like she rides a spaceship around the galaxy.

It also doesn’t help that Clorinde’s outfit looks quite similar to a sister game’s character.

Clorinde and Kafka (HSR)

We also have a bunch of other characters before Clorinde who look a little too modern, not to mention the alternate skins. But those don’t hold a candle to the hyper modernisation in Natlan.

…We have to get to those now, don’t we?

Okay, here we go.

Xilonen from Natlan, a character that made me lose it.

Now, I want to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with her design, I think it’s pretty neat. But again, being a character in Genshin, she just doesn’t fit in my opinion. When I look at her, I do not see Genshin, I do not see magic, I do not see the elemental power. I see a snazzy furry DJ on roller skates. I wanted Natlan to be a nation that showed me a new culture that inspires me to learn more about Mayan and Aztec legends and myths, not something modern that I’ve already seen multiple times in the modern times I already am accustomed to. Her aesthetic fits another sister game character!

Just compare the Natlan characters to other Genshin characters.

I would show more examples but I'm not allowed to post any more pictures.

So you’ll notice the sharp edges, comic style stars, modern day traffic elements, neon splashes of colour, and pixel elements. I say they stand out against the rest in a jarring way for me. From Clorinde to now, perhaps the developers have been trying to change up designs so they look more like V-tubers (Virtual YouTubers). This might also tie with the want to look similar to the sister games as well however.

Therefore, my first response to Natlan is, “Hoyo, what the fuck is this? It came out of nowhere, it scared the shit out of me. Send help. Tell me this is a joke.”

Now, this doesn't mean people shouldn't like Natlan, this is only my opinion that I wish to share because I can't talk about this anywhere else.

Have a nice day!

(All images from Genshin Impact and one from Honkai: Star Rail)

[vaguely-concerned]

from what I infer from some of his dialogue, my guess is that while lucanis hasn't had a proper relationship before he has had one night stands and short term flings. and -- listen, I know he's a dick and a menace and probably a hopeless case but please do still spare illario dellamorte a moment of your thoughts and pity for the role of incredulous yet intrepid wing man that he's all but certainly had to play on several occasions for that to happen. there are 100% people out there who were trying SO fucking hard to get no strings attached laid by this stupidly hot emotionally unavailable mysterious stranger who won't be in town for long without lucanis ever realizing it. people who would have remained tragically unlaid if illario weren't there to clue him in.

I'm just imagining Illario staring in pure dismay and disbelief at his dumbass of a cousin failing to pick up what someone isn't just putting down but scattering all over the floor like glittery confetti burning with a magnesium flame brightness to spell out 'SIR PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RAIL ME THIS IS AN OFFICIAL ENTHUSIASTIC INVITATION TO MY BED' and having to push him out the door after them like 'maker's breath sometimes i don't understand how you have the wits to grip the right end of a knife, lucanis, they were throwing themselves at you and you just stared at them in mild puzzlement until they gave up and went away go fucking GET THEM for the sake of my sanity if nothing else!!!'

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[pinkflipphonez]

kill ivan vol. 2 electric boogaloo

and an extra scene redraw:

[thankstothe]

One liners the sequel

[skywerse]

gilly turnaround sheet