#like a feedback loop

[bunibelles]

The day I decide not to hold back on my art and draw with no fear is the day society progresses 🫶🏼

[voiider]

I need codependent Danny/Jason as a little treat (for me) and I love the idea of them having some sort of instant connection the moment they meet (bc ghost stuff idk)

Danny who's been dropped in Gotham with no way home (alt universe??) and he's been here for 36 hours and having a Very bad time senses a liminal being and immediately latches onto them heedless of the fact that his new best friend is shooting at some seedy guys in an alley and goes off about how stressed he is and how he can't make it back to the ghost zone and what a bad day he's been having (and it's important to note Danny is a littol ghost boy literally hanging off of Jason's neck as he floats aimlessly) and Jason is like "who are you??" And Danny is like "oh sorry I'm Danny lol" and then just continues lamenting his woes

And honestly ? This might as well happen. Nothing about this Danny guy(is he human?) gives Jason a bad vibe and tbh he's never felt more calm and level headed before so he just keeps up his usual Red Hood patrol and doesn't even think about it when he heads back to a safehouse and feeds Danny dinner (breakfast) before crashing for half the day

The only thing I actually need is Jason meeting up with the bats for some sort of Intel meeting and they're like "uhhh who's that" and Jason is like "that's Danny." And does not elaborate (very ".... What do you have there?" "A smoothie" vibes)

And it takes them a while to realize that these two have known each other for less than 12 hours and are literally attached at the hip

[zhmoelz]

this is gonna be such a bog standard joelguy post but anyone ever think about how so many of joels recent-ish duos are so. snappy. comparing him to fire is overdone but whenever he's with someone they legitimately do just get on like a house on fire. every dynamic he's in they're always just biting at each other. pearl iskall gem etho shane fwhip even sausage to an extent. not to mention jimmy oli lizzie and scott. what is his Deal

[napping-sapphic]

i want to fall in love in a way that always gives me something positive to think of like i want to love someone so much that i know i can send my thoughts in their direction to calm myself down and get away from everything else for a bit i don’t know i guess i just want something good to think about

[ranticore]

what is the biggest type of dragon in your dragonrider setting? conversely, are there any that are too small to ride that might serve other purposes? i'm interested in the extremes.

also, how intelligent are they?

they get pretty big. i haven't fully ironed out the size classes but pictured here is a matriarch (gold dragon analogue) being escorted by a much smaller class (foreground) as they fly over a river valley. the matriarch acts as a mobile radio tower/traffic controller for her brood (as does the crew on-board). with extreme high aspect ratio wings and six jet runes her flight is almost effortless.

i haven't decided about the smallest ones just yet because i'll be so real i did not care for fire lizards in pern and preferred to think more about the dragon & rider dynamic. i'd say the smallest is like what you see pictured here in the fg.

they are extremely intelligent; the ability to harness electromagnetic waves and the jet runes themselves are all draconic in origin, and these technologies were shared with humans, who could replicate them using their own manufacturing expertise. i guess it might be easier to think of the humans as the dragons' kobolds lol - fun little guys who enrich the dragons' lives and contribute their own expertise (medical techniques, materials technology, agriculture and so on). it is a symbiotic relationship, the dragons are given equal representation in governing decisions etc

[annabelle--cane]

I think the thing that gets me about the mag 141 post-statement scene isn't just that jon is being a real motherfucker, it's that he's being a particular kind of motherfucker that is very uncharacteristic of him in the middle of an arc where he's otherwise trying very hard to behave well in his interpersonal relationships. the "well maybe you don't like that I just did something really bad but you didn't stop me soooo..." angle echoes elias's "you didn't want this but you did choose it" line, and jon is usually all about taking all possible responsibility all of the time. it's like he's deliberately trying to turn his conscience / his self off and act more like he thinks a ruthless avatar ought to.

[dykedvonte]

I dislike takes that Danse would be just as conservative in modernized aus when it's clearly shown his staunch views of things come from his time in the Brotherhood and his deep-rooted desire to belong to something with a greater purpose.

Not to mention lines that show much more open-mindedness that get overlooked for his harsher sentiments when you first meet him. Like the oppurtunity to be a part of something is why Danse fell so far into Brotherhood dogma and it doesn't negate the offense things he does but I feel like it's just lazy to be like "hmmm he'd def be racist" just so it aligns to his BoS beliefs.

[ghostradiodylan]

I like cutting Dylan’s hand off for the drama it brings to his character arc, but the alternative has its charms because he gets to have this little moment before the human murder spree that is Laura comes along.

[nano30cm]

they're gym buddies :)

[spooky-dice]

btw everything going on with kristen and cassandra is good and in-character you just don’t know her like i do lol

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

do you think that what the doctor usually feels for companions, rather than romantic or sexual attraction, might just be idolisation?

[freakinator]

Zam: "The worst part about this is that, y'know, I actually... I-I kind of enjoyed working with you, but... I dunno... I-- again I-- I mean, I know how you work. I know how you are. I know what you do."

Zam: "You betray, and... I'm not gonna give you the chance to do that to my empire 'cause I care too much about it."

Wemmbu: "Bro, I haven't... I haven't... betrayed a single-- a-and I get that I've done that in the past but, like, I.."

Wemmbu: "I just haven't done anything like that on this server. I-I-- dude."

Zam: "Doesn't matter, Wemmbu, I'm not... I'm not taking any risks."

Wemmbu: "Are you not gonna kill me now, though? Heh."

Zam: "No!"

Wemmbu: "Why--"

Zam: "I have no reason to, what are you gonna do?" [laugh]

Zam: "There's no need to." [laugh]

Wemmbu: "You're gonna--" [chuckle]

Zam: "There's no need to chunk ban you either--"

[explosions go off in bg for the rest of the conversation]

Zam: "--I'll let you... y'know, I'll just-- I'll just let you, like, y'know, just live in it. Live in the moment. Uhh, enjoy your time. Live out-- Live out your days, do whatever you want, I don't really care."

Zam: "You're not a threat."

...

Zam: "Y'know you can just-- you can just move on from all this-- this empire stuff, you can go... just go back to whatever it was you were doing before you ever met me, before you ever met... anyone else on the server, just- just go back to being Wemmbu, just go... just go do Wemmbu things."

Zam: "Y--[wheeze] Y'know the funniest part about all of this? You shouldn't even be mad right now because this is-- these are my materials that I'm blowing up. Just to send a message."

Zam: "There's-- [chuckles] There's no reason for you to be upset about this, I gave you all this stuff. Maybe you spent the time on it but, like, who really cares? Just..."

Zam: "Just move on to something better, move on to something else."

Zam: "Uhh... and don't... don't-- don't mess with me. In any way, shape, or form, alright, let this be a lesson to you."

...

Zam: [giggles]

Zam: "Ahh, what a wonderful day."

...

Wemmbu: "Y'know what's funny, Zam?"

Zam: "Yeah?"

Wemmbu: "You think I'm not a threat and yet, somehow..."

Wemmbu: "With your prisons, you couldn't even stop literally the most helpless player on the server, Parrot--"

(overlapping) Zam: [laughs]

(overlapping) Wemmbu: "--from... from breaking into them and freeing everyone."

Wemmbu: "You couldn't even hold Spoke... for, like, a week."

Wemmbu: "And this is your--"

Zam: "Mmhmm."

Wemmbu: "--little sad attempt... at having control over that sort of situation again."

Zam: "Mmm."

Zam: "That's what you think, Wemmbu, that's what you think."

Wemmbu: "That's what I think?"

Zam: "Yeah..."

Wemmbu: "Alright..."

Wemmbu: "Ha-- You know what's funny though?"

Zam: "Yeah?"

Wemmbu: "I don't think you realize but Clown has already failed to kill Parrot."

Zam: "Really?"

Zam: "Parrot's a little slippery guy, I'm not... I mean, like..."

(overlapping) Wemmbu: [laugh] "That's just--"

(overlapping) Zam: "It's-- It's-- It's a little shocking."

Wemmbu: "That's-- That's the opposite of the truth, Parrot... Parrot is the easiest guy to capture or trick and yet y-you still.. are so incompetent you can't even do it yourself."

Wemmbu: "And now-- heh."

Zam: "Mmhmm."

Wemmbu: "And you think just placing a bunch of TNT in... in th-- in these builds i-i-i-is, like..."

Wemmbu: "I dunno, bro. Y-Y-- [chuckle]. You're a funny guy, Zam, you're a funny guy."

Zam: "Yeah?"

...

Zam: [chuckle] "Oh, Wemmbu..."

Zam: "Hey, if you continue messing with me there will be plenty of chances, I'm sure. But... I'm-- I'm giving you the chance to, y'know, walk away from all of this."

(overlapping) Wemmbu: "Zam. I haven't... I haven't messed with you."

(overlapping) Zam: "I feel like you should take that in good faith."

Wemmbu: "I haven't messed with you once, Zam."

Wemmbu: "I literally..."

Zam: "You said you were gonna kill me the second you get the chance."

Wemmbu: "When did I say that?!"

Zam: "During the trial chambers! Remember?"

Wemmbu: "Bro, I was just [while laughing] yapping, bro, when-- why would I kill you?"

Zam: "Doesn't matter, doesn't matter. I know how you work, Wemmbu."

Wemmbu: "Bro."

Zam: "Y-- As soon as it becomes convenient for you--"

(overlapping) Wemmbu: "Bro, this entire time, bro."

(overlapping) Zam: "--you definitely were going to kill me."

Wemmbu: "It was never convenient for me this entire time to protect your stupid vault, I didn't even go in it until, like..."

Zam: [giggle]

Wemmbu: "Until I knew for a fact that you were against me."

Zam: "Mmhmm."

Wemmbu: "I was nothing but loyal, bro."

Wemmbu: "Every single day, Egg would ask me if we could break in the vault because what you were saying made no sense and I trusted you."

Wemmbu: "You made a massive mistake here, Zam."

Zam: [laugh] "If it's a mistake then prove it to me 'cause, I-I dunno, right now from-- from what I'm looking at, Wemmbu, a shoeless-- a shoeless player, from what I'm looking at right now, uhh, this doesn't feel like a mistake to me at all. I feel like I've, uhh, made the right choice."

Zam: "I don't need someone as weak as you in my empire."

Wemmbu: "Alright, bro."

Zam: [chuckle]

[explosions go off in bg]

[dragonpyre]

The most dangerous duo in fandom is when a popular author and a popular artist team up

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

If Howdy and Barnaby ever married, would Howdy wear a ring on only lne hand or get 4 rings for all of his 4 hands? This came to mind so ramdomly aBSJZNSJDN I'm sorry 😭😭

i've been thinking that he'd have two rings for both of his left hands

[brother-emperors]

Oh my god would you elaborate on the parallels you see between Octavian and Caligula?

ABSOLUTELY

That he was given to adultery not even his friends deny, although it is true that they excuse it as committed not from passion but from policy, the more readily to get track of his adversaries' designs through the women of their households. Mark Antony charged him, besides his hasty marriage with Livia, with taking the wife of an ex-consul from her husband's dining-room before his very eyes into a bed-chamber, and bringing her back to the table with her hair in disorder and her ears glowing; that Scribonia was divorced because she expressed her resentment too freely at the excessive influence of a rival; that his friends acted as his panders, and stripped and inspected matrons and well-grown girls, as if Toranius the slave-dealer were putting them up for sale. Antony also writes to Augustus himself in the following familiar terms, when he had not yet wholly broken with him privately or publicly: "What has made such a change in you? Because I lie with the queen? She is my wife. Am I just beginning this, or was it nine years ago? What then of you — do you lie only with Drusilla? Good luck to you if when you read this letter you have not been with Tertulla or Terentilla or Rufilla or Salvia Titisenia, or all of them. Does it matter where or with whom you take your pleasure?"

Suetonius, Augustus

He respected neither his own chastity nor that of anyone else. He is said to have had unnatural relations with Marcus Lepidus, the pantomimic actor Mnester, and certain hostages. Valerius Catullus, a young man of a consular family, publicly proclaimed that he had violated the emperor and worn himself out in commerce with him. To say nothing of his incest with his sisters and his notorious passion for the concubine Pyrallis, there was scarcely any woman of rank whom he did not approach. These as a rule he invited to dinner with their husbands, and as they passed by the foot of his couch, he would inspect them critically and deliberately, as if buying slaves, even putting out his hand and lifting up the face of anyone who looked down in modesty; then as often as the fancy took him he would leave the room, sending for the one who pleased him best, and returning soon afterward with evident signs of what had occurred, he would openly commend or criticise his partner, recounting her charms or defects and commenting on her conduct. To some he personally sent a bill of divorce in the name of their absent husbands, and had it entered in the public records.

Suetonius, Caligula

it runs in the family!

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Gwen: But shouldn't you want to know that maybe Canon Events could be averted? That maybe people don't have to die?

Miguel: Well, Gwen, first you start with the baseline level of trauma that made me abandon my entire world in order to impersonate my dead alternate self in a gambit I like to call "I'd love to see a philosophy, physicist, and psychologist get drunk together and try to explore exactly how unethical this is". Then I watch that entire universe die with my daughter disintegrating in my arms, and come to the conclusion that wanting to be happy was what caused all of this. Then I decide to pass on that trauma to every single Spider-Man I can and push the idea that some people just have to die despite that being the literal antithesis of what being Spider-Man is about, so that I'm surrounded by people just as miserable as I am and we can reinforce each other's trauma. That way, I'm hurting myself and everyone around me just slowly enough to convince myself that this self-destructive philosophy is actually the only thing actually holding me together, which makes any threat to it a threat to me. And if all else fails, I can at least blame a teenager for circumstances he had no control over in a failed attempt to distract myself from the increasing evidence that the rules are more complicated that I thought and I've let hundreds of people die and traumatized my fellow Spider-People for nothing.

Gwen:...

Miguel: They're not called unhealthy coping mechanisms cause they're high in sugar, Gwen.