#long lost archive

[longlostedits]

the internet was right. those hedgehogs kinda gay

[ihatebrainstorm]

You already know I'm gonna say the simpatico sillies <333

Perhaps paired with a song? Idk I've been in a music mood lately

Apologies I've been slow getting to these requests ksdfks, but here! A Simpatico dump to make up for loss time >:D)-(

And tbh I associate a bunch of Saint Motel's songs with the two of them, so here's one that reminds me of Percy lmao:

[rennebright]

暖かい春と夏ツバキ by L.L.L [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[notyourmusebby]

Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc in Austin, 2021

📸Callo Albanese

[wouldtheybecomeafearavatar]

Can I ask—what’s the difference between “by coercion” and “unawareness/conditioning”?

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if the wording is a bit confusing. As it's put in the intro post:

Yes, by coercion: they would go through with it, but only if threatened with a loved one's life or something along those lines.

Yes, by unawareness or conditioning: they wouldn't realize until it's too late or would be raised to be an avatar, unaware their way of existence is not normal.

To explain a bit further (spoilers for several character arcs in TMA):

Coercion means the character would be forced or manipulated into it by someone or something. It requires a degree of awareness of what is happening (otherwise they'd go under unawareness).

Robert Montauk being forced to work for The People's Church of the Divine Host to get his wife back could be an example, though I'm not sure he ever achieved full Dark avatar status.

Basira would have ended up in this category if she'd continued to work for the institute long enough to become an Eye avatar, as Elias forced her to sign the contract under threat of Daisy's life.

I'd probably put Martin in the coercion category too, since he was going along with Peter Lukas and The Lonely to potentially save Jon.

Conditioning means that the character was groomed into it by someone from a young age, or born to be an avatar. It should be noted that this only applies to people or beings who under other circumstances could have made a different choice. A being that came into existence as an expression of a Fear would be manifestation instead.

Agnes Montague is kind of the defining example of this category, though members of the Lukas family being raised into it also count.

I think Gerry Keay could be another example of this. Eye avatarhood specifically wasn't a foregone conclusion for him, but he never really had a chance at a normal life. Willingly may be more accurate; he didn't choose to get involved with the Fears, but he did choose The Eye.

Unawareness is pretty self-explanatory, though I would point out this doesn't mean that the character never realises they are transforming. That (strictly speaking) wouldn't actually work, since becoming an avatar does require an active choice at some point. In this case it's more that the character doesn't realise until they're at the point of no return and the choice they are making is between death or becoming an avatar. If they refuse once they realise it'd be "go along but stop before transformation".

Jon is an example. Coercion could also be argued, given that Elias was definitely pushing him to go further and further using the (false) threat of the Unknowing, but I think Jon was too unaware of how he was being manipulated to go in coercion.

I think Michael Shelley would also go into this category. He was manipulated into it by Gertrude, but he had no idea what was going to happen. His case is a bit of a strange one in general though, I'm not sure he even had any affinity for The Distortion to start with.

At the end of the day, these are just my opinions and you can vote however you want, but I hope this helps answer your question! (Sorry for the essay)

[enigmatic-enigmas]

Moth Elias based off of the wonderful piece by @drherbertwestreal

[the-stars-sigh-when-i-get-high]

2 broke girls is sooo underused in Marvel fanfiction 😩

[theinsomniacindian]

We need to talk about past special interests that you feel nostalgic about but can't return to because of a lack of true passion or an aversion to said interest

[littlelostbirdy]

Y'know how when you click "marked for later" on ao3 it just does the little load thing and automatically gets saved in a single click and the button updated to "mark as read" yeah... I uh, hm, thought it was the same for bookmarks :((( It took me an Unreasonably long time to realise you have to press another additional button to actually save the bookmark

[longlostedits]

peak autism is getting the hedgehog brainrot against your will and then completing two different edits within a week after not finishing Anything for months. this isn't how i Expected to regain editing motivation but i guess life works in mysterious ways

[ihatebrainstorm]

More Rogues Gallery AU designs and doodles weehee o)-(

Doodle stuff + further context stuff below:

Freeze Nautica doodles ^^ (yea,, sorry Skids and Nautica.......)

Riddler Brainstorm and Deadshot Percy roommates lore lmao ^^

They build weapons and upgrade stuff together frequently- Deadshot Percy is a lot more focused on efficiency and getting the job done as fast as possible, so she really doesn't get Brainstorm's motives or reasoning behind her incredibly elaborate traps. Also Percy is frequently out on days long contract missions so she usually comes home to, (and has to sit through) BS's evil pajama plot rants a lot.. they seem to get more elaborate over time?

Batman Prowl and Catwoman Jazz doodles ^^

[hexwatch]

Doing a Jekyll and Hyde/TMA crossover because I'm obsessed with both of these things. So here are my ideas of the characters so I can share my madness:

Jekyll is a Spiral touched Eye avatar, who in his college years was tormented by a creature of the spiral because of how different his outter and inner being was, but this pushed him into seeking information about what was following him getting the attention of Beholding until he fully but willingly fell into it's service.

Hyde is an Eye touched Spiral avatar who makes up that parts that were already designated to the spiral before Henry made his choice to fall for the Eye. Henry tried to get rid of all the spiral and evil in him when taking to potion but made Edward instead, because he was pure spiral he was basically born into being an avatar.

Gabriel is Lonely touched. He started to fall into the lonely once cousin dies, having not really had a connection with anoyone outside of him for years (im having his cousin die from seeing the trasformation and Edward's powers not Hestie for plot reasons.). But Henry seeing the spiral, stepped in so that the lonely couldn't take him. But it still has its affects and if Gabriel wishes he could give into the lonely at anytime.

Robert isn't aligned with an entity but the Eye does try to pull him to it. He researches the different powers and knows more about them than anyone. He takes great strides into helping Gabriel away from the Lonely not wanting to lose a friend like that. He also loves studying Henry and Edward having never seen someone with two entities attached to them like that. And after some research lobotomizes himself so he doesn't feel fear anymore so he can more safely study the Dread Powers.

Some story information under cut for those who would like it

They form a very gay 4 way relationship after some tense times. Henry desperately tries to keep his Eye powers from fucking up everything by either just Knowing things about his partner's or by ripping out their statements whenever he gets peckish.

Edward and Henry's relationship is hard as they work for such opposite entities, but they manage to slowly work things out. Henry likes to annoy Edward with random Knowledge that is unneeded or wanted at the moment while Edward manifests doors and illusions around Henry constantly. Hyde once accidentally trapped them in his hallways for two hours as he can easily make door appear while not in control of the body but making them actually do what he wants requires full control. They both have to feed differently so Henry has to always give Edward control after some time so that he can run off and horrify someone, this intern though helps feed Beholding as Henry can watch everything. It's a win win though it doesn't fully feed Henry's hunger and inevitably he as to find someone of his own to traumatize.

Hestie and Henry have a love filled but very tense relationship as Robert told Henry not to fall into the dread powers but he didn't listen. This is why they stop talking for a bit and instead of just Henrys mad science. One day Hestie found Henry alone trying to focuse on his studies only to find him bearly hanging on after not having eaten a statement in almost 2 weeks. At that point Hestie let Henry compell a statement from him. Henry tried to refuse, not wanting to hurt him, but eventually with some persistence and Henry asking a question in his weakness eventually got what was needed. There relationship was hard after that but it was the start of what would lead to their romantic relationship.

Gabriel has the favor of the Eye as he does love snooping into things and spent weeks trying to find out what Henry was really working on in his labs. And once Henry stepped in to help keep him from the Lonely their relationship was very quick to become romantic.

Gabriel and Robert have a platonic lovers sort of thing going on and Gabriel goes to Hestie first if he sees anything strange so that they can tell Henry together, which helps keep him from accidently pulling a statement from either of them or asking too many questions. After a while this isn't needed as henry can better control his eye power but it's always used as a fail safe just incase.

Robert hated Edward at the beginning, never having liked the spiral after seeing it's effects on people(being a doctor and all), and never liking how Edward could just know so much (thanks to Henry's connection to Beholding) to better fuck with people. But after Edward saves Hestie from almost dying several times, they start getting along.

Edward instantly loves Gabriel, due to Henry's love of the man, but has a problem with jealousy and throwing every man that ever talks to Gabriel into his corridors. This does include Robert but Edward always lets Robert out because Gabriel gets mad at him for it, Robert also gives Hyde a stomachache due to not feeling any fear. This loss of any other connection outside of the main cast doesn't help with Gabriel's loneliness but Edward is learning to control himself(it takes a while)

I do have my thought process for why Edward would be Spiral though I'm open for any other ideas if you would like to contribute to this madness.

[quintsjacket]

digging through the archives again & i've found another little press interview with robert shaw that i quite like. sticking it here for ease of access in the future :> from an article published in the los angeles times in february 1971, as transcribed below:

Most public people get terribly lofty about seeing their names in print (“Of course it used to matter . . .”). Robert Shaw, the English actor-author, is, bless his heart, honest enough to say it matters terribly. “My hand shakes when I pick up the Daily Express. And I will be comforted by reading someone else’s bad notices, I admit it. It gets worse all the time. Old Harold Pinter says my great vice is other people’s opinions.” Robert Shaw is subject to more reviews than most since he is both a writer (novels, plays, screenplays) and an actor English enough to play Henry VIII (in the film “A Man for All Seasons”), international enough to play Gen. Custer (in a movie) and Elmer Gantry (in a Broadway musical that lasted one night), and intelligent enough to play Pinter (“The Caretaker,” “The Birthday Party”). “I’ve been asked so often which I prefer, writing or acting, that I’ve started to answer seriously. I obviously prefer acting because the rewards are much more immediate. Writing is so lonely, such an agony. I’m an extroverted, confident person and I’m thrown into this pain . . .” Then why write? “I do wish for immortality—I don’t know why—but I do wish to be remembered.” Robert Shaw studied acting at RADA, a bleak and hateful experience, during which he was advised to give up. He spent his first eight years as a professional playing Shakespeare and had a rough time. “As a young man I had no charm, I was all agression [sic]. Richard Burton had enormous charm, he could get on with people. What an extraordinary life! When he went off to Hollywood, we all said, there goes the golden boy.” The turning point came with his first novel, “The Hiding Place” (1960). “From having been treated as a stupid actor—‘I find it hard to believe you wrote that,’ they’d say—I began to be treated as intelligent. Directors wanted me for television. And that’s where I became a working class actor. I’m not, I’m English middle class really, but I got into all these new plays. It was marvelous.” At present, Shaw has two plays coming up, neither of which will earn him a penny, he cheerfully notes: One is set in an American prison. The other, to be performed in London by the National Theater Company this spring, is called “Cato Street.” Shaw has based it on an actual attempt in the early 19th century to murder the entire British government. The plotters are betrayed and executed. “I hang them all on stage,” Shaw said with relish. “All eight or nine of them.” He hopes “Cato Street” will feature Laurence Olivier who, he feels, droops under some of his duties as head of the National Theater. “He asked me how many acts my play had. ‘Three,’ I said. “‘Couldn’t you make it two?’ he asked me. I said why? “‘Because,’ he said; ‘then I’d only have to have one drink with the governors.’”

[cloudbends]

your tags are killing me...did you parents just let your brother say some random sounds and go yeah im gonna name my kid that. or even funnier did you hear him say something and go yeah thats a cool name

god the actual story is so much funnier you have no idea.

basically my brother is 5 years older than me and in the 90s there was this british stopmotion tv series called the animal shelf and the idea was that its animal toys who are owned by a boy who's only ever visible by silhouette. And he was named timothy in english. however, according to my brother, his name got localized to a different name: a name which... doesn't fucking exist in my native language..? and he thought the name was cool and my parents were still debating on a name. my brother also has a rather unique name and he wanted me to have one too, so he came up to my mom at like 10 pm and said "I think we should name the baby (x) because I think that name isn't taken yet" and my parents liked it enough to go with it. LOL. I have no complaints I like my name a lot it's just a nightmare when it comes to introductions and pronunciation. which is weird because it's pronounced exactly like it's written.

[improbable-implosions]

This is another one of those reveals that makes MUCH more sense in context, and even MORE sense if you know Camellia. Maybe I should get scripting that setting reveal video?

Speaking of the full context, you can find that here: https://youtu.be/QXedtJablrs

Video Description: A young white man monologues to camera. He's been edited to remove some perfectly good dramatic pauses, because this clip was originally meant for tiktok. Even despite this, there's an air of dramatic reveal.

Anchiem docks, over the eventually-named continent of Karsus, it was not Karsus before they docked there for this last time. But what's about to happen changes the entire plane forever.

[josukespimphand]

your art is so gorgeous i cannot BELIEVE it hope you are having a wonderful new year

Ahahajjjjhsjs thank you so much!!!!!