#more so grey

[peskyautumn]

Further post expanding on my Listener!Jimmy headcanons, you might need to read my Solidwood post for a little bit of context,

before we get started I wanna mention a TW of body horror as I talk a bit about it, I apologize deeply in advance

As mentioned in said Solidwood post, Jimmy's wings change when he becomes a Listener. Prior they're kind of small, especially compared to other hybrids. If you were to compare Grian's, (after EVO, he didn't have wings prior) his wingspan would engulf Jimmy's. That doesn't mean he can't fly, he definitely can but it takes him a little to get them going, he tends to be a bit clumsy with them sometimes but when he gets his balance he's good as golden.

Jimmy's wings are a bright and deep sky blue tapper into black, a gorgeous color and a beautiful sight

Jimmy loves the feeling of flying, even if it's in short bouts (He tends to get distracted usually by another player (sometimes it's because he's admiring Martyn from above)) and ends up with him suddenly crashing into something or losing his balance/consternation. Jimmy usually flies with his arms up a lot like Wonder Woman, taking in the feeling and revealing in it, enjoying it, sometimes even closing his eyes and letting himself get lost in it.

Uh

After isn't so happy... Heh...

TW: BODY HORROR SKIP NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ

During the ritual to become a Listener (ooo minor lore drop) Jimmy went through... Several painful transformations but we'll focus on his wings for today folks. (Hint hint I'm still figuring out and writing out my Watcher and Listener lore) The bones of his wings snap and break as more bone started grow, shifting and growing larger and larger in size, feathers slowly started to change hue, some even falling off as more grew, his wingspan becoming much bigger, his back and wings feeling like their on fire as the pain throbbed through out them, causing haunting and painful screams to pour from Jimmy himself.

Afterwards his wingspan is much larger, now far more comparable to Grian's own, compared to a normal yellow canary hybrid's, Jimmy's wings look off. The once beautiful blue wings now a bright overpowering yellow, while oh so beautiful, they come across as almost... Unnatural. It's a jarring sight to anyone's who's known him before the change, something he can't really hide but instead beats the bush around, an uncomfortable look on his face when the topic is brought up...

Jimmy doesn't fly too much anymore either, his wings being far bigger then they originally were, are now too big for his body, almost too big to balance himself just standing. They weigh heavy on his back to point they hurt at times, almost mocking him for vow he took. When he spreads them out, he always hit's something or someone, no longer being able to control them that well.

And while his wings can more easily support his body weight in the sky, Jimmy can barely get too far without started to nose dive down one side, his wings growing too heavy and dragging him down until he crashes. Flying becomes more and more of a painful memory, the days where he would stretch out and feel the world around him long gone.

Even if he wanted to fly, The games don't really allow the time or space to do so, the area always too small, the height limit always too limiting. Jimmy can stretch his wings as many times as he wants, stare up towards the sky with a mission, a want, a dream. It doesn't matter when he takes off, tries to stretch his hand as far as he can, pushing forward harder and harder, desperately trying to ignore how gravity pulls him down, how easily his horribly cursed wings give up.

Jimmy will never be able to feel the taste of the sky and the clouds between his fingers again

[greykolla-art]

Yeah I think you’re in the right place, Al.

[freefallintothevoid]

Dick Grayson's unmatched success as a child vigilante makes a lot more sense when you remember the Court of Owls was a thing and that Dick was meant to be the next Grey Son.

There is no way that someone at Haly's Circus wasn't there keeping an eye on him while he grew up. A future weapon needs to be trained and monitored after all, and a circus, a place where weird skills are completely normal, is actually a great place to secretly train a child.

You know, just some knife tricks that translated really well into actual fighting. How to get out of restraints and pick locks while under a time limit. Death defying acrobatic stunts that coincidentally do wonders for parkouring. That sort of thing. Nothing that seems out of place for a boy growing up around circus performers to learn, but would literally any where else.

I mean, while I fully believe that most kids would want to kill the man responsible for their parents deaths, Dick was weirdly prepared to go through it. He tracked down Zucco with way more ease than any normal child should have too. He became the first child vigilante, for goodness sake. The first Robin! He only started getting formal training after he basically forced Bruce into it!

Bruce himself has no idea that this kind of competency in a child is unusual, considering he was much too blinded by the similarities between his and Dick's tragic orphanhoods.

Alfred is in a similar boat because he’s desensitized to weird children after he somehow managed to successfully raise Bruce 'The Batman' Wayne, so he doesn't clock the hyper-competency as abnormal either.

By the time the other batkids start popping up (Jason 'The Audacity' Todd, borderline-street rat with no fear) (Tim 'the greatest stalker in Gotham history' Drake, child genius, also bullied his way into becoming Robin) (Barbara 'raised by the only uncorrupt cop in gotham' Gordon) (Stephanie 'daddy issues and spite' Brown) (Duke 'Pretends he's the normal one and people believe him' Thomas) it's too late.

It would also explain how Dick got along so well with Damian out of all of them. Similar childhood with different approaches and all that. On some subconscious level, Dick recognises and resonates with the murderous ten year old assassin with strong familial ties to a secret elite assassin organization.

It isn't until after the whole Court of Owls and Grey Son reveal that suddenly Dick realises a whole lot of things about his childhood that suddenly make a lot more sense.

[hinamie]

oversaturate

[ruushes]

my hof was born to be a griffon rider, if they could've given him a griffon at the start of dao the blight would've been over in a week

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[tiffanyachings]

Matching T-Shirts for You and Your Weirdly Codependent Cousin

based on this excellent post by @casgirl

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[mienar]

stillness in these waking hours

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[fellowship-of-the-doodles]

A little AU based on a dream I had recently in which the Fellowship teamed up with the Winnie the Pooh characters to escape a natural disaster, and when it was over they all moved into a house together with a massive stockpile of food :) Here's just a few of their interactions; I'll probably do more sketches of the AU if people are interested and if I feel inspired to (which I definitely have more ideas for it!) Anyway I just remember that they were all best buds in the dream and it was super cute so I wanted to do something with it <3

[teiasviago]

PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON transitioning into Bridgerton blues

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Out of sight, out of - wait.

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[socvinc]

Dungeon Meshi sketches... chilchuck and senshi my beloved

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[proselles]

clinging to the sex warning for arcane like an angst with a happy ending tag on ao3

[hinamie]

I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

[giotanner]

If Sergeant John 'Soap' MacTavish has a dirty job to handle, he already knows his Captain John Price, will be there to clean it up with him, no questions asked. One thing I appreciate about MWII (and the thing with Shepherd in MWIII) and the og Call of Duty games is how we see Price as a morally gray character—someone whose loyalty isn’t aligned strictly with duty, but first and foremost with his men. His loyalty lies there above all. The Task Force is called 141 (one for one), but he’s always got their six.

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