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characters reuniting after one of them was presumed dead >>
just think about it!
maybe whumpee faked their death.
maybe magic or something was involved, so they actually died, but somehow came back to life. like maybe they were a ghost who gained a physical body back, or maybe some otherworldly power granted them a return to the living world (ahem, cw’s once upon a time….)
maybe they were left for dead — fatally injured and caretaker had to leave them — but they miraculously survived and found their way home!
maybe they were lost in an accident / natural disasted, and caretaker finds them among the survivers in a shelter or hospital.
maybe they were wrongfully declared dead by doctors, sent to a morgue across the country so their body could be used in a cadaver lab, and then they woke up! (….totally not based on a plot to one of my own fics.)
however it happens, it’s perfect. especially if whumpee is still as physically injured as they were before…
caretaker gasping and crying and wrapping them in an enormous hug. or maybe rushing to their hospital bedside, taking their hand.
“i thought i lost you.”
“i went to your funeral, whumpee, i— i… this can’t… oh, god… oh, god!!”
“you died! how— how are you here?!”
caretaker might think they’re dreaming. after all, they saw whumpee. it was hopeless. they’ve spent god-knows-how-long grieving whumpee. but now whumpee is back, alive, in front of them!
“i’m never leaving your side.”
“don’t ever do that to me again, you asshole!”
“[insert setting-appropriate higher power here], thank you. thank you for giving them back to me.”
#whump#whumpblr#whumplr#mine#whump prompt#whump trope#whump prompts#caretaker#this is my FAVORITE trope. EVER!!!#and it never gets the love i think it deserves#my fav media with this trope: haven; manifest; lost; ouat; the flash#it’s a lot easier to write/explain away in magic-adjacent media#but you can still find a way in others!!#LIKE 9-1-1 HOLY SHIT#the tsunami arc…. eddie begins!!!#presumed character death#reuniting
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okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.
So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).
Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021
Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.
Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)
Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.
It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.
#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc#dpdc#plus amity suddenly going 'we have ghosts' could be seen as a case of city-wide FOMO finally hitting so nobody believes them#and thats if the belief of ghosts not being real is as strong as it is in dp canon#the media blackout could also be /city-induced/ too#where amity parkers are so proud of being 'normal' and 'not having superheros' that many of them try and deny the existence of Phantom#and the mayor and news sources themselves just. stubbornly refuse to let news of ghosts get out to the other cities#do you know how much shit they'll get?? they'll be a laughingstock!#gothamites would never leave them alone. neither would central city or the metropolitans or starling city or--#the other big cities will make fun of them :(#my new favorite hc that stemmed from this is that every major city in the dcu is rivaling with each other#there's a lot you can experiment with this idea imo lmao#this whole post sums up my writing and thinking process pr well tbh#this stemmed because im making a childhood friends au short story doc and wanted to avoid the typical tropes about how AP went undetected#from the rest of the US. bc. im not a fan of the media blackout idea via tucker/technus/gov and i wanted to keep AP an urban city#so i had to come up with something else#hence me looking into DCU cities and how many there are and realizing that there is a decent amount of other cities other than the main#popular ones and being DELIGHTED because then i could use that as an excuse for why amity went overlooked. bc there are many cities with#heroes in it. so its not surprising if another city gets a hero TOO. plus the news also focusing on more popular heroes and cities so again#the news of amity getting a hero gets drowned out by whatever new thing the JL or someone from the JL did that week
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about once a month I think of these two and start going crazy again
#i could go on for hours about how I adore their dynamic and its one of my favorites in any media ever#cause listen.#i already super love the cop & con trope but look#percy and ramsey are a whole different thing#they're such 3 dimensional characters#and percy is one of my favorite characters ever#anyways i wont continue lest i flood the tags#epithet erased#ramsey murdoch#percy king#epithet erased fanart#my art
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Queer media really just always be like ✨HANDS✨
She Makes My Heart Flutter (2022) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | The Eighth Sense (2023) | My School President (2022) | Fragrance of the First Flower (2021) | GAP The Series (2022) | A Time Called You (2023) | Moonlight Chicken (2023) | My School President (2022) | Dangerous Romance (2023)
Gif creds: @damnthosewords @tomystars @forcebook @firstkhao @gabrielokun @weiwuxian @liveasbutterflies @mantrisanu @bevioletskies @liyazaki
Part 2/? (Part 1)
#yeah sure sex is cool and all#but have you ever lightly brushed the hand of your beloved in passing like you’re the main character in some Victorian romance novel???#poetic cinema#it’s all about the hands folks#my oh so favorite trope of the queer cinematic experience#she makes my heart flutter#the eighth sense#my school president#fragrance of the first flower#gap the series#a time called you#moonlight chicken#dangerous romance#wlw media#mlm media#bl drama#gl drama#queer cinema#you guys can have a little homoerotic gif set…as a treat#sapphic#pride#my post#lgbtq ships#it’s about reaching out into the void even when you’re so so afraid and feeling someone reach back#and that’s what love is really all about isn’t it?
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another favorite trope: when the void consumes the characters
#this is a joke but i LOVE whatever trope this is#the fact its in 3 of my favorite medias is crazy#4 i guess you can count deemo too tbh#like its such a niche media hold ive found myself in with limjted content#but the content in that hole is SUPERIOR#this is my post telling you to read kuro and the girl from the other side if you like shadows house#shadows house spoilers#shadows house#the girl from the other side#shine speaks
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one of Thee funniest tv tropes is "group of people (better if they're not friends) wake up in the same area after being blackout drunk, with it being Wildly obvious that some crazy shit went down & they have to puzzle it out / fix their mess without anyone knowing"
#psych is KILLING it w/ s6ep2 rn#i cant even attempt to eat my tiny cake im cackling too much#especially since its shawn/gus + lassie + woody LIKE CMONNNNNNN#THAT IS SUCH A KILLER GROUP FOR THIS#and its So fucking funny so far already....#the 'woody & lassie slept together' joke... i wheezed! they did it Well ngl#but man. im 7 minutes in and its already my favorite episode#and here i was Attached to the cinnamon festival ep....#so much can happen in 24 hours </3#absolutely unprompted#anyway absolutely iconic quartet of characters i didnt know i needed it but im so glad i have it#the four of them trying to keep their cool in the autopsy room... asdkandjkafkjan TOP TIER#fishtank gun my beloved#one day i hope to write this trope. i hope i do it well#i have many ocs it could work soooooo fucking perfectly with#the idiot squad especially....#and many media-based characters as well!#honestly this trope can work with anyone. well now that i think about.... the less 'on brand' it is the funnier#like the wh crew? who cares if puppets cant get drunk. that shit'd be hilarious#i just know they'd be so fucking insane about it. the weirdest blackout shenanigans ever...
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I don’t know, thought it’d be funny
#memes#pokemon brock#toby harvest moon#hank freebird#frisk#frisk undertale#azama fire emblem#honestly one of my favorite character design tropes#i wish more media made these kinds of characters
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Carol the Carrier
Character for a Zombie series idea
#My favorite trope is the carrier#wish zombie media used it more often#Carol the Carrier#my art#artists on tumblr
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people are so quick to laugh at other people for taking extremely loaded and upsetting representation in media ~too seriously~, but also conflate the words of some of the most powerless marginalized people with censorship by the FUCKING US GOVERNMENT. it’s so disingenuous it’s so silencing it’s so fucking shitty
it also very much feels like the cultural moment we’re in right now, where bringing up issues rooted in deep irl power structures is automatically written off as oversensitive and reactionary. it’s just media, until it’s an example from real life—then it’s just not that serious, or it’s childish to draw those connections, or it’s censorship to bring it up in the first place. allusions to irl violence are chump change but irl violence is always an isolated incident. and no one cares that this attitude magically seems to exclusively benefit the extremely conservative worldview that holds power
like lmfao no i don’t think it’s your right or anyone’s right to cover your eyes to obviously shitty offensive media writing laden with cultural baggage…. so that you can ~just enjoy it~! does this say nothing about you when you jump to silence the critiques of folks who noticed the harmful shit that went over your head? hot take… media is actually made and consumed by human beings who live in a society
#i don’t hate the fallout show but neither do a lot of the ppl lobbing extremely valid critiques?#devaluing all media critique as censorship or petty fandom bullshit or whateverrr makes my blood boil#ya’ll we live in real life. there is a massive body of academic work studying how media absolutely affects societal perceptions#and how many tropes (like extreme violence against black men or black characters made incompetent for comedic effect) have deep roots#that is real. i am so sorry#get over yourself! it’s not the Mature position to not give a shit about anything#no one is harming you in any way when they bring up issues with your favorite Franchise#i’m so sick of seeing critical ppl devalued as childish and petty when ppl throw fits over the tiniest critique of their fav tv show
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So, bit of ramblings on my Post-Trimax Wolfwood headcanons.
Man, one of my favorite tropes in media is a character who's spirit lingers on after they've died, but it's usually something you only see in fanfic, so I cannot get over how FUCKING FERAL I was when I realized that it was legit a thing in Trimax, and that Wolfwood was the one we actually got to see, legitimately talking to the people he'd left behind and confirming that ghosts in the canon weren't just hallucinations or something! Like yeah, we saw Tessla leading the boys to her body, but since her ghost was never mentioned again, it could have easily have been written off as a fluke, right?
NOPE. They are real and they linger after to watch over the people they care about or to send messages to the people who are still alive! And the fact that the character who had just wormed his way into being just as beloved to me as my favorite character (Which NEVER happens, I usually only have enough brain cells for one at a time!) and that we had just had our hearts ripped to shreds watching him die was also the one we got to know had definitely stayed behind to watch over the people he loved just makes me SO HAPPY! I rp that asshole from time to time, and I just love exploring the implications of it!
I play him like he's been there a LONG TIME. When he died, Rem was there, watching over Vash, but when Knives spent the last of his energy, she chose to move on with him, now that she knew Wolfwood would be there to keep watch over Vash, and he took it SERIOUSLY. He's been waiting so long, he's lost his sense of time, he thinks it's only been a couple decades when it's been CENTURIES. And the time has softened his own trauma, he's gone from being surly and angry and defensive to being at peace and finding comfort in the fact that its allowed him to see more of Vash's life than he ever would have been able to live long enough to see when he was alive. And it's given him time to notice just how unwell Vash is, how broken he is, watching over him when he thinks he's alone and lets himself break down.
But it's also made Wolfwood a bit unwell in his own way; as time went on and the people he knew in life began to pass away, too, his interest in paying attention to what the people around them were doing wained, and his dedication to watching over Vash until it was his time to pass on became a strange sort of dependence. He loses his sense of self, in a way, until the most important thing in his existence is being there for Vash, waiting for him, having long-since accepted that when the time comes, it'll be over and he's alright with that.
He's happy, but to the perspective of a living person, it would seem TWISTED in a way. He still thinks he's a damned soul, stealing more time than he's allowed and only damning himself further by doing so, and he just knows that when he gets to walk Vash into whatever comes after for them, they'll be separated again, for the last time, and there won't be any coming back from it that time, because Vash is too good, too kind, too HOLY to ever be damned. But it's fine. Wolfwood knew he was damned long before his death, and time has just given him the chance to make peace with it and simply be happy with the fact that at least he'll be able to be with Vash when he can move on to wherever good people go at the end. And yet when it happens, Vash feels the same way about himself, so certain that he's the one who's damned, and their reunion is wonderful and painful and terrifying for both of them in different ways.
He's even worse with interacting with people, once he's forced to interact with the living. I play Wolfwood in a game where he stumbles into revealing himself after spending centuries never letting himself be seen, and he worries that going "silent" again will upset people. He's spent centuries being a silent shadow, certain that letting Vash know he was there would only cause more suffering for an already unwell mind, so he's forgotten how to interact with tact, blurting out whatever pops into his head because he's only had himself to talk to for all that time. He hurts people without meaning to, begins to suffer from the crisis of worrying that no matter what he does, he's a burden to the people who mourn him, he doesn't belong, his existence is nothing but a constant reminder of what's coming and will only cause the people around him pain. He's both able to be the kind, caring, loving person he might have been if the Eye of Michael had never taken him from the orphanage, and also a HUGE, ANXIOUS WRECK.
And the thing that makes it all worse for him is the fact that when he was dumped into the game I have him in, he was separated from the Vash of his timeline, and now lives in constant fear that he'll never see him again, that he won't be there when he passes on and there won't be anyone to greet him on the other side, alone and never knowing that he was waiting for him. He made a promise to Rem that he'd watch over him for her, that he'd lead him to his final destination where he could be with his family again, and now that he's lost that, what purpose does he have? He's terrified to let go himself, worried he'll pass onto the other side when Vash was right around the corner, but the thought of lingering without finding him again, missing his chance to be there for him when it's his turn, leaves him in an almost constant state of almost-panic.
I also just think it's kind of sweetly poetic, if in the end, he chose to continue the role he'd been forced into; take Vash where he's supposed to be. Only this time, it's his choice, and it won't be to his death. He wants to guide him to where he knows people are waiting for him, where he'll finally be happy and be at peace. He doesn't mind the fact that he's going to Hell, so long as he was able to be the one that leads Vash to the place where he won't have to be in pain ever again.
#Trigun#Trigun Maximum#Nicholas D. Wolfwood#Vash the Stampede#This probably is a bit insufferably angsty#I can't tell#I'm PMSing and having Vashwood feels and I'm making it eveyone else's problem!#But no really though I fuckin' LOVE ghosts in media!#Favorite trope 10/10 would rip my heart out again!#RP musings#Vashwood#Also yeah this may be completely out of character to other people but#S H R U G#This is just where my brain lead me when I started wondering what Wolfwood's ghost did after Trimax#Also I know it doesn't exactly fit canon but his Vash has started developing salt-and-pepper streaks in his black hair#and little age lines because he's like 500 YEARS OLD at that point or something#andI kind of love that mental image#Wolfwood still thinks he's the most beautiful thing on No Man's Land but he's VERY biased and has developed a bit of an unhealthy fixation
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Someday I will infodump about how horrible darcy is if I have a brain and if anyone actually wants to hear about it
#hes awful and terrible and a lot of my favorite horror media tropes im so sorry#hes like if a mad scientist went to parties and drank at the bar with his friends
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Sorry but like
I think it needs to be said at this point
#sonic the hedgehog#fandom wank#tails the fox#miles tails prower#i just be ramblin#Sonic fandom will be like 'sonadow is SOOO toxic yaoi' or 'surgeamy is SOO toxic yuri' and then their idea of toxic yaoi/yuri is that the#characters redeem each other or secretly look out for each other even though they're a lil prickly#As someone who is a fan of both of these and a lot of the other toxic yuri/yaoi ships#'sonadow is so toxic yaoi however Shadow's actions in prime s3 come off as abusive'#'surgeamy is so toxic yuri. surge is dating her to get one up on Sonic and Amy is going to redeem her for the good guys'#Must I speak further?#For the record‚ a deficit of any content in a fandom is whatever. 'Make it yourself or commission someone' I know. it's just frustrating as#a fan of so called 'toxic yuri' and 'toxic yaoi' ships watching so many people go around calling themselves toxic yuri/yaoi enjoyers and#then. not depict toxic relationships with said ships#Meanwhile I see so much Sonic and Tails 'brothers' content that is just reskinned romance tropes#My favorite 'toxic yuri/yaoi' ships seem to have only the most vanilla content known to man but then someone will say 'Sonic and Tails have#the most profound relationship in all media. They complete each other. they better each other. They're soulmates. they're worse off without#each other. If anyone else tried to form relationships with Tails then Sonic would be jealous. They live together in their adult years.#Through Nine the writers showed just how attached Sonic and Tails are to each other‚ to the point that Nine only cares about Sonic and#living alone with him forever.' and then follow it up with '#the brothers of all time! Imagine Shadow saying he's Tails' brother and Sonic gets so jealous he considers killing Shadow so he can be#Tails' only brother! If you tag as ship I eat all your bones and harass you'#Okay okay I rambled for a minute. This meme is not a compliment😂#The short of it is 'so called toxic yaoi/yuri enjoyers creating solely fluff or characters who bicker fall in love' and 'so called Sonic and#Tails are brothers fans coming off as closeted sontails enjoyers and also betraying that they can only pair characters they hate as romantic#as being siblings'
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I think about this image so often bc like. if you got rid of literally any of these chainsaw man and yellowjackets would both be So over
#other series too but those are the ones that come to mind#shout out to the cannibalising of religious figures gotta be my favorite allegorical trope in media#chainsaw man#yellowjackets
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I made this little character sheet for caspian I am most pleased with my song choices
#farmer caspian#sdv oc#stardew valley oc#stardew farmer#stardew valley farmer#I feel like caspian is a Frankensteins monster of my favorite media tropes#carter brooks Marshall lee and catra are also my inspos lmao yall will see
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anyone who thinks chil is a fucking shota. bitch are we watching the same anime?? reading the same manga??? hello?????
#not tagging this and also locking reblogs cause i don’t care for this to breach containment#mostly just venting cause like. bro you’ve got your tropes fucked it AND your media illiteracy is showing#anyway blocking and disengaging so i can go back to having fun with my favorite middle aged man again#yeesh
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