#new emotions unlocked :/

[valtsv]

all emojis need an eyebags option

[yes-asil]

Soul Melter Mode held it’s promise

[dog-teeth]

[gomzdrawfr]

menace

[on-this-day-mcr]

On this day, August 23

In 2022: My Chemical Romance performed their 24th show of the 2022-2023 Swarm tour in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This show was the first time the studio version of "The World is Ugly" was performed live. At this show, Gerard Way wore a custom made vintage cheerleader dress, and "I Bet it WAS YOU" was written on the drums. (🖤)

Watch the show here!

Alex Toor

[starry-bi-sky]

more about og tue timeline twins danny and dan/jamie

very touchy with each other. you might even say. ccclingy. its to be expected, they're two halves of a whole after all and all they've got of each other. worryingly co-dependent. do not separate. ever.

Danny was really weak and sick after the initial separation, and was for a while after. Jamie knew internally that if Danny died, he'd take the whole world with it. He was the one sole caretaker for him while he got better -- not for lack of trying on Vlad's part, but without his ghost powers he was nothing more than a feeble (albeit handsomely rich) man, and James looked ready to bite his head off if he got within ten feet of either of them.

Vlad is intimately aware that James (or Danny, if he tried) could snap his spine in half like a twig, and is uncomfortably aware of his own lack of ghost half now. It makes him feel self-conscious and exposed, so he never fully returns back to "cocky and self-assured billionaire Vlad Masters". Making deals with other brands feels a lot harder now that he can no longer possess them anymore.

Speaking of, he very quickly has to come up with a cover story as to why there's now a James Daniel Fenton to the public, when no records whatsoever of him existing existed prior. Lots of forging false government documents on his end. James and Danny do not help because it's his fault this happened in the first place.

(Regardless of whether or not Danny actually willingly chose to rip out his ghost half/humanity in canon is true, or if that was Vlad Masters speaking out of his ass, a large part of the blame still falls on Masters.)

(As his primary caretaker and guardian, it's his responsibility to ensure the health and safety of his charge, and since Danny was in clear emotional duress at the time, it can be argued that he was not in the mental state to make such a decision. And, allegedly, couldn't do it on his own which is why he asked Vlad for help.)

I chose "James" as Dan's name since it's a popular fanon middle name for Danny, and since he's half of Danny, it felt like it just made sense lol. Also because of the ensuing comedy of the two of them introducing themselves as "James Daniel Fenton" and "Daniel James Fenton". It's got the same energy as "danny with a y" and "danny with an i" and it's the exact kind of name bullshit you expect parents to give their twins.

I don't have their exact personalities down, but something I am actively writing into this au's bible is that I think Danny should be the quiet and (ig technically) meaner one. There's a lot to go into about interpretations for ghosts, halfas, and the incident itself, but TL:DW; Danny is technically soulless, or at the very least missing half of his soul (altho Jamie is too just in a different direction).

Pair that with the trauma of losing his family in front of him + having his ghost half ripped out + all the trauma he would've sustained as a hero, and he's not doing too hot mentally! i think if the twins met good timeline!Danny, Danny would've mistaken Danny for Dan and Jamie for the original half.

He comes off to others as pretty apathetic and indifferent to a borderline terrifyingly calm degree. He doesn't go out of his way to insult people, but he also doesn't care enough to consider the other party's feelings so he doesn't filter himself, which makes him come off as rude. The only times he looks truly comfortable is when he's near Jamie or talking to him.

His standoffish, ice prince demeanor makes Jamie look like a saint in comparison. When really he's not all that much better? He's more outwardly emotional than Danny, whether that be positive or negative, but at the end of the day he doesn't trust or care about anyone else any more than Danny does, and he's got a bit of a sadistic streak. Danny reigns him in when he starts becoming too destructive.

(Which I think makes sense. Danny asked Vlad to rip out his ghost half specifically so he could stop feeling his human emotions. Dan, despite his monotone voice, does exhibit emotions. He's smug when he asks Valerie if he likes his ghostly wail, sardonic when he reunites with Sam and Tucker, annoyed, shocked at Danny's ghostly wail, etc. He enjoys wreaking destruction and chaos.)

(If Danny had survived his encounter with Dan and if Vlad was successful, then I imagine he'd be rather apathetic to his other half as a whole. That'd be interesting.)

Overall though they're both hurt, bitter, and distrustful of the world around them, with abandonment issues a mile wide. They can get better and they can heal, but it takes time and patience and proper support.

On the DPxDC side of things, they do genuinely hold some kind of respect or regard for Bruce. They also don't become vigilantes for a while. Neither of them are jumping at the bit to enter heroism again, not when it was heroism that killed their family in the first place.

In fact when they find out Bruce = Batman they think he's foolish for it. They think its a fool's errand, and they've been so spurned by their time as Phantom that for a few weeks, Jamie even refused to call Bruce anything but Sisyphus. Danny called him Tantalus, and the two of them had a faux-argument about which one was more accurate.

Bruce does, though, worm his way into both of their hearts, and that's like, the main reason they become vigilantes to join him. So that they could keep him safe and not because of any desire to return to the heroic life. Relearning to care and finding satisfaction in helping others was an unintentional side effect.

(Bruce is so very smug)

Essentially:

The Twins: this is our squishy and fragile adoptive father. If anything happened to him, we're becoming mass extinction events.

Bruce: Nnno.

[iris-nonsense]

I swear that luffy never looked so genuinely scared and desperate till now and it's all because zoro is about to die

[varpusvaras]

"It's settled, then", Bail announced. He had already pushed his chair back and stood up, when he noticed that Mon had not moved an inch. She was still sitting there, just looking at him, with a light frown on her face.

"What?" He asked. "Is something the matter?"

Mon hummed, thoughtfully.

"I think I should be the one asking that", she said. "Is everything alright?"

Bail frowned now, too.

"I'm not sure I follow", he told her.

Now Mon sighed loudly.

"Please don't try that with me", she said. "I have known you for a long time, Bail. I know you. I can see when something is bothering you."

Bail leveled her a look.

"I have my days", he said. "I am not always the paragon of kindness and softness. You should know that."

"I do know that", Mon said. "I know very well that when you are at work, you are very driven by that work. But here's the thing. I have both worked with you for years, and been your friend outside of work just as long. I know how you behave and how you operate, even during the most stressful situations. If you haven't forgotten, we were just in a Galaxy-wide war. The way you are behaving now, this abrasiveness, this tension you are bringing everywhere with you now? I saw you like that in the moments where the whole Galaxy was at the stake. For you to be like this, is just now 'one of those days'. It's not even one of those weeks. Yes, I have noticed. This has been going on for a while now."

Bail didn't turn his eyes away from her, and neither did she turn hers away from him.

It felt like a stand-off, all of a sudden, and the stupidity of it crept into Bail's mind. Mon was not his enemy. This was not the Senate floor, nor was this a negotiation for a freedom of an entire world.

No, this was his own office, with one of his closest friends sitting in front of him, expressing worry for him. Mon was not trying to extort him, she was only trying to help him.

He just didn't know what to tell her. He wasn't the one who was being wronged in any way, and instead was only taking his selfish guilt out on the people around him.

That didn't make him feel any better, either.

Mon's expression softened slightly, as the silence between them dragged on.

"You don't have to talk to me, if you do not want to", she said. "I am just letting you know that I am willing to listen. But, please, if it is something truly serious, do not keep it for yourself. If you won't talk to me, talk to Breha or Fox, at the very least. I know they wouldn't want you to go through something by yourself."

Bail noticed that he had grabbed the edge of his desk tightly, only when he started to feel said edge digging hard into his palm.

Breha and Fox were the last people he could talk to right now, as they were the ones who were being wronged, by Bail himself no less. He could not, would not burden them with himself any further than he already had.

Mon's face grew more concerned again.

"Is it about them?" She asked. "Are they alright?"

"Fox is pregnant", Bail said, before he could think about it too long to stop himself.

Mon paused, her mouth left slightly open.

"Oh", she said finally, blinking rapidly a few times. "Oh. I mean. Is this a place for congratulations?"

"It is", Bail admitted. It really was. Still, despite everything, it was one of the happiest things that had ever happened in his life. "It is very much a wanted thing."

Not in a way any of them would've perhaps expected or wished for it to happen, but a wanted thing nevertheless.

Mon smiled slightly.

"Congratulations, then", she said. "Is everything going well?"

"Yes", Bail nodded. "Both him and the baby are healthy. Breha is having the time of her life spoiling Fox."

"Of course she is", Mon smiled a bit more as she said that. "It's a good thing that one of you can be at home with Fox."

Bail smiled tightly at that. A bit too tightly, perhaps, as Mon seemed to immediately zero in on his expression.

"Is that what this is about?" She asked. "You being here?"

"Of course it is", Bail said. "What else? Breha and I agreed on not even trying to have our own biological children, both for her health, and for my inability to leave my work. That was the agreement with Fox as well. Now, we have one baby at home already, and a second one coming along soon, and I am still just as incapable of being at home, breaking every agreement and changing nothing."

Mon looked at him gently.

"You haven't broken any agreements", she said.

Bail let out a dry laugh.

"Fox didn't make that baby by himself", he pointed out.

"But it was a thing you all wanted", Mon said. "You said so yourself. Are they happy?"

Bail thought about it. The messages both Breha and Fox sent him every day, the pictures, the recordings, the holos of Even pushing himself up on his feet as he learned how to stand, of all the updates from every visit to the doctor. Of the recording of the baby's heartbeat, hearty and strong. Of the happy words and expressions in every single one of them, despite how tired they both were sometimes.

It was worth it, Breha and Fox had both said. Multiple times.

He nodded.

"Yes", he said.

Mon nodded as well, slowly, her eyes assessing him for a moment.

"Are you happy?" She asked then.

Bail paused.

He wanted to say yes. He wanted to say yes, immediately. Of course he was happy. Why wouldn't he be happy? Breha and Fox were both happy, of course he was-

Bail tried to say it. He wanted to say it.

He couldn't.

Mon waited, patiently, for him to say something. Bail wanted to say yes.

He just...he just couldn't. Not without it feeling like he was lying.

His eyes dropped down, to stare at his desk. He just couldn't look at Mon anymore, shame rolling thunderously inside of him.

He was happy. Of course he was.

He was happy.

He heard Mon stand up. Bail listened to her steps slowly coming towards him, and finally stopping right next to him.

Then her hand reached for his, at the one still gripping the edge of the desk, and she laid hers on top of it.

"Bail", Mon said. "You need to talk to someone."

Bail wanted to argue with her.

He couldn't.

He sighed, and nodded.

"Yes", he said. "I...I think I do."

[manhattan-gamestop]

I really can't be seeing a thumbnail + title like this in my yt recommendations after pulling an all-nighter I'm not strong enough and also what the fuck am I looking at

[underestimated-shadow]

“I wanted to bring people back to believing in this character. To bring my reality to it. I guess I've always liked a challenge.”

– Timothy Dalton

[vomittedsoap]

It’s a little known fact about Christianity that upon being baptized you gain the ability to do this special stare when you catch someone doing something sinful.

[oeuvrinarydurian]

It’s Morsestache Monday!

If this doesn’t tick every Box ( see what I did there?), I don’t know what does.

See also: snark, eyeroll, TSNSOS

[luminarai]

I’ve spent all day trying to figure out whether or not to bid on an apartment and with my stress over my job contract coming to an end, finding a new place to live, making a (what feels like) permanent and life altering purchase re apartment, general anxiety & hatred of things changing, decision paralysis, pms hormones, and brand new adhd diagnosis… I’ve been pulling my poor mom and friends on a rollercoaster ride along my entire emotional spectrum today (all of which were panic tinged in addition).

I think I’ve cried like. 18 times today. Not even at anything specific necessarily. I’m just so goddamn overwhelmed. Thank fuck for patient and lovely friends and family.

[vimbry]

you ever put on "twisting" after "it's kickin' in". oh my god. several years apart yet these were Made to be played together.

[robertphilip]

I feel like Robert and Giselle hardly, if ever, argue but if they do, they’re definitely the type of people who refuse go to bed angry at each other. They refuse to fall asleep until whatever problems they’re having are 100% resolved because they both really hate fighting, and the thought of going to bed angry just doesn’t feel right.

I also think they’re still really affectionate with each other, even if they’re maybe giving each other the silent treatment. Giselle will still slip her hand into his, and link their fingers together, despite the fact that he’s driven her crazy. Robert will still rest his palm on her lower back, and kiss her temple, even if she’s given him a headache. The love simply never goes away, even when they’re refusing to speak to one another.

and I also feel like the way they approach ending the silent treatment is different. Giselle is definitely better with her words, and I think she’ll just flat out say, “I’m ready to talk to you now.” But Robert, he’s an action man. I think he’ll excuse himself and make a bowl of ice cream, but purposely pick her favorite flavor, and cover it with her favorite sprinkles, and maybe some strawberry syrup. He’ll then return, take maybe one or two bites, then say, “Do you want the rest?” and Giselle, maybe she’s still not talking to him, but she nods, and slowly takes it anyway. She then sees it’s her all her favorites, maybe melts a little bit, and they finally start talking through whatever issues they’re having.