#night eight

[elvhendis]

My favourite thing is how in Eight Little Talons when Viago is on the floor dying from poison damage and Teia comes in, she says something about how this isn't how she imagined seeing him naked before asking where his damn antivenin is, and this mf takes his last ounce of strength to gurgle "☝️Wearing... trousers...." before passing the fuck out

[lusanchromchinnn]

Viago De Riva your Undiagnosed But Extremely Obvious OCD is fascinating and so so revealing of your character and motivations ohh my gosh. Like of course your obsession is poisons and being poisoned! I refuse to believe that growing up adjacent to the royal court wasn’t the driving force behind this because literally where else would someone hear so many stories of people succumbing to assassination by poison. I bet nobles were dropping like flies to the crows every day. I bet he saw his father’s food taster (we know he visited during Viago’s youth) and realised how truly possible it was to die from a bite of food. Bonus points if he actually witnessed a food taster keel over in front of him. Paranoia through the fucking roof as he researches poisons for years on end before he’s ever presented with the option of joining the crows. Maybe he only drank out of clear glasses he could hold up to the light. Maybe he insisted on preparing all of his own meals rather than let servants near his food, much to the chagrin of his mother. AND OH GOD HIS MOTHER.

We know she was an alcoholic, and that Viago hated her drinking, it scared him as a small child. But what if his mind won’t let him watch her sip a glass of wine without the image of it being her last. She could be a target as a mistress of the king, just as he is as a royal bastard. Perhaps he becomes the one who uncorks her bottles and pours her glass after glass, because he’d rather her drunk over dead. Of course, there’s the very real possibility she succumbs to alcohol poisoning, which is so ironic and so fucking sad. He pours her final glass and becomes what he fears most.

It’s a no-brainer that he joined the crows later on. Not only does it give him access to the poisons and antidotes he’s craved for years, but it gives him a sense of control. He’s making himself less of a target than his half-siblings (and it’s more socially acceptable for a crow to wear gloves constantly lmao). He’s so skinny because he refuses to eat unless he’s 100% positive his food is safe, checking and double checking even if he prepares it himself. He knows, logically, that his fears are unfounded, that he (or someone he trusts completely like Teia) made this dish, or poured this drink. But he needs to be sure, or his brain won’t stop screaming that he’s going to die! Right now! God forbid he’s proven right too, like with the adder in the wardrobe that he survived because of his doses of antivenom. I just knowww his compulsions got so much worse for a while after that, it was so cathartic and miserable for him. I understand this freak and his freak ways. What a guy, thank you Courtney Woods.

[hijinxinprogress]

Does the JL know that YJ has just casually been beefing with darkseid??

imagine there’s a all hands on deck battle against darkseid and everyone is there but darkseid points out the nearest yj member (it’s probably Bart) like ‘you!!! You managed to escape with your lives last time but this meeting will be our last’ and for a split second Clark’s so fucking confused bc we haven’t fought in years wtf are you talking about then he hears ‘oh shit, look it’s Doug’ and everyone turns to see Bart nudging Kon going ‘he’s talking to you…damn he must still be mad about the coal’ and kons shoving him back bc ‘you were the one fucking around with his coal, you fucking walnut’ while Cassie’s being scruffed by wonder woman bc they’re trying to avoid being around when the jl finds out and tims having a very intense silent conversation lecture about why tf there’s at least half a dozen yj mission reports that mention an assailant named ‘Doug’ 

then Constantine shows up with Greta and everyone (including darkseid) starts yelling and if you don’t know her Greta seems like the one with the ownership of the braincell in yj (she is not but I guess she looks like it from a distance if you squint) which goes one of two ways:

retired-civilian!greta is giggling and waving excitedly to each member of yj along with hal before she practically tackles each of them in a tight hug while the titans, jl, & jl: dark lose their collective shit bc Constantine brought a tiny civilian dressed in pastel floral prints from head to toe into an active battle with fucking darkseid, a civilian who doesn’t register as a threat in any capacity until she makes eye contact with darkseid and gives him the most disgusted look imaginable “Doug… you look…well.” and then like three jl members have to stop her from leaping at darkseid while Hal’s like ‘no! No no, bad Greta! We don’t fight supervillains with…what is that?? I really fucking hope that’s not a gun…Is-is that fucking silly string?! Greta no we don’t silly string supervillains! We’ve talked about this!’

or

never-retired!/recently-out-of-retirement!greta who does the same thing but when she notices darkseid she rocks his shit in eight seconds flat and starts muttering about ‘that fucking Doug, always ruining my goddamn day’ and Hal is the first one to recover from the shock/confusion but only to tell Greta she’s grounded which gets another irritated ‘fucking doug!’ while Wally and Barry are losing it at Mach 6 while Bart tries to explain himself also at Mach 6, Cassie manages to catch Wally’s exasperated ‘where the fuck did you get Doug from?!’ And responds with ‘Apokolips’ in a tone that means they’re questioning his intelligence which leads to more screaming bc ‘so you knew who he was?? Why didn’t you come to us??’ and they all back up Kon when he claims they told Lex bc that means they have at least 3 hours of freedom while Lex is getting yelled at by the jl (and honestly every cape over 24)

[pricklenettle]

eight ecto nights: reflection Telling stories of events and people long past

[luckyplushy]

Imagine a universe where Adam Sandler movies are instead played by Rainbow Dash and her friends. Now stop imagining it cause I have one right here.

[ihateloginwallsfuckyou]

my friend inspired me

[emryx]

Eight Little Talons on the brain

[saessenach]

my love, my light, my darling - Teia Cantori in Eight Little Talons ✨

as always, close-ups under the cut!

[maddisandy]

what do they fill horror podcasts with i swear. its like i start one and i blackout and suddenly its a week later and i've listened to eight hours of episodes every day since then

[notaplaceofhonour]

out of the very small handful of non-Hallmark Hanukkah movies that exist, it’s funny that two of them just… center around basketball for some reason?

idk what to do with this information… but it’s weird that it happened twice

[elvhendis]

I have been yelling about Viago and Teia in various discords but it's not enough, I have to start yelling on my tumblr too asdfgsjfk

(Context: They're trying to get information out of a fellow Crow and Viago suggested trying a serum he concocted that makes people pliable)

He admitted RELUCTANTLY

(Viago: Sit.

Me: SIR I'M SAT)

Mind you he's still wearing his gloves, man's not even touched her AND HE'S PUTTY IN HER HANDS

[splickedylit]

You can't fight the role the Mother had in store for you

[stalebagels]

*crawling out of the gutter to hand you these*

[pricklenettle]

eight ecto nights: glow

[blackpearlblast]

Night 4: Nesma Ahmed and Family

Nesma is the sister of Dina from Night 1, and my dear friend. I can't really convey how much our friendship means to me, nor is that meant to be what this post is about, so let's move on to talking about the conditions she and her family are living under right now. She is living in a tent with 11 other people, there is an immense shortage of food with every edible being extremely costly, and they must walk a great distance lin order to get water for each day. She is using the funds from the GoFundMe to sustain her family by purchasing what resources are available, such as food, materials to maintain the tent they live in, and medicine. They hope to be able to use the rest of the funds to evacuate should the border reopen.

This is a vetted campaign. This post is part of a series of posts where I highlight one campaign for each night of Hanukkah and you can view the rest here. I will be donating 20 USD to Nesma's campaign. I encourage you to give what you can, even if that's only the minimum donation value or just a reblog! Small acts of kindness and hope have the potential to do far more than we know, so long as we have the courage to give them a try.

[emryx]

This deserves its own post because I’m proud of it—Viago may be dying but it’s okay because Teia’s playing with his hair. Reading Eight Little Talons was so GAH I love them and their complicated asses. Caterina the ultimate cockblocker 😒