#no chance of failure

[elenathrais]

Horrible pick-up lines to use on all the new Dragon Age companions:

Bellara - "You must be a Dreamer because you kept me up in the Fade all night."

Davrin - "You can clear the darkspawn out of my Deep Roads any time you want." Or "In war, victory. In peace, vigilance. In death, sacrifice. In horniness...my place."

Emmrich - "Is that a bone in your trousers or are you happy to see me?" Or "It looks like the dead aren't the only thing you can raise."

Lace - "I may not be a bear in the Hinterlands, but you can shoot your shot with me any day." Or "Are you still in the scouting business? I've got some hills and valleys I'd love to have you check out."

Lucanis - "I'd like to take out a contract for you to murder this [insert preferred genetalia here]." Or "Is your last name Ellamorte? Because I haven't seen that D yet."

Neve - "Did you know I can see the future? I saw you dragon me into the shadows to investigate our privates."

Taash - "Would you be interested in having sexual intercourse?"

Bonus:

Manfred - [sexy rattling noises]

Add some of your own if you got 'em. Our Rooks will be irresistible!

[desultory-suggestions]

You have to stop ruining things for yourself preemptively because you believe they’ll fail anyway. Give yourself a chance to succeed.

[gin-juice-tonic]

I deleted that last post because frankly I got embarrassed. But ultimately, I really would like to know if the new journal pages are suspicious on purpose.

Them being fake pages made by Bill is a theory I believe quite heavily in, and in my opinion there's a decent amount of evidence for it. It feels percentage-wise very few people agree. But I guess I just want to say, it's not that I'm just out here grasping at straws to discount a book I didn't like. What we know Ford to be like, what we know Bill to be like, and most importantly what we know journal 3 to be like, those are what the theory is driven by.

When I first looked at TBOB for myself, I got to the second page of the journal pages and the perception that I was reading pages written by Ford himself was shattered instantly. It was not repaired through the entire rest of the pages. When I was sitting around at work later, the next day after I had finished reading, I was struck in my mind by a bit in Ford's final message. "He's making it all up as he goes along." I know people have different readings of the meaning of that line, but for me that's what made me feel like maybe there's something to all this.

Suddenly it wasn't just "This book sounds nothing like Ford..." But rather "Maybe this book sounds nothing like Ford... because it isn't supposed to." And I started realizing stuff. Like "Hey... wasn't Ford drawn super incorrectly here?", or "Could this part really have happened?", or "Does this page make sense to even exist?". "What is it that creates such a strong sense of dissonance to these pages?" I have kept digging into more and more of what felt wrong ever since.

If you read through them without feeling like anything was off, or if there was it wasn't something you felt to be important, it makes sense my theory would not be for you.

But I believe in it.

And if I had my own chance to ask Alex, I would.

(Update: if you haven't seen the additions I made to this post, I ask you read them too)

[sleepiestwizard]

really funny that scar is the Watchers special little guy because he is grian's special little guy

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X DC PROMPT #29

(#) = Notes at the end of post

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The Nasty Burger Explosion still happens, and Danny is left without his friends, family, and the only teacher who ever tried to help and encourage him in school. He manages to skirt around Vlad's custody by discovering a cousin of his Dad's he'd never heard about (1). He reached out to her, crying and begging for her to take him in. To not let Vlad anywhere near him.

Needless to say, after hearing a desperate teenager call her in tears and discover that besides Danny, her cousin Jack and his family had recently died in a horrible "accident," Lois nearly upends everything to go and get Danny from a middle of nowhere town in Illinois. After talking with Clark, of course. She didn't get one word in, however, cause he heard the entire phone call from the other room, though unintentionally.

After arranging for Mama Kent to watch over a still young Jon, they drove as fast as possible to meet this boy that already had their hearts in an iron grasp. When they first lay eyes on him, they immediately want to comfort him. His black hair is a tangled mess, his eyes bloodshot and red from crying. He sits in the corner of the school secretary's office, curled up in the small seat with an overstuffed backpack clutched tightly in a trembling, white-knuckled grip. A girl with dark skin and her hair held back by a headband sits with him, but she gets up and walks over as soon as she sees them enter the office. Danny doesn't seem to notice or even look up from where he's staring at the floor tiles.

"He's been hiding here for the last few days since he called you. He hasn't gone home once except to pack the bag he has with him." The girl explains. She holds out her hand to Lois for a handshake. "Valerie. You could say I'm a... friend of his (2). I'm assuming you're the cousin?"

Lois nods solemnly. "How's he been? He wouldn't tell me why he wouldn't go with his parent's first choice of custody. I've been worried."

Valerie grimaced and looked back at Danny before looking her directly in the eyes. "I can't say much without revealing anything i shouldn't. Let's just say Vlad has an unhealthy obsession with Danny, and it's unsafe to be around him. If he trusts you, he'll be the one to tell you the rest."

Clark and Lois share a look before they both nodded.

Valerie sees their acceptance and relaxes. She'd actually been tense the entire time she'd been talking with them.

"Well, with that said, I'll be going now." She rubbed the back of her neck and looked down with a sad expression. She looked back up at Lois with a deep sigh, and only then did Lois realize that Valerie looked to have been crying recently too. Looking between both adults, she made a quiet request. "Take care of him, will you?"

This time Clark is the one who finally speaks up. "You have our word he'll be safe and cared for."

Valerie's shoulders slump with a shuttering sigh of relief. "Thank you."

Once she left, Clark and Lois slowly approached Danny and sat to either side of him. Only then did he finally look up from the tiles and see them. His eyes ghosted over Lois but immediately locked onto Clark. He stared up at him, his eyes glassy with unshed tears.

Clark shrunk his broad form down a little, concerned his build might be intimidating for the young man. "Hi there, bud." He said in a soft tone. "I'm Clark and this is Lois. We're here to pick you up."

When introductions didn't seem to get a reaction from the teen, Clark's brow furrowed further. "Something wrong?"

Danny finally blinked and quickly ducked his head back down to look at the floor. "N-No." He croaked. "Sorry. For a moment there, I thought you were-" He choked on his words and seemed to have difficulty swallowing. He was shaking, his face hidden against his knees with one of his arms braced over his head to hide even further.

When he finally managed to finish his sentence, Clark's heart shattered completely.

"I th-thought you were my dad."

Clark looked at Lois with lost, watery eyes only to see she was in the same exact predicament. She couldn't stand seeing Danny so heartbroken any longer and leaned over to wrap him in a hug, Clark soon following. After a while of shushing and murmuring words of comfort, Lois gently spoke up.

"Why don't we get your things in the car and we can get on the road."

Extracting himself from their warm hold, Danny took a deep, shuttering breath before nodding.

"Okay."

"Is there anything else we need to get from the house? You have everything?"

Gripping his bag tightly to his chest, he nodded again. (3)

"Yeah. I do."

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Side Note:

(1) He found out through Tucker. He'd searched through Danny's family tree for any living relatives in case Vlad ever actually managed to kill Jack or something else happened to both his parents. He just never imagined it would be for this reason specifically.

(2) Yes, she knows Danny is Phantom now. She did not know before. She found out after she tried to pin the blame for Danny's friends and family on Phantom while Danny was in earshot, and he basically blew up at her and broke down. She's horrified and feels terrible, so don't be too hard on her. The confrontation also happened on school grounds with a bunch of other kids present, so a good majority of the student body knows now, too. If not from seeing it first hand, then by word of mouth. They're keeping it hush hush so nobody with bad intentions towards ghosts comes looking for Danny. Valerie will be the main defense against any ghosts that pop up, as well as a few other kids she trained.

(3) Before he left, Danny did disable and completely dismantle the ghost portal and translated all his parent's research into a code him, Sam, and Tucker came up with before destroying the originals as well as the entire lab itself. Natural ghost portals can still pop up in Amity Park tho, since the ghost portal kinda oversaturated the town with ectoplasm. Valerie and the kids she trained are just a precaution.

Haven't come up with a title for this one yet. I'll add it later when it pops into my head though.

Funny enough, this actually isn't what I planned to write for this prompt. It did involve Danny getting adopted into the Kent family, but there was going to be something entirely different happening. Apparently, the characters had other plans. Oh well, I'll save it for the next one, I guess. It might be a second part of this, actually. We'll see!

Enjoy the angst & hurt/comfort tho!

[cutekoala1001]

You see here, kid

You gotta just go for it.

You just gotta bend your knees, take a deep breath and jump.

And you might think, What if I fall?

Well, what if you don’t? What if you fly?

[black-quadrant]

speaking from hard experience, I can’t stress this enough: challenge your comfort zone. to really grow and be proud of yourself, you’ve got to do more than just be a little uncomfortable. you’ve got to be a little scared. it feels counterintuitive but overcoming things you think you can’t do is 💯 how you get stronger, wiser and better.

[francolaplnto]

my toxic trait is that i remember each one of the f1 content creators on every social media platform who badmouthed franco literally before his first race and now fell in love with him. one thing about me is that i don't forgive nor forget. yes i am a resentful bitch when it comes to my favourite little guys

[sanctus-ingenium]

What happens when an engine “dies”?

Depends on how it dies!

If it reaches the end of its service life via accumulated wear and tear or just exceeding the number of cycles it can go through safely - it is retired and placed within a collection of old engines which can be taken apart and studied by enginesmiths who either replace it with a 1:1 replica, or create an improved version. Creating an impressive improved version usually elevates someone to master status, but it's not always needed. If it's just a single part it's most likely to just be replaced with an identical part. Old parts are treated with respect and reverence, and hearts in particular get preserved in a memorial hall which is among the holiest sites in the theocracy.

Old voice engines are preserved specifically to allow people to hear the voice of a beast and inhale their breath. Many higher-ranking members of the church choose to die while inhaling the breath of a holy beast, and will deliver their final prophecies in the heightened mental state this practice promotes.

If it fails more spectacularly, there are a couple of options. If pieces remain intact, it can be repaired with patched-in metal or replacement parts. If nothing remains intact (because it went out popcorn style) the engine is replaced by following the build guidelines in the parts manual produced for each component. These are highly valued top secret documents.

As for what happens to everything around it when it dies - again, depends. A heart engine failing mid-battle is a catastrophe and call for an immediate emergency evacuation because there's excited fuel that now isn't being pumped anywhere and a bunch of engines all experiencing fuel starvation at once. Best case scenario the beast stops moving, worst case is big explosion. But if it's something like a voice engine - we don't really need that to keep functioning. Shut off the fuel line and carry on. A muscle engine breaks - it's okay, there are so many of them that the system can deal with a few dead ones up to a certain extent.

The knight can sense and indicate any engines which are no longer functioning correctly and pass the info along to the enginesmiths in the heart who shut off the appropriate fuel line.

[clonerightsagenda]

I'm so resigned to my endless medical bullshit that I forget how it sounds to other people. I told someone today that I was going to have a double jaw joint replacement and she gasped out loud and clapped her hands to her mouth in horror for a good 30 seconds.

[jhonny]

people often talk about how kid trunks absorbed a lot of vegeta's negative traits - cocky, boastful, competitive, prideful - but i feel like i rarely hear people talk about how future trunks has a lot of gohan's negative traits. he obviously comes off more mature because circumstances forced him to grow up quickly (not unlike gohan), but he's also awkward and insecure. he's never sure of his strength, and always seems to blame himself when things go wrong, even if it's beyond his control. he also seems to view fighting the same way as gohan; not something he enjoys, but something necessary, something he has to be good at to keep everyone he loves alive. until meeting frieza, he never would've had a proper victory in his life; everyone around him was always stronger than him, until one day he was suddenly forced into the spotlight as the last fighter able to take on an unbeatable enemy. no wonder they're so alike, they have almost the exact same trauma.

[starrysharks]

posting oc stuff on my 40k twitter account and getting like 200-400likes... knew i'd be alienating my audience but sheesh

[odessastone]

My favorite part of writing Lifeweaver is playing up his usual silly goofy funney guy act, then throwing in a “his family hasn’t talked to him in 10 years” or “every day he grapples with the knowledge that he could be killed at any moment and his creation used to usher in an ecological dystopia the likes of which we’ve never seen before”

[goatyuuji]

Some villian stsg headcanons:

So I haven’t seen more ppl talk about this but what if Geto convinced Gojo to join his cause… BUT it’s not like Gojo and Geto go on a rampage together. Oh no no no no, Geto asks Gojo to stay back at Jujutsu High and let him do the dirty work. Gojo’s job is more like infiltration, he has to clear records of Geto’s murders and whereabouts, provide the higher ups with false information and keep getting money from his own clan to fund Geto’s cult. Gojo works as a jujutsu sorcerer but gives Geto information about his missions and lets Geto consume the Special Grade curses he is assigned to exorcise. So they basically an unhinged couple where one is running a cult and going on a murder spree while the other one is doing the insider job and covering up for the other.

[skunkes]

is anybody sooo stressed out

[silverserpent]

OKAY SO

Tomorrow, me, @atak-achrativ and @freshlybakedpigeons are going to stream Star-spawned, roleplay made by @prokopetz!

EDIT: time will be at 6:30 Central European Time!

This is a GMless roleplay. The core concept is that we are playing eldritch beings who were just born, therefore we have no idea about what our stats mean.

So, we are applying the scientific method to it. We are gonna make hypotheses and test them. We are very smart eldritch beings.