#one thing leads to another...

[rookinthecrownest]

Demon of Vyrantium

from a screenshot study of this post

[stars-obsession-pit]

Not Quite his Twin

Danny Fenton is not Danyal al Ghul. They’d wanted him to be, but he wasn’t.

He still remembers when he first woke up, his whole body feeling raw and ill-fitted. Even his mind felt wrong, his memories not quite his own.

Which, he supposes, they weren’t.

Because Danyal is still dead. Executed on the orders of the Demon’s Head for failing to live up to his twin.

But the spurned heir would make a perfect figurehead to build legitimacy for a coup, so a splinter sect of the League stole away some of his remains before they could be disposed of. They may not have had permission to access the Lazarus Pits, but they could still turn to some more unorthodox methods of attempting resurrection. A combination of cloning, a few stolen and processed samples of Lazarus Water, and pieces of necromantic rituals.

And it almost worked.

Almost.

The body they constructed did indeed come to life, and clearly possessed at least some of Danyal’s memories, but it wasn’t him. The memories were locked behind a barrier, present in abstract but not felt. This thing they created could never pass for the deceased heir, and thus could never be the figurehead they wanted. So they decided to dispose of him.

But the clone’s memories had shown him this sort of betrayal before, and he did still have some of the original’s skills. He struck first, killing several of their agents and managing to escape the lab.

He had no idea what to do next, but at least he was free. Free to form his own life, to become someone unique rather than just not-quite-Danyal.

[waterfallofspace]

when someone has a defined sneeze, not a quick cough-adjacent, or a rapid/small "eshh/ishh/tshh" type, a vocal, lengthy, defined one

think "hih'ttzshh'chiew!" or "hh'atchshew!" or "eh'rrschh'oo!"

one where you can hear each section, the breathy inhale (hihh-), the vocal release (tschh-), and the whining/relieved end (shhiew-!)

just something about getting all those parts in the experience, hearing the clear sections of a sneeze~

+ bonus points for being vocal enough to hear their voice in it~

[thatweirdtranny]

you would think i’m some massive weed hater from the way i talk but i’m just pissed about how the culture surrounding it has convinced people that it’s fine to get high all the time because it’s “just weed”

[mortellanarts]

Muscle Memory

*made this shortly after catching up on the series pre kh3 and don't think I ever?? posted it for some reason??

[complexraspberry]

Mrs. Porter is ever the card-shark and will gladly rob you of all your money.

[imbackbilly]

*walks in on you and ford*

@sixfingrs

[peace-hunter]

it's not really what you were talking about but your baby prime orion au posts made me think of this: https://www.tumblr.com/quasi-normalcy/708966214082478080/this-goes-both-ways-both-you-dont-have-to-do

about this

it actually is a little bit of that too!

i think a great part of orion's character arc in this au would be about him learning that him being a prime since birth doesn't make him especially fit to lead and it shouldn't have to. he can learn to be a good leader and he has the potential to be a great one, but it's not an inherent talent he gets just because it's his birthright.

and i think in this au orion would struggle a lot more with being a leader than he does in canon because here it's something that it's being imposed on him rather than something he chooses. here the high guard is actively looking at him for direction and for him to take the lead now that he's back with them, when he's barely coping with the truth of who he is and the grief of everything he lost.

and he tries because he feels like he has to accept the responsibility he's being given, he feels like he has to step into the role the high guard wants him to, he feels like he has to live up to the expectations people have of him.

if being a prime made him especial enough to be "different" than the others around him, then surely it made him capable enough to be the leader the high guard wants him to be, right?

no. it really did not.

i think his first attempt at leading (which would probably be the raid at the high guard hideout? still thinking about it) is absolutely terrible. it ends up a mighty disaster that has people reeling because no one expected him to fail so miserably.

this is at once the first crack in the high guard's devotion to their last prime, the first blow to orion's belief that being a prime makes him inherently better than others and the first step for him to learn how to actually be someone worth following.

he has to learn that even if he's a prime he's still. just a guy. and that's okay. he'll have to put in the work to be better but he's also not an irremediable failure for not being perfect right out of the gate.

so... yeah kajshdksada

baby prime orion au

[sneakyboymerlin]

One more time… Merlin didn’t owe anyone his secrets. No one was entitled to them, not even Gwaine. It’s like, actually bizarre that you will all call magic a gay metaphor and then die on the hill that he’s sadistic if he doesn’t tell anyone, as if it’s “harmful” to others if he keeps it a secret when he actively lives in a place where he will be killed for it. You are all embarrassingly susceptible to right winger anti-lgbtq logic and only surface level pro-gay. Except it’s ultimately a metaphor for religious persecution so uhh anyways… bite a brick

[starssoblue]

i need more episodes about adrien just trying new things and gradually figuring out what he wants to spend his time doing, what classes and hobbies he genuinely enjoys, and then eventually, what he'd like to pursue professionally. i never really thought about running before sublimation and while i still don't think that's actually his passion, i love that he connected the act of running to the freedom and joy he gets when he's being chat noir, running around paris saving people. one of my favorite things about adrien that a lot of people in fandom especially in fics miss is that just because he's decent or even great at several things doesn't mean he has a personal connection to that thing. in early ml he was acting in his friends' student films, playing sports to different results, fencing with his friends, participating in band, even modeling for fun. in climatiqueen, he discovered he was decent at drawing, a mess with labwork, quick with languages (no surprise there), and v new to baking—all things he could improve upon but nothing that made him feel passion. but he specified the reason he had fun trying those things wasn't the things themselves but because he was doing them with marinette, same as before when he took skills he was forced to acquire by his father and re-utilized them to hang out with his friends despite not feeling a personal connection to any of those hobbies or talents. i don't know if the show plans on him discovering this soon (they're sooooo young, i hate that he is even stressing about this just because his friends are not normal and because the french school system has most people declare their course of study in lycée) but i'm just excited to see him branch out and try new things and get the life experience he was denied when he was younger. 

and running away from the agreste manor (where he was confined and forced to be a perfect mold) as his first step toward self discovery? brilliant imagery.

[clumsypuppy]

i cant go back to that life man

[qaanngi]

IkeVamp Drake (anng's version)

AKA me getting so pissy on personal about how he isn't kissed by the sun and sea that I decided to give him a tan myself, among other things. But I kept his hair style (slightly) and eye colour.

I just think, in my less than humble opinion, that if they're going to stick a notorious privateer into the game and make him drop a tone of seafaring references then his design should make my timbers shiver and every one of his spicy premium stories should have MC say that his beard tickles the inside of her thighs. And I just don't think White Haired Anime Boy #3 is gonna do that.

[technicalknockout]

he got three hours of sleep last night and is mildly cranky about it

[circuscarnage]

I fear no one is prepared for the creature I become once Jonathan Bailey aka G'raha Tia catboy sings As long as your mine from Wicked because I'm about to make it THE WOL g'raha ship song.

[app1es0uce]

There’s so much jealousy spinning inside both Ragatha and Jax. 

Ragatha is obviously very jealous of Jax. I’m working my ass off over here, trying my damned hardest to be nice and positive at any moment because that’s what they need from me. And then here comes this asshole and Pomni likes him more than me? Why? Is everything I do… not worth it? Not enough? An I not trying hard enough? Am I not nice enough? Am I not enough? Jax doesn’t even try, infact he tries overkill to be mean, and yet…? 

Jax seems like he was jealousy of Gangle, when saying “Do you think Gangle is actually capable of being happy?” Just in the way he moves and acts. Almost like he’s jealous that Gangle who permanently stuck with the tragedy mask on her face while her comedy mask constantly breaks, can still be happy. Like- she is literally designed to be sad. And if she can do that, why can’t he? Especially with Zooble who he mocks the most and who is one of the only ones of them that has a better snap back at Jax’s snide comments. If Gangle can be happy with Zooble, and Zooble dislikes Jax the most, maybe it’s a sign that he can’t be happy. Someone who was designed to be sad, Zooble is their source of happiness. And if that source of happiness smdoenst like him, can he ever be happy?

[starflungwaddledee]

did you know that coo is canonically lonely? {shipaganza prompt by @veveisveryuncool}