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Johnny: Man, thinking about it, if I ... well, actually... Max: You see, you're learning for the future that thinking is pretty awesome. Johnny: Well, I was CURIOUS! And the fastest way to get answers is by DOING IT rather than ASKING.
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and shout-out to weepe's guards! competent enough to move quicker than kozma's people, strong enough to overpower them despite being outnumbered, and seemingly didn't even blink at not just killing other people but at doing it with horrific weaponized tearror-blood. weepe found these guys in the fucking TRUST?
#midst podcast#midst#midst spoilers#midst podcast spoilers#i'm of two minds about it bc on the one hand kestrel astutely pointed out that there was no mention of valor or abacuses where you'd expect#and using the fold to tear apart a bunch of guards who are trying to stop their boss getting Murdered doesn't Seem very valorous by trust s#and weepe having a bunch of guys in his pocket who WEREN'T originally trust even if they've been pulled in seems like something he'd like#but on the other hand. where would he have GOTTEN a bunch of non-trust guys????#AND they're referred to as a special king triangle 'Company guard' in 3.7#plus i really like the idea that like...the trust really does have some VERY fucking competent soldiers#we've seen phineas do some genuinely impressive athletic stunts and we know costigan can uh. hold her own in a fight#and anyway it isn't the prime consector's unit's job to be the best it's their job to LOOK the best#of COURSE you'd want your really skilled guys protecting your upper trustees and your king triangle#hell it's just another angle of the non-trust society underestimating the trust (but that's a whole nother post)#and as far as the valor goes...well. we've certainly seen definitions shift! company guards stood outside the vault in 2.13 too!#and witnessed the devastation after!
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At first I was like “what if I made 11 sibling OCs for the March Hare from Alice in Wonderland and named them all after months of the year” as a joke. But bro, I don’t think it’s a joke anymore.
#alice in wonderland#the march hare#I went ‘haha funny gimmick’ then all of a sudden I have a dysfunctional family on my hands#I do Not have the skills of recreating the Vibe of the original books so it’s more of an AU where the world is normal-ish#magic and stuff still exists but like. I made one of his brothers a lawyer#all the projection I’m doing onto March probably isn’t helping either lol#I’m gonna read/listen to the original book again to try to get the vibes at least a little closer#will I ever share it online? probably not unless someone rly wants to see dhdhdh#but I’m so attached to July. my butch short king lesbian. I love her so much#if someone asks about it I might share 👀 but for once I feel awkward posting about it unprompted#what is this. I love being weird about fictional characters.#is it because they’re OCs and I mostly only ever post about canon characters? perhaps#is it that AiW is a ClassicTM and for children and also old so I feel like it’s not ‘for me’? maybe#is it that I’m worried about mischaracterizing the canon characters despite many different adaptations portraying them differently? yes.
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My personal favorite Party Crasher fanart so far, I have combined them with Taiko no Tatsujin and created original characters resembling each party member.
From left to right:
Sophist/Eevee as an Purple Leech
Brent/King of Skill as an Monkey/Moosy Hybrid
TCNick3/Nick as an Orange dashing penguin
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Vernias/Vern as an buff pancake
#fanart#art#fan art#videogame fanart#taiko no tatsujin#original characters#tcnick3#king of skill#sophist#vernias#party crashers#youtube#youtuber fanart#crossover
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I think, I must quit feeling in the wrong about writing a thousand fanfictions at once. And, possibly uploading chapter one after chapter one before ever finishing a chapter 2. Fanfiction is a hobby. I do it for myself. I suspect, I may be more productive should I jump among the WIPs freely. Because, when I force myself to focus on a couple, I get frustrated, and frustration leads to burnout. Writing becomes a chore, while writing fanfiction should always be a pleasure.
#diary pages#writing journal#fanfiction author#fanfiction writing#fanfiction writer#ao3 writer#writer problems#no i do not need speculation what possible head conditions make me this way I'm more aware than you'd imagine#i'm trying to focus almost solely on hellfire and i think it's a mistake#i have many wips and they bite when i deny them attention... well i bite myself#fanfiction is a different beast than original fiction i believe one should be loose with it not in terms of skill but possibly discipline#again i keep telling myself to use the stephen king method but then don't do it#i guess... i'm anxious people will get upset i keep uploading instead of updating#i can't help my head being a cluster of infinite timelines#writing fanfiction should never be a chore#and burnout fucking sucks#may also be the sprint i did for exams and... other things#tho i did to well in latin#also sometimes i just want to talk about my works on here but i'm afraid of spoiling them
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saw a tiktok that said “[Mulan] would’ve been so much better if she was a guy” bc of the whole “Shang finding out Mulan’s actually a girl and not a femboy” stuff as if… as if the WHOLE POINT of the movie wasn’t supposed to be that Mulan was a girl in a country who oppressed women (+ forced men to fight even in their old age or if they were disabled) and she broke the status quo of being a “submissive” “weak” woman… like?? sorry that the Disney movie is based on an actual legend and not your average ao3 fanfic 💀
#ren rants#not to fucking mention that Shang didn’t even exist in the original Ballad of Mulan#there was no romance in the original Mulan story#and as much as i love bi king Shang and shanglan ship#PLEASE use your reading comprehension skills
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If Finrod is Legolas's other dad, explain Lorien.
Reference is to this post, and also I'm tagging @z-h-i-e because this is their ship-baby, I just popped in to sprinkle some additional inspiration because my brain went "ooh hey!" when their post crossed my dash because that's the kind of supportive community fandom is supposed to be made of fyi.
Right, so. There's no sense of tone in straight-text communication on the internet, so I know that it's entirely possible that this ask was sent in the spirit of giggling-with-popcorn delight while you eagerly await the resulting explanation. It's equally possible that you're playing at being The Ship Police and challenging me in the expectation that I won't be able to make this Just For Funsies ship sail without floundering on the rocks of canon.
Either way: buckle up. Because the boats of Lórien don't sink.
Because when Legolas gets to the woods of Lothlórien with the rest of the Fellowship, he's delighted. He's never actually been here before! He's heard all the stories, and listened avidly, but. well. Thranduil and Galadriel both blame the other a little bit for the nasty way Finrod died (they know it's not the other's fault so they don't say anything, either to each other or anyone else but, well. it feels like it ought to be the other one's fault, somehow).
And there's all that tension re: Doriath still, and why Galadriel couldn't just pick-up where Melian her teacher left off and maintain the Girdle afterwards—because I'm not a maia, Thranduil, you ass! Oh, so you couldn't even TRY?—especially because she then proceeds to do basically that for Lórien just a few thousand years later...and of course Galadriel thinks it's Oropher's fault that so many of Lothlórien's elves died in the Last Alliance, because if only he hadn't been so reckless and pig-headed then surely Amdír would never have thought up that idiotic suicidal charge on his own...and if she'd maybe tried a little harder to rein-in the son/nephew of the Kinslayers, maybe Sauron would never have even made the Rings, and Mirkwood would still be Greenwood, which you'll note she can't be arsed to extend her convenient semi-girdle to either...and if he wasn't so damn prideful maybe somebody could help his precious stupid spider-forest...etc etc.
They aren't like. enemies. but they don't really get along anymore, either. They don't talk. (There's a reason the elves of Green/Mirkwood were moving north even before Sauron took up housekeeping in Dol Guldur.) So even though Lothlórien is like maybe a week's walk away, Legolas hasn't actually been here before. And he is stoked! Because he's always wanted to visit, but he didn't want to hurt his remaining dad's feelings by being like "bye, gonna go visit my aunt whom you haven't spoken to in like three thousand years, nbd!" so he never did — but here they are now, and it's part of the Quest, so it's not like Legolas just popped in for a visit, is it? He's doing something that just happened to bring him here, so Thranduil can't take it personally, and...well, here he is! At last! This is awesome! He's so excited to see his aunt's fabled forest!
And then they want to blindfold him!? He's FINALLY in Lórien, and he's not even allowed to look at the place!? This is his aunt's forest, for fuck's sake — he is an elf and a kinsman here, dammit! No wonder he goes from zero-to-sixty re: "golly Gimli don't be so stubborn" => "hOw dARe yOu!?!?!?" when the blindfold is suggested. He's not just pissed, he's taking it personally. Because he's family.
Okay so far so good, but when the Fellowship comes before Celeborn and Galadriel why doesn't anyone say anything about Legolas literally being their nephew, one might ask? Ah! Well, that's because we have Hobbits for our narrators, and they simply don't know elvish family trees well enough to catch that detail. Which is why when Celeborn says "Welcome son of Thranduil! Too seldom do my kindred journey hither from the North," it's perhaps a little more pointed of a statement than the Hobbits know. Celeborn is saying long time no see nephew, how nice of you to visit FINALLY. But Legolas and Thranduil have called themselves "Wood-elves" since moving to Greenwood, so the fact that he's actually half-Noldor just never gets mentioned, because it's not like it's relevant, is it? He doesn't mention being half-Sindar either. He calls himself a Wood-elf because he is a Wood-elf...by adoption. So why would the Hobbits even think to ask?
And we know that Galadriel uses ósanwë on everybody, so why wouldn't she be using it with her own nephew? What better way to have a private family chat, after all? And she doesn't say anything aloud to anyone while Celeborn is greeting everybody else, and it's not like Galadriel really needs to listen to the "hellos" either; perhaps she and Legolas have a little mental confab just the two of them while everybody else is settling in. You could easily write that in, if you wanted to, without breaking any of the existing canon.
After that, we actually have a perfect textural opening for Legolas to go hang with his aunt and uncle some more: while the rest of the Fellowship doesn't see Galadriel and Celeborn again until the Mirror and then their departure, the book says "Legolas was away much among the Galadhrim, and after the first night he did not sleep with the other companions, though he returned to eat and talk with them." So we know that Legolas is going off to hang-out with the Lórien elves...a.k.a. Aunt Galadriel. Probably sleeping in the guest bedroom and pestering her for embarrassing stories about his dads. And maybe asking her for tips on how to talk to dwarves without putting your foot in your mouth since she's clearly got experience.
And no, none of them went in for stuff like gushing hugs when they meet...but if they haven't spoken to one another in a few thousand years, and probably didn't spend all that much time together even before that (Galadriel and Thranduil weren't much in any of the same places after Doriath fell) then they wouldn't likely be all that cuddly with one another anyway, would they? Distant-but-fond seems like the order of the day to me, and you can definitely read their fleeting interactions in the book that way. (A kickass bow potentially strung with your own hair is a great gift for a nephew you don't know well who's about to go off into danger! I bet he could even shoot-down a Ringwraith with a bow like that!) Tense-and-awkward-but-trying-to-be-polite would work too, of course; depends on what kind of drama you want.
So yeah, actually I think it's perfectly reasonable to posit that Galadriel could potentially be Legolas's aunt; I've seen several fics that present Celeborn and Thranduil as cousins or some other close relative, and nobody gets shirty about the canocity of that kinship re: the Lórien scenes, so why wouldn't the connection be just as acceptable to come via Finrod and Galadriel instead? There's nothing in the text that I know of that says it can't be canon.
Anyway, Finrod-as-Legolas's-other-dad wasn't actually meant to be a serious "look how well canon supports this idea, it's definitely a very plausible thing that people should embrace in a wholly serious and canonical manner" theory to begin with. I was just having fun. Somebody said, "hey check out their weird rare ship, it's a lot of fun!" and my brain had a lightbulb moment and went "ooh what if you took that silly fun ship and leaned-in even harder with it, though?" and here we are.
Does a marriage between Thranduil and Finrod actually fit with all the canon of the Silm? I don't know, probably not; then again it might, simply because so much of the Silm is vague, especially when it comes to the elves of Mirkwood who barely even get mentioned once or twice. Personally I prefer having Legolas be born in Mirkwood and to be relatively young for an elf when Fellowship starts (there's no canon about that either way, I just like the vibes of it). However, this ship is a lot of fun too. In fact, I think it's already my favorite idea for an older-Legolas-with-ties-to-important-people take on the character, if that's how you want to take the character, simply because it is so much fun.
Do I think it's canon? No, of course not. But who cares? We're not writing Academic Articles on Accurate Tolkien Scholarship, we're writing fanfiction. We're having fun. So if you're a giggling-with-popcorn anon: good, awesome, glad to have you here enjoying the fun too. If you're a Ship Police Anon...well, acab and farewell because I frankly just do not have the time to give a shit about what somebody else ships or doesn't. Block the tag and move on.
#anon i grew up on x-men comics#AND the original star wars EU which fyi was an absolute clusterfuck#and spent my childhood plotting the most detailed and accurate AUs with my brother and our action figures that you can imagine#it often took an hour just to get the backstory set up so we could start playing#you think i can't make something with continuity as vague as lotr work the way i want it to?#please. i've never met a plothole i couldn't either pave-over or squirm my way around#believe you me anon: i have not yet begun to contort canon#this was easy this was nothing i could have concocted this in my sleep#my only weakness in this fight is that i simply don't KNOW silm-era canon off the top of my head#but i assure you that whatever nitpick you can present i will find a way through over or around#it's a weird and generally useless skill but i have a ridiculous knack for tap-dancing around canon#so go ahead bring it on i'm invested now let's spite-ship this all the way back to valinor XD#thranduil#finrod#legolas#thranduil x finrod#bling kings#shipping#my stuff#lotr#legolas has two daddies
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How do you spend most of your days, Astra?
Mothra Astra:
"I went on watching the humans' every day lives and activities; the Shobijin, my Mom's Twin Priestesses, taught me about them and how to be a 'role model' as a protector and guardian of the humanity and Titans."
"Whenever I'm bored, I spend most of the days weaving about crafting using my silk and other materials, if there's any human assistance, analyzing my stability by using the crystals that served as my energy, meditating, practicing my defense and fighting skills and maneuvers with the help of my two uncles Rodan and Anguirus, singing, stargazing, and learning more about the other humanity's culture, which is why I loathed for. Oh, and I love drawing too, because my two human best friends taught me well."
"Thanks for the question!"
#The humans and her parents are quite shocked by her intelligence and skills#She did not falter of her own she's just proud of her good deeds that would one day she'd applied to her role#And yes she loves drawing that she even made a 'paint' of hers and her parents too#Stargazing is her first hobby when she was a young larva because the stars synchronized her powers and vocal tone she sung#godzilla#mothra#oc#original character#mothra astra#monsterverse#kaiju#godzilla king of the monsters#godzilla kotm#Princess of the Monsters#Eternal Angel of Stars#asked and answered#anonymous#adm starblitzsteel 4305
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Do not throw tomatoes at him (yet)
#hiiii I didn't forget about that idea that was brought up in dms :D#the idea of Eustis being a signer in general would be neat#originally was something thought of for if his spouse was deaf#I just like to offer this idea as a “this is something that is important to him no matter how shitty of a person he is”#no selfish intent behind it he genuinely sees it as an essential skill#he studied and mastered signing because he thinks it to be important to be able to communicate with people#that and he's fluent in other languages for the purpose of easy communication#maybe could sprinkle some “this will make me look better” into the reason but still main reason is communication#it would benefit him both as a knight and a king#I lay this offering on the floor and flip over a table badly injuring a clone of Eustis#captain's art (oc fanart edition)#not my oc#others oc#oc headcanon
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Weaknesses and Abilities ( Vampire / Vampire the Masquerade - Nobunaga )
Generational Weakness: Methuselah
While Nobunaga's age may be the source of her power - her generation which makes her all that much closer to her powerful ancestors; it is also a weakness for many of her ancient kind. All unconscious body movement has stopped at this stage - making the Vampire akin to a living statue. Though this does hold true for Nobunaga, she also is far better at hiding this than other members of her generation; remaining conscious of her hand movements to imitate that of a living person's body language. Some Methuselah thirst's can only be sated by vampire blood; but Nobunaga has been feeding off rats and other creatures for so long that she is able to overcome this craving. However, denying herself even human blood has considerably weakened her physical abilities as a vampire, making her no stronger tan a fledging in terms of strength or speed.
Clan Weakness: Brujah
The Brujah are guided by their passions, and in contrast to other clans, feel every emotion a human may twice as strongly. This leads to the Bane of a violent temper, which makes them less likely to resist the urge to go into a frenzied, uncontrolled state. Even more prominent is their compulsion towards rebellion - to question all authority and orders.
Nobunaga is classified as an "Idealist" within her clan, as opposed to the Iconoclasts who will cause trouble for the sake of opposition itself.
Ability: Celerity ( Rank 1 )
Cat's Grace - Nobunaga cannot lose her sense of balance, unless physically thrown off.
Ability: Potence ( Rank 1 )
Lethal Body - She is capable of overpowering almost any normal human unarmed, tearing flesh and breaking bone.
Ability: Presence ( Rank 7 )
Awe - an aura that can be activated at her will, that causes most to want to either become closer to her or shudder in fear. Danger or leaving the area can break this fascination, but will leave an imprint on anyone's affected mind. Those who truly fall under this spell will lean towards the user`s opinion, regardless of what is said.
Dread Gaze - By a powerful stare, a hiss, bearing of her fangs - she can strike inexplicable fear and terror into the hearts of those she choses. Technically a skill any vampire can posses, but all the more overpowering when preformed with this discipline.
Entrancement - She can lead somebody into a hypnotic-like state, where they will obsessively want to please her for a short time.
Summon - Compels someone to come to her immediately, regardless of their position or distance from each other. In someone is under the influence of Awe, it does not have to be willingly.
Majesty - The influence of Nobunaga`s Awe can be used not just to influence a few people, but enough for a full theatre of spectators. At her full might in this abiity, she comes off as a figure of absolute power or Authority.
Fires of Conviction ( Advanced Power )
She can address any crowd an embolden them with a passionate fury in the name of a cause. The ability that allowed her to dominate the warring states .. Can be used to fight injustice - or destroy a city. The very reason why even the Camarilla sometimes fear her - knowing they`d be unable to explain away the massacres she could inflame, if she so chose to do so.
#Needed somewhere to infodump my build#ive probably like actually way nerfed her for how old she is#but i figure thats fair because like hell if im keeping track of her blood pool in rp lmao#i hate v5 in theory but it has better skills so im going with those#for celerity and potence anyways I love the Original Presence skills#the fool of owari [ nobunaga ]#v; The Rat King ( Vampire )
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Celebration Time! Yey!
I just realized that it's been a little over a year since I came up with the concept of the For Funsies AU! It all started with the idea of Enkidu, Gilgamesh, and Phantom of the Opera being besties in a fake poly relationship, plus some other headcanons that stuck in my mind!
Here are some of the original doodles/concepts I had made (under cut)! Warning for old art XD a bit of a jumpscare (but also a welcomed comparison of my art improvements!)
A little mixed up and around, some doodles are slightly more recent than others XD however iirc I drew the height thing in the July of 2022! It's been so long! XD
A little doodle comic of Jekyll, Mordred, and Utterson, referencing a Tumblr post I had found on Pinterest (before I had actually fully started using my Tumblr account XD). It goes "What pronouns should we use for you?" "For me? I am but a little flower." "For example, Stewart Little is mouse-shaped. But he is human. He would be permitted to partake in the body of Christ" "HELLO???"
I had drawn that, iirc, shortly after I designed Utterson! I had designed Utterson very early into my senior year of high school, iirc during August or October. Definitely before Christmas, at least XD it's so funny how time flies
I will look for more of my doodle later XD especially the poly Enkidu-Gil-Opera doodles
#forfunsiesau#alternate universe#fate grand order#fgo#fate go#fgo fate grand order#character design#doodles#celebration#fanart#fgo headcanons#mastersona#original character#fanservant#headcanon#YAY! IT'S BEEN A YEAR AND I STILL HAVEN'T COMPLETED THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE FANFIC VERSION OF ROMEO'S ARC#I HAVEN'T EVEN COMPLETED THE REDESIGNS OF THE MAIN SERVANTS#AUGH#XD I prove myself to be the absolute King at procrastinating while also developing XD#Lanyon still doesn't have a full design but he actually has his skills written out XD RIP
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the trend of movie musicals hiring broadway actors who can actually sing and dance instead of random celebrities is a shining beacon of hope within the murky despair of modern hollywood
#nature is healing#cats was rock bottom now there’s nowhere to go but up#while we’re on a roll can we get a remake of les mis that doesn’t give everyone inexplicable english accents#bay’s originals#i know it’s not new it’s just returning but still#return of the king(filmmakers who focus on quality rather than marketability)#it would be very sexy if this could happen with voice acting as well btw. cast people who have skills other than name recognition please!
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Final remake in regards the Party Crashers fanart, I have added Colin as an floating mask that is controlled by the main Party Crashers gang. This is in regards to the crossover with thee youtubers and Taiko no Tatsujin as little npc mascots.
#anime#fanart#art#anime fanart#fan art#taiko no tatsujin#ianimate38#vernias#sophist#king of skill#tcnick3#original characters
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I think its genuinely fascinating how Biden has somehow become the bad vibes sin eater for the party. I'm seeing people who were doing the whole "voting doesn't matter both old men are the same" pivot hard into voting as harm reduction. The anti voting rhetoric has COMPLETELY lost The Youths on tiktok. People suddenly remember the good things the Biden administration has done but don't associate Harris with any of the things they didn't like. In my swing state volunteers are signing up in droves. People feel ENERGIZED, the vibe shift pre and post Biden dropping from the race has just been insane
Y'know, that is a... good way of putting it. It's also why I'm quite sure that Biden has probably been planning it for a while. I don't think he was intending to step down, and didn't want to be forced out at the drop of a hat, but after he realized that the circus was never going to stop until he did, he did the honorable fall-on-his-own-sword thing and definitely, DEFINITELY spent some time choreographing this behind the scenes. Because while the roll-out has been very smooth, it could just as easily (as many of us were expecting) have been a total disaster, and that doesn't happen without SOME planning. It's also entirely possible that the campaign staff flipped from Biden to Harris are superhuman, to come up with a massive online roll-out, new branding, new signs (they had plenty of 'em in Wisconsin yesterday), new everything, but I'm guessing it's a combination of both. Biden has spent his entire political career being underestimated, and after we literally made a meme out of Dark Brandon juking the Republicans out of their shoes, we should definitely give credit where credit is due in how masterfully he pulled it off.
Because we have had eight years defined by the central question of Whether The President Is a God King Who Should Serve For Life (the MAGAts obviously think yes), the sheer idea of a president willingly giving up his power BEFORE he had to is also novel and admirable. It's sad that this is the case, but so be it. The Republicans also got a heaping helping of Be Careful What You Wish For that was undoubtedly brilliant; they've been yelling for years that Biden is old and frail and can't serve and should step down. Biden went "lol okay" and gave it to them, and now they're fucked.
Aside from that, on the most basic level, it's far, far easier to see the actual difference in the parties with Harris as the nominee, just because it shows that one party is willing to make progress and reflect the new demographic reality and social mores of America, and the other one is not. Now to be clear, Biden deserves an incredible amount of credit for coming out of retirement (he was ALREADY 77 years old when he became president and had had decades of a long and respected career in public service behind him) to fight, beat Trump, and deliver an incredibly successful presidency. He held the line against authoritarianism at home and abroad, he rescued the trashed American economy and managed a world-leading recovery from Covid, he stood up for democracy, he spent four years filling the benches with liberal judges to reverse even some of the Trump/McConnell hack job, he finally passed comprehensive infrastructure investment and the Green New Deal under the name of the Inflation Reduction Act -- and so on. Many of these priorities had been languishing for decades or were completely trashed under Trump, and he could not have done so much in just 4 years without all that age, skill, and experience. Hence why all the Ageism!!! was (aside from being a Republican/media smear job) dumb. He's able to do the job because he has had decades to study. Turns out that makes you actually pretty damn good at it.
Yes, Biden could not do as much as he wanted or originally planned, had to deal with MAGA Republicans and Joe Manchin/Kyrsten Sinema sabotaging him the whole time (lololol Manchin, possible possessor of the World's Biggest Ego and with Trump around that's saying something, popping out of obscurity to self-righteously announce he would not be willing to be Kamala's VP. YEAH ASSHOLE. LITERALLY NOBODY ASKED YOU. NOBODY WHATSOEVER. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS AT LEAST WE WILL SOON NO LONGER HAVE MANCHIN IN THE SENATE). And yes, Biden made some serious mistakes of his own, because he IS from an older generation and a different style of doing politics/different beliefs that no longer resonate with the younger segments of the electorate. But this old white Catholic guy at the age of almost 80 still managed to be the most progressive president ever, coming in at a moment of incredible domestic and international crisis and getting us safely to the other side, and all cynicism, criticizing, and caveating aside, he deserves an incredible amount of credit for that. I mean that absolutely, and I am very grateful.
As I said, willingly relinquishing that power takes guts, and when Biden saw the writing on the wall that he had to sacrifice himself, he took his time, he didn't jump too early, and he didn't jump too late. On the most basic level, it becomes a hell of a lot easier to make the "both parties are not the same" argument when one is running a (comparatively) young brown woman and the other is still running their loathed felonious old demented orange traitor. Most Americans are not plugged into policy minutiae and details. They look at Biden-Trump, they see two old white guys. When you take one of those old white guys away (who goes in a self-sacrificially heroic manner and in sharp contrast with the coup-happy fascist) and put Kamala Harris in there instead, it generates an obvious jolt. People can see for themselves that there is a real difference that doesn't rely on closely reading news and tracking complex policy, because as noted, most Americans simply don't. The brown first-generation American daughter of brown immigrants is a quantifiably different story from "old white guy career politician," which for better or worse is how Biden was seen, especially the old part. We needed that establishment expertise to beat Trump in 2020; I still think Biden is the only one who could have done it, and as noted, we owe him a great debt for doing so.
However.... 2024 is not 2020, and it is not 2016. There has been this HUGE and unbelievable swing to Kamala because she represents the antithesis of what the last eight years of Trump-induced anger, fear, panic, chaos, and hatred has stirred up. That's why people are so ready to rally around her, just as they were (I daresay) around Obama in 2008, after the exhaustion, chaos, war, and mounting economic misery of Bush. Trump has been out of office for the last four years, but his shadow over the American political landscape has been omnipresent. Now people know that we finally have a real chance at getting rid of him forever, and just as Biden was uniquely positioned to capitalize on that in 2020, so Harris is now. Which is why, however tough it will be, she has a real shot at winning. I can guarantee the Republicans know that, and are shit scared. Because the Black Lady Army of Democracy has indeed arrived in force to Get This Shit Done and I don't know about you, but I found that incalculably comforting:
Yikes! All lined up for Kamala pic.twitter.com/Dt4OCDp7WX
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 24, 2024
This, at the most basic level, is what scares fascists the most, it's exactly what we need now, and what Harris is uniquely positioned to mobilize, along with her gangbusters appeal to young voters:
This is the energy we need. This is what Biden saw and planned for and which he launched us into, and where all that experience and age paid off. This is why people, even people otherwise disengaged, disillusioned, or checked out of the tedious and mind-numbering drudgery and depression of American politics, are responding to it. Because it's easy to understand, it offers hope, and it tells a very simple story that is nonetheless long overdue:
Thanks so much, Joe. Go absolutely waste that orange fucker, Kamala. We got your back.
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Hera stood, waiting for her turn at last. The Queen of the Greek Pantheon traced the lines of neon green, its light reflecting against her true form in a soothing way. She’s no stranger to patience, to waiting. But there were little of those that had the gall to make her wait, and even smaller of that number that she would tolerate such behavior. Regardless, this was the one being she could not afford to offend and so, she waits. Her many forms, her divine self, perceived the room and compared it to her own halls of residence.
Olympus was much more intricate, carved of noble marble and inlaid with countless of priceless metals and gems and divinity. Twelve seats of power atop an engineering wonder, halls adorned with the brightest of the original flames, an hearth that was roaring at Hesta’s skillful hands.
In comparison, this throne room had been changed much since she was last here. Gone were the spikes of terror and screams of the damned. Now… it looked like the most bare throne room she’d ever bore witness to.
And yet, as she waited for the Boy King, Hera could feel the subtle thrum of impossible power. The new king did not flare his will and might like the previous tyrant, and for that, Hera approved. She has had quite enough of living with and under tyrants who cared only for themselves… and their bed achievements whilst failing spectacularly in their marital roles. Zeus was not a good life partner and Hera regretted ever saying yes to him many times in her immortal life. And yet… she loved him still.
The doors opened, and a small figure floated in, flanked by the previous King’s Knight. Perhaps that is what makes this Boy King so dangerous, Hera thought as she dipped into a bow, because he can turn the loyalest to his side.
“Your Majesty,” she greeted, in ghost speak.
“Heya, Hera!” The Boy King greeted her back, before waving the Knight away. Hera marveled, a bit, at the sheer confidence he had to dismiss his knight in her presence. Even the last king kept the knights around to ensure his power was always in display, always unchallengeable. The Boy King could destroy her with a snap of a finger and he knows it. He knows that she knows it.
“What did you need?” The Boy King asked, grin still on place as he floated to her instead of seating himself on his throne. Hera masked the bit of confusion she felt in pursuit of her goal.
“I have come here to ask of you a favor,” she began. “I am aware that… you are fond of this, the earth in which I reside in?”
Hera carefully picked her word. Everybody knows that the new King Phantom had laid claim to not only the Infinite Realms as is normal of his station, but an entire Earth as his haunt. He had the power to do so, she could finally see, now that she was standing before him. It would not do for Hera to get her strings cut because she claimed what is his.
“Sure. Why?” The Boy King tilted his head, narrowing that predator green upon her true form.
“Do you know of the Justice League, my lord?”
“Phantom’s fine,” he waved a hand. “And yeah, sure do! Why?”
Hera tilted her many forms in acknowledgement of the command. She bowed.
“My daughter, of a sort, is Diana Prince. Wonder Woman. She is… in grave danger. We can not exert our influence over a land that does not have our history. I can not interfere and aid her.”
“Oh, you want me to help her?” His tone was exasperated, and Hera spoke even more carefully in fear of offending him.
“Yes, if it pleases you. And it would be most gracious of you should Your Majesty have time to watch over her. I fear the danger will not leave her so quickly.”
There was a brief period of silence before King Phantom sighed. “And if it does not please me to do so?”
Hera looked up and locked gazes with evaluating green. “Then I am afraid I will be breaking a fair bit of cosmic law, King Phantom.”
He laughed. “Okay, yeah, I’ll check up on Wonder Woman.”
Hera blinked her many eyes, peacock feathers spreading in shock at how easily he allowed her favors. She did not even have to beg.
King Phantom turned to leave before pausing. “Hera, if you need help, just ask. Preferably without beating around the bushes next time. Also, Pandora misses you. You might want to hang around for tea later.”
Hera regarded him with the might of her divinity, which was but hardly a spec of his own kindness. The last one had not had her respect. Fear, yes. But never respect But this one…
“Yes, my King.”
“It’s just Phantom.” He shot back as he left, the Knight returning to his side once more.
Hera transformed into a more mortal form. She had not seen Pandora in a long time, the young woman had made quite an impression on her. Perhaps her old friend could be convinced in helping her punch Zeus and ruin her beloved husband’s day. Hera hummed, the green that used to flicker acidly against her divine form now only soothed. A reflection of its owner.
King Phantom is worthy of her regard.
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Holy shit, a goddess asked him to check on the Justice League! She was super weird about it and talked in a really old way of speaking, but Danny hadn’t had anything to do for the past few days while entering the zone for his annual check up.
Danny waved away Fright Knight and dived into the portal that would take him directly to the Justice League and Diana!
He floated down from the portal, blinking at group of disheveled and injured superheroes surrounded by a group of demons. Belial?
“King Phantom.” Belial rumbled. Danny waved, not noticing the standstill his presence forced.
“Shite.” The British man cursed, drawing on his magic once more.
“King Phantom?” Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, said quizzically.
“Who?” Batman, Batman! That’s actually Batman, rumbled.
“High King of the Infinite Realms. We’re buggered if he decides to help Belial.”
“Wait, like the god of gods, that King Phantom?” Captain Marvel asked. Ancients, why are all of them electrical based? Danny hates electricity.
Danny floated closer to them, grinning in a friendly way before frowning as they tensed up.
“King Phantom. May I ask why you have graced us with your presence, my King?”
“Hey, Wonder Woman! Your mom asked me to babysit you!” He grinned, sharp and mischievous.
“What…?” The Flash asked, zipping to their side. “Her mom? Queen Hippolyta?”
“No, Hera,” Danny said, and watched Wonder Woman straighten at his words.
“The Goddess Hera.”
“Yep!” Danny rocked back on his suddenly formed legs instead of the whisp of a tail he usually kept in the Zone. He was also still floating. Danny sent a wave of ice and froze the rest of the demons in one fell swoop.
“The rest of you can take care of clean up, yes? Diana has to get some snacks, dinner, and then go to bed.” He pushed gently at Diana’s shoulders, nudging her towards the plane. She went willingly, respectful but amused.
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Bruce, intellectually knowing that’s a king but only seeing a superhero teenager: *fills out mental adoption paperwork*
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Hera, a goddess, terrified of misspeaking and dying as a result: he’s so strong even though he’s young omg powerful and could end my immortal existence
Danny, an unserious king: golly gee why is she speaking like a Shakespeare novel
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Hera, thinking Danny’s gonna be dignified: pls watch over my daughter
Danny, who has a clone he sees as a daughter and therefore has no issues babysitting a grown woman: lol snacks, dinner, bedtime
Diana:… usually I’m on the other spectrum of this but it’s from a higher up so… okay?
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Danny, terrifying gods and ancients: they’re my friends! The power of friendship!
#batman#danny phantom#dc x dp#bruce wayne#diana prince#diana of themyscira#wonder woman#Wonder Woman does not need a man#Wonder Woman deserves someone to care about her wellbeing though#like she has to take care of all of these idiots she has for friends#mostly to kick them into gear#the flash#barry allen#Shazam#billy batson#john constantine#ghost king danny#ghost king au#Danny has no idea what’s going on ever#he’s just vibing#I’m not convinced he actually understands that he’s like the god of gods#he’s there to hang out with frostbite and that’s pretty much it
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Oh, you must be confused. This is actually based on the song no Party, not So Cool. Hope this helps:)
"You know what they say King, Piracy is no Party!"
"HAW HAW HAW!!"
#party crashers#vernias#sophist#tcnick3#king of skill#Cream make an original joke challenge impossible
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