#pick a crisis any crisis

[cigamfossertsim]

tim standing over jasons bed in his safe house in the middle of the night like some kind of paralysis demon:

arise, motherfucker. im having a crisis

[queenretcon]

I think a lot of discussion about starting to read comics vs manga doesn’t address that a good percentage of the people who are hardcore about comics now started by picking up some random issue, going ‘it makes no damn sense. Compels me though,’ and then kept reading just to find out what the fuck all that was about

like I see people insult the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure aspect of reading shared universe superhero comics, but some of us are little weirdos who got hooked on comics specifically because theyre a puzzle we get to put together

[ew-selfish-art]

DpxDc AU: Not all omni-lingualism works the same- Nightwing learns this the most awkward way possible.

Dick has gotten to know Phantom, who is constantly hanging around his brothers on various missions and the guy seems like a genuine delight. He’s very easy going, serious when needed and way over powered when it comes to dealing with mission crises. Duplication, ice, invisibility, time dilation (though Phantom insists it has to do with a god’s blessing for running favors and not his own power) like so much, and shit, Nightwing has even seen him easily switch between languages when talking to different heroes. Phantom never explains how any of his powers work, they’re just glad that his powers always do.

On one particular mission Nightwing asks if Danny can switch to a Romani so that they can shit talk without alerting the other team members. (He’s seen him switch to Arabic for Damian so like, why not?)

Danny explains that well, he probably can but normally it takes time and uh, circumstances for him to be fluent enough for conversation. (The circumstances Danny is referring to are that of life or death pt. 2 since that’s when he has the best control over this power.)

Now…Nightwing’s first and only experience with biology related polyglots was Starfire kissing him upon landing on Earth in Jump City. So Nightwing says, ok bet. What’s a little peck between bros?

Being kissed by Nightwing is not what Danny expected, but given the anxiety suddenly raising his blood pressure like a life or death situation would, it does in fact lead to him being able to speak Romani.

This is also the story about Dick learning that he just kissed his little brother’s new boyfriend.

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you? You are still a brat. What do you know? You're only three years older. Like you are any better than me. You're 21, and still a virgin. What are you proud of? I think you can't do it.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 06

[catinflight]

Ah yes, a new au to add to the collection

I NEEDED to draw the gooberdoinkus........

As for the au itself, it's just a silly thing about the past robot masters n' Sgt Night but like,,,,,, circus / showbiz????????????? Haven't gotten the time to really throw it around in my noodle, but all I know is that the robots are all actually these dinky toys, and daini is a raggedy Andy doll ( A VERY MISFORTUNATE ONE)

I think time-wise it'd take place near the end of the hard-age, yknow when robot rights were still being freshly cemented.

The show would definitely be a public thing Night would use to push his propaganda on whatever audience he garners, and I'm thinking daini would be the "star" of most shows, being a doll n' what not, he's easier to repair then the other RM's and is generally considered on the more durable side

And what does it matter anyway? S' not like any of them can feel any pain. (THEY MOST DEFINITELY DO)

I wanna eventually draw the other robot Masters, but I have a track record of being really bad at continuing these things (COUGH COUGH THE 3D MODELS COUGH HOUGH)

As for aki and suna, not much changes with them. They still live normally with Dr. Light, but they have most definitely heard rumors of the show goin' around other parts.

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

[fluentisonus]

actually question about owl comparisons in french, is there any significance to whether victor hugo uses the word chouette or hibou -- like afaik they are different types of owl in terms of how they look but that's sort of where my grasp of any nuances end. he uses them both at various points, and like in the chapter "paris a vol de hibou" he immediately starts off "un être qui eût plané sur paris en ce moment avec l’aile de la chauve-souris ou de la chouette..." which kind of seems like he's using them interchangeably mostly? but my french is not good enough to know

[affluent-havoc]

blue hair and pronouns

[laurelwinchester]

no seriously it's fucking embarrassing so many of you fell for that shit over the summer. i'd say "do better" but i have no faith left that any of you ever will.

[gareleia]

Winion!Elpenor X Lotus Eater!Perimedes

alright, this AU sounds weird, but IMAGINE. we already know that winions and lotus eaters are the same species. but imagine an AU where they are the souls of humans who didn't get a proper burial abd therefore couldn't go to the Underworld (yes, i'm completely disregarding the entire Underworld Saga, but LISTEN). and the Lotus Eaters are the former humans who were so addicted to lotus that even death couldn't free them from it.

IMAGINE, for a second, Elpenor, the Drunk Stargazer, forgotten by everyone. he wasn't missed, his death wasn't even noticed. and Aeolus' court is full of cheerful creatures, yet still no one pays any particular attention to him. he's free to do whatever he wants to - free as a wind, literally - but he has nowhere to go, no one who ever really cares about him. he flies to Ithaca to check on his family home, only to find that everyone had long since moved on.

IMAGINE Perimedes, Odysseus' most loyal follower, who had fallen under the thrall of lotus and had completely faded as a person, numbed until all he could comprehend were need and mindless pleasure. they had no choice but to leave him behind as a lost cause. and then he woke up, having had shred whatever humanity he'd still had - woke up and saw the trap for what it was, saw his former body rot to give nourishment to new lotus roots, and understood how hopelessly trapped he'd become.

IMAGINE Elpenor remembering the one person who had once sworn to always be by his side, and deciding to check up on Perimedes. Imagine them meeting after months, maybe years - and yet still instantly recognizing each other as soulmates do

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

perimedes: I figured you'd be happy there, huh. free to wander, fly from place to place, unchained by rules or conventions… isn't that what you'd always wanted? elpenor: to be honest… freedom…

[image of winion!elpenor, alone, flying through the starry sky, left behind by his excitable brethren, looking down at a house that will never belong to him again]

elpenor: …is not all that it's cracked out to be.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

elpenor: what about you? you seemed at peace here, I really thought staying here would be good for you! perimedes: well, uh…

[image of lotuseater!perimedes staring at his own human corpse as others like him lie down in drugged haze, noticing how dead and unnatural everything looked]

perimedes: …it didn't work out

[eruhamster]

its kind of funny that tgcf's live action drama is in development hell bc of homophobic censors bc it means that the people working on it just straight up refuse to give up the gay

like i know that you can't remove the romance from the story bc it's too deeply imbedded in the plot, but there's no way that not a single person in those board rooms didnt just go 'why dont we just.....make xie lian a woman'

cuz like not a single thing abt that story would change if he was a girl. dude is already a twink and already crossdresses and already gets called a princess a number of times by at least jun wu

it's very funny to think that everyone working on that drama was just certain it NEEDS to be gay

[catboyidia]

imagine dads sephiroth tucking in his and genesis’ kid(s) and when they ask for a bedtime story, they sit on either side of their kids bed as genesis recites loveless (like the actual story, not just the poem) to them, which has ended up being their kids favorite bedtime story, and they smile as their kid(s) fall right asleep, before they both give the child(ren) a little kiss on the forehead and quietly make their way out of the room. and when the kid(s) ever had a nightmare when they were younger and sephiroth and genesis would let the kid(s) sleep in their bed, and read to get them to fall asleep again, sometimes genesis reading loveless would also make sephiroth fall asleep too, and in those cases genesis would reach over and tuck in sephiroth the way they tuck in their kid(s) (forehead kiss included)

[theflyingfeeling]

yes it's just me whining about the same thing for the billionth time, pls just scroll past nothing new to see here 👋

[averlym]

[bestangelofall]

It always saddens me that Opeth isn't a mainstream band*, because the fic title potential in their lyrics is unparalleled 😔

[*]by that I mean general mainstream, not metal mainstream (which they are)

[sexualseapunk]

merry christmas and happy anniversary to the fact that the nativity story in my illustrated children's bible turned out to be my sexual awakening.