#scattered-winter

[arom-com]

STOBIN TO THE 118 SO TRUUUEEEEE

RENT FREE in my mind, I’m composing an au as we speak. Throwing timelines out the window bc I NEED queer Buckley cousins so bad & I can’t be bothered to figure out how to set 911 in the 80s or vice versa.

I’m thinking like. post st s5 the whole gang gets moved to LA bc Hawkins is uninhabitable and then stobin get fired from like six different jobs until they decide to become firefighters bc, let’s be honest, where else is monster fighting a transferable skill

[oifaaa]

I'm gone for like 2 days and suddenly there's Aoifa Is Tim Drake allegations. what is the TRUTH

The worst bit about it all is that I'm a firm believer in the bullying is okay as long as its Tim Drake but now I'm getting accused of being Tim Drake I think you should all stop bullying Tim Drake maybe

[couriwaytown]

WHAT HAPPENED !!!

OMG WINTERRRRR YOU HAVE NO IDEAAA!!!!! today is pokemon day right it's pokemon anniversary day and they had a pokemon presents today, which is when thet announce new stuff for the franchise and TODAY!!!!!! they announced the sequel and definitive game to my FAVORITE REGIONNNNN I AM LIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moonlightperseus]

STAY SAFE FOR A PAIRING OF YOUR CHOICE ?? MAYHAPS ???????

“The radios won’t last us much longer, so just—stay safe out there, Buckley.”

The radio crackles back almost immediately, “don’t I always?”

Eddie shakes his head, glad that no one is around to see the embarrassingly fond smile on his face, “I’m serious, be careful, it feels worse today.”

“Aye, aye, boss.”

Eddie can picture the ridiculous little salute he’s sure Buck is doing wherever he is, and his heart aches a little that he can’t be out there with him.

The feeling gets all the worse when his brain reminds him that if something does go wrong, he probably won’t know until hours afterwards, when it would be far too late for him to do anything.

“Hey Buck?”

It’s a shot in the dark, the estimates on the radio signals have them pushing the boundaries.

It’s a long minute before the radio crackles again, and Eddie can’t help the sigh of relief when it does.

“Yeah, Eds?”

His words are riddled with static and the moment of relief is sucked away.

“Just—come back in one piece, alright? For—for Chris, and—for me.”

The response comes back in static and crackles, and Eddie’s heart sinks when the radio cuts out completely.

CONCERN FOR OTHERS PROMPTS

[vinnybox]

OUUUUUUGH HAPPY BORTHDAY !!!!!

EHEHE!!! THANK YOU!!

[soleadita]

ATTACK‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

ATTACK RIGHT BACK ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[lovelyelbowleech]

ok so I've been listening to war crimes/war games at work and I just have to express how much I fucking love shen because he's literally soooooo <333333 I'm not caught up w war games yet but the fact that shen couldn't save his brother and so now he dedicates himself to be the Protective Big Brother for anyone who needs one??? like the 54th and sokka and zuko and suki?????????????? I'm on the GROUND. also his dynamics with all the kids and hakoda are so fucking funny and I literally can envision him as part of the main cast so easily because he's just SO !!!!!! THIS IS KINDA INCOHERENT BUT I LOVE THE HEART AND SOUL ALL YOUR OCS HAVE FOR THE STORY ITS LITERALLY SO AMAZING AND I LOVE THEM ALL SO FUCKING MUCH <33333333333333

Sorry I have been sitting on these asks for so long 😅 Work knocks it out of me to much to function sometimes!

I am glad you are enjoying the fic, and that you are enjoying Shen, too! The poor man was just engineered by his past to be compelled to protect ‘Zuli’ The consequences of which have not been wonderful for him so far 😂

Thank you for the lovely ask! ❤️❤️❤️

[stardustsea]

buddie and henren!!

this feels like a good time for the brainrot to jump out pls enjoy this stream of consciousness

buddie: they are soulmates. they know each other SO WELL and so intimately and better than anyone else despite eddie being the most recent addition to the firefam and buck's life and eddie being so distrusting with most people initially and if i think about it too hard i Will bluescreen. "you act like you're expendable, but you're wrong" actually sends me into orbit every time. the love they have for each other leaves me in pieces

can you believe these 2 have literally had a child together since s3 (i'll take arguments for s2)

henren: they <333 i love them sm and the fact that they have fought to build such a good relationship and they clearly love each other so incredibly deeply is so special to me. it is also always a great time to have more queer black joy on television and i adore their relationship and the fun they get to have in this show together. karen forever stays hilarious and brilliant (a lot like her wife) and henren begins was so so good too

[xjustonemoremiraclex]

♫ !!!!!!

Seasons change with the scenery

Weavin' time in a tapestry

Won't you stop and remember me?

(Hazy Shade of Winter, cover by Gerard Way)

[vinnybox02]

BROOOOOOOOOOO I FINALLY WATCHED THAT NEW PUSS IN BOOTS MOVIE YESTERDAY AND HOOLLLLYY SHIIT IT WAS SOOOOOO GOOD!!!!! THE ANIMATION!!!!!!!!!! THE CHARACTER DESIGNS!!!!!!!! IT WAS ALL SOOO!!!!!! DEATH WAS MY FAVORITE HE WAS SOOOO FUCKING SCARY :]]]]]]]]]]

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT ISSSSS AGRAHSDHGHSGSDSDGSHDSDSDDS FOR REAL ITS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE!! THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT I LOVE ABOUT IT!!! AGHHG THE ANIMATION AND CHARACTERS HAS TO BE MY FAVORITE AND MUSIC TOO LIKE!! GOOD SHIT!

I HOPE YOU HAD A WHOLE LOTTA FUN WATCHING IT!! CAUSE SOUNDS LIKE U ENJOYED IT >:3 hehee!!

[kroosluvr]

january 9

ok i have a lot of thoughts. erm. buckle in

im sure everyone agrees that the joker vs sumire fight on jan 9 was so nothing..... so i wanted to raise the stakes. UP THE ANTE.

so to make it more intense life-and-death situation, in my head sumire basically tosses her own life away at joker in a "one of us is gonna die here and honestly? i dont care which way the cards fall"

"either i die here -> sumire doesn't have to live anymore. or, i kill you and i get my true reality (and sumire doesn't have to live anymore.)"

joker notices this immediately, by the wild way she fights all of a sudden. however crow doesn't notice bc i think he sees sumire as inexperienced and just assumes joker will win by default (like he does in canon. nothingburger fight.....)

but joker is too damn cautious, knowing one wrong move might result in her demise or his downfall...

i think here he only deflects with his melee, doesn't even try to summon his personas. crow notices smth is off and then sumire manages to get a deep hit on him w cendrillon+her sword

which activates crow bc. at this point he dgaf abt sumire BUT he doesnt want joker to die.

(ironically, crow's selfish goal to Help Joker helps sumire bc she then realizes that she's being irrational/hurting one of her dear friends (akira).. she didnt really think abt how this choice of the ideal reality would affect him (or goro)

also i always thought crow just walking away frm that fight was kinda lame so. just the idea of akira Faltering... about to let himself get killed.. in a way Giving In to the Wrong Choice of the ideal reality.... yeah that'd piss him off BIG time

(though, if i framed it in the way this comic does, crow walking away at first to let joker handle it is so real. bc hes like i cant be wasting time on this, just let akira handle her and then we can go back to figuring out how to conquer this palace and maruki etc. Sumire is small potatoes rn)

also akira being too compassionate/sensitive abt her emotions to fight her directly bc he can see how shes barely hanging on by a thread.. ough ough ough.....

but also sumire being so angry and desperate that she dgaf if she hurts akira rn. OHHHH OUCHHH OWIE

also this is the scene i showed in the bg of this comic! (sorry twitter link im lazy

"she'd rather die at our hands than her own" implying if she lost here and didnt die, she'd kill herself upon returning to the True reality bc she cant live with "sumire" anymore. okkk.. yeah

"This is the only way. I know you know that too, Joker" -> the only way back to our reality as we know it. we can't afford to be soft if it'll kill us. if this is truly sumire's choice, then we HAVE to fight. we can't back down here.

(and, also, this is the only way to show sumire that we're serious: we won't let her live as kasumi, she has to face herself, she can't run off to some dystopian ideal reality - this is the only way!!!!!)

Dying's easy. we already know sumire would die to become kasumi, to become a better gymnast, to not be sumire anymore. But would she kill for it. Who would she kill for it

[arom-com]

hi hope this is ok but i've seen sooo many of ur posts tagged as renbrand and i am ... perhaps .... a little curious .... would u like to tell me abt them !!!! 👀👀 (its ok if not ofc)

Ofc!! I sure have been tagging them a lot huh

The short version is that they’re my unhinged lesbian ocs stuck in a murder timeloop

Longer version is this:

(I am not going to be able to explain this in any way approaching coherent) (but I will try!!) (sorry in advance for the Wall of Text)

So RenBrand stands for these two:

Ren Hayashi (23, she/they) university student studying criminal psychology, abandonment issues out the wazoo, Going Through It

Brand Reitveld (26, she/her) local gang leader, Control Issues TM, definitely the cat in whatever cat-and-mouse thing they have going on

They’re in love — it’s not even remotely healthy.

Basically, through no fault of their own, they got stuck in a long-form time loop (days/months rather than strict 24h) that resets whenever one of them dies, which wouldn’t be too much of an issue? Except a) they’ve never met and don’t know they’re stuck together, and b) Ren keeps getting fucking murdered

Bc!! Ren’s psychology prof is running a secret cult (trying to turn his crim psy students into serial killers, it’s a whole thing, very cringe of him) so she gets killed for accidentally getting in the way a couple times (she doesn’t know about the cult), and then ofc starts investigating, which only makes it worse (I feel so bad for her but it’s also really funny, saddest most pathetic sopping wet oc I’ve ever created)

(Some of Ren’s deaths are also caused by Brand who’s like listen I don’t have a grudge against you or anything but you do keep getting my people killed so I have to eliminate the threat, no hard feelings! And Ren is like I am in abject misery)

(strangers to enemies to lovers except the strangers to enemies is a speedrun and the enemies to lovers is a slow burn)

The story they’re from is sort of a dark mystery-slash-romance (think nbc hannibal meets groundhog day, which is certainly a sentence), and it’s mainly centred around Ren and her corruption arc as she goes from “tired student just trying to finish her dissertation if it kills her” to “codependent mob-wife who kills first and asks questions later”

I’m obsessed with time as a narrative device, and especially time loops, because it can be used in such interesting ways!! And the interesting part about time loops to me is that they’re like,,,,, rube goldberg machines for character development? You only stick a character in a time loop when you need them to undergo a pretty drastic change without a proper catalyst, and it forces them to wear themselves down to their bones, to find the very essence of what they are, and then build themselves back up again into their ideal and purest form of self. (Of course, some people just use them as a tool for romance, but that’s boring!! Boo)

Usually time loops exist to make a character better, because they’re given some kind of epiphany that makes them the best and kindest version of themselves. (Alternatively, they can be used as the cosmic equivalent of a washing machine spin cycle if you’re writing horror) But what interests Me is the idea of using a time loop to make a character worse, which is what I’m doing to Ren (and to a lesser extent, Brand)

And it’s not just corruption for corruption’s sake, either! Ren, as she is, is miserable — she’s completely isolated, unable to achieve any of her goals, and ultimately ends up getting killed in an impersonal way for impersonal reasons — but once the loop begins and she gets her second chance, she starts to wear away at all her self-imposed barriers and boundaries until she can start making her own decisions and being an active agent in her own life. Of course, she’s not choosing to do good, but the best version of herself is not necessarily Good or Kind, it’s just Authentic.

Brand, on the other hand — because she has more support and isn’t as repressed — is experiencing the time loop less as a vehicle for character development, and more as a perpetual time travel fix-it (which is SO fun, having two characters get wildly different outcomes from the same experience). Her problems are more interpersonal rather than internal, so where Ren is using the extra time to understand herself, Brand uses it to understand the world around her (and is thus doing a much better job at actually solving the plot, we love a girlboss).

Brand’s conflicts are with her brother (who I can’t even Begin to explain without adding another thousand words to this post), and (as the leader of the local gang) with the police & the murder cult, which means that a lot of her loops are spent information-gathering (and murdering, dw abt it)

Personality-wise Ren is pretty quiet, she doesn’t like to ask for things which means she gets into miscommunications a lot (people not helping when she wishes they would, people helping when she doesn’t need it bc they think she just doesn’t want to ask), she’s a very “the only one you can rely on is yourself” kind of person, which isn’t exactly ideal for someone you’re stuck in a time loop with but at least it means she never gives up? She also doesn’t really care what people think of her — or rather, she does care, but she doesn’t let it stop her

Brand is suffering from a lethal combination of being the youngest sibling and simultaneously the eldest daughter, so she’s great at asking for help and using her resources but it means that she a) is a little entitled about it, and b) needs to feel like she has perfect control over everything or she’ll die. She’s very possessive and protective over things that she considers hers (hence murdering Ren for getting her people killed, it’s fine they get over it)

Renbrand also come equipped with two sets of narrative foils (Brand’s disabled ex-ballet dancer brother and his bodyguard/love interest, and the cult leader professor and his prized pupil who both hates and loves him for what he’s become) but the word count on this is already obscenely, embarrassingly long so I’ll talk abt them another day maybe

[oifaaa]

i think you used to own a bunch of different animals as pets. (not on anon because what are you gonna do, arrest me??)

Uh yes obviously you broke the law?? - but also damn you really do just remember stuff huh ive owned dogs, cats, rabbits, hamsters, chickens, horses, cows, pigs, and currently there's one hungry wild pheasant that keeps yelling at my door for food but I don't think they count as a pet more then a nuisance really

[couriwaytown]

sonic and elise for the ship bingo !!<3

OMG TY WINTER🥺

as you can see, i am incredibly normal about these two and you can come closer yes! nothing will happen i am normal :)

ship bingo!

[moonlightperseus]

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bby i lo wve yoouo ,,

i love YOUUUUUUUUUUU [care bear love blast]

[o0o0thorn0o0o]

Gosh, is this really only my second winter piece this season?? Yikes… And I claim to love this season ;~;

Ik winter’s not over yet, but it’s that time of year where I go on my (planned ^^;;;) break, this piece being my send off (…potentially… I’ll try and see if I can manage a sketch by tonight, but if not, this is it for now). I’ll still be here since it’s a month-long break focused mostly on my iPad (I mean, I can’t stay off it completely, but I’ll try to do as much as I can, eheh. This also means I might post a traditional sketch or two. Maybe, maybe not. But no digital works, that’s for sure). I’d say I’d just be more infrequent, but, like… I’ve already been rather infrequent lately, too…

Fun fact: This was actually intended to be an autumn piece, but then my art rut happened. So I decided to update it into a winter piece. Took a lot longer than I intended to, but I’m still recovering from that rut… only for me to take another break from art now 🙃 Ah, well. C’est la vie.