#sick and cruel

[priapussdick]

still not over ep 11 and I'm thinking how new is better than me because if i learned what these 5 pathetic excuses of humans did to my brother I'd just end them on the spot. wouldn't care about making them suffer and stuff. on. the. spot.

[spectral-phases]

The Real Reason Joker Hates the Robins

(Batman 2016, #54)

(Batman 1940, #408)

(Robin 1993 #139)

(Batman and Robin 2015 #40)

You cannot convince me he didn't giggle a little with those last two, or snort, or something.

Bonus, some sick kids make him smile for a scavenger hunt:

(Superman 2018 #39)

[ethereal-ocean-eyes]

did the math and if brandy and dorothy were stuck in the simulation for at least an hour in the real world, they would have spent around two and a half years together. (and all of that went away in a blink of an eye…)

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[earthsparked]

Unsurprisingly, Rung’s the first one to notice.

When Rodimus announced the Lost Light would be bringing on a cohort of humans as some kind of security advisors, or something, the mechs had responded in various ways. Mutters of resignation, irritation, curiosity. Whirl had been…Whirl.

We probably shouldn’t leave the humans alone with him, the ship’s psychiatrist had worried, the third time the mech had made one of the organics freak out with his jokes (“jokes”) about squishies, about the various graphic ways their entrails would gum up his inner workings. Half the poor dears outright disliked the mech, and many of the others were understandably terrified of him. What else were they supposed to think, when his only interactions with them were threatening to some degree or other?

So when every mech’s EM field tightened with concern one day in Swerve’s, watching as an overcharged Whirl swaggered up to where the newest member of their organic crew was chatting with Rewind, Rung vented softly and expected more of the same.

Only -

You blinked at the rather direct, messy threats coming your way by the big blue flier the others had warned you about. And chuckled.

You’re forgetting the bones. You guys always forget the bones.

The slag does THAT mean, squishy?

A knock of your knuckles on the table, as Swerve keeps cleaning the same glass over and over, watching this go down, clearly about to ask Ultra Magnus to intervene the second this crosses the line…

You laugh outright under the glaring optic. See, right there. We’re not just viscera. We have an internal bone structure! So when you step on me, it’s not going to be a squish. Not just a squish, anyway. More like a CRUNCH, and a gooey ooze, and some screaming of course. Then a drip, drip, drip -

You dip your fingers in your drink and let drops of it patter to the table, in imitation of that red fluid that is and isn’t like energon at all.

Whirl just…stares. You smile at him, earnest, a little playful. You know what you’re doing, clearly, but there’s nothing cruel to it. Your strange, alien, yet strikingly comparable EM field - which you supposedly can’t even sense, how odd - is as open and straightforward as any he’s encountered. You’re engaging. With Whirl.

Neurodivergent, your mental health records had said when he’d looked them over. He’s no xenopsychiatrist, he’d protested to Rodimus, but after being pushed into reading your species’ own research he has to admit the similarities between your kind and his are so striking, nearly unsettlingly so…

He can’t help thinking, what a lovely word the humans had made.

That differences exist and minds diverge, and it’s not wrong. It’s not stigmatized - or shouldn’t be, the humans say. It could make an old mech like him reminisce on the horrors of Functionalism, the crimes of their past…compared to that lovely word, neurodivergent.

So he knows that Whirl is being confronted by a species, or at least one member of a species, who diverges. Who sees differences as something to embrace. You’re still smiling up at Whirl as he snaps out some further defensive threats, but Rung sees it. Hears it. Wonders at it.

Fine, you can be Crunchy, he snarks, and after a few more vague insults, goes to pick a fight with someone more his size.

You make a face and try to explain as he turns away that Actually “crunchy” has a certain connotation in my society, and I’m definitely not “crunchy.” Uh, but I guess I’ve had worse nicknames. Bye, Whirl! you call, unperturbed. Nice meeting you! I like how blue you are by the way!

Do you realize that you’ve managed to get under the fractious mech’s plating?

Do you see the way Whirl looks over his shoulder as he’s finally getting dragged off to the brig for starting another fight - looking to see if you’d been watching? The same way he tosses out a joke, Hey Eyebrows - looking for a reaction.

Rung sees it, and nurses his drink, and wonders what might happen if he slips a datapad to you about empurata.

[ivycrestfell]

You ever just think about how Cardan Greenbriar saw jude leaving his brother’s house with a stolen servant and probably ended up taking the blame for it. He took a beating for jude bro. For the lives of countless other humans that he refused to kill. For the humans that he set free in the mortal world. No? Just me?

[mersei47]

cruel king, griefer and player respectively from left to right

[thejudeduarte]

Cardan hiding away when he was younger, telling himself that the reason he's not being found is just because he's such a good hider when in reality it's because no one truly loves and cares for him. Him also getting lost during the coronation as his family didn't care that he wasn't on the dias.

But then there's Jude who finds him almost instantly without having any idea on where he could be, once out of pure luck OH MY GOD they're made for each other.

[madockisser]

“The lament of Lutie Loo” by holly black, shows a cute little cameo of prince cardan, arguing w nicasia abt her cheating on him 😍

[i-think-too-loud]

do you ever think about jean telling neil to get a good look at the sun before going into the nest? do you ever think about the fact that that’s very likely the first time he himself has seen it in 5 years that wasn’t through a bus window?

[yeekdestroyer9000]

everytime someone depicts artificer as a goody two shoes sympathetic caring loving mother-type figure and saint as a blood-thirsty death-loving second coming of the antichrist a slugpup horrifically dies

pls stop making the slugpups horrifically die :^(

[flybysun]

gotta keep fit as high queen somehow 🤕

(p.s. guess who she’s sparring with?)

[erikensa]

redraws of mae and etzel's "official art" as some sort of practice (?)

[thecardiganunderthebed]

Firm believer in the idea that cardan starts feeling a weight in his chest and a clawing in his throat when he misses jude and she's not around. Her absence is a physical weight and he WILL feel like he's going to throw up when he can't see her

[xieliancore]

jude x cardan doodle!!