#sleepwalk it off

[thebrainrotsreal]

I demand an AU where Laios' leg gets fucking crunched during the Red Dragon Battle (re-attachment impossible), and Marcille practices the whole necro-magic first by givin' him a new leg! With Red Dragon Blood/Flesh, he also gets put under the same command as Falin, except since it's only a leg, the curse slowly becomes more and more powerful until the eventual transformation above!!! :D AKA Ah Fuck, Took Too Long Overthrowing the Dungeon Lord, Get Monster'd. Lion + Red Dragon, because I like it. Laios would think it's cool, too, so there. The trade of Cool Monster is Sense of Self / Consciousness eroding into nothing (monster body, monster brain), though, so he's basically on an extra timer to stop/overthrow the Dungeon Lord, or experience a kind of death of sorts. Random idea I had to get outta my head, y'know?

[mirthmave]

I love the whole bird whistles idea that I’ve seen on here. If you’re not familiar, the idea is that the Batfam have Bird Whistles to communicate when they need to be stealthy or coms are down.

Growing up, my Dad, Uncles and Grandfather did the same for me, my brothers and cousins, only they were the same whistles they used for the farm dogs to get them to move sheep. We obviously knew them because we would be playing nearby or helping them.

So I propose this to be added. Bruce will use those same whistles in his everyday life as do the kids. Even Barbara does it. Most people shrug it off but once a couple of older society ladies made a comment about it to Bruce.

(This may or may not be based on a conversation that someone had with my Grandfather after he got his kids to come to the car using a whistle)

Lady 1: It is so disgusting

Bruce: What is?

Lady 2: The fact that you whistle for your children.

Bruce: What is wrong with that?

Lady 2: They are not dogs, they are children.

Bruce: You’re right, they are children. Children who have heard me call for them and are now on their way to get in the car without me having to yell or result to threats. Which is something neither of you are able to brag about.

[hijinxinprogress]

Coffee addict Never sleeps Tim drake ❌ 

Solving cases in his sleep off 87 energy drinks Tim Drake ✅

The coffee addict never sleeps perpetually tired Tim Drake thing is a widely accepted headcanon however that was elementary school tim but after he stayed up for a week straight subsisting entirely on coffee to decipher the bat weekly patrol schedule and how it aligns with rogue attacks/Arkham breakouts, he crashed then when he woke up it was fucking wednesday so he missed his chance to commemorate his discovery with pictures of Robin and he decided that shit would never happen again and made himself an ‘efficient’ sleep schedule so he could run around doing fuck shit, add to his robin shrine, and stay on honor roll bc he was even more pissed to see the gotham gazette had pictures of Robin with an on site interview credited to Vicki Vale (listen bowl cut tim had a one sided beef with vicki vale that included tim judging who gets better pics of the bats but she isn’t even aware that she’s competing with a whole ass child 😭 he’s sitting at the table with a mug of orange juice and looks at the newspaper snorts and goes ‘fucking amateur I could do better’) 

Regularly unsupervised tiny businessman in training Tim ‘Ten hours of uninterrupted sleep?? That’s so inefficient not to mention fucking stupid’ Drake is so pissed he missed getting shots of Robin dropkicking a rogue from 6 six stories up (for absolutely no reason dick just thinks it’s fun) that he just takes at least 3 hour naps every eight hours 😭 he refuses to spend almost half a day sleeping ‘for no reason when he could be doing something productive’ 

And he still does this as a bat but it’s just easier to tell if he didn’t take his nap bc he has less than zero impulse control and he’s just fucking done with everything like the gcpd is terrified bc tim’s saying shit like ‘This guys a fucking moron, I could’ve done this in half the time without killing anyone fucking loser doesn’t he know if you keep them alive you can prolong the torture?’ and ‘you’re like all hysterical and for what 🤨 ‘you blew up 83% of Bristol waah’ stfu and fucking rebuild it?? It’s only rich mfs that live there, it’s just a matter of them opening their fucking wallets’ once a new recruit made the mistake of asking if robin had adult supervision regularly and Tim responded with ‘well if you’re gonna snitch to cps like a little bitch then yeah’ and that cop did snitch so tim fucking doxxed him

Yj has just accepted that sometimes they will find tim in an air vent, on the roof, in one of their closets, or something just fucking knocked out then an alarm will go off and he’ll just get up like nothing happened but for the first couple of months they were probably concerned bc ‘I’ve never seen you sleep?? wtf are you on man’ and Tim’s confused bc ‘I slept next to you this morning wdym??’ and that’s how yj discovers tim sleeps with his eyes open

But one of the worst things about Tim’s ‘time efficient sleep schedule’ nonsense is that it fucking works he’s one of the most well rested and coherent bats even after back to back Arkham breakouts however the absolute worst thing about his sleep schedule is the likelihood of going into the cave and seeing tim staring in a daze but wide eyed yet somehow never blinking at the batcomputer with 57 tabs open on top of being unresponsive and thinking he has a fucking concussion or he’s been replaced but he’s just doing case work while muttering nonsense in his fucking sleep for some reason

[bisclavret]

what SICKO wrote the last scenes between gwaine and merlin is what i want to know. because even lancelot's last episode with merlin - which had to have been intentionally gay-coded since it's obvious the man is grappling with his feelings for merlin morphing from platonic to explicitly romantic - is still subtext because he doesn't have the tools to healthily express his feelings so he goes for the biggest romantic gesture he can think of: sacrificing his life to save a loved one. the writers also make sure to root this gesture back to gwen by adding a scene where she's inadvertently asking him to make that sacrifice first, so although it's very obvious that it's more for merlin than for gwen that lancelot dies for, she is there to add some plausible deniability, thus keeping his sexuality within the realms of subtext.

i don't want to delve too deeply into arthur's last scenes with merlin as there is both so much to unpack about what they mean to each other and there is also somehow nothing left to say that hasn't been said before. my point is just that there's so much at stake that if the viewer doesn't want to deal with the romantic subtext between them they can hang onto the 38 other dynamics merlin and arthur have represented to each other that the writers spent 5 years plastering on top of the gay subtext. basically, while the romance feels textual emotionally-speaking, it isn't "canon".

i don't mean to say that any relationship is better than another (even though i obviously have a preference) but that in gwaine's final scenes with merlin there's just no subtext anymore. his becomes the most explicit expression of romantic love towards merlin, and therefore the most explicit acknowledgment of homosexual love and the existence of queer people on the show:

it starts out with merlin suggesting that gwaine saved a girl from the saxons and then looked after her because he has a more than platonic interest in her, and they show us that merlin is right - gwaine and the girl eira slept together - even as gwaine half-heartedly denies any interest (which, why even deny it? merlin saw them holding hands! unless the lie is part of the point). then in that very same scene and directly after this exchange, merlin needs rescuing from the saxons, calls after gwaine, and gwaine performs the exact same role for him that he performed for eira: he saves him from the saxons and looks after him (for as long as merlin lets him).

the parallel between merlin and eira with such quick cause and effect (it literally all happens within the same minute) is where the shift from subtext to text becomes undeniable. yes, there have been other moments on the show where a character's affections towards two different genders are beat-for-beat the same, but, again, there has always been plausible deniability. in this case the parallel is meant to be taken at face value: the core point of it is to show us how gwaine expresses his attraction.

then, the dialogue they chose to bookend this scene with takes it a few steps further by functioning as a textual love confession to merlin himself: the scene opens with gwaine thanking merlin for everything he did for eira, and merlin saying that there is no need to thank him as it was the least he could do. a minute later, after merlin thanks gwaine for protecting him from the saxons as both merlin and the show just concluded gwaine did for eira for romantic reasons (even as he denied it by outright lying), gwaine parrots what merlin said when gwaine thanked him: no need to thank me, merlin, it's the least i could do.

but this comes off as the opposite of dismissive: in fact, this echoing of merlin's words is meant to jolt both merlin and the audience. by saying this right after saving merlin from the saxons, gwaine has now intentionally pointed merlin's attention towards the explicitly romantic parallel between himself and eira. gwaine is directly implying he just did for merlin what merlin correctly deduced he did for a woman because he desired her sexually and romantically, and he is using merlin's own words to challenge him into seeing past the initial flimsy lie that there is nothing between them. and what's behind the lie, of course, is that gwaine has done all of this and more because he desires merlin sexually and romantically. the camera even lingers on merlin, allowing him and the viewer to absorb what just happened. that for as long as we have known gwaine, his motivations have always boiled down to "i want to be there for merlin". and now both the audience and merlin finally know for sure what was motivating him the entire time.

what's more, by using merlin's own dismissive words, gwaine also implicates merlin's penchant for repression and denial and never allowing himself to be given credit where it's due. this unfortunately never properly gets dismantled on the show, but this moment shows that gwaine knows merlin well enough to know that he goes above and beyond for people, and that merlin's reasons for this ring as false to gwaine's ears as gwaine's reasons for saving damsels do to merlin. it also bittersweetly implies that gwaine has accepted that these are the platonic, repressed terms on which he can have a relationship with merlin. but i think the way in which he explicitly points all of this out to merlin is meant to imply that he isn't entirely happy about having to accept that. or, to circle back to eira, that merlin seems to be cheering for him to enter a heterosexual relationship when gwaine would clearly rather be with him.

what's additionally interesting to me about this is that this is one of the only scenes on this show that touch on same gender attraction that isn't using magic as a metaphor - because merlin doesn't have magic at the moment, yes, but also because gwaine is the more active character in this sequence, and he's an adventure hero, so he simply fights the bad guy to protect the person he loves. there is no metaphor to wrap this in, so he just gets to explicitly state his bisexuality. in the next scene, the very last one he and merlin share, it all becomes about magic again, which is both representative of merlin's sexuality and the show's "plausible deniability" approach to gay-coding, and so neither gwaine or merlin are permitted to acknowledge it. also, and this is for another post altogether, but all things point to "gwaine knew". not least because he gets to come out as queer without the complications of the magic-as-gay-metaphor which in turn emboldens him to ask merlin for the truth as directly as the metaphor-suffocated narrative will allow it.

tldr gwaine textually and canonically expresses and then confesses his feelings to merlin in a shockingly well-written and layered scene which makes gwaine the most explicitly queer character on bbc merlin and it's entirely because he exists outside the magic-as-gay-metaphor plot while loving someone who embodies that entire metaphor and it's crazy to me that we don't talk about this more. once again i ask what SICKO wrote this and where were they for the entire rest of this fucking show

tldrtldr at least gwaine is bi. its like i always say. at least gwaine is bi. at the end of the day. gwaine is bi. dont cry ok? gwaine is bi. at the end of the day. gwaine is bi. when all else fails. gwaine is bi. we'll always have. gwaine is bi

[vickyvicarious]

Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage. That made me just a little heart-sick, for I haven't heard from Jonathan for a whole month.

Lucy and Mina sitting together holding hands is so sweet, I love them. <3

But certainly, the talk of fiances and marriage only make Mina feel Jonathan's absence even more, and her worry for him grows. I love the way she comes back out to the same bench again alone. I mean, it's horribly sad, but the way one entry changes into the next is so smooth; it makes me envision art of them sitting together in the beauty, holding hands and Mina smiling as Lucy speaks - and then her smile fading away into distress as Lucy disappears, the scene changes to evening, and Mina is left all alone amongst the graves, staring out over the darkening town... Basically, it feels so well suited to a sad but cool animatic, haha.

[walmart-miku]

damn not anime making me cry again

This scene

IS SO FUCKING INTAMATE IM!!!!

LOOK AT HOW SOFT THEY ARE IM CRYING FULL ON SOBBING OVER THEM THEY BEAT THE FUCKING STSTEM GOOD FOR THEM

[non-un-topo]

I don't want to write 4 assignments in 3 days I want to draw the blorbo covered in mud and possibly bleeding from the mouth

[metalinjector95]

Amity Blight Sleepwalking (Part 1)

[spearxwind]

feeling solidarity these holidays with everyone not allowed to talk about their partner with the family

[batsplat]

Saturday afternoon I ran into Gibernau in the paddock. "I heard that tomorrow HRC are having a press conference," he said. "That's right, just after the race," I replied. "You'll say you're staying at Honda, won't you?" he asked. "No, actually. I'll announce I'm moving to Yamaha," I answered. I saw a flash in his eyes. First astonishment, then happiness. I could tell he had done some quick thinking and figured that it would only be good for him. He reckoned that I wouldn't do much on a Yamaha. I could read it on his face, just as I later could read it in the faces of so many other people who doubted me and my choice.

Valentino Rossi in his 2005 autobiography, What if I had never tried it

[trickstersshadow]

( Generate 10 6 headcanons )

1. Meta has an incredible long-term memory but an awful short-term memory.

Don't call him out like this- And it depends on the day-

2. Meta have a grandfather who is in prison.

They will neither confirm nor deny.

3. Meta has too many squirrels.

"Heh-?" That's a 'no', chief.

4. Meta is a sleepwalker.

No comment, none, next-

5. Meta only drinks sparkling water

"More or less. If you don't want to include coffee, or whenever I drink something else." ...So, wouldn't that be a 'no'-

6. Meta is extremely competitive.

"Isn't that just a "depends" category for everyone-?"

[solluxarts]

actually working on an animation/animatic thing ive had for a while just sittin around

[androids-insides]

Here’s Mal’s section for Little Dead Things (and a running scene)

World-bending information! I tried to keep the logo in that corner, but I didn’t want it covering characters, if I could help it. It moves around a whole lot more now…

[onboardsorasora]

bestie my WIPs are usually just voicememos to my friends and it's bold of you to assume I have FOLDERS in my google drive, no, I click on every untitled document for 15 mins to find the one I want 🥶 WHAT IS MAX SLEEPWALKER AU THO IS THE REAL QUESTION

Bestie I didn't have a whole ass folder till yesterday when I got the tag lmao. Those docs were just floating around hoping that I wouldn't create a new one and open one of them instead 😂😂😂😂

Maxiel Sleepwalker AU is completely different than Dewis Sleepwalker.

It's a smutfic with a very loose plot lol. In the most basic of descriptions, it is what would happen if in 2017 Maxiel had to share hotel rooms and our lovable insomniac got prescribed Ambien. Also, let us not forget that he got a lot of podiums in 2017- so lots of partying.

I'll post a snippet after the cut 😈

It felt like a long time before Max jolted awake again. This time the surprise wasn’t loud, but it was still insistent. 

“Daniel?” Max whispered, there was no oral response, just another impatient press of something against his legs. Max spread his thighs unconsciously, and exhaled sharply when Daniel’s face burrowed itself between them. What could only be Daniel’s nose– he would recognise it in any capacity– was pressed along his balls and taint. 

“Daniel?!” Max whispered more insistently, but Daniel simply cupped his hardening dick. As if this was his purpose for disturbing his sleep. Max groaned and bit his lip. This was– this had to be a dream. A very vivid fucking dream where Daniel woke him up to– to what? Suck him off? Fuck him? If this were a dream, Max would already be split open on Daniel’s dick.

So it wasn’t a dream. But it was just as disorienting and erotic.

[😈redacted😈]

Daniel groaned and shivered before stilling like dead weight. Max felt bewildered.

“Daniel?” He called softly. Nothing, no answer. Just the resumption of Daniel’s soft snores. What the fuck?

[lichbutch]

counting down the hours till i can go home and get stoned as fuck and pretend i dont exist for a bit

[pebbledrat]

where's the saal deleted scene where they pick through the hotel's continental breakfast