#somehow anyhow

[sthilarions]

Bear with me here because I’m thinking this idea through as I type it and also this is rather gory/borderline body horror so scroll away if that bothers you

Runes/enchantments/spells written on Edwin’s ribs - but there’s no magic way to make them appear there, they have to be actually manually engraved

Edwin’s pain tolerance/history of being torn apart in much worse ways means he thinks this is totally fine. Just apply a little iron to get him solid (and in possession of internal organs such as a skeleton), get the necessary tool, peel -

It’s right around the word “peel” that Charles stops staring in horror and starts throwing things, and Edwin never gets to the genius part of the plan, which is that once the iron is off, his ribs go back to being not-really-real, just part of his spectral after-image, as it were, which means it’s impossible for anyone to break the enchantment without destroying him entirely, as it’s now part of his soul.

The problem is, though, that Edwin can’t get the angle to do the engraving himself. (At least, that’s Edwin’s problem. Charles seems to have some other one.)

The matter is dropped for multiple decades, until after Port Townsend.

Because the enchantment Edwin wanted, you see, was a planar binding curse. Locks the enchanted item - in this case, Edwin - onto the earthly plane, so it can’t be taken whether by choice or force to any other… such as, for example, Hell.

And now Charles has seen Hell; and he knows what Edwin meant, when he said Hell was far worse than getting a bit of body art; and it’s getting rapidly harder for him to disagree.

[ryllen]

sebek really said, i will give u a lifetime beating ur parent never gave u because they love u too much but u are too dumb to realize that

[puddii-ng]

femstars doodles ft.. characters i dont usually draw.. and a character i always draw 😊

[what-even-is-sleep]

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/149056618?page=1&show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#main

^the most delightfully creepy, gorey, and horrific short story I’ve read in a while.

YOU DONT NEED TO KNOW THE FANDOM TO READ THIS!! Just go forth and delight yourself!!!!

The barest bones background info for you to indulge in the treat of this story:

This is for the Danny Phantom fandom!

Jack and Maddie Fenton: resident crazy inventors in their small town. Created a ‘ghost portal’ in their basement that did not work until their son, Danny, accidentally turned it on with himself inside. They don’t know he had anything to do this. They now use their weapons seriously against all ghosts that start to appear in town.

Danny Fenton/Phantom: son of the Fenton’s. The theory is that when he turned on the portal with himself inside, he was immediately killed and resurrected with the energy (and that’s what created the true tether to the ‘Ghost Zone’). The accident gave him the power to turn into a ghost (with associated powers) at will. His ghost appearance is different than his human one. Though he fights other ghosts to protect the town from harm, his parents think ‘Phantom’ is the worst evil and they shoot to kill.

Jazz Fenton: Danny’s older sister. She knows his secret at this point and is very supportive.

Sam Manson and Tucker Foley: Danny’s best friends who both know his secret. They both try to help him fight ghosts, often with the weapons they steal from his parents.

Valerie Gray/Red Huntress: a peer of Danny’s. Has a complex backstory. Currently has a vendetta against ghosts and is using powerful technology to hunt them down at night under the alias ‘Red Huntress.’

[cannibalovers]

„It's only you,

who can tell me apart

And it's only you,

who can turn my wooden heart”

Only you - Portishead

[spookberry]

Been seeing a resurgence of fan content for SU recently? So obviously, I immediately became afflicted with "AU for my OCs" disease

[tide-locked]

thinking again about writing, and wondering how often people say 'i wish i had time to create' but really mean 'i wish i had time where i could disconnect myself from the demands of other people'.

[maeamian]

Seen a meme goin' round Al Gore's internets the past few days talking about average income if you exclude the top 1000 or whatever Americans, and its math sucks and is bad and is also wrong. You should not take it as fact just because it's in a meme format, it uses data that simply does not seem to meaningfully exist and to the extent that it does, relies on mixing up means and medians repeatedly and interchangeably.

[peachy-keenss]

Frank n’ Tate! The most trust worthy lady and town and that sketchy guy who drops especially annoying children off at her shop for her to play mom with when he doesn’t have chloroform. They are friends.

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

guys if I wrote a vent fic about christmas from a muslim's perspective with a dca who doesn't understand why they feel isolated would anyone read it

[ryllen]

[ x . x . x ]

[o0kawaii0o]

[n0bluev]

I always render the face first (its not even fair...)

[quietwingsinthesky]

🔥🔥🔥

Any unpopular Doctor Who opinions?

while the frustration is understandable, i really don’t think it’s honest to call thasmin “queerbaiting”. Or more accurately, I get that it would have been nice to have the Doctor does unavoidably romantic lesbian shit on screen, I also hope the Doctor does that in some future incarnation, but Thirteen was never going to be that Doctor. And I swear to god, this isn’t just my aro!thirteen goggles I have on, I mean genuinely there is no version of Thirteen that settles into a (semi-)healthy romantic relationship of any kind, let alone one where she’s like openly physically affectionate with kisses and such for her partner.

I think a lot of people wish that that could have been the ship to do that, but they’re missing that Thirteen just. wouldn’t. with anyone, really, I think. But definitely not with Yaz, not as she is. You can complain about whatever you want about the other bits of how Thirteen is written, but that remained pretty consistent for her whole run: she’s not emotionally open for that kind of connection. or most kinds of connections. really. she has a lot of issues. one of her closest honest and open emotional connections was with a frog that was also a universe, and like it did not get better from that point for her.

(and, you know, okay, now i am putting the aro!thirteen goggles on, but holy shit she would hate it so much, she would hate hate hate being romantically entangled with anyone. and i do mean with anyone. i love shipping thirteen, i’ll do it unabashedly, but like my understanding of who she is in canon is as someone who would start clawing at the walls of a romantic relationship Immediately to get out.)

[yuseirra]

Kamiki is such a weird character. I keep talking about him because he's like a puzzle. I want to make sense of him because I'm... really confused when it gets to him. I really enjoy analyzing characters, but I usually don't even feel the need to write things down to figure out their character: for his case though?

There are so many claims about him being a horrible, evil, maniac, a heartless psychopath serial killer selfishly using others for his own gain.

Since he's supposedly the father of the protagonist and who had a relationship with Ai, I look at him intently whenever he makes an appearance, because I get curious just what is UP with this man and see him for myself, and I find that when he ACTUALLY does something, he.. tends to be so mild compared to what he's been thought to be. It's so weird. He's nothing like all those things he's said to be when he shows up in person, so the information I've been given to interpret him and the actual character does not match up. I keep feeling he has a kind nature. I think I believe that more compared to the descriptions he has because... it's what he actually is, you know.

People say he's done things, but we never see it in present tense with him actually carrying out these actions in person. It's all speculation.

You see, the thing is, we NEVER get to see him actually DO things on screen. We still don't know what he's said on the phone with Ai (and it turns out that he probably really didn't say much. I say he really DID want to only just send her the bouquet. Anyhow, Ai doesn't seem that uncomfortable talking to him, and we find she had him in her heart all along.) In that phone call with Nino as well, if you see her reactions, it was about turning themselves in?? How was that supposed to be a trigger to go stab a person? Could he have predicted this? Claims that he's manipulated and caused people to become killers? Well, we see ONE case of it something like it happening right now in 161 OH MY GOD even our main protagonist, Aqua could not escape this weird.. turn of events, and here we see Kamiki ACTUALLY wanting to keep Aqua from trying to kill him/become a murderer for whatever intent he has behind it. Aqua still ends up doing something really reckless. In this case, it's exactly the OPPOSITE result of what Kamiki's desired.

I really feel like he never intends for these things to happen and yet, it does. What is there for him to gain from this??? At least for Ai, Gorou and this current.. 161's case, I don't think he even dreamed of this happening. I don't know about the other cases if there are but, Nino says all he did was "talk", and that must be it... he could have some powers to make people grow insane by just talking maybe, but even if it's so, I think it's happening against his wishes and it's not something he can control.

To add, there really isn't much solid base for these claims he's facing STILL, even till the series reaches its end. Some accusations are being thrown at him, but just how much has ACTUALLY taken place? What's the truth? If he's a murderer, just how many lives did he take? I guess... that could be revealed later but; why.. keep it so hidden if he really is that kind of person? In 160, he says he didn't do anything. What if that's true? Why do we never see him take some direct action, even till the final arc? To be fair, there IS the case of Yura, but even that is very vague. I'll talk about that a little more later.

At this point, I feel like they've never shown these scenes to us BECAUSE that would make for a twist. If things go as expected and he is just a mere serial killer who's killed anyone who surpasses Ai for his self-satisfaction, it wouldn't need to be kept so hidden;; in fact, it should have been revealed more because that'd make this guy a menacing antagonist our heroes must defeat. It would add more drive and flavor and make us want to cheer for Aqua's revenge, but it isn't that way. The twist would be that, he could have really done nothing much.. been pretty sensible all along.

In cases like Nino or Ryosuke, we've seen situations where they expressed hatred, stabbed someone, or did something drastic. We see them being dangerous people.

But with Kamiki, whenever they actually do something, it’s not really a big deal, and they come across as rather gentle. To the point where their actions could even be interpreted as kindness. From what I see, they seem to have a genuinely good nature, and apparently, they used to be like that.

There’s just one thing that bothers me—Yura’s case. Honestly, their reaction back then was really strange. When I look at Kamiki’s behavior patterns, whenever they’re dealing with something overwhelming or hiding their true feelings, they always smile. He says some really weird things and he smiles... anyhow, yeah, he does seem to feel guilt about it...

I mean, if they were going to kill Yura, there wouldn’t be any reason to warn her to 'watch her step,' right? That’s what confuses me. What needs to be cleared up now is this: Ai, Ryosuke, and Gorou—he wasn't responsible for those three deaths at least. So, if this suspicion can be resolved, unless there's solid proof that they’ve killed others, it all just sounds like speculation. Is there anything that’s really been confirmed to be their doing? Tsukuyomi was wrong once already; should I trust her about Kamiki's true motives?

Why do I keep feeling like this person is actually a good person every time they appear? Their actions and the accusations are so different.

It’s starting to feel like, 'Could this kind of person really have killed anyone?' Is this supposed to happen or am I reading this story wrong? But here’s the thing—I think the author and I are on the same wavelength with some things; I’ve guessed so many things correctly...

There’s something more to this. This isn’t the end… It feels too suspicious.

If Kamiki's really, truly bad, I’ll accept it—I’ve already said that they should die if they are. But there’s still something nagging at me. I wouldn't be the only one, right?

A truly bad person with real fault wouldn’t behave this way. Of course, people act in all sorts of ways. But this character… something always feels off, so I can’t be certain.

And honestly, that would make for a better story. In the grander context and message of the narrative, it would be more fitting if this character were actually innocent but wrongly accused over and over. That’s what I think.

Also, the fact that Ai left a message asking someone to help this person… that’s partly why I keep thinking about this. They seem really kind…

It makes sense why Ai might have loved them. I get it. I think this person is actually good.

You see, I didn't hold much thought about the guy and just went along with the claims he faced until I heard "Fatal", and having seen Ai wanting to help the guy. Just three seconds in the song (I didn't even know the lyrics at first) I get this...rush of sensation... it's so hard to describe, but I just knew, this emotion there, that must be his.. and so I started drawing him and Ai a lot. I rarely get these wrong. It was such a strong wave of feelings I got.. I guess that's been one of my biggest fuel for the past few months! I really hope I'm right! I felt very.. stunned and sure back then. It was a very strong type of feeling that anchored my thoughts. I trust my intuition when it comes to emotions, I'm usually good with them! It's hard to ask others to trust with me, but I can write posts like these with the reasoning that stems from those feelings I have along with some evidence I find from the work! I've already stepped too deep into this pit and I'll be so embarrassed if I'm wrong but, at least I had fun. I think I've been learning a lot.. having thought a lot... it's been good practice, trying to read characters- I really want to be good at it! It's fun!