#sunny one so true...

[breakteeth]

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but the fact that everyone assumes at surface level, that Dennis is the most manipulative of the gang proves, to me at least, that he is the least manipulative of them all. It's just because the others are much better at hiding it with calculated fawning and weaponized incompetence.

[kiatnirans]

[catmeme]

i'm so fucking excited i'm picking up this handsome man next week

i've been wanting another snake for years and this one worked out so perfectly!!! he's 6-7 years old, way small for his age due to previous neglect, and apparently very sweet! his current name is Buddy but i might change it if i come up with a better one

[batfambrainrotbeloved]

Hey so you know how you made Dick speak sanskrit in your fic? lives in my head rent free.

Why did he not speak romanian. how far back in the historical timeline was his clan(??? idk how to translate the word im thinking of into english but its “ନକ୍ଷ୍ୟତ୍ର”/ “ଗୋତ୍ର”) separated from the rest? How was it not prakrit? Were his parents just trying to reconnect to their roots? Did he learn it from his parents or was it learned while trying to connect with his roots? Does he ever realise that any songs and texts are all religious? Is HE religious with how many words in sanskrit straight up reference god?Does he feel alienated with how his culture is romani but his language is indian? Does he ever realise theres only one village in the world that speaks sanskrit as a native language and its over 13,000 km away? Does it get lonely realising that even damian’s knowledge of languages cant cover it?

Im sorry for ranting but my struggle to reconnect w my culture has me projecting HARD 😭

OH BOY- I have been avoiding some asks (because I haven't had the mental strength to give each the time and love response they deserves I swear im getting to yall) But THIS one was just far too good to pass (and im bored as hell in class)

I would say I do dive a little more into my headcanon culture stuff involving Dick and even Damien in Mama Bird (which again I REALLY NEED TO UPDATE)

BUT Let the rambling begin <33

Why does he speak Sanskrit in the fic vs any other language? Simply it was the closest language I could trace similar roots to Romani ancestery too that was easily acsessible dictionary/translator that I could use in my writings.

Canonically he probably WOULD speak a dilect of Romani or Prakrit etc, but in my desperate trying to look into the language and culture half of the resources I came upon were incredibly racist even for someone who had no idea about the culture before then.

How far back in the historical timeline was his clan??? (Clan/Tribe/Family are good english translation's) Im not familiar enough with Romanian clans to assign a specific one (Though from my understanding of research, The Grayson family would be desenced from Romani people lineages that used to reside in the Indus Valley region- yet another reason for the use of Sanskrit)

Were his parents just trying to reconnect to their roots? Did he learn it from his parents or was it learned while trying to connect with his roots? I havent thought into this TOO much, but i'll say as a headcanon that his family felt a great pride in their culture as some of the lucky few who could maintain their nomadic lifestyle with the circus. His Mother was probably less connected (only knowing from her grandparents sort of thing) and rediscovered her roots after meeting his Father who was VERY in tune with his culture.

And as such tried their best to reclaim those roots and share them with Dick. So yes he learned from his parents- but they were still fully connecting themselves.

Does he ever realise that any songs and texts are all religious? Is HE religious with how many words in sanskrit straight up reference god? This is more projection but as someone who grew up in the bible belt, (Translation- American southern region nicknamed "The bible belt" because of how ingrained the Christian Faith is in both religious practice and general culture) Dick is less belief religious and more culturally religious- he will use religious phrasing, have some habits/beliefs FROM religious background without being fully invested, and even some things he doesn't realize are heavily religious until pointed out.

Aka religious pratices in the way of how your mother would teach you to put knifes in the dishwasher upside down (so they wouldnt be as much of a hazard) but something you do because its how you were told instead of thinking about the WHY as much.

Does he feel alienated with how his culture is romani but his language is indian? Does he ever realise theres only one village in the world that speaks sanskrit as a native language and its over 13,000 km away?

Now this is more complicated, I don't know much about circus life (though I do actually have a friend I can ask so might change this later) But from what I know its a VERY mixed enviornment so Dick was both entrenched in his cultural lifestyle as a nomad with his parents proudly sharing their roots, while also being exposed to dozens of other cultures that were also "his".

Aka- Dick is an amalgamation of culture to the point he both belongs in more ways than most people could ever have, and yet feels completely isolated as a result since no one else understands why he gets upset when people wish him Happy Birthday early, why he always dumps the first steep of tea, why he "pays respects" to his bike and tools, why he sets aside food just to be thrown out, etc etc

Its nice, to be able to connect with people over so much, but at the same time it sucks when his family points out "weird habits" that he hadnt even realized were strange. (Thankfully after a few long talks, people stopped commenting on Dicks habits, anyone who does faces the wrath of the Batclan and just about every Hero from Metropolis to the edge of the Milky way)

Does it get lonely realising that even damian’s knowledge of languages cant cover it?

Actually Batfam DOES know some Sanskrit just by exposure of living with Dick. The one who knows the most is probably Alfred since he was the one dealing with the rambunctious kid who would get frustrated with instructions he didnt understand (and that frustration only getting worse for English being like 5th or so language)

None of them are anywhere near fluent though, but I like to think Dick has a pen pal/friends he practices with. Also because he's terrified of losing his proficency and in turn, losing another part of his culture his parents tried so hard to give to him.

And No need to apologize! Like I said, im an outsider looking in from a very different culture but I loved reading (what little good sources I could find) about this topic. Of course if you have any insights/comments/crituqes I would love to hear about them and thank you for the ask!!

[disposal-blueeee]

doodles

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scriabin by zarla-s

[millidew]

i finished updating the refs of my mind blorbos for artfight... well. the 2 on the sides anyways. rui has always been perfect so he didn't need to change

[vaguely-concerned]

sitting here with my head in my hands over just how much coalecroux is exactly tfgraves except tf incidentally happens to be a warlock alligator (a minor detail that changes surprisingly little overall tbh). I stand humbled once again before my own immense and unspeakable predictability

[cowardlychimera]

*raises hand* Me, me, me! I want the elaboration :3

omg hiii!!

okay first off, my memory sucks so if I get any details wrong please do correct me </3

anyway. Omori killing headspace Basil in the Sunny/true route. first I'd like to bring up how in the Omori/neutral route, when Sunny saves headspace Basil, he has to fight Stranger instead, mirroring the fight with the real Basil in the true route. to continue the game he has to force Stranger to give up, and as a result leave the real Basil to suffer on his own, and kill himself.

in the true route, Omori kills headspace Basil instead, giving Sunny the chance to save the real Basil. he doesn't let him have the option to save headspace Basil, and I think it's because he's challenging Sunny to actually take action for once.

Sunny giving up is a very big theme in the game. he gives up in the lake incident, letting someone else save him instead. he gives up and throws his violin down the stairs instead of speaking up. he gives up and lets Basil deal with Mari's body. he gives up and lets Omori take over. he gives up on reality, choosing his dream world instead.

it's safe to say Omori expects him to give up when faced with the option to save the real Basil. after all, Sunny's been faced with the truth multiple times, and gave up each time too. even Mewo asks if Sunny's waiting for something to happen (instead of taking action and taking the first step: leaving the house).

if he managed to build up the courage to open the door for Kel, surely he can build up the courage to open Basil's door and face him. Omori wants to see if he'll give up. he's challenging him to save the real Basil instead.

and when he does? Omori himself challenges Sunny to a fight instead. maybe he still doesn't think Sunny's capable of making things right. he doesn't think he's capable of accepting and telling the truth. he still expects him to give up. so he challenges him one more time.

I remember Misty pointing out Omori's expression in his final phase and how it looks a bit different compared to before. Misty brought up some pretty good and interesting possibilities, but if his expression did really change, and it's not just the distortion, I think he's actually surprised.

because he's expecting Sunny to give up. but he's not. he's still fighting. he's still standing. he's not giving up. after all these years, he's making a choice for himself. he's always let others make choices for him, always let others save him. but this time Sunny's fighting for himself. for his friends, for Mari, for the truth. he made the choice to try to make things right again when he opened Basil's door. Omori is testing if he really wants to go through with that, forcing him to face every horrible thing he can throw at him.

but he doesn't expect him to actually stand strong. but he is. Omori can't die, can't be defeated. but Sunny's still fighting anyway. Sunny gets back up and plays. plays the song he couldn't before. he does what he had given up on years ago.

and so Omori realizes Sunny isn't going to give up this time. so he steps aside and gives Sunny one last chance to carry on with his choice. he lets him choose between two leaps of faith: one from the roof, and one from Basil's hospital room. Sunny gets to choose which door he opens. and in the true ending?

Sunny chooses the real Basil over the imaginary one. Sunny opens Basil's door.

[clegfly]

Small thing I’m cooking for idksomethingclever99’s fic MITPP!! For some reason I’m having trouble tagging them but here’s the fic!!

This seemed fun to do… probably won’t get more done than this page though…

[rivilu]

You know for as much as I jest about Ulbrig's fey related shenanigans, it has to be noted just how incredibly fucked Daeran would be if Ellu were literally any other fey

[juniperhillpatient]

no one understands how hard it can be for me to relax like I think my body & brain would rather die than relax i forced myself to put away my laptop & it wasn’t easy but I did I absolutely forced myself to put it up & I put on a video essay to sit back in bed & relax to but I disagree with everything this guy is saying so I can’t relax I’m going insane

[just-spacetrash]

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[deeism]

in the seventh circle of hell recently guys sorry for my lack of original funny sexy smart awesome posts

[lovscb97]

my pretty angel boy i love you so much

♡ endless chan gifs ♡ [517- 522] / ∞ – [SPOT KIDS : BLACK] - Voices MV Behind

[homunculus-argument]

Reading fantasy again, I've started thinking about how odd it is how in books like that, the non-human races invariably scoff at human frailty and vulnerability, even those that they'll call friends. Like that's mean?? Why would you be a dick to your friend who you know is not capable of as much as you are, and it's not their fault they were born like that. That's mean.

Like consider the opposite: Characters of non-human races treating their human companions like frail little old dogs. Worrying about small wounds being fatal - humans die of small injuries all the time - or being surprised that humans can actually eat salt, even if they can't stomach other spicy rocks. Being amazed that a human friend they haven't seen in 10 years still looks so young, they've hardly aged at all! And when the human tries to explain that they weren't going to just unexpectedly shrivel into a raisin in 10 years, the longer-lifespan friend dismisses this like no, he's seen it happen, you don't see a human for 10 or 20 years and they've shriveled in a blink.

Elves arguing with each other like "you can't take her out there, she will die!" and when the human gets there to ask what they're talking about, they explain to her that the journey will take them through a passage where it's going to be sunny out there. Humans burn in the sun. And she will have to clarify that no, actually, she'll be fine. They fight her about it, until she manages to convince them that it's not like vampires - humans only burn a little bit in the sun, not all the way through. She'll be fine if she just wears a hat.

Meanwhile dwarves are reluctant to allow humans in their mines and cities, not just out of being secretive, but because they know that you cannot bring humans underground, they will go insane if they go too long without seeing the sun. Nobody is entirely sure how long that is, but the general consensus is three days. One time a human tries to explain their dwarf companion that this is not true, there are humans that endure much longer darkness than that. As a matter of fact, in the furthest habited corners of the lands of the Northmen, the winter sun barely rises at all. Humans can survive three weeks of darkness, and not just once, but every single year.

"Then how do they sane?" Asks the dwarf, and just as he does, the conversation gets interrupted by the northland human, who had been eavesdropping, and turns to look at them with an unnerving glint in her colourless grey eyes, grinning while saying

"That's the neat part, we don't."

[leporidaecervinae]

Sorry I'm kind of obsessed in a morbid way with the world's most petty and hygiene-conscious gay man and the real life embodiment of a scab (I'm so sorry, Matty, you deserve so much better) so I have more to say about maccricket. It's sort of like enemies to lovers/beauty and the beast dynamic in my head ygm?

Cricket can spin the nastiest grossest stories you've ever heard while drinking lukewarm beers with Mac on the rooftop and Mac just grunts and grimaces and kind of tries to ignore it. but sometimes if he lets himself get really into it he'll sit there agog with his eyes wide and gleaming with barely contained interest and it makes Cricket feel important and seen. which as a homeless dude feels alien after so many years but he kind of likes it. it gives him pause at first because he's like 'what are your intentions' and Mac is just like 'nono. continue telling me about the time you fought off three dogs for a scrap of meat and then scaled an entire building to escape their snarling maws. that's so fucking cool, dude, you're like a ninja'.

Cricket takes care of Poppins when Mac lets him roam (to the best of his ability). Mac doesn't know this and Cricket doesn't know Poppins is Mac's dog. They both find Poppins one time and spiderman point at each other. "This is your piece of shit fleabag?" "HE'S MY PIECE OF SHIT FLEABAG!!! AND HE'S NOT A FLEABAG!!! OR A PIECE OF SHIT!!! HE'S POPPINS!!!" "You called your dog Poppins? That's a lame fucking name." "NO IT'S NOT! IT'S COOL! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!" "Give me a dime bag and I'll consider it."

Cricket thinks Mac's coming on to him. Mac refutes that in his typical fashion, but then goes quiet and admits if they'd met back when he was still a priest, Father Mara would have definitely been his type. Cricket kind of considers this in silence and then they don't talk about it ever again.

But: Cricket lazily comes on to Mac multiple times and Mac always rejects him loudly and aggressively particularly when they're around the rest of the Gang until they're alone and then suddenly Mac's apologising and backtracking (because in his mind, Cricket is still kind of a priest and therefore a representative of God and still deserving of some kind of twisted respect) and Cricket shrugs it off but thinks it's weird. That Mac's weird and uptight and too complicated. Mac makes it up to him by buying him stuff for his underpass shelter like new cardboard to reinforce the walls or more beer. (endless beer). he always drops it off in the dead of night because how can he bear to be seen in the same vicinity as Cricket unless there's total darkness?

Cricket's willing to put up with Mac's shit insofar as he gets something out of it. Whether that's beer or drugs or company. Mac's happy to spend time with him as long as it's not around the Gang, and he actually even thinks he's funny even if he can't quite look him in the eye.

"One second you need me, next I'm a pile of garbage, is that what this is?"

Mac soothes Cricket's anger when he mistreats him by taking him out to 'dinner' where it's the shiftiest, nastiest steakhouse you've ever seen and they sit in the darkest corner possible both so that Mac doesn't get seen with Cricks, and he doesn't have to look at Cricket directly. Like that he can almost pretend it's a date. It's not.

Cricket constantly calls Mac's bullshit on his relationship with God and Mac constantly pushes back with his effervescent, loud, and incorrect opinion on how God does everything, but also nothing, and that God made him gay. Obviously. And that he ordained that Cricket had to be a homeless pimp and/or prostitute addicted to hard drugs. Cricket tells him it's actually Dee's fault.

Highschool maccricket would be insane. They're both devoted to god in entirely different ways. Mac religiously goes to Sunday confession (afterwards he sells weed oil in the parking lot to the grannies and acts like he's a badass for it) and almost every time he bumps into goodie-two-shoes altar boy Matthew Mara (who has also listened to plenty of Mac's confessions with wide, horrified eyes when the priest can't be arsed). It's awkward and stilted and Matty's a fumbling, righteous mess who can barely look Mac in the eye, who likes that kind of thing because it makes him feel big and intimidating. Cricket goes on to use that tactic with his boyslut in 'Gets Cursed'.

Mac learning to look past the surface and Cricket learning how to soften his sharp edges—just a little bit. Think of a rehoused ex-abused dog flinching at every raised hand that needs so much devotion and care to be rehabilitated. Mac's not quite that good but he's better than any of the street guys that ask after Cricket's head. Even if he's a dick. Cricket is so used to being used that he's come to expect it, so when Mac doesn't do that it leaves him curious as to why. Mac likes that Cricket is kind of unruffled about his complexities and Cricket likes that Mac buys him beer and actually bothers to listen to him sometimes and comes to him when he needs things (like access to Chase Utley).

Mac being forced to reckon with his quasi-torture of Matthew in school and Cricket being like 'what you did was not cool' and he drugs Mac and does the exact same thing to him but it doesn't feel good. it's not a satisfying result and makes him feeling disgusting and wretched and he breaks down crying quietly that night at what his life has become. Mac wakes up confused and asks him what happened and Cricket lies and said he'd greened out. He'll take that secret to his grave.

Mac always pays him until one day he forgets and Cricket doesn't bother to remind him. From that day on, Cricket makes it a quiet thing that he doesn't require Mac to pay for his time and it makes him remember what actually hanging out with people without expecting manipulation, or having a knife pulled on him, or expecting them to demand something from him, feels like. It's kinda nice. He starts to actually enjoy himself rather than be in survival mode all the time.

Now for the nasty stuff: (NSFW)

The shit they get up to is the nastiest freakiest alleyway-outdoors frot and fuck off that's ever been known to mankind. It's the kind of desperate, animalistic pawing that our ancestors are known for. None of that long and slow and gentle. These two go at it like orgasm is a requirement and they're speedrunning that shit. More often than not, Mac cums on Cricket's face and has to avert his gaze when Cricket complains that it got his beard/goatee. Ninety percent of the time he leaves without offering to help Cricket clean himself up. Ten percent of the time he feels guilty enough (about sullying the temple of his body with someone so gross) and tosses a mini packet of baby wipes Cricket's way.

Cricket's motto is: pay for anything above a casual hand touch and Mac is more than capable of wheedling and whining and puppy-dog pouting his way into a steep discount. Except Cricket is wise to his ways and actually charges him the standard rate, minus five bucks off when Mac brings beer around. Most of the time he finds Mac outside of his camper's spot piss drunk and loudly yelling at the surroundings and complaining that it stinks of piss right up until they take a walk along the Schuylkill and end up fucking in the bushes in a park

Mac almost always tells Cricket that he's never going to see him again and threatens to beat his ass if he tells the Gang 'what they get up to' and Cricket is nonchalant about it and tells him he remembers when Mac confessed at 17 to getting a girl pregnant and demanded she get an abortion. Mac learns to shut up real quick after that.

Cricket's the king of makeshift and generally-unsafe-unsanitary bondage. He'll use old shirts as rope and tatters from his trousers as cumrags and it leaves Mac's skin crawling right up until Cricket's four deep in his ass and making him mewl into the dirt because he's so hard his brain is gone. Despite being 'gay for pay' and terrible to look at and abrasive, Cricket is incredibly good at what he does.

Priest Play. Cricket still has his fucked up priest's robes. Mac has a priest kink. They get real weird with it.

Mac takes Cricket to an underground gay raver club and it's so dark that people can't really see him and the air is so thick with booze and sweat that no one can really smell him either. they get drunk and start dancing together and there's a point where Mac kind of grabs Cricket to grind who immediately tries to pull away and Mac's grip grows a little tighter and Cricket's thinking 'he's going to hurt me' and all Mac does is giggle and pull him close and hug him. It cracks something in Cricket's brain and he tugs Mac to the nearest bathroom and gives him the sloppiest nastiest top known to man right after railing a line off his cock.

Cricket accidentally spilling that they hang out around the Gang and Mac blows his top (more hurt than angry) and Cricket's like 🤷 I don't know what you want from me man. Where's your stash of edibles? Oh, I'm gonna go smoke this angel dust in the bathroom. And Mac's hounding on his heels the whole way like a sheepdog only to knock it out of his hands (and after giving Cricket a pre-emptive wash in the bathroom sink) before using the glory hole after getting into an argument about Cricket's wasted drugs.