#the potential in the mythos

[kaahmbem]

legend has it that the young witch circe and the once beautiful nymph scylla shared a complicated past...

[dinoserious]

recent gira skpg+some slightly older doodles of baby gira

[fluffydeoxys]

I feel like Phobos would need some sort of charisma to achieve what he created with Project Nexus and to have people continue it after his death. I don't think fear is a good motivator in Nevada. He explicitly doesn't fully grasp the Machine and the Employers, but I feel he once had genuine conviction in seeing Nevada prosper. But that quickly warped into seeking power to elevate himself to where he could have Nevada in his own hands.

If you've dehumanised existence to the point of it being merely a tool, coupled with seemingly having "control" over the most powerful and integral plane of existence (the Other Place; think of it like. we found out Hell is real and we can harvest power from it), AND you directly entertained powers greater than yours, it'd definitely uh. well definitely warp a person if they didn't have the strongest moral convictions.

Obviously, this whole project was brought about because the Employers wanted something (most likely for the people of Nevada to work out how to make clones for them; I imagine the Machine can't exactly "create life"), but there must've been a reason they chose Phobos, on top of him being a G01 Nevadean.

Speaking of, that would make Phobos very old... makes me wonder if he's slowly cultivated people/settlements under his 'banner'. What that banner would be I'm not sure. Maybe he always had a gut feeling that there was something 'more' to existence, that there were powers unseen throughout all of Nevada.

Considering he's a G01, maybe he was one of the first to encounter the potential to come back from the Other Place. Hmmmm.

[lesbianfakir]

I have so much love in my heart for Raven!Mytho but we were so robbed of these three being proper friends

[ID: low res distance models of Mytho, Duck, and Fakir sitting side by side on the ground. End ID]

[the-lesser-dog123]

Danny Phantom eldritch/lovecraft mythos AU

So I just had this idea randomly while laying there getting stabbed repeatedly (electrolysis) and tbh I haven't put much thought into it beyond that but hey i figured why not share it:

AU of Dany Phantom where instead of ghosts, it's more eldritch stuff inspired by the Lovecraft mythos and adjacent material

Maddie and Jack are the classic archetype of "investigators tormented by the eldritch knowledge they've learned"

But hey on the bright side that knowledge lets them figure out how to make things that would otherwise be impossible

Instead of trying to make a portal, they were trying to make a device to seal a portal/dimensional rift

Danny still gets caught in an unintentional activation of the device his parents were making, like in the original

But instead of becoming a half-ghost, he has eldritch energy stuff from the rift sorta stapled into him

He isn't technically human anymore, but he can shape himself into an approximately human body well enough that he's just a little unsettling to look at instead of visibly monstrous so he can still act like a normal(ish) person

Technically any other similarly intelligent eldritch entity probably could do the same pretending-to-be-human thing too, but Danny having been a human kid for his whole life before that means it's a lot easier for him

Instead of "going ghost" he just kinda... unfurls his eldritch-y-ness

He probably struggles a bit to "detransform" actually, since his human form is more like a disguise than a fully distinct form he can switch between

I guess the ghosts would be replaced by the more minor entities from the mythos? I'm not super familiar with a lot of the mythos stuff tbh

and maybe dealing with human cultists too

The story's version of Amity Park probably takes a bunch of inspiration from Innsmouth

Oh that just made me think "The Shadow Over Amity Park" could be a fun title for this maybe

[supurman]

excited for summer of superman but also not because the superfamily is unreasonably inflated. of the superfam members i do like 2 need tremendous rewriting ( kon feels displaced, jon needs to just be straight up rebooted ). you see covers of the superfam and fr its just some straight up random ppl clark barely knows that dc wants to convince you is the superfam. also, dont get me started on the new twins clark adopted i dont even AKNOWLEDGE or care for them. why can't dc keep the superfam small. the superfam RARELY for decades had new characters join it. suddenly, in one comic era its swelling with randoms... the supefam to me will always be clark, kara, krypto, kon, jon, henry irons, lois, natasha irons, ma and pa kent... and thats IT!!! STOP! STOP THE PRESSES!!!

[smolfrosted]

You ever just rewatch TribeTwelve, see the Observer and have an overwhelming feeling of potentially incorrect realization?

Cause that’s me right now and I’m not going to clarify unless I’m told I’m right first

[circusk]

just spent HOURSS!!!!! of my day . making fop family tree. its got 63 people rn uhmmm yeah

i think i have everyone . maybeee missing a cousin or two idk

[autistic-girl-academic]

as a Princess Tutu fan I obviously love Slay the Princess and thinking about how their respective controlling narrator characters would interact. like they both tell their 'creations' to not question their roles but whereas Drosselmeyer loves his last-second tragic twists the Narrator does sincerely reward you if you unquestioningly do as he commands, even if it's with an eternity of unthinking 'bliss'; the Narrator's disgusted reactions if you save the Damsel and leave with her feel very Drosselmeyer-esque though. I want to see them going from agreeing on things to bickering with each other to throwing punches and back again is what I'm saying

[jesncin]

I'm not an immigrant to my country. I'm not part of a marginalized race or religion. But even to me it makes so much sense that Clark isn't immediately going around telling anyone just by knowing how quickly people turn and act so cruel for no reason. How horrible behavior doesn't even need an excuse, just a target. How even without the violence, people can grow... strange in ways I don't want to get into.

Of course Clark approached this Lois as he did. Of course Kal told her, this reporter, his name and origins. Of course she reciprocated. A "normal" Lois might not have even if she had something to do it with, but this one has had so many different experiences growing up big and small. Things that I know people would insist can be easily ignored. The put-downs, the look-overs, the snide remarks... Told she's too smart, too "dumb", too "needy", too "pushy", too "weird", too... too... much. Any Lois is brash and unapologetic. But...

Of course Kal-El and Lois Liando are being so understanding where a more "canon" Kal-El and Lois Lane might struggle. What is canon but stories already told and shaped by other times and points of view? This isn't something you have to alter to fit the demands of a boss or publisher, so you're free to let the characters breathe and truly be themselves as they've been cast here. Different but at the heart still who they are. They're able to see and think instead of acting rashly or use words as daggers. Able to be compassionate as much as possible instead of dramatic. To be kind in a cruel world.

I'm sorry that this went on a while but I've rewritten this so many times over the course of a week and this... is as short and as clear as I'm able to get it. I hope you have a good day.

Hi! Yeah I'm glad that even people outside of the experience can understand how Clark's superhero identity is a marginalized one (especially compared to other heroes). When the concept of "foreign"-ness is brought into the equation, people can be cruel. It's why I personally find takes where "people are mad at Clark for ~lying~ about not disclosing his identity" so distasteful.

There we go!! Yeah you get it!! Lois is still a jaded reporter, it's just that her jadedness now comes from a very specific history and experience. Superman still gives her hope, but now it's because she sees herself in his story. Superman still reaches out to Lois to tell his story, but now it's because he knows Lois would do the story justice as an immigrant writer. I was concerned that people would think Superman sharing his Kryptonian name would be "too soon" to do for the Private Interview event, but I'm glad that readers like you understand why he trusts Lois Liando with it. It's common for people of similar experiences/identities to open up to each other sooner than most- because they know that the other person gets it.

:) A thing I've been saying a lot to people lately is "you don't have to work for DC comics to make DC comics". Canon itself can be pretty nebulous, so why can't fanon (where there are no editors and ideally no gatekeepers) be any different? And just because it's fanon, doesn't mean it can't give you the same (if not more) feelings as canon does. It's probably because I rendered the Private Interview comic to a horrifyingly professional degree (lmao I'm putting that comics Masters degree to use) but I've gotten a weird amount of responses that assume my comic needs to justify itself with canon. When no fanon work owes anybody that. I'm glad readers like you get it, y'know!

Oh my, don't apologize for taking the time to write such kind words (for over a week??!)! I really appreciate it, thank you dearly!

[mythos321]

Moon being very bad at painting is so endearing like heck yeah girl I ain’t good at that either-

[radishrainbowfarm]

I don't know if it has been said before bc it seems very obvious to me but I've been thinking non stop about it lately

they should make a dia de los muertos mini event and have the dead eggs visiting

I will be waiting for it

[dinoserious]

poke mythos notes

giratina is canonically a representation of antimatter, which doesnt particularly play friendly with the matter the universe is composed of. this manifests in giratina as a chronic discomfort that eventually developed into a pain terrible enough to drive it mad, which is what its "rebellion" is. it was put in the distortion world as a blind, last ditch effort to let it survive without having to mercy kill it, and it eventually did stabilize in there, taking on the more solid appearance of canon giratina. in modern times it would be able to survive in the "overworld" fine

the distortion world is actually rather hard to access and very hard to see into from outside. arceus would not know the state of giratina from looking in from outside. dialga and palkia were the ones to tunnel into there in the first place, and it was rather difficult. after they left for their own pocket dimensions it left it practically impossible to access, and when arceus left it became completely impossible. nowadays the fabric of the universe has been unstable enough for entry to be less of a hassle, for better or worse

arceus is not a fully omniscient being. it can turn its perception this way and that, viewing the universe from the outside, but it does not have full knowledge of the proceedings inside. it also did not know what was happening to giratina as it progressed; it did not know how to alleviate its pain, as the base structure of the universe acted against it

giratina did not have a full grasp on the events leading to its placement into the distortion world, as the pain had clouded its mind rather thoroughly. it views being in the distortion world as something of a punishment, and reflects on this with both shame for its violence and anger at being put away

i use it/its pronouns for a majority of legendaries/mythicals, even the ones with a gender ratio. this is a personal preference so i dont care that much abt what you call them in the tags i just wanted to put this somewhere

[sharpsuite]

You guys have no idea how much of a mythology nerd I am

[chemicalarospec]

I don't haunt the narrative; I'm haunted by the narrative

[lokis-wager]

Just got through some playthroughs of 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days a Skeptic, and Trilby's Notes, and now I'm wondering how the Chzo Mythos isn't an embedded part of tumblr culture.