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Two lonely boys, wish they became friends sooner âthey couldâve given each other the support they needed
Not sure if the image in my head that inspired this came from a flashback episode or a fic, my brainâs mixed everything up at this point whoopsies ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
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Obscure Anime of The Day:
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Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
Aired: 2007-2008
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen
#éĺ˘çĄé źăŤă¤ă¸ Ultimate Survivor#Kaiji Ultimate Survivor#Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor#Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji#he Suffering Pariah Kaiji#obscure anime of the day#obscure anime#anime#2007 anime#2008 anime
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When I was eleven or twelve, my sexuality started growing in weird like an unchecked wisdom tooth. I had thoughts that were terrifying to me, sadistic sexual fantasies, specific and comprehensive, ones that I couldn't tell anyone close to me about. I thought it spoke to something horrible within me, something broken, I tried to shove it out but I couldn't. I just groomed myself on niche forums and communities, accepted at the age of 15 that I was a pervert and a pariah. I wrote songs about young gay love, but it was a front.
I'm 24 now. Maybe it's improved theory of mind, maybe it's just cus I've been able to talk about these things with other sexual assault survivors and I'm looking at my sexual self from the outside for the first time in my life. In the past months, I've realized my fantasies were always age appropriate. They were the fantasies of a scared and angry puppy, they were juvenile cries for help, desire for power, for love, a need for the things that were done to me to make sense. I'm autistic, all the interests I had in my youth are still with me, that scared and angry puppy is still here. It's cute, really.
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steam team's seniors during their baby years
A friend group so weird and toxic to people they dislike it could rival Itâs Always Sunny In Philadelphiaâs. They're not immune to the "I came to Sodor to avoid my problems and wanted a fresh start" trope many Sudrians also follow
Edward Pettigrew
Age: 31 as of 1984
A kind, friendly NWR railwayman who didnât mind a lot of things and was popular amongst younger folks for his looks and demeanor. He likes showing newbies the ropes of the NWR and Sodor as a whole because he just loves infodumping. Despite being made fun of by some railwaymen for his âweirdnessâ, Edward worked hard and was known as the jack-of-all-trades by his peers, usually treating younger and newer railwaymen to drinks after work to get them accustomed to Sodor (he did this to Henry, then Gordon, then James). Originally from the village of PezĂŤ in Tirana, Albania, 1940s. Due to his beginnings in a small rural village and the Albanian governmentâs censorship of outside influences and heavy restriction of traveling outside the country, Edwardâs hunger for knowledge about the world grew more and more. His family had connections to the LĂŤvizja Nacional-Ălirimtare and Edwardâs particularly bright and good at talking, so he became a diplomat to travel outside Albania â a step into his plans of learning more about the world. After landing himself in the United Kingdom and studying everything he wanted, he believes itâs still not enough. He found out about an island infamous for its supernatural occurrences and cases of people missing just off the coast of the UK â Sodor. Being the curious man he is, he discarded everything thatâs needed for the LNĂ to locate him and landed on Sodor, gorging himself with every mystery the island has to offer. Impulsive? Yes. But for the first time, Edward felt true freedom. However, Edward got too curious and nosy and became a casualty in an accident fueled by supernatural hysteria related to Lady of the Legend and was transported around 40 years into the future, landing in 1983 with his memories all over the place. Despite losing his sense of self and having no idea what he is, his thirst for knowledge still lives on inside his head. His cheerfulness, amicability, and kindness are extensions he formed to make up for the hole inside his heart. Edward does love his friends, but he believes that if he can withhold information from them and make them all live in blissful ignorance, they can be truly happy â this all stems from his fear of exceeding his limits and being discarded (which he later copes by being a typical wise friendly old man in 1999). He often sees visages of Lady in his dreams.
Gordon J. Gresley
Age: 26 as of 1984
Joined after Henry. Looked like he was fresh out of a funeral. A young hotshot who was more polite, quiet, and reserved compared to his 1999 counterpart. Gordon started out as an apprentice fireman for the Wild NorâWesterâs previous driver. He treated his arrival on Sodor as a desperate last resort to escape his issues and grief and pitifully believed he was âlumped with the social pariahs in the booniesâ, but heâs gotten better and believed that this is where he can truly outshine everyone, much to the annoyance and chagrin of his seniors. Gordon acts like he knows what heâs doing in order to build up his image as someone whoâs dependable and strong and revels in small basks of limelight. However, he was constantly uncomfortable with how Edward treated accidents as normal due to their survivors being in tip-top shape the next day and how Henry is so distrustful of and odd about everything and everyone and sweats 24/7, but heâs been masking and convincing himself that heâs not like the rest of them. Heâs normal. Heâs normal! Letâs all hold hands. Donât be fooled by his sad face. Young Gordon can be arrogant and think he knows everything for being a youngin.
Henry Stanier
Age: 27 as of 1984
Joined after Edward, so heâs quite close to him. Gordonâs âseniorâ by 6 months. Heâs always, ALWAYS scared endlessly about anything âout of the ordinaryâ and beats himself up over it, much to his own disgust. Henry had a deep rooted hatred and jealousy towards his peers for pitying him after a coworker revealed to other railwaymen that heâs narcoleptic without his permission. Heâs been masking his disabilities despite it being detrimental for his well-being, but as long as people treated him ânormallyâ, Henry would endure (dreadfully). He did this especially with Gordon, the newest addition to the Northwestern Railway at the time, because he didnât want anyone else to treat him differently when they find out about his health issues. As an extention, Henry developed a vitriol towards Gordon too â heâs particularly jealous about how heâs so âungratefulâ of everythingâs given to him like his fair looks, clothes, and position as the to-be face of the Wild NorâWester. They did become friends though despite the process not being easy. Itâs okay. They became besties that were mean to old nosy folks. Initially wanted to pursue arts, but due to circumstances from his past related to his health and paranoia fueled by his past failures and âjinxesâ, he came to Sodor as a half-hearted last resort to get a job. He wasnât hopeful of having anyone respect him for who he is, but things do get better, much to his surprise.
James A. Hughes
Age: 25 as of 1989
Joined the NWR 5 years after Edward did. At that point, Gordon already discarded his GNR Green look and went for the blue attire (minus the big coat). Flaunts his beauty almost at any given time, especially when someone mildly complimented him. Heâs more of a nerd (word used loosely because he acts like a know-it-all when he actually has no idea what heâs doing) compared to his canon, 1999 counterpart. James came to Sodor for a fresh start and believed he deserves more than what heâs given. He thinks heâs so tough and hard as nails â in fact it became his source of hubris because he gets into accidents and was scolded by his seniors for being so vain and stubborn. He doesnât want to get dirty, he doesnât want to shovel coal, he doesnât want to get wet from the washdown suds â he only wants the good out of the work and doesnât want to accept the âbadâ sides as well, so James was branded as the âproblem kidâ of the NWR by older folks. James, who canât handle harsh criticism and labels well, grow even more distant with them. He primarily hangs out with the RWS trio because they seem to understand his situation and the feeling of being âoutcastedâ (despite Gordonâs annoyance at his boastfulness).Â
#thomas the tank engine#thomas and friends#ttte edward#ttte gordon#ttte henry#ttte james#casa tidmouth#senjart#ngl using the phrase ââsteam teamââ for cstm make me frown because it makes the main cast sound normal or closer#when it cant be more far from the truth in cstm#young edward's rockin the persona protagonist default expression#can you tell I had fun coloring gordon's piece#ALSO can you tell that young gordon is significantly thinner here#and henry too.#james looks like a handsome woman. a bokukko if you will#(well technically he CAN be a woman whenever he wants to be but you get me.)#when james joined gordon already got his blue uniform (minus the coat) but I HAVE to draw greendon SO. SOOOOOOO
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oodles of doodles! We've got some iterators for the memes. Survivor, Monk, and Gourmand for shape practice (peep new Gourm design) New Spearmaster design, I wanted them to look more elegant than natural, also gave em a bit of fur as a treat. I think it would be cool to really stretch Riv's fils to show emotions.Then the Pariah and the Coveter bc I love my ocs :3
#art#digitail art#my art#rain world#slugcat#rw survivor#rw monk#rw gourmand#rw spearmaster#rw rivulet#rw lttm#rw nsh#my ocs
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88 for the crossover roulette.
Okay, this one took me a while
~~~~ "You really are like a cockroach aren't you?"
Vlad whirled around. No human should be in this place! Especially not one he didn't know. And he didn't recognize the tall lanky man one bit, though it was hard to make out his face covered by a hood. "How did you get in my house?"
"There are many ways to get into places Plasmius." he snarled.
Well that was that then. Whoever he was, he couldn't live. He created a duplicate behind the man, ready to strike him unawares-
Only to scream as the duplicate popped and incredible pain lanced through his body.
"Like it?" The stranger sneered, showing off his belt. "Improved model of the specter deflector. Little bit of the Plasmius Maximus built in too. Good luck using your powers for the next several hours." he crouched before Vlad's prone form. "Now where were we? Oh right, you being a cockroach. You do the stupidest shit and then you escape consequences by lying. You lie to your business partners before you rob them blind. You lied to Valerie about everything about ghosts. You like to yourself about how nothings ever your fault and that Mom would ever like you. You lie to Dad about being his friend while trying to kill him."
"Daniel?" Vlad gasped. The man pulled back his hood revealing a familiar face made foreign by age. This Danial was clearly an adult, though not a healthy one, gaunt and wary. "But the specter deflector?"
"Let me tell you a story Vlad. It has a sad beginning. Hell, it's sad all around, but the beginning packs a wallop. It start with a freak explosions at a fast food place causing the deaths of Maddie, Jack, and Jasmine Fenton, Sam Manson, and Tucker Foley. None of whom became ghosts after that. One survivor, who only survived because his half ghost body regenerated the damage, one Danial Fenton."
"Originally the next of kin to take him is was his Aunt Alicia, but since reconnecting with his 'best friend' Jack had wanted it changed to Vlad Masters. Maddie resisted at first, but after Vlad pretended to save Danny from Pariah Dark, again an incident he'd caused in the first place and again lying, she'd agreed."
"But Vlad wasn't as happy to have control of the boy as he once would have been. He'd blamed him for living when his mother hadn't. He wanted the boy to act grateful for even being in his presence when all the boy wanted was to have died with his loved ones. Needless to say it didn't work out. But did you give him to his Aunt? No. You decided you just needed a better version of him. You'd already been working at your cloning experiments, even if they weren't...built to last." He looked a tube containing a small girl sadly. "But you did the thing you did best besides lying. You got greedy."
"I was at your mercy. Obviously you could have harvest my DNA at your leisure and made a perfect clone, but you decided you wanted more. You decided to splice your own DNA in, so it would truly be 'your' son and that's where everything went wrong."
"You're the first halfa Vlad, but you know how first drafts are. Or maybe you don't, I doubt you ever did your own work. First drafts are messy and incomplete. And that's you as a halfa. Twenty years of experience, but Little Me was catching up to you in less that one. He was also good to go without any serious recovery time while you needed years of hospitalization and even then had flare ups. In terms of blending I was mayonnaise, kept stable and homogenous. You were oil and vinegar, constantly trying to separate. That's what the ecto acne was, you know. Not some skin condition like puberty gone wrong. It was your human body trying to purge itself of ghostly contaminants. Trying to reject Plasmius. And maybe you'd be healthier if you let it."
"But back to the point. You were an imperfect halfa. And you passed that along to the clones you made with your DNA. They failed even faster and you decided the solution was more power. You used me as a battery, draining my ectoplasm into your creation, damaging my body so much I can't create more. You essentially made me human again Vlad. But it still wasn't enough. And you decided it couldn't need much more, so you decided to transfer a bit of your own, only for your creation to take all of it."
"I guess credit where credit it due, you cured my death wish. I lived. I escaped and warned people. They didn't believe me of course. Thought I was mad with grief, especially Val. Until the attacks started. I don't know what the fuck you made with our combined DNA, but whatever it was it had both our memories and neither of our moral compasses, or at least any you pretend to have. It fed off death. And no one was ready for it. For a while I was imprisoned because it would pretend to be me and as such I was deemed a risk. But time helped that. I aged and it didn't. It's human form would always be 14 year old Danny Fenton while it's ghost form was a horrible amalgamation of us. It killed. It destroyed. Anything we did to keep it out it would eventually overpower. Until we decided to game the system."
"Time travel, Vlad. Remove the triggering incident. But not even Clockwork can change things all willy nilly. But what he did was seed things in the past to make the Observants of then panic and order him to fix it. Of course they did it by ordering my death, so Clocky had to work around that. Prove Little Me was worth the chance. Little Me ended up in my time and guess what you did Vlad? Can you guess? You lied again. Made up a whole sob story of how you were just trying to help me with my grief by surgically removing my ghost half and how my ghost half then attacked and stole yours and you'd spent all those years trying to fix it. And he believed you. He's burdened with guilt for a time that never happened and believes you're capable of changing and deserve a second chance. Your lies always work, don't they. But I know better. You can't lie to me, not anymore."
"But I'm not going to kill you Vlad, do you know why?"
"Because you're Daniel. I'm sure you're telling yourself something about how I'll suffer more alive, but the truth is you just can't bring yourself to do something like cold blooded killing." Vlad sneered.
"Wrong. You have no idea what I had to do to survive the hell you made." Danial smiled. "I just respect dibs."
"What? OW!" Vlad's body spasmed as something was forcefully injected into it. He looked up behind him and saw an older version of Valerie Grey, twirling a pressure injector, almost exactly like the ones he used to treat his symptoms when they reoccurred. (The scheming part of his brain realizing that would mean it wouldn't raise any alarms if marks from it were found on his body)
"A little compound based on one of the Fenton's projects. I strengthens ectoplasm and makes it stronger. It would be a real boost for past Danny or any other ghost. But for you? Well, your human form was barely holding it together with the ectoplasm you had."
Vlad whimpered, feeling the bubbling under his skin he recognized from his ectoacne only a hundred times worse.
"Goodbye Vlad." Valerie uncaringly stepped over his dying form and wrapped her arms around Danny, the two joining in a kiss.
"It worked." There was joy in Danny's voice for the first time in along time. "It really worked Val. The future, our loved ones, they're safe."
"They are." Valerie smiled down on him. "So we doing this?"
"Yeah. It's selfish, but I think we've both earned a little selfish." Danny pulled a USB and stuck it in Vlad's computer, Mikey's code rewriting several things. "There we go, edited to include another clone of me and one of you."
"How long are we going to have to be in those tube?" Val wrinkled her nose a little.
"Not long. The evidence we dropped off should get the investigation here in less than a day. Also I missed seeing you with long hair."
"It wasn't practical." Valerie grinned. "But Little You saw me with the buzzcut so I had to grow it back." Thankfully with all the wonders of the Infinite Realms, something to instantly grow hair was downright mundane and something Clockwork had been happy to maintain the timeline.
The story now was the story that had to be. If the Observants discovered they were manipulated they might undo their undo. But Vlad had to be handled and with the narrative the Observants had gotten they wouldn't do it themselves.
(Valerie had actually ranted about this, about how even in the lie Vlad had spun the Monster was half him, But the Observants had put all the blame on the mourning 14 year old. Typical.) The 'responsible' thing would be to let themselves fade from the timeline. Or barring that disappearing and starting new. But as Danny had said, they'd earned a bit of selfishness.
If they posed as clones of their past selves there was a chance their families would be contacted and taken in. It was a gamble. Maybe the authorities they'd contacted would destroy them or turn them over to the GiW. Maybe the Fentons or Damian Grey would see them as a violation of their children and reject them. But they'd take the gamble. It wasn't any worse than the one they'd just taken to save the future. And besides, their younger selves needed all thee help they could get
Sure Danny didn't have powers anymore, but he had the experience fighting his younger self had lacked. If everything worked out, not even Pariah Dark would have a chance against two Danny's working together.
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Future Danny, Valerie, and Clockwork: We'll seed these images to the Observants so they know all they have to do to save the future is prevent the explosion
Observants: Naturally there's only one way to fix this, KILL THE CHILD
Future Danny, Valerie, and Clockwork: *facepalm*
#Danny Phantom#Ghost Writing#Again#born of my age old 'why are we trusting Vlad's narrative' problem with Ultimate Enemy#Dunno if I'll ever write more of this but if so the name of the Au is#Better Left Unsaid
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Iâve decided how Batman meets Danny Phantom.
While connecting characters between DC and DP, I came across the DC villain Pariah, who shares a name with DP villain Pariah Dark. Iâve decided that these two are the same person and fighting him will bring Danny Phantom into contact with Batman, or at least get Danny onto his radar as someone to look into further.
But first, some backstory...
Since we donât know much about Pariah Dark, other than being sealed away a long time ago, Iâll mostly be pulling his backstory from Kell Mossa, a scientist who accidentally brought his universe to Anti-Monitorâs attention and watched it be destroyed as the only survivor, renamed Pariah by his savior, Monitor (Anti-Monitorâs âgoodâ twin brother). He involuntarily watched Anit-Monitor destroy several other universes, blaming himself for (supposedly) releasing Anti-Monitor, though he is later assured that Anti-Monitor was just doing what he had always done and Pariah had simply diverted his path of destruction. Pariah is dropped off in a random universe, where he tried to live a normal life, though he was constantly drawn to impending disasters that he had no hope of preventing, as no one heeded his warnings (like a mix of Pokemonâs Absol and Greekâs Cassandra); he was killed and revived a few times, only to eventually fall through the cracks of reality and driven insane. Instead of being found by Flash and sent to the âparadise worldâ called  Earth-Flash.1, Pariah became the first inhabitant of the newly formed Ghost Zone pocket dimension and declared himself the Ghost King, sometimes calling himself Pariah Dark. (He may or may not have connections to the cosmic Great Darkness, I havenât decided)
Pariah decides to use the ghosts of the Ghost Zone to invade the living realm of Earth but now he needs a lieutenant he can trust...
After turning completely evil, Eclipso was replaced as the Wrath of God (yes, THAT God, cuz apparently He exists in DC) by Aztar, who instead calls himself the Vengeance of God, and is bound to a human host to keep him from turning evil like Eclipso did. Heâs had many hosts over the millennia and his most recent host, James âJimâ Corrigan, had been the hero Spectre with Aztar since Jimâs âdeathâ around 1940, but he was getting old and had chosen Detective Crispus Allen of the Gotham Police Department as his replacement in 2005. The ritual to transfer Aztarâs host was interrupted by Pariah Dark and Aztar was ârecruitedâ as Pariahâs lieutenant, killing Jim and leaving Cris unpowered and in distress. Pariah convinces Aztar to join him by promising freedom to choose his own path rather than be tethered to some goodie-two-shoes human and Aztar accepts. Danny is called on to defeat Pariah by the ghosts that donât want to serve the self-proclaimed King (most of whom end up being Dannyâs various Rogues Gallery) and is thrust into leading the resistance; meanwhile Cris enlisted the help of Batman and the rest of the Batclan (and maybe some members of Justice League Dark), who join the resistance as well.
Iâm thinking this will be the first big crisis Damian will participate in as Robin, though Iâm not sure if I want Duke Thomas (Signal) to have been recruited yet or not; if he has been recruited already, heâs still in training and hasnât become Signal yet. Iâll get my timeline ironed out for my next post.
Various other connections:
There is a Pandora in both continuities, so after she âaccidentallyâ released the Crime Syndicate (evil JL) into this universe, she decided to move and found the new Ghost Zone to be acceptable, as the inhabitants amused her. She recognized the ectoplasm that saturated the pocket dimension as being related to the Fountain of Life but didnât bother looking into it or telling anyone because she didnât want to risk them ruining her fun. She let the Box Ghost steal her box and toyed with Danny before agreeing to help him retrieve it. She could probably take down Pariah on her own but that would be really hard and this resistance thing sounds like more fun than sheâs had in ages anyways.
DC Cronus is more-or-less the same as the god from Greek mythology but has also been equated with Chronos, the Greek god of time. After Cronus was imprisoned in Tartarus by the Olympian Gods, Clockwork was given his duties as the God of Time by Hera, loosely working with the Quintessenceâ Observants.
Speaking of, DPâs Observants seem to fulfill a similar role as DCâs Quintessence, so Iâve decided that the Quintessence are the gods in control but they employ the Observants to catalogue and categorize events for the Quintessence so they donât have to do everything themselves. The Observants are the ones who decide what deserves the attention of the gods in charge. Iâll probably have the Quintessence decide the fate of the Ghost Zone after Pariah Dark is defeated.
The Guys in White are an obvious reference to the Men in Black. Looking up various government agencies in the DC Comics, the Bureau of Normalcy (formerly Bureau of Oddities) seems to serve a similar function, so Iâve decided that GiW and BoN are both departments of the larger Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO), where the GiW are specifically focused on eliminating threats from ghostly (and similarly paranormal) origins, while the BoN handles cover-ups and convincing the public that everything is ânormalâ and work both in the field and in cyber security. BoN people often accompany other agencies to run interference so the other agencies are able to do whatever they need to do without fear of being seen or regular people getting in the way. The GiW was beginning to investigate the uptick of paranormal activity in Amity Park and would have contacted SHADE if they ever discovered Danny Phantom was anything more than an ordinary ghost.
Other departments include Knightwatch (general military enforcement), the Suicide Squad (generally works with Knightwatch, enlisting the aid of established heroes and villains alike, the roster constantly changes), Squad K (which is specifically designed to take out Superman if he ever went rogue), the Super-Human Advanced Defense Executive or SHADE (focused on talent acquisition), Project Cadmus (technically Research and Development, but actually trying to clone heroes for SHADE), the Department of Metahuman Affairs or DMA (the public face of SHADE), and probably others I couldnât find in my quick search.Â
#non undertale#Danny Phantom#Danny Fenton#DPxDC#phandom#Pariah#Pariah Dark#Spectre#Aztar#Pandora#Clockwork#Observants#Quintessence#Guys in White#GiW#Department of Extranormal Operations#DEO#Phantom Bat
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I think it's time to stop fixating on arguments with the active Good Omens fandom.
Yes, the efforts to keep Good Omens 3 that don't mention the allegations are immensely frustrating. But I don't think it's coming from people who disbelieve the allegations or don't care about them. I think it's coming from people who are taking it for granted that Good Omens 3 won't happen with Gaiman attached beyond IP holder. They think the only two possibilities are Gaiman removed as far as possible or outright cancellation. From their perspective it doesn't seem necessary to mention the allegations, they think Gaiman is already a full blown pariah who's career is in shambles.
That is not how these things work. The allegations still don't have widespread media attention, and he still has countless ongoing publishing deals. The bubbles we are in are very aware of the allegations, but those bubbles are largely made up of people who are terminally online. The wider world is still broadly unaware.
While I would prefer it if efforts to salvage Good Omens 3 consistently made their support explicitly contingent on Neil Gaiman's public sacking, I think there are more productive uses of time and energy then getting into flame wars about it. Overwhelmingly the Good Omens fandom is onboard with efforts to metaphorically launch Neil Gaiman into the sun. They are more allies than adversaries. Let them have spaces to keep talking about their blorbos, don't go into those spaces to accuse them of not believing the allegations or not caring about SA survivors.
Gaiman's ability to maintain wealth, power, and influence is far more connected to his public appearances and publishing deals than it is to a show's fandom that already wants him axed (but forgets that they still have to say that because they think it's obvious.) I don't like the organized 'stream the show more' efforts, but the IP residuals off of additional streamed views are typically very small compared to book sales.
If the goal is to take down Neil Gaiman's ability to use his career to access victims, the primary objective is shutting down public appearances. No convention appearances, no teaching workshops, no book signing events, no speaking engagements. I don't think those sorts of things are likely in the near future, as the current PR strategy looks like an attempt to lay low and avoid the Streisand effect. However, if things do start blowing over in the future, public appearances might start creeping back, and they can be met with in person protest.
The next objective IMO is no new TV / movie deals, no new publishing deals. The general public scandal will suppress new deals for a while, but it won't hold up if the story is only circulated in the fringes and then forgotten about. The methods of raising awareness need to focus on bringing the message to people who haven't heard about the allegations yet, and that's going to mean going real world about it. Leave stickers on power line poles, on bus stop shelters, on bookshop shelves, on shopping carts / trollies. Ask your local news media to cover the story.
The challenge target if those main objectives hold is cancelling current publishing deals. That won't just be about calling on publishers to drop Neil Gaiman, it will also be about calling on people to stop buying his work, so that the publishers have a capitalist justification for dropping him. Always remember, you are not appealing to their better nature, you are appealing to a spread sheet.
The target audience for the 'stop buying NG books and comic books' message is people who haven't heard about the allegations yet. It is not the terminally online wing of the Good Omens fandom, which is already in favor of not purchasing from him.
Current publishing deals are not an easy target. Boycotting efforts are notoriously difficult to organize effectively, and there are plenty of objectively terrible people widely known as such who still get published. Some thoughts I have on it are starting with foreign language publishers in regions where Gaiman isn't as commercially successful, or seeing if local book stores are open to not purchasing more of his books. Keep in mind though, as with any boycotting push, you are asking the most vulnerable people to make the biggest sacrifice. A locally owned small bookshop has the most to lose by not stocking a popular author. Stay kind and respectful.
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ok but im more curious, how post-doc genesis reaction begin called old? poor guy
Post-Doc Genesis is honestly kind of mellow and checked out. Sure, he still has instances where he lashes out or acts like the same theatrical hothead he always was. But he's a lot more subdued, worn down through years of grief, survivor's guilt, and just...well, guilt in general.
Being called old no longer fazes him. Genesis still wants to live and is determined to do so. But after the events of Crisis Core, he mostly feels adrift, unsure where to take his life. He's also come to realize that, now that he's been cured of his Degradation, he's not really aging in the most conventional sense, if at all. His life will go on, stretch far beyond its limits. He will wander this world alone as a pariah, doing good where he can, physically preserved despite the weariness of his own mind. Was this what Sephiroth would have experienced? To outlive loved ones, Shinra, the planet itself?
Over the passing seasons, Genesis finds that he's changing, even if his appearance doesn't. If there's one thing he gained from this entire experience, it was wisdom. Maybe in ways that Angeal and Sephiroth never would have attained if they were alive. Genesis knows he's old. But he accepts it. He will go on. He will continue to protect the planet on his own. He will offer council and aid to those who seek it. And he will utilize his wisdom in ways that will benefit the planet, preserve the dignity of human life.
For once, he's glad that he's old. Glad that he's older and wiser.
It means he's doing something right.
#asks#ff7#ffvii#final fantasy 7#crisis core#genesis rhapsodos#angeal hewley#sephiroth#final fantasy vii
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Alright, y'all. Poll time. Synopses of your choices are under the cut, if you want them. I can't decide between my upcoming original stories (I'm gonna write them all eventually), so I'm inviting y'all to choose for me.
On a related note, if I hit 15 followers before this poll expires, I'll do a follower lottery and the lottery winner will get to name a character in the winning story! (More details on that also under the cut.)
Synopses
Adventures in the Gaywild, a queer contemporary portal fantasy with an ensemble cast of queer & disabled adults just trying to live their lives, but who have said lives interrupted regularly by their hometownâs proximity to the fey realm. Beronsgate is a cute little coastal town with a major problem: sometimes the door you open doesnât lead where you wanted it to. Monster-of-the-week episodic sitcom installments with an overarching denial-of-destiny arc. (If this wins, the "winning story" will be the first installment of the series.)
The Death of Santa, a sapphic Christmas adventure with a transgender Mrs. Claus whoâs unhappy in her role as the token female holiday persona, and escapes the North Pole only to find herself in a strange land of eternal winter. Kristina takes shelter in a fortress built over a gate, and finds deadly traps, warped Christmas monsters, and the woman she married 900 years ago. Transgender themes, trans joy/power, and mistaken identity feature heavily in this high-action novelette that tries not to take itself or Christmas too seriously.
Liberty, a gay cowboy friends-to-lovers between a cattle baronâs heir and a gifted horse trainer. Aaron and James have kept their romance a secret for almost a year. When Aaronâs mother makes a big stink about him turning down yet another farm princess, heâs got a tough choice to make: follow the herd, or follow his heart. Forget coming-of-ageâletâs talk coming-out, love and support from unexpected avenues, and being true to yourself.
Double Tide, a seaside low fantasy adventure about a dockworker and the inquisitive merrow they met in the local tidepools, who become fast friends despite language barriers and local taboo. When a new fishing technique threatens the local merrow population, they discover whether a lone dockworker and a social pariah can really make a difference. Try this gender-agnostic, hopeful Romeo and Juliet (without the tragedy) that explores the meaning of love and friendship.
The Siege of Helen, an exploration of neurodivergence and (mis)communication in a romantic relationship. Helenâs new pregnancy has made her mood a thousand times more volatile, and her husband is spending more and more time at the office. Hephaestus, already overstimulated and dysregulated from trying to provide for his now-growing family, realizes in the nick of time that thereâs only one way not to lose the woman he loves: heâs going to have to talk to her. About his feelings. Short story companion to my novel-in-progress, By Any Other Name, following Ambroseâs parents as they try desperately to keep their marriage from falling to pieces.
The Library, a heartwarming zombie survivor tale about a weary now-single dad and his last remaining foster teen who fight to preserve the ruins of a great library against those who would destroy it for their own short-term survival. Take refuge in the Charles J. LaRose Memorial Library, and let Kaylen tell you about the time they fought off zombies and men with guns to make a safe place for travelers like you to rest and recuperate in the desolate hellscape of the zombie apocalypse.
Lottery Info
Lottery will happen if the total follower count (less myself) on this blog reaches 15 before the poll in this post expires. I'll choose via random selection & contact the winner via Tumblr to confirm you want to participate. If you don't, or I can't contact you via Tumblr because your messages are closed, or if I don't get a response to my initial message within ~24 hours, then I'll choose a different winner by the same process. And so on until someone bites.
Lottery winner will receive a short bio of the relevant aspects of their character (appearance, mannerisms, and plot role), and the name they choose will be used for the described character. I will not accept names that are offensive or that would be considered offensive in the context of the story or character, and I retain the right to ask the winner for a different name if the chosen name is, for some reason, really really not going to work in the context of the story.
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Death Warrant!Au
When the rejuvenating, life-extending effects of ectoplasm to the dead and dying was discovered by planets across the stars, it triggered mass conflicts that left several systems obliterated beyond repair. Hundreds of Billions had migrated to the Realms in numbers that were never seen before by the residence of the dead. They had various forms of damage and disfigurement on their new forms as a result of the ectoplasm being weaponized and used on them. Their very beings were corrupted beyond repair with their minds significantly altered with highly specified obsessions.
⢠Peoples from the destroyed worlds being so afraid that they lashed out, ripping anything that saw them to pieces out of fear of being attacked.
A serpentine creature of the Realms eagerly stalking them and fed upon their cores to grow stronger.
⢠Soldiers of these races were hell-bent on continuing to fight and proceeded to attempt subjugate this dimension that was new to them. Their rage guiding them blindly as they left paths of destruction throughout the realm.
A beast, wrongly slaughtered in the early madness of an delicate fledgling world that happened to be rich with ectoplasm followed the warpath and basked in the rage.
Eventually, more creatures like them came to prominence as a result of these strange new victims. Being aspects of emotion that were born from the masses in the war.
The Ghost King during this time period could not sit idly by and watch these newly born ghosts run rampant and terrorize his kingdom. With a heavy heart and a weapon in hand, a call to arms was called and the purge of these beings began. It tooks thousands of years, but when the last corrupted ghost was destroyed, the King took to the realm of living and wiped away all traces of the Realms from the minds of the survivors with all recollections of this terrible war for ectoplasm erased from history.
As his rested his eyes one final time, before the Tyrant would cowardly claim his life, made a major, sacred declaration that all citizens was made:
⢠If any hostile, mutant ghosts were to be found, they were to captured and examined by the king's council to await judgement. If they are too dangerous to restrain and seek bloody violence, they are to be destroyed.
⢠Any scientists trying to use ectoplasm for endangering life were to be have their memories erased and put to the sword for their crimes.
⢠Anyone foolish enough to Defy Death using ectoplasm, the greatest violation of the laws in the infinite Realms, they were to be put to death as and immediately given their Second End.
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When Pariah Dark, the Cowardly Tyrant King, is defeated and Danny fianlly takes the throne after a few centuries of training, the Observers hand him a compiled a list of names who violated these sacred laws.
They have him start with Earth and Danny's jaw hits the floor with what the charges he was seeing. He can already hear the chaos in the meeting room.
⢠Amanda Waller, Vandal Savage, Darkseid, Granny Goodness, a court of owls(?)...the list is long, and that's just Earth alone!
⢠Jack "The Goddamn Joker" Napier and a few of the more violent Rouges of Gotham are charged with Veil Destabilization.
Even Jason Peter Todd Wayne...the Red Hood!? Danny can probably work something with Jason, force him into therapy sessions (along with the whole damn family) with Jazz and a couple cleansing sessions and supplements from Frostbite...the others had to go...
The continued slaughter of the innocent, combined with the suffering they endured and the misery felt by Shades who couldn't move on was making the veil deteriorate at dangerous speeds. New pits would form across the city eventually as a result.
Lady Gotham has done everything she can to keep the madness from happening but she can't hold it back any longer. Her core is ready to shatter under the stress and is constantly in agony, but she won't abandon her knights, despite Danny's pleas to save herself.
There's a certain brigade of furry's who may or may not like this news but said brigade had no choice but to take it on the chin. They have children who Defied Death in their ranks and the Realms are not afraid to destroy anyone foolish enough to stop them.
⢠Lex Luther is charged with crimes against humanity. And several other violations in regards to unethical experimentation.
One sticks out to Danny.
Lex used Danny's stolen DNA from a stray core shard from the Guys in White, who he was was funding in secret, even after they were disbanded, to create a clone comprised of the Earth's resident Kryptonian, the bald bastard, and himself to kill and replace said Kryptonian...the guy who literally helps save the earth time and time again from doom.
...Yeah, Lex is undoubtedly, fucked beyond total comprehension. Anyone defending him was risking all-out war with the Infinite Realms.
But hey, at least Danny was finally having child of his own! The little tyke is only a few years old in the tube, Ellie's visits are far and in-between and Danny's status as a Halfa made him sterile and develop an embarrassingly strong case of baby fever.
He's sure the ghosts from Krypton would love to help out in raising Conner in case Kal-El wasn't really planning on being around the boy. After all, being cloned himself, Danny knows the emotional baggage that comes with being violated to this degree by your enemy.
He just hopes the guy can come around and accept the little guy...
#dp x dc#dc x dp#dp x dc prompt#dp x dc crossover#justice league#danny phantom#my prompts#Death Warrant!Au#I've seen fics were Danny Time Travels to fix things#I've also read were he gains amnesia so he accidentally lives in the past until he remembers who he is#Lex Luthor is a bitch with a very slappable bald head that Danny is gonna smack the soul out of#Danny is gonna hook up Jason with therapy from Jazz and cleansing sessions with Frostbite#When Damien is finally born and with Bruce is the day everyone in the League of Assassins is gonna get wiped off the face the fucking Earth#You don't fuck with the abyss because it'll do more than simply look back#Eldritch Mama Bear!Danny#Conner is gonna be spoiled rotten#If Damien is also partially Danny's kid he wont wait and waste the League the second he can grab him#Being the 'Demon's Head' doesn't mean jackshit when the ectoplasm youve been uskng is the equivalent of used toilet water#Bruce Wayne x Danny Fenton x Clark Kent#Clark was worried his many times great grandfather was hitting on him#But Danny told him that he helped save krytpon and found the house kf El so there no blood relation#Due to amnesia inflicted during his time traveling Danny accidently created the embodiments lf Emotion from each Lantern Corps#Danny's first anniversary gift is bringing Bruce and Clark's parents to Earth to spend tkme with them#Bruce is afraid this will be the last time he gets to see them but Danny tells him he and Clark can tag along for Jason's treatment#Alfred is happy for his boy and is happy to see Thomas and Martha#Conner and Clark bonding with Jor-El and Lara Lor-Van about Krypton culture
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Masterpost and Masterlist
(Some are mine, most arenât. Iâm just putting this to save post I like)
Updates from Lee (Caleism-1)
Includes:
Important info: safety concerns, health, etc
My post
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Suicide or self harm concern on tumblr, what to do, and how to inform and helpďżź
Tips That Can Save Your Kidâs Life. - Stranger danger & what to do
HIV
Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP - check if your works are being pirated
Please tell your children if they are stopped by police to say in unequivocal terms, "I will not speak to you without a lawyer."
Brest cancer awareness- self check
Cheetahs
Actual good self care hand out
Some of my post
Going to get milk
Krs horrified of having another sibling
The AUâs meet: [Al & Lsh]
Crossover ideas I had
Tcf fic ideas - Cale and Krs sibling ideas
Tcf fic idea - no escape
Female Cale ideas and notes
Something that is never broken with GoN!Cale
The beginning of the ended world
Incomplete idea
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Art, art tips, etc
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Tip on how to do tiled floors
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redflagshipwriter Masterpost
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theglamorousteral favorite DPxDC posts on tumblr
Post and prompts I like
Test my limits au
Drunk Cale picks fights and win
Krsâs survivor ability [Survivor part 2]
Dan Phantom vs. the Justice League - Most DCxDP fanworks gloss over how Dark Danny/Phantom kills the JL, or argue that TUE wouldn't play out the same way in the DC universe (Aka how Dan could have taken the heroes out from DC)
DPxDC cheat sheet
What if KRS!Cale tells them he used to be younger than Og!Cale, but theyâre under the impression that Og Cale was 18. Cale doesnât realize this.
a second chance isnt worth losing you au -mha
Roomba [2] [2.5]
Ghost flu [1]
Practice your skills
Massager Danny - physical therapist ďżź
De aged Damian - Damian is de-aged to a baby and lost in Gotham.
Each male robin falls for a Nightingale
Rogues of Gotham Fucking Around and Finding Out with Amity
Constantine makes ghost freak out
school project gone wrong - dead serious
Everlasting trio adopts Tim. [1]
Dp x Dc Prompt: Royalty visits the DC Universe AU - Pariah Dark is released again and instead of being his usual evil self, he decides to go and adopt the baby ghost who defeated him. Danny doesnât like this
Jl thinks Phantom would eat anything green and glowing!"
The consequences of your actions - Batman and Robin had broken into Vlad Masters Hotel because they found something that was extremely similar to Lazarus water as Damian looks around he ends up in the bed room where he finds a crib that has a sleeping baby in it underneath the crib he finds injections filled with Lazarus water and comes to the conclusion that he is experimenting on this baby. Damian decides that he needs to take her when he leave.
Batman and robin kidnaps Dani Au leading to Gotham being sent to the GZ
"Were very sorry sir. The children thought your people were from the government."
Jokers dead body -snail grave
Blog of fighting food
Which one is in Danger?
Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not) [2] [3]
De aged Dan and mama Danny
War day
I want waffle fries - Anyone animation
krs finding comfort in small spaces or higher up places
Kryptonian clone Jack au
Theyâre the strongest?!?! -pick out their strongest to fight alien evaders. Danny, Clark, and Billy
canon/fanon batfam meets Mom Danny!Damian.
Salvage Tomorrow - Bart, Danny going to the ruined past, Dan king regent seen as Dannyâs Dad
Danny the tiktok star -danny's jokes about being adopted by bruce suddenly turn serious au
The Dance Academy isn't a gang- DC X DP Prompt
Youâre worth is more than a penny. -Alfred Pennyworth was raised by Phantom.
Confused as Tim
Constantine sacrificed by cultist to his son Danny
Noona Rosalyn
Pharaoh Tucker with his âWifesâ Sam and Danny
Ghost Phobia: Danny Fenton
Glass coffin
Pool noodle - Batfam AUs where Jason or Damian or just anyone who wasnât there for Timâs early days as Robin thinking heâs the calm, boring Robin who always listens to Batman etc.
Young clone? - superboy thinks danny, body deaged to but still has memories, is a young clone. Clark was not happy about Dannyâs foul language
Clone kids au - Danny and Robin have clone children-phantom elf au
#Me#masterlist#Masterpost#save#pin post#trash of the count's family#danny phantom#dp x dc#mha#bnha#other#lout of the countâs family
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DBD Random Hc #2
General
Obsessions are always given the green light to escape by any means.
Entity purposefully fucks with both sides to heighten tensions. Causes food shortages, droughts, or purposefully triggers killers.
The Entity is unable to create a place or environment without drawing inspiration the real world. It just simply isnât creative enough.
The Enitiy only takes talented/ interesting survivors who wouldâve made an impact on the world. Dwight was accidentally taken.
Ironically, Dwight is who rallies the Survivors and causes the eventually down fall of the Entity.
Leading up to the downfall, Dwight would have to befriend and earn the loyalty of every survivor. ( I would honestly play a tell-tale game like this)
If Evanâs spirit wasnât broken, heâd start a killer led rebellion.
The more loyal a killer is, better conditions are given. Food, moriâs, and sentimental items to name a few.
Killers who need to be tortured to kill are given the bare minimum.
I personally donât agree with â survivors losing their memory post-trialâ canon. If they canât remember, how exactly does that generate the fear or hope the Entity needs to survive? In addition, lost of memory would include not knowing how to do generators, how to counter certain killers, or how trials in general work. Youâre seriously telling me a gambler and botanist whoâs never left the house knows complex machinery like that?
Survivors đĽâ
David isnât out to the group. Scared heâll be ostracized or purposefully thrown under the bus during trials.
Some of the more self-interested survivors tend to be less thought of in trails. Ace realized he was more likely to be left behind and started doing more for the team, Ălodie took it as another reason not to rely on others, and Yun-Jin throws hissy fits because âwhy didnât THEY bother to save her.â
Slowly learning each otherâs language. Translating for each other is a doozy and often ends up miscommunicated. Hence, why they only point and motion towards themselves in trails. Ainât no one got time to remember âCome help me with this generatorâ in Japanese. đ¤
On that note, I think the pariahs communicated with broken English and simple gestures that they collectively knew.
Steve likes to pull the âIâm technically older than youâ on modern survivors who chastise him.
Survivors eat community, volume meals. Itâs a chore no-one likes to do and is assigned day-to-day. If they ever got a chef or cook survivor, that responsibility would be gladly passed to them.
Adam enjoys teaching and educating the younger survivors on little tib-bits. In addition, he will almost always have their back in trails and personal see that they live through it.
â âŚand thatâs why âNo Longer Humanâ was greatly impactful on Japanese culture- donât you roll your eyes at me! đĄâ
Felix and Ălodie arenât on speaking terms at the moment. Keeps their prior friendship and knowledge of the Entity hush-hush. Somehow, both know that information getting out wonât look good for them.
Sable definitely had a âNLOGâ phase. Cringes when she thinks back on it.
Jake is dyslexic and can only recognize certain words based on the surrounding context (Red STOP! Sign, do not enter sign on a chain link fence, handicap parking with the wheel chair symbol.)
Killers đŞđŠ¸
Max tunnels police survivors if they are in uniform. Believes ACAB.
HUX is annoyed by the sounds of breathing. And laughter. And blinking. Sometimes stands outside of the camp ground so it can make itselfs mad.
Trickster will sometimes, SOMETIMES let a survivor go if they praise him enough.
Kazan is in deep disbelief about the state of his family legacy. Refuses to believe it was his own doing that caused the curse and often blames history for painting him in a bad light.
Legion rock, paper, scissors for who goes next for a trial.
Had Rin survived the attack, she wouldâve broken the familyâs curse.
Anna was very scared during her first period ( her mother died way before they could have âthe talkâ.) Convinced herself it was a deadly disease. As she grew older and stronger, her periods became few and far due to her survivalist nature.
Jeffery is kept on a strict diet regarding his addictions. Only gifted booze, herion, and large amounts of food with good performance.
Danny obsessives over the survivors. Takes pictures in secret and writes news paper stories on their many âdeathsâ.
OnryĹ will never not be confused by Nicâs âSadako! Not you!â
#dbd killer#dbd headcanons#dbd trickster#dbd clown#dbd huntress#dbd oni#dbd survivors#dbd ace#dbd Ălodie#dwight fairfield#ace visconti#yun jin lee#adam francis#dbd jake park#dbd legion#dbd spirit#dbd trapper#dbd#dead by daylight#dbd ghostface
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Word of the Day dpxdc Prompt #11
July 15: Salvo
The GIW successfully bombed the Ghost Zone after working with Walker to lock up Danny in the Ghost Zone where he "belongs". Anyways, with the Ghost Zone practically nuked, it not only destroyed Danny's universe but many others. Because the people in Danny's dimension did this, many ghosts blame Danny and tell Walker to sentence him for an eternity of being frozen (kinda like Pariah Dark). Danny is traumatized and is currently grieving for his lost universe and family/friends, so he doesn't really put up a fight and accept it. He has extreme survivor's guilt and often blames himself for what happened.
Frostbite and his people, who largely died from the bomb, break him out after thousands of years being frozen. Though, since Danny was frozen the entire time, he doesn't know anything that has happened recently and still in the mind of his 14-16 year old self, still grieving as to him they only died that day.
Frostbite doesn't really acknowledge this, as the main reason he broke out Danny is because there is an multidimensional war going on since the bombing and he believes the only one who could solve this is the "Great One", who he also believes is the strongest for defeating Pariah Dark. So he sends Danny, who should really not be fighting in a war, to a universe known for having great warriors that may be able to help, aka DC universe. Danny is all up for this because he feels like this may be a way to redeem himself and fix part of the mess he believes he made (even though it was not his fault).
He goes there planning to create an army and is surprised by how many heroes and people with supernatural abilities (apparently this is semi-normal and called meta-humans). He finds a whole league of them and goes to ask them to employ them first.
Whenever a random superhuman teen somehow breaks into the Watchtower asking for the Justice League to help fight in a war that could very well be the end to all reality, they had no clue what to think.
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Bus stop
Adam stanheight x f!reader
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Includes: fluff, implied romance between Adam and reader, brief mentions of violence
Summary: Adam is a social pariah after escaping the jigsaw killer, but while waiting for the bus, he makes a new friend, and things seem hopeful for once.
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Adam sat at the bus stop, staring at nothing in particular. He never used to wear hoodies, but since the whole jigsaw thing, he didn't really have a choice. He hated when people would recognise him from the news as a jigsaw survivor, taking pictures of him or asking him questions about it. The worst part by far was when he heard murmurs about how he was technically a murderer. It was true, he had bludgeoned a man to death with a ceramic toilet lid, hit him over the head so ferociously and with so much vigour that his head might as well have been a bag of marbles. However, it was immediately clear to police that this was an act of self defence, if you're chained up in an abandoned bathroom and some lunatic comes running in there with a gun, what else can you do? Adam had tried to tell himself this many times, but it did little to soothe him. He had killed someone, at the end of the day. He knew it, and everyone else knew it. He just wanted to fade into the background and not be seen, and so, the hood stayed up.
Rain hammered into the streets, and Adam shuddered as he held himself tight under the little shelter that the bus stop provided. It was a freezing cold afternoon in mid December, and he couldn't have felt less festive if he tried. Turns out technically being a murderer makes you kind of a social pariah, so he had pretty much no chance of making friends to spend the holidays with. His own company wasn't exactly the nicest either, since any and every little thing seemed to trigger some sort of panic attack or flashback. He would try to simply sleep through the rest of his life away if it weren't for the nightmares, so that wasn't really an option either. The lack of sleep, isolation and constant feelings of anxiety had turned Adam into a somewhat bitter person, he'd never exactly been a ray of sunshine, but at the very least he could dish out witty little quips and sardonic comments (even if they were for the sole purpose of being defiant and sarcastic). Nowadays he didn't have the energy or the patience to be funny, he was just short tempered, angry, and trying not to cry all the time.
He blinked slowly, waiting for his bus and feeling quite sorry for himself, when suddenly a voice broke the trance like state he was in.
"Excuse me?" He snapped, turning to look at the speaker, sounding more pissed off than he thought he was going to
"Sorry to be a bother, but could you tell me if this bus is gonna go to the south end of town?" Asked the young woman who the voice belonged to.
Adam was taken aback by this, the woman in front of him was his age, fresh faced and quite pretty. She seemed friendly and had a welcoming demeanour, which was strange. Ever since his situation hit the news a few months ago, the reception he got was normally aloof or wary, but not from her. She wasn't here to pry, either, she simply wanted to enquire about the bus timetable. She was talking to him like he was any other person in the city.
"Oh.. uh yeah it is" mumbled Adam, stumbling over his words slightly.
"Thanks so much," the woman beamed, "I've asked about five people about the buses and you're the first one to actually talk to me" she chuckled, taking a seat next to him.
Adam gave the girl a perplexed look, as he wondered who would be nuts enough to give someone like her the cold shoulder. Sure, he wasn't exactly the friendliest of people, but even he could give her the time of day, what was everyone else's excuse?
"Y/n, by the way," she smiled, holding out her hand to him.
"Adam," he replied, doing his best impression of a smile, hoping it would add a little bit of cheer into his inflection so as not to scare this pretty girl away, as he took her hand and shook it gently.
"Adam, that's a nice name" she smiled at him.
She still hadn't put two and two together that he was the same Adam from the news... unless she somehow hadn't seen the news. But that would be impossible... unless
"Are you new around here by any chance?" Adam asked, looking for answers.
"Yeah, I am, Only moved to this city a few weeks ago. You been here long?" She replied
"My whole life, one day I'll get out of here though" he replied, staring straight ahead. He thought to himself how many times he'd said that exact same thing; "one day I'll get out of here". It was just wishful thinking at this point, but it was a comforting thought, so he chose not to dig into it any deeper so as not to destroy the illusion of a hopeful future.
"I can't say I blame you for wanting to get out of here. Everyone seems so... cold" y/n said, a tinge of sadness in her voice, "I thought I'd make friends out here I mean, that's what you're supposed to do when you're young, right? Go to the big city and meet lots of new people? I gotta say, I don't know what I was thinking. I'm much more at home in the countryside far away from everyone else. Sorry, I'm rambling" she trailed off.
Adam hadn't quite realised how much he missed just having a normal conversation with someone up until this moment. He knew he'd been lonely, he had been most of his life, but this just hammered it home. Having a small taste of normalcy when he was so used to isolation made him crave it. A destructive part of him felt weak for enjoying talking to this stranger at the bus stop, but a stronger part of him felt compelled to carry on.
"No, it's okay, " he said with a weak smile, "it's actually nice to rambled at a bit. I uh.. don't have many friends either. It gets pretty lonely."
He felt foolish saying this. He was a grown man, and here he was talking about friendship like some little schoolgirl. Christ, if his dad saw him acting like this he'd probably smack him into next week for being so feeble. There was that destructive part of him again, trying to ruin something nice.
"Well, maybe we could be eachother's friend?" Y/n suggested with a warm smile.
She was radiant, so effortlessly kind and warm. Everything about her made Adam want to let his guard down, she just had one of those faces you could trust. If he had to describe her essence in one word, it would have been "lovely".
Hesitantly, and slightly nervously, Adam nodded.
"That would be nice, yeah" he grinned. He grinned. He hadn't grinned in months. It was as though every single wall he'd put up simply melted away in that moment, and the feeling was like a natural high.
"Here," y/n said, handing Adam her phone, "put your number in and I'll text you sometime"
Adam did so, without hesitation this time. When the bus pulled up, Adam graciously offered for y/n to get on first, which she accepted.
"A single to the south end please, and whatever he's getting" she said to the driver, pulling her wallet out and smiling over her shoulder at Adam
"Uh, the same" he said, trying to hide just how flattered he was that she'd offered to pay for his journey, "heh, thanks" he smiled awkwardly.
The pair rode the bus together, talking and laughing about music and films until they reached their stops and went their separate ways home.
For the first time in who knows how long, Adam had a spring in his step. There was something about y/n that made him feel safe enough to come out of his shell. He felt his heart almost melt when he got home, to find he'd recieved a text:
This is y/n from the bus stop :) was so lovely to meet you! You doing anything tomorrow? x
A/n hello! Let me know if you want a part 2 to this!
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CW: BBU/BBU-ADJACENT SETTING , REFERENCED NONCON, REFERENCED INSTITUTIONALIZATION, OBSESSIVE WHUMPER
Valerian Ainsworth belongs to @wildfae-afterdark
Art credit to @whump-card
For @ailesswhumptober day 19, "I wish I could get you back."
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AUGUST, 20XX - Itâs the start of August, summer is nearly over, but that hasnât stopped the hydrangeas in front of Valerian Ainsworthâs apartment from blooming. A lover of beauty, Ainsworth has had the gorgeous white flowers, about the size of my hand, plucked and put in a vase. It adorns the table in their front foyer, greeting me as I enter their home for our interview.Â
Dressed in a floor length, powder blue dress that shimmers every time they move, Ainsworth is as beautiful as ever - the epitome of everything their platform stands for. Thin gold bracelets wrap around their wrists. Since they have a habit of speaking with their hands - âMy Italian heritage,â they laugh -Â they jingle and create a sound that sparkles the same way they do. Their hair is swept away from their face and trailing down their back in soft waves.
Everything about them - from their home, to their attire, to the way they carry themself - is aesthetically pleasing. Itâs stunning and I find myself marveling at the differences between their life and mine.Â
One might think, with how horrifying the accusations against them were, Ainsworth would be emotionally drained and hiding away from the public. However, as they themself have stated over and over, they are a survivor.
While many others wouldâve been cowed and buckled at the attention of last yearâs trial and their subsequent stint in a rehabilitation facility, Ainsworth has used it to their advantage. They havenât shied away from talking about their experiences - an experience many have wanted to hear about. Their newly garnered fifty million TikTok and Instagram followers can attest to that.
While theyâre not quite a pariah in the online community, they are a controversial figure. And, as we know, controversy sells. It is as lucrative as ever. Their phone buzzes ceaselessly during our interview.
Brand deals, they tell me.Â
Far from being canceled by any sort of âwokeâ mob, Ainsworth seems to have fallen upwards and many are happy to see it. The past seems to be forgotten as they sit on the couch in their quiet, Midtown apartment.Â
It isnât.Â
The past is the sole purpose of my visit. Getting a peek behind the carefully curated persona and digging into the ugly truth.Â
VALERIAN AINSWORTH: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell my truth. Itâs truly difficult to understand what really went on with all the stories floating around. Thereâs been so much of a focus on legal procedure; there hasnât been a chance to focus on all the things that truly matter.Â
NESTA ROBERTS: The trial did seem pretty brutal. There was a lot of evidence put forth. Some things looked like they were difficult to sit through. Was there anything the lawyers, your lawyers, failed to mention during their closing arguments that you think wouldâve helped your case?
VALERIANÂ AINSWORTH: Absolutely. I had a decent legal team and Iâm so grateful for the work they put into my case but they spent so much time on my past, on things that happened with my parents, they failed to mention how deeply I care for Christopher Wickham.Â
NR: Youâre speaking of care, present tense. Not cared, past tense?
VA, laughing a bit sadly: Yes, care, present tense and perhaps itâs a bit foolish. I know - I know, now, that my love wonât be returned but the heart wants what it wants. I was always taught to follow my heartâs desire wherever it may lead me. Unfortunately, I wasn't taught boundaries to go along with that but I'm learning those now.Â
NR: Yes, of course. My heartâs desire often leads me into another pint of Rocky Road Ice Cream whether it's good for me or not. Now, a lot of people are very curious. Why Wickham? What drew you to him in the first place?
VA: At first, it was because of their connection to another old friend, Peyton Montgomery but once I met Wicky, Wickham, once I got to know them and that mind behind those adorable curls, I couldn't look away. They truly captured my heart. Theyâre incredible, stubborn, strong, gentle, funny, and so very kind. Heâs a sweetheart who always made time for me and, as you heard in the trial, Iâm not accustomed to being a priority in someoneâs life. It was a whirlwind and I will always be grateful to Wicky for showing me what that feels like. I wish I could get him back.
NR: They do sound like a catch. What about Peyton Montgomery? Do you still have feelings for him as well?
VA: Peyton wasâŚ.He was my first love and in some ways, your first love never leaves you. I still care for him deeply, butâŚ.not in the same way I once did. Heâs very different from the person I spent Hampton summers with. Itâs truly bittersweet but I will always hold a fondness for him in my heart. [LAUGHS] Peyton and I always got into a bit of trouble back then. It was more of a crush, puppy love, if you will. I grew up with Peyton. He was someone familiar and safe but we weren't compatible. It was never something that could be longterm - not like it was with Wicky.Â
NR: Okay, Valerian. I have to ask because there have been several theories surrounding your case and you know how the internet gets. Wickhamâs case against you, his allegations, have made both of you quite popular - youâre practically a household name. Quite a few people followed the trial on TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, other social media platformsâŚ.
VA: âŚYes. I wasâŚ.that was very unexpected. Iâm just a person in love. I truly wasn't looking for infamy or clout or anything and if I couldâve avoided putting our relationship out there, I would have. It was a sweet, private thing. Wicky was the one who wanted to take everything to the media.Â
NR: Wasn't there a text on your phone saying you would send Wickhamâs nudes to the media if they didn't do what you wanted?
VA: I never would have done that, Nesta. As I said, it was a sweet, private thing. Something Wicky blew out of proportion. In hindsight, I shouldnât have said that but couples have their issues and often say things they don't mean. As much I love them, as happy as I was in our relationship, it was far from perfect.Â
NR: There have been theories that your obsession with Wickham was actually revenge for your old friend. The theories state that everything that passed between you two was to punish Wickham for keeping your first love as a Romantic.
VA [LAUGHS]: Oh God! Hardly. I suppose there will always be people who look for the worst light to cast someone in. No, I was never looking for revenge. I was justâŚlonely. I had lost the woman I felt would be my forever. I lost my pet. I lost everything I felt made me, well, me. I read too much into passing kindnesses and fell in love with a man who pretended to love me back. Iâm sure everyone has been through something similar when looking for a rebound.Â
NR: Have you heard from your ex, did you hear from her at all while you were pursuing Wickham?
VA: No. She only loved my money. Once that was gone, so was she. I did see her on social media every once in a while; It was clear that sheâd moved on rather easily. I suppose thatâs another mistake I made.
NR: Oh?
VA: Yes. I trusted the wrong person but Iâve learned. Life has a way of showing you who your true support is and Iâd like to take a moment to thank my fans on social media, on Instagram, Twitter (I refuse to call it X), Tiktok, who have sent me love and encouragement everyday. They have been my true cheerleaders. I know, whether Wicky and I work out our issues or not, Iâm blessed to have my fans.Â
NR: Is there anything youâd like to say to your ex, anything youâd like her to know?
VA [SMILES]: Oh yes, of course. If she hadn't abandoned me when things were looking their worst, I wouldnât know what real love is. [THEY GESTURE TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS] I suppose I have her to thank for all of this.
Valerian Ainsworth is a person obsessed with beauty, with appearance, with aesthetics. In this age of perfectly made up influencers and social media driven lives, they're a master of their craft. Every part of their life has been carefully curated, especially their honesty and vulnerability. One has to wonder if they are their own target audience. Is it truly authenticity if you believe your own stories? Where does the craft end and the person begin? Do they even know? We certainly don't.
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