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sorry guys they finally showed me peak fiction . Its called “phantom of the paradise”
#phantom of the paradise#potp#winslow leach#swan potp#nightmaretheater#these were all done on the same canvas and i spent over 20 hours on it. Its just that good you know#Sorry this movie is making me VICIOUSLY IRREGULAR. its just that good. You have to watch it Now#i hope you dont mind the billion belts i have gifted winslow. she deserves them#lalalalal i love redesigning characters a little teeny weeny bit#Honestly. I want to draw swan more. I hate him so much but hes like really interesting. Im going to put him in situations#I miiight have changed a few details . giggle#…:i just had to give him a cool mark & blonde eyelashes Giggles#anyways i love ur shiny metal teeth winslow *thinks about the metaphorical implications and dehumanization for 10 hours*#So hard to draw her helmet sometimes… But i will willingly struggle . It is Okay!#anyways. Watch this movie now or suffer my curse
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As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms
ANYWAYS
A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.
The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.
“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.
“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”
Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…
The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”
The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”
The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”
“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”
The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.
Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.
One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.
This… might require some phone calls.
#dpxdc#danny phantom crossover#meanwhile Danny. sitting on a giant marble slab that has the most ridiculous gag gifts a ghost could ever ask for#he’s just like Oh Sweet Cinnamon Rolls!#he would try to convince people to bring him nasty burger but while val has MOSTLY gotten over her vindictive anger at Phantom DOES decide#that she’s gonna be petty and add cilantro to everything#because Danny has the cilantro soap gene#jokes on her he’ll still eat it#Danny likes his little memorial in the grave. it helps settle him sometimes. also he’s gotten to know the security guards for the cemetery#they’re fun. a bit morbid. they LIKE his jokes so you can stuff it JAZZ#MEANWHILE the hero. Whomstever they are but like 90% of you are thinking either batfam or Justice league#are having just. a TOUCH of a crisis#now they gotta figure out where the kid and his mom are from without either of them figuring out#dealer’s choice on what the GIW and why Amity Park isn’t on the radar#I’ll add my two cents bc when don’t I but I’m by and large not like… dictating this? anyways#I like making the GIW just a BIT more incompetent or just having some massive flaws as an organizational group#so they keep forgetting to tell people to not LEAVE and to keep quiet#average amity Parker if the GIW tried this anyways: aw that’s cute. anyways-#and if it’s dc I guess you need to figure out how the jl never found out. so#i mean there’s a LOT of heroes and cities in dc#and amity park is just lost to the noise or. bc Fenton bad luck#every time Danny tried to call. the jl had some insane disaster and or their systems were down#he eventually figured he might actually be cursed- jury’s still out on that -and he’s saving lives by just handling it himself#he can handle rhe metaphorical mega thunderstorms if it means he doesn’t accidentally summon a fucking tsunami to hit the planet ya know?#the kid and the mom have no idea that what they said was Odd#they are just so used to it. amity park already was using death puns and had an. interesting history and relation with death#even BEFORE there was a dead kid flying around in his white gogo boots
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the trouble with having a pretty niche job that you like and are good at is that sometimes i accomplish something difficult at work and want to brag about it and eventually must concede to myself that wow…nobody will understand how cool this is
#i tried to tell my mom and aunt about a project im working on that im really excited about#and they were like wow…..that sounds boring as hell#my love of institutional archives is a gift and a curse#evelyn carnahan cosplay career
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THE CHEETAH: Wonder Woman’s most iconic archenemy in every incarnation
Priscilla Rich (1943) Debbi Domaine (1980) Barbara Ann Minerva (1987) Sebastian Ballesteros (2001)
#dc comics#wonder woman#the cheetah#cheetah#priscilla rich#debbi domaine#deborah domaine#barbara ann minerva#barbara minerva#sebastian ballesteros#my edit#comicedit#dcmultiverse#dailydcvillains#it’s cool to see the differences between them and not just their designs#the first two were just women in costumes#while the next two were magically gifted/cursed with their new metahuman powers
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Has this been done yet?
#danny motta#youtube#youtubers#anime#actually this is in relation to his hazbin series#my guy predicted like 3-4 diff plot points in one episode#is this a gift or a curse#no one knows#rip him and mimzy#comments were offering him clown shoes and red noses#Day 52 of hiding from my friends#queued
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well well well it’s that time of year again and by that time of year again i mean the time where my best friends birthday is tomorrow and i have no present for her
is this a big deal? no there have been many years where we haven’t gotten eachother anything cause we’re lazy but! i feel the need to do something awful. and i am also seeing her in 48 hours (for the first time since august) so… does anyone have ideas…
previous gifts that we have gotten eachother include:
-a singing card in the shape of a sushi roll that sang a birthday song from sushi rolls everywhere
-a “merry chris mas” card that had all the chrises of hollywood on it
-hedgehog salt and pepper shakers
so. pray tell people of tumblr. i have 48 hours. a rather large mall with weird stores at my disposal and about 25 dollars. give me your worst.
#not a tag#from saph#you all know that one friend that you have had forever but see 2 times a year and haven’t taken a good picture with since you were 13?#that is my best friend#worth mentioning i am baking her cake and buying her ramen but like. i’m a tumblrina we deal in cursed gifts.
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Twig buffers for a minute at this revelation and then says “Well, duh. You’re super old. Of course it would take work to look like you’re not ready to keel over at any second.”
Celebi laughs so hard she completely ruins the wing she was drawing and Dusknoir sulks for the rest of the day.
#The size of the loaned mascara is open to interpretation#please imagine Celebi wrangling a mascara brush the length of her arm#or Dusknoir using a brush so small he has to pinch it a finger and thumb together to hold it#also be grateful I decided to scrap a gag where Dusknoir’s chest-eyes were wearing false lashes#the image was cursed and I burned it immediately upon completion#stuff by sofie#the present is a gift au#pmd2#pmd eos#pmd explorers#pmd sky#pmd#pokémon mystery dungeon#pmd dusknoir#pmd grovyle#pmd celebi#pmd darkrai#future trio
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sorry about the slight audio glitch. it was part of the stream
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W-why?
Why?
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING VINE BOOMS?!
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#ultrakill#gabriel ultrakill#you guys dont understand.#the fraggy friday stream that were done on youtube. oh my god.#it was like $1 per vine boom#and people would gift out like 50 channel memberships at a time#i swear there was a 20 minute section of near constant vine booms in one stream#the vine boom apocalypse#this has largely been replaced by meowing on more recent streams#dedicated meow button was a mistake.#but the vinebooms were so cursed because they were all evenly spaced out and played 1 at a time#so it just wouldnt end
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doing the unexpected: washing + drying a pair of wool blend hiking socks HOPING they will shrink because they're a liiiiitle too big
#it may depend if they're too low a percent wool or if they were pre shrunk/pre treated for shrinking#generally dont wash + dry wool things to avoid shrinking though (hand wash cold and lay flat to air fry will always be the gentlest option)#though for socks in general i feel like you GOTTA just expect to be able to throw them in the wash#it feels too extra to bother to handwash that. nice sweater sure. SOCKS?#so that is why i am unsure if my methods will actually work to shrink the sock#if not then i will gift to my mother because she has a slightly larger shoe size than me#(im cursed at women's size 5)
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Things were basically fine during Ingo and Emmet's childhood until they were like seven.
Ingo basically came out of the womb sneezing snowflakes, and that was perfectly fine. By the time he was about three, he could make tiny flurries -- and often did so unintentionally -- around him and some lumps of snow. Freezing cups of water by accident.
Five, and he was making snowballs. He accidentally froze the entire fountain in the courtyard just walking by.
Seven, and we've got a tiny prince making snowmen and freezing small ponds to go ice skating with his brother.
After his isolation, Ingo never really experimented with his powers, but they were clearly getting significantly stronger, because by the time he ascends to the throne, he's. well. capable of accidentally causing a blizzard to cover Nimbasa, freezing the rivers that run in from the coast on either side of Route 4, and generally causing a catastrophe.
Things went from 0 to 100 very fast in the interim, clearly.
Conversely, Emmet is a grown adult and the worst he does is sneeze flakes of ash and spit embers when he's mad. Has he set things on fire? No. He's not cursed.
Also I want you to know that I'm listening to "Once Upon a December," hence the abrupt icy au posting.
Hehe.
Sno.
#subway boss emmet#subway boss ingo#submas#iced tracks#eggin's writings#'basically came out of the womb sneezing snowflakes' is not something I ever thought I'd type but here we are#'no. he's not cursed' aaaaaand now I REALLY want to see how things would play out if emmet's gift were to be changed into a curse#eternal summer?#heatwave? drought?#unintentional arson?#did he burn ingo when they were little??#ingo has to hunt him down in a freaking tank top and shorts because it's so hecking HOT HERE NOW
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The fact that this opens with the Prince & then the Princess — A DOUBLE EPILOGUE FOR MY SHIP — Sarah, are you trying to kill me?
#Kingdom of Ash#KoA#The Prince#The Princess#Sarah J. Maas#Sarah what are you doing#Rowaelin#here we go#no spoilers please#read with me#read along#catch up#part 1#storm swept season Rowan said LIKE EMPIRE OF STORMS and he calls her his mate WHAT AN OPENING LINE OPEN MY HEART YEP CRACKED IT WIDE OPEN OW#THEN THE MONTHS#— MONTHS?!!!#I will find you#*crying*#two perspectives to the same story#not the lost queen#but the lost princess#the princess who loved her kingdom very much😭#Once upon a time in a land long since burned to ash there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom#that had been her gift and her curse the goddess that blessed and damned her had left THE DARK QUEEN the Snow White references#The prince whose scent was kissed with pine and snow the scent of that kingdom she had loved with her heart of wildfire.#burned to Ash then but the wolf then he smelled like home😭#Words she had spoken to a prince. Once— long ago.#A prince of ice and wind. A prince who had been hers and she his. Long before the bond between their souls became known to them.#Held on to his memory as if it were a rock in the raging river.#They were blurring. The lies and truths and memories. — so she told herself the story😭
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I finally went to Margaritaville after repeatedly watching Ted and Eddy’s videos of “Ate at Every Margaritaville in the Country” and man it was…an experience
#Margaritaville#eddy burback#ted nivison#man it was so friggin cursed#I did sit near the boat table and oh my gosh the entirety of the floor was made to look like the ocean#there was also a lack of live music just like in their video#I also had the fish and chips and they weren’t like the frozen filets Eddy had but they were still just ok?#also it was just all Jimmy Buffett everywhere#a little bummed there wasn’t a gift shop there because I would’ve gotten like a keychain or hat
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oooh bestie i just read your jasper gift-as-curse analysis (agree 100%!!! it fucks severely!!!!) and in your tags you mention thinking of all of the cullen "gifts" as curses and...i am going actively insane thinking about rosalie in that frame. like? her beauty carries over! and it's a curse in that people see that first and her second and assume that she's shallow...but also that was true in her human life as well and becoming a vampire seems like it maybe allowed her to transcend that and realize what was fucked up about her human experience??? WILD
Rosalie's gift is also a curse, but unlike Jasper's, i find it heartbreaking
it's a curse in that people see that first and her second and assume that she's shallow
VERY true. but the consequences of extreme beauty go beyond people chalking her up as shallow.
part of Rosalie's curse is that there are many aspects of her life where her looks play a role. & going through life requires either a degree of illusion or a degree of doubt.
for example: how many times as she been given— or been overlooked for— opportunities or merit because of her attractiveness? how many relationships has she tried to make, only to find the foundation of said connection was built on— or marred by— her looks? if Edward bothered to see past what he perceives as Rosalie's vanity, would they be closer as siblings? or, put another way:
In the first second that Emmett saw Rosalie, he saw a goddess whom he had worshiped without cease ever since. (Midnight Sun, Ch 6)
i'm not saying Emmett's love isn't real. but it's also clear he's immediately attracted to Rose physically; even decades later, their love is described as "intensely physical" (Ch 7). worshiping implies a degree of separation; there's a pedestal, a blindness, in the kind of love Emmett shows her. if she was average-looking, would he love her as she is, as an equal, without worship? would he even give her a second glance?
part of the curse is never knowing what's real. either she lives with a degree of doubt, or she lives with a degree of illusion.
another part of Rosalie's curse is that she also falls into the trap of seeing her face first and herself second. now, do i think Rosalie is vapid & a "stagnant pool of few surprises" (Ch 1)? no. she has a personality, she has hobbies outside of tending to or enhancing her beauty. but we do see her mesmerized with herself:
She’d caught sight of her profile in the reflection off someone’s glasses, and she was mulling over her own perfection. No one else’s hair was closer to true gold, no one else’s shape was quite so perfectly an hourglass, no one else’s face was such a flawless, symmetrical oval.
& we also see her play up her beauty in the vehicle she drives & the clothes she wears. she cannot look away from herself.
however, this is where i think we see yet another facet of Rosalie's curse. that is, being the most gorgeous vampire of the Cullens, there is a degree of intense scrutiny that comes with Rosalie's beauty. for all the illusion/doubt it brings her, she must be constantly aware of it. because this scrutiny is two-fold:
1) unlike someone like Alice who can pass as androgynous & is overlooked physically, Rose does not have the luxury of breaking traditional gender expectations lest she draw even more attention to the coven. in a sense, Rosalie is under more pressure to flawlessly perform the rituals of gender conformity because anything outside of the norm will be noticed more easily.
2) beyond that, the degree of attention she receives means she must constantly perform in a human sense, too: twitching, blinking, moving, behaving, etc. in this way, her looks become a hindrance to her vegetarian lifestyle.
so, she is cursed in that she's the face of the Cullen family & under pressure by the coven & society to perform. even if she wanted to escape her beauty, she cannot.
becoming a vampire seems like it maybe allowed her to transcend [her beauty] and realize what was fucked up about her human experience
but it kinda...didn't?
don't get me wrong, it did in some sense. as mentioned, Rose has picked up hobbies, dreams, & a personality. we do see her transcend her appearance; however, her beauty still traps her for the reasons above.
& to be honest with you bestie, it wasn't vampirism that allowed her to transcend her beauty. because if she had been turned, say, the day she got engaged, what kind of vampire would we see? her final days, her looks gave her everything she wanted, & now she ends up as the most ravishing creature on earth in the socioeconomic class she wanted. Rosalie wins. i'm not saying she would have wanted vampirism if she had been turned in better circumstances. but she would certainly be more divorced from reality, & i doubt she would find it as necessary to transcend her beauty since it got her what she wanted & confirmed her worldview.
it wasn't the vampirism that allowed her to transcend her beauty. it was the rape.
the rape tears the curtain back. the rape shows her all that glitters isn't gold. the rape teaches her that in the end, her beauty couldn't, & would never, save her. the rape tells her what a woman's place is in her world. the rape forces her to realize: for all Rosalie's beauty, she is awarded nothing, she is entitled to nothing, she can do everything right & still lose. the rape is what necessitated a change in Rosalie's beliefs.
i find Rosalie's curse heartbreaking because i do not doubt she has thought about this when she looks in the mirror.
she's more attractive now than ever, but that is what put her in that position in the first place. she's come to this horrific realization at an even more horrific cost. & everyone around her compliments how beautiful she is; everyone dreams about how wonderful their lives would be if only they could be so beautiful; everyone wishes they could be as beautiful as Rosalie Hale...
meanwhile, Rosalie sits with the uncomfortable idea that the thing that gave her everything she wanted is the same thing that led her to her rape, to her death— hell, Carlisle figured she'd make a good wife for Edward, so even her turning was a result of her beauty— & is now the very thing that traps her in a life she never wanted, performing eternally in a spotlight that will never dim.
#twilight#twilight renaissance#rosalie hale#the twilight saga#twilight meta#twilight headcanon#tw rape#thanks bestie you're so cool so putting this in my inbox!!!!!!!!!!!!#not to spoil Eclipse but i've thought about Rosalie's 'gift' a lot#and i think she would see it as a curse to a certain extent#because she has the self-awareness to understand why her actions were 'silly' and 'shallow'#i bet she also has the self-awareness to reflect on her death#hmmmm#ok these 'gifts as curse' questions are super interesting actually
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yes, hello? i think there's a raccoon living in my chimney
#kylar the loner#dol kylar#this was very cute tho#sliiiiightly cursed knowing kylar (all the gifts he brought were actually for you) but still very cute
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i keep thinking about a line from jaheira i got on my durge (darci) run, and now i know more about bg1/2 and what happened to char/name, it kind of just is sticking more with me and i just need to scream
"This is your father's true legacy. Not his children - but the fear they plant in us. The savagery it blossoms into."
in bg1 siege of dragonspear, everyone finds out that charname (ryn, in my context) is a bhaalspawn. immediately the attitude towards her shifts from "this is our HERO" to "this person is a danger and i dont really want her around"
then later, after ryn saves everyones asses again (and i mean everyone!) and she's hailed as a hero again.... for five seconds. that same night she gets framed for murder. and she insists she didn't do it. but-
she gets arrested, put on trial which is a fucking sham that ignores a vital piece of evidence (the girl she's accused of killing was killed with a very specific dagger, one she did not have on her when found next to the body) but it's a public trial, and the citizens of baldurs gate are watching.
she's locked away until they can decide her fate - which is most certainly going to be execution (the person who she was framed for murdering was a child of a grand duke) and one of her companions, an officer for the flaming fist even tells her that she should confess and face the consequences, even if she didn't do it.
but she manages to escape, fleeing the city through the sewers. but of course corwin and bence manage to track her down
and even when she surrenders (she does not want to hurt them!!) bence tries to kill her anyway! not even waiting for the sentence to be passed! corwin comes to her senses and lets ryn escape, and she does. reuniting with with her friends who were waiting for her escape- but
even her friends, her most trusted friends, don't think she's innocent.
"This is your father's true legacy. Not his children - but the fear they plant in us. The savagery it blossoms into."
she's the bhaalspawn, but as soon as the people discovered that... they were calling for her death. she is the child of the lord of murder, but they were the ones wanting to murder her. they were afraid, and their fear blossomed into savagery.
and i just... keep thinking about it
#and thats not even mentioning bg2:tob#where people were cast out of their home cities or killed if they were SUSPECTED of being bhaalspawns#/suspected/#not even 100% solid proof that joe down the road is a bhaalspawn#just SUSPECTING someone being a bhaalspawn was enough to be put to death#🐲 headcanon // i cried my tears; i felt my wrath; then built my boat so i could sail it past#🐲 musings // maybe i am cursed; maybe i am gifted; something tore inside of me; now everything has shifted#i just..... have a lot of thoughts
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dudeeeeee you’re not gonna believe this i just got future’s end (usually 39.99 usd) batman and robin must die (probably like 15 dollars) batman eternal (probably around the same price as future’s end) + a 2021 batmobile and batman die cast figure for all of 33.73. i LOVE secondhand shit
that's INSANE.. it's completely impossible to buy comics second hand that aren't single issues over here... which is so unfortunate because inflation goes CRAZY in these parts, and makes collecting first-hand also impossible [voice of man who paid $100aud for the deluxe version of dceased]..
that's awesome though, peace and love on planet america i guess
#i genuinely could not tell u how much comics or comic merch r supposed to cost.... i have not paid for 99% of the stuff i have#i stole most of it from my brother who's cursed to constantly be gifted dc + marvel stuff because it's a 'common boy interest' or wtv#and a lot of my comics were either my dads from the 70s#or purchased as collectors items#asks#wherethatoldtraingoes2
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