#this could even be canon compliant

[gaeasun]

Dropping new theory for Rex's hair: As a child, Rex was born blond, but was given gene therapy by the Kaminoans to change it to the typical color. As an adult he now bleaches it back as a "screw you" to the Kaminoans

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

bari saxthur got lucky in that kayne didn’t write him a part in The Wager so he didn’t have to go to the world’s longest and ugliest rehearsals

[heyclickadee]

“Hey, you okay?”

“I…no.”

“Okay. Talk to me.”

“Phee…what if we made a mistake?”

“What?”

“There is hardly anywhere the Empire is not these days. What if something happens to one of us? To both of us? What if you go out on a mission for Vos and you are killed or”—

“It’s us, brown eyes. And it’s me. I’d like to see the Empire try to keep me down.”

“Then what if one day I wake up and I cannot remember you? Or the girls?”

“Then we’ll help you remember all over again. All of us.”

“But what if”—

“You were having that nightmare about Tantiss, weren’t you?”

“Yes. I…don’t want to…go back to being….”

“Listen, Tech Ninety-Nine Genoa: you are never going back to that ever again. I promise.”

For the day five prompt of ND Tech Week. I’m thinking it takes Tech a little while to get back home, and a little while longer to figure out who he really is. He still has some rough days, and worries in ways he didn’t before. Whatever happened to him, and whatever he did afterwards, was something he couldn’t control—and it kept him away for so much longer than he wanted. Still, every once in while it hits him how much they lost, and how much they got back, and in spite of everything he thinks he must be the luckiest man in the galaxy to have come out the other side. After all, better late than dead. As Phee always says. (Or did that one time.)

[evasive-anon]

Jason was having a pretty OK time with the league of assassins, sure getting dunked in a lazarus pit sucked and Bruce turned out to be a scumbag who didn't care about him, but at least he isn't dead. He even liked most of the new skills he was learning there so on the whole being with the league seemed like a pretty good deal to him until Talia woke him up in the middle of the night and left him alone with two child assassins.

Or, a demon twins AU where when Talia realizes her father intends to have her boys fight to the death takes action first by deciding to take all her kids and leave the league. Talia either dies or is separated from them in the initial escape and now Jason just has a bag of supplies and a letter from Talia explaining the plan to get to Gotham. Jason has to get himself and two 7 year olds out of the Himalayas, across a desert, and over 12k miles to Gotham. Only now the league members hunting them down want them dead or worse and Jason isn't too confident that B will accept them given their kill counts.

Featuring:

Good Mom Talia. she loves her kids. Did she teach them to kill? Sure, but that's an important life skill.

Single Teen Mom Jason. He's the oldest and in charge but he also will not answer any questions about The Plan™ given he isn't committed to Talia's but also doesn't have a set alternative. Oscillates between looking forward to just dumping his new little brothers with Bruce so they'll be his problem and thinking of just moving somewhere random in the US and keeping them based entirely on how cute vs annoying they are at that time. Didn't realize how much he relied on Talia to help him with things until she is gone. He's really trying his best but he wasn't all that emotionally stable before this so hang in there.

Angry Smol Dami. He's still drinking the LoS punch and really dislikes that he is now considered a traitor. Can't stand that Jason won't answer any of his very relevant questions. Is actually very scared but will not show it. Misses his mom. Didn't even know he had siblings until his mom yoinked him out of bed that night and brought him to Jason and Danny and started all this. Physically the stronger twin. Thinks Danny is dragging them down in fights and also may blame him a bit because clearly his mother only did all this to spare him.

Danny, reincarnated with limited access to his memories and powers. Has been trying to keep his powers a secret. Talia knew about them but never told anyone but she may have hinted at it in her letter to Jason. Not the strongest physically but very good at stealth and social interactions. Didn't know he had and older brother or twin before Jason woke him up at Talia's instruction that night. Thinks Damian is mean and has faith Jason knows what he's doing even if that is very much untrue.

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: "there's only one bed" except it's actually "there's only one hotel room" and it's washington d.c. in 1986 and they actually hate each other

[synonymroll648]

headcanon that the reason sophie still has eyelashes to pull on the regular is that grady and edaline worked something out with the dizznees to get a tasteless formula to help eyelash growth specifically to put drops of in her bottles of youth. because there’s no way her ptsd-induced trichotillomania (oversimplified definition for those who aren’t familiar: hair pulling disorder) is gonna die down during the war, so they’re trying to make sure she doesn’t move from eyelashes to eyebrows or her Hair hair by giving her More Eyelashes

[drenched-in-sunlight]

❝The Rune of Death goes by two names; the other is Destined Death.The forbidden shadow, plucked from the Golden Order upon its creation…❞ ❝Miquella the Kind spoke of the beginning. The seduction. And the betrayal. An affair from which Gold arose. And so too was Shadow born.❞ You said in your post that GEQ asked Marika to be her Consort to unite Life and Death when Marika was merely an Empyrean,but it says here that Death only became separated from the Elden Ring upon GO creation. Before it the Death and Life Rune were already together inside of the Elden Ring. GO was also created when Marika became a Goddess.

How do i explain this... to me, Order of Gold exists before Marika, she merely becomes its new God (from very line you quote: Gold arose, not born)

The Order of Gold (which is Primordial Life) has always been there, so is Order of Death & the Moon & Rot & Blood etc… they are broad concepts that are represented by different individuals throughout different ages

it’s the Order the Hornsent wants to inherit (notice how all of their curses are leveled at the Erdtree and Marika personally, not the Golden Order, and how the Minor Erdtree description put forth the concept of Gold without Order)

it’s likely what Placidusax’s Order is as well

(+1 parallel to Godwyn becoming Prince of Death when his mother is Primordial Gold of Life, GEQ is the same with her parents)

Different concepts battle for control of the world (different Two Fingers / Three Fingers)

-> but within those concepts there are also groups battling or replacing each other to represent them:

Hornsent vs Marika vs Ancient Dragon for Primordial Gold / Life

Ancient Death (Helphen) vs Destined Death (GEQ) vs Life in Death (Godwyn)

Black Moon (Nox) vs Full Moon (Rennala) vs Dark Moon (Ranni)

Malenia Rot vs Romina Rot / Messmer Abyssal Serpent vs Rykard Serpent of Blasphemy

Another point is that even within the game mechanic, Death and Life are represented as two separate factions with Death being an actual status effect and Life is what keeping it at bay: Vitality governs resistance to the effects of Death. (in the E3 trailer, the Elden Ring is said to command the Stars and gives Life its full brilliance).

So i view Death as its own equal faction, and not something that only popped up because of Marika. What she did is outright rejecting its existence in her new Age, whereas i imagine under Placidusax's and possibly the Hornsent's envisioned Order, Life & Death will co-exist as a cycle under a same guidance.

Tbh, the thing about love and Consort is mostly shipper talk (that was also based on my interpretation of the lore, but it already diverges far into I-made-this-up-for-yuri). If you want a non-ship version, they are rivals for Godhood & everything else could still happen exactly as any of my other points.

But again, all these are just my personal interpretation.

[autisticrosewilson]

Trans fem Jaybin asking Bruce if she can visit Willis in prison because she wants to know what he would have named her if she was born a girl and that's how she finds out that Willis was murdered and despite knowing from day one Bruce just... didn't tell her.

[foxett]

No caption im sleepy

[tiredbogwitch]

I keep thinking I'll write this but I'm beginning to think I never will, so I'll just be dumping the idea here:

Fic concept: a few years post-canon, Liu Qingge has a disciple that he's somewhat close to (read: whose name he bothers to remember). Could be an AU version of Yang Yixuan, though I actually imagine them to be an OC for reasons discussed later. In either case, they're a particular menace to his life, enough so that even Binghe and Shen Qingqiu recognize the disciple because of how often Liu Qingge either complains about them or is called away because of some shit they pulled.

In fact, this troublemaker occupies enough time in Liu Qingge's life that he's even had to decline or cut short sparring matches with Binghe and visits to the Bamboo House, which is totally absolutely not upsetting Binghe, who is totally not bothered at all actually, don't know why you're asking, shizun, it's perfectly fine-

Anyway, Binghe is Definitely Not Jealous of this disciple of Qingge's, and he's only annoyed that he doesn't get to fight him as often anymore, you see, and no he's certainly not concerned that Liu Qingge is no longer interested in him or shizun, even though it's been 11 days, 14 hours, and 32 minutes since Liu Qingge was supposed to visit the Bamboo House for tea with shizun (not that he's counting), which is entirely unprecedented for the Bai Zhan Peak Lord. His thoughts and feelings on the matter are perfectly Normal and Rational.

That is, of course, until the wedding.

This could either be a result of a willing home visit, or a mission near their hometown-turned-kidnapping, but either way Qingge's disciple ends up back home, forced to prepare for a wedding. For themself. The disciple is from a noble/wealthy family, possibly as the only child. And as it turns out, their parents' displeasure at them running away from the neat little life planned out for them and joining Bai Zhan Peak was way worse than they'd expected. Their parents had secretly arranged a marriage for them in an effort to tie them down, and if no one stepped in fast, they'd quite literally be tied down- with immortal binding cables, as they're forced to complete their vows.

Somehow, whether via a panicked peer or even an official invitation, word gets back to Liu Qingge that the ever so irritating disciple of his isn't just missing/visiting their parents; they've been kidnapped and will be forced to be married. Aside from Liu Qingge's own general sense of justice, he's also very begrudgingly fond of this disciple, actually, so it hardly takes any suggesting before he's off on his rescue mission.

The act itself is simple; the parents cower in the presence of the Bai Zhan War God, and hardly put up a fight as he demands his disciple back, hoisting them over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and flying off. But unfortunately for Liu Qingge, while the devil may work hard, Cang Qiong (and the wedding guests) work harder; by the time he returns to his peak, several rumors have already spread like wildfire throughout several towns (and his sect): what began as "Liu Qingge has left to attend his disciple's wedding" soon becomes "Liu Qingge is taking part in his disciple's wedding" to "Liu Qingge is getting married to his disciple," which is occasionally upgraded or amended with, "Liu Qingge has crashed the wedding and eloped with his disciple," which is further upgraded or amended with various spins and twists, including illicit and dramatic affairs, public romantic declarations, and so on.

All of that is to say, by the time he and his disciple has returned, Binghe (and Shen Qingqiu, though he won't admit it) is losing his literal shit. Each rumor has gone from bad to worse, because what do you mean Liu Qingge has absconded with some random??? Who he's apparently been having an affair with???? Last Binghe checked, HE was the designated shizunfucker, actually, and there wasn't enough room for two of them in this sect. And that's totally what he's upset about- because there's no way he's bothered by anything else, such as Liu Qingge possibly being in love with someone else; really, he's totally glad that Liu Qingge has seemingly moved on from Shen Qingqiu, he's not even slightly betrayed by the thought, not at all, it's just the lack of originality! That's why he's storming Bai Zhan Peak, demanding answers from Liu Qingge! It's about creative integrity!

Liu Qingge, for the life of him, doesn't understand why the hell it matters so much to Luo Binghe that he went and retrieved his disciple. What business is it of Binghe's, whether he "crashed" the wedding or not?? What does it matter that he stopped them right as they were about to begin the vows? Yes, he heard his disciple was getting married, and he went to stop it- so what? (He entirely neglects to disclose that the problem with the marriage was that it was forced- but also doesn't understand why that would be relevant in this conversation, either).

The rescued disciple in question, after being examined by Qian Cao disciples, just so happened to be washing off their makeup/undoing all the wedding frippery in Liu Qingge's home (too embarrassed to do so where the other disciples will see them) during this argument, which does, in fact, make things worse.

[mlmgaze]

daniel waking up to marius kinda starting to press into him and, after getting his bearings, his first move is to ask sleepily if marius had another dream about daniel getting hurt. marius says no, and after a second daniel asks if marius had a dream about armand getting hurt. and marius just freezes (because of course obviously that's what it is because marius dreamed again about armand going into the sun and he wants to feel comforted and reassured but armand isn't here and daniel is and daniel is still blood of his blood and *i am dragged away by the guards)

[burnorgetburned]

HAVE YOU SEEN NEWEST WALPURGISNACHT TRAILER? PLEASE DO. MADOHOMU WALTZING MADOHOMU WALTZING MADOHOMU WALTZING -

Yes, I absolutely have! Someone showed it to me almost the second it dropped.

I feel VINDICATED. Clara Dolls are my heart and joy and they are so adorable in that trailer, I am bursting with delight. I still think it’s deeply unlikely that they’ll make Homura yandere-ish (thank fucking god) but her Clara Dolls are somewhat exaggerated ways of showing her true feelings. The dancing Doll could very well work against her because her desires are so strong—or not even that, the Doll could simply be playing around or trying to help. Clara Dolls are a JOY.

I spotted my favorite Doll (Ibari/Pride), plus Vanity, the one looking in the mirror. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Vanity is visibly more innocent-looking than our actual Homura. Unlike her Maker, she is full of joy and whimsy hehehe

I’m not sure if I’ll do another “here are my thoughts” kinda post, but just know that the new trailer is wonderrful.

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

sometimes i think that as much as i do loveeeee writing for Brax, he's not really a blorbo of mine per se and i don't think about him a ton if i'm not writing for him and then someone has a Brax related question that passes my dash and the Irving Braxiatel encyclopedia in my brain opens up and i must share The Information.

anyways i don't talk about him a lot but if people have Irving Braxiatel related questions pls ask, i spent three years going through all of his stories and untangling this man's timeline for a reason.

[karokawwo]

hmmmhhhmmmm not to steal mhin's thing but mayhaps kaiho contracted the curse while his family was trying to evacuate their fogfalled home... he gets his from fogfall, hellebore's is his patron's gift and gold.... hmmm

[stargazinglesbian]

just finished reading the group b subcomic in the scorch trials graphic novel prelude and what the FUCKKK LMAOOOOO. first of all, their maze? genuinely insane. second of all, aris? genuinely insane. third of all, their lack of supplies? genuinely insane. sorry but they had it 10x harder. what the fuck do you mean they had to climb the maze VERTICALLY??? and the shades can just come out WHENEVER THEY WANT???? no wonder there were only EIGHT of them left. 1/4 of those eight were just busy being gay as fuck and couldnt even contribute to the plot!!

[clickbeetle]

there’s something so inherently funny about any and all digital circus ships. what do you mean you ship caine with the literal moon.? that’s fucking hilarious