#this is not for anything in particular

[zigraves]

"All over the city, the masked cultists of the death god" It's quite benign, really; the adherents of the death god hold that each person's death is their sacred own death and it is a dishonourable thing to give someone a death that wasn't intended to be theirs. As such, devotees tend to wear masks and gloves to ensure they don't spread any diseases, because they absolutely cannot, in their devotion, risk being responsible for someone else dying of their own illness

They're amazing at safe sex because death god forbid you give someone a potentially serious STI - that's your illness to live or die with, not your partner's!

Once you get past all the skulls and ossuaries they're also super into civic planning because one person's careless match or gas fire shouldn't result in dozens of other, wholly unrelated, people's deaths. Creepy fucks, to be quite honest, but nobody maintains a safe gas line or designs adequate sewerage systems quite like them.

The flipside is that they do rather venerate suicides and heart attacks, because those are so much more personal, and yes their civil engineering is amazing but they're very casual about workplace accidents. Wonderfully clean water and a distinct lack of guardrails for anyone who has to climb up to do maintenance. Sometimes death god has decreed that your own personal death is you falling from a great height into superaerated water.

They run a great end-of-life hospice but there is a concerted effort by every single other faith and most of the faithless to prevent them getting involved with hospitals unless there's an epidemic on.

[dreadful-windandrain]

"will you match my freak" no. i'm freakier than you. this is a competition and i'm winning

[virtualplushy]

sorry i forgot to text you back i was scared

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[prokopetz]

Concept: survival-horror tabletop RPG set in one of those fleshy hell-worlds, except the Flesh Hell Planet is a. basically benevolent, but b. deeply incompetent. Like, it's not one of those "theoretically benevolent but thinks it knows what's good for you better than you do" or "trying to violently assimilate everything because it thinks that being made a part of itself is ontologically good" deals – it really does want to help its human inhabitants, and it's willing to do so on humanity's own terms. The trouble is that it doesn't really get humanity, its capacity for both receptive and expressive communication in ways that individual humans can understand is extremely limited, and also it's just plain not very good at a lot of things, to the extent that even when it does fully understand what's needed it often fucks it up in some bizarre way.

[nevert-the-guy]

Oh wait, did Tumblr hear about Hex Normal yet?

[drdemonprince]

"You would never think [cruel, judgmental thing] about your friends, so don't think those things about yourself!"

Some of us do experience cruel, negative thoughts reflexively though -- about others as well as ourselves. I'm certain that the above advice is useful for a lot of people, but I just want to speak directly right now to those of us whose minds bombard us with really judgmental ideas going in all directions virtually all of the time: those thoughts do not make you an inherently evil or unlovable person.

It is possible for you to lead an interconnected, worthwhile, and love-filled life, no matter the contents of your thoughts. It may not be possible for you to change your thoughts, and it might be causing you immense frustration to even try. You can live with cruel thoughts without taking cruel actions. You can feel impatient and angry with people you love and still make the choice to behave toward them in a loving way. And you can choose to treat yourself well while continually hating yourself.

It's a real bitch and a half to have to exert this kind of willpower and carry all these compulsive negative thoughts around, but it's a lot easier than going to war with your mind or internalizing that having negative thoughts inherently dooms you as a person. You're cool as fuck if you live with this barrage of bad stuff in your brain but you choose the nobler path in your actions instead.

[fluffydancer618]

"Stuck in the timeloop as a punishment" is cool and all, but stuck in the timeloop voluntarily though? Oh, brother. Stuck in the timeloop cause you just can't move on. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know that it's not real and whatever should've happen already did. Stuck in the timeloop even if doesn't makes you happy. You just can't bear the thought of not being able to see them ever again. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know you should move on. Stuck in the timeloop even if you know they would want you to move on.

But maybe just a little while longer.

[bet-on-me-13]

It's a Deal.

So! Steph is in a bit of a Bind. Literally.

Her Father had just discovered that she was the Vigilante who kept ruining his Plans, and decided to Deal with her. So he tied her up at a Bomb Site for one of his Plans and left her to die there.

No matter how much she struggled, she couldn't escape the Ropes, and time was running out. If only she had managed to get that last message out to Batman in time, maybe he would have come to rescue her.

The Timer had nearly reached Zero, when all of a sudden Time Stopped. The Ropes around her fell away, and a guy walked up to her as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

"Hey, you seem to be in a bit of a bind."

"Not so much anymore, was that you?"

"Yeah, bit of a Free Sample. See, I'm in a bit of a bind as well. I made a Deal with these floating Eyeballs, and long story short in order to keep my town safe I need to take the Soul of an Innocent person."

"And is that where I come in?"

"Yup, Basically I save your life, help you out with whatever you want, and you give me the rights to your Soul."

"What if I just walk away while time is stopped?"

"The building is Locked down tight, and I can't actually hold Time stopped for too long either way, it's sort of a new power to me. Without my help you wouldn't get out in time."

"So it's sell my soul or die?"

"Trust me,I don't like it either, but it's what I have to do."

"You know what, sure. You help me escape, help me take down The Cluemaster, and I'll give you my Soul."

"Then it's a Deal."

"I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship."

[scribblestatic]

So, you know how lanolin smells really nice to cats?

Well, Narinder is super standoffish after he's indoctrinated, but as time goes on, he finally starts putting some of his barriers down.

He sleeps in his own hut for a while, but he can't sleep well. He's not used to sleep. The Lamb only does it because "it's comforting" or something, but he hasn't done it in so long. So really, he's just been awake the whole time and increasingly cranky about it.

So Lamb, seeing him struggle to stay awake while working in the garden, pulls him over to their hut to talk out why he's not sleeping.

But Narinder starts dozing off within moments. Because Lamb's hut smells like them. Smells like their wool. Smells like lanolin.

And it's got him slumped on Lamb's couch, third eyelid partway over his squinted eyes, pupils blown wide as he purrs and sinks his claws into their cushions.

When he wakes up several hours later, he doesn't know what the hell happened.

Lamb simply smiles and sends him back home with a new blanket, made from a recent sheer.

Narinder calls the blanket gross.

He yowls like he's going to cause Armageddon if it goes missing.

[kristenbouchard]

boobs are so universally good. we are so lucky that there are boobs

[ecoterrorist-katara]

”Aang is the one who reminds Katara to be a kid” PUT SOME RESPECT ON TOPH’S NAME!!! Toph brings out Katara’s inner child, not the sunshine rainbow flower crown inner child, but her internal gremlin. Her pettiness and violence and self-centered mischief. Aang is a ride-or-die friend sometimes, but when they’re together, Katara’s priorities are always 1) the state of the world and 2) Aang himself. Like she can be playful but she’s never really distracted from her sense of responsibility.

With Toph, Katara prioritizes much more childlike things, like having the last word in an argument, and whether her friends think she’s cool, and laughing in a day spa, and petty revenge. Only Toph can drag Katara down to her level of immaturity and I think that’s beautiful

[tremendouskoalachild]

sure dave filoni might not be a particularly careful planner, or respect the works of people that are not him, or care about lore or character consistency, or think about the implications of his worldbuilding on the wider franchise. but at least he doesn't respect the characterization of his own ocs either

[valtsv]

But I have promises to keep—and miles to go before I sleep.

I couldn't stop thinking about VAL listening to Shrue's radio speech when she confronts Carson, and wondering just how many times she listened back to that recording while waiting for him. Did it bring her some comfort, to listen to someone else's last words as she waited to speak her own? Did she feel a little less alone, keeping company with another ghost that hasn't realised it's already dead?

[edwinisms]

george rexstrew deserves awards for many things but i have to say. edwin’s bloodcurdling scream as niko gets killed deserves a whole award unto itself. like. that scream did not feel at all like a tv show scream. to a somewhat jarring degree. and i can’t express how much I respect that

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

All cards on the table.

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