#this show is dark af

[tarabyte3]

(Click the images for better resolution!!)

I took my own high-res Bridglar screenshots, including some of the little background details I haven't really seen in the tag or featured outside of all the lovely gifs out there (look at John clocking Henry in the middle of the fire and how they moved closer to each other before getting separated 🥺😭), and I figured I would share some of them. Because I know there are plenty of people out there still making collages and whatnot in 2024 and I know how great it is to have screenshots, so feel free to use them all you want! (Plus it's nice to just scroll through a post and 🥹😢 at them when the brainrot strikes)

[properbloke79]

Daddy AF!!

[arcanegifs]

"Hammer work is such a delicate art."

[blcodyhell]

Random Rey Skywalker moments: 174/?

[milkbreadtoast]

IDK... IDK!!! 🫥

[aenslem]

STARGATE UNIVERSE (2009–2011) ⤷ The Greater Good

[lobinilo]

...so....

they canceled World On Fire

[hannahstanwald]

sweet but psycho by ava max plays in the background

[myfanfictiongarden]

I was right, Sol is a clingy parent short from a soccer-mom!

[cheswirls]

early op/dc au fic plot points

in honor of finding my notes finally after five months have passed since writing them and after i just wrote out a huge block of what happens during part one of the fic relying entirely on memory and wit alone, here are some freebie things-that-will-definitely-happen (and just random Things to throw in between) to think over while i'm trying to get back into writing this fic

also tagging @kiteou who created jason/sabo and 100% inspired this verse (please look at their ship art it's all so impeccably goooood)

sabo wears make-up to cover his scar when he goes crime fighting and chooses to hunt criminals in a distant district of gotham to avoid being recognized since he doesn't wear a mask

though he doesn't weak a mask, he does adorn a large tophat with a wide brim and uses the shade to conceal his face from view; when he runs into jason and snarls about a hero not posibly wearing a fucking full-face helmet mask, jason argues back about protecting his identity and accuses sabo of being a hypocrite since his hat also hides his face

jason quotes old literature sabo has never heard of when he's trying to make the most of a situation (so rarely) and sabo scribbles illegible-chicken-scratch words in tattered notebooks when he needs to vent about Life in general (it's maybe his goal at some point to create an autobiography of life in gotham and how much It Sucks, Bad™)

sabo using a metal pipe as his choice weapon reminds jason of damian (he's in his bo staff days) in kind of a fond but wary way - this does not last; at some point the pipe scraping against concrete or brick sets jason off, triggering something in his subconsciousness bad enough to make him lose focus in a fight, and it gets to the point where he tells sabo they can't fight together anymore if he's gonna continue to use the pipe as a weapon

ace and sabo are 19 in the beginning because it takes place in fall, and jason is newly 20 - because of this, sabo is 5'9 and ace 6'0 but sabo wears platform and heeled (the heel is inside so it's not visible) boots when he plays vigilante so he's taller than jason by a couple inches; at some point when ace meets jason he implicates sabo's true height and sabo shouts at him (shut the fuck up, ace!) before ace can finish; even later on, sabo ends up at jason's apartment and when his shoes come off, he stands shorter than jason, much to jason's surprise; sabo admits gruffly that being over six foot makes a person more intimidating, which is his goal at night when facing off with criminals, but also insists that he's still growing (which he is, and eventually he doesn't need the boots to stand at 6'2 properly); even though ace is (barely) taller than sabo (just like he's barely older than sabo), he's still shorter than jason, which rubs him the wrong way (and sets off the comment about sabo's alleged height)

while ace is just trying to survive in gotham, owing nothing to the city that's chewed them both up in childhood and spit them back out again in adolescence, sabo chooses vigilantism in a bid to 'just do what's right, or at least try to'

^ going with this, ace and sabo both have awakened meta-genes that grant them fire powers; ace got his first and is proficient in using his powers - in contrast, sabo develops his after his accident that leaves a portion of his upper body scarred, and refuses to train or even try and control/subdue his powers at all due to his intense fear of fire; this causes daily strife because ace should be able to coach sabo through developing (or at the very least, getting under control) his powers so they don't cause accidents all the time, being the more experienced and honed of the two, but because he's never willing to overstep and always afraid of reigniting sabo's trauma, he never pushes sabo toward what should be the reasonable solution

aaaaaaaa smth smth jason being more experienced in relationships but none of them ever going well, versus sabo who's never been in love and doesn't know how to act, doesn't know how to be vulnerable in front of another person (who's not ace, but even then) or what's considered normal for their relationship status, and eventually having to tell all of this to jason to dispel some worries threatening to make him sick; jason tries his best to insist that sabo doesn't need to act a specific or certain way and that they were going to figure this out together and find what worked for them; in the beginning their "romantic" relationship is super dysfunctional and not much different from their status before when they were just friends, but it slowly becomes more functional when they start to clue in to what they and each other want out of this

i CANNOT find my notes which makes me sick (< actually i did!!! not long after i wrote this which makes me SO mad in hindsight) but in this verse jason runs around with roy harper and artemis crock, who are roughly the same age as him and sabo but have the dynamic they do in earth-16 when they're (sibling) in-laws, meaning, they get along like a tight pair and often will team up to lovingly tease jason whenever the opportunity present itself; when they're introduced to sabo, the initial reaction is them recounting ('oh so this is the boy you're always mentioning') various things jason has said about him and then low-key embarrassing the both of them with their teasing, so it takes a bit for sabo to warm up to them

after sabo is burned by a lighter and his make-up runs, jason believes his old face scars to be part of the fresh injury and rushes sabo to leslie's clinic to get seen; sabo is bandaged up and none of the staff ask questions about the vigilantism that would (tie him w illegal activity) but in the beginning when someone asks sabo a basic question in regards to the injury, sabo clams up; jason has to snap at him that (leslie) was a doctor and not the fucking cops, so would sabo please put an ounce of trust in someone for once and let them take care of him; sabo relents and lets himself be treated

when he arrives home with his eye covered, ace is shocked because sabo never lets anyone but ace bandage him up; ace asks what (the fuck) happened and sabo clams up, flinches back when ace tries to reach for the wrap, and snaps at him to leave it because an actual medical professional treated him for once; ace says smth like 'but you always let me patch you up' and sabo appeases him by saying he can redress the wound later when it needed changing, but right now, he wants it left alone; later ace gets to see the damage and immediately realizes sabo got burned which terrifies him, putting sabo's shying away from him earlier into a new light, and ace takes on a new perspective when he helps sabo tend to the injury in order to frighten sabo as little as possible

sabo lives with ace and rouge until zero year, when their apartment floods and rouge gets sick and eventually dies in the hospital without proper medical care; without rouge, neither of them go back to the house in coventry and instead spend most of the remainder of zero year in a church - despite spending a good portion of their upbringing from that point on around clergymen, sabo refuses to believe in a god that would let him and ace to suffer through life to the extent that they had, and when ace curses 'god damn' or 'oh god' sabo isn't even willing to humor it, always blunting insisting 'there is no god' that ace in turn always counters with 'it's an expression, sabo, it doesn't have to mean anything'

aaaaaaaand since i've been sitting on this intro for a good six months now here's a small actual written pv :)

(if tumblr blurs the ss just click on it and it'll clear up)

[dnangelic]

waitwaitwait. i just realized i never even talked about this but it's important. CANONICALLY, dark is the one always actively doing all of the physical stealing, but daisuke, in dark's mind, is the one always actively figuring everything out. he might get only average grades in school (partly because he doesn't want to stand out,) and he says electronics aren't his thing (a la daisuke has no real passion or enthusiasm for them like a tech geek would) but some of the things he does throughout the series includes remembering complex routes/directions for dark and knowing exactly where to go, or being able to piece 1+1 together and get out of pinches even when it comes to hiwatari's plans, especially in the drama CDs.

for some even more specific examples, in the light novels even when daisuke's actively trying to reject dark and completely abandon phantom thievery, daisuke still IMMEDIATELY figures out how a mechanical haunted house contraption (a dressed up, robotic 'killer' that chases guests based on a sensor) operates and later on he even instinctively starts planning how to steal an aquarium's artwork just after hearing a guard drop an explanation to some other girls about the artwork's security. in the third LN daisuke also calms himself down to try to figure something out while dark and wiz are both under intense mental attack; being able to tell himself to relax and analyzing the situation is a big difference from the nervous wreck he tends to come off solely as, and even was at the start of his character development, and that's where is now. when he isn't the one with a body, daisuke pays very close attention - he lets dark handle the talking and stall in the moment if they need time, but daisuke isn't and never has been dead weight in the phantom thief zone for dark.

i figure it's an easy misconception to make, but considering daisuke is plenty capable of just dressing up and disguising himself as dark (if he can't, for whatever reason transform,) and pulling off his own heist at an equal rate to dark himself, nobody really should doubt him. dark too is canonically usually asleep most of the time, especially in the mornings or during daylight hours. he doesn't talk, his voice or awareness isn't always there, which is why dark also misses out on a lot of information (whether it's basic or complex) and often needs daisuke to fill him in. don't even bring up th anime with me bc daisuke is noooot useless or wimpy!!! you can make fun of him and doubt him over anything BUT the crime and phantom thievery!

[properbloke79]

John Cena

[blood-ology]

Cookie run has me in such a steven universe-esque chokehold ughhhh

[devilsrecreation]

OKAY BUT WHY DO THE SONGS IN THE HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON CARTOON FUCKING SLAP THO???

[sungracd]

@abyssl:  ❝ this little village used to be as quiet as a dusty old tomb. ❞

"A little renovation can go a long ways, hm?"  Provided by the Fatui no less.  Like any business there is profit to be made in even the smallest decisions, but if done right both parties will benefit in the long term.  And Adrian much prefers doing business the right way, despite what the general public may believe of their organization.

The Saint and Harbinger stand at the entrance, looking out among the children at play and adults going about their day — a farcry from the village nearly abandoned years ago.  There's a particular house the Lady Saint intends to visit today, footsteps continuing along the destined path.  "You are aware a Lord Harbinger needn't have accompanied me to such a small town for such a small task?"

They are grateful nonetheless, eyes flitting towards the other with a certain warmth and familiarity beneath their reserved facade.  "Or should I presume you've some business to attend to here as well?"

[lamardeuse]

so anybody else wondering if they're trying to establish that Buck has a Type, or even if they're just trying to connect the dots one more time for the clueless portion of the audience