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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#lan jingyi#jin ling#Surprise comic for today because this was cut from the previous comic.#And I'm so close to finishing season 2! I want to post my final comics and celebrate!#I imagine they (the juniors) hold the stabbing incident over Jin Ling's head for years. Akin to a funny typo in the group chat.#The stabbing is his Grink. Every time JL and WWX are seen interacting someone makes a teasing remark.#“I'm going to go ask Wei Wuxian what he thinks about our night hunt plans.” “Okay! Don't stab him ^-^.”#I also imagine WWX eventually leaning into it. A little bit of teasing to let it be known that there are no hard feelings.#LWJ (the funniest guy ever) would bide his time. Waiting for it to die down.#Then launch devastating blow as he joins in with “Wei Ying is in the courtyard. Please refrain from stabbing him today.”#Modern AU juniors would be brutal with the group chat lore. The pinned messages is a hall of fame and a hall of shame.#Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is sacred.#And poor jin ling is too reactionary. He is the ideal target because he flusters in a funny way.#I (the punchline friend) know my role well. I have been at the epicenter of many memorable typos and on-going bits.#You have to embrace it. Reverse it on them. Wield it as your power. Edit your messages to INCLUDE the typo.#(Fellow punchlines; I would *love* to hear your stories. Your jestery burdens. Your infamous typos. This is a safe space.)
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alas, it seems the christmas mystery shall remain unsolved 🎁 happy holidays!
#running a little late on this one but i was determined to get it out this year!!!! i hope you'll enjoy it nonetheless!#there was an additional page i had to cut where kirby bid them all farewell; smacked the wall; and a whole workshop of stuff fell down#but it proved too clunky and too hard to capture within my time limit so you'll just have to imagine it 😂#also this is featuring my festive designs from the advent stickers i did this year!#finally i get to draw boggle eyed kirby and V-face meta knight. christmas present to myself.#happy holidays and best wishes to everybody for the new year!#kirby#bandana waddle dee#meta knight#king dedede#magolor#my art#my comics
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Ultimate Escape Room
Sam, Danny, and Tucker are bored. Nothing seems to be a challenge anymore. Summer vacation is coming up but they can’t agree on anything . Themepark? What’s a better roller coaster than Jack driving? Scary movie? I’m sorry, nothing beats Fright Knight’s nightmare realm. Bungie jumping? Danny can fly. Then Tucker, who’s been typing on his computer, asks “what about an escape room?”. The others are about to shut the idea down because seriously? Easy. But Tucker just grins and shows them his computer screen.
“Ever heard of Arkham?”
Danny and Sam lean over to read the description and all three turn to each other and grin.
Now, what’s the fastest way to get into Arkham?
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So the chaos trio do ✨something✨ that gets them locked up in Arkham and then try to escape and they keep. You know, normal stuff for Arkham inmates. Except this trio? Keep. Getting. Out. Of. Their. Cells. So they are just passing by locked up rogues and waving at them as an army of prison guards chase after them. Sure they could get out the easy way (Aka powers) but no, this is a challenge so they have the normal rules of an escape room. Aka, you can’t break anything and an extra rule where if a guard catches you, then you can’t fight back (also, no one can get hurt). (They make fake identities and everything). So they need to go through the whole process. Figure out how to unlock cuffs. Could be learning to pick a lock with a spoon/stick/long nails. Then find the keys. Possibly having to crawl through vents to get in the warden’s office. Or making deals with prison inmates. Like, I’ll get this for you if you give me that (however they extract a promise that the rogue can’t kill anyone with whatever they help them with.) So they are in prison literally doing errands like find freeze’s weapons in exchange for him telling them the passcode to the gate or something. Or getting Waylon some meat from the cafeteria and he’ll break the lock on this movable vault that has materials to make smoke bombs they can use to distract the front guards.
These kids are just going wild and it gets to the point where Arkham has to call the bats (like no Waylon, we won’t escape with you, we have to do it without breaking any walls!) So literally the only reason they are not escaping is because they want to do it ‘right’. But they are also aiding other rogues in their escape (at least certain ones. They aren’t helping joker no matter what he offers)
It’s driving the bats mad. They have vigilantes stationed in each hall, in multiple monitor rooms.
They aren’t even using anything clever to block the cameras. They’re using mirrors. Mirrors! Where did they even get so many handheld mirrors!
They are running circles around the bats. The escaped rogues literally aren’t doing anything yet because they want to see how the three hellions will escape the entire bat clan. They have bets going. So there is a temporary truce.
Just imagine the conversations/interrogations the bats will have with trio, trying to figure out their master plan - because surely there's something more going on than three chaos young adults playing a game, right?
They trio each have a different story. And they are so passionate/convincing actors that no one knows which story is real. At least one of them told a sob story with legitimate tears.
Danny: (all mysterious) You shall never know our master plan….until it is too late. And just casually dropping hints that there is something greater or that the bats are playing right into their hands. Even using ridiculous scenarios like yesss the ketchup explosion in the cafeteria….We are one step further….Mwa ha ha! (Rubs his hands together)
Sam: (absolutely distraught with literal tears running down her face and ruining her mascara.) There is a terrible organization holding their parents hostage. They had been framed and forced to be in Arkham. If they don’t do exactly as they are told, their loved ones are in danger! Should we stay? Should we escape and help them!? No one will believe us and what if we make things worse? We don’t know what to do!
Tucker: (takes a long slurp of a smoothie. Where he got one? No one knows). Yeah we were bored and had nothing better to do than mess with you guys. (Sluuuuurp).
The bats are trying to figure it out. Is the black haired guy telling the truth and the other two are just manipulating them? Is it the girl and the others are only following the plot of the organization? IS THE BARET KID RIGHT AND THEY’RE JUST MESSING WITH US!? WHICH STORY IS IT!?
Under normal circumstances, Sam wouldn’t give a sob story because It’s not really her vibe. But Sam has the opportunity to pull one over on a bat. Do you honestly think she won’t take a chance to mess with them? Also, Dick is the one who is interrogating Sam.
He’s crying too by the end of the story.
Poor guy, Sam will play his heart like a fiddle.
Also, their fake identities are Jordan for Danny. Mortica for Sam (or Macey for short) and Phineas for Tucker. The fact that they are using fake identities is the only thing they all agree on in the interview. But the bats find nothing on them and the identities are so realistic they wonder if they are even fake at all. If the three are faking fake IDs to throw them off their tail from looking deeper. Apparently their ‘parents’ having a missing persons report.
Damian is interrogating Danny. It’s just so easy to rile him up and get under his skin. It’s absolute drama in that interrogation room.
Danny: ah yessss. Master plan.
Damian: you shall never succeed! Justice shall prevail evil scum!
And Duke is interrogating Tucker. He just…has no idea how to respond to this. He wasn’t trained for this response. Hostile, yes. Mysterious, yes. Scared, yes. Civilian, yes. Even Flirtatious! YES! But not…this. What does he do? should he take out his note cards?
Also, I’m adding a mix of home alone elements to this. They have to get past the bats somehow and it can’t be lethal. Poor Jason and Steph who are patrolling the halls fall victim to most of this.
At one point, both of them are tied up together and hanging from the ceiling. While the trio just casually walk by under them.
It’s dental floss. Really strong dental floss.
Then the bats start taking sides.
Jason? once he hears Sam's story, he's immediately willing to help her. He and Dick are searching for that missing person's report almost religiously.
Tim believes Danny's story. part of it is because it makes the most sense, and the other part is that he's slightly biased from becoming an evil megalomaniac in every timeline he's seen so he's subconsciously trying to stop that from happening here.
Cass believes Tucker because come on, it's Cass.
Steph is siding with Tim because her father was cluemaster so same reasons.
Bruce is trying to fact check all of them and is failing desperately.
Sam added some ‘clues’ in her interrogation and basically threw the GIW under the bus as the organization. So the bats do find a shady organization but so far no missing persons so the other bats still don’t know if what Sam is saying is true or not while Dick takes this as absolute proof and Jason feels like it doesn’t matter if she’s telling the truth at this point. It’s a corrupt organization. So he’ll still blow it up.
I think in this AU, the GIW isn’t a threat and more of an annoyance so Sam just plays them up as even worse. Like, she doesn’t say anything untrue just makes it sound worse out of context. Oh yeah, they opened fire on this random kid. (Gregory when they thought he was phantom) Oh yes, they have destroyed Danny’s house at one point. (The prank war with Vlad) Yes, the have an unhealthy obsession with dissecting people. (Even though they are too incompetent to actually catch anyone).
So again, they don’t know if Sam is telling the truth of the organization or they just used this random organization to draw their attention away from the three’s plans (as Danny implied). Possibly an enemy organization or a competitor.
I know everyone makes the GIW a big threat but I decided to change it up. They aren’t a threat but still get obliterated by a pissed off Red Hood and Nightwing.
And that’s another reason why Sam gives the sob story. Danny and Tucker are great but they wouldn’t actually sick a crime lord on the GIW. Sam? Absolutely would. She does not care what happens to them. They tore up her garden one time with a stray shot. She wants revenge. And sure, she didn’t actually know what would happen to them after the bats find out but she still doesn’t care.
And through all of this, the rogues are sitting back and eating popcorn while Joker screams bloody murder from his cell.
#Dpxdc#dcxdp#Kizzer55555 ideas#Sam Danny and Tucker are chaos gremlins. Correction. BORED chaos gremlins. The most frightening of all.#The GIW are not a threat but Sam still decides to mess with them.#Danny is having too much fun messing with Damian. He wants to see how far he can push the baby bat.#At one point he even sets up a scavenger hunt with ‘clues’ that makes Robin run all around Arkham convinced Danny had placed some kind of#Hidden weapon there. It was a whoopy cushion.#Poor Dick is getting played. He’s trying very hard to calm Damian down because that poor Jordan kid is just trying his best!#He has no Choice!#Jordan is now Damian’s life long nemesis.#Duke and Tucker sitting in a room. Slurping slushees…..awkward silence.#They can hear screams of rage from one room and hysterical sobbing in the other. ‘Phineas’ looks at Signal. “Sup”#The trio home alone the entire prison. Then cut the lights. Everyone is convinced they escaped again and start running around and getting#Caught in traps. Meanwhile. Sam and Tucker just broke into Danny’s cell to play Uno. It was game night! They don’t break out on game night!#By morning the entire prison is filled with shaving cream. Glitter bombs. All of the guards are caught in toilet paper like mummies or#Stuck in the vents. Steph and Tim are somehow caught in a life size Chinese finger trap made of pillowcases. Jason is knocked out by the#Ketchup bombs (curtesy of a favor from condiment king). The monitor room looks like an egg apocalypse. Damian is screaming from where#He got trapped in an empty cell. There is an ominous pole in the courtyard with a decapitated teddy bear head impaled on top.#And batman’s suit has been dyed pink.#Technically the trio COULD walk out of here at this point. But they were having game night! They weren’t even trying this time!#It doesn’t count unless they are trying! So they walked back into their cells and close it on themselves. Danny’s cell is right across from#The still locked up Robin who is glaring MURDER at him.#‘Jordan’ winks.
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Tazercraft mental link but make it a lil bit weird, they’ll have a conversation mostly in their heads but partially out loud which from an outside perspective is just fragments of words and half sentences, they go dead silent for hours at a time only for them to suddenly start shouting out loud, very clearly mid-argument, Pac says something but it comes out of Mike’s mouth, Mike starts speaking with his mouth and finishes speaking with Pac’s, sometimes their thoughts become so tangled that they’re unsure who a thought belongs to so they both express it at the same time like horror movie twins, do you see my vision
#fae.txt#qsmp#qsmp tazercraft#tazercraft#there was gonna be fitpac (fitpacmike??) in this post originally but I chose to cut it out bc I’m not sure if it fit lol#(pun not intended)#but anyway#I just think that if you shared a mental connection with someone like that it wouldn’t be as easy to control as some fics make it out to be#not without like#an absurd amount of meditation and mental work#which let’s be real neither of them have the patience to sit down and do for several hours a day#and it’s extremely hard to control your own thoughts as is WITHOUT being connected to someone mentally#so I think if you had a bond like this it would be a little weird but they’d definitely be used to it#thank you for coming to my ted talk#maybe I’ll write a fic about this idk yet
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I will find our Golden Age. Our perfect future. Yours and mine.
Destiny 2: Echoes - Act III Opening Cinematic
#destiny 2#destiny 2 spoilers#echoes#echoes spoilers#maya sundaresh#chioma esi#gifs#mygifs#myedits#im so.#completely lost my mind after seeing this for the first time. and after the exotic mission#trying to cut down the frames in these was so hard... i wanted to include everything#one of my new favorite cutscenes for sure. i may make some smaller sets later
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Symbols surrounding Boufuurin's leaders and their meanings
This post will go into explicit symbols (ones that are clearly drawn with the intention to show the audience) of the flowers that represents our Four Heavenly Kings, and Umemiya Hajime.
(Implicit Boufuurin symbols)
The fanatic - Sugishita Kyoutarou
The first, and most impressive piece of symbolism that hit me is from chapter 3, when we meet Sugishita for the first time.
While I was doing research, I came across @/sawacore on twitter who had pointed out that the 5 flowers are the flowers of Boufuurin's Heavenly Kings and Umemiya.
The 5 flowers
Below is my effort to match and name these flowers. I don't think I am 100% correct, but I've identify the most distinguishable details about them. (And all of them are edible! What a surprise!)
Umemiya - Ume (Plum blossom)
Plum blossom means good fortune, health, and a talisman against evil. Moreover, Ume flower is also considered Sakura (cherry blossom)'s older sister, as it blooms at the end of winter and beginning of spring, right before cherry blossom does.
Tsubaki - Japanese Camellia
The flower is in their name, so there is no speculation here.
Tsubaki resembles freedom of choice and perfect love, which is very in character for our Tsubaki. Tsubaki had broken the gender norms to wear skirt and make-up even if they were born as a boy. Moreover, I truly adore their opinion on love: Love's value is in its own and doesn't need to be reciprocated for it to be perfect. They loved being in love, and that was what's beautiful about it.
Mizuki - Amana flower (Tulipa edulis/アマナ)
Now I can't find the meaning of this flower, so maybe I was wrong here. But this flower is, in fact, edible, and kind of fits the description: Pointy petals and cruciform. Please let me know if you find a better flower!
Momose - Momo flower (Prunus persica)
Momo flower means "fascinating personality", love, and good luck. It's a little all over the place, yes, but maybe we haven't known enough about Momose?
Hiiragi - Holly berry
Holly, or holly berry included, represents prosperity and focus strength. This is factually correct, as Hiiragi is the leader of a team whose name is taken from the god of warfare.
#this was TOO long so i have to cut it down#also finding a random flower from 2 drawings is SO HARD OMG I THINK MY EYES FUCKING DOID#wbk analysis#sugishita kyotaro#umemiya hajime#tsubaki chan#tsubakino tasuku#hiiragi touma#hiragi toma#mizuki saku#momose takumi#wind breaker four heavenly kings#wind breaker#wind breaker nii satoru#wbk
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— the untamed (2019), episode 43
#cqledit#The Untamed#Wei Wuxian#Lan Wangji#Lan Xichen#mdzs#myedit#episode 43 my most beloveeeed#it was so hard to cut down on shots to include gosh
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MY favorite gorbs of all time (so far)
[261], [364], [764] [798], [953], [972] [1034], [1104], [1379] [1401], [1636], [1706] [1770], [1880], [1891] [1894], [1901], [1932]
(doesn't include anything from november or december because it's too fresh to properly look back upon)
#kirb2k#my art#gif#favorites#food#kirby#it was sooooo hard to narrow it down even this far lol#kirbear#plushies#lolita kirb#guns#ask to tag#also small reminder that preorders commissions and auctions are closing on sunday!#everything is linked in the pinned post or under the tag kirb2k#honestly in retrospect can't believe michaels didn't make the cut#there's so many drawings I've made that I love -n-#that one running down a path wasn't even originally in my favorites!
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Ghostlights as college roommates and maybe some identity shenanigans thrown in would be so fun! Maybe dannys doing a little vigilante work on the side as well to up the secret identity mayhem
Danny would like to say his college career is going well. Gotham isn’t where he was expecting to pursue higher education, but the engineering scholarship he got through the Wayne Educational Foundation was just too good to turn down. It even covered the cost of an apartment! Although, the apartment is shared with another student who got a Wayne scholarship.
Even with that, Danny lucked out and got a great roommate. Duke Thomas is chill, kind, respects Danny’s space and doesn’t throw wild parties or invite random people in at all hours of the day. He even joins Danny twice a week for study sessions!
Really, it would be the perfect college experience except for one thing: the ghosts.
Danny thought they’d stay in Amity Park. They had no reason to stray from the city where the portal was, and his parents are more than enough to keep most ghosts away. It took his friends, Jazz, and even Vlad to convince Danny that he wasn’t abandoning Amity Park and that the city wouldn’t fall while he took a few years to focus on himself.
He worried right up until he got to GCU and walked the campus for the first time. Then he decided to enjoy the four years he had on the scholarship to get his degree and live his own life like a normal person.
To say he’s pissed about the ghosts is an understatement.
The one thing he was looking forward to most is not being Phantom. Gotham is home to the Bats and they’re more than capable of handling everything in the city. It means there’s no need for him here and he can focus on school and enjoy going on invisible flights without worrying about being hunted down or having to fight a ghost.
“Are you fucking kidding me,” he mutters under his breath as he feels the familiar chill race up his throat, A cold mist wafts out of his mouth, curling around his words, and Danny quickly ducks his head and hides it from sight.
“Did you say something?” Duke asks, looking up from where he leans against the kitchen counter, squinting at a recipe on his phone.
“Nah,” Danny lies. “Just stressing.” He gestures to the papers he has spread out on the dining table, then stands up. “I’m gonna take a walk. Maybe that’ll get my brain to work correctly tonight.”
“Got your phone on you?”
Danny reflexively drops a hand to his pocket, checking that his phone is where it’s supposed to be. It’s what Duke asks every single time Danny mentions going out, worried about Danny being unprepared for Gotham. It’s nice of him, though Danny does wish he can say that he’s survived a lot worse than a few muggers.
“Got it.”
“Alright. I’ll try to work on dinner while you’re out.”
Danny nods and offers Duke a small wave before pulling his shoes on at the door. He grabs his keys and heads out, double checking that the door is locked behind him.
Then he glances around the hallway, checking that the coast is clear, and pulls up the chill of awareness in his chest. Slowly, he breathes out, watching the blue mist waft out and lead towards the stairwell.
“Wonder who it is this time,” he mutters to himself, going into the cold, concrete stairwell. It always feels a little off in there, as if he’s been removed from the rest of the world when the door closes behind him. His footsteps echo oddly in the space, so Danny chooses to fly instead, keeping his feet off the floor.
A few flights down is when he sees her: pale and translucent, a faint blue glow around her. She’s a familiar face. Emilia is one of the first of Gotham’s ghosts he’s met, leading to the rather unpleasant realization that ghosts don’t only come from the Infinite Realms. There’s a strange sort of magic in the very foundations of Gotham that makes it the way it is, creating ghosts that are different enough from what he’s used to that it leaves him off balance.
Gotham keeps her dead. Few get to pass on peacefully, and most have to wait until they grow weak and wither away, a second death, before they can be released from the living realm. The ghosts of Gotham are pale and weak, for the most part, and try to cling to him so grow stronger from his ectoplasm.
Most want him to help them pass on, or give them a way into the Infinite Realms. Some want him to bring justice to their killers. Others want to kill him and take his ectoplasm for their own so they can continue their reign of terror in Gotham, unable to be stopped even in death.
Emilia gives him warnings. It’s not always her, but she tends to be the one to draw him out of his apartment, pulling him into a vigilante lifestyle because he can’t bring himself to refuse anyone who asks for his help, and the dead in Gotham have no one else to ask.
“Danny,” she greets. “Nueve is out again. He’s going after the ghosts near Chantilly Street.”
“The sun isn’t even down yet,” Danny grumbles. Nueve, an old gang enforcer who died a few decades ago, cannibalizes other ghosts. It doesn’t destroy the other ghosts, not really, but it makes them feel pain when they shouldn’t be able to feel much at all. Taking their limited reserves of ectoplasm makes him momentarily stronger, and he uses that stolen strength to try to harm the living.
He’s been successful a few times. Danny makes sure to rip him apart as much as possible these days; he won’t be here forever, but he’s hoping that within his four years at GCU, he’ll be able to permanently stop Nueve.
Times like these, he misses having a Fenton Thermos with him. Though he’s not entirely sure it would work on Gotham’s ghosts with how different they are.
Emilia follows him down the stairwell to the ground floor. Once there, Danny shoves his hand into the floor, taking out the backpack he’s hidden in it. He’s done this change of clothes so often he can do it in just a minute now, hiding his face and pulling on gloves beneath a large hoodie with old ectoplasm stains along the sleeves and hem. A gas mask is pulled on as well, covering the bottom half of his face, a necessary addition to his Ghost Work Outfit™ after he almost got caught in some Fear Gas during Scarecrow’s last attack.
“Alright,” he says, “Lead the way.”
Emilia takes off through the wall and Danny hurries to follow, going invisible as he hits the streets.
It’s still early evening, the sun not yet fully set. Plenty of people walk along the sidewalks and cars pass by endlessly, honking at each other as they try to go twenty above the speed limit. Danny does his best to avoid running into everyone, deftly dodging the reaching hands of a few ghosts who spot him as he sprints by.
They only go a few blocks away from his apartment building, turning into a dead end alley where a group of teens (living, for once) are stuck with their backs to the wall, clinging to each other as they warily watch the man in front of them carelessly twirl a gun around his finger.
The man makes a strange clicking noise in the back of his throat, and it takes Danny a moment to realize that he’s trying to talk.
Still invisible, Danny sneaks around to stand in front of the teens, ready to bodily protect them. The man looks alive, and Danny see any ghosts around save for Emilia, standing at the mouth of the alley. There’s something strange about him; his movements seem just a little off, not quite as fluid as they should be. It’s not the movement of someone on drugs. It’s something that screams uncanny valley.
The gun’s handle drops solidly into the man’s palm. He makes another few clicks, then raising the gun to point at the teens.
“Bad idea, pal,” Danny says dropping his invisibility. The teens behind him startle, gasping and trying to press themselves further into the wall.
The man’s eyes flash weakly and the pieces click into place in Danny’s mind. Nueve must have gotten strong enough to possess someone. That is… alarming, to say the least.
He rips the gun out of the man’s hand and tosses it aside. Then he pushes away the man’s arm when Nueve makes a clumsy attempt to punch him. With his chest left wide open and undefended, Danny takes the chance to shove his hand into the man’s chest, feeling for the familiar chill of a ghost.
And then he wraps his fingers tight around it and pulls out Nueve, leaving the man to collapse.
The teens behind him scream and Danny winces.
Pulling out a faintly glowing human figure from someone’s physical body does not look good. It’s the best way to end a possession, but it does look alarmingly like he’s just ripped someone’s soul out of their body.
Keeping hold of Nueve’s ghost, Danny steps to the side. “You guys should go now. Take care.”
The teens don’t need any more prompting. They take off in a run, tripping over each other in their haste to get away.
Danny spares a glance to the man unconscious on the ground, but there’s nothing he can do with an angry ghost in his hands, so he has no choice but to leave him there as he flies up to a rooftop farther down the street.
“How many times do we need to do this, Nueve?” he asks tiredly, shaking the ghost.
“These streets should be mine!” Nueve howls, trying to break free of Danny’s grasp. But he’s quickly growing weak, his energy fading, and Danny’s holding back his own ectoplasm as tightly as he can. “They may have killed me, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still take what I’m owed!”
“Dude, you’re dead. There’s nothing here for you. Move on.”
“You don’t get to speak on this, outsider. You think a freak like you has an say over us? You can’t stop us. You don’t even know what’s coming.”
Danny squints at him. “What, are you planning a heist or something? With your gang of dead people too weak to lift a piece of paper?”
“We’re not all dead. We’ve got living folk helping us and we’ll be taking you out first when we hit the streets.”
“Good luck with that,” Danny says flatly, “Begone with you.”
Without giving Nueve a chance to say another word, he rips Nueve’s head off his body. His ghost wavers, then dissipates like smoke, fading away.
Another side effect of whatever it is Gotham does to her dead: their ghost forms are remarkably fragile and it takes only a bit of strength to tear them to shreds, giving him some peace before they reform again. It won’t stop Nueve from striking out again, gathering enough strength until he’s able to possess some other unfortunate soul, but Danny’s bought himself some time to figure out what the hell was he talking about?
There are living folk involved with whatever he’s planning. It’s probably another gang, maybe someone with magic who is able to see ghosts? Which is not great. Danny doesn’t know much about magic; even when facing ghosts who used magic or magical artifacts, his go to method of dealing with them is to start throwing hands like there’s no tomorrow.
Well.
It’s a problem for later.
For now, Danny needs to get back to his apartment and work on his calculus homework. Hopefully he can finish it before he gets frustrated enough that he gives up and lies face down on the floor until Duke manhandles him onto the couch, where he’s less of a tripping hazard.
He’s just about to get back to street level when his Fenton Luck strikes again and he hears someone land on the roof, just a few feet behind him.
“Hey there, stranger,” the Signal says. “You know, we run into each other so often it feels rude not to introduce ourselves. Why don’t you go first?”
Danny turns to face the daylight vigilante, standing with his arms crossed as if that would make him look any more approachable. He’s been popping up wherever Danny’s out dealing with ghosts, which is very not great for Danny’s plans to have a peaceful, normal college life.
Biting his tongue, Danny gives the Signal a quick two fingered salute, then goes intangible and drops down through the building. His invisibility sweeps over him and then he’s running through the streets, hoping it’s enough to keep the Signal from following him to his apartment.
He skids to a stop in the stairwell, dropping his intangibility just in time to crash into the wall. Panting, Danny waits for a tense minute to see if he’s been followed.
When the door to the stairwell remains closed, he lets out a slow breath, then pulls off all the pieces of his Ghost Work Outfit, shoving it back into his bag. He takes a moment to fix his hair, messy from the hood, then shoves the bag back into the floor, safely hidden from curious eyes.
Then he very casually walks up the stairs to the fifth floor and walks down the hallway to his apartment. His keys clang together when he opens the door, and Duke usually hears it when it does, but just in case, Danny calls out, “I’m back!”
He’s learned to announce himself after a few late night walks almost ended with him tackled to the floor when Duke thought someone was breaking in.
Duke doesn’t respond as he toes off his shoes. The stillness in the apartment feels off, as if the world is holding its breath. Cautiously, Danny walks in, trying to find his roommate.
He’s not in the kitchen. The living room is empty. Duke’s bedroom door is open and he’s not in there either.
Something cold lodges itself in his chest.
“Duke?” he tries again, looking over their apartment again for any sign of struggle, or something terrible happening, or even a mess that Duke needed more supplies to clean up.
There’s nothing. The apartment is as it’s always been, just with an empty space where Duke should be.
Worried, Danny stands in the middle of the hallway, trying to figure out what he should do next. It’s because he’s standing so still, surrounded by silence, that he hears it: a light thud outside the window.
Danny turns and he can swear he sees something large moving outside the window, disappearing from sight just as Danny takes a step into Duke’s room to check on it. He rushes to the window and pushes it open, looking down at the street, then side to side, and finally up to the last three floors of the building.
Nothing’s there.
Slowly, Danny pulls his head back inside, closing and locking the window. “Must be my imagination,” he says, trying to convince himself it’s not a big deal.
He leaves Duke’s room and begins pacing down the hall, anxiety building steadily in him.
His phones in his hand before he can think his actions through, Duke’s contact pulled up on the screen. He should call. He should make sure Duke is okay, but Danny hesitates. Is this something to be freaked out over? Would Duke thing he’s clingy and nervous and a bothersome roommate? He doesn’t want to risk Duke asking for a new roommate next year when the lease renews.
But he’s worried. It’s Gotham and Danny just dealt with a violent, murderous ghost threatening him. Duke can deal with a stressed out, worried Danny if it means he’s alive.
He hits the call button before he can talk himself out of it. It rings on and on and on until Danny starts to panic about having to find Duke’s ghost to avenge his murder.
The front door is thrown open so suddenly and so loudly, Danny jumps and his phone clatters to the floor.
“Danny! Hey!” Duke says with a bright smile, trying to catch his breath. He’s still holding onto the doorknob, slightly hunched over as he pants for breath. “I didn’t expect you back so soon.”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah! Yeah, I’m totally fine.”
“Where were you?”
Duke straightens up and closes the door, kicking off his shoes. “Oh, just… out. Shopping. For dinner.”
Danny looks over his empty hands doubtfully. “No luck finding what you needed?”
“Nope!”
“What did you need? Maybe I can go to a different store and get it for you.”
“You don’t need to!” Duke says. “I just needed… tomatoes?”
Danny blinks at him. “We have tomatoes. Did you not know we had tomatoes in the fridge?”
“Oh, do we? Good to know.”
There’s something very weird about this conversation, but Danny doesn’t pry. Duke is weird sometimes, but it’s fine because he kindly ignores some of Danny’s oddities that come from being a halfa and a semi-retired hero.
“Do you… maybe wanna sit down? Catch your breath? I can make dinner tonight if you want.”
Duke waves a hand in the air. “No, no, it’s fine. I got this. Anyways, how was your walk?”
He definitely shouldn’t talk about the cannibal ghost and his threats to take out Danny with his gang. “It was nice. Very quiet. You know, for Gotham.” He punctuates this with an awkward thumbs up and immediately regrets it, but it’s already done so he commits to it.
“Cool! Great. Just wondering, did you see anything weird?”
“Depends on what you’re asking about?”
“Just some guy wearing black with a hood covering his face. He’s been active in this neighborhood and I saw some people talk about him online. Apparently he just appears out of thin air.”
Danny tries not to wince. That’s him, alright. Gotham’s newest neighborhood menace. “I don’t think so, but there’s a lot of people in Gotham that were all black and walk around with their hood up.”
“True,” Duke concedes. “Well, just be careful when you go out, alright?”
“I always am.” He gives Duke the same two fingered salute he gave the Signal. Duke stares at him for a moment, eyes dark and almost dangerous, then he smiles and walks into the kitchen.
“Wanna make dinner with me? I think we can figure out this recipe together. Unless you need to do your homework.”
“It can wait!” Danny hurries to join Duke, grateful for an excuse to push off calculus a little longer. He understands what he’s doing in the class, there’s just… so much work. He doesn’t even want to think about the tests. The tests make everyone cry.
“Alright, let’s get to it, then!”
“You’re in charge, chef,” Danny says, laughingly, and bumps against Duke’s side. He expects a light shove in return, something Sam and Tucker always did, but Duke goes tense instead, letting out a sharp breath that Danny is all too familiar with. “Wait, why are you hurt? What happened?!”
He goes to lift up Duke’s shirt to inspect his shirt, see the damage for himself, but Duke smoothly moves out of the way, grabbing Danny’s wrists and stopping him in his tracks. “I’m fine, Danny. I just got hit. Lightly. Minor bruising, really.”
Danny looks at him doubtfully, then wrenches a wrist free to lift up his shirt before he can move again.
Minor bruising is not how Danny would describe the blues and purples that decorate Duke’s entire side. He can see the outline of Duke’s ribs through the bruising. “How is this being lightly bruised? What hit you?”
“A car?”
“A car?!”
Duke winces, then pulls his shirt down. “I’m fine, Danny, really. It was just from a car that didn’t want to stop at a red light. I stopped another person from being hit, but the car got me pretty solidly. You know how bad Gotham drivers are.”
“Sit down!” Danny says, pulling Duke out of the kitchen. “I don’t understand how you’re still standing. I’ll get some ice, and I’ll handle dinner. You just stay there and stop pushing yourself for no reason.”
“Playing nurse for me now?”
“If I have to.”
“Would you wear a nurse costume for me, too?” Duke jokes.
Danny looks him dead in the eye and says, “If I have to. Would that make you follow my instructions? A tight little nurse dress?”
Duke sputters, cheeks darkening, and looks away. Danny grins, victorious, and darts back to the kitchen to grab an ice pack from the fridge.
“Maybe I’ll wear one for you anyways, once you’re all healed up. Only if you’re good, though.”
“Danny, you’re killing me here.”
“Better me than a car.”
Duke laughs and takes the ice pack, pressing it against his side carefully. “Oh, for sure. Thanks, Danny.”
“Hey, what are roommates for?” Danny shares a warm smile with Duke, then pats his shoulder and heads back to the kitchen to start making a simple pasta dinner.
Life in Gotham is weird and stressful and full of ghosts and heroes who won’t leave him alone. But it’s not all that bad, really. He’s happy with how he’s doing in college, and he’s beyond lucky to have Duke as a roommate. So long as Duke never finds out about his halfa status, then he’s sure they’ll be able to last all four years rooming together.
He just needs to keep a secret.
Shouldn’t be too hard, right?
#ghostlights#dc x dp#dp x dc#dcxdp#dpxdc#dc x dp fic#dpxdc fanfic#my writing#prompt fill#3.6k.... still counting this as short. i have not failed yet at my goal of keeping these fics below 5k!!#i love this prompt so much it even got me making ocs... i love making ocs this is such a treat for me#will 100% be revisiting this prompt in the future to turn into a longer fic bc i have SO MUCH to write for this#had to cut it off here to have just one scene that shows them as roommates w secrets#truly a struggle to keep this short. this could easily be 30k. the amount of identity shenanigans i can write....#also playing around with the cursed gotham thing by making it affect ghosts :) perfect excuse to make my own gotham lore :)#btw duke 100% got injured chasing down criminals and thats how he got hit by a car. he wasnt fully lying abt it#he also tried to come in through the window of his bedroom. saw danny. quickly left and went up the stairs like a normal person#duke has his suspicions. danny is trying so hard to mind his business when duke acts strange and secretive#disaster in the making :)#thanks for the prompt!!
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hi i'm the anon that asked about npd mind and i am So Excited for the comic :D just wanted to say that
Sorry I lost motivation pretty intensely halfway though... I hope you still like this haha
Erm put a lot in tags if you want more... actual thoughts on mind instead of tiny bite sized 1-2 panels
#I also see it as... Mind puts a lot of expectations on himself. and by proxie. on Heart. Heart is supposed to be his equal. his other half.#When Heart has differing goals. sees a different path to helping the whole. it reads as an active betrayal.#mind has put just... a lot of his identity ON heart and soul. he needs his equal to be good... if he's not. Mind can't deal with that#I do think he puts down Heart constantly in an effort to distance himself from that. after the very start. make himself seem Better#Heart cannot be his equal because Mind cannot be... like that. he needs to define himself off of heart still. but as something Better#but under it all he's very desperate for Heart and Soul's approval. he needs them to see him for his worth. it eats away at him#deeply deeply unsure of his position...#[there must be something elating about concord. to know that you. all of you. is so deeply lovely...]#that's getting into just how I see mind in general. outside of the lens of NPD. but its hard to figure out what exactly about him reads NPD#I do think the way he acts in canon is very .. congruent with npd. if that makes sense? whaggever. canon complaint hc to me :]#cut out more than my tags cus this got Very Very long#cccc#cj#chonny jash#chonnys charming chaos compendium#cj mind#cccc mind#cj heart#cccc heart#cj soul#cccc soul
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Oh? He's saying my mistake? Okay. I had started to calm down but now that makes me...that pisses me off. I watched his onboard...He's not even looking at me. That pisses me off.
#daniel ricciardo#dr3#chinese gp 2024#There are so many nuggets of gold in this interview it is hard to cut it down#i'm probably going to also post that last gif on its own so just ignore that lol#ccg
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Drew some more Chimera Laios
And y'know what? I think I've figured out how this could work. (Full Body Sketch Link Here)
Now Laios has the issue when eating of not having the same jaw strength as a lot of predators do that are his size. However, what he does have is the canines designed to scrape off meat, and a stomach that can digest nearly anything. In fact? At least in this design, he has two stomachs. And that's why the snake head on the second tail is important. While his humanoid body can digest raw meat, the stomach and mouth is too small to keep something of his size fed. However, the snake head can not only eat things whole, it can unhinge its jaw and split its mandibles open, allowing for him to get enough sustenance even while being active and doing things like hunting.
#my art#sketch#chimera laios#beast!laios#laios touden#laios dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#If Falin can have a fuel pouch then Laios can have a second stomach#I mean he Would be in Big Trouble if someone cut off the snake head but like- dragon scales so tis thankfully hard to do#I need him able to eat poisonous things- maybe like irl animals it's what makes the snake head poisonous#This man is FERAL and its wonderful#Now let him be twice as feral#If anyone wants me to ramble more I am SO DOWN to do so
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#Jason Todd#this was a hard one.#so many things didn’t make the cut.#i had to narrow it down to my fave ‘oh JASON’ moments.#the Hush thing is still completely baffling to me.#JASON WHAT DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN HUH???#HOW DID YOU IMAGINE THAT GOING DOWN????#absolute mad lad.
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I love Moth Howdy’s extreme floof, he is an actual puff ball and I want to live in his hair
i guess you could say he's a.... mothball
(amplified fluff for your viewing pleasure <3)
#as soon as i scribbled the first one i was Immediately reminded of that 'a christmas story' scene#where the protag's lil bro was so bundled up for snowy weather that he couldnt lower his arms#fluffy howdy....#moths are the Supreme Fluffs#scribble salad#welcome home#i am very very fond of moths so moth howdy Is capturing my heart#if i sit down to actually like. solidify a Design... actually i might keep him this fluffy. might just.#im still not aaaaas attached as i am w/ butterfly!howdy since it suits him much better imo#howdy deserves to be ostentatious and just So Fruity#and butterfly him Delivers on that methinks#but i am still Fond of moth howdy#he must leave dust Everywhere...#im imagining him in his store sweeping while his wings just shower moth dust everywhere#he turns around - didnt he just clean that spot? *sweep sweep*#turns around again - HUH? he just swept! *sweep sweep* turns around-#hard cut to ten minutes later hes frantically sweeping like a complete madman. absolutely losing it.
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Your horse can pick herbs for you?? That's so sweet, I wish it was in the base game :')
#this is my boy friday he's a missouri fox trotter <3#I love him so much he's never let me down#I'm saving up to buy a turkoman so friday can have a break that horse works as hard as me#but they're so expensive 😞#I spent ages saving up to buy friday because the palomino morgan wasn't cutting it :(#but everything is 40x more expensive in rdo#like why are hats $70+ dollars#:')#mick squeaks#rdr2#red dead redemption 2#red dead online#red dead redemption community#friday my horse#should I post my rdo adventures? I love looking at people's rdo oc's so let me know if that's something you don't mind seeing <3
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MKAY! NORTON TIME!!
I watched "The Gold Rush" 1925 crazy Chaplin movie as soon as I pieced together that this was a CHAPLIN CHARACTER OUTFIT LOL
THIS FITS HIM SO GOSH DARN WELL YALL
PREPARE YOURSELVES LOL
Spoilers below if you wanna watch the movie still before reading~ This is gonna be a LONG one cause its so difficult to sum up quick and it still making some kind of sense PFF
but you can skip to the very bottom to see why this gets a CHECKMARK in my eyes LOL
So its starts out with "A Lone Prospector" who is trapsing through the harsh snowy mountain, he almost stumbles off the side of it a few times and a bear is following him and he doesn't notice it at all (how this character survived this long is beyond me -WHEEZE-)
There is another prospector named "Jim Mckay" who has struck gold! But a huge storm comes rolling in so both end up in the same cabin where a criminal (unknown to the prospectors) is living. They just forced themselves in there pretty much and the criminal was just 'meh whatever' after realizing Mckay can beat him in any fight pfff (like the levels of ridiculous events that take place is astronomical! -WHEEZE- the flying out the doors cause of the wind and forcing themselves back in oh my GOSH! Then Mckay and the criminal are fighting with the shot gun and it is ALWAYS pointed at Chaplin as he is trying to get out of the way of the barrel of the gun!! I was literally rolling with laughter at this part oh my GOSH)
Chap tryin to escape the barrel of the gun as the other two fight:
But Chaplin buddies up with Mckay for survival purposes
So the storm has been raging for days as the story continues and they are all starving. So they draw cards and whoever gets the lowest number has to go out into the storm to get food. The criminal ends up drawing the lowest card and off he goes to find food ( but since he doesn't care about the other two he doesn't return with the food he found from the supplies he got after killing some police that were looking for him) So the Criminal dips and even finds Mckay's gold stash and camps out there.
So the two prospectors back at the cabin are still hella hungry so Chapin boils up his shoe and serves that up for dinner. He gives himself the 'best part' cause its his shoe and he cooked it but the other prospector takes it and that leaves Chaplin with the sole, nails, and shoelace. He ends up enjoying the meal much to his own surprise pff. But the other prospector/Mckay is so hungry he starts hallucinating that Chaplin is a chicken and starts trying to kill him and that there cues a load of ridiculous events of Chaplin trying, and accidentally surviving again -WHEEZE- but the BEAR returns and they somehow have that as their first meal in who knows how long and then the storm finally ends and they part ways
Chicken Chap:
Mckay returns to his claim of gold only to find the criminal. They fight again only this time the Criminal whacks Mckay over the head with a shovel (causing him to loose his memories) and leaves with the stuff he got from the police and then ends up falling from the side of the mountain that crumbled apart. and the section was called (the north. a law unto itself)
ANYWAY
Chaplin ends up in a town as this lone stranger and meets this pretty lady. Georgia. She ends up using Chaplin as a way to get away and upset her pushy lover, the bully, by dancing with Chaplin. Cue more wild events as he is trying to keep his pants from falling and accidently ties a rope that was supposed to be a leash for a dog, around his waist to use as a belt. So now a dog is running around with him as he is trying to dance with this pretty lady. Just absolutely wild oh my gosh (old movies stress me out when there are animals involved cause of the poor treatment that could happen on these sets so its difficult for me to not be uneasy at those points aaahh) but anyways
The bully/pushy lover, begins messing with Chaplin after Chaplin tries to keep the bully from following Georgia cause she wanted to leave and be alone, this prompting a 'fight' where Chaplin can't see and accidently punches a post and somehow a clock falls on the bully and he thinks he knocked him out oh my GOSH.
image of the bully smashing the hat on Chap's head so he can't see:
Then the next morning he pretends he is freezing to death outside a warm cabin of a guy who is making beans for breakfast pff. So the guy with beans takes him in and Chaplin ends up being his helper. Dude is willing to brown nose for survival man
ANYWAY
Georgia and the ladies end up coming over after chucking a snowball into the side of his face, on accident. So they come in and sit a while and Georgia finds that Chap has a photo of her (that he found ripped on the ground) and the flower she gave him after the dance) she thinks its funny and they all laugh while he is out getting firewood.
Georgia offering her apologies:
And then they are messing with him after they see that he likes Georgia:
(like no one is kind to this man oh my gosh and yet he continues to just vibe and not let it bother him, but there is a moment later that he is noticeably sad and hurt ;; )
ANYWAY he invites them to dinner and is like "will you actually come??" and they are like "oh yesss suurreee"
So he gets extremely excited and destroys the cabin in his excitement pff so he goes out to make money so he can put together a good dinner and HE EVEN BUYS THEM GIFTS OH MY GOSH
AND THEY DON'T SHOW UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
He worked HARD shoveling snow for monies (he would clear out the snow in front of one business's door onto the front of the next business's door and would have them pay him to now clear out their blocked door PFF)
(^^^ he made that snow pile behind him in front of that restaurant -WHEEZE- to be fair the restaurant owner was rude to him just moments prior PFFFF)
Anyway, back on track. The ladies don't show up and he falls asleep and dreams of having a good time only to wake up at midnight and realize they never showed up orz so he looks out the door when he hears the town singing and he looks so saaaad orz
Georgia and the girls end up showing up after Chap leaves and once she sees the gifts she feels hella bad
Then for some dumb reason she writes an apology note to her pushy bully 'love' cause she slapped him for forcing her to kiss him uhg But the bully wants to mess with Chap so he has the note sent to Chap and then Chap is like "ALL IS FORGIVEN MY LOVE" cause she wrote "I love you" at the bottom of the note orz
She is friggin FLABBERGASTED -WHEEZEEE- vvvvvv
But this is when things start coming full circle cause MCKAY with MEMORY LOSS shows up and spots Chap and is like "YOU KNOW WHERE THE CABIN IS!! IF I CAN JUST FIND THE CABIN I CAN FIND MY HEAPS OF GOLD AND I WILL SHARE IT WITH YOU WE WILL BOTH BE MULTI-MILLIONAIRES" and drags him away from Georgia PFF
They end up making it back to the cabin and while they were sleeping "by Fate" the cabin flies away in the wind of the storm and ends up like this
So when they wake up they realize that the house is tilting whenever Chaplin comes over to right side and they quickly have to balance it out PFF So another series of ridiculousNESS takes place and they escape the cabin and find that it was the rope that was caught and keeping the house from falling immediately was ACTUALLY caught on where Mckay's HEAPS of GOLD is 🤣🤣
So they found the gold and are both multi-millionaires and Chap has everything he could ever want except for Georgia but he ends up finding out that she is on the same ship they are on and because of a ridiculous series of events the police are looking for a stowaway and mistake Chaplin as the stowaway cause he put on his old prospector outfit for the photoshoot they were doing for the news story pffff but she ends up trying to protect him and hide him, then once he is found by the police she offers to pay his ticket only for the news people to be like "YO He is a multi-millionaire! He isn't a stowaway!"
and then he invites Georgia to join him on the rich part of the ship and then they pose for a photo and kiss and now Chap has everything he ever wanted heh
So in love that she is willing to do all that for him lol vvvvv
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SO THERE IS THE WHOLE STORY
and this gets a CHECKMARK, it has Norton written all over it PFF
-there is the mention of 'FATE' several times in the switching of scenes. -He is just this guy trying to make it through and is constantly bullied, but regardless, he keeps trying and works hard. -is, at his core, kind. (I mean heck, in the movie Chap even offers his other shoe when Mckay exclaims how hungry he still is pff) -Keeps going even though his life is misfortune after misfortune. -Is the odd ball in the crowd and is shocked when people 'want' to interact with him and they aren't hurting him in some way or he doesn't have to brown nose is some way. -Trying to get though a cruel world I just find it so interesting that they went with a character that follows fate and it leads him to everything he ever wanted ;; (I am still crossing everything I have that they will go the redemption arc way for Norton and let him finally have a good life under the blue sky aahh please)
//and now in reference to the Frederick Deduction skin, I am worried Composer will actually die in the fire at the end of the da capo game like he does as his Deduction counterpart ah orz just all those burns on his worn clothes skin aahhhh and I think he also has tears on that skin too, gosh I need to check again
ANYWAYS, For the skin itself I love that there is actual gold in his making cause it shows that he is 'made of gold' 'has a heart of gold' ;;
'Fool's Gold' is just how everyone else perceives him, a Fool, faking being a good guy to get gain orz Which is how he starts viewing himself and starts acting by the time AoM comes around ah orz
So in my opinion THEY POPPED OFF HERE TOO, I think this was a big brain move~ 👏👏👏👏👏👏 They could have gone a 'BADDIE' rotue but they went with the good guy route and touched on who Norton is and what he had to do to survive, now I just hope he gets what he needs and even wants in the end ;;
#SHEESH this is a long one#I tried to cut it down as much as possible BUT ITS SO HARD with a show is completely SHOW and no tell -WHEEZE-#identity v#idv#norton campbell#idv prospector#idv norton#identity v norton#idv fool's gold#minty yappin#minty speaks
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