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[spicysourchimken]

Murder! Murder! Murder!

TRIGGER WARNING: discussions of death, murder, descriptions of corpses, gore and corpse desecration

(This Idea is loosely inspired by @/the-witchhunter's 'Ghost in the Morgue', please go check it out if you like this concept and have not yet read it)

[Other stuff in this AU: World Building]

Corpses au Danny, not just Corpse but Corpses. Every time Danny transforms he drops a new body, Danny honestly has lived with it long enough that it's funny at this point (and also. maybe made him a little weird about his own death and or deaths). This is not the same for Tim, who now has to deal with a potential serial killer.

Tim is looking into a string of strange and suspicious deaths that might point to the appearance of a new rogue, this results in him taking a visit to the morgue as Red Robin, only to meet a potential victim, Daniel Fenton the latest medical examiner for GCPD.

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Tim was the one who had found the first body a week ago. He'd been on patrol when he'd spotted it propped up against a dumpster in an alley. It couldn't have been there longer than an hour, the blood was far too fresh.

Tim had planned to just check out the scene and call it in, but then he actually saw the body. It'd been eviscerated, torso ripped open organs spilling out and its hands had been frozen to the ground- hell the entire body seemed to be coated in a layer of frost.

Tim kept tabs on the investigation, if anything for simple curiosity. Then they'd found the second body. Body frozen to the ground, same victim profile- but the death had been completely different. Slashed throat, face mutilated.

Then there was another, and this time Tim wanted to see it in person. This was either a serial killer or the start of a new rogue, and for Tim to be able to tell he needed to see. He sent word to Gordon, if anything more of a warning. He was greeted by the medical examiner.

Greeted was a strong word.

The medical examiner was... strange. Tim had heard news of him starting work and as far as Tim was aware of he was clean, and an almost boring person. The medical examiner that Tim met was unnerving. Pale, staring almost through him and carried blase attitude to his work.

What was worse is that he reminded so much of a corpse, not just a corpse but the corpse.

Then it struck him.

Fenton could be a target. Fenton could be the focus of the killer's obsession.

He'd have to keep tabs on Fenton, too bad he might be the most reckless Gotham citizen in existence.

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Gotham, admittedly hadn't been Danny's first pick after he finished medical school. Danny had always intended to become a medical examiner, dealing with your own corpses for years would do that do you. 'Finished' was the real problem, Danny had been doing well, great even but then he'd died. Twice. Real unfortunate really, hit and run and then poison, left him with a dry throat for weeks.

His own classmate apparently tried to kill him, which means it would be more than hard to actually finish medical school. That's fine, he had access to Tucker, an actual godsend who was able to make it look like he had all the proper qualifications... as long as you didn't look too hard.

Gotham was apparently pressed for a good medical examiner. All he needed to be was experienced.

Thankfully he had that in spades.

Things frankly only started going down hill last week. He'd made a habit of taking on requests between work, occultist avoided Gotham like the plague leaving him the only voice for the dead. Usually it was pretty easy gig, collect some momentos, help a few ghosts recognize they're dead. Until he'd had to deal with a Wraith.

It didn't go well. Danny was dead set on handling it as a human, appearing as Phantom could cause all matter of chaos. Danny had also not been informed that the claws of a wraith could pierce through human flesh so there's that. Danny was once again evicted from the mortal coil, dropping his own corpse and having to finish the fight off

Danny had planned to deal with his body after gaining his human form back and making sure that the thing could no longer return to the earthly plane. Turns out a bat got there first, turned the place into a crime scene. Just his luck he was beaten bloody enough to be unrecognizable.

His luck continued to go down hill when he was killed, not once, not twice but three times (this of course, wasn't accounting for the times he'd needed to go ghost). He'd gotten good at taking care of his bodies in Gotham at that point, or so he thought, until he was told he had not only a new body on his table and Red Robin waiting to be escorted to his morgue.

Now Danny has to juggle the growing chaos that it they spirits of Gotham while trying to make sure none of his bodies are identified, even if that means making a mess of Red Robin's investigations.

[trupowieszcz-moved]

fun facts about (polish) vampire folklore because i'm too autism

(disclaimer: my source for all of this is the book "Upiór. Historia naturalna" by Łukasz Kozak i'm not pulling this out of my ass)

The word "vampire" came from a mistranscribed Serbian word, written down by Austrian officials informing about a panic among the locals, who claimed that during a plague their dead were rising and biting them and spreading the plague further

In Poland, the words used to describe what later transformed into a "vampire" in literature were: upiór (and variations thereof - the word came from Ukrainian, and the Ukrainians got it from Turkish "ubyr"), strzyga (f)/strzygoń (m) and wieszczy (m)/wieszczyca (f). "Upiór" was used in the southeast, "strzyga" around the central regions, "strzygoń" (as well as strzyga) specifically in Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and "wieszczy" in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and in Kashubia. "Wąpierz" was not a word until some writer in the 19th century made it up!

The upiór actually very rarely drank blood. It happened, sure, but a much more bloodthirsty creature was zmora/mara. However, upiory often drank milk, stealing it from cows and horses. Both are life-giving bodily fluids, after all.

The above might make you think about witches, who were often blamed with stealing or spoiling milk, and you wouldn't be far off. You see, you had to be born as an upiór (these ones weren't contagiously biting!), and while you were alive, it would give you various magical powers, like clairvoyance and detecting the dead upiory, and so the upiór was practically a synonym of a sorcerer or witch. Of course, the sources vary, but depending on who you asked, they could control weather bringing heavy rains or droughts, see the future, know literally everything and so on. Those so-called "living vampires" knew who they were since birth and were often helpful, until they died.

After an upiór died, that's when the bad things happened. They disappeared from their graves, destroyed churches, broke candles, brought plague upon the people, scared their neighbors, and if one puffed in your face, you would soon die. They were said to be able to walk around with their decapitated head, so anti-vampiric burials often had to be very thorough and decapitation wasn't enough.

The signs that were supposedly telling of a living vampire were, among others: being born with teeth, being born in a caul, not having armpit or pubic hair BUT having a hairy chest, not having undergone confirmation (i'll come back to that in a moment), having a very red face and easily and often blushing (not being pale!), or being born with a deformed foot.

Not having participated in the confirmation sacrament was especially damning, because it was believed that upiory had two souls (and two hearts). When they were baptized, only one soul was being saved, and the confirmation sacrament was supposed to protect the second soul. This, of course, was extremely against the catechism, so the first "official", church-related sources recording those beliefs had to invent another "backstory" for upiory, and they claim that an upiór is a dead person specifically, who was given to the devil at birth, the baptism saving their soul, but their body still belonging to the dark forces, which was why they rose from their graves - the devil basically hijacked their corpses.

I won't make this post much longer but I will GLADLY answer any questions because this is my special interest and I just came back from an exhibition where the author of the aforementioned book talked about all of that so. me right now ⬇️ (readmore so you dont get continuously blased with the gif under it)

[witchofthesouls]

You know the film Who Framed Rodger Rabbit where humans and Toons live there together?

Imagine the sheer chaos to occur if any Transformers iterations landed on that type of Earth. No one knows who the fuck these giant robots are as they definitely aren't Toons. Meanwhile the bots can't help but be confused by these strange creatures living alongside the organics.

The Toons however see both factions as perfect targets for mischief. Starscream crashing into a wall via a super realistic painting, poor Optimus getting flowers full of dynamite or Bumblebee having multiple 'Kick Me I'm Fake' signs plaster on his bumper by Toon cars. Megatron feels like they landed in a looney bin as he fails to intimidate the 50th cartoon rat on the ship.

This probably lead to kidnapping a human cause no one is making progress when they're constantly getting menaced by law defying entities.

Oh man, the childhood nostalgia is so real here 🤣🤣

Look, the Toons would break the Autobots and the Decepticons. Cybertronians are not strangers to special powers, but beings that regularly defy all sense of laws in such a blase, hilarious manner without one ounce of logic yet yield so much damage?

The factions' respective medbays will be constantly full of mecha with processor crashes and circuit burnout. Soundwave, Prowl, and Red Alert will have to be put into long-term stasis for their mental and emotional health.

You want peace? Or a long-term armistice? Send in Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as Trojan Horses.

There is no escape from their antics. Those creatures are everywhere.

Land. Sea. Air. Fucking space in a random astro-suit.

(Mechs would be driven mad trying to find who the hell is Marvin the Martian in any database. Including the Galactic Alliance.)

Even Megatron will break.

He will become hollow mech, desperate for respite, and beg for mercy. A new phobia for the fear of the sound of carrots being crunched and chewed would be implemented in their disorders. As well as Daffy's crazed laughter once they can reliably track it.

But the biggest kicker? All the humans would just chuckle or outright laugh at their declarations. Aliens? Really? Are you sure? What's the gimmick?

Many humans shake their heads, elbowing people around them because there's a new joke going around. Apparently, the Toons caught into the mecha anime explosion, so now they have sentient Gundams walking around with an epic battle of good versus evil.

(Que some Americans shouting things in Japanese. Some want to improve or keep up their language skills. Others just want to be dicks. It would be funnier if humans had so much experience picking out the robots in disguise from the Toons' general mayhem and shenanigans.)

The Toons know that those are real aliens but are too delighted by the sheer potential chaos of having fresh meat, ahem, new neighbors.

[pastelpeterparkerr]

More selkie!Elliott HCs - Part 2: The Return

Part 1: The Reveal

I highkey just love writing these. Bear with me, I wrote this at 4 AM and finals are fast approaching for college lol

angst, fluff, fem!farmer, Elliott x farmer, some implied nsfw/suggestive, Elliott as a famous author, comfort, established relationship

REUNITING AFTER HE’S HUMAN AGAIN - VERSION 1 (might write more versions later)

so at this point, Elliott and the farmer have been dating for a while

the farmer knows he’s a selkie

she takes it well and surprisingly (to Elliott, at least) is NOT too concerned about it

one day, Elliott transforms back into a human on an unfamiliar beach

he’s so mad at himself about it because usually, he’s so careful about where he transforms

but not this time

I mean, he was a literal seal, after all, having a consciousness on the level of a human in this form is nearly impossible

But to end up so far from Pelican Town... all the way in ZUZU CITY?

poor Elliott, wearing only his seal skin coat (the coat is below his knees so it’s not THAT bad, y’all) has to find a pay phone or someone with a phone to call the farmer to help him

Side note: I like to imagine it looks like a vintage mink coat so he is honestly still kinda serving looks like that (slay!)

Elliott prays he isn't recognized by any fans as he wanders the city looking for a phone

the farmer practically sprints to his location, she’s missed him so much.

and it’s been a few months since he’s been human…

so once they reunite, they make out, and depending on where they are/if there are people around…. 👀 (iykyk)

eventually, though, Elliott turns to her, still adjusting to talking again since his transformation, but the exhaustion in his voice is impossible to miss. He might even shed a few tears as he leans on the farmer

“my love, can we please return home. I miss our house, our bed, and our beautiful farm dearly”

the farmer will make sure he gets back. She’ll let him sleep with his head on her shoulder on the bus home and will support him as his newly human legs limp back to the farmhouse.

once they’re close enough, she might even carry him

before he can fall asleep again, she’ll draw him a bath and set out comfy pajamas for him for when he’s done

after all, the ocean is not very clean, especially after all the pollution from Joja Co.

the farmer also helps him detangle his hair since it's a mess (Elliott is very appreciative of this, if a bit embarrassed that it got that messy)

she’ll stay up until he joins her in bed, laying under the covers and reading a book

before they fall asleep, Elliott will turn to her and lightly kiss her cheek or neck and press his forehead to hers

“my love?” he asks, “why aren’t you bothered when I depart from you for months? My heart longs for you when I do, but I can't control the call of the sea. I just hope you don’t despise me, my dearest”

the farmer shrugs and caresses his cheek “Eli, I’ve told you this a thousand times. I know your love for me is real and I know you’re true to me. You’ve promised me you always come back, and here you are. Why should I worry if you’ve never broken your promise?”

this means so much to Elliott. He starts crying as he hugs her tightly.

I mean, he was gone for three months, how could she be so blase? How could she just... accept him? Elliott is wracked with guilt

The farmer, meanwhile, is just glad to have him around again

"Eli, it's okay! I get it! You're okay! I'm not mad!"

After a few more minutes of this, he sighs in acceptance.

"My love, you're so good to me"

Eventually, they both fall asleep

I’d also like to imagine that the farmer planned a gathering at the saloon for the day after he’s back.

Like the whole town celebrating his return from “a writing retreat” or an “inspiration vacation”

The farmer totally lied about his whereabouts to keep his secret

the farmer is terrible at lying, but the town believes her, and besides, her and Elliott know the truth.

[megamaster64-comms-open]

Oooooooh boy! It's unfinished art time!

Now, I just want to preface this with these pieces are unfinished for a reason...

A personal reason...

I'm not doing fnaf stuff anymore. It has been 8-9 years since I first started following the fnaf franchise. And I feel like I need to move on.

Not that I've 'matured' past it, but I've grown apart from it. As I got older, my relationship with the franchise just started to feel like a bad long-distance romance.

I can't feel for Fnaf the same way I did when I was a kid.

Especially after so much shit went down with people from my childhood in like the past 4-6 months.

This doesn't mean that I won't still follow and support the fnaf artists that I currently do (you guys are awesome, btw!). It just means that I myself will be taking a step back.

The last fnaf post I will make is a sun/moon redesign. And after that I'll be done, maybe for now, maybe forever. Who knows? But while some things are best left forgotten, I don't want to forget the time I had at Freddy's.

Because for all the blotches and blemishes, it was beautiful.

Anyways, it's art time! The first one was supposed to be a crossover piece between my aus FNaF: Ties that bind, Transformers: Armageddon, and FNaF: Extraordinary.

Each villian confronting a different Charlie in all three parts of the image.

@soniccrazygal 's take on the character would be looking at Tf: Armageddon Shockwave in his 'M.X.E.S' form as he invades the Pizzaplex's security system.

@nachosforfree 's Charlie would be evading the murderous version of herself in Fazbear Frights.

And @north-noire 's Charlie would be confronting FNaF: Extraordinary Carlton as his spirit piloted the creation.

Im sorry I couldn't finish these love letters to your aus. I just lost the motivation.

There's one last image related to ties that bind, and nachosforfree's au.

I didn't finish it for all the reasons above, plus I hate Sonic.exe. and in this au, Andrew was meant to take that role.

It was just a thought experiment, though, spooky Sonic is just kinda blase to me now. Unless the person is doing something cool and new with it.

(Yes, I know that ref sheet is outdated.)

Anyhow, like always!

✨️Reblogging is always appreciated, and my commissions are open! You can find more info about them in the pinned post on my profile!✨️

[carewyncromwell]

After reading your Friendship Drabbles, I have a question for you; Which of our Hogwarts friends that we’ve rarely seen paired up or even never paired up before do you think would be really cool to see interact with each other?

Ooh, now that's an interesting thought! Hmm...well, one I liked including in those drabbles was Murphy McNully, Badeea Ali, Tulip Karasu, and Rowan Khanna as members of a Wizards' Chess Club! I liked the Chess sidequest Jam City wrote for the first three, and it just seemed so logical for Rowan to be among their ranks too. Rowan and McNully in particular I feel would find a lot of common ground, especially since they'd be in the same house.

Speaking of Rowan, I also really like the idea of Rowan and Ismelda Murk getting on better in years 5 and 6, especially if Rowan is sorted as Slytherin the way mine is! I feel like after MC helps Ismelda with her crush on Barnaby, Ismelda would open herself up a bit more to accepting help from other people in her year regardless of how different they are from her, and considering that Rowan and Ismelda are both so interested in History of Magic, I could totally see them striking up a (whispered) conversation or two over an essay in the library or something. One of my heacanons that admittedly flies in the face of the game is the idea that it's Ismelda who ultimately takes over teaching her class History of Magic in Rowan's stead after their death in year 6, and in my personal version of the Circle of Khanna, Ismelda actually joined the organization not just because Merula invited her to, but actively out of wanting justice for Rowan.

I also think Chiara Lobosca and Nymphadora Tonks would have developed a very close bond over time, both before and after school. Not only are their dormmates who quite frankly could learn a lot from each other, but I love the idea that half the reason Tonks is so blase and accepting about her future partner Remus Lupin being a werewolf is because she met and fully accepted Chiara first. I also really like the idea that Chiara was the one who put Tonks in contact with Lupin and the Order of the Phoenix in the very beginnings of the Second Wizarding War.

Speaking of dormmates, Charlie Weasley and Ben Copper were good friends at school, you can rip that idea out of my cold, dead hands. In my headcanon, I actually imagine Charlie -- in true Weasley fashion -- becoming a bit protective of Ben after Merula targeted him so openly in their first year for his ancestry. When Ben went through his radical transformation in year 6 and hexed Charlie, the two ended up in a full-on physical fight, though they mended fences when they helped co-found the Circle of Khanna.

Ravenclaw dormies Talbott Winger and Andre Egwu, on the other hand? I'm sorry, these two were always trading sassy barbed comments with each other, I don't make the rules. ("You aren't seriously thinking of going out to Hogsmeade in those, are you?" "I'm not the one strutting about in purple and white-striped pants." "They're lavender-and-white slacks. And they are fashionable, compared to -- whatever hokey American ridiculousness you've got strapped to your feet." "I'm surprised the supposed 'King of Fashion' doesn't know what cowboy boots are.")

Finally I love the idea of Chiara connecting really well with Talbott! I wrote Carewyn befriending these two back-to-back in her fourth year due to how well their side-quest plot lines synced up (and honestly, their introductory TLSQ's were among the best in the entire game, IMO) and I just love the thought that these two "Lone Wolves" in MC's year could find some fun common ground despite their shared tendency to ward people away from them.

Another person that ends up close friends with Chiara in my headcanon is Jae Kim, though there's a bit more Jam-City-canon ammunition behind this. The game also included the ideas that Talbott was friends with Penny before MC and Talbott and Badeea connected through the Circle of Khanna, and I like the thought that Talbott kept in contact with both of them well after Hogwarts too. Even Merula and Tulip's game-canon fractured friendship, which I don't imagine healed that well at school, I personally like imagining improved after Tonks's death, when Merula and Tulip both took comfort from each other at her and Lupin's funeral.

[monster-noises]

Okay alright sure maybe i Do need to see Transformers One when it comes out.. i've been kinda blase about it thus far but i just saw the trailer and if nothing else that animation style and art direction FUCKS.

[ryttu3k]

Thoughts on His Dark Materials 3.07 and 3.08 - The Clouded Mountain and The Botanic Garden. Spoilers for the entire series, both TV and book!

Will be going through the tags tomorrow. Blacklist 'hdm spoilers' if you want to avoid!

Lyra’s 'fall': Honestly the whole story scene was... almost perfect, I kind of wish Mary had mentioned her first kiss and the marzipan connection when she was younger. But man, just the way she's telling the story, the way Lyra seems so completely entranced, how she and Will are both very clearly cognizant about how this will be relevant to their own lives... It's such an important scene, and aside from wishing Mary had mentioned the connection to that first kiss, that first memory, it was done beautifully.

Mrs Coulter and Asriel: Who gave Ruth Wilson the right to make me literally cry over Marisa Coulter, thank you, that is rude. God. The combination of lying for her life but also grabbing onto the bit of truth in there - she probably was being honest when she said she hated how loving Lyra felt. She had been transformed by her love, but it was awful to her. She had been completely in control, and now there was someone else she would live for? Disgusting, could not recommend. ...and she still made that decision in the end. 'Cesspit of moral filth' she may have been (and she was! She was objectively an awful person!), but that seed of love still was stronger.

Asriel's speech was genuinely emotive. Asriel having to confront himself was fab. I like the detail how Mrs Coulter already knew who she was, so she faced Metatron directly, but Asriel had to go through that mental battle first to get to the point where he could act.

And goddamn, no words for the actual Abyss scene. No words. It was beautiful and I literally cried, especially when Mrs Coulter's expression just became almost peaceful and resigned instead of that snarl, and oh god the scene of Lyra and the monkey reaching out to each other. Like, yes, the relationship was... tense, but I think Lyra knew, at that time, that her mother loved her. In the end, she loved her.

The final battle: It's not... really over, is it? They've defeated the Kingdom of Heaven, yes. They've defeated Death, with a door that will always be open now, that will always be an escape. But the Magisterium - and other forces in other worlds, like the Temple in Ogunwe's world - still exist, and frankly, they weren't exactly acting on evidence of Metatron in the first place. They've stopped death, but the Republic of Heaven is a hell of a long way away. The Magisterium is still going to act under the Authority's name, and who cares if he's dead?

(As a side note, it does amuse me how just... blase that is. "Huh, here's a weird box. Huh, there's an old man inside. Oh, he dissolved. That was odd. Let's move on." Similar level of blase in the book, too, so that was entirely accurate. They just killed God nbd. I do have further thoughts on how that scene was handled, see below in the 'as a standalone series' section, but I'll go into that there.)

The daemons: Okay back to the monkey. God he really was Mrs Coulter's soul, wasn't he? In the beginning, he showed a lot of the cruelty and animalistic anger and emotion that she never let herself show, got to be nice, good, respectable. Never mind her screaming anger at the injustice of her life, she'll never let herself even acknowledge it. She'll bury it down. She'll hurt it. ...and then she starts to change. And then she starts to love, and feel vulnerability. And then her daemon goes from demonstrating her suppressed rage, to demonstrating her suppressed love, because both are just as dangerous when you need to be in absolute control of yourself and your emotions. Honestly, that's why I loved that scene of the two of them from 3.06 so much - it was Mrs Coulter beginning to come to terms with herself, with everything she's pushed on to her daemon over the decades, to recognise they're a part of her too. And when she goes to meet Metatron, she knows that even though she's locked everything tightly down again, that part of her still exists. It's through her daemon that she's able to give Lyra one final message - that she's loved.

For the others: Kirjava my beloved I audibly gasped when I saw her sweet little face! Just a little darling, and I'm glad Will has her now. Also may have squealed a bit when Mary's showed up. "There you are!" Stelmaria, and joining in on the battle without hesitation, because even if Asriel ignored his own daughter, Stelmaria has always loved her and Pan. And Lyra and Pan - the reconciliation, where Pan was being stubborn as hell, of course he was, he's Lyra's soul, but there was just that longing from both of them... Honestly, I am nervous, since I've heard that things don't really get any better in Book of Dust, but for now it's just that sweet little reunion, where it was just that easy, honest, "I love you" because they both wanted to be back together so badly.

Mary: God I love her. I want her to be my cool aunt. She was curious and compassionate and warm, she looked after those two lost kids, she talked to them as adults. I did feel genuinely sad for her, having to leave a world she so obviously loved, but I suspect she'll do fine afterwards. I think Simone Kirby was my favourite cast member after Ruth Wilson?

(Also, she's queer! Hell yeah.)

Lyra and Will's love: Super unpopular opinion that may be coloured by being aro af here, but... I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that they separated, and I don't think they were necessarily each other's One And Only True Love For Ever And Ever. The prophecy wasn't about a true love's kiss restoring Dust. It was about making that decision to experience. Yes, first love can be powerful, but it's not the be-all and end-all, and if one or both ended up falling out of love, finding someone else, living the rest of their life with them, being able to love them wholly and entirely, with Lyra/Will just being a fond early memory... that's okay. You're not bound forever to the person you had your first kiss with when you were fourteen.

I don't know. It just strikes me as odd and kind of uncomfortable that so many people say that they're True Love Forever. They're kids, experiencing their first romantic relationships, with all the emotional highs, Big Feelings, and, er, screaming awkwardness ("Er... you know, Dust and, uh... trees." Oh Will). They could very well move on. It happens, and it doesn't lessen the fact that they restored Dust through their choices. It was right for them then.

I will now bravely submit to being tarred and feathered, haha.

That said, the 'every atom' speech, that last kiss through the window, the montage of them meeting in the park... I was sobbing.

(Also, honestly, from how lonely Lyra looked returning to Oxford. Will is back with his mother, and he has Mary in the same city. He has support structures. Lyra has lost both parents, complicated feelings and all, she's lost Roger, her best friend, and she's lost Lee, who loved her like a daughter. She still has Iorek and Serafina, but Iorek is likely preoccupied in Svalbard, and Serafina probably has Witch Things to do. Lyra only has Pan.)

The HDM series as an adaptation: So, now some thoughts on how the series did! Looking at it from two different perspectives - how it went as an adaptation of the books, and how it went as a series standing on its own.

As an adaptation, it absolutely made changes, yeah. Did it still feel like His Dark Materials, though? That's the most important part, and in my opinion, yeah, it did. It told a story about how free will and independence and self-actualisation will always defeat the suppression of information and controlling others through fear. It told a story about how it's not a bad thing to grow up and change, that working out who you are is one of the most important tasks you can undertake. It told a story about how what you do in this life is what's important, not promises of a Distant Hereafter. So yeah, in that case, absolutely still a successful adaptation.

Also, let's face it, a lot of the changes they made were just due to the reality of the medium. Yeah, Lyra and Will were older now (Lyra talking about how they ignored her for thirteen years places her at roughly 14-ish by the end, Will is maybe a year older, so they're not twelve-year-olds). That's... pretty unavoidable when you have actors who do inconvenient things like ageing, haha. It still fit the story about that transitional period from childhood to adulthood, it just wasn't literally puberty. And things like showing much more of Mrs Coulter's personal storyline, I think, was an incredible decision, because they had an actor in Ruth Wilson who could absolutelybring it, and it made her one of the most compelling characters to watch I've ever seen. Changes like Lee passing through the door instead of joining the final battle - that worked. Changes like fleshing out Ogunwe's character - that worked, because it showed the influence of the Kingdom of Heaven even in other worlds. Yeah, it's not literally book-exact, but they weren't random changes, they were changes made to fit the medium.

The Lord of the Rings films do this too. They're not exactly word for word, but they still fit the spirit of the story, and the medium, and they're still incredibly successful adaptations that fans of the books can find a lot to love in.

Also, when they do hit things word for word? Goddamn, chills. I'm incredibly glad they kept the 'every atom' speech, because it really does feel like the most sincere declaration a young teenager can make to her first love, and it's sweet and honest and heartbreaking. (I also really liked that they kept the 'cesspit of moral filth' description!)

Definitely wish they had kept the line about creating the Republic of Heaven in their own worlds, though. That's, um, kind of an important theme.

The HDM series as a standalone series: So, as a series? Obviously I can't comment from the perspective of a non-book reader, because, well, I have. (Fun fact! I first read HDM when we first moved here seven years ago. We didn't have internet for two days, so I went, "Well, why don't I have a look at that trilogy I bought for ten bucks at a book fair a few years back?" The internet came back on when I was halfway through TAS. I did not stop reading.)

Just from going by the subreddits, though? Yeah, there are... issues there. Obviously it's brought in a hell of a lot of new fans, a lot who now plan on reading all the books now they've seen the series. But there are enough questions being asked to make me think that maybe the series didn't explain stuff as well as they could have to someone who hadn't read the books. There were so many posts blasting Lyra, mostly, about her decision to go into the Land of the Dead to find Roger, because they saw it as selfish and irrelevant in the scheme of things. (And it was selfish! Lyra acting on her instincts without knowledge of the prophecy is what enabled her to fulfill it in the first place, and the fact that it was a selfish decision just indicates that she's a flawed character! Characters are allowed to be flawed!)

For this pair of episodes, the questions I see over and over were - why do they have to separate, when Will's dad clearly could stay in another world for years (because the series didn't sufficiently express that John was actively dying and wouldn't have survived much longer anyway, I feel he should have explained to Will that he had been dying already when he was shot because he was in a different world), and who was that old dude in the box, anyway.

If you're doing an adaptation of an existing series, you really do need to cater for two audiences - the source material fans, and the new fans, and the sheer number of questions people had about elements that weren't fully explained in the series indicates that it may not have completely succeeded in telling a narrative to the new fans.

Still, overall - beautiful job. Not perfect, I'd probably put the series as a whole at 8.5-9/10, but damn, they did the near-impossible, and made a beautiful, compelling TV series out of His Dark Materials. Well done to them all!

[poozy3d]

Base mode with Toyhax for Transformers Legacy Commander Class Motormaster! The stickers really enhance his blase base mode! I actually wouldn't mind displaying him like this now!

[ksouul]

saturday 11:32 p.m. 7/13/24

daydream journal: start planning for the space i desire when i move into my bus.

im fed up with myself again. i go through these phases where i'll abstractly imagine all of these ideas i desire in my material world and the conditioning of my ethics begin to bother me. the small things lead to the bigger vision in a spiral and i'm grateful for the energies aligned. i think i've been feeling stuck with myself. how ironic. the closer i'm coming into 25, i'm reminded that there''s a lot i want and need when i get there. every decision in the foundation of my garden now depends on it. the thought of walking through big city civilization as indigenous communities continue to be targets for displacement and ethnic cleansing sets myself in a flow i've never dealt with before. i'm at a point where it isn't an overpowering or overwhelming feeling. the need to approach every action holistically is creating an order for me. transforming the knowledge i know so that the truth makes itself clear to me during fall. the artist in me wants to retreat. i think it's possible without social media platforms or amplifying what i stand for in that space. i enjoy the news and information given and in this elevation of view on the spiral path, i'm able to see where my limits are and what habits i can help instill in between for interdisciplinary purposes. a word i discovered recently by the way. interdisciplinary. the projections i place onto myself is a challenge i think i'm being asked to tackle and make friends with. especially as leo season reigns in. the serious need to organize and keep my waters clean. i think i need a social media detox again and commit to everything i've been wanting to embark since the move. my ability to maintain the energy to get things done has increased. i feel partly because of the power i've been fueling behind it has burned brighter. again, i've been bothered with my ethics though. i fear of putting all of this power into the wrong things. the flow in between the beams of lighting up my sun being misused. part of the conditioning is in layer of thinking i want the life that god and universe wants me to live. the more i've abandoned trying to dwell into "the word" or any spiritual practices and began into believing in myself, education, and reality through stories presented to me in my environment. it's been really scary. trusting myself. my continuous commitment and devotion to Truth though is part reason why so much power is being burned brighter. in all it is i've looked over in the information seeked out and found, seems uncredible due to my lack of memorization or importance around it. the bible or doctrine of the church has been mostly the reason to think that the brain and creation of who i am has a strong enough meaning to cultivate any truth ive ingested to be my own. a tiny blurred lining in my pride to feel confident enough to say i know something but not rooted enough to teach it. unless created in poetry or something i can transform with my hands. which brings me to believe that by essence, i am an artist. the roaring inside of me to create is the insanity of which i continue to ignore and let boil by overeating tendencies and constant consumption or the same old blase blah, instant gratification. lucky me. i've been making matters for myself harder as things on the reality end seem to look more beautiful though in direction of the colors brought to help textualize my world and understanding of what i'm putting out so. to question it all too much would be missing out on the clear point that since this move, i'm being asked to fall into everything. literally fall. i wanna be in love with life again and i know that i can be by the consistency of what angle i'm placing into my reality. reason for my scattered patterns of indulging and fight to get out of doubt. i think i'm also realizing that my self pity is so disturbing. whether i want this new life that's unfolding in front of me or not, life / time are graceful enough to give me the space to experiment what i'm going to do with it.

[kittybuggi]

5) Why Are You Like This? by @marimbles !!!

such a cute and silly fic, adrien is so dense!!! future cn does what we all wish we could.

6) Baby Boom by ShawnaCanon

this fic has such a weird concept but it has some scenes that are permanently glued in my head. adrien’s obliviousness, plaggs blase attitude towards him because of it. wouldn’t recommend it for everyone, lowkey embarrassed to talk about it publicly, but i have reread it sooo must mean something. please read the tags.

7) Perfectly Platonic (Unless…) by @frostedpuffs

truly a fic that needs no introduction. post reveal pre relationship miscommunication. a classic

8) A Glimpse Into The Future by A_B03

ADORABLE. one of the first fics i’ve ever read in this fandom. i think about it often. marinette is literally in front of him and he cannot see.

Dear ML Fandom,

Do we have a list of funny Adrinette fics where Mari is emphasized as Adrien's VERY GOOD FRIEND and she retaliated for revenge/fun??? or where Adrien is talking about Buttercup and he's clueless it's him?? Basically fics where Adrien is an idiot but a very lovable one and you just cannot stop reading.

Something like the ones in the list below, and yes I realize I am just about to share my own list again LOL, so feel free to read if you're in the mood. But pretty please give me more suggestions to add to this list because I am currently in the need for more.

I wanna be amused/laugh at the silliness of fluffy things.

So here goes:

My list of Lovable idiot Adrien fanfics (in order of my latest nth reread/recollection)

1) Adrien Is A Dumb Blond by DracoGal - one shot where Marinette is a brave girl who confessed and flirts above and beyond (A++ really) and is still labelled a VERY GOOD FRIEND because Adrien is that clueless.

2) your keysmash says it all by Noukon - a very sweet friendship social media series fic where our Mari is a sweet friend who loves Buttercup but is still shipping Adrigami out of loyalty, and Adrien is having feelings/stirrings but he's also blind. This brought me a whole lot of big smiles but is also still ongoing.

3) words he only dreamed to hear by alizeh (maketea), maketea - where LB is the sweetest and they are officially dating (and kissing, yes your honor) but our boy is clueless, he doesn't know they're dating.

4) pretty lady, look at how he's smiling by Missnoodles - this is more sweet and romantic than funny but I wanna add it in this list anyway because well, it is SO cute and they fell in love because of camembert and etsy cards lol

[witchofthesouls]

Batmobile and there sparklings in TFA would be... interesting.

:)

This has a lot of potential for things. On one hand, cute and silly shenanigans since the once human Liaison was from modern-day Earth and TFA is set in the far future, and TFA doesn't have fanon sticky and sparklings. On the other hand, it can delve deep into the impact of the dystopian Autobot regime.

Batmobile would be the largest non-Decepticon 'con the TFA Autobots had ever seen. Even larger than Lugnut!!

Sari has soooo many questions. Not only you're a dimensional-hopper, but a time-traveler that's been, well, transformed and baby robots!!!

Any check-ups need to be done in Sumdac facilities because the ship doesn't have a berth that's big enough to hold you. Of course, you have parts and systems that the Autobots don't have, but things that niggle in the back of Ratchet's mind. Scratching really deep.

Sari takes advantage of it as a sleepover and to get the real mood and culture of the early 21st century.

The bother of trying to figure out how much mass you put away in your alt-mode, and how you're so blase with Drift and Roddy comfort-chewing on your frame. (For reference, you're the Batmobile Tumbler from the Christopher Nolan trilogy.)

The Autobots being so confused by the sparklings. They can't be reasoned with. They make a lot of noise and mess. You follow a ridiculous, in their opinion, schedule with them. They're so emotional over the simplest of things, nor can the babies properly speak.

And then they find out their identities-

The Autobots' extreme emotions over tiny Megatron. He's from a different universe, but Megatron-

Whenever Bumblebee annoys you or the sparklings enough, you can easily pick him up and set high above to give yourself some time. The great thing about a Cybertronian frame is you can manipulate your own sense as your turn down your audials to his screeching.

It would be hilarious if the Deceptions know about the process of sparking up the frame method of sexual reproduction, which kickstarts a sub-plot of them trying to fetch away the sparklings from incompetent Autobots.

Optimus being a young Dadimus as he wrangles the kids with you and deals with boo-boos, especially whenever Roddy and Drift venture too far.

The real-life struggles of parenthood: temper tantrums, childhood illnesses, and deeply ingrained obsessions. You, Ratchet, and Prowl are the only ones unbothered by the constant reruns of My Little Pony, Scooby Doo, and you managed to get them hooked on Winnie the Pooh. Optimus finds himself humming the theme songs, Bulkhead is unconsciously painting ponies during Abstract time, and Bumblebee cries tears of absolute joy when you take pity and get him a TV for video games.

Sentinel freaking the fuck out when he meets Batmobile. (On a side note, in any version of this crossover, wouldn't it be hilarious if Blowhard Prime develops a huge terror-boner of a crush on the new mecha on the block?)

[autobot2001]

RBA | Recruits X Human Femme Reader: Teaching Cybertronians

Author: Autobot2001 Genre: Fanfiction Fandom: Transformers Rating: E Warning: None Pairing: none Description:  You just graduated with a degree in elementary school education. You want to teach on the island or the city close to the ferry docks, but it's looking like you might need to take a job much further away; until Cody suggests teaching the new recruits. How does it go?

Links; Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32013823 FFN: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13805420/39/Transformers-Book-of-One-Shots wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/1085402913-transformers-book-of-one-shots-requests-open-rba

[peopleeeater]

surprisingly this is underrated despite their multiple cutesy interactions

[ggomos-maribat]

[58/?]

original prompt | complete masterlist

Batman looks up at the abomination adorning the sky. It’s a large disc-shaped . . . thing hovering in space. Not a spaceship from another planet, he confirmed, but a weird extraterrestrial structure that is currently causing an international panic. 

He turns on his comms, entering the Hall of Justice. “Hal, do you have a vision?” 

“Looks like it’s solid through and through,” Green Lantern replied. “It’s not a disc, more like a bit dome shaped. Oh, and it’s red all over with black spots.”

“. . . What?”

“Batman.” Wonder Woman walks in along with other League members. “I asked Kal to fetch the person who can solve this for us. They should be here any minute now.” 

Everyone mutters and whispers restlessly. It’s not like they are wholly unprepared for any kind of emergency, but a sudden alien invasion is the last thing they need in their hands at the moment. Batman focuses on examining the object through the computer, looking out for anything else of note. 

Then, Superman flies in, carrying a bundle wrapped around in his cape. 

Said bundle is actually a sleepy girl, still clad in her pajamas and mussed hair. 

“Marinette?” Batman chokes out. 

Wonder Woman throws a glare at Superman for bringing the guardian in her civilian form. 

Marinette yawns, rubs her eye, and scans the room briefly. “Oh, hi.” 

Wonder Woman’s smile is strained as she gestures to the strange object on the monitor. “Marinette, dear, there’s an emergency that we think you can help us with.” 

Marinette barely spares it a glance. “Huh. Tikki’s got the munchies again.” 

Meanwhile, Batman turns to his fellow members. “You knew?” 

Superman responds with wide eyes. “You found out?”

“It wasn’t their secret to tell, Dad,” Marinette butts in, yawning again. “They did the right thing.”

“By keeping this from me and my entire family?” 

She scowls. “By giving me a chance to deal with the identity thing by myself.” She stretches her arm. “Also, can I deal with that big cookie later? I want to sleep.” 

Flash snorts softly. Aquaman makes a somewhat amused sound. Wonder Woman raises her eyebrows. “This . . . it’s showing signs of crashing onto Earth, Marinette. We need to remove it as soon as possible.” 

The young heroine whines a little as she looks at the monitor again. Her eyes narrow. “Wait a minute . . .” 

In a second, Marinette is in front of the computer, pushing Batman away from the buttons. While Batman thinks that she’s working on solving the problem, she calls a familiar number instead and yells at the screen in front of the League. 

“Damian Al Ghul Wayne!” Marinette screeches. “What have you done?” 

“The kwamis are all safe, thank you very much,” Damian answers, face blase. “They are here, but you can’t see them.” 

“Oh? Care to explain the giant cookie in space?” Marinette crosses her arms. Batman wants to massage his temple. 

“It is not my doing.” 

“And what have you fed Tikki this past hour?” 

“I had Pennyworth make some ma’amoul and I gave her some as a treat.” 

“She was obsessed over it, wasn't she?” Marinette put a palm to her face. 

“She loved it and—” 

“Where is she now?” 

Damian pauses. “. . . She’s here. With me.” 

Marinette points an accusatory finger. “Liar! I’ll make Dad ground you.” 

“I was only granting her cravings and—” Damian turns to the side. “Ziggy! Trixx! Give the remote back!”

“Tikki’s. Munchies. Were. Underlined and Highlighted. On. The. List!” 

In a fit of rage, Marinette hangs up, calls her transformation with the ring and angrily chews on a colored macaron. The others watch silently, too afraid or shocked to speak up. 

She faces her father. “Please lecture your son.” 

With that, she says a phrase to summon the power up and blasts off into space. The League watches her fly to the gigantic ma’amoul, catacylsming it with one touch and gliding back to Earth. Not even a minute has passed when she returns. 

Marinette yawns for the umpteenth time. “Can I go nap now?” 

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[panlight]

Apparently, in the book, Jacob is 6'7" after his transformation. 6'7"!! NO ONE CARES? NO ONE EVEN *NOTICES*? Not ONE person on the reservation or in town is curious why a bunch of Quileute teenagers (except Leah, apparently) are suddenly TALLER THAN MOST BASKETBALL PLAYERS? How was that not an immediate conspiracy theory or investigation by SOMEONE?

And just the weirdness of her starting Jacob off as a this gangly 15-year-old kid and then deciding she wanted buff, super-tall, shirtless werewolves and so has him go through a transformation that makes him 6′7″ and muscular and look 25. Like, that’s not from ANY traditional lore, that was something she entirely made up and it just feels really super weird? (Sexualizing her Indigenous characters specifically is a whole other dimension here, too). 

If you wanted hot buff shirtless dudes, she could have started Jacob off at like 18 or something AT LEAST rather than fifteen. It would have spared us a lot of the ickiness of people lusting after Jacob--as the narrative expects them to given the loving descriptions of his physique--despite him being literally 15/16, which is younger even than our protagonist. 

Again like, what was she thinking? If she wanted buff looking 25-year-olds, why not just make them closer to that age in the first place? The story would honestly only be improved if all the teen characters were a few years older. I guess it would then be skirting the edges of YA, but she was never setting out to specifically write YA in the first place. Just set it in college. 

(And yeah why does Leah not get super tall, too? I think the guide has her at like 5′10″. That’s tall but it’s not TALL. If the rules are shapeshifters get tall and buff then LEAH SHOULD BE TALL AND BUFF TOO. At least 6′.  ANGELA is 6′1″ tall and she’s just a normal human [as far as we know])

There are a few off-hand references to the sudden growth spurts but most people seem to just be pretty blase about it. It’s more about “omg what’s this weird gang Sam has?” and not like “how did they grow a foot and add all that muscle in a month?” Honestly I feel like the best explanation is that literally everyone on the reservation has figured out the wolf shifter stuff and the secrecy Sam and Billy are trying to maintain is completely pointless. Like eventually Embry will explain to his mom and she’s just like “yeah no shit??? You grew a foot taller and started hanging out with all the other tall buff boys and I never saw you work out a day in your life and we can hear the howling all night long we aren’t stupid, Em.”