#~thoughts in my head (musing)

[cloudysarts]

ive seen SEVERAL 'bill and mabel friendship' au's over the years and i love them all, so i figured it was about time i show the world mine!! ^^ im calling it Mabel's Muse. details under the cut!!

(DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A MABEL X BILL AU. GROSS. PROSHIPPERS DONT TOUCH THIS)

in this au, bill and mabel form a bond in the very early era of the show. like, early to mid season one. much like ford did, mabel lets him into her mind, and they form a close bond. she has no idea he has any ulterior motives. the rest of the shack, and honestly the town in general, chock this up to a weird "phase" of hers, referring to bill as "mabels imaginary friend". but mabel calls him her muse <3

theres a little more to it than this but its honestly still a work in progress, so take this for now and let me know if anyone would be interested in seeing more of this!!!

(edit: if you're interested, you can now check out more of this au (with additional art and lore) over here!) (EDIT EDIT: made some more!! here and here <3)

[cruel-hiraeth]

yuuta being a devoted father and clan head and still making time to fuck you nasty every. single. day.

[dukeofthomas]

My understanding of Jason Todd's age;

Jason dies when he's 15, 4 months before his 16th birthday. He is dead for any number of time; it doesn't count towards his age.

He's resurrected; he is in a coma for 1 year, then catatonic for another. He is then put into a Lazarus Pit. (These 2 years are practically useless, as he doesn't remember them and they contribute very little to the story. They could be condensed to 2 months and it would change basically nothing.)

He trains for about a year. You can then give him 1-12 months of prep and planning time before his debut as the Red Hood, and the story of UT(R)H, at which point he would be mentally 16-17, physically 18-19, and it would be (--) years after his birth.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

One thing I find funny about arguments that people who are unsatisfied with how Campaign 3 ended because it feels like it lacks consequences just want characters to die is that, aside from the obvious fact that narrative consequences just means actions have clear follow through and results, is that at least for me, it's like, yeah, I DO like it when characters die in stories.

One my favourite moments in C3 is FCG's final sacrifice and how in the moment of their death they became truly alive because of the connections of love and friendship he had made with the other characters. The first meta I ever wrote for CR (and I stand by the idea of it if not how I conveyed it) was about Laudna and how it actually made an interesting and resonant ending to her narrative for her to have been permanently killed by Otohan in Bassaras. My favourite meta I've ever written for anything is a 6 paragraph rundown of all the character deaths in Midst and how well they're integrated into the overall narrative. One my favourite anime I've ever watched is one which is (in)famous for systematically killing off most of its main cast (Bokurano for the curious). I, personally, love death in narratives and love analyzing how it can be used as a narrative device to add tension, capstone a character's personal arc, influence and redirect the arcs of other characters, and work to create and enhance themes of grief, loss, and trauma. My personal favourite theme that can come out of death in narratives isn't even about the dead character, it's about those left behind and how living can feel not like a blessing but a condemnation after a deep loss but you have to keep going, because you have been condemned to live.

I would have loved to see a version of Campaign 3 where Laudna did permanently die and Imogen had to deal with that. Perhaps the resurrection ritual they attempted with Pike could have failed, and she and the rest of the Hells had to deal with the fact that they couldn't bring her back, but they did free her from Delilah so she'll have peace in her death and they have to be okay with that. Perhaps Imogen could even realize posthumously that she loved her. I would have loved to see the aftermath of FCG's sacrifice more fully explored, with the Hells sitting in their grief even as the world continues to fall apart (though I understand the real world circumstances of Sam's absence are likely what made the cast reticent to do that). I would have loved to see a version of the endgame where Ludinus was successful in fully siphoning Liliana and Imogen has to grapple with her inability to fully trust her mother ultimately killing her (though at least she has a Ludinus-shaped outlet to take things out on).

All that being said though, my issue with how Campaign 3 ended isn't the lack of deaths, it's that everything ended in a way that was nice and pleasant and neat without any real weight, with a few things that DID have weight when they initially happened being completely de-fanged so that they could be nice and pleasant and neat. I can deal with and even greatly enjoy no deaths or even negative deaths if it's handled with narrative weight and care, and I don't feel that C3's ending was.

[daily-grian]

I’ve gotta sit down at some point and do a proper classpecting session for the Hermits & co, but for some quick musings Prince of Time!Grian feels appropriate

[yamishika]

Submission for Jellal day (25.06.24):

Split

[reddamselette]

just a tad bit bored with a trillion of ideas. perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow but i will be posting a lovely 5+1 things oneshot of neil’s time at evermore except yk

5 times neil is stuck with riko. the 1 time riko is trapped with nathaniel.

little character analysis, bit of a study. i need to write an essay on the foxes at some point

[marigoldbaker]

Okay so this is possibly the most celia post of all time but i actually haven’t looked at any pictures of jenny calendar in quite a few months and i just saw one and actually yeah. Yeah. I understand now why eight years of my life went to that woman. If they put her in red lipstick every episode it would have been eighteen

[ghost-bxrd]

What if one of Jason's Red Hood revenge plans go off the rails, in Owl Song?

Off the rails as in, Dick gets caught in something that can kill even a talon - say, a big enough explosion... Jason left convinced Dick is dead and he is responsible for it...

If Jason is absolutely sure Dick is dead/beyond any chance of being revived either with electrum or other supernatural means…. He’d completely shut down, turn himself into authorities, and plead for the death penalty.

[hellishvxbes]

I never actually figured out what everyone’s grand dislike of personal blogs came from.

I think maybe I just don’t give enough fucks but personals have always been fun to me. Especially back in the day, like it was pretty okay? Even now, I love when they liked my headcanons, or reblog thoughts I have about things. Those things never bothered me.

It made me feel more seen than I do in the RPC sometimes 😭 I know everyone has their preferences but me personally (lol) don’t have a problem.

Reblog memes from me, I couldn’t care less if it’s from the source or not. Like my posts, I like the validation lmao. I just !! Tumblr rpc has gotten so ughhhh since I was a youngin on here myself, sometimes you look back at how everything has changed 😭 thing even I do that I hate. Ya know like TAGS. Bane of my existence.

Or worrying about my aesthetic when we didn’t really give that much of a fuck about it back then. 3 way roleplays being much more of a thing.

I do like how this fandom does the dash com, like every can jump in and make a post about whatever seems to be happening. I think that’s one of the reasons I struggle sometimes with tumblr is that I’m very much in the past. And miss what community felt like before we were all kind of tip toeing around each other.

[spiderwarden]

someone doing the math down to the MINUTE detail and finding that Minthara might actually be around the age of 230 and I'm floored... cause.. she really IS the 20 year old of Drow ages.

[okaywhatabouthades]

I close my eyes and savour your voice, but then I find myself wishing to look at you and when I look at you, I dont hear much.

[studentbyday]

so my takeaway from the poem is...don't defer dreams so you don't have to know what bad things will happen to your soul by deferring. as if the existential crisis induced by reading that poem wasn't enough, there's the other existential-crisis-inducing question of how do you know the difference between a dream deferred and a dream you no longer want? i don't think i've lived and experienced enough to know yet. but i must continue to work towards whatever immediate dreams and far-future dreams i have now because that will give me even more options and tell me more about what i want and what i don't want so i can course-correct as needed. humans, at their best, aren't static creatures, so i suppose there just is no definitive answer to these questions, even when talking about the same human... 🤔

[darabeatha]

/ A reminder to never expect me to be fully updated on lore and know all the minuscule 9487548957894 details of a character's story and their surroundings, I'm empty as men came to this world and can only vouch for my muses through love (also bc I cannot remember things rip)

[wasyno]

The Muse

Artist!Zhou Guanyu and seemingly nonexistant muse!Valtterri Bottas

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Drabble for this au below

Zhou stares up at the blonde man haunting his mind and his artwork for the past who knows how long. 

He just can’t help it, y’know? It feels like every time he lifts a pen to paper, he’s drawing the same milky white complexion contrasted by an unearthly tan, the same pale eyes that switched from blue to green when the light hit them just right, and the same horrifyingly bleached blonde hair with long curls draping over the back of the nape.

So, Zhou stands there, staring up, nervously wringing his hands together as he critiques the recent additions he’d painted on. The hair could use some more definition; it could also look a tad more bleached. Plus, the man needs nipples, how did he even forget to add those? Zhou makes a few more mental notes of what to change for the future since he’s been working on this for too long and is starting to become ugly and muddled in his head. 

Zhou doesn’t know where this man even came from. He’s never even met anyone who even remotely looks like this (minus the Australian tv clips that Oscar’s shown him or some random guys he’s seen on Daniel’s instagram reels but that’s besides the point). 

It honestly doesn’t matter how the man came into existence, Zhou just had to embrace it at this point otherwise his art inspiration would fizzle down the drain, leaving only forced and lifeless sketches that look so ugly that he would have to replace the entire sketchbook. Plus, he only works in retail and the good mixed-media sketchbooks he likes are slightly too expensive for his liking to be continuously replaced.

(Zhou has come this close to ripping out a page from his newest sketchbook but there was such a pretty gouache doodle that he’d done on the backside he couldn’t bring himself to destroy the entire page)

The worst part of it all was his friends making fun of him for it regardless of the fact that most of them were artistically inclined. Logan has a penchant for taking jaw-dropping landscape photos while Oscar, despite being a man of fewer words, was breathtaking in the way he could put them down on paper. Liam loved music and his guitar skills were really good. Jack-, well, Zhou doesn't actually know if Jack has any artistic abilities other than the ability to draw dicks while tracking his runs on strava. And Fred, god bless Fred. The man is willing to research any niche topic or make any pose for a sketch if it means good art comes from it. 

Also, Zhou knows for a fact the others have “muses” even if they themselves dismissed the notion simply because of the fact that it wasn’t one person or thing that they always focused on like Zhou seemingly does. He knows for a fact where each of them, minus Jack and maybe Fred, draw inspiration from and yet, they still make fun of him for having a muse who doesn’t even seem to exist.

God, Zhou really just needs to sleep. He's overthinking this like usual and when he wakes up in the morning, he'll either hate it or love it. Either way, it'll give him enough motivation to actually finish the damn thing after his shift tomorrow.

[pandaimitator]

Yeah, I should probably sleep, and try to get to work tomorrow. Guess what I'll likely be spending the night doing instead?

(if you guessed staying up until ungodly hours writing ungodly smut, you are absolutely correct.)