#From Chaos to Control

[zhelin-thames]

The Realms React To: The Batkids Trying to Babysit De-Aged Danny

(aka “This Child Has More Power Than God and Knows It”)

Bruce: He’s two. How bad could it be?

Alfred: Master Wayne, he levitated the salt shaker and tried to crown himself “Snack King of Gotham.”

Dick: That’s adorable. I love him. He’s mine now.

Barbara: I left the room for three minutes and he hacked my comms with a crayon drawing.

Tim: I blinked and he disappeared. I blinked. There was eye contact.

Jason: He looked me dead in the eyes, called me “Angry Boom Boom Man,” and then turned intangible through a locked fridge.

Steph: I tried to distract him with a stuffed animal and he bit it and said, “This is my child now.”

Cass: He high-fived me, then phased through the floor while giggling. I’m both proud and terrified.

Duke: He used his glowing green eyes to convince a Roomba to follow him like a tiny mechanical minion. It keeps bringing him juice boxes. I don’t own juice boxes.

Damian: He looked me in the face, summoned a ghost snake, and asked, “Do you bite?” I said yes. He gave the snake my sword and said, “Good. Protect me from him.” I’ve never been so betrayed.

Danny (age 2, wearing a towel like a cape, floating): “I am Phantom, ruler of snacks and cartoons. Fear me.”

Jason: I gave him a toy gun. He turned it into an ectoplasmic cannon. I’m not mad, I’m impressed.

Dick: He just phased into the laundry basket and declared it his throne. That’s a bold leadership move.

Tim: We tried to put him down for a nap. He astral projected and started reorganizing our security protocols. While asleep.

Barbara: He reset my firewalls using finger paint.

Steph: He found my glitter stash. Everything he touches sparkles. I’m still sparkling. I haven’t touched him in two hours.

Cass: He threw a Cheerio at Damian and said, “This is your battle token. Win for my honor.” Damian accepted it.

Damian: I have never been so loyal to a warlord. I will kill for him.

Bruce: He’s two.

Danny (holding Alfred’s ancient cane like a scepter): “I’m older than you.”

Alfred (smiling fondly): He’s not wrong, Master Wayne.

Jason: He called me “Uncle Shoot Bang.” I’ve never felt so seen.

Duke: He asked if the sun sleeps. When I said no, he frowned and whispered, “I will fix that.”

Dick: I taught him how to do a somersault. He teleported halfway through it and said, “Shortcut.” My back hurts from laughing.

Tim: He made eye contact and the lights flickered. That’s not normal.

Barbara: I asked if he wanted a bedtime story. He summoned a ghost librarian who told me to use a better tone.

Cass: He hugged me. I felt peace. Then he made the couch float just a little. Just enough to flex.

Danny (cheerfully, riding the Roomba into the living room like a war chariot): “BEHOLD. I RISE.”

Everyone:

Everyone: beholding

Bruce: …So we’re keeping him, right?

Jason: Obviously.

Damian: He’s our tiny war general now.

Alfred: I’ll make extra cookies.

Danny (covered in stickers, glowing faintly): “I’m baby.”

Lights flicker. The Realms rumble approvingly.

[emacrow]

Babysitting duty calls, Klarion

It another world threatening battle for the justice league, young justice against the league of Villains and chaos children before most of the chaos children froze as if they sense something bad was approaching and immediately dipped out.. except klarion whom was fighting with raven who immediately froze up too late in front of the portal.

Only for a green portal to appear, as a worned out floating glowing green, but blue skinned teenage boy who turn into a man with red eyes, a clock staff in hand and a glowing white hair baby in a baby carrier.

Klarion is literally struggling like a feral cat who got wet in cold water against some invisible force speaking in some odd static like language before giving up after half a minute when the man spoke back with a short word.

The man now just shape-shifting into turn elderly just gave klarion the baby carrier before noticing how the heroes and villains have stop in mid battles looking at both klarion and him.

"All in soon time, but be warn Flashes whom break the laws of times will get their due if you keep messing with the past and future." Spoken the elderly now shape-shifted into a young boy before he turn back to klarion leaving him a note and glowing baby bag before floating back into the swirling green portal.

Klarion could only look at note with his eye twitching, Teekl meowing as she climb into the baby carrier purring around the glowing baby.

"Why do I keep getting babysitting duty, it so unfa-..." klarion grumbled as he pick up the baby carrier and bag teleporting away..

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"What just happened?" Said Dick whom only one question would be put on hold til later in the watchtower of what just happen before the fight resuming with the young and original justice league winning since the league of Villains were distracted.

[yes-darling]

You sat on my lap like it was nothing. Like I wouldn’t fuck you right there if we didn’t have guests.

[lunar-wandering]

WHEN I TELL YOU I LOST MY ENTIRE SHIT

WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS IN THE LAST 30 SECONDS. SHOWING MACAQUE INVESTIGATING, YEAH SURE CHECKS OUT.

MACAQUE'S MAGIC SUDDENLY TURNING INTO CHAOS MAGIC???

WHAT DO YOU MEAN. WHAT DO YOU MEANN.

AND THEN. THE ENDING.

THE CLIFFHANGER ENDING.

THE STAFF CRACKLING WITH CHAOS MAGIC

AND MACAQUE SENSING IT AND TURNING TO LOOK AT IT

LITERALLY WHAT IN THE HELL DO YOU MEAN. WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK.

[mrguardianeye]

CHAOS-CONTROL!!

[hmsdoodlin]

Thinking about an obsessive, devoted Mind who’s trying his best to keep Whole alive and thriving. A robotic Mind who believes his only purpose in life is to keep his host living and therefore often goes to the extreme.

He doesn’t understand what his host is going through, not entirely at least, fighting an uphill battle and getting frustrated with himself and their vessel for not being fixable.

A Mind that refuses to give up, constantly pushing Whole to his limit in an attempt to save him. A Mind that beats himself up over this, instead of asking for help he just digs himself deeper in this ideology. If this isn’t helping them then maybe he just needs to up the anti, maybe he needs to sacrifice everything. He’s going farther than ever before, pushing the boundaries until they snap and is possibly going a bit mad in the process.

Eventually Mind breaks, either finally realizing Whole is unfixable this way and that he’s failed his only objective, or he’s forced to face Wholes mortality and that flicks a switch in his brain.

A Mind who completely breaks down, unable to process these emotions and becomes hyperaware of everything ‘bad’ he’s ever done. He realizes he’s the one killing them, all he can hear are the words failure over and over again.

I’d do anything for you, I did everything for you but I could never be enough. I’m the one hurting us. I failed you.

A devoted Mind who cradles his vessel with as much tenderness and care he can muster, holding him close and silently begging for forgiveness while also struggling to even understand what he’s feeling.

Maybe it’s too late, maybe it’s just in time. But he fucked up regardless, I don’t think he could never let that go.

Song that was on loop while I wrote this btw ^^^

Idk but it gave me such a vivid daydream/animatic in my head that I just had to share. Sorry if this is ooc I’m Heart coded so everything has to do with emotions and feelings 😔

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

If you think about it, a majority of Sonic lore consists of undiscovered islands and ancient civilizations. Makes you wonder why so many of these advanced races just....vanish.

Every civilization that attempts to harness the power of the chaos emeralds meets the same fate. I just find that interesting.

[tinygiraffe]

the phantom of hornchurch out of context

[the-crow-binary]

Thinking about The Amazing Digital Circus episode 5 and Jax having the sudden realization that Caine actually has power over their minds (by turning him into a vegan), which is a terrifying concept ngl. As if the fact they all live in a world that can collapse around them at any given moment if the AI that controls it gets a mental breakdown (and he is slowly reaching his breaking point) wasn't scary enough.

Also it means Caine fucking lied

Yeah making Jax vegan is harmless and funny enough, but if Caine can force that on him, what else can he force on anyone? And how long will it take for the idea to influence and control their minds to come from him, and not some seemingly innocent, human vote?

If there was one thing the humans had full control over in this digital universe, it was their minds. But now, even that is compromised. I feel like it's really something they should be worry about lol. But I get it, Jax in a maid dress is very distracting. 😔

[rawliverandgoronspice]

do you think EoW’s plot - specifically Null’s motive of “i was already living in this void and the goddesses just showed up and created reality and tried to kick me out” being framed as a bad thing - is in the same pro-colonialism vein as your issues with TotK?

Good question! My instinct would be a tentative nnnnno? For a number of reasons, but I do want to return to the game and reread the actual text before committing to this opinion. But from memory, I think the core difference, to me, is that Null had a complete hegemony over reality, fully rejecting change and life in it's every form (so the start of the story in that context is Null being in control of everything, instead of Hyrule being in control of everything/wanting to control everything), and demanding total compliance to non-existence from everything else. I think this reading on the pantheon places the Goddesses as a force of resistance to nothingness, which I think has very interesting implications for the magic system and how, in their own attempt to maintain their creation of life, they may have ostracized everything that wanted to question the set of rules they had put into place in turn. It's not canon or anything, but I do think it's (quite honestly) a far more interesting origin story than the Hylia/Demise debacle (even if it can be understood under this lens also, which would make it more interesting to me).

But yeah, to me, Null had imagery that was very reminscent of cancer, of consumption and destruction for its own sake. I doooon't think it makes as much sense to read it in a political way? As Null is a single entity, completely disconnected from culture and community and society, and more-so as the personification of a natural phenomenon of death and stillness and negentropy in my opinion (which I think they wanted Ganondorf to be as well, but this fails imo because he starts off as a man with man-like preoccupations, and his aspirations are about gaining absolute agency --implying he doesn't start having that agency, and it's his very political and social circumstances that push him towards trying to gain that level of power in a world that is hyper-hostile to him simply... maintaining the power he started with --especially in TotK, you could argue he didn't have to swear fealty to Hyrule in OoT, we just don't know enough about the political backstory in the Myth Era to make definitive judgement, but even still he had very mortal pressures that motivated his envy and anger)

Anyway, I need to return to my Many Screenshots of the conversations in EoW that seemed relevant to make sure I am convinced by the reading of the game I tentatively argued for here (and especially reread the Goddesses' and Null's perspective on all that), but I hope this is an interesting first step at least!

[slavhew]

only able to draw by tricking my brain into thinking thats not what we're about to do

[yes-darling]

A list of decisions I made mid-kiss

To kiss him again. Immediately.: Because the first wasn’t enough.

To bite his bottom lip and pull: Because I like my kisses a little greedy, and I wanted to feel him follow even as I took something from him.

To push his shirt off one shoulder: Because skin pleases me more than fabric. And because I like to unwrap what I’m devouring.

To tilt his head back with my fingers in his hair: Because I wanted access to his throat. And because I like when his body becomes a thing to be arranged.

To stop entirely, lips parted, just to breathe him in: Because smell is memory, and I wanted to remember this with more than just my mouth.

To press my fingers to his chest, just to feel his heartbeat spike: Because I was curious. And because I like knowing what I do to people.

[mytimeinthesun]

Colored some Mike Wozniak inspired Harveys based on these doodles I did the other night

Transcript of handwriting below the cut:

From top to bottom left to right:

-got goaded into starting a village-wide snowball fight at the Festival of Ice by spouse and isn't sure yet if this is fun or terrifying

-<-Reaction to tasteless (but complimentary) innuendo from spouse

-*bemused skepticism*

-Results of having to take children to the toy store ->

(pose reference: Taskmaster Series 11 E5 13:32)

-"Um, darling? I don't think this is how bondage is supposed to go, even on a budget..."

(he is definitely being pranked)

<-duct tape

(for context: Taskmaster Series 11 Ep5 10:30)

[sneeb-canons]

Headcanon #906: In whatever place they live/exist, Heart & Mind have to raise or lower the moon & sun

[bogkeep]

at first i was going to post about this in a "can you BELIEVE what oslo girl said to me" kind of way, and then i was Not going to post about it because oslo girl was genuinely mortified and very remorseful and i have forgiven her, but now i'm going to post about it after all because it's been a hectic day and it's a silly anecdote.......

yesterday i was taking a couple trash bags to the big trash container, and shortly after leaving the house i saw oslo girl walking towards me, going home after work. i dreaded The Passing By because we have been discussing about The Logistics Of Taking The Trash AT LENGTH in the communal housing whatsapp group, and oslo girl is seemingly incapable of Not talking to me (stop asking me where your boyfriend is!!!!! microchip him or something!!!!!!!!!! (don't do that it would be highly unethical i am just very close to losing it)), and as we get closer and closer i can see her get ready to Ask Me Something and the something is -

"are you going home?"

for a moment i am unable to reply, or even move. the question is so nonsensical i cannot even begin to connect the dots. for one, i am very clearly walking away from the very house she is walking towards, the house we are both staying in for the duration of our working here. second, my actual home is 19 hours of driving away. i'm not walking there in sandals.

"i'm... going to the bistro...?" i try.

"okay :)"

still i can't move on. "i'm sorry but what. what did you mean."

"you're carrying your things, so i thought maybe you were going home?"

"you mean the trash? i'm taking the trash."

"oh............ um! good!! thank you for doing that!"

the following ten minutes my brain was nothing but ??????????WHAT THE FUCK??????????? DO I LOOK LIKE A SAD LITTLE ANT WITH A BINDLE?????????????? until i returned and oslo girl apologized PROFUSELY and explained to me what went through her brain: for some reason she had seen the trash bags as bags full of plushies, and then followed the most logical assumptions from there. and honestly, as someone who does own several bags of plushies, i can't even blame her. i didn't bring any up north so she doesn't even know this about me, but it's a much more charming mental image than the implication of thinking my belongings are trash :') and frankly i feel a bit better about oslo girl now that she's apologized for one of her many faux pas towards me.