#and this isn't a trap''

[occudo]

Epilogue(?) for A fish out of water

There was a post flooting around about how lighthouse keepers used to have to be married, and made me think of a possible happy-ish ending for my siren!jon selkie!martin story… If anyone knows the og post (I think it was a writing advice?) let me know, and I link it.

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[emacrow]

The civilization trapped in an ice meteorite.

Superman, after saving the earth from another earth ending bomb, breeze through space, were glowing clouds of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula floated around aimlessly with glowing green dwarf particles as if a solar system was sucked into, but there only lays a sun and 7 planets here before before something caught his eye.

A pusling aimlessly floating ball like metorite full of frozen white ice with green dipped in the bottom in the middle of space. The pulsing glow flickers like a couple of very slow heartbeats.

Superman used his x ray vision to see inside, and what he saw immediately immediately griped the ice and speed flew over through back to the Watchtower which was not far from here.

Superman spoke in the coms of his oxygen mask to the Watchtower.

"Open the space entrance gates, and someone calls in Beatriz Da Costa. I found a floating town trapped in metorite ice with what seems civilians' insides." Superman spoke in the coms as he pushed the metorite carefully toward the watchtower, unaware of the gigantic glowing transparent being with 8 neon green eyes staring at him wrapped around the ice metorite like a Serpent to it's eggs.

[candlebel]

I can't cry... I want to cry... I feel so much sorrow...

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Enki S Ending: God Blocking Gambit

[asmodeusamaryllis]

nishi really wanted to make sure everybody 100% knew iruma a freak lmao

[3twindragons]

It’s been a long dry spell for WinterHawk!

[twistedshipper]

Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. . . . From the castles, dungeons, forests, and hidden passages of the Gothic novel genre emerged female Gothic. . . . Female Gothic narratives focus on such topics as a persecuted heroine fleeing from a villainous father and searching for an absent mother.

When the female Gothic coincides with the explained supernatural the natural cause of terror is not the supernatural, but female disability and societal horrors: rape, incest, and the threatening control of a male antagonist. Female Gothic novels also address women's discontent with patriarchal society, their difficult and unsatisfying maternal position, and their role within that society. Women's fears of entrapment in the domestic, their bodies, marriage, childbirth, or domestic abuse commonly appear in the genre.

After the characteristic Gothic Bildungsroman-like plot sequence, female Gothic allowed readers to grow from "adolescence to maturity" in the face of the realized impossibilities of the supernatural. As protagonists such as Adeline in The Romance of the Forest learn that their superstitious fantasies and terrors are replaced by natural cause and reasonable doubt, the reader may grasp the heroine's true position: "The heroine possesses the romantic temperament that perceives strangeness where others see none. Her sensibility, therefore, prevents her from knowing that her true plight is her condition, the disability of being female."

🌹 𝔐𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔞𝔫𝔞 & 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔩𝔢 𝔊𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠���

[cherryinterlude]

thinking about josh's massive arms and hands and giggling and twirling my hair

[serpentface]

Here's what typical vestment for The Odomache looks like.

The pelt of the lion that was originally sacrificed and worn raw for her incarnation is retained throughout the years of service, preserved and fashioned into a headdress and cape (obscuring a helmet). This can get dreadfully hot in the summer but no one ever said that being a hollowed out pathway for God's spirit was easy.

The body is always obscured near completely, barring the hands, feet, and parts of the face (philosophically, these are the body's least vulnerable parts as its modes of Action, though this is in large part a practicality). This is partially a matter of psychological enforcement that this person is not Just a human, and partly a matter of protecting the part of God's living spirit that's in a wholly human body. Conceptually, the Odomache Enables tremendous power rather than being intrinsically powerful in of herself, so all manners of protecting the metaphysically vulnerable human body are of tantamount importance in her case.

The complete obscuring of any identifiable feminine form is also notably important to the underlying philosophies and biases involved. It is necessary that she is female, a condition ascribed a unique malleability to change and transformation (for good or harm), but the act of female/non-male sex and gender assignment also serves to uphold an underclass in a patriarchy that she By Necessity must be distanced from. This extends beyond the masculinized social and dress performance of Odonii to a masculinized social performance with dress that utterly obscures any part of the body that could be gendered, and dress that is not gendered in of itself (women do wear less revealing clothing than men and skirts of similar length, but the act of Fully covering the body in this form exists outside of the bounds of gendered dress).

[[It should be noted that on a historical level, this role is largely a descendant of a variety of 'celibate and/or masculinized female religious authority' figures in pre/proto-Wardi societies stretching back centuries, rather than an emergent property of contemporary religion and philosophy. This is an adaptation of older roles and worldviews to securely fit the contemporary zeitgeist, and that's part of why many aspects of this role Superficially clashes with said zeitgeist.]]

The relatively undecorated white cloak and robes in comparison to culturally favored displays of color and opulence further emphasizes a sense of the Odomache's separation from humanity. The Wardi image of God is not a human lord, but rather the world itself and the functions of the world distilled into the forms of animals. Human hierarchies exist Within God rather than God having a place within human hierarchies, so in this philosophy it's natural for this particular person of high authority to not closely resemble a Human Authority.

This is still ultimately a human body existing at the top end of a human hierarchy (and in the dimension of religious thought, it a human body holding aspects of God most specifically concerned with maintaining concepts of 'right' civilization and hierarchy), so public-facing garb like this will still include a few mundane trappings of lordship such as this fancy gold khattanocuy displaying an image of an enemy being trampled by the Face Odomache as the guardian lion. Purely ceremonial garb for the Odomache hides the body in its entirety beneath the white cloak and forgoes all decoration save for the obligatory weaponry.

A sword and dagger is worn at all times as a matter of being the ultimate physical bastion of her society's military might, and she is always accompanied by a retinue of 'lieutenants' (Extremely elite servants/squires) who carry whatever other elements of her perpetual armament are not currently in use. These weapons are Completely ceremonial in nature (to the point that they're made or plated with gold rather than anything like, durable) and there is absolutely zero expectation that the Odomache will ever directly engage in combat (the times this has happened historically have been when things have gone horribly wrong).

Her face is usually masked in public, though this is not a strict necessity of the role and is forgone for some ceremonial purposes. On these occasion, it's standard to paint the face red to still partly obscure human features in the same fashion of battlefield Odonii. As the color of blood, it positively evokes bodily vitality and strength, the living spirit of the world itself and the mode of connection to God (and will also be reminiscent of the rite of incarnation during which she is Actually covered in blood)

[skylersprompts]

DC X DP Prompt *2*

Danny was tired. Do this, do that. His parents wanted him to study harder. Jazz wanted him in therapy. His friends wanted for him to keep heroing. His rogues wanted to fight him or in Vlads case also as his son. And the last few month the observants were breathing down his neck, because they wanted him to do his kingly duties.

It was just to much.

And as much as he loved most of them, he was about to snap. It isn't that he didn't wanted to do most of those things. It was just to much at once.

So he wrote a note and left it for Sam and Tucker to find.

His next stop was Clockwork. The ghost of time may drive him up the walls from time to time, but he also knew what would be best to do.

Since CW didn't deter him from his plans, he pushed forward into the next best natural portal he came across...

The Wayne's looked owlishly at the small white haired child on the dinner table. The boy dropped unceremoniously through an swirling lazurus green portal.

He appeared to be around 5 years old and looked just as confused as them.

Until his mood shifted and a scowl appeared on his tiny face.

"He knew this would happen and didn't tell me! This asshole!"

"Language, young sir", and of course Alfred was the first to compose himself.

[nenoname]

anyway i've been squinting at this storyboard, trying to tell what the rest of the family's minigolf skill is at but im distracted by what seems to be a 100 score for soos'....

[the-spite-of-a-dandelion]

Silly little nonsense DBDA headcannon, (sorta headcannon? ridiculous hypothetical scenario may be more accurate,) for y'all.

It's to do with the whole, whether or not the boys can float/fly, question I remember seeing floating around a while back. (Cause they can in the comics but don't seem to in the show.)

So, for the purposes of this we'll say that, yes, they could fly, technically, as they are not bound by mortal rules like, ya know, not walking through walls.

But, I might also add that new ghosts don't immediatly fall to the center of the Earth, so, it's probably a little bit about what they imagine they can do from when they were alive. Or, more specifically, what they imagine their surrondings to be and how they should be interacting with them influences how they would instinctivly react, even as ghosts.

So, imagine for me:

Charles and Edwin are on a case. They're interveiwing some magic-shop shopkeeper or other, who can see ghosts, and seems to have a bit of information.

But who is also just really fucking suspicious.

Like, picture this guy as having a swishy black cloak and twirling an evil little moustache, if you must.

The boys go along with it for a while, but after a bit they're like, okay, we know you're definatly evil as fuck.

And Charles goes to bonk him on the head with his cricket bat so they can then go wrap up the case and whatnot.

But before he can, this guy is like, "Ha! You thought I wouldn't be prepared for this exact scenario?" in the most cartoonishly evil voice you can imagine, and then dramatically slams some button on the side of his desk. A game-show-esque buzzer of faliure and defeat going off.

The background music turns to crickets.

When absoultly nothing seems to happen, Chalres and Edwin just stare at the guy.

After a few moments of this shopkeeper villan looking very distressed and confused, he just waves a hand towards the boys.

Charles and Edwin both look down, towards where he waves, at the exact same time to find a trapdoor gaping open directly under their feet.

They look at eachother with a simultanious, "fuck." and immediatly drop down into the depths.

Music resumes.

[iamenits]

McCoy + Smiles | The Galileo Seven

[mari-lair]

How much does Researcher Sif hate The King in this AU? Do they hate him much more like change it up Sif? Or less due to this Sif being majorly different?

The researcher doesn't hate the king, they understand that the king needs to be stopped and they are uncomfortable/anxious by how aggressive and obsessive he acts, but they also understand the king's twisted reasoning.

They are mostly sad for him. Siffrin has come to terms with the fact that they will never remember their old home or their parents or their island after many years of obsession, so they can see themselves in the king, and they know how painful it is to seek something that will forever remain unachievable, no matter how much you destroy yourself for it.

If you're curious, I talk a bit more about the king & the researcher: here

[carnation-damnation]

The gem you stole last night turns out to be a person wyd

[perplexingly]

woah look at this kcd merch* I got

*I am deeply sorry about the kind of person i have become