#content: consequence

[salparadiselost]

Every couple years or so, the Bats are required to take a group photo to update the JL website (idk why, they are required to take a vigilante group picture), and Jason consistently refuses to show up. So this year, Tim just draws the lines of the Red Hood helmet on a bright red balloon and then floats it between him and Nightwing. They absolutely refuse to acknowledge that it isn't Jason. They put it up on a billboard instead.

Jason finds out about it when he drives back into Gotham and the highway going into the city has a 'Keeping Gotham Safe' billboard and it's a picture of the Bats looking extremely serious with the Red Hood Balloon floating behind them.

[starry-bi-sky]

I am loudly pushing the batdad agenda i am loudly pushing the— DPxDC Prompt

“Woah. You look like shit."

Granted, that’s probably not the first thing Danny should be saying to the guy that just bit the curb, but in his defense; he’s not running on 100% right now either.

The man -- tall, towering, and broader than Danny is tall -- whips around on his heel, black frayed cape flaring out impressively. Danny would've whistled in appreciation, but he takes the time instead to wipe the back of his hand across his mouth, smearing the blood running from his nose across his cheek.

"Sorry." He blinks widely, not even flinching as the man with the horns zeroes in on him. "That was rude of me. I have a really bad brain-to-mouth filter; Sam says its what always gets me into trouble."

And she's not wrong either, per say. His smart mouth is what landed him in this situation -- with blood blossom extract running through his veins and cannibalizing the ectoplasm in his bloodstream. Thanks Vlad.

The man grunts at him; a short, curt "hm" that shouldn't make Danny smile, but he does because he's somewhat delirious and probably concussed. The man keeps some kind of distance, sinking towards the shadows of Gotham's alleyway like he dares to melt right into it.

If it's supposed to scare Danny, it doesn't work. Danny's never been afraid of the dark; he's always been able to hide himself in it. He blinks slowly at the mass of shadows.

"You look hurt." The shadows says, blurring together around the edges. Danny squints, and licks his lips to get the blood dripping down his chin off. Ugh, he hates the taste of blood.

"I am." He says, "My godfather poisoned me. M'dying." The agony of the blood blossom eating him from the inside out looped back around to numbing a while ago, so all he feels is half-awake and dazed.

"Hey," Danny stumbles forward towards the man, a bloodied hand reaching out to him. "You-- you're a hero, right? You're not attacking me; which is more than I can say for most costumed people I've met." Maybe it's a poor bar to judge someone at, but he's already established that Danny's not in his right mind.

The man makes no change in expression, but Danny realizes blearily that it's hard to tell with the shadows on his face. He stays still long enough for Danny to latch onto the cape -- stretchy, but almost soft under his fingers.

He looks up blearily into the whites of the man's eyes. "Can you help me? I don't-- I don't wanna die." Again. He doesn't wanna die again. He blinks slow and lizard-like. "I mean- I'll probably get to see mom and dad again, but I told them I'd at least try and make it to adulthood."

There's a clatter down the street, and Danny's ghost sense chills up his spine and leaves a bitter, ashy taste in his mouth. He immediately knows who it belongs to even before the deceptively gentle; "Daniel?" echoes down the way.

"Daniel? Quit your games, badger, Gotham is dangerous for children."

Danny's mouth pulls back, and blood spills against his tongue. "Please." He rasps, and grabs onto the shadow's cape with both hands. "Please. He's going to kill me. Please--"

"Daniel? Is that you?"

His lips part, dragging in air to plead with the darkness again. He doesn't need to, the whites of his eyes narrow, and the cape whirls around him before Danny can blink. Soon swaddled in shadows, the Night lifts him up, and steals him away.

[shaykai]

Thinking about the fun fun juxtaposition that comes from putting Durge, someone who gives their entirety to their god and actively seeks forgiveness when they stray, next to Gortash, who’s main schtick is taking and doing what HE wants, and Ketheric, who has on more than one occasion forsook a god because they didn’t help HIM the way HE wanted

Anyways it’s giving A+ student just found out you can skip class sometimes actually

[veearrifarrariboom]

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Happy New years!!

Yes you read that right, Act 1 of this comic is over and I ran out of the script I wrote so uh it may be awhile till the next one

-but there may be some things of Captainx2 in between. Or just some silly stuff.

Thank you for reading this far!! There will more in the future!

[genericpuff]

people are rightfully worried about AI and its influence on media and artists today but what really has me shook in the back of my brain is that 15-20 years from now we're gonna see tip-of-my-tongue discussion threads from covid gen adults who swear they remember an episode of spongebob where the characters stood around talking about the cybertruck's new jellyfishing compartment all while being bombarded with random cuts of mr krabs screaming and subliminal messages about the world ending in 2036

[orengejoshi]

do u write fanfics? i need to GOON 💔

damn brother, you just gonna come at me like that? alright I see you

that's a great question tho! I have indeed thought about writing a fic... for years tbh...

but there's a myriad of problems

well first of all I'm not native in english. that is probably noticeable more often than not. I sometimes even use a translator, I always secretly got google/dict.cc open in a second tab. didn't formally learn english, I just snagged it by proxy listening to American Youtubers and reading manga online. that's why I prefer to ramble a bit in public or to my damn self in private areas than live-texting 1 on 1/in groups; bc I can take more time totally judgement-free. you're gonna see me "typing..." for 30 minutes and wonder wtf is taking this mf so long?!

apart from that there's dyslexia. I can't spell one word correctly without swipe-to-type autocorrect. I think all arguments I've gotten into stem from me mistyping, using completely wrong words, messing up the sentence structure etc

my brain is a single dense cloud of fog that'll occasionally split open to drizzle down a bunch of jumbled thoughts that I could turn into barely cohesive words if I'm brave enough and exude copious amounts of energy.

so my linguistic skills are not up to par. my intelligence lies more in... intrapersonal and existential departments.

unsurprisingly I've thus become a visual artist to express myself.

the catch is... that I understand paperhat, I do.

but I can't seem to draw toxic dynamics. my head is just empty about how to depict it. it's like it doesn't come naturally to me. not without going overboard and making a whole comic that I would likely abandon before even reaching the half mark. I've been given these angelic skills along with the curse that I shall only draw joyous, bright scenes.

however if I could write it... now we're talking.

as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that most of my ideas are way too dark and sober. people don't know me like that so I'm petrified about the presumably shocked response when and if I did drop smth like that.

I'm not ready for that... I have really severe OCD (that the internet is making way worse with their anxious tendencies to interpret smth sinister into any and all fiction that is not happiness and rainbows. which seems new to me, idk where this mindset to read so deep into shit is suddenly coming from. I was here 2017-19, left for like 3 years and all of a sudden everybody's fallen off their rockers)

writing domestic stuff is too boring for me... there's gotta be gut-wrenching horrors and drama and tragedy and conflict!

none of this would be PG (which is what I assume you're asking for anyway) I'd just write smut with sprinkles of character studies and a pinch of comedy mayhaps, but I used to do that about 10 years ago and it was so bad. the way I describe these scenes comes off very plump and cringe

I... might. dip my toes into it later this year.

I'll drop a few ideas in the tags... maybe 2 ideas. very roughly. without spoilers, just in case.

[tanadrin]

Dwarf Fortress really needs finer control over item decoration jobs, because I'm sick of finding out that my craftsdwarves have wasted time and resources decorating a xcow leather shoex with star sapphires and platinum studs because somebody decided to drop all their old clothes while hauling stuff to and from the stockpile. Having fairly rigorous stockpile and workshop settings don't help, because any item on a stockpile tile counts as being *in* the stockpile for job management purposes, even if it's the wrong type. And of course sometimes they just leave their crap lying around in the workshops.

[cowboy-robooty]

im not going to lie i have an illuminati type theory that fanfiction has gotten so fucking bad recently as yet another consequence of the pandemic

[strawglicks]

community service for his reckless driving

(this is a remake of old art, old is under the cut)

[hopeworth]

minecraft roleplay smps are just about The Cycles

[chiangyorange]

i will not mianitepost in 2023. therefore i am allowed to mianitepost in 2024.

i would leave design notes but im not that person anymore and no one reads them also fuck you

[mugmegan]

I am keeping up with other anime too right now but I CANT BELIEVE SHE ACTUALLY ADMITTED IT!!! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE WITNESSED A FORGER LET GO OF THEIR SECRET LIKE THAT! COMPLETELY WILLINGLY!!!

She didnt just slip, she actually gave away her secret freely which is something I never wouldve expected from this series in a million years with how tight the status quo and the characters hold their secrets. Like I thought we would see a reveal of some sort with them but never in a way that would be this casual and trusting, that is actually so surprising like what the hell I was caught completely off guard this is huge

[doledition]

if only the devs weren't unbased, we could have had abortion and baby related trauma. can ygs be cool with abortion now instead of pretending that it somehow 'diminishes the trauma of the trauma sim'.

[bravoechoes]

I initially thought the entity plot in DR was extremely goofy, like what do you mean a computer “controls the very truth itself” (<- extremely annoying grad student voice), and what a hysterical thing for the CIA of all agencies to be concerned about, but honestly I’m on board with it now because after rewatching dead reckoning again, it is so clearly a movie responding to concerns about like, digitally mediated medical + political disinformation during covid, and the fact that the background tension animating the film is that every government wants to get control of the entity in order to centralise and use this disinformation mechanism does feel very much like a response to the political responses to the pandemic (particularly from the US/UK/Canada/etc). obviously I’m not expecting any deeper engagement with like the political production of truth and knowledge or anything like that but this anxiety feels more cohesive and legitimate than I initially figured

[emi-gelfling]

You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to punch Endeavor. . .

LINK TO "Vent Gremlin:"

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56242153/chapters/142880587#workskin

[allastoredeer]

I feel like there are too many minors trying to insert themselves in the adult Hazbin fandom cause I just encountered a public radiostatic community that's being hosted by a 12 year old, I don't know what these kids parents are doing but it's not good

I'd be lying if I said I didn't get into things I probably shouldn't have when I was younger (then again I was a wee little religious teen who didn't have the nerve to go into, much less interact, in mature/explicit groups), but I wish they'd at least mark these spaces as ones for minors, especially when it comes to shows like Hazbin Hotel.

I don't think minors and adults should be completely cut off from each other in fandom, but when it comes to adults shows and adults fans making explicit content, minors shouldn't be inserting themselves into these spaces. I think its good and healthy for them to explore themselves through fics and art, whether that's creating it themselves or viewing it--it certainly helped me broaden my worldview and discover things about myself (no joke, Spideypool is what led to me getting out of my toxic, religious lifestyle).

But they need to understand that adults have boundaries too. That adults get uncomfortable, and most of us don't want them interacting with our 18+ material (or, at the very least, discussing it with us). Just the exchange of explicit content (especially sexual content) between minors and adults is illegal, and could really get us in trouble.

And, you know, it's just weird and uncomfortable.

I like creating and consuming dark content, and it's not something I'd ever want to discuss with someone in their teens. It makes me feel gross. I've actually had an experience with a minor passing themselves off as an adult and talking with me in an 18+ channel on discord. They felt guilty afterward and admitted they were a minor, and when I tell you how gross I felt as the adult in that situation. How disgusting I felt.

It was a horrible experience that I never want to repeat.

If any minors are reading this, you need to understand that engaging in these topics with adults does have consequences, and you need to respect our boundaries on the matter. If us getting in trouble with the law isn't enough for you to do that, then consider that we're human beings and these things have an emotion and mental impact on us too.