#endless ships

[thesoftboiledegg]

[dykepaldi]

homestuck was so perfect for autistic teenagers bc it took characters being sorted into categories and having Attributes to its absolute extreme. forget four hogwarts houses, every character has their associated colour their zodiac sign their associated animal their dream planet their god tier class and aspect their typing quirk their pesterchum handle their weapon their planet of x and y, as well as each of them having a handful of other very quantifiable Personality Traits and Interests (e.g. this one is a clown this one is angry this one likes fashion this one is just rufio from hook for some reason) and THEN they all also have their respective ancestors and dancestors(?)(plucked that word from my memory) who have all of those things as WELL

and god not to mention the fucking quadrant system

as a 13-15 year old autistic kid i didnt even need homestuck to have a plot i just happily made a big big spreadsheet of character attributes in my brain

[demonic0angel]

Danny protecting Death the Endless for an afternoon when she incarnates as a human. And then taking care of the body when she drops dead when she's done.

When Danny appeared before her, he paused.

Death looked at him and then gave a small smile. "Hello, Danny," she said.

Danny flew closer, bowing when he landed on the ground. He transformed back into human and then gently took her hand, kissing the back of her knuckles.

"M'lady," Danny said with a smile as he straightened. "Ready for a day of fun?"

Death beamed and nodded. "Yes please."

"What would you like to eat?"

"Hmmm... I'm not too sure. But I just ate a granola bar! It was amazing!"

Danny chuckled. "Maybe something like soup, then? C'mon, I know just the place."

He took her to varying places, sightseeing within the city that she had incarnated in. He bought her trinkets and introduced her to various things. Death happily followed him around and Danny protected her while she was vulnerable and mortal. Thankfully, there were very few people that he couldn't handle, and he would just guide Death away from the nuisances, determined to make sure her day of living was perfect.

The sun began to set.

Death smiled and kicked her feet as she sat on a large statue's pedestal. Danny sat next to her, looking at the darkening sky that was painted in bold reds, oranges, and purple hues.

"It's almost time," Death said.

Danny nodded. He turned to her. "Did you have fun?"

Death beamed. "Today was the best! Thank you for accompanying me today, Danny."

Danny leaned forward and gently kissed her temple. He said solemnly, "It is my honor."

He and Death shared a look and then she hopped off of her pedestal. In front of them was a road that was teeming with speeding cars.

"Well!" Death said with a clap of her hands. "I'll go now, okay? Tell your siblings I said hi. We'll meet again, my dear Ghost King."

"I'll see you again, My Lady," Danny said, not moving as Death took a few steps forward onto oncoming traffic.

There was a terrible screech and a scream, before a loud thunk and a splatter.

Danny watched Death return to immortality before he sighed and got off of the pedestal himself, dusting himself off. He jogged over to the road, made a show of screaming and crying at the body that held Death for a day, and then handled the rest.

He paid for the funeral, rearranging everything to the person-who-died's liking, according to their family and friends. After all, Death would've been sad if Danny had ignored the person she had to become to please her, the god, instead of them, the mortal vessel.

Afterwards, Danny left quietly as the funeral procession started.

He transformed and then flew back to his lair within the Ghost Zone.

Back to the paperwork.

[ibenology]

stop putting Mobius in the same bracket as Aziraphale and Stede Bonnet he needs to be here:

I’m not entirely sure what this type is called so I’ve decided to go with:

human turned immortal and head over heels in love with the non-human being that fell out of the universe and changed their life forever

[koszmarnybudyn]

Duck team polycule, cause yes 😳

[clipzicle]

ugh i fucking hate them (lie)

[bigfatbreak]

Hi quick question about the host au

Does lila think marinette is being legit haunted?

Because for some reason i could see host tikkis powers (which i think act up with high emotions because of that one post in the manynette au) acting up around her out of anger

yup. I actually have a chunk of fanfic written up for the AU that really goes into it, that I never finished nor posted, and now I'm considering posting it as a standalone just for fun

[mobius-m-mobius]

@lokiusweek 2025 - Day 7: AU day

[kaiju-krew]

...........yeah

[infernalwraths]

May I offer you some silly Raphlep memes in these tiring times

[sabo-torao]

dumb thing i made while trying to fight artblock

[conundrumoftime]

One of the fun things about shipping Haladriel and about Galadriel's story in Rings of Power, for me, is that we know exactly where this is going to end up. And I wanted to babble for a bit about where that place is because I have seen so many people view it as "she is retired to some woods to be a passive wife-and-mother who can do magic but in a mystical New Age-y way", and: no! No.

So a quick overview of where she will end up by LOTR:

Very much not removed from the war against Sauron.

She is constantly mind-battling against Sauron: One of the lines that inspired McKay and Payne's whole show was her talking about this: "I say to you, Frodo, that even as I speak to you, I perceive the Dark Lord and know his mind, or all of his mind that concerns the Elves. And he gropes ever to see me and my thought." In one of the versions of the Annatar story in Unfinished Tales, Sauron immediately realises she will be his 'chief adversary', and has apparently not changed that assessment 3500 years later.

She co-ordinates joint efforts against Sauron: The White Council that Elrond talks about in LOTR, the combined force of Ring-bearers, wizards and elf-lords that first drives Sauron out of Dol Guldur - she's not just on that, she founded it.

She gets Gandalf back after Moria and the Balrog: Galadriel learns what's happened to Gandalf from the Fellowship when they arrive in Lothlórien. The the Fellowship are sad; the elves of Lothlórien mourn; Celeborn loses it a bit and says Gandalf 'fell into folly'; but Galadriel sends Gwaihir the eagle to get him, returns him to health, updates him on the situation with Boromir, gives him some messages to take to the others, and sends him back on his way.

She is possibly in Lothlórien because of its position of strategic importance: from Unfinished Tales here, she 'saw that Lórien would be a stronghold and point of power to prevent the Shadow from crossing the Anduin in the war that must inevitably come' and that's why she and Celeborn go there. (There are other versions as with almost everything else in Tolkien, but this is one of them.) She's not there to hide away from Events.

2. Calmer than in TROP, but not all-wise and all-sweet and still pretty scary.

She is still tempted by power and world domination: "I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired to ask what you offer [...] In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night!"

And, she doesn't just turn down the One Ring because it's abstractly eeeevil. She turns it down because she knows what she, specifically, would do with it. Sam sees a vision of the Shire, and tells her "I wish you'd take his Ring. You'd put things to rights. You'd stop them digging up the Gaffer and turning him adrift. You'd make some folk pay for their dirty work," to which she says that yes, she would: "That is how it would begin. But it would not stop with that, alas! We will not speak more of it."

And saying she wants to rule the world here is not me joking about! This is Tolkien describing that moment in LOTR:

It was not until two long ages more had passed, when at last all that she had desired in her youth came to her hand, the Ring of Power and the dominion of Middle-earth of which she had dreamed, that her wisdom was full-grown and she rejected it

People are scared of her: The only scary moment we directly see is the Ring temptation, but she does other unsettling things. When she meets the Fellowship she tests them by reading their minds and offering something they really want to see if it would make them "turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others." (She offers Sam a garden; the One Ring later on tempts him with the same thing.) Even the hobbits are a bit disturbed by this and Boromir, who's already said he doesn't want to go into Lothlórien because people who do that never leave again, absolutely does not trust her.

Éomer, a few chapters later:

'Then there is a Lady in the Golden Wood, as old tales tell!' he said. 'Few escape her nets, they say. These are strange days! But if you have her favour, then you are also net-weavers and sorcerers, maybe.'

She's scary! She's ancient and powerful and people are scared of her.

3. Married, but not in the character-limiting way the nerdbros want it to be and would have you believe it is.

I am not telling anyone they should ship Galadriel/Celeborn or even find it interesting just because I do, but, the angry nerdbros fancasting Celeborn as Henry Cavill and talking about how he'll come back to tame her and tidy her neatly out of the narrative are writing their own little AU headcanons because that is not what's in the text.

She's the more powerful one. Partly because she's one of the 'High Elves' - she's Noldor and has lived in Valinor seen the light of the Trees - which for various reasons about the way Tolkien's elves work just makes her more powerful, partly because she has a Ring of Power and Celeborn doesn't. It's her Mirror; she's the one reading people's minds; she's the one locked in endless mental battles with Sauron; she's the one the Rohirrim (whose lands border Lothlorien's) tell each other scary stories about. Celeborn at no point ever seems to have an issue with this, and calls her his 'treasure'.

They work together. Even in a big-action-sequences sense: after Sauron's defeat, Celeborn 'led the host of Lorien over Anduin in many boats' to Dol Guldur, where Galadriel 'threw down its walls and laid bare its pits'. But the rest of the time, too: she says of him that 'together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat'.

You really get the sense that they have been married for a loooooong time. An actual sequence of events in LOTR, somewhat condensed:

The Fellowship reveal there's a Balrog in Moria;

Celeborn goes "!!!!", complains about dwarves waking it up and says he'd never have let Gimli into Lothlorien if he'd known that;

Galadriel smacks Celeborn down for being rude to their guest;

Celeborn apologises to Gimli;

Galadriel tells the Fellowship that Celeborn is accounted the wisest of elves;

Boromir says something about "old wives' tales";

Celeborn, whose wife is one of the oldest beings in Middle-earth, tells Boromir not to be so dismissive because "old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know";

Galadriel hands Celeborn a drink.

Whatever is going on here is clearly something that works for them, is what I'm saying! And you don't have to find their marriage interesting just because I do, of course; but what it's not is some trad fantasy of domestic subservient-wife anything.

So where her TROP story ends up is ultimately with LOTR Galadriel: powerful, important, tempted to rule the world, a bit calmer than in TROP, a bit happier than in TROP, co-ordinating big strategic efforts in the war, married to someone who's got her back and adores her and they fall out a bit sometimes but generally work pretty well together, and still having Sauron constantly trying to get into her head. I am fine with this! I am more than fine with this.

[jmkonst]

they occupy my whole brainpower. help

(i had a whole plan in my head but then didnt touch this for weeks after the sketch and i honestly dont think we’re getting further on this one so im posting it)

[bellflowermini]

“and though you die, bird, you will have a fine view”

[ollywhoag]

There's been an accident

[ematini]

I will forever have personal beef with the Maddie being a traitor reveal, simply because it validated the people who were absolutely AWFUL about her character, even long before anything was confirmed. And not even because she was supposedly a traitor, but because she "got in the way of Caitvi."