#except for the fact he DID kind of

[twiishaa]

twisha reading yona of the dawn in real time

MY SHAYLA I LUV U

[thebrainrotsreal]

EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK, EVIL MARK!!! I want to be coherent about this season but please picture me foaming at the mouth and running on the walls. S2 being what if Mark's just like his Dad? Insanity. I love this show. Anyways, AU where an Evil!Mark tries to make Our!Mark worse, and Our!Mark tries to make the other better. Something something confronting your idea of the worst version of oneself. Plus, tweaked black and yellow costume because I saw it and immediately went murder hornet lookin' ass and knew I had to draw it. Evil ass Mark. Horrible. I think he should be dragged kicking and screaming into redemption.

[aliusfrater]

crazy considering they turned out to not have been demons

[freakinator]

vagueing but i think certain ppl need to realize that you can be both manipulative And traumatized 😭

[ace-of-cades]

so like. did daisuke just die not knowing jimmy was a bad person or 😭

[mars-ipan]

some postgame doodles for pride month

[sforzesco]

caius trebonius :) I posted this a few days ago, deleted it, posted it to twitter, and now I’m reposting it here! what a circle

anyway, trebonius! sometime in his legate years, but maybe not! what the hell is a timeline*. I will be changing up his face scars until I settle on a good origin comic for them

*I’ve spent the last two days creating a sourcebook on trebonius. I did not intend to do this, I just wanted to check something really quick for a scene I was writing and got mad that his wikipedia page didn’t cite any ancient sources. what was originally 4 pages of notes is now closer to 50 pages. I’m in hell, time has no meaning, I will stab caesar myself

[softness-and-shattering]

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[unfortunatelyilikebnha]

The diffriders are so fucking fascinating to me specifically flare trooper dumjid bc like. You take a dragon mercenary who has seen war and has actively watched many comrades die. His whole thing is that he’s a perfect guard and thus the only one who survived, leading to a fucked up conception of himself as above death. And then you have him possess the body of some kid who presumably agrees to let him see earth bc That’s His Favorite Card And He Thinks He’s Cool and who’s probably like 12 (sorry saori I have no clue how old you are I’m just guessing based off taiyou + hiroki) and just. Walk around on earth (where are saori’s parents btw. Like you could say this about most vanguard characters but where are saori’s parents/guardians/friends do they know what “saori” is up to?? Does anyone who knew him pre-diffride realize how different he’s been acting?). Play a card game where he commands his dead comrades bc shiranui is paying him (which. How is he paying him, earth currency or cray currency? And what IS cray currency for that matter?). The only thing he likes about earth is the music but he is specifically cursed to keep having his headphones break. When a unit who’s diffriding a human dies in the human’s body, both the unit and the human die on both planets, and besides the money dumjid is only on shiranui’s team bc antero/miguel DIED, a fact which he’s fully aware of and iirc derides him for (may be wrong abt that one though). He constantly tells people to die when he’s cardfighting them. He is laid-back about vanguard and doesn’t care much until he loses a cardfight and because loss and death are inextricably linked in his mind he proceeds to get Super Fucked Up About It bc he’s built his entire self image off being The One Who Survives and losing the cardfight is akin to confirming that it’s possible for him to die & he especially can’t accept that Some Random Humans have the ability to take him out. Sometimes he shows his opponents the battlefield and the bodies of his comrades and they really don’t seem to devote much thought to it (like. What??? I get that chrono & friends love vanguard and chrono does address it a little bit but mostly iirc just to say “I don’t think that’s what vanguard actually does/that’s not OUR vanguard”). He’s affected worse and worse with each loss and joins a group trying to end the world to get revenge on the humans who’ve beaten him (iirc unclear whether he knows the success of the destruction of the earth will destroy him too). He becomes the last of the original diffriders - chaos breaker dragon doesn’t count he was diffridden during U20 - to remain on earth, a point which he makes sure to bring up as proof of his superior survival abilities. The kid whose body he’s possessing expresses that he’s not happy about the way dumjid’s acting and dumjid doesn’t give a shit and continues to puppet his body around. Just, everything about him as a character is so fascinating in a concerning way and, like shiranui, he brings up the fact that vanguard is Real in a way that the earth characters don’t really consider - yes they have strong imaginations and genuine attachment to their units, but ultimately they’re playing a card game where even if cards get sent to the drop/damage zones they can come back for the next battle* whereas on cray they’re fighting Actual Battles and the units that die die For Real And Permanently. Unlike shiranui, who eventually began to see vanguard as a method of reunion with his dead friends and decided that what he’d been told about earth vanguard being a direct cause for his friends’ deaths might be wrong, Dumjid never changes his view on earth vanguard after “experiencing death”, so when he finally loses and goes back to cray he’s essentially dragged back clawing and screaming. I don’t know, there’s just something about him that’s sooooo soooo fascinating to me

[the-narwhals-awaken]

Bloody Hearts Bingo Day 22

Prompt: Sweet Pea, General | "Hey, babe" and multiple people respond

The Urahara Shoten was always an unusual place to visit, no matter your reason for going there. Kurosaki Isshin knew that fact well- he'd only been a handful of times in the two and a half decades he'd made Karakura Town his home, but each time had reinforced that lesson. When he was visiting for candy (despite the quiet air around the shop, there were a handful of types that came straight from Seireitei that he'd grown attached to, along with a few other small brands that his darling daughters were fond of) it was almost always dead, quiet in the way that discouraged making any unneccesary noise. When he visited for other purposes, it felt even eerier- like a thin layer of skin stretched over some abomination of flesh and metal and things beyond mortal ken.

Isshin hated going there. His Masaki had liked visiting, purchasing little treats with some regularity and chatting with Urahara about all the little things that were going on, and he was fairly certain that she and Ryuuken had used the shop as an in-between so they could stay in contact without either needing to lower their pride to directly apologize, but it had always reminded him of the one time he'd been in the Twelfth's labs- somehow both sterile and filthy, with the looming threat only not killing him or worse because he was worth more to them alive and intact.

What was worse was that the Urahara Shouten was home to one Urahara Kisuke, a wanted criminal and a mad scientist far worse than even Kurostuchi Mayuri. He'd been exiled about a century ago for perverting the souls of eight of his fellow ranking officers, fleeing with the remnants and avoiding all attempts to capture or kill them. He'd emerged out of nowhere to save Masaki after that weird Hollow had attacked her, and he'd been quite helpful- but still, Isshin was wary. Urahara had been unsettling even when he'd been a captain- he'd been friends with Kaien for a bit, and Isshin had met him, and of course seen him at various meetings, and every time he'd walked away with a case of the heebie-jeebies. It had only gotten worse without the evident need to play the naive captain, and now every time he met with Urahara, he felt like he was seconds away from ending up in little pieces.

Still, Isshin had to meet with him every so often- the Final Getsuga Tenshou was the only option to overpower Aizen, no matter what Kisuke thought about his backup plans and other schemes, and it would take some time to explain both how to get Ichigo to pull it off and prepare the tools to teach him. Thus- a distraction for Tsukabishi-san in the form of his amazing, wonderful daughters who were demonstrating their fierce bargaining skills while Isshin slipped back to Urahara's office to discuss things.

He refused to step foot in the lab- he wasn't stupid, he wouldn't descend into Urahara's domain. No, instead he ducked into the half-hidden door to find Urahara sitting at his desk, scribbling away at some mad plan or another. Really, it was a wonder Yoruichi didn't keep a better hold of him- the room was a mess, and considering the number of plans that had gone awry, it was clear that she needed to take a firmer hand on her pet. Useful he might be, but it was the kind that could go amok quickly.

Now, Isshin knew that he hadn't been the best of captains. He'd been meant to hold the position until his dear Kaien-kun could take over, after gaining experience in the Thirteenth, after which Isshin had been planning to either transfer to the Fourth and use the healing skills he actually liked using or retire and take over the Clan Head role, not to be a career officer- it wasn't the life he'd been taught for. He was, however, good enough at planning- especially when this was mostly just ensuring the layout of a single structure, with more details to come as the war shaped itself- to keep half an ear on the world outside his work, even when Urahara had stuck him with paper to write out the equations for the tools to hold back the Cleaner.

And Urahara calling out, "Ratling!" was definitley worth listening to- especially when four responses were heard, from four different places. A glance out the other open door- leading to the rest of the Shouten, a space he'd been in exactly four times- revealed four rather familiar heads poking out of various rooms. It was his Ichigo and his friends.

Being a good father, of course, Isshin waved and called to them, and soon enough there were four teenagers standing just outside the office (which was, of course, too small to fit six people). The explanation made sense- the helpful rats, fetching and carrying and running errands and helping man the shopfront sometimes. It meant that Ichigo had an actual job now, which of course would have him out of the house more- and it would be a good thing to stick with once he'd lost his powers, one more semblance of normality to ensure that he'd live a perfectly normal happy human life, just like Isshin.

He even invited his son's friends over- it would be worth getting to know them better, to see if they'd be ties to normalcy or anchors to the spiritual life that he was going to excise from his eldest. It would work well- apparently, Ichigo was dating one of them (which one, he wasn't quite sure, but he'd figure it out eventually), and he was going to make sure that his son and his partner did well for themselves- after all, love had made him settle down, and surely it would do that for Ichigo once Isshin made sure that the monster that had slipped into his son was long gone. Things were working out exactly as he wanted, and Isshin was very pleased with himself.

[merlinmerlot]

I could play one of the most beautiful well crafted video games on the planet and it will never be as appealing to me as one that kind of sucks shit but has soooo much potential

[qoldenskies]

I know you said you are a Donnie enjoyer yeah he’s awesome I love him. I love all the guys actually it’s just the sunset duo are my favs. What’s your opinion on the sunset duo I mean Raph and Mikey as individuals or as a duo

I AM VERY MUCH A SUNSET DUO ENJOYER THEYRE GREAT!!!!! i have a sep!au fully plotted out that centers them as one of the Big Dynamics (ive been waiting for an excuse to ramble about it so maybe later. wears button that says Please Ask Me About My Work),,, i dont have a ton to say but i feel bad for people who favor them because this is a very disaster twins centered fanbase from what i've observed LMAO. raph and mikey enjoyers you deserve more food i am so sorry......

(more in the tags because that accidentally happened and im not transferring it over to here LMAO)

[britneyshakespeare]

i have a very peculiar life where i've often, due to chronic illness and the resulting reclusive tendencies from said illness, just plain not associated with people of my own age on a regular basis for months or years at a time. but when i do go out, i'm, like, not an unattractive or socially unsuccessful person. well i'm not necessarily socially successful but i'm not unattractive. and i'll look back on like a certain period sometimes and realize that i had a lot of people trying to pursue me romantically, and i'm like "hey what happened to that? its been such a long while since anybody asked me out........."

"oh yeah i dont leave the house"

[brltpop]

And speaking of kevin bacon, i read a recent interview of his where he said he wanted to experience living "like normal people do" so he asked a special effects artist to change his appearance to go to a crowded venue and said he absolutely hated the experience because no one recognised him, people pushed him and were rude, no one asked for a photo or gave him a shout out, he had to wait in line to get a simple coffee AND he didn't get any sort of benefit/discount at the venue and legit said he just wanted to go back home to get rid of the disguise and be famous again and like........ the layers of this whole thing 😵‍💫

[tariah23]

Of course it doesn’t 🗿.

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in Alt] this was made in a haze but I desperately wanted to portray what popped into my mind upon reading this post. Like a traumatized Full House

So anyway, since Bruce abandoned his family, are they gonna let Damian go live with Dick in the Tower orrr is DC going to keep being dumb and not take advantage of such a golden opportunity...