#infinite problems

[belesanjee]

okay okay okay this is the last time i swear!!!! i am not gonna be updating my profile pic in a while i promise (watch me change it again after 5mins) (i will try my best not to though bc i always get so confused when a mutual changes their pfp once in a while so i don't wanna confuse everyone by changing mine like every 5 minutes. but we'll see)

[sakuravalenp]

Phantom letters - DPXDC PROMPT

The bats wake up one day to the internet going crazy; people around the world were getting letters from they're diseased loved ones. The reactions are mixed, from people being outraged for the "prank" to people crying in melancholy at getting closure.

All the letters have something in common: They're closed with a green sealing wax that had an stylize DP and the name Phantom beneath it. Posts about the cards were using the # Phantom Letters.

The bats are discussing the viral posts in the cave when Alfred comes holding a basket filled with letters, announcing they were left at the doors. The letters had the sealing wax that they recognize from the posts. Checking the cameras they can see how they glitch before the basket appears.

Alfred starts to distribute the letters that had only one destinatary. Letters from each Thomas and Martha to both Bruce and Alfred. Letters from each John and Mary to Dick. A letter from Catherine to Jason. A letter from the Drake's to Tim, and another one to Bruce.

Once they had calmed down enough from the shock, Alfred proceeded to read the shared recipients. From Thomas and Martha to "The grandchildren we never got to meet." From John and Mary to "the family that took our little Robin in." Letters from Catherine to "My little boys family." The letters were directed to people the deceased didn't get to meet.

As much as the mere existence of the letters tugged at their hearts, they decided to not read them until they verified that the handwriting actually belong to the ones it claimed. They checked each letter, and in the end confirmed the letters were in fact from they're lost love ones.

After much discussion, each person makes the decision to read they're own letters later in private, and they proceed to read the ones that shared recipients out loud. The letter mentioned specifics like names and events that the deceased shouldn't have been able to know, including they're vigilante abilities, which had them pause each time to panic a bit. But what was more interested were certain pieces of the letters that mentioned a Prince Phantom.

"Prince Phantom said to don't mention things past our death, but it wasn't a command, so we're hoping this won't be much of a problem." - John and Mary

"I still can't believe Prince Phantom is letting us do this, but I'm so glad." - Catherine

It finally paints the mystery in a more concerning light when at the end of Thomas and Martha's letter there is a call for help.

"We're sorry for ending the letter on a serious tone, but seeing the kind of job you all get involved in, we wanted to ask: Could you please help Prince Phantom? Phantom had asked us to not give information about this, but he's so young, and has already been hurt so much. Please, check on Amity Park, Illinois."

-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Meanwhile, team Phantom has decided that they needed to get the news about the GIW out of Amity and ask for help. Two problems:

the GIW blocks any technological attempt made.

People might be afraid to learn that ghosts exist and side with the GIW.

As a way to deal with the public image, Phantom opens a possibility that the death have never had:

"All afterlives are open to write letters to their love ones that are still alive today. Nothing that includes threats, and don't go talking about the anti-ecto acts or Amity Park yet, we're trying to ease people into our existence first. Also, I know you all check on your love ones when the veil is thin, but please keep the things you shouldn't know out of the letters if possible. If you want your letter to be sent in the first batch, make sure to deliver your letter before the week ends."

Letters are a good way to reconnect people with the death, they aren't digital, and the GIW won't be able to intercept letters if they're send through inter-dimensional portals. Two birds in one shot.

[valictini]

I’ve already said it, I’ll say it again, Mal du Pays is such a visceral and clever word to describe Siffrin’s Sadness. When I first saw it in game it genuinely made me pause like. Yes, it translates to homesickness. But it has the literal word for country in it. “Country sickness”. For a guy whose core problem is that his childhood, his culture, his country is missing. One could argue it’s a twisted pun. I’m obsessed with it.

[mollysunder]

The thing I never got about the fan reaction to Mel and Jayce's relationship (in general) is that people were incensed on Jayce's behalf that Mel used him for political gain, but like... that's what happens when the government sponsors your research. Obviously the funding mechanisms aren't the same because Piltover is an oligarchy where civic functions such as the Enforcers and even Zaun's ventilation system are privately funded instead of through a common pool of taxpayer money, but the purpose is the same, which is to benefit from the conclusions drawn from the results of the research.

I don't understand how anyone in the audience could be shocked or angry that when Mel, a high ranking representative of Piltover’s government, chose to invest in hextech it wasn't clear that she and Piltover would benefit. And it's not like this foreign concept to Jayce, he was originally being SPONSORED by the Kirammans', which is almost the same relationship except it's more explicitly private to the Kirammans' benefit, but I didn't see any pitchforks out for Tobias and Cassandra.

It's just such a double whammy headache to end up reading posts where Mel is hypervillainized while Jayce is practically infantilized because as an adult man in his 30s he simply can't understand complex relationships or make his own decisions. The way some fans have been offended on Jayce's behalf straight up erases any agency or even intelligence he has.

[snailfen]

how can i help you, little luggage?

[pencilnewt]

the hughes bros’ adventures in ikea!

inspiration:

[falling-star-cygnus]

my toxic personality trait is taking the unyielding stance of support for obscure media i’ve barely interacted with the second it gets hate, binging it all over again, and making it my entire personality for however long the endorphins last

[scarlet-cookie]

shoutout to “sorta/alternate versions of a character who fucks over the ‘main version’ of the same character in innumerable time fuckery shenanigans for their own sentimental goals” gotta be my favorite flavor fr

[neonhellscape]

sketch page where i finally figured him out. freak

[nothwell]

cozy fantasy enjoyers are really sleeping on Yonderland tbh

[tuinendraws]

Are the other specializations as broken as the Death Caller build or did I hit the jackpot on my first playthrough?

[etirabys]

I wrote 5K of a fanfiction putting the characters in a hole they need to find their way out of. and I discovered that I don't respect them enough to believe they can do it

[thewordsarestuckinmyhead]

it is so daunting starting edits on a complete manuscript. where do i even begin?

[francesderwent]

sadly I think tumblr is the proof that even if you un-fuck the algorithms and build the force-for-good social medias that people like Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin advocate for, ones that don’t collect data in order to laser-target ads and don’t use an algorithm to keep you scrolling forever and don’t eventually trend towards recommending polarizing content because that’s what keeps people’s eyes on the screen longest—even if you do all that, our brains weren’t meant to process information this way, and reading a bunch of short-form posts one after another is addictive already and will drastically damage your attention span. you will grow more and more dependent on forms of leisure that allow you to completely switch off, and more human forms of leisure which require something from you will start to seem like work. you will find it harder to sit still and read a book. you will find it harder to think creatively beyond the brief and noncommittal ideas strung together into a post. you will become more reliant on public validation of your careful image-crafting to tell you who you are, you will find it harder to sit with your thoughts without making them part of your performance.

[tempered-grace]

something is lifting the bones!!! something is dancing in revelry!!!!! wider than oceans below!!! higher than titans on box springs!!!!

and the waters are warm!!!!! where they used to run freezing!!!!

[equill]

I’m alive within a fake world.

(I like the sketches :>)