#my first introduction here

[madbard]

I just played through Slay the Princess for the first time, and… I cannot stop thinking about the Cage.

To be profoundly and finally severed from the illusion of your autonomy. To look on, from a prison of your own making, as your body acts out a legacy of violence against the body of the only other person who can or will come near you. To see their body perform that same violent dance. To be bound to this person, and in your limited state not to understand why. In that moment, as the silhouettes in the shadows act out the story of the princess and the slayer, to share a moment of peace with the one sent to kill you.

Intertwined. Diminished. Reductive, mutually destructive. Trapped in an infinite dance.

Beautiful.

To have been so determined you never had free will, never could have found another way. To realize you may have been wrong. To be trapped in a pattern, but unaware of what that pattern truly is.

Still, for that finite and watchful moment, not to be alone.

(Mild gore under cut.)

(Also this art from the game haunts me.)

[superbat-lmao]

Jason Todd never gets picked up by social services when Catherine dies. Instead, the alley protects its own.

Jason had spent most of his daytime hours looking after his neighbors kids. He was basically family. They paid him in meals and a shared bed when Willis would kick him out sometimes.

When people hear his Mom died, he couch surfs amongst families with small children that need supervision while their parents are at work. He manages well enough, and he rotates what families he stays with so CPS never catches wind. He’s the alley’s secret amongst working immigrant families.

It also means he knows how to deal with kids.

So when he watches one tumble off a fire escape on the roof opposite where he’s been smoking, he knows he has to check it out. Make sure the kid’s alright.

When he finally gets a good look at him, both his camera and leg are busted.

More convoluted take below the cut!

Tim, who broke his leg actually, is too little to be taking care of himself or get himself home. He needs to be looked after.

He gets the kid to Leslie, lies and says he’s watching him over the weekend and the kids parents will be back Monday, and gets the kid in a cab before figuring out where he lives.

Tim isn’t super aware of what’s going on around him since he was given something for the pain, but he knows there’s someone asking him a lot of questions. When he is more awake, the following morning after waking up on his living room couch, he realizes there’s a kid watching him.

Tim feels like hell and while he appreciates Jason taking him home, he can handle himself.

Jason snorts at him, asks if he’s ever had a broken leg or knows how to use crutches, and what he wants for breakfast.

It takes two days before Tim is willing to admit his parents won’t be home for a few months. They’re lucky school’s out or someone would have noticed Tim’s absence.

Jason becomes Tim’s babysitter, or as much of one as he can be without Tim’s parents finding out. Jason takes care of him the whole time his leg is healing. Tim teaches him to play videogames and Jason reads to him.

When Tim’s finally healed, he wants to go back out at night to chase after Batman. Jason gives him an unimpressed look, but asks if the kid wants to tag along to his babysitting gigs in the alley. He misses some of the little twerps and thinks there’s a few Tim would like.

Tim and Jason become brothers early, going from apartment to apartment looking after other people’s kids. Jason gets someone who follows him around, gives him shit, and is almost as good as wikipedia in a pinch. Tim gets someone who gives a shit about him, a social life full of people who aren’t snotty high society brats, and Jason’s special brand of aggressive caring.

What the two don’t know is that Two Face has been looking for Jason’s dad. No one had been able to rat him out when he was staying with Tim because no one knew where he was.

It takes a while, but when the wrong people figure out where Jason is, it isn’t pretty.

They interrupt him while sitting an overnighter. There’s a loud knock at the door and when Jason checks the peephole, it’s two of his Dad’s old buddies. Jason rounds up the kids, yells “just a minute!”, gives Tim a kitchen knife and tells him to sit tight and lock themselves in one of the bedrooms. Tim doesn’t hear anything after the front door opening and an initial shout. He waits 15 minutes before he’s sure the coast is clear. Then, he rounds the kids up, puts them to bed like Jason does, and heads up to the roof.

He knows Batman’s patrol routes well enough to find him and try to flag him down. Who he actually gets is Robin, who he has to explain to that Two Face took his brother. When Robin finally listens and takes the kid seriously, he radios Batman. Batman, who recognizes the neighbor kid and knows he doesn’t have a brother. By this point Tim is almost in tears of frustration trying to explain that Jason Todd is his brother but Batman also recognizes the missing kid from one of his reports and it’s enough of a corroboration that Tim gets put in the back of the Batmobile while they go to rescue Jason.

He doesn’t get to see any of the fighting and he doesn’t leave the car, but when Robin is half carrying Jason out of the building, Tim leaps out of the car to hug his brother. Jason’s got a few bruised ribs and his face is beat to hell, but it’s all something Leslie can fix.

What Leslie can’t fix is the legal fact that Jason is a missing kid, not Tim’s biological brother. Batman sits with the two, explaining how everything is going to work once they take them to the police.

Three things happen at once:

1. Jason accuses Batman of dropping kids off with traffickers. It’s why he didn’t let CPS pick him up when his Mom died.

2. Robin asks if the two will get to stay together, if they can ask Gordon not to separate them.

3. Tim says they will be doing no such thing, Mr. Wayne.

[littlemissshifter]

༺𓆩༒︎𓆪༻

⚠︎ ᴵᴺᵀᴿᴼ ⚠︎

ᖴᑌTᑌᖇIᔕTIᑕ ᑕᖇ

↬𝐴𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝐵𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑅 𝑜𝑟 𝐶𝑦𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑘 𝐶𝑅. 𝑆𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛 2561.

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ᑭᖇEᐯIEᗯ -

𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 2200𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙��. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒. 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑥𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑢��𝑙𝑡 𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒.

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ᗯEᒪᑕOᗰE TO ETᕼEᖇIᔕ . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ .

IᑎTᖇOᗪᑌᑕTIOᑎ -

𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆 - 𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑅ℎ𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑠

𝑨𝒈𝒆 - 16

𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉 - 2545

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 - 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 84, 𝑁𝑂𝑉𝐴-1

𝑺/𝒐 - (𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑)

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑻𝒚𝒑𝒆 - 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑

𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 - 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑑, 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒, 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑡-𝑠𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑡, 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒, ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠.

𝑯𝒐𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒆𝒔 - 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑡, 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠.

𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔 - 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, ℎ𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑, 𝑑𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠, ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙, 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑠, ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑡.

𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒔 - 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑟𝑠, 𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦.

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ᗯᕼᗩTᔕ TᕼE ᖴᑌTᑌᖇE ᒪIKE? . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ .

ᴡʜᴀᴛ's ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇsᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ʜᴇʀᴇ?

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑎𝑟𝑑. 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝑊𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 /𝑎𝑟𝑒/ 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑚 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡. 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑤 426-𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒! 𝐼 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑚'𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑒 𝐻𝐴𝐻𝐴. 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?

ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴛʀᴀᴠᴇʟ ᴀᴛ ᴀʟʟ?

𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟. 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑎𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝 𝑡𝑜 𝐴𝑋-56. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.

ɪs ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀɴʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅɪsʟɪᴋᴇ?

𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑠𝑜 𝐼 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦.

ʏᴏᴜ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴍᴀᴄʜɪɴᴇs?

𝐼 𝐿𝑂𝑉𝐸 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘! 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑜𝑙. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑠.

ᴡᴇʟʟ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ᴅ ʙᴇ ᴀʟʟ. ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ ғᴏʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ.

𝐴𝑤𝑤 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦? 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑢𝑛. 𝐻𝑒𝑦! 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜 𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙? 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦'𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑡'𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑁𝑂𝑉𝐴-1!!

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ᗯᕼᗩT ᗩᑎ OᖇᗪEᗩᒪ! . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ .

𝐻𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐴𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑝ℎ𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒!

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Toy Box

[sentientstump]

i have a (very evil) question to ask... who's your favorite miracle mask character? favorite to draw, favorite to think about, favorite in general? :)

i will let the images speak.....

thank you for the ask! (⁠~⁠‾⁠▿⁠‾⁠)⁠~

[hey-heigo]

damon ride-tsu and eva hoof-naka

damon and eva | grace and wolfgang | toshiko and ulysses | diana and kai | desmond and eloise | jett and mark | ingrid and cassidy | jean and wenona

design notes and potential spoilers below

- damon’s cutie mark is a snake with a speech bubble. tried to incorporate apple imagery for thematic reasons

- he doesnt have any notable coat pattern but he’s shiny. kind of like an Akhal-Teke horse but he’s faking it with conditioner or something for a metaphor about fools gold. or smth i just wanted to make him shiny

- eva’s cutie mark (seen below) is based on riemann’s hypothesis but with the infinity to indicate she has more capabilities than youd think

- her coat pattern is based on dappled horses. both her and damon have some if the more “realistic’ patternings of the class, also for thematic reasons

- both are also earth ponies. damon probably isn’t normal about that

[the-fuck-did-u-say]

Right, so if you combine Harry’s glasses… and Ron’s freckles… and Hermione’s smile… stay with me here…

AND TURN IT INTO AN EMOJI :

[morninkim]

As a show of good faith toward the remaining Decepticons at the beginning of a new, united Cybertron, newly appointed Senators Bumblebee and Soundwave allowed Shatter and Dropkick to enlist into Autobot City's Defense Team.

These two turned out to be... not the best choices.

The city may have fallen to Insurgent Decepticon occupation had it not been for young recruits Hot Rod and Arcee's accidental interception of Shatter's communication with the fugitive Starscream.

To replace the errant Defense Team members, Springer and Blurr were reassigned from Iacon to Autobot City in their stead.

[thedistortionshallways]

Every time I look up Armand on Google and get jumpscared by the 2002 blonde version from Queen of the damned an angel looses it's wings

[fromtheseventhhell]

"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.

[aromanticasterisms]

the epic highs and lows of rereading your own writing to seek out parts you disliked and analyze Why you disliked them to do better in the future

[umbrace-rambles]

Thinking about them again..... it really is such an incredible introduction with such a fantastic adaptation

[kinki-cami]

Marsh, remember, we're asleep, dont make any sounds... (not that you can because youre not a plush with a voice box but still.) The worst part about trying to pretend to be asleep is that your eyes want to be open so they keep trying to open but your also trying to keep them shut without squeezing them so they Involuntary flutter while being closed. And the worst part is that i can hear that affini approaching this room. Do affini use the bathroom? I hope thats where theyre going and arent- aaaand it is this room. Fuck. Ok hopefully they dont try to kill mee🎶

"Well, isnt my sweet petal so cute when asleep~" H-how did that plant know i was trans? AAAHHHH and they called me cute. "I was sure she was much more of a stone sleeper. Perhaps her blood sugar is just low, her files did say she had diabetes." Oh shit. Ok, they know i have diabetes, as long as they dont try to do anything I'll be fine. "I ought to wake her, however, just to be certain." Ok this plant is definitely just mocking me at this point.

"Petal. Petal." The affini said in a quiet voice, gently shaking her shoulder. "Well, i know you sleep like a rock, but i also know you dont sleep THIS much like a rock. I had to put your stuffed animal on the other side of you so you wouldnt accidently throw it off again." She opened her eyes in fear, before promptly closing them and hugged her plush tight.

She whispered something quiet enough that it was completely inunderstandable.

"What was that petal?"

"they're not an animal" she whispered barely understandable in a grumpy voice, a twinge of fear underlying the grumpiness.

"Oh well do you mind telling me what it is while i take you blood sugar then?"

"Why should i when youre probably just going to kill me soon anyway..." She could feel the clouds of depression flooding her mind. The sheer fear and anxiety making her want to give up but she wanted to hold out for just a little bit longer.

"And why would I want to kill you, cutie?"

Being called that shut her mind down momentarily. "I dont know... its all just stupid rumors, im sorry" her voice started to shake as she finished the sentence.

"It's alright petal, no need to be sorry, here why dont we give you something to calm you down."

"No!" She screamed, terrified something bad was going to happen to her. "Please... can you just... let me come to terms with my fate please?"

"And what fate would that be?" The affini was keeping a calm voice and let her just talk. According to what the affini read about her she wasnt too talkative and seemingly kept to herself, she couldnt help but notice just how much this little sophont was talking compared to others who were quiet and kept to themselves.

"Uh-Umm enslavement or something-i dont know-i want to at least say goodbye to myself and everything before anythingharsh or strict comes to me" at this point she was uncontrollably crying, her mind rushing with every possible negative thing that could happen to her.

"Well, if you're so worried about what you think might happen, do you want me to tell you what we do to cuties such as yourself?"

She thought for a moment before coming to the conclusion of 'well if i know whatll happen i cojld better mentally prepare for it' "uh-um, sure" she said between sobs

"Well, petal, what we do is we take everyone who is sad or sick or fussy or destructive and we bring them into our homes and make them feel better, sure they become our pets, but how you used to live it was either suffer or suffer more, but here you have every need taken care of without any need for debts. But the more you resist the more drastic we take things, nothing too bad really, some just need to have all of their stresses taken away, even if they wont admit it. So whatll happen with you is first we'll fix you right up making your body work how its supposed to, so you wont be reliant on taking artificial insulin. Then what we'll do is give you some drugs to take away aaany of your stresses and then we'll find just the right affini for you, or at least whoever wants to take care of you whichever comes first!"

After what she felt was a bunch of rambling coming from the affini, she calmed down a little, as why would someone who sounds like theyre both really happy to explain this and a bit like theyre daydreaming about what theyre talking about, especially, based on what she could hear through her thoughts, sounded like someone who didnt purposely deal any harm to people.

She was able to calm down just wnough to stop crying and after a bit of adjustment and drying her eyes she looked up at an affini for what felt like the first, in context time. It was a little unsettling, vines forming what look like they should be lips, and wood surrounding majority of the face making an uncanny humanoid face. Her mind didnt react too too due to the adrenaline of fear coursing through her veins at the time, a rather large cloud of depression clouding her judgement as well.

"So is there anything else you would like to know?" The affini cheerfully exclaimed.

"Umm... will i be stuck here forever?"

"If by here you mean with an affini, then yes, if you mean with me, probably not, i dont normally take pets, just sorta..." she helicoptered her arms around, "rehabilitate them is all, well not even that, but its close to what i do, think of me as your live-in therapist. And if you mean on this ship, then definitely not, unless you want to of course, that CAN be arranged. Thats up to you, however."

"Gods please no, i dont want to be stuck again!"

"Of course! I mean you'll have to be here for a few days first before ANYTHING else can happen, just so we know for sure you wont... try anything. Anyway if you dont mind I'll be taking your blood sugar now."

"O-ok umm do you need to-" she froze as the affini stuck one of its needles into her arm.

"Im sorry petal, do you not like needles?"

"no" she said quietly, still trying her best not to move.

"I'm sorry would you like to do it another way next time?" The affini asked, removing their needle from her arm.

"Yes please." She responded quietly. She felt herself calming down, finding it dofficult to remember anything since she tried feigning sleep.

"Good, now petal, would you like to introduce yourself or would you like me to introduce myself first?"

[software-bugs-b-gon]

would you like a first addition miku action figure?

Thanks for the offer though! And thanks for letting me see it I really--

INTERNAL CONSTIPATED SCREAMING

--appreciate it!

[danothan]

finally finished flash rebirth vol 4 after a year+ of stalling and…

myeah that shit was scary. like tearing up, heart drop, pit in my stomach-scary

yes even his pathetic ass line. ESPECIALLY his pathetic ass line

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Burrow's End episode 9