#or shall I say...

[lore-dumping-blog]

In almost every one of my aus, the obsidian steves are genderfluid-

They can just change genders and biological sexes at any given moment that they please

So there have also been times where the Obsidian Leader just went "y'know what? IT's woman time.", and became female, cuz SHE'S A GIRLBOSS AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE-

[makenna-made-this]

Ponder my chorb

[prlssprfctn]

Bruce: I am rather concerned. Do you all, perhaps, need an additional health check? How come most of you don't hear my commands through comms from the first time?

Barbara: That's because half of them have a music blasting in their ear at the same time.

Bruce: What—

Damian: Nonsense. Neither I nor Cain do this.

Jason, shrugging: Your loss.

Barbara: And here goes a guy, who listened Hozier's Nobody Soldier and Rammstein's Rein Raus during today's shoot-out.

Dick, giggling: Of course, he would listen that—

Barbara: What are you laughing about? You had your female K-POP bands blasting on the background.

Dick: I was streaming—

Tim: During shoot-out?

Barbara: At least, they were listening music. You put Kon's forty minute lasting voice message on.

Tim, shrugging: I am not ashamed. I am multitasking, if anything.

Bruce, concerned: ...Do you all realise that all of this could serious—

(The bickering sounds intensify)

[secretly-a-trekkie]

they are so important to me

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

[musicals-and-mushrooms]

[otaku553]

Cooking up something reaaaalllyyy silly right now

Uhhhh cookie run kingdom tgcf au with pure vanilla as xie lian and shadow milk as jun wu. Do you see the vision

[voiold]

Incase anyone didn’t know…. I love barbatos….

A sane amount btw

HEHEHE HSHAHAI I LOVE BARBSTOS!!! HASASHH

[zephyrchama]

It was a lovely afternoon, and you were enjoying a lovely chat with the crown prince of the Devildom. Diavolo was glad to have a break from work, as well as an excuse not to return to it.

That is, until Barbatos appeared. The butler asked his charge to please return to the urgent matters on his desk. Break time was over.

Diavolo frowned. He did not want to work anymore. He had been diligently fulfilling his duties for a week now with no complaints. He peered at the desk, with its mountain of paperwork. He peered at Barbatos, whose smile thinly masked a threatening disposition. He peered at you, a sad and helpless expression on his face.

"We're going to have to leave our conversation here. I am so sorry," Diavolo lamented. He approached you with outstretched arms.

Thinking of a hug, you met him with equally outstretched arms. "It's okay, you can message me la-"

Anything you were about to say disappeared from your mind as Diavolo picked you up. There was resolution in his eyes. There was no going back now. In haste, he threw you at Barbatos.

The butler's cool facade broke as he scrambled to catch you in a graceful hold, cautious to minimize any damage to your body. Though, you felt his bony fingers dig into your sides as Barbatos gripped you tightly. He was furious.

Diavolo was already out the door and down the hall, looking for somewhere he could hide for at least another five minutes before returning to work. Though it was regrettable he could not spend any more time with you, this was a necessary action to distract Barbatos.

He would never forget your noble sacrifice.

[zazrichor]

I will kill any god you ask.

[missmisnomer]

it's so them

[unbloodiedmartyr]

Stories are snares, someone once told me. And by now, mine will be tightening.

This has been a piece I’ve wanted to make for ages and I’m so happy it came together in time to commemorate one year since @thesiltverses ripped my heart out of my chest. TSV is unquestionably the best piece of fiction I have ever encountered and I think it’s going to stay with me until I die.

This is also the full version of my submission for the @zineoftideandflesh which only Val and Shrue made it into by virtue of these files being ridiculously large (and also by virtue of me being Valshrue vice president, I have an ecological niche to fulfill). If you haven’t checked out the zine yet, do it immediately, its absolutely jaw-dropping.

(also if you're feeling niceys please please please click through the pieces to look at the details. tumblr compressed them to hell and back)

[sunderwight]

I think Airplane accidentally made the Heavenly Demons incestuous.

I think it was an accident not in the sense that Airplane wouldn't potentially do it on purpose, but that he just didn't think too hard about the elements he was smashing together in this aspect of the backstory, and it'd probably occur to him if he did think about it a bit more, but he didn't get there before he lost his notes. And then after that point he was selling out so even if he subsequently thought too hard about it, he wouldn't have brought it up because much like the thing with demons eating human flesh, Heavenly Demons being hugely inbred would probably not go over well with his majority readership.

But like. Bro created this bloodline of demons whose powers tend to breed true, and yet despite the fact that they've ostensibly lived among demonkind and even ruled them for generations, they've basically died out? Also despite being incredibly powerful? There are like three total left in the world, one of whom seems to be purely Heavenly Demon in terms of ancestry, the other two being 50/50 hybrids?

The only other Heavenly Demon we hear about is Zhuzhi Lang's mom, with an implication that her and Tianlang Jun's parents just had the two kids -- one boy and one girl. No info on where those parents came from either. No other Heavenly Demon branches or notable bloodlines that seem to exist or have recently died out.

Like I'm not saying there's DEFINITELY a Targaryen situation going on with the Heavenly Demons, but... there was definitely a Targaryen situation going on with the Heavenly Demons.

But again I do think this was accidental. It's the sort of thing that happens in people's fantasy world-building all the time. Airplane wasn't thinking about the implications, he was thinking about things like giving the protagonist a cool secret bloodline, making that bloodline both rare and powerful, and so on. Which wouldn't have mattered except that then this became part of an actual world, where things have to function and make sense as well as matching the token descriptions offered.

Mostly I don't think this would have much impact on the wider story except to let Tianlang Jun offer some inappropriate commentary on the whole shizunfucker situation. Like someone eventually makes a comment about it being kind of incestuous that Luo Binghe is with Shen Qingqiu and TLJ is just like, yeah funny thing about that actually.

Also this adds an interesting layer to TLJ and his sister's backstory. They were supposed to marry each other. Instead she ran off with a snake (literally) and he eventually hooked up with a human. Both of them tried to get so far away from the arranged incestuous sibling marriage that they developed a thing for interspecies romance instead.

[nayrring]

"I watch demon slayer for the plot"

The plot :

[ainsi-soit-il]

The thing about being religious is you'll talk about your beliefs and/or experiences with non-religious people, and they'll sort of pat you on the head and say, "Yes, what a nice little idea, I'm glad that you have your beliefs to comfort you!" and every time you have to bite your tongue because your religion isn't just a "nice little idea" to you, it's a cosmic truth that underlies all things, and furthermore, although God Himself has comforted you, that doesn't mean that faith itself is comfortable, but if you put any of that into words, they'll look at you funny.

[meowder]

I HAD A BRAIN BLAST WHEN I SAW THIS IN THE TRAILER