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necrotic-nephilim · 1 year ago

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i recently remembered DickTim Week 2024 is happening very soon and i looked at the prompts again to see if i could get anything out for it and. the Hades & Persephone AU prompt for day 1 has got me really thinking so here's a vague concept i plan to write.

i've been pretty burnt out on modern Hades & Persephone retellings because of how they always seem to fall into the same generic "innocent wide-eyed girl runs from her evil mean mother into the arms of a dark mysterious man because actually she went willingly and chose to marry him" which has gotten repetitive for my tastes. (for clarity i don't care if this retelling is your cup of tea personally, so long as you're not actively trying to rewrite the original myth and claim untrue things about it, if this is your favorite flavor i sincerely hope you enjoy the buffet i just have little interest in it since it feels overdone for me and exhausted of it's supposed commentary atp)

but? but. biblically accurate Hades & Persephone AU has me all kinds of interested. because wait listen so hear me out right. Hades!Dick and Persephone!Tim, obviously. i feel it'd be more loosely inspired by with themes and imagery (though playing with death and nature powers could be interesting, i haven't decided) rather than explicitly making them gods and all. but. something dark and fucked up where Dick and Bruce are especially estranged. maybe to do with Jason's return, maybe to do with them just clashing and having their usual explosive arguments. and Bruce knows the peace needs to be kept, if he and Dick are at odds then everyone starts to pick sides and things just fracture so he needs a peace offering.

and the peace offering is Tim.

Bruce (the stand-in for Zeus) offers up Tim. agrees to have Tim move to Bludhaven and be Dick's... whatever Dick wants him to be. knowing that with the implication comes the likelihood of Dick grooming Tim. and Tim has no real say and is hesitant to put up a real fight. he doesn't want this, he knows what this is going to imply Dick will do to him, but he also knows if he says no things have the possibility to just... fall apart. so he's the unwilling bride, dragged off to the metaphorical underworld (Bludhaven) with Dick, away from his family, his friends, the life he built.

and on the flip side, i think weirdly enough, your best pick for the Demeter stand-in is *Jason*. just, hear me out on that. not necessarily on the side of it being motherly, but on Jason being just estranged enough from the Batfamily to be the one willing to call it out for being bad and wrong and raising bloody hell to get Tim back. maybe it's because Jason wants Tim for himself, maybe it's truly out of a concern for Tim to have autonomy, i'm toying with the idea of it primarily being Tim's POV and him genuinely not knowing which of these is true. (and the truth possibly ends up being a complicated middle ground) and because i like Helena, i think you can use her as the Hekate stand in, the one who strikes a tentative alliance with Jason and tries to go find Tim and bring him back. Tim stuck with Dick, getting groomed and hyperaware of it, possibly even getting fucked the whole time as well, knowing he can't go back without causing massive issues for Dick and Bruce because well, Bruce did promise him to Dick. so he has to adjust his whole life, try to figure out being a vigilante in this new city with Dick breathing down his neck the whole time.

and then much like the ending of the myth, a sort of compromise is struck that's a shaky deal for everyone involved. Tim is put on an essential timeshare, going back and forth between Gotham, where he has friends and family and a support system, then getting dragged right back to Bludhaven with Dick in this brutal cycle that he slowly gets used to and stockholm'd into even liking it. Dick isn't so bad, once he gets used to the quirks of their unbalanced 'relationship'. the sex is even something he can adjust to as well. not quite a happy ending but one that sits in this realistic grey area that becomes Tim's life.

i will write this, eventually, but i don't know if i'll get to it before DickTim Week ends so by posting the idea i'm essentially putting it out into the world so the peer pressure holds me accountable. i just. really like the potential of making Hades/Persephone AUs as fucked up as they can be simply by adhering to the source material and making it a raw story of being stolen away and forced to like this new home you didn't ask for.

also a less fleshed-out aspect of this idea i have ties into Persephone becoming the Queen of the Underworld when she's taken and how the transition from Kore to Persephone could be reflected in Tim. how he makes the best of the worst situation and becomes something far more dangerous and dark when he's in Bludhaven, possibly takes on a new vigilante name/identity and leans into the worst quirks of his personality he tries to tamper because there's no point in not going full tilt Obsessively Weird if he has no choice anyway and it being one small way he takes back his autonomy, and that inevitably making Dick *more* into him, because he gets to see Tim finally just. let loose.

#dicktim #timdick #batcest #necrotic festerings #necrotic works in progress #dicktim week 2024 #fandom event #this will be written i've just got a pile of things before it.#i'm mostly posting it so i don't fucking forget about it #i'm also interested in some of the other prompts #day 2 is full of goodies. and day 7.#but the other prompts are probably ideas that'll be shorter and quicker #this one i feel. if i rlly fucking ran with it. could go on to be a novella length idea.#idk how long it'll get when i write it #but there will be smut this i promise you #also i'm respectfully begging y'all pls don't do hades/persephone myth discourse on this post #i really *don't* care if you like romantic retelings i promise. they're just not my vibe #and i also promise i am *incredibly* well read on this myth #if you try to give me the “well in some versions-” argument i'm *going* to get incredibly boring with so many sources.#like i will go step by step through every ancient version of this myth.#i save that discourse for spiritual spaces tho so pls don't drag it here i will combust #anyway making jason the demeter stand in is funny bc greek mythos also does do the incest pretty hard #so like. it still works. it's funny #how long will this take i honestly cannot tell you #depends on if i cave and bump it up in the queue bc it's behind like. four fics i'm so sorry.#but you're welcome to send asks or whatnot to shout at me about this idea and 'yes and' me #that applies to any of my ideas anyone is welcome to 'yes and' that shit #it delights me dearly.#my sole hang up on this rn is how godly do i make it. do i give them powers. or do i just make it vaguely inspired by the myth.#both are fun for their own reasons.

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katsinspats · 10 months ago

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I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes

Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh:

#art #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #their dynamic is so funny to me like hello what episode of Untucked is this #I am rotating them in a 2 bed 1 bath apartment in my mind #Also very proud of how this turned out I think I'm finally finding a comic rendering style that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out #Simplify baybee it's a comic not an illustration you can get a little crazy with it #Spoiler alert. Getting looser with lineart and better at colour schemes and simplifying shading. Is good actually.#It's so much easier to eyeball what a colour would look like in a setting instead of colourpicking the OG palette and struggling with...#...like 9 overlay and multiply and soft/hard light layers #Approximating colour genuinely looks better than forcing local colour into the piece. As long as the values are still there it works out #comic

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shanklin · 6 months ago

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Sentient Mystery Shack, who is really biased towards Stan, so when Ford tells Stan he has to give it back after the summer it’s on sight.

Ford keeps tripping over nothing, nothing is where it's supposed to be and somehow he keeps running into closets when he tries to go outside.

But the worst part, the WORST part is that Ford's lightbulb just won't. Work. No matter what he does it keeps flickering and exploding.

Ford is spiraling.

There is no reason why it shoudln’t work. All his trial runs work perfectly. He’s already checked the Shacks wiring three times and relearned this dimensions science from the ground up.

Nothing works.

The Rift? Bill? The impending apocalypse? Eating? Sleep? Who cares about that.

WHY. WONT. THE. LIGHTBULB. WORK???

It doesn’t help that Stan keeps laughing at him.

“Then you do it!” Ford eventually snaps at Stan.

Stan shrugs and with a little song under his breath screws his own lightbulb in. It works perfectly.

Stanford screams.

#gravity falls #stanley pines #stanford pines #the mystery shack #afterwards stan can be seen gently petting the kitchen door #the lightbulb shines a little brighter #that time in the show where soos mentioned how funny it would be if the exit door was actually a closet #thats a game the shack likes to play with soos #the kids are bored or need a new room? suddenly they find a mysterious new room in the shack #stan cant find his remote? the shack just really wanted to watch old timey movies with stan. it knows stan best. it knew stan would have fu #stans thr shacks blorbo after all #stan also turned the shack from a cold messy research facility into a fun home that gets lots of visitors #the shack loves the tourists and mr mystery #so many stories and different people to watch #stan also hasnt paid the electricity bill in years everything still works somehow #and if they hadnt defeated gideom when they did the shavk wouldve shown that little bastard why they used to call it the murder hut 😡#the thing is ford already checked if hes cursed or if something elsemis going on with the shack and he put gravity falls weirdness factor #into account but he cant find anything out of the ordinary #the shack is just going backt o normal.everytime he turns his scanners on to check #besides theres no way the shack would turn against ford -its his house he built it #so it definitely cant be that

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chloesimaginationthings · 1 year ago

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The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #mike schmidt #henry emily #aunt jane #fnaf movie #fnaf pizzeria simulator #fnaf fanart #AUNT JANE FINALLY MENTIOMED 🔥🔥#tbh I didn’t mean for it to take this long just to draw Jane but here we are #I still got a handful of fnaf movie characters I still gotta draw BAHA #one day I’ll do em all #THIS IS a lil joke of comparing Michael and Mike’s extended family relationships #it’s actually kinda interesting we don’t get much insight into Michael and Henry #but I always kinda assumed Henry was close enough to the family to be considered family #so to Michael Henry is his uncle #and they have a complicated relationship in their later years #WHILE MIKE knows aunt Jane and doesn’t like her BAHAH #she did keep trying to bank off Abby #and sent a crew to vandalize his work to get him fired #SO YEAH UNDERSTANDABLE they don’t have the strongest relationship 💀💀#the differences are pretty funny though.. ones angsty and the other is almost comedic #no shade to aunt Jane btw we love awful women here 🙏🏾

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 days ago

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MDZS Modern AU where Madam Lan faked her death years ago, and the secret comes out in a random burger joint, in the middle of her estranged son's first date.

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #digital art #MDZS Au #Mdzs modern AU #Burger time AU #This AU (and punchline) hinges on the fact that this family drama happens right when wangxian are like...barely even a thing.#WWX is mostly just curious about this guy and wants to be friends (Flirting is to get a funny reaction - he's not really crushing yet)#and LWJ is in the hellpit of both feeling new feelings for the first time *and* the grief and turmoil of the Lan family drama resurging.#'Oh PD-MDZS that ruins the teenxian dynamic' MAYBE. But it works so well for pre-resurrection wangxian. Here me out:#You have chronic 'I can help so I will' WWX who sticks by LWJ despite the first 'date' going thermonuclear.#and a LWJ that genuinely is falling in love with this boy but feels like he's -#trapping WWX in a 'relationship' with him out of obligation or worse - pity.#And the fact the Family drama is around his mum coming back into his life? The one who felt so trapped she faked her death to get away?#LWJ is about to have a truly tormental conga line of emotions he cannot fully cope with.#The fallout will still be there. That's essential Wangxian building blocks.#They will reunite years later...under the glow of indoor lighting.#WWX reciting such a specific burger order that LWJ doesn't even have to look to know who it is.#And they spend hours reminiscing and laughing at how messed up those years were.#There is a promise at the end of that conversation. Numbers exchanged. A fruitful change to start again.#Stay tuned for more of this AU. I'm unwell about it.

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6vaguebook · 2 months ago

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When you're just casually writing, far enough along that you're not encountering any major issues, and then you come across the kind of plot hole where you have to close the doc and stare at a wall as you rework the entire plot

#writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #I just had to switch the climax with an entire arc so the timeline worked out #Now Jack and Jill will be living with the Emerald family for the duration of Mary's “the sheep are missing” arc #Which is cool because it's by far the most magical and hopeful storyline and would end the story on a much brighter note #Unlike what I originally had planed #Which was war and civillian death and Child abuse #I'm still mad I had to change something this late into the process tho #Oh well #The tapestry is starting to look like something now so I can't complain #writing memes #writing funny #writing jokes #writers #writer #writing things

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umblrspectrum · 7 months ago

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happy solvermas

#cause t. no actually if christ is the son of god and the solver is god then it'd be like uzimas #quick sketch i pulled out of my ass yesterday to see if i could get myself out of art block/burnout/whatever ive got going on #v was added after cause i had no idea how to work her into the scene #implied nuziv or something look man im just desperate about this ship #and i dont know how to draw fluff or whatever #im so bad at romance i dont know how to express it #but i've been desperately trying to draw nuziv for the past months #i think this is actually like some of my best linework yet im really satisfied with everything right now #been a long time since i've felt that #turns out the “stop overthinking every pixel of the expressions and just draw the approximation the audience will get the jist” approach wo #ks #something something n is the star of their life. tree light chrismtas #it is taking. All of my restraint right now #to not be So Mean to all of you #You Don't Even Know #I Could Do Something. I Might Still.#art #murder drones #murder drones uzi #uzi doorman #murder drones n #serial designation n #murder drones v #serial designation v #murder drones cyn #i need liam to explain whether cyn and the solver are the same person already so i can tag them appropriately its driving me nuts #oh yeah cyn got a plush core to chew on by the way #the idea of giving her a chew toy was rolling around in my head and i think its a very funny visual so here we are

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dapper-lil-arts · 28 days ago

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Oh hey, #makeaterriblecomicday2025! Let me do something wahtever deltarune lol. I know the Noelle x Susie x Kris polycule idea is rly cute but it's so fucking funny if krusie is not a polycule and Noelle just loses

#Shoulda been faster noelle #shoulda stepped up noelle #Kris beat u to it you slowpoke!!#krusie #kris #susie #deltarune #noelle #its so funny that suselle is such a cute endgame but like #kris and susie have so much more time together #and so much more little moments to work with #what will-they-wont-they does to a mf #I still ship suselle dw #but krusie is pretty cute #and the polycule very much is too!#meme #makeaterriblecomicday2025!#comic #sketch

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sesamestreep · 4 months ago

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it’s wild to me that like every modern adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (and by modern I mean “made recently” not “set in modern times”) is like Hell Bent on coming up with a Reason™️ that Watson stays with Holmes and trots around with him on adventures all the time despite the inconvenience and the danger and all, and so it’s like “oh, Watson’s a gambling addict, he loves uncertainty and mystery” or “oh, Watson’s an adrenaline junkie, he gets off on being constantly in danger from criminals” or even like “Watson’s atoning for sins of the past of BEING IN THE WAR by solving crimes with Holmes now” or WHATEVER. And it’s like, girl, maybe he’s just in love! Did you think of that?? Maybe he’s got a crush and it’s making him do stupid things. Maybe he’s just got bad taste and his type is guys who don’t know how to refold newspapers properly but can identify different types of cigar ash by sight, smell, and taste. And wrote a monograph on the subject. Maybe he’s down bad is all. I mean, Keep is simple, stupid!!!