#through control of his abilities

[toasterfired]

reading most of kong kenan's major comic apperances and its like. okay arguably the conception of jlc and all that is such a big bag of worms that I don't really think they should touch again without a little retconning but like. essentially excommunicating super-man of china from jlc so he can be chilling in america is actually such a waste of potential with his narrative

[keferon]

Sorry but huhhhh-

GIANTS?!? YOU HAVE GIANTS IN THIS AU???

LIKE HELLO???

BANGER CONTENT RIGHT THERE I LUV THIS LOL

(I am a mimics au who is still trying to understand it even if I read spellbound and monster hunter au)

I HAVE GIANTS IN THIS AU YES

This lovely guy is Lost Light:D

(Also I highly recommend you look up monster hunter au bc it has a lot of other lore besides Lost Light )

((I generally recommend everyone to read all three of those comics because they’re meant to be perceived in context of each other))

[strawberrysamara]

"Kaidan Alenko is boring" WRONG. Kaidan Alenko is one of THEE characters of all time. He's Canadian, he's Schrodinger's man of colour, he's DOWN to fuck and still didn't manage to figure out that he's bisexual until his thirties, he killed a man as a teenager and almost caused a diplomatic meltdown bc of it, his tits are bigger than yours, he's constantly getting migraines, he has autism but doesn't know it AND he glows. What more could you want

[amongthezinnias]

the thing about pushing daisies is like.

there is a part of yourself that you hide away from everyone else. it is a neutral fact, objectively neither good nor bad, but you isolate yourself from others because of it, and it is entwined with a sense of guilt you have carried since you were a child. it is a fact about yourself that you can't change, only hide.

you have a secret that changes your relationship with every person who learns it.

you have a secret that you fear will bring harm to yourself or to someone you love, because you fear the way others will react to that secret.

you have a secret that makes it dangerous to touch the person you love dearly. you have a secret that makes it dangerous to tell others about your relationship with the person you love dearly. and yet, the relationship with the person you love dearly would not exist without your secret.

you have a secret that has brought both bad and good into your life. you have a secret that has brought everything good into your life. you have a secret that, you will learn, you don't have to bear alone.

[petitepatateuwu]

It's way too hot and I am way too tired to do any more efforts, so excuse the critical lack of quality here.

If you didn't know, Cole is my favourite Power Ranger :D

And while I was binge watching Ninjago I had the pleasant surprise to see him physically and mentally traumatized in season 5 😈

And since I'm a huge sucker for angst, my brain immediately thought of developing that idea in order to hurt my beautiful baby boy some more. That and also the fact that my brain immediately looks for logic in the laws of cartoon physics (I really shouldn't do that...)

So I bring you the "Cole is a Ghost Kind-of-Saga". I still have a few more ideas to exploit, notably adressing the ways the other ninjas will help him cope with his new condition :3

And maaaaybeeeee a small comic too 😇

Anyways, I will let my brain rest a bit for now and sleep.

[princessofghosts-posts]

I don't think we talk about how Nico got scared of his own powers enough.

And I'm not referring to the shadows he almost melted in during the travel with the statue.

I'm talking about that half of the monsters/enemy they met during their travel were connected to the Underworld and he wasn't able to do anything. He was completely defenseless.

At the start of BoO,when we got the first Reyna PoVs,Nico commented about how he didn't want them to land in Pompei because the ghosts there weren't friendly,and that they needed to go away as soon as possible. Cue to Gaia attacking them before going away and you have ghosts,covered with earth,going against Nico. Nico as in the Ghost King,the one that has power over them and influence them. The son of Hades that is able to summon ghosts like nothing. And he couldn't do anything here because the earth was blocking his control over them. And the scepter he was going to use? A scepter connected to death that should had help him since it technically amplified his powers? Gone,destroyed in not even a second (and he was also guilty for it-) He couldn't do nothing except escape.

He was already down because of this,but if we look at this in a critical way,this is incredible traumatic. This is at the same level of Percy being scared of the water because of what Gaia did to him in SoN. And in a way,we have another parallelism here,because she did the same to Nico. Gaia made sure he could also be unsure of his own powers with this. And Nico? Nico fell for it. Gaia was out for him since the beginning.

Then we have Lycaon. Dude started beefing with Reyna in the first 3 lines he had,and then decided to hunt Nico down because he wanted to. He is straight up a menace. But he is actually the only one that was able to cause Nico permanent damage. Before Lycaon I can't remember someone being able to stuck him down and giving him a scar. He got the skeletons out and it helped a bit,but he still couldn't shadow-travel. So at least his powers didn't fail him this time. And then he decided to use Lycaon's shadow to travel. That's were shit went down and Lycaon got to him before disappearing in the shadows. For the first time he got permanently hurt. He was probably freaking out inside because it never happened before.

Lycaon is also the first werewolf,and in modern folklore they are mainly associated with night creatures,the full moon and silver. In Greek mythology,the wolf symbolized death and primal instincts,and as we all know a werewolf is half-human and half-wolf. I'm more of a vampire girl,so I don't know much about them,but we can assume they have a connection to the death,right? (And even if they don't,the point it still stand even without the death connection). Nico certainly wasn't having a good time with him and it probably aggravated his insecurity on his controll ability.

He didn't had much going on during their fight with Orion,it was more a Reyna subplot,but I must say that he is resilient. Bro was dealing with Lycaon's damage,that Reyna specified was something extremely painful; had a break down when he found out Thalia kidnapped Reyna and,almost destroyed the outside of the restaurant; decided to jump in the fight against Orion and hitting him with his own bow,after probably searching Reyna for a bit; shadow-travelled away with the statue even tho he was still in pain and looked like he could drop death at any moment. Give him something for his involvement because he sure as hell is something else. And if he can be so efficient while almost fading away, how efficient can he be without limitations? (We will probably never know because Riordan nerfed him in any way possible to not make him stand out compared to Percy).

What happened to Bryce Lawrence is the standard of "fuck around to find out",something monsters and enemies do a lot with Nico (and Percy). Gotta admit it was extremely satisfied to read and it was a real good hype. But let's focus on the downside.

The whole time Nico was a actively fading away. His last trip was probably aggravated by Lycaon's damage,so he had to pull more shadows to get the hell away from Orion. He was already destinated to fade away with how many trips he was doing,of course,but I think Lycaon's damage accelerated the process. Mortals could walk through him and Reyna and Hedge sometimes couldn't touch him. And that's terrifying. Nico didn't had a solid weight anymore,he was essential an abstract concept at this point. His fingertips started to smoke when they got hit by light?? Like,what? And that is traumatizing enough alone,especially because Nico was aware of it and Hades told him about the risks.

But this got aggravated more by the fact that Nico was loosing control of his powers,and that's something Reyna pointed out since the beginning of BoO. The whole mission costed him his powers,and Gaia made it worst for him. He couldn't sense the deaths in a city that was heavily involved with civil wars. That was his first red flag,but it wasn't the first sing of him loosing touch with his powers,since he already couldn't controll zombies and skeletons from showing up during their jumps (stated by Reyna). And Nico was so lost for that. He is the son of Hades,he controll the death but he couldn't feel it. That was horrible to him because he was loosing touch with his divine parentage,the same powers he use every day. Nico is extremely in tune with his powers (the only one to have this other than him is Percy and maybe Piper),and to have that familiarity stripped away from him? His birthright? That....I don't even have world for this actually because it's like being stripped away from their home without a warning. There is so much anguish and a sense of loss here.

And when he tried to fight Bryce? It got worst. Bryce is another kid with a strong connection with the Underworld,his dad is a Chthonic God after all (Like Lou Ellen,Clovis,Ethan,ecc...),and the death in general. The guy come up to Nico with his little army of ghosts and decided to fight him. And Nico couldn't hit them because he was more incorporeal than anything else. Again. Ghosts. Nico territory,the one where he has extremely controll over. Since the beginning,before even knowing about shadow-travelling,Nico was already summoning ghosts. That was the first thing about his powers we knew about,the ghosts technically are his subjects because he is their king. And they are revolting against him,again. First because of Gaia and now because of another child of the Underworld. Nico completely lost a big part of his nature there.

Y'all know how much I'm obsessed with "Prince of the Underworld Nico di Angelo",and there is a reason for that. Most of my hc are based on that concept,and while noble titles aren't a thing for demigods,for Nico is actually a thing. The title of Ghost King give him an actual position with the ghosts,and help his influence on them. That's a canon thing since Minos was more powerful than most ghosts and it wasn't only because he was a judge,since the other two didn't had so much leverage to go off with Nico because they had a petty fight to settle. So,technically,social standing (beside Hades and Persephone status) in the Underworld is a thing. This mean that Nico position as prince is also canon,even tho it wasn't never acknowledged. And I did all of this talk because,in this case,a son of a minor chthonic god is going against his own prince,putting his own subjects against him (and even if you don't value his prince position,he is still their king so the argument still stand) and that's basically a coup. But also put a distance in the social scale between Bryce and Nico. The dude was battling against someone that was stronger than him,in any possible way,and was winning. That's how much Nico was badly effected by this trip.

And if Nico didn't decided to pull that stunt,because extremely pissed at Bryce,(we need to talk how his powers can actually bring his memories to light and make people witness them,he did that with Jason during Cupid and then here with Bryce.),he was going to loose. Loose to his own powers used against him,by someone that shouldn't have so much influence and authority over him. Few people realize that.

And all of this,without counting that he almost melted in the shadows multiple times. Both here,after he turned Bryce into a ghost,and at Camp,but that's something enough talked about. He was also ready to risk it all for one last trip to kill Octavian. When Will,Lou Ellen and Cecil met him,and Will held his had,he told Nico he was dying. Which again it was something we know,because he almost melted multiple times. But one things is melting in the shadows,another is a skilled healer slapping you in the face with the "you are currently slowly dying,stop doing that". And we really need to talk about this,because the first real thing Will Solace got to know about his future boyfriend,was the fact that he was dying in front of him. That's some nightmare shit to have in the middle of the night. And Nico got to hear the reality of what was happening to him in that moment and decided to say "fuck it,we ball" and went on with his plan. He was able to disarm the 6 roman soldiers (probably heavily armed) that were chasing Will,and he stated that Will could run pretty fast.

After that he still have the strength to fight against all those monsters,and before ever meeting Will he summoned Jules-Albert,put mortals in a deep sleep,and shadow-travelled again. And even after all of this,he was still standing and ready to fight even tho he was dying.

What the fuck? And people think he is weak??? Where?? How?? When??

Honestly,when it cames to his powers,BoO was a whole trumatizing rollercoaster for Nico. He lost his controll over the zombies and skeletons,he lost his controll over the ghosts,he lost a fight against a werewolf that is probably connected to the Underworld,his jump after Orion completely drained him and accelerated his melting process,his couldn't sense deaths on a battleground,he couldn't touch the ghosts he usually use for himself,he almost lost to Bryce,he almost melted in the shadows,he was actively dying in everything he was doing. And he still went on with it,fully aware of every consequences. And in all of this,the statue was probably draining his powers more since it was ancient and full of power itself.

Also,reminder that if he actually melted in the shadows,he wasn't going to go back to his father palace like he said he wanted,when they met in the chapel. Shadows are an integral part of Darkness,something Nico is familiar with and can use,but it's not his father domain. It's Nyx's. If Nico melted he would have been in Nyx domain,not his father like he thought of. And that's actually more depressing to think about.

Honestly,Nico di Angelo needs more credits for BoO.

[aliusfrater]

sam as a character that breaks the 'us vs them' dichotomy of hunting with the conditions of his monstrosity is not only something that is deeply inherent to the narrative's exploration of the familial dynamics that sam disrupts, both metaphorically (in terms of hunting as a metaphor for the cycle of abuse) and literally but it's also something that is deeply internalised by every character that bears witness to the same conditions of sam's monstrosity that the audience does but most importantly both dean and sam himself.

there are a lot of aspects to the way that dean approaches sam's involvement within his own agency/independence as well as The Family Business that mirror or directly correlate with sam's monstrosity and when it's worth condemnation vs not but by far the most interesting aspect of this to me is the fact that there is an inherent separation between the idea of sam, sammy, that is not monstrous but is capable of becoming so and the sam that is unknowably monstrous and is capable of corrupting/encroaching on/preying on the sammy isn't/is not yet monstrous. like this idea is mostly explored within dean's idea of sam and monstrosity, either separately or together, but there are a few moments within which sam demonstrates a subconscious awareness of this separation, and subjects himself to it as well, and most of them are within 4.21 and explored as the fact that the Sam—corrupted and monstrous—that Sammy—othered regardless—is to be protected from is ultimately someone that sammy cannot escape. it is in him and evil ('them') and giving into it means freedom or an entire 'acceptance' (the usage of his monstrosity—"maybe there's no escape. after all, how can you run from what's inside you?" / "don't let anyone or anything get in your way."—something he's explicitly expressed since 4.04) of himself.

there will always be an 'us vs them'. it is vital to supernatural. and regardless of the fact that sam exists to break the dichotomy, the dynamic of the structure is one that demands you fit into it and ultimately, i think this manifests within the ideas of sam's monstrosity, more than it does around it, while he perpetually struggles to fit into his role under 'us' so much so that his struggle becomes a vital part of his role. it becomes a non-role that's present in examples of the dynamics of his and dean's relationship as well as the patriarchal structure that i've talked about previously

[xxplastic-cubexx]

you say they can’t put telepaths in marvel rivals, yet we have some very credible leaks that jean grey and emma frost are gonna be in the game soon.

that being said, jean has telekinesis (and the phoenix force) and emma has her diamond form. telepathy is all charles has, lmfao. odds are pretty low for him, but maybe not zero if they give him telekinesis!

if yall have me say he got psionic blasts one more time i am going to scream HE HAS MORE THAN TELEPATHY . LIMITED BUT HE HAS IT <- he has gone against sentinels and disabled armies with it before HE CAN FIGHT I PROMISEEE

and technically they did give him telekinesis in krakoa (and very weak telekinesis sometimes before krakoa) so .... not my fave move but he does have that ...... and ig they give him a gun sometimes ........ last resort type shit but he has options ..

[vaguely-concerned]

the fucking insane and inscrutable rituals my dad and I just had to perform to save my TV from its own bad software update to the point that it looked like a complete hardware breakdown. may whoever decided that TVs should need internet access to regularly update itself lest you end up in a 'oh so you won't have 'download new updates automatically' enabled? well well... that's your own choice of course... but........ be a shame if something............ unfortunate were to... happen...... because of that choice... hehe old papa LGTV just worries about you, y'know. as your good friend and pal. just hate to think of you unhappy like that because you wouldn't allow one such simple thing... something so easy to remedy....' mafia-esque situation step upon an unbroken path of legos for the rest of their fucking life

[bithand]

I think that vauquelin should ditch the dread wolf to join instead asharen "the wild fade is changing me but I am changing it" lavellan, idk, I think vauquelin would enjoy the brand (I say, with a strong face, of someone that doesn't know at all)

HE COULD BE PERSUADED,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, He initially joined up with Solas to try to reclaim the eluvians for Briala. Which obviously is not a simple thing. I tend to leave his personal feelings toward Solas open for plotting (default there's a wariness and respect, even a little fear because he's not stupid), but he found people within Fen'Harel's agents that he bonded with and causes / efforts they've undertaken that he can support. Things get complicated over time.

That having been said, the fact that he always had an ulterior motive in joining and isn't loyal to Solas personally means he could become a double agent if properly persuaded. His loyalty to Briala comes first. He's always going to make his bargains with the angle of what might benefit her. So as long as Asharen can work that angle —

[allurasgrace]

Here are the flat colors for Ana~ I' sp happy with how she's turning out 😍🥰

Once again, do not tag as D///N///D or T///T///R///P///G. I do not want her in those tags bc of the rampant character and art theft in those spaces.

This session, Ana was cleaning out her parents' room (they went misisng and died five years ago, and they've recently learned the latter) in preparation for having three little cousins visit... but got quite emotional. Fortunately, Theodore, her goth nerd not-yet-boyfriend was coming to swap out with her, since he cannot spend extended time in Void-suffused environments. Now he is packing away things while she heals the party... very thoughtful, since he is a cleric of Pharasma and was drawn to her clergy when he was in grief and mourning, so he's very careful and gentle with these memories.

[sevenheaven7011]

Hear me out the fist of arkeyus is a portal!!!

[gelatinous-globster]

always been a fan of how his hand is drawn in this frame. the pose + detail of the wrist is a small thing, but in the episode he appears in before this one, his hand isn't as clearly defined—it's a subtle way to show how his powers have developed, which is fitting for the episode and this scene!

[mangled-by-disuse]

talking to friends about The Horrors, specifically the Trumpian Horrors, and, like

the more I consider it, the more I think that the best thing we outside the US can do - for ourselves, for the world, and for America as well - is to just holler to the fucking rooftops that AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD.

By which I mean:

we do not let politicians, media, and our own social circles convince us that American issues are the only issues worth discussing;

we challenge politicians, media, and our own social circles on the politics of appeasement;

we challenge ourselves on the assumption that laws passed in the US affect us directly, and we do not place ourselves in American shoes;

we focus on our own shit. Not because it's more important, but because we need to remember that it still exists. Our eyes cannot be on the USA while the legislative and political rights in our own countries are eroded from under us.

we look to the rest of the world. We get used to viewing people who don't look like us, talk like us, or even like us as an equal and crucial part of the political landscape.

WE ARE LOUD ABOUT THIS. In politics, in activism, in social contexts, in our own assessment of our own politics, we remember and hold up that America is NOT the centre of the world, and that American hegemony is NOT inevitable.

This is not because I'm trying to undermine American struggles. This is because the Trump administration is strengthened and bolstered by every other country that chooses to suck the cock of American supremacy in the desperate attempt to maintain the last remnants of the old imperial order.

It is up to everyone in the world to challenge that, and to say: yeah, this fucking sucks, and we want America to be better, but we don't need America.

There are other markets. There are other allies and potential allies. There are other global powers (Personally I think we should try to dismantle global powers entirely, but, you know, one battle at a time) and there are other political shifts.

So much of the current rightward swing in the UK, at least, is directly modelled on MAGA to the point that it's the same movement, to the point where the branches of that movement feed power and influence to one another. You know what has consistently been one of the more successful tactics? Fucking reminding people that they are not, in fact, offering solutions to the problems Britain faces, because these are American solutions and we are not America.

idk it feels stupid to say this. it feels stupid to have to point out that Not Everywhere Is America, and it feels even stupider to think that this is something that needs pointing out to the systems of power. But the more I think about it, the surer I am that one of the tentpoles of American power, and therefore of Trump's power (in the US as well as beyond it!) is just... the willingness of so much of the world to say: yeah, sure, everything is America.

WE ARE NOT AMERICA.

AMERICA DOES NOT HAVE TO CONTROL US.

idk. maybe it won't change shit. but maybe yelling that at international power structures loudly enough - making noise about issues that are not American, focusing our efforts outside America, challenging American supremacy on the global stage - is, in fact, the most useful thing we can do.

[artsymyargentavislove]

Let's play The floor is lava, shall we?

Meet Iphdrall!

I saw those photos of baby sturgeons circulating and I HAD TO turn one into a monsuno, literally got possesed by the inspiration gods and here he is!!!

Look at em' they bby 🥺

Here's the lineart⬇️

And reference page! More or less the size of a school bus⬇️

His reference is adorable but because I'm crazy I also turned him into a living terror, Heh.

Iphdrall falls into the 'Special Unit' ⬅️ category, it's almost impossible for them to move on land but it compensates via a special ability to turn any and all solid surfaces into a liquid-like mass it can navigate through. I can't accurately tell what fish his ugly maw is based off but is from also a real fish, is just that I'm too much of a massive coward to google fish references that aren't cartoonish fakemon 😅 bc I always get jumpscared by the nightmare fuel stuff and with AI taking over sites I ain't touching anything related to the sea with a 10 ft. pole online ☠️

Dis what happens if you get caught in his ability⬇️ Good luck!

[coldflasher]

look i don't usually go here but in honour of interview with the vampire season 2 and the recent uptick in vampire/buffy-inspired AUs i've seen floating around on my dash... eobarry interview with the vampire AU?? 👀

eobard is lestat, as if that doesn't go without saying