#without his intervention

[twilightichor]

While I know that I shouldn't apologize for this, I do feel like I'm being more inactive than I would've liked for myself even in these moments where I have free time before the training starts. Know that I love Dain to bits, always have and he's been the reason why I got into Genshin. I love his lore and everything that surrounds him. But many times it can get really dragging when the content in Genshin is lacking for the most part and for a character that has so little about him, the fact that there is so little content to go with as things stand worsens it.

It becomes even harder when there is a newer game that will barely make it to a year soon to compare it with. And no, I won't get into the "Genshin would never" because I find that stupid and it's not the case. But it's the gameplay, the storytelling and a whole list of things that I won't bother to write up here that I discussed in private with friends. As for what the current circumstances go, it's hard to think that H.YV is taking it seriously with this game when, as soon as they finish the main arc of the newest nation, we're jumping from one festival to the next without little regard of the aftermath of the current nation after everything it went through. I don't want Genshin to get suddenly gore-y or anything of the story, but it does get sad when this game story becomes interesting when it gets dark. It has many reasons to be and a select amount of antagonists to make it interesting if it weren't... because they make it laughable at this point, so not-threatening or they pull redeeming qualities out of their behind for marketing purposes. There are many interesting things that could be done in Genshin both from the storytelling and gameplay perspectives, but eventually it's all reduced to this go-happy thing that in essence, feels so forced.

To conclude with this ramble, I just wanted to say that I've been feeling demotivated and it's showing to me, I can't imagine what it'll be to you. Know that I won't stop writing Dain, he's been the muse I've been the most invested in years and it'll continue to stay that way. It's just that... it's being hard in my end and that I'm trying my best to get out of this by thinking new things to address with him. All in all, I hope that the team responsible for Genshin will get their poop together soon and get serious with it.

[raynewolferune]

DC x DP Prompt: Bruce is bad at emoting but at least ghosts are empathic (too bad bat kids are not)

Was reading Twincognito on AO3 when I stumbled across this gem again:

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" “Danny, Tim. I was just…checking in. Is everything alright?” Curse his inability to make meaningful conversation when it wasn’t a life or death situation.

They glanced at each other and shrugged.

Then Danny hauled himself out of the bed and walked over to Bruce.

Bruce tried not to let too much excitement show on his face. "

~

Now I really want to read a story where Bruce adopts Danny post Meta trafficking and is being his usual emotionally constipated self. His kids keep getting mad at him because he's treating their new meta brother who was trafficked poorly (generally being stilted in conversation with him, walking away hurriedly mid-conversation, avoiding Danny when he's feeling really awkward, etc). They think Bruce is discriminating against Danny for being a civilian, meta, dealer's pick, but really it's just Bruce being horribly socially awkward. Danny knows this because of ghost empathy and find the whole thing hilarious. The whole thing comes to a head with the Bat Kids staging an intervention in the Bat Cave.

[wisteriasymphony]

immortal guardian marinette x immortal sentimonster adrien but it's been 500 years of marriage and they're just so sick of everything that they start trying to find ridiculous ways to kill each other spy vs spy style

[vaguely-concerned]

walking through lucanis' mind prison. the tam lin of it all

[dailyayao]

[miodiodavinci]

GREETINGS miodiodavinci aka one of THE coolest artists I must ask a very important question about Salvador AUTO RECOVERY. what does he look like without his hat....

from a scrapped attempt at drawing him in a more casual context:

kind of just hat hair all around and some degree of "nice hair did you cut it yourself nerd????" w

[aint-thata-bitch]

Playing bg3 again and after finishing the lorroakan fight and Aylin addresses Rolan, telling him he "didnt embarrass himself", I'm picturing them being besties post-game. And on a similar note, playing as a redeemed durge who adores Rolan, that just adds to the hilarity.

Like imagine being Cal and Lia and you've grown up with your jerk loser nerd older brother who has always had trouble making friends and you know hes grown as a person but you can't help but hold onto how you saw him in Elturel a bit. And then one day he tells you he's going out for lunch in the afternoon and you're like "sure. Oh that's the door, lemme get it I gotta see what poor unfortunate soul is hanging out with you lol" but then you open the door and standing there is the literal demi-goddess, daughter of Selûne, and the pure blooded Bhaalspawn that helped you guys a while back.

Truly a sobering experience that would force your perceptions into the present so fast it would give you whiplash.

[marshmellowtea]

the thing is chris would never ever cut off his parents without heavy intervention from his friends and a strong support system beneath him (taps my "raymond and celia are his main source of income and monetary support which makes it hard for him to fully cut them off" headcanon) but even if he did manage to go through with it they'd still be desperately trying to reconnect and control him, celia especially because who is she really without her little Emotional Punching Bag, so she's doing everything in her power to get him back in her life so she has that doting little lamb of hers to punch down on. and ofc chris's perception of love is so warped that he thinks her stalking him is a sign that she's Actually Cared About Him This Whole Time, Guys, No Really! and his friends have to gently break it to him that no, actually, her trying to get him back in her life so she can abuse him more does not actually count as "caring about him", unfortunately :(

[tiny-smallest]

Sonic Movie Universe prediction: Robotnik is an orphan because of GUN

I think what was supposed to be, tonally, a silly throwaway line is actually winding up to punch us in the face later.

Bear with me.

I barely remember the first movie since it was so long since I watched it, but aside from one, maybe two, of the comic universes, this line is the first time we have ever gotten anything at all about Ivo Robotnik's personal backstory. And it's that he's an orphan. In a story series that explicitly sets him up with a human identity- none of that Eggman stuff as his identity, not even a whisper of the name until it's a silly insult Sonic throws out later- this movie bothers to give him a Normal Human Society Firstname Lastname and a job.

(Okay, so Robotnik isn't exactly a normal human surname. But it's established canon that is the family name so. Suspension of disbelief.)

A series that we know will later delve, at least a little, into the story of Professor Gerald Robotnik WHO IVO APPARENTLY, ACTUALLY, DEFINITELY KNEW IN THIS CONTINUITY, AS HE HAS A SPECIFIC GRANDPA NAME FOR HIM AND NEARLY CRIES.

The original line was a ridiculous rebuttal to Tom during the fight in the house during the first movie. "Rub that in my orphan face," he says in response to Tom sharing a detail of his childhood during Silly Action Scene Banter. While there is a sort of tension there since the movie universe makes no bones about Sonic being an actual child and he is confirmed to be an alien, thus making the danger present of government capture and experimentation very real and kind of horrific, the scene as it plays out isn't overly out of character for something you'd expect in a Sonic movie. And although Robotnik is the threat here, he plays a large part in also keeping the scene lighthearted because of how utterly he fails to respond like a normal human being to literally anything. The comment about being an orphan at least makes sense based on what Tom said, but it's still weirdly personal and, therefore, kind of inappropriate to say. Like dude back up you're trying to kill a child why are you sharing your trauma with me that's uncomfortable.

Which brings me to the obvious point of that line- it's not just to make the scene funny, it's to show us how set apart from other humans Robotnik is. This is a man who has no idea how to interact with anyone, like, absolutely nobody, and every single scene he's in reminds us of this, including this one.

Now that the third movie has explicitly drawn a line between Shadow's backstory and themes of pain and loss, and we see Gerald Robotnik weeping over what I think is Maria's body in the aftermath of the murder (jesus that's dark) I have to connect a few dots of my own.

The first movie had another piece of foreshadowing they threw at us, this one way more obvious: at the end of the first movie, a government agent is sent to speak with the Wachowski couple. He tells them that Ivo Robotnik has been thoroughly erased from existence. As far as any documentation of him ever existing on Planet Earth, there is none. He hasn't merely disappeared- it's like he never was.

If they did this to Ivo after this catastrophe it's not a stretch to think they did the same with Professor Gerald. Hell, I thought that after movie number one. "That has to come up later- we have a character the government explicitly turns on in this series. Like, as a major plot point. The defining moment in several characters' stories. No way does their ability to erase someone not come up later."

But now I think they went a step further.

They've already murdered a little girl and broken an old man in their efforts to contain the genius they were frightened of.

Personally, I don't think it's a stretch to think that Ivo Robotnik, very young himself at the time most likely, is an orphan because GUN decided to eradicate the entire family line in an effort to prevent anyone like Gerald Robotnik from ever existing again.

Except. The son survived. Well shit. Uh. Stick him in an orphanage and keep an eye on him, I guess.

And where does he end up as a adult? A branch of the government. Where they can keep an eye on him.

(More than that, if they did erase Gerald, Ivo clearly remembers him... so Ivo may have joined them specifically to look for traces of the grandfather he knows existed and who doesn't seem to have any records proving that whatsoever. But that's Ivo's motivations and we're talking about GUN's, so, moving on.)

It's likely based on his sheer intellect, assuming Ivo wasn't embellishing too heavily, that he didn't have to grow for very long before that brilliance was obvious. Though the government's decision to let him live was strategic, weighing the gamble of assassination with the gamble of him inheriting the genius and deciding that risking him having the same genius as his grandfather was better than trying to kill him at this point, the gambit ultimately failed. Even though he was more than likely still only a child, they'd let him live too long. In just a few short years he quickly became a very real threat to the government- as in, if given a reason, he could be a very real threat. And nothing Ivo does is ever subtle or quiet, so his genius was probably very loud, and there was likely lots of attention, making an assassination impossible, because if there would be too many questions before, there would be an insurmountable amount if he died or disappeared now.

So, since they couldn't kill him, they continued to keep an eye on him and took him on at the government when he was old enough with the intention of keeping their enemies closer. Except all of their caution still wasn't enough and he went rogue the first time he was presented with the opportunity to grab at power they didn't already have, power capable of things beyond their wildest imaginations- a monster of their own making.

Ivo, who never asked for what happened to him, very likely a victim of circumstances he had no hope of ever controlling, who responded to this trauma by making his choice that power mattered more than anything- more than morals, more than hurting people who are just like he was once. That shaping his own world after all the horrors he planned to do in pursuit of that may finally, finally "be enough."

(Be enough for what, exactly, Ivo. You never did explain that. "Who knows? Maybe that will be enough." Elaborate.)

Whether he knew the truth about why he had suffered or not, Robotnik made his choices. He stood at that crossroads that demanded he make a choice about what kind of person he was going to be in the face of all the pain and loss, and he made his choice. This movie is about Shadow making his.

If this movie really wants to beat us all to death it won't just draw comparisons between Sonic and Shadow, but Shadow and Ivo Robotnik.

(If this movie wants to exorcize our souls after we're dead, if it intends to be a trilogy and not make more movies in following the original vision for Sonic Adventure 2, it'll place Ivo at a new crossroads, and this time, he'll make a different choice.)

(Especially since Professor Gerald, in a much worse state of madness and malice than Ivo, who the movie is setting up specifically as someone Ivo loves, admires, and almost certainly misses, probably won't.)

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Trans narvin fic go away, I don’t need more things to be working on

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Celegorm should not be held responsible for Lúthien’s kidnap. He was forced by Tolkien’s Catholic ideal of monogamy; Curufin was the original perpetrator and, despite lord of the rings later requiring Celebrimbor as Curufin’s son and banishing the prospect of him loving Lúthien, he remains so in spirit. #freeTyelko

[grapejuicegay]

Sometimes I just start thinking about this moment - paired with Maddie's "I just think that maybe you're not sure of your own feelings yet. And if there's something that you need to tell Eddie, you will. Just, in your own time" - and then don't stop thinking about it.

Maybe I'm just reading into it but the way this moment moves. Eddie steps forward, Tommy steps up to exactly where Eddie was, Buck turns to look where Eddie was, doesn't find what he was looking for but still finds something good. It's not just ep 4 and 5 where the focus on Eddie blows me away, it's also this.

[ninetyminutes]

Chevy kisses Gilda as a part of a sketch for Weekend Update and Lorne thought he’d be fine with it because it’s just a kiss, but when he sees it happen live he gets jealous. He doesn’t say anything and just kind of internalizes it though. And Chevy notices Lorne acting weird after the show and Lorne insists he’s okay, but Chevy knows he’s lying.

Maybe Lorne has a massive crush on Chevy and Chevy confronts him about it. And Lorne just tries to ignore it because that’s what Lorne does but Chevy manages to lock them in a room together until Lorne tells him what’s going on. Alternatively, maybe Chevy and Lorne are in an existing relationship and Chevy notices Lorne is kind of pouting and teases him about it.

Bonus points if the sketch was written by Rosie and the others on purpose in an effort to get Lorne and Chevy together.

[artisttrova]

Honestly funny how Kishimoto went about the whole "monster" thing in Naruto

There's a whole arc about a kid, who was made into a monster, who was regarded as such his whole life to the point he believed it and acted how he was expected to, only to finally be recognized for who he was – a scared and unloved child. Gaara found support and got rid of his monster status, becoming one of the most beloved and influential shinobi ever

And then Kishimoto pointed at Orochimaru and said "well that one was actually just born evil, lmao"

Cause the series never really provides any sort of substantial reasoning about how or why Orochimaru became the way they are, it's all diminished to "well the kid is evil and ambitious by default." Like yes, there are crumbles of what can be a back story that somewhat explains their villain story, but half of it is purely accidental and wasn't written with purpose, and the other half is so generic it explains nothing

It's just funny how Kishimoto doesn't believe the very things he's trying to convey

I would easily just blame the editors for this inconsistency, but knowing how the manga started as a "if you work hard enough you can achieve everything you put your mind to" and ended up being "um actually Naruto was destined for greatness from the start and it was just his destiny" I really don't think Kishimoto has consistent moral compass

[margindoodles2407]

guess whose BROTHER got BAD BATCH LEGOS

guess whose BROTHER is gonna let her help him BUILD BAD BATCH LEGOS

guess who's gonna PLAY BAD BATCH LEGOS with her BROTHER

[penofwildfire]

im so zanepilled i know ur not a zane guy but do you have any hcs 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

He doesn't actually know shit about tech. I refuse to see him as a tech guy he'll never be a tech guy to me. He knows the basics of how his brain works and he can download all the information you could possibly think of but he is not the guy you want helping you fix something. He's also developed some pretty self-destructive behaviors in the form of like, downloading so much random stuff for his little personas that it's filling up his hard drive and instead of getting rid of it he keeps locking away memories and messing with key components of himself like his emotion meter to make room for it all. On the surface he's the calm, level-headed guy of the team but inside he's an absolute mess of open tabs and disorganized files and probably like, some fuckin remnant of the Overlord still in there somewhere like he is a COMPLETE disaster. With zero sense of personal identity.