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@dinlukeweek day 6: Hiding Injuries / Luke and Din on a Tatooine mission

slightly different reception on tatooine missions than in the rest of the galaxy

(commission info // tip jar!)

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Credits for Interlude 2:

Art by @mayhemchicken-artblog

Story by @absolutely-and-always13

Edited by @dathen, @mayhemchicken-artblog, and @thegoatsongs

Image descriptions (alt text) by @thegoatsongs and @mayhemchicken-artblog

NOTE FROM THE TEAM: Ordinarily, we love to encourage people to read the works LXGF is based on. However, this interlude contains elements adapted from The Beetle by Richard Marsh, which we cannot in good consciousness recommend to anyone. Please do not read The Beetle; and should you do, please be warned that it is exceptionally (even for the 19th century) racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, orientalist, and contains among other things victim blaming of male assault victims and graphic animal cruelty. No context from The Beetle will be necessary for your enjoyment of this interlude.

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Dialogue transcripts:

Panel 1 Godfrey: Well, you’ve heard enough about my case. How have things been with everyone here? Irene: Mr. Harker found a new clerk for the legal practice you’re all forming.

Panel 2 Irene (offscreen): It will be nice to have three of you working together. Godfrey (offscreen): Oh? Jonathan: What’s troubling you, Mina?

Panel 3 Mina: It’s only…I wish we had more answers from the sample of the sea creature we provided to Dr. Jekyll.

Panel 4 Jonathan: The similarities between our new specimen and the late king are a starting point. Perhaps one is copying the other? The synthetic imitating the organic? Mina: Or someone is manipulating all of this… Cat's meat man (offscreen): Ca-doo-mee!

Panel 5 (n/a)

Panel 6 Mina: ! Jonathan, did you see that?

Panel 7 Jonathan: What? The little white cat? Mina: I didn’t see that. I’m reminded of a certain friend of ours…

Panel 8 Jonathan: We should bring this stray home with us, then.

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Whenever I do worldbuilding I try to keep this image in mind

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Guide to cybertronian carriage - Part 2

Part 1

Term Two

Protoform development

Carrier

Emergence

Core Mode

Inspired by:

Drill-bits carriage guide

Starheavenly's Bakugan baby

And general fanon headcanons I’ve gathered over dozens of ao3 fics

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this is very high guard core to me

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AHEM *coughs and tugs at collar* 

I had a thought. Once again: I regret nothing. 

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Nightwing (2016-): Fear State

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Jazz: Hi Honey!

Jason: ?

Jazz: This is my boyfriend, the one I was talking about so I really can't give you my number.

Creepy guy: Is he really your boyfriend?

Jason catching on: Yeah, I am. You got a problem?

Creepy guy: No, no, no. I can see she's already claimed for. Sorry didn't mean to overstep. I'll go. *runs away*

Jazz: *Angry Huff* Claimed!? Like I'm a thing!? Agh!

Jason: Are you alright? Did he do anything to you?

Jazz: I'm fine. He was annoying more than anything. Creep followed me from the subway station on the seventh.

Jason: That's far.

Jazz: Yeah if you didn’t help I was going to break my promise with my brother and send the creep to the hospital then get arrested again.

Jason: You have a criminal record?

Jazz: Whats with that tone?

Jason: Sorry, you don't look the part. I mean no offense, but you're dressed like you work in a libary.

Jazz: I do work in a libary. I just also happen to be a highly train ghost hunter and humans are far easier to hurt then ghosts.

Jason smiling: Oh? How so?

Jazz: For one thing, humans don't usually notice when I disarm them. *Holding up Jason guns*

Jason: Wha- when did you-!?

Jazz: *Handing them back* See? I'm dangerous. Anyway see you around Motorcycle Boy.

Jason: Motorcycle Boy?

Jazz yelling over her shoulder: I picked you to be my fake boyfriend because you looked good on that bike. Stay hot, Motorcycle Boy!

Jason watching Jazz flip her hair over her shoulder and walk away: Im going to bring thay girl home to Alfred.

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Bedtime for the bugs

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damian has to be the funniest batkid because he looked back on all the crazy bullshit all his older siblings did during their rebellious phases like going on murderous rampages, running away to strike out alone as a vigilante in a different city, becoming a crime lord, and then proceeded to accurately predict ‘what can i do to top that and actually freak Batman out?’ and immediately applied for medical school.

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I had the idea of Spellbound Shockwave and Blurr playing 20 questions but then I went to google some interesting things one could ask during the game and each of them was just giving me more and more feeling of existential dread afohptnbfjdh

"What one thing you would want to change about yourself" PLEASE

"The memory you're keep coming back to" and "Which day of your life you would want to repeat?" Every question is such an invitation for angst ahaha

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Part of the reason that the ending of Ella Enchanted works so well is that the final command she resists is the voice of temptation. A voice tells her to do something she wants to do more than anything in the world, but that she knows the long run would cause immense harm. Her fight against this is difficult and heroic because she has to fight her own inclinations.

Ella's endured a million commands that force her to do something she doesn't want to do. We see the injustice in that. We don't want her to have to blindly obey. But if the curse was broken by resisting one of those commands, it wouldn't feel nearly as powerful. It would merely be an escalation of what she's already done. She would rebel against authority and do what she wanted to do, which could be good or bad depending on what it is she wants, but it is ultimately self-serving.

Ella's resisting a command that offers her the greatest desire of her heart is heroic because it is self-sacrificial. She is called to obey a voice that is greater than her own desires. This resolution rings so true because it points to ultimate truth. The curse of obedience is broken when she obeys--not the voice of authority, or the voice of temptation, or the voice of her own desires, but the voice of virtue. She breaks the bonds of obedience by choosing to take on the bonds of love.

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so with some bad math we can technically arrive at the conclusion that Lex Luthor is only richer than Bruce Wayne on paper because he doesn’t spend money on being Batman/the Justice League/donating to charity in Gotham, which is really just an elaborate way of saying Bruce Wayne has friends + hobbies and Lex Luthor really, really doesn’t.

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

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