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[sixteenth-days]

ghost iskall for the art trait swap? 👉👈

-vaish titiro

It’s storming out, but Iskall knows how to handle himself in snow. It’s his thing, in fact. In his name and everything. As long as he gets back to his cozy starter base in the next, say, fifteen minutes, he’ll be perfectly fine and curling up with carrot-ginger soup to wait out the blizzard.

The problem being, of course, that he’s lost.

He knows his starter base is around here somewhere, although being that he’s been down in the cave base recently he’s not as quick on the mountain navigation as he’d been start-of-season. He’ll be fine, though. As long as he stays moving, keeps struggling against the driving wind, watches his steps. Remembers where he’s going. Figures out where he’s going.

As long as he doesn’t let his eyes slip closed.

It’s dark out. He’s going numb. He’ll be fine though. As long as he... As long as…

As long as…

It’s bright out. That’s nice, if a little glaring. He must have made it through the blizzard, hypothermia derps and all, if he’s waking up to snowmelt rather than to a jolting respawn in his bed, little trickles of water like the snowbanks are sweating falling off to the rocks below. Oh, wow, he’d been close to the edge there. And properly snowed over. He’ll have to check in on the integrity of his electronics once he digs himself the rest of the way out of here…

His hands go through the snowbank. Right through, as he tries to lever himself out, with no sensation but a little whoosh of cold.

He doesn’t look down. Instead, he tries again, feels that distant little frigid feeling, hits something solid. His arm sinks in, spoon into soup, and then he can feel his arm again. Stiff. Frostbitten. Solid.

He looks up at the pale sun. Something glitches horribly, black and pink, in the electronics of his left eye.

[tinamybeloved]

George talking about excel!

[maverickcanine]

fankid 🤯 yes of COURSE i have a nextgen planned

[rivereddies]

saw the words bunny zemo and blacked out

[18cents]

people's republic of china: industry and agriculture (1977)

[dukethomas]

duke? i know next to nothing about him and i'm curious <3

oh boy oh boy oh boy !!!!!!!! thank you for asking i love talking about duke

one aspect i love about them: i could list a million things rn but how about. this sense of personal responsibility that is both a strength and a vice for him but in a way unique to the "great power comes great responsibility" model of heroics. duke feels like he has this responsibility to better the world, he feels responsible for his loved ones and ppl he deems under his care, but not because he's uniquely special. instead he feels like it's something everyone owes the community. he monologues abt how you can make that choice, to choose to do good or inflict evil. he holds bruce to this personally--confronting him about using his amnesia to ignore his responsibilities as batman. he has the weight of the world on his shoulders and don't get me wrong he isolates himself like crazy and tries to tackle it all alone but it's because he believes this is just what everyone should be doing. he doesn't view himself as particularly special or powerful, this is just his job. his calling !!!

the rest of the answers under the cut bc i talked a lot

one aspect i wish more people understood about them: there's a lot of really obvious answers that i'm going to skip over bc they've been said to death. instead i think i'm going to say i wish ppl understood he's not like. the mentally healthy bat. when he's not doing so hot and crumbling under the weight he has put on his own shoulders he self isolates he gets snappy and bitchy and closed off he gets into fights he gets self destructive. he's allergic to asking for help. and also he is very frequently in a bad place because he's a teenager that's what they do + in comic time he goes through like. a traumatic event every month. his status quo is constantly changing because of the nature of comics but in universe that means the longest, most stable period he's had in a while is, like, the year he spent training with bruce wayne, inflictor of mental illnesses. come on now

one (or more) headcanons i have about this character: i will elaborate on this in a post sometime but i believe his powers are about potential. snyder lore posits that metahumans somehow are created by nth metal. proximity to nth metal sparks duke's powers in a snyder comic, and duke himself is a snyder creation, so i figure this implies duke has a unique connection to nth metal. which is where i believe his meta amplification comes from in batman and the signal, another snyder comic. maybe if i read more of the snyder lore than just the duke parts i'd understand it more.

regardless, this connection to the source of metahumans could mean a million things but in line with the themes in we are robin about choice, i think it indicates great potential in duke. also, in alternate futures for duke--tales from the dark multiverse & urban legends #8-9 outsiders story--his powers have increased substantially in different directions. in the dark multiverse, his first canonical powers are amplified so much he has to actively suppress them or else he. can't see. but also those powers fuel him with one key thing that leads him to be the last survivor of the multiverse, which is his hope. and then in urban legends, future duke is just a badass who is a powerful mage???? which is something duke becomes, once again, to survive the way the world becomes. taking from a canon example, ra's and ishmael are able to invert duke's powers entirely, giving him his umbrakinesis. literally what other meta can this happen to!! anyways, my headcanon is that because of his inherent connection to the source of metahumans, his great power lies in the potential to become whatever he needs to be to keep fighting the good fight. whatever he needs to be to keep trying to make the world better. i think in the canon timeline, where the future will never become desolate, where duke will never become so desperate, he won't need to unlock his full potential, and he wouldn't choose to, because he's not that kind of guy. but the potential simmers under his skin, waiting for when he does need it. when he chooses it.

one character i love seeing them interact with: how do i choose one. i'm going to speed run a bunch of them. cass & duke are genuinely such supportive sibs like they back each other up it's so nice to read!! my besties!!! bruce & duke is interesting in the way duke comes from the era where they start pushing the fanon batfamily more, and so you get a bruce that does seem more supportive, and it really is bruce's healthiest relationship w a mentee bc he 1) positively reinforces duke 2) has never beat him up nor tried to. low low bar. but you can still see. bruce harps on how duke's the future of heroism. how he is going to lead the way, how he's "something different." and he pushes duke, and trains duke personally and assigns him day shift and puts him on the outsiders. and duke feeds into that by insisting the mission IS bruce's responsibility. they make each other worse is what i'm saying. jeff & duke are fun for opposite reasons, because jeff believes in duke just as much but also can intervene and stop duke when needed. just a nice positive relationship with an authority figure for duke it's nice :D

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more: pipe dream. renee. i have a very self indulgent au draft where duke becomes renee's mentee instead through sheer stubborn force of will and she is so annoyed with him all the time and also after the 5th or 6th time this teenager tracks you down as you work various cases you get a little fond. she'd never say that to him though are you kidding he'd get worse and more annoying. mainline renee and duke could have a fun detective story as well i think as two ppl with very different ways of operating who use their individual strengths to solve the mystery and also throws in juxtaposition of the ways their depressions manifest in there or smth. my other answer that doesn't throw my 2 dc faves together is duke meets anissa and jen pierce i think that could be fun!! jeff introduces them and then regrets it. also i wish damian and duke talked more after robin war the post-robin war dynamic that lives in my brain is great

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character: going to keep this one short bc i've said so much already. i headcanon the narrows as a large neighborhood in gotham and park row/crime alley as a smaller, really well-known part of that neighborhood, to avoid having 2 worst neighborhoods in gotham. anyways this means jason and duke grew up in the same neighborhood and oh boy do they rip each other a new one for that. half the time their convos are incomprehensible to non-narrows residents bc it's just insults from coming from opposite sides of the neighborhood and those insults are very narrows-specific. jason texts duke during the climax battle in batman and the signal and goes "how tf did you let narrows go to shit your first day. i wouldn't have let this happen. crime alley kids are just built different ig"

[mityenka]

for me rereading the brothers karamazov really opened my eyes to just how much the book is haunted by alyosha dostoyevsky... i was aware of the naming parallels between the characters and dostoyevsky’s real family with fyodor being the father and alyosha being the son as well as alyosha k.’s role in the story being that of an almost messianic figure but god there is so much more... the fact that child death is a recurring theme throughout the book... the peasant woman in book two who came to see elder zosima mourning the death of her three year old son who was called alexei...

[bilbao-song]

Jeff Lynne & Paul McCartney, 2002

[orbleglorb]

to all my unmarried and childless friends who have to deal with awkward questions from family about "settling down" and "having kids," here's the plan: we split rent on a two bedroom apartment, starting maybe around july. you start posting pictures on social media about how happy you are to have a child (me) to take on trips. we take a selfie in front of a "local hidden gem" to minimize costs and up our credibility. we can even send your parents photos of "their grandkid." i have a pretty average appearance so it shouldn't be too hard to convince them we're related. now, they're going to start asking questions. this is when we start gaslighting them. once we're at this stage there's no turning back. i can do a few whole emotional numbers. start crying inconsolably at a family gathering because my "family" doesn't remember me (this works better with smaller families btw). we can make up some lie about how i was born or whatever. unfortunately the youngest i can reasonably pass as is 16, maybe 15, so maybe i can be your long lost child. or you spontaneously adopted a kid. whatever the reason, i am now in this family and am very upset because nobody remembers me. this makes them feel bad and they avoid the topic altogether. hopefully this happens before the family christmas gathering, so they're still too scared to ask when showtime comes. you don't get asked invasive amatonormative questions. i get extra presents. this is a win-win situation and i can see absolutely no negative consequences that would come from this.

[transrevolutions]

(For the purpose of this poll, belief in ghosts/reincarnation counts as belief in an afterlife.)

[count-doodoo]

it occurs to me that if i liveblog the whole book in one thread the scrolling might drive everyone nuts. so this mess is all gonna be tagged djl liveblog.

SO. PART 1 CONT'D

(spoilers for jedi lost below the cut)

I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT YOU WANTED. DOO DOO DOOKU. DOO DOO DOO. IDIOT. I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR.

SHOVE IT UP YOUR RECHARGE COUPLING

NO YOU WON'T!!! SIFO!!!! HE KNOWS DOOKU SO WELL

god he's such a drama queen. he's describing HIS OWN ACTIONS. and yet, he says, "without warning".

also, star wars is ridiculous. HOOPALOO.

IT'S A CHILD! (idk i cackled at that line for some reason)

also

WE USE IT TO PRACTICE AGAINST DUMMIES. LIKE YOU. OH MY GOD MAYBE IT'S GOOD HE NEVER REALLY MET OBI. we would not have survived the combined powers of their battlefield snark. fucking hells.

I ALREADY HAVE UNFORTUNATELY. OH MY GOD YOUNG DOOKU IS PRECIOUS. PROTECT HIM AT ALL COSTS (I AM GOING TO SHIV SHEEV)

YOU ARE ALSO HER IDIOT BROTHER WHICH MAKES THIS SO. MUCH. BETTER.

also do karkran really not eat humans. because i can 100% see young dooku just Knowing that and nonchalantly being like "huh, he's an idiot. he thinks karkran would actually eat humans!"

(cont'd)

immortalizing this here because gods will i never fully understand the dooku-surname-mononym?-idk situation. even JENZA doesn't really understand it.

either way. love this nerdy idiot who just wants to learn about his planet's history!

i love this???? his ass is so fucking dramatic. but it's so...interesting? to hear this sith lord so utterly cognizant of his own mortality. he's so keenly aware that he could have died here, and that history might have been forever changed. idk. i am having Feelings. PLUS the thoughts on everything the hall has survived, only to be brought low by the touch of a curious nerdy tween? *chef's kiss*

ONWARDS AGAIN

[bewilderedbuck]

2024 music challenge week one review:

songs from week one:

Emotional by The Front Bottoms

Sober by FIDLAR

Ghost Of You by 5 Seconds of Summer

Bad Omens by 5 Seconds of Summer

Mr. Big Shot by Anarbor

Candlelight by Relient K

Can't Stop Yourself by LukeTrepp

Hey Man by Rain on Fridays

Dumb by Nirvana

Duck Eat Duck World by Destroy Boys

Northern Attitude (with Hozier) by Noah Kahan

i also listened to all the way thru both Unreal Unearth & Wasteland, Baby! by Hozier and loved both of them top to bottom!!

top 3 songs of the week: Can't Stop Yourself by LukeTrepp, Emotional by The Front Bottoms, and Eat Your Young by Hozier. runner up goes to Northern Attitude (with Hozier) by Noah Kahan

new songs for week one: 41

total new songs: 41

here's a link to my new (to me) in 2024 playlist in case you want to follow my progress !!

[flamebearrel]

February isn’t over yet, post HHCP valentines!!!

[ID: Traditional sketches of Rudolph/Rudy from the Hip Hop Cherry Pop film, done in red pen and accented with yellow highlighter and sticky notes. In each he poses and gives a corny pickup line:

1. As Rudy with finger guns: “You’re RUDY-ful!”

2. As Rudolph with a cup poured all over his head: “You poured vitamin water on my heart”

3. As Rudolph, doodling in a notebook: “I wouldn’t pick you last, Valentine”

4. As Rudy gesturing away: “Let’s blow this popsicle stand… together”

5. A standalone chibi of Rudy holding out a hand: “Handshake?”

End ID]

[asagaos-in-the-window]

delete me, repeat me, let’s try this again

can we talk about the [repeat] please, mac? i've been dying to talk about the [mc5/mc7 repeat] with you all day, okay?

[the-chaos-goose]

He’s trans because I say so

[mulletfriend]

hi if you followed me for re-animator i will be moving my fandom content to my sideblog @friendcrumbs !!