#Astrix thoughts

[aceofshitposts]

tbh my favourite dynamic for jaytim is the whole "i'm the dog they put in with the cheetah to prevent it going crazy" and "i'm the cheetah threatening to go crazy" except jason thinks he's the cheetah and tim is the dog but it becomes rapidly apparent at time goes on that tim is the cheetah and jason has to desperately wrangle him from destroying things he shouldn't

[randomthefox]

I really only liked three or four things in the movie, and you have to, like, ignore all the stupid shit that was happening around those things for it to even be possible to enjoy them.

I liked Maria. I thought the actress was very good. I liked all the scenes with Maria they were cute. I liked Maria having skates. I liked Maria being into the stars, I thought that was a very creative way to twist her characterization from the games where she was looking down at Earth from space and speculating in what life is like on Earth, in the movie she's on Earth looking up at the stars speculating about which one Shadow came from. I liked that, it felt authentic to the games. Maria said all the things Maria from the games would say. She felt correct in a way that literally nothing else in this movie is.

And yet they completely removed Maria's terminal illness from the story. Nothing is ever stated or shown that even so much as vaguely alludes to her having a neurodegenerative disease, or any disease of any kind. Which, in the games, was her entire reason for being with Gerald in his top secret research facility. So in the movie, Maria is just in this secret government lab for literally no reason and no explanation is ever provided. Removing the illness completely nullifies her entire characterization as being a wellspring of hope and positivity despite being condemned to a short life, her thematic purpose in the narrative, her reason for existing where and how she does in the story whatsoever, and the impact she has on Shadow's character.

She doesn't even get any final words before she dies. She is a girl stuffed in a refrigerator in this movie in a way she never was in the video games. In the games her final words begging Shadow to bring hope to humanity and give all the people on that planet a chance to be happy has a permanent impact on his character and the story of the franchise as a whole from that moment on. She was cursed to die young and never have a true and proper life on earth, and yet she begs for the people on that planet to be given a chance to be happy. To be granted that which she could never have. Her life was stolen from her by the corruption of mankind, and yet her final wish is to bring hope to humanity. Her strength of will shines brighter than any star in the sky. Hokey and forced as it is, the line in the movie of "the light shines even when the star is gone" is true of Game Maria.

But in the movie she has no final words. Her desires and actions do not linger in Shadows heart and drive him to act in such a way to fulfill her wish. She literally just dies for no other narrative purpose than to make Shadow sad and provide him with motivation to do bad guy stuff until the end of the movie.

Maria was practically the only thing I liked in the movie no astrix. And yet the movie still ruined Maria. I have to ignore everything else around Maria insofar as what this movie does with her for it to even be possible for me to enjoy the cute flashback scenes between Maria and Shadow.

Aside from that - I liked the Super Sonic vs Super Shadow fight. That's something we've never seen in the games and it's pretty fucking cool. I liked the way the fight was handled with them knocking each other across the entire planet. It made my inner Dragon Ball Z fan very happy. But the movie ruins that fight too by cutting away from it for the sake of bad unfunny Jim Carrey "comedy", and also interrupts the fight for the sake of Sonic and Shadow exchanging incredibly badly written and atrociously performed dialog at each other. But conceptually the fight was cool, and for the maybe thirty seconds the fight actually is allowed to take place I enjoyed that.

I liked when Tom and Maddie agree to help Sonic and co. after somehow getting into like twenty different hobbies within the maybe ten hours at most that Sonic and co. have been gone. The comedic timing on them going "thank god, yes we're so in" was pretty funny and it made me exhale sharply from my nose. They immediately ruin this by explaining the joke though. They went through the trouble of having this overly obvious set up where they're like "yay we're enjoying our new hobbies now that the kids are gone =3 " for like a whole minute of screentime. Then Sonic jumps in and is like "GUYS WE NEED YOUR HELP!" and after a few seconds of silence they immediately go "thank god, we're so in." And it's funny, and the audience understands why it's funny, and that should have been where it ended. But the movie is garbage and thinks the audience is stupid, so they LITERALLY EXPLAIN THE JOKE by having Tails go "really? Just like that?" and having Tom and Maddie go "yeah, we were so bored." The movie literally cannot even have a single funny joke that it doesn't fuck up.

And I liked Gerald gaslighting Shadow. I thought there was a decent maybe 1% of this movie where Gerald actually acted like Evil Gerald. The scene where Shadow is questioning if they're doing the right thing (idiotic and nonsensical for his character to be doing that btw) by asking "is this what Maria would have wanted?" and Gerald responds by saying "it doesn't matter what Maria would have wanted, because they killed her." I thought that was good Evil Gerald. And when Jimbotnik tries to talk Gerald out of his plans to destroy the world by beseeching him on the merits of them being a family together (idiotic and aggravating for Eggman to be written this way btw) I liked how Gerald responded to that with "you're no Maria. When she was taken from me I lost my family. Now I want to burn it all down." That felt authentic to what grief and madness had reduced Gerald to in the game. A genocidal monster.

Those literal two sentences that I thought felt true to Gerald in the game are of course overshadowed by literally every single other scene in the movie where Gerald is just Jim Carrey acting like a jackass and absolutely none of it being funny. And those two sentences I liked are also undermined by the character Gerald is talking to in that scene being written badly.

So yeah I literally only liked four things in this movie and all of those things weren't even good either, so yeah. This movie has no redeeming qualities. It is the worst film in the trilogy. Sonic 1 did not improve upon the experience of staring at a blank wall for the same amount of time. Sonic 2 was cringe and annoying and fucked everything up but at least it passingly resembled the games from time to time. Sonic 3 is actively offensive and painful to sit through and treats the video game source material the same way a vulture treats a decaying corpse. As something to pick the decent bits of liver from and then leave the rest to rot. It is a repugnant, agonizing film. In a just world it would be reviled for the blight on humanity that it is, but unfortunately we live in a world where Micheal Bay Transformers movies made almost a billion dollars each at the box office. So instead of the correct and appropriate reaction to this film, people are claiming to have enjoyed it instead. C'est la vie

[gummysunnybear]

Hey hi hello I'll be 100% honest, I sporadically watch TSAMS and TLAES - but I see your stuff and my curiosity is piqued.

Who the hey is Cetus and why do I ship Cetus&Taurus&Sun now

((I am humbly asking for any of your thoughts/ideas/headcanons/etc - whatever you want to share!! ♡♡ /@wordy-little-witch))

He's apart of tlaes! I believe he was mentioned in an episode [probably one talking about a astral dying] and was mentioned having nsp [negative star power] so my mootie @willowshimmer brought him to me and we made little ships with him! Sun x Cetus x Taurus was just very random but like...Two star boyfriends to be squished between is just nice :3

ANYWAYS HEADCANONS! :p

Sun gets squished half the time

Anytime sun leaves the train with atles they gets sad

Cetus crushes sun half the time-

Sun has to remind them both HE IS FRAGILE!!!

Taurus plays with suns rays a lot :3

Since cetus is a sea serpent he tells them both about the underwater life!

Sun makes sure they obey the cat law whenever he lays on them!

Suns the cook in the relationship-

They adopted dazzle! She's there kid :D [if you wish to add Cora and astrix into this then they are there kids too!]

Thats all! :3

[thewayofthegenet]

here’s some dpxdc fics

since ao3 is down and I thought I’d offer some of the fics I have saved. There’s a long list under the readmore, just ask me what you want and I’ll send it your way. The Jason centric fics have an astrix as requested

Shadow of a Bat - PaperPuffin

Captured by the GIW, Phantom was a mere shadow of the thing (no, person, he had to remember he was a person) that he used to be. He thought he would never be freed from the bright, white lab. Then what seemed like a mass of living shadow swept into the lab and Phantom suddenly, for the first time in a very long time, felt safe.

When Batman swept back out of the seemingly empty lab, he was none the wiser about the eldritch Phantom stowed away in his shadow. At least not until things started seem just slightly off.

*Wait, I'm a what? - Atiya_Blackcharm

Danny would like to say for the record that it was not his fault.

In fact, Danny would say that it was entirely Clockwork's fault. After all, he wouldn't even be in this situation if it wasn't for that cryptic time god.

But what was his fault was the fact that he kept helping.

He kept taking the cash from the assholes (and damn there were a lot of assholes near where he lived) messing with the residents who lived in the area. He kept accepting their offers of food. So because of this new routine that kept him able to afford to rent out his shitty (and possibly illegal) apartment and the hunger pangs sufficiently satisfied, rumors grew.

tldr; after Clockwork dropped of Danny in Gotham he tries to make the best out of the situation which includes helping out some people. Except along the way that led to rumors that he was an up-and-coming crime boss. A rumor he was largely unaware of.

Life's a Painting (and your'e the artist) - Shiningheart_of_ThunderClan

Title is from the song Sanctuary by Paradise Fears.

An encounter with a new student at Gotham Academy has Damien questioning himself in ways he never had before. He seeks advice from one of his brothers.

Ancient Deals - Bewitched_Forest

A long time ago, Ra's Al Ghul made a deal with the dead. In exchange for the secret to the Lazarus Pits, he was to offer up his heir to the Ghost King for an arranged marriage. But, when rebellion leads to Pariah Dark to be captured, the deal goes on unfulfilled. Now, with a new Prince crowned, to become the Ghost King when he is of age, Danny Phantom is left having to accept Ra's half of the bargain. In the form of his grandson, Damian Al Ghul-Wayne.

Probability - halfagone(milkywxy)

Tim might be crushing on his friend, Danny. He wished that was his biggest problem right now.

Amity Park Analog - Shunters

Contains all written works relating to the Amity Park Horrors universe, in which the wider world believes Amity Park to be a fictional town created as the setting for a horror webseries/ARG

Like and Survive: Phantom's Guide to Young Hero Survival - robinasnyder

When the world becomes aware of teenaged superheroes there is an immediate and fierce wave of backlash and controversy. That's where Phantom comes in.

Phantom saved the world from a meteor fifteen years back; an impressive feat back in the day but now that meteors threatening all life on earth is such a common event that hardly anyone thinks about it. Phantom is considered an old timer who deals with a small city and nowhere else. When he begins uploading videos with advice for young heroes, he hopes a few new heroes might avoid some of the pain he went through. He's shocked at just how popular his advice suddenly becomes.

Ectoplasmic Crystals - myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown

On the run from his parents, Danny has to find a way to block his ectosignature so he can stay hidden. The device he creates sure comes in handy when he's applying to an internship at Wayne Enterprises!

Basically, Kryptonite has an ectosignature and Danny figures out how to block it.

This is based off of the idea that Ectoplasm is the essence of death and a bit is released when a person died. When Krypton was destroyed, there was enough ectoplasm released that it soaked into the debris of the planet. Kryptonians are so affected because those rocks physically and supernaturally remind them of the death of their people and the possibility of their own deaths.

Everyone Dies But There's Still a Happy Ending - Allain_Kelyarus

One second Danny is trying his best to adjust to his new normal of being the Ghost King and the next everyone he’s ever loved is dead. Danny is struggling to mourn and while Frostbite and the others may have been able to help Danny’s body and core heal, they can do nothing for the human heart and mind that’s in shambles. The solution to that comes from Vlad of all people.

The Firstborn Son - Faeriekit

Danny Phantom, a somewhat established ruler of the Ghost Zone, has unwittingly acquired a baby.

And. Well. He can't exactly keep it in Pariah's Keep. He's no parent, not to mention the huge problem of how the air and sky destabilize human cellular structure. It would be convenient to have the baby's other parent take care of it... assuming that the man is entirely innocent of the plan to sell their offspring for immortality. There has to be a way to prove that the man is safer than the home the baby comes from.

...But the man has his own ward.

Hm. Danny can exploit this. What's an assessment without a little test?

Get That Out Of Your Mouth (You don’t know where it’s been!) - HollowedVoid

note: Please do not attempt to eat the kryptonite

Who let a 12 year old fight? - Silver_star_06

The Justice league believes that Phantom is Captain Marvel‘s dad and tells the hero to summon him to help them with Darkseid.

They weren’t expecting the cryptic eldridge being to start hanging around the watch tower.

Danny couldn’t help but feel a kinship with the pre-teen that ended up as the current Captain Marvel. A scrappy black haired and blue eyed child vigilante, that only became one because of circumstance.

Danny was going to help this child whether he wanted it or not.

*A ghost and a vigilante walk into a bar...well actually it's an alley - Sereneabyss

The one in which Danny gets de-aged by Clockwork for some riddle-filled reason he hasn't bothered to decode the meaning of and finds himself on the streets of Gotham as an eleven year old facing an annoyed and Pit Rage filled Jason Todd, alone, homeless adjacent, and oh shit, he has dark hair and blue eyes.

It's not Jason's fault he decided to one up Bruce and become the father he never got!

And it's not Danny's fault his ghost core took one look at this sorta maybe halfa that hasn't formed properly and decided he needed protection!

Aka: That one fic where both Jason and Danny adopt each other and only chaos can ensue from there.

Danny's Guide to Not Dying Alone on the Street - Maxamillian05

After his parents chase him out of the city, Danny finds his way to Gotham to stay out of the eye of the GIW or any other ghost hunters who might be interested in him. After he accidentally shows his powers in a very public setting, can he avoid the ghosts of his past and the ever-increasing number of Gotham Vigilantes interested in him?

*Coffee Creamer from Hell - AshesGleamandGlow & DuskyAshe (AshesGleamandGlow)

Danny gets caught drinking questionable coffee

Amity in the Ghost Zone - GhostBoyBrainRot

What if Amity Park got stuck in the ghost zone after it was teleported? The city doesn't return on its own after Pariah Dark is defeated. Without knowing how to get the whole city back to the living world, Danny tries to evacuate the residents but most Amity Parkers don't really want to leave. Some people do, but many decide to stay. After all, Amity Park is their home, and the idea of having to start over somewhere new isn't very appealing. So the town, for the most part, continues on like normal. In the words of the great philosopher Dr. Ian Malcom "Life, uh, finds a way."

Holding Me Now in Hand - DisillusionedDeku

After Tim Drake tells his family about his new insane chemistry teacher, Dick Grayson decides to do some investigation himself.

What he wasn't expecting was to instantly fall in love with the chaotic science teacher.

Danny had managed to make a new life for himself in this new dimension as a science teacher at Gotham Academy. He had a fulfilling life, teaching the kids of Gotham how to survive on the streets and then at night protecting the bats who roamed the streets. Now, to make things even better, he had somehow caught the attention of Dick Grayson. If Danny had to be honest, his life was going pretty great for him.

Now he just needed the other shoe to drop.

*Wanted Man - Binaberries

Batman calls for all hands on deck, a new meta has been spotted in Gotham. Jason sits back and tries to hold back his laughter.

*Gothams Ghost - moomoo42

Clockwork had found him sitting in the centre of a destroyed chunk of forest, numb after he had raged and offered to take him somewhere new. He had agreed, having nothing else to keep him there and not wanting Vlad to find him. Clockwork had deaged his body to match his ‘ghost age’ explaining that ghosts age slower and aren’t a true adult until they’re one hundred years old, which made him look around three. Then, he sent him into another dimension and gave him a city to protect, Gotham.

or

Danny becomes Gothams ghost and becomes attached to his knights, the bats, especially Jason as Robin, then as Red Hood.

*how do you want me - suomifae

Jason kept going back. Again and again. Because there was nothing else like being wrapped up in his arms. Being held together like at any other moment he would fly apart. And it hurt, like a burn, when he was held just oh so gently. Like he wasn’t covered in blood, like he could be anything other than a monster.

Synthetic Hope - AshesGleamandGlow & DuskyAshe (AshesGleamandGlow)

After a reveal gone wrong, Danny found himself in Gotham, dangerously low on ectoplasm. With no accessible natural sources, he's forced to turn to an unlikely source. Whoever said anti-heroics doesn't pay?

*Phantom's Red Knight - Krismiss_cos

Danny blinks as the man kneels in front of him and gingerly undoes the cuffs that had been digging into his wrists for hours now. Shocked at the gentleness the man had shown not seconds after throwing the world’s greatest detective into a wall, Danny can’t help the feelings of SafeProtectedFriend that bubble up from his core. The anger that had been coming off of the liminal in waves turns into subtle confusion as he sits back on his heels to stare at Danny through the eyes of his blazing red helmet.

Danny is interrupted by a hand appearing on the liminal’s shoulder. He feels every part of his being roil at someone touching something that’s his. His core screams at him as he darts between the man and the owner of the hand. He feels his body change as he faces Superman, legs joining into a tail as his body fades into an inky void. Hands stretch into claws, mouth splitting into a pointed gash, and eyes turning into swirling, glowing pits. Tail gently coiling around his rescuer, keeping him protected and behind Danny

Superman backs away in sweet fear as Danny’s -no, Phantom’s- voice fills with cracking ice and harsh static and he says,

“Don’t touch my knight.”

Off With [the Demon's] Head - halfagone (milkywxy)

As it turns out, Damian is not Talia's firstborn. Not her first child, not her first son. This would not be so horrible if Talia's actual firstborn hadn't been stolen from her as a babe. But he's alive. And he's not alone.

As it turns out, Talia is a grandmother. She takes this news surprisingly well. If only Damian did the same.

*A Piece To Make Me Whole - Emerald_Ashes

Jason Todd has a lot of baggage. It’s something he’s been trying to deal with and manage for a few years now. Yet what’s he supposed to do when a complete stranger of a kid crosses his path in a split-second encounter, and seems to inexplicably give him the answers he was never able to find on his own?

Kidnapping is the first thought that comes to mind. Dick says otherwise.

*Wayward spirits are better together - noisilyscreechingsong

Jason Todd wasn't expecting to find a small child in his apartment, but his protective instincts are brought forth quickly at finding out just how much this little boy has been hurt. Just how much is going on and why does it feel like he's only scratching the surface? All he knows is he would do anything to keep this kid safe, even take on an obscure agency. Hey, it's not like he hasn't done it before.

Family Bonding and other Perilous Pursuits - Shynnohwen

It started with Casper High failing to fail, resulting in winning the Thomas & Martha Wayne contest despite their best efforts not to, causing them to spend the summer as interns in Gotham.

According to Danny, the miserable expirence ended after he spent the whole summer getting kidnapped because the average Gothomite was blind and couldn't tell apart a sixteen from a thirteen year old which went to it's logical extreme of him putting the Joker on life support after the clown stabbed Damian Wayne and his whole class nearly getting adopted by the Red Hood after they somehow took out the Russian mafia.

According to the birth certificate Bruce found, this was still very much the beginning and why oh why did he always get surprise relationships?! And no he was not panicking, shut up dear children.

The only one not freaking out is Damian who is eager to finally have a blood family member(s?) he doesn't have to worry about trying to kill him or usurp his place as the blood son.

*Here's To Us -  jellyfishnervoussystem

“Although you get used to it. It being Gotham and all. You’re not from around here, are you?”

“Ah no, you caught me” Danny said, putting his hands up in mock surrender. “What gave it away?”

“The accent mostly. You don’t sound Gotham. You don’t even sound like you're from Jersey.”

Or Alternatively, two neighbors have a late night conversation on a roof and it leads to something more.

Gamble your life away - Half_DeadSerious

Danny just wants a moment of peace. Really, he started this Casino awhile back to let his Rogues Gallery waste time and energy gambling instead of property damage.

It’s not his fault the Casino became a bit of a safe place!

(Honestly speaking, Danny prefers it over his/Pariah’s old keep. That place is creepy.)

So… Why are there there grown cosplayers demanding him to get his boss? He is the boss. He practically lives here anymore.

What a bunch of Karens.

*Our Empty Graves - suomifae

They say that Red Hood has a loyal mutt. The man rules his territory in Crime Alley with an iron fist and a guard dog at his side. They say that Hood calls him Fetch, sometimes Fetcher. No one's ever heard him speak. Anyone who's ever seen him says he looks like an experiment gone wrong, that Hood picked him up somewhere unspeakable. They say he'll do anything Red Hood asks of him and he'll do it well. That he's strong and fast and probably inhuman. The girls say he's sweet, quiet but charming in his own way. Rival gangs say he's vicious, that he'd sooner rip your throat out than let you go. Jason just wants to help him.

Robin's Egg - Calix

While out on nightly patrol, Robin finds a very injured Danny Phantom who is about to be forced back into his core. Now that the ghost boy is entirely defenseless, how is Damien going to protect the core from others? And even harder... how is going to keep Phantom's existence unknown to his family?

Resurrected? - Playedcrowd5610

The team is on a routine mission when Phantom gets blasted by one of the goons wielding experimental tech. Unable to keep his ghost form intact he transforms back into his human form. Causing the rest of his teammates to think the beam had somehow brought him back to life!

The team starts to try to protect Danny and make sure he doesn't die again, always checking around every corner for a possible threat. How long will he last?

A King in Ghostling’s Clothing - TorScrawls

A frighteningly strong ghost appears in Justice League's midst and they find themselves powerless to fight back. Just when they think all hope is lost, something even worse shows up.

(Danny might have forgotten to tell them that he is the Ghost King and that the job comes with certain eldritch "perks")

Justice League - Seasilver

Shenanigans occur when the justice league meet King Phantom

Danny Phantom & the DCU - Ocearna

A collection of Danny Phantom and DC universe crossover one shots. Set in the same universe, but I intend to write them so they can be read standalone if you like.

that time it was deadman's fault - Ocearna

"Oh, nope. No, nope, no way," Deadman protests, floating up into a corner with his hands up and a stressed look on his face. "I am not going anywhere near those idiots."

John can feel his eyebrow rising at the ghost's reaction.

"Why not?" Batman asked.

"Because that," Deadman explains with a dramatic gesture, "is Infinite Realms business."

Danny What The Fuck?? - FanFiction_Artist_Prototype

Phantom is almost comically overpowered compared to the Justice League on account of not only being a boy king of an alternate dimension, but also because he fought creatures from said alternate dimension and whilst Constantine did that too -on a rather unfortunately regular basis- he didn't fight Darkside level threats on his own at fourteen years of age.

Hence how overpowered Phantom was.

But he was also still a boy, which might be how Constantine found himself looking down the barrel of a gun.

The Grayson kids - NerdofSpades

Danny and Dick are twin brothers. Things happen. It's fine. The Team certainly likes him well enough.

The Ghost King's To-Do List - violetmoreviolent

When Danny thought of royalty he used to think of resplendence and indulgence and the delegation of tasks.

Well, that turned out to be a load of crap. Danny now had a laundry list of problems he had to take care of, starting with the leaks of ectoplasm that were draining from the Ghost Zone into the Mortal Realm and that was much too dangerous to be lying around where any old human could be exposed to the soul corrupting biohazard.

(And maybe after he'd hit up that Constantine guy he's gotten complaints from no less than ten of his subjects and had a whole list of other transgressions and alarming notes of interest on. Someone like that couldn't be left to just run around unmonitored not even mentioning that active custody case for his soul that was being duked out in ghost court. Danny's ghost court.)

*Danny Fenton: Dead and Loving It - HyperKid

Danny and Jason meet by chance in a graveyard on Christmas Eve over a certain someone’s grave. Neither expect to ever see the other again, until they run into each other at a coffee shop less than a week later.

And now that they’re both thinking clearly, there’s obviously something wrong.

Concession to Realism - wildimaginingsofhalfbakedideas

Clockwork was not usually the type to meddle. He preferred to watch from afar, monitoring and observing. Unless, of course, something forced his hand. The new Ghost King was a child, one in a very precarious position. It would be far to easy for him to be pushed too far and end up as a danger to the universe. The ghost of time had no choice but to step in.

aka Clockwork sends Danny to a universe where he'll be safe until he can take up the mantle of Ghost King, a dimension far away from the Fentons and other ghost hunters. Danny is less than thrilled, especially when he starts developing a soft spot for some local bats.

*Anima, Animus - ectoentity (IgnotusSomnium)

There is a darkness growing in Gotham. One that is far different from the comfortable shadows and familiar fiends that the Bat-family is used to. It is preying on their people and making life even more dangerous than usual. They need an expert to find out what is happening to their city.

Halfway across the country, ghostly hero Danny Fenton is having dreams that belong to someone else: his long-lost brother Jason Todd.

*Unearthed, Reborn - QueenOfTheQuill

24-year-old Danny isn't sure what, exactly, is going on when he stumbles on newly-formed halfa Jay in the Ghost Zone. Unfortunately, Jay can't really remember enough to give him any hints. Oh well, who needs to know their past anyway? This is Gotham; no one cares about your past here.

Besides, Jay just got adopted by the weirdest trio of people he's ever met, so he's got more important things to focus on.

*The Ghost King (of Miscommunication) - ObsidianSnake

100 years after his half-death in the portal, Ghost King Danny Phantom is in Gotham checking up on a rumor when he senses a baby halfa struggling to form a core.

He practically football tackles his new son all the way to the Far Frozen.

While Frostbite is managing his health, Danny explains why he brought him here, that he's been ghost adopted, and that he can just let Danny know if he'd prefer to be left alone after he's all healed up (he isn't going to force him to be family if that's not what he wants. Danny isn't Vlad.)

Unfortunately for Danny, human hearing is far more limited than halfa hearing, and Jason's core was not yet mature enough to improve his.

Not enough for him to hear Danny's very important explanation from inside the healing tube, at least.

Jason, feeling very kidnapped, decides to remain mostly quiet and cooperative in order to gain information.

Danny takes this as a sign that Jason is scared about his close call with a health issue and open to being adopted, but too shy to talk about it just yet.

*Don't Leave Me in the Dark - Astra_Nova_Kat

What's Jason supposed to do when he comes home one night to find a crying child with only one arm, and Lazarus Pit green eyes, wiping their own blood up from his apartment floor?

The answer is probably not, "Adopt them.", but, hey, he's never had the best plans and the kid looks like he weighs five pounds soaking wet.

(Danny can't remember how old he is - he remembers being sixteen, but he remembers being six even clearer - just that the last thing in his head is someone rooting around his intestines and telling him he's a fascinating specimen.)

The King's Coffin - RaaorQtpbpdy

When a massive Lazarus Pit is discovered in the arctic, the Justice League races to get there before the League of Assassins. Inside it, they find a peculiar coffin which radiates magical energy.

If You Give a Bat a Burger - Cielle_Noire

Strange things are going on in Gotham: A series of crimes linked only by a sentence uttered. A drug that no one seems to be selling, but lots of people are taking. An old enemy reborn, or someone pretending to be him. Graffiti that can't be photographed by normal means. Bartenders disappearing without a trace. John Constantine is also there.

Danny wants nothing to do with any of it. He just wants to sell burgers and survive. Actually, he'd like to go home again, but since that isn't possible, he'll stick with burgers.

Gotham's vigilante's have other plans.

This is why Danny doesn't do favors.

How to Adopt, The Bruce Wayne Way by Alfred Pennyworth - LokisGhost

Step One, Find a child. Step Two...

How (Not) to Get Adopted by Bruce Wayne: An Incomplete Guide - Evandarya

Danny Fenton has been in foster care for a little over a year, bumped around from family to family, city to city, until he find himself in Gotham.

Which is fine. He doesn't need a family.

But can he convince Bruce Wayne of that?

*Gotham's Youngest Ghost - mimsyborogrove

Somewhere in Gotham, a small child finds themself alone and lost on the streets of Crime Alley. Nearby, a liminally-challenged vigilante has no idea his life is about to be turned upside down. Again.

This is all Clockwork's fault, Danny is sure of it.

close enough to be whole again - hailsatanacab

“If you ever find yourself in danger, go to Bruce Wayne. He will help you.”

His mother had loved him, in her own way. If she hadn’t, she wouldn’t have helped him escape. If she hadn’t, she would have dragged him back to the League of Assassins, to Grandfather. If she hadn’t, he’d be dead.

She loved him, but she loved the League more.

Jack and Maddie Fenton loved him too, they did, but they loved their work more.

They loved their work more.

--

After his parents react poorly to his reveal, Danny escapes to the only person he thinks can help him - Bruce Wayne. He doesn't know what to expect when he gets there, but it has to be better than where he is, surely? He certainly doesn't expect to be reunited with his long lost twin brother Damian. It's funny how things work out that way.

Who's Old Now? - LiraBuswavi

“Am I your dad!!?” Billy shouted. Danny paused. Took a deep breath in and out before turning to him.

“I’m gonna need you to back up, and explain. Please.”

Or, what happens when a twelve year old masquerading as an adult superhero calls his guardian, an adult who can also turn into a child superhero, on speaker phone, in front of the Justice League.

Bus to Nowhere - foldingfacets

Is it running from your problems if your problems consider you to be a dead imprint of consciousness that killed their son? Yes, but Danny tries not to think about how his nightmares of his parents trying to kill him came true when they found out he was Phantom.

After being on the run from his parents and the government for a couple of months, moving from town to town, Danny ends up in Gotham City and decides to risk staying in Batman's territory. He'd take the wrath of Batman over live vivisection via beloved parents or being studied and torn apart by the government. Besides, he's not a meta. Being dead is a medical condition.

*Adopted By A Ghostling - Omnicrex

Jason Todd takes after Bruce Wayne in an unexpected way by having a small child decide he's their dad now. Of course, it starts out rocky and nerve wrecking because this 6-year-old is a brat, but he can't just ditch a Tiny Meta Child with a possible connection to Lazarus Pits alone to wander the streets of Gotham. Even if the kid wouldn't just follow him back home.

*what was lost, found again - halfagone (milkywxy)

Being half-dead had its perks, apparently. Like finding and saving a teenager trying to dig his way out of his own grave. Yeah. This is Danny's life now. He'll still take it over trying not to get skinned alive by Skulker, though.

A Ghost in Gotham - SassyAngel

Danny hated Vlad with a passion but he also held some sort of respect from him. Their relationship was impossibly complicated, bordering between being mortal enemies and best of allies. There have been times where Vlad was the only person in the entire world that he could relate to, both being half-dead science experiments gone wrong and all that. There have also been times where Danny wanted nothing more than to pummel Vlad’s face in and curse him to high hell.

So when Vlad came to him for a favor, Danny squinted his eyes with high distrust. He had to be civil, since he was Fenton at the moment and his parents were around, but he sure as hell wouldn’t be dropping his guard anytime soon. “Let me get this straight, you want me to join you in your rich people party as your honorary son and plus one?” Danny deadpanned.

“Yes, that’s about it.”

Or...

In which Danny Fenton has to go to Gotham to stop ghost shenanigans from ensuing. Vlad gets a redemption arch because I genuinely think that (at first) if he only got his head out of his ass then he'd be a cool psuedo dad.

A Heart Frozen Shut - Library_of_Cronos

The red-haired sister to the new guard hadn’t seemed interesting to Victor Fries, but she at least kept the room colder the few sessions they previously spent together.

So, what was she apologizing for?

down the rabbit hole (goes the throne) - halfagone (milkywxy)

After defeating an unusual creature, three members of the Justice League find themselves incidentally transported to an unfamiliar realm. There, they receive the help of a teenager by the name of 'Danny'. Only, as they find out, their helper might not be Danny at all. Batman plans to step in, with the aide of his family, to unravel the mystery. And quite the mystery it is.

There's something Wrong with Amity Park, but what does one Danny Fenton have to do with any of it?

As it turns out: everything and nothing.

And that's the least confusing part.

Change in Management - voidwriting

Who's Afraid Of Who? - Omnicrex

Tumblr Prompt from Stealingyourbones: Jazz becomes a criminal psychologist and works for the GCPD and interrogates and cracks even the criminals with the strongest will to spill incriminating evidence and poke holes in their alibi.

Adendum by Mikami1992: Someone gives Jazz the wrong interrogation room number. Now she goes to visit a certain Dr. Crane... The station officers realize the error in the files when visiting the other resource, 1 hour later it's too late. By the time they arrive at the interrogation room, they find...

Dr Jasmine Nightingale became an expert on the mind to help people. That included almost all of Gotham's worst offenders. Dr Crane, aka Scarecrow, is about to find out more first hand.

From Eldritch Horror To Fun Dad - Omnicrex

Tumblr Prompt from p0ssym1lker: Danny being known as terrifying to the justice League and a fun small guy to the young Justice League

*Life After Death Support - Notrus

Danny is figuring out this super hero thing one step at a time and with so many heroes around, surely someone would be open to having a ghostly apprentice - or at least show him the ropes. But maybe what he's really looking for is someone to relate to and maybe Red Hood isn't the safest choice, but there's very credible rumors that he's died before...

Jason just wants to lock this wannabe vigilante in one of his safehouses and make sure nothing finishes the job of killing him. But maybe a snarky teenager that deals with his own death way better than he did is just what he was missing...

Dead by Starlight - BulletToTheThighAndAss

Damian Wayne gets along well with his siblings (at least, better than anyone was expecting a half-feral assassin prince to get along with anyone). This may be because he once had a brother. Potentially.

OR: Damian Wayne has a dead big brother. He didn't really see the point in telling anyone until Danyal Al Ghul (or is it Danny Fenton?) supposedly comes back from the dead.

But I Want to Be Let In, Not Out - TheWritingOwl

Growing up with the Fentons, Danny resigned himself to the fact that he would never see Damian again. However, when he gets summoned to Gotham after becoming the Ghost King, he finds himself reuniting with his long lost twin.

The Wayne's Invisible Eldritch Friend - Half-dead Ham (Grima101)

Danny's experiences with the Wayne family and the various characters they're connected with and vice versa.

*Let Me Have My Vengeance (It's the Only Salve that Saves) - SagaDuWyrm

To summon the High King of the Dead, you must make a sacrifice of heroes blood. Unfortunately, what counts as a hero is entirely up to the Ghost King himself, requiring enterprising cultists to capture multiple heroes and test out all of them. The most controversial of these heroes is the Red Hood, Avenger and Guardian of Crime Alley.

Long Lost Love (Holds On to Me Tight) - SagaDuWyrm

Prompt is from @keimiwolf on Tumblr:

"Damian Al Ghul know his brother is dead. So when a cult summons the ghost king, Damien Wayne is not expecting to see a familiar face."

Taking Flight - Eternal_Phantom

Danny decides to tell his parents the truth. It doesn't go so hot. Fleeing Amity Park for his life he decides Gotham is the best place to fall through the cracks. Sadly as a black-haired blue-eyed teen with a strong sense of morality the adoption papers were half filled out.

Unfortunately for Bruce, Danny has a thing about rich guys with secret identities who want to adopt him.

Joke Conspiracy - Autophile

The world works very hard to make the amount of humans who know Dannys is Phantom larger.

Danny at seventeen has a PhD on Hiding a Secret Identity.

Or: inspired by that one scene in every Danny/Batman crossover were the Bats confront Danny with his secret identity.

Rooftops - NerdofSpades

They left Amity Park behind. Danny never expected to see a familiar face while racing across the rooftops of Gotham.

Life Assurance - animal_luver8153

Danny has inherited all contracts made with Pariah Dark but doesn’t know it until he finds himself pulling a bullet out of Bruce Wayne.

<>

In which Danny now has to negotiate with a old man over a life assurance policy he purchased.

Finding Bones, Finding Ghosts - TheWritingOwl

As prince of the Infinite Realms and future master of Space, Danny knows that he must master the art of making portals. To be able to step through a tear in reality of his own creation and appear wherever his heart desires was crucial in his training. Clockwork had sent him to Wulf, a ghost who had long since mastered the creation of portals and was currently hiding from Walker.

No matter how hard he tries, Danny just can't seem to get it. Wulf says that in order to make a portal, Danny needs to channel his deepest desires. He must want for nothing but to reach his destination. However, Danny doesn't have a deepest desire. Everything he could ever need or want is in the Infinite Realms with him. What could he possibly desire so much that he would tear reality to get to it?

But if I Made My Bed, Did I Make the Demons in It? - TheWritingOwl

Of all things, Danny didn't expect needing to get his bio parent's written permission in order to do his duty as the Ghost King. Still, his parents should be fine helping him find this bio parent. After all, it wasn't like he loved them any less.

Wait, sorry, he's actually a WHAT?

When the Stars Don't Look Quite Right - TheWritingOwl

Duke likes to think of himself as a pretty chill guy. With all of the oddities that called Gotham their home, Duke had learned when to look further and when to just let his classmates be.

Of course, when a new kid suddenly joins their class, Duke's first instinct is to leave the kid alone. However, the more he looked at the kid, the more he noticed that something was... wrong with him. Duke didn't know what Danny Fenton was hiding, but now that the kid had piqued his curiosity, he was going to find out.

Whispers at the Door, "Let Us In, Let Us In" - TheWritingOwl

During one of his research binges, Tim stumbles across the work of the deceased Doctors Fenton. While he's not sure he believes in their claims about ghosts and other ecto-beings, he is interested in the portal they managed to create. After begging Bruce to let him go, Tim heads to the abandoned lab of the Fentons, determined to check out this portal for himself. Sure, he has to take Damian with him, but he's not going to let the Demon Brat ruin his chance at checking out some potentially revolutionary tech.

Of course, he didn't expect to get trapped on a floating asteroid in the Ghost Zone with Damian. Surely those papers about the vicious ghosts were exaggerating. Right?

Holding On to the Shovel and Rope - TheWritingOwl

Bruce has seen it all. Aliens, assassins, monsters, future selves. Whatever existed in this world, Bruce probably already had at least two different world-ending disasters fighting over. One of the oddities of the world he'd dealt with the most? Clones.

When he meets a boy that looks oddly like his estranged son, Jason, he immediately has some concerns.

There's Too Many Monsters in the Backyard - TheWritingOwl

Damian was sure his mother would finally be the death of him. As she got ready to deal the final blow, his only comfort was that he would finally be able to be reunited with his brother, Danyal. Of course, fate had other plans.

Danny should have died with his family. On the run from Vlad, he follows his instincts to the last family member he still has left.

Run Away Ghost - ellabellabugz

Danny runs into Nightwing and gets shot.

Danny shares too much when trying to convince Nightwing that he's fine.

Ghost Heights - ellabellabugz

Danny runs into Batman and accidentally slips something up about having trauma,

To cover it up he clings to the lie he's terrified of heights.

It doesn't work that well, seeing as he just fell from a building fearlessly and was perfectly fine teetering on the edge of another building.

*oh lazarus, how did your debts get paid - HollowMashiro

Jason emerges from the Lazarus Pit with whole extra person in tow.

*Ghost Tag Is An Extreme Sport - XysidheQueen

Jason is beginning to question Danny's teaching methods and is feeling distinctly murderous. Extreme laser tag with the unholy bastard child of a gun fair and scrap yard isn't his idea of a good time.

*Growing Pains and Ghost Kings - XysidheQueen

Jason is adjusting to life as a halfa, and Danny has plans to make it easier on him. His idea of a helpful exercise might not fit into what anyone else thinks is a good idea, but he's going to go for it anyways. He's the king, who can tell him he's wrong?

*Rooftop Chili Dogs and Introductions To A New Species - XysidheQueen

Jason struggles to understand what has happened to him. At least he got some chili dogs out of the situation, even if he's not sure if the guy who saved him wants to eat his soul or something. And he might possibly be a lich?

*Fateful Meetings And Casual Resurrections - XysidheQueen

Danny is told by Clockwork to wait in a random graveyard, and lacking anything better to do he obeys. Not that the ghost of time ever really gives him a choice, but hey he likes to pretend he has some modicum of control over his afterlife. Meeting a zombie teenager was not on his 2022 bingo list, nor was saving his (after)life in the process but honestly, he's here for it. Maybe he'll even get a new friend out of it.

*Enshroud - Olive_of_Vanders

Danny didn't mean to kill the clown – whelp...

*Equilibrium - Olive_of_Vanders

Danny was just visiting Gotham, of course someone decided to start shit.

Altruistic - Olive_of_Vanders

He just wanted to open a portal, Wulf was showing him how to – sure, he struggled and wasn't sure what destination to pick, but how did he end up in the "Watchtower"?

Restoration - Olive_of_Vanders

Danny is sick of meetings – Observants hounding him more and more. When he hears about dead rising, he's definitely leaving this meeting to go check it out. Observants be damned!

Contretemps - Olive_of_Vanders

Danny enters a natural portal by accident – it's really not his fault it opened up in front of him! What is this "Got-ham" place anyway?

Inquisitive - Olive_of_Vanders

Damian has a very specific way of dealing with reporters – show them the animals, that usually scares them off.

Danny, however, has seen weirder shit in his lifetime.

Furtive - Olive_of_Vanders

Danny Fenton is on the run – from who, you ask? Madeline and Jack Fenton. However, the fruitloop of every hour decides to help and so Danny lay lows in Gotham.

It didn't even take a month for him to expose himself to a bat.

*love is an open door (you are the door) - violetmoreviolent

Jason Todd's status as a resurrected apparently means that the Ghost King can use him as his personal portal. Apparently the Ghost King is a cute boy Jason's age. Apparently, Jason falls in love at first sight.

This is everyone's problem.

i found him, he's mine now - violetmoreviolent

Damian finds Danny alone in the park waiting for his (imaginary) dog with no parents in sight.

That level of negligence is unacceptable and if he has to be this boy's guardian then so be it.

Double or Nothing - lauraeb5

When Danny runs into the Team on a mission, they are determined to help this broken young hero. Unfortunately, Danny's former captors aren't the only ones interested in him. Can the team protect their newest member? And can Danny finally move on from the tragedy that haunts his every step?

[what-gs-watching]

“There is only room for one God in this lab and it's not yours."

Welp, my city has decided that it forgot how weather works, and we’re snowed in and there’s a frozen pipe in my goddamn basement and I finished an interview loop for a company last week so I’m just sitting here trapped in my house and waiting desperately for any news on if they might hire me and it’s not going amazing SO, 

It’s time for a FRINGE BINGE. 

I saw a post a week or two ago that Fringe might be leaving Max at the end of the month, and I couldn’t let it go without a rewatch. It’s one of the reasons I started playing “What G’s Watching” with my husband - he’d seen it when it first came out and I thought maybe he’d remember some of it and could understand my rambling, because you need some kind of background to truly grasp what the eff is happening in Fringe. He didn’t. But that didn’t stop me from becoming completely obsessed. 

Even when I’m not rewatching, sometimes I’ll yell “PREVIOUSLY ON FRINGE” when the show I’m actually enjoying does a recap. I don’t know why it’s stuck in my brain, but it doesn’t matter, I love it.

Here’s the thing about Fringe: it’s absolutely ridiculous. It’s like X-Files on acid (or Walter’s Brown Bettty?). The science is ridiculous and honestly it’s difficult to follow the lore sometimes, especially the first time through it. But it’s weirdly captivating and it tugs at your heart strings, which doesn’t make any sense.

Basically, FBI agent Olivia Dunham gets sucked into a special division that investigates weird occurrences that seem to have to do with ‘fringe science’, and she ends up enlisting Peter Bishop and his genius scientist father, Walter Bishop (who’d spent almost twenty years in a mental institution) to help her get to the bottom of what the eff is going on.

AND THEN THINGS GET CRAZY. 

They pump so much backstory into this show. There’s monsters of the week, sure, but every single character has a whole damn room full of skeletons and it was so much fun trying to puzzle all of that shit out the first time. In my rewatch so far, I’m picking up a ton of little random clues and I’m loving it. It’s clear that J. J. Abrams had some IDEAS. 

Also, I’ve never watched Lost, (and I never will, I put my foot down on that)  but I can confidently say this is the better J. J. Abrams show. The ending doesn’t make you ridiculously angry you watched the whole thing. So there’s that. 

Honestly, there’s too much I love about this show. The whole alternate universe plotline for one, which creates some of my favorite moments. But it’s mainly about Peter and Walter. At its core, this stupid show is about their father son relationship, and how far people are willing to go  to protect their family. Which is weird, but also perfect. 

Before the mental institution, Walter was a little bit of a sociopath, pursuing scientific enhancements, consequences be damned. He was a shit person. He ran tests on children, he fucked with the fabric of the universe. No fucks given, that man. But the Walter we get for most of the show is just…oddly charming. Quirky in his brilliance, instead of calculating. And it’s FUNNY and endearing. 

Olivia brings in another agent to help corral Walter in his resurrected lab beneath Harvard, Astrid, and he spends most of the series calling her anything but. “Astro”, “Astrix”, etc. It’s not malicious, he just can’t hold the information, as much as he appreciates the work she does with him. Like, how does that turn out to just be kind of cute? 

Some of my favorite made-up words are from Walter.  “Vagenda”, for one. Which is ‘vagina agenda’ obviously. As in, “Peter fell for her vagenda”, which had me rolling. Even if it came about during a storyline that made me absolutely FURIOUS, but in the best of ways. (There was a lot of time wherein I was yelling at my husband about how much I hated “Fauxlivia” and her vagenda, but honestly I don’t want to spoil it because the twists and turns this show takes are so wonderful, they should be experienced with absolutely no background.)

The whole thing with Walter is that he’s atoning for the sins of his past, even if he doesn’t really realize it at first, and it’s just, really comforting. His entire arc is compelling and satisfying, even if it leaves you a crying mess. 

Also, Peter Bishop is forever my perfect New England boyfriend. At first I’m not sure who they wanted him to be exactly, but eventually he smoothed out into just an earnest, genius, gorgeous man trying to do the right thing and get past all of the hurt Walter caused him. They put him in devastatingly handsome peacoats and he saves the day and he’s sweet to Olivia and I just spend most of the time swooning. That smile, gang.

Is it because I fell in love with Pacey Witter as a young girl during Dawson’s Creek’s heyday? 98% yes. I will always love Joshua Jackson and Pacey was done dirty for a while. And come to think of it, Peter was too. It’s his thing, apparently. 

I do  realize Olivia is supposed to be the main character probably, but she gets me to my two favorite guys so I guess she’s fine. Anna Torv is wonderful, she plays Dunham really well (which I imagine was grueling given some of the storylines) but the Bishops are the stars of the show. I just want to squeeze both of them.

The crazy thing is there are some episodes that will destroy you emotionally. The white tulip? Jesus. That one just came up in my rewatch, and it was still a punch in the face the second time. There’s one where Walter gets lost in Chinatown, I had to literally mute it because it’s gut wrenching. Even with the silliness and the science that makes you roll your eyes, they make you look at things you don’t want to, and it can hurt. I love/hate that so much. 

And look, I understand that the moral of the show is that science and technology can be dangerous and we shouldn’t let it get away from us because it could eventually cause the downfall of everything, but that’s not what I’m here for. I’m always here for the relationships. And the ridiculous ways we can get people to die. And the outlandish scifi. If you wanna remind me of things that I don’t want to think about in between that, I guess it’s okay, because it makes no sense, but when I think of Fringe, it just makes me feel warm and fuzzy. It’s not a warm and fuzzy show, but it is for me. 

I started watching it because it was a complete series that had a purposeful ending and I needed something, but it turned into a lot more than that. I’m jealous of people who can see it for the first time. It’s just so…special. In weird and wonderful ways. There will never be another character quite like Walter Bishop. Or a truly realized tv universe as outlandish. They swung for the fences, and it really landed; vagenda, the observers, Walternate, and all. 

Let Walter charm the shit out of you, you won’t be disappointed.

[zippy-reacts]

Sonic the Comic Liveblog Issue 77

Question for anybody from the uk old enough to remember this but was £1.20 a reasonable price for a comic in 1996? I recall Beano comics being just £1 circa 2007ish. Maybe the value comes from only having to pay for it fortnightly rather than weekly?

Random thing for this to remind me of but this makes me think of the set-up of the Astrix comics: all of Gaul conquered by Rome except for one small village that eludes them.

Out of curiosity I decided to google when video calls were invented and uh… the 1930s apparently. Earlier than I thought. Just didn't kick off in popularity until much, much later

Lmao did he just call him solely to dunk on him?

I was wondering how that guy climbed up there seeing as the statue is so spherical but then I noticed the grappling hook

I'm also wondering what he hoping to acheive with white paint other than making it look like a very large bird shit on the statue

This artist fucking loves this one specific pose, I swear it appears at least once per issue they work on.

That's certainly one activity to do at a protest

Unless there's a big plot twist / status quo breaker I'm not anticipating, the 100+ issues remaining of StC says otherwise

Some things never change

Knuckles is such a good character in these comics Also look how goddamn tiny he is compared to these other guys

Lmao

Oh? She looks interesting.

Another story, and I can certainly tell this artist like Hanna-Barbera cartoons

Hmm… Robotnik mate, looks you got a couple of cysts or lipomas on your forehead there. Better get that checked out

Okay, from the rest of this story I did not expect for there to be a panel that goes this hard.

I've gotten to the end of this issue, and I realised there's no game review section like the opening page said there would be. In fact, I don't think I've seen any reviews in a while. Is the site I'm reading on starting to cut them out? I hope not, they're a good indicator of what the video game scene was like at the time. In fact, this week's was apparently gonna be about the Toy Story Mega Drive game which I have fond memories of.

[going-to-ikea-for-the-fries]

Demon! Reader

Also, One astrix on both sides of a word or phrase is supposed to be italic. Two is bold, you get the point.

Cw: Religious mentions

(not sure, still figuring out how CW's work.)

~Spooky

~~~~~

They said it was an accident.

Appearing in the sigil that was created for "Fun" wasn't supposed to happen, they said.

Reader did it anyways.

If you summon something, *expect something to pop up.* Reader thought. They never said anything about it though.

They first showed up in their normal form. A humanoid figure that was blacker than the night sky in a city, the only form of color was the glowing yellow eyes they had.

They scared a lot of people that day. They didn't mean to. They didn't mean to at all. *Don't summon something if you're unprepared*, they thought.

The team couldn't figure out how to put them back where they came from; The pits of hell.

----

Soap started it.

He made a symbol with the intent of trapping Reader.

It worked.

Price called in a Priest, and Reader was desperately trying to to leave. *They didn't do nothing wrong*, they thought.

Once the priest showed up, Reader's eyes were closed tightly, and the humanoid mass was sitting there on the floor, looking like a square. *They were hugging their knees*."

~~~~

That's all for now, Folks!

YOU KEEP SPOILING ME WITH DEMON READER, SPOOKS

Thank you 🫶

[aceofshitposts]

Tbh it's a missed opportunity to have Gotham be based on Chicago or whatever when it should actually be a city with multiple levels like Chongqing

Enter a building at ground level? No you're on the 45th floor actually. Stairs for miles. Giant drops. Fog coats the lower levels. It should be a living nightmare trying to go places and this would give so many nooks and crannies for bat activities

[cowardly-cowboy]

So here's a little bit of the first page or so of the book I'm writing =D

𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑂𝑛𝑒

𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆; 𝑶𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒉

I'm a bit of a shitty person; I admit that. So I suppose I deserve all that's happened to me recently. That doesn't necessarily mean I won't complain about life in general, however.

I don't think that's quite appropriate at the moment, though. I'll save the sarcasm for later.

I never thought I'd end up back here; I never thought it would end here, right back where it started. I mean, this circus was my home. The Illusionists took me in at, what, nine? Something around that age. The performance tent had been so lively then; shit, it was pretty damn lively a month ago. Now? It was sad. Depresing; pathetic. I suppose she and I match quite a bit, then.

My shoulders tense, I lifted the heavy tent flap of once bright shades of purple, and passed my gaze over what remained of my childhood. The bleachers were long abandoned, charred and blackened and collapsed in some areas. The sand that covered the floor was of a similar pattern. In the center of the horeshoo of seating stood two wooden towers; each about twenty feet up, with the top of the tent fifteen feet above that. In between the two, there hung the wooden bars me and Astrix had swung on all our lives. The right tower, the one I would usually perch on, had nearly collapsed; the crows nest where we would stand and jump from was cracked and burned. The left tower, Astrix's usual show placement, was in much better conditions, only the base being of a more extreme blackness than the rest.

I exhaled a long breath I didn't know I had been holding; it puffed out into a cloud of cold. I supposed it must have been quite freezing inside. It was Autumn, of course, but me and Bilzerian's presence must have lowered the temperature by a few tens of degrees. My wings fluttered softly at my back.

Speak of the devil; "Why are we back here?" He demanded, appearing with a gust of cold at my side that made even I shiver.

"I'm ending this." I strode a bit faster towards the center, my voice barely a fracture in an icy lake. The once soft sand pricking against my bare feet, I knew where Astrix would set her trap. I knew where I had to go.

Blitz almost laughed; "Really? Oh, I'd like to see you try!" He grinned an icy grin at me, the ends of his mane of blue hair glistening with frost. That laugh snapped needles into my lungs every time it sounded. I continued on; he could feel how I felt and I knew how he felt in turn; he was aware of the fact that his mere presence made me want to shit myself like a toddler, and I knew he was thoroughly pissed at me while simultaneously being amused and giddy to see me frightened. That just made me more frightened.

"I won't be trying, actually. That's the point." I muttered, my teeth softly grinding. I sensed a remanence of Astrix and Styvies power; that of a Goddess and a Nymph, right in between the towers. I took a quick breath, looking down at my frosted arms.

"Think about this carefully, Cheshire." Blitzerain mused.

"Shut up." I snapped back; a phrase that was second nature to him and I. That didn't stop the ends of the strings of my mind to strain as I said it. I took another step forward and held my breath; yet nothing happened.

Blitz smiled, "I suppose you were wrong, hm?" I felt him attempting control; that icy cage tightening around my chest. I refused; he would have to try harder than that, yes. I would be in control, for once.

I drew in a breath and jolted my left arm; a tendril of cold shimmered up to my shoulder, my forearm and down narrowing and freezing into an icicle in a split second. Vague runes flickered faintly under the sand. My frosted feathers puffed out, a slight snowfall of frustration.

Blitz sighed, coating his tone in a sweet, popsicle glaze, "Cheshire, don't do this. It's really just more trouble; a waste of time. You know it's-"

"You're a waste of time, you know that? All of this was a waste." I bit back, cutting him off. I wasn't in the headspace for any sarcastic, snarky comments, so that was all I had at the moment. I promise you I can do better. Another pulse of fast cold enclosed my chest; sharp flutters of my heart had to be steadied to stop it. I couldn't let him happen yet; my anxiety had other plans, but I insisted on keeping those as plan Bs and beyond.

My icicle arm snapped itself in three, now earning me a claw of ice. I stomped on the rune circle's center again, and was slammed abruptly in the gut by a swinging log.

The wind was knocked out of me; I silently wished the wind god would also be slammed aside, but alas, I had no such luck. I tumbled across the sandy floor, only coming to a stop when purple chains burst from the runes and shackled me, then dragging me all the way back to their origins. This was the day I discovered what burnt sand tastes like (more pleasant than one would imagine, in my humble opinion). I felt my chest completely freeze over; I didn't fight this time. I was thrusted from my own vessel, now hovering above my body in Bilzerian's place. He screamed bloody murder, thrashing in the bonds and cursing in the language of the gods. He flapped our wings, lifting off the ground for only a moment before another set of bindings shackled them, slamming him back on the ground. Ice jutted from the floor and merged with the chains, but it was no use. The ice magic only fused with that of the chains, securing us further to where we sat.

Blitz thrashed and shouted some more, I don't know for how long; I had learned to tune him out when I wasn't the one dragging him around against my will, if I even had a will at this point.

Eventually he tired both himself and my body out; we swapped places once more, and I was greeted by aching muscles and joints, marks of bruising likely to show its face in the next day or so where the chains met my skin. My throat felt like shards of glass had traced insults down its back. Blitz blew to the edges of his range, about ten feet from me, and sat down midair to mope about life. I wanted to do quite the same from where I was. He reeked of rage; I knew I would have to brace myself for when that avalanche tumbled my way.

Now, all I had to do was wait. I took that time to look around some more, as the chains had tightened during Blitz's fit, and I could barely move, let alone stand. The log that had struck me from the West had crashed on the East side of the tent, slamming into a storage area and closet; the entrance was at the South end, the horseshoe of bleachers leaving an opening to face it. The log would have crashed into some of those bleachers if they were still standing. What a way to spend my eighteenth birthday, the back of my mind muttered, the tracks beneath my flighting and derailing trains of thought.

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[randomthefox]

There were precisely two moments from this issue that I actually sincerely liked no astrix. And they were both from OCs! So never let it be said that I'm not fair.

Actually a really baller moment from Jewel. It's kind of predicated on Clutch being a moron because the self destruct doesn't have an override, which is idiotic. But still a mic drop for Jewel, good for her.

I also thought this was pretty funny. And pretty in character for Surge. No notes.

That's it, everything else in this issue fucking sucked ass.

[actual-irl-mahito]

Pinned/Intro Post

Welcome to my blog!

This is an in-character blog of the Special Grade Curse Mahito from Jujutsu Kaisen, better known as JJK.

I made this on a whim for fun, because I've seen other accounts do this and thought it might be cool to try out.

I don't have many rules when it comes to asks, but here is the outline of DO NOTSs

DO NOT show unnecessary acts of violence

DO NOT send me explicit sexual content, whether through words or pictures (suggestive stuff like flirting and whatnot is fine)

DO NOT hate for no reason, this is a safe space

DO NOT use astrixs (these things "*")/role-play, this isn't that kind of blog.

Um yeah that's basically it. I really like Mahito, so I'll always try my best to stay in character. Headcannons will be in mind when I interact with asks, so be weary of that!!

[timothyfeatherstone]

Discovering the Underground Scene of Psychedelic Techno

The underground scene of psychedelic techno offers a mesmerizing journey into sound, color, and consciousness that transcends the ordinary boundaries of musical experience. From pulsating beats to ethereal melodies, this genre serves as an escape from the mundane, inviting listeners to explore the depths of their psyches while dancing in vibrant light shows. In this post, we will take a deep dive into the captivating world of psychedelic techno, exploring its various sub-genres such as dark psy, tribal psy, forest psy, and more. We’ll also delve into the key artists who shape this dynamic landscape and highlight what makes this underground scene so unique.

The Origins of Psychedelic Techno

Psychedelic techno is a fusion born from the rich history of electronic music and the psychedelic movement that began in the 1960s. Influenced by both trance and techno genres, it emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s in places like Goa, India—a popular destination for travelers seeking spiritual enlightenment through music and dance.

At its core, psychedelic techno combines driving rhythms with intricate soundscapes designed to evoke emotional responses and facilitate deeper states of consciousness. The genre typically features hypnotic basslines that enhance the groove while layered synth lines create ethereal atmospheres. This sonic tapestry allows listeners https://trichomerecords.com to lose themselves in rhythm while exploring their innermost thoughts—making it a perfect fit for those seeking a transformative experience on the dance floor.

Defining Sub-Genres: A Closer Look

To fully appreciate the diversity within psychedelic techno, it's essential to explore its various sub-genres:

Minimal Psy

Minimal psy is characterized by stripped-down beats, focusing on subtle changes and intricate layers that unfold gradually over time. This style emphasizes repetition and allows listeners to immerse themselves deeply in a meditative state. Artists like Astrix and Shpongle have produced tracks that exemplify minimal psy’s enchanting qualities.

Dark Psy

Dark psy takes on a more aggressive tone compared to its lighter counterparts. It often features darker themes and faster tempos (upwards of 150 BPM), creating tension through dissonant sounds and unsettling atmospheres. This sub-genre is known for its intense energy on the dance floor, appealing to those who seek an adrenaline-fueled experience while tapping into their shadow selves. Renowned artists such as Xerox and Mindfold have made significant contributions to this realm.

Tribal Psy

Tribal psy draws inspiration from indigenous cultures around the globe. Its rhythms often incorporate traditional instruments alongside electronic elements to create an organic yet otherworldly soundscape. This sub-genre encourages community bonding through movement—invoking feelings of connection among dancers as they engage with primal grooves. Artists like Aes Dana exemplify this fusion beautifully.

Forest Psy

Forest psy evokes imagery reminiscent of enchanted forests filled with mystical creatures and natural wonders. The music typically features organic sounds blended with digital effects—creating an immersive audio environment that transports listeners into other realms. With a slower tempo than some other sub-genres (usually around 140 BPM), forest psy creates a dreamy atmosphere ideal for in

[wannabee-girlfox]

Short poems I have sent to her from 2/13 to ...

[Warning a bit of cringe ahead. Each space is a new poem. Astrixs are a loose title or the start of a new month.]

*February*

If I lose your eyes, I won’t deny

I won’t personalize,

Your smile/ hair style

Is not the bit modest, goddess

It’s not the oddest

Glad for your time / you’re divine

It’s been sublime

Smiles with you in my mind

Hoping you I am still in your mind

Maybe I am not the one

I still feel like I won

I hate to whine’

U have me spell bind

In your glass case

I just picture us

No need to occupy space

No need to discuss

No need to touch base

All I want is to discuss

But it is not the place

So I will keep viewing us

Pose for me

Model for me

Talk to me

Put ur eyes on me

Be yourself for me

Be my doll for me

I’ll never be blue

Because of blue

No clue

It’s not crude

Thinking of you

A cascading waterfall tumbles down with each lock

Peer focus as smiles ensues, new ambition unlocked

With marvel beauty it hard for me not to gawk

As of this moment, all I can return is my sweet-talk

As you sleep, I dream of you

I can’t leap, it’s brand new

I hope to keep, what we accrue

Fallen asleep, I think of you

Off set time with no fix

Is our exact and only conflict

I just want to taste ur chapstick

I guess I am just so transfix

History will say we are roommates

That’s how they will write/ translate

Even though we know this has more weight

The gays will know and fascinate

Why do I keep you in my mind

Why out of all of humankind

Let’s narrow it, womankind

I am fixated on you, inclined

Waiting for a kiss, signed

I hope this is by design

“first date next 3”

scents lingers, As I yearn for you

your fingers, imprints like a clue

from the mingle, in lieu

no longer single, no-u

I can still taste your tongue

I can still feel your touch

I can still feel your head on my shoulder

I can still hear your voice

I can still feel our hands held together

I can still picture you across from me

I can still and will be here for you

As far as I am concerned, my right arm is urs

You have marked it, and it is for hers

I am obsessed, I want you on all fours

I scream nyah, so you will be all ears

“Teenage Trans romance 4 parts”

My new favorite artist is Adele

As I  “ make you Feel My Love ”

Its my newly created spell

It’s all I can/ want to think of

Late night with naked truth

Speeding on this toll booth

No lie or half-truths

Love u, no need for sleuths

Time seems not to matter

Only when I am with you

Time apart makes life lacquer

I am just so into you

I only have thoughts of kissing you

pressing you down and having my way

my memory is just filled with blue

just wanting you to behave

obsessed

you have heard me say it many times

I don't think it describes it anymore

I think its just my very core

that you make everything better

just like the topic of incest

my mind keeps coming back to you

I am jealous of my past self

She was talking to you

March

Leading to smiles

Over anything and everything

Vocal about my interests

Everything you do captivates

/,,,You’re my inspiration

Over anything and everything

It seems we spent eternity in a day

Heart beats counted and passions flared

With silence we must properly behave

Memories that will be watered and cared

(A message to her. Hey cutie, I can't wait to write more poetry for you. "sorry when I look at you. You inspire me to write some poetry. I know it's not the best." (2/15) Love you)

[whentheskittlesfightback]

im going to give you all of my dreams. theyre crazy and i have them all in my notes app

ok so i had a dream were were like.. in my room. there was kanaya and terezi and vriska and rose and me. i saw a really long tumblr post about someone saying shitting 2x harder made them less sick. then me and the girls were hanging out. the boys were in my moms room, idk abt the other girls anyways there was alcohol and also a really big bottle of seltzer water that we were not expected to recognize but i did. anyways after drinking our not child drinks as children we were getting silly goofy. i said (basically) "shits crazy. some guy had a big thought and then made like jolly ranchers" and kanaya was like nuh uh anyways later we were getting lanched to the moon by terezi but the thing that was launching us was at penis level so it was funny. anyways right before being launched my terezi my dresm ended. also i said "i only have a coochie so i cant get dicked to the moon"

i dreamed that i was in a school assembly but i was on discord and i joined a server and it qas a server for an event from astrixs server and i sent tome of ypu cont fight the homestuck.in the gen chat and people started singin while i was at school and when i got home they were still gping and it slowly turnef into an au with slimesicle as john and amanda from thst one gamr as a cow and she did a thinv and killed everyone at once nd one of the ppl in the server sand this absolutely banger of a piano song reffering to slimecicle as slimeboy

i had a dream that i was just fucking chilling with like a group of 5 people. also before this i was in a store, that store i keep dreaming about. anyways there was a bunch of slides and they were red, green, blue and yellow. two of the people there were like "we gotta keep this toddler from going down the slides" and i was like "yeah ok good luck" and went to hang out with these to kids. one was blonde and tjevother had black hair. we were sitting on a bench and one was like "are you driving home " ane the other one awnserd and o said "were not old enough to drive" also the 2 girls at the slides saw this weird metal cat spider and they were annoyed by it but it cleaned their "weapons" (a scalpel, a knife, 2 butter knifes, 2 forks, and 2 spoons) and then my dad, some old guy and some tguy came over. the tguy said that they said they needed help and i said "suck it" and i thought "yeaj well you should suck it" and then suddenly we were in a restaurant and we just kinda there but just me n my dad. and then we were in like a school gym and the old bald guy was the teacher and i thought he looked weird and thats all i can remember

i dreamed i had an account called "eebydeeby" with a pfp of a white character and i replied to a comment that said ":33<english, please" with "sorry i was tired". the comment was originally replying to my comment which said "idk. prove it bt giving food to me and all the homestuck characters and uh..." the video was of them dancing with the text "im free"

i had a dream i was goin to the gas station but there was like 5 fucking tornadoes and that all merged into to one huge fucking tornado and everyone got sucked in and then we all died but the dream kept going. this guy tryin to revive us accidentally opened a door and behind it was someone he knew, and boom the end. (also i had a dream i made a binder,+there was a kelideo scope and dolphin museum?????

someone made a sculpture of will wood amd kept saying ross federman idfk

some bitch was afding sobgs to my spotify playlist and i got mad at them and texted them to stop

i dreamed i snuck into an oliver tree concert

and there was a bouncy house slide and left bc why tf would i care and i was striggling also it was like a GIANT empty room with like pale tan floors and white walls and then i was at a skate park w some radom ass kids and i also bought some soda at a gas station

i had a dream that it was cristmsd eve an we were praparing but apparently somthing terrible wad gonna happen and i was eating chicken wing (in hell) but like absolutely DEVOURING THEM becaus eu was panicking. also there was discord from mlp and some random bfdi characters in bubbles ans they were in hell. there wad also a buch if other people. then i wrnt into the bathroom panicking repeating "itsfineitsfineitsfineitsfineitsfineitsfine" and then i woke up for context we were gonna have some kind of celebration so there wad alot of people involved. also ther was this fight scenebat soem point where i pushed some1 off a bridge. he was evil tho. anyways it was kind hard to get up to where he was but i was used to it ig??? it was a store so we just needed some stuff. i cannot under any circumstances remember what the fuck the big terrible tragedy that was gonna kill us all was. also hell was in my bedroom and idfk where the store was. apparently the bfdi character in bubbles (one of which was bubble) bounced into hell where fiscord was just chillin ig???? and were also participating in oir conversation a noticable amount of time kater, like days, weeks, months, idk.

its had karkat and he was nice and also very stupid and suddenly a child and there was jade and she was just being jade and really cool and there was green and orange and a pool and a braclet and sand i think??

i got cool shirts but they werent real :(

meteor shower

i watched a gacha music video and it magically turned into the sisters that kidnapped bob opening a giant present and the nice one running away in one of those weird stripes bgs from gacha life

i tjink there was an asshole cat at some point but idk

i had a dream i was chillin w these random couple at home (nobody else was here exept us) they were really bad a t taking care of kids, rhey let me drink. but we played rhis weird game qhere i ended up having to wear princess shoes and cat ears. but it was kinda fun soo

i had a dream that i was just chilling at my gradmas. (the one with cats.) it was mislty normal but that more cats than usual camoe out. the cats were mostly normal cats but one of them was named blur and it was blurry. i was too scared ro touch him. i also couldnt see shit cause it was too dark. thwre was also this cute orange amd balck kitty woth big green eyes. and one wearing a cowboy hat, and the two real cats. also we werent allowed to turn the lights on and every time we opened our phones to read aomthing it turned on eye comfort and we could do nothing about this. and it was a bad thing. anyways i think the cats could understand humans, and i almost asked blur if i could touch them (maybe i did? idk its all blurry ;3) also blur was gray and magbe har blue eyes?? andbi think they couls teleport. rhe one with a cowboy hat was orange. i think theyre was also a glitchy cat but i think i just mistakef blur for that one.

ok this dream is hard to remember cause its from this morning but ill just say what i remembered. so i was walking on a tral and this like slenderman lookin girl with curly blonde hair (future me here, you KNOW who that was) said she is a cashier at a cafe . i went thru this weird dream transition into the cafe where my mom was (,i was meeting her there) and thats basically all i can remember dor a while. suddenly im in someones house. idk whos but i "decide" (there were absolutely no thoughts in my brain) to eat some random pills! anyways i realize what a just did and decide to chill in the bathroom until i die. yeah so ig i died and thats the end?? idfk

i had a dream i was looking at tiktok about trans boy and yelling abt it for some reason. then i realized i wasnt out to the people aprund me and ran and hid and posted a tiktok about it

i dreamed that i was watching spongebob at a pool and they mentioned gary and a braclet that i apparently owned appeared that said gary. it had little indents that you could put different letters in. there was also a book that had pictures of forests and they were pretty. then the pool started having HUGE ASS WAVES. after a while of that i decided it was too much and ended the dream.

i had a dream that it was mlp but a shadow twilight came and twilight was like "wow i used 2 look like that" and it was just kinda weird cause idk but ??? anways there was like a shadow rainbowdash too and fluttershy suddenly wasnt shy and didn't care about what shadow twilight said bc she changed her name and made it so she cant hear any sentences containing "fluttershy" (also, "i hate you, fluttershy" is a terrible insult.) also trans fluttershy real?! anyways lets talk abt before shadow twilight. it was jusy like normal mlp and i had a dream be4 this that i just remembered that i think transitioned into this one, so yeah

i had a dream me and a group of people were on some sort of school feild trip?? i thing it was normal for the most part, xept when we left. they made us jump into a hole to bring us into a room cause "ut was quicker to leave" but there was no exit and there was a video to watch and i didnt watch. i also kept forgetting ineant alone in the room. there was a window that was covered with slightly transparent material.i could see houses out rhere, and thought if i had an axe i would break out. anyways that transitioned into thr mlp dream so yah, i think it just faded into the other dream like google slides lmao

i had a dream that i was in a car and it was raining so hard and then i woke up into another dream where i was too scared yo open my eyes bc i might be blind. when i eventually got up i was stumbling around and went back to sleep. i was scared of something and then i turned my head 2 the side and opened my eyes really fast but i woke up fr starin at the wall. absolute whiplash snapped my head 90 degrees

i had a dream where there was these foir guys who looks like those isflatable guys tht flap around in front of the places that sold cars. they were red blue yellow and green i think. anyways thwy took carevof me but were really creepy anf it gave backrooms vibes. i think i ran away bc the blue guy made me swim and i almost drowned and also i was coverd in cuts so it hurt to swim

i dremed that i was goin 4 a walk up alot of stairs. there was thousands if the same phone charger sticking out of a tree which the stairs were on. somw kids asked for one. they were numbered so i wrote down the number so i could but it back later. i thnk it was like 2673. i woke up the bext day.then i got in a bus so i vould eat fiod i had.it was empty but became crowded eventually. it started moving. i went to ate my food. it was moldy and mostly yogurt tbough so i didnt eat it. i heard lwt i grow from the lorax being sung cause we were passin through thneedville. my dad called my name bu i thouth it was part if my dream. granny norma was being weird and saying thisbthat old people say when thyre tribg to sound cool while every1 was singing. she mentoined a homestuck character and that she was sad bc she didnt have kids and didnt knos what young people liked. but then dad called my name again and i woke up

[palefirecheesecakeprod]

@tabslabs is such an idiot for not knowing What Robot Chicken and Danny Phantom are and is also a hypocrite because he/she doesn’t do requests yet did a mordetwi meme of Astrix and Obelix for somebody. So yeah, he/she is a dumb hypocritical Astrix Fan

End of Story

[ryan-is-a-god]

I'm going to finish my book!

*does absolutely nothing*

*opens Duolingo*

*does homework before the homework exists*

*practices violin*

*literally creates or learns anything that isn't working on the book*