#Plausible Concepts

[sunderwight]

What if the peak lords concluded that the most likely answer to the mystery of Shen Qingqiu's behavior is not that he's possessed now (because they checked and all the tests came out negative), but that he must have actually been possessed before?

No one thought to check him before, after all. They just figured he was an asshole. But then he suffers a qi deviation, almost dies, but comes back nicer. Only slightly lacking in context for his own past behavior and lifestyle, too.

It fits remarkably well, doesn't it? All this time the real Shen Qingqiu must have been trying to free himself from a demonic spirit that took possession of him in his youth! It was the demon who was the asshole, dragging his poor host to brothels, alienating his sect siblings so that they wouldn't investigate him too closely, abusing his disciples and probably weakening the sect from within as part of some nefarious plot!

But then the real Shen Qingqiu finally managed to beat back the demon himself, even being gracious enough not to point out what happened to his martial siblings and so save the sect's face. What a guy.

[misstoodles-doodles]

Clone Force 99 Hijinks 💥

>Sometimes you need a transport to get to safety. Sometimes you are the transport.

Closeups:

This was fun ❤️ XD

[stars-obsession-pit]

Bruce Wayne had at one point been working on a device to guarantee Gotham would always have a protector. In the event of his death, the machine could grow a clone of him and implant a copy of his memories into them, creating a new Batman to succeed him.

He eventually gave up on the idea before it ever came to full fruition.

But even in its incomplete state, he had created just enough for Clockwork to hijack it.

Phantom’s soul was in a perilous state, unlikely to survive without being attached to a new body. And luckily, the device provided an ideal way to facilitate that. Plus, the Waynes would undoubtedly support his recovery too. Well, at least once they got over the panic at his existence they would.

[usinguntiligetmyaccountback-blog]

Me hearing someone in my Arthurian lit class ask if they can write about “a concept album” instead of movie adaptation of Arthurian myth for the extra credit project

[galaxseacreature]

Step 1: Get severed

Step 2: Get a second soul

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Heaven

[odo-apologist]

Alright I know that the whole "Alexander the Great's chief eunuch" bit is already a lot to unpack and (rightfully!) has garnered a lot of attention but I think we do too quickly gloss over that Rimmer found this out by "getting friendly" with a hypnotherapist he's on a first name basis with?? Like am I crazy or is that crazy too

[sunlight-shunlight]

personally i think solas is bald because of one or more of these reasons:

woke up after uthenera, couldn't immediately access the fade without effort, had a nervous breakdown and shaved his head. who among us hasn't had an Emotional Haircut.

he does have a bit of the facial structure of a silmarillion elf, and might blow his cover as a Nondescript Elven Apostate™ if he also had the long flowing hair of a silmarillion elf.

easier to maintain and keep clean while doing his hobo lifestyle of wandering around alone in thedas.

he's worried about any surviving murals/statues of him with hair still existing, because that would be awkward if someone sees one and goes "wow, this 5000 year old artifact looks exactly like you! how funny :)"

mourning/penance ritual in elven culture. possibly even bc he feels bad about felassan but cannot otherwise acknowledge the implications. since that would imply that a) it was unnecessary to do that and b) if felassan was right, that means they ran a whole insurgency together, he survived the fall of arlathan and however long in a hostile thedas afterwards, and then fell to his oldest friend's hand for no reason. this would also make sense with zathrian's baldness.

some kind of "i'm locking in, i'm shaving all my hair to show i'm really serious about this quest and nothing will stop me" ritual in elven culture. this would also make sense with shartan, since his ashes ghost is bald too.

[fishfacedterror]

some dealer headcanons bc why not

enjoys shitposting

favourite item is beer. would spend the night just drinking them if he could (32 billion beers...)

is NOT sober for the events in the game. is almost never sober if it can help it

this lack of sobriety means that it cant reliably count the shells like we do. to make up for this, he takes a glance at the very last shell before its loaded

actually is quite open to sexual jokes and being suggestive, just cant do anything about it while on the clock and will wrangle you back to the game if you keep going for it

fucking cracked at quake

really is just a floating head with hands. despite this all the substances it imbibes influence him as normal.

enjoys the nightclub life. would be on the dance floor if it didn't have a job to do

knows how to play a variety of other gambling games but doesn't find them thrilling anymore; money isn't much of an object to him

[toxictoxicities]

Redesigned my boy APL to make him more suited to his themes/tone

[broken-clover]

No clue if they'll ever touch on this plot point again since canon seems to have a weird relationship with Overture but every once a while I wonder about how it's mentioned there's millions more Valentines produced somewhere that we never really get a followup or explanation of outside of I guess Ramlethal and Elphelt but they are treated as special cases intentionally programmed by Ariels for certain tasks

Especially after the Universal Will was dealt with I wonder what all those spare Valentines are up to. Are they just chilling in the Backyard? Just hanging out without any orders to carry out? All I can imagine is the world's longest game of go fish given that they had to go through hundreds of thousands of players in a single round

[pokemonblack3white3]

*Grabs Ingo from a portal to Hisui and gives him all his memories back* Let's how this fella would react about a certain purple currant kid "replacing" him...

HI YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I'VE GENUINELY CONSIDERED THIS IDEA BEFORE. Admittedly in scenarios where Ingo still had no memories and before Sylas was in the picture but okay cracking my knuckles let's talk about this. Uxie gave Ingo her memories back or something before returning. Ingo comes back and looks for her brother. Their apartment is empty. Goes to Gear Station. Emmet isn't there, but her nephew and Kieran is. Emmet doesn't work there anymore. Ingo was so desperate to go back home that she was willing to give up everything she had in Hisui, and it seems like Emmet was content to leave everything they had behind.

I don't think Kieran "replacing her" would be an issue, especially in a scenario where Sylas is also there. Kieran would everything and catastrophize about it for sure, but that is genuinely likes the least of Ingo's worries. I think they could be friends if Kieran could stop being weird about it. She's happy somebody was taking care of the station and her brother. She understands why Emmet made the decisions he did. But, again, in this theoretical scenario Ingo took derailed herself completely from her life again to go back to a home that doesn't exist anymore, and that can't be easy to grapple with.

[shadelorde]

"Zoomer insults are so limp-wristed and pathetic" "Under 18s will bully you without calling you slurs openly" "Kids These Days will --" have you ever gotten into a fucking argument with a middle-aged white woman. It's called plausible deniability and zoomers did not fucking invent it

[ultimateyakazoo]

i love how right out the gate danganronpa sets you up for this suspension of disbelief with the concept of hopes peak academy. like its such a creative and interesting concept but in practice itd be such a stupid idea and that just makes the series all the more fun and ridiculous

[good-wine-and-cheese]

"This is what love feels like."

Crossover comic between Gesicht from Pluto and Star Trek TNG, specifically the episode "The Offspring" - in which after the death of Lal, Gesicht helps Data experience love (and by consequence, grief) by sharing his own memories of his child. These are characters that have a lot in common and I would love it if they could share their stories and have a good hug and grieve together.

I wanted to try to render the emotional progression of the scene without using any dialogue, though I can't say whether it worked how I want it to or not. It was a fun exercise though! Trying to render Data with and without emotion is interesting. I may touch it up and colour it eventually but for now it's just this ^_^

[pivsketch]

Salamander Salazar is an acrobatic high flyer "evil mastermind thief guy" and Bandit Bandit is his henchman/bodyguard/muscle. They were mischievous heels that would always be causing trouble, but just like any quality comical villain bad guy, Salazar's hubris would usually get him in over his head and be his downfall.

Here's them doing a tag team move™:

Anyway these are all several years before the events of the story. Salazar is Taggart's tag partner that had to leave midway through the tournament! He's also his childhood friend/mentor too.

under the cut is more lore/backstory stuff:

Salamander Salazar is the older neighborhood kid that got Taggart into wrestling when Taggart was just a lil kid. Salazar taught him how to (pro) wrestle over the years and after Taggart turned 18, Sal mysteriously started having a new sidekick/henchman he'd do tag team matches with.

Winning the TAGCEN tournament gets you qualified for the "big prestigious semi-invitational continental tag team tournament" where all the best tag teams compete to see who is The Absolute Best. Salazar's biggest claim to fame was the one time he stole the TAGCEN tournament first place medals from the true champions* and used them to enter into the invitational. The resulting shenanigans were fun enough that it led to the rules being changed to make the TAGCEN qualification entirely based on physically possessing those winning medals lol. (TAGCEN is partially ran by someone who loves chaos, after all.)

It made things pretty wild and chaotic for a few years after, but people stopped taking advantage of this over the years and nowadays its a mostly forgotten edge-case type rule. Also btw Sal (and Bandit²) got their asses absolutely trounced in the invitational tournament. If they couldn't win a qualifier, of course they wouldn't be able to survive in the big leagues!!

Bandit Bandit's tenure only lasted 3 short years for whatever reason (concidentally, this was around the same time regular good guy solo wrestler Taggart left wrestling to help out at his parents' bakery, hmm) and Salazar forged onwards on his own. Over the years his mischievous ambitions have mellowed out and he became one of those sarcastic good guy antihero types.

In modern times, Salazar reentered the TAGCEN tournament with a better tag team partner: Taggart, his childhood friend/protege that had recently returned to wrestling. His goal was to win the TAGCEN tourney outright and then go on to win the big invitational, redeeming himself for that failed run several years prior. They were absolutely killing it, but then Salazar got a really good offer from a major overseas promotion he couldn't turn down, and had to leave midway through the TAGCEN tournament. Alas! Salazar's tag team story is left unrealized!

Taggart still gets to wrestle in the remaining round robin matches at least. But, cmon, it's not like anything interesting is going to happen with that, right...? hee hee 🙂

* the winning tag team ended up with a injury right before the invitational and could not compete, and this was way more fun of an alternative than just having an empty slot!

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

hmm liu bang being a verified member of the baby-tosser's club is not as cut and dried as i thought, apparently it's only mentioned in xiang yu's biography but is omitted in his. that's a conflict of interest if i've ever seen it. that being said, u gotta admit nothing about han gaozu make this seem at all out of character for him.