#at least when comes to looks

[one-selective-bitch]

While reading Nevermore I feel like that one best friend that sees their bestie's man and how he treats them and goes: "FUCKING LEAVE HIM! HE'S JUST A MAN, HIT HIM WITH YOUR CAR!" when it comes to Ada and Will.

Those two are such meansexuals

[hinamie]

blue light overexposure dot png

[delicourse]

Lesbian pride gown season yet again <3

[cerealmonster15]

PITAYA DRAGON COOKIE PLEASE WEIGH IN ON YOUR BATTLE WIFE'S NEW LOOK

[clumsypuppy]

forgot i made this my obsession a while ago

[superbat-lmao]

Before Jason makes his debut as Red Hood, he goes apartment hunting.

And the thing about Gotham is, all of the apartments that would make for good safe houses, are safe houses. The Bat’s safe houses. If Jason wants to set up shop, he’s got to get creative. This means being willing to look the other way about some things. Namely, living with other people.

Jason gets a roommate.

Sure, he’d found a couple of spots that fit some of the criteria he used for making safe houses, but not all apartments were equal. And having a semi-functioning civilian cover was useful. Sometimes.

All this to say that Jason responded to a craigslist post of some guy looking for a roommate. The post was written well enough, decent grammar and a fair enough price. Unlike some of the places he’d “toured.”

He has to trudge up a few flights of stairs to get to the place, because roof access is always high on the priority list, and knocks on the door. He waits a few minutes, hears someone check the peephole, and then the sound of at least five separate locks being undone.

With the door finally open, he gets a good look at the guy’s face. Too good of a look, actually.

Because the man who opens it is Dick Grayson.

[egophiliac]

half a warm-up doodle, half consoling myself because I have thrown so many keys at him and yet he refuses to come home. >:( please sir...your stats are so good and your elements are ones I need...please...

[veatomis]

The seventh talon, Andarateia Cantori

[gunstellations]

cause for celebration

[theribbajack]

"Now, the vow will be honoured, and my Lord brother's soul will return."

Radahn stans keep winning, but I personally am in Miyazaki's walls rn

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID in ALT] I've made posts before about Talia/Dick co-parenting Damian moments (will never happen but let me dream) and this came to me in a vision. Took me ages to finish for some reason 😭 and then even longer to post

[seefasters]

everyone wants to replicate the 10 and donna dynamic but no one wants to cast actresses over 30 as the companions

[sysig]

Skelekinz (Patreon)

[ckret2]

tonight's topic is: applying a fanfic trope to a character totally unsuited for it, and then persuading y'all to buy it

the trope: hanahaki disease! for the uninitiated: it's a fictional disease where someone whose love is unrequited or unconfessed starts growing flowers in their lungs and coughing them up. It's a metaphor for How Beautiful Love Is Yet How Painful When Unfulfilled.

i feel like that kind of bullshit would happen to aku.

not even because it's unrequited. i just think that's how his body would react to falling in love.

(yes this post is an excuse to draw an extremely pretty, miserable aku. please look at my flowers i worked so hard. now here's the part of the post where I talk y'all into agreeing with this headcanon.)

(side note that's irrelevant to the rest of this post: tbh I personally don't like the spin where hanahaki disease is due to UNREQUITED love. that makes it, like, the OTHER PERSON'S fault they're sick. "You've gotta reciprocate their crush or they'll DIE."

I prefer it when the flower barf is due to denied love—bury it deep inside but don't move on, refuse to confess yet refuse to let it go, hope the flowers & truth won't burst from your mouth in front of the person you're trying hardest to hide it from. yeah, some may hide their feelings because they're unrequited, but that isn't what twists love into a disease: it's the act of swallowing it down.)

but that's neither here nor there!

Usually, I'm in the Love Is Not Good, It's Morally Neutral camp; but just this once for the sake of having fun with this headcanon we'll say love is Inherently Good, okay?

Aku is two things: 1) a tree, and 2) ontologically evil.

Being evil, and playing in a universe where we've decided for a minute that Love Is Good, love doesn't come naturally/easily to him. like, he can feel it—but it hurts. He was not meant for this, it's unnatural to him. having love inside him is like a cancer—it's something malignant that grew out of control, far larger than it was supposed to, taking over the body.

And being a tree—well... flowers are trees' reproductive organs.

So he falls in love and suddenly he's coughing up flower-covered vines and keeps having to yank them out. Like Hexxus sprouting plants.

Tumorous blossoms in direct proportion to this cancerous emotion. The more the flowers grow the more the vines wriggle into his mind, twisting his thoughts, poisoning him with deeper infatuation, making it harder and harder to focus on anything but whoever he's obsessed with. The deeper he's dragged down into love the more flowers bloom out of him. It's a vicious cycle.

And now he's gotta hide it, and avoid the hell out of whoever he's crushing on. Because he can't let people know he's ill & weakened. And he DEFINITELY can't let his beloved know because if they find out he's in love, and reciprocate... Well, for a normal character with normal hanahaki disease, the beloved finding out and/or reciprocating would be the cure. For something that shouldn't be in love in the first place, reciprocation would make things much, much worse.

... but wouldn't it be wonderful? (cue the sound of hacking up half a rose bush) sorry, that was the flowers speaking.

Every once in a while my acearo ass wants a "but what if love itself is the horror story?" idea and this is one of 'em.

but I doubt I'll actually write anything with this, because as I conceive of it, there's only a few ways it can end:

Good (Boring) Ending: Aku's health is restored because he falls OUT of love; might involve actual magic to kill his emotions, might involve shoving his loved one away.

Neutral Ending: Aku stays in love and just keeps getting worse and even if it doesn't kill him now he's miserable all the time, so like, nothing really changes. There are better avenues to explore "but what if we gave the villain a chronic disease?" than fucking hanahaki of all things.

Fluffy Bad Ending: the disease—or else some magic meant to accommodate the disease—transforms Aku into something (probably something "good") that CAN handle love. And that might be the sweet happily-ever-after ending but I consider it a bad ending because Aku being evil is the point, and he doesn't want to be good, and if the power of love turns him good/if he's forced to change who he is for love… well, I just don't enjoy that unless it's presented as a bad end. Even if it's "but it turned a villain good!" Especially if it's "but it turned a villain good," because I'm not too keen on "forcing somebody to change their fundamental nature is a good thing as long as it's for the right reasons."

Sexy Bad Ending: the vines fully take over Aku's brain and resculpt his mind to get what they want and like,, whoever he is he's not really Aku anymore; but now instead of trying to shove his loved one away to protect himself he's ALL OVER them with the desperation of a starving wolf on a dead deer, sooo I guess the two of them are something like 'happy' now?? Assuming the beloved is interested in this new ravenously besotted Aku-shaped creature that's replaced the real/original Aku?? this is probably the ending for people into hypno but it ends with you not really having Aku as a character anymore.

I don't currently feel like writing a brainwashing bad end—interesting to think about, but not enough to commit that much time & words to—and the other two endings aren't terribly interesting. So I'm not planning to do anything with this idea.

Except make you think about it, too.

(If anybody wants to play with this idea, you have my full permission, just tell me about it and/or show me when u post it because i wanna see)

[burningcheese-merchant]

Worst artist in the BurningCheese community decides to get uppity (again), makes fankid collage/group photo in celebration of us all sharing a brain cell

Left to right:

Leftmost is @stories4eve 's (1)*

Little bro being a nuisance up north is @sunny-sourzii 's (2)

To their right, and to the immediate left of the middle one, is @estarletnova 's (3)

Middle Pepper Jack, aka the best and coolest and most adorable one, is my little guy

Pepper Jack immediately to the right of mine is @ewitsewwie 's (5)

And then next to that, furthest right, is @rawaso 's (6) I'm still extremely sorry for thinking yours looked too similar to mine. What a fucking blunder honestly. I need new glasses

Bonus panel featuring my little guy's sister, titled "I Got Really Tired At The End And Just Wanted To Scribble". There are suddenly six versions of Matar Paneer's brother, at least one of them not even being a boy(?), and she is extremely confused. Either somebody explains to her what's going on or she starts stabbing the other 5 with her katar because she thinks they're evil doppelgangers of some sort

If any of the artists tagged here want the individual doodles of their kiddies just let me know. I made sure to save them all before editing them together. I'll send them to your ask box(es) or something

*I'm sorry to Eve for changing your kid's look. I honestly could not make sense of his appearance no matter how hard I tried. The other ones were difficult enough for me as they were lol. I did this for my own sake. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

[kizzer55555]

Core Gems

So when a ghost becomes injured, they have a last ditch defense where they retreat into their core. And I mean, injured badly where their body is rip apart to the point they can’t hold a solid form anymore. And they basically go into a hibernation state until they are strong enough to form again.

Ellie, Danny, and Dan are all injured in a final battle against the GIW. The organization was destroyed and the ghosts were safe but the halfas ended up being so injured that they reverted to core form and then went to sleep for a bit. When they woke up, they were still weak but at least recovered enough to gain consciousness. And realize…they are in some kind of auction…in the middle of a heist. It appeared that two furries (one in a bat costume and one in a cat costume) were ducking it out. And they…they were a necklace. All three of them had been turned into a necklace with their cores as gems accompanied by sapphires, pearls, and opals. And frankly gorgeous craftsmanship as the metal was crafted around their cores as if to cradle them and the other gems.

Unfortunately, they were too weak to take a form properly, they could still feel the strain on their bodies. But at least they could still communicate through their auras. Then the cat lady punched a hole in the glass container surrounding them and grabbed their necklace.

However, the bat grabbed the other end and it resulted in a sort of tug-a-war. Meanwhile, Danny, Ellie, and Dan were having a back and form commentary on the situation and what they should do. Completely unheard by the other party.

In the corner of their eye, the three halfas finally noticed a third contender. Some kind of clown who was…hold on…holding a gun?! And it was pointed straight at the two fighting furies who had yet to notice him. The ghosts’ protective instincts went into overdrive and they frantically tried to shout, yell, move. Just do something to warn the two but their cries fell on deaf ears. All they succeeded in doing was faintly glow which immediatly caught the attention of the fighting duo. The two turned to look at the strange necklace but right at that moment, the clown fired and a gunshot rang throughout the auction room. Having no other options, Danny and the others poured every ounce of ectoplasm they had to try and phaseshift, making the two furries intangible as the bullets passed right through them, but in their shock, the two jumped away in opposite directions and accidentally ripped the necklace apart. Gems and pearls went flying and the three cores bounced along the ground.

Luckily, the two finally noticed the clown and went to deal with him and his minions who had appeared. Seemingly putting their fight on hold and forming a temporary truce. The three halfas could only watch as the battle finally wound down, ending with the cops barging into the place and arresting the clown and his grunts, the cat managing to escape with half the scattered gems and pearls from the broken necklace along with a few other jewelry pieces (none of their cores though) and the bat leaving through a skylight.

The auction continued and in the end, despite being broken, their necklace seemed to have caught someone’s interest. A man named Bruce Wayne bought up every piece of the shattered jewelry wear. The auctioneers appeared relived that the item managed to sell in the end and gratefully gave it to him.

Bruce had no idea what happened at the auction, but he could have sworn that some of the gems faintly glowed right before he and Selina were shot. If the necklace was some sort of magical item, then he needed to understand exactly what has been brought to Gotham. It was unfortunate that Selena had taken some parts of the necklace but he utilized his vast wealth to make sure all the other parts ended in his possession. Now he would take them back to the mansion for examination.