#but even without that explanation

[i-cast-zone-of-truth]

big scary demon Zhao Yuanzhou bringing “weaker than a human” energy levels to fight the final boss was so choice

[benevolenterrancy]

...I got a little lost in the weeds thinking about the time between Ming Yi's ascension and his death, and decided that this is my favourite possible scenario (think Lord Vetinari and Leonard de Quirm).

Is Ming Yi a prisoner? technically yes. Does he have any interest in leaving? not in the slightest, he is fed, gets given any of the tools or materials he wants, and gets work on his own projects without any interruptions except for the occasional conversation with He Xuan! it's like the ideal possible retirement after living a VERY busy mortal life!

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

DP X DC PROMPT #25

(#) = Notes at the end of post

(*) = Just me building off of other ideas.

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Family Reunion

Clockwork sends an adult Danny, newly appointed Ancient of Space, on a mission through time again. Except this time, it isn't located on Earth, but a distant planet he's never even heard of before. Clockwork didn't tell him any specifics on what he was supposed to do or when he was supposed to return to his own time, just to blend in and have an experience. He would know when it was time to return.

Needless to say, he has a blast! His core is bursting with happiness at getting the chance to explore this unknown corner of the universe with a sky full of constellations he's never seen and fascinating locals. Considering he might be here a while, he buckles down and learns all about their culture and their traditions and even eventually learns their language without having to use the two-way translator Clockwork gave him.

He spends decades there, not even having to worry about how he never appears to age, the people here being incredibly long-lived. However, he eventually meets someone. Someone he falls head over heels for. He gets married. He has kids. He watches them slowly grow into adults as well. It isn't until one of his sons informs him that he's expecting his own child(1) that Danny feels a tug at his core.

He ignores it, but over the course of a few weeks, it's gone from the occasional pull to a full-on yank at his entire being, along with a sense of dread that something was going to happen to this wonderful little planet. To his family.

He becomes restless and loses so much sleep, it's a miracle he can even stand. His family are worried for him, but he assures them that he's just feeling a little under the weather. One night, he's sat up in bed, unable to sleep again. His gaze is fixed lovingly on his spouse, but nonetheless sad.

He doesn't miss when all the soft sounds of the night stop and a green glow appears behind him.

"It's time to leave, isn't it?"

"Yes."

"There isn't any way I could stay? I can't bring them with me?"

"I'm afraid not. There are some things that can't be changed or stopped, even when they fall into your domain. I'm sorry."

"Why send me here just to make me abandon them like this? What was the point?"

Clockwork is silent, but when Danny turns to look at the ghost, he's gone.

Danny takes a few more precious days to spend time with his family. Kiss his spouse. Hug his kids. Feel the strong kicks of his grandchild he won't be there to witness the birth of.

The night he leaves, he places a letter on his spouse's nightstand, gently kisses their forehead, and disappears in a flash of green, never to be seen again.

Years later is when Danny gets the news. That the planet Krypton is no more and that his family is gone. He searched the Ghost Zone for them, but he never knew the location of Krypton in the cosmos. Their afterlife is beyond his reach, in a place that isn't even on the Infamap.

He nearly drowns himself in grief when he finds a sliver of reprieve in the form of a news broadcast. An extraordinary man in blue and red with the kryptonian symbol for such emblazoned on his chest is shown fighting off multiple enemies at once. He is the spitting image of his father and Danny as well.

He had a grandson. His grandson was alive.

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(1) This was Kara, not Clark. Danny left before he even found out about Kal-El being in the oven, so there will be a misunderstanding at first. Then Kara pops up later, and Danny just bawls his eyes out that he had two surviving grandchildren without even knowing it this whole time. How he first meets either of them is up to you!

(*) What this means power-wise for Clark is yours to decide. As well as what Clark already knows about his grandfather from the stored information his father left him. What his father thought of Danny disappearing without a word is also up for you to decide.

[slymanner]

God dude these two scenes and how roxie moves hurt my heart so so bad 🥹

it's like a mix of anger, feral, emotional breakdown, and complete sadness that just fucks me up soooo fucking bad.

it's like she's a pet who got abandoned by their owner but they see them again after years of sadness and depression of them being gone and leaving them like that and all that anger and sadness just manifest's into one bundle of emotion's towards them they cannot control.

roxie baby ur gonna be okay u deserve better :[

[allastoredeer]

Sir Pentious: What about the pipe bombsss I sssent to your houssse?

Everyone within earshot: Alastor has a house?

Turns out, Sir Pentious is the only one who actually knows where Alastor lives. Not even Vox does. And Sir Pentious just...never questioned it. He didn't even realize he was the only privy to this knowledge, he just does shit without explanation (that's what Alastor likes about him :3)

Everyone else kinda assumed Alastor just lived under a bridge or a bog before he lived at the hotel. He just popped up one day and never left.

[waterfallofspace]

is anyone else with this kink not into nose blowing, either actively turns you off or just kinda neutral on it, willing to put up with it in situations where you have to (like a wav or someone inducing for you, it's gonna happen so it's whatever)—

but if it's outside of wavs/active inducing, just naturally in the wild, from someone you find attractive (in whatever way, platonic, romantic, fully just snz-focused) you can kinda find yourself getting a bit 👀👀 about it, just purely because oh? your nose is bothering you, is it?

even though the noise itself still does nothing, or even makes you uncomfortable, the connotations... 🔥

[fakesorbet]

they had very contrasting parents and yet it didn’t change anything

[ohbother2]

Introducing everyone to my Alastor headcannon!

He's a deer right? And what are deer well-known for? Yes, yes, staring un-waveringly into your soul in the middle of a country road in the twilight hours.

But what else are they known for?

As soon as something happens, they are GONE. They run so fast and with such wild-abandon to just get the fuck out of wherever they are they they go hurtling through the brush never to be seen again.

This brings my to my head cannon - Alastor is easily skittish, he is just fortunate that his deer-caught-in-headlights instinct takes over long enough for him to grapple with his fear and restrain the part of himself that wants to flee, so instead he just stares unwavering and intimidatingly with that cocky grin until he has enough composure to begin talking again.

Now, sometimes, sometimes his instincts are too strong. And sometimes, he cannot stay composed, especially after a particularly bad fright, like bumping into Nifty or Angel Dust stalking the corridors of the hotel silently at night. What happens then? Alastor freezes for mere seconds, and then goes hurtling as fast as he can in whatever direction his feet decide to take him.

Sometimes, much to his dismay, his feet decide to propel him into the nearest wall before he even realises where he is heading.

This has led to many encounters where Alastor appears to bolt head-first into a wall for no other explanation than he felt like it, and he leaves Angel Dust as confused as ever as he bounces back from the impact, shocked from his deer-like-terror, and begins a conversation as normal, ignoring the new antler shaped hole in the wall he had just careened into.

No one dares question him about this odd behaviour, and the residents of the hotel have just had to accept that they often see the sole's of his shoes as he sprints full-pelt away from them at the drop of a hat.

[my-name-is-apollo]

Why is Hera so hostile to Leto in a manner that she isn't with the other lovers of Zeus? I can't think of any other woman who was targeted so much by Hera. One could say she didn't want Leto to give birth because her children would be a competition to Hera's children, but why bother her even after she had already given birth? Is it because Leto herself is also a threat to Hera?

Sort of I guess?

I don't think Leto would ever be a threat to Hera's role as the queen of the gods but Hera might see her as a competitor for Zeus' affection, even though I think Zeus would not marry someone else and replace Hera.

The twins are definitely a big reason why Hera begrudged Leto - it is outright stated in the Callimachus Hymn to Delos that the reason Hera especially targeted Leto was because she was told that Apollo would be dearer to Zeus than Ares is. Zeus is very proud of Artemis as well. As he himself puts it, he doesn't mind facing Hera's wrath for children like her.

But the continued hatred even after the birth of the twins (like sending Tityus to rape Leto) could have been for different reasons. This wasn't like one of those affairs Zeus would have with mortal women where he'd leave them behind once the child is conceived. Neither could Hera, despite her many attempts, get rid of Leto like she did with the other lovers. Not only did Leto give Zeus children that he loves dearly, she also stayed on Olympus despite Hera's hatred towards her (which isn't directed to any of Zeus' other divine mistresses, btw). It might have also been because Leto herself is dear to Zeus, if the way she's treated on Olympus is any proof. In the Homeric hymn to Apollo, Leto stands next to Zeus - in the Olympian assembly - to welcome their son. Hera is completely absent from the scene, as if Leto had taken her place even if temporarily. Now you could say this is because Apollo himself is such a powerful and glorious son in a way that no other son of Zeus is, so of course Leto would get such an honor (the hymn itself presents it this way).

But here's another instance - in the Iliad, when Hera goes to seduce Zeus, he is obviously very smitten but before getting into the action, he lists some of his lovers (I believe these were his favorite lovers, as a lot of others are not mentioned):

"for never has such desire for goddess or mortal woman so gripped and overwhelmed my heart, not even when I was seized by love for Ixion’s wife, who gave birth to Peirithous the gods’ rival in wisdom; or for Acrisius’ daughter, slim-ankled Danaë, who bore Perseus, greatest of warriors; or for the far-famed daughter of Phoenix, who gave me Minos and godlike Rhadamanthus; or for Semele mother of Dionysus, who brings men joy; or for Alcmene at Thebes, whose son was lion-hearted Heracles; or for Demeter of the lovely tresses; or for glorious Leto; or even for you yourself, as this love and sweet desire for you grips me now.’ (Book 14, trans. A. T. Murray)

Notice how when talking about most of them, he also mentions the children they bore to him but when Demeter and Leto are mentioned, he doesn't bring up their children at all despite them being some of the most accomplished kids of his. What's more, he takes Leto's name just before Hera's. I mean, this is an interpretation but it looks like not only did Zeus love Leto the most out of all his mistresses - giving her a place second to that of his wife, but also his love for her wasn't necessarily only because she gave him two amazing children.

Nonnus does something similar in the Dionysiaca (but this time Zeus is enamored with Persephone instead of Hera) but more notably, when Typhoeus attacks Olympus and Zeus is discouraged, Nike takes the form of Leto to encourage him and it's pretty telling of what Leto meant to Zeus.

One interesting similarity between Hera and Leto is that they both had a giant try to rape them. Porphyrion tried to violate Hera (Zeus inspired him to do this) and Tityus tried to violate Leto (upon Hera's order). Though both of them were killed, only Tityus got an eternal punishment in Tartarus of having his liver/heart eaten out by vultures so Zeus seems to have taken a greater offense at Tityus trying to assault Leto.

Again, I don't think Zeus would ever take anyone other than Hera as his permanent wife - she is irreplaceable to him. There's an entire myth about Hera leaving him and Zeus winning her back. Their relationship is obviously complex and involves all kinds of emotions including love and hate. But Leto is continually dear to him as well and that's something Hera can't do much about.

[1001galaxygal]

It’s so interesting to hear what mokumokuren was intending with the hand in chest scene! I think the themes of the story come through excellently. “Difficult to accept” in the sense of Hikaru’s death and yoshiki’s sexuality. It’s a bit genius I fear

[zzztlk]

so so excited for The Ties That Bind, I love keeping up with it's progress and can't wait until the final product!!! Here's a quick question: Is Rabel pronounced Rah-bell or Ray-bell? I keep pronouncing it Rah-Bell but idk if that's correct. Love ur work and have a good day! :)

Thanks! It's the first one, like scrabble

[depressedhatakekakashi]

‘Kakashi should have been a parental figure to sasuke’ is a terrible argument for hating Kakashi, cuz no tf he shouldn’t have

Kakashi is in no place to be a parental figure to ANYONE in his state. He’s not ‘parental figure’ capable until post war arc when he finds some damn closure

But also, Sasuke does not NEED a parental fogure and he’d be insulted at anyone trying to fill that role. Where Naruto had no one (and thus a parental figure stepping in for him was good) sasuke has parents he loved

Parents he adored, who’s desd bodies he saw laying on the ground after his big brother murdered them

The last thing he needed was a parental figure. What he needed was a friend and support, and he had people trying to be that

Naruto was and wanted to be his friend

Kakashi wanted to be a support system for him

For many reason’s, of which fall on no specific person as being totally in the wrong, that did not happwn.

Sasuke pushed Naruto, Kakashi and everyone else away to seek his own goals, because he was so consumed by revenge he was willing to do anything. Which is exactly why Kakashi told him to stop seeking revenge

He was fine with Sasuke wanting revenge until he saw just how much Sasuke was willing to sacrifice to get it, and only THEN did he step in and tell Sasuke to stop seeking it

Because he saw how it was destroying Sasuke.

How this desire was eating away at Sasuke so much he was willing to harm his friends, people who cared for him and who he cared for, because he felt they were in the way of him achieving that goal.

Kakashi tried to be what Sasuke actually needed. Not a parental figure, but a support and guide. A role no one could fill cuz most people wanted to use sasuke (orochimaru, obito, even itachi at the start) and the one person who genuinly wanted to help Sasuke (Kakashi) was not the person who could both because their world views were vastly different because of how differently they experienced their trauma’s, and because Sasuke chose to push everyone who cared about him away

People need to stop expecting Kakashi to fill a parental role for Sasuke. That is not his role

It should never be his role

You cannot fill a role where someone already stands, and even dead Fugaku was Sasuke’s father figure. His real, loved, respected father.

[bigsharkguy]

thinking about the "i'm wondering if another woman is the answer we need" quote from fight club immediately being followed by "most of the week we were ozzie and harriet"

like wdym talk about not wanting to marry a woman and then comparing your relationship with your male best friend/roommate to a married couple

[musicfeedsmysoul12]

AU Where Bakugou never finds out about OFA and genuinely believes that Izuku is using a support item/items as a slight against him, Katsuki believes that Deku tricked everyone into believing the quirkless boy has a quirk.

"There is seriously something wrong with Bakugou," Shouta said. Hizashi looked up at their husband.

"What did the kid do now?" they asked.

"He is still yelling about Midoriya faking a Quirk," Shouta sighed. He sat down beside them. "I'm exhausted trying to convince him that he isn't."

"I don't understand how he'd think that," Hizashi said. "I mean, Midoriya is a false negative, but like... how?"

"If Midoriya could fake a Quirk that well, I'd help cover it up," snorted Shouta. "Nezu would help."

"I would too," Hizashi admitted. "It would be amazing."

"I would love that." Shouta agreed. He sighed. "We have to deal with Bakugou though."

"You going to pull him from 1A?" Hizashi asked.

"I might have to. Hound Dog is saying he isn't responding, so he wants to send him to an actual therapist," Shouta sighed. "If we don't hear him getting better by finals..."

"It takes a lot longer for mental health," Hizashi said.

"I know that, you know that, parents will accept it without a fight so we have a reason to pull him," Shouta said. "Maybe it'll click if he fails his last exam."

"Going to pull that?" Hizashi asked. They didn't often purposely set someone up to fail the final in a way to teach them a lesson. If Shouta thought that it was needed...

They might actually need to pull him if it doesn't shock him.

[hylianpixl]

so i was drawing a post for the splatfest. and when i took a break i saw THIS ⬇️

so naturally i had to append an extra question to my post. because wtf

[gio-cosmo]

Thangyu pokemon au where they favor duo battles together because their Pokémon work so well together. And they have matching dumbass dramatic poses they pull when they throw their pokeballs. And if they lose a battle they blame the other trainers and try to somehow make up a way that they cheated (“you used a full revive so your win doesn’t even count but whatever 🙄”). If they lose a solo battle all of sudden it’s “well obviously I didn’t win bc I didn’t have my boy nam-su w me and it threw me off 🙄” or “well I would’ve kicked your ass if I had thanos as backup 😐”