#death mention.

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Depressing and angsty Curious Archer headcanon under the cut. Death mention trigger warning.

Alice dies first. Robin dies soon after of a broken heart.

They're in their old age though, I'm not that mean. But why did my brain decide to gift me with this thought today?

[katlyn-wilkie-15]

SMILE :)

I read an interesting South Park creepypasta called Smiling Cherub.

It’s basically about Stan going insane after Kyle, Cartman and Kenny die.

[hee-blee-art]

i have questions about the silliest

so was father elias ever a good charming priest? or has he always been so tired? (idk how else to word it)

also it seems like he has some substance addiction, is he aight

also have people that go to his church (if he does have a church idk if exorcists have churches) caught up, yknow, the whole demon creatura living in his necklace

absolutely delighted to talk about bedevil

[cw: christianity/catholicism, parental death, addiction/alcoholism, mental illness, exorcism]

father eli has never really been a "good" priest per se, though he wasn't always so tired (love the wording of the question /gen). his life has always been challenging, as he's been extremely sensitive to sensing / perceiving demons ever since he was born, which is understandably scary. he was abandoned by his birth mother at a convent and raised by nuns; his upbringing was fairly strict and not super fun, so to speak, though the two nuns that fostered him did love him. the church saw his sensitivity to demons as a holy calling and paired him with a notable exorcist, monsignor bonaventure, to train as an exorcist. bonaventure became a father figure to him, and the happiest time in his life was probably in his teens when he was apprenticing with bonaventure and still under the loving care of his two foster parents at the convent, even though the work was scary and the pressure of being a "holy gifted kid" was a lot. he went to seminary in order to become a fully fledged exorcist, having proven very gifted at dealing with demons because of his sensitivity (and in the human aspect of exorcisms, as he has an uncanny ability to get the truth out of people), though he had never had very strong faith; it just seemed like the thing to do. bonaventure was killed on the job shortly after eli completed seminary, and that really hit eli hard. he essentially had a breakdown and ran away from his whole life, but isolation only made things worse, and eventually the pleas from the church to use his gift / fulfill his calling convinced him to start doing exorcist work again. he's been pretty tired for a long time (aka he's got a lot of trauma and mental health issues). hope that gives some insight into his disposition; he's had it rough for a long time

he definitely does have substance abuse issues, especially alcohol and sleep medication (has had insomnia for a very long time). it's a pretty unhealthy coping mechanism for him but he sees it sort of as a necessary evil

also in fiction exorcists can and sometimes do have parishes / work for specific churches, but eli doesn't. because he's like the most renowned exorcist in the world, he doesn't have time to have a parish of his own, and that was never really something that he wanted for himself, as he never really wanted to be a priest, he just felt like he had to (and in a way, wanted to, but that's complicated) fulfill the holy purpose everyone always told him he had because of his gift. the people he works with in the church do know about him keeping a demon in his necklace, and it's somewhat of a scandalous rumour to anyone else who's heard of him; some believe it, some don't, and some experience keth firsthand, so they know it's true. the church sort of begrudgingly lets eli do whatever he wants so long as he does his job, and as much as they dislike their arrangement keth makes eli an even better exorcist, so they tolerate him as long as he's contained. so keth isn't a secret, but most people don't believe eli really has a demon necklace or believe in demons at all, so it's also not commonly accepted knowledge.

hope that makes sense! I am always happy to answer questions about the freefallverse (or any ocs / stories of mine). tyvm for asking !

[watchinginred]

You know those posts where someone's like "how do you think you'd die if you lived in the past" and people are always like "oh I'd be executed or smt lol" I have come to a horrid conclusion I would not be executed or anything funny like that. I would fall down the stairs and die.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

being a student during peak pandemic was so fucking surreal like. "it's not an excuse to fall behind" I cannot stress enough to you how much A Worldwide Plague Upending Life As We Know It is literally one of The Top Three Reasons to fall behind

[podcastwizard]

ideal ways for me to die

1. old age, peacefully in my sleep

2. after a long and illustrious career i am at a rooftop gala hosted in my honor. i am wearing a beautiful gown, holding a glass of red wine, standing by the railing. a scorned lover approaches and, after a passionate spat, they push me over the edge of the building. the wine glass goes flying, splattering their outfit in red as a visual metaphor for the blood on their hands. as i descend my gown flies around me like two beautiful wings, a bird in flight. a photographer on the street manages to take a photo before i hit the ground and that photo wins the pulitzer. a new york times think piece is released regarding whether or not it's moral to profit off a photo of someone's death. the think piece also wins a pulitzer.

3. sex accident.

[prokopetz]

Movies where the lead actor did their own stunts are always either "the director forced them to stand in freezing water for fourteen hours a day while periodically throwing rocks at their head for the sake of 'authenticity' and they got PTSD and almost died" or "they insisted over the explicit objections of the production's insurance company that they be set on fire for real because it would 'help [them] understand the character's motivation'" – there's absolutely no middle ground.

[basi1isks]

[landrylovesmatcha]

she’s everything 💕

tw: death mention

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

If Colin fans can have a coven made up of all of his roles, then I wanna see a meet up between mentally ill lesbian Alice, drag king Masie, and Miss 'i had sex with my friend after watching her chop up some bodies after they tripped over my rug' woman from Uneventful.

[earhartsease]

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

edit: since lots of people are still responding to this (we were amazed at the huge response over a just 24 hour poll), we want to make it clearer that we were never saying "of course nobody shrieks", we were railing against how on screen, women always do in an over dramatic way, and when men do it's made fun of like they've emasculated themselves by shrieking (so it's clearly a deliberate misogynistic trope)

meanwhile of course some people do shriek, as clearly demonstrated not just by the nearly 11% in the poll, but by all the tags we got inundated with - the main responses seem to be: gasp, swear loudly, vomit, grunt or make some other kind of other inarticulate noise, and shriek

anyway, thanks for playing

[bamsara]

Hungover Lamb + Scythe privileges

little snip for what may happen after the 'drunken gods' chapter in TROD and the other drunken shenangians ive doodled

[ribghoul]

my girlfriend is able to take like a 20-min nap and bounce back with full energy. idk how she does that. when i lie down i wake up 12 years later in a hospital bed i rip the IV out of my arm and stumble into the hallway the whole building is littered with bodies, i make my way back to my house but my wife and children are long gone

[incorrectbatfam]

[at Jason's funeral]

Dick: *places his hand on the headstone and sobs*

Dick: How could you do this to me? We are so understaffed.

[prokopetz]

My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they've been updating daily.

[violent138]

Damian: "Red Hood has a pretty severe concussion. What do I do?"

Tim: "Extraction's still ten minutes out, just keep him talking."

Damian, urgently pressing the comm: "I don't want to talk to him, he's even more insufferable than usual."

Jason, lying on the ground, eyes closed: "That's funny Junior, because head trauma's the only thing that makes you bearable."

Damian, to Tim: "I'm leaving. It won't be the first time we've had a closed casket."

Tim, groaning disgustedly: "Robin--ugh, seriously, just stay there and keep him awake."

Damian, seething even more when he sees Jason's smirk: "Fine."

Jason, cracking open one eye: "Aww, are you concerned about me?"

Damian: "Shut up. The only thing I'm concerned about is our family's reputation after your public wipeout on that stupid motorcycle."

Jason:

Damian: "Are you still awake?" *kicks him* "Todd?"

Jason, grinning: "You said our family."

Damian, furious: "I didn't. You've lost more brain cells than you could afford."

Jason: "Wait 'till Tim hears, I think he'll want a group hug. Bruce is probably going to get emotionally constipated. Dickie would probably cry--"

Damian, panicking as he hears the Batmobile get closer: "Stop. Do not tell him--"

Jason: "You better erase every single fucking video of me crashing then."

Damian: "You have a deal."