#fear of being a parent

[stars-obsession-pit]

Ever since the portal accident, Danny has always seemed a bit… off, to other people. But even before that, he’d always been seen as a bit of a weird kid. The people of Amity Park were, even at the start, a bit used to it.

The people of Gotham, however, were not.

If anything, they were the opposite. Living in the ‘city of crime’ had built within them keen survival instincts. Instincts that went on full blast in the halfa’s vicinity.

Most simply avoided him. Homeless shelters turned him away. Jobs, even the less than legal ones, hesitated to hire him. Sometimes people would even call the cops if he stuck around in any one place for too long.

Not even the city’s mysterious vigilantes trusted him. He sometimes caught glimpses of their masked eyes following him from the shadows. Watching. Waiting for him to show his true colors.

Or maybe he was just hallucinating. He couldn’t be entirely sure. He didn’t dare transform and risk bringing down further suspicion on himself, nor could he ask anyone to corroborate for what he saw either. So instead, he just curled further in on himself. Surreptitiously using his powers to steal the bare necessities for himself and avoiding everyone.

Not even during the worst of the anti-ghost sentiment in Amity had Danny felt so alone.

[wandixx]

I've seen a lot of different takes on Fear Toxin/other fear causing stuff (Yellow Lanterns Ring or something)(later just called Fear Toxin cause I'm lazy) but here is another one.

Danny seems like he isn't affected by Fear Toxin because his biggest fear is that his accident changed him so much he is no longer human, he can no longer truly experience human things.

So when he gets lungful of fear Toxin, he feels normal. He was antsy before, because c'mon, it's a rogue attack but it's not worse. Or so he thought. Because the anxiety lingers. Not enough to register as abnormal just this slight hypervigilance that makes you see things about yourself and your surroundings that you'd never realize otherwise. He'd realize he doesn't blink as often. He'd realize that if he doesn't consciously focus, he sometimes seems to not touch the ground. Forgets to breathe. He can't feel his own pulse at time. He'd realize people will miss him when he's walking down the street as if he was invisible (people just don't care about everyone they pass by). When he'd look straight into his reflection, he'd look slightly to the left. Not enough to actually name anything that was wrong but just stretched enough to fall on the wrong side of the uncanny valley. If he just caught his reflection in the peripheral vision, it'd be vaguely shadowy creature with glowing green eyes and white smoke instead of hair. Overall he'd be just wrong enough to be distinctly not human.

For everyone else, he'd be just a dude. Literally couldn't find more normal dude than this dude. Will pass as absolutely normal human unless someone is specifically looking for ecto-ghost stuff. Even most magic users wouldn't clock him at the glance

Tldr: Fear Toxin makes Danny perceive himself as some sort of eldritch horror but not enough to make him believe he'd actually be affected, while from outside perspective he's Just A Dude™

[unpersoniverse]

Skén:nen sá:sewh

as promised, here's Precious boy™ getting kissed by Precious wife™ because he deserves all the love in the world :cc

translation: Get home safe

[whumpchester]

i often think about his elementary school teacher being the first demon/person he recognized before his prom date and his friend + they had so many teachers so this one mustve had a big impact on him and also like. sickening to think about them already following around sam as a child to "keep him on the right path"

[wormontwostrings]

these girls are crazy

[specialagentartemis]

I wish Sam and Tucker got to be characters more often. Thinking about how they also have a significant part of their lives they have to hide from their parents because they're also out ghost hunting with Danny all the time. And they have the capacity to walk away from it in a way that Danny doesn't. But they don't. This has got to be a strain on them too, this upended their lives too, and they don't even have any ghost powers to deal with it.

Sam already isn't on good terms with her parents; she could probably tell them upfront exactly how much time she spends hunting ghosts and if she said it in a bitter and sarcastic tone of voice they would probably just frown at her and tsk for her being so morbid and dramatic. I can't imagine she's the kind of kid who talks honestly to her parents about anything anyway. We barely ever see Tucker's parents but the few times we do they seem generically nice and normal. Do they worry about him, suddenly out all the time and coming home harried and beat up and found at the scene of rampant property destruction? Is he lying to them for the first time in his life? Does Danny ever ask them about this or is he too wrapped up in his own Family Angst?

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 20 - Memory

Rare is it to see you so shaken. I can only imagine what thoughts must be consuming you at this moment, my love.

[casscainmainly]

hey. I was just wondering what Barbara's and Duke's relationship is like in comics. I want to remember if they've interacted, but I can't remember something from the top of my head quickly.

I think they don't interact at all 😭😭😭. They are probably featured in group scenes/have spoken once or twice, or maybe they've interacted in a comic I haven't read, but yeah they have next to no interactions (even less than Duke + Steph & Duke + Kate).

I love them both to death but honestly I cannot see them being close. Duke values honesty and people being upfront; Babs is decidedly not that, and Duke would I think really dislike her manipulations (see his reaction to possible manipulation by Bruce in Batman & The Signal). Duke would also (possibly unfairly) associate Babs with Jim and Dick, both of whom he has various reasons for disliking. As for Babs, she'd group Duke with Damian as additions to the family she is not going to think about much. Of course they would respect each other in the field, but I cannot imagine them hanging out on their own time. They have drastically different circles of Batfam members they like.

Also Babs is fairly protective of younger heroes (see her + Cass in Batgirl (2000)) in a way that would chafe heavily with Duke. Actually Cass, whom they both love, is the perfect example of why they wouldn't get along. In Batgirl (2000), Babs is constantly trying to get Cass to value her life, to not fight Shiva, to slow down + take a breath. By contrast, Duke in Batman and The Outsiders is like 'Cass let's disobey Batman and strike out with Shiva' 24/7 😭😭😭. In B&TO Duke is very much pro-rogue action, and encourages Cass to do so as well. They're kind of opposites in the way they view youth agency (which makes sense given their ages + experiences), so I think they'd clash with that. But canonically we know next to nothing, so anyone's free to make their own interpretations!

[formerprincewille]

Something that really sets Wille and Simon apart from other queer ships is that when we say their love language is physical touch, IT REALLY IS PHYSICAL TOUCH. And I’m not speaking of just sex. Over the course of the show, the amount of touching between them is astronomical. And that’s really something rarely seen in queer media. There may be moments here or there, but often times there’s a lack of physical contact unless it’s for “the plot”. Wille and Simon feel like a real couple in the way they’re always physically reaching out for each other.

[llitchilitchi]

dumb little comic based off this

some extra thoughts under the cut

this started as a silly joke because I sincerely adore this meme and after reading the tags in the reblogs I couldn't help myself. but while drawing all the scales on their linothoraxes I started thinking about this more

now, as confident as Alexander was, everyone has doubts every once in a while, and he would probably be proud enough to cover the true deeper meaning of these insecurities under something silly (or poetic. he would probably quote Euripides for all we know.) 'would you still love me as a worm?' - would you still love me if I wasn't the great king? would you still love me if I wasn't your commander? would you still love me if I lost a battle? would you still love me if I lost the war? would you still love me if I lost my kingship now? would you still love me if I was crippled in battle, if I could no longer lead and fight? would you still love me if I was no longer the richest, most powerful man in the world? would you still love me if I was a soldier, if I was a servant, a slave? would you still love me if I was a worm?

it was one thing for them to be friends and lovers in youth, quite another once he proved himself undefeatable time and time again, after he took Egypt and Babylon and Persepolis. and with people he considered close betraying him, he'd grow.... anxious, I think. I don't want to say outright paranoid, but he likely worried that the people he cares for deeply no longer loved him, and only pretended to for his favour, which meant everything in his new empire. he likely had such thoughts more often the further he got in life. or maybe I'm just projecting, who knows. either way this was an interesting thing to consider.

[transrevolutions]

expanding on my previous post actually every single oiar employee (including lena) is autistic they all just have different and clashing presentations. that "weird interview" celia and sam were discussing in episode 6? yeah that was just lena attempting to give a poorly-disguised diagnostic test.

[blueberry-starsss]

TW: Animal Gore and Blood

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Something about the thought of Sock having some form of religious trauma and him getting his family ostracized from the church. As if this kid didn’t have a shit ton of issues already.

[bumblingbabooshka]

It's obviously a diabolically infantilizing move by Lumon to make all the innies' manager a child but do we think it's also some sort of dig at Milchick? His computer's home screen still says 'Cobel' AND he has a child as his second in command and there's a moment near the end of the first episode where he seems to be terse with her, ordering her out of the room and closing the door when she tries to talk to him.

[damthosefandoms]

really warms my heart to picture little eleven year old ponyboy going with his mom and dad to see the sound of music in theaters (because his dad loves movies and his mom loves music and they would just so enjoy it) and it’s one of his favorite memories of them as he gets older

[whatdidtheydotomygirljinx]

"silco loved jinx but he wasn't a good parent" that's a perfect description of vander actually

[rosurie]

tw: gun wounds, blood, dead parents

Noé...? no one at the orphanage seems to really know how he ended up there.

no one but Damsel, of course.

this was drawn specifically because @wreckowafer asked me to lol. I hope you enjoy, wafer !!!

BONUS CUTE DOODLE

the moment Damsel was dropped at the orphanage, she adopted Noé like you adopt a pet ♡