#introduction things

[forgettable-au]

PROLOGUE

FORGETTABLE-AU (Page 1-9)

AND SO IT BEGINS!

[CONTINUE] [MASTERPOST]

[gale-force-storm]

Thinking about the fact that, to pull Gale from the stone and get him in the game at all, you have to decide to try to touch an extremely dangerous looking swirling mass of unstable magic. Something that is, objectively, a terrible idea

Like, the options it gives you are to either touch the sigil or leave, and if you leave you just... don't get Gale in the party

You have to take the risk. You have to let your curiosity override your common sense. You have to look at this unstable, possibly dangerous malfunctioning magic sigil and go "...Ok, but what if I poke it?"

In short, to get Gale in your party, you have to do exactly what he would in that situation, and indulge in a moment of reckless curiosity. And I just think that's delightful

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[medusaesque]

The radicalization of Kim Kitsuragi

[yunoftheclouds]

What’s with this sassy, lost child?

[nondelphic]

welcome to nondelphic, *a blog about writing, overthinking writing, abandoning writing, and occasionally finishing writing. if you’re a fan of crying about writing, niche metaphors, and posts that spiral into existentialism, you’re in the right place.

rebecka (she/her)

22, swedish

writer, journalism student, full-time cat enthusiast (send me pictures of your cats)

queer and aro/ace (still figuring out the specifics...)

i probably have adhd (waiting to be officially diagnosed lol)

most likely drinking tea and diving into a rabbit hole about space, mountains or stuff too complicated for me to understand right now

my 2nd, less active blog is @rebellenotes where i post longer, more serious ramblings and essays.

i started this blog because i’ve always loved talking about writing—especially the struggles and chaos we all face as aspiring authors. none of my friends on other platforms cared (lol), so this space became my little haven for all things writing. i hope it can be that for you too, a safe, encouraging place to talk about stories, creativity, and all the weird ups and downs of being a writer (｡♥‿♥｡)

✏️ writing tips, memes, and struggles (mostly struggles)

📖 occasionally bookish content and recommendations

🌈 advocacy for lgbtq+ and disability rights !!

🍅 an unnecessary amount of love for cats and writing for fun

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[fallofthecelestial]

Okay. Since we're going over all the takes on Mr. X at this point.. What if his powers really don't have a backside. What if (the state of) his normal life is the backside.

What if his normal life is akin to that of heroes where he has to pretend to be something he's not and follow rules that the people who control his life came up with to further their own goals. What if he can only be free of other people's beliefs and expectations when he's a hero.

What if in reality he truly is like everyone else. The other heroes. The ordinary people. All those who work themselves to the bone, who are tired and overworked and sick of all the exploitation...

What if when he's in the form of the number one hero.. when he becomes the most sought after product on the hero market..

Is when he gains the freedom to truly be himself

[wolftopia-secondary]

hello alterhuman tumblr. im miles, and i am THEE wolftopia. yes you heard that right, i am woltopia (also known by my legal name TOI_1338b) :3

[heilos]

Howdy, I'm Heilos and welcome to my tumblr blog! Never got around to making a pinned introduction post so better 13 years late then never haha. I'm a long time freelance artist, animator, and overall generalist in skill set working on the Mystery Skulls Animated music video project team over the past 10 years with my best friends. I'll probably add a frequently asked questions section later when I get the chance. Other Socials: Bluesky Twitch Featured Tags: My Art Mystery Skulls Animated Video Updates Mystery Skulls Animated Character Info My Little Pony AU "Living Harmony"

[deminetly]

⊹ ࣪  MY WAITING ROOM

⠂⠁⠈⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂⠂⠁⠈⠂⠄⠄⠂⠁⠁⠂

⊹ rooms / places

room with portals to every dream ive ever had so i could revisit/finish the dreams

rage room

therapy room

corridor of my drs

character customizing room (i can try out different hairstyles, make up looks, styles, etc)

massage room

no gravity room full of bubbles I can pop

nature pool

copies of all of my dr bedrooms

craft room

perfume workshop (I can create perfumes for my drs)

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⊹ extras

I recieve a package with a cool trinket + a riddle/puzzle from a crow every morning

mirror that shows me from each dr + I can edit my appearance

website that generates any movie/show/game based on any prompt I put in

Im good at drawing + very creative

TV that shows moments from my drs + edits made of me and people from my drs (even if Im not famous in that dr) I can also watch my favourite movies and shows again for the first time

fairy scripting+shifting assistant who gives tips and ideas

remote for controlling the weather

fairy band that often performs concerts for the whole village

unicorn who will take me anywhere (she can fly + shes very fast)

a book of ideas for scripting (things to script + guides to scripting different drs + questions for developing drs, etc)

photobook of memories for each one of my drs (my digital camera that I have in each dr is connected to it)

fashion design journal (any item I draw will appear in the wardrobe of a dr of my choice)

my fyp only has useful shifting content in it

there are clouds I can rest on in the sky

a view to the moon from my glass roof

my cr cat

I have those asmr tools like soap so I can crush it

snow globes of each one of my drs

[superbat-lmao]

Jason Todd never gets picked up by social services when Catherine dies. Instead, the alley protects its own.

Jason had spent most of his daytime hours looking after his neighbors kids. He was basically family. They paid him in meals and a shared bed when Willis would kick him out sometimes.

When people hear his Mom died, he couch surfs amongst families with small children that need supervision while their parents are at work. He manages well enough, and he rotates what families he stays with so CPS never catches wind. He’s the alley’s secret amongst working immigrant families.

It also means he knows how to deal with kids.

So when he watches one tumble off a fire escape on the roof opposite where he’s been smoking, he knows he has to check it out. Make sure the kid’s alright.

When he finally gets a good look at him, both his camera and leg are busted.

More convoluted take below the cut!

Tim, who broke his leg actually, is too little to be taking care of himself or get himself home. He needs to be looked after.

He gets the kid to Leslie, lies and says he’s watching him over the weekend and the kids parents will be back Monday, and gets the kid in a cab before figuring out where he lives.

Tim isn’t super aware of what’s going on around him since he was given something for the pain, but he knows there’s someone asking him a lot of questions. When he is more awake, the following morning after waking up on his living room couch, he realizes there’s a kid watching him.

Tim feels like hell and while he appreciates Jason taking him home, he can handle himself.

Jason snorts at him, asks if he’s ever had a broken leg or knows how to use crutches, and what he wants for breakfast.

It takes two days before Tim is willing to admit his parents won’t be home for a few months. They’re lucky school’s out or someone would have noticed Tim’s absence.

Jason becomes Tim’s babysitter, or as much of one as he can be without Tim’s parents finding out. Jason takes care of him the whole time his leg is healing. Tim teaches him to play videogames and Jason reads to him.

When Tim’s finally healed, he wants to go back out at night to chase after Batman. Jason gives him an unimpressed look, but asks if the kid wants to tag along to his babysitting gigs in the alley. He misses some of the little twerps and thinks there’s a few Tim would like.

Tim and Jason become brothers early, going from apartment to apartment looking after other people’s kids. Jason gets someone who follows him around, gives him shit, and is almost as good as wikipedia in a pinch. Tim gets someone who gives a shit about him, a social life full of people who aren’t snotty high society brats, and Jason’s special brand of aggressive caring.

What the two don’t know is that Two Face has been looking for Jason’s dad. No one had been able to rat him out when he was staying with Tim because no one knew where he was.

It takes a while, but when the wrong people figure out where Jason is, it isn’t pretty.

They interrupt him while sitting an overnighter. There’s a loud knock at the door and when Jason checks the peephole, it’s two of his Dad’s old buddies. Jason rounds up the kids, yells “just a minute!”, gives Tim a kitchen knife and tells him to sit tight and lock themselves in one of the bedrooms. Tim doesn’t hear anything after the front door opening and an initial shout. He waits 15 minutes before he’s sure the coast is clear. Then, he rounds the kids up, puts them to bed like Jason does, and heads up to the roof.

He knows Batman’s patrol routes well enough to find him and try to flag him down. Who he actually gets is Robin, who he has to explain to that Two Face took his brother. When Robin finally listens and takes the kid seriously, he radios Batman. Batman, who recognizes the neighbor kid and knows he doesn’t have a brother. By this point Tim is almost in tears of frustration trying to explain that Jason Todd is his brother but Batman also recognizes the missing kid from one of his reports and it’s enough of a corroboration that Tim gets put in the back of the Batmobile while they go to rescue Jason.

He doesn’t get to see any of the fighting and he doesn’t leave the car, but when Robin is half carrying Jason out of the building, Tim leaps out of the car to hug his brother. Jason’s got a few bruised ribs and his face is beat to hell, but it’s all something Leslie can fix.

What Leslie can’t fix is the legal fact that Jason is a missing kid, not Tim’s biological brother. Batman sits with the two, explaining how everything is going to work once they take them to the police.

Three things happen at once:

1. Jason accuses Batman of dropping kids off with traffickers. It’s why he didn’t let CPS pick him up when his Mom died.

2. Robin asks if the two will get to stay together, if they can ask Gordon not to separate them.

3. Tim says they will be doing no such thing, Mr. Wayne.

[chiming-bluebells]

༘⋆ ꙳ the glade ; day 862 of the maze trials. ⋆ ˚｡ ⋆ ˚｡

˖˙ ᰋ ⋆ ˚ ⊹ യ *◞ ˚ ꕀ .*

GROUP A , TRIAL i. : THE MAZE. ꕤ the grass is lush and slightly scratchy beneath her as she reclines down on her back. lexi, ever the lounging-happy med-jack, is soaking up the warmth of the sun during her lunch break, a soft breeze ruffling her hair where she lays. the air is thick with the scent of sunbaked pasture and warm soil; distant sounds of shrieking laughter, rythmic clanking of porcelain dishes, and casual conversations echoes over the tree tops in the glade. the sky overhead is an endless, brilliant blue… it almost makes her forget about the towering ivy walls surrounding her. almost.

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i , GINGER AND BARK : ginger the cat struts along the edge of the maze. he’s on a mission. bark the-non-barking-dog follows him anxiously, tugging the stubborn feline’s fluffed-up tail in protest. ginger sits down, having finally found himself his perfect waiting spot right in front of the opened maze doors. he’s waiting for a certain glader, minho. his little cat brain plotting and scheming. (maybe minho will come back from his run soon….. maybe minho will give them some food….. maybe minho doesn’t know that they were just fed by zart 20 minutes ago…...)

no glader pay the farm animals any mind in the hustle and bustle of the workday. they’re used to them by now. the cat and the dog have been there since… well, forever; since before the first ever gladers came up in the box. one might wonder if the pets arrived in the box they themselves, all alone to fend for themselves in a strange new environment, or if they’ve simply always existed - and will always exist - in the grassy meadows of the glade. like some sort of mythical, immortal beings.

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ii , HOMESTEAD : the shabby, raggedy old thing leans like the tower of pisa. and somehow, til this day, it’s still standing. what really ties the whole damned thing together is the bottle tree outside next to the decrepit porch. and probably the (amateurishly and unnecessary) added sections by the builders. much like ginger and bark, the homestead has always been there in all of its water-damaged glory. sometimes it feels haunted. especially late at night, when it creaks and groans like it’s alive and angry that it is.

humble and simple bedrooms exist for the lucky few bastards who managed to get first dibs on those. the rest sleep in hammocks or sleeping bags on the dew-covered grass outside. gladers dine al-fresco. the reason gladers don’t dine inside? see the following sitting rule, which exists for a reason: ”doors with high thresholds are called windows, and you’re not allowed to walk through those.”

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iii , FRAGMENTS OF ITS SOUL : ⋆ found and forged family ⋆ dustmotes swirling in the air ⋆ long, golden rays of sunshine ⋆ crickets singing in the evening air ⋆ muffled laughter from the next room ⋆ drunken crowds singing in unison ⋆ the scent of warm summer rain ⋆ naps in green fields and underneath swaying branches ⋆ dragonflies ⋆ wishing upon dandelions ⋆ fragile, yet stubborn hope ⋆ deafening, metallic groans from the shifting maze walls ⋆ ivy ⋆ scent of wood ⋆ bonfires ⋆ late nights sitting on the porch ⋆

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iv , TUNES :

*◞ i know the end by phoebe bridgers

*◞ youth by daughter

*◞ hela huset by veronica maggio

*◞ back to the old house by the smiths

*◞ in the woods somewhere by hozier

*◞ wildflower and barley by hozier, allison russell

[fusionsprunt]

Non-canon instance where Beatrix accidentally falls into another dimension in which Holloway's Comet didn't make it to planet Zona.

[alexandraamericana]

i’m alexandra cassandra and i always follow back. my favorite things to indulge in happen to be watching and practicing ballet, going to the cinema, reading and writing, babysitting, pondering things deeply, shopping, daydreaming, listening to music, watching films and television series, girlblogging, taking pictures, making wishes, being around loved ones, being dainty and above all else, remaining kind.

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[sengenism]

new ED is so peak gen asagiri world domination breathe if u agree