#just wouldn't hit the same

[fruitsyrups]

ca n we all agree that human bonnie would not be a baker btw

[bluerosefox]

Waiting... Waiting...

So... This was inspired by listening to EPIC (FREAKING LOVE ALL THE ALBUMS, SO GOOD) and by @noxcheshire post of Tim being Odysseus reincarnated and Danny (maybe also reincarnated) being his Penelope (Here) so I had to turn it into a Dead Tired idea.

The song The Challenge is the main one here. (Cause I LOVE that song... along with Would You Fall In Love With Me Again)

So WHAT IF Danny IS the reincarnated Penelope, after becoming the Ghost King Danny's memories of his past life as Penelope returns and remembers how before dying/ or being reincarnated both Penelope and Odysseus promised to find each other in their new lives, no matter who they are, what new form they take, they will find each other.

So Danny/Penelope, just like before waits for their Odysseus to return to them, but also tries to find him in their new life (CW is laughing whenever Danny asks for hints and gets a 'In due time, just wait' answer, ugh Danny wants to smack CW for that)

However just like in his previous life with being in a high position of power, Danny is being pressured to marry/take a spouse (now its not just men/males though so its a huge headache, I head canon Ghosts don't care much for gender preference) mostly by the dang eyeballs that Danny is still trying to find a way to get rid of without upsetting the Infinite Realms delicate (but slowly healing) balance even if Danny wanted nothing more than to punch all of the suitors out.

So Danny decides to play the long game again.

And waits for their Odysseus return.

Danny's wait is over when they suddenly feel the Realms shift one day, as if welcoming someone familiar home, and the same feeling Danny had when he had been Penelope and saw the storm that was sign of Odysseus coming home, Danny decides its time to bring out The Challenge once again. (CW gifted Danny a few things from his past as Penelope as a coronation gift, like Odysseus's bow (now enchanted to be unbreakable), a painting of when he was Penelope, with Telemchus, and Odysseus, and the Marriage Bed/Olive Tree, AND the Palace Odysseus made that Danny takes to being in over being at Pariah's Keep)

-x-x-

Meanwhile

Tim Drake, aka Red Robin, always had strange dreams as a child.

War, Death, Monsters, Gods, Goddesses.

His dreams were more like nightmares, haunting him and he sometimes woke up in cold sweat.

He hated storms. Hated being in the water for to long. Hated how he felt both tense but also at home when around Greek heroes, as if he was afraid to 'disrespect' them (Cassie was the only one he didn't feel that way around, mostly cause they had been somewhat friends before their heroing since their parents knew each other) but also knew how to appease them should he insult them. He also had a strange hatred for the CoO with a burning passion because he felt like they were mocking real Owls.

The worst part of nightmares that always pop up are of what feels like should be his home is being invaded by unwanted guests (they aren't guests), how they are angry over trying to string a bow and shot an arrow through axes, of the terrible terrible things he hear them saying they were going to do to his loved ones (two names that keep getting muted out).

How it ends in bloodshed with echoing of begging, pleading, mercy, and screams.

However in those nightmares at the end. He also finds himself looking for something in them.

Or rather he always found someone waiting for him at the end of the nightmares. Calling him by the wrong name but it sounds just right coming from them.

The dream always ends with the person asking 'How long has it been?' and before he can answer he wakes up.

So yeah Tim has horrifying nightmares/dreams he could never explain.

And the urge to find someone. To go home to them.

It isn't until he and his friends from Young Justice are hit by a spell from Klarion (who may or may not had a visit from a certain chaos encouraging Time Keeper) and sent to a place called the Infinite Realms in the middle of their fight, that Tim is hit hard with déjà vu when he spots a certain Palace in the distance and overhears some of the 'people?' (they glow and float and some don't even look human?! where are they?) talk about how the 'King' has issued a new 'Challenge' for his 'suitors'.

A Challenge involving a bow, and axes.

And Tim, feels like he knows this all too well and needs to do it.

[tiredandoptimistic]

I know that Dreams could never have happened earlier than it did, but also now I'm fascinated by what different ideas for it Alan Alda had in his mind for years. I need to know what it would have looked like if it somehow made it to air in an earlier season.

[twilight-deviant]

[aizawashuichi]

this ryuk appreciation post.

[laugtherhyena]

I think i got a bad ending 💀

[yujeong]

✨️ parallels ✨️

[sage-nebula]

Toby Fox generally thinks of everything when it comes to his games. Seemingly innocuous decisions can lead to fun dialogue changes at the smallest, to larger deviations from the standard path at the biggest.

But one thing that he missed, that I wish he hadn't . . . was Ralsei's reaction to your (potential) violence in chapter 1, or at least, Susie's reaction to Ralsei's lack of reaction to your violence in chapter 1.

I replayed chapters 1 and 2 of Deltarune recently -- once for a true pacifist run, and once for a violence / snowgrave run. In the pacifist route, when Ralsei calls Susie out for continuing to attack the K. Round in chapter 1, everything he's saying tracks and makes sense; he and "Kris" have been peaceful all this time, and Susie is the only one behaving violently. He still doesn't go about it in the greatest way (Susie's reaction is pretty blatantly because he hurts her feelings while Lancer is the first person in a long time to make her feel good about herself), but at least he's not being a hypocrite.

But in my violence run (since snowgrave doesn't kick in until chapter 2), not only was I making Kris attack every single enemy, but I was having Kris order Ralsei to do it as well. And he did. They went on a fucking rampage through the first chapter as Susie ran ahead, and I even had them attacking K. Round until I realized that it truly would not let you progress until you ended the battle peacefully. Kris and Ralsei both behaved violently right in front of Susie.

Yet . . . the conversation after the battle is the exact same. Ralsei still goes on at length about Susie making things worse by being violent and not acting like a hero, even though neither he nor Kris have been peaceful either, except for when they absolutely had to be against K. Round. And you know, if this was supposed to be a character flaw on Ralsei's part -- that he sees Kris as being unable to do wrong regardless of what Kris does, holding them on a pedestal that he doesn't put even other Lightners on, and that he won't own up to what he does either because he's just doing what makes Kris happy -- then that would make sense. But I feel like for that to be the case, Susie would have needed some dialogue about how Ralsei was being a hypocrite because of what he and Kris did, and that dialogue just doesn't exist. Everyone goes on acting like Kris and Ralsei are defeating enemies peacefully until the different ending post the King battle.

I know that chapter 1 went in hard with the "your choices don't matter" thing, but it was already clear in chapter 1 that this wasn't the case. Not only does Ralsei tell Kris that their choices DO matter (even though it's our choices that matter, not Kris'), but there are multiple things in chapter 1 that are affected by choices. The thrash machine is a great example of this; you get to decide what it looks like, and the dialogue changes depending on what you chose. I feel like incorporating lines where Susie calls Ralsei out for his hypocrisy (and Ralsei tries again to plead with Kris / the player about being peaceful so they don't prove her right) would have fit right along with that, and it kind of makes me sad that Toby didn't think to do that.

[birthclod]

thinking about ch0mpkin's evil evbo post (evilbo, if you will) and going "How can I align this with My Interests (the axes)" and the answer is Very easily actually

[non-sims]

going back on my word that I said last year, but that post for yourself rhetoric is a lie

if tumblr does shut down then I personally probably won't bother posting anything, anywhere else

what would be the point, 85% of me posting is cause I want people to see what I did/doing

it's social media, take out the social and then what. having media with no one to share it with

[daily-whistlebreeze]

daily whistlebreeze until ki becomes PoV day 1553

the results of the prompts challenge are in (and have been for a while, but I have been distracted <3) and Stretchkit and Rustlekit are here to assist Whis with the planning.

as you have voted to have a full month of Whisses, I have decided that this will happen in July. I can't really do it earlier because I need to focus on my exams in June. I have already prepared the prompts and I will share them when July approaches (in the meantime I'll try to cobble a pretty image for it together)

[r0bee]

Most tragic thing about becoming a big Lucy Dacus fan is that I can't pretend I don't know her name as an excuse to just call her "the hot one from Boygenius" anymore

[siliceouspebble]

Bell tower

Statement of Mika Johnson, given 14.06.2011

Statement begins

I haven't always heard the bells. They started a few years ago. Two, maybe three?. I just can't really recall when exactly they started, the bells I mean. I think they got louder over time.

I work in a bar, down in Hackney. So it's always loud and so many different noises, the people speaking, the music, the glasses clanking. So it took me a while to notice. The sound of bells.

It was summer and the bar was packed. At first I thought the new DJ took a liking to underscoring all songs with them. But when I asked him about his choice of adding bells to pop songs he just looked at me like I was joking. He laughed and patted my shoulder like I was kidding, so I joined in. God, that was so awkward. He said bye and left.

And I just stood there at the end of my shift. The people gone, the music turned off, the last load of dishes clean and I still heard them. Ringing in my ear. I checked the sound system. Powered off. I tried pulling the plug, so I really knew it was off. Still bells. I looked around the bar. Did somebody hide a speaker? But no matter where I turned the bells didn't get louder or more quiet. It must be some kind of fancy new tech that can project sound so it always sound the same no matter where in the room you stand.

I had ducked behind the counter rifling through one of the cupboards to see if there was anything hidden there when my coworkers exited the small kitchen. My shift manager asked me what I was doing. Not wanting to mention the bells and be laughed at again, I just said I had been looking for something and laughed it off.

It's better if you're the one that starts laughing at yourself and not join in belatedly.

They eyed me strangely.

The bells got louder. I quickly finished restocking the bar so I could head home.

The bells haven't stopped since. Not when I'm at work. Not at home. Not in the tube or anywhere else. No matter what I do. They don't stop.

It's always bells, just not always the same bells. Sometimes it's a single tiny one tinkling in my ears that I can ignore pretty easily, at other times it's like standing next to a church bell. It deafening. I can't hear people talking to me. Sometimes it's sleigh bells, Christmastime gets annoying really fast since they tend to be more prevalent in December. It's like whatever is tormenting me has a sense of humour.

I tried drowning them out with my headphones or my speakers at home. All that got me were noise complaints from my neighbours and hearing things other than the bells even less.

I unconsciously tried to shake away the very loud ones. A guest at the bar asked me if I had tics.

I stopped shaking my head.

I didn't want anyone to know anything was going on. I just wanted to make it through my days and keep my head down.

But I couldn't ignore the Bells completely

I didn't go to the doctor. I didn't know how to stop them, so why should they. They hadn't known how to help my dad when his already sick liver suddenly got worse and he got jaundice. He was in the hospital for over a month and didn't really do anything as he got sicker and more yellow. Yes he had drunk away his liver and half his brain but he had stopped years ago. There was no reason for him to decompensate now. No infection, no new alcohol, nothing. I begged them to look more thoroughly. For anything that could have been causing this. They said it was against procedure to do any kind of imaging beyond an ultrasound. I finally caused such a stirr when I exploded at the doctor in the hallway that they did decide to do a CT Abdomen. And shocker!! There was something that caused it. A fucking tumor of his billary tract. It was too late for treatment tho. His lab result in Billirubin and all that shit was too bad for chemo and it was too disseminated for surgery. He came home and I slowly watched him die over the next few months.

No doctors couldn't help.

Sorry I got distracted a bit there.

The Bells kept taunting me. Ringing louder when people tried to order things at the bar. I learned to try to read their lips for the different drinks we had but since I made too many mistakes I was told to keep to mixing the drinks when my colleagues passed me a paper with the orders.

I hated this. This was a sign that something was wrong with me. Made it obvious that things were different. But I kept smiling and did as I was told.

I still try to pretend everything is as it used to be. That's what I'm good at. It didn't matter that my dad was getting worse at home, at work I was all business as usual. It didn't matter that I could sometimes barely sleep after my shift with the loud Bells. Business as usual. I'm fine. I was fine. I'm ok. I'm doing well, thank you.

My temper has gotten worse. I'm more prone to snapping. No wonder with the sleep deprivation. But I'm fine.

I tried to google it. The Bells. But all the results were for tinnitus but that didn't really fit. That or auditory hallucinations. But that couldn't be. I have no history of mental health struggles and my family doesn't have a history of it either.

Sure my dad's cousin hung himself. And my mum's aunt killed herself after drowning her kids. But every family has a few odd ones in it.

But I'm healthy. I'm ok. I'm not hallucinating. I'm Not going insane.

I just gotta keep my head down, and do my work.

My coworkers must think I'm so strange. I sometimes catch them looking. They must talk about me behind my back. About how I should have been fired long ago if I can't hear the customers. How strange I sometimes sway with the rhythm of the big Bell in my head.

They never say anything to my face but I know they talk. I can't trust them. They are not my friends and if they knew they'd report and I get thrown out for sure. No I'm better of pretending everything is alright.

I'm fine. I'm ok.

This will pass. I'm sure of it. And until then it doesn't matter that I have to search my flat a few times a week for speakers, because maybe this time I can find them. Maybe.

I'm sure there must be a reason I'm hearing the Bells. Some kind of long time prank. Maybe some kind of supernatural reason? That's why I came here. I know doctors are useless academics that can't see reality if it jumped down their throat but maybe you stuffy bookworms have heard of something similar. Hopefully. I left my phone number and email attached so maybe when you find something you can tell me.

I don't know. But I know I'm not going insane! I can't be.

Statement ends

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

personally, i much prefer suited ABJ jeremy compared to jumper ABJ jeremy, if only because of the way that he's revealed to the player in the epilogue, and how that would have differed if he was dressed as originally intended.

i think- even if if jeremy acted entirely the same as he did in the epilogue we received (which, iirc, he wasn't supposed to originally; he was going to be more mellow and sedated in his jumper arc)- he would be way too different from jeremy as we know him for a facet of that horror to sink in.

to me, what i love the most about ABJ is the uncanny valley spectrum of jeremy donaldson. for all intents and purposes, it is still jeremy donaldson, but the differences on their own are subtle enough, and the blend between them is harrowing enough for him to feel creepy and unnerving and wrong. it's pushing the envelope. its forcing you to do a double take, because on first glance, yes, that does look very much like jeremy donaldson.

yes, jeremy always wears a suit, but never in the way better jeremy wears it- every thing buttoned up, nicely pressed, mellow colors with a splash of advance-teal. jeremy always looks nice, but not the way better jeremy looks nice, prim and presentable, with well groomed hair and a clean shaven face, like a perfect doll straight from the manufacturing press. jeremy is always astute, but not the way better jeremy is astute, with purposeful movements and an unblinking gaze more reminiscent of a prey animal than a man.

what really Gets me is the fact that i'm certain that they had him in a sweater while he was in betterment. if the betterment music video is anything to (VERY LOOSELY) go by, it seems like that's kind of a standard of being a betterment resident.

i doubt betterment/advance would really care what any of their other ex-residents would wear once they left the premises... but there's something very sinister about the way they dressed up jeremy. if only because

a) we already know that this is not of his own volition, since his style is several degrees separated from how we see him, and b) advance seem to have gone out of his way to either dress him like this, or encourage him to feel the need to dress like this

in my mind, this always lead me to believe that advance wanted jeremy to be a trojan horse for their ideals. in the same way disrupt made alan their spokesperson against his knowledge, rounding up everyone like him with intention to snuff them all out and design a future where they don't exist. better jeremy, the way i read it, is advance's version of alan.

as much as disrupt hated alan, they knew that if they sent anyone else out to spout homophobia and capitalist ideals, they weren't going to get the audience and approval they desperately needed. likewise, i don't think advance necessarily like the way jeremy looks externally. but no one who still has respect for the real jeremy donaldson would follow him when he looks so incredibly different. at least, if he's an imitation of his old self, there are some people who may take the bait

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Read Fang the Hunter after catching up on idw Sonic and like

Wooo!! Return of Fang, his pursedog jester boytoy, and said boytoy's big buddy!

Also ajsjsjsn I'm this close to retitling this mini series "How to Lose One's Bitches: A Cautionary Tale as to Why Team Hooligan Isn’t a Modern Era Team"