#maybe the star is reaching out?

[thebiggestfuckgiven]

i was peacefully working a closing shift when i was struck by a horrible yet wonderful and supremely indulgent idea:

Danny Phantom x Voltron crossover

[mostly-natm]

What could’ve been if Noonien Soong had actually programmed his sons with relatively healthy coping mechanisms that don’t include murder.

[suddenrundown]

ed dreamily saying "stede stabbed me once, i had to make him do it" followed by him in the next episode "making" stede pull rank and be mean captain...

man's orchestrating situations. manifesting. good for him.

[astarlightmonbebe]

the appeal of yeojeong as a normal guy who’s just a little bit off. not enough that you would notice when talking to him, of course, but it’s just there, under the surface. a disturbance. and i think it’s interesting because typically you have two types of guys somewhat adjacent to this: guy who seems totally normal but is secretly sadistic/a psychopath, and then guy haunted by a traumatic/troubled past, who has that secret layer of torment running beneath the surface of their image. but yeojeong breaks through these archetypes, and i think part of it is because he’s just so...calm. it’s not that he’s living a double life (kind doctor by day, killer by night) or hiding part of his past (everyone he worked with knew about what happened to his father, and watched his downward spiral during his college days). he’s not the typical male character who is, at every attempt, trying to outrun his tragic past (even though he does run once or twice); he’s not haunted by flashbacks, or suffer from PTSD in the way that is usually portrayed in dramas. and i think part of that is because the glory is a story about victims. it’s dongeun’s story, first and foremost, even though it is also yeojeong’s story, and hyeonnam’s story, and sohee’s story. but it’s a story about dongeun’s pain, and when it’s not about her pain, it’s just about the pain of victimhood - unlike other dramas, this isn’t a show where male pain outweighs the rest.

so yeojeong is just a normal guy. he’s handsome. he has a good career. he’s a plastic surgeon, an interesting choice when both his parents were/are hospital directors, and his father seemed to have worked in the er or something of the sort prior to his death (or at the very least wasn’t a plastic surgeon). something could be said here of yeojeong choosing the ‘safe’ path as a doctor, a path where he cures pain and makes people happy without the added risk of being attacked by one of his patients. there’s no proof of that in the show - why he chose to be a plastic surgeon - but it’s an interesting thought path to travel. 

dongeun says he must have lived a good life. that he’s never had to worry about the path that he’s on. and that’s true, to a certain extent. to everyone, including her in the beginning, yeojeong is perfectly friendly. he’s perfect, but not the perfect that people perceive as too perfect (i.e. the guy who’s hiding things); he has his moments where he spazzes out, gets into fights, goes crazy over dongeun texting him back, teases his mom. he’s perfectly well adjusted (a perfect contrast to dongeun’s ‘maladjustment’). he wears flip flops to work and gets the same coffee order daily. he plays go with old men in the park.

he likes to listen to the fizzing of vitamin tablets in water because it calms him down. is this a strange thing? only because he thinks it’s important enough to mention to his therapist. he does it at work too - drops the tablet in, closes his eyes, rests his head. he does it at home - drops the tablet in, opens the drawer, draws a knife. it’s about the noise. bubbles rising to the surface, like bubbles rising from underwater. he stays underwater until the last possible moment, when he has to break the surface in order to breath. dongeun makes him feel like he’s at the eye of a storm - a deceptively calm center, while everything else rages outside. and i think it’s kind of important that he makes that comparison, when he’s someone always seeking that calm. the soothing noise, that makes him feel lonely.

so he’s just a normal guy. a normal guy who receives letters on a regular basis from the prisoner who brutally murdered his father. he doesn’t like letters, he tells dongeun. who knows what he does with the letters - does he keep them? does he throw them away as soon as he sees them? he must have read some of them; maybe you only need to read one to know what is in the rest. maybe he’s still reading them; maybe he keeps them without reading, an invisible torment. it’s not what he does with the letters that matters, but that he receives letters at all. 

can you still call it a haunting if you’ve almost made your peace with it? if you’re living with it? 

he’s just a normal guy, who looks his therapist right in the eyes and tells her that she couldn’t fix him. he diligently attends therapy for years on a regular basis, even though it doesn’t work. he finally abandons it when he moves to semyeong, because he chooses to embrace dongeun’s revenge. he chooses his own revenge, too, in a way. the dark part of him that he can’t escape. the one that makes him pick up the knife, who asks dongeun who to kill before she even tells him she wants any of them dead, even when he’s a doctor from a family of doctors, and doctors don’t kill - they save lives instead. 

you couldn’t fix me, he tells his therapist calmly. so calmly. as if there’s not a bloodied man sitting next to him, a man he dreams of killing. the man is just life to him, just like the letters are life to him to. a dulled numbness. an acceptance of it. 

is your son going through hell? can you even tell it’s hell, if it’s what you’ve become used to? is it hell when you’re a doctor dreaming of murder? is it hell to no longer be tormented by dead men and living murderers who send you letters? is it?

[alchemiclee]

someone pls end his painful existence.

non-stabby version too because I like both:

[moonybadger]

(slight spoilers for ISAT, but just broad stuff no details)

I can't tell if it's because I'm a biased super fan of In Stars and Time or if it's just because due to work I had to space my playthrough of it out over the course of a week or so, but I keep reading reviews that say "wow this is really good but it does have a repetitive section later on in the game, so I'll understand if you can't deal with that!!" and every time I see it I'm just like???? I have no idea what section anyone is talking about????

I don't think I found the game repetitive at any stage. I might have just gotten lucky on that last "guess which route you need to take" section, but even then I went back and double checked the other passages just cause I was curious about what was there. Which you're rewarded for doing, like the extra good scene you get with Bonnie for checking the book and you do need to get into the astronomy room in the story ANYWAY so you gotta know it's there. And I'm a chronic dialogue hunter so every loop through I'd still double check everything for A) New dialogue, usually from Siffrin, which the game was very good about rewarding me for and B) because I kept trying to trigger that scene that's in the prologue where if you act weird enough your friends will confront you about it (I never did trigger this, but I read somewhere that you can if you also check the wishology and timeology craft books in the same loop?). And this is coming from someone who did a full run with everyone's personal quests done like. Three times. And I hardly ever fast forwarded until near the very end of playthrough and unless something was on the third floor I would just go in through the front door on most loops. So I gotta politely disagree with reviews saying some parts of it get repetitive!

[baylardian-1]

that feel when u were dead for like a year and you have an emotionally compromised daughter that didnt handle ur death well

[puhpandas]

I keep thinking about how on earth they would canonize ggy bc like. at this point if they have to sacrifice Gregory screentime of just him to make something we already know actually canon, I would rather just take the screentime, but on the other hand they have to canonize it if they want to do anything at all with that plotline, and that makes me wonder if theyll stick with it as canon in the games at all or just leave it as background knowledge if u read the book 😭

[wolfscarr]

Star Fox- James McCloud adopted Falco Lombardi and he is Fox McCloud's Brother(Revamped post)

So I made a similar post 2 years ago, figured it was now time for an update and perhaps a little deeper dive into this little headcanon of mine!

Which is of course Falco Lombardi and Fox McCloud being brothers! I ain't talking about like brothers in arms(though they are that too), but I'm talking about they really see eachother as family, moreso than the rest of the team!

Now before James disappeared, Fox was at the Academy and who was there with him? Well none other than Falco himself, who he was bunked with at the time!

Now granted the Nintendo Power comic isn't exactly 100% accurate with regards to Star Fox, however in this regard? I don't see the need to question Fox, Falco and Slippy being in the Cornerian Flight Academy together since we never really dive into their past all that much to begin with.

So in this information, it's not completely dismissive and considering how the Star Fox Team operates, it's more than likely they were all at the Academy anyway otherwise I don't think they would function nearly as well in terms of working as a team.

With all that in mind, it's not much of a stretch that James McCloud met Falco and Slippy, with the former he noticed the strong bond/rivalry that they had together and noticing that Falco needed more of a Father figure in his life. So I'm going with that Fox and James both saved Falco from a rather....hard life, helping him become the person that he becomes later and thus James adopted Falco as his sort of second son!

But moving on here, after the Lylat Wars(Star Fox 64) we know that Falco heads off on his own...however here's something else, despite leaving the team....he still keeps in contact with Fox.

Now this says a lot in Falco's relationship with Fox, he completely has left the team at this point, going to do his own thing. Yet he still keeps in touch with Fox and only Fox.

And who is the one who comes saves Fox at the end of Adventures in helping fighting Andross? None other than Falco himself!

Then we get into Assault, we have at least 3 moments which gives some insight to their close relationship.

1st instance is with Fox getting ambushed at the Cornerian Army Base on Katina by the Aparoids and who is the first to comment about dropping in on foot to assist Fox? That's right, Falco!

To note, Falco and the others were already in the air covering Fox from above. Yet Falco still decided to bring up in coming on foot to assist Fox should he have needed it.

Next instance is at the Climate Control Center on Fichina, Fox gets trapped within the center on a lockdown by Pigma. Who's the one that's really concerned and who jumps in their Arwing first to save Fox? That's right, Falco!

Falco's the 1st one in at the sign of trouble to save Fox's life, multiple times in fact! To hell with anything else that might cause issues, he's going to save Fox.

But going further down the Aparoids time to the next instance, we get to Corneria where Fox states to Falco this....

If he should get killed by the Aparoids on Corneria(who were invading the planet at the time), that Falco is the one to basically take command of Star Fox and save Corneria.

Now as Star Fox fans know, Falco has been deemed 2nd in command of Star Fox since basically the beginning, Star Fox 64 even notes this in the strategy guide as Falco being Fox's 2nd in command.

I find this very, very critical to their relationship. Fox trusts Falco enough to the point that should anything happen to him, he's the one to take command of the team. This mind you is his Father's legacy, the thing that he built.

Now all of this to me shows that Fox and Falco have a bond that goes way passed being just comrades in a mercenary outfit. The interesting thing is, we never really get much insight to relationships other than these 2 as far as depth goes. Apart from Fox and Krystal of course, but that's a whole separate thing involving romance.

But I feel this is getting too long winded here, these are just my crazy thoughts in that Fox and Falco are brothers and James adopted Falco, but didn't get the chance to ever tell him. Though it shows throughout the games, just how close Falco and Fox are!

[ronanceisintheair]

So you talking/asking about Fake Dating AUs has kept me up at night for the past few days with brainrot. I mean, College!Fake Dating ronance? Picture this: Nancy at Emerson and Robin at Northeastern for linguistics and basically Nancy is chasing some story in the late 80s/90s punk scene in the city. Basically because she likes having a partner in crime -cough likes having her Birdie in hand-holding distance at all times cough - she enlists Robin's help. Cue makeover 2.0, Nancy edition, when Robin insists that Nancy is not going to blend in unless she dresses like a Buckley. Now imagine Robin on her knees in front of Nancy again, doing some kind of final touch (folded cuffs for extra gay?). When they finally get to a punk party, Miss Nancy Denial Wheeler keeps on getting distracted by how hot Robin looks, and her target mistakes her blatant staring for them being a couple. In a moment that imitates rambling Robin at her finest, Nancy accidentally agrees, sparking a weeks-long fake-dating scenario that obviously leads to passionate confessions by Boston Harbor. Anyway, thanks for coming to my tedtalk and I apologize but I needed to say something or I would scream.

*I'm gonna act totally normal when I answer this*

First of all, picturing Robin giving Nance a makeover this time has me on my knees. Furthermore Nancy in a *Buckley* esque look, holy hell.(Robin would be feeling some type of way I just know it)

Secondly, yes Nancy rambles her way into fake dating Robin, not only because this girl is out of her element and is entranced by Robin being in her element, but as if she hasn't dreamt of saying yes to being Robin's girlfriend at least once or twice...or thrice. Yea maybe she's short circuiting a little(And shit if Robin doesn't easily roll with the curve ball and that makes Nancy even more smitten, it's like they haven't lost their touch.)

Undercover, underground, fake dating au. Sign me the fuck up. Sign me up anon! Do not apologize for placing gems into my ask box!

[noahtally-famous]

that moment when you’ve so many rewrite/canon divergence au ideas for various td seasons bc each season in that damn show had its cons as well as pros, and it’ll be fun to pick out the characterizations and the ‘what ifs’

[godsfavoritescientist]

Finally rewatching some doctor who, and the episode 'midnight' is such a different experience now what the fuck.

Spent the first half of the episode like "wait the doctor IS being reasonable this is an undiscovered lifeform its just trying to learn things its not its fault people think its creepy </3" and also "this is a bit more contrived than I remember. Why are all these tourists down for Murder after 20 minutes of someone repeating what they say." But of course the episode is having so much fun with itself that I'm having fun too <3

Anyway my crack theory is that the midnight creature is post-finale bill, due to the line, while possessing someone, of "I can move, I can feel again, I'm coming back to life" and all the really obvious evil little smiles

[galactic-rhea]

what if dathan was son of obi wan and satine , who is luke's best friend?

While I love the idea of Luke being besties with a son of Obi-Wan and perpetuating the "YOU'RE LIKE MY BROTHER" cycle, I'm afraid I don't know who Dathan is yet 😭

Is he from the new Disney shows? The Sequels? The Comics? Rebels?

Please, bear with me, I didn't know who Luke's father was until three months ago.

Sorry, Anon. I'll probably get back to you when I meet this Dathan guy.

[the-faultofdaedalus]

reading harrow the ninth and i already have a very stupid crossover idea spawned from a single line and that is “the maianthemum is secretly just the hephestus station, rebuilt”

[claudiasjustice]

Claudia and Lestat

[theitalianscribe]

ok so like, imagine a Fionna and Cake like WTDW AU where it's revealed that the "fictional" characters Lewis created turned out to be real the whole time and they exist in another universe (said universe i would imagine would've been like fnaf world in some regards)

Hmmm, would this be a "Lewis can see into another world but thinks it is a dream" situation or a "there is another world in your magic brain" situation?

Maybe Litho is trying to get to Dreamworld to harness its magic?

I am curious to hear more about what you have in mind, Anon.