#moon from a distance

[anefstimming]

July full moon

[souvenir116]

he really tilted his head to the side... okaay

[starry-bi-sky]

i have been unmedicated for the entirety of spring break and thus have had little interest in writing this down, but i have been thinking about this for the entire week (as well as a dpdc clone danny au that resulted in it becoming its entirely separate batman au that includes a teenage vigilante bruce wayne, an ocarina, and me entirely incapable of making a batman au without making bruce dirt poor but we're not talking about that) and so i've finally went 'fuck it' and forcibly grabbed my laptop. I will get this done in one sitting even if it kills me.

BUT. This is about neither clone^2 danny nor about who i am calling Ocarina Batman. This is about my Danyal Al Ghul Au and more SPECIFICALLY it's me thinking about his relationship with Sam and Tucker specifically.

Tucker and Sam? Adore this asshole (affectionate) with every fiber of their being. And it is very much a reciprocated feeling, but Danny's thoughts will not be delved into much other than he would kill for them.

Tucker? The only person currently capable of getting a deep, loud, belly laugh out of Danny. Sam can get him to smile and to laugh, but it's the kind that's a chuckle-under-the-breath. The quiet, looks-down-while-huffing laughter. Snorts once with laughter and then grins stupidly.

But Tucker? Tucker can crack a slew of stupid jokes and Danny will be incapacitated for the next five minutes because he's laughing so hard that he can't breath. He lands one well-timed pun or quip and Danny will be close to tears. His laughter is their favorite sound in the whole world.

Sam is lowkey jealous of this ability, and she's gotten a belly laugh out of Danny a few times. But alas, it is Tucker who wields this power and has gotten it the most times out of the two of them.

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They're also both physically affectionate with Danny as much as possible. It started roughly around when they were 12-ish, a year since they befriended Danny, and they noticed that he sought after touch but never seemed to initiate (and was in some ways repulsed by it). They started slowly being more touchy with him. Hooking a finger around his to lead him somewhere, tapping his wrist, looping arms. Little touches, grabs, etc, to get him used to it, and once he started doing it back they started increasing it.

It's gotten to a point where he will now just. Lay on them. Like a lizard sunbathing on a rock. Leaning on their backs when they're sitting in class before the bell rings, his chin on their heads. He'll talk about anything with his arms looped around their shoulders.

If they're sitting on a couch at either of their houses, he'll lay his legs on theirs. Him and Tucker will press their feet against the other's and try and push against them (newsflash: Danny always wins, Tucker claims its the ghost strength but Danny's been winning since before his accident)

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Naturally, both Sam and Tucker know where Danny keeps his weapons on his person, and are allowed to grab them off of him if they need it. His only requirement is that they don't lose his weapons if they take it and forget to return it immediately.

They both understand how big of a thing this is from Danny, and so they do their best to treat his weapons with a lot of respect and care because they know its his way of saying he trusts them.

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Sam and Tucker are so fond of Danny it's insane. Like fr. That's their goddamn best friend, and they are so protective of him. Emotionally, physically, you name it. They will tear the head off a grown man if they need to, Danny's had scars since he arrived in Amity Park and Sam and Tucker both are going to find the person who put them there and make them pay for it.

One time, Tucker overheard a bunch of upperclass girls speaking nastily about Danny and about the rumors surrounding him, calling him names like 'freak', 'monster', etc. Danny was with him and heard it, and seemingly appeared unbothered by it, even telling Tucker that he was used to such rumors.

Tucker was so furious that hacked into the school system later that night and tanked those girls grades. They were kicked out of their clubs and had to go to mandatory tutoring for the rest of the year. He made sure to leave some way of letting them know it was him who did it.

And Sam doesn't like using her money for things, doesn't like abusing that wealth. So instead, whenever her parents talk bad about Danny, she causes a media incident that has her parents scrambling to deal with. She does something wild, outrageous by her parents' standards.

She heard some boys on the basketball team making fun of Danny once, similar to those girls had. She kicks up a fuss about something eco-unfriendly at school and forcibly holds a protest on the same day of the big home basketball game, forcing them to cancel the event and reschedule to a visiting school.

She anonymously donates money so that there's new uniforms for the team but oops! Looks like she "forgot" to donate enough money for them to get uniforms for all the team members, and strangely enough those boys in particular didn't get them! Looks like they'll have to wait until more money gets donated for the basketball team to get their new, nice uniforms. The old ones look so ratty in comparison, right?

And since the football team gets most of the sport money, that might just take awhile. And if (and when) they kick up a fuss? oops! Off the basketball team you go, :) such unsportsman-like behavior is unfit for the team.

(The only good thing about how corrupt the school system is is that she can use it to her advantage too.)

The both of them know that Danny suspects them for the sudden misfortune falling on these people, but he doesn't call them out on it. He's kinder than he used to be, but not kind enough to vouch for people who speak badly of him. Sometimes, he might just congratulate them on not getting caught.

Because Danny is their wonderful, hurt friend with a "slightly" Blue and Orange Moral code, and enough scars that people have been calling him a criminal (and worse) since he arrived in Amity Park when he was ten. And they'll be damned if he gets hurt anymore.

[serpentface]

This was going to be a panel of a little comic but I got too invested in drawing minute background details so, here.

[ratherhavehopewithyou]

Dragon gods: Heh heh heh, any last words for the crimson dragon king, lover boy?

Hak: Yeah actually *casually proposes marriage, battered bruised and covered in blood, mind you*

Dragon gods:

[vm-haunts]

Moon #2

[Vaguely related to Moon]

Danny: you know, it's so lucky to be born in this time on Earth, when the distance between the moon and Earth is just right to give us the perfect eclipse... Hmm. I wonder what's lunch today.

Tucker, muttering behind him: wait, the moon moves?

Sam, looks at him like he's an idiot: of course it does have you never looked at the sky?

Tucker: huh? No I don't mea- oh come on, you know what I mean!

[anemonet]

hey rememberthe reverse iterators au. are you ever going to post about that again because i think it was pretty cool!

pebbles when he didnt even get to try

[More of my reverse iterator au if anyone is wondering what is going on!]

[ruanbaijie]

谢谢你，成为我长夜中的……[一轮月。] Thank you for being, in my long night, a shining moon.

SNOWFALL 冰雪谣 (2024) 1.15

[bitesizedpoetry]

[howdaretrashships]

A comparison of two scenes

Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Ep 16 // Ep 38

[agentscamander-romanoff]

Headcanon: When Steve was Captain America,everytime he sneezed Sam used "God bless America" joke. As soon as Sam became new Captain America this joke was turned against him.

[shortshifter]

I really love the sun & moon dichotomy, don’t get me wrong. It makes sense from our perspective here on earth, they are a perfect metaphor for opposites that compliment each other, and it’s poetic that the moon reflects the sun’s light, etc. Light and dark, good and bad. The moon has the power to block out the sun and does so regularly. Eclipses are the epitome of balance and their equal standing, right?? They are the perfect pair, rivals-- [starcrossed] lovers even-- and a great dynamic to explore in art!

...It just alsooo is very funny to me how they’re often viewed as equal celestial aspects…like they are on two MASSIVELY different scales as far as celestial bodies go, and that part of it is so understated and underutilized!

Like this is the difference we are talking about realistically:

Even in this depiction I tried to draw, the sun isn’t technically big enough! Stay with me now:

Here’s a more accurate one from Wyoming Stargazing’s Website:

Do you see what I mean??? Don’t even get me started on the MEGA STARS out there that make our sun look like a speck of dust catching the light.

There are other pictures that encapsulate this better, but here's one:

Sol is our star. And these are all stars IN the Milky Way with us! Remember how small moon and earth were compared to it. And how small humanity is compared to Earth! (I love a good interaction of different sizes, but I do understand at some point it is very drastic and difficult to actually do anymore. But it certainly doesn't need to be a 1:1 with real life.) Don’t ponder the scale of the universe too long, you will have a crisis if you realize how small humanity is in the grand scheme of things.

Our life on earth IS so, so tiny. It’s not even funny, we are the speck that Horton found. And yet there’s also so much that’s on that scale from our perspective too, like ants and single-cellular organisms and they’ll never be able to grasp the size of the world any better than we can the universe. Y’all—

I’m not saying aliens and complex life don’t have certain size limits similar to ours, but there is far more room out there than we often think about. We have trees that grow massively beyond what we consider sustainable for it. That's not including the organisms made of whole colonies of connected organisms like fungi and some trees. I mean the singular organism big ones, which are still trees by a landslide btw:

We of course also have some pretty big animals, but we already know a lot about those and I'm talking about all types of life on earth. A massive plant-based (or something non-carbon out there) alien is not so far-fetched.

We only have our own planet and solar system for reference, and what we’ve been able to observe beyond it. Surely there’s a cosmic limit to planet sizes too, but…we’ve only seen so much out there in the past century. We don’t know that.

tl;dr: We could expand what we think possible in our stories to reflect that uncertainty and possibility. It’s just so interesting to add scale as a factor to the sun & moon dynamic and in other ones that may fit.

Space is BIG and it is easy to forget that when our own tiny big world, in our wide little solar system, is all we do-- and may ever-- know firsthand.

[professional-d]

Gold rush Outis.

Id actually done a sketch of this before way back on my first outis dump, but it wasn't very definitive, so I'm unsure if I ever posted it. Anyways, I finally got around to doing it!!! I think king of greed is a pretty good fit for outis..magical girl trio when. I hope to draw more EGO arts in the future, if I manage to get the ideas ...

[smrtnik07]

[kalied0skull]

steve randle on the sodablog be like

[windydrawallday]

Lil' quick thank you doodle to the people that keep supporting me here and especially for these two rascals 💚

Not gonna lie: half of the past month was rough with me and made me put on hold a lot of stuff planned since the past year... years, idk anymore orz

I know is temporal but still, feels like time is only going thinner every moment I look back at all I did. I'm glad I have a hope barrel deeper than the sea abyss but, you know?

Is hella nice to be reminded that what I do is cherished and enjoyed!