#plot reasons

[fuyuoh3]

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY ❤️

I got u some flowers ... and a chaos emerald

[starfightertrauma]

since i'm hiding in my room until i have no choice but to go out there and cook (i'm easily drained by people), here's some modern au thing where the Disaster lineage celebrates christmas.

Yoda comes every year and brings gifts for everyone. He brings one less gift for Anakin because he likes seeing his great-grandson lose his shit discreetly. Even Padme gets the same amount of presents as everyone else, and Yoda doesn't even talk to her very much.

It's hosted at Dooku's place, because it's the largest place between all of them. He doesn't decorate though, so Qui-Gon tends to come over a week before they meet up and just goes all out. Dooku says he hates it, but he likes the company of just his son.

Qui-Gon, as previously stated, is the decorator. He also wraps his gifts the best, usually doing something fancy. That being said, he will come a week early to everything and still, somehow show up late for dinner and gift-giving. Usually it's because he got lost in the forest and brought back new plants.

Obi-Wan only comes for Christmas. He tends to forget that everything else exists in the world, and by the time he remembers that People Exist, it's December again. They never actually tell him when to come, he just ends up showing up on the same day, the same time, every year. (He was once an hour late and everyone had an anxiety attack. Turns out, there was just traffic.)

Anakin is the first person to actually bring someone to Christmas. Everyone else is adopted. He's shitty at gift wrapping, so he either stuffs it in a bag or just hands the gift over. He's 90% sure that Yoda dosen't get him the same amount of gifts as everyone else because Yoda hates him. His gifts are usually homemade or expensive. Bonus: Padme does the shopping if it's expensive.

Ahsoka was brought over once when she was fourteen, and now she's an official member of the family. She's the precious one. She was the only girl among sons/grandsons, so Yoda spoils her. He usually slips her an extra gift. She's always there to help in the kitchen.

Luke and Leia were the babies of the family. The only two to ever actually be born in the family. Luke is the cutie who thinks going outside and playing in the snow is his rebellious phase. Leia is the terror who joins her grandfather in the woods and ends up bringing home bugs. They're both spoiled as fuck, but everyone agrees it's necessary.

Grogu is brought over for one christmas while his dad had to go on a last minute business trip and they keep bugging Luke to bring him again.

[fanfic-lover-girl]

Question About Sozin's Comet

How did Ozai, Azula and Zuko fight so well in the finale?

This question came to mind when I was watching the final agni kai again. Azula shot blasts at Zuko and his reaction was to use fire to launch himself into the air. But why?? From my understanding, fighting moves are based on muscle memory and instincts. I don't recall Zuko doing something similar in previous fights. He did not have the power to pull off a similar move.

Ozai's flying is not hard to imagine since we see Azula do a more basic form in the Boiling Rock episode.

But how were they able to control themselves so well (besides the plot of course)? It should be similar to wielding a sword. You are used to fighting with a weapon with a certain weight distribution. If the blade becomes lighter, it may be easier to swing but your balance is off. Given the magnitude of the comet boost, I am kind of surprised that they had so much control without any initial hiccups.

It's not a big deal because the power boost makes the fights epic but just wondering.

Although I imagine Ozai underestimating his power and zooming past Aang into a rock formation at the beginning of the fight lol. But that would be too comedic for the boss fight of the series.

[kuaille]

guys do you know if the priests in usagi Yojimbo are shinto or buddhist?

[inky-duchess]

Sascha shakes his head. "I loved her. I will only ever love her. It's as simple as that."

"I don't expect you to mourn her forever. Nor would she. She would murder us both if she ever thought you would be unhappy on my account."

"I will always be unhappy. She isn't here any more. There is not a day that goes by where I don't long to awaken to behold her or to turn and find her there. To hear her laugh. I can never replace her and nor would I want to." Sacha's eyes find his wedding band. There isn't grief in his eyes but rather fondness, a reminiscence that speaks well of their time and strength to his vow.

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[seafoamstatice]

honestly considering jaune already knew the book was inaccurate even beyond the erasure of Lewis (they went to places, plural, not mentioned in the book), isn’t it distinctly possible both lewis and alyx got home safely and then just,,, wrote a book loosely based on their adventures instead of a direct one-to-one?

[themissdnl]

will som demons change their mind of eating trip after he offers som good ol therapy

...I can't give too much away, but it gets the ball rolling on changing their mind.

[ascruelandbrutalassheisscience]

how has raphaella not stolen her phone back?

shes dead rig it now

[ariadne-mouse]

Sometimes self care as a DM is taking a break to be your PC with 8 INT

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[elodieunderglass]

Horror isekai where Perceiving the Weird Eldritch Thing gets you catapulted into a nightmare labyrinth of puzzle-solving.

I.e Those Who Perceive The Hunt of the Goblin King Must Partake In The Labyrinth and Can Only Be Freed If They Complete It In One Day and One Night. By Fae Law. For Reasons.

But the definition of “perception” clearly needs to be updated because some normal guy simply films the Hunt of the Goblin King Behind Arby’s, and puts it on Facebook -

No, not instagram or TikTok, it’s important that it be Facebook -

Because the rules are pretty clear, “the rules are the rules” as is carved ominously in elvish runes above the grim gate, and the Contract is Sealed. and so therefore the guy and 25 of their most random real-life acquaintances must run the gauntlet together. It’s Some Guy, their immediate neighbors, their first partner’s mom, their friends from hobby Facebook groups (oh this poor guy and their hobbies; the elderly birdwatchers from Facebook and the young up-and-coming drag king community), their random teen kid niece, college friends, a dog who also watched the video, a couple consisting of a woman who is the guy’s Facebook friend and showed her husband the video, and the husband doesn’t even know Some Guy, so he’s in the labyrinth and absolutely furious about being forced to be involved, and they proceed to break up over the course of the puzzle.

It’s important that the narrative keeps trying to be a sexy dark horror isekai! but within this the comedic reality of Catherine, 52, the guy’s horse-riding instructor, being passionately involved in escape-room-style puzzle solving and grappling with minor goblins. They are in fact speedrunning the gauntlet.

The Goblin King finally has to say: all right, actually, I only really set all this up to fuck with one (1) guy at a time, thanks for your willingness to participate, but I think all 25 of you can consider the gauntlet fully run.

And the group would be quite hurt by that. The rules are the rules. We have a contract, actually. Let Catherine cook.

[tizeline]

Well. Every tmnt artist has to turn them into humans eventually, I suppose.

Sorry for not posting a ton lately, I have been................. playing fire emblem three houses.............. busy............ Also I've been feeling a little burned out on art, admitedly. Don't worry, it's very much temporary! Last month was just pretty high tempo for me, expecially with the Cell Talk comic, so I just needed to take a short break from drawing to also play fire emblem but I'm getting back into an art-mood now! I decided to draw humanified turtles as a bit of a warm up basically, I've been wanting to do it for quite some time so it was just a fun little thing for me :]

Anyway, some thoughts about the designs-

A lot of people draw Leo as blonde, and I was fully intending to draw him blonde as well, but then I just wanted to see what he'd look like with brown hair instead and I just.... liked that a bit more, so he's a brunette now. Also he has dimples because of course he has dimples. And Mikey has freckles because OF COURSE he has freckles! And Donnie ALSO has freckles because he's my blorbo and I give all my blorbos freckles cuz they're neat. All of them have pretty small eyebrows except for Donnie because he fills them in with makeup. I thought for a while of how I would translate Leo's facial markings into his human design, and I ended up settling for birthmarks (also some red eyeliner cuz his face needs a bit of red on it)

[phoenixkaptain]

I love it when pre Original Trilogy era shows how much effort went into making the Death Star. It took decades, literal decades, and it took so much money and so many people and it was such a secretive thing and it’s staffed by millions because it’s the size of a small moon.

I cannot express how much all of the added information makes it so much funnier that Luke blew it up.

Luke destroys literally everything Palpatine built. He blows up the Death Star, which was referenced in universe as early as the second movie. He blew up the weapon of mass destruction twenty years in the making. And he blew it up pretty much directly after it’s first and only successful attack. It was operational for fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes that Palpatine had the thing he’d been building for longer than Luke has been alive, and Luke blows it up. First day retirement, but first hour retirement.

Luke convinces Darth Vader to turn back to the light side, a feat thought literally impossible by literally everybody. Sidious clearly doesn’t see Vader’s betrayal coming. Vader’s betrayal was not in his plans, nor was it something he was prepared for. Sidious is a powerful Force user with all four limbs while Vader is a man in the tin can Palpatine put him in. If Palpatine had seen Vader turning coming, he would not have allowed it to happen.

Luke literally should not even be alive. Palpatine almost definitely got Padme out of the way on purpose, and he almost certainly was trying for her unborn child as well (there was way too big of a risk that a cute liddol bebe would bring some humanity back to Anakin, and Palpatine did not want Anakin to have any humanity) Luke living is literally the first step in Palpatine’s ultimate downfall, especially once Vader finds out that Luke is his son. His very alive son. His son that is not dead, despite Palpatine claiming Anakin killed Padme. Implying that Anakin killed Padme and she posthumously gave birth. But, she didn’t give birth on Mustafar, which was the last place Anakin interacted with her. And once the mother dies, you have to get those fuckers out fast or they die too.

I imagine Darth Vader piecing all of this together is that meme with all the math floating around his head, because how could Padme have died by his hand and then given birth like two hours later?

Luke killing Palpatine is what ultimately leads to the dissolution of the Empire as an omnipotent entity. Luke killed the Empire. Luke spends a good amount of his adult life killing Empire remnants. We see that in the Mandalorian, since he’s so recognizable that Gideon immediately knows he’s fucked just by seeing an X-wing. We read it in Legends’ continuity, where Luke terrifies Imperials because he can walk into their changing room and stand in their for a minute and they don’t even notice.

Luke destroyed Palpatine’s life’s work. Everything Palpatine spent his whole life working towards, and Luke kills all of it. He blows up not one, but two Death Stars (he may not have pulled the trigger on the second Death Star, but without him, it never would have been destroyed). He convinces not one, but multiple Sith and Dark Jedi to return from the Dark Side. He is the only reason that Obi-Wan Kenobi, the biggest pain in Palpatine’s ass ever born, lives long enough to make it to the Death Star.

Palpatine went through so much effort. And just when he had finally won, when he finally had a weapon capable of destroying entire planets with a single blast, making it impossible for any planets or peoples to go against him, Luke shows up nineteen years late to the Jedi party with space Starbucks and a droid twice his age and almost singlehandedly destroys everything Palpatine ever had a hand in creating.

Luke manages to become even worse than Obi-Wan Kenobi, the ultimate thorn in the side of politicians, and Luke doesn’t even understand any politics. He wasn’t trained in diplomacy like Obi-Wan and Leia, no, he’s a farmboy who left home for the first time in his entire life, just this morning. And he is the one to destroy the Empire.

If they rewrote Star Wars and had it entirely from Palpatine’s perspective, Luke Skywalker would be his greatest foe. Luke Skywalker would be the final boss. Luke Skywalker is the antithesis of everything Palpatine believes in and he is the one character that Palpatine cannot predict. He isn’t as moldable as Anakin, he doesn’t respond to threats very well, he’s apparently impossible to kill via Force lightning (still the funniest scene of all times, the progression of Palpatine’s face falling and him looking like “what the fuck??? Is this kid rubber??? I’ve electrocuted him eight times???”), his unwavering faith in his father’s goodness makes Darth Vader want to be a better person, Luke Skywalker is the big bad of Palpatine’s story and—

There is nothing in this world that is funnier than someone’s biggest antagonist being Luke fucking Skywalker. Luke Skywalker, who saved the galaxy with the power of love and who shouldn’t exist, by Jedi rules and by Palpatine’s own attempts, and whose best friends are literally droids, which Palpatine canonically hates!

Everything about this is hilarious, this is the funniest thing in all of media, Palpatine loses absolutely everything to some backwater farmboy who fucking likes droids.

[beescake]

Is Solkat the last two braincells in your brain or something/pos

yeas

stupid crush

[little-pondhead]

DP x DC Prompt

…

There are no more heroes.

Well, okay. Rewind a bit.

Danny has been doing the hero thing for a while now. He’s had a big reveal; everyone has accepted him (including his parents), the GIW disbanded, the Anti-Ecto acts repealed, and generally, everything is going great. Some of the A-Listers are even training as junior ghost hunters to help give him a break from his rogues! (Being Ghost King makes things hectic sometimes, and he just needs the extra help. Sue him!)

The point is, literally nothing is wrong with Danny Phantom’s afterlife.

And then Valerie Gray, the Red Huntress, disappears in front of his eyes.

Danny is baffled! She’s just…gone! Valerie just popped out of existence, like she was never there. But no matter how hard he searches in the Ghost Zone, he can’t find her soul anywhere. His core isn't broken in grief. So she’s not dead. Which is good. So then, where is she?

Some of the others come forward with ideas on how to find her. A few ghosts volunteer to go out into the mortal realm, an area Danny had declared off-limits, to see if she was out there. Danny approves it. He rounds up some of the friendlier (i.e., discreet) ghosts and Amity Parkers and demolishes the outside travel ban.

So everyone spreads out, looking for their dear frenemy and teammate. But it becomes apparent very quickly that something is wrong with the rest of the world.

There are no more heroes.

Every single living superhero on the face of the Earth has just…vanished. Villains are running amok; the countries are in chaos! Some aliens are invading Earth, mythical deities are trying to take over, and society is crumbling to the ground. Everything is on the brink of collapse.

Well, Danny was still there. And so were his people. They were pretty spread out, so could they just…take up the mantles? He also knew where to find the souls of dead heroes in the Zone; surely they wouldn't mind coming out of retirement for a little bit, especially if they couldn't die again. Oh! And that skeleton army leftover from Pariah Dark's reign might be useful in repelling those invading forces.

Honestly, there were more than enough hands to go around! And with the heroes gone, Danny didn't mind letting everyone out for a little break, as long as they followed his rules. They wouldn't stop the search for the other heroes, but hopefully, when they found them, the heroes wouldn't mind Danny's intervention too much. :)

In other words:

Someone fucks up, and all of Earth's living heroes are either wished out of existence or are whisked away to some far-off realm where Danny hasn't checked yet. In the attempt to figure out what's going on, Danny lets the dead run amok over the Earth as they search for clues. The skeleton army repels the invading armies, the souls of dead heroes deal with the world leaders, and his rogues and other Amity Parkers set up shop in place of famous heroes, trying to get the cities under control again.

Basically, they just do their best to keep everything from imploding until the Justice League and others are back.

(And why is it that Danny hasn't disappeared? Well, whatever caused everyone to go poof! only affected living heroes. Anyone heroes that were dead in the first place, or even just half-dead, stayed behind.)

[recurring-polynya]

Me, writing the parts of my fanfic I want to write: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, trying to string those parts together into something that resembles a narrative: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.