#pondering-and-wondering

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's just guys night talk! Don't worry about it!

(Read Tiger Tiger and shake this man awake so he can finish that thought!)

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

Ep 3 AU in which Evan succeeded on his death save but lost his arm, so K made him a prosthesis while the group was still on Galamanis

[04-entj-gryffindor]

[bunnieswithknives]

Sam will never stop growing because the visitor will never stop thinking about them ♥

[paper-bag-arts]

something abt mclennon and reflections

[thebctman]

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SUPERMAN

I actually think the change regarding Superman’s parents is pretty interesting. As time moves forward, more and more stories have the House of El and Krypton itself be more evil and more colonizing.

And honestly, it’s not a horrible choice and it still works well with Clark’s story of being an immigrant. Krypton is a shitty place, and that is undeniable. It is why the planet died and it why Krypton is given a bad rep in the comics.

Krypton was destroyed through generations of work and it died through its actions. My Adventures with Superman actually highlighted this in such an interesting way as well.

On a personal note, often a lot of immigrants leave their homes because they have to leave because the values that are within its government or just in its surrounding are just not good. And that creates a deep feeling of alienation in young immigrants or immigrants’ children.

And it is the shittiest feeling on Earth because that doesn’t mean you won’t miss them. In fact, you’re going to grieve it everyday. You will miss a language you can’t understand, the smell of a culture’s food and the feeling of belonging that settles right into your bones.

You will spend the rest of your life missing a place that cannot welcome you back. And you will spend your life wondering what your life could’ve been if just somethings were just different.

Often immigrants and especially their children/first generation have to reckon with that and that is what this movie highlights.

The movie highlights that and that immigrants and first generation are often judged on our ancestry rather than our actions.

People see Clark as an outsider due to his blood. That no matter what he does, what he says, he will perpetually be a foreigner in the house that raised him, and he will spend his life trying to change that. It will break him but he will get up back, and he chooses to do so above all. He chooses to believe in people’s capacity for love rather than hate.

It also highlights how even though we can come from shitty places, we can still be good. We are not defined by generalization, we are not defined by the actions of the past but our own actions. We take in the beliefs of the people around us and that is reflected by Clark.

Clark Kent is Superman because of the Kents, not because of anything Jor-El did.

[chimerafeathers]

i love that isafrin can be the most straightforwardly romancey, wholesome pairing on a surface level and then you go one (1) level deeper and run into siffrin’s seething guilt and convoluted feelings around touch and intimacy and the extent to which they want or don’t want those things in a specifically romantic way or if he was trying to seek connection and love in any way he could once he knew that Isabeau wanted those things from him in that context, and the combined power trip/self disgust at “manipulating” Isabeau’s desires without his knowledge to make themself feel wanted and in control. and then you keep going and there’s also Isabeau’s own warped self image (still, in spite of all his changes, fearing that he’s someone that would be shameful to know), his “emotionally stable pillar” role and self-taught therapy talk masking his deep fears of real confrontation (struggling loop after loop to confess, not wanting Odile to confront Siffrin about their weird behavior in the sus quest bathroom talk) and how Siffrin’s fear of vulnerability and Isabeau’s fear of Pushing Too Hard allow both of their issues to fester unspoken long after it’s clear that the problems exist.

all this to say. duality of isafrin. makes my heart full and warm and happy to see the sweet, fluffy, silly love and connection between them (mutually romantic or otherwise). and then also. the delicious, delicious complications. gnawing on them like a dog with a beloved bone

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 266

Back on my Danny & Ras frienemies/rivals/maybe-lovers-nobody-can-tell-their-signals-are-very-mixed train. 

See, Danny has gone through time a lot. Often. It comes with being Clockwork’s charge-son-thing and honestly he finds it fun. And several times he’s used this time travelling to get some training in. Enter Ras, stage left, also a teen at the time and also learning swordsmanship from the same person. 

And they… utterly despise each other. They would kill the other for an apple slice, if the other one would die! But also, only they can kill the other, as it is obviously their right! 

And well, they keep running into each other. It has been a hundred years, surely the other would die by now? But of course their rival would live through utter spite. Probably to spite them specifically. 

The amount of times they have ended up sparring- trying to kill each other or not- the moment they see the other is actually ridiculous. But time is also passing. And… Danny understands, not having another to talk about things people are forgetting, or have already forgotten. 

How they ended up actually talking without a murder attempt was a long story that included a demon, a dragon, a pair of fae, some bandits, and a lot of alcohol, but it happened. And then it happens again. And again, and now it’s just kind of normal to share a drink after their spars, talking about things that no longer exist, and things they miss. 

Sure Danny can go back in time again, but he knows better than to do it willy nilly. He’s matured, he’s been an adult for a hundred years now, he knows there’s consequences for messing with time, even with Clockwork’s blessings. 

The first time they got married was technically for an undercover assassination. Well, Ras was there to assassinate someone, Danny was there to grab an artifact that should Not be in the realm of the living. And they got divorced after, it was fine. 

They just, also got married again when they met a few years later, for another job. And… okay, so maybe they have gotten married over a dozen times now and only divorced like half of those times. Half of those were for the bit or while drunk! 

And even if technically they’re married or shared a bed, it’s not like they're exclusive! As Ras’ daughters’ existences attest to (adopted in one case or not). They don’t exactly have a label for their relationship, despite others asking for one or trying to put a name to it themselves. 

Now Danny knows Ras isn’t exactly a good dude, or at least on the side of ‘good’ as he’s a literal assassin. But he also knows that good? Bad? Rather relative. He had gotten labeled as a villain when he was just trying to help all that time ago after all, and really who was he to tell someone else how to live their life? 

Which brings him to now, where he’s run into his old frienemy-rival and his youngest daughter. Who has a braindead teenager and a small toddler. Which is fine, really- but also, Talia dear, why are you using a brain dead teenager to guard your three year old son? 

…

Okay, Talia dear, Ras (Derogatory), why are you using your brain dead son and grandson to guard your younger son and grandson? Do you not have the Pits, which you were soo proud about Ras? Yes, he will spar with you, but for Realms’ sake, heal, what’s his name? Ah yes, go heal Jason and he’ll actually stick around for a few years, deal? Good. 

[inkyrainstorms]

thinking vaguely of sticking Ford in a time loop. It’d be fun. I mean, not for him, but it’d be fun. I remember a really good fic where Stan got stuck in a time loop the day of the portal accident, and he kept waking up in his car right outside of Ford’s house. If I find it again (it was so so good) I’ll link it.

Sticking Ford in a time loop either when he goes into the portal, or when he gets rescued by Stan. Make him play that day on repeat. Stick him in Weirdmaggedon on repeat? I dunno, actually. I’m just idly pondering time loops, as one does

[tianhai03]

going to start working on comms again so here's a quick arthur sketchie before i get busy

[turtleblogatlast]

So I’ve been thinking about the boys combining their powers recently and I ended up really wondering about what would happen if a supercharged Mikey (time/dimensional powers) mixed his abilities with a supercharged Leo’s (space powers) and all I could think of was:

[osteochondraldefect]

"Your pet on Earth"

cell shadingless + lines version :] and fun fact, originally i wanted to caption this with "IT HIT THE SLAY BUTTON, FLEW THE MOTHERSTROID INTO THE EARTH AND CAUSED THE SECOND CUNTACLYSM but a part of me decided against that

[apple-onigiri]

you don't even need to make sifloop extremely toxic by pushing the canon further than it is, you could just follow the self-love/hatred metaphor they are in-game further along and do a mdp x siffrin but y'all are not ready for this conversation

[bunnieswithknives]

Oh I have to ask. In your Things That Crawl AU, what does Lyle think. I could see him having similar reactions to Hellen's. We know that even if it wasn't healthy, Lyle was the one who knew Sam the most, longer then anyone else, his constant stalking means he knew what Sam was like and they may have even actually worked together. I personally just can't see Lyle accepting this "New" Sam but I could be totally wrong, I'd love to here about Lyle in your au.

Oh yeah Lyle absolutely does not accept the new Sam

My first thought was that Lyle does what he always does when the going gets tough, and that's try to steal Sam's soul. I don't really like that idea though... cause either it works as both a cop-out and definitive answer to Sam's state of mind, or it doesn't and that's still an answer of some kind, which I don't want.

The alternative is really dependent on the extent of the powers I wanna give Visitor!Sam(? Idk if this is what I wanna call it but we're going with it for now) and how fucked up I want that to go.

POV: The benevolent god has an audio processing disorder and no idea what a human looks like

[suntails]

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[hana-bobo-finch]

i love making low effort shitposts instead of properly explaining my oc’s lore 🥰🥰