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.
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Hi, Tumblr folks. For the first time ever, I'm opening up emergency comms via Ko-Fi. Long story short, less hours at work, but not less expenses in life, is a BAD combination of things. Any & all help is appreciated, whether that's thru commissioning or reblogging!
I've never taken commissions, and I'm not exactly a prolific/active artist, so I don't have a comm sheet or any idea what to charge, soooo the current plan is: tell me what you want & make me an offer, then we'll go from there.
A few quick rules:
1. No proship content and no sexual stuff of underage characters. You ask me for this, your message is getting deleted and you're getting blocked.
2. No "draw a real person or animal from this photo in *insert cartoon or anime* style" requests, please. If you have a reference image of an already cartoonified version of say, yourself or your pet that you'd like art of, THAT I can work with.
3. I don't draw explicit content, but suggestive/some NSFW is on the table. It's on a case by case basis, and I will refuse anything I'm uncomfortable with. But generally speaking, if it's something you'd see in say, the non-edited versions of Tenchi or Outlaw Star, I probably can & will do it.
4. Please don't try to take advantage of the "name & negotiate your price" thing by, for example, offering me $2.00 for an idea with multiple characters, full color + shading & a complicated background. Please just... don't.
Now that the rules are covered, let's talk contact & payment info! My Ko-Fi link is above, and you can either message me there or send me an ask here on Tumblr. 😊 If you prefer sending payments through PayPal, Venmo or CashApp, those are as follows:
PayPal: @ MissLisaMiray
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If you've read this entire long-ass thing, THANK YOU. Your uh, reward is me shutting up & showing you some examples of stuff I've drawn/what I can do. I apologize if downloading stuff from my not-updated-in-4-years deviantArt account then uploading it to Tumblr kills the quality. I am currently away from home (where my original drawings and the files on my computer are), so I'm working with what I've got access to. 😅
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Warning: Grumpy old Sailor Moon fan rant.
I've hated about 70% of the new merchandise that's come out in the last decade but what I really hate how fans totally eat it up. Most of these collaborations have little to no thought put into them and fans still go for it. It's so disappointing.
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You know, I'm thinking more about the differences between Sailor Moon Crystal/the Sailor Moon manga and the 90s Sailor Moon anime. What I remember being the major difference is the amount of time we got to spend with the girls who weren't Usagi. Back in the 90s, having such a female-driven show that (usually) passed the old Bechdel Test was a rarity, and a lot of us grabbed on to that part over all else.
I didn't like the Sailor Moon manga. I didn't like Crystal either. And there's a part of me that wonders if the reason why I had an attachment to the 90s SM anime versus those two other variants is because I was there for something other than what the manga and Crystal had to give.
That is NOT to say that either form is bad, far from it. Just because I didn't care for it does not mean it was at all bad. It just wasn't what I was looking for.
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Magical girl video game charts! I originally posted these to my Twitter account, but wanted to repost them here as I feel the magical girl comm on here is a bit more relaxed. Please note that some are eroge titles, while some aren't.
The first chart's first half was made to list more well known titles in the US that have games. There's a misconception about magical girl video games not being a thing, which is... definitely not true. The next one should cover indie titles, along with a separate list to list magical girl manga I think people should check out! :]
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One more Narnia connection jumped to me when we talked about the house. The kids go to another world and it’s described like: “…vast rooms that opened out of one another till you were dizzy with the mere size…neverending courtyards…it was all so dreary and so much the same.” I don’t think If have a whole college thesis but I could do an epic high school comparative essay
There are probably so many Narnia things I missed simply because I haven't read Chronicles of Narnia for many, many, years, though I read them as a kid. I'm trying to recall if there was a fantasy series I loved above all others as a kid, because I did read and like a lot of fantasy as a child!
My #1 was Arthurian shit, I LOVED the Once and Future King when I was like, 11, but strictly speaking that's not a kids' book I was just weird.
But a kids' fantasy series in and of itself, that I'm not sure. I thought Chronicles of Narnia was fine, I was too old for Harry Potter by the time it came out, I would have ADORED His Dark Materials--even as an adult I think it's pretty fucking good--but I was too old again, I had a brief dalliance with the Enchanted Forest Chronicles that was very fun, definitely read the shit out of the Dragonriders of Pern, OH! I really loved the Wrinkle in Time series. That did slap, I should reread it and see if it holds up, I think it might.
Anyway, FASCINATED by the idea that you basically put forth without saying it that Clarke read The Magician's Nephew and was basically like, "Hm, I could write this for adults and better" and honestly, she did! I wish more authors would take kids' books and make them adult books, frankly, because YA/children's books often have great conceptual worlds that are completely undermined because they are MEANT to be written more clear-cut and with simpler vocabulary. Because that's what children need and crave. But as an adult, I want the complexity, the difficultly, the confusion.
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