#secret thoughts

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Good!GIW Thoughts

After I wrote the Multiverse Police prompt, I've gotten a few replies and reblogs saying they've never seen good!GIW before, and I realized, wow, me neither!

The GIW are always the bad guys, and, well, yeah, they fit the criteria for being the shadow branch of the government to commit atrocities. But there's potential in good GIW.

Imagine it.

Imagine Amity Park being off-limits not because GIW wants to keep it contained but because they treat it like a resort or a national park. People are not allowed to freely come there only because GIW wants JL out of it since the heroes are going to treat the whole thing as a threat. But there's an infinite amount of knowledge there! A portal to the new world! New culture! Things you could never learn before!

Imagine Amity being under government's protection. Imagine Jazz attending a university with her full tuition paid by the GIW since she is, well, a liminal, a minority, and she is getting a degree that will help her establish connections between them and Infinite Realms.

Imagine GIW funding Fentons' research not in order to eradicate ghosts but to have a safe way to talk to them while not getting caught up in a fight with an impossibly strong being.

Imagine GIW being hella annoying to Danny because they just won't stop with their interviews and questionnaires. Which, actually, has the full potential to become confusing because imagine Batman meeting Phantom and Phantom is like, "Oh, yeah, there's a hidden government branch that I avoid like plague because they want to catch me" and Bats are super worried. In the meantime, GIW is looking for Danny simply because he is the most friendly ghost they encountered and they want their answers about the cultural differences between the dead and the living.

Now, there's also a way for this to become the thickest plot armor ever. Imagine Jazz is on a mission to get some artifact from the mortal world. Then imagine GIW helping her while they still can't exactly show they are government agents because who in their right mind would believe the government is studying ghosts? Anyway, Jazz now has the potential to become James Bond kind of cool. Wonderful.

Imagine Danny having trouble with the JL/Bats/police, and then he just, "Wait, let me call someone, I have the right to one phone call, right?" And not 15 minutes later, a bunch of secret government agents in white show up, and Danny is free to go while the agents are saying whatever happened is now classified in the best Batman manner.

Oh, what about a world-ending event where a ghost is involved, and the JL is at a loss of what to do. And then the white vans show up, packed with unknown tech, agents in white with blasters, and a few weird meta-kids no one knows anything about. They even have a K9 unit because, come on, Cujo could be a perfect friend for them.

Just GIW being the secret protection squad for Amity and ghosts.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Danse Macabre

[Commission]

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #49

Stephanie would like it to be put on the record that she has always had great taste in romantic partners. Always. Never check, just believe her.

So it's a little irritating when her not-technically-family-but-also-family begins to dig deeper into her new boyfriend, Danny Fenton.

He's already warned her about his parents, what they do, and everything. So she'd know what she was getting into. It was sweet! She knows one day she'll tell him all about her past, too.

The point is, there were no secrets between them. At least, she thought there wasn't.

[theminecraftbee]

Afterwards, they do a race. They don’t talk about it, but it’s there, between them still. Something settled between them. Cleo doesn’t know how to say it; they never know how to say things like this. Still, they need to, so they wait until Ren’s race is over and then hike through the jungle to go sit on top of Etho’s base and wait for him to show up as well.

He doesn’t. He’d gone to their base. Instead of just showing up for each other, they have to somewhat awkwardly coordinate over text which base to meet at. It forces everything to feel more real.

When they finally meet up, it’s in the shopping district, leaning against the button. A dangerous game in theory, but Cleo’s not fully convinced it can explode at this point, so.

Cleo breathes. They’re both quiet for a moment.

"Okay, so like, are we doing this?" Cleo says.

"I don’t really know, uh, what this is," Etho says, "but I… care about you. I think. So I think we’re doing that."

Cleo nods once. "You know I don’t fall in love, right? I’m not going to fall in love with you, I don’t do that. Might say something about loving you, but it’s not the same thing. Different sense of the word. It’s different, loving people and falling in love, got it? And I won’t do that second thing. I’m never going to do that second thing. I don’t--"

"Okay. I know," Etho says.

"Do you?" Cleo asks.

"I mean, not entirely, but I’m frankly surprised we’re having this conversation in the first place. I never expected you to be in love with me."

"But I’m not," Cleo says. "I’m attracted to you, and I love you as like, a companion and friend or whatever, but I’m not in love with you. I’m. Ugh. I wish I knew the right words. I just--I also don’t let go of things so if we’re doing this you’re going to have to get used to that real fast. Me not being in love with you but me not letting you go, both of those things."

"You're attracted to me? Aw, Cleo," Etho says.

"Don't be an ass," Cleo says.

"Sorry, sorry. It's just, geez, this is--a heavy conversation, huh?"

Cleo sighs. "We'll work on the deflection."

Etho rubs the back of his head and looks away. "Uh, in that case. If I'm maybe a little in love with you--"

"I can't--I can't reciprocate that, Etho," Cleo says, and their voice cracks as they do.

"I know," Etho says. "I just want to make sure it's okay, then."

"You can't help that, can you? Just like I can't help that I still sort of want to kill anyone who hurts you."

Etho seems to think about it for a while. Cleo resists the urge to fidget. She's a zombie. She shouldn't have the urge to fidget; she should be too dead for that. Besides, it's hardly like it's a secret she doesn't fall in love, exactly. It's just... it's only relevant sometimes. Feeling like, as she watches Etho and Bdubs dance around each other, she's on the outside looking in. She'd kill to hold their hands, to protect them, hell, even to kiss them--but that's different. She just can't summon the same emotion of... she doesn't know.

Martyn had almost gotten it, for all he didn't get anything else, in the end. Scott was never going to fall in love with her in the first place, for obvious reasons. Whatever attraction she and Pearl have going on, it's definitely not love.

But this...

"Okay," Etho says.

"That's it?" Cleo says.

"I mean, does it need to be anything else?" Etho says. "It's not like we can just... not do this. I think it's too late for that. Whatever 'this' is. I'm in love, and you aren't, but we'd both be pretty upset to lose this, right? So I'll... figure it out."

Cleo swallows. They feel small. "Will you? Do you understand?"

Etho shrugs. "I understand that it's you, and it's you that this happened with, not anyone else."

"Okay," Cleo says. "Okay."

"Is it okay if I kiss you? Just to try it, I mean. Not like, as a--this is a bad time, actually, I don't want to try to make any kissing we do romantic, I mean, you just told me this won't be romantic, I--"

"Yeah, sure, you can kiss me," Cleo says, and he leans in to kiss them. It's nice. A little soft for what they'd want, really, but nice. He leans back. He looks them in the eyes.

"I get it a little more now."

Cleo is baffled. "How? Kissing is just like, a thing we did? How does that have anything to do with any of the rest of this."

Etho laughs. "I definitely get it a little more now. What do you want to tell the others? I know they're definitely gossiping."

"Ugh. Can we just, like, not?" Cleo says. "I don't want to have to explain it."

"I'll just be confusing then, got it," Etho says, and Cleo can't help but laugh themselves.

"This is why you're my favorite," Cleo says, and they think maybe this will work out okay, after all.

[moeblob]

Happy Birthday to Ferdinand von Aegir!

I actually made 33 emotes, affectionately known as Aegirglyphics to some, for my own personal use on discord. However, I figure why not share some of them! They're free to use for discord servers/icons/pfps or whatever. However, my only request is Do NOT use them as subscriber emotes on Twitch. You can make them free follower emotes but you are not to make them locked behind a paywall.

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #147

Danny was looking for a place to hide away from his bully Dash. He had gotten a bad grade on his math test and even though Danny didn’t sit in that class with him at all Dash still blamed him for it. They turned another hallway and as Dash lunged both of them tumbled to the ground. But before they could hit the ground a portal opens up and both of them fall through.

They wind up in a place called Gotham and while they’ve never heard of the city or the vigilantes they decided to stick together even if they hated each other. They find one of the vigilantes and Dash described the portal to them. The vigilantes are shocked at the description of what sounds like a natural lazurus pit and that horrified them a little. Unfortunately the only way to get them through a pit was to travel across the world to Nanda Parbat.

[its-muffin-tyme]

These Characters Are Stolen From Their Respective Life Games And Thrown Into A Tiny Life Series World/Game Together:

[mischievous-thunder]

[xysidhequeen]

So sorta a prompt/sorta a brain worm that got stuck in my head.

What if.... When Jason died originally he came back as a ghost and he and Danny met. Jason helped him fight ghosts and taught him some tricks of the trade. He offhandedly told Danny that if he ever needed help to go to Gotham/Blüdhaven (depends if you want to spin Jason still feeling kind towards Bruce or him being more in Dick's corner). Jason vanishes when he's resurrected and Danny doesn't hear from him for years.

Well something happens. (Either everyone he loves dies, and he runs to the GZ or away to prevent himself from turning into Dark Danny, or his parents find out his secret and react Badly. Or maybe they react well but the GIW takes them out)

Danny runs to the only place he thinks can offer sanctuary, Gotham/Blüdhaven. Running off the words of a friend he hasn't seen in a long time.

He arrives and is probably exhausted, stumbling around when he feels a familiar energy. He follows it, only to nearly collapse at Jason's feet as Red Hood. (This is probably post Outlaws when Jason has a more peacefulish relationship with the Bats) and looks up.

"Jason?"

"Danny?!"

[poemsonmars]

i don't have any dark secrets

but i do have a few light ones.

and i don't mean light

in that they're not heavy

because fuck they are,

but rather... well,

my secret is that i am terrified

to tell her that i love her

and how could that possibly

be anything but sunshine?

how could loving her,

in whatever horrible

form that may be in,

be anything other than

the single greatest thing

i've ever done with my life?

it doesn't matter if

she doesn't love me back

if i never get the courage

to tell her anyway.

i will keep my secrets

buried deep inside and

hope that their light

is enough to keep me warm.

i will keep loving her

and i will keep it to myself.

-mars

[envyclearlace]

Liminal Spaces

hospital waiting rooms

laundromats at midnight

empty parking lots

playgrounds at night

school when you're too early

sleepovers when everyone else has fallen asleep

empty classrooms

bathrooms at parties

hotel pools at night

everywhere, the day after your birthday

neighbourhoods at 4am

on a bus with just a few people

stairwells

[mythmerth]

I keep thinking about the concept of magic changing over time. While Arthur was alive, magic was this very physical tangible presence that was imbued in everything. But maybe as merlin got older, he felt all of that change. With so many deaths, so many people on the earth, the magic shifted into something more spiritual, something that’s less in the fields and the trees and more keeping the spirits at rest or at least to peacefully roam the earth. In turn, this means that Merlin’s magic now has more spiritual implications. It’s gaining intuition from the dead, gaining some of their abilities, being able to guide them home and make sure the magic they sleep in is gentle rather than vitriolic. He becomes a medium and an “exorcist” while still retaining the magic from inside himself that behaves as it did back in his youth, albeit much weaker. Back when everything started to shift he would see arthur sometimes but thought he was making shit up, as he did go insane for a few years (decades) as any immortal being might.

However, as that spiritual magic gets stronger within him and Arthur is still around, he comes to realize that the real Arthur’s been here and helping him, watching him, caring for him, even in death for countless years.

[winterrrnight]

nothing just thinking about you and rafe lying in a huge sunflower field as you both share earphones and 'je te laisserai des mots' plays, no words being exchanged between you two as you both just feel the warm sun shine down on your skin, the soft piano instrumentals playing through your ears. his hand finds yours and he gently intertwines your fingers and squeezes your hand thrice. I love you.

send me any of your drew/rafe/zach thoughts! sfw only! <3

[hersurvival]

The realization

That I was never meant to be scary,

Despite my best efforts at trying.

"Maybe you should embrace the fact

That you are soft, sad and sweet,"

Not a threat, not intimidating.

Diamonds under my eyes,

Glitter shimmers, glistens, shines.

He says he knew it all along,

That this was me, that scary was a disguise.

@nosebleedclub July 10th - Eyeshadow

[autumnsunshine10]

I was a MySpace catfish before catfish was a thing. I was testing the waters with my queerness and pretended to be a guy (I was 15, so boy I guess) because I wasn’t ready to fully accept that I was a lesbian and didn’t know any gay people in my conservative community. I came clean with everyone and remained friends with all of them. Most ended up being bi and still continued to flirt with me after learning I was a girl and seeing my real MySpace. Several others also ended up admitting that they were also catfish. Lawless world pre- unlimited call minutes, camera phones, and webcams.

Playing pretend

Dress up disguise

Incognito mode

Trying to find oneself

Ever daunting, too afraid

To stare truth in the face

Finding a space to belong

Doing it wrong but somehow

Getting it right along the way

Puzzle pieces fitting into place

Tribe of matching stripes

Forming formatively

Embrace every idiosyncrasy

Normalcy's just a myth anyway

[dolores-hazy]

As Is

Such a tempting treat

All sweet yet sultry

Slick lines and eye-catching

Curves softly begging for touch

On display at the right time

To entice and excite

Calling to mind multiple uses

Utilitarian to the sublime

But before signing off on the line

Check for an extended warranty

Read any fine print carefully

Just because there's a guarantee

Doesn't mean a damn thing

The sparkling clean gets messy

Honey can turn bitter eventually

It's not always faulty goods

Claiming anything as one's own

Has its risks as well as rewards

All that laid out, the offer stands

If you'll still have me

I'm yours