#using compulsion

[ann-creator80]

Lyf from 'Get a load of this monster' by VoidSpeak and @windriderr on AO3

not sure if I drew them correctly but go, my giant moth (the tea's probably for one of the assistants...or they're reminiscing about old times I guess)

he's also their boyfriend (technically) so they have the right to 'say' this.

On a cargo ship heading to the north pole:

[ew-selfish-art]

Dp x Dc AU: Bruce has a 'if you can't beat them, join them' mentality about the tabloids claiming he adopts too many kids- Developing foster homes that are paid for through the Wayne inheritance, personally vetted by the Bats, they're the leaders in the space for child health outcomes and family placement. Insert Danny.

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Bruce has too much wealth, too many rumors and not enough reach into the abhorrent foster homes around Gotham to improve them. Tim ends up being the one to suggest it- He's the one who buys up their real estate for their safe houses after all- and Bruce is more than ready to pull the metaphorical trigger to get new clean welcoming spaces, Bat-background checked fosters and a new era of adoption in Gotham underway.

He's lobbied the state and the federal government for reforms of course, but this is a project he can micromanage. He spends time with every kid that comes through, talks with all the families that want to adopt and makes sure that these miniature homes are provided only the very best. Alfred personally hires all the staff, and with Barbara more than happy to help relocate the unhoused children she spots while they patrol, the project is a glowing success.

Occasionally, spots in their houses fill up, and those are the weeks were Cass takes on the Cowl of Batman- Bruce Wayne will personally invite a child in need to his home. He always has one of his kids present (they rotate on a pre-determined schedule) and he does his best to try and get them to understand that they deserve the world, have all the potential that anyone else has and can achieve a bright future. That he will personally aid them in their ambitions.

PR goes crazy for it of course, but Bruce and all of his children know its genuine. Almost too genuine, because a betting pool 'WILL THEY BE ADOPTED' regularly circulates between the siblings and the entire JL when someone spends time at the manor. And not just the black-haired, Blue-eyed kids get picked as favored outcomes- but obviously the running joke gets passed around.

It's a Thursday night when Bruce gets the call that the houses have once again filled up, and that there is a child in need of a home. The social worker (he knows her as Marsha and he has flowers planned to be sent on her birthday next week, like he does for all of his employees) (Say micromanaged one more time) explains that the kid is a bit cagey but has opened up with some humor. She explains that he has a few strange... mannerisms. She's not sure what to make of him, a non-gothamite for sure but something is, well, distinctly 'not from around here' about his energy.

Danny arrives at the house, meets Duke and Alfred, and by the time Bruce meets him at the dinner table it seems as though Marsha had it all wrong. This kid was laughing, he was teasing, he was totally playing along like he'd gone through nothing. Bruce is glad he's in high spirits but its just so... so different from all the other children he's taken in.

Bruce re-focuses on the conversation when Duke mentions something flashing, and its the first time that Danny goes quiet. Entirely still.

"...you noticed that?" Danny quietly asks, a bit of disbelief in his tone.

"You don't have a flashlight on or something do you? It was super bright whatever it is that you had in your hand a second ago?" Duke tries to sound chill but he's looking very much not chill. Bruce saw nothing, and that puts him further on edge.

"Look... I uh, I've been though... I've been through a lot lately. And the last lab I was in kind of, messed with me. I'm normally much better at dealing with it all, I promise." Danny sounds nervous, and the room seems to chill.

"Ah shoot, sorry." Danny notices something and frantically apologizes.

"Sorry for what Danny? You've done nothing wrong but I am worried about you- You said you were in a lab?" Bruce is desperately trying to calm him down while not slipping into Batman interrogation mode.

"Uh, yeah, like a lot of labs. It should get warmer in a second, its just cause I startled, I promise."

"You're a meta." Duke speaks softly and with hope in his voice- Danny is looking between them with wide eyes filled with fear.

"I mean I don't technically have the gene-"

"Danny, have you told any of your case workers where you were? Do any authorities know what you've been through?" Bruce needs to know, desperately, that who ever gave this young boy super powers is brought to justice. Danny goes quiet.

"I'm really sorry." He says softly, but he doesn't leave them.

Duke and Bruce try to ask a few more questions but the silence that meets them declares the conversation over, even with Duke admitting he himself is a meta. Danny didn't even look up from his plate. They watch a movie after dinner, and Danny seems to get back to the smile-y happy guy he had been before dinner.

Each of the bat-fam have their own interactions with Danny- And even if they're getting along amazingly, Danny won't open up. He doesn't open up to his provided therapist. Doesn't talk to Alfred. No one knows what's up.

So when Marsha calls Bruce back explaining they now have a spot for Danny and he can move out of the Manor... Bruce replies that he'd like to get started on Adoption paperwork, so long as Danny is fine with it.

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Turns out, Danny is fine with it. he's both the newest Wayne and their newest case. (And godamnit, his new family is going to avenge him. If only he'd let them try.)

Danny figures out that Duke= Signal early on because of that dinner, and if he's going to keep his parents out of jail, he needs to be as close to the investigation as possible. He knows that he shouldn't protect the Fentons, but he feels the upset in his core at the thought of letting them befall any harm. He has to protect them. Has to protect Jazz and her hiding spot as a mole within their lab. Has to.

Even if it meant lying to his new family who loves him, and who he loves in equal return. Even if it means lying to The Bats.

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Tabloids go crazy about the black-haired blue-eyed thing of course, but no poll was ever taken by the batfam or the JL who know the whole story.

[sforzesco]

Ippolita & Ascanio :)

ascanio has a rabbit because I cannot. stop thinking. about this letter ippolita sent.

Ippolita Maria Sforza, Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations, ed. and translated by DIana Robin and Lynn Lara Westwater

like. that baby brother sentiment is not going to stay when you both grow older and it's kind of devastating to me

[thinkingabout-girls]

i’m right and i’m going to say it

[jaynovz]

Listen. A lot of John Silver meta posts are like 75% there. And the part that gets on my nerves is the *intent*

Assertations that this character is constantly purely calculating and self-aware and consciously scheming and in control are the things that really rub me the wrong way. It discards the strength of the performance and editing and script and the things that that performance indicates as far as expressing vulnerability or lowering the mask.

Does he still keep like five different layers up even while trying to lower two of them? Yeah, of course, we see that on screen.

But for me where a lot of these Silver takes fall short is failing to acknowledge that the character himself doesn't even realize that he's lying half the time because he's the best at lying to himself. And that it's self-defense mechanism and survival instinct and that it's just like breathing. It's a default state.

For many of these interactions, especially with Madi and Flint in s3 and s4, he often thinks he's being truthful.

Anyway, it would be good for people to keep in mind that John Silver is not actually a malicious super villain and is in fact a deeply traumatized and tragic figure.

[goose-garbage]

Do you guys think about how watching Ellie became second nature for Joel. At first, when they were trekking across wilderness or fighting their way through cities, making sure he knows where she is was a necessity for their safety. Then they settled in Jackson, and it became more self-soothing than anything. A reminder that he protected her and they're ok now. And somewhere along those five years the tactical, utilitarian part of it fell away and it became just fondness and affection. Maybe a dash of paternal anxiety too, maybe a little bittersweet as Ellie pulled away from him. But still. Just a dad making sure his daughter's ok.

At that celebration Joel was giving her space. Maybe getting a drink or talking with Tommy. Keeping half an eye on his kid, who (just like him) was off to the side, arms crossed in a flannel, grumbling about community bullshit but participating all the same. And things were tense between them, sure, but there were soft lights and sweet music and warmth and there's no reason to be afraid. And at some point when Joel glances around, just checking in on her, he gets to see her dancing with the girl she likes. He gets to be present for his daughter's teenage experiences. Something that was taken from him a long time ago, that he never thought he'd have again.

And then the moment's broken. One man opens his mouth, and he wants to jump in, protect her from this hostility, but he doesn't. Joel tenses, clenches his jaw and stays where he is because he knows its not his place. Ellie can handle it, she doesn't want him suffocating her. And he's been trying so so hard to be good at this.

And then easily, comfortably, Seth spits violence at her in a single word.

And honestly? Its a wonder the only thing Joel did was shove him to the ground.

[coqdoll4all]

my pussy is so needy tonight, i've been squirting all over my bed for houuuurs but i cannot stop 🥺 might just go until i pass out like the good, needy whore i am 🫣

[lycorisamaryllis]

[SYNGNATHIDAE]

[vampantheon]

when OTHER people try to distract or comfort themselves, they call it "coping" and "self-soothing," but when i do it, it's a "mental compulsion" and "you have OCD"

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

i guess this is vent art sort of? anyways look at these weirdos

i know there's several ocd creatures already but i didn't vibe with any of them so here's mine. its name is smh creature. it moves around by hiding into the ground and then reemerging (at the worst possible moment) but can also slide around.

[hangerpage]

"You sense my loneliness, my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve to be loved and yet I need love hungrily. My horror that I can never reveal myself to mortals. But these things don't stop me. I'm too strong for them to stop me. As you said yourself once, I am very good at being what I am. These things merely now and then make me suffer, that's all" - The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice

Hangman Adam page + Vampire Au

[amemoryofwot]

The mechanics of show Rahvin are interesting because on one hand he’s having to use weaves on a larger number of people, but also putting on a performance to go along with it. Per book lore that should make each Compulsion easier because he’s not having to so drastically alter a person’s assumptions or desires, versus book Rahvin having to put a massive amount of effort into each person to make them act so contrarily to themselves.

[daily-neurodivergent-character]

Daily Neuro-Divergent Character #45

Maggie Diptera!

From One Girl's Trash

Maggie canonically has Autism, OCD, and Tourettes!

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

all the shit on this website about Coming Back Wrong. about characters being killed and coming back to life but something just. not being right. about there being something wrong and rotten and festering at the core of whatever's standing in their place now no matter how much they look the same. yeah that's what happened to tiktok

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

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[charmwasjess]

I think I realized what is giving me such frisson about Sifo-Dyas's whole last words/final transmission to the Temple thing.

It's the fact of a prequel character, in an era that is so much about inevitable narrative doom, cynicism, and corruption from within, looking straight into the camera and earnestly saying "I've done my best."

Like. It didn't work. But I don't know, there's something really beautiful about that moment.