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[fisheito]

"Eiden and his companions accidentally run their carriage into two yokai wearing "maid costumes". To take responsibility and make amends, they set off to check out a maid café located in the forest—"

Girl that's just kuya and yakumo on their way back from the island

Wait ,no. Forest...

Girl that's just kuya and garu out for a walk

[transformativeworks]

Hi OTW!! I see a lot of interaction between this organization and AO3. I was wondering if the SCREEN ACT that was recently reintroduced in the US government is going to affect the workings of these organizations. If so, what's the best way to combat it? Thank you :)

Hi anbeeo

The Organization for Transformative Works is the parent org of AO3 - AO3 is one of our Projects. So that is why there is so much interaction.

The SCREEN Act (the current iteration of which is S737) is not worded in such a way that it will affect the OTW directly, but our Legal folks have sent the following

Thanks for reaching out. We are following this proposal and are working with allies to oppose it. It would not apply to the AO3 as written, but it would be bad for the privacy and security of fans generally and we encourage our users and members who live in the US to express their opposition to their Senators. Fight For The Future has some good resources for people who want to know more about opposing ID check/age verification laws.

I hope this helps!

~ Mod Remi

[robylovi]

I saw @slvx0 draw Keith with an MJ quote and it did things to my brain so here’s a Homecoming redraw

(Also shoutout to @the-fandom-phantom’s Spidey Au also bc it is soooo so cool)

[methoughtsphantom]

Jason “my family doesn’t know im alive” Todd and Danny “my family doesn’t know I’m dead” Fenton going alongside each of their plans my beloved. like Danny will absolutely go head-to-head with all of Gotham to support his new best friend on all his crime lord endeavors while he drags Jason to also attend collage with him. They are roommates and there never seems to a mention of family from either side. It’s an unspoken understanding they have. They met because Crime alley as a ghost lair thrummed with so much loneliness, it was at first the perfect place for Danny to hide his ecto signature in. But then he saw the dumbass whose lair it was lean his motorcycle just a tad too much when making a sharp turn to an alley, he sweeped the floor through a lifted chain link that passed his body but not his helmet. Yep that’s right the red thing got stuck. Danny who at the moment happened to be watching through his window snorted. Much to his horror because if not a ghost that dude could’ve gotten his head flung off.

Still, the scene was ridiculous.

On a whim he irrationally sees the police closing in on the guy and panicked at the thought of the guy using intangibility to free himself so Danny phased them both through his apartment wall and left the guy sprawled in his couch. Jason didn’t freak out but that’s normal when one’s got a concussion, one the guy immediately denied having as Danny laid out the medical supplies. The idiot proceeded to almost flatten four steps to the door with his stubbornness. He also said “I’m asexual” in the most deadpan voice as Danny dropped him back in the couch.

Danny sighed. Clearly though, he’d done so too early in the night because the guy kept trying to go, kept trying to knock Danny out, kept trying to slash him with knifes Danny didn’t know he had stashed. He’d only disarmed the guy from his guns. The visible ones apparently, cause at one point the guy did take out a gun and shoot until the ammo ran out and then teetered the thing like it was an art prop and hit his moon lamp.

Danny "yeah you aren’t officially my friend until you’ve tried to kill me" fenton my guys.

Anyways both keep having the same argument over if Danny technically kidnapped Jason or not. Danny holds the fact that the police at least didn’t see the guy make the ridicule. Jason argued that happened cause he was sporting a concussion. Danny argued he got that after.

Jason at first thinks the guy's a meta, but no. Danny introduces himself, sheepily now that he recognizes this is who the lair he invaded is from. He bandages him and tries to cook for him. If Danny didn’t have ice powers he most certainly would’ve burned the apartment. Jason then proceeds to kick him out of his own kitchen and make them both enchiladas. It’s the most normal both had in a while with another person and the air seems oddly settled. From then on, Jason constantly invited himself over, under the pretense that this was his territory and therefore he could drop in unannounced. Danny who has actual powers says he only allows this because Jason cooks very well.

Danny stays away from the crime fighting business unless his buddy is in deep shit he can’t get himself out. Also it’s Danny’s turn to cover for his vigilante friend which Sam and Tucker give him so much shit for. (but also advice)

And they were roommates. (omg) Danny effectively derails Jason’s big comeback plans by casually dropping ghost lore every two days. Like,

Jason, talking about how he doesn’t want Bats snooping on his territory:

Danny: Just don’t let them in

Jason: ??

Danny: yeah!! Hasn’t Batman died and got revived??? You can totally kick out death touched people you don’t want entering on your lair.

Jason: …I can?

Danny: Yep dude, your lair’s supposed to feel safe.

Jason: wait does that mean I can kick you out?

Danny: First this is my apartment. Second, im dead, not dead touched. Third, it’s too late to get rid of me. bitch.

Anyways Jason is super excited. You mean to tell him he can actually deny people over to his territory haunt?? (Yes it’s only to people who have died and came back but still!! The sample size is exactly the type of people he doesn’t want to see—!)

Joker my beloathed can’t step foot in Crime Alley.

(Jason’d feel a lot safer if the clown was dead but the possibility of his murderer turning into a ghost and their little loophole not applying on the clown is too scary to contemplate.)

Anyways, Jason loves experimenting with the power. It can go from simply making people shudder and not want to enter crime Alley to straight up not letting them enter like there’s an invisible wall blocking the way.

Jason because he’s hurt that Bruce never even patrols Crime Alley and also because he’s petty put B under the category of “invisible wall” blacklist. His reasoning is that the man doesn’t even attempt to enter Crime Alley. To him it’s surely just a place shadowed in tragedy. (anyways that’s it’s the place he met Jason)

Ironically, Jason totally forgets that Batman does venture into Crime Alley one day in the whole year. The day he met Jason.

Okay. He didn’t forget at first. The first year Jason remembers cause it was only a few months till then but then the next— Jason forgets that today’s the anniversary of the day’s Bruce’s parents died. He forgets to allow B in when he feels a slight tug and dismiss the feeling that prompts Bruce to investigate because he literally can’t enter Crime Alley. He starts the trialsTM, he scouts on the very edge and sees people the whole day enter and get out and cross with no problem but Bruce can’t.

It’s literally just Bruce.

Time to call Constantine, i guess.

[lavellaned]

A lot of the pro-veilguard arguments I see include a very specific way of viewing what “dark fantasy” is which misses the entire point as to why there are criticisms about the overall tone of the game.

Dark fantasy is not just “how much murder rape bigotry and overall suffering can we put in a story for the sake of doing so”.

It’s about having events and themes based off of the darker parts of reality and then, as the player, being able to do something about it. The general appeal is the catharsis. It’s about seeing these stories reflected through an interactive story in a meaningful, respectful, purposeful way.

Is dragon age the poster child for handling its complicated, real-life-inspired politics well? No. But veilguard was somehow worse. The bar was in hell and it still tripped flat on its face.

Veilguard’s lackadaisical, chronically ironic “well THAT just happened”, neutered writing and theme is not a good argument as to why this is a good dragon age game, and you can’t blame the dark fantasy genre for it.

[kizzer55555]

Core Gems

So when a ghost becomes injured, they have a last ditch defense where they retreat into their core. And I mean, injured badly where their body is rip apart to the point they can’t hold a solid form anymore. And they basically go into a hibernation state until they are strong enough to form again.

Ellie, Danny, and Dan are all injured in a final battle against the GIW. The organization was destroyed and the ghosts were safe but the halfas ended up being so injured that they reverted to core form and then went to sleep for a bit. When they woke up, they were still weak but at least recovered enough to gain consciousness. And realize…they are in some kind of auction…in the middle of a heist. It appeared that two furries (one in a bat costume and one in a cat costume) were ducking it out. And they…they were a necklace. All three of them had been turned into a necklace with their cores as gems accompanied by sapphires, pearls, and opals. And frankly gorgeous craftsmanship as the metal was crafted around their cores as if to cradle them and the other gems.

Unfortunately, they were too weak to take a form properly, they could still feel the strain on their bodies. But at least they could still communicate through their auras. Then the cat lady punched a hole in the glass container surrounding them and grabbed their necklace.

However, the bat grabbed the other end and it resulted in a sort of tug-a-war. Meanwhile, Danny, Ellie, and Dan were having a back and form commentary on the situation and what they should do. Completely unheard by the other party.

In the corner of their eye, the three halfas finally noticed a third contender. Some kind of clown who was…hold on…holding a gun?! And it was pointed straight at the two fighting furies who had yet to notice him. The ghosts’ protective instincts went into overdrive and they frantically tried to shout, yell, move. Just do something to warn the two but their cries fell on deaf ears. All they succeeded in doing was faintly glow which immediatly caught the attention of the fighting duo. The two turned to look at the strange necklace but right at that moment, the clown fired and a gunshot rang throughout the auction room. Having no other options, Danny and the others poured every ounce of ectoplasm they had to try and phaseshift, making the two furries intangible as the bullets passed right through them, but in their shock, the two jumped away in opposite directions and accidentally ripped the necklace apart. Gems and pearls went flying and the three cores bounced along the ground.

Luckily, the two finally noticed the clown and went to deal with him and his minions who had appeared. Seemingly putting their fight on hold and forming a temporary truce. The three halfas could only watch as the battle finally wound down, ending with the cops barging into the place and arresting the clown and his grunts, the cat managing to escape with half the scattered gems and pearls from the broken necklace along with a few other jewelry pieces (none of their cores though) and the bat leaving through a skylight.

The auction continued and in the end, despite being broken, their necklace seemed to have caught someone’s interest. A man named Bruce Wayne bought up every piece of the shattered jewelry wear. The auctioneers appeared relived that the item managed to sell in the end and gratefully gave it to him.

Bruce had no idea what happened at the auction, but he could have sworn that some of the gems faintly glowed right before he and Selina were shot. If the necklace was some sort of magical item, then he needed to understand exactly what has been brought to Gotham. It was unfortunate that Selena had taken some parts of the necklace but he utilized his vast wealth to make sure all the other parts ended in his possession. Now he would take them back to the mansion for examination.

[rocketbirdie]

fateful encounter

[starbuck]

is this ship popular because it’s legitimately compelling or is it popular because it’s the easiest to decontextualize and write college roommate AUs about?

[electoons]

I love the college of winterhold. everyone there is casually deranged and there's like an alarming number of students and staff who threaten you immediately when they meet you. it's always one of the first questlines I do. which makes it even funnier when you get made the arch-mage of the college. I'm level 12 and got through this questline knowing exactly 3 spells. what do you mean you want me to lead the college. this school CANNOT be an accredited institution

[egophiliac]

I assume you got a few asks about the TWST news already but: congrats on 7.5 story, they really said you are not leaving your green kids behind just yet LMAOOO also Overblotters solo songs now too! Overblotting animations added to the game! Overblot Idia card (finally!!) CATER EVENT WITH CHIP AND DALE AND HE ALSO HAS FRECKLES?????? I hope we see him on rollerblades like those waiters in diners that'd be so cool!!

me skimming the stream announcement: "MVs"...oh that's probably just more Blazing Jewel stuff, I don't need to catch it, I'll wait for reuploads :)

Twst: :)

you'd think I would've learned by now, APPARENTLY NOT

man. I don't know if they went into any more detail on the stream, but the absolute lack of any explanation on 7.5 in particular is destroying me. this is the entirety of the in-game notice:

"*Main Story Part 7.5: Main Story part 7.5 will be released."

?!?!?!?!

Twst team back on their usual trick of busting in through the wall, tossing a live grenade of one-sentence info with absolutely zero context, and then peacing out to watch everyone explode. what do you mean 7.5. is this the epilogue/hook to 8 that we didn't get with 7 proper. is it something totally different. what does it mean. WHAT DOES IT MEAN

(and if this doesn't kill me, Catermunk might actually with how frikkin adorable he looks. 🐿 shoot. heck. is this gonna be a whole event with other chipmunk diner boys because I may have to seriously consider how many keys I wanna save versus throwing in for OB!Idia. auuugh you'd THINK I would have LEARNED by now --)

[quadrantadvisor]

DPxDC Danny/Jason Soulmates AU WIP

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Jason's timer read 044389:21:08, when the display suddenly went dark. 44,389 hours. Five years, 24 days, 13 hours, 21 minutes, and 8 seconds until he was fated to meet his soulmate.

Or not. Because the time stopped.

It wasn’t supposed to happen. He did his research, and with the resources at his disposal (namely, a batcomputer,) he knew for a fact that there should be no way to defy the fate of a timer. People had tried. Avoidance, isolation, putting a hit out on your own suspected soulmate. Nothing worked. Trying to delay the inevitable put you on the path to meet it. Sure, there were people who lamented the unfairness of their own situation, who were devastated they never got time with their soulmate, famous deaths on opposite sides of a battle, etc. But soulmates always, always met eachother, face to face.

Not him, though. His soulmate was dead. Five years early.

Bruce didn’t get it. Dick wouldn’t talk about it. Alfred only looked at him with pity in his eyes.

Jason wasn’t sad that he was the only person on the planet who’d never meet his soulmate. He was fucking angry, because it wasn’t fucking fair. It was another person in his life who was supposed to care about him that he’d never get to have.

So when he found out he had a mom, somewhere out there, who he’d never had the chance to meet… he had to go. How could he not?

-

It was Sam who noticed, when it happened. Danny had just finished a stupid fight with Boxy, and he, Sam, and Tucker were finally ready to call it a night. Danny de-transformed and grinned, shaking the thermos proudly. “Gonna get these guys back into the Ghost Zone,” he said, when suddenly-

“Danny!” Sam yelped, and snatched at his arm.

Danny stumbled, nearly dropping his precious cargo. “Whoa, Sam, what-?’ he stopped, looking as she turned over his arm, baring his wrist.

His timer was dark, like people who’s soulmates were dead. The numbers still showed, faintly, but they were stationary. The countdown had stopped.

Ice spread through Danny’s veins, like the cold that rushed through him when he went ghost, but worse, so much worse.

Danny’s ghost form didn’t have a timer, which honestly freaked him out, but as a human it had always behaved completely normally. When he turned back, it would be there, the time having elapsed just the way it was supposed to. It had been so reassuring. He was alive. He’d make it at least five more years, and be able to meet his soulmate, who would hopefully be able to accept him the way he was. He wanted that so badly. He wanted someone beyond his friends to talk to, to know him as a person and a ghost. He wanted to not be afraid anymore.

He’d just passed the five year mark, not that long ago. He’d been so excited to be that much closer to someone so important.

And now something was horribly wrong.

“Dude, that’s jacked up,” Tucker said, noticing the problem with wide eyes.

“Did anything happen today?” Sam asked, her expression hardened with determination. “Did you notice anything weird while you were transformed?”

Danny shook his head. “No, no it- it was running while we were at school, and we’ve been fighting ghosts since then. I don’t know when it would’ve…” Danny could barely make himself speak. “Is it my fault?” he said, almost to himself. “Did I spend too much time as a ghost and it just-”

Sam gripped at his hand. “No, Danny, it isn’t your fault. Whatever the problem is, we’re going to figure it out, okay?”

“Yeah man,” Tucker added, clapping a hand on his shoulder. “Hey, maybe your parents can actually help this time? Weird magic science is kinda their thing, right?”

Sam looked less sure, but nodded all the same. “You’re going to meet your soulmate. Okay?”

“Okay,” Danny said, quiet, looking down at the stopped numbers on his wrist.

-

Edit: Added a readmore

[anormalf1sh]

The Evil babby, the Good babby and the skibbidi child

[cubbihue]

Does Mr. Turner like rubbing his “son’s” successful career in Dinkleberg’s face??

He does! He brags about Timmy's success to every person within the neighborhood's vicinity. Mr. Turner loves how successful his son is! It really secures his reputation at the neighborhood HOA meetings they host at their house.

Timmy's worked very hard to gain more successes than failures. The more successful he is, the greater his family's social standing!! And the less he gets to overhear his dad ranting to the neighborhood about his failures.

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[suntails]

echo

[littlefankingdom]

I have seen, multiple times, people saying that Bruce took away all the evidence of Joker having killed Jason to, either, protect their identities and so himself, or the Joker himself.

Well, I needed something from A Death in the Family for a fanfic I'm writing, and I came across that moment talking about Bruce removing the evidence. And, lo and behold, y'all lied.

Bruce removed the evidence because he was planning to kill the Joker and he did not want the justice system to be involved. He thought it was his responsibility to end the Joker and to bring justice to Jason, his son. This is also the same reason for which he didn't told Dick about Jason's death later (It is told to us that Bruce wants to do this ALONE when he refuses to tell Dick), because he knew the young man would want to get involved and would probably stop him from killing Joker. Also, Bruce admits to Clark that the only proof he has that Joker did it is Sheila's dying words, and he later has to confront the Joker to be sure, so the evidence he got rid of probably did not point toward the Joker enough for him to be arrested. Anyway, Bruce nearly broke his hand by punching Clark when Clark told him Joker had immunity. Like, don't underestimate how much this man loves Jason.

Bruce: The cops continue their search for the cause of this tragedy, evidence I've already removed from the scene. Let them write it off as an accident. There's no reason for them to be involved. This is a personal matter. It's something the Joker and I should have settled between us a long time ago.

Bonus: Bruce telling Clark the Joker killed his son after Clark tells him he learned about Jason's death.

Clark: (the panel before) I read on the Telex about your ward, Jason Todd, being killed in an Ethiopian warehouse fire. Was he Robin?

Bruce: Yes.

Clark: I'm sorry to hear that. He seemed like a really nice kid.

Bruce: He was. Jason was the best. The Joker murdered him.

[genevawrenn]

Looking back over yesterday, the timeline for The Realm is wild /pos

First, Foolish eats a sandwich.

Ros shows up to inform her King she negotiated to put in a good word for his longest enemy to take him to the ball cause he helped build the ballroom, and now owns 10% of it.

Foolish agrees to go to the ball as long as he can kill his date on the night of the event.

He asks Smajor if he can kill him after he just arrives, stating he feels out of pocket today and Smajor declines. He invites Smajor to Yellow, who declines.

Foolish states that in an ideal world, everyone would be on Yellow except BBH.

Ros shows off her ballroom build so far [has she slept? /lh]

Ros offers for Foolish to help with the chandelier, and he declines, citing the great Mansion crash out of old.

Foolish : "How does on kill BBH?"

Smajor : "With a lot of effort."

Foolish : "I'm just gonna ask him to take off his clothes."

[53 minutes into Foosh's VOD yesterday]

Foolish : "Take off your armour, we are going to fight to the death"

BBH : "Okay :D"

They debate the logistics of said fight and then pivot to speaking about the ball.

Foolish asks BBH about the invite, BBH gives him a diamond and asks him formally, which Foolish surprises us all by agreeing too.

Before adding the condition of murdering said demon at the ball, which BBH joyously agrees to only if he can kill the totem too.

Foolish agrees.

They then state how neither of them is going to treat the other well and the night is going to end in a swordfight, and yes I would mean it as an innuendo with the way these two bastards said it. /rp

Smajor tries to play relationship counsellor but gives up.

They then begin firing crossbows at each other?

BBH tries to argue he now owns 10% of the castle, which Foolish absolutely disagrees with.

BBH offers a tour of the cathedral after Foolish asks how progress is going.

BBH tells Foolish about Chip's pet parrot.

Foolish decides to 'trim' Blueberry's beak and kill the parrot.

BBH immediately threatens to kill Foolish and begins chasing him down.

Foolish dies and reappears at the castle, and then states deal is off.

Foolish then returns to the cathedral to murder every pet that Bad owns.

Bad also calls off the date for the ball and begins to hunt down Foolish for his crimes and for sport.

Foolish thinks the date is back on.

Foolish states he doesn't care how many lives he loses as long as Bad dies once, somewhere during this I believe is when Bad kidnapped the camel that Landduo has joint custody of.

Ros runs to her King in an attempt to save him.

Bad catches back up with Foolish.

By the skin of his serrated teeth, Foolish escapes due to a lucky pearl and flees into the mines.

Foolish decides to go mining.

Chip begins to hunt the King and tries to signal to Bad where he is hiding, appearing before Foolish to bother him and help Bad track him.

They run between dimensions and caves hunting each other, which goes on for quite a while.

At some point during this, Pili gets killed by Pangi once via his axe from Pili1 and the other via ender crystal placed in his home.

Doozers declare the King part of Witness Protection and name him Eduardo.

Foolish is still mining while Bad tries to convince him through chat to return to the castle.

The chase continues through several dimensions and areas of the Realm, with no luck.

The Doozers suggest for Foolish to disguise himself as a certain diamond-themed soul from Bad's past in efforts to hide his identity.

Ros & Aimsey are doing their darnedest to get Foolish to Sneeg cause they think he would be safest there.

They eventually do manage to reunite after several close calls including one in the castle where Bad almost caught Foolish escaping into a nether portal, Ros & Aimsey find the King and begin their mission to escort Foolish to their Smith Daddy aka Sneeg on the Mushroom Island.

They manage to reach Sneeg after Aimsey lends the King his elytra and explain the whole story to their blacksmith who sounds like the most disappointed father ever™.

The Kingdom then decides to have a Kingdom meeting as an aside and discuss Owen.

They receive information that Bad is approaching the mushroom island and proceed to stash their totem King near the Blender™.

Bad then decides to return to the main area after an unsuccessful hunt, and Foolish wants to go back to the castle. They do so.

At some point between the Kingdom meeting and returning to the castle, Pili begs Foolish to take his 3rd life.

Foolish follows through on this request on the castle's front steps, resetting Pili.

Bad and Foolish then get into another argument, and Bad kills Foolish again.

Which means Bad has killed Foolish twice today and four times in total upon this server.

Aimsey calls Landduo out for starting most of the conflict upon this server, which the immortals laugh off.

They reach an impasse but agree to truce on behalf of the mortals.

They discuss the invitation to the ball once more and decide today's events change nothing. They also decide to still go arm-in-arm to the event as well as agree the plan to demise each other that day is still a go.

They part ways, leaving us all confused and amused.

~~~

Like what the hell is wrong with them /lh

They hunt each other for sport by day and go on dates at night (which also might end in death), confound everyone around them, and drag poor mortals into conflicts.

Immortal courting goes wild man, like what the hell.

And this isn't the first time they have been on a server together but its slowly evolved into this bond no one alive understands yet is also goals at the same time cause it seems like they have so much fun together.

It just took The Realm for them to kick it up a notch. Or 3.