#will come back to this later

[vashhanamichi]

I’m insane and out of my depth but I like to think about different metaphors for the relationship between Harry, Voldemort and Dumbledore. Although the obvious one is Dumbledore as God, Harry as Christ and Voldemort as Satan sometimes they seem to me akin to a mortal family, such are the families in the great Greek tragedies, families whose drama is incensed by the Gods and whose stakes are high enough to affect cities, countries, generations.

I’m thinking about the cursed House of Atreus and this post by the amazing @artemideaddams and these are the bits that I think apply the most to the Dumbledore-Harry-Voldemort triad:

(…) would the family fail, the whole country would fail too. The gods know that.

For Iphigenia to be Clitemnestra's favourite daughter, she need to die first.

She has long known that the only child that could never become their father is the one that will forever be a child. The only one who would have never mourned his death was the one killed by him.

Iphigenia had two moments of glory in her story: when her father killed her, and when her mother avenged her. Being killed, being avenged. Being a pawn to kill or an excuse to kill may not be so different, after all. No one ask for her opinion in both cases.

if Iphigenia would have not be so good, so perfect (…) she would have been free to just BE.

I love characters who are aware of their role in the narrative but cannot stop the narrative from unfolding like Captain Crozier in The Terror. He knows he’s in a tragedy/horror, he knows they’re doomed but he can’t change his fate or the fate of his men.

When Harry realises that he is a Horcrux he occupies a similar state of mind: he knows what genre of story he inhabits. He knows he’s meant to be his world’s Christ. Then all remaining childhood illusions dissolve: he was never meant to live, he was always meant to die. These seventeen years he spent between two of Voldemort’s kisses are but an intermission between acts in an opera. Like most of the famous Arias, Harry is meant to die before the curtain closes. Like Iphigenia as she learns of her role:

we talk about Harry as a “good little soldier” but I think we are mistaken: his obedience is filial. Like a good son, a good daughter. Dumbledore is, in his own words, his last and greatest protector. His last parent figure.

Harry gets to be the perfect child and, thus, the perfect lamb. Dumbledore loves him. And through that love that sacrifice is made greater.

What could ease Artemis’ anger so the winds could sail Agamemnon’s fleet to Troy? What sacred deer? What killing should be done to conquer the Dark Lord?

Not just any wizard, not just any child, not just any son, any daughter — a perfect one, whose unbreakable obedience would have him go to his death willingly. Harry doesn’t run, doesn’t cower. He goes willingly.

Harry is like a child caught in the midst of a nasty divorce. Crushed between Mother (Dumbledore) and Father (Voldemort).

My mother, she killed me,

My father, he ate me

But Voldemort’s role is ambiguous. Dumbledore is a parent figure to him as well — and they’re bitterly disappointed in each other. Let us remember, however, that the House of Atreus is a house of incest. Son-husband Voldemort to mother-wife Dumbledore is everything Harry isn’t. He’d never laid down his life in sacrifice. He’s too much like the unspoken root of Dumbledore’s rot, Grindelwald. Tom Riddle grew up in a way that Harry didn’t, and by growing up he became like Grindelwald, the unspoken Father, the unspoken Husband.

By dying, Harry is perfect. By refusing mortality Tom Riddle is corrupted.

As @artemideaddams puts it, regarding Iphigenia: no one asked her opinion. Harry obeys his mother and is consumed by his father. He is filial to both. He is a lamb to both.

[prettyflyshyguy]

Some miscellaneous Ghost Dean AU bits kicking around in my head that I may or may not get around to drawing/writing drabbles of but there's only so much time in the day and if I don't extract the ideas my head is going to burst, so:

-Dean's a stubborn bastard so given the info on the 'ghosts' page on the wiki, I think its safe to say after he gets the hang of manifesting within the car, it's not too long before he can control the car - then haunt in the vicinity around wherever the car's parked. He knows what ghosts can do, and likely just says "I want to teleport. I'm going to teleport."

-This leads onto the next concept of Sam just shoving someone into the passenger seat, of the empty impala, presumably after they were just attacked by a monster, then yelling towards the driver's side "Take them somewhere safe, and don't be weird!!" and bolting off. The person just watches Sam run, jumps when suddenly the doors lock by themselves, looks back and Dean is just sitting there like "Hey what's up, heard you need a ride." then he just takes off as this person's screaming.

-He pisses Sam off too much one day and the dude pours salt on the door and windows of whatever motel room he's in and Dean's just stuck outside like, you motherfucker. "I was stuck inside the car for a year please I want to pretend I'm alive again!"

-On the topic of him haunting the general vicinity of an area + ghosts ability to see other ghosts and incorporeal creatures, for your consideration: Ghostfacers episode, but the bros are checking out an alleged haunted location and they conclude: there is nothing there, it's clean. On the way out Sam runs into the Ghostfacers crew (Dean probably dips, or was conveniently in another room at the time, dude's probably relishing in the ability to just Not Be There when he wants to just cause it pisses off Sam) and they're like "OH SHIT IT'S YOU! What happened to the other guy???" and Sam just panics and spitballs:

"Oh, he uh, he died. One year ago, today in fact. In this very house. You guy's shouldn't be here!"

And then they proceed to riff off each other and just scare the living shit out of these poor people. Dean just manifests like "SAYUM, YOU LET ME DIEEEE!!! YOU COULDN'T SAVE MEEE!!!", the Ghostfacers team are screaming, Sam is trying not to laugh. If they try and leave Dean just appears at the doorway looking intimidating and they bolt in the opposite direction, or Sam just pretends to try and open and door and goes "Oh my god he's locked us in!!"

Nothing is more powerful than two siblings putting aside their differences to absolutely ruin some other peoples day (instead of trying to ruin each others.)

[paintedscales]

🍷 to the restaurant

Hiiiiii, Mimble. Sorry this took so long to get to. :') I have a problem called, "I love my ship and want to spend a lot of time on them." I'm going to attempt to break myself out of that mentality because I actually have a LOT more asks that I said I would draw for.

The Wardrobe Meme

But yes, have a relatively well-dressed casual set of weirdos who are ready for a decent dinner date at the Bismarck.

[aesterblaster]

Hmm Lorenzo huh. Honestly, not sure how he sees his teammates. Because on one hand we already know he's utterly loyal to Snuffy and doesn't cause problems like Kaiser does. But he also sees everyone through a lense of monetary gain and I wonder if this affects his relationships with them. Does he ever wonder if they'd leave him behind or stop supporting him if he got injured? Has he ever hurt someone with his attitude of money above love for soccer? Just thoughts.

[transfemkaladin]

what if. httyd style dragon rider au. where the knights radiant are dragon riders and the spren are their dragons

[i-baroque-my-bow]

Pop is modern day classical era music and rock is modern day romantic era music. I will elaborate and that is a threat

[frownyalfred]

okay so there were a ton of posts/fics about the hilarious "fuck/maryy/kill" Bruce Wayne & Justice League scenario (I read them all, amazing comedic timing y'all) but to me, the most hilarious scenario is the JL play fuck/marry/kill, Bruce's name comes up, and half of the people in the room in the know immediately turn bright red and refuse to keep playing and no one will explain why.

Hal: "...and I would fuck Bruce Wayne. No, I would kill him. Nah, actually I'd fuck him, who am I kidding."

Clark: choking on his coffee and rapidly turning an alarming shade of red

Diana: "An....interesting choice, of course."

J'onn: "Shall we play a different game?"

Hal: "Wait, what? that was the game, wasn't it?"

Ollie: "I'm with Hal, I'd fuck the shit out of Bruce. He's the easiest guy I know, it's not like it'll exactly be a hardship for him."

*every single person in the room turns to Batman, standing in the corner*

Clark: "Wow! I think I just heard someone drop an ice cream cone in Guatemala. Batman, I'll need a team up."

Ollie: "For ice cream?"

Diana, standing up and putting herself in between Bruce and Hal: "This sounds dire. I will also assist."

Clark, under his breath, one hand on Bruce's back: "It's not worth it. He's not worth it. Come on. Walk it off."

[akaisenhatake]

last drink.

[hinamie]

quick itfs sketch page

[imlostinmy20s]

🐾✨🌻

An art piece I started almost a year ago!

been working on rendering for the last three days

[versasfanficwastedump]

and on a similar note, I don’t think Bruce yells except in very specific situations.

like I don’t think he yells around the house when he’s annoyed or when the kids are pissing him off. he’s more of a lecture guy. so much so that the kids compete every year to see who gets the longest lecture. the winner gets some sort of bat themed merch (it changes every year. last year Duke got a pair of boxers with the bat symbol across the ass)

BUT

when Bruce is scared, he gets loud. He’ll yell about “how could you be so reckless” and how “I need you to be better than this.” It’s how the kids know they’ve really freaked him out.

the first time Dick gets yelled at by Bruce, he’s 10. He was jumping rooftops too fast and slipped. Bruce catches him by the cape, drags him back to the batmobile, and totally dresses him down.

Dick bursts into tears. Not because he’s scared, but because he can feel the fear rolling off Bruce in waves. and it feels so wrong for Bruce to be that scared because he’s The Batman and he’s not supposed to be scared of anything.

anyway. Bruce’s fear is loud.

[eyelovveu]

hello! for the billford request could you do Bill seeing Ford again after leaving the theraprism? (whether he escaped of genuinely got better is up to you)

omg yes

I think bill would just randomly teleport to ford to tell him about his great achievements 😇🙏 and ford would definitely be shocked cuz he thought bill was dead

Bonus:

[seefasterdraws]

i loeve you phoenix wright ace attorney trilogy

[bacchuschucklefuck]

truly this one's just for me. I can do what I want foreverrr

[spicymancer]

Stun Gun. The last comic may have inaccurately painted Quiver as having her shit together.

I can assure you this is not the case.

At least she got the right arrow this time. 

[ziggizapz]

not even a month into working there and sams already at his limit