Skirkcy

she/her

[papayafromtv]

i love BAMF 10 yr old Damian who can clock everybody's shit, but there is also something so funny to me about dumb-bitch-child Damian. like i need there to be a world where. hold on no i just need to write the conversation hold on

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*Damian, out of nowhere on patrol one night*

Damian: you know.., there was a solid 2 year period at the league compound where i thought you were Batman.

Jason:

Jason: what?

Damian: yeah- ‘cause like, i was seven. and i met you for the first time after you came out the pit and were all big already. and i didn’t know anything about my father apart from, like, what my mother told me of him, right? and so when i met you, and i never actually heard anybody call you your name—just Mother referring to you as ‘one of Gotham’s greatest heroes’ and everybody calling you ‘prince’, in my little seven-year-old head, i was like ‘ok so this must be him then’.

Jason: what the fuck.

Damian: well you looked a lot like him. i’d only ever seen one grainy photo of the man taken from a distance and you fit the description; same build, hair, eyes, broody manner and passion for justice. you were everything i’d ever thought Batman was supposed to be, so when Mother started giving you special treatment and demanding you be treated like somebody important within the league, i thought that was just her lingering affection for an ex.

Jason:

Jason: is that why you made me teach you how to ride a bike?

Damian: yeah i was trying to make up for lost time.

Damian: i don’t know how you didn’t pick up on it—i called you Father like, religiously.

Jason: …to be honest i just wasn’t fluent in Arabic yet. when i finally did figure out that’s what you were saying i just assumed you were making a dig at the fact that i slept with Talia that one time.

Damian: yeah that was- can i be honest with you? i set that up.

Jason:

Jason: what.

Damian: originally Mother wasn’t going to meet with you in person that night, she was going to send a messenger in place, but i snuck into her chambers and edited her schedule so she’d be in the area anyway and would go see you herself.

Jason:

Damian: then i ordered food for where you were staying online in the hopes that you'd chat and realise you still loved each other.

Jason: that’s where those oysters came from-!

Damian: yeah i didn’t- i didn’t actually realise how problematic you and her being together was until after i came to Gotham. i was just trying to have a parent-trap moment and get my mom and dad back together, you know? i didn’t know you were seventeen, i just thought the Lazarus Pit had made you look more youthful than before.

Jason:

Jason, dryly: because famously, as you can tell by looking at Ra’s, that’s what the Lazarus Pit does.

Damian: listen i was eight.

Damian: -and i didn’t force you guys to do anything—this is still on my Mother for going with it; and for bad communication. if she had at any point spoken to me clearly about my father then that misunderstanding wouldn’t have ever happened.

Jason: so… when did you figure out I wasn’t Bruce Wayne…?

Damian:

Damian: well… it was complicated?

Jason: which means?

Damian: it means at first Mother told me i was just going to Gotham with you, which made me think, like, ‘yay, i get to go home with Dad’ right? and then we got to Gotham and saw Batman and Robin out and you started getting mad at a ‘replacement’, and i thought you were mad because your Robin replaced you with a new Batman.

Jason, incredulous: oh my god.

Damian: -yeah, but then we had that whole confrontation with them during patrol where you told Batman i was his son and that Talia Al Ghul wanted you to put me in his care, and i was just standing behind you like… what fucking game are you playing here Father?

Jason: *snort* you didn’t- that didn’t fucking tip you off?

Damian: no! i was like 2 years deep into this belief at this point, nothing was gonna shake me. i came to the conclusion that you were sending me in as a spy or something, so i went along with it. we got back to Wayne Manor and Pennyworth greeted Batman by saying ‘welcome back, Master Bruce’ and i got really mad at Tim because i was like ‘oh so not only did he replace Batman but he did it with the first fat fuck he found with the same first name, huh.’

Jason: *wheeze*

Damian: so i didn’t really try to kill Tim because i wanted Robin; i was doing it for your, the original Batman’s, honour.

Jason: oh my god????

Damian: ...yeah. i didn't- ok, honestly? i didn't really clock that you weren't the original Batman until after you unmasked yourself in front of everyone for the first time.

Jason: -EXCUSE ME-?

Damian: because- BECAUSE, in the league everybody just called you by 'prince' or 'the Gotham boy', and then in Gotham nobody knew your identity so everybody just called you Red Hood. it wasn't until you revealed your identity to the family and everybody started crying about some 'Jason Todd' that was still alive that i came to the realisation that nobody had ever point blank told me your name was Bruce Wayne.

Jason, in awe: wait- wait oh my god i do remember you being really fucking quiet during that whole reveal..,

Damian: yeah i was- i was coming to terms with a lot of stuff in that moment.

Jason: WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY ANYTHING?!

Damian: what am i, stupid? looking back a year or so later, yeah it's a funny memory of how stupid i was as a kid. in the moment? you couldn't have fucking waterboarded that info out of me.

Jason:

Jason: you know. it does kinda- oh my god it makes so much sense now,

Damian: what does?

Jason: Tim told me the first time they let you in the Batcave he watched you walk up to my memorial case, read the plaque, and then loudly go, 'who the fuck is Jason Todd'. and i always thought that was real fuckin' weird considering i'm your emergency contact.

Damian: *wheezes*

Jason: were you disappointed that the fake-Bruce was your actual dad, then?

Damian: honestly i was more troubled at the realisation that i'd actively participated in the action of trying to get my mother and adoptive brother to bang.

Jason:

Jason:

Jason: alright that's fair,

[kaia-artz]

Ultimate fave 💜

[groovysarity]

[quietplace26]

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[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

[qqueenofhades]

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

[sekkitsune]

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

[qqueenofhades]

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[jtimu]

this is what happens when you buy your latin on temu

[the-big-mood]

[churomo]

kisses for the young master…!

[violentcrafted]

He always proud of you :"D <3

[crafty-butch]

having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

[crafty-butch]

by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee

good day:

make coffee

regular day:

put water in coffee maker

put coffee in coffee maker

turn on coffee maker

bad day:

take pot from coffee maker

turn on sink

fill up coffee pot

turn off sink

pour water into coffee maker

put coffee pot in coffee maker

open cupboard

get coffee filter from cupboard

get coffee beans from cupboard

put filter in coffee pot

measure coffee

pour coffee into filter

close coffee maker

turn coffee maker on

anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day

[kieraelieson]

This is actually a really good way of explaining this

[kaia-artz]

Relatable

[wajjs]

anyway Hal is absolutely the wrong character to pick if you want a character who is up to date with terminology, pronoun use, etc. That man does not think too hard about it because his attitude towards it is a mix of "I don't need to know" and "it is what it is".

Hal would not know what genderqueer means, what non binary means, that he can use she/her they/them he/she they/she/he etc pronouns. He wouldn't know. Even if he somehow recognizes his sense of gender is very funky, he would still go by he/him because that's all he's known and that's easier and feels right.

Hal's reaction upon someone telling him they're genderqueer would be to go like that's neat buddy. If someone tells him they're trans he'd be like ah we all are a little bit of everything and he would absolutely not think about why that is true about himself. My man does not care about those aspects of his identity. He cares about bravery about being good about being a pilot about being a green lantern. That's it.

If you want a character who IS up to date with everything and knows the current terminology, you need to look at either John or Kyle. Not Hal. Hal wouldn't know and wouldn't care. Saying otherwise is misunderstanding the character. In this essay I will

[kaia-artz]

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[televisionlassie]

We actually need to discuss the names of the speedsters. Like there’s not just one Bartholomew Allen but TWO! And 2x Wallace Wests? What is up with these parents. Then the villains, yeah I would be evil too if my name was EOBARD THAWNE! Thaddeus Thawne? awful I’m sorry

[kaia-artz]

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[danphanwritingprompts]

Vlad is a creep but who can Maddie vent to about him? Jack adores him, Danny hardly talks to her anymore, Jazz takes a clinical, psychological approach. It’s only when Maddie growls her frustrations while in the middle of trying to shoot down Phantom that she unexpectedly finds a good listener and a gossip buddy who shares her distaste.

[beghostdocrimes]

Maddie, softly, trying to hit Danny: I wish I could dodge Vlad like that.

Danny, stopping with fighting, perking up at the chance of talking shit about Vlad: Oh spilling some tea. Please continue.

[aggressivelyclueless]

“What?” Maddie hesitated, the end of her ecto-blaster falling out of precise aim.  First off - had he just heard her grumble under her breath from two streetlights over? and secondly - was he really going to forget their strife because of one offhand comment she made about someone she knew from college?  She kept her eyes on the phantom anyway, although she was caught more off-guard than she’d later admit.

The phantom floated lower, mostly so that he didn’t have to throw his voice quite as far to be heard.  "Thought we were gonna talk shit about Vlad?  I’m down if you are.“

“Now hold on a second!” Maddie aimed her blaster again, although if she was honest with herself her heart wasn’t really in it.  "Do you - how would you know Vlad, anyway?“

The little ghost perched on the streetlamp over Maddie’s head, still hesitant to get too close on the chance she may change her mind and attack him again.  At his touch, the lamp went dark.  "Well - it’s kind of a long story, I guess - what about you, though?” he paused, about to say how did you even survive college with him, anyway? but catching himself at the last moment.  After a brief consideration, he added, “You hate his guts, don’t you?”

Despite herself, Maddie uncoiled all at once.  "You have no idea,“ she groused, discarding the ecto-blaster entirely, “He’s just so insufferable and - I mean I always knew he was a disgusting little weasel but - what’s wrong with him, anyway?”

“Ooh, I’m just gonna say lots of things,” said the ghost, abandoning his caution and drifting down off the lamp to a more comfortable cross-legged hover in the air.  "He named his cat after you, y'know.“

“He has a cat?”

“Yeah.  Big ole cranky white one.  He monologues to it about how he wants to destroy D - ah, destroy Jack forever.  I timed him once at almost an hour.”

“You timed him,” said Maddie flatly.

The little spirit nodded.  "Yeah, but not the point.  Point is he’s like, he’s an entire fruitloop.  Just - completely off-the-rails crazy.“

“You should have seen him when we were in college!” Maddie snapped, not angry but working her disgust up now that she was finally able to gripe sufficiently, “We used to do science experiments in one of the disused chem labs - twice a week, and he’d try and ask me out every time!  He knew Jack and I were dating - we’d been together for a year already!”

The phantom cringed.  He had, in fact, seen them when they were in college, and it was something that he would have liked to forget if he were able.  "Oh, that’s a yikes - still not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, though.“

Maddie hesitated, not entirely sure she wanted to ask.  "Not the worst?”

“Nope,” said the ghost, with a shake of the head.  "He hides all the super obsessive shit in his basement, y'know.  He wrote software for a hologram of you - got your voice in it and everything.“

“He what?”

“You didn’t hear that from me,” said the spirit quickly, as if he could have taken any blame for it simply by relaying the information, “It’s real, though - I’ve seen it, and it’s exactly as bad as you think it is.”

For an unbearable moment, Maddie was silent.  Her face, obscured by the hood and goggles of her jumpsuit, was unreadable, but when she opened her mouth again her disbelief was clear.  "I can’t believe it - he’s gone and made a - god, why don’t I just strangle that no-good little - !“ she stood for a moment under the streetlamp, fuming and at an actual loss for words, and then she turned back to the little ghost floating before her.  "I have to get even.  That’s the only way.  I’m going to get him back, and you’re going to help me.”

[musiclovercd3-deactivated201910]

-the first time they go to Vlad’s mansion vlad isnt home so the decide to just scout around. Phantom is very excited to show her around Vlad’s lab and display all the horrifying things he does. It turns out Vlad is much more invested in ghosts and her than she previously thought.

-durring their exploration of the lab Maddie finds a broken cryogenic like chamber. Phantom seems very weary and quickly ushers her away from it.

-as time goes on Phantom and her continue their tea time on Vlad. One day Phantom’s cousin shows up. It’s stupid to deny their relation with how similar they look however Maddie wonders if Phantom has drawn that conclusion of their relation from his memory of his life or from their appearance. After all most ghosts memories become warped after death and it’s possible theres more than meets the eye

-Danielle also has shade to throw although less than Phantom.(Since shes out of town more and doesnt know everything the man is up to) She jokingly mentions that shes been avoiding town because of him. Except ghosts never do anything ‘just because’ so dispite the creatures light tone, Maddie makes a mental note of it.

- As she hangs out more with the two ghosts she catchs a quick slip of the tounge. The ghost girl is in a heated rage of ranting that night and the two haven’t seen Maddie arrive yet. “it was always ‘Daddy needs morph DNA!’, and ‘be a good girl Danielle!’, ‘try harder, be better!’ I did everything he asked and I STILL wasnt good enough for him! And I know, I KNOW I shouldn’t care but, AGGH!! I just cant help it!” The girls rant is far from over, but the word ‘Daddy’ is what strikes a needle into her core

-She invites Vlad over a couple days later, watching him move with cold eyes. Hes ecstatic, praddling on about everything under the living sun when Danny walks him. A obvious glare and triumphant smirk are thrown between the two but Danny is a moody teenager who had grown more possessive of his privacy and his things since high school started. He was probably upset someone was in “his” house without being consulted. Maddie uses the interaction to steer Vlad towards the conversation topic she wants. A topic around the possibility that vlad has had or has wanted kids before. The man laughs and deflects the question stating no one has caught his eye since her-the perfect mother. Why would he want to start a family without a wife?And besides he thinks of Jasmine and Daniel like his own kids so it really doesnt matter. The entire exchange does not sit well with Maddie.

-She does her best to look into Vlad more than before; possible scandals, ghost encounters, anything that will solidify or dissolve her current working theory.

-When snooping through Vlad’s mansion with phantom a second time she finds what shes after. It’s a carefully hidden door near the corner of the lab that opens up to a bedroom obviously designed for a child. It’s full of old boxes vlad has stored, piled high with papers of formulas ripped to shreds. Vlad obviously had some kind of fit when throwing them in here. A crumpled picture of a 12 year old girl with dark hair catches her eye and no matter how much she smooths or turns it she cant deny who it looks like.

Phantom follows her into the room before almost immediately stepping out to vomit. Maddie wasnt aware Phantom COULD vomit. It’s not acid or radioactive or anything else. It holds no use to him to be able to vomit but it there it is. She tries to get a sample before they hear Vlad returning and have to get out. “That was going to be his room” she hears phantom whisper as he carries her out. She doesnt ask who phantom is talking about. The ghost seems to be in a state of frozen shock and appear unable to converse with her properly. He stiffly brings her home.

-And that’s when she knows. She knows when she stares at Danielle saying goodbye. She knows when she stares at Phantom hugging her. She knows when she stares at them side by side. Knows because that room was designed for a child. Knows because of Phantoms negative reaction. Knows because that tube was hooked to so much electricity. Knows because they’re dead.

Vlad Masters killed his children

-She doesnt know how or why yet but shes fairly positive that dear old 'Daddy’ had done something to Dani that sparked a rebuttal from older brother Phantom. Starved her, hit her, used her as a runner for drugs (you dont go from a nobody to being a multibillionaire that fast through honest work. Especially when youre Vlad Masters.) But whatever it was she had died. Knowing phantom, a fight probably broke out in the lab. Phantom would have gotten smashed into the chamber and been electrocuted to death. That room was his. Phantom had distant himself his life so far he had created a new person in his mind to be Vlad’s son. “His room” phantom had said. He had forgotten who he was. He was running from his past

-It made sense. Oh it made perfect sense. Phantoms knowledge on ghost hunting gear. His protective obsession. His support of Danille’s travels away from the town. He constant glee of complaining about Vlad and exposing her to all the awful things Vlad does. He was warning her. Dear ectoplasm he was warning her

-They take the fight to Vlad soon after that. Vlad is furious as they dart around him. She isnt surprised. He calls to her, trying to get in her brain. Tries to get her to doubt herself. After all shes siding with a GHOST. They never tell the truth Madelyn, you know this. They manipulate their victims to get what they want. Dont be played for a fool my dear.

“Shut up!” She shouts blasting an ecto gun at him “I’m not the one who killed their own children!”

Everyone freezes and both boys are looking at her shocked. “Excuse me?“Vlad finally responds with an ice cold tone “IM the one who killed my child?”

“I know. I know about Danielle, you freak. I know you used her. I know you killed her. And I know that when this one” she gestures towards Phantom “came to save her you killed him too. Probably shoved him into that chamber and electrocuted him to death.”

They all stand frozen glaring at each other before phantom breaks the tension “That’s an impressive deduction.”

“Quiet boy."Vlad snarls grabbing the boy’s foot and throwing him onto the ground so hard the floor breaks. "I will not have her thinking I’m a murder. Remember that if I go down, so do you.”

“I’ll take my chances ” phantom gasps clutching his ribcage as though its broken. Its not. Hes a ghost, they dont have ribs but this is very close to his past so he may be experiencing the temporary enhancement of his mortality. Making him think hes human again even though hes not.

“Madelyn. My love. You are terribly mistaken. I haven’t killed anyone. THAT THING is the murder who ruined, who Killed my son” for a moment Maddie falters because phantom had said “his room” and then she thinks about Danielle.

Danielle who insists on being called “Dani” like her cool older 'cousin’. Danielle who looks identical to the picture she found. Danielle who calls Vlad “Daddy.” She looks at Phantom and she knows her answer. Because He has electric powers yet refuses to use them, avoids the bedroom like the pluage and has a protective obsession.

She raises her blaster knowing it will only stun him since he’s human.

“I dont believe you.”

And then, she shoots.

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Hey guys! So this was my interpretation of how the whole thing could go down. Just so I’m clear here, Maddie is wrong with her theory although she does get pretty close with the clues given to her. In this fanfiction Danielle and Phantom are both talking about and reacting to things that happened in the episode 'Kindered Spirits.’

Danny saw the 'perfect’ clone disintegrate before his eyes at the time he had been relieved but as more has gone on the whole idea that he killed something gets to him. The bedroom was ment to be the 'perfect ’ Clone’s room and everything in the room is vlads notes because he gives up on the experiment. Danielle’s picture is in the room because Vlad had been documenting his progress when she emerged he took her picture as evidence he was getting closer. When she escaped is ’d-stanalized’ her crumpled up her photo and tossed it in the room along with everything else.

Also at the end of the story I dont think the blaster will kill Vlad. It will probably short out his powers for a couple days or severly hurt him. I think after this phantom and maddie will go to the police but who knows what side they will take.

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

It’s as Maddie is calming down that she thinks about these two children.

Even with their deaths having stopped their biological clocks, they were young. But she also hadn’t seen Vlad himself for roughly 20 years. What she would give for another 20, if she was being completely honest with herself… still, back to the point at hand, that meant Phantom, the clearly older of the two, was at most 20.

But with how recent that room had looked… probably younger than that.

She knew he couldn’t have been alive when Vlad met her again—Phantom was there before then, running around Amity… why Amity Park…?

Maddie thought about it. On a hunch, she dug through some building records. And it proved true—Vlad had been building his Amity Park mansion for a couple of years, even before their meetup. So, clearly he was anticipating it… and so his kids must’ve been right under her nose until…

Maddie wondered about what spurred that meeting in particular. Sure, a reunion… but was that really it?? She and Jack had gotten specific invitations to his castle. Why there, and not closer to the home in the Amity mansion??

… Because Phantom would have intervened there, most likely.

Because Phantom was dead before that—

Whatever Phantom was supposed to be to Vlad, him and the girl Dani… he was dead. Just before meeting her.

He reunited with the Fentons because his own kids had, quote unquote, failed him. To be more accurate, he had failed his kids.

… he didn’t even LIKE kids.

‘Jazz and Danny are like my own’ he’d say.

If Danny was sixteen now, and this all started when he was fourteen, and Phantom seemed about his age—and didn’t that hurt?—then Phantom was sixteen at death, probably, maybe fifteen, and Dani was… Fourteen? She seemed younger than that. Thirteen or twelve.

… that REALLY made them the same ages. Or, more accurately… a year younger.

Dani, the girl, was a year younger than her Danny, it seemed.

And Phantom was theoretically a year younger than Jazz.

Or perhaps, only nine months.

Oh, god.

Dani was Vlad’s Danny, and Phantom was Jazz… what would she bet, that Phantom’s actual name was something along the lines of Jazzon, or perhaps Jason, something to emulate the name of Maddie’s elder child??

As she thought about it more, she in turn thought of the only picture she had of either ghost when they were alive—the wrinkled photo of Dani, only JUST readable, but far too crinkled to give a totally accurate account of the girl. No photos of Phantom.

She also though of Vlad’s reactions to her kids.

Jazz… didn’t elicit much from the man. He was fairly normal, if not offput in the way Maddie recalled younger Vlad was towards children.

Danny, though. Danny disliked Vlad immensely. Jazz didn’t like Vlad either, but Danny… he…. distrusted him, didn’t like being near him, the whole nine yards.

If Dani and Phantom looked alike in death, they probably looked alike when alive.

And Danny… looked a lot like how a human Phantom might.

Maddie means less their faces—although that was similar, but a lot of teens looked alike and… it wouldn’t surprise her if Phantom had imprinted a face that wasn’t originally his own, if he was so determined to distance himself from his life—she more means their potential, well, coloration.

Dani had blue eyes and dark hair, although shades and tones were lost amongst the crinkles. Phantom, then, likely also inherited the same from Vlad—the only parent she knew of—and so, her image of slate black hair and gray-blue eyes filled in.

And that… that looked a lot like Danny, with his baby blues and more feathery raven hair.

And if Maddie could find the similarities, then…

Vlad probably did too.

Danny was a good judge of character. Generally. And he rarely if ever judged without reason.

Which begged the question.

Was Vlad… going to attempt whatever he was attempting with his kids on Danny?

What did Vlad do to her baby boy.

Maddie was scared to know.

But now was not the time for fear, at least, not her own.

Now was the time to go to her son, and get answers.

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[shithowdy]

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.

[shithowdy]

hey this is apparently helping a lot of people! adding that on top of this you can also go to settings > personalization > colors and turn off transparency to also boost performance. this wasn't the Big Fix for me but might as well do that too if you're trying to optimize.

[shithowdy]

past a certain note threshold on tumblr posts you unlock a bloodborne-esque insight and the strange lives of this site's users become visible to you

[flipocrite]

(x)

[theothin]

we fucking found them?

[prof-grace-aspen]

Ok I know we joke about this but I just went to the settings and first clicked "adjust for best performance" and then re-checked only 1 box:

"Smooth edges of screen fonts"

My computer was running hot before I turned everything off; the office I'm in is very warm, I could feel the heat of my CPU through the keyboard. The fans were going, not as loud as they usually get, but they were still blasting.

Y'all.

I can barely feel the warmth through the keyboard now. It's been like 2 minutes. The fan is nearly silent.

Click the Windows key and start typing "System settings", and "View Advanced system settings" will pop up. Then click "Settings" under Performance:

Then you'll see this:

TURN IT ALL OFF.

I turned "Show window contents while dragging" and then turned that off again. It's up to you.

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[penny-anna]

the Justice League's identities all get publically leaked but before the dust has settled someone on twitter is like 'OMG i can't believe you guys are actually buying this obviously fake leak. look at this 'Billy Batson' person's birthday, he would only have been 11 years old when Captain Marvel started operating? how are you people so dumb'

immediately throws the whole thing into doubt. everyone going over the other ID information looking for other potential discrepancies. 'they expect us to believe Superman is some journalist called Clark Kent? they don't even look alike' and 'look at this Hal Jordan guy next to Green Lantern their facial structures aren't the same at all' and 'this Diana Prince woman has NO web presence, I don't think she's a real person'

'Bruce Wayne? c'monn how stupid do these peple think we are' etc etc

someone brings up that Wally West is clearly too young to have been operating as the Flash the entire time but then people from Central City are like no no that one might be legit, it's common knowledge locally that there's been more than one Flash.

this sparks the idea that perhaps the original Captain Marvel died or retired and was replaced with a new guy at some point. another whole group of people now scrutinising images of him trying to identify when the '''''switch'''' happened.

someone doing a deep local newspaper archive sweep turns up a photo of CC Batson accompanying a story abt his archaeology work, everyone agrees that Captain Marvel has his exact face, takes 0.2 seconds to join the dots that he officially died not long before Captain Marvel first appeared and Billy is his son. 2 Captain Marvels theory, previously dismissed as nonsense by most reasonable people, now looking very plausible.

whatever group leaked the identities absolutely steaming bcos their data is good damn it, everything in there is 100% factually correct and no-one is buying it ):<

Justice League and associates (initially sweating) now just pouring fuel on the fire. Oracle has made dozens of sockpuppet accounts to spread chaos and discord. official Flash account insisting that actually everyone is mistaken and he's definitely 100% been one guy this whole time. Lois Lane on twitter like 'do you guys think I wouldn't know if my husband was Superman'.

absolute pandemonium.

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[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Tim is the first to find out the Red Hood’s identity and from then on sticks to Jason during patrol like glue (much to Jason’s chagrin, dammit, it would feel wrong to beat up Robin when he’s that starry eyed…)

Cue: PANIC from the rest of the Batfamily, who still think Hood is a forty-something year old crime lord and now assume they’re dating.

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[awholelotofladybug]

Kagami's Plushie

Adrien: *hands Kagami a cute little octopus plushies* Here, Kagami. Marinette and I got this for you. Isn’t it cute?

Kagami: *takes the plushie* Oh, here we go. I’m Japanese, so that means I love all things cute and kawaii.

Adrien: *nervous* I mean, if you don’t want it…

Kagami: *holds it defensively* I never said that!

[itskarmalone]

And then Kagami discovers that is one of them reversible plusies.

[itskarmalone]

THIS LITTLE SUCKERS RIGHT HERE

And when Kagami discovers that they’re reversible, she’ll

[awholelotofladybug]

She will then proceed to collect them

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[pisoprano]

Adrien goes back in time for Reasons and has to live in the past for a week. He decides that the best way to hide himself is to pretend to be his cousin, visiting from England.

Felix, naturally, gets wind of this and goes down to Paris to set the record straight, assuming his uncle is up to his old tricks again.

Once the three identical boys all end up in the same room, Felix attempts to prove that he’s the real him by having the ‘real’ Adrien ask him and his imposter obscure questions that “only the real Felix would know.” Of course, if past!Adrien knows something enough to ask about it, future!Adrien knows enough to answer it and they don’t get anywhere fast.

It’s all just such a big mess that Ladybug gets involved to sort everything out. Creative person that she is, she figures out how to make a Sentimonster Detector that can prove who’s the fake. All three boys, of course, register as “sentimonster.”

Both the Adriens have a breakdown at the news and Felix just sighs and tries to comfort them with a “There, there.” Even though the act is stilted and not the least bit comforting, the Adriens appreciate the gesture from their cousin. At least, until Ladybug decides that Felix is acting differently enough to be labeled the real imposter and chases him out of Paris with a broom.

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[maspers]

Okay but can you IMAGINE if the earrings had gone to Alya like Marinette wanted them to? 

Instead of having a "designated responsible hero", Scarabella and Chat Noir would just be a pair of gremlins high on life because THEY'RE SUPERHEROES OMGOSH they would spend half their time geeking out and basically exuding chaotic sibling energy the entire time. 

They would reveal their identities to each other right off the bat because neither was paying attention when they were told not to, and Tikki just groans. Alya and Adrien quickly bond over being new kids at school who have superpowers, and everyone else is baffled.

Alya decides to try Clark Kenting and run the Scarablog, and Adrien is like "that's an amazing idea I'll help!" and shenanigans ensue. Marinette (who knows Alya is Scarabella since she snuck the earrings to Alya before any of this started) has befriended Alya as in canon but HASN'T told her that she knows her identity, so she gets dragged into the Scarablog staff and ends up doing most of the fieldwork and vlogging, desperately trying to do anything to cover up Scarabella's and Chat's identities (she knows Scarabella's, but doesn't know Chat's) while trying to avoid getting distracted by Adrien, who she's crushing on big time like in canon. 

For his part, Adrien gets totally enamored with Marinette because Ladybug isn't there to distract him and because Scarabella is already more sibling material than lover material, but he thinks Marinette dislikes him and his brand so instead tries to woo her as Chat Noir and more shenanigans happen. 

Nino, however, is low key crushing on Scarabella, and joins the Scarablog staff to try and learn more about her. Alya finds this amusing and kind of adorable, but doesn't really reciprocate for a while because she and Nino don't get locked in the zoo. She does let him investigate on his own, because she thinks pursuing the truth is a noble endeavor and in the meantime the blog can use his skills. Marinette starts silently screaming because GOSH DARNIT the identities are supposed to stay secret! 

Chloe is a huge fan of Scarabella and Chat Noir. She keeps trying to force herself onto the Scarablog team… But Alya is having none of it and throws her out. Chloe engages in spying shenanigans and tries to force Sabrina onto the team in her stead, but that just results in Sabrina getting character development. 

Lila shows up. Nino, desperately trying to learn more about Scarabella, falls for her lies hook line and sinker (sorry Nino, someone has to) but since Alya and Adrien both know each other's identities they see through her lies and (with Marinette) burst her bubble almost immediately. However, since Marinette actually has free time she can do her job as Class Pres and calm Lila down (a la zoe-oneesama's Scarlet Lady AU), and soon Lila shows up on the Scarablog's door offering to investigate Hawkmoth. Her main goal is fame and fortune, but eh Alya knows a good tool when she sees one. Chloe is fuming, and soon Lila gleefully engages in Spy vs Spy shenanigans with her. 

Fu is like "WHOMST IS SCARABELLA" and tells Adrien that Scarabella isn't supposed to be the Ladybug wielder and Adrien briefly angsts about it but is like "who cares have you met her she's literally a great hero and that's what matters" 

Fu is undeterred and keeps trying to give Marinette more miraculouses and she just keeps them in her room and doesn't use them

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