Midnight knight Galactica's blog

[writing-prompt-s]

You just got bought at alien slave auction far from earth, as you stand next to your buyer it leans down next to you and says: "Act normal, I'm gonna get you out of here."

[t0nn1x]

Well I was gonna make a Doctor Who joke but this is way funnier

[touchofhemlocktea]

Someone, somehow for some reason, tried to poison Danny to death. But he's a halfa, his blood is mildly corrosive and he's pretty much for every intent purpose and action, in theory and in practice, immortal. So this means instead of being dead in seconds and gone for good, as whoever tried to kill him intended, unaware of his inhumanity, it ended up with a very powerful, reality bending and altering being, being *very* drunk and *very* high at the same time. He has reality bending power, and now has *0* impulse control or ability to think things through. He is out of it, and has absolutely no proper thinking.

The jl is concerned that there seems to be some reality bender attacking, only to learn its that type of being's equivalent of a child, who is very on something and has more reality bending power than klarion or darkside, even as young for their kind as he is. They are now trying to stop him from thinking that making the sky purple is a good idea.

Bruce talks to the kid, much to the protests of the rest of the league. Slade's...unfortunate transformation into a wolf pup meant they didn't know what he'd used to poison the currently humanoid being, and couldn't provide an antidote to help him process it quicker.

Currently the casualties were several allergic reactions to the sky raining biodegradable glitter, several billionaires turned into animals, and the island from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 becoming real.

In the safety of the watchtower, a Batman themed Lego set and several other toys were now alive, and Bruce's suit was hot pink and bejeweled.

Bruce sighs as a more Legos come to life. His tiny Lego counterpart still yelling from under the glass they stuck him in.

[touchofhemlocktea]

Danny holding Lego joker: you're annoying.

Lego Joker: you should meet my real life counterpart!

Danny making the lego joker inanimate: I don't like clowns....

Oracle: Agent O to Batman do you read?

Batman: Agent O report.

Oracle: The Joker got turned into fish...

Batman:...Danny.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

At some point on the journey back to Erid, Rocky gets around to asking Grace exactly why he was so mesmerised by seeing the astrophage in the Petrova line.

Grace describes it as best he can, but all he can really manage to get across to Rocky is that he was surrounded by small floating lights.

Later on, Grace is talking about the stars and how important they've been to human cultures for millennia. “What do the stars look like, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, y'know, they're a bunch of small floating lights.

There's a disco ball on the Hail Mary. Grace says it's there because it “makes me happy”. “How does it make Grace happy, question?” Rocky wants to know.

Oh, it creates the illusion that he's surrounded by small floating lights.

Rocky begins to do some research.

Glitter: a substance invented by humans to make things look like they're covered in small lights.

Human jewellery: mostly involves gemstones or polished metals, designed to reflect small lights.

Christmas lights. Candles. Lanterns. Fireworks. Glowsticks. Glow in the dark paint. Rocky is beginning to notice a pattern here, statement.

It takes Grace a fucking while after getting to Erid to notice that a lot of the gifts he's receiving from grateful Eridians are either a) sparkly, b) incredibly shiny, or c) fitted with lights.

While the last one is obviously a concession for his human light sense, he's confused about the former two. Are Eridian materials usually this shiny? Is there some quality about sparkly or highly polished surfaces that makes them sound better? Or is there something about Eridian geology/metallurgy that makes their materials like this?

He asks Rocky about it.

“Simple. I tell people humans like lots of small lights. Humans are easy to make happy.”

Grace kind of wants to protest that humans are much more complicated than that.

But honestly… it fucking works. Like yeah the polished gemstones, shiny metals and glittery rocks are beautiful. Yes those Christmas lights you put up around the house did markedly improve my mental health, Rocky. Thank you, I hate it.

Grace spends a lot of time trying not to think about whether his species' urge to explore the cosmos (that saved their planet and nearly killed him several times) is tied to the same instinct that made his students like glitter gel pens.

[anonymousinternet9]

[torgamous]

Rocky's celebration outfit, and the way he plays in water despite neither being buoyant nor being able to feel the water through his hazmat polyhedron, imply that Eridians are the same way with lots of small noises.

This means that Grace can take revenge by giving everyone chimes. Maybe set up a sprinkler in his classroom or a waterfall at his dome's entrance.

Rocky gives him a bowl of glitter and he turns it into an hourglass so they can both enjoy it, then Adrian finds them five hours later sitting in front of it entranced.

[danwithouttheplan]

I attack first. I draw my blade and take a swing. You look rather confused. This confusion is justified as we are 40 ft apart in the middle of a showdown.

[yurinullification]

"parry this you filthy casual"

[danwithouttheplan]

wait, yeah, this is rad af

[nerdpoe]

What the hell is this "Infinite Realms"?

Constantine always knew, as soon as he was able to get that information, that there was pretty much only one destination for all souls.

Hell.

And then one day, there was more than one option.

When Danny had the portal turn on with himself in it, he didn't open a portal to a new dimension.

He created a new dimension. Danny created the afterlife, the Infinite Realms, the option that is neither Heaven nor Hell, when he unknowingly sacrificed himself to the universe as a whole.

Danny has no idea, and his rogues have no intention of telling him this.

So, yes; Constantine's knowledge of the afterlife was correct.

Until one random day, when an unsuspecting fourteen year old walked into his parent's weird invention.

[kizzer55555]

Danny is a god. Just imagine him being on the level of Zeus and the other gods Wonder woman and the Amazonians pray too (and Shazam follows) and suddenly, there’s just this new god. Only a baby god. But one powerful enough to rival the other gods. Who created the ancients and those guys could rival gods. (I know there is this thing where Clockwork is Kronos but I do you one better. Clockwork is rivals with Kronos and they both try to one up each other. Clockwork wins and can be super petty with sending Kronos on wild goose chases or just messing with him).

Danny’s ghost sense could literally be him sensing his ‘creations’ when they are nearby. And all the ghosts are pulled towards Amity park. Either they know why and feel drawn to Phantom, knowing he’s their god. And their attacks are just like, little kids pulling on their parents’s clothing to get their attention. Like look Mom! Look what I can do! I’m super strong! I’m a skilled hunter! I can sing! Or they are drawn to Danny but don’t know why so make up their own reason. Maybe a mix of both where anyone created in the infinite realms like blob ghosts (including Skulker), ancients, and Frostbite and his yetis or any creature, could all know Danny is their god. But the spirits of people, who came into the zone after death (like Pointdexter, the Box Ghost, and Walker) might be drawn to him but not know why.

And Danny has more powers than all other ghosts because he could have made them. So like, Danny was the original power-set and when he created the ‘kids’, he just kinda split off which powers go where. Like how kids have some genes from the mom and some from the dad, ghosts have the basic powers, and then might ‘inherit’ extras. Of you have your father’s eyes. Oh look, you have your father’s ice powers!. So Danny technically has every power from every ghost and just hasn’t discovered them yet (this could also explain how he got weather powers from Vortex).

Ellie ended up surviving because Danny was there. Either instead of the ecto dejecto working, Danny unconsciously poured a bit of life essence into her/shared his energy like he did with the other ghosts, or the ecto dejecto is literally his lifeblood. Ectoplasm could be his blood. Lazarus water is normal ghost blood. Ectoplasm is Danny’s blood. ‘Pure’ blood you could say. So Ellie is the ‘second’ being created by Danny. So she is either the youngest or the oldest. She could also be treated like a princess because Danny specifically stabilized her and she’s very similar to the original. Ellie could be like a priestess to the ‘god’. Or ‘holy maiden’. Basically someone of great importance who can ‘communicate’ with the god. It might be funny if all these ghosts go to Ellie on her travels asking for a blessing from their god or to ask how the god is feeling at the moment and Ellie has no idea what they are talking about despite her aura being ‘blessed’ to other ghosts. Whenever Danny or Ellie enter the infinite realms, they are like Disney princesses with the animals/creatures there. They just think the creatures are very friendly.

Also, because this is a ‘new’ dimension, Demons might try to enter it to see who these beings are. There is a no demon policy now. They keep getting kicked out. And because Danny created the universe in the bridge between universes, it branched out and over ‘time’ became so imbedded in all dimensions that it became the glue. People literally travel through the infinite realms without knowing it when they go between dimensions. A part of the infinite realms is known as the phantom zone. It’s the designated ‘time out’ zone for Kryptonians.

[isaactheautobot]

[dannywayneandmore]

I offer as counterpoint: Ellie is now Ghost Jesus.

Danny created the Afterlife so he's God

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Prosopagnosia (face blindness)

The Autistic Teacher

[giftandhisoaks]

Oh, finally we're talking about face blindness! Here's my experience:

I once lost my date in a crowd after ~four hours of conversation and realized that, well, unless he finds me himself, I'm going home because I have no idea what he looks like

I told one of my profs that I have face blindness and apologized in advance because I might meet her in a hallway and walk right past her. She said "I'm not sure why I'd need this information". Ma'am, one day I was late to your class, didn't notice you sitting and said hello to the student writing on the blackboard. She's twenty years younger than you btw

You'd think face blindness gets better over time? In my case no, it doesn't. I've lived 22 years in my father's home. At no point in my life could I remember if he has facial hair or not

One time I noticed my mom looked different, couldn't quite tell what it was so I complimented her new hair. My mom was very confused and it took us a minute to realize she just took her reading glasses off.

My dearly beloved tiny sister spent some years performing with a dance group, and when I needed to help her backstage between the numbers, I had to actively pray she'd find me because all of these children had identical dresses, identical hairstyles and identical faces. It was a nightmare

Huge shoutout to movies with a face reveal that is immediately followed by a loud "OH NO THIS IS OUR MAIN CHARACTER'S CLONE/ALTER EGO/STOLEN FACE". Thank you so much. Truly. Because i was just sitting here thinking it's a complete stranger with Anakin Skywalker's hair, for some reason

[retrodynamics]

Honestly if you say or do something strange, an employee probably WILL tell all their coworkers about it all day, however they’ll basically never remember it was you specifically and instead just a faceless “customer” amalgamation of every time someone said something to them. Plus you’re giving them enrichment and something to mutually bond over. So really you’re doing an important service by being a little awkward.

[4-catsinatrenchcoat]

I will never NOT tell sm1 abt this girl who came into subway and just wanted me to PILE on the pickles like she asked for more pickles 5 times (not an exaggeration) but I will NEVER remember her face. Just the vague memory of a sandwich with an ungodly amount of pickles.

Probably doesnt help that Im partially face-blind but my point still stands.

[midnightknightgalactica]

Dyed my hair light blue.

Forgot my face blindness includes me.

And now I keep on jumpscaring myself on accident.

[wisteriavines]

I had the sudden vision of Tim getting hit with some magic that temporarily, harmlessly!, alters his reality into that of a movie

Like sudden dramatic background music for intense situations, or a change in “filters” for “scenes” — everything was perfectly in color up until he turned the corner and now the world has a blue filter for some reason

Or headache inducing double vision that lets him see people when he rightfully shouldn’t be able to — like those scenes that show the back of someone walking away then switch to the person walking away’s front so we see their expression or or the camera shows someone’s hiding behind a corner that no one notices

And this only affects Tim, no one else notices

And so he’s very annoyed but intrigued when this random guy he bumped into is being bathed in angelic lighting with some string music playing in the background and now suddenly there’s like roses floating around him?

(It’s Danny and the magic has cast him as the Love Interest)

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

k but imagine Rocky wanting to learn about how humans became the apex predators of their planet so he has Grace “hunt” him in the biodome as an experiment and during it he thinks Grace isn’t trying or taking it seriously which is bad bad bad because this is for research purposes

only for Rocky to get more and more tired as the experiment goes on just to realize that Grace isn’t which makes him panic so he puts as much distance as he can between them and finds a (hopefully) safe spot to sleep and when he wakes up the human is crouching over him like “got youuu” and Rocky has never shrieked so damn loud before in his life

[hydra-keeper]

Eridians sleep while conscious. They can just physically not move. So after getting so tired, he has to sleep, or he will overheat, he'd have to listen as Grace approached from the horizon and couldnt do anything about it.

[irithind]

Oh my God, that's even more terrifying...

[7-inches-of-satanic-panic]

Eridians who hunt by disguising themselves amongst the rocks to ambush prey getting countered by an alien who can see through it because 9 times out of 10 they’re a different color than the rocks they’re blending in with entirely

[powersandplanetaries]

"Sorry, buddy, not only are you obviously wearing a Xenonite atmosphere suit... you're orange."

[vv0812]

I have this headcanon that rambling is seen as a attractive quality in eridan culture, because the more they talk without pause the longest go the melody they produce, specially if they can change subjects smoothly, because is like having a transition in the melody to another melody.

When Grace goes to one of the thrums and just starts to speak without pause for like 3+ hours straight, to then just ramble about anything that cross his mind, many scientific eridians get a crush on him. Rocky is like, yep, I know, he may be a leaky blob, but he can speak.

Rambling is also one of the skills that let Rocky conquer Adrian.

Extra:

In an AU in which Simon and Grace do not speak the same language, Simon gets mesmerized by Grace rambling because it just hears like notes put together.

In an AU in which they do speak the same language Simon is equally mesmerized by Grace rambling because 1) in Eden everyone was pretty quiet, had no opinions, or prefered to not share their opinions, Grace has an opinion or information about everything and anything, and Simon loves it 2) Grace just seem so confident or in his world when he rambles that Simon was just impressed.

In an Eridian!AU Grace would have his rambling charm, Simon would communicate with single notes.

[aramaura]

What I'm hearing is: human language sounds like beat boxing to Eridians and Grace rambling on and on for 3+ hours sounds like the sickest beatbox riff anyone has ever heard on planet Erid.

[todaysbird]

it irritates me to no end when people say north american birds are dull in comparison to other countries’ birds

blue jay

american kestrel

painted bunting

yellow-throated vireo

cerulean warbler

baltimore oriole

american goldfinch

northern cardinal

x

[mind-if-i-scream]

You’re forgetting the red wing black bird and the great and snowy egret. Best birds of the marsh!

I love how they’re all looking into the camera like they’re modeling.

[brunhiddensmusings]

other beautiful featherbeasts include orb bird

stylish accessory bird

loud and delicious bird

bird that will kung fu your face while you are grilling in your backyard

overly dramatic fishwizard bird

demonic creepy noise duck

assorted sky-cats

screaming inflatable doofus bird

stump

not technically native but it poops on my lawn

toasted marshmallow friend

[imyrdungeonmaster]

How.. could you forget… MEEP… MEEP

[rannulfr]

One of my favorite North American birds is the Californian Mountain Chickadee.

This pudgy little bastard has a call that sounds like “Cheeseburger”.

[Listen]

[elodieunderglass]

some nice kids, thanks @fozmeadows

[kinfriday]

Surprised no one has yet included nature’s goth blue jay, the Stellar Jay.

Adding some pacific northwest birds since I see them regularly and I love them to death:

Western tanager

Violet-green swallow

Anna’s hummingbird

Varied thrush (aka twin peaks intro bird)

[a-swoop-of-swallows]

what about the swooper

And the musical little fellow that you hear all the time and don’t even realize

[aropride]

some birds are very intuitively named. looked up a sparrow going chipchipchip in my yard, it was a chipping sparrow. saw a black bird with red wings, it was a red winged blackbird. gray bird that sounds like a cat? gray catbird. the first time i saw a house finch it was perched on a windowsill. However, some birds are the red-bellied woodpecker

[someofusarequeer]

I gotta google something real quick

[someofusarequeer]

who named this bird

[official-ornithology-posts]

Official ornithology post

[never-hydrated]

This is considered a good angle for seeing why it's names that, according to Wikipedia that I stole this image from.

[byjove]

how many people do you think use speech to text to write fanfiction like how many people in this world are sitting alone in their living room vividly reciting the nastiest sex scenes with perfect diction

[byjove]

imagine how much longer the Henry IV tetralogy would have been

[dovewithscales]

speech to text would have frustrated the shit out of Shakespeare because it would lose its shit every time he made up a word.

[desolationlesbian]

met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

[desolationlesbian]

the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[adventures-in-instant-ramen]

[dovewithscales]

The Teacher Voice is real. I know a former High School teacher who is built like a pixie and looks and sounds the part who could still make any room dead silent in eight seconds if she needed to.