ten year old Tim Drake having a minor phase of liking archeology bcs of his parents so he starts digging shit up in his garden, but because he’s Tim Fucking Drake he does it too well and accidentally unearths one of the tunnels that connects to the fucking batcave.
ten year old Tim Drake who already knew who Batman and Robin were, finding out he now has a secret tunnel in his garden connecting his house to their lair, and he’s just like ‘fuck yeah that’s cool.’ and starts exploring.
thirteen year old Jason Todd bored and fucking around alone in the batcave system when he comes across a fucking ten year old who knows his identity, clearly idolises the hell out of him, and is just kinda wandering around the cave system alone and completely chill about it. they see a super dangerous spider and Tim just starts info-dumping on the species. when asked if he has a curfew to go back home by he goes ‘uh, July i guess? that’s when mom and dad get back.’ it is early February.
thirteen year old Jason Todd who takes a minute and then goes ‘ok this is funny as fuck i promise i won’t snitch to Bruce.’
Jason Todd and Tim Drake being secret cave buddies. Jason Todd and Tim Drake hanging out in the tunnels and making fun of Batman and Nightwing from the shadows. Tim Drake who has to buy a whole new set of night-vision camera lenses for his new photo album that’s just photos and selfies of him and his new best friend Robin fucking around in the underground pitch-dark.
Jason Todd who dies, gets revived, is told by Talia that Tim Drake has ‘replaced him’ unknowing they’re already friends, and Jason who all he can think of is that time they played hide and seek in the cave system and Tim clung to the fucking ceiling via a stalactite for 45 minutes straight. Jason Todd who just looks at Talia and goes ‘yeah sounds about right for him.’
Jason Todd being told he has to deliver Damian to Bruce and he decides ‘absolutely the fuck not’ to the idea of even touching the front door. they have a Ring camera he is not getting caught on that bullshit.
Jason Todd who just goes to Drake Manor and uses Tim’s old entrance to get into the tunnels, his home away from home, dragging Damian along, until he gets to a spot where he can secretly signal into the batcave for Tim to sneak the fuck away.
fifteen year old Tim Drake who gets called into the tunnels to find the Red Hood, unmasked as Jason, presenting to him a random child which he declares to be the son of Batman.
fifteen year old Tim Drake who comes full circle and says ‘ok this is funny as fuck i promise i won’t snitch to Bruce.’
the cave boys are reunited. a third is added to the club. a new photo album is filled. when Tim brings Damian up through the tunnels into the cave he looks Bruce dead in the eyes and says fully straight-faced ‘this is your cave son. i found him wandering, he was born from the shadows of the bat.’
eleven year old Damian Al Ghul-Wayne who’s spent the past three and a half years under Jason Todd’s influence and sombrely declares ‘the cave birthed me for you, father. i am darkness. i am your child.’
I know I've only really posted about Twisted Wonderland and Love and Deepspace on this blog, but I have a secret to confess to you all: I have a Batman problem.
That Batman problem has now resulted in me convincing my poor, unwitting partner in one of my classes agreeing to base our final project around superheroes; specifically in what ways do our parent's influence who our favorite superheroes are.
As part of our final project, we need to make a survey and get at least 100 responses too, which is... a lot of responses. *smashes head into table repeatedly while screaming*
No personal identifying information is going to be collected; the main goal of this survey is just to have fun, let everyone ramble about their favorite superheroes and look into a interesting research question. At the end of the survey period me and my partner are going to create a website displaying all of the data we gathered from the survey and we hope if time allows to include a section with a little shrine to all of the heroes everyone brings up in the survey.
So... basically, if you have a favorite superhero please fill out my survey:
Happy Holidays to @malleus-md-draconia! I hope you enjoy your secret santa present! It's also up on A03, but I wanted to post it on here too in order to make sure you got it. I'm not very familiar with the gifting system of A03 🥲
Thanks so much to @cardsweetheart for hosting this secret santa! It was a blast to work on and was super well-organized. :)
Riddle stared out the window into the rose maze; he should have been asleep hours ago. Riddle knew that: he was supposed to be asleep by 8:15pm sharp. He had executed his standard nightly routine to ensure that he would be ready for bed on time perfectly. Riddle had his bedtime routine planned out down to the minute; his nightly routine was perfect just like everything he did.
Despite that… Riddle still found himself adverse to getting into his bed and disrupting his neatly made bed just yet.
He was sure if Cater was here, he’d be squealing about how magic-cammable this moment was; Riddle couldn’t help his soft smile as he imagined the carrot-headed boy’s teasing jabs that Cater thought went over Riddle’s head. The moon was particularly beautiful tonight and it was so perfectly framed in his window as it cast its soft silver glow over the Heartslaybul rose maze. Riddle pushed those thoughts to the side for now; he was content to bask in the soft glow of the moonlight as he subtly loosened the black belt off his plaid night robe.
Riddle allowed it to fall open as he let out a long breath. It was a weakness, a concession to the burning pain in his stomach that he very much did not exist thank you very much. Despite what the rest of his dormmates might insist he was above his body’s foolish demands of him.
That would be if his body was demanding something of him of course. That was in fact not what was happening because Riddle was in far too much control of his body for it to dare make demands of him. Riddle didn’t have any time for the pathetic bodily functions of one of his supposed presentation so he simply did what he did best: refuse to acknowledge it until Trey forced him to or it blew up in his face.
Riddle only allowed his body one demand: sleep. Unfortunately for his body, he would not be giving it what he wanted. He couldn’t sleep.
Riddle just didn’t feel like it; it had nothing to do with the burning ache under his skin.
How much he wanted to curl into a ball and scream.
No relation at all to the instinct in him screaming at him to force his way into the bedroom of everyone he cared to steal their clothes and bask in their scent.
He might have felt more like sleeping if he hadn’t been feeling such things which he wasn’t because that would have been utterly ridiculous.
Riddle gritted his teeth, the familiar sounding of grinding that would give Trey a conniption filling the air. No, Riddle was fine. Riddle had no problems whatsoever because he was in complete control of everything regardless of what some of the others (Ace Trappola) may say.
Maybe a walk would do him some good… it was never a good sign when he could start hearing that cocky alpha brat Trappola yelling at him in his head.
Lilia would be furious with him. It wasn’t often that the old fae got angry, but broken promises were a sure fire way to get a very angry Lilia on his tail.
Malleus was well aware that he had promised that he would pause his unaccompanied late-night strolling and he had been doing quite a fine job at following through if you asked Malleus.
Just don’t ask Sebek about it…
Malleus didn’t know what had drawn him here to the Heartslaybul famous hedge maze; it was rather different than his usual haunts but he had felt pulled there tonight. It was an almost magnetic pull, a gut instinct. Malleus found that his gut rarely steered him wrong, for whatever reason he was supposed to be here in this maze and he might as well enjoy the moonlight illuminating the roses that covered every hedge while he still was here.
Their scent was sweet, it was almost hypnotic. Malleus couldn’t help but find himself following the cloying scent of the roses. He had never smelt a rose so divine before; not even the briar roses in his grandmother’s gardens had ever left him so enthralled.
They smelt like roses, but somehow strawberries and sugar too. It was intoxicating. It smelt better than an omega in heat. Malleus felt dizzy, the smell so all-consuming he couldn’t tell if it was just his head or if the world truly was spinning all around him. The scent was enchanting. It was like nothing he had ever smelt before.
Was that… Rosehearts?
Malleus froze, staring at the sight of the Heartslaybul housewarden. Malleus didn’t know why it was so startling to see the Rosehearts; this was the property of his dorm after all. Perhaps it had something to do with the current… state of the so-called Crimson Tyrant.
There was no other way to describe his current state as anything other than awful. Rosehearts was covered in sweat, his entire body practically drenched in perspiration. His usually well-kept shining hair stuck to his face in clumps, his face as red as it was now with fever as it often turned in anger. Rosehearts was still seemingly dressed in his pajamas, his red plaid robe hanging open as he trudged forward like a zombie through the maze.
That however wasn't what caught Malleus's attention; what captured his gaze was Rosehearts' scent glands. They were swollen, almost pulsing from how agitated the skin was. If the angry scent glands weren't enough to tip Malleus off, the giant stain of slick down the back of Rosehearts; pajamas was enough to tip Malleus off that Riddle was in heat. It was a conundrum and one Malleus never expected to find himself in; he hadn't even known Riddle was an omega. As far as he had been aware the younger was a beta.
Malleus hesitantly approached, uncertain what to do but feeling like moving forward was the best thing he could do. As Malleus got closer, he finally figured out where the smell had been coming from and it hadn't been the roses. As Malleus approached Riddle, the omega turned to him. Riddle looked half-feral for a moment before he seemingly composed himself.
"Good Afternoon Draconia. What are you doing here in the rose maze? I do not remember you announcing a visit here to Heartslaybul. Especially this late at night," Riddle drawled. While he seemed normal on the surface, the shake in his voice was more than enough to ruin any credibility of his act.
"I could ask the same of you Riddle. You are clearly in heat. You should be in your room with your chosen pack. Why do you wander the hedge maze?" Malleus questioned. Malleus couldn't help the raising eyebrow as he came to stand in front of Riddle, extending a hand to catch the overheated omega when his legs finally gave out underneath him. "Do you require some assistance Riddle, I would be happy to give it."
Malleus stumbled back as Riddle struck him across the face, "I'M NOT AN OMEGA!!".
Malleus stared down at Riddle in confusion, still holding Riddle up. He knew normally he would be furious about someone striking him, but he couldn't bring himself to be angry at Riddle. Perhaps it was his scent; it was just so calming that Malleus couldn't feel anything else but want to hold Riddle and never let him go. Since when was he Riddle and not Rosehearts?
"You clearly an omega, your scent leaves that an undeniable fact. You are clearly unwell, let me assist you," Malleus found himself insisting, a hand reaching up to push Riddle's hair out of his face.
The two stared at each other. Neither quite understood why the two of them were in the rose garden, why either of them seemed so pulled to the other, why any of them were even having this conversation. However, they found they couldn't resist whatever this pull was. Riddle didn't understand why, but he found himself leaning into Malleus's hand, the words escaping him before he had time to think it through. "I think despite what I would like to tell myself, I can no longer deny that I need some assistance."
Its to freakin' early for this shit. I was supposed to go to bed like 5 hours ago but was up to get some stuff done in love and deepspace and Sylus fuckin bit me!!!
I got a lucky pull and got his new companion. I, of course, immediately set him up in the café. I was just goofing around and hit the palm interaction and he fucking bit my hand 😭. I think I need to go die now OTL.
I was not expecting it at all. Is this companion specific?! Do companion outfits change character interactions?! Has he always bitten MC?!?!?!
I'm like freaking out, the new Obey Me game is heeeeeere! I almost forgot it was releasing until I got the notification from Google Play!!! I'm like actually losing my mind, my roommate is concerned. I'm like actually going to break something with how much I'm vibrating. I'm literally just staring at the title screen losing my marbles.
Wait, what?! This is so evil 😭. I literally just decided today that I wasn't going to pull on this banner and save for the next and then this bomb gets dropped on me?! Now I got to go back to the torment of deciding to pull or not! AHHHHH
After four years of waiting, the anime is finally here, and it certainly didn’t dissapoint. I hope many new people will discover the wonder of magical mentally ill teenage boys and join our fandom! The episode was great, and I’m excited for the rest of the season (and season 4 PLEASE)
This animatic is to celebrate Twisted Wonderland and its themes and journey and bla bla bla
Over and over do people overblot, does Yuu have to deal with the neverending tragedies, and over and over do we get to know these characters on a deeper level. The way they present theirselves and your first impression of them is never quite what they really are. People are almost never JUST this or that, they’re not one sided. There is always something driving them. The Rose Red Tyrant? Or just… Riddle Rosehearts? These boys are not just villains, they’re not just evil. They’re wildly flawed but they too deserve compassion and understanding and redemption.
Riddle enforces the rules like his mom, over and over.
Leona self sabotages and is his own worst enemy in a way.
Azul goes even lower than his bullies, under and under.
Jamil is gay.
Vil always chases perfection, morning and evening. It’s never enough.
Idia felt nothing but grief, even as he tried to suppress it and ignore it. It drowned him.
Malleus vowed to never let someone he cares about slip through his fingers again.
I hope that old fans can continue to love Twisted Wonderland, and that new fans can join us in the fun and appreciate these incredibly well crafted characters too! I once again encourage discussion in the comments, part of why fandom is so fun is to share opinions and thoughts after all!
Thanks for reading this whole ramble, you’re a trooper. If you’re reading this, tell me: who is your favorite character and why?
Have a nice day, stay hydrated, and go watch the Twisted Wonderland anime
I finally figured out how to play TWIST on the Japanese server, and I'm like having a stroke every day. My poor roommate is concerned by how much I just stare at my phone and giggle like a little maniac. I might have to make a separate post about that whole experience but that's not what we're here for today. Today we're here so that everyone may join me at squealing at how かわいい out beloved little エペル-ちゃん. My boy had me crashing out and ending my denial of his dorm SSR converting me into Epelism.
SPOILER BELOW FOR HIS HALLOWEEN TOWN CARD!
Look at him! I want to squish him until he explodes!!! The book one cliffhanger sucked so bad. I wish I was fluent enough to actually read the stories and events on the Japanese server but I literally got to keep my Kanji dictionary on hand or I die. I'm absolutely obsessed with the details in the hair and all the crosshatching on their noises and their necks. Like honestly, all of these cards have me in the grave. I'm dreading what I'm going to become once I have Idia's card in my roster. I think I'll just cry.
UPDATE: @smarmykinsdraws got their account back!
Hey, I'm just helping to spread the word, but smarmykins got hacked. Their new Tumblr is @smarmykins.
These are the lists of Tumblr's they gave me that were affected:
@smarmykinsdraws
@smarmykinsportfolio
@rosebud-riddle
@twst-and-fic-recs
@twst-incorrect-ed-smarmy
@lord-baby-saja
@abby-saja-gymbro-himbo
@astridmoonbeamcooke-chaosmom
@le-chassuer-damour1
Any posts on there are not from them!
From what I understand, they fell for a phising scheme, and they stole $100 on top of taking over her accounts. Here's the link they gave me with screenshots of what happened: https://www.tumblr.com/smarmykins/796042337376763904/psa-do-not-do-not-respond-to-this-my-main?source=share
I actually think I'm about to crash out. I wasn't going to pull on Zayne's new myth at first. I wasn't really sure about how I felt about the combat with his new companion in the trial. The color of the card wasn't blue, which is Zayne's primary stellacrum color. Also, I know everyone is freaking out about the new card design, but I just wasn't really connecting with it like I did for the other new myth cards.
However, I saw that I only needed 18 pulls to hit the rolling pity counter on my secondary account because of my failure to pull on Xavier's new myth. I had been accepting that I was just going to skip this myth and keep saving up so that I would have enough to do a full pull on the next banner but decided you know what, fuck it. I got 18 wishes to spare.
My fuckin' mistake. Guess who came home? Not Zayne, that's for sure!
Who is the traitor here, you may ask? Xavier! It wasn't even a new card of him. It was a duplicate of one of his lightseeker cards. Like, if you're going to come home, at least the other lightseeker card I don't have so that I can unlock the companion!
I'm like so pissed off that I'm going to go on my primary account where I only have 75 wishes saved and waste them all because god damn it the gacha gods are not screwing me over with a lost 50-50 like they've done in BOTH of the past new myths.
I'd like to apologize in advance for the word vomit; it is unfortunately, the sad result of a serious medical condition that I suffer from: unrestrained English major (which I justify to everyone around me by saying I'm on the law track, so it's a justified for me to major in English okay I swear!).
Due to the unbearable length of these posts, I will get my nine get tagged victims out of the way first to save them from the fate of reading all of that is hidden behind that read more button should they so desire.
@twstjjrayray, I don't know why I had such a difficult time finding your @, but I have. I have accosted you first because I have a message for you. I take your utterly baseless accusation that you made on 3/28/24 accusing me of being the secret mastermind behind the @styxhealthnsafety very seriously. I will soon be issuing a formal statement on this... despicable accusation as soon as I have all my receipts covered. (FYI, this is a joke. I am honored beyond words that you even knew who I was enough to put me on your suspect list)
@ceruleancattail, I put you down because I can't escape you. I can't do anything on Tumblr without seeing you for better or for worse so know I am accosting you with icebreaker paperwork.
@memephi, I know the only thing you post is pretty pictures of our favorite birdy so feel free to ignore this. Your cute little drawings of our favorite little Mephi always bring a smile to my face, and make everyone who I show them to a little brighter :)
@rosebud-riddle, you concern me. Your crack fics are something that only someone on actual crack could make and it's beautiful. Your Lilia is everyone's father theories inspire me. Please continue being the way you are, it's beautiful.
@heartsiebyul, you're twistxreader fics are a work of art and I'm a huge fan. Feel free to ignore this, hope you're having a great day.
@solxamber, I love your stuff. I can't really get away from you because you're everywhere so if you want to here's some free get to know you paperwork or just ignore it to be consumed by the Tumblr shredder.
@bluessmau, love your SMAU posts, they're never a miss. They're always super fun to read when I've got time to kill
@raven-at-the-writing-desk, huge fan. Please ignore this. (｡Ó﹏Ò｡) I think I would have a heart attack if you actually responded to me. Whenever someone comes to me and asks for help translating something in Japanese from TWIST, I always send them your way to save me from that hell. You go in the trenches everyday for all of us and if I could I would give you a medal of honor for your service.
@ventique18, again please don't respond, I will have to change my name and flee the country. I've been following you pretty much since I got Tumblr account and your posts got me through a lot of shit. Hope you're having a nice day \(^-^)/
My OCD couldn't handle the long scrolling lines of text from the original long... long... long... series of reblogs so if you're a poor unfortunate soul who Azul hasn't found yet and braver than me and curious enough to see the original tag chain the link is here below. I wish I was as mentally stable as you.
If you do check out that link, you may notice my reblog is formatted a little differently. I apologize to anyone who that might offend, I just can't help but reformat anything you give to me as my poor English teachers who have received revised versions of their own worksheets from me can tell you.
I am so unbelievably sorry to @smarmykinsdraws who mentioned me in the reblog ask chain like a month ago for taking so long to finish my reply. I promise you I will never forgive myself for this great affront to you and will spend the rest of my life working for Rollo as atonement.
However I will now stop boring you with my anxiety-driven ramble and let you know a little about your's truly, the original Templar knightess in purple.
I Am Currently reading: Rose Red Tyrant: The Novel
I got the book back in March while traveling as part of my schools marching band along with the the last two books in the Heartslabyul manga that I was missing and a couple of other TWIST books and some Wuxia novels. I haven't really gotten in into it yet because I've been very busy at work with the end of the summer coming up, but I'm hoping to really get into the reading grind for research for a large TWIST fic I've got in the works.
The Last song I listened to: White Rabbit by Egypt Central
I wasn't sure if this was the last song I listened to (which was Let's Be Friends by Emily Osment) so I just put the song that I last listened to on repeat. I've got a Heartslabyul oc that's been bouncing around in my head for a while, which I might make a post about later because there's a whole story behind the creation of that oc that goes back way before TWIST, but that song is just really there whole vibe so whenever it comes on my Apple radio I get stuck listening to it for a couple of days as my mind is consumed by potential plots. I also just really like the song; don't know much about the band and haven't listened to any other songs from them but it's up there on my favorite songs that I always come back to when I'm having a bad day or need some inspiration.
The Last Film I Watched: Until Dawn
I'm not sure if this is actually the last movie I watched, but it's the last I really remember. I went to watch this with my younger sisters when it came out in theaters for a "sister date" and I really enjoyed the film. I'm a huge fan of horror movies and was super pumped when I managed to convince both of my younger sisters to come watch it with me. My youngest sister, whom for privacy sakes I shall dub Bean, is a fellow horror fan so normally she's always down to watch a horror movie in the theaters with me, but the middle child of our family whom I shall henceforth call BB is a horrible person to watch horror films with. BB never gets scared by horror films, so I was really glad she was willing to put up with me and Bean's horror junkie ways. I know the movie is based on the game of the same name, but you don't really see that much to connect back to the game until the ending. I know a lot of fans based on the Reddit posts were upset about the movie, but as someone who doesn't know much about the game I really enjoyed it. BB enjoyed the jump scares and put up with my rambling about camera shots and editing as a media production intern turned editing nerd, but Bean sadly missed a lot of it because the candy from the theater was expired and made her sick :(. The movie was a lot of fun though, and if you're just a casual enjoyer of horror and don't mind gore it's a great movie that makes a lot of really fun homages to classic horror.
I'm kind of torn between sweet and savory now a days. Back when I was little, the answer would very easily be sweet, I was a serious sugarholic. Now a lot of the things I used to love to eat when I was little are just too sweet to me 😭. I feel old, it is actually horrible. That's why I have to say it ties with savory. Most of the foods I eat I would call savory, I could out eat Leona in steaks if given the opportunity. BB is a super picky and she always hides my spices from me 😑
Tea or Coffee:
Trick question, both. I'm obsessed with Chai Lattes. I consume Chai Lattes to an unhealthy degree. They're like my comfort drink. I always end up putting a bunch of stuff in them to, like nutmeg and cinnamon or add things like vanilla and caramel. I have way too much fun mixing up each little concoction and seeing what comes of it.
Currently Working On:
Catching up on the backlog of other drafts I've saved into purgatory before getting completely distracted... But like seriously, that's what I'm hoping to start cracking down on. Now that I'm off at college, I'm a lot more organized and a lot less distracted. I think I have about 15 other posts that are in my drafts I need to finish before I can even start on the other stuff I have put down as listed ideas. (It's gotten a little out of hand) After I get through my drafts, I have a couple of head-canon posts planned but my main this is a huuuuge rewrite fic planned where I rewrite and retcon my own version of the main story from TWIST to align better with my English major sensibilities. There's also another fic I'm a little more on the fence on that would smash TWIST up with a homebrew project I've been working on for a couple of years, but I don't know if I'm mentally prepared to unleash that upon the world just yet (hides in a bush while eating a 'burrowed' projector)
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