Still Dreaming

main is @takemetomyfragiledreams this is my reblog account

[aimasart]

The Batfamily

[takemetomyfragiledreams]

@chubby-p1nk made me these birthday presents back in June and I'm finally posting them to show them off

for those that follow the eldritch stories, the top image is Lawrence and his mate Mal while the bottom is vampire king!Dick

[krossan]

my fav sibling duo. brains and brawn Host and Ghost

[villainwithacrush]

WHAT is even the point of mind controlling a hero if it doesn't feel good. if you can't make them like it. if they don't learn to want it.

[villainwithacrush]

like why even bother corrupting a hero if it's only temporary. at the very least when they ARE 'freed' by their teammates there should be a lingering sense of loss that culminates over time into them realizing they MISSED being at your command so they end up tracking you down, not to stop you but to beg you to enthrall them again so they can turn their brain off in a way that was blissful to them. just saying.

[villainwithacrush]

#tropes #I know this sounds like a kink thing #and it likely is #but also outside of the kink there are probably a lot of people among protagonists who would welcome the relief #of not having to worry about whether or not they're making the right choices #the relief of knowing that the world isn't in their hands anymore. the relief of being freed from all their self-imposed restrictions #I'm just saying #people who treat mind control as ONLY the scary thing fail to understand that it's MORE scary BECAUSE it's appealing #that a lot of people crave even just a brief moment of not having to make hard choices #and that craving can be exploited or fed by someone with a mind control power who spends a thought for making it feel good to obey #and so you want it. and you know you shouldn't. but it was the best thing you've ever felt. but they're the bad guy. #and if you don't have another outlet. some way to feel like you can just BE instead of having to be the HERO

#eventually you'll have a bad enough day that you stop caring about the consequences #because you know the sense of consequence is the first thing that leaves when you're brainwashed #the fear of mind control is not only the fear of being under the thumb of someone who forces you to do bad things #the fear of mind control is also the fear of realizing that it's preferable to be controlled #than it is to be your own free agent in a world that pulls you in dozens of directions at once #at least with the mind control only one thing matters #at least with the mind control you don't feel lost or scared or paralyzed #at least with the mind control you can find simplicity in a complicated world #and knowing you're weak enough to go back even knowing it's not good for you? that has its own enthralling horror to it too #and people don't play with that horror enough outside of kink spaces

#all of this to say: yes. if your hero doesn't have lasting side effects from remembering what it was like not to have to care? #you're leaving free character development on the table #because there are so so so many things you can do with this if you're not afraid to explore your character's internal conflicts #you can decry the mind control as fake relief if you feel the need to #or you can say "the fact that you need this is a cry for help we didn't interpret in time" #you can even say "there's nothing wrong with needing this. just... don't go to the villain for this. there are other ways." -my personal fa #if you're really not afraid to explore character dynamics say that the villain is surprised to see the hero come back #and that by itself opens so many potential story directions with the hero-villain dynamic

(tags from @hestia-and-the-court )

[fallout-lou-begas]

you don't have to advertise that to me, i'm already well aware

[fallout-lou-begas]

is this before or after the hand stuff

[fallout-lou-begas]

was talking about bus ads with my coworkers yesterday and i'd only just mentioned the "reseller ads" before one of them said "yeah, the one for fucking your brother" and everyone nodded. yes yes we've all seen it

[arirhythmia]

"bruce isn't abusive! he shouldn't be bc he cares and loves for his children, and writers that make him so are doing him wrong!"

most the time abuse gets overlooked bc the perpetrators do love and care for their victims. abuse and love are not mutually exclusive. love isn't the purest, greatest thing where bad things never ever happen.

[roscolux]

need to beam this tweet directly into everyone's minds right now

[kayiiin]

I mean, I had to draw this, right?

[muttsandmustelidae]

From the Nashville Zoo’s fb page! Here’s the petition, please please please take a moment to add your name (even if you’re not from Nashville!). If you are from Tennessee, contact your representatives and make it clear that the people do not want this data center. This is an AZA accredited zoo which is home to several species of critically endangered animals, we NEED to protect it. Make your voice heard!

[min-kas]

[i-am-a-fish]

hold your horses is just genuine good life advice

[learlir]

holding my horses

[plasmalink]

Pronoun roles on discord servers aren't a bad idea, but there is the fun implication that you can ping an entire pronoun set.

Hey I got a problem with something, this is an all they/thems on deck situation

[sinistra-orlok]

[we-all-got-scars-again]

IT’S MARCH

[multifand0mtrash]

[magical-awesome-kid]

Uh… It’s still May…

[clowncare]

[normalstuffidk]

It’s august

[storm-driver]

[ruhrohrexia]

i wont worry about it i say to myself with the always worried disorder

[kosmogrl]

[chubby-p1nk]

A Robin's death

LKAJSDKL I did this one months months ago ( ⸝⸝´ ᵕ `⸝⸝) And one of ma dear wifes (@takemetomyfragiledreams) made me remember to post it- Though I know they don't like angst without a lil fluff SOOOOOOOO

Fluff picture with a lil of First Failures (˶>⩊<˶) I wanted to show very clearly the importance of Dick's hair here in both pictures, the first, with his long hair stretching towards every direction, messy and a lil stained with blood. And then cut short, easy to handle but his hands still cling to that rest of hair that he just cut- Also, there's a lil trick with Dan's face, just put a finger on half on his face and then the other ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

[krossan]

This is Jazz; Jazz loves her personal space. This is Phantom; Phantom ALSO loves Jazz's personal space.