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villains who could have been protagonists in different circumstances? I live for that shit
potential counterpoint: protagonists who could have been villains in different circumstances? I live for that shit too
Third point: a villain and a hero that chose their path by making a different choice in the same kind of circumstance? I live for it too
‘Good. That one next.’ –
Ripley, Percy, and mind control, for a secret santa exchange.
TIL… that in the middle ages there was a popular belief in a demon of language, one who collected the words of people women gossiping in church, and the mumbled syllables of priests who weren’t saying mass properly. He was also held responsible for scribal errors. “Later he haunted printing presses, causing typesetters to make mistakes.”
TIL… there is a typo demon, it has a name, and it is Tutivillus (Titivillus).
Can he leave me alone please
I asked and he said ni.
Hey Tedbaldus, you missed a letter.
Now he has taken residence in Autocorrect, which is why it always turns your thoughts into word salad when you try to text.
In the vast world of comics, I wonder if there have been heroes with a “Groundhog Day,” type power. By that I specifically mean a hero who, if they die, immediately finds themselves waking up at the beginning of that day again. If they don’t die, they just continue forward through time.
I’m just thinking of how crazy it would be to have that hero on your super hero team. Like, you go to headquarters in the morning, and it seems like everything’s normal. But then you go to fire off a one liner, and they say it at the same time as you. And suddenly you know. Something went wrong.
And then one day you come in, and your heart drops as you see that their every move looks rehearsed. They answer questions before asked. They are totally aware of everything that’s about to happen. Imagine how scary that would be, realizing you’re starting a day that you’re team mate has failed to survive maybe dozens of times.
You spent the last 10 hours beating me senseless and you’ve learned absolutely nothing. I mean, nobody tells me shit. The truth is, I’m the one person in that house nobody will even notice is gone. You assholes kidnapped the wrong guy!
Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy (2019-)
I’d like to think the reason why Mages live in towers is just by accident.
Mages live in normal houses, but their magic does weird stuff to their home and stretches the house up into a tower. It’s also why powerful mages tend to have really big hats and overstretched robes.
This could also extend to why Mages don’t wear metal armour; it’ll just stretch and grow and get too heavy to use. Cloth is a safe option, and they can just cut away the extra fabric.
A mage’s staff is just their first wand but stretched.
Based on a true story.
this reminds me of a story that’s kind of an ongoing joke in my family.
I’m half German, and my father’s side of the family is full blooded German. My father owns a business that deals with a lot of international calls, and during my early tween years he got a lot of business calls at all hours of the day and night from all over the world.
Now, when i first met my best friends, I had them sleeping over at my house, and we were watching TV. Every few minutes the phone would ring, and our caller ID would project at the top of the television screen.
I was bullied a lot as a kid, so my dad told me to tell people if they asked what my father did, that he was in the German Mafia.
So, naturally when my friends asked who was calling, I made the joke it was business cause my dad was in the German Mafia, and the joke stuck.
And it spread, too. Middle school was filled with jokes about my family and the mafia, but they were just jokes. That I was in the mafia, my dad was a mafia boss, etc. etc.
Those jokes continued into high school, where, in my junior year I was in a big depressive spell. I wore my hair tied back from my face a lot, and in my history class, these jokes were cracked a little more often as we began our European Studies. One day, my History teacher, the most amazing teacher I had in high school, walked between me and my best friend, as our desks were right next to each other, while we had been making one of these jokes.
He paused, and reached out, tapping my right temple twice while a huge, cheeky grin spread on his face and he just went.
“Good to see you finished your induction.” and walked away.
I was confused, my best friend and I were staring at each other for a solid ten minutes before we got back to work.
When I went home that night, I looked up a bunch of stuff about the German Mafia. The German Mafia would often do a tattoo of 3 dots on someone once they had finished their “trials” and were accepted. This was most often done in cases of murder, and other crimes. Where the tattoos were placed meant different things. Hands were the norm, but sometimes a tattoo would be placed on the face.
These tattoos are now mostly outdated, and are usually just prison tattoos done for years/crimes committed in prison, but some branches of Russian, Cuban, and German mafias still use the three dot tattoos.
I was flabbergasted for two reasons. One, that my teacher knew all of this about the German mafia, and, Two, that he pointed out the three freckles on my temple that make a perfect triangle.
For the rest of my Junior and Senior year, the mafia jokes dwindled less and less, because people actually believed I was in the mafia.
I never told them I wasn’t, either.
“Don’t get involved with them. You’ll die.” —-Hanazawa Teruki, Ch. 34
a short comic about witches and wishes and wanting things.
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also while i’m on a batgirl train of thought
i really love how Cassandra and David Cain’s interaction is written.
It’s one of those rare interactions where the writers have a shitty abusive dad (David) who the kid still sometimes feels positive feelings to (Cass being very sad when she thinks he’s dead, the scene with them looking at stars)
and yet
that is never supplied as evidence that he wasn’t a shitty, abusive dad. what he did to cass was labelled as abuse on screen (by batman). Cass ran away. but she still has a complicated relationship with David, because how can she not? for eight years, he was the only person she knew. We know that she knows that what Cain did was wrong, and we know that she’s willing to stand up to him if she has to (just be running away in the first place when she killed the guy at his orders, saying she’s going to kill him if he kills again, et cetera)
and their interactions almost always make me think or make me emotional.
like in batgirl #… 11 i think? some place in volume 1.. Cain is coming back to Gotham to repossess the tapes he had of Cass’s training. He apologizes, but I don’t think he’s actually sorry for what he did. Maybe he’s sorry for the way things turned out, because he thought she’d always be a good little soldier. Cass doesn’t react. I don’t know if Cain even knows that she can understand him at this point.
But Cass lets him take the tapes.
I always wondered why. I guess the tapes probably only have bad memories for her at this point, or maybe memories that are confusing and she doesn’t want to sort through. Maybe she pities him a little - David is never portrayed as badass or someone you want to be in this comic, just… a kind of pathetic old man who messed up his daughter for life. He says the tapes are all he has.
There are a ton more of their interactions that I think about, but I’ll probably post them as I re read Volume 3 cuz this post is long enough already
Either way. it just makes me think
What I really find interesting is that it’s obvious that David does love her, just not as a human being. He loves her the way someone would love a tool or an object or a project that you’ve dedicated years of your life to and for the most part succeeded. That’s why the tapes are so important to him, they’re recordings of his achievements.
And Cass probably intially viewed the way he “cared” about her a love because that was all she had known. But once she met Barbra and Bruce, people who actually cared about her she realises the difference. So I don’t know, maybe she does pity him for not being able to love properly.
god, that’s a really depressing yet spot on analysis. hadn’t considered it that way before
Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.
You stare up at them.
They blink.
You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.
I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.
hand slipped so heres a gif
Reblog to respect the Big Night Cat
Respect the night cat and give her wet food :)
you know what I want? a post-apocalypse farm game.
you’re a wanderer who happens upon a farm. it’s overgrown and decayed, looks like it’s been abandoned for some time. but as you investigate you meet the old man who lives there. he’s been living on this farm for years but as his health has decayed he’s been increasingly unable to take care of it. he sees you are interested and asks if you would like to take it over. you, of course, say yes.
the old man gives you the tutorials, shows you around, introduces you to the traveling trader who sometimes comes by. not long after you have settled in he passes away, at peace now that he knows his beloved farm is being looked after.
you do your normal farm game things: clean up the land bit by bit, grow some crops from the last of the old man’s seeds, repair the buildings. you scavenge the land around for old world artifacts that can be broken down for supplies and resources to upgrade your farm. the trader comes by, and as you trade with him more and more, he spreads word and other traders come too, offering greater variety.
other people come too, slowly, attracted by news of your farm or just passing by. they bring valuable skills, but they have requirements to meet if you want them to stay. slowly the nearby town, long since deserted, fills up again. you help the new residents clean it up, repair the abandoned homes, plant flowers along the cracked old streets.
there’s no fighting, no violence save maybe a bit of subsistence hunting. just a quiet game about life and community regrowing from the ashes.
I’m really fascinated/haunted by this notion that a rural town could pop out of existence and it would probably take weeks for anyone to notice, and in the end the first people to show up might be from a utility coming to shut off power for unpaid bills. Do you think society at large would recognize that everyone from a town of 100 people vanished, or would a network of individuals with no other connections simply think that their one friend or relation wasn’t returning calls? Would motorists passing through Kettleman City on the 5 notice that it wasn’t there? Or would they assume that they missed the signs for the exit and ride right through to Coalinga? Could a big town disappear? How long would it take for people to notice Fresno was missing? Bakersfield? If all flights into Las Vegas got cancelled, if the highway exits disappeared, would people assume it never existed? Would it fade from public memory? Would people choose to forget it? Would people silently accept that their friends and loved ones who lived there were never coming home?
Blood Contract by kevin hou
How to Write Deaf Characters - From a real Deaf person’s perspective
Hello readers and writers alike, I would like to point out something that has been so glaringly annoying to me and other Deaf/HoH people so that we can end all these misconceptions. People who write for Deaf!Readers should know a few things before starting their imagines, fanfictions, blurbs - anything. It is not anyone’s fault for not knowing these things, most hearing people are not aware of the Deaf community or Deaf culture so here I am, a Deaf person who is majoring in Deaf Studies and Culture, coming here to tell you a few things to know when writing for a Deaf!Reader
(Remember this is my experience as a Deaf/HoH person and it may differ from person to person but this is what I learned/have slight annoyances within writing)
Deaf and Hard of Hearing is a culture. Yes, most people consider it a disability but IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE ARE ASHAMED OF! Please stop writing fics/imagines about Deaf!Reader being ashamed of not being able to hear or getting hearing aids to impress their SO. It’s completely wrong and just annoying. We are proud of our Deafness and we don’t want to be fixed.
DO NOT USE THE TERM ‘HEARING IMPAIRED’! This is basically a slur word. It was widely used in the ’90s but now it’s considered a derogatory term. Just use Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Or ‘deaf’ if the person is medically deaf and not culturally Deaf. (see next point)
Deaf and ‘deaf’ are different. Deaf is a cultural term for people who are born Deaf and raised in the community. The term ‘deaf’ is used in the medical field or used to describe someone who has hearing loss that does not associate with the Deaf Community. Usually, a hearing person who has become deaf later on.
Sign language is not a worldwide language. There are different types of language within sign language. ASL is for American and Canada. BSL is for Britain. So if you’re writing a story that takes place in a country that is not America or Canada, do not say ASL.
ASL does not = English. Same for every other language. ASL is its own language with grammar rules and semantics. It does not directly translate to English. So if you’re writing ASL most likely write in GLOSS or write it as you would write a hearing character. (Sentance: I want to go to the mall and buy a dress. GLOSS: I WANT WANT GO TO MALL I. ME BUY DRESS ME )
Deafness is on a spectrum. There is a legal threshold that someone must pass to be considered legally Deaf. Some Deaf people can hear more than others. I can hear high pitched noises sometimes. I know someone who can hear voices but can not hear what they are saying. Both of us are Deaf and we both cross that threshold. So when writing your Deaf!Character make sure to set a bar of what they can and can not hear.
Hearing Aids do not cure anyone’s deafness. It only helps hear some sounds and maybe hear if people are talking. Not what they are saying although it can help with that depending on how far they are on the Deaf scale.
Cochlear Implants are very controversial in the Deaf Community so if you’re going to write about them do your research!!! They are also not a cure for Deafness, just an aid.
Deaf people are not masters at lipreading! Even the best lip readers can only make sense of 30% of what is being said. I’ve been lip reading for years and I still only understand a little bit of what is being said. So no, your character is not going to miraculously know what’s going on from lip reading.
DO NOT have your characters yell at your Deaf characters. DOES NOT MATTER HOW LOUD YOU ARE! We can not hear you. Neither can your character. Have your other hearing characters speak normally. That’s the best way to lip read if they must.
Most Deaf people are born from hearing parents. It’s really rare for a whole entire family to be Deaf (Although I’ve met some and it’s super cool). But your character is probably born to hearing parents.
ALSO, the majority of hearing families with Deaf children do NOT learn ASL. It sucks but it’s true. Only about 30-40% of families learn sign for their Deaf family members. So keep it in mind,
So this is my list for now! I may add to it the more I think about things but this is basics I think everyone should know. If I forgot some then feel free to add! (as long as you are knowledgeable about the topic please). If you have questions please message me! Or if you need someone to proofread your Deaf!Imagines then I almost here for that. So happy writings everyone!
ILY
After the invention of mail, millions of pigeons lost their jobs and ended up on the streets.
character concept: two people who have been reincarnated for thousands of years and have always found eachother but instead of being in love they just fucking hate eachother
I am so glad to see this back on my dash with my addition
