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are you ever on your phone looking at gay shit and then your parent starts coming towards you, so you keep scrolling down to try and get the gay shit off of your feed and then realise there is no escape and you’re actually scrolling through a bottomless pit of gay shit?

“This is the house that built me and I’m gonna burn it down.”

Courtney Love Prays to Oregon, Clementine von Radics

-A love song to Anakin Skywalkers flaws-

Did you know that humans are 99% empty space? He was not. The universe filled him up until he could hold no more and then told him to let it out until planets crumbled to his rule and people fell to their knees begging for mercy. His mother taught him to be kind and look down when they speak to you and never ever talk back. Don’t say no and you might survive, and if they want you to leave do so, but never keep yourself in the dark.

Find a way to leave if you can, if you can’t find a way to make sure you’re irreplaceable to those who feed you and clothe you. Ensure your worth and always keep the profit up. His momma had pearlescent eyes and his dad didn’t exist. His presence set alarms off to anyone who would dare listen to the warnings. Such a pity none did. He rescued thousands in his spare time, ensuring none would need to do what he did in order to survive. He dreamt of planets dying and stars going supernova until the images were imprinted onto the backs of his eyelids and his eyes glowed with their dying vicious light.

Blot the blood from his wounds and mould himself to their expectations, just to keep living. His precious hope of freedom, a flighty thing that came and went with the stiff emotions of those around him. Sickly children screamed in the edges of his vision and when he turned to help they were gone. Blundering his way through life he sought help until the one he trusted most was a woman with the makings of a queen, stuck in the body of a child. Bonds forged by steel and grit-- never meant to break, but all good things must come to an end. So when the monster came, he broke and she fell with him. Never his intention but always doomed to happen.

|How do you keep someone from falling when the ground was never stable to begin with? The trick is that you don’t. You fall with them, and then at least you won’t worry for their survival. You’ll either know, or you’ll be dead.|

His thoughts were an unsung melody of heartbreak and survival. He ran faster and faster away from the grasping, reaching hands of the darkness and still couldn’t run fast enough. Why does the universe punish those who wish to help, it is a fickle being, forcing those with too-big hearts and too-soft souls to love and love and love and love until they could help no more and then drown them in its terrifyingly harsh waters. Cold water and higher tides make not a good world to live in, but the world never claimed to be good or kind. Only eternally damning. Songs of the dead hummed in his ears until he was deaf and the sun blinded him until the only faults he could see weren't his own, only others.

The monsters that lurked in the dark saw this, and cried out in glee. This is what they wanted, why wouldn’t they? He could bring trillions to their knees with only a snap of his fingers, and there was no greater prize to them than this.

Females?? From me?? Crazy...

I gotta make- like- a shopping list of characters, I've got Cass and Dami on the list, Jon Kon and a few others too- I wanna go draw snuggles now- (tomorrow tho- it's like 10)

dick: so you think joker will be invited to harley and ivy’s wedding?

bruce: he’ll be there. in spirit if nothing else.

harley 24 hrs ago: so we’re gonna have a clown pinata, one for the adults an’ one for the kiddies, so EVERYONE gets a chance ta beat the shit outta a clown

bruce sipping a margarita while he flicks through a bridal magazine: nice

The only reason I can't imagine the whole Ani/Obi/Satine/Padmé foursome is because that Anakin and Satine have to share Obi-Wan. Just... that's a disaster waiting to happen. Poor Padmé, having to listen to everyone complain. God, imagine date night? Do they have a schedule???

I AGREE. It might end up with everything In Perfect Balance where they all live happily ever after, but it also could easily just end up being a total disaster. 

While I’m at it, I’ll get up on my soapbox, because I really feel like as a fandom people give Padme way too much credit for “being the sane one”. She’s married to Anakin, you guys. ANYONE is going to look like the sane one by comparison. It’s why Obi-Wan seems Staid and Calm and Rule-Abiding despite the fact that he’s constantly jumping out of windows and chopping off people’s limbs. 

Padme is just as extra as the rest of them. She’s always tearing down hallways firing a gun while wearing a prom dress and a tiara, or marrying a dude she’s known for 45 minutes, 20 of which included him committing mass murder and then yell-crying about it. I love her, a lot, but let’s be real here, people: Padme is probably not going to crank down the drama here. So in this scenario, not only will Satine and Anakin be possibly trying to kill each other for Obi-Wan’s affections, I feel like Padme’s going to either A) put on something scandalous in an attempt to lure Anakin back over by her, because she is NOT gonna lose to Obi-Wan, or B) throw herself at Obi-Wan in an attempt to make Anakin jealous (of her? Him? Who cares; both works!)and/or snare Obi-Wan for herself.😄

Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.  Anakin was a good friend. When I first met him, your father was already a great pilot. But I was amazed how strongly the Force was with him. I took it upon myself to train him as a Jedi.  […]  Bury your feelings deep down, Luke. They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the Emperor. I will always defend Obi-Wan’s motivations in this scene, given what we know of the prequels, why he made the choices he did and how it’s not lying just for the sake of manipulation. He’s faced with this good-natured kid (this blond, blue-eyed child from the deserts of Tatooine) who wants to do good in the galaxy, who has such a strong connection to the Force, who is an amazing pilot, who has all these desperately strong feelings and an overwhelming need to find a greater path in life. Who is going to face a Sith Lord who is a master of manipulation, who takes that desire for an authority/father figure and preys on it, who will twist this good-hearted kid into serving his own will, no matter how well intentioned this kid is.  No matter how sure of himself he is, the Emperor, knows how he can fool him and find a way to slither into his heart, to put him in an impossible situation where he has to serve the Emperor because he wants to save someone. Obi-Wan isn’t omitting the truth to Luke just because it’s easier, but because he’s seen what Palpatine did to Anakin.  Sweet, good-natured Anakin, this blond haired, blue-eyed child from the deserts of Tatooine who wanted to do so much good in the galaxy, who so badly wanted to help people, who wanted to save people, who had this tremendous well of feelings roiling around in him, who was manipulated and preyed upon by Palpatine. Palpatine used Anakin’s feelings against him, to destroy that good in him until nothing was left.  Used his desire for a kindly authority figure who validated everything he spent his whole life wanting to hear.  Of course he would do the exact same thing to Luke, and telling Luke about Vader (who has fallen so far that he cannot be trusted with Luke, who they fear would only turn him over to the Emperor, because Vader seemed to wholly, truly believe in the Emperor) would only send Luke running to them to be manipulated, to be told everything he’s spent his life wanting to hear, to have a kindly father/father figure put him in another impossible position. Obi-Wan can’t do that again, not after it destroyed that person he loved so much, not after it killed all the good in Anakin Skywalker.

We need to bring back the athletics body type post

how would you think percy would figure out his more ocean qualities that you mentioned in your hcs? love your ideas!

thank you!!! i have a few ideas

they figure out percy’s ludicrously high tolerance of mortal drugs because the week before he graduates high school (timing has never been percy’s friend) he’s in a nasty car accident, gets t-boned by someone going an absolutely stupid speed. nothing any of the doctors administer does anything, and percy’s got the concussion from hell and is so confused and disoriented he’s trying to fight everyone around him, which doesn’t go well for him considering he’s got no ability to balance or coordinate his movements. and he’s bleeding a not insignificant amount. they’re lucky it’s NYC and every single demigod and legacy in NYC knows percy jackson’s name and face, because whenever they meet a demigod from new jersey they just HAVE to go, “percy jackson saved the world all those times and he’s NEW YORK CITY BORN AND RAISED YOU DUMB JERSEY FUCKS, EAT SHIT” so there’s a daughter of apollo on staff. she pulls a chaotic demigod moment and sneaks percy out of the hospital with a mortal friend of hers who happens to know her lineage, and the two of them break every traffic law known to man trying to keep this teenager from bleeding out in the backseat before they can get him to Miss Conveniently Placed Daughter Of Apollo’s hidden stash of ambrosia and nectar in her apartment. percy’s taken like, tylenol, before and it hasn’t worked, but no one really thought much of it because it’s not like you’re gonna keel over if tylenol doesn’t do anything to you, but this whole fun scenario just kind of hits home that if he’s ever seriously, seriously sick, he’s just fucked, because i don’t think nectar/ambrosia goes hard enough to fix major illnesses/diseases (you’d have to take enough to burn you alive, and over a long period of time, and that’s just not working) and mortal medicine Ain’t Helpin. gotta love it when your stupid godblood says you have no rights

the smaller things sally has all figured out, in the way that moms just kind of know things, and because she’s spent more time with poseidon than percy has. she knows that when she and percy have Mom And Boy night and they go out to dinner and percy asks for sliced lemons, the way he always does, and then unscrews the cap of a salt shaker and dumps a ton of salt on a plate, and then dips his lemon in the salt and licks it off like this is normal, that’s kind of a sea boy thing. the lemon portion is all percy being weird but poseidon definitely had a notable thing for salt. there’s a ton of quirks like that, quirks that sally recognizes from poseidon, and percy doesn’t know anything about them until after his first year at CHB when he screws up the courage to ask what poseidon was like - and sally’s spent so many years thinking of poseidon solely in his connection to percy, that when she does tell percy it’s entirely framed in things that percy does. windy days make percy frazzled the way that the wind makes the ocean choppy, thunderstorms put him somewhere between nervous and pissed off at everything in existence. she can put together the basic stuff.

in canon percy hangs out with poseidon sometimes, and i think he learns a lot there, because poseidon’s got this moody sea god shit on lockdown. poseidon’s spent a stupid amount of time being a sea god, he knows the ins, the outs, the ifs, the buts - of which there are about fifty thousand, because, uh, the ocean is a complicated natural process and so are seismic processes and BEING TIED TO BOTH WOULD SUCK - but i think percy ends up stumbling into it. it’s not like he knows to ask “why do i have more energy in the winter than i do the summer” even though poseidon has the answer of “submesoscale currents are stronger in the winter because the surface of the ocean is cooler and the winds are stronger, and the transition of nutrients from the depths of the ocean to the surface flows more easily.” so poseidon’s there to be like oh yes! i sensed your first earthquake, i was very excited! and percy’s like uh..... didn’t that wake up typhon? the one earthquake i did? and poseidon’s like oh no. you were six months old, and you got very excited playing - what is it - peekaboo? with your mother. and that’s how percy learns he’s actually just been rockin earthquakes this entire time

i know this is never a thing in canon but Fuck It - san francisco is literal hell for percy and it has nothing to do with monsters or camp jupiter, it’s the migraines. the fucking migraines. the longer he stays in san francisco the worse they get, and in SoN i think he’d chalk them up to having no memories, but then whenever he returns after the war and stays more than a day it’s like his brain is trying to murder him with a pickaxe. the san francisco bay area has seven major faults, and that’s a lot of seismic pressure to have your dumb earthshaker brain contending with. i think there’s an ill-fated spring break where percy and annabeth visit everyone at camp jupiter, to organize Inter-Camp Fun Times or whatever, and percy’s okayish the first day, and the second and third day he just kind of powers through it like a champ, and then it gets to the point where he can’t even sleep and he’s just kind of a miserable lump beneath a blanket begging for the sweet release of death. it was a time of weirdly high seismic activity, compared to when he was first there, and it just kinda leveled him, the poor guy. i think annabeth puts this one together because they end up going home early and the second percy’s away from San Fran The Nightmare Land he’s just instantly better. because it’s annabeth she presents this information to percy in powerpoint format.

i think after some well-deserved time off post graduating high school, during which percy just kind of putters around working at a stable in ithaca while annabeth kicks her own ass at cornell and they share an apartment, percy does end up going back to school. after a while. academia isn’t the motivator for percy that it is for annabeth, and when percy’s grappling with and desperately trying to shove down two wars’ worth of trauma on top of an abusive childhood, it’s just hell on earth. he deserves his break first. and it’s true that percy’s not invested in academics and it’s actually really hard for him, but he is invested in the greater good, and in order for percy to defend the marine life he’s made friends with over the years the way he wants to, he has to know what he’s talking about. it’s kind of a fact that he’s resigned to, when he settles on conservation as a career choice - in his head he’s doing it for the great white he met while helping a satyr get a demigod back from florida, or the pod of orcas that regularly stops by camp half-blood to visit. and his gen ed classes do suck. but when it comes to learning Ocean Science TM, it’s weird, because those aren’t actually that hard - it’s like he knows everything they’re talking about already, he just needed to be reminded of it. he knows about submesoscale currents because it’s as much a part of him as his own physical body. so i think oceanography and marine biology become the main way percy figures out all those weird percy quirks, and it’s possibly one of the weirdest journeys of self-discovery a demigod has ever had, because it’s [ocean does something weird] “OH I DO VIBE” and it’s a fun time. imagine getting answers about yourself and how you work when you didn’t even know what questions to ask. it might have taken percy 20 minutes to decipher this paragraph in his oceanography textbook through his dyslexia but he does it and the second he does he’s so emotionally validated

percy’s powers relating to seismic activity, though, just kind of continue to be an incredible, impenetrable nuisance. you’d think being on a fault line would make him feel powerful, considering the fault line is his bitch and all. instead he feels like he is dying, because seismic activity is about stress, the buildup of stress, and the release of it. it’s like great news! every fault line everywhere is your bitch, you own those! but they’re going to scream in your ear for all of existence about it!

percy visits poseidon once and mentions going to san fran and poseidon looks so aghast

poseidon doesn’t go to san fran because if he did he would end up just going “fuck this stupid place” and would proceed to induce an earthquake that would reduce san fran to a weepy plot of rubble. all of the olympians think poseidon is ~so moody~ and it’s like YOU TRY having YOUR ENTIRE BEING MADE UP OF THE MOST TEMPERAMENTAL NATURAL PROCESSES. YOU TRY IT, YOU FUCKS. YOU TRY!!!!

Green Lantern: Legacy (2020) by Minh Le

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