#Beyond the wards

[loveoversense]

I'm no gif maker but I didn't see any other images of this yet so I had to attempt it myself because I need others' input on this-

Is Adrian doing a little wiggle/dance? Walking up to these bouncers? Pls it looks so cute like an excited little kid I need a better view of this to confirm whether I'm imagining things 😭

#vampire academy #vatv spoilers #vatv 1x07 #adrian ivashkov #vatv #Vatv show #dimitri belikov #rose hathaway #lissa dragomir #Beyond the wards #your honor i love him #vagif #vaedit

[thewizardthewitchandthewildone]

listening to worlds beyond number aka taylor moore appreciation post

#sometimes the meme finds you #worlds beyond number #wbn #the wizard the witch and the wild one #and the wbard #ward? #the womposer?? #the wound designer??? #wwwo

[akiacia]

comprising the range of emotions that week

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #miranda eckert #maggie's cuddly so i get to draw cuddling as a treat #also i think liz would terrify baxter #i've other things to draw and no excuse beyond how much fun i'm having LMAO #but pls don't look too hard at the space filler ribbon

[dailydccomics]

Batman Beyond by Christian Ward

#terry mcginnis #batman #dc comics #christian ward #batman beyond #neo year #dc #cover art #variant cover #comics

[artverso]

Christian Ward - Batman Beyond

#christian ward #batman beyond

[thebonejunky]

Shauna has killed and eaten Jackie so many times. She puts Jackie's necklace on the girls they sacrifice. Jackie loved rabbits and Shauna kills and eats rabbits repeatedly in her adult life. She has wanted Jackie forever and will never stop wanting. Jackie has consumed Shauna's whole entire existence- she has created a family and a home reflective of Jackie, keeps her clothes and the journals describing her locked away in a closet just for herself to indulge in- and so Shauna will never stop consuming her spirit back. Shauna butchers the girls because she wants to take apart Jackie. Shauna sleeps with Jeff because she wants to sleep with Jackie. Rabbit is to the body of Jackie the way bread is to the body of Christ. Jackie's corpse was gone in one night, but Shauna has never stopped eating her.

#all my favorite girl/girl ships are toxic and involve cannibalism in some compacity😭 #gets sent to the psych ward because of jackieshauna and griddlehark #theres other religious symbolism but i didn't want to make this post all about that so ill probs do a seperate one on that #the symbolism and metaphors and foreshadowing in this show is truly beyond anything else ive ever watched #jackieshauna #shackie #yellowjackets #shauna shipman #jackie taylor

[shakertwelve]

It was hard to convince myself to breathe, to move.  The thought that broke the paralysis, fleeting as it was, was that I’d seen and been frustrated with civilians in the midst of the Endbringer attack and the broken trigger.  It’d be hypocritical to cast aside all self preservation now.

THE ONLY THING KEEPING VICTORIA GOING: HER UNENDING CONTEMPT FOR CIVILIANS

#ward lb #BEYOND PARODY

[extraordinary-heroes]

Batman Beyond: Neo Gothic #3 (Cover art by Christian Ward)

#batman beyond #christian ward #talon #the court of owls #dc comics #textless cover art #superheroes #artwork #illustration

[locallyloathed]

Ted from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and John Ward from Faith: the Unholy Trinity both seem to scratch the same little itch in the back of my head. Excited to get weird about it.

#they’re like. blorbos in law. how do I put it. #pathetic man coping with manmade horrors beyond his comprehension is a healthy type to have right #ihnmaims #i have no mouth and i must scream #ftut #faith the unholy trinity #ted ihnmaims #john ward

[cringelock]

i think talking about “cope” within a tjlc context is hilarious at this point. i’m not on copium baby i’m on something worse! we moved beyond notions of cope approximately 4 years ago. blog theory and EMP have burned out like great stars and all that’s left is the hardest stringiest life forms. what anyone still riding this train has going on is much more complicated and personal than cope. i invented cope. after what i’ve seen there’s nothing cope could do for me. i stare into the eye of the storm with breathtaking awareness. i welcome entropy. “what else could they possibly mean by this?” is our equivalent of “what is the sound of one hand clapping?” almost a meditation on the nature of our state. there is no answer to this question, in fact the very lack of an answer is the point. cope is for those who still can shield their eyes, but we have been burdened with sight! i took an edible approximately three hours ago

#caveats: #im still pro blog theory i just mean that the fever pitch of theory making to ~fix~ s4 is past us #also you should read this like i’m a campus preacher screaming at you about fornication #it’s not a serious post #but in a way it’s also deeply serious #i do feel ‘beyond’ what we typically understand to be like fandom delusion and cope in the aftermath of shit not going how they wanted #like clearly we’ve surpassed that now this isn’t renewasacrew this is the psych ward #im levitating off the ground like henry sugar from my years of diligent study of johnlock esoterica #there are like 10 ppl on this app who are even able to get what i’m talking about sometimes #god i’m high

[hakusins]

twins are finally here !!!! and wow omg, i have so many questions about bailey and youth ward....

#degrees of lewdity #like !??!?! why is there a youth ward #why is bailey going above and beyond to make sure the youth ward is protected #like is it really to protect the kids #is it because quinn told him to do so?? #HBERFBEJHRF IDK ITS JUST #I RLLY WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ORPHANAGE LORE #me visibly vibrating whenever bailey's name shows up in an scene #HJBRFBJHERFJ #but my twins are here and im so happy 🥺🥺🥺

[loveoversense]

So I'm reliving my middle school obsession with Vampire Academy with the show and am, honestly, loving it. The more diverse cast? All the queer shit? Absolutely up my alley! More thoughts under the cut because spoilers for both the books and the series so far~ (beware! really long rambly post filled with some oversharing on my part coming up! But if you want to dump your erratic thoughts on the show somewhere, my messages are available! Would love to talk about it and share thoughts with someone lol)

Okay, so mainly gonna be going off about episode 7, might come back later for thoughts on the earlier eps and some are sprinkled throughout this post as well. I saw a post somewhere before about how someone couldn't see how the Victor we'd been introduced to in the first 6 eps could be the one to pull a Natalie so to say and do that to one of his own daughters. And I don't think they necessarily will pull out Natalie, or even if they do, they have now set it up perfectly. Victor will be going through the trials, ostensibly, and now, he's lost so much in pursuit of being King, he's lost his daughter, perhaps his husband too, depending on how this all unfolds. If he feels he will lose his shot at being King, after having lost everything else, I could see it make perfect sense that he gets desperate enough to put Lissa through what happens in the books in order to get her to heal him so he can become King. After all, giving up this? After losing everything else dear to him? Victor is convinced of his cause, and passionate and determined as we've seen so far. He totally would.

Typing this and immediately also felt like adding a disclaimer that I think it is a slightly off colour allegory to real world politics to have the whole 'yes elementalist aka rightwinger extremism is bad BUT ALSO LEFTISTS/UNIONISTS (is that what the queen called them?) CAN BE OVERZEALOUS AND BAD YEAH?' trope like i' m kinda annoyed by the forced centrism we see in media every time they touch on a political issue anywhere, especially because like, Victor/the unionists' 'radical' philosophy is that maybe don't send actual children out to die? And also maybe people shouldn't made to breed like animals against their will? And, and here's the wild part, maybe minorities - I mean dhampirs- are people too who have rights and we've been treating them badly? Right like what part of that philosophy/the current political climate suggests that there are actual people in power who stand for minority rights who are like, torturing people to get the point across? What situation in our society makes you believe that that is somehow a warning of equal footing with the actual, physical, tangible threat from right wing governments-I mean elementalists- that POC, disabled, queer and otherwise disenfranchised communities - I mean dhampirs- experience daily?

Okay I realise I just went on a tangent, but I promise I do really enjoy the show! I just have... Notes.

Adrian! What a guy, loved seeing him pop-up this early. Immaculate vibes. I never got round to reading Bloodlines so I only know the generic lines, but I love how it's a more subtle drunkenness that's being played. Like he's woozy and off kilter but he's not stumbling into every corner. Which kinda fits? Adrian is self-medicating, has been doing so for a while, it's a skill he developed. Drunk enough to take the edge off, not too far gone in moments he needs some clarity, especially on a mission this important. Also, this man's facial expressions are A+. I live expressive faces, I have have it too. Can't way to see him rile up Dimitri as he continues flirting with Rose.

And then, the OTP that got me into fanfiction. No really. I discovered fanfic through Vampire Academy on fanfiction.net (my first ever fic that I wrote was indeed my own rendition of Last Sacrifice when the book hadn't come out yet and true to form, I never finished it and it is terrible, which, it was written by a 13-year-old, so fair enough) , and through there I got to Tumblr, and here we are more than 10 years later. Time really flies.

I also just remembered, and omg what a wild ride this post is turning out to be, that it was a VA fanfic that made me first realise I wasn't straight. I didn't have the correct terminology yet, but it must have been at 14 or so that I read a fic that wasn't centered on Rose and Dimitri, but Rose and Lissa. And I distinctly remember lying in bed, reading this fic, and just going "Oh. I am not straight." mind you this was during puberty which is hard enough as is and I didn't exactly have great queer rep in my life, I believe this was even before we had Glee to watch, so I wasn't as thrilled with this revelation at the time, but none the less, it happened. And the good news, these days I'm absolutely thrilled to be a raging bisexual. Which actually makes for a lovely little bridge back to the actual subject at hand!

The absolutely gorgeous couple that is Rose and Dimitri. All the props to Sisi Stringer and Kieron Moore for their excellent faces and the acting they do with them! You're both very hot and I hope you know it and also you do the acting good! Love the chemistry, the playfulness they gave the couple, the tenderness they introduced and the way they set up the dynamic. Live how they out to words why Dimitri clings to a system that is actually really fucked up. He's coping, in the only way he knows how. He doesn't trust himself, and this system has such clear rules that no matter how fucked up those rules are, he knows where every line is, and thus he can stay far far away from them and beevr even risk crossing them. Until of course he meets Rose, and suddenly he wants something more than not to cross the line, he sees that crossing those lines might actually give him good things as well. Ugh.

Also saw another post, not that I don't love when my fave characters are happy but also, as any storyteller, I like it better when they suffer. They can be happy later! For now gimme all the juicy drama~ makes the tender apologies and getting back together all the more sweet afterwards.

Also Daniela, love your take on Lissa, just trying to do the best she can for her friend whom she lives more than anyone, so she's pushing her away because she thinks that's the only way to protect her. Ouch. Calling me out there but so beautifully portrayed.

Also am I just terminally pessimistic or was there anyone else that saw the kid with the football and went "Ahh look! Cannon fodder!" (is this a generally known term? I use it to refer to characters, purely created to be killed of at a certain point. Probably not an official literary term, but I've always lived it for its evocative ability).

Also just a lot of love for the political intrigue. Setting this up as a major plot line from the start was smart I believe. I am curious to see whether the idea for the storylines will be that we get the first trials and Tatiana wins, and then she follows her fate in the books, and we get a new round in what would be like 3 or so seasons where Lissa competes in the trials, or if they plan to enter the Lissa/lost dragomir storyline this early on. I don't think so honestly.

Also im betting that season 1 ends with Rose and Lissa making their grand escape which, with Rose and Dimitri being ~entangled~ already would make that reunion even juicier. I really hope they get at least a few seasons to tell this story, I think some really cool things could be done with it!

Also! They curse! Lots! I love it!

#vampire academy #1x07 #Beyond the wards #Romitri #my thoughts #I ramble I'm sorry #peacock #rose hathaway #dimitri belikov #lissa dragomir #adrian ivashkov

[smashpages]

This is a variant cover for Batman Beyond: Neo Gothic #1 (DC, July 2023) by Christian Ward.

#christian ward #dc comics #batman beyond: neo gothic #batman beyond #dc #comics #variant covers #comic covers #terry mcginnis #catboi

[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Batman Beyond: Neo-Year #1 (2022) variant by Christian Ward

#Batman #Batman Beyond #christian ward

[artverso]

Christian Ward - Batman Beyond

#christian ward #batman beyond

[robloart]

One day in the future I'm gonna turn on evilive for my kids and I'm gonna look over and say "this is how I met ur mother" and shin hakyun is gonna walk in with a plate of cookies and a frilly pink apron announcing that dinner is ready

#the patient has escaped the ward #evilive #shin hakyun #shin ha kyun #kdrama #beyond evil #jtbc beyond evil