#he got the better hand

[dreemurr-skelememer]

My favourite head cannon (that I totally didn’t just make up)

is that dream’s a glass child even though they are not children obviously. nightmare gets all of the attention (in the fandom I guess not so much the actual multi verse) and dream gets over looked due to it. Dream often finds himself wishing he was the one who ate the apple or that he was the one who was treated badly back In dreamtale, he’s somehow jealous of nightmares pain. He knows he shouldn’t which makes it worse, he constantly devaluates his own pain/trauma because “nightmare had it worse” that’s always one of his biggest problems, no matter how much he has been hurt there will always be someone who had it worse. which makes him feel like he’s not allowed to feel how he feels. This along with his “I’m the guardian of positivity I need to be happy at all times” thing, it over all makes him bottle up his emotions. He bland himself for everything that happened to nightmare even though deeps down he knows it wasn’t his fault.

He finally snaps and tells nightmare something in an argument and nightmare just sits there and stares at him in silence, physically not able to speak because dream just said what nightmare has thought his entire life.

“Sometimes I wish I could be you.”

Nightmare doesn’t understand why in the slightest all he can get out is

“why.”

Dream wouldn’t be able to elaborate on it at all they would just sit there and stare at each other for the longest time. Both wondering how to escape this.

“I just…it’s just, it’s my fault. I should’ve known. I should’ve helped you, I didn’t help you when you needed me most and now it’s too late.”

“I-“

“I hate myself nightmare, I hate that I didn’t help you. I could have helped you and I didn’t. It’s my fault your like this. It’s my fault.”

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“Dream..”

this is such a younger brother but also AN EXTREMELY "IM TRAUMATIZED" thing for him to do and say oml......................

oh to be a martyr. oh to want to be the victim.

#Anonymous #besiiiiides it's his thing right? #he should be happy with his situation right?? #he has the world in his hands #he got the better hand #why isnt he happy about it? #dreamtale meta #dream sans meta

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc prompt #man i just really need more dpdc stuff where danny and bruce have a good relationship. like man i NEED it. like i need to see these two #bonding together. and not in a cracky 'oh danny is a distant friend/cousin/etc' stuff but like. active participants in each other's lives #or as active as can be in this case. i neeeeed these two getting along and caring about one another #this idea came to me like last night and hasn't left since nd it was driving me up the wall to think about both positively and negatively b #i neeeded someone to hear about this or i was gonna implode #danny is the first son #tried to just get the general gist of the idea down but i definitely thought of the idea that bruce lowkey suspects vlad for having a hand #Vlad allows Danny to sneak off because he thinks Danny is alone. if he knew Bruce was there he'd be piiisssed and would put a stop to it #Sam and Tucker are alive they just got ghosted for a bit by danny bc he was in Major Grief and didn't wanna socialize. He couldn't go to #them because he didn't wanna put them in danger via Vlad. #oh that thing he handed Bruce? Yeah that's his ghost core. I have a headcanon (that isnt always applied) that ghosts can take their cores #out of their bodies at will and painlessly and without issue. and its common practice actually to do so bc they can be a not insignificant #distance away from said core before problems start to act up. and its common for ghosts to leave their physical cores at their lairs for #safekeeping because as long as the physical core is fine: so is the ghost. they can reform if their body gets destroyed. it also acts as a #fast travel sometimes. where they can reform at their core in an instant. its not inspired in the slightest by SU but i do see the overlap #most cores are pretty small for safety sake: its harder to hit if its small. and they're pr resilient too but its better to be safe than #sorry. so yeah. danny essentially gave bruce the physical embodiment of his soul and indirectly said #'if anything happens to me at least i'll be safe with you' #danny doesn't know he's batman btw #starry rambles. #was gonna go into danny becoming a vigilante beside bruce but im sleeeepy so i'll do that in a reblog. he's gonna go by nightingale if #anyone is interested. stereotypical but to be frank it is a *good* name imo. has a good amount of syllables and consonants to it #and the bird theme. and since its part of an ancestral name it has even more backing for it being bird-y without being meta

[soybean-official]

The parts of you that support me

#mgs2 my favorite game i love you #metal gear solid 2 #mgs2 sons of liberty #mgs2 raiden #rosemary mgs #emma emmerich #Anyways let me elaborate on the piece here in the tags again #I really like the skeletal motif that raiden's rib cage suit and the aicolonel's face turning into a skull have going on #so it's kind of an extension here. It's 'parts of me that support you' that are outlined as the bones. #For raiden his vitals are literally keeping sunny alive. So his rib cage. For the colonel he's constantly feeding raiden bad info to keep- #-the mission afloat. His skull #For emma she created the arsenal gear worm (hands) #And for rose i mean obviously like. shes pregnant in this game. but its got a bigger meaning for the plot and for raiden specifically #since it's part of the reason why he tries to be better. Her connection to him is what keeps him grounded during the whole mission #and together they all form the 'vital' organs #Alternatively i wanted to name this 'malfunctioning machine' but anyone can probably figure out that one if they wanted. Lol #Back to your regularly scheduled tagging program! #beanie art #mgs fanart #metal gear solid fanart #mgs2 fanart #mgs2

[vanilla-extracter]

Jimbert mcgimbert my number one

#i got a himi gouache palette and im trying very hard to like it i might be in denial or i might just not know how to use gouache idk #jimmy mcgill #saul goodman #better call saul #gouache #my art #hes got that shiny ass forehead #dont look at the hand i got lazy

[sysig]

Chewtoy (Patreon)

#Doodles #Handplates #UT #Fellplates #Gaster #Papyrus #Sans #Squeeze him - he makes a squeaky toy noise #Everyone needs to bite Gaster! He doesn't yield like flesh so it probably doesn't even hurt right? Yeahhhh he'll be fiiiine #There is something very funny to me about him just sitting there and taking it tho lol - feeds into his martyr play ♪ #As if I don't already have a favourite martyr hmmm don't worry about it lol #What was he even doing why is he just letting 2-P bite him lol #Socialization? That's not a good thing to just let him do! He's still got a young mind! Boundaries are important #He does offer a way out - hehe ♫ - but he doesn't enforce it! You're setting them up for failure #Hehehehe #The bone gift was fun to doodle hehe ♪ He leaves it with him and it goes completely untouched while his arm is covered in teeth-marks pfft #Even with Papyrus a bit more unruly I still like to imagine he acts mean in largely harmless ways haha #Like yeah he's being naughty and biting when he knows better and offered other options - Gaster. Gentle enforcement - but he's not Hurting #He's not using his entire bite force - probably lol or he's just got weak little baby bites (though those can be quite painful!) #Sans on the other hand would absolutely go 100% full power - and still only do 1HP lol what an unfortunate design quirk for him #If only he had a jaw he could open! He'd bite the heck outta Gaster! Alas #I do like to imagine Fellplates!Sans has just fast-tracked to classic's conclusion of ''You suck and I hate you. Die'' about Gaster lol #Even the possibility of not being mean to him is so alien! What do you /mean/ not hurt you?? Do you know who you're talking to?? #He'll find another way to mess with him in good time haha

[radioactive-earthshine]

NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.

#look i was a weirdo and loved the letters so much #so much #so fucking damn much #i still to this day mourn that we don't have them #sometimes the editors would publish blatant aggressive criticism and promise to do better on some things #it was rare but it did happen in a handful of things involving stereotypes #also there is queer history in them such as in superboy and the ravers where people wrote in about hero #asking WHY he was not interested in women and this editor had to so professionally explain that he was GAY and where they stood on it #you also got to read queer readers writing in about these queer characters and the JOY in their words is priceless #also sorry but geoff's letters are fun and stupid at the same time and are a huge insight to what his hcs were #he LOVED tiny krypto so much it likely inspired him making dex starr bc he loved the idea of a small overly powered animal #not saying that was the main reason why ofc but it is interesting that he created dex after praising that mean little mutt #i say with the most love #my venting #my rambles

[parisoonic]

whisper whisper whisper

#tf2 heavy #tf2 medic #tf2 fanart #tf2 #team fortress 2 #just imagine the rest of the team opposite at the dinner table #medic has stood behind heavy ALL day...what's he got left to say to him #thank you for all the nice well wishes re: my hand! it's much better now...i can draw...slowly...

[hydrachea]

Genshin fans: So the archons are going to be only 2 men to 5 women? That's kind of uneven...

Mihoyo: Sorry, it is what it is.

Mihoyo in 4.2, giving Neuvillette his authority over Hydro back and straight-up destroying the very concept of the Hydro archon: SIKE.

#genshin #genshin spoilers #genshin impact #genshin impact spoilers #neuvillette #THEY GOT US GOOD I'LL SAY #i'm pretty happy about it #3 to 4 is much better than 2 to 5 #and furina is a honorary archon gameplay and probably marketing wise? #we'll have to see who gets a second story quest and who gets in on the archon marathons #but while the other archons have lines about furina #the one of the two who has lines about THEM is neuvillette #once again we've got a fun situation on our hands #and i enjoy it #ray's records #this is a silly post #and if anyone else stays going on about how neuvillette isn't the archon (he isn't) and how it's furina (it isn't) #i'll slow roast their pinky and make them eat it #neuvillette is the 'ruler' of fontaine in the form of a dragon sovereign #furina is the 'archon' as far as gameplay and regional mascots are concerned but not lore wise anymore #you can deduce that a post like this isn't meant to be taken as a serious analysis of the archon quest by yourself. i believe in you.

[zombie-bait]

This is exactly the man I picture when I think of the phrase "old man yaoi"

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv season 2 #ben daniels #santiago iwtv #old man yaoi #the goths in the bg too #i respect the hustle #he's gonna be so awful #it's gonna be amazing #honestly the whole series is old man yaoi #we've got some ancient men on our hands #or well #imagine i phrased that slightly better

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Story Idea:

22 year old Gotham University student Danny finds a Damien clone whose near death and saves his life, offering to let the kid stay with him in his crappy apartment. The clone accepts, thinking Danny seems like a tolerable chump to bide his time with as he builds his strength for another fight with his progenitor for his rightful place as heir to Batman. Danny absolutely 100% knows the kid’s a clone and that taps right into his childhood trauma, making him want to protect him all the more. (Up to you if Dani is alive but in my version she’s not). Over time, Clone!Damien becomes begrudgingly fond of his new caretaker, especially after Danny starts taking him on Doctor Who style adventures through time/space and the tamer parts of the GZ (there are none) as part of his efforts to build up the kid’s confidence (outside his overcompensating ego) and help him learn to grow into his own person.

Bonus!

Danny and Clone!Damien are the downstairs neighbors to none other than Jason Peters (aka Jason Todd). They both clock him as Red Hood pretty quickly, but it takes much longer for them to connect him to the Waynes, so he’s kinda just their marginally more normal neighbor who happens to be a crime lord and who, for some reason, tends to check up on them a lot. (Originally this was because RH thought Danny might be an upcoming villain, then because he didn’t understand how Danny was alive, and then Clone!Damien moved in and he started checking to make sure that he didn’t murder Danny in his sleep). Luckily, Jason is a fantastic cook, so they are both grateful (to varying degrees) for his nosiness. (Is this a Dead on Main situation, are they just good friends? Who’s to say? You. Or me. But probably you.)

#danny phantom #dp x dc #damien wayne #jason todd #dc x dp #dead on main #dani phantom #potentially #Damien’s clone who has yet to pick a name #throughout this Danny dresses suspiciously like a supervillain #he’s got the wild hair goggles a sleeveless lab coat big ol’ boots too big for his feet #he makes a modest income off a handful of patents and is attending the university under scholarship #(it’s the Wayne secret anti villain scholarship that they use to monitor possible enemies/allies and help them before they go dark) #Jason has no idea how Danny managed to buy the apartment below his considering that he owns the whole thing and wasn’t looking for renters #he just appeared one day with moving boxes and all the proper paperwork #apparently he exploited some old as balls property laws to get his hands on the place #which is honestly sad #Jason has much better apartment buildings he could have gone for #the plants are a nice touch though #really liven up the place #almost cover up that lingering stench of death

[miusato]

Whatever happened to "I ain't holding back anymore?" Huh???

#no like omg imagine after saying thay he still hesitate to do pda when they go out hskskskskqsjskq #hold his hand in public and suddenly he just foams in mouth #btw 4/10 never happened that's just a western propaganda to confuse the shinjiham allies #i am so ill actually i listens to shinjiro's sl romance every night before I go to sleep I think at this point i memorized the line #anyway aaa I want to draw more cartoony shinjiham but i am sooo busy ueueu im able to draw this because my assestment got postponed today #yall better pray i graduate fast so i can just unleash my true power and draw the normal no murder but angsty au of shinjiham i wanted #asukart #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #persona 3 portable #shinjiro aragaki #kotone shiomi #minako arisato #shinjiham #foolmoon #persona 3 femc

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Bruce is Jason’s biological father.

He finds out about it during the autopsy after Ethiopia.

#Bruce becomes mega unhinged for a while after that #he actively tries to follow Jason #poor Tim’s got his hands full keeping the maniac alive #Jason comes back but is found rather quickly by Bruce/tim/Dick #by virtue of being buried in the family crypt or something maybe #Jason is pretty out of it for a while but gets better eventually #Bruce obsessively checks Jason’s pulse at least once every hour #Jason is mildly confused #but he also kinda enjoys the attention and cuddles and over all affection from everyone #prompts #short one #family feels #jason todd #jason todd wayne #batfamily #Bruce Wayne #batfam #dick grayson #robin #fic #tim drake #Batman #alternate universe #resurrection gone right #batdad #Jason and Bruce

[pkaykim]

Oofurixmas2022 for @meela-31

#oofuri #oofurixmas2022 #IVE REPOSTED THIS SO MANY TIMES IM SORRY #meela-31 #ren mihashi #abemiha #abe takaya #I hope u like it.. 😵😵😵😵 #anyway… chill air… being 1 on 1 together outside of school… always so strange and intimate #abe is saying like hey youre blocking the walkway.. or smth… hes so cheeky #im imagining a fic in my mind #like. do you guys get me. mihashi is sitting on the stoop while abe is checking out and hes eating his sandwich #its probably a stupid late time and its quiet and empty and his hands and face are chilly and #and hes about to take a bite and then the door opens and he feels a bag get dropped on his head and its like… a point of contact and its #silly and mundane but its affection idk. ans then abe tells him to move. ugh. love is love #ITS LIKE A SMALL THING THATS LIKE… WE’RE FRIENDS.. you like me.. and it feels goos #THATS ALL #anyway thats why i chose this ver over the one w tajima it got that feeling better. anyway

[foursaints]

barty's inscrutability is so funny just because its like. he's winning the repression olympics without even realizing by wrapping his true self away in endless untraversable turns like a conch shell. having a situationship with him is like volunteering to lock yourself in the torture labyrinth bro you are never making it out of there!! you will spend years trying to unravel his feelings and get absolutely nowhere but still constantly feel like you’re on the verge of getting there!!! (reg lived this #survivor)

but just imagine finally meeting the ONE (1) person who has ever managed to lock barty down. and it’s this tiny utterly demented blonde who dresses in lumpy estate sale cardigans and always smells a little bit like formaldehyde and mothballs and the inside of a hearse. he has the thousand-yard-stare and pop culture references of a feral child raised by coyotes because he didn’t have a single interaction with someone his own age (besides his equally strange sister) until he was like 17. he’ll cut you with zero hesitation 🔪. he's the most autistic person youve ever met in your entire life and whenever Notoriously Unattainable™️ Barty Crouch looks at him he’s like please evan let me lay down to be the ground under your feet so you never have to touch the earth again only me forever PLEASE

#for the record i think evan conceals his crush better but he is just as obsessed ok. #he has one of those like hand-sewn victorian surgeon's dolls with the removable organs he got at a flea market. #but he keeps it on his desk and silently pets its hair and pretends it's barty. #pandora walks in on him once and he’s like WHAT. YOU SAW NOTHING. NO YOURE WEIRD!!!!!!!! #t #yeah. #rose & thorn #evan meta tag

[elthadriel]

Stone would really appreciate it if Fox and Thorn stopped napping on his couch considering both of them ignored his message asking for help getting it up to his office.

#star wars #the clone wars #my art #commander Fox #Commander Thorn #FoxThorn #Fox/Thorn #cloneshipping #This was supposed to just be me leaning how the mesh tool worked #and it got a little out of hand #also Stone has better taste than this #but the other commanders insist on hanging out in there #despite his protests #so he's passiveagressively adding more and more clashing decoration #to make them look at it

[iloveacronix]

Boutta go sleep cuz my brain be lacking neurons rn but guys PLEASE hear me out

Supportive brothers for life. Also taggin the historyshipping queen @kyokittymeow

#Like hello? Hot evil bad guy falling in love with the main character's badass mom?? Count me the hell in #That one fanfic got me obsessing over them 4 like the past 9 months im gonna go do 39 backflips bye i need more of them #LISTEN THEY'RE BOTH HISTORY NERDS #You can't tell me Krux didn't feel a tiny bit of admiration for her #Oughh they're so cute #Nah cuz I had a random dream of them fighting in the museum after she finds out he is... well #Krux but all he does is flirt while they fight #Hell at first I was up to just lovey dovey Historyshipping BUT THEM FLIRT FIGHTING?? OH HOOOOOO HOT SHIT HOT SHIT #EVEN BETTER KNOWING THAT HE'S A VILLAIN WOOO #Ahhh i love being a multishipper #Garmasako and wusako (and maybe fungus w Misako)got me levitating too yall just let me enjoy this #lego ninjago #ninjago #art #lego ninjago fanart #my artwork #help me please #Ninjago krux #Krux and acronix #Krux ninjago #Krux #Acronix #Ninjago acronix #Acronix ninjago #Ninjago hands of time #Ninjago season 7 #Hands of time #Ninjago time twins #Misako #ninjago misako