#in case that wasnt clear

[haveihitanerve]

i apologize in advance.

Dick stared at the suit. The suit stared back. But no eyes filled the white holes. No straight lipped smile greeted him. The suit was empty. Its ears seemed wilted, though Dick knew that was just his imagination. He swallowed. “Y'know, it wont magically wrap itself around you.” Drawled a voice. “You have to actually put it on.” Dick turned to face his younger brother, Jason. But even with the cocky words and aloof demeanor, Dick could see it hurt Jason, hurt him deeply, perhaps not as deeply as it hit Dick, but he felt the empty suit just the same. Dick gave a shallow nod, not bothering the remarks with words. Jason swallowed. “Its what he would have wanted.” He offered quietly. Dick turned away. He didn't bother to contradict him. To tell him that despite what the others might believe, Bruce, his father, had never intended for any of them to don his suit. Although he had planned on them burying him. Not the other way around as had happened too many times. The soft padding of feet was the only sound of Jason’s departure. It was uncommon, nowadays, for the second Wayne child to leave without words of goodbye. But today… Dick understood today. He swallowed, and with shaking hands, opened the glass case.

The Batcave was silent. Not unusual, but it was unusual with all of the kids in it. The Batcave was never silent if the kids were present. It was something Bruce had always claimed he hated, but he had always smiled so fondly, so none had taken him seriously. But today it was. Steph was leaned against the desk, Tim in the Batchair next to her, his eyes on the Batcomputer, though he wasn't typing. For once, he was completely still. Cass, on the other hand, was pacing, her usually silent footfalls now making little scuffing sounds on the floor. Amplified by the lack of sound from the other kids, it echoed around them, almost as a steady heartbeat. The kids swallowed back their bile. Jason was propped on his motorbike, helmet held loosely in his hands. His guns were nowhere in sight. Damian sat at his feet, fidgeting. Duke, for once, was awake this late, and was twiddling his thumbs, gnawing on his bottom lip as he leaned against the far wall of the Batcave. Babs sat in her wheelchair next to where Cass was pacing, her laptop opened in front of her, but the screen was dark. Had fallen dark long ago. Selina stood, watchful, at the edge, watching all of them with keen eyes, but did not say a word. Could not find any. Alfred was in bed. He had not left it since… since the funeral. Finally, Cass’s pacing slowed, and she turned to the door, hearing things the other kids could not. All at once, the atmosphere changed, became even more charged, and they turned to the door. Steph, Jason, and Damian stood, and Duke pushed off the wall. They formed a small half circle facing the door, linking hands. As though they needed each other to get through this. Finally, the sound of walking alerted the others to what Cass had heard so much earlier. The steps were smaller, almost sluggish, but as they neared the door they picked up, almost as if forcing cheer and pep into their step. The sounds slowed and finally stopped just before the door. “Ready?” he called quietly. They locked eyes, and slowly nodded. Batman stepped into the Batcave, and promptly keeled over, vomiting. 

Selina rushed to Dick’s side in an instant, but the other kids couldn't move, frozen in place. Even Selina hesitated as she neared, slowing to a shuffle. Before she reached him he had straightened, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He raised himself to his full height and made eye contact. Damian started shaking. Jason fainted. Tim looked green. Babs spun her wheels, turning away. Steph had her hands curled under her chin and silent tears streamed down her cheeks. Cass’s head was shaking side to side, ever so slightly. Duke swallowed. Selina took a step back. Staggered back. Catwoman staggered. A smile, so fake it almost looked like it hurt, blossomed across Batmans face, but it did the trick. Now Dick looked more like himself. The smile faltered, but then returned full force, still straining with its lack of conviction. “Oh Dickie.” Selina whispered. But even with all the compassion and heartache in her voice, she did not take another step towards him. Did not dare step near that suit. The door to the Batcave opened and everyone tensed, then relaxed slightly as Wonder Woman and Superman walked in, quietly. Clarks eyes roved over all of them, before landing on Dick. An expression they had never seen before crossed his face, emotions spasming, before the alien had Dick pinned against the wall by the throat, snarling in his face. “Take it off!” he growled. Dick stared at him, unflinching. “Before he was your friend,” the oldest Wayne child said lowly. “He was my father.” The alien dropped him to the floor, taking a staggered step back. Dick flinched. Everyone staggered back from him. From the suit. From him in the suit. “Are you prepared?” Selina asked him softly. Dick stood taller, not bothering with the forced smile this time. The expression nearly took her breath away. Dick and the other children could deny it all they liked, but they resembled their father whether they wanted to or not. And had it not been for the fact that Selina had seen him die, knew he was taller, knew his face better than she knew her own, she could not tell the difference, in that moment. Between the boy, the man, that stood before her now, and the man who she had fallen in love with. “Come.” she bade him softly, turning away so she did not have to look, did not have to look at that face that was him and yet not. Dick built steel into his spine, into his step. Did not stop to think about how his line was drawn in the same grim line he had so often seen his father make. Did not focus on his siblings who all shrank away from him like he had the plague, tears and pleas and threats in their eyes. Instead he followed Selina, his steps steady. She stepped aside quickly, eyes averted, as though looking at him physically hurt her, and Dick took a deep breath, stepping in front of the mirror. Then he promptly turned, and threw up. 

#batman #batfam #batkids #selina kyle #no bruce wayne #this is... after bruce's death #and dick has to put on the suit #in case that wasnt clear #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #duke thomas #barbara gordon

[kreature-ofthenight]

#its about the devine act of self creation #in case that wasnt clear #also about trauma #and unethical science #and crime :) #and I guess romantisicing my own disability to a level of self love #enby stuff #gender envy #the mechanisms #doc ock #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #john silver #viktor arcane

[for-the-love-of-avo]

My art tablet is still broken so im being forced to doodle nonsense on my phone with my finger like a simpleton

#fable #fable 3 #fable logan #fable page #good omens #aziraphale #the lesbians are maggie and nina #in case that wasnt clear #the sandman #hob gadling #dreamling #when you want attention but your husband has discovered the selfie

[eregar]

Raphael's character class potentially being bard is so fun. casting his tendency to use charm and illusion as not necessarily a devilish trait but instead as a bardic trait being used for devilish ends and suggesting that his cunning is possibly something that was learned rather than something that was innate. and it means he gets to be a bit of a loser <3

#bg3 #raphael bg3 #loser (affectionate) #in case that wasnt clear #but yeah very fun and very cute to pair a class thats sorta viewed as frivilous and unserious #with a villain character #too if that cunning was learned how does that put distance between him and those he wishes to usurp #at least in his own mind #sorry im addicted to slamming the ‘raphael is half-human’ button #you give me a man with such blatant ego-wounds i cant help but dig my fingers in #greg texts

[where-is-caithe]

shroud ideas for her.

#gw2 #gw2 norn #guild wars 2 #gw2 art #x #OK I KNOW i just posted her as a sylvari but i listened to the male sylvari voice and then right after the fem norn #and its not a hard decision #shes my favorite sorry #i wanna make her as a necro yeah #in case that wasnt clear #just going through the edgy classes one by one #oh yeah no scythe in her shroud its just her sword

[bloodyrose666]

this made me think about james <3 @trashcan-in-space @ymas00 @stroyent

#james may #in case that wasnt clear #which it probably isnt if you dont have context about what people i hang out with #<3

[ineffable-ezra]

Zaphod Beeblebrox has two heads and three arms. Are there any more body parts he has extras of?

#im talking about his penis #in case that wasnt clear #zaphod beeblebrox #h2g2 #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

[grimalkinmessor]

I don't usually ship lawtsuda BUT I will make an exception ONLY if their dynamic is Mark and Ethan Unus Annus/Markiplier Makes Edition

#death note #lawtsuda #i am so serious rn i will die on this hill this is perfect for them #only way ill ship it #matsuda touta #l lawliet #matsuda as ethan and L as mark #in case that wasnt clear #BUT WAIT ONLY SOMETIMES #SOMETIMES ITS REVERSED #bc i think 'this is what it means. to go eVEN FURTHER BEYOND' belongs in matsudas mouth instead of Ls

[the-voldsoy]

wait wait WAIT so if the Fears were present as far back as at least the 1800's, we can assume they were sent there back then from this timeline (working on the idea that they werent already here before JMJ). this makes sense, as it would have sparked the opening of the Archives, just like the original world. so, that makes you wonder, when did JMJ come through? if the Fears came through with JMJ, have they been trapped all this time?

#tmagp #tmagp vague #jmj is jon martin jonah #in case that wasnt clear

[bluewinnerangel]

when this one

gets down to the barricade

and comes back up looking like

#its about the chest #in case that wasnt clear #althought they do turn into each other #regularly

[nepttunnee]

hey guys in case you didnt know but both save rock and roll and evening out with your ex gf were released on the third year of each decade. and in case u also didnt know the next january 1st is in fact in the third year of the decade (2023). just um. wanted to let you know

#fall out boy #fob #fob8 #tttyg #save rock and roll #take this to your grave #the implications of this are lifechanging and repulsive and upsetting #bc like #what if they do three parts??? #for the three #in case that wasnt clear #pete wentz #patrick stump #joe trohman #andy hurley #i actually hate all of them immensely and want to die

[gayforjuza]

looking through my top posts and theyre all kuya related you guys are SICK

#im jokin #in case that wasnt clear #thanks for all the good times gang

[quill-is-brainstorming]

So I was studying in the kitchen when my mom comes in to check something in the oven, turns towards me, realizes that I'm studying and she then proceeds to tell me, with the angriest voice ever:

"So you know your school will be closed next Monday and Tuesday?"

"Yeah...?"

"Good. I want you to pick one of those days and do absolutely NOTHING."

"What-"

"Maybe you can draw if you want to, or read those Greek plays you bought, but I don't want you to even look at a school book. You will take a day off and RELAX."

And she said all this while basically shouting at me.

So yeah, that's a thing.

Thanks for the extremely aggressive self care advice...? Or I guess thanks for literally imposing self care on me would be more fitting-

I have been studying a lot more as of late, but I wouldn't say I was particularly stressed about it, but yeah, my mom's having none of that anyway apparantly lol.

I don't think I've ever been told in my life to study less. Ever. I am unsure of whether having been told this now is a good or a bad thing.

#i really dont know what my parents have going on #<<from now on thats officially my parents' tumblr tag #whenever they say something weird ill just tag it like that #anyway i love my mom #in case that wasnt clear

[non-plutonian-druid]

Hi!!! I absolutely love your ATWQ au, I never got to read that series but I loved ASOUE so I’m intrigued!!

Would love to hear more about Klaus and Ben specifically in this AU because they are my Sons and I love them

This is such an interesting idea!!

thank youuuuu! i love ATWQ, although i do think that ASOUE is probably objectively the better series. ATWQ is just much more up my alley in terms of aesthetics! also i fucking love the art for it, which you may have observed in my repeated attempts to copy it for this au

Thank you!!! I love ATWQ. I think ASOUE is probably objectively the better series, but the aesthetics of ATWQ are so up my alley. Plus i really love the art, which you may have noticed since i keep trying to copy it for this au.

I haven't decided if they're a little older or a little younger than Five, but either way they'd be in the range of 12-14, with Klaus being maybe a year older than Ben.

In this AU, Klaus and Ben have been living together on their own in this little abandoned town for a long time. I don't think i came up with a town name, but in the books its called Stained-by-the-Sea and used to make ink, and in this au it is a town that used to manufacture umbrellas instead. Like in the books, this town was formerly fairly successful, but has fallen on hard times in recent decades and slowly been closing down ever since. At the time of this AU, it's nearly entirely dead, and most of the only people remaining are children holding down the family businesses while their parents set up new lives for them in the City. There are some adults remaining, but not very many, and not many people in general.

This got long, so I'm putting the rest of it under the cut lol

I mention all of this in the context of your question in order to show that *at the moment*, Klaus and Ben are in a pretty similar situation to many of the other children in the town; many children are unsupervised while their parents are in the process of moving. However, Klaus and Ben have been unsupervised for much much longer. They've never been precisely homeless, because there are many empty buildings, but they haven't had anyone other than themselves watching out for them for a long time.

Both of them have been taking odd jobs for the duration of their acquaintance, entry level retail jobs, and so on. They avoid the remains of the police force because if they were caught without parents or a guardian they would be sent to the City and probably separated.

They were living in this way for several years, up until... i have a specific number of months in my outline but i'm too lazy to go fact check. Lets go with "a few months" before Five arrives in town. See, a few months before, the town's old school mysteriously reopened. It had been a fancy boarding school for rich umbrella manufacturing people's kids (like some kind of... umbrella academy), until there weren't any rich people in town anymore and it closed down. Now it's reopened and it's saying that the children from the town can attend, for free!

Ben has wanted to go to school for so long. He loves reading!! The library is his favorite place!! Klaus wants absolutely nothing to do with school. He likes their life in town, where they're beholden to nobody, way better thank you. But he knows Ben really wants this. So they separate, for the first time in years. Ben *promises* he will write every day, and come back on weekends or breaks or however it is boarding schools work. There is probably much crying.

At first, it goes just like how Ben promises. He doesn't write literally every day, but more than once a week. He hasn't had a day where they're free to return to town yet, but they make plans for when he will. He's having a blast learning about science and reading books and doing math, although it's weird having rules to follow again. Although, he mentions that they have a weird amount of mandatory medical checkups, and he's caught a cold a few times from being in close proximity to a bunch of kids for the first time in while.

And then.... the letters start to have gaps. Because Ben is busy, or feeling ill or tired. He gets distracted. And then, they stop entirely. By the time Five shows up in town, Klaus hasn't gotten a letter from Ben in months.

I think most of that is a just slightly more in depth version of what I've already said about them. Here are a few other tidbits:

before he.... disappeared...., Ben had a giant and incredibly obvious crush on the new librarian, Jill. Klaus teased him about it a lot and tried to get him to send her love letters (he did not succeed in this endeavor because Ben knows when he's being played)

one of Klaus' current jobs is at a printing shop. He's using it to make missing posters for Ben.

Klaus meets Five because he is a witness for a crime that Five is investigating. Once he learns about people investigating crimes that aren't the police (and once he finishes teasing Five for having a number for a name), he asks for Five's help in figuring out what happened to Ben. This, more than the crime, is what gets the plot in motion. Ben is the main Damsel In Distress of this saga, sorry Ben

I'm thinking that one of Klaus' side jobs is being a phone psychic. I just think it would be funny

im not telling you what happened to either of their parents. One of the recurring things in ATWQ is that you never truly learn what's going on with children's parents. You are given no information other than the kids' words, and they never tell more than the absolute bare minimum. So I will not be doing that either!

#thank you for asking im glad you're interested!!! #sorry about the wait on the answer #snicket five au #tua #the umbrella academy #ben hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #the 'thing that happened to ben' that klaus doesnt know about is being infected with a tentacle monster by reggie #in case that wasnt clear #from the context of the other posts for this au

[sickmachete]

may i ask what brush u use for ur art? whatever it is i need to eat it

ahh it depends!!! i alternate constantly because i always change my mind on what i like in the moment but !! my general rule of thumb is to just pick some random brush with fun textures/edges (or find some to download) and then just screw around with the blender settings til i find something i like, ie:

overall i tend to prefer brushes thatre labeled as oil pastels/pencils/charcoals etc. basically just brushes that try to mimic real textures irl. because ironically, in my experience, the uneven gritty textures that come with these types tend to make colors blend more smoothly than the brushes that are actually smooth and round in shape. if that makes sense?

(but also pen pressure is sooo important. i need to be able to choose how strongly a color shows up based on how hard i press the pen because thats what truly allows for the kind of soft corrections needed to properly blend colors together)

however!! where brushes fail i always always add layers of paper/sand as overlays to the entire drawing because it gives it that papery/canvas feel that i so love :-)

#asks #tl;dr i like making my digital art look as little like digital art as possible LOL #but also hi sorry i cant stop myself from oversharing when people ask me questions i am a rambler and its incurable #ALSO i use clip studio paint. just for the record #in case that wasnt clear #i wish i could just link you a brush but im not kidding when i say i change brushes Daily #like the majority of my drawings were done with brushes that i only used Once for that drawing and then never again AJSDHFG #i am just a mess <3 #but yeah hopefully this made some sense to you #im operating on not even a full brain cell rn so who knows

[thehobbitwithstickyuppyhair]

girls don't want to work. girls want to write the vox machina star wars au that came to them in a dream last night 🥺

#its me im girls #in case that wasnt clear #today is the longest friday ever ugh #i want to write NOW but that might not translate to having the energy to write when im freed from the bonds of capitalism aka get off work #hannah rambles #vox machina au