#or how to avoid some spoilers

[inkedroplets]

WIP Wednesday Friday

thank you so much @sideguitars and @eqt-95 for the tag Here's an excerpt from the last Chapter of Rich Girl that should be out shortly if work stops occupying every moment of free time.

Kara stared up at the hologram. At Lena. Before she could stop herself she reached out as if it was something she could touch. Her fingertips passed through it and she drew her hand back as quickly as if she had been burned. She stood up on legs as shaky as a newborn foal. Her eyes roamed the hologram’s face with a desperate kind of greed.

Lena’s hologram fidgeted, almost appearing to waffle under Kara’s intense scrutiny. Not that such a thing was possible. The real Lena, the one who would likely blush under the intensity of her gaze was still lying in the operating room. This Lena before her was something else entirely. A recording. A memory. “Hello, Kara.” Lena’s hologram smiled wryly. “If you ever watch this… If you are watching this, it means something has happened to me…” She considered this particular turn of phrase incredibly carefully, lips pursed as she did so. “It means that I’m no longer around…” Again she seemed to ponder her choice of words very carefully, lips pushed together in a tight line that was not quite a frown. She must have found the right words because her smile returned, weak and shivery like moonlight glimpsed through a scrim of clouds. “If you’ve already heard, already know that I've died, you don’t know what really happened. You don’t know the truth and I think you deserve to hear it.”

Kara took in breath in a series of shuddering gasps as tears slipped down her face. She brushed them away, shaking her head so strongly it dislodged a few tears. They glittered like tiny jewels as they fell.

"After what I planned to do with Myriad, what I did to you in the Fortress… Trapping you there… leaving you…" Lena's hologram closed their eyes tight. From the way her shoulders began to quiver, Kara thought she might begin to cry but when Lena opened her eyes again, no tears fell. "I knew,” she said and each word seemed to cause her pain, “I could no longer trust myself. How could I when I had deluded myself into pursuing something so terrible? Realizing how easy it was for me to justify myself again and again when I had misgivings. And hurting you like I did…” Her voice tapered off and her eyes closed as she took a deep breath. “No better than Lex,” she said and the revulsion on her face momentarily twisted her features into a moue of self-loathing. 

“So I scuttled every one of my projects at L-Corp. Put them on indefinite hold until I could be sure that I wouldn't misuse them. I told myself it was a temporary measure.” She flashed a rueful smile and shook her head slowly.  “But with nothing for me to do but dwell on everything that had happened, everything I’d done, I was drowning,” she said with a solemn finality that broke Kara’s heart.

"I hardly ever left my office. I wasn't sleeping and I was drinking too much. I knew things couldn’t continue that way much longer but I was afraid.” She smiled sadly. “I still wanted to do good but I wasn’t sure if I could be good.” She tilted her head sideways as if to say do you understand the difference? Kara thought she did. 

“I’m a Luthor, after all,” she said in a tired monotone, that of a person who has been forced to  retell a joke they didn’t find very funny the first time around. A ghost of a smile touched her lips. “Most people think that we’re incapable of being anything in the ballpark of good and after what I did, I can’t say I blame them. When I used to hear people whisper about me behind my back, or when they’d tell me to my face how much they despised me, how I wasn’t fooling anyone, I took most of it in stride. All the more fun to prove them wrong, I thought.” She laughed, although there wasn’t a shred of humor in her voice as she did so. “But not all of it,” Lena admitted, dropping her voice to a low whisper, looking ashamed to say so out loud. “At times it could be so exhausting. Tolerated but never trusted.  Having people not just expect the worst from me but to see them almost want to see it happen. Like the concept of a good Luthor was an offense to their reality. It always felt so unfair because I knew if I was someone else, anyone else it would be different. I found myself thinking about that a lot while I was holed up in my office. I think maybe that’s how I got the idea in the first place. Or at least the first domino… I’m getting ahead of myself,” she said, veering away from whatever she had been about to say, although Kara was fairly certain she already knew, even if she didn’t quite understand. 

“On one  of the rare nights I actually went home, I happened to turn on the news.” She shrugged. “Just something to have on in the background. I was only half-listening, at first but something caught my attention. A hostage situation in Gotham. A bank robbery went awry and they took some of the staff hostage. Negotiations with the police had broken down and with the way the reporters were pushed right up against the barricades, I think they knew instinctively that whatever the outcome, good or bad, it was going to happen soon.” She worked her mouth around as if something bitter had been forced upon her. “That was what got my full attention. Some of the reporters looked as if they were hoping things might turn out bad.” 

Anger momentarily darkened her face. “It was the same look people would sometimes give me. Hoping I’d finally show my true colors and unveil the death ray I had been building under L-Corp.” She chuckled humorlessly. “I didn’t want their bad faith rewarded so I said a little prayer to whoever might be listening; that the hostages all get out safely." She laughed again. Only this time it was the genuine article. “And then there he was, just in the nick of time, as if he had arrived to answer my prayers. Batman,” she said and there was an unmistakable hint of amusement in her voice. “A few moments later, the hostages came spilling out the doors and I couldn’t help but smile. It was the first time I had done that in weeks.”

I never know who to tag in these and when I do I feel like I'm bothering people but if you feel like sharing: @trashpandato @sazernac @theredcapeofk

#my writing #I never know what snippets work best on their own #or how to avoid some spoilers #wip #tag game

[mishy-mashy]

Theory: some High-Ends use the corpses of past OFA users

There aren't tons of High-Ends. They can't be mass-produced so easily, and there's only one that's blatantly female, literally named Woman and with a tall, defined figure

Maybe Woman's original identity is already confirmed, but... she's similar to Nana in build, isn't she?

It's hinted that All For One actually kept Nana's corpse. How, 20+ years later, could he give Tenko his grandmother's pristine hand? Is he just keeping their hands? Or their actual corpses?

Also, when looking at corpses to give multiple Quirks to, One For All users are the best for this. Having inherited One For All, their bodies had maintained multiple Quirks when they were alive, even if they couldn't use more than their natural Quirk and One For All's physical ability. And to their bodies, One For All doesn't count as just one Quirk; the natural one, and Yoichi, are already too much for a human. But Shinomori shows that it counts each previous user's Quirk, on top of Yoichi's and one's own natural one.

Their bodies adjusted to holding multiple Quirks, and when they were alive, they didn't become deformed or lose brain function. They were perfectly fine, and only had shortened lives—but that doesn't matter as corpses.

Nomus go brain dead when they have multiple Quirks. But the past users didn't, being completely fine, making them perfect for Nomu development.

High-Ends can think. They're all physically powerful, and One For All users make the best basis, even from leftover embers and physique. So why not use that great base to make the best outcome Nomus (High-Ends)?

#originally this was going to focus on how hood could be shinomori cuz a lot of things line up #like pants; avoiding the strongest couldve been tweaked to looking for the strongest; that afo didnt know his face so named “Hood” #for theming; Endeavor burning him and saying to rest (shinomori gets a cremation and can relax [OFA]; and so on #but nope Hood is confirmed to be a boxer from some ring #(and the fact endeavor says Hood is like him from the past or future.. and that shinomori wanted to grow his strength as much as possible) #(for the factor.. so technically he wanted to be the strongest......) #BUT NOPE HOOD IS NOT SHINOMORI #it would really make sense if he were though #man #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #nana shimura #woman #nomu #ofa #one for all #spoilers #hikage shinomori #yoichi shigaraki #afo #all for one #imagine afo is keeping their corpses and sets them loose on midoriya who just destroyed the last of the consciousnesses #darkkk #edit: its mentioned shinomori had an autopsy so we know his cause of death AND GARAKI WORKS IN THE MORGUE. #GARAKI WAS ALIVE BACK THEN YKNOW #GARAKI WAS ALIVE FOR ALL THE USERS. HE COULD HAVE PRESERVED THEIR CORPSES AND TURNED THEM TO NOMUS

[chloecherrysip]

"I hope you told your brother how much you loved him, because you're probably never gonna see him again."

"..."

"Was that too dark?"

"YES!"

"Sorry."

#mario movie #mario move spoilers #super mario bros movie #super mario bros #mario and luigi #super mario bros movie spoilers #cherrysip edits #i was gonna make a different gifset today but then i found that new trailer and WELL HERE WE ARE lol #TOAD SERIOUSLY CAN YOU READ THE ROOM HERE??????????? #first time in the town was kinda funny second time was genuinely a bit upsetting to the point that i gasped when i heard the dialogue #mario would prefer you Do Not Say Things Like That!!!!!!! #he is no way shape or form emotionally prepared to grapple with the idea of his brother being dead or never being able to find him #that would end him. that would destroy him. he would truly not know how to go on. so that is just firmly Not a Possibility in his brain #(and now i made myself REALLY sad thinking about mario remembering this conversation a little later and wondering #when WAS the last time he told luigi he loved him????? he can't remember. he loves his brother more than anything and anyone #but he hasn't said it outloud in so long and the realization of that is extremely painful. there's some more angst for you!!!) #anyway this is just a compilation of all the significant scenes where mario and luigi are actually together we've seen so far and I CRY #also the brand-new one of them running through town!!! omg it's perfect #with mario doing unnecessary parkour and luigi just diligently jogging along on the outside and avoiding the mess #the characterization even in the tiniest moments like this is truly CHEF'S KISS #will be working on more gifsets because my brain just needs to stare at all this until the movie comes out lololol

[yesneverno]

Me: omg how come I can never avoid spoilers

Also me: *scrolling through the tag on tumblr*

#danganronpa #danganronpa another #literally anything #dr #tma #the magnus archives #svsss #bingqiu #drthh #sdr2 #drv3 #any tv show too #I cannot stress how bad it gets #I’m avoiding death spoilers (I’ve made bets on who will die in danganronpa.) #there’s a chart #but also if u have a practical talent I assume #you’re dead #bc bc bc #1. lucky student #2. just some rich guy #3. swimmer #4. reader #i know kirigiri is a detective but…. #but also danganronpa another #I knew I KNEW the sniper wasn’t gonna survive #that’d be TOO practical for the universe #imagine surviving a death game to join an apocalypse and ur a SNIPER #OP

[astral-schools]

(linear) time & (empty) space

#w101 #w101 fandom #wizard101 #wizard101 fandom #w101 oc #wizard101 oc #dasein #wizsein #oc: aedan #wallaru spoilers #sal art #ummmm what if you were the personification of nothingness and i was the primordial keeper of time and we were both boys 😳 #ft. aedan's SECOND primordial form. he looked different before he was made human this is after he dies and goes back to being weird #mostly hes just a little more distinctly Humanoid and retained some elements of his human self #like the long bits of his hair and his tied belt and such #my solution for avoiding the conundrum of 'dasein is functionally immortal and the wizard will eventually die one day' is just #making my wizard Also immortal lol #neither of them know so i can still get that awesome existential dilemma angst out of them #BUT they do just get to Hang Out for eternity #like how mellori's essence is green and bat's is purple. aedan's is gold #mostly inspired by how bartleby appears in the scion test/husk #since thats his more 'magical' incarnation #each arm has a different pattern btw <3 i think maybe they change it up every now and then. constantly shifting #maybe one day ill make an actual proper ref of aedan's chronokeeper form #but ummmm not today. today its time for gay people

[essektheylyss]

I think it's important to note that I do believe Orym wasn't totally thinking straight when he nodded to Laudna. Because if he'd have been thinking straight, he'd have gotten in front of her and then very efficiently killed Bor'dor himself, and he'd have still been correct for it. Hope this helps. 😌

#anyway! I think maybe we should all revisit the paradox of tolerance! love and light xoxo! #cr spoilers #cr discourse #cuz yanno. that's what we're doing I GUESS. #like did y'all forget he was a bodyguard? he was never some model pacifist antiwar protester? #he prefers to avoid confrontation when possible BECAUSE he knows how messy shit gets. not because he's unwilling. #he didn't leave cuz he couldn't stand to fight for the cause anymore he left cuz he failed at protecting lol #liam pcs show up like 'is anybody going to suffer enormous amounts of survivor's guilt' and don't wait for an answer

[bitchfitch]

MOTHER FUCKER SPOTTED T POSING. GAY SHIT IM GOING TO HAVE TO BANISH THE CHILD FOR TO ENSUE.

#totk spoilers #also can i just say how Fucking Scared i was that they were just retconning the champions out of existence?? #the divine beasts are gone and the story is going out of its way to avoid mentioning them or their pilots. #Miphas spring was the first time i found Any direct mention of them. #its an Area name. #Daruk and Revali may as well not have existed. #like. I didn't stop to talk to a lot of npcs bx i couldn't be fucked to do so #but Man. #It feels like they should have been mentioned in the main story at Some point #I straight up couldn't sleeo last night bc i was so worried theyd just fucking #Unexisted my second favorite character in this entire franchise. #Like i know Mipha isnt anything special by loz princess standards but i just love her ok. #i love her aesthetic #and seeing her statue was replaced in the domain was a bad feeling because like. that basically confirmed it for me that the game #was just going to pretend she never existed #which it still is but the spring having this name Helps. its a bandaid on a gunshot wound

[historicallyaccuratecheese]

working my way through tma for the first time while tmagp is actively airing is the funniest experience ever. Like, I saw that the most recent episode is called “marked”, and I thought “oh, that must be like what Gerard mentioned in Mag 48.” But then I realized that there are 138 episodes I have yet to listen to, and that it’s probably referring to some sort of fucked up weirdo with evil markers who I know nothing about, but everyone else has been familiar with for the longest time.

it’s just. i’m really scared to learn what you people mean when you mention pipe murder one day.

#tma #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #magpod #also dw i’ve been avoiding spoilers fine #I just witnessed some inside jokes floating around before i started listening #i’m currently on mag 72 #and i saw something about pipes a couple times #PLEASE don’t tell me what that means #I need to witness it firsthand #it would be funny if it’s just the most minuscule part of the story #which feels fitting given how much the vase has been memed into oblivion #but for all i know the vase is the final boss

[utoveria]

🥺🥺🥺

#twst #twisted wonderland #ortho shroud #uh how do i tag their parents #shroud parents #they make an interesting duo #also who voices his dad cause hello 👀 #i have to see more of them to really get a feel on them #i saw some ppl talk about them but i tried avoiding spoilers at the time

[boypussydilf]

the montage of cake ruining shit in ooo by Doing Cat Things… the thing i vaguely half-remember from an adam muto interview abt fionna fucking things up in magical worlds sometimes bc shes coming from an angle of reacting like it’s a Video Game or something…. and simons whole. the way he interacts w absolutely everyone he doesnt feel a need to be “okay” for… I think our main cast might be the Making The Situation Worse gang. theyre here to roll up and ruin everything. cake is magic now but she still has the mind and perspective of a normal cat, fionna doesn’t know how to interact with any of these universes from the perspective of them being unique worlds with real people, and simon just wants to make a fucking beeline to trying to shut his brain off. this is going to go poorly ❤️

#that’s how it kind of looks and that’s what i hope for #i love it when there’s a main cast in a story where Heroes of some kind would be. whod you’d expect as main characters #but you just get like. a bunch of. for lack of a better term. self absorbed assholes #like how in f*rsc*pe #(trying 2 avoid this being in the tag for an unrelated show) #you dont get a story abt these heroic underdogs stopping to help people on their way or anything #(like what youd expect coming from a lot of similar sci fi shows) #u get a story abt this bunch of cunts who couldnt be heroes even if they wanted to #and theyre just focused on their own needs #Anyway. I hope with fionna and cake and simons collective abilities they make things worse for many people #bc itd be funny. toxic friend group arises #basilposting #atposting #fionna and cake spoilers

[moghedien]

funny seeing people be like "uh why is Kaylie being mean to Scanlan for no reason!" and I'm just like....laughing because not only are there reasons but the previous episode gave a pretty good parallel for the reasons lmaooo

#the legend of vox machina #tlovm spoilers #critical role #cr campaign one #scanlan shorthalt #like parallels but not exact ones #but seeing certain things so soon gives you at least some insight to how Kaylie is feeling right about now #I want to avoid being spoilery in the tags #but like Kaylie's situation is more or less because of ignorance on the other person's part #than it is about any intentional harm/neglect

[mishy-mashy]

Shinomori is cute. Here's a post.

He is so baby-faced. He hasn't changed at all since he was 22, to when he died of "old age" at 40

(Old age? With a face like that? 40 years old?? Gimme that kind of youth and hotness Shinomori-)

He has tiny eyebrows. Like a puppy's (rottweiler's, for example). So cute and tiny and fuffy

He naturally frowns. Look at him and his mouth and his lil nose

He has a thing about keeping his arms near his chest. He sits with his arms crossed, introduces himself with his hands over his torso, and even walks with his arms crossed toward Midoriya

He has such clear skin for someone who lived the rest of his life in a forest??? Why do Hikage and Yoichi have such nice skin despite living in terrible environments? (forest and vault + abandoned streets respectively)

Is easily scared

They knew their Quirks could be used, but Shinomori got scared of it when it happened. Even though he gave Midoriya his support and access to his Quirk beforehand. Depending on the translation; "it startled me", "you scared me", "it surprised me"

I'm not going to hold running from AFO against him because he knew he was running for his life. Who wouldn't run for their life when it's in danger? Shinomori was being chased by the strongest person in the country (and likely the world)

His sense of self-preservation is probably heightened by the nature of his Quirk to keep him out of danger too. Which makes him all the more sensitive and jumpy to danger and anything that startles him, especially when he has no warning

He's actually extremely tall, but is so socially inept and jumpy it's adorable. He's taller than Bruce.

Bruce is as tall as a vault door that the 2m AFO used.

(Meanwhile Kudo is down there-)

He has such a bad sense of humor that it's cute (his puns off Danger Sense)

It's also adorable how Shinomori just doesn't understand social conventions sometimes. He lived in a forest, so it made sense, but also— Midoriya shows up in the void to the vestige platform for the first time. He has no mouth, no clothes—and Shinomori's first idea is to stand in front of him menacingly and go: "I shall explain. I am Shinomori Hikage." SIRRRR

This.

His Ability is basically like glorified anxiety. What if something is coming to hurt him? If something can hurt him? What if that tree falls while he's under it? And the ideas come so hard they hurt (although yes, it does detect ill intent and that's what sets it off)

He talks weirdly. Formal? Old-fashioned? Listening to him speak Japanese compared to others, it just sounds a bit different. (Translated subs don't show it very well, it's the voice itself methinks)

"This too, is destiny." *about Midoriya having OFA*

Kinda wise or sage-y. He did spend his life in solitude in the forests so he definitely spent a lot of time with his own thoughts. Maybe he found the meaning of life in a centipede or something one day

For someone so cute, he is also such. A fine. Specimen???

Look at those back muscles, dang.

LOOK AT HIS CALVES AND ARMS DANG.

#i dont think shinomori was part of the resistance considering the resistance fought the society AFO was making #and shinomori wanted to avoid society and thus hid away #but i do think bruce knew shinomori because he gave him ofa before he went to fight AFO and die #and afo doesnt seem to know hikage. if he did he wouldve found and killed him. but hikage is never in afos memories #yknow what shinomori needs some appreciation too #vestiges need more attention #also i always put shinomori dealing with bruces remnants in my fics so he needs some appreciation for that #like the kids dumped on him #shinomori received OFA at 22 years old. he was around bruces age methinks #hes not some kid the resistance took in. the resistance didnt take in kids anyway #or at least we dont see them #well fic stuff banjo has the time of his life with en wrangling kid hermits that dont know what electricity is #mha #bnha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #spoilers #hikage shinomori #ofa #one for all #ANYWAY hikage is ADORABLE and needs attention #just LOOK AT HIM #id have put this post out sooner but getting the pictures is always hard cuz popups or videos not working #i like shinomoris english voice actor. i dont stick around to hear anyone elses because i died when midoriya turned into a kid in the dub #i could probably make a list like this and bruces for the rest of the vestiges #yoichis small waist lovely skin and that he probably knows how to wrap kudo and bruce around his finger? #his “my heroes” and smiling as he goes “now now you two..”? kudos low voice and nice arms and SHORTNESS? #en going “senpai” and sitting on his chair like that? looking like he exudes gremlin energy? did he get carried around by banjo and nana? #it looks like he wouldve CMONN #i didnt include it in here cuz image limit but shinomori has big hands and feet (tag limit)

[syrasenturi]

scribbly amphibbies

bonus christmas garfapillar

#amphibia #marcy's journal spoilers #kinda #syrass #im too embarrassed to talk more about my post amphibia anne ideas #but a little bit of it #it's like around when she starts drifting from sasha and marce but also realizing what she wants to do in life #hence the froggies #but she becomes like a local cryptid #there's still lingering effects of her powers but she feels she's grown too distant from the only people she can talk to about it to even br #ing it up so she tries to deal with it on her own #i dont want it to be all angsty but it is a good bit and i dont have all the details but yeah #anyway unrelated but my best marcys are the fucked up ones #which i dont like perpetuating no because i think it's bad but because i think marcy would not react super uhhh sad? idk how to word it #she'd be more avoidant and play it off i think and not so much fall back on depression as just sad melancholy that she'd then turn to #some kind of positivity i think idk she's an excited kid and nd you know #ok thats the most ive talked about anything in a while time to shut up again goodbye #also thanks for everyone who bought garfapillar stickers i hope you like them <3

[rustedleopard]

By the way, since the whole "Kieran was being controlled by 'Dokutaro' and that's how he was able to revive the Loyal Three" theory is dead in the water, yet people are still wondering how he managed to do that, it's because he had Ogerpon's mask with him when he punched the grave. Ogerpon's mask has Tera Crystals embedded in it. Earlier on at the Crystal Pool, it was established that the Tera Crystals in the water have the ability to bring back the dead.

He probably just accidentally brought them back to life when he made contact with the grave while holding the Tera Crystals/the lingering spirits of the Loyal Three were able to latch onto some of the energy of the Tera Crystals and revived themselves when he punched it

#pokemon #pokemon teal mask #pokemon indigo disk #pkmn spoilers #i guess??? since i talked about the theory being disproved #I've always been ambivalent to the kieran mind control theory as a whole but this is one of those parts of the theory where I was like #'yeah no dokutaro was not responsible for that part. it's very clear that it's just tera crystal magic' #whether you believe it's some weird time magic/wish magic depends on how you think tera crystals work. idk you decide #(yes i know dokutaro is not the official name but I'm trying to keep the actual name under wraps for those trying to avoid spoilers) #bye bye now

[thequeenofmyownscreen]

Spenser, directly to Brennan : "We're going to step behind this thing [the astrolabe in the décor]. And we're going to talk. You have the option of saying "yes" to his demands here, or of saying "no". If you say "no", you could fight your way out of this. It will be a dice roll. On a 1, 2, or 3, he will kill you and will replace you. On a 4, 5, or 6, you survive and he dies."

THE SHRIEK I LET OUT

#like Sam once screamed at Matt 'YOU CAN'T DO THAT !!!' #'THAT'S ILLEGAL !!" #no but this is genius because when the monster was talking to Sean I was like: #'even if they're really good at avoiding meta-gaming.. how does this work because the table saw everything like we do' #but Spenser is a genius and said 'don't worry I'll inject some more tension in the narrative and some more fear into you !!' #critical role #cr spoilers #candela obscura #candela obscura spoilers #CO Spoilers #CO2E03 #Candela Obscura : Chapter 2 #Circle of Needle and Thread

[birdcatt]

started the Real eos post game. heres my thoughts on the matter

#art tag #pokemon #pmd #pokemon mystery dungeon #mimikyu #snivy #im sort of aware of what happens from now onwards (hard to avoid spoilers for like a decade) but its fun finally playing through it myself #ive been very enthusiastic about all of his on screen appearances #pointing clapping at the screen every time he shows up #im also kind of sad the mimikyu sprites got replaced #im attached to the old one #i mean i still have it. but still #im not sure what sprites im missing for the scene where you wake up bc mimikyu just walks in place while that plays #i figured out how to create the EventSleep one though. finally some proper rest for this lad