#quite dark in places

[porto-rosso]

brother where is the charles appreciation

#so dark out here #umm dead boy detectives review here we go! first two episodes were definitely the worst of the series. both are kinda weirdly paced and #the exposition is done poorly in places. overall from episode 3 onwards it gets much much better with pacing and show dont tell #do not understand for the life of me why they made crystal palace american #kassius nelson (<- crystals actress) was very good in places and kinda ehhh in others and im 90% the issue for most of the latter moments #was just that her american accent is not great. sorry they did that to you queen #dialogue was a bit dodge sometimes as well #stuff i liked now! the plot felt quite solid and i really enjoyed the monster of the week approach i think thats the perfect way to #do a dbd adaptation. was a bit annoyed they immediately went to america but port townsend was an interesting setting and all the #supernatural elements/characters fit in nicely #major props cos i feel like the show mostly pulled off the emotionally charged moments without getting corny and the dialogue was generally #good in those moments #particularly charles/crystals heart to heart in ep. 3 and like the entirety of episode 7 (<- ep 7 was brilliant) #overall very fun watch and i feel that the more irritating typical YA show garb was at least a bit offset by them being willing to get #quite dark in places #bit sad people are mostly posting about edwin becos charles was my favourite. has been entertaining watching americans scramble around #the cultural differences in the show #shaking my inbox like a maraca. if anyone wants to talk at me abt the show i will love you forever #.log

[hajihiko]

Have a great day ✨ ❤

#an art #sdr2 #super danganronpa 2 #danganronpa 2 #akane owari #Fashion Friday #....Thursday #I live in a cold and dark place and yet I collect sunglasses. This says something about me. That something is Style Never Quits !!! #The barista here is SO sweet and nice I wanna give her a big kiss on the cheek #I have had a great day today ☀️ an unusually delightful day. And I'm NOT on any drugs!

[cata-strophes]

the dark sbi server had another secret santa this year, this was my gift :}

bit of lore i couldnt add bc it would be ten pages longer:

neapolitan trio are demon brothers, phil is their demon dad. techno is the oldest, and he was taken years ago by evil angels or smth idk, he had his memories supressed and for the longest time thought he was human and joined the war on the angelic forces's side.

tommy and wil are tasked to get him back, and tommy does so first, but he wants some time with his brother who is always busy!! so he pretends to be a human child and follows him around. techno grows fond of him and wants to protect him.

wilbur eventually finds him and tommy refuses to give him victory, so the gig is up!!

techno does spend more time with tommy later on ^-^

#debated a lot whether i post this or just leave it for the people of the server but tbh i havent posted much of anything in quite some time #so here it is #dark sbi #bedrock bros #technoblade #tommyinnit #wilbur soot #secret santa #dark bedrock bros #sbi #my art #tommyinnit fanart #technoblade fanart #wilbur soot fanart #comic #this started as a techno as a warlock idea #refusing tommy's deal #until he was against a sword and a hard place #which is why the sixth page has that composition

[fras-redacted-shapes]

SLUTS

#alan wake 2 #alan wake 2 spoilers #tom zane #thomas zane #casper darling #thank you Remedy #so many men in this game lmao #thomas “touchy feely” zane #tom “how about we drink/get high instead of trying get out of the dark place” zane #years of working together but not quite? they have so much chemistry lmao #THERE'S NO HETEROSEXUAL EXPLANATION FOR THIS

[catabasis]

a minute and a half of the Doctor and Donna pretending to be a married couple and being extremely awkward, embarrassing, and quite adorable actually

#doctor who #tenth doctor #donna noble #tenth doctor adventures #doctor who big finish #from the episode 'no place' #sorry for the lack of transcription; i couldn't find any but i might try to do it myself in the next few days if i find the energy #this episode is a lot of fun and also quite tragic and a bit spooky #i listened to it while lying in bed in the dark and it spooked me a few times

[tallymali]

boyf left the house to go to the pub and ended up accidentally leading the search for a missing child?? predicaments follow this man everywhere

#long story short the kids carers dont know the area well #were standing out on the trail panicking in the dark with just their phone lights on #boyf walks past and they ask him if hes seen a kid or if he knows where she could have gone #this area is all little trails through trees and marsh and streams #and he grew up here so he was like ah fuck theres so many places #he says give me a minute #runs back to grab his fluorescents and big torch #then went back and was giving ppl directions on where to check #cops turn up and they dont fuckin know the area either #so they’re asking him about all the different trails and shit #quite the situation

[chirpsythismorning]

I have been going over the seasons looking for all the evidence of the whole epic primary color theory connected to El, Mike and Will. And ngl this moment right here had me spiralling.

THE SAD PAUSE UPON THE REALIZATION WILL IS STILL MISSING AND THAT EVEN THOUGH HE HELPED THIS GIRL WHO WAS LOST IN THE WOODS AND HOPED IT WAS A SIGN, IT PROBABLY DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. WHICH MEANS HE'S STILL FOCUSED ON FINDING WILL. LIKE WHY DID HE NEED TO TAKE THAT YELLOW CLIP WITH HIM UPSTAIRS?!?!? WHAT WAS THE REASON? WHY IS THE MF RAINBOW IN FRAME?!?! SOMETHING SOMETHING TOO MUCH YELLOW

#byler #st primary color theory #this is not your standard color theory #this is not color theory #st color theory #we make our own rules over here #el = red #will = yellow #mike = blue #willel = orange #byler = green #but seriously going back to the very first episode #the evidence is quite astonishing #the moment we see will he's in a dark blue plaid with red yellow and white lines #then he puts on his partially yellow but mostly orange vest #then el gets help from benny and he gives her something else to wear besides that disgusting hospital gown #and it happens to be this huge yellow shirt #and so they're sitting at bennys and we get this big yellow shirt juxtaposed with yellow and red all over bc of the ketchup and mustard #then mike finds her in the woods the exact same place will went missing... #'Mike: do you really think it's a coincidence--?' #I could go on for ten years.... #st color theory crash course

[spoiledmik]

HAIIIIIIIIIII :33333 mayhaps a crumb of hollow heads interactions.... they stare at each other Widely locked in a room together. whoever breaks Somethign firist loses

they wont even last a minute

#animator vs animation #alan becker #avm tsc #ava #ava the second coming #ava tco #ava the chosen one #ava the dark lord #ava tdl #theyre dumb #brothers of destruction #theyre quite a show if you put them in a nixe clean place

[justplaggin]

« to the stray dogs »

#and to the second stray dogs anniversary of yours truly 🥃 #bsdrewatch2023 #bsd #dark era #technically 2 years and 10 days of having dived headfirst into bsd. but who's counting. aight story time #dark era is so special. somehow it always reminds me of the first time i watched bsd #5 eps in i thought to myself... huh. dad (huge animation & big-brained stuff fan) would love to watch this too #and he did. so every saturday i'd go over to his place and binge as many eps as we could until we finished it a month or so later #and the part i felt he liked most was dark era bc he was HOOKED- and i was overjoyed. #(i.e. he's a Lot of fun to be around when he's interested in something. the wonder is palpable) #not even the 'woah dostoyevsky!?!? bit got him quite like dark era did and it's such a fond memory to me #maybe bc it was the longest of our rare watch parties and the weekly anticipation was real. maybe bc i found my favorite piece of media- #-and the circumstances certainly played a part... yeah. unforgettable #<- when you need an actual post for the ramble so you whip up a phone gif and it looks reasonably crisp?? huh #tldr how was YOUR first time watching bsd? #*edits #*gifs

[bittersweetresilience]

say hi to me i don't know, i just remembered being so much brighter, i guess

cigarette ash like wildfire burning holes in the nighttime open scars feel like barbed wire white lies flying high like a ceasefire dropping flags on the shoreline this is as far as i can feel right 'cause what you don't know can haunt you

and all we ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think for a while

don't drag it out living like that doesn't mean a thing

so let's, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars 'cause happy endings hardest to fake

and i wanna let you know i wanna let you go but i just can't bring myself to speak but this is how it goes the end credits, they roll this bridge was built over kerosene but we can watch it and all i ever wanted was sunlight and honesty highlights to want to repeat let's get away from here and live like the movies do i won't mind when it's over at least i didn't think

so let's run, make a great escape and i'll be waiting outside for the getaway it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark and all we'll ever need is another day we can slow down 'cause tomorrow is a mile away and live like shooting stars you can wish away forever but you'll never find a thing like today

#miraculous ladybug #felix fathom #marinette dupain cheng #felix graham de vanily #🌃 #ml amv #felinette felinette felinette FELINETTE #i'm shrimping so hard i'm gromping i'm making absolute tempura #yes the 2 am coco pops félix post was made while i was finishing this yes i am constantly experiencing inconsolable félix feelings #félings even. GOD GOD GOD okay listen #i could do a line by line analysis of this song and how i made the amv i have too many thoughts to put in the tags i am exploding #but in summary REPRESENTATION. REPRESENTATION. EMOTION. REPRESENTATION. EMOTION. REPLIQUE. FUCK ME #félix's trauma an open scar leading her to the art room as far as both of them will go to feel right #ALL HE EVER WANTED WAS TO KEEP ADRIEN AND THEN MARINETTE SAFE #it doesn't matter who we are we'll keep running through the dark huAHUAHHGAG I MTHRWOING UP it's how he doesn't care what she thinks of him #how she sees him whether she hates him he's Chosen her as someone to protect and he will DO IT he will TAKE HER WHEN HE RUNS #i don't care if you beat me i know i have this under control and i'm protecting you and everything is going to be okay EXPLOIDNGNIG #tomorrow is a mile away tomorrow where i find out who you are tomorrow where we have to come apart #this is how it GOES you're the hero i'm the villain adrien is the lover i'm the monster i'm the cousin #marinette and félix and Knowing each other is so #THEY DESERVE SO MANY OTHER DAYS THEY DESERVE TO SLOW DOWN AND BE WITH EACH OTHER AND NOT HAVE TOMORROW PULL EVERYTHING AWAY AND UAHAUHGAUGH #i'm not well about them. félix and freedom and escape #ALSO i have so many feelings about félix cherishing the people he wants to save so much he was willing to do the same thing that led to #his own trauma and use the peacock miraculous TWICE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME ARE YOU KIDDING ME #you can read it differently but right now come with me ARE YOU KIDDING ME #also ALSO i often think about how felinette standing in front of réplique is a reference to pv felinette #and me placing that directly before the wish is a nod to how the pv was rewritten into canon miraculous. a meta wish... felinette remains #but also in universe you can wish away the world that once was and you'll still never find another thing quite like félix #and who you were and could have been to each other today... cherish him marinette... please cherish him for me #i hit tag limit on this essay so i'm not tagging the episodes i used in the amv but i used all eight félix episodes as always

[seeminglydark]

i worked the graveyard shift in a hotel in the middle of nowhere where the lobby was all glass. i always had a fear of seeing something on the other side of the glass, like oh i dunno, a person.

even bigger fear, while passing out receipts under doors at 4 am, looking up and seeing a person standing outside the window at the end of the fourth floor hallway.

standing in the concrete stairwells and hearing the echoing footsteps of someone coming up them toward you, but there's no one else there.

looking at the security cameras, why is the pool water moving like someone just dove into it, its been closed for hours.

seeing a hand block out the outside security cameras.

standing on the ground floor, and hearing someone step into the elevator and hit the button on a floor above me somewhere, elevator arrives and no one is in it.

footsteps on the first floor by the lobby desk, so i can go peek around the corner but no ones there.

#most of this actually happened #its weird to be all alone in a place that is usually quite busy #liminal spaces #deep dark fears #hotels #thinking about the stuff that inspires me

[quibbs126]

Dark Cacao is in desperate need of a buff; from what I understand he’s currently sitting at the worst of the Ancients meta wise and I want to use him in the game again and for him to be useful. They were able to give some to Hollyberry and Pure Vanilla back during City of Wizards, surely they can give him one too

Though also I do find it a bit ironic considering that when I started the game, Dark Cacao I think was considered the best of the Ancients to use, and now he sits as the worst

#maybe Hollyberry needs a slight buff again since Crimson Coral took her place in the meta #Pure Vanilla might need one too but he’s used quite a bit #though he’s also considered one of the best healers and there’s very limited options so there’s that to take into account #maybe every year they’ll just give the Ancients a new buff #but yeah Golden Cheese is easily the best one currently #(and if I’m being honest her revive ability makes her pretty op) #also obviously Dark Choco needs one too #but I imagine he’s less of a priority since there’s tons of Epics #but there’s only 5 Ancients and they’re all pretty important #so yeah Dark Cacao’s probably the one more in need of one #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #dark cacao cookie #ancient cookies

[rust-bearer]

Another zombie au writing exercise, feat: a bookstore

First Aid imagined, before, that places after the end of the world would be much more… dilapidated. Weed-filled and destroyed by both weather and time. But, surprisingly, these places were often just… fine. Speaking from that perspective, at least. The area wasn’t prone to flooding, so there was no water damage, barring extreme circumstances. There were no tornadoes, no hurricanes. There were some earthquakes, occasionally, but nothing major. So maybe some downed power lines, maybe some toppled trees. Old car crashes, some that had crashed into storefronts, some into each other. Destroyed windows… and maybe, rarely, a few adventurous plants trying to creep inside.

But mostly? They were all fine. When he entered the bookstore, the only ravages of time that he beheld were dried blood, slumped corpses melting into the floors, and layers of dust over the store that no one had any reason to scavenge. Some of the bookshelves were toppled over; many of the books were on the floors. Expensive things, like television shows and electronic reading devices- they were mostly smashed up and stolen, by those early days of chaos and looting. Maybe, if First Aid had been trying to scavenge from the old coffee shop in the corner, he would have had more trouble- but he wasn’t here to try and take moldering bags of coffee.

Instead, he was here to take their board games.

There was a lot of board games left, actually. A lot of card games undamaged, tossed onto the floor- old style games, simplistic ones, mixed in with the kinds based off of television shows and movies. First Aid fingered the plastic covering on a board game version of Halloween, checking out the price tag on some idle instinct- 60$, it said, and he smiled sadly at the knee-jerk reaction to put it back because of the price. He set it down anyway, not really interested in it. Instead, he picked up some variant on monopoly, stuffing it into his bag. The store had fidget toys that the kids would enjoy, and he grabbed a few of those too, letting them mix with the classic card game packs he’d picked up off the floor. He was pleased to find a normal version of Uno, too.

How do you pass the time without normal activities? It was like this. First Aid imagined he wasn’t the only one thinking of scavenging these games, because many were missing from the shelves- but he knew that, most of those missing were before ‘now’. When people thought this would blow over soon, and they jumped to take things they’d wanted, things they suddenly craved to have. Still, after a beat, First Aid grabbed one of those television board games and put it into the bag. This one was… based on the Thing, yeah. He’d actually wanted to play it before all of this. Maybe it be good?…

As First Aid got up to leave, he cast a wistful, wary glance to the darker sections of the store, the parts where the sunlit, shattered windows didn’t reach; textbooks, informational guides. Not this time, no.

But he did, on his way out, manage to stuff a few stray candy bars into his bag. He hoped they wouldn’t melt like the last time.

@mr-miss-anonymous for youuu

#first aid #zombie au #transformers #transformers idw #I both went to the bookstore and I’ll be honest I got bored at a party #so I was doing a mental exercise imagining that bookstore 6 months post zombies #which is very interesting to imagine and I’d love to listen to someone give a nuanced variant on it #again I ALWAYS forget how dark it would be inside these kinds of places if there are no lights on #only when I actively imagine it do I remember #it wouldn’t be brightly lit it would arguably be quite dark #especially in the backs of the stores #now compare this to buildings DESIGNED for natural light ? ie: a Roman villa maybe?

[padfootastic]

I like to imagine that the Black cousins were all really close in age: Bella and Andy were in the same year, Narcissa was the year below them, Sirius was the year below Narcissa, and Regulus was the year below his brother. If JKR can claim Cygnus had 3 kids at 17 and had Bellatrix at 13, I can say whatever the hell I want about the timeline. Plus, it’s fun to think that there are several years where the entire school is subjected to the Black Family’s chaotic nonsense.

hehehe i love both this option and the other one, that they were all a little spread out in years bc the hilarity of like. blacks being utter menaces and the profs being exhausted but relieved to see them go. except, a new one pops up every couple or so years and it’s like ‘oh merlin’s saggy balls no, not again’ so it’s like a black reign of terror for like. a decade and a half, starting from bella, who’s managed to get slytherin under her thumb in her first year alone thru sheer malice and magical power, then it was andy and her assorted rebellions (she started a minor unionisation campaign in slytherin in her second year; to date, no one knows how or even for what, just that for atleast 5.3 months, lil kids were going around chanting about the rights of the proletariat and it was only when sirius stepped in with ‘andy ur literally the bourgeois, what r u on about’ that it slowed down), then there was cissa who was a Younger Sibling™️ and wrecked havoc trying to be Everywhere, and do Everything bc she finally has freedom and no limits.

and then came sirius, of course, who kick started chaos on his first day by sorting into gryffindor and soulmate-ing a potter. he was not only a genius, but a bored one, which made him dangerous. making other kids cry was a specialty and unintended consequence of his sharp tongue and indifference, and generally, he was a Problem bc he couldn’t be controlled. and regulus, who finally seemed to be a decent options and slughorn (?) could’ve cried in relief at finally getting a normal black but alas, he should’ve known that typology just did not exist in nature bc the youngest black turned out to be a raging death eater with a massive hard on for a man his grandfather’s age steeped in dark arts to the point of losing his soul. so ykno.

black reign of terror.

#sirius black #listen is this me getting back into the BFCU bc— #why is the black family so endlessly entertaining #u can make hcs for days w them #they’re so so fun #the perfect amount of grey/dark #(also connecting to an ask/hc from a while ago—i love james being at the centre of this little hell) #like. everyone else is terrified but he just gets a free pass. like a cute kitten.bc sirius has claimed him and also bc he’s stupid & #& fearless* #so he just walks up to bella and presses a good morning kiss on her cheek and places a blueberry muffin in her hand and walks away #(he was the one who passed along the communist manifesto to andy) #(and also enabled cissa bc her younger sibling shenanigans matched his spoiled only child ones quite a bit) #sirius ofc. no need to even go there. #and reg was just ridiculous envious of him lmao (also had a crush poor kid) #and james was just. too nice to him #fun fun fun #pen’s notes #pen’s asks #the BFCU

[emmodii-mode]

Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).

I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-

Her face before she flies off---

She looks so heartbroken and sad.

#emmodii rambles #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate series #lae'zel #spoilers #i don't regret my choices and i do love a good angsty story. but at the same time... OOF. #may you find a new source of joy in the astral realm my queen :'( #for anyone curious- i played a githyanki which i heard is the only race that can fly off with her or something? #but well. again- didn't quite fit my character to have someone else turn instead pfffft #ALSO HE'S A CLERIC OF ILMATER AND A REDEEMED DARK URGE. self-sacrifice is kiNDA TO BE EXPECTED HAHAHA. #anyway- do give romancing lae'zel a shot guys. she may be a hardass at first but it's really because she cares a lot #also slightly off-topic but as a dark urge gith... durge grew up in a city so like. wonder how out of place they woulda felt with the #other githyankis anyway. i think i read somewhere that a gith durge realises they don't really feel connected to creches and stuff #which is interesting and makes me curious about how exactly they were made. cuz they have the traits and knowledge of the race but didn't #grow up with them. i guess the easiest answer would be 'god magic shenanigans' but STILL. #trust me to overthink things hahaha XD #if anyone's curious what happened to my guy in the end--- we followed wyll and karlach to avernus hahaha #what are the devils gonna do? steal the soul we don't have?? TRY IT BITCH #of course i did reload multiple times to have my character kill himself. because that was another option that felt possible for his charact #...and also because i wanted to see how companions would react to it. krewfjewlkrjewklrjewl- although the narration for durge suicide #is also quite interesting! of course maybe that's just me being mentally ill eff (/lh) but having a kill that isn't going to murder daddy? #gives a redeemed durge some control and a final say at last. which is still sad but a nice way to tie up their death methinks #ANYWAY- time to go find a way to convert him into a full-on OC. elves and dwarves are one thing but giths are blatantly dnd so i'mma have #to figure that out for my own story lore and universe--- some kinda new species? humanify him? or convert to another existing general speci #hmm hmm hmmmmmmmmmm-

[desultory-novice]

Silly question, BUT! What if, humor me for a moment please...

One of Adeleine's old bullies/people who tried to poison her and Noir, somehow ran into her on Popstar and discovered she not only is a well known hero, BUT ALSO has a bunch of terrifyingly overpowered creatures as friends?

Apologies Adeleine is not the type to hold a grudge. If such a person showed up, rather than publicly indicate to her giant hammer-wielding penguin friend that this was the person who broke her stuff and made her sad (and in an extremely roundabout way led to the death of her brother but SHE has no way of knowing that...) she would probably privately give them her best frown before BOOPing them on the face with her magic paintbrush and call it payback.

Then she would return to the people she cares about the most while leaving them stunned at how things have shifted since those days. (You get back what you put in!)

Adeleine's friends are, in the end, not tools of vengeance to flaunt to those who hurt her feelings back in the day. Her friends are there to celebrate the good times with her. (That said, big softie or not, King Dedede could be quite intimidating for her when needed. XD)

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Now, White-Haired Noir has some... stories ...from their past that Adeleine never knew. Stories that if they were to become known, ought to make the people he killed feel lucky their bodies are lost deep beneath the permafrost when the group reached Shiver Star.

I doubt much shocks Meta Knight, and Kirby, Waddle Dee, and Ribbon would probably be more sad than anything, but King Dedede? Who finds himself growing paternally protective of the siblings in either universe? That revelation would not be pretty...

#Apologies AU #Apologies AU AU #Dess Quick Asks #Adeleine #Noir (human-form DMS) #CW: angst #(...Tagging for Noir's part) #Randomly I've been amused at the idea that Popstar's #let's call it an “aura” is probably the cause of the size issue #IE Adeleine is not really 8cm tall but she IS on Popstar #When Noir first arrives everyone looks like plushies to him #but over time (as he comes to care about the place) #he begins to quite literally 'fit in' with everyone #He would still be comparatively tall but one day #he realizes that Meta is...bigger than he remembered #And Dedede's awkward bear hugs actually FEEL like hugs #(You're free to imagine the hilarity if a non-Popstar acclimated Noir ever ran into a Popstar-sized Adeleine though! XD ) #(Blade of course skipped this by virtue of being Dark Matter) #(Which would be funny on its own if Noir and Blade encountered each other as Blade would be Ado-sized NOT Noir-sized >w< )