#sorry. existentialism on main
crazy how oblivion and eternity are the only possibilities and they are both equally horrifying
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The Number You Have Called Cannot Be Reached 4
Part 1|Part 2|Part 3
Ship: Dead on Main (Danny/Jason)
Warnings: angst/depression and canon typical violence
A sunbeam from the crack in the curtains hit his eyes and he turned over burying his face in his pillow. Belatedly Jason registered that it was at least afternoon because the windows faced west, but it didn’t really matter. He was much too warm, and comfortable to get up. He drifted - things were good. He dreamt of a low rumble in the distance, barely on the edge of his hearing, easing the tightness, turning him liquid.
It was another half hour before he awoke properly, registering his bedroom around him dimly lit by the single sunbeam. He yawned and stretched before getting up. He felt loose and relaxed and as he opened the dark curtains he was greeted by one of Gotham’s rare days of sunshine. A smile tugged on his lips and for a moment he stood there in the sun, letting the warmth soak into his skin. He wasn’t in any hurry.
Down in the street someone held the door open for another whose arms were full of groceries, smiles were exchanged and the person moved on. The sounds of kids playing on the nearby playground reached his ears when he opened the window to air out the room. Somewhere someone practiced the trombone and they weren’t half bad.
Peace settled in his bones, these were his people. Even Crime Alley shone from its good side.
Stretching again, he walked into the kitchen and started rooting around his fridge in search of ingredients for breakfast.
There was a thought nagging at the back of his mind as he cracked three eggs in a bowl, added a small dollop of sour creme and some salt. He paused, musing, something he’d forgotten… He hummed thoughtfully, trying to grasp at the thought, but it just didn’t seem that important and with a shrug he took out a pan turning it on medium heat. On the way to the fridge, he popped two pieces of toast in the toaster. Unlike whatever was nagging he knew he had forgotten the butter - a small piece went into the pan and he left the rest out so he could butter the toast. He rinsed a handful of small tomatoes he set them aside on a plate.
Something happened yesterday, he finally decided, as he walked back over to the open window and cut off a few stalks from the chives plant by the window sill. He paused there for a moment listening; a saxophone had joined the trombone and they were now playing sweet jazz with each other from across the road through open windows. A small crowd had gathered below to listen. Amused, Jason wondered if more musicians would be lured out.
Sizzling from the pan, drew him back to the kitchen.
He set aside the chives, quickly whisked the egg mixture together and poured it in the pan. Grabbing a spatula from the drawer he absently flipped it in his hand as he watched the eggs. Judging the pan had adjusted to the cold eggs he turned the heat on low and scraped across the pan in long smooth moves, freeing the already cooked eggs and allowing the still liquid mixture to sink to the pan.
The toast popped up from the toaster, and it was a matter of moments before he had them buttered and were stirring the eggs again. They had solidified now but were still glistening slightly when he transferred them on top of the bread. He quickly chopped the chives and sprinkled them on top.
Looking at his handiwork he nodded in satisfaction. Time to eat.
A glass of orange juice in one hand and plate and utensils in another he moved to the table. He cut off the first bite of egg on toast and close his eyes in pleasure: Crunchy toast, smooth eggs wiith a hint of salt and just a bit of sharpness from the chives.
It felt like ages since he’d just allowed himself to enjoy the moment like this. It wasn’t like he didn’t cook normally it was one of the things, along with reading, he still enjoyed despite everything. He was always just so busy, always so angry.
Like a click in a lock he suddenly realized what he was forgetting. The pits, the Ghost, the cave and Bruce asking him to stay. The thought was an ache in his chest and he set the fork down rubbing his forehead. He wanted… he wasn’t sure what he wanted. For the longest time he’d convinced himself he was agreeing to working with the bats because it was easier, they’d get less in his way like that. He’d told himself he barely tolerated them. Now, with the pits calmed or whatever they were, he found himself inexplicably fond:
DIck’s persistence even when Jason pushed him away, he always had so much hope, despite Jason giving him absolutely no reason to. Tim who he’d had so much misplaced anger towards, who was so smart, and yet so stupid. Damian, the absolute brat, who behind the arrogant facade cared so much about his family and friends, but was so afraid of rejection.
Bruce was… Bruce was complicated. The pits hadn’t invented his resentment, he had been so hurt to find out the Joker had gone free, that he’d been replaced, that he’d meant so little to Bruce - to his Dad. But without the pits to stoke the resentment, he was just left with this tired old ache. Lashing out had never helped him and he was just exhausted by the constant fighting. He wanted his dad. Not Batman, Bruce, the Dad who would drink his tea in the library while he was reading just to be in the same room with him. The embarrassing proud Dad who would brag about Jason’s grades in the same breath he would brag about Jason nearly stealing the tires of his car the first time they met.
He still had the hurt and the anger, but the longing far outweighed that. He rubbed at his moist eyes. The realization hurt, because he really didn’t know how long this effect lasted or if this realization would stick once the Pits were back - it was just too much to hope this was permanent.
Jason never had that kind of luck.
He needed to talk to the Ghost, but he never appeared so soon again after a theft. For a moment his thoughts dwelled on the device they’d recovered yesterday, some kind of calibrator, if he took it, maybe he could lure him out… but the thought was dismissed almost immediately, even if he took it, he’d have no way of informing the guy he had it.
They really knew next to nothing about the guy.
Jason sighed, and looked down at his now cold breakfast. He started eating again, starvation was something he would never forget and he was not about to waste food. Dwelling on his family, the pits and the ghost, wasn’t getting him anywhere.
It was distressingly easy to push the thoughts aside instead of obsessing with no angry whisper in his ear. Was this how normal people dealt with emotions? Without everything having to be a fight? As easy as deciding he’d dwell on it later when he could actually do something about it?
Helpless laughter bubbled up in his chest. This was so dangerous; it was way too easy to get used to.
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I feel I need to apologize for the lack of Danny again, but Jason kinda took over and had some more angst to deal with. I promise, next time we’ll get back to Danny’s misery!
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How would ando deal with the existencal horror of his brother never ever letting him die?
¡A question related to one of the central points of the AU! (OoO)
Happy and conflicted because answering your question would be a kind of spoiler, but maybe I can answer part of it in a different way (ouo)/
¡Here it goes!~
As I mentioned before, Ando is still not aware of what his brother did to him to bring him back, and even less that his brother has him tied to life for "a reason" that I have yet to draw <(ouo)>
(That also includes how Ando would react to knowing this, sorry.)
But what I can say is that whatever the lamb has done will have consequences.
Both for him and for Ando.
At some point, I will talk more about this, but for now, this is all (owo)
¡Thanks for asking, and sorry for the wait! (>//<)/
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Having, finally, read The Nine Eyes of Lucien, I’m naturally shock full of thoughts on the purple tiefling and questions on identity and personhood.
Did you know there's a medical procedure where, if the patient is young enough, half the brain can be removed and the half that remains takes over fully? (there’s more to this procedure, of course; it's called hemispherectomy) From this rises a theoretical question; if you somehow could place both these halves in a body of its own, which one is the original? Is either the original?
(You can watch a video on this topic here, it’s super fascinating!)
Mollymauk was 'born' because a fragment of Lucien's soul was left behind when he died. When Lucien was eventually returned to his body, that fragment was still there. But, crucially, Lucien did not have automatic access to its memories. He and the fragment, despite starting out as the same person, did not fully merge; rather, Molly remained as a separate identity within Lucien, able to converse with and actively fight him. They were two halves of the same brain, having been separated long enough to become individuals only to be shoved back together.
Had Lucien been returned to his body sooner, say, in a few days or even weeks, in all likelihood Molly would’ve been fully reabsorbed as but a part of the whole. Instead, Molly had the time to become, to evolve, to be a person of his own. By the time he and Lucien were reunited, they were no longer pieces of the same person, despite being made of the same soul, the same body. Their memories and experiences had diverged and settled, and could no longer be reunited as one.
Kingsley is, maybe, the same soul fragment as Molly. Maybe he's the entirety of Molly and Lucien's shared soul, but scrubbed clean of the memories of both. In the twoshot, he says off-handedly that 'it's all coming back to him'. Personally, I read this as more of a joke than him actually regaining all the memories, but even if he did, that wouldn’t necessarily make him either Molly or Lucien. He has, at this point, already Become. He can no longer be merged, can no longer regain a personality that has been lost, because his own personality would override it, having had enough time to grow into its own Self.
But does that really make him a different person? Most of us don’t remember our early childhoods; that doesn't mean our child-self is a separate entity from our adult-self, that we are somehow free of responsibility or consequences from what we did or what happened to us when we were young. As a child, I was more outgoing, less shy; remembering that is strange and alien to me now, unable to fathom having a personality so different from my adult self. Even so, I am still the same person. Is it merely a question of perspective? Kingsley, upon waking, could’ve decided he was an amnesiac Molly and kept the name Mollymauk Tealeaf. Instead, he decided he was someone else, and named himself Kingsley. Identity is what we are, what we become, and what we choose.
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Leaving a job you've been at for a long time is so weird.
Like goodbye people who I spent most of the last 5 years around, who I know more about than some of my family members. Bye Dave who takes his coffee with 2 creams. Bye Mike who fidgets with his watch when he's stressed. Bye Donna, you're a crazy sonovabitch but you've seen me cry more times than my own mother.
I hate you all but also love you.
Will you miss me? Will I miss you?
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I was looking at my AO3 trying, once more to finish my AT mini series when I realized its been a year to the day I published where is it now, The glory and the dream? nicknamed Glory. Its a story I loved writing and have reread it multiple times and I got a bit emo thinking about that story - about that world.
I wrote a DGM fic in college over the course of a year that started as a speculative fic on past events and became an all out AU once more details came out in the manga. But I became so much more attached to my version of the characters and the story that it became hard to connect with the canon version. I feel something similar with BNHA and Road Not Taken verse. I love those characters who I took from early canon and molded and aged into essentially my own characters. I still get weepy reading rise up and writing glory kind of helped me deal with a bit of anxiety of turning 30.
This whole verse means a lot to me even though it was far from popular even when BNHA was dominating AO3 and is now so far out of vogue people aren't really reading stories much less wild AUs. But it lives close to my heart and is one of the things I think of when BNHA in any context is brought up. I will write the finale fic, it's lived in my brain fully formed since the last few chapters of TLWA. I will write it and it will hurt and I will sob and it will be one of the most satisfying stories because it will finally exit my brain and enter the page. And it will be utterly meaningless to 99.99% of the population and I will not give a damn because as much as I love sharing my stories and getting feedback, these stories are Mine. TLWA and it's sequels more than most.
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y’all when I say I’m bordering on insanity I’m joking less then I’d like to be
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tomorrow, im going to be sixteen. which is crazy because if you asked thirteen year old me if i was going to make it to sixteen, i would've said no. but here i am, talking to you. right now im experiencing what all readers eventually experience: being older than your favorite character. and, really, im not older than him yet, but i will be. next year, he'll still be sixteen and i'll be seventeen. right now, is the last time i'll ever be younger than percy jackson. that's crazy to me because he's what led me here, he's what led me to making this post. he's what led me to make a tumblr. he's what led me to make my first fanfiction. he's what led me to write peter parker. he's what led me to all my friends and mutuals on this site.
this time tomorrow, i'll be the same age percy was when he saved the world, when he killed one of his first true friends, when he got to kiss the girl he was hopelessly in love with for the first time. it's wild to me that he's always been this unreachable figure, someone who i've looked up to, but now, he's someone like me. he's someone who also has a shitty math teacher. he's someone who has to deal with idiots in his science class. he could be a nameless face in a crowd of students.
i don't know, i'm just rambling at this point. i don't know how i'll handle it when im older than peter parker. so, yeah, happy birthday to me and my existential crisis.
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sometimes i like to look at these silly cat meme pages, but every single time i find a page for it, i keep seeing this stupid dumbass little hoodie wearing shithead named "Existentially Dreading Babimbob" or some shit being reblogged every 3 posts and i hate him. i viscerally hate him and what he stands for with all of my soul. i hate his stupid little face and his stupid yellow hoodie and that stupid tiktok ad that i keep seeing reblogged over and over on these stupid meme pages. i hate the commodification of mental illnesses and "haha dead inside" meme culture and i hope the company selling this stupid little creature explodes. also this plush is stolen from an artist called lazycactus (whose shop no longer exists anymore unfortunately) so fuck him even more
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I love Akuma side-effects AUs sm. Like I already love characters dealing with random new body parts/weird skin/hair/eye color changes, but with AKUMAS it comes with the added layer of "holy shit am I still being mind controlled???" It's good shit man idk.
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Show! Me! The blorbo!
god damn you people work fast
alright but if i get bullied for it i'm lighting up the nearest cracker barrel stg
this fucker.
i'm pretty sure he only shows up in like 4 episodes and yet each time i see him my brain does something between a "." and a "!" like. "man acknowledged." watching this man is like watching a beetle or perhaps a moth. i know nothing of who he is or his thoughts. i know not why he's only here for a short time or why they use him so often for that short time. I don't even remember his name. I just know my neurons fire up when observing him in this show to a point where I may turn my attention from what I am doing while the show is on the background to watch He.
This is the epitome of Just Some Guy. This is white bread with barely any butter. This is a plain white tshirt but with a pocket on the front. This is a guy you see in a starbucks and find yourself staring at as you wait in line, wondering who he is and what kind of life he lives. This is a guy you match with on Tinder and you have to take a good 10 to 15 seconds to wonder if he's actually cute or if he simply looks inoffensive enough that the absence of any negative reaction counts as positive in your mind. He is basic and plain and simple and for some fucking reason his pure neutrality in and of itself captivates me.
I cannot tell for the life of me if my fascination with this guy is romantic, platonic, purely intellectual, or what. I think it may transcend that tbh. I think this feeling is the epitome of passing human connection. It's bumping into a stranger, having a pleasant 3 word interaction, and forever wondering if you could have kept the conversation going, longing to know what potential for friendship or closeness could have been realized, but knowing you will never get that chance again, and a stranger they will remain. It's looking at someone and wanting to know what the fuck their deal is, what actions they have taken in their life to come to your field of vision, directly in line with your ever curious, burning gaze. He's only been in so many episodes, but he is just so fucking normal that it's almost familiar, comforting to see him. It's like a brand of mac n cheese you've never tried that you know is going to taste the exact same as all the others. It's reading coffee shop au fanfic and basking in the simplicity. It's like a blanket at a hotel that's somehow just as warm and fluffy as one you keep at home. Familiar in that which you've never seen before. Basking in the few constants of the chaotic universe we live in. For me it just so happens to be dorky glasses wearing blonde twinks that are a dash of fruity.
either that or this would be normal blorbo territory for me save for the fact that i just finished watching neon genesis evangelion and it has been Affecting How I Perceive Characters.
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uh oh sisters! brainrot so bad we are learning hermeneutics about it
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@arcanaaa liked for a starter!
sometimes, his mind liked to throw him in loops. natsu hated it when that happened because instead of reaching an easy conclusion right away and then moving on — natsu had to repeatedly think about it. he couldn't let it go until he was left somewhat satisfied. and the worst part the current question was one that, in the end, did not matter in his life. maybe to others it would, but not for natsu.
he was growing annoyed and desperate. and well, cana was there and she was pretty smart. maybe she should See something he didn't. he wasn't sure if that's how her magic worked, though. oh well. "hey, cana, if you have two birthdays, which one counts? like which one do you celebrate?"
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Genuinely concerned and astonished (and also kind of horrified) that “killing people is bad always*, yes, even the people who probably deserve to die for their actions” is as controversial an opinion as it apparently is
*killing people in defense of oneself or others is understandable, not saying people shouldn’t like. Protect themselves or other people. I still think killing should be a last resort but also like yes protect yourself and others obviously
For real though why is that controversial?????? Why do people genuinely think that killing people is fine and good as long as it’s the “right” people???? Do they not realize how easily that is abused? How similar that is to the beliefs of fascists and bigots? What the absolute fuck what is wrong with people??????????????
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𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴'𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚃𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝙰 𝚂𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙼, greying clouds of promised thunder amongst the skyscrapers. new york and its' familiar dread: ( a part finds an odd comfort between the rot, another claws desperately to be elsewhere. ) easy to keep up with the latest headlines, �� papers discarded gutter-side and inexplicability soaked / out of sight, out of ignorant mind. how the horrors have seared at the periphery, petrified the colour from his hues. doesn't ease the guilt that gnaws at what soul remains, mind you. waking, haunting reminders he's still alive ⎯ the lone survivor after every reckoning.
shivering digits already begin scavenging for a light as he awaits beside her, the pleasant 𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚔 - 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚜 swallowed by the city's own voice. grumbling graciously, for a hot cup of coffee.
◜ ♱ [ @wonedeus ] : ❛ just an observation, not a judgement. ❜
a momentary ache caught between ribs, a slight wear in the poised caustic grin ( THIS IS AN OLD STORY, 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄. ) features taciturn with a want to believe her, a quiet forgiveness if it isn't the case. ❛❛ ah, come off it, love. you aren't the first divine figure to pass judgment. hardly be the last, either. ❜❜ open palms take the blue takeaway cup with a curt nod and inhale, a plummet of smoke exhaled as a thank you. ❛❛ every soddin' demon, angel and shrink seems to 'ave their opinion on who, where and when i've cocked it all up . . . judgement's hardly where it counts. ❜❜
there's sentiment laced between vowels, smoke twists as he takes a long sip. sirens pass and eyes fall down to the gutter; more newspapers, more horrors ( killer convicted red handed with a grin / billionaire smiling beside mid handshake. ) trenchcoat bundles at the nape, obscures the englishman's caustic features. new york's paradox of being completely invisible amongst a crowd of a thousand eyes. just observing, admiring the world go by. ignoring every sign, neon and holy ⎯ no, that's your job. the feeling ruptures a chill down the spine, encourages another sharp inhale of smoke.
❛❛ just an observation, innit ? in the big bloody grand scheme of things, all that superhero schtick 'n' whatnot, does it ya'know . . . help ? ❜❜
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recordkeep-ler 2: this time it’s personal
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