#that would be... very on brand

[leupagus]

Please tell me someone has already done the work of figuring out what this says

I see a mention of claret and France but someone with greater enhance skills please help me out here

#I hope he just mostly writes about food wine and crowley #that would be... very on brand #good omens #ineffable motherfuckers

[creekfiend]

I am not even a Doctor Who but even I can see that this is a hysterically funny fear to express about Doctor Who

#uh oh. CAMP? that would be brand new. very scary

[lazylittledragon]

it’s being normal about dad gale hours again

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #dadkarios #galemance #your honour they are So tired #i think gale is a very ‘10pm is a late one’ kind of person so he’s not thriving #esp because cyra was Very unwell for a while so he was looking after a brand new mabel by himself #do you think he ever thought a tiny redhead pulling him out of a portal would lead to a morgue being installed in his house #it's v on brand for cyra to be literally about to have a baby and still hacking up corpses #i love that she isn't even my durge she is just like this #tw blood #cw pregnancy

[bet-on-me-13]

Steph's Year of Recovery

So! Danny noticed that a new face had made it's way into town. Two new faces actually, an older lady known as Dr Leslie, and a girl about his age called Steph.

He first met them when he was at the hospital for one of his parents. They had stood too close to an explosion again, and he met them while he was in the waiting Area.

Dr Leslie was a strict but obviously caring older woman, who seemed to be the one taking care of Steph as a kind of maternal figure, or maybe more like an Aunt. She greeted him simply and then walked away to talk with the Secretary, leaving him to talk to Steph.

Steph was a blond girl in a Wheelchair, and he could see bandages piking out of her clothes as he talked to her. She explained that she had been in an Accident a few weeks ago that left her wheelchair bound for a while, and that she had come to Amity for their surprisingly good Medical Centers.

He and Steph got along really well, and by the end of it he asked her for her Number so they could continue talking later. They stayed in touch, and when she was finally permitted to leave the Hospital, he introduced her to his friends. They all got along like a House on Fire, both figuratively and in one memorable case very literally (Vlad had pissed them off okay!)

Eventually Steph recovered enough that she moved from a Wheelchair to Crutches, and their shenanigans got even more chaotic (Vlad hadn't even pissed them off, this time was just for fun)

The only thing Danny could complain about was the fact that Steph was hiding something from them.

She said that she had been in an Accident a while ago, which was why they had come to Amity in the first place. But Danny knew it was more than that.

He could sense lingering traces of Death coming from her after all.

...

Steph honestly loved her current life.

Sure she had lost everything, her home, her health, her friends, her life, but she had gained new things too! Like Danny and the Gang! They were honestly some of the best friends she had ever had, and for some reason they just clicked with her instantly.

Danny was interesting and funny, Sam was vegan and a badass, Tucker was smart and witty, they all fit with her personality perfectly! It almost felt like she bad been friends with them for years. (She ignored the way her heart skipped a beat when she saw them)

But she still couldn't shake the sense that they were hiding something from her.

She knew it had something to do with the Ghost Problem in the town. And wasn't that a kicker, there was a whole Supernatural Ghost Outbreak in this Town and nobody knew about it. Dr Leslie had said that Amity was off the map enough to hide from Bruce, but she hadn't mentioned it was hidden from the Justice League itself!

Danny, Sam, and Tucker definitely knew more about it than they let on however. Whenever a Ghost Attack would happen, at least one of them would rush off with some practiced excuse and return after the Ghost Attack was over all dirty. She could guess what was going on, and she really didn't like it.

(This had killed her, she had died doing what they were doing, she didn't want to lose them)

Eventually she had to confront them, coincidentally on the same day they decided to confront her.

"Are you Vigilantes?" / "Did you die?"

"..."

"What?" / "What?"

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Stephanie Brown #Stephanie Browns Death #Steph actually did die to Black Mask #Dr Leslie didn't manage to save her but did manage to bring her back #How she did it is up to you #But because if that Steph needs Physical Therapy and Treatments only found in Amity #Amity is also secluded enough that Batman won't find them there #Steph knows she died but is willfully ignoring it to the point of almost repressing it #Especially because she doesn't know how she came back to life #She doesn't like that her brand new friends are also Vigilantes because being a Vigilante is what got her killed #She doesn't want them to die like she die #She doesn't want to lose her new friends #Trauma #Steph is Traumatized #Also all of them are 17 in this #Stephs age when she died is very vague but 17 is the most reliable middle ground #So the Trio has been Vigilantes for 3 years now #They know what they are doing and have a system so they can share the workload #Sam and Tucker still have their powers #So they can help Danny with the workload #Idk if Steph would develop Powers from the Treatment or her Resurrection but I kind of like the idea #Also yes this is Poly Eternal Trio + Steph cause she deserves happiness #I NEED more Steph Ships cause she deserves more attention

[stil-lindigo]

the candle.

a comic about rediscovering passion and recovering from burnout.

creative notes:

#this comic ended up feeling so much more somber than i think i originally intended #i hope the conclusion at the end comes off more settled and happy than it does reluctant or disappointed #since i do feel that way. happy that is #its a cliche but returning to your inner child #just making stuff that YOU'D like to see more of #it does wonders for making you feel less like being a creator means giving away parts of yourself #im sorry if this is coming off as preachy #obviously you can do what you like #and im not ever gonna be the wisest person in the room #im barely into my 20s #but i spent almost a year torturing myself over what i wanted to be #deciding to just...do what i thought would be cool ended up being the best possible decision #its 10pm #this series makes me really marinate in my own issues #very pretentious but at this point its my brand #comic art #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics

[spicyraeman]

#cw blood #is this off brand? #this feels very on brand for whats going on in my head at all times #what would be really off brand is kissing #I actually wanted to make something gruesomer but my brain wasn't havin it

[noyzinerd]

Stiles: Um, sure. Let's see...hmmm...Oh! If you see a drowsy looking bee on the ground, you can give it a little drop of sugar water to help make it feel better.

Derek, in the middle of cleaning out a bullet wound:

Stiles:

Stiles: I'm now starting to realize that you were probably asking me for a "Q-Tip" rather than a "cute tip".

#sterek #teen wolf #derek hale #stiles stilinski #tyler hoechlin #dylan o'brien #mieczysław stiles stilinski #incorrect teen wolf quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect teen wolf #Stiles: Sorry. That's my bad. #Derek: No no. I didn't realize how much I needed to hear that today. That was delightful. Thank you. #Derek: But yes. I would also very much appreciate a Q-tip if you wouldn't mind. That would be very helpful right now. #Speaking of cute tips: you can buy stickers of your kids' favorite characters and stick them to veggies at the store #Your kids will be more willing to eat them if they think you're buying “Avengers Brand” zucchini or “Paw Patrol Brand” carrots #Also if your cat likes to sit on your laptop while you work hook up a wireless keyboard and quietly type to the side as you pet your cat

[iamabigbox]

Love the theory that Kuras hates Vere because he was a “self proclaimed deity” and was revered as a god. As an Angel that probably passed him off (maybe add a bit of projection in there) but for him to literally want Vere dead means he has to of done some FUCKED up shit and I for one cannot wait to find out what it was

AND for there relationship to be so bad that Vere won’t acknowledge Kuras or talk any shit about him rlly (not like he does for Leander) makes it just all seem very personal

#like it feels very personal #ex lovers maybe #would be on brand with his shit luck for his lover to betray him #maybe MC will have the opportunity to do the same #touchstarved game #Vere my beloved #vere touchstarved #touchstarved kuras

[acerunaway]

redraw of my first klapollo ever from last year for this beloved klapollo day (02/09)

#klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #ace attorney #ajaa #aa4 #apollo justice ace attorney #pwaa #t4t #my first ever klapollo being a doodle of shirtless apollo at the gym and klav being haunted by that vision... #it should have been foreshadowing for the fic i would put over 100k words into #who knew this was my very specific brand all along

[merrilark]

If TUA S4 actually does put Five in school to help him “blend in” or whatever, all I beg is that at some point “Teenagers” by MCR plays over a montage of Five really going through it in school and barely containing his homicidal rage while some snotty teen shoves him into a locker.

Finally Five has enough and verbally eviscerates Head Bully until they run, tail-tucked between their legs. Some other kids see and Five accidentally becomes the champion of school losers. All the nerds and outcasts flock to him for protection and absolutely no one gets pushed around on his watch. Oh were you thinking of stealing Jimmy’s lunch money? Too bad, Five Hargreeves is smiling at you from across the cafeteria, which means you have about three seconds to run.

Eventually Five begrudgingly discovers that he’s fond of the awkward gaggle of teens that look up to him. This is the only reason he goes from “I’m almost 60 years old with an IQ of 190, goddammit, I’m not going to school!” to “Yes, I am getting up at 6am to catch the bus; school starts at 8 o’clock sharp and I refuse to be late”. Those idiot kids NEED him, okay, and he won’t disappoint.

#the image of a 50+ year old highly trained assassin having to grin and bear the tedious frustrations of public highschool amuses me. #i don't think it will happen bc it'd eat too much time to do properly but it would be very on brand for tua's humor i think. #five hargreeves #the umbrella academy #not really intending to spam the tags here but i'm saving it for myself to laugh about later

[veerbles]

I keep thinking about this line from ck.

this is the culmination of the van eck job; the 'post-credits' scene that tells us where each of the characters is going forward. nina is 'going to find a way to make it matter', which teases row. inej is starting her journey of ending slavery on the seas. jesper and wylan's futures are explicitly intertwined and implicitly turning to politics.

what does kaz's line mean? what was leigh trying to foreshadow?

I refuse to believe the phrasing of it means nothing, because in the context of this scene, it can't mean nothing. this is kaz's next big journey. and it also references another big conversation from ck:

this scene from the geldrenner bathroom is so important because, in it, inej confronts kaz with the truth of his revenge arc (which essentially drives the plot of the entire duology): how is the person he became to ruin pekka different from pekka himself?

and again, kaz mentions building an empire and burning it.

so it has to have meaning. is it literal? will a big plot point in soc #3 involve kaz setting fire to the barrel? but if that's the case, why is it significant that he rebuilds it into something new beforehand?

or maybe it's figurative. at the very end of ck inej asks kaz to help her end slavery from his side of things in ketterdam. she mentions taking down the crooked politicians, the slave-owners, the... even less-moral barrel bosses. while it seems obvious that kaz's 'new empire' is a barrel under his control, what would become of a criminal empire under the thumb of a man indirectly helping to destroy it? perhaps it figuratively 'burns to the ground'.

so either kaz builds his empire, and then literally burns it to achieve something else, or kaz builds his empire and uses its own power to 'burn it' by helping something cleaner grow instead. maybe that's the connection to the bathroom conversation: maybe it's the way he finally proves himself to be different from pekka.

or maybe it's neither of those, and I'm completely off-base? either way it has to mean something big, and I would honestly love to hear more interpretations.

#six of crows #crooked kingdom #grishaverse #kaz brekker #I think I previously made it clear that I'm team 'kaz would never clean up his act and go honest' #but honestly burning everything he achieved to help ketterdam become less corrupt and then fucking off is pretty on-brand for him #'if I can't be a criminal then NO ONE gets to be a criminal. I'm going down and I'm taking the barrel down with me' #I am also VERY carefully not mentioning the possibility of kaz literally burning down the barrel and burning with it... #we all know who dies if someone dies in soc3 ok

[abby-howard]

Part 2 of my 2023 hourlies; Part 1 here!

---CW family death (not sad)---

#hourly comics day #cw family death #family death (not sad) #hourly comic day 2023 #autobio comics #webcomics #between this and fingerquest it was an eventful day #i almost made comics about grandma flowers' particular brand of cruelty but they weren't conveying it just right #but as an example #she would adopt a cat/dog and feed it ice cream and whole chickens #then when it was too large to get up the stairs she would say "he's just not himself anymore U_U #and suddenly the animal would be gone (put to sleep) #she was skinny as a rail and had such weird ways of fatshaming every woman in my family #buying us clothes three sizes too big and saying i'm not sure it'll fit :/ it might be too small for you #and of course she was hideously racist #but had no real convictions beyond making everyone in the room with her uncomfortable #she was a very particular brand of evil southern woman that's a bit of a dying species #oh well #i will not miss her evil cackling while telling us stories of neighbors' cats she had shot

[mari-lair]

Shout out to this scene

I headcanon that when Ging goes “I don’t want to meet you.” Gon accepts it, but instead of being resentful, he goes “He’ll love to meet Killua though, you can’t not like Killua!”

#that feels like a very gon thought process to me #(with his usual brand of self hate but this ain't about his issues or we would be here all day) #killua zoldyck #gon freecs #killugon #hxh #hunter x hunter

[bananonbinary]

"chuck tingle uninvited to book festival because of his mask and then reinvited because ugh i GUESS if it's an autism aid we'll allow it" is the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. literally why did they give a shit in the first place, why would they want the author of books that famously have titles like "Pounded In The Butt By The Sentient Physical Manifestation Of My Slippery Slope Argument" to show up, but like, not act "too weird"

wtf did you THINK you were getting

#it doesnt matter that its an aid bc literally what did you EXPECT #why would you even want him there if you didnt want HIM there you know??? #literally why invite him in the first place if you want him to be anything other than his very public and easy-to-check brand #why would a mask put you off anyway theres been MUCH weirder shit authors have done before #im reminded of toby fox and how he refuses to show his face since undertale came out #no one's out here getting mad about THAT #he's allowed to put a lil cardboard doggie in a chair and type in all his responses from a remote computer #and everyone's like 'hell yeah man' #why is this different

[nikoisme]

Okay so I feel like that if my men Odysseus and Hector ever interacted (in a not-enemy way) they would have the energy of "two dads in the tool section of a shop". One would see the other checking out a drill and he would be like "hey that's actually pretty bad, not a good investment man". Then they would spend a solid 30 minutes talking about the different tools they use. They would bond. Immediate bros. And then they leave and like never interact again

#the iliad #odysseus #hector of troy #greek mythology #tagamemnon #they are tired dads #maybe they see eachother only in that shop #they don't know the other's name #i've witnessed this particular bond firsthand #it's very specific #i think that ody would be more experienced with that kind of stuff #hector is a brand-new fresh father and he is still learning #but my man ody has a child that he last saw when he was a baby #it's obvious to me #they had a short interaction in book 3 in the iliad methinks #where they were determining the area in which menelaus and paris would fight in #they just want to be over with this shit

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

life hack: terrible discourse around Brain Problems of various kinds gets a lot funnier to witness when you can remind yourself that "black and white thinking" is a symptom or trait of basically all the disorders there are

#this first struck me in the context of like #people with eating disorders who get extremely into body politics but in a way where msotly they're just like #'anyone whose relationship with food is even a little different than mine has an eating disorder. this is what recovery looks like btw' #but it applies widely and does add some levity around the situation #people whose internet brand is talking about their disorder making very confident extreme claims. and never connecting the dots #the dots are hard to connect! i have empathy for this #in fact i would say giggling at this a little has made it easier to empathize