#the king came calling

[lifewithaview]

Ripper Street (2012–2017) The King Came Calling

S1E3

People are dying in the streets of Whitechapel and it seems that cholera has returned caused by a contaminated water pump. Jackson,however,examining the first victim,a man who has come from the city of London,detects the cause of death as ergotism,which sends its victims mad before they perish,and which has been deliberately added to the flour at Flora Gable's mill by a self-imposed judge of morals,who is also seeking notoriety in excess of the Ripper. With Reid's wife among the stricken the Whitechapel force must combine with Inspector Ressler from the city to catch the killer.

#ripper street #tv series #the king came calling #S1E3 #period drama #crime #mystery #whitechapel #matthew mcfayden #London #Victorian era #Ripper #ergotism #poison #flour #mass killer #year 1889 #just watched #BBC series

[ninjasmudge]

u forget the word for a group of monkeys for one second and suddenly its personal

#he did nt know whether to call them a troop or an army or family or what #anyway ive seen at least 3 popular bear comics abt this #heres him kitty instead #lego monkie kid #monkey king #lmk #azure lion #lmk azure lion #lmk sun wukong #sun wukong #not ship he just came down from heaven and would like some pointers on leadership so he can work out whats wrong in heaven #then he got radicalised while down here #mk art #mk #my art #monkie kid

[the-gt-fairy]

Been thinkin about an AU where Siffrin is still giant/can still become giant after the whole boss fight

#g/t #giant/tiny #sfw g/t #my art #isat g/t #isat spoilers #giant!siffrin #red giant au #haha you get it cuz stars #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #buddy when that boss fight came up I legit called out GT!!!! #I also said that during the bonnie and king scene rip

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Got another AMV for ya folks (Tw: possible eyestrain for fast moving images)

Show: LEGO Monkie Kid

Song: SUN WUKONG RAP | "Light of the Sun"

please go support the writer of this song and listen to the original version on youtube, the lyric video is gorgeous

Link to the song's lyric video and amv on youtube under cut

#KNOX EDIT (me) #LEGO Monkie Kid Sun Wukong | Monkey King #Monkie kid #LEGO Monkie Kid #Monkie Kid amv #Lego monkie kid edit #Lego monkie kid tribute #monkie kid monkey king tribute #i've never called these tributes before HGSLK;JDF #ANYWAY BLESS U RHY FOR SHOWING ME THIS SONG I'M NORMAL ABOUT IT (<- is definitely not normal about it) #I need you guys to know i've actually been working on this for like... well look at the date of when the song came out and its been about #since then-

[starry-bi-sky]

thomas wayne au excerpts - things that could've been part of a grander fic except there's no grander fic

thomas wayne au - an au i made last year where danny is literally just. thomas wayne. his full name was Daniel Thomas Fenton and he started going by Thomas Nightingale after he was disowned. because of course. here is a link to the first post if anyone wants to see a more in depth view of the au (its also the start of me using the ‘danny fenton is not the ghost king’ au lmao

additional info: bruce is the result of a failed cloning attempt from vlad - vlad used a combination of danny's dna and an unnamed girl (Martha's) to make him to try and balance out the ectoplasm use. this resulted in a slightly liminal but otherwise completely human and stable baby boy. Bruce is, by all accounts, Danny's biological son. Danny named him Bruce

Danny was 24 when he died, he took in Bruce when he was 16. He is, so far, a single father in this au. (But if I WERE to add martha she wouldn't be sam or a DP character but rather a separate character on her own.)

Essentially they would go as:

Martha, 19: water does terrifying things to corpses

Danny, 19, half ghost: *heart eyes* really? tell me more they're morticia and gomez your honor

---- Like starlight -----

Bruce's father could light up a room. He was like a sun, his gravitational field could just pull you in, and before you knew it you'd be orbiting around him like one of his many planets.

He's seen it in action before, in the rare moments Thomas Wayne would allow him to accompany him to the socialite events he went to; the fundraisers; the charities. Bruce, as tall as his father's waist, would cling to his leg and watch as people drifted towards him and his star-blinding smile.

It's fitting that his father's favorite thing in the world were stars, he fit right in with them.

As an adult, Bruce has tried copious amount of times to mimic him. To try and capture a fraction of that light, that charm, in his own act - but here's the thing. Thomas Wayne wasn't made of starlight only in front of the cameras, he was made of starlight outside of it as well.

(So when older socialites laugh and tell him he's so much like his father, Bruce just thinks they are liars. They've only ever seen the Thomas Wayne his father showed them, Bruce is nothing like his father.)

In the manor, whatever room he stepped into seemed to brighten, and maybe it was just Bruce's own child-memory fuzzing it to raise his father onto a pedestal, but he stands by it. His father was a solar system, his very own galaxy. Bruce was just the lucky planet that was close enough to orbit him.

--------- arrival time ------

Ancients, ancients, what the fuck convinced Danny to ever go to Gotham of all places? Crime Capitol of the world? He's not sure, but he's been wandering around the country for the last few months, swapping between flying late at night as Phantom, and taking the busses and trains when he had the money, and was too exhausted to fly.

And of course, what convinced him to come here with his kid no less, who was just at the cusp of turning a year old? Whose curiosity of the world was growing greater by the day? Who wanted to look around and explore, and was growing tired of being held at all hours of the day by his father.

But he was going to be held, at least for as long as they were in Gotham for. He didn't trust the stuff on the sidewalks, and he didn't trust the people walking on it. Bruce was tiny, and Danny would lose his mind if he lost him in a crowd.

In his arms, Bruce whined and wriggled, pushing at his shoulders in the signature way he did when he wanted to be let down. Danny tightened his hold, and adjusted his place on his hip.

"I know, bumblebee." Danny muttered, resting his chin on Bruce's small head. His hair was still thin, but it was dark and soft, and tickled his throat a little. "But not yet, I need to find somewhere for us to stay first."

He needed to find somewhere for them to stay, permanently. He couldn't keep living like this, and he couldn't let Bruce grow up like this either. Constantly moving, homeless, unsure of when he was going to eat next? It wasn't good for him. But he needed to find a city he liked, and after that? He wasn't sure. Where did he start?

But Bruce doesn't like his answer, he whines at him, louder, and his wriggling increases. He wants down, he wants to move. They were in a new place again, he wanted to explore. He's too little to fully understand what his dad's saying. "Dada." He said, his voice thick with the accent of a child first learning to speak.

"I know," Danny repeats, stressing the word as his eyes flitted about. There was a park nearby -- maybe he and Bruce could stop there for a bit. Bruce could move around, and Danny could figure out his next move.

It was getting dark, he didn't want to be out in Gotham when it was dark. Shuffling, he moved the inside of his jacket to wrap around Bruce better. It was getting cold, too. Last winter with Bruce had been hellish - Bruce's liminality meant that Danny's immunity to the cold hadn't been passed down to him. Danny had spent all winter terrified that Bruce was going to get sick and die. He didn't want to go through that stress again, especially now that Bruce would be moving.

He hoped they could find new living arrangements soon.

---- dniwer eht klolc - clockwork's conversation ---

Laughing quietly as Bruce ran out of the room, Danny turned his attention back to the mirror, his fingers curled around the knot of his tie. They'd been planning this outing for weeks since the movie was first announced, and Danny wasn't going to let anything ruin tonight.

Humming under his breath, his hands fell from his tie and he steps back. They were leaving in half an hour, at best, but experience from the last six years has taught Danny that he wants to be ready before then.

In his reflection, the clock behind him stops ticking, and a wave of nothing washes over him, a subtle shift he's gotten used to that was the sensation of time stopping. Ticking, soft and coming from all four sides of the room, filled his ears.

Danny's smile drops. And behind him, Clockwork swirled into existence like a blackhole reversing its pull. "Don't go out tonight, Thomas." He says, his voice stern.

That wasn't happening.

He reaches up to push back a loose strand of hair out of his face. "Does something happen to Bruce, Clockwork?" He asks, his voice deceptively calm. That would be the only reason he would postpone tonight. If it endangered Bruce, then he would just have to break the news to him that they'd have to go tomorrow.

In the reflection, Clockwork's lips thinned, pressing together tersely. He looked tense, the grip on his staff was tight, tighter than Danny's seen it before in recent years. And it worried him a little.

Clockwork is silent for a few seconds, hesitant, before he finally speaks. "No, Bruce will be fine." He says, and uncharacteristic of him, he shuffles, "But--"

Ah, good then. Danny's smile returns briefly across his face. Then it could be something Danny can handle. "But nothing then, Clockwork." He says, interrupting the Ancient firmly. He leans back slightly to look over himself again in the mirror, before going to undo his tie. He's changed his mind about it.

"Boo has been looking forward to our movie all week, I'm not crushing his hopes by changing my mind last minute." In just a few seconds the tie was off his neck and tossed onto bed behind him. And Danny was reaching over the dresser beside him to grab a pearl necklace, he normally didn't wear it, it belonged to Mrs. Wayne and he inherited it after she and Mr. Wayne passed away last year. It wouldn't hurt to wear it for a special occasion like this.

Clockwork's lips tightened, and his shoulders tensed up. "Thomas," He says lowly, "Please."

...Clockwork never said please. Danny's never heard him say please in the last ten years he's known him. This... must have been pretty serious -- but, his core tugged at him. He couldn't cancel without finding the reason why. Bruce was so important to him, Danny couldn't break his heart with this without learning why. He wouldn't allow it, and neither would his core.

He hooks the necklace around his neck and turns to face Clockwork, frowning deeply. "Does something happen tonight?" If he knew the reason -- he just needed to know the reason.

Clockwork stares at him, and something that Danny can't catch appears across his face. "...I cannot tell you." He says after a long moment, his voice quiet.

That... is not the answer Danny wants. He won't cancel.

He frowns. "If something happens tonight..." He says slowly -- Clockwork said that Bruce is unharmed. That must mean Danny was able to handle it. He allows himself to smile reassuringly, and he steps forward to clap a hand on Clockwork's shoulder. "Then I will handle it, alright? I promise."

He gets no response back. Clockwork's expression unreadable as he nods silently - Danny's anxiety curls in his gut. He's being so unlike himself. But he shakes Clockwork's shoulder gently and steps around him, leaving the room.

After a minute, he feels time return to normal.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dp crossover #dpdc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dc x dp #dp dc #dp dc crossover #dc x dp crossover #danny is thomas wayne au #danny calling bruce 'bumblebee' >>>>> #he adores his kid man. absolutely loves him. he'd give him the world on a silver platter if he even so much asked. #dont have many tag thoughts for this au unfortunately. its pr straight forward considering danny is going to die when bruce is eight #left the movie they went to see pr ambiguous since mark of zorro came out in 1940 #only thought of it now that danny wore the pearls as i was writing this. just for the extra reference to canon #single dad danny #martha and danny would fall in love with each other via hyperfixations. they'd be engaged by the time they died. #their wedding would be in a month - little bruce was gonna be ringbearer at his dad's wedding :) and he'd already be calling Martha mom #danny: CW said bruce was unharmed tonight so everything will be fine :) i will handle it. #danny: dies and becomes a whalefall - and thus incapable of returning as a ghost to watch over bruce #yeah clockwork meant physically unharmed. he was in pain while talking to danny - his boy was gonna die tonight and he was never gonna see #him again bc danny wasnt coming back as a ghost.

[jojo-schmo]

A confession🌟 (Part 2)

(Part 1)

(Part 3- Final)

#to be continued #this is what people in the business call A Doodle Gone Rogue #I may write a dozen more confession scenarios in the future but here is the one I just came up with hehe #I have no grand backstory for this arc all I know is that I must finish this fluff through to the end #neither of these goobers know what they’re doing and I love it #metadede #king dedede #meta knight

[declantlynxh]

declan lynch web weaving, part 1/?

maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves; carol lee, to die for; eugene o’neill, brighton beach memoirs; maggie stiefvater, mister impossible; stephen adly guirgis, the last days of judas iscariot; sufjan stevens, fourth of july; maggie stiefvater, the dream thieves; terry pratchett, thief of time; lindsay gibson, adult children of emotionally immature parents; maggie stiefvater, the raven king

#declan #idk why i do this to myself 🤣 #the son left over :(((( #they had never tried to make it declans home :(((((( #declan webweaving #declan lynch #ronan lynch #the dreamer trilogy #the raven boys #the raven king #the raven cycle #mister impossible #call down the hawk #maggie stiefvater #there is so much more where this came from its concerning #matthew lynch #niall lynch #the dream thieves #declan lynch web weaving

[spitblaze]

You ever see something that is meant to be like...an overgeneralized statement for the sake of entertainment or comedy and not at all serious but it's about YOUR special interest and you are just sitting there trying not to explode with an entire explanation of why it's such an overgeneralized statement and the depth of the topic

#spitblaze says things #like. im not about to shame anyone about this. i WANT more people to be interested in video games as a storytelling medium #and calling someone a fucking casual about it Does Not Help #but it IS still a big big overgeneralization to say that all games in the 80s were simple arcade style deals #adventure games came into being in the 80s! maniac mansion and kings quest and snatcher! all 80s titles! #if we wanna go back even further the first Ultima game was 1979! as soon as we had the technology to make more narrative and complex games #we DID #obviously we see more of that now because its the easiest its ever been to make video games and put infinite thought and resources into #worldbuilding and narrative #and YEAH most 70s and 80s games were simple bc uh. our computers werent that good yet lol #but like. oh my god dragon quest and final fantasy 1 came out a year apart in thr 80 #do not tell me it was all run jump get the coin lol

[mintaikcorpse]

MK crying about not having a family like he don't got 4 dad's and a bestie who comes by his house sm that she might as well live there

#my brother in christ you got 4 dads #he calls pigsy dadsy and has lived with him since he was like 2 #tang straight up says he sees himself as MK's father figure #Monkey King might actually be has biological father #Macaque is his dad by technicality #and Mei would sacrarice so much for him #yeah yeah ik where his thought came from #just let me make my jokes #mk #tang #sun wukong #macaque #mei #lmk mk #mk lmk #lego monkie kid mk #mk lego monkie kid #lmk #lego monkie kid

[vampirepunks]

Since Kojima’s been saying that the Death Stranding film is going to tell a story that can only be told through the film medium, I really hope it’s a prequel to the game. There are a lot of background events represented through text and dialogue that wouldn’t translate well to a video game format on their own.

It’d be really cool to see the start of the Stranding, Victor and Igor’s backstory (as seen in the DS novelization), snippets from Sam’s childhood/early years with Bridges, the development and construction of the chiral network, and most of the events described in Higgs’ journals.

Coffin’s decision to leave her family behind, start a terrorist uprising by radicalizing the porters who unknowingly abetted human sacrifices by delivering BBs for the chiral network, and the decision to adopt Higgs as her protégé? That story alone would be worthy of a film.

#just thoughts #i would kill to see little baby Peter #and witness his Becoming™️ from that scared kid into the man we know and love #i know that ‘new world with a new sky’ moment would be POWERFUL #and what of his porter partner who died? what did that relationship look like? how close were they? #what of his relationship with Fragile after Coffin died? having a best friend who probably never saw his face? #not to mention his tragic rise to power and the secrecy that came with it. having to kill to maintain his DOOMS because people needed him #like he was handpicked as the inheritor of a rebellion against Bridges/the UCA and suddenly ended up with a LOT of responsibility when- #-Coffin died. and suddenly he was living a double life to care for and protect the people of the Western region #and those folks responded by calling him King Midas. naming him after a folk hero whose defining tragedy is being powerful but alone #everything he touched turn to gold but it’s so hard to form connections when you can’t shake hands #(sorry not sorry lol) #it’s such a complicated and nuanced backstory & so many people don’t even know about it because it’s in hard-to-reach texts & a side quest #idk I just think it’d make a really good movie. bonus points if it canonized him being a repatriate #it’d make a really good sci-fi political thriller/horror #i would vaporize in my seat if it cold opened with higgs saying 'once there was an explosion...' but now i'm just being self-indulgent #death stranding #death stranding movie #death stranding a24 #higgs monaghan #logan.txt

[icarusbetide]

favorite au: medieval-esque world because then we'd get to see all of these #enlightenment #democracy #slay #for the people ✊ amrev figures scream "THE RIGHTFUL KING" and "BASTARD USURPER" with their whole chest.

was this brought on by the new house of the dragon trailers? no....

#already the funniest people are going to be #thomas jeffershit #and john adams #the BASTARD USURPER duo #adams was already calling hamilton a bastard scotch peddler's son so like #his engine is ready to go y'all #and jefferson had that crazy letter to washington where all his snobbery came out. that's the real you boo #it's just funny imagining these people running around for a king/queen #alexander hamilton #george washington #thomas jefferson #amrev

[ratatattouille]

it's not you. it's the fact that miguel o'hara is 6"9

#this is my sister's joke and i'm putting it on my blog #how did she find out? #she was literally just making coffee then thought to herself “it would be unfortunate if i fell for a short king” #like that was her exact thought #and she decided to google miguel o'hara's height immediately #and then she came downstairs to tell me #and i asked her how she even came to know such a thing #and i have laughed my ass off #i call it her joke but she wasn't joking which is why it was mad funny #she's also happy he's in his thirties for some reason #i mean she's almost 25 so i guess it makes sense #miguel o'hara #the ostinato #ostinatoverse #spiderverse #into the spiderverse #itsv #across the spiderverse #atsv #sst au #sst

[nostalgia-tblr]

"...you could never have a Frost Giant sitting on the throne of Asgard!"

Okay but like. What if Thor had died? Not by fratricide, what if he'd just died? Because there's no other siblings (officially...) and even if there was if Odin wants to skip an heir he'd have to think up a reason or admit to literally centuries of lying to everyone, and it's not impossible that both Odin and Thor could die at the same time so like... they actually could have had a Frost Giant sitting on the throne of Asgard. And there doesn't seem to have been any plan to avoid that so...

#and even if it all came out the next in line's probably Cousin Whoever and if Cousin Whoever is not instantly popular his subjects are gonna #be thinking #'well okay that prince was secretly blue but he grew up here and we're used to him and most importantly he is NOT King Cousin' #'Whoever. would he be up for a violent overthrow of King Whoever do you think? let's call him up and suggest that eh?' #basically i now realise that Odin's Shit Plan potentially leads to civil war in TWO kingdoms and that's... honestly sort of impressive. #'why did he lie?' demanded loki. 'idk i think he just kind of... forgot?' answered frigga (who had also been lying but shhh...) #mcu tag i guess #thor (2011)

[gloriousmonsters]

this has no basis in anything but i can't shake the idea of ganondorf just being an incredibly reticent teenager (going along with my now-stuck headcanon of him being very isolated as a kid) who spent a ton of time just sort of observing people and absorbing information, who then around the age of stepping up to more active/public kingship was like 'okay I've done that stage, time to sink all those skill points i accumulated into charisma, manipulation and theatrics' which he views as a perfectly normal progression but seemed kind of sudden and bizarre from the outside. what I'm saying is that the original form of Nabooru's 'i don't know you any more, you are not the man I knew' was 'dude what the fuck weren't you an introvert'

#he still is! it's just less obvious #joky phrasing but. i do genuinely revolve this in my head wrt the whole nabooru-ganondorf friends 2 enemies arc (also in my head) #it's a crucial story beat re: nabooru getting unnerved by ganondorf/questioning how well she actually knows him for the first time #bc nabooru is an incredibly honest person and just kind of assumed ganondorf was the same #he seemed straightforward with her! he wasn't super talkative but what he said came off as genuine! #but when he displays the *ability* to completely change the outward appearance of his personality #combined with showing that he's figured out how to manipulate people and situations to his advantage #it calls everything else into question #(which in turn kind of hurts ganondorf because he's just putting into action the kind of king he's decided to be + being Good At People #and of course he's been truthful with her (mostly) she's smart and competent and he likes her! what is the problem??) #nabooru #ganondorf #it's an old song and we're gonna sing it again

[hotpinkboots]

ATTENTION FANFIC WRITERS

Please, please, PLEASE STOP deleting your old fics!!! You may feel embarrassed by them or think they're old but there are people who REALLY LOVE THEM!! Two of my favorite fics were just deleted and I miss them so much!

#pinkie speakie #*sigh* all those who read Ruby Red (Mettaton x Reader) stand up :'( #THERE WAS ALSO ANOTHER ONE WITH KING METTATON AND IT WAS WONDERFUL 😭 #I've also learned this from experience because I wrote a Spinel x Reader on Quotev (called Always And Forever) #and I deleted it. a couple people came to me afterwards begging me to put it back up but I couldn't bc it was gone completely #so yeah it matters. your fanfiction from 4 years ago isnt old to the readers and we REALLY love it :( #fanfic #fanfiction #x reader #writing advice #reader insert

[bigbigtruck]

next time i feel like ass that it took me 6 years to come up with another story I'm as passionate about as I was about TJ & Amal, I need to remember tonight, when I found out Peter Gabriel put out a brand new original single for the first time in

21 years

and I'm hype, not ragging him about taking forever

#tj and amal #shot and chaser #making art #the process #peter gabriel #it's called panopticom and it sounds like it's from 1982 it came out last night aaaa #fr though i beat the shit out of myself for not having another long form original story immediately waiting in the wings #every other comic artist i know did #what was wrong with me why don't my brain and heart work right #i just have to accept sometimes it takes a while #we can't all be king gizzard or prolific webcomic artists