#this story's a nightmare

[nerdpoe]

Damian, early into his stay with his Father and right at the precipice of his hatred of Tim, finds a sword. It is named Soul Shredder, and rumored to have belonged to a very strong spirit of vengeance. He decides to use it to prove he is superior to Drake.

He takes the sword, walks up behind Drake's unsuspecting form, and with one clean cut; he lops off his head.

The reaction of Father is instant; he screams. It's a hollow, broken thing. It's full of grief and rage and pain, and Damian takes one look at his Fathers eyes and knows it is time to run.

This is not a victory.

This is not an achievement.

He will not be praised.

He is going to be hunted to the ends of the earth.

He turns and flees, just in time to hear Grayson scream as well; horrified turning to enraged.

He runs from them for months. At one point even Todd joined in, congratulating Damian on making Father willing to break his code and kill the Joker if it meant help in hunting him down. After that Todd had struck, managing to take Damian's arm in a moment of weakness.

At six months, he finds himself cornered.

Grandfather and Mother had agreed with Father upon hearing how badly Damian had shamed himself, and were watching apathetically from behind the Batman.

Batman, Nightwing, and Red Hood move forward as one.

Batman, Nightwing, and Red Hood strike as one.

Damian blinks...and falls backwards, letting go of the sword he just grabbed.

Drake turns around, startled, head still attached to his neck.

Ears ringing, Damian can't hear whatever Father is saying as he pats him down for injuries. Can't hear whatever Drake says as he moves forward cautiously to do his own injury check.

All he can think of is that he has been given a second chance, and he cannot allow anything to happen to Drake.

Or; Damian touches Soul Shredder, the blade of the Fright Knight. It was in the Batcave for storage, since apparently Constantine won it in a skewed deal and didn't want it around him. As a result, he's thrown into a nightmare of his own worst subconscious fears; being rejected after doing what he was supposed to do, and losing a fight. Now, he's overly paranoid of anything at all happening to Tim.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #decapitation tw #it's all a nightmare tho #it's a crossover because of the soul shredder #tim thought damian trying to kill him was bad #it's not #damian being overprotective is so much worse #he puts BRUCE to shame

[laevanders]

Gracie is watching you, don't be naughty :)

AKA Grace as Blikotep prophet AKA Blinkally Accurate Grace Chasity

#I think we deserve a story where Grace is already in her power craze / murderous era #as a treat :) #hatchetfield #Grace Chasity #digital art #artists on tumblr #my art #nightmare time #fanart #nerdy prudes must die #starkid

[botanyshitposts]

ok this sounds insane but in 2018 i went to a few carnivorous plant talks at the botany conference in minnesota. i got caught up in conversation with one of the guys there who was a huge nepenthes guy who told me a story about another collector in the pacific northwest who'd been buying poached plants, like a huge amount, and eventually got staked out by the fish and wildlife service and arrested and had all his plants seized and went to prison for it. idk if i ever talked about this on this blog before-- i know i liveblogged a lot from that conference but cant remember what all i posted-- but ive avoided talking about it since then because i was never able to find like, news articles or anything covering it, but behold.... we now have proof it was real, and im like 80% sure this was this guy he was talking about. the raid happened in 2016 and they'd been staking them out since 2013. he had nearly 400 plants and had been sourcing many of them from poachers in indonesia and borneo.

remember folks: poaching happens with plants too! it's a huge problem not only in carnvirous plants (nepenthes especially, which this piece is dedicated to talking about) but also in native plant populations in the US, including native carnivorous plant populations (north and south carolina's venus fly traps, california's darlingtonia, and sarracenia from the east coast), native orchids (historically one of the most poached categories), desert plants/cacti/succulents, and slow-growing woody ornamentals (cycads, for example). never buy bare-root plants off ebay or facebook! your best bet is local nurseries (which usually purchase farm-raised plants that do well in a wide range of conditions, and as a result have a healthy population in the wild) or specialty greenhouses (more expensive, but at least in the case of carnivorous plants offer young plants bred from established adult plants in-house, raised in captivity).

#super sad piece fellas like this shit guts me i cant even stress it enough #stories about nepenthes poaching hit different #there are hundreds of species #some are really common and widespread all over indonesia/china/japan/oceania #and some are like. super hyperadapted to one specific ridge on one specific mountain #theyre still being recorded and stuff because theyve speciated so much #so youll have a plant that has like. a max of 15 adults in the population at any given time. literally a nightmare scenario #AND theyre diaceous (there are male plants and female plants). doesnt seem like a problem until you think about the population dynamics #there not only has to be two plants but the plants have to be a male and a female #and people living there have reason to take them. like the poacher interviewed in this article does it to supplement his income #from working at a horrifying rubber production ordeal to feed his wife and kids #and he says everyone in his village does the same for the same reasons #nightmare!! nightmare!! nightmare horrible nightmare world!!! horrible fucking nightmare!!!! #nepenethes #carnivorous plants #poaching #conservation

[starkidsupremacy]

Starkid and Puppets: A Legacy

Now if you're like me, you're probably obsessed with starkids penchant for puppetry

And in light of recent news...

It's safe to say I've been screaming, crying, throwing up thinking about it alot

So lets take a journey through all their Puppets shall we!

We start where all good stories start AVPM. Who have the Dragon puppet

Next, MAMD has no puppet's

And AVPS has sorty and scarfy! (<3)

Now obviously... Starship, with an incredible amount of puppetry

Bug and buggette

Roach and some other backround Puppets (including mosquito's)

And (in my opinion) starkids most incredible puppet to date, Pincer!

Holy Musical B@tman has none

AVPSY does have a puppet! They have the basilisk puppet (technically scarfy and sorty again)

Twisted has two Puppets! The monkey

And the parrot

Neither Trail to Oregon or ANI have any Puppets unless you count Cornwallis

Firebringer has both trunkell

And snarl (with a size to rival pincer)

And you know what, let's count the duck

Tgwdlm has none

Black friday doesn't technically have any but I'm still going to put a picture of wiggly here because I just think you should look at him <3

And surprisingly, while nightmare time 1 has no puppets, nmt2 does!

The axe man

And the stupidly impressive (and rival for my fav) Otho

Lastly Nerdy Prudes Must Die, regrettably, has no puppets

That's a total of 20 different puppets (lmk if I miscounted starship). With an average of 1.3 puppets per musical/project!

Sorry this is so long lol

#God I love puppetry #starkid #avpm #avpsy #avps #me and my dick #starship #holy musical b@man #twisted #twisted: the untold story of a royal vizier #trail to oregon #ani a parody #firebringer #tgwdlm #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #nightmare time 2 #nightmare time #puppetry

[zu-is-here]

Key

#zu art #comic #post dark cream #killer!sans #cross!sans #dream!sans #undertale #undertale au #utmv #choosing an option in the poll not only affects the course of the story but also opens up additional scenes ☆ #(​felt like this one needed to be drawn before posting the next page >:3c) #Dream: *does it because he trusts Killer* (úwù) #Cross: *does it to annoy Nightmare at every opportunity* >:D #gotta zzz— thank you guys for patience!╰(*´︶`*)╯

[guraveetee]

I am a young maiden desperately waiting for her husband to return from war. AO3 is down. I can't live laugh love in these worrying times. Please come home.

#ao3 #MY FAVORITE AUTHOR JUST UPDATED AND I CAN'T READ IT #MY BEDTIME STORIES! I WILL BE PLAGUED BY NIGHTMARES!!!

[b0tster]

just did a cutscene count. nightmare kart has 15 cutscenes (and counting) 😭

for comparison bbpsx had like 6 😭😭

#nightmare kart #storys going places lol

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Nightmare | 1960-1962

#Tom Leahy #Nightmare #horror host #typography #the story of my life #horror #hammersmith horror #creepy #currently reading #regional horror

[angstyhikka]

His Story: Consequences Pg 59-60

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Yayyyyy my little meow-meow being introduced to slavery🥰🥰🥰

Also, if you like what im doing, consider to support me on patreon and kofi! :3

#undertale #undertale au #angsty hikka #undertaleau #dust sans #nightmare sans #dusttale #comic #zero infinity comic #his story consequences

[karvevapen]

"𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘯"

Starkid dads!

#soooo we have three Coreys two Dylans and one Jeff #three Dylans including Gerald #starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #twisted the untold story of a royal vizier #trail to oregon #nightmare time #black friday #nerdy prudes must die #dylan saunders #corey dorris #jeff blim

[nerdpoe]

Maddie and Jack Fenton get a wake up call, and it's in the worst possible way.

Their son got caught up in a plot via a Supervillain, and he and a bunch of other teen heroes are trapped in a room slowly filling with water. The Supervillain is broadcasting the footage to the world, and just letting it play. Forcing heroes to watch their mentees die.

The teen heroes can't get out.

Until their own son, Danny, takes a deep breath and orders them all behind him. That he can do something. But they'll have to handle the rest.

Then, Danny screams.

The wall is blown clean off.

The teen heroes swoop in to drag him along, and they leave the room.

What the teens don't know, however, is that the cameras throughout the entire facility are recording and broadcasting as they come into view. Apparently, the Supervillain had accounted for this and wanted to broadcast them dying from other traps.

But the professional teen heroes are doing a great job clearing everything out.

Danny is...looking unwell.

Jack and Maddie are concerned. They didn't know he was a Meta, so he definitely didn't practice that power; had he pushed himself too hard?

Then the teen heroes notice and start asking.

Danny answers.

He's terrified of his parents finding out he's a Meta. He has a contingency to run away if they do. He says his parents are only focused on their inventions and hunting a certain group of interdimensional beings. That because of his abilities and Ecto-contamination, their weapons keep hurting him and they refuse to get rid of them, so he clearly knows what they value more.

That they might think he's possessed and harm him to "fix" him.

That he has nightmares about waking up on the operating table in their basement, cut open with his organs missing.

That whenever he sees his mother holding a knife or his father holding a gun, he has to fight the urge to run for safety.

And Jack and Maddie, being stared down by Black Canary and Green Arrow (who had been sent to comfort but are now bracing to protect their own son from them), feel like someone has carved out their own organs.

They have to be better.

TLDR: Danny almost gets got by a Supervillain plot meant for others teen heroes he was around as a civilian, he knows he's being recorded in the beginning and uses the Ghostly Wail to break the walls to escape, and kinda sorta trauma dumps on the teen heroes not knowing he's forcing his parents to watch and listen to him list all their failures in 4k.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #having your failures as a parent blasted for the world to see #and having to live with the fact that you failed so badly #you ARE your kids worst nightmare

[elizakai]

Reminder that Dreamtale Twins are canonically sexless beings who identify with male pronouns.

yk what that means troops~💫

#utmv #ut au #sans aus #undertale #Dreamtale #dream sans #nightmare sans #It’s headcanon time #I like to headcanon that they use male pronouns but don’t actually care or think about it #Because they have literally all and none of the gender anyways✨✨✨ #they are beings of energy grace and magical girl juice #They don’t restrain based on sex or gender #like tumblr queens fr fr #Or I love stories where they are femme #Because literally why not #Fluid kings #I headcanon that they don’t pay attention to or simply don’t care about labels all that much #and just use he/him as a default 🤷🏽‍♀️ #Some fandom positivity for the night! #trans dreamtale headcanons #Trans

[ace7librarian]

I will update it at any event

@curtmega

#curt mega #starkid #hatchetfield #shipwrecked comedy #tin can brothers #Eugene trouser #headless: a sleepy hollow story #cliff irons #wayward guide for the untrained eye #guy de vere #poe party #vhs christmas carols #vhscc jim #nightmare time #duke keane #pulp musicals #john herschel #benjamin park #nerdy prudes must die #kyle clauger #ebenezer scrooge #spies are forever #agent curt mega #black friday musical #howard goodman #officer bailey #mark chasity #zach chambers #workin' boys spoilers #rambling in librarian

[aranarumei]

started going through the enstars main story and what do you mean idols earn in money in the form of a special company currency called L$ and L$ can’t be exchanged for actual real currency…? (edit: yes, yen can be exchanged into L$. as far as I’ve read, exchanging L$ into yen is impossible… though the main story might mix itself up later. still…) the more I read the more fucked up it gets btw

#kiri.txt #enstars #how am I liking the main story so far u may ask #it’s fine! kinda slow but i wasn’t walking in expecting for something great #I was not expecting this financial nightmare tho #also obligatory no spoilers!!! please!!

[cowardlykrow]

"Hah, dude doesn't even know he's in my tamagotchi."

#For some reason he gave me early 2000s vibes as i was drawing him? So of course I turned his box into a tamagotchi✨ #Tinky #I don't care about cannon lore or timelines... all i know is this version of Tinky would torment the SHIT out of College ted. #t’noy karaxis #Nightmare time #time bastard #thinks i proof read it: writes always twice #hatchetfield #Heheh - Silly slushie idea came from @yourlocalabomination #and Edgelord Tinky convo idea came from @raftersomefood #God this particular Human tinky would talk so annoying... SOOO Dude-Bro 💛 #Anyway i guess i should have tried making him look like curt instead of winging it cuz everyone thought i was drawing Goat ted??? #I do think he came out too thin - I dunno know what happened #(PS. feel free to find me on insta for some close ups [same user] and follow me for my annoying stories where i post shitty progress pics)

[ricky-mortis]

What a horrible rat bastard of a man ❤️

#look I’m weak for cowboys #it took me seeing one edit of him on TikTok to motivate me to draw him #he’s been on the list for a while tho #so ive finally done it #I really wasn’t going to do shading on this #but then I did #a thrilling story I know #plus I got to watch a video on pseudoarchaeology while drawing this so that was fun #and the power went out! all good now but it twas eventful #alright uhhhh fun fact time #fun fact: in Texas- it is illegal to put graffiti on someone else’s cow #so don’t go vandalizing other peoples livestock down there #it’s ok everywhere else I guess #eddie chiplucky #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #yellow jacket nmt #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #Curt mega #Starkid #team starkid #starkid fanart #my art #:)