#what a chill dude

[gonmyson]

Hades is just chill like that

#percy jackson #disneyplus #honestly love him #what a chill dude #percy jackon and the olympians #rick riordan

[butchmartyr]

a lot of older norms for internet and site etiquette are shit but you know what was good that we need to bring back? lurking. you need to lurk moar

#if you’re going to post or ask someone something consider lurking instead #to just watch and listen to other users until you learn how what’s going on in the space #im seeing ppl reply to joke posts like ‘what’s kayfabe?’ ‘what’s this mean? did you mean [OPPOSITE]?’ #nah dude just chill out and sit and watch and search and it’ll make sense to you later #maybe I just miss forums #sasha speaks

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Aw, no. No, sweetie, no.

Garth. Baby boy. You are so stupid. Incredibly sweet but stupid. I can guarantee you that Roy would be better with an absentee Oliver Queen then he would be with RUDY AND MARY WEST.

Whooooo boy. This isn't- this isn't even, like, a writer just not knowing Wally's lore or whatever, this is MARK FUCKING WAID writing this. Do you comprehend what that means?? DO YOU?!?

That man in that kitchen is two seconds away at all times from going full Ted Bundy. I'm not even fucking joking. It is so insane how much I am not joking.

Wally's father is dangerous. He ran a work camp for children and planned on using land mines on them! He sold his son to a death cult!!! He hired a hitman to kill his wife!!!!!

But he's also really fucking good at playing the part of the 'normal suburban Dad' and that's what Waid is showing REALLY FUCKING WELL HERE. Rudy is playing his part and he's playing it well. Don't think I didn't notice Rudy dropping the coffee pot in front of Wally and fucking smirking when it 'magically' popped back up on the counter. This is a man who knows about his son's powers and is playing along. This man is a problem.

And I'm super excited to see how Waid plans for this story to progress.

#dude literally the fucking chills i got when Rudy dropped the coffee pot and Wally grabbed it at superspeed #i was like NO MY IDIOT SON WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? #then Rudy fucking joked about it #like??? WALLY RUN THE KILLER IS IN THE HOUSE! THE PHONE CALL CAME FROM THE KITCHEN!!!! #dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #wally west #garth of shayeris #world's finest teen titans #teen titans #titans #aqualad #tempest #rudy west #mary west

[zoethebitch]

#man what a chill dude

[butchdykekondraki]

so like i asked an angel what it thought about the domestification of wolves and it stared past me and said "is that not what we have done to you?", and when i asked who it was looking at it stared at Me and said "who do you think?", and when i asked who it was talking to it looked into You and said "are we not both speaking to the same person?", and when i asked what it meant it stared at me and said "you know what i meant.", and when i said i didn't it stared through me and said "well, you will one day, won't you?", and you nodded. i asked an angel what it was like to be divine and it looked at us and said "are you not?", and smiled. anyway who would've thought angels had teeth like wolves lol

#[ren] #thinking about the second person You and the first person Me and the third person perspective and angels #also thinking about what if a really chill dude talked to an angel #so. heres both #rensdocs.txt #unreality

[tina-rocket]

You know a character is beyond messed up when 'gay and homophobic' doesn't even make the top 5 reasons they need therapy

#Ouyang ily but. what the fuck my dude. #she who became the sun #swbts #he who drowned the world #general ouyang #(he's awful & i love him so much) #(no therapy in 14th century China but at least he needs to chill. even a little. please.) #tina rambles

[potatobugz]

LA ALMAAAAAAAAA

#just roll with it #jrwi #la alma #jrwi riptide #jrwi fanart #jrwi la alma #I LOOOVVE HIM AAUUGGGHHHGHH #NONSPOILERS IDK WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY FIGHT HIM #BWAA #hes so cool. oh my god. like his character is this chill (for the most part) cat dude #who also happens to know a bunch of devastating wrestling moves #“have you ever seen a dropkick before?” *PERFORMS A BRAINBUSTER ON CHIP* #potatart

[tomfrogisblue]

So much of Quackity's lore is like the rest of the server is having a good time and doing normal things like building, taking care of their kids, having chill convos with friends

Then you go over to Quackity's stream, and he's just like actively being drowned or being psychologically tortured or something

#everyone else chilling with some beers meanwhile quackity being dragged through the nine cicles of hell #like bruh #qsmp #qsmp lore #quackity #like big q my dude what the hell was the shit i just watched

[soaked-ghost]

it's very funny to me that the multiverse's chosen guy to motivate it's frickin gods was sans, literally the most unmotivated character in the entire game of undertale

and not only that he is SOULLESS so he's DOUBLE unmotivated and I genuinely find that hilarious like yeah

he knows what to say and what advice to give to get people's spirits up, is he gonna apply them to himself? nope, the guy's like a wet mop on the floor that can barely move his ass to do anything and everyone still relays on him somehow

#at least that's what I think I just cannot separate ut!sans from any iteration there is of him since they're the same people #like I see sans first and then the actual character ukwim? #i know ink is supposed to be a ball of energy that barely sits still #but in the way I write him. yes he still barely sits still and is always looking for something fun to do- #-but when it comes to actually doing something productive (or sometimes just getting up) his energy levels drop to 0 #idk I think I see him as a way calmer and chill person (like sans) than a hyperactive 7 yo in how he is in canon #what I mean is that dude's energetic to a point #ink sans #sans au #utmv #myart

[heybiji]

revisiting an ancient OC. his name's orion.

#sketch #original character #oc #you can tell what the censored word is but #it's okay to be misogynist if you're 2d and wear a crop top i whisper to myself while drawing him #i just always feel bad posting anything darker because the duality of my art is like #CUTE OCS that draw in sweeties #but then actually most of my OCs are absolute disasters #orion #dysprosium #he's not a nice dude #not a chill fellow #casual conversation arose about him hurting a friend's oc very very badly so i was compelled to draw him

[hyperfixationspam]

does frenchie even do pirate stuff or was stede like "well obviously if im going to assemble a pirate crew im going to have to find a bard" cuz that does sound like something stede would do

#frenchie: holy shit this dude is gonna pay me that much to just play music and chill on a boat??? #frenchie: (realizes its a pirate ship) What. #our flag means death

[karmathehalflander]

I just need everyone to be aware

That when I first introduced BMC to my dad the FIRST question he asked was “does Michael have a crush on Jeremy?” And then I said “well that’s the thing- this lead to me explaining shipping. And he was like “well Michael definitely has a crush on Jeremy.”

#I just thought it was funny that this dude who knows nothing about this musical or fandom #Picked up on the same things we did #Boyf Riends is subtlety implied in the musical and my mind won’t be changed #boyf riends #i don’t know how to tag boyfs #What do we use? #Boyf Riends? Boyf-Riends? Boyfriends? boyf riends? #I can’t with this ship name #It’s cute but I need someone to give me a canon spelling #michael x jeremy #There we go #be more chill #BMC

[cryptocism]

I love the comic book writing sensibility that Frequency has, like how Three and Five's ending is great for the story being told but if it were a published comic it would still leave them on the table for if a future writer wanted to use them.

whats funny is that despite doing my best to keep in line with dc comics/comic writing sensibilities throughout the fic (staying as comics-accurate as possible in terms of continuity/tone/characterization/story elements etc) that particular comic writing reality was one that was like. kind of a genuine anxiety that i didn't know i had until i started writing this thing.

ive said before that in the original concept for Frequency all of the clones (besides Thad) were going to end up dead. whether it was via killing each other or unintentionally being the instrument of their own demise (disney villain style). obviously it changed because creating an entire narrative about this one character's redemption arc and then not allowing any of the other villains to have a shot at redemption felt hypocritical and like. mean. not to mention antithetical to the whole ethos of the story.

but the reason why killing off all the other clones was my first instinct is partially because i had this kinda subconscious recoil to the idea that any of them would actually continue on after the story was over.

like, because i was trying to stick to canon so much, while figuring out the story a thought came up a couple times that basically went like, "okay, well, if this was a real comic, then...". and inevitably i had a realization that if this WAS a real comic, my original clone characters would be canonized, and therefore available to any future writer who wanted to yank them out of their respective endgames and inject them into other stories. which i Did Not Like the Idea Of.

classic "making up a guy to get mad at" except it was more "making up a reality to get anxious about". because obviously no matter how much it sticks to canon, Frequency still exists in a fan-created space.

but! i'd never made up original characters to put in my own fanmade stuff before and was definitely feeling protective. because all those original clones i made had yknow: a story purpose and narrative function to facilitate the actual key characters, Thad and Bart. the idea of them being removed from that context in any capacity, even if it was in the hands of a good writer, made me have this gut "no STOP you're ruining it!!!!" reaction.

they were all made for Frequency, and to foil Thad as a character, i didnt like the idea of Three being brought back as a one-note villain or Jude and Nathaniel getting folded into the wider Flash cast of allies. and none of them were made to be main character material. plus the character roster at DC is already uhh Extremely Stacked i genuinely did not want the takeaway to be "and here's the nEW ADDITIONS TO THE FLASH FAMILY!" because that wasnt the intention

anyway i got over it lol. i still did my best not to leave any loose ends, and have each ending be wholly satisfying on its own, and ideally the oc clones basically continue on offscreen while the true adventures are based around Thad and Bart. but yeah it felt right to leave off on that note (and served the story much better than killing everybody off)

#duke-nitro #asks #realizing that i felt kinda defensive about Literally The Hypothetical Nonexistent Possibility of other ppl writing my characters... wild #like genuinely very surprising i did not think i was that precious about original characters #especially OCs created for an existing universe that i did not also make up #what probably helped was all the cool fanart i kept seeing of frequency #and seeing other people make their own AUs either based directly off of Frequency “lore” or based on the Multiple Clone AU #u gotta realize when you're taking your fun machine too seriously #like chill its fun dude we're just playing in the space #otherwise u end up committing to stuff that would ruin the story ie killing all your original characters #to safeguard against the hypothetical nonexistent possibility of other people writing those characters #''oh you'd rather smother your baby than see it raised by someone else? #well my name is solomon and i have a sword with an innovative solution to your paternity problem'' #anyway thank you yeah i think it worked out

[eveningrainstorm]

People often talk about Rio Ranger as if he's the doll version of Sei but what I find super fascinating is that he isn't, not in the same way Fake Reko or the Dummies are replications of their human counterparts.

Ranger resembles Sei on a surface level — same physical appearance, just an unclear amount older; same way of speaking. But he is unmistakably different. Ranger is an incomplete being, missing his positive emotions, but even the true Ranger is Rio Laizer rather than Sei, because there's still something different.

Rio Ranger is, fundamentally, inhuman and yet desperate to be human. He was created to be jealous of humanity and despite his hatred for them, humanity is what he is always striving for. But it is something that he doesn't possess, and is forced to steal instead. He takes clothes from the dead and uses drawings on cards to feign emotion; he is the Dress-Up Doll, Rearranger, not possessor of anything of his own.

While the other dolls based on humans in the game have identity issues based on their personhood being defined by someone else, being merely a copy of another person, Ranger is not even allowed Sei's identity to base himself on — it's very likely he doesn't even know who Sei was. He does not have Sei's clothes — nondescript and tied to Asunaro as they are — and he does not have the capacity for expressing emotion that Sei had.

When comparing Ranger and Sei in terms of personality, differences are obvious. There are similarities, naturally — besides the abrasive way of speaking, there's the jealousy and desire for validation. But in Ranger, these are present to an extreme — they're all he has. (And, ironically, this is what Gashu claims to believe makes him so human, even when Ranger's inhumanity comes through most clearly in this lack of anything else.)

In Sei, on the other hand, these traits are tempered by logic, to put things in YTTD's beloved logic vs. emotion dichotomy. Despite his outwardly emotional nature, from what we see of him he appears realistic and focused on survival in a way that Kai isn't. He's aggressive and overly casual about killing people, but he doesn't express the glee at violence that Ranger does, only a fierce desire to prove himself and survive. Sei is jealous of Kai and desires Gashu's affection, but also has an understanding of the situation he's in that both Kai and Ranger lack — he can tell that Gashu doesn't care about him as much as he does Kai, and recognizes that the way Gashu treats both of them is wrong. Ranger believes Gashu truly loves him, a fact proven blatantly false by his eventual demise at Gashu's hands. Ironically, this blindness is more similar to Kai as we see him in his minisode, rather than Sei.

Of course, this understanding isn't simply a part of Sei's basic nature, but rather the fact that unlike Kai and Ranger, he has past experience to go on. Sei wasn't born into the Satou family — though his exact origins are unclear, based on his grief for his birth father and how he talks about Asunaro ("all this shady organization crap"), it's possible he wasn't even born into Asunaro at all. Before being sent to Gashu, he had his own father, one who we don't know anything about but whom he apparently loved. He doesn't accept Gashu's treatment of him and Kai the way Kai does because he has known a different father and a different way of life. This doesn't free him from Asunaro's influence — he still accepts the role of assassin they give him and resigns himself to becoming a killer. What choice does he have, after all? But he carries no illusions about Asunaro or his role in it. He knows that the training is cruel, that he is viewed only as a tool, that Asunaro is wrong even if they are also not worth resisting.

This is a major part of why Ranger isn't Sei, why he cannot be; because Asunaro is all Ranger knows. They are his creators, who he was literally built to serve. In Ranger's mind, he is not only Gashu's son and heir, but his creation, his masterpiece. And of course he wouldn't have been created with Sei's memories — why take that risk? Why give him any sort of knowledge of a life outside Asunaro or reason to be disloyal to them?

Ranger is not Sei — so why model Ranger after him? Because Ranger is the idea of Sei, what Sei was meant to be: a counterpart to Kai, a rival, a second choice. Gashu preferred Kai, once; Kai won out over Sei. But Kai has proven himself a failure and betrayed Asunaro, leaving Gashu with no choice but turn once more to Kai's long-dead competition. Ranger is, like Sei, the opposite of Kai, temperamental and vulgar while Kai is stoic and polite, and perhaps more importantly, capable of murder while Kai steadfastly is not.

And yet Ranger isn't Sei. Sei was jealous of those — specifically Kai — he saw as superior or at least as being treated as such; Ranger is this idea taken to its natural conclusion. Sei had lost everything he had outside of Asunaro; Ranger never had anything else to begin with. Sei was a human; Ranger will never be, doomed to forever long otherwise. Ranger is Sei only in the ways Sei was useful — desperate for recognition, willing to kill, a perfect rival to Kai — but something entirely different, an inhuman machine, in all the ways Sei was a liability.

Sei was human, and he knew that he deserved to have that fact respected. Ranger isn't human and gets only the wanting, desperate to be as good as a human even humanity itself is unattainable. Of course, it isn't being a doll that is actually Ranger's problem — it's Asunaro, who view humans and dolls alike as disposable. Sei's humanity didn't make him any less of a tool as far as Asunaro was concerned, it only made him more difficult to control. All Sei wanted was to be seen as an equal to Kai, a person worthy of respect — and this is what he gets, in the end: his face and voice used as a base for one of Asunaro's weapons, while his true identity and personhood remains forgotten.

Ranger has nothing to hold him back from doing his duty for Asunaro, nor does he have anything to hold onto outside of it. In that sense, Ranger is an ideal asset for Asunaro — at least until the very jealousy and hatred Gashu programmed into him goes too far, and he is, once again, deemed a failure. Ironically, Gashu shoots Ranger for attempting to kill a participant, when willingness to kill was perhaps the one true advantage Sei had over Kai.

In the end, Ranger is offered no more humanity in his death than Sei is — they are both merely pawns of Asunaro, set to die at its whims. But while Sei dies in the arms of his brother, receiving one final act of kindness as Kai refuses to kill him, Ranger has no one in either of his deaths but his creators: in his death as Rio Laizer the dubious kindness of Tia Safalin, making his final moments full of agonizing guilt, and of course in his first death, as Rio Ranger, nothing but Gashu's coldness, the bullet in his head a sort of culmination to the favoritism Sei found weighed against him, and a demonstration of just how far Gashu has come from the father who once genuinely cared for Sei. Sei was human, Ranger was not, but as far as Asunaro is concerned, they are exactly the same: tools, easily thrown away as soon as they stop being useful.

#also I don't know where to put this in here but the fact that both Kai and Ranger struggle to show facial expressions #while Sei does not... it's neat is all #your turn to die #yttd #rio ranger #sei satou #sei yttd #i haven't been as focused on yttd lately but i found this in my drafts and was like oh i am still mentally ill about the satou brothers huh #i have so many thoughts about sei... we see so little of him but what we do see is so interesting to me #i was writing an au where he survives instead of kai so i have thought extensively about what his deal is lol #like can we talk about how sei killed like 3 people? specifically other kids? and was super chill about it? like dude #if sei was not a tragically dead child he'd have become a super fucked up adult is what i'm saying #i need to go back to writing that fic.... maybe when i finish my 5 million other wips

[milolovesbmc]

If I see one more person hating on Broadway BMC I will actually cry, thanks <3

#Forever a “bway hater” hater #like okay dude just say you think Will Roland's ugly and move on #LIKE I SWEAR THEY ALWAYS JUST SHIT ON WROLAND #THEY HAVE NO OTHER TAKES #Bway bmc haters when Jeremy #(a character who's supposed to be unlikable and a weirdo) #is portrayed as unlikable and a weirdo #“I hate bmc bway but i like LGW” #well guess what #you can't have LGW if you hate bway bmc #how about that #I'm keeping LGW from you #BTW #IMPORTANT!!!!!: IDC IF YOU PREFER TWO RIVER I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT BMC BWAY *HATERS* #be more chill #bmc #bmc broadway

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Hey!

I saw your probably very old post where someone asked you something like “Who’s the most OP speedsters”

In the tags I saw you mentioned that Meloni is a speedster? And that she’s classified as one? Can you give me a link, or a comic? Bc I think that’s rlly cool (and never rlly thought about it regarding the whole Thawne-Allen thing).

Yeah so, this was when Owen was trying to figure out who his mom was and was doing research into female speedsters. Off the top of my head I can't remember which Flash issue this was or what the arc was called but it was the one that the West twins were born in. The one with the rogues war. I actually did a whole post breaking that arc down if you can get the search function on Tumblr to work for once.

But yeah, Meloni was considered a 'female speedster' in that arc and it does make sense because Owen had to get his powers from somewhere. And his dad is Captain Boomerang, so he certainly didn't get them from him. Meloni has never shown any actual powers that I know of but she is a Thawne and both of her children are speedsters, so she does have some sort of inherent speedforce connection. (She might not use it though because of her father's hatred for speedsters)

So yeah, it's Wally's Flash run. The arc where the twins are born. But the start of that arc. If you've hit Zombie Captain Boomerang then turn back and look at earlier issues in the arc, cause you've gone too far.

#sorry #its late #i don't remember the arc name or issue number and im too tired to go dig through comics #but #i know EXACTLY where it is #like narratively speaking #its right after zoom causes Linda's miscarriage and she's told she might not be able to get pregnant again #the same arc where all the rogues go batshit insane and Wally has to fight like 17 rogues at the same time (not even joking yall) #its 17 #at least #cause im not counting zoom and reverse flash who are also there #rough day for wally #also Barry (who was super dead) just like... shows up. at one point. hes just time traveling #and hes like '👋 hey adult wally whats up' #and wallys like '👋 hey dea- i mean... alive... uncle. just fighting dudes. you know how it is' #they're both like ridiculously chill about it. absolutely insane reaction to seeing your dead uncle or seeing your son/nephew as an adult