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Lost (in) my mind

@curious-trickster

I'm an artist that loves to draw, paint, write and take photos. I imagine, dream, overthink, criticize, get lost in my mind, lose my hold on reality and magically find my way back. But never completely.
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Jason and Tim are arguing, Jason brings up how Tim stole his mantle

Tim, yelling: I did what I was supposed to do!! I got an adult! It's not my fault the adult wouldn't help! I had to take matters into my own hands, I will not be shamed for that! If you want to be mad at someone? Don't be mad at me. Or Bruce. Or Alfred. You wanna be mad at someone? Be mad at Dick Grayson, because when I saw that Batman was falling apart at the seams, I went straight to him! I asked him to help, when Batman was going to tear Gotham apart, piece by piece, in his grief, I BEGGED Dick to help, and he said no, so I had to step up because otherwise no one would.

Jason, not angry anymore: Wh- Tim, you were, you were 13! It wasn't your job to fix a grown man, you didn't have to be the one to save him...

Tim: Then why didn't anyone help!!

Jason: Tim...

Tim: why didn't anyone help?

Something for the drawing table

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Batfam Incorrect Quotes #12

Babs: *Over comms* What's your emergency?

Tim: I'm sitting in a pool of blood.

Babs: Is it your blood?

Tim: Yes, I think so.

Babs: Do you know where it's coming from?

Tim: Probably the stab wound.

Babs: Have you been stabbed?

Tim: Oh yeah, definitely.

Oh Tim

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After Tim rescued Bruce from the Time Stream I feel like Tim would start to favor the League of Assassins as his preferred stress ball to the point that they’ve started preparing for it with drills to evacuate a base in the same way schools do fire drills.

Tim is well aware of this and will occasionally choose a base that’s already in the midst of evacuating because that just makes his job easier.

Sometimes the ninjas think it’s just a drill and “that’s the 3rd one today, are you serious?” so they don’t take it as seriously until they see Ra’s booking it as fast as he can to the safe zone that they realize this one is real and not just a Stress Test and it’s suddenly every ninja for themselves.

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The image of Ra's booking it across his base is causing me to cackle. He cares so much about presentation (you can't be an assassin overlord without a scary reputation) that him sprinting is hilarious. I know he has great running techniques, but I love the mental image of him pumping his arms as he books it across base, and a bunch of assassins get blown up in the background.

Also, I'm super curious what their fire drills would be like. I know alarm sounds differ depending on the country, so does Ra's have a different one per a base or a standard LoA fire alarm sound? I'd love to see fanart of Ra's directing fire drills.

Depending on which hc or canon you subscribe to, I could definitely see LoA bases being a favorite of Tim's to mess with. I think, if he was only feeling slightly petty, he'd do small things. Blowing up the bases is his last resort. Why destroy a place he has an address to if he can send Ra's a box of cooked spaghetti noodles and instant mash potatoes?

Tim likes installing LED lights in random places of the bases to set the mood for the occasion. The number of times Ra's has had to postpone a meeting because Tim somehow got LEDs in his meeting room is over ten. Assassination attempts on Red Robin were increased after the fourth time Tim made the LEDs blue after a "sad" report.

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This post is causing me so much joy and I really wanna draw some of those scenes

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Hermes

Finally made an Appearance in the new Epic Album! Honestly I cried. It is such an amazing song and I think it fits him so well!

He is my absolute favourite greek god and to finally have him appear in Epic with a song that encompasses his character so well... I'm in love.

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I want more stories that explore the angst potential of unrequited platonic love.

Like:

‘You’ve always been like a brother to me but I’ve realised you only come to me when you want something’

‘My surrogate parental figure just sees me as another student/employee/lackey’

‘I raised you like my own child but you don’t even remember who I am’

And of course, the classic ‘You’re my best (and only) friend but I know I’m only one of yours’.

Oh maaaan, platonic pining is such a big thing for me. I think it’s something most of my fandoms have in common … I’ve come to realize that what I really want out of a piece of media is a relationship arc that hits most of the beats of a UST/pining arc, or a classic bickering-lovers/enemies-to-lovers arc, but does it with friendship and/or family relationships. Characters desperately yearning to be friends or family, and not knowing if their love is requited, is so completely my jam in every way.

Okay I love this but I am also terrified by this because this is a kind of pain that has been and is probably experienced by a lot of people. It's a pain you remember and I think it's one of those experiences that never really stop hurting. Like you can have a good day and suddenly this memory sneaks up on you, maybe because you've been looking at a piece of media or because someone told you about something that reminded you of it or maybe your brain is being an asshole and hits you with a flashback and you just can't help but feel hurt all over again.

And this is the sort of pain I just think is so much worse than romantic heartbreak or pining, because let's be real not everyone has fallen in love or experienced romantic pining and some people won't. But I know for a fact that I vividly remember the summer where my twelve year old self watched a video clip about some really good friends and the way it tore my heart out and I cried myself to sleep that night, because over the last few weeks I had slowly come to the realisation that for my best friend of that time, I was nothing more than a source of entertainment they could call on when they had nothing better to do or someone more interesting around even though they meant so much to me in turn. I still tear uo every time I hear the song that played in the background of the video. And I remember every single time a family member turned out to not be as devoted to our relationship as I was, because when I was younger I just thought that it was a given, that when someone is important to you, they value you the same.

And everytime I read something like that in a book or a fic, it makes everything so much more real. It's the most delicious pain I can think of.

Because I have never had my heart touched by romance, but I can remember every time it was broken by someone I loved in a platonic way.

And I know, that I am not the only one who had to overcome the grief that follows that realisation and that honestly makes me feel awful and I wish for no one to ever have to deal with this kind of pain, but that's unrealistic because no two persons experience emotions the same and thus we never will be able to predict who exactly is going to value us as much as we value them. So knowing that this is not a experience you have to go through alone, but that it's just one of the painful things of being human, is a small comfort in its own right.

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Please help a Reader find new content!

Hey there. I recently finished reading 'for the want of a jewel', an original work written by @formlessvoidbeast and I absolutely loved it!

Just like I loved the 'Accidental Warlord' series, a AU based on the Witcher, by @inexplicifics.

Those fics are both an absolute delight to read and they have a few things in common which kind of caused a want of more in me.

Please help me find fics/original work/books/shows... with these tropes (they do not have all the things I mentioned but it would be nice to have them meet several):

  1. Character gets traded for peace to a most likely hostile party (warlord, king, pirates, bandits, just something they expect to be bad or different)
  2. The trade-in-character expects to be hurt/killed/abused/hated/...
  3. The second party they are given too is not aware of the circumstances of the way the trade-in-character had to leave their home
  4. The second party which the trade-in-character expects to be hostile turns out to be not so bad
  5. The trade-in-character finds true home with the party they were given to
  6. The trade-in-character finds true friends/family not made by blood/love/their way of life/... with the people they were given too
  7. Shenanigans (optional as the rest of them, but they would be greatly appreciated)

If you can think of something which has some or even better all of these tropes, pls comment/send a message! I would be very grateful and you'd help my adhd brain by feeding it with its new hyperfixation!

Feel free to drop the number of the trope(s) your recommendation has, or don't it's up to you!

A big thanks to @formlessvoidbeast and @inexplicifics for writing these amazing stories and allowing me to mention you in this post!

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More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

  • HES SEVENTEEN
  • He hasn’t been civilised in 4 years, his entire teenage experience consists of living on a boat and sleeping rough. The most stable bed he has was probably in Ba Sing Se he probably will just nap anywhere.
  • He has customer service experience which means he probably uses his customer service voice on his minsters.
  • Additionally he probably just wanders into to kitchen to get his own snacks and tea because he forgets what servants do.
  • He probably has no idea why he can’t just chase after an assassin he used to hunt the avatar for Agnis sake why is the captain of the guard demanding he stay in his room he’ll find the guy first (he’s probably right)
  • Katara probably has a free pass on Eco terrorism because what’s he going to do challenge her, she’ll beat his ass.
  • If he saw a minster doing something shady he will either invite lady Beifong to detect their BS or commit B&E and look for evidence himself.
  • He somehow found a baby dragon and raises it.
  • He will be far to willing to give Kyoshi island anything they want cause he feels bad and Suki scares him.
  • He randomly insisted on giving some earth kingdom village 100 ostrich horses.
  • The Avatar will just show up call him Hotman and demand the go on adventures and the Firelord will just dip because he’s been confined to long and has the Zoomies.
  • He takes far to much advice from Sokka and will genuinely believe if someone doesn’t get Sokkas plans they must be an idiot because Sokka is 16.
  • Sokka and Zuko also get into a lot of teenage rebellion phases by accident.
  • Toph just walks in breaks a wall of his palace and demands a field trip that always involves the Firelord having to explain himself to the cops.
  • He somehow knows every dangerous teen in the world and they all come for tea uninvited.
  • He has broken into both the NWT and Ba Sing Se.
  • He has a really well documented facial scar and official portraits but still disappears to be Lee the tea guy like no one knows.
  • HES SEVENTEEN.

I love this

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Season 4 be like

Jack: guys, we need to find them, Hannibal probably kidnapped Will, he's most likely torturing him! Will is suffering unsurmountable pain as we speak!!

*Cut to Will's face moaning, dripping sweat and contorting himself*

Jack: This is very serious, I want everyone on the team on this! We need to rescue Will. Our poor friend, I can't begin to imagine the horrors he's going through right now.

*Cut to Will panting, lips parted, eyes rolling back, lots of sounds*

Jack: I won't be able to sleep at night just thinking about the nasty things Hannibal's putting him through!

*Cut to Will looking down*

"Oh my god, you're killing me."

Jack: This is tragic. Absolutely tragic. I can't imagine how he's even coping...

*Cut to Will blissed out, breathless, and Hannibal slides up in the frame, red, swollen lips, smiling.*

Jack: He's a hostage to that selfish,

*Cut to Hannibal kissing Will's neck*

Jack: Heartless,

*Hannibal kissing his forehead, gazing lovingly*

Jack: Awful man,

*Hannibal kissing Will's face, neck, chest, everywhere, lots of kisses*

Jack: I just know Will's living in hell now.

*Will smiling back, leaning in to kiss Hannibal*

Jack: He's probably starving him, too.

*Hannibal feeding Will strawberries dipped in chocolate*

Jack: He'll be looking like hell when we find him...

*Hannibal gently rubbing scar healing cream in Will's cheek, then planting a kiss on his lips*

Jack: God, I can see him having not one second of peace, just torture,

*Will peacefully laying in the couch in Hannibal's arms, while he reads for him*

Jack: and torture,

*Hannibal massaging Will's scalp in the bathtub*

Jack: And more torture.

*Hannibal spooning Will who sleeps peacefully*

Jack: What a nightmare.

I want to make this a comic

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