The Justice League have a problem, one that needs some level of knowledge and expertise of a being from the Infinite Realms to give them a better chance of actually solving this problem.

However.

Every ghost they have summoned, without fail, took one look at Constantine. Squinted (yes, squinted). Then decided to go back to where they came without a word.

This. Would have been useful, nice even. If it was a situation where they needed the summoned being of a cult to head back to where they came without a fight.

But alas, that is not what is happening.

The Justice League, obviously, ask him why the ghosts keep fleeing back to their Realm at the sight of him, but Constantine can't answer because he genuinely has no idea why they keep leaving when getting a proper look at him.

So they keep trying and they do find some success in it. They summoned a boy, most likely older than he physically looks yet it still puts some of them off because of, well.

You know.

A boy with white hair and toxic green eyes. The boy stops short, as if not expecting to be randomly transported to somewhere else, takes a look around the room, then the Justice League. His eyes settle on one person.

Constantine, in particular.

He squints (Why do all of them squint? Nobody knows) and then a sudden looking of realization passes on his face. Different from the looks of vague fear and genuinely want to not involve themselves any further, his face held slight disgust and a heavy amount of disappointment.

Thankfully, he didn't leave immediately after that.

Constantine asks what's with the look on the ghost boy's face, the ghost boy in question squints even further. Stares at Constantine for a moment or two, buries his face in his hands and brings his knees to his hand and groans out.

"He could've done so much better."

Something funny for your spy x family ASL au

Luffy took ONE look at loid and internally went 'oh sweet. He's a spy like sabo' and never brings it up while anya just stares at him horrified and like with ace and sabo, he just never brings it up.

This also happens with yor and anya makes a funny noise

(As i am typing this my dog has the zoomies and is running around like a maniac)

HAHA YEAH THIS WOULD DEFINITELY HAPPEN

I think loid’s a good enough actor that luffy wouldn’t figure it out immeditely from like just a few seconds of meeting him but give him a minute or a few and he’ll figure it out on vibes alone

i Do Not Trust people who make Mary the bad guy in their stories when the show went out of its way to specifically show us how she was suffering just as much as stede was in their marriage and that shes, yknow, a good person

i have never felt this uniquely insane about a character <3 i cant get a read on him

sometimes it drives me literally insane to see romance requests that are like

--I want a romance wherein it's basically the happy epilogue throughout the book

--I want a romance that has great communication and they never withhold anything from each other ever

--no "miscommunication trope"

The last thing is just a general gripe about how so many of the things people say are tropes are not tropes, and it's pedantic and snobby but like. Miscommunication is so broad. It's not a trope. People are miscommunicating. WHAT are they miscommunicating about? Is one of them keeping a secret identity from their partner? Because a secret identity romance iS a trope. Is one of them withholding their feelings out of fear of rejection?

Because people DO miscommunicate. Often writers do write it clumsily. If people miscommunicate for no reason, sure, whatever. But if they miscommunicate BECAUSE of a REASON--like, often it's not even miscommunication lol. It's the hero keeping his dire supernatural secret from his wife because she'll die if she finds out (honestly, valid to me, but whatever). It's the heroine finding it difficult to trust the hero with her heart because her dad left when she was young (maybe cliche in theory, but actually a very real thing that happens).

If all you want is plotless nothing wherein everyone is happy and nobody makes mistakes, I personally have a hard time thinking of it as a book, because there is no story. It's just vibes. And essentially EVERY time, people have to mess up and make mistakes in order for there to be a plot.

I just don't understand the point.

Scarlet Hollow characters I DO trust with my life and love: the demon stalking you, your cousin everyone hates who has likely committed murder, the abomination of changing flesh and bones that hangs out in the morgue, the possums in my drawer

Scarlet Hollow characters I DO NOT TRUST and never will: sybil. fucking. Local Town Grandma

(Also accurate small town representation)

in my jason feels again….

Ever feel like some deities' aligment don't really fit their descriptions, 'specially racial ones tied to 'monsters'? Like, Dretha want orcs to make strong children and fiercely protect what they have, and resents the male gods for being dicks. Nothing really evil, especially compared to other 'evil fertility goddesses' like Lamashtu and Shib-Niggurath. Feels like she's only not Chaotic Neutral because 'orcs bad'.

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Some, yes! However, the orc gods are kind of in a weird area in my consciousness due to the existence of the Hold of Belkzen, aka Orc Central. In canon Pathfinder lore, the Orcs of Belkzen (where the orcish pantheon reigns) are all warmongers hellbent on proving their tribe is the strongest, their leaders are the most powerful, their gods are the only ones worthy of worship! There is no room for softness, for care, for anything resembling true love in a society that prizes individual strength so immensely. Even Dretha, arguably the most gentle of the orc pantheon (in the same way being tazed is more gentle than being struck by lightning), is not immune to this; her nurturing care of young orcs comes at the cost of every other culture, society, and species the orcs come across, many of which she demands as sacrifices in exchange for healthy children... and note that she prizes strong and healthy orcs above anything else, with grim implications regarding orcs born in any other condition.

In a vacuum, "fight fiercely to defend what they have" is a statement that wouldn't be out of place in any Good god's portfolio, and even outside of a vacuum, this was a perfectly Neutral stance back in the olden days when the orcs were being forced from their home by the dwarves... but this is no more. The Hordes of Belkzen have grown, and they now conquer and take not only from each other, but from all their neighbors. "Fight fiercely to defend what they have" looks much less Neutral when they lay claim to everyone else's stuff in accordance with their perceived right as the strongest beings in the world, and see the simple existence of everything outside their tribe--even other orc tribes--as a threat to their belongings, their families, and their way of life.

... all this to say that, yes, she IS Chaotic Evil because the Belkzen Orcs are, by and large, Chaotic Evil. They brought their gods with them from the underground and the majority of them haven't changed for the better because of it; many of them are, in fact, worse now that there's a target for their wrath beyond one another. Even the orcs fighting to reform Belkzen into a proper nation instead of a shattered collection are some flavor of Evil. It takes a long, long time to undo thousands of generations of teachings, after all.

ALL OF THAT being said: if you have an orc character and want to treat her as CN, it's incredibly easy to do.

2024 reads / storygraph

Lord of the Empty Isles

sci-fi/fantasy

set on a supposedly utopian planet recovering from a climate crisis, where bonds between people are able to be seen and manipulated (by some people)

follows a young man whose brother was cursed and killed by an infamous outlaw 5 years ago, and he’s finally able to curse him back - but it rebounds, as he’s somehow fatebound to the outlaw

to find a cure and save them both they have to team up, and he quickly finds out that the resources the outlaw is stealing go to the thousands of people neglected on prison planets, and he has to go against what he thought was right to help them

no romance, aroace MC, focus on platonic relationships

arc from netgalley, out june 6

compared to the way that we all know dean’s relationship with alcohol, which is often presented as a joke in the show or at the very least is never actually meant to be a concern, is flirting with or genuinely depicting alcoholism, i find it odd that we dont talk about sam’s fixation on healthy eating and exercise and his nitpicky nature about what he eats regardless of what comments dean makes - and the fact that this becomes one of sam’s defining traits as the show carries on and dilutes his character- as being potentially emblematic of an unhealthy relationship with his body/unhealthy coping mechanism to deal with his historical lack of autonomy

ohh so bad DOES have a thing with being trapped... it just started way earlier than the furniture imprisonment...

quick sketch of the unsettling tiger mask girl from juriyuna's event (and an excuse to draw soul gem grills)

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anyways being a mean girl on the internet at a grown age in a space where the thing we’re celebrating is so meaningful and lovely is such a bad take

anyways I think I'm warming to the idea of the Midwest in general

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I hate that there's gonna be a gap between potd and the 60th btw like half the fun of a new doctor is seeing them fucked up from the regen but also I think it's clearly been done bc rtd wants ppl to be able to watch the 60th without worrying about what comes before and I just find that ridiculous and unnecessary

dw has all sorts of content and canon coming out of it's ass which is fine but I feel like there's some things that should be kept to the main show and be established as absolute clear canon events and changing from one doctor to another is one of those things. I don't get why you'd put something as big as a freshly regenerated doctor and what they get up to in those hours/days/weeks into a comic that most ppl don't give a fuck about. stick a gap between adventures literally anywhere else but not between a doctor's last adventure and the next doctor's first