honestly love when artists draw copious amounts of fanart for a character and then start adding more and more personal touches or headcanons to how they depict them and then just change their name and adopt them as an original character. its like watching nature heal in real time
The shanty from today's episode is now on bandcamp! The lyrics can also be found there.
“Captain, it appears we misjudged the formality of the dining environment.”
“I know that, Spock.” 🙃
Oh shit :D ?
I just remembered! (Thank you, historical fantasy section!) But like? Serving and protecting The King, especially a HIGH KING, is quite literally not just an incredible honor... but it can sometimes be a person's Life Ambition?
Specificly a WORTHY king.
Perhaps they were denied in life. Perhaps they FAILED. And in their dying moments struggle with all they were to LIVE. To PROTECT. Perhaps the PREVIOUS king was a great and worthy ruler... but their heir is...
Unworthy.
Maybe they are born to an age without Rulers. Power shifting between hands in hidden halls. Unclear and murky. All they want is for their loyalty to MEAN something. For things to be SIMPLE.
The universe is large. The Infinite Realms? Unimaginably larger.
And Pariah Dark was a BASTARD.
Who would willingly swear to him? Fools! That's who! Every warrior soul worth ANYTHING gets as far AWAY from his Realm forsaken resting place as they can. Hides. Lest they be dragged in to his infernal, gods forsaken, cess pit of a so called "army"! *disgusted spitting noises*
But what does this mean? It means every trained FIGHTER... got the hell out of dodge. Oh, sure, a FEW refused. Like Pandora and her people. But most? The farthest side of NOWHERE, several layers down! Some still GOING! Better to be decried as cowards then have ANYTHING to do with THAT(said with loathing)!
It also means they weren't where Pariah could get to them when he woke. Couldn't help. Couldn't fight. Couldn't be commanded to kneel. Nothing. They removed themselves completely. Planned on CONTINUING to remove themselves. Preferably to the farthest reaches of forever, far beyond the bastard's gaze.
But! The whole REALM INFINITE felt it? When that... that hissing, acidic, malicious undertone? SLAMS back and away, like somebody's knocked a parasite from their backs. Replaced by coolness and starlight. Delicate balance and blood on your teeth. The pounding in your chest of HOPE.
It flutters so small across their backs, inside their chests. Washing away the old.
The King... feels tiny. Young.
.......what are they doing? Running like this. Hiding away like that will change anything. How long... when did...
There are so many of them now. A veritable army of souls, of all Ages and People's. Every armor and crest imaginable. They'd been so.. so REPULSED by Pariah... nothing else had mattered but to get AWAY. Where even ARE they? What YEAR is it? Does any of that matter?
The King.
Their Obsessions whisper. Loyalty. Service. Protection. Honor. You have left you post! Abandoned your DUTY! What are you DOING!?
They are AGHAST. They turn around at once. The King! How could they have ABANDONED the King!? Who is guarding him if they are all HERE?!
Himself!?
(Yes. Danny is fine. He is eating the "Thank You for keeping us all from dying to whatever the FUCK that was!" tamales Paulina's mom pushed into his arms on his way back home. He didn't even try arguing. He made eye contact and knew he would lose.)
(Why does he feel like something really, really bothersome is headed his way?)
It's UNACCEPTABLE. Unthinkable! The King? Unguarded? Where assassination attempts and nefarious PLOTS could occur?! What if someone tried to steal his eggs!? Or attacked him while his exoskeleton was molting!? They aren't entirely sure which species he is yet, but there are SO MANY NEFARIOUS PLOTS OUT THERE!!
*panicked honor guards*
Just? Imagine becoming king. And thinking "well, aside from the skeleton army I have to figure out, at least I don't have to manage anybody!" Only to *WABAM!* your ENTIRE GHOST COURT shows up like a week later. Turns out they were hiding from your predecessor.
You have a whole ass honor gaurd. Who REFUSE TO LEAVE YOUR SIDE. You have Chefs. Who WILL cry if you send them away. The Literal Best In The Multiverse are all following you around... YOU, a RANDOM TEENAGE, with Excited Shoujo Sparkles in their eyes... because you punched a jackass really, REALLY hard.
There is no way to make this stop. Your friends are laughing at you. The interior decorator wants you to look at swatches. What are swatches and why are you being harrased by them at 1am, you wonder? If you are Mean(tm) they throw themselves upon the floor and blame themselves for their Wicked, Evil, King-Upseting Ways and you can't even TELL if your being played here.
It's like being bullied by house elves. Or Miette.
Your parents are too excited by all the New Research (at least the reveal went well?) To SAVE THEIR SON, and your sister is HELPING THE ENEMY (Traitor!), so now you're being bullied into eating vegetables and studying more.
Then? THEN!! WHO SHOWS UP?! Like... five WEEKS late?! The Justice League. Gee! GREAT RESPONSE TIME, GUYS! Reeeal snappy! But ya, JUST missed the guy!
.......YES HES BEING SARCASTIC!!!
The entire royal army of the infinite realms:
Danny just wants a nap. He probably grabs one of the sides and sits them down like. Between these hours. I am resting. Please keep everyone from waking me up. And they would get to royal guards around. This is the King's rest period. He is not to be disturbed unless there is an issue we cannot handle. They take their duty with pride! They guard the King's sleep!
This is an issue when the Justice League arrive at 3am. And the Guards? Say no. You !at not bother the King as he rests actually. He has had a few very trying weeks since ascending the throne.
So Danny wakes up to an increasinly tense stand off. As the heroes are here to question the King. How dare! You would come here! Late! And demand to wake the King from his slumber! The audacity! Angry rumbles all around!
While the Justice League? Increasingly worried. Are all these beings brainwashed? Why are they so insistent? What the hell? Wasn't Pariah Dark hated?
If any of the ghosts hear that? Shame on you! Shame! King Phantom rules now! He is just and kind! And very very young and in need of rest!
im imagining a tiny danny (hasnt grown since he died) coming outside in star pjs with a little teddy bear and a small crosn floating above his head (shrunken for convenience) while rubbing his eye and asking whats up
pretty much every justice leaguer there immediately goes d'awwww either internally or externally and john constantine (brought along because ghosts) recognises the notoriously uncopyable crown and reallizes that thats the fucking ghost king
no wonder they were so protective
"Thats the fucking ghost king."
has the same vibe as
"Thats fucking obi wan kenobi."
And suddenly the Justice League are very very confused. How did the child defeat the previous King? How? Why? What has happened in this town?
What do you mean your parents made a portal to the Realms!!! Why?
Danny opened the door wearing his pajamas but also in his living form
So we have part of the League wondering Why is an ordinary human teenager the ghost king? is this real?
And a part that's WTF, this kid is so fake, what happened? how can it be so? etc.
Danny is just mortified. Shit, he opened the league in his pajamas!!! that unless he was wearing his Martin Manhunter pajamas that Sam had made him, let's be positive.
J'onn J'onzz hears this is flattered and amused to be the young king's favorite
Danny changes forms straight away to hide his pajamas. The heroes go... ok. So is the living form a fake form so you can stay here or???
Danny doesn't want to answer thank you. But no it isn't fake. It's my body. The one I was born in thank you very much. Yes I really am 15. What do you want??
the Justice League look at each other quickly as they communicate via telepathic link but are interrupted by Danny
Danny: ok listen, it's Thursday, I have to be in class in an hour and I just woke up, so hurry up or I can go get ready quickly and we talk before class or you take the day to think about your questions or...I have a 2 hour break to eat so if-
indoor jazz: Danny? less loud you're going to wake up the parents and I don't want tost fly on fire or aggressive becon for breakfast and, who are you talking to?
Danny motions his secretary/PA over.
Danny: You know my schedule. Make an appointment with them please?
PA: Of course my King!
Danny just turns around and goes back into the house and the JL get to deal with a pissed off PA. Because this is the height of rudeness! You just arrived and decided you could impose upon our King! I think not.
it would be funny if the PA is a Ghost blob group with a custom PDA signed Tucker who also does voice synthesizer and their "bodyguard" who will keep silent until the most disconcerting moment
A blob like Skulker without his suit. Doesn't have enough identity to have a full form. Is quite happy to just be a blob with tech. Specially made. But they do have a face. So they don't need a voice thing. But it is funny so they use it sometimes. To be an annoyance. The bodyguard is only there to cause chaos and help the King.
The blob ghost personal assistant(s) just likes to use the text-to-speech voice for official matters better than its own, thinks it’s more imposing than their own chipmunk voice.
They also have several voice options and sound effects on speed dial, and have used the wilhelm scream at least twice.
Shyama Golden (Sri Lankan-American, 1983) - Cover Art for Ravens (2019)
A leucistic moose filmed by municipal councilmember Hans Nilsson in the Värmland region of Sweden (2017) National Geographic
i hate the “on average a user only sees 25 posts per session so they have to be good and varied” bullshit on that staff post. if i open tumblr and the 25 posts i see are nothing but a single mutual mass reblogging their favourite thing that i couldn’t care less about. well. that’s what i enjoy
If my beloved mutual needed to reblog a thing 25 times then by all things sacred I am going to read it once and then scroll past it 24 times as they intended me to!
My favorite set of Color keys I painted for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. I spent 2 years+ on this project and it was an absolute joy. It’s amazing seeing how close Mikros animation got to these paintings with the final shots. Set design is done by Sean Sevestre. I painted these while I was in nyc!
throwback to when i was corrupting skyward sword and accidentally created pinecone link
additional pinecone
bonus, the :pinecone_link: discord emoji on one of my personal servers, just wanted to share him with everyone else too
additional bonus, his head remained unchanged during cutscenes
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TPoH: Update!
Posting early because I'm drowning in family and I might not have time to post it tomorrow morning like usual! Yayyyy!
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