AKA The place where I keep all my trash

Imagine your favourite character, crookedly crowned, slumped on an ornate throne with a brooding expression on their face, several objects of deep personal significance lying scattered and broken at their feet, the whole of the tableau illuminated by harsh grey light of no particular source, symbolising that their absolute material victory is also their absolute moral defeat, having sacrificed everything they valued in order to achieve it.

Now imagine that your favourite character is SpongeBob.

He finally got the manager promotion

Why is "love" as a magical force always good-aligned? Villains can't love too? I wanna see two villains who adore each other so hard that the wicked power of love straight up fries the hero's head off

i like Ma & Pa Kent a lot bcos like, their whole thing is that they’re the normalest, nicest human parents in existence, but also, they are the people who found a baby inside a crashed spaceship and just took him home and told no-one.

i also like that the OG backstory was ‘they reported him as a foundling & then adopted him through the normal channels’ which is a reasonably plausible chain of events (it’s not a common thing to happen but like, here’s a case from 2000, so it’s not impossible) but basically every subsequent set of writers seems to have been like ‘no no the Kents did fraud’

#I looked it up and in kanas you need proof of pregnancy to record a home birth #they did so much fraud

hmm i’m also looking this up & it looks like a note from your doctor suffices as proof of pregnancy? so not wildly difficult to fake esp if they were like friends w the town doctor

a complication might be that Clark wouldn’t necessarily be a newborn - it looks like you technically only have 5 days to register a birth in Kansas so if he was visibly older than that they’d have problems? if so they’d potentially have to apply for a delayed birth certificate which requires supporting documentation. 

however acceptable supporting documentation includes things like church records & birth notices in newspapers which strike me as, again, not massively difficult to fake if you were in good w certain members of your local community.

#everyone ma & pa’s age or older are in on it #just an entire small town doing massive baby fraud for their good friends

yeah see i like this a lot bcos i think it establishes 2 key aspects of the Kents from the get go:

1) such genuinely nice, trustworthy & well-liked members of the community that they can reach out to their peers for help w something like this and get it without question; and

2) down to lie to the government.

Animal Hybrids - Character Design Challenge by selected artists: Pierre Broissand, Esmeralda Platania, Nodusa Tollens, Ben Tran, Alice Pisoni

“Natural tea, a healthy drink”. Poster design by A. Andreadi (1952).

Sunlight and shade

I feel like witches are sedentary and wizards are migratory. A witch has a home, a cauldron, herbs, you go to them with your problem. A wizard wanders, disappears, shows up at inconvenient times to fix nothing. am i making sense

One of those jumpscare-centric video games where you’re stuck in a confined space with 5–7 murderous weirdos who are Gonna Getcha unless you successfully perform some complex and arbitrary set of protocols that means they’re Not Allowed, except the confined space is a mansion and the weirdos are a bunch of slightly less genteel Addams Family knockoffs who really want to have you for dinner, stymied only by their unbreakable commitment to being Good Hosts.

They’re constantly trying to manipulate you into committing some microscopic breach of etiquette that will allow them to declare you a Bad Guest – and even so insignificant a rudeness as, for example, responding to a greeting a fraction of a second too late qualifies, as far as they’re concerned – but as long as you stick to the script they can’t touch you. The rules are all based on actual upper class guest/host etiquette, and are only sometimes grotesquely exaggerated.

character concept: two people who have been reincarnated for thousands of years and have always found eachother but instead of being in love they just fucking hate eachother

I am so glad to see this back on my dash with my addition

We all love the "becoming the very thing you sought to destroy," trope. but I have a growing fondness for "destroying the very thing you sought to become"

One time when I was playing minecraft, in order to justify stealing a village's crops all the time I decided to build a house near them, and spend a lot of my time improving the village and defending the villagers from monsters. took me a while to realize I had accidentally become a feudal lord

Birds building nests in unconventional locations, unknowingly generating breathtaking symbolism and visual art > literally anything hollywood can hope to achieve

Shark-themed superhero who enthusiastically explains their various feats by citing increasingly implausible Science Facts About Sharks as a psychological warfare tactic, exploiting villains’ distraction while they’re trying to decide whether they’re sufficiently confident of their knowledge of sharks to call bullshit.

Birds building nests in unconventional locations, unknowingly generating breathtaking symbolism and visual art > literally anything hollywood can hope to achieve

person: reanimating corpses for use in battle is unethical

necromancer: I am recycling

person: now someone has to go and fight the corpses

necromancer: I am also, consequently, creating jobs

you laugh, but some necromancer is out there setting up a PowerPoint presentation