The Ice War On Europa...

Me, sobbing, cradling D2 in my arms: No! Please! Stay with me!

D2: Couldn't... connect... [coughs up blood] error code... weasel...

Here's my comic for @falloutghoulzine! ⚙️

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

They said that Bookworm has no powers, but I don’t… believe that. Not necessarily. I think something more behind the scenes is getting set up here.

Especially with him stealing that book of demons.

Long post that could be entirely off the rails, so disregard this addendum you like the first part better

There’s two scenarios that I’m playing out here, I could be totally off, but hear me out a moment.

First, and probably the most unlikely, Bookworm is dealing with a chaos demon first hand. So either there’s a physical demon trying to get him or one of his friends is dealing with one.

Bookworm wanted to fight the side plot demon on his own and so is now studying them, or even how to control them. Maybe even he found a book like ashe’s and is trying to understand it more. It’s a fun storyline that ends with pd going to rescue him after getting in over his head and they go out for pizza. Bookworm might get some magic powers and the boys have memories about Ashe.

Second concept is that Lightspeed told him what happened to Wordsmith.

And she can’t stop herself from telling him everything. It’s justified, because, he deserves to know, right?

Wordsmith brought him on missions for a reason, he’s practically a hero, he should be given the same information the heros got.

But he’s not a hero, he’s a kid. A kid who has seen horrors and creatures and now is being told demons are real and one of them hurt his uncle.

Bookworm has the intelligence of William, the tenacity of Dakota, and the street smarts/common sense of Vyncent. He was able to sneak out of his house, traverse how many miles he needed to in order to get a book. He’s also a fucking kid. I can’t stress how much he shouldn’t be in this situation.

But like I said he’s smart. He knows people and their powers, and can recognize those powers and what they can do. He called out William, immediately knowing the ghost shaping, and William isn’t even a major hero. Bookworm knew all of their powers by heart. If in the future he gets into any tactical strategic position, I could see him thriving.

And I kinda think that’s where I think it’s gonna go. Bookworm is angry, he’s smart, and I really hope he’s smart enough to know not to go into this alone. I think, and heres where I go off the rails, but I think Bookworm is going to get a group of friends, maybe friends still figuring out their powers. He’s gonna help them train, like his uncle helped him, like he watched Lightspeed and Archangel do. And once Bookworm and his friends are ready they’re gonna try and get revenge for his uncle

Or he could make a deal with a devil for his uncle to come back.

That’s an option too

SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️

SWHFTT #53: Drifter's loot

Hey hey! SWHFTT is also on Webtoon now. You should be able to find it under the name "Stories We Hide From The Traveler" or through the link attached below. The previous eps wont be uploaded bc its too much work but the future ones will be.

I’m so autistic for these stupid little guys so. Kay and ND-5 playlist. Could be ship or not :3 yes half the songs are TWRP what are you going to do about it

“If I had time travel I’d kill Hitler” “If I had time travel I’d stop my favourite politician getting assassinated” you’re all thinking way too small. If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half of the planet.

Me, knowing tumblr's history, new to the dsmp: So in canon Techno and Phil have a strong bond amd care deeply for each other

DSMPblr: yea :)

Me: aw damn so there's gonna be a lot of shipp-

DSMPblr: in a QPR, platonic sluts your honor, married for the taxes/to be annoying, it's all /p or die by my sword

Me, in ace/aro tears: I'm home

Another impromptu post but I do think it’s worth addressing here as well.

These kinds of comments, and particularly those demanding others to read Journey to the West, are very common in this discourse. However there is a massive glaring issue if your only basis of understanding Nezha is solely from Journey to the West.

Wu Cheng’en had, intentionally or not, severely diminished the strength of Nezha and seems to lack any real understanding of Nezha to begin with. I must also say Nezha’s age is never explicitly mentioned once in the book aside from when Sun Wukong was mocking him in their first encounter if you choose to see that as confirmation. It’s additionally strange to posture the book, written very late in the scope of how long Nezha has existed, as the only Acceptable Canon. There are other problems with this narrative that must be addressed too.

Nezha, and by extension the whole of the Daoist pantheon, does not and has never existed within a vacuum. Deities and religious figures are not static but instead fluid, subject to many changes through history, and it is unreasonable to expect any deity to adhere closely to a singular interpretation of them. Such as choosing Nezha in Journey to the West as the only acceptable form.

In doing so you are actively ignoring centuries of literature and art history in the thousands of years these deities have existed and have been worshipped in favor of pushing your own misinformed narrative.

Can you imagine if someone was going around demanding that how the Greco-Roman gods appear in Homer’s “Iliad” was the only true acceptable canon of them? It sounds silly doesn’t it. So why is it acceptable to push this mentality onto Chinese deities?

It’s extremely tiring to witness so many people treat deities as if they are common fiction characters, and I hope I do not need to make another longer form post addressing this mentality in the near future.