The Contrabass Saxophone Is Such An Absurd Instrument

I'm pretty sure everyone remembers how Dante's clock has been moving over time. BUT, there is now an identifiable pattern to its movements, and its associated with the development of the sinners!

During Cantos 1-3, Dante's role in events is one of a passive observer. Gregor, Rodion, and Sinclair all made it through their cantos without much (if any) advice from Dante, the events of which mostly served to establish where they stood as characters/why they behave in the ways that they do.

Canto 4 was where this formula started to change. Yi Sang needed more out of Dante than the previous sinners; There was a Big Issue from his past that was controlling his future (namely, his entrapment in the past caused by the Hot Mess Involving T-Corp And The Mirror), forcing Dante to take on the role of Emotional Support Clockhead to guide him through the Canto. And at the end of the Canto, two things happened:

Vergilius commented on "the look on [Dante's] face"...

... and the clock moved for the first time.

The next 2 Cantos maintained this level of involvement from Dante: Ishmael needed Dante to help guide her away from her self-destructive obsession (I.E, to find "[her] compass [which] was swallowed by the sea" and choose to start "piercing through the rope that strangled [Captain Ahab] and [Ishmael]", freeing her to move toward the future), and Heathcliff needed Dante to help guide him through effectively communicating how much he loved Catherine/engaging in healthy relationship dynamics. (Seriously: the real antagonist of Canto 6 is communication issues.)

Effectively: Cantos 1, 2, and 3 had Dante doing the equivalent of talking with their respective Sinners as they drove their car down an empty street. Pretty casual, nothing major happened. Cantos 4, 5 and 6 required Dante to give directions, help them figure out where they got lost, convince them to pull over, calm down, and eat SOMETHING to get their blood sugar up before continuing toward their destination. More work, but these Sinners received greater rewards.

With Canto 7, the car was inside an IKEA.

Sinclair had to get the doors open. Faust had to find the car, awkwardly wedged in one of the shortcuts between display sections. Gregor, Rodion, Ishmael, Yi Sang, and Heathcliff had to pull Sancho out of the bunk bed in a completely different section of the store, with Ryoshu and Outis bringing their spoils from the marvelously-priced IKEA food court. Hong Lu had to help guide Sancho through getting the car out of the place it was awkwardly wedged, and Mersault held back the crowd. Dante's task wasn't just emotional support, but guidance. Sancho/Don Quixote needed someone to reassure her that there was a way forward, a something worth pursuing. And Dante did wonderfully.

So, is it a surprise that this canto is where the clock moved again?

Don Quixote (Who, as we learned in this canto, is a bloodfiend, like Vergilius) commented on Dante's expression.

And the clock moved.

BUT BETWEEN THESE TWO EVENTS, DANTE MADE THE CHOICE TO SMILE. "like Don Quixote asked me to".

THEREFORE, it is my conclusion that, between the commentary of lu-is-not-okay on Hong Lu's impending mental breakdown (SPECIFICALLY this post, which is the reason for my diatribe) AND the existence of this pattern of increasingly intensive Sinner rehabilitation efforts, Canto 8 will be the mental health equivalent of trying to get Hong Lu off of the car, which is precariously balanced upside down on a fountain, on the third floor of a shopping mall, while being chased by mall security (read: his family).

And it's going to be awesome.

Today’s insect encounter: Smol grasshopper.

He’s quite a shy little guy

pls someone tell to the 16p community on pinterest that this is not mbti fanart🙏🙏

is this some kind of joke or what?

Maybe it’s because I’m rather slow on the uptake, but your post made me more certain on the design of sea dragons

When they were first built, they are rather barren, on their bodies are little “fins” and spaces for sea life to latch on

And as more life accumulates, the sea dragon becomes more elegant as opposed to the deterioration on normal robots, aging beautifully

There's an up-and-coming Tech Giant, called Fenton Works, and Batman is determined to prove that the company is a front for a villain.

Danny, after his parents turned from Ghost hunting to being the first official Ghost Anthropologists, decided to repurpose some of their weapons.

And, well, there was a contest being run by Wayne Enterprises; whoever can design a robot that will help the environment got prize money and a grant.

Danny, in all his mechanical engineering prowess, was bored. So he designed a thing. Repurposed the Fenton Guns into a cute robotic tortoise that would clean the beach.

It spiraled from there, and now Fenton Works is the leading name in green technology that's cleaning up the Earth bit by bit. Sea Dragon robots that clean oil and trash from the ocean; beach tortoises that clean the sand and beach and deposit their hoard of trash into designated receptacles that Danny uses as material to make more robots; Cryptid "stalker" robots with long legs that delicately patrol forests to perform "fuel management" and clear out the underbrush to help manage wildfires; moving gargoyle robots that sit on top of skyscrapers to help clean the air with huge sail-like wings, etc.

Basically, Danny pulls a Doctor Elisabet Sobeck, but with less world ending and more actually helping. (Not that the world ending was Elisabet's fault, of course, but different franchise)

And due to the number of times aliens try to attack and rogues send their own robots to attack people, naturally Danny installed self-defense protocols, along with one single golden rule written into the very OS of every single robot; Save Humans Whatever the Cost.

Problem is, Batman has never seen robots like this not be used for evil purposes, and he knows that their power source (a closely guarded Fenton Works secret) is some sort of liquid that glows green.

He really only knows of one liquid that glows green.

So he's determined to find everything he can about Fenton Works, because there's no way that Daniel Fenton isn't actually a villain in the making.

Danny's just thrilled for the chance to work with Wayne Enterprises.

For a moment, Jasmine thought she succeeded, she had found her friend, but she was also quick to notice discrepancies. This Mami person (does her name mean mom or something?) can probably use magic to summon weapons, but the one she’s looking for couldn’t.

Had that face had longer hair tied into one big braid, maybe it would have fooled her. Wait, how long has she been spacing out

“Nah it’s fine, I’m Jasmine, feel free to call me Jazz” She scratched the back of her head

“So uhh, what was that? The place we were in with the rodents. It’s just gone after you blasted them”. Jasmine was curious, rather than distressed for someone who had been in a labyrinth and almost got mauled by rats moments ago

The Jabberwock hardly felt regret in it’s life

With its label as an evil dragon, it can practically do whatever it wants. Well, maybe it regrets things a tiny bit when consequences comes and get it, but it goes back to what it does later.

This time, it was different. A person so important, more than any gold it was offered, and- Not like it really knows value, but this person is important, and they had been taken away from it.

Now, as Jasmine (what a tacky name, but it’s one of the things left of her), the evil dragon embarked on a quest for knowledge. Inter-dimensional travel is no easy feat, how the heck Alice and Dorothy did it she has no idea. They did have some form of assistance or got whisked away in a hurricane…

All that she came across told her it was impossible, but she died a few times and came back, which is also impossible by human standards.

She just, didn’t quite expect the spell to activate so easily. Now, where the heck is she.

The place is all filled with strange and abstract objects, she can’t really make heads or tails of what are in the piles, but it’s not important. What’s notable are the wind up rodents carrying the objects and piling them. They remind her of the residents of Wonderland when Red Queen is demanding they hold a festival in her name. Gosh is she glad to be free.

Jasmine’s stomach growled a little, and she won’t deny it. If possible, she would like to have something organic for her meal. Looking among the pile, the dragon was delighted to fine a whole wheel of cheese! She promptly took it out of the pile, and all of a sudden, all the rodents turn at her, aggression clear in their body language, they start to lunge.

“Sugar honey ice tea” she was kind of hoping not to work for her food, but oh well. Fire ball it is then

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imagine you’re a tiny thing. your mama is big and strong so you follow her everywhere. she’s very strong, which is why when she falls asleep on the floor you sit with her. you sit with her until she starts to fall apart. but its ok because she’s strong. and then you get really, really, really thirsty, and you think if you sleep it’ll be okay. and then you wake up surrounded by water and you see a face beyond the water and its blurry and you dont know how to feel about it so you go back to sleep and then you keep seeing the face beyond the water and they talk to you in soft words you dont understand and you’re still so small and confused but you know the face beyond the water is helping you. maybe it loves you. but you’re a tiny thing. and then one day you decide you’ve had enough water, and then you start to move. and you see the face beyond the water, who is so happy to see you and they do something you’ve never seen a face do, their mouth curls at the end in a smile and youve never seen it so you do it too and you keep doing it because you love the face beyond the water so much and they love you too and they’re strong like mama and they feed you and pet you and love you and one day you grow so big they can ride you. and they make you a hat and goggles to protect your eyes and they show you all sorts of wonderful things and YES this is about the happy ghast from minecraft im OBSESSED

) <- super parenthesis. reblog to close all parentheticals you opened and forgot to close in your life and return to equilibrium

Awww Fang…

We believe in you bud!

Almost to the end! Only one final part after this :D

enjoy ^^

Usually Fang wouldn't put Gopal's words into consideration .

Usually Fang is more confident on his choices.

Usually Fang would try everything to get what he wants, to achieve his goal.

But all those "usually" don't really apply when it came to Cahaya.

He didn't do everything to get the power watches back then

He wasn't confident in his choices

And he can't stop thinking about Gopal's words now

Sitting here in Cahaya's secondary lab, he couldn't help but doubt himself; question himself.

Questions he didn't bother to ask before. But now, it seems to constantly be apparent ever since Gopal's words were thrown at him

He'd be caught dead before he tells Gopal any of it

Parts of him who sides with Ying has been screaming at him

'Just confess already'

The other part of him is reminiscing. Ying had made him write down hundreds of things couples do..

But..

All of those things

Thats what they already do

I have no words to express how lovely this is

"thats what they already do"

Ughhh the platonic/romantic relationship over here, that all of the platonic things theyve done is already and that theyre close enough too

And Fang being scared, and the build up to the confession if it happens

unrelated to my last post what do you think each sinners dynamic would be in the omegaverse?

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