The only self-made millionaire is David Xanatos, who got the money to start his business by traveling back in time to the 10th Century and setting up a then regular coin to be delivered to his younger self in 1975 when the coin is an antique so his younger self could sell it.
On the one hand, Gargoyles is one of those shows that absolutely does not need a reboot. On the other hand, the comedic possibilities of the Manhattan Clan in the age of smartphones are limitless
Elisa gets some used phones for all the gargoyles so they can contact her if there’s an emergency. The first text she gets is from Goliath and it just says “HOW DO I TURN THE CAPS LOCK OFF”
Hudson plays around with his phone just enough to fuck up all the settings, but not enough to know how to change them back (“Sorry to bother you, lad, but everything is in Japanese again”). This is Lexington’s biggest source of headaches
Goliath gets one of those apps that lets you track your kids’ phones. It takes the Rookery Trio about three days to realize this
Broadway panics and snaps his phone in half
Lexington cuts the gordian knot by stealing Goliath’s phone and simply deleting the app
Brooklyn’s like “Two can play this fucking game” and downloads the app so he can track Goliath’s phone and text him randomly like “hey so i notice you haven’t left elisa’s apartment for the past four hours what’s that about lol”
I’ll spare you the boring details, but up until now, the script has reverted the vertical nav update by essentially waiting for the page to load most of the way, and then quickly moving everything back to where it should be. This works decently fine of course, but of course there are issues with feature parity when it comes to things that Tumblr removes outright. And every time Tumblr removes another feature, I have to manually spend anywhere from minutes to hours trying to replace it.
HOWEVER, update 3.0 does away with all of that by simply disabling the flag that marks your account as part of the vertical nav beta test before the page loads. This reverts your dashboard to the proper layout without shuffling anything around after the page loads and effectively disables the vertical navigation layout and all future updates to it.
I owe a massive thanks to @twilight-sparkle-irl for knowing how to deobfusticate Tumblr’s hidden settings! I couldn’t have done this without your work!!!
“By the moon we glide under, I despise you, Detective,” Demona hisses, hefting the woman up by the wrists as if she weighed nothing. She yanks her close and bares her teeth in clear threat.
“Thank whatever gods you pray to I value my daughter’s wishes. Otherwise, you’d be gutted like a fish by now.”
“Yet after all this time I’m still here. Alive… with barely a scratch on me. Angela has nothing to do with that, now does she?” Elisa hums, and Demona visibly bristles. The gargoyle can strike fear in the hearts of the coldest opponents– has done so countless times in her pseudo immortal life– but the detective was never among them.
The oddity of a human meets her piercing eyes without flinching. She does nothing to try and escape her grasp, simply allows herself to hang. By all accounts, helpless, but she looks as smug as she’s ever been, trying (and failing) to hide the smirk curling across her lips.
“If I didn’t know any better, Demona,” Elisa purrs, her voice is dripping with amusement, “I’d think you liked me-”
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Haha whoops. :)
So I legit wasn’t gonna post this outside my patreon yet because I still have no concrete ideas, but I’m pretty proud of how it came out honestly. So here ya go. owo
I wanna do a Gargoyles AU, but like I said, no concrete ideas yet, largely because I need to rewatch the show (it’s been years since I’ve last seen it). But the basic idea I have so far explores the possibility of Demona’s redemption. One that is rocky and hard, but from what I remember she actually has the capacity to be redeemed, if she let her pride and anger go for literally like, three seconds.
As such this takes place after a piece I’m currently working on, so that one should give some more context. Until then though, enjoy a grumpy Demona and a smug, kinda flirty Elisa. uwu
Gargoyles was such a progressive series… Lex, Owen, and Puck are canonically gay, ace, and bi. Thailog has three dads. A woman gave another woman very sensual mouth-to-mouth. The main character is an overt and unabashed monsterfucker.
