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Bloody hell, the hair and wardrobe team for S8 need all the flowers because Buck's glow up from S7 is INSANE.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨: 8x9 sob stories stills have been released!!!

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This made me lol

“You are utterly unclear on how to be dead. This is the second time in two years that you’ve shown up at your own funeral.”

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the epidemic of grown adults playing tiktoks at full volume in public is rampant why are you acting like a 7 year old with their first ipad you have a mortgage

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GOD I just want to be CREATIVE but all my energy is being used to survive

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Things I love about The Office Job:

eliot fully trusting and going in for the "high five, for morale" thing and then getting swiped from

the fact that it is immensely clear that eliot and hardison are the two closest to breaking the camera, always looking at it and making faces and hating every minute of it

the scene when the two of them go to close the blinds after theyve both had enough of it (eliot going first and then hardison noticing bcus of eliot and instantly rushing over)

the sandwhich thing. all of it. its amazing

the scene between sophie and nate where they have their little spat. you know the one

"I love foreplay!" - nate ford

please dont tell anybody that he got beat up by an efficiency consultant

"BRING YO ASS" - eliot and hardison. favourite line, i love them so much <333

the scene immediately after where parker shows she lifted the dudes card, i love her shes amazing

okay honestly just every single eliot and hardison scene

THE ROOF SCENE

eliot immediately tackling and beating the absolute shit out of the guy who threw hardison off the roof

the "nobody throws hardison off a roof" scene. ily sm eliot <333

eliot and hardison standing outside of the room and just. obviously waiting until the culprit tries to run. i dont doubt they just also didnt want to be inside that presentation room tbh

their special fistbump right after was MWAH. chefs kiss. i love these two so much you have no idea

eliot's face when he looks at the camera lol

the sports metaphor. nate your amazing

eliot trying SO hard not to smile after the guy breaks the cd right then and there

actually everyones faces while they talk about the documentary lol

and of course THE VERY LAST FUCKING SCENE WITH HARDISON. hardison i love you so much dear god

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911 + Textposts part 15 (apparently???)

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the authors note of all time

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Plot armor but it’s Bruce Wayne’s wealth.

Bruce is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce does not want to be one of the richest men in world.

He starts by implementing high starting salaries and full health care coverages for all levels at Wayne Enterprises. This in vastly improves retention and worker productivity, and WE profits soar. He increases PTO, grants generous parental and family leave, funds diversity initiatives, boosts salaries again. WE is ranked “#1 worker-friendly corporation”, and productively and profits soar again.

Ok, so clearly investing his workers isn’t the profit-destroying doomed strategy his peers claim it is. Bruce is going to keep doing it obviously (his next initiative is to ensure all part-time and contractors get the same benefits and pay as full time employees), but he is going to have to find a different way to dump his money.

But you know what else is supposed to be prohibitively expensive? Green and ethical initiatives. Yes, Bruce can do that. He creates and fund a 10 year plan to covert all Wayne facilities to renewable energy. He overhauls all factories to employ the best environmentally friendly practices and technologies. He cuts contracts with all suppliers that engage in unethical employment practices and pays for other to upgrade their equipment and facilities to meet WE’s new environmental and safety requirements. He spares no expense.

Yeah, Wayne Enterprises is so successful that they spin off an entire new business arm focused on helping other companies convert to environmentally friendly and safe practices like they did in an efficient, cost effective, successful way.

Admittedly, investing in his own company was probably never going to be the best way to get rid of his wealth. He slashes his own salary to a pittance (god knows he has more money than he could possibly know what to do with already) and keeps investing the profits back into the workers, and WE keeps responding with nearly terrifying success.

So WE is a no-go, and Bruce now has numerous angry billionaires on his back because they’ve been claiming all these measures he’s implementing are too expensive to justify for decades and they’re finding it a little hard to keep the wool over everyone’s eyes when Idiot Softheart Bruice Wayne has money spilling out his ears. BUT Bruce can invest in Gotham. That’ll go well, right?

Gotham’s infrastructure is the OSHA anti-Christ and even what little is up to code is constantly getting destroyed by Rogue attacks. Surely THAT will be a money sink.

Except the only non-corrupt employer in Gotham city is….Wayne Enterprises. Or contractors or companies or businesses that somehow, in some way or other, feed back to WE. Paying wholesale for improvement to Gotham’s infrastructure somehow increases WE’s profits.

Bruce funds a full system overhaul of Gotham hospital (it’s not his fault the best administrative system software is WE—he looked), he sets up foundations and trusts for shelters, free clinics, schools, meal plans, day care, literally anything he can think of.

Gotham continues to be a shithole. Bruce Wayne continues to be richer than god against his Batman-ingrained will.

Oh, and Bruice Wayne is no longer viewed as solely a spoiled idiot nepo baby. The public responds by investing in WE and anything else he owns, and stop doing this, please.

Bruce sets up a foundation to pay the college tuition of every Gotham citizen who applies. It’s so successful that within 10 years, donations from previous recipients more than cover incoming need, and Bruce can’t even donate to his own charity.

But by this time, Bruce has children. If he can’t get rid of his wealth, he can at least distribute it, right?

Except Dick Grayson absolutely refuses to receive any of his money, won’t touch his trust fund, and in fact has never been so successful and creative with his hacking skills as he is in dumping the money BACK on Bruce. Jason died and won’t legally resurrect to take his trust fund. Tim has his own inherited wealth, refuses to inherit more, and in fact happily joins forces with Dick to hack accounts and return whatever money he tries to give them. Cass has no concept of monetary wealth and gives him panicked, overwhelmed eyes whenever he so much as implies offering more than $100 at once. Damian is showing worrying signs of following in his precious Richard’s footsteps, and Babs barely allows him to fund tech for the Clocktower. At least Steph lets him pay for her tuition and uses his credit card to buy unholy amounts of Batburger. But that is hardly a drop in the ocean of Bruce’s wealth. And she won’t even accept a trust fund of only one million.

Jason wins for best-worst child though because he currently runs a very lucrative crime empire. And although he pours the vast, vast majority of his profits back into Crime Alley, whenever he gets a little too rich for his tastes, he dumps the money on Bruce. At this point, Bruce almost wishes he was being used for money laundering because then he’s at least not have the money.

So children—generous, kindhearted, stubborn till the day they die the little shits, children—are also out.

Bruce was funding the Justice League. But then finances were leaked, and the public had an outcry over one man holding so much sway over the world’s superheroes (nevermind Bruce is one of those superheroes—but the public can’t know that). So Bruce had to do some fancy PR trickery, concede to a policy of not receiving a majority of funds from one individual, and significantly decrease his contributions because no one could match his donations.

At his wits end, Bruce hires a team of accounts to search through every crinkle and crevice of tax law to find what loopholes or shortcuts can be avoided in order to pay his damn taxes to the MAX.

The results are horrifying. According to the strictest definition of the law, the government owes him money.

Bruce burns the report, buries any evidence as deeply as he can, and organizes a foundation to lobby for FAR higher taxation of the upper class.

All this, and Wayne Enterprises is happily chugging along, churning profit, expanding into new markets, growing in the stock market, and trying to force the credit and proportionate compensation on their increasingly horrified CEO.

Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world. Bruce Wayne will never not be one of the richest men in the world.

But by GOD is he trying.

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I HOWLED

just imagine how hard maddie will be fighting for her life if buck has the feelings realisation first and inevitably blurts it out to her 5 minutes later

she can't tell chim because he can't keep a secret. she can't tell josh because he'll be insufferably smug about it. she'll have to excuse herself to the bathroom and scream into a towel

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one of my favorite things about leverage is how no matter how bad you think the con is going, James Sterling will always pop up and make it worse for the crew

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oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

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'Wish Buck could have seen you do that.' 'Honestly I would have much rather seen Buck do that.' that's their kid 🥺🥺🥺

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If you want to make a fic writer's day you can message them and tell them that you liked their fic.

If you really want to make a fic writer's day you can tell them you've read it more than once.

If you want to make a fic writer's entire month you can share art/your notes/etc about their fic with them.

They will love you forever if you do this.

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"it was stolen in-" "2002, london, on a beautiful spring day. it was a bit of a rush job actually"

i love sophie so much. master grifter who hints to a completely random stranger that she stole a painting for no reason. she doesn't even know yet that harry is trying to steal the painting she just gets so nostalgic about her crimes

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I don't read a *massive* amount of fanfic (though I *totally* think it's a valid and important form of writing - just as I think fan art is valid and important.) But some of the stuff I have read - mainly through Tumblr when it comes up on my dash - is just amazing. Funny. Smart. Sexy. Romantic. Sad. Gorgeous . Writers of all stripes just knocking it out of the park.

So I decided to set up an A03 account and leave positive comments on everything I like because it felt like people who write it - who put their heart and soul into creating stuff and sharing it for free! - felt disillusioned. Especially in this era of AI.

And yeah I'm just one person but I know myself as a writer that sometimes getting that one nice comment at just the right time can make all the difference to feeling like you can keep creating.

Honestly I get paid to write and I do love / need the money obvs but sometimes even getting paid well for something feels a bit hollow if you don't get any response to it. Artists want to connect. Show that connection!

So tell the people whose work you love that you love it!

There might be a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of people who are weird about receiving even positive feedback (rare, but they do exist) but I guarantee your odds are much better of making someone's day.

people who let me wake up to this get a special place in heaven. firefly_fox how does it feel to hold my life in ur hands....

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when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.