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nowaskey · 26 days ago
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Expert Solutions for Harley-Davidson® Repairs and Custom Upgrades
When it comes to maintaining or enhancing your Harley-Davidson®, finding a reliable Harley repair specialist is essential. Whether you're seeking routine maintenance, performance upgrades, or a full custom build, entrusting your motorcycle to experienced hands ensures your ride performs at its best. For over 15 years, Pete Nowaskey has dedicated his craft to transforming stock Harley-Davidson® motorcycles into personalized works of art tailored to each rider's style and preferences.
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Why Choose Professional Harley Repair?
Owning a Harley-Davidson® is more than just owning a motorcycle; it's about the lifestyle, freedom, and exhilaration it offers. However, even the most iconic bikes need expert care to maintain their peak performance. Professional Harley repair services go beyond basic fixes; they ensure your bike is road-ready, safe, and optimized for your riding needs.
Key benefits of choosing a skilled Harley repair expert include:
Precision Diagnostics: Identifying and resolving issues efficiently to keep your bike running smoothly.
Performance Enhancements: From upgrading engines to fine-tuning suspension, professionals can elevate your bike's performance.
Customization Expertise: Transform your Harley-Davidson® into a unique reflection of your vision and style.
Long-Term Reliability: Quality repairs and modifications enhance the longevity of your motorcycle.
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For riders who value precision, reliability, and style, expert Harley repair services are non-negotiable. Whether you need routine maintenance or a fully customized motorcycle, entrusting your Harley-Davidson® to experienced professionals ensures it’s always ready to hit the open road. Contact a trusted team today to elevate your riding experience and turn your vision into reality.
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gayfranzkafka · 1 year ago
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"x y & z show queerbaiting" yada yada you people haven't suffered in the trenches of being a comic book fan where they finally make a couple canon after YEARS of queerbaiting but then instantly made them break up but then had them get back together but now you don't trust DC enough to not break them up AGAIN and new issues only come out ONCE A MONTH so you have to wait with baited breath to see whether the fuck them fighting for like multiple issues is just to build tension or actually them headed on another breakup trajectory and the editors will literally constantly break up even well-beloved STRAIGHT COUPLES because no one is supposed to be happy in comics or whatever stupid bullshit and also they only even let them be in each other's comics significantly like once in a blue moon so it's like waiting for the spn episodes that feature Cas but ten times worse. And also no one online or in real life ever seems to have read or be talking about any comics you read even though that's supposedly what the internet is for so all of your thoughts have to bounce around in your own head for a month every time. Well why do you read DC and Marvel comics when they are overseen by soulless corporate editorial boards you may ask? well because I have loving Harley Quinn disease and it's incurable unfortunately. Also I was raised on them. Sigh
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celebrityinterviews · 1 year ago
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INTERVIEW #307: ELLA GRACE HELTON
(SINGER | DANCER | ACTRESS | ENTREPRENEUR)
ELLA GRACE HELTON A YOUNG RISING TALENT FROM FLORIDA WHOSE RESUME WAS DIVERSIFIED BY ROLES IN TV FILM, COMMERICALS AND BROADWAY BY THE AGE OF 6.
​THIS TINY POWERHOUSE OF PERSONALITY, KNOWN AT AN EARLY AGE AS THE NEXT SHIRELY TEMPLE, SPREADS POSITIVE ENERGY TO ALL THOSE AROUND HER.​
SINGING | MUSIC BACKGROUND
ELLA ALSO IS A POWERFUL SINGER WHO EXPRESSES HERSELF WITH PIANO, GUITAR AND SONGWRITING AND SHE ENJOYS SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT LOCAL FUNDRAISING EVENTS. SHE ADDITIONALLY FEEDS HER CREATIVE BRAIN WITH DESIGNING HER OWN JEWELRY LINE, LEARNING AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE, BUILDING LEGOS AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES AS WELL AS CODING HER OWN GAMES. SHE LOVES CREATING ROUTINES ON THE AERIAL SILK, INLINE SKATING, MOUNTAIN BIKING , YOGA, AND ROCK CLIMBING AND SWIMMING. 
MUSICAL THEATRE BACKGROUND
ELLA REVEALED WITH HER EARLIEST EXPRESSIONS THAT SHE WAS BORN TO ENTERTAIN AND OFFICIALLY STARTED THAT JOURNEY IN MUSICAL THEATER AT AGE 2. SHE HAD HER BROADWAY DEBUT AT AGE 5, AS LULU IN THE BROADWAY TOUR OF WAITRESS.
ACTING BACKGROUND
​ONE OF ELLA'S FIRST MOTION PICTURE FILMS WHERE SHE BRINGS HER COMEDY OUT IN THE NETFLIX MOVIE “HUBIE HALLOWEEN” AS JESSA PHILLIPS (MINI HARLEY QUINN).
​ELLA PLAYED THE LOVABLE AND QUIRKY EMILY RYAN ON “UNITED WE FALL,” CO-PRODUCED BY ABC AND SONY.
ELLA TOOK ON THE ROLE OF KATIE TOWNSEND IN SEASON 3 OF THE NETFLIX SERIES “SWEET MAGNOLIAS” AND SOON TO BE FILMING SEASON FOUR.
​ELLA HAS ACTED IN 18 COMMERCIALS, INCLUDING FOR DISNEY, MARRIOTT, HASBRO, GERBER, OROWHEAT (WITH JOHN STAMOS) AND COMCAST XFINITY (WITH AMY POEHLER). 
Be sure to visit ELLA online at:
Instagram.com/AventuresOfEllaGrace
SINGING RELATED QUESTIONS
1-AT WHAT AGE DID YOU START SINGING?
2-CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT YOUR FUNDRAISING EFFORTS USING YOUR VOICE | NATIONAL ANTHEM
MUSICAL THEATRE
1-WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE LIKE WITH WAITRESS: THE MUSICAL?L AS LULU?
-2018 | YEAR
ACTING PROJECTS
1-WHAT WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE LIKE WORKING ON YOUR FIRST TV SERIES UNITED WE FALL?
2-CURRENT PROJECT | SWEET MAGNOLIAS
CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR ROLE?
3-ANY UPCOMING ACTING PROJECTS YOU CAN TELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT?
DANCE QUESTION
1-CAN YOU TELL US MORE ABOUT YOUR DANCE AND BALLROOM EXPERIENCE?
ENTREPRENEURSHIP QUESTION
1-CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE MORE ABOUT YOUR INSPIRATION AND HOW YOU STARTED DRAWING AND PAINTING?
2-YOU ALSO HAVE A BRACELET MAKING BUSINESS CAN YOU TELL US MORE?
ADVICE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE INDUSTRY?
*NOTE: All interviews are copyright protected.
Copyright: Jaclyn Salamone
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the-firebird69 · 1 year ago
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The Best Motorcycle Riding Gear On The Market!! #shorts #motorcycle
He ran into the block wall and wanted to go back in time and he's just a kissing loser so we're going to rip them apart again and he's doing this idiotic theatrical s*** all day to our son and gets killed in is Trump getting killed of course and he's an argumentative little prick but this is the motorcycle and we don't want to talk about this useless twat next door you want to talk about this bike because we were talking about the single cylinder of Harley-Davidson x 440 and they made that in India and they make a 500 in the United States and it goes pretty good but it has a twin engine a son suggested it because he's single cylinder that he drove sounded like weird like a Japanese bike and people said that too good it's a good idea but we won't be able to start our idea with a 883 V-Twin or a V-Twin 737 because it won't be allowed and they're going to fight over Harley-Davidson and we'll start off the 883 again maybe about 225 lb off of the 450 lb motor solely weighs 225 lb with the transmission and the whole bike will be less weight it'll go from about 8:90 because they have like a 1,200 in it two about 450 with an 883 that's going to be very fast bike and 450 doesn't weigh much. We're going to go ahead with this and we're going to try and get the striker out there Saturday and Salazar and got his wife for now proceeding and they sent over 3D rendering and earlier today he's trying to print one and he did and he's got in the office it's pretty big it's like 3 ft long and it's just a mock-up they said I can print it real fast if I don't make it too big and he had one that's lowered now it's not lower because what our son and daughter said was if you lower it first it won't be able to fit but then it'll look too much like a mega car or a hyper car and we'll get too much attention and it won't sell as a kit that easy they put actual race cars out there that didn't sell because they look too racy and it's true it takes a little bit out of it and it looks really nice it looks awesome and if we can't get it out there we might be able to we'll get it somewhere else but we can put the mock up we have to build another one here and we can put that online if someone did it really is nice and that's not the car it looks really cool that car that's cool a lot of people are going to look it up it's not the same kind of car. This is going to rock I've never seen anything quite like this this car and the concept it is going to really fly and we think it comes out Saturday somehow and people start copying it and they try and find out which one's the real one and usually these dicks don't do it right and they ignore some suggestions enjoy their own stuff and the emblem is not going to be right and won't say striker with the car they'll put their own thing and they'll stay there then and it's kind of lame that's what they do
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We're going to go ahead with it and I hear the song and they say we want to be ourselves and do things but nobody wants to see it usually it's cute with rounded edges. So he says Sarah is a leader and there's nothing wrong with having your own car like the dagger and you should revamp the whole thing in other words the lights and other stuff for hours and the front end so she's thinking about it and you make your own dagger company again with your brother husband. And they're thinking about it and she wants to make it rounded so he says make a round car. But he said something quite unique to me he said that this car is very nice and I'll be there Saturday and it's going to cost the song to be made for some reason and you're talking about so the engine too so I think people show up with knh engines and in different motorcycles it's the mini Harley that's what they're going to call in and he did name it that and you can't really name it Harley because that would be a Harley. And he's looking for a name like three times you're out they start off as natives they become clowns and at the end they become some sort of trooper or soldier. And it's not really sure what to call it but trooper becomes very famous
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Is what we say trooper is like from a heavy metal band and it's the name of a character that looks like George and they're thinking about Mars and him leaving and it goes away from the clown bike but it's still really is one but just like troops instead of clowns and that's what they're supposed to become and that's what a reminder is and they need that real bad and they change it and it does work
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I don't like the verbage but he's saying it about gas cuz he really is you Garth knows code and these guys do and they just don't tell anyone
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44gamez · 1 year ago
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review — it could’ve been more fun
The builders of the beloved Batman Arkham video games have a brand new DC sport, this time informed from the villains’ perspective. However what ought to really feel like a recent begin for Rocksteady Studios as a substitute seems like a misstep — a sport filled with drained mechanics and unhealthy jokes. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a third-person shooter that expands Rocksteady’s Batman Arkhamverse from Gotham Metropolis to Metropolis, residence of Superman and the Justice League. Alien supervillain Brainiac has invaded Earth, mind-controlled a lot of the Justice League, and enslaved Metropolis’ residents as a part of his plan to construct a brand new model of his residence planet. Confronted with a crew of superheroes turned supervillains, authorities agent Amanda Waller enlists a quartet of prison misfits — Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark — into Job Power X, an expendable crew that’s compelled to comply with her orders, lest she detonate tiny bombs of their heads. This Suicide Squad should use unconventional strategies to take down the League and its grasp. Three common human beings and one not-so-bright sharkman don’t seem to be a lot of a match for the likes of Superman and Inexperienced Lantern, so Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League outfits the crew with weapons and lethal devices that imbue the members with borrowed superpowers. This idea is comparatively straightforward to swallow, proper up till you come face-to-face with the generally godlike members of the League. You’re at all times taking part in as a crew in Kill the Justice League, both with pals in on-line multiplayer or with a trio of bots. You may swap between the characters if you need, however the sport will advocate switching between sure squad members at factors, largely to present you some selection and add a bit additional narrative punch to encounters.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games by way of Polygon Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League additionally has a robust emphasis on traversal mechanics. Every member of Job Power X has their very own method of getting round, with various ranges of satisfaction with their actions. King Shark can leap tall buildings with a single certain, making him the only to manage. Deadshot has a simple, beginner-friendly jetpack. Captain Boomerang swipes a Velocity Power glove, letting him dash at floor degree and kind of teleport. (“Boomer,” as his squadmates discuss with him, simply has the strangest technique of traversal.) Harley can swing round Metropolis in a method that blends Batman’s flying and Spider-Man’s swinging, however it feels frustratingly extra clumsy than combining these two great-feeling online game locomotion strategies ought to. Motion by means of Metropolis largely feels good, which is lucky since you’ll spend a superb portion of the sport scaling buildings and leaping throughout rooftops between missions. Capturing, your main technique of taking down enemies, feels good too, at a fundamental degree. Nevertheless, Rocksteady piles on an enormous checklist of talents past simply taking pictures weapons, they usually vary from inessential to overcomplicated. You may melee unhealthy guys to recharge your defend; counter-shoot enemies poised to assault you; powerslide to knock enemies over; and so forth and so forth. There’s an enormous array of weapons, grenades, melee weapons, and elemental modifiers for each sort of weapon, so battles turn out to be visually and mechanically chaotic in consequence, with the display screen overwhelmed with results and harm numbers. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League piles on too many mechanics, with some pointless to really win fights — that's, till the sport forces you to make use of them. In a few of Suicide Squad’s most irritating missions, sure enemies will solely take harm by means of crucial hits, or after you’ve acquired a useful resource that depletes over time. These fight tweaks rework already repetitive missions right into a slog with problem spikes that don’t really feel additive, simply annoying. Many of the enemies you wind up preventing all through town are mutated Metropolitans and Braniac-controlled autos. None of them are significantly attention-grabbing to combat in opposition to; oftentimes you’re simply in search of and unloading on a purple pimple head till one thing explodes.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games If you do come face-to-face with members of the Justice League, issues take a flip for the more serious. Characters like Flash, Inexperienced Lantern, and Superman, proven in different moments to have godlike talents, inexplicably toy with Job Power X in protracted, gimmick-laden battles. Boss battles are filled with spectacle, but additionally tedious and irritating — league members zip across the display screen in methods which might be troublesome to trace and clog arenas with environmental assaults that may make body charges chug. Each aspect missions and important narrative quests are additionally painfully repetitive. They contain standing by a truck and taking pictures stuff. Or strolling alongside a transferring truck and taking pictures stuff. Or standing by certainly one of Poison Ivy’s crops and taking pictures stuff. Generally you’ll be requested to recuperate civilians or troopers who're trapped behind enemy strains, and that entails frantically taking pictures stuff till the mission unceremoniously ends. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is sort of a “looter shooter,” so post-mission, you’ll get a handful of rewards, together with new weapons from arms vendor Penguin, a wide range of currencies and supplies (which you'll be able to flip in for brand spanking new weapons or weapon modifiers), and a few XP. You’ll slowly improve a tree of expertise and talents that don’t appear to have a noticeable affect in your efficiency amid the storm of explosions and harm numbers flying throughout the display screen. You’ll additionally get randomized gear after finishing a activity. You may craft gear, too, utilizing the sundry currencies you collect round Metropolis. Sadly, these weapons, shields, and different bits of tech not often really feel impactful. There are such a lot of modifiers and stats to decipher that I wound up simply wanting on the inexperienced arrows pointing up (higher!) and purple arrows pointing down (worse?) to determine if I ought to equip one thing or not. Ultimately, I began to know among the sport’s intensive jargon, however it didn’t have an effect on a lot of my habits in battle or in selecting my gear.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games by way of Polygon Whereas missions are largely boring, there’s a reasonably entertaining story on the coronary heart of Kill the Justice League. The members of Job Power X are a bunch of lovable losers who're very a lot in over their heads, they usually succeed regardless of their incompetence, infighting, and backstabbing. Waller, portrayed viciously by the nice Debra Wilson, is a believably merciless taskmaster who threatens the crew always, which feels tonally applicable on condition that, if she doesn’t, everybody’s going to die anyway. And the possessed members of the Justice League come throughout like actual assholes, their ids introduced entrance and heart by Brainiac’s thoughts manipulations. Followers of Rocksteady’s Arkham video games, particularly its model of Batman, might discover the sport’s cruelty and cynicism powerful to abdomen. The sport’s title pays off — sure, you'll kill the Justice League, typically in ways in which really feel dismissive of individuals’s fondness for these iconic characters. Nearly all the things is handled like a joke and solely a handful of the gags land. The remainder — makes an attempt at humor are unrelenting — are interminably unfunny. At one level, a member of Job Power X suggests killing a boss by inserting his shrunken physique into Captain Boomerang’s rectum. After finishing the sport’s story, I’m blissful to be executed listening to those characters. What could also be most stunning about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is how a lot love, consideration, and years of labor have been put into it. But, it’s such a mediocre expertise. There are moments of nice storytelling right here, and powerful performances to again it up. Metropolis is a great-looking metropolis, filled with brightness and attraction that Rocksteady’s Gotham lacked. And characters, significantly their faces, look beautiful. The expressive animation of characters like Harley Quinn and King Shark goes a good distance towards making these characters really feel plausible, generally even likable. However the repetitive mission design, dreadful humor, and bland loot mechanics drag down what ought to have been a enjoyable inversion of the darkish Batman Arkham video games. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League seems like a second spherical of closure for Rocksteady within the DC universe — however as a substitute of the satisfying and hopeful ending of Batman: Arkham Knight, it brings the story to a detailed with an ear-ringing bullet within the head. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was launched on Feb. 2 on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. The sport was reviewed on PS5 utilizing a pre-release obtain code offered by Warner Bros. Video games. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These don't affect editorial content material, although Vox Media might earn commissions for merchandise bought by way of affiliate hyperlinks. You will discover further details about Polygon’s ethics coverage right here. Source link Read the full article
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autoengineforsale · 2 years ago
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Panhead Engine For Sale
The Panhead engine For Sale is an iconic piece of American motorcycle history that has captivated motorcycle enthusiasts for generations. Introduced by Harley-Davidson in 1948, the Panhead engine was a significant improvement over the previous Knucklehead design, boasting better performance, reliability, and overall function. Today, many motorcycle enthusiasts still cherish these engines and seek to own them, whether for restoration or for use in custom-built bikes.
If you are looking to buy a Panhead engine, you can find many options available through various sources. One option is to search online auction sites or classified ads for sellers offering Panhead engines. It is important to do your research and verify the authenticity and condition of the engine before making a purchase. You can also visit motorcycle shows or swap meets, where you may find sellers displaying their Panhead engines for sale.
When purchasing a Panhead engine, it is essential to consider the condition and history of the engine, as well as the seller's reputation. A complete engine with all its original parts and in good working condition will likely command a higher price than one that is missing parts or needs significant repairs. You should also inquire about the engine's maintenance history, as this can impact its overall condition and longevity.
If you are planning to use the Panhead engine for a custom bike build, you may also want to consider the engine's compatibility with your desired frame and transmission. It is important to choose an engine that will fit and function properly with your specific build , https://autoengineforsale.com/panhead-engine-for-sale
Overall, a Panhead engine can be a valuable and exciting addition to any motorcycle enthusiast's collection or custom build project. With proper research and consideration, you can find a reliable and authentic Panhead engine for sale that meets your needs and budget.
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lizseyi · 2 years ago
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Klaviyo becomes the recommended email solution partner for Shopify Plus - Skywire London
Many a fashion, luxury or lifestyle business presently working with a dedicated Shopify agency for high-end brands, will have reason to take an interest in the announcement of a new “strategic partnership” between Shopify and Klaviyo. 
‍What’s involved in the new “partnership”? 
The new “product partnership” between the Canadian multinational ecommerce firm Shopify and the marketing automation company Klaviyo will see Shopify make what has been described as “a strategic investment in Klaviyo to build upon the long-term collaboration between the platforms.” 
As part of the agreement, Klaviyo will gain the status of recommended email solution partner for Shopify Plus, which is the plan Shopify offers for merchants with higher-volume sales, and who therefore require a greater level of functionality, scalability and support than is available from the base-level version of Shopify. 
The enhanced collaboration will also mean Klaviyo receiving early access to new Shopify development features, which a press release announcing the news said would help the two parties “accelerate critical new technologies designed to help merchants navigate recent shifts in online marketing.” 
Building on an established association between the two brands 
It should be noted, of course, that this latest partnership hardly represents the first time Shopify and Klaviyo have been linked. The Klaviyo solution is already available in the Shopify App Store, and Klaviyo indicated that it expected the new partnership to “further strengthen opportunities for merchants to deepen customer relationships amidst a dynamic marketing environment.” 
The features and benefits of Klaviyo’s customer platform include its unification of customer journey data under a single solution, and the accessibility and actionability of this data, which enables marketers to draw upon it in their efforts to acquire, enchant, and retain customers. 
Klaviyo co-founder and CEO, Andrew Bialecki, commented: “Our goal has always been to understand our customers (and their biggest challenges) and build the most loved product that solves those challenges. 
“Partnerships with leading platforms like Shopify that share our values and mission are crucial to how we help solve those challenges creators and brands face. We’re excited about what this continued partnership represents for our customers.” 
Harley Finkelstein, President of Shopify, stated: “Klaviyo is a shining example of the outsized impact Shopify’s app and partner ecosystem can have on the next generation of commerce solutions for independent brands. 
“Klaviyo has become invaluable to hundreds of thousands of merchants to help them better understand their customers and engage them in highly personalised ways across so many touchpoints. 
“Klaviyo’s success has been astounding, and we’re excited to take this next step in our already robust partnership to make it even easier for Shopify merchants to grow their businesses.” 
Would you like to know more about how the Shopify-Klaviyo connection could aid your own business in its efforts to grow during 2022 and for many more years to come? If so, you could be well-advised to get in touch with our own Shopify agency for high-end brands here at Skywire London; we’ll help you plot the best possible path ahead for your firm in the luxury sector.  
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bred-crumbs · 2 years ago
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Hmm. Something I would like to bring up with Jade, Jake, Roxy, and Dirk, is that honestly I think their perception of gender is very much effected by their isolation. With Jake of course he has for more of an external influence than the rest of the three because of the sheer amount of movies he watches, but it's still something where only having the influence of Hollywood and not having people around him, his idea of gender is very much based in those movies. Funny enough I think one of the reasons where I think he would be okay with his chest is because of those absolutely shredded actors where they have massive pecs. To him having a chest, mixed with his muscle structure, is just like the guys in the movie he looks up to.
Then we look over to Jade and Jade is someone where her only external influence of gender is some stuff online and the paintings upon paintings of women that her grandfather kept. I think this, mixed with her autism, makes her feel very isolated from any sense of "feminity" because she isn't curvy and she doesn't have perfect hair or anything. I think Jade Harley has a disconnect from the gender binary and I think her isolation generally adds to this.
Then with Roxy and Dirk, the total destruction of society as they know it gives them the chance to have their own version of what gender is. I think that if you asked them what being a guy was and what being a girl was they would give you fundamentally "wrong" answers. They have built their identities, and ideas of identity, in reflections of shadows. When you are the only two people in the world left, your idea of social constructs are going to be different than what they were back when there were people to enforce them.
(btw of course the autism effects more than just Jade's gender, it effects all four's genders. I just felt it was incredibly noteable for Jade)
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HOO OK TIME TO TRY TO ANSWER THIS ONE AGAIN
Honestly I don’t tend to primarily think of jake as a trans man but I really love this hc, and yeah he was far more affected specifically by movie media and it’s tropes than any of the alpha kids and it’s interesting how much it’s built into his character and gender. Like for me his idolization of femme fatale characters and girl characters in general is huge on why I hc him as transfemme/nonbinary, there’s just so many ways to interpret him along with the media he like
🤝 Somebody said it ty, no matter how u see jade that gender can autistic 🤝
Ok the thing with dirk and roxy is Jesus is gender perception warped, building your ideas about identity based on what little knowledge remains about a dead culture you were never apart of is rough to say the least. I love to interpret them as transmasc and transfemme respectfully bc they took what they looked up to from a era they were never part of and tried they’re best to imitate it even if it came out somewhat wonky traditionally. They’re hanging on by thread to something they can’t experience but still have to attempt to fit in with its culture, but they’re def still trying to do it their own way
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metalcursed-archived · 2 years ago
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the wife. i call her this not bc we're married although we have said we're soulmates. we get each other's humor and can pretty much talk about anything and nothing. i know that sounds cheesy as fuck, but it's totally true. that kind of dynamic is rare esp in the rpc. i say rare not bc it isn't possible bc i'm sure people have their people they talk with daily and plot with constantly like me and harley do, but it's genuinely hard to maintain that kind of relationship in rp. it just is. we haven't known one another that long but it feels like a snap. i'm sure there might have been an awkward first stage bc i'm awkward so it's excepted but it must have been very brief. i don't remember not being cool with harley.
harley is so cool btw. like the coolest of cool. i'm so manic and up and down, and she just goes with it. i love her for that. it's hard to read people online even if you think you've picked up their vibe. i'm sure i'm just the weirdest fucking person. i know this, man. my mood comes and goes, and she's the same or understanding about it. it's often said this stuff is a hobby not a jobby, but the guilt is still there, for me. harley does not make this feel like work. i've never felt guilty even though i have replies i owe her from months ago when we first starting freakin' writing together. we have a thousand and one threads. can we talk about how amazing that is? i can understand partners getting annoyed with not finishing a thread before starting more. but harley is just always down, and for me, that's so perfect.
we're perfectly content building ed and chrissy's future by chatting about it. we write a ton, we headcanon, and we have such miniscule details thrown out at random every day. it's a gift. i swear harley is a genius. as far as i'm concerned, she has such an understanding of chrissy as a person. chrissy is a living and breathing person bc of what harley does with her. every hc post she makes or random private message is pure gold in my eyes. it's not bc i think chrissy in canon would do/say/think "that". harley's interpretation is its own embodiment that i'm completely obsessed with. i liked chrissy in the show. i like discovering other portrayals of chrissy and watching her live on in rp. being part of harley's take on chrissy though? it's indescribable. i could never do it justice. i'm in awe. it sounds like crap, but i'm being 100% honest. i want to know her, be friends with her, and see her happy. i want to write the eddie she deserves.
harley spoke about how i check in with her every day as simple as that, and it struck me. out of all the cool things she said about me, that stuck with me for the rest of the day. bc it is something so simple: how was your day? how is your day going? and she was right, i asked bc i do care about her day. when anyone tells me their frustrated, i share that. if they're happy something worked out, i'm pleased for them. it's things like that i personally think go unnoticed bc it's so simple, but it meant so much she noticed i was being genuine with her. another rare thing. oddly rare.
i told her this before, but i was amazed at the life we were building with eddie and chrissy. we call it their encyclopedia. anything you'd ever want to know about their life before and after they're together, we could probably tell you or figure it out pretty quickly. we have a shared language that i'm thankful for each and every day. i'm a fan of eddie as a character, of chrissy, of the show. i'm invested in what harley and i are creating together. we're not sick of it yet, and i hope we never grow tired of it. if we do, by some happenstance... maybe we'll pick up some other muses and work the same witchcraft. something about writing hellcheer with harley feels special. all the time. special is rare too and, unfortunately, it doesn't often last. however, i do believe harley and i are onto something here.
if you noticed, i never spoke directly to harley, using second-person speech and so on, bc... idk i have a hard time with sharing things i find too personal. so know from the bottom of my soul, i mean every word of this bc i couldn't even say it to her directly. i'm a mess, but i'm harley's mess. not sure if this is all i want to say, or if any of it makes sense. but it's a start for now.
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xbladekitkat85 · 4 years ago
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Why Clint is on Tony’s Sh*t List
Word count: A bit over 3k.
Chapter summary: Peter and Harley are brothers and the children of Tony Stark. Which is highly classified knowledge that nobody outside of the Avengers knows. Until Clint Barton accidentally spills the secret with a technology related mishap.
Warnings: A bit of language here and there. Tony threatening Clint’s life because he did an oopsie.
Peter's POV
In the school that is Midtown School of Science and Technology, everyone is basically a genius of some sort. You have biology geeks, math geeks, chemistry geeks, robotics geeks. You name a branch of STEM subjects, there are guaranteed to be at least 5 masters in every subject.
That being said, being a master in a subject doesn't mean that you would be instantly popular. Sure you might get hounded for homework help, but it doesn't mean you actually make friends as easily. It's more like people want to leech off of your knowledge and don't bother to get to know you.
There's a social pyramid in all schools and let's just say I'm towards the bottom of mine. I build Lego sets, I love Star Wars, I'm a whiz at chemistry and math. But people ignore the fact that I'm 'somewhat' intelligent and focus on the Lego and Star Wars part of my image. Which sucks big time. At least I'm graduating this year.
But at least I have my brother Harley to confide in. We argue over stupid stiff but we both enjoy poking fun at each other.
3rd person POV
Peter was sitting at his usual table with his small group of friends. Ned, MJ, and Betty made up this small group of people.
"So, what are you guys doing this weekend?" Ned asked the group.
"Uhhhh, I was planning on going to see that new movie coming out." Betty answered. "You know, the one with Emilia Clarke and what's his name."
"Oh yeah, I know which one you're talking about." Ned replied.
"You losers can go see a movie, I'm going to a protest outside of Oscorp." MJ replied, sipping her thermos of coffee.
"What did Oscorp do?" Peter asked curiously.
"They're trying to cover up an employee getting severely injured, the safety protocols are shitty, and HR is as usual, the worst part of it all in addition to the censorship of the incident online."
Peter nodded his head, eyes widened.
"Gotcha. I definitely understand why you're going."
MJ set her thermos down and opened her latest book, Speak.
Ned turned to look at Peter.
"Stark internship all weekend?" He inquired.
Peter shrugged and took a sip of water.
"I'm gonna hang out with Harley. Probably do some stuff in the lab. Usual stuff."
Betty shook her head in disbelief.
"I still can't believe you're friends with him." She said. "He's pretty high on the social ladder here. I mean I know you guys have the internship together but it's still kind of baffling that I never see you interacting in school."
Ohhhhh, if you only knew Betty. Peter laughed to himself on the inside.
Nobody at school knew that Peter and Harley were half brothers and the children of Tony Stark. Not even Ned or MJ knew although he suspected that MJ somehow knew or was close to figuring it out. She's scarily perceptive and freakishly good at knowing things about other people that she definitely shouldn't.
The bell rang signaling the end of lunch.
The four friends parted ways and headed to their respective classes.
*After school*
Peter arrived at the tower straight from Delmar's after picking up snacks for the weekend. He had grabbed an assortment, ranging from potato chips to pretzel M&Ms.  He waved at Ms. Maldonado, the lady who commanded the reception area and dashed to the elevator, scanning his pass when prompted.
FRIDAY greeted him when the doors closed.
"How was your day Peter? Harley is already waiting for you. He told me to tell you, and I quote, "Peter, I hope you remembered my PRETZEL M&Ms not PEANUT M&M's like last time. If you forgot, I'm going to steal that new Lego set you were planning on building tomorrow. And I WILL hide it somewhere you'll never, ever, find it. Insert maniacal cackling, blah blah blah."
Peter stifled a laugh at Harley's message.
"Uh, well my day was the usual, you know. And tell Harley I got his stupid M&Ms. And I grabbed him something else too if he promises not to threaten the Legos again."
"Sure thing, Peter."
He exited the elevator to the floor which housed the labs he shared with Harley. There were multiple as the duo tended to accidentally blow things up and would need to have another place to work while repairs were being done. Needless to say, Tony was more than a little annoyed that his kids needed multiple labs because they kept blowing them up. But whatever, he loves them and will pay for it as long as he gets to blackmail them with all the ridiculous stories of what blew up and how it happened.
Harley looked up towards the door Peter walked through and lifted his welding mask off his face.
"Hand over the merchandise, blockhead." He said, his arm stretched towards the bag of goodies Peter was carrying.
"Only if you promise to leave the Legos alone, biotch." He replied.
Harley rolled his eyes and dramatically lifted his hand in the air as if he was testifying in court.
"I promise not to touch the Legos." He said in a half joking tone.
Peter handed him the pack of M&Ms as well as a container of Oreos.
"I still don't understand why you like pretzel M&Ms." Peter remarked. "There's too much pretzel and not enough chocolate."
Harley stared directly at him as he tore open the M&Ms and popped a few in his mouth.
"I don't understand why you don't like pineapple on pizza." Harley shot back as he swiveled around in his chair
Peter groaned.
"We are not having this discussion again."
"Peter you're an idiot if you don't like pineapple on your pizza."
"Harley, you're a disgrace to the entire state of New York if you do. Fruit is not supposed to go on a proper pizza."
Harley chucked a bolt at Peter's head.
"Hey!" He protested as he turned to look at Harley. And then he saw a glint in Harley's eyes.
"Pizza is a dish with everything from the food pyramid. You have grain, dairy, meat, vegetables, fats, and oh, wait, you don't like pineapple so you're missing out. You could be getting every nutrient from the food pyramid but you're an idiot so you miss your daily serving of delicious pineapple on your pizza."
"Oh my god, stop."
The boys busted out laughing for a full 3 minutes, eventually with Harley falling out of his chair. Tony walked in to find his kids cackling at who knows what, and one on the floor, almost incapacitated by his laughter. He sighed before clearing his throat to gain their attention.
The boys sobered up and finally stopped laughing but they had unshed tears left from the fun.
"What on earth were you two dying of laughter over? Should I call a therapist? Do I need to be concerned? Did you eat something that you shouldn't have?"
Harley sniggered as Peter was trying to keep a straight face.
"He was eating pretzel M&Ms!" Peter said, holding back his laughter. "The type that should be illegal!"
"Peter, you don't diss Pretzel M&Ms, they're an underappreciated member of the M&Ms family. If you think pretzel M&Ms should be illegal, you clearly haven't tried the raspberry ones." Harley replied while doing his best to keep his face straight. "If anything, you should call a therapist for Peter and help him overcome his aversion to pineapple on pizza."
Tony looked even more lost than he was before.
"Ok, I don't know what I'm supposed to make of this. FRIDAY, show me footage of what the hell happened while I wasn't here."
"Sure thing boss."
Friday pulled up security footage of Harley and Peter's conversation. Tony watched it as the two teens were snickering behind him. After he understood the situation he turned to his kids and let out a tired sigh.
"Ok, I don't understand your sense of humor, but I came to tell you that we're having Italian for dinner."
Peter pumped his fist and Harley just shrugged.
"Italian is fine by me I guess."
"All right kiddos, be in the dining room by 7ish or else I'll cut the power to these labs. We eat as a family."
*Time skip*
It was 2 am, Monday morning and everything was silent except for the faint noise of shuffling towards the ceiling.
Clint Barton was crawling around in the vents, obviously on his way to do something he probably shouldn't be.
He had lost a bet with Nat earlier and the punishment was that he had to steal something for blackmail off of FRIDAY's databases.
He quietly dropped out of a vent shaft into an important looking office. He didn't bother checking who it belonged to but he was already too far gone to ask.
"Ok Nat, what do you want me to look for?" He whispered into his earpiece.
"Check the computer on the desk. The password is written on a sticky note in your pocket."
He checked his pocket and there was indeed a post it with a password on it.
"Ok, what am I supposed to find?" He asked once he logged in.
"Look for footage from the labs." She said. "Check labs CTS2 and IAI1."
"CTS2 and IAI1, gotcha." He reaffirmed.
He browsed around until he found the cameras he needed.
"Ok, found em. What dates should I look at?"
"Look at this past Friday," She answered, "around 4:45 to 6:15 pm. Tony drank from a can of motor oil instead of his coffee cup. I would like this footage in my posession. For my entertainment, and possibly blackmail to pull on him."
"All righty, ok, uhhhh." He muttered as he searched through that window of time.
He watched snippets of the footage and fast forwarded a few times until he glimpsed footage of Harley swiveling around in his chair as Peter looked exasperated. He paused and rewound to see what the situation was.
As Clint watched the whole argument play out and the aftermath, a shit eating grin began to spread across his face. He emailed himself the whole interaction for his own entertainment (blackmail, cough cough) and went back to searching for what he originally came for. He eventually found it, sent it to Natasha, logged out of the computer, and climbed into the open vent.
"You get it?" Nat asked suspiciously.
"Oh yeah, I got it." He said, trying to hold back the mischievous laughter that was threatening to let loose. He checked his phone to see whether he got the email he sent to himself. But to his surprise and sudden panic, it was not there. His social media, however, was blowing up with comments about the two kids and who they were and theories people were spouting.
"Oh shit."
"What did you do, Clinton?" Nat asked in a threateningly monotone voice.
Clint banged his head on the vent, forgetting that he still had his comms on.
"I may or may not have accidentally exposed Peter and Harley as Tony's kids."
Nat was silent for a moment before she finally responded.
"Tony's probably going to kill you for this, so you should pack your bags right now. Make funeral arrangements as well and update your will."
"Ah shit."
*Monday morning, 6:45 am*
Peter woke up to his phone ringing. He groaned and turned on his side to ignore the call. The phone rang again and he sighed before reluctantly sitting up and grabbing his phone.
What the hell, who's calling this early?
He looked at his notifications and saw multiple missed calls and texts from Ned and MJ. Something must have happened because Ned had typed in all caps, 'PETER EVERYONE KNOWS! CALL ME NOW!' MJ's text just said, 'I knew already. Don't try to hide it from me whenever you come to school.'
Instantly, Peter was wide awake. Did the whole world know he was Spiderman? But how did this happen, who would leak that information and how did they get it?
He called Ned and before he could even say, "What's up?" Ned butted in with a sentence he was not expecting.
"Peter, when were you going to tell me your dad was Tony Stark?! This is even bigger than Spiderman! As your Guy in the Chair, I think this knowledge might have been missing in our conversations."
Peter was at a loss for words as he stood up.
"It's all over social media and people are going apeshit over this!"
"Ned, you shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet." Peter replied in a nervous tone as he began pacing back and forth in his room. "How do you know the source is credible? Remember what Ms. Hernandez said about credibility when giving information in an essays or whatever?"
"But Peter, Hawkeye was the one who posted it. You know, the Avenger who shoots arrows?"
Peter stopped pacing and froze midstep.
Uncle Clint was behind this? But why?
"You sure he wasn't hacked?" Peter asked as he feebly attempted to get out of this confrontation.
"No, it's security footage from a lab. Tony said in the video that you guys were a family."
Peter then realized that he couldn't worm his way out of this situation. The whole world knew he and Harley were brothers and the sons of Tony Stark. Of course this happened, why wouldn't it?
"I'm going to call you back, I need to talk to Clint." Peter said.
"Ok, just let me know if you and Harley are going to be ok or not." Ned replied.
"Bye Ned."
"Bye."
Peter hung up and took a deep breath before leaving his room to go find Clint.
He entered the kitchen and almost everyone was there except the one person he wanted to talk to.
"Hey, uh, where's uncle Clint?" Peter asked.
Uncle Steve looked up from his breakfast.
"He left last night. Family emergency."
"Uh huh, so correct me if I'm wrong but Clint left because dad was going to kill him, right?"
Suddenly everyone was avoiding eye contact with Peter. Yup, everyone knew what happened.
Just then, Tony walked in with a very irritated expression.
"I don't think you and Harley are going to be able to go to school today. Some kid from your school, Dash or something posted you go to school with him and know you both. So there are multiple news stations outside the tower and surrounding your school. Might be best to just stay home today."
"Is Uncle Clint still alive?" Harley asked as he walked in, yawning.
"He is alive," Tony responded "Not for much longer though."
"Dad, you can't just kill him." Peter protested. "It's not like he actually did anything that warrants his death."
"I don't think he meant to do it." Harley added. "He deleted it maybe 10 minutes after he posted it but other people recorded it on their own devices and re shared it. He probably realized what he had done and tried to delete it but of course, once it's out there, it's out there."
"Don't kill Uncle Clint, he's got a wife and kids. Besides, we need him on the team." Peter said.
"We don't need Clint," Tony said, waving his hand. "I already got a replacement set up."
Peter had not heard of this new team member that was apparently going to replace Clint.
"Who is it?" Harley asked curiously.
"Kate Bishop. She's already on her way here. Clint trained her to take over the mantle of Hawkeye anyway so it shouldn't be that big a deal." Tony shrugged. "She's a bit older than you two, 18 or 19, I can't remember at the moment."
"Ok, then, as long as she's trusted by you." Peter relented.
"Don't know what she might be like, but if Clint trained her, and they share similar personalities, whatever spirits above help us." Harley said solemnly.
Peter smacked Harley's arm.
"Hey!" He complained.
"She's not even here yet and you are badmouthing her already. Have some manners, dude."
"It doesn't matter at the moment right? You said it yourself, she's not here yet and I will 'have some manners' when she does."
All of a sudden, Peter heard a nearly imperceptible shuffling coming from above. He felt a shiver go down his spine and the instinct to get into a defensive position.
"He's right, you should have some manners young man." An unfamiliar voice boomed from above.
Harley looked around wildly in confusion.
"Who's there?! Are you a spirit from above???" He asked.
All of a sudden, a figure dropped out of the vent directly above Harley and tackled him to the ground.
"And that is Kate Bishop." Tony said, answering the question in everyone's mind.
Kate released Harley from her grip and she helped him up.
"Clint was right," She said, smiling. "Crawling through the vents to prank people is fun."
She looked up to the open vent and held out her arms, to everyone's confusion.
"Lucky, come on down!" She called.
To everyone's shock, a dog with one good eye poked his head out from the vent and jumped into Kate's arms.
"Oh crap, nobody has allergies to dog dander, right?" Kate asked, looking at everyone.
"Maybe? I'm not sure." Peter replied.
"Damn, I should have checked before bringing him, huh." Kate muttered.
Tony waved his hand at the dog.
"As long as he's potty trained, we should be fine." He said, trying to reassure her worries. "We're all fine with dogs."
Peter thought back to all the dogs he's pet on patrol. They always seemed happy to play with him and now there was a dog in the tower. Huzzah, he didn't get to only pet dogs on patrol now!
"Well, all's well that ends well, right?" Peter said.
"How about everyone gets acquainted with Kate?" Tony suggested. "It's not like you two are going to school today anyway."
Peter and Harley agreed and that day became a get to know the new team member day.
Peter texted Ned to let him know he was going to school the next day and invited him to the tower after school to meet someone. Oh the look on Ned's face when he found out would be priceless.
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curious-menace · 4 years ago
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Of the Gotham rogues, how likely (or unlikely) do you think each of them would be to take in someone they see as likeminded, or who have had similar experiences? Not necessarily as a sidekick, but I was thinking mostly someone in the sidekick age range, probably about 12-21. If there’s a specific thing they’d be more likely to sympathise with that would be cool to hear about too.
you mean like batman has  robin? that might be cool actually. mini rogues hehe.
putting this below a cut. its not nsfw but i do mention abuse and so on.
in general
i think its pretty much canon that they would all do this to some degree. there's no firm no from anyone.
i think all the rogues in gotham empathise with people who’ve suffered some sort of abuse. familial, sexual, spousal, bullying etc. they dont like the cool kids, they wont take in someone who’s at the top of their game. not just because they dont need them or even like them, they just have no desire to bring people down to their level. but if you tug at their stony heartstrings just enough they might take you in
Penguin
penguin respects moxie. he takes a shine to street kids, the ones who’ve had a childhood like him out learning a criminal trade or a skill of some sort. i can actually imagine him taking a linking to a kid who tried to pickpocket him. He cant really empathise with having nothing but he appreciates the sheer balls it would take to do something like that. he’d probably find it funny if the person was like 12 and had NO clue he was a cobblepot. he’d take great pleasure in taking someone under his wing, training them up to follow in his footsteps. he’s a bit of a sexist, he’d be more likely to have a boy hanging around him. maybe start off as an umbrella holder? i can see him getting kind of attached since he has no family or kids of his own. maybe they’ll be his heir someday.
TwoFace
this is a difficult one. i can see harvey having a student mentor relationship with a struggling law student or maybe a young offender who wants to be a lawyer or defend themselves. He’d be happy to tutor them, practice with them and give them pointers. i imagine he’d build up a sense of pride for his student when they finally win their case or pass the bar exam but that is as far as harvey would go. 
Twoface on the other hand? hmm. maybe he’d employ some scrappy little thing and their twin sibling to do message running for him? i mean whos going to suspect a couple of kids on their bikes of ferrying something illegal around town. maybe he’s got a bunch of twins from lower income families doing jobs for him. he would indulge them with treats and look after them like they were his own but ultimately they’d be pretty expendable to him. 
ivy has a lot of kids following her around of all ages. i mean from toddlers to young adults. sometimes she’s babysitting for working mothers, sheltering people who are escaping abuse . she takes in waifs and strays and teaches them things. maybe not LEGAL things but certainly things they can use to survive. cooking, foraging maybe manipulation. she has a fondness for young women people have taken advantage of. she shows them how to use their feminine wiles to get revenge. She also seems to be Gothams unofficial Mom for LGBTQ+ kids. like you kick your kid out? sorry they’re my kid now. also you food is poisoned.
Ivy
well he has query and echo. we know what his tastes in hired help are hahah. Lets be real, he can be a batman wannabe sometimes. i mean he wants to call himself the worlds greatest detective so bad you can taste it. maybe he would take a young ward like a riddle-robin?  i imagine him gravitating towards people who are smart at school but unloved at home. maybe he’d meet them playing words against friends or something? online chess? i know the idea of him meeting a 12 year old online and sort of adopting them is a lil sus but i promise he thinks nothing of the sort. i can also see him getting a bunch of kids and teaching them how to scam people with card tricks and puzzles so they can make some cash. he might like to have a network of kids of abusive cop parents feed him info for presents and so on. 
Riddler
Scarecrow
he’s sort of pack bonded with his students on numerous occasions. he refers to them as “my kids” and is always bragging about them like they actually are his kids. i think if he had an exceptionally bright student he might take them in for special treatment: like extra lectures, maybe he lets them see what fear toxin he’s been working on etc. he doesn't like little kids but he’s not above dosing one of the little shits if they’ve been bullying someone. like he’s playground monitor at lunch and sees someone getting picked on so he goes over with a bit of “whats all this then” and a lil perfume bottle of fear toxin for the bullied child to use. 
Harley
people adopt her! the other rogues treat her like their little sister when shes not with joker. If you left her to her own devices she would start a small collection of mini harleys. just little gymnast girls and boys dressed up in her diamond apparel. I dont think she’d have a sidekick but she does like to help coach at the local gymnastics , since she was a former champ. she also voulenteers at a local womens shelter to help comfort people escaping abuse. she, selina and ivy have absolutly gone out on the town to get revenge for some of these women. is that professional? no. will she do the same with joker? also no. but is it satisfying as all hell? yes~
there you go nonnie! this was a good one, i had fun just considering it. makes me wish DC would do something with the idea instead of another dark multiverse...
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the-firebird69 · 2 years ago
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This dan was kidnapped by BG. And these one trying to take over sokovia all the time and yes it's ghwb not the WB and he's talking to you warlock yeah that's right bugs Bunny. No sense of knowledge is analogies that the next easy and kill you with and having you do it and you look like idiots. So there's a fight going on it's not really Dan's but he found it because our son led him to it as many a huge hassle to him and that's the way it goes and he tried to take over our Harley-Davidson version.
Truth is he can't handle the competition of his own people but eventually war machine takes it over. And he was at the convenience store and said it quietly to them I said you don't even know who that is and you don't know who I am he said he's War machine in space and they all went uj oh. The kind of figured it out and started chuckling a little and it returns to earth and it gets taken from him and Dan loads it up with his father's buildings and is trying to use it to create the lightning plasma Canon and it works a little so everybody goes after the other ships of his and it's what our son said to do. And a son is a name too by the way and it's not pyromaniac okay usually they go out but really it's the lantern lighting festival and Sun had an idea to put a teeny light it's battery powered and it's very bright and people are using it and we sell them online at our Sim website and it does heat up from the light and the battery runs out in probably 10 minutes or 15 minutes and then don't catch on fire. But really this is a huge occasion this is Giant and it's going to happen shortly. And Garth is motivated because he's shot in New York City and it happens later yes he goes to town and the iron Man series begins and the avengers and he uses it but that's coming up with the next couple weeks and it's after their ostracized We Believe and that's coming out pretty quick it's going to start with the kids of Jason in Jersey and is going to start because of The sopranos and right here you see BG holding Dan hostage and it starts what happened to today at the gym in the laundromat in Port Charlotte and it's going to continue until he grabs her and then Dan gets shot twice
Thor Freya
I am handling my affairs and I'm teaching this guy Dan a lesson and some others but really if you focus on him you can see and he's paying for his crimes against me and my image and other and my family and clan and Hera and Olympus and you can see the first one he looks like the guy in the Harley-Davidson shack and he's been screwing around with it the whole time and he's annoying as hell and the name of the wife and then females and stuff like that and the second one he's in the leisure suit and a mob guy with sneakers on it and he's heavier heavy set and it's for a certain purpose and he's using it on me so he pays and he's going to pay the ultimate price and so is BG has been threatening me with a gun if you figure that one out phenomenal but really he polishes the guy off gets hit really bad really bad the first time as a meal color and it has something to do a meal color well it won't come out it has something to do with the plumbing company that was out in the California and supposedly the good guys and messing with me the whole time it's going to be ugly
The reason why PG is in trouble is because he shoots from behind and there is still someone in there Tony soprano
Zues
I should try and avoid that then and the answer is yes and I might be set up by Trump and the answer is possibly and it might be out of sequence in other words I may have hit him oh that's the wrong spot too so I guess that there could be a problem here hope you hit them first as amir colon and it's not me it could be something and I don't have a meat shop
Bg
Well you both did anyways Trump and BG but I see your point I know whose meat shopping is and I sort of get how you got access and I'm starting to see something it makes more sense that it's Trump and it's important
Tony s
It hasn't happened yet so you don't know who it is but he's right it's a stupid thing to do no so it's going to go ahead
Trump
So I guess it's you and you're going to pay for it and when he shoots him he's already gone I'm going to make you pay for what you're saying too and I don't know when this meat shop is I don't know what that would be about it'll be about you calling your son to a meat shop and for a cocaine trafficking which is what you guys do together and that's why it's trying to take your ship and stuff but it makes sense to me cuz I know the particulars
Tony s
It does have to do with lake Okeechobee and the pig thing and we think he does it after and he agrees
This is what it's like the meat shop is owned by Trump and we think he does that and to frame BG you can see them screwing around with a character but I'll tell you what this is some really dumb s*** you guys are doing it's going to ruin a lot of stuff and you don't think I care about it but you're going to go up there and you're going to hit Tony soprano he's inside of him no that's not Tony soprano it's somebody else and somebody already hit Tony soprano no not there so who's inside of Dan it's a mystery no. It's a Mac so they're both in trouble and we don't know who shoots them but he shot through the back and we're starting to see what we're saying
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44gamez · 1 year ago
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League review — it could’ve been more fun
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The builders of the beloved Batman Arkham video games have a brand new DC sport, this time informed from the villains’ perspective. However what ought to really feel like a recent begin for Rocksteady Studios as a substitute seems like a misstep — a sport filled with drained mechanics and unhealthy jokes. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a third-person shooter that expands Rocksteady’s Batman Arkhamverse from Gotham Metropolis to Metropolis, residence of Superman and the Justice League. Alien supervillain Brainiac has invaded Earth, mind-controlled a lot of the Justice League, and enslaved Metropolis’ residents as a part of his plan to construct a brand new model of his residence planet. Confronted with a crew of superheroes turned supervillains, authorities agent Amanda Waller enlists a quartet of prison misfits — Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and King Shark — into Job Power X, an expendable crew that’s compelled to comply with her orders, lest she detonate tiny bombs of their heads. This Suicide Squad should use unconventional strategies to take down the League and its grasp. Three common human beings and one not-so-bright sharkman don’t seem to be a lot of a match for the likes of Superman and Inexperienced Lantern, so Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League outfits the crew with weapons and lethal devices that imbue the members with borrowed superpowers. This idea is comparatively straightforward to swallow, proper up till you come face-to-face with the generally godlike members of the League. You’re at all times taking part in as a crew in Kill the Justice League, both with pals in on-line multiplayer or with a trio of bots. You may swap between the characters if you need, however the sport will advocate switching between sure squad members at factors, largely to present you some selection and add a bit additional narrative punch to encounters.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games by way of Polygon Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League additionally has a robust emphasis on traversal mechanics. Every member of Job Power X has their very own method of getting round, with various ranges of satisfaction with their actions. King Shark can leap tall buildings with a single certain, making him the only to manage. Deadshot has a simple, beginner-friendly jetpack. Captain Boomerang swipes a Velocity Power glove, letting him dash at floor degree and kind of teleport. (“Boomer,” as his squadmates discuss with him, simply has the strangest technique of traversal.) Harley can swing round Metropolis in a method that blends Batman’s flying and Spider-Man’s swinging, however it feels frustratingly extra clumsy than combining these two great-feeling online game locomotion strategies ought to. Motion by means of Metropolis largely feels good, which is lucky since you’ll spend a superb portion of the sport scaling buildings and leaping throughout rooftops between missions. Capturing, your main technique of taking down enemies, feels good too, at a fundamental degree. Nevertheless, Rocksteady piles on an enormous checklist of talents past simply taking pictures weapons, they usually vary from inessential to overcomplicated. You may melee unhealthy guys to recharge your defend; counter-shoot enemies poised to assault you; powerslide to knock enemies over; and so forth and so forth. There’s an enormous array of weapons, grenades, melee weapons, and elemental modifiers for each sort of weapon, so battles turn out to be visually and mechanically chaotic in consequence, with the display screen overwhelmed with results and harm numbers. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League piles on too many mechanics, with some pointless to really win fights — that's, till the sport forces you to make use of them. In a few of Suicide Squad’s most irritating missions, sure enemies will solely take harm by means of crucial hits, or after you’ve acquired a useful resource that depletes over time. These fight tweaks rework already repetitive missions right into a slog with problem spikes that don’t really feel additive, simply annoying. Many of the enemies you wind up preventing all through town are mutated Metropolitans and Braniac-controlled autos. None of them are significantly attention-grabbing to combat in opposition to; oftentimes you’re simply in search of and unloading on a purple pimple head till one thing explodes.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games If you do come face-to-face with members of the Justice League, issues take a flip for the more serious. Characters like Flash, Inexperienced Lantern, and Superman, proven in different moments to have godlike talents, inexplicably toy with Job Power X in protracted, gimmick-laden battles. Boss battles are filled with spectacle, but additionally tedious and irritating — league members zip across the display screen in methods which might be troublesome to trace and clog arenas with environmental assaults that may make body charges chug. Each aspect missions and important narrative quests are additionally painfully repetitive. They contain standing by a truck and taking pictures stuff. Or strolling alongside a transferring truck and taking pictures stuff. Or standing by certainly one of Poison Ivy’s crops and taking pictures stuff. Generally you’ll be requested to recuperate civilians or troopers who're trapped behind enemy strains, and that entails frantically taking pictures stuff till the mission unceremoniously ends. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is sort of a “looter shooter,” so post-mission, you’ll get a handful of rewards, together with new weapons from arms vendor Penguin, a wide range of currencies and supplies (which you'll be able to flip in for brand spanking new weapons or weapon modifiers), and a few XP. You’ll slowly improve a tree of expertise and talents that don’t appear to have a noticeable affect in your efficiency amid the storm of explosions and harm numbers flying throughout the display screen. You’ll additionally get randomized gear after finishing a activity. You may craft gear, too, utilizing the sundry currencies you collect round Metropolis. Sadly, these weapons, shields, and different bits of tech not often really feel impactful. There are such a lot of modifiers and stats to decipher that I wound up simply wanting on the inexperienced arrows pointing up (higher!) and purple arrows pointing down (worse?) to determine if I ought to equip one thing or not. Ultimately, I began to know among the sport’s intensive jargon, however it didn’t have an effect on a lot of my habits in battle or in selecting my gear.
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Picture: Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Video games by way of Polygon Whereas missions are largely boring, there’s a reasonably entertaining story on the coronary heart of Kill the Justice League. The members of Job Power X are a bunch of lovable losers who're very a lot in over their heads, they usually succeed regardless of their incompetence, infighting, and backstabbing. Waller, portrayed viciously by the nice Debra Wilson, is a believably merciless taskmaster who threatens the crew always, which feels tonally applicable on condition that, if she doesn’t, everybody’s going to die anyway. And the possessed members of the Justice League come throughout like actual assholes, their ids introduced entrance and heart by Brainiac’s thoughts manipulations. Followers of Rocksteady’s Arkham video games, particularly its model of Batman, might discover the sport’s cruelty and cynicism powerful to abdomen. The sport’s title pays off — sure, you'll kill the Justice League, typically in ways in which really feel dismissive of individuals’s fondness for these iconic characters. Nearly all the things is handled like a joke and solely a handful of the gags land. The remainder — makes an attempt at humor are unrelenting — are interminably unfunny. At one level, a member of Job Power X suggests killing a boss by inserting his shrunken physique into Captain Boomerang’s rectum. After finishing the sport’s story, I’m blissful to be executed listening to those characters. What could also be most stunning about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is how a lot love, consideration, and years of labor have been put into it. But, it’s such a mediocre expertise. There are moments of nice storytelling right here, and powerful performances to again it up. Metropolis is a great-looking metropolis, filled with brightness and attraction that Rocksteady’s Gotham lacked. And characters, significantly their faces, look beautiful. The expressive animation of characters like Harley Quinn and King Shark goes a good distance towards making these characters really feel plausible, generally even likable. However the repetitive mission design, dreadful humor, and bland loot mechanics drag down what ought to have been a enjoyable inversion of the darkish Batman Arkham video games. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League seems like a second spherical of closure for Rocksteady within the DC universe — however as a substitute of the satisfying and hopeful ending of Batman: Arkham Knight, it brings the story to a detailed with an ear-ringing bullet within the head. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was launched on Feb. 2 on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. The sport was reviewed on PS5 utilizing a pre-release obtain code offered by Warner Bros. Video games. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. These don't affect editorial content material, although Vox Media might earn commissions for merchandise bought by way of affiliate hyperlinks. You will discover further details about Polygon’s ethics coverage right here. Source link Read the full article
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lycorogue · 3 years ago
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For your ask game... 7, 13,15 and 16!
Livrever! You're just as bad as @cyhyr! You should also be well aware of my wordiness! Welp. Looks like I'm dusting off that good old Long Post hashtag again today. 😂
[Fanfic Writer Ask Game Questions]
7. What story/headcanons do you feel the proudest of?
By far the headcanon (which became a story) that I'm proudest of is the origin story of the lucky charm bracelet Marinette gave Adrien in "Gamer."
She already had it on-hand, and she didn't seem to have made it specifically to gift to Adrien. She even said he could "borrow" it, but never got it back. I think the charm bracelet was a spur of the moment decision to try to cheer him up and build up his confidence. When I was a kid, my mom gifted me various inspirational cards and worry stones to help me through finals and remind me that I could achieve anything I put my mind to. It felt fitting that Marinette's parents would do something similar, and THAT is where the bracelet originally came from.
If you want to read the full headcanon-inspired story, you can find it here: Build Your Own Luck
I love this headcanon so much I'm making sure to work it into my "I promise, I'm still working on it" WIP One and the Same.
Honorable Mention for favorite headcanon would be the headcanons I came up with for my Plagg-centric/Plagg-Appreciation story Forever in Darkness. In particular, my headcanon that Plagg was Aladdin's "lesser genie of the ring" from the 1001 Arabian Nights tale. I basically had that headcanon since I first saw Origins and Plagg mentioned meeting a genie before.
(Also, ya know, I still consider my first completed multi-chapter story Peeping Tomcat my magnum opus... so... yeah... proud of that one too)
13. When did you start writing fanfic?
I've been dabbling in fanfic pretty much ever since I understood what fandom was. When I was in elementary school I would create a whole series of X-Men OCs (only to discover a decade or so later that nearly every OC I thought of is already a canon X-Men character, they just never made the cut for the 90s cartoon).
In middle school and early high school (so roughly ages 12 through 15), I created a self-insert Batman OC (and love interest for Dick Grayson's Robin). She was Selena Kyle's niece that moved in with her. She struggled between excitedly being her Aunt Selena's apprentice as a cat burglar, and using those skills to be a hero with Batman and Robin. I can't recall the character's name anymore, but she went by the alias Black Panther (because that was my school's mascot and I'm a nerd like that).
About the age of 16 or 17 I joined my first play-by-post role-play game where I played Harley Quinn. It didn't last long before the game master went to college and the whole thing fell apart.
Then there was a fanfic dry spell. I did work on original works almost constantly from the age of 10 straight through to college. Then I had a college professor that more-or-less broke my creative writing spirit, sadly. I still wrote for video production classes and scriptwriting classes, but I didn't write anything recreationally for over 5 years.
Then, in 2009 I got back into the "Hey, Arnold!" fandom. August 2010 I wrote my first fanfic for the fandom. It would be the first fanfic I would ever publish online. I've been working on fanfics again ever since. 😁 (if you don't want to read the story on FFN, you can find the import over to AO3 here)
15. What is the fanfic you’ve written that you’re most proud of?
As I said before, I still think of Peeping Tomcat as my magnum opus. It is the longest story I've written. It is the first multi-chapter story I was able to actually complete. There are a lot of moments in that story that I just love to reread myself. It's the first story I've written that I felt compelled to write a sequel to (sadly, said sequel, One and the Same, has been stubborn the past 4 years and won't properly form, so that's still a WIP). It's the only ML fanfic I've published that has inspired fanart (but it's not my first fanfic ever to inspire art. That honor goes to my sadly abandoned HA! fanfic What is Truly Meant to Be). Plus, I got to emotionally torture poor Adrien, but also give him a happy ending.
Runner Up, I think, would have to be Prescription for Love, which is my interpretation of what Adrien did off-screen during the season 3 episode "Backwarder." A lot of my reviews have stated how much people loved Kagami in that story despite not particularly enjoying her canon characterization at that point in the series. Plus, Adrien is an oblivious little mush.
Honorable Mentions to the aforementioned Build Your Own Luck as well as my first Christmas-themed story Woven Heartstrings. I am still amazed at how perfect the gifts are for all of the characters, and I was the one who thought of them!!!! Plus, I've had a surprisingly large number of kudos/comments on that story outside of the holiday season, so it must really resonate with people even outside of December. Final Honorable Mention goes to the aforementioned Plagg-Appreciation story Forever in Darkness.
16. What fanfic tropes do you avoid writing for?
Goodness. I actually don't write for tropes. Not really. I aim more for "how close to a legit episode can I make this story?" or just general "This plot bunny showed up and I guess I'm nurturing it now???"
I don't know if I even KNOW all of the basic fanfic tropes....
If I used the This or That (Fanfic Edition) game as a guide, I think the tropes off of that list I'd avoid would be:
Flower Shop AU - I don't know much about flowers for that to be worth trying
Historical AU - I am TRASH at historical anything... although I'm a HUGE steampunkest... go figure
Major AU reworks in general - I am perfectly content snuggled into the canon. I like this show for a reason. And I like fanfic because the world building has already been done for me.
Crack??? - I don't have anything against crack. I quite enjoy it. I just... I'm not creative enough to come up with something so bonkers????
Whump - Not intentionally, at least. I almost never go into a story with the goal to torture the characters. That just... kinda... sorta... happens??? Sometimes???
Enemies to Lovers - I ADORE this trope, but I don't know if I could ever manage to write Adrien/Chat Noir as Marinette's/Ladybug's enemy nearly as masterfully as the other works already out there. Especially when some of my "competition" includes Discordant Sonata by @edendaphne and Curiosity and Satisfaction by @imthepunchlord.
Whew! This was even longer than the 4-question ask from Cyhyr! You ladies sure do know how to get me to talk. 😁
Thanks so much for the ask! Anyone else interested in getting to know more about me and my writing style? Feel free to drop me those asks. 😁
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lyssismagical · 5 years ago
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you drive me crazy, crazy for you
Parkner Week Day Two: “And I said ‘no’, you know, like a liar”/ identity shenanigans / iron lad
Peter had been talking to Harley Keener online. They’d met through Twitter, being two of the five people Tony followed, and the casual liking and commenting turned into texting and calling and skyping every chance they got.
They hadn’t told Tony, worried how he’d react to finding out they’d become friends behind his back, and Peter had decided early on that he’d wait to tell Harley about being Spider-Man. He didn’t want secrets to get in the way of their close friendship, but he needed to put his family first and if Harley ever turned on him, not that Peter thought he would, he didn’t want Harley to have that kind of knowledge.
And then, six months into their friendship, Harley admits to having a crush on Peter. They were talking on the phone, quiet and sleepy, late at night, when Harley had murmured how he needed Peter to know. That he couldn’t keep pretending he didn’t want them to be something more.
It was hard for their relationship to change from the way it was. Harley lived in Tennessee, Peter in New York, neither of them capable of taking time off to see each other, nor were they able to afford plane tickets. But it felt real anyways.
And then Iron Lad shows up in Manhattan.
“I know you’re here to help, but this is my city,” Peter says, Karen filtering his voice to sound lower. “I don’t team up with just anybody.”
“I know!” Iron Lad exclaims, sounding surprised more than anything. “I don’t want to get in your way or be a problem, but if you need backup, I’m always available.”
Peter frowns, rolling his eyes when Karen sends him another alert of crime. He loves being Spider-Man, he loves patrolling, he loves helping people, but his window of time to call Harley is shrinking every time he goes to stop another crime. It’s been three days since he’s gotten the chance to talk to his boyfriend.
But Iron Lad is standing across from him, suit built strong and colored the same reds and golds as Iron Man’s, and Peter knows it would take half as much time if he let the new hero help him.
“Fine,” he says, trying his best to come off as nonchalant and flippant. “Let’s go then. Prove yourself, and then we’ll see about a team-up, okay?”
Iron Lad nods quickly, muttering a few things to himself and his own AI, and then his comms are linked to Peter’s.
“Perfect. Lead the way, Spider-Man.”
He was right, it does go a lot quicker to have Iron Lad at his side, they manage to detain the criminals, call the police, and save everybody from the robbery within ten minutes. And even when Karen alerts him to another crime on the other side of the city, he doesn’t feel too guilty passing it off to Iron Lad.
“You’ll let me know if you need back-up?” Peter asks before he lets Iron Lad go.
“I’ve got it, Spidey. Have some faith in me.”
Peter smiles behind the mask. He’s never had somebody look out for Queens, he’s never been given the option to go home early, he’s never had the opportunity to choose himself over the city.
When he gets home, tugging off the suit and grabbing his phone, immediately hitting Harley’s contact and preparing to ramble about the school day he had, it’s still before midnight. He rarely ever makes it home before midnight despite it being his curfew.
He’s disappointed though when Harley doesn’t pick up.
He tries again, hoping maybe he just didn’t get to his phone in time, but again, nothing.
“Hey, sorry I couldn’t call earlier, I got caught up at the Lab with Tony,” Peter starts when the phone dings to signal his voicemail. “I hope you’re okay… I’m sorry we keep missing each other lately. It’s like we’re just a little out of sync. Only another year, right? And then Boston together? Just like we promised?”
He takes a deep breath, suddenly finding himself choked up. Long-distance relationships are hard. They always are. Online, long-distance, wanting nothing more than to be with him in the flesh, but not being able. It’s hard. There’s so much longing, so much desire, so much he wants to say and do.
“I’m waiting for that hug, you hear me? Next year, when we get to Boston, you better give me one of those dramatic, running hugs in the airport. Anyways, yeah, call me when you can, okay? I miss you.”
Out the window, he can hear the sound of Iron Lad’s repulsors, going after the sound of echoing gunshots. And next door, May’s sleeping soundly. But Peter’s chest feels carved open, missing so desperately and longing for his boyfriend to just be here. He wants to be held, wants to feel whole, wants to feel loved, but he wants all of that from somebody who lives a thousand miles away.
He curls up on his side, phone still clutched in one of his hands like Harley will call him at any second, and cries into his pillow, wishing so badly for something he knows can’t happen.
* “Peter! I’m so sorry I didn’t answer your calls. I was busy last night and I forgot to text you. I’m so sorry. Text me and let me know when you’ve got a chance to call though, I probably can’t talk late tonight either. I’ve got news coming in a little bit, but I don’t know how soon I can tell you… I know what you mean about being out of sync lately, but it’ll be okay. Text me? I miss you.”
The voicemail ends, the third time Peter’s listened to it without replying or trying to call Harley. He knows Harley would be on his way to school by now, without data, so there’s no point in trying.
Harley’s voice helps soothe the ache in Peter’s chest just a little bit, but it doesn’t help knowing that the end to this lapse of communication might take weeks, months to sort out. With exams coming up, junior prom, the need to get a summer job, and whatever Harley’s doing in Tennessee, they’re just going to get busier.
“You okay?” May peeks her head into the room, somehow able to sense his misery as quick as if he were still crying.
“Me and Harley haven’t spoken in four days,” Peter admits, staring down at the seemingly harmless text message. Morning darling! Sorry I missed your call. We still on for the Skype session on Sunday?
May’s face softens, slipping into the room to sit next to him, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. “That happens. Things happen. It’ll get easier.”
“I want it to be easier now.” He sounds pathetic, whiny, desperate. “I don’t want to wait another year for him, for us.”
Boston feels like a lifetime away, like an untouchable dream. MIT, the two of them together. He’s scared it won’t work out, that going from this long-distance relationship to living together in Boston, going to University together, won’t work out and they’ll have to kiss their relationship goodbye.
“Oh I know you do, honey. I know this is hard, but I know how much you care about Harley and how much he cares about you. You’ll figure this out, I promise.”
The way that she says it makes it sound like letting go is still an option. She says it likes it’s possible for Peter to say goodbye to Harley and move on, take a different path. She says it like Peter could ever break up with Harley.
“I just really wish he were here.”
May kisses the top of his head comfortingly, and Peter loves her, he does, but he wishes nothing more that it was Harley instead.
* MJ and Ned both comment on how strange he’s acting. Daydreaming the time away because his relationship feels like it’s on thin ice, like one wrong move will make the Jenga tower crumble, so he thinks about Boston, about a future, and nothing else. He stares at his phone, at the text messages he doesn’t bother answering, at the voicemails that he knows by heart. It’s been two weeks since he last properly spoke to Harley.
Tony notices it too. “What’s up, kid? Tough day at school? Iron Lad giving you trouble?”
“I’m okay, not a big deal,” he says. Tony doesn’t know and Peter doesn’t want to tell him, not before he talks to Harley first, not that he really thinks telling Tony about a crumbling relationship is a good idea.  
His phone rings before Tony can argue with him.
It’s Harley. His silly picture, one he got from his sister, appearing on the screen.
He wants to talk to Harley, he wants nothing more than to ask him to please come to New York, drop everything because Peter’s never wanted to see him more than he does now. But he knows Harley can’t. That’s just the way it is.
So he lets it go to voicemail. He tries not to let the pit in his chest grow anymore than it already has, but it does, longing and cold. It’s hard for him to feel much beyond the longing these days. Harley’s the only thing on his mind, the only one that could help him.
“I think I’m going to go out if that’s okay,” Peter says, voice breaking. He turns his phone on Do Not Disturb and pockets it. “I’ll text you if I need any help.”
Tony doesn’t bother trying to stop him, quickly telling him to be home by curfew and to be safe, before Peter disappears out the door.
He changes in his bedroom, slips out his window, and scales the side of the building to get to the roof.
Iron Lad lands beside him only moments later.
“Hiya, Spidey!” he chirps. “You want backup today?”
“I’m good, thanks.” Peter knows he’s missing the enthusiasm he normally has whenever he talks to Iron Lad. They’ve teamed up frequently over the past couple weeks, and Peter’s been enjoying the nights of solitude when he can leave the safety of Queens up to Iron Lad.
Iron Lad’s tone immediately changes to one of worry and confusion. “Everything okay, Spidey?”
“I miss my boyfriend,” he admits quietly. He hates that he can barely function when he isn’t talking to Harley, that he relies so deeply on their relationship. He sits down on the edge of the roof, feet kicking absentmindedly, and Iron Lad joins him a second later.
The superhero laughs, not unkindly, and nods. “Yeah, I know how you feel. Hey, I know this might be a longshot, but have you ever helped a Peter Parker? He lives around here, works with Tony, goes to Midtown.”
“No!” Peter blurts quickly. How Iron Lad knows him, Peter doesn’t know. He doesn’t recognize the voice, not that he really puts it past him to use a voice modulator, Peter does too. “Why? You know him?”
“He’s my boyfriend.”
It feels like the floor falls out from under him, heart hammering in his chest. His fingers hook under the edge of his mask, prepared to throw everything on the line.
“Harley?” His voice is shaking and high, wanting so desperately for it to be him. He doesn’t care about logic or hidden identities or the possibility of Iron Lad being a liar, he doesn’t care because he wants it to be true so badly.
Iron Lad’s faceplate pops open, revealing-
“Oh my god, Harley!”
Peter doesn’t wait another moment, yanking his mask off, curls bouncing around his ears, smile widening until it almost hurts, and tosses his arms around Harley’s shoulders. They nearly fall off the edge of the roof at Peter’s excitement, but Harley rights them, arms winding around Peter’s waist tightly and mouth pressing against his temple.
“Holy fuck, oh my god, I can’t believe this is real,” Harley breathes, mouth brushing against Peter’s skin as he speaks. “You’re real and oh god you smell so good, so much better than I imagined, and I can’t believe you never told me you’re Spider-Man, oh my god.”
The longing, the cold gaping hole in his chest, the pure misery that had settled when the insecurities had crept into his head, it all soothes. Harley’s here, in New York, in Queens, in Peter’s arms. He’s here and he’s real and he’s murmuring his excitement against Peter’s forehead, arms tight and chest warm.
“I’m sorry I didn’t call you back. I’m sorry we were so out of sync. I’m so sorry-”
“I’m sorry,” Harley says, pulling away enough to look at Peter. The younger boy nearly starts crying at just how real Harley is, freckles splashed out across his tanned skin, eyes wide and so blue in a way that Peter could never really see over Skype. “I wanted to surprise you. Mom got transferred to the New York branch of her job. I was going to tell you, but between moving here, taking over as the new Iron Man, enrolling in school, and babysitting my sister, I didn’t have the time to surprise you how I wanted to. The dramatic airport scene you wanted. I’m sorry.”
Peter shakes his head, vision blurry with tears and hands trembling as he cups Harley’s face gently. “You’re staying? Like forever?”
“Forever,” Harley promises, smiling through his own tears. “And I know this is soon and crazy and out of euphoria and shock, but I love you, Peter. I love you so much and I couldn’t survive another year without you, you mean too much to me to lose.”
“I love you too. God, I’ve missed you, I’ve been craving this since we got together. I’ve never wanted anything more.”
He finally lets himself kiss Harley, slow and sweet, letting himself memorize everything, soothing the last of the ache in his chest. This is all he’s ever wanted.
Peter refuses to let go of Harley, linking their fingers together and sticking without meaning to.
“This is real,” he says, voice thick with emotion, staring unashamedly at Harley and his blue eyes and his freckles and his jawline and his fluffy hair, unable to stop crying no matter how hard he tries.
Harley’s real and here.
Harley grins, boyish and so unbelievably happy, and kisses his breath away.
“It’s real, darlin’.”
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mshermia · 4 years ago
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Are We Out Of The Woods Yet?
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Whumptober Prompt No. 12 - I think I’ve broken something Broken Down | Broken Bones | Broken Trust
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“There are so many reasons why online classes are better than going to school.”
Peter shook his head. “And there are plenty of reasons why learning in school with other students is preferable. How it helps retain the material better than—”
Morgan groaned without even looking at him, her nose in the air, eyes on the leafy trees above them. “You can learn the same things at home, only then you could have dinner at night with us instead of in your stinky room in Boston.”
“Hey,” he craned his neck to see where she went, then walked after her. “My room doesn’t stink.”
“It’s a boy’s room.” She said it like that alone was a valid argument, when it couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, the girl’s dorms he had been in—
He stopped himself. Not the time and place.
“Or you could go visit May!”
Peter had his hands in his pockets, trying to keep up with her. “Right.”
“You should!” She turned towards him and pointed her phone at him. “You should come with me and mom. She’s taking me next time she flies out to HQ.”
That startled Peter. “She is?”
“Yeah, in like two weeks or so. You should come, Pete! It’d be so much fun.”
Peter pulled a grimace, even if her excitement was infectious. He hadn’t been in LA since before the semester had started and he did miss May, but he’d also been looking into a weekend or two at Yale, wondering, hoping, that things with MJ—
“So, what do you think?”
He forced his mind back to the present. “I think you shouldn’t run off that far, Morg.”
She cocked her head at him, then blinked and made her eyes roll up high towards the treetops. A performance that was only second to the master, her dad.
“You sound like Tony,” she groaned.
Peter pulled a face. “Don’t call your dad by his first name. That’s just weird.”
Her eyes were scanning the trees, hoping to pick up the last couple of tree species that she needed to catalog for her biology project. “You call him Tony.”
“Yeah, so?”
“Well, what’s the difference?”
Peter screwed up his face at the question. “That he’s not actually my dad?”
“Oh please…”
She vanished behind some undergrowth and for a moment Peter’s Spider senses tingled and his heart jumped into his throat. That olive green jacket she was wearing didn’t help her stick out either. Sure, he had the nano-housing units secured on his forearms, but those were only the last resort. The very last resort. The gig would be up if he popped up as Spider-Man from behind a tree and Morgan, she couldn’t know. Not yet, they had agreed. Hurried steps through the trees had him almost fall over a large root until he found her, crouching down on the ground. Her phone still in hand, she took a picture of a random weed.
“What are you doing? I thought we were looking for trees.”
“We’re looking for biodiversity and this is rare basil-mountain mint, which will likely win me this thing.”
Peter blew out a long breath, telling his pulse to calm the fuck down. He just hated not having her in his sight. “Just don’t wander off like that.”
“I didn’t wander off. I just walked.” Morgan stood up, wiping the dark forest soil off her knees. “Plus, don’t change the subject.”
“What subject?”
“Why it’s okay for you to call daddy Tony and not for me?” She didn’t even look at him, eyes on her phone screen. “Is that a weird boy thing?”
“No, it’s…” Peter shook his head. “It’s a your his daughter and I’m the weird dude that comes around to eat out his fridge thing.”
Morgan’s eyebrows were pulled up not unlike Pepper would when she was arguing with Tony. “Harley calls him dad…”
“Not to his face.”
“Ya-ha!”
“Nu-uh!” Peter turned his back, not interested in discussing that in the slightest. Harley, well, was Harley. It wasn’t the same. He had years to build that bond with Tony, when Peter had had, well, fewer years.
“I’m 8, not an idiot, you know.”
“I don’t know, you’re giving a great impression of one…” He had said it louder than he meant to and he hadn’t really meant to say it at all.
Morgan stood up straight like he had taken an actual shot at her. Her lips were pressed into a tight line and she swung around, explicitly away from him, and stalked in the opposite direction.
“Morg…” He blew out a long breath that had his overly long hair blow across his forehead. “Come on, you know I didn’t mean that.”
She turned on her heel, eyes sparkling - which he hoped was with annoyance, anger even, and not with tears - and gave him the finger. Two of them, actually.
He was a horrible influence on her. Well, it was him or Harley. Probably Harley.
Still, he shouldn’t have said that. She was struggling as it was, being called names and such at school, though Tony refused to get her some tutors instead. Went on and on about the social skills he never had the chance to develop in a regular school environment. Peter had to roll his eyes as his father’s words echoed in his own head.
Wait… His eyes widened and he physically shook that train of thought from his mind. That girl was putting ideas in his head that he didn’t need in there at all.
“Dude, the car is in the other direction…” he called after her.
Morgan still walked away from him, only tilted her head all the way back, and screamed towards the sky. “I STILL NEED TO FIND TWO MORE TREES, ASSFACE!”
He groaned, shrugging his arms in surrender as he started to follow her. “I thought that weed thingy will get you the win.”
She didn’t even turn, just held up the same two fingers once again as she stalked further away from him.
“Change that attitude or I’ll have to bring it up in your dad’s exit interview when we get back.”
Not that he actually would.
“Don’t you mean your dad, ASSFACE?!”
Or maybe he would bring it up…
But like a loyal puppy dog, he followed right behind her, and like a loyal puppy dog, he couldn’t help but hold his nose into the wind and…
He sighed under his breath, teeth gritted as he scanned the endless forest around them. He had this feeling and that feeling never meant something cheerful. They were in a remote part of the national park. Very remote. Odds were, he might just be sensing wildlife that could get to them. Boars or… or something bigger maybe?
“Can we just… hey… Morg…” He cursed as he followed along after her. “Morgan!”
“What?!” She had stopped and turned, both her hands balled into fists.
“Can we just walked back towards the car at least?” He pointed behind himself. “I don’t want to get lost in the middle of the damn woods.”
He wouldn’t get lost. He knew where they were, where the car was. That it would take them an hour and 10 minutes to get back to it. What he didn’t like was that girl stalking deeper and deeper into the forest. He shuddered with a sudden wave of goosebumps at the thought. No, they really had to leave.
“Let’s just… let’s just head back. We can take a bit of a curve.” He shot a glance over his shoulder, but it was just the wind ruffling the leaves above them. “I’m sure we’ll find your trees on the way back.”
“But I don’t want to turn around yet!” She was properly mad, foot-stomping and everything.
“Hey!” Peter pulled his shoulders back, his head held high, one finger pointing at her like Tony would do to him. “When I say we go back, we go back. This is not a democratic decision.”
Again, she threw her head back and groaned, but slowly trotted towards him. She had just moved past him as his ears pick up how she quietly muttered “You suck and I hate you!” under her breath.
Peter bit his lip, pretending like he didn’t have any enhanced hearing whatsoever as he followed along behind her. He tried to remind himself that Morgan was just a kid and how kids sometimes say things they didn’t mean because he knew she didn’t really mean that.
His eyes on the ground, head bowed low, trying his best not to fall or have his eyes scratched out by any of the low hanging branches. This wasn’t an environment that he excelled in so maybe that was where that queasy feeling in his stomach came from.
“How’s it going, Morg? Any luck with the rest of your—” He had looked to his left, then to his right, but he couldn’t see her anymore. “Morgan?” He hurried a few steps ahead, craning his neck but there was no sign of her. She must have rushed ahead. Must have stormed of that sulky, little—
“Morgan!” He cursed when a branch hit him in the face, leaving a stinging cut just above his eye. “Dude, seriously, this is not funny any—” His stomach fell into a deep hole as to his right, Morgan’s voice echoed only faintly through the forest, screaming his name.
He hadn’t run this fast ever. Never before, tripping over branches and roots as he went. He only just saw her brown hair disappear through the door of what appeared to be a little hunting cabin, worn down enough to seem deserted. It was just right there mid-among the trees. His feet carried him closer and closer until he reached the edge of a little meadow right in front of the small house. There was a guy next to the door, standing guard or something, openly showing off the handgun he was holding though it wasn’t pointed at Peter. Not yet.
“Nothing to see here,” he called across the distance. “Move along.”
He had stopped, about 50 feet away from the front door, his breathing was fast and shaky, not so much from the run, moreso from his nerves. “How about you get my sister back out here and I’ll think about it.”
“Go’ the wrong house, boy.” The man pointed the gun in the direction that led back towards the main road. “No girl here. Pro'ably went ahead. Waiting at you car.”
“Get her out here right now,” Peter hissed through gritted teeth.
“Nobody here, move along.”
The guy could play all old-man-in-the-woods he wanted, his eyes were sharp and Peter could see it. Without his senses, he might have never heard Morgan cry out earlier. He might not have seen well enough to spot her being dragged through the door frame, but he was still Spider-Man.
“I’ll give you a last try. One more chance to let my sister go or—”
Peter ducked and turned, sought shelter behind the closest tree as he heard the shots that were fired in his direction. It hadn’t been the old fool whose hands Peter had been watching like a hawk. No, there was someone else. Two guns that were shot at him simultaneously.
Not that it mattered. It didn’t matter how closely he had thought he was watching, not to his arm that was painfully burning. Deep breaths. In and out.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck,” he cursed under his breath.
“You’re not welcome here, boy,” the guy at the door hollered in his direction. “Fuck off!”
The door creaked as it was pulled open and then slammed shut with a bang. He cursed himself. Morgan was counting on him. What the fuck was he doing? One quick look determined what he knew to be true. He was dripping blood onto the forest floor. Quickly, he pulled his sweatshirt off and ripped a string of fabric off it, then did his best to one-handedly tie it around his arm.
He was still hiding among the trees but he had no doubt that whoever had shot at him was still up there.
“Fucking bastards.” He didn’t even think about it, just tapped the nano-housing unit on his lower arm and the Iron Spider engulfed him within seconds. It didn’t matter now, his identity wasn’t worth shit as long as Morgan was in danger.
“Peter, I’ve registered severe trauma to your left arm. Calculating closest medical—”
“Karen, stop. It doesn’t matter. It’s just a graze. I need to get into that house over there. Read out heat signatures. Anything you can give me. Morgan’s in there. We need to get her out.”
“Heat sensors are activated. I record six individual signatures within the parameter of the house, one of them Morgan.”
Fuck. Five of them. Peter closed his eyes, concentrated on his pulse, his senses. He was fine. He’d done this a thousand times. Something like this.
“There is no reception but satellite connectivity is now active to send a beacon out to Mr. Stark and the rest of the Avengers.”
He was breathing hard. “Just.. just hold off on that Karen. It’s… it’s fine. I.. I got this. I got this.” It wasn’t… wasn’t that bad. He couldn’t have the team come out for some dudes in the woods. Mr. Stark… Tony would murder him in cold blood for this. It… this wasn’t all that bad. He would just… just get her out and… and then they could tell him together and they would be safe and all of this wouldn’t even be such a big deal.
“Alright, Karen. Here goes nothing.”
As soon as he came out of the trees, there were more shots fired right at him. None of that phased him though. The Iron Spider was bulletproof. Karen made out both shooters, one of them hiding behind the back wall of the building, the other one had crept up onto the roof. His webs hit the one on the rooftop first, immobilizing him completely. The other guy had bolted as soon as he’d seen the suit.
From there on out, the things happening around him were a blur. A weird mixture of slow motion and an out-of-body experience where nothing mattered, nothing except Morgan. It didn’t even matter that this wasn’t just a random cabin in the woods. Maybe it was the fumes from the meth lab they were running in that room that were messing with his mind. Maybe he was losing more blood than he had realized.
None of it mattered, not when Morgan was kneeling on the floor, her eyes red as she cried, cried out for help, for her dad and for Spider-Man. He was winning this. He had to. And for the longest time that he was in that cabin, he thought he really was going to win this. It wasn’t until he stood right in front of Morgan, the man behind her pressing a gun against her neck while she was ringing for air, that he realized the flaw in his plan.
He would never risk her. He… he couldn’t risk Morgan.
Peter was frozen, couldn’t do a single thing, paralyzed by fear. What if he would be too slow? What if they shot her before his webs could bind them? He wouldn’t be able to live with himself. It wasn’t until Morgan had started whispering his name over and over again that he realized he had let the suit retreat far enough to reveal his head at some point. That was right, they had made him do it. Said they’d kill her if he didn’t. He couldn’t risk that. Couldn’t risk his sister.
It was the old guy, the one that had been at the door who was pointing his gun right at Peter’s head now, no nanites to protect him from the impact if the man were to fire. They wanted money. Of course, they did. Not like Peter had a lot of that. Some, sure. They told him to go and get as much as he could carry and maybe, if it was enough, maybe they would let Morgan go.
“I’m… I’m not leaving her here…” His voice was cracking just like his nerves. “I’m not—”
“You’ll leave her here, either breathing or not,” the guy behind Morgan hissed as he pressed the barrel of the gun even firmed against her skin. “Your choice. Try anything, she’s dead.”
His vision was swimming, eyes burning. He had been such a fool. He should have never let her leave his sight, should have grabbed her and bolted the moment his senses had started to pick up the smallest thing. He should have called Mr. Stark. He should have…
“She’s just a child. Just… let her go and… and you’ll keep me.”
The old guy snickered next to Peter. “Who’d pay a dime for you, huh?”
Then everything changed. A cold shiver ran down his spine. Dread and… and hope. The men couldn’t hear him but Peter did. He would know those thrusters anywhere. Just as he was about to call out to Morgan, tell her to keep her eyes closed, the old man’s other hand grabbed him, tightening around his throat. He pushed Peter further away from her, back against the wall right next to the door and Peter… he didn’t do anything. He just let it happened, let the old bastard choke him for if he didn’t, they might hurt her. If he fought, they might kill her and this was almost over.
His knees hit the floor from one moment to the next, as the old man crumbled to the ground next to him. The same was true for the man behind Morgan. Peter was just about to crawl to her, to shield her from… he didn’t know what, but Iron Man blasted in through the door next to him faster than Peter could get up.
The armor around Tony retreated and he almost fell to the floor, crouching down next to Morgan. “I’m here, baby. It’s okay.” He pulled her close, pressed her head against his chest so she didn’t see, didn’t have to look at the mess around them. “It’ll be okay. Don’t worry, baby. It’ll all be just fine.”
He gathered her in his arms and carried her, heading for the door, his armor following behind him.
“You’ll find your way back?”
Peter was still on the floor, his pulse still hammering in his ears. “Yes… yes, Sir.”
He didn’t even look at Peter as he left and it was the worst feeling in the world.
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Part II is up, Enjoy!
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This is my first try at a prompt fill and I feel like those are usually supposed to be One-Shots, right? Well, this won’t be. But I think one is also supposed to start on October 1st and do them in the right order… Well, what can I say other than, it is what it is ;)
The Fix-it is based on my Endgame Fix-it “Like You’d Know How It Works“. I’ll likely use this story as the basis for more than one of the Whumptober prompt fills.
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