#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )
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powerpoint night.
#[im sorry i had too much fun with the con list]#[i picked this image of him on purpose because he's wearing the same shirt edward wears in the sparkle scene i caNNOT]#[genuinely i am sorry]#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#salvatoraes
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⚠ for gwen obv
powerpoint night.
#manaborn#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#[these are the most pros she's ever put for anyone ever]
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"Do you promise that I'm going to be okay?" / @coldfrcnt
“ uh , like — metaphysically ? ” there's a pause , because he surely can't mean ANYTHING else. they're government pawns. she can't promise a damn thing. buttercup blinks , but when he doesn't offer anything else , she adds , “ i mean , you'll live. ” probably. maybe.
questions.
#coldfrcnt#[she's probably trying to talk him into some impossible sport that is only possible because they're not entirely human]#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )
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powerpoint night.
#razorfst#[she acknowledges that he might be fearsome to most but she does not relate to their fear]#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )
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❝ look what i found! ❞
“ is it a fuck to give ? ” buttercup exaggeratedly looks around gen , as if the proffered fuck would appear out of thin air. when it doesn't , buttercup sags. “ damn. we're all out. ”
blood and darkness.
#walkeddeath#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#[this was funnier in my head]#[bc IS including gen in her 'we' of fucks not excluding her]#[does that make sense am i nuts]
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[text] I have way too much shit to do.
[ sms : eamc✨ ] are there meadows you need to get back to ?
[ sms : eamc✨ ] no but for real what do you even DO man
text messages.
#[if someone calls her out on her extensive twilight knowledge she's 1000% gonna blame bubbles]#salvatoraes#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )
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1. halloween party. gwen made kevin and ben take the picture with her under threat of chuckie violence. buttercup complimented their fits and asked if gwen had chicken cutlets under there. she made sure to tell gwen that her tits looked good too , then asked why she wasn't tiffany instead. every day , buttercup makes gwen wonder why she doesn't have a better best friend. this was absolutely one of them.
2. yet another of gwen's tattoos. buttercup came along to live vicariously. for a while , buttercup was engrossed in the process. she took pictures of every step. and then her superhearing picked up on someone else getting a tattoo in the next station , and she burst out laughing so hard gwen and the tattoo artist jumped. buttercup then proceeded to , in detail and with gusto , give them both a play by play of the guy next door who talked up a big game about how strong he was , only to scream and yelp and ask for a break every three seconds. this picture serves as a reminder of that story. gwen and buttercup were crying with laughter by the time the artist was done.
3. post battle. the neck wound was already healing. buttercup wasn't too worried about it , and neither was gwen. but kevin and ben pissed buttercup off earlier that day so buttercup took the picture and pretended it was way worse than it was. kevin and ben freaked the fuck out. gwen had no idea what was happening or that buttercup did it when the blew up her phone.
photos.
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📸 for mitch and butch ❤️
1. most recent karaoke night. buttercup dragged mitch along and plied him with drink after drink until he finally agreed to a song. they were supposed to sing “ anything you can do ” together but by this point , mitch was very drunk. he grabbed the mic and buttercup snapped the picture , then he tried to belt out a beyonce song. this is buttercup's favorite story to tell because mitch does not remember it.
2. a varsity soccer game from years ago. this was taken during buttercup's first senior year of high school ( and mitch's only ). mitch's team won finals , and buttercup spent the entire game screaming mitch's name. she had to be reminded several times that her loudest scream would absolutely distract the players and destroy some eardrums. she was so proud of him. she was the first on the grass to congratulate them. this is one of the only pictures buttercup has physically printed out. the professor made her get two copies so that he could slap it onto their fridge , too.
3. most recent shop picture , around back where customers aren't allowed. buttercup was hiding out. she had a fight with blossom and blossom knows all her normal hideouts , so she decided to hang out afterhours at mitch's shop. mitch did not know she was there — until she took this picture and the flash scared him fucking shitless.
1. to be entirely , completely honest , buttercup has NO idea what's going on in this photo. she was on patrol and spotted butch with a gun. so of course she went to check. they're not technically supposed to have guns. something about cruel and unusual punishment since they have so many powers. ( and also , butch is like , a felon. ) she listened in to a conversation that made no sense to her , decided that butch had fucking superpowers so it's not like he could do more damage with a gun , and left. but not before she took the picture and sent it to him , so he knew he was being watched.
2. townie party. buttercup's not sure butch was invited , but then , she's not sure she was either. they were crashing separately. somewhere along the line , someone bet butch he couldn't eat an entire box of cereal without touching it or the box with his hands. it was the stupidest bet ever , both because who the hell bets about that shit , and because butch is stubborn as fuck and if someone's gonna do it , he is. buttercup warned them not to bet on it cause they'd just lose money. captured here is butch's face of triumph after he won the easiest $ 200 of his life.
3. for reasons as yet unknown to man , him decided to parent this day. no one knows if him knows the ages of their children or the fact that they are grown men. more importantly , no one knows if they care. what they do know , however , is that they successfully forced their sons into matching , ridiculous outfits with equally smoothed over hair. to butch's horror , buttercup decided to visit jojo that day. her blackmail folder of butch got this photo richer.
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#bleedingrcfitti#👊 ;; ᵇᵘᵗᶜʰ ᵇʳᶦᵍᵍˢ ( bleedingrcfitti )#👊 ;; ᵐᶦᵗᶜʰ ᵐᶦᵗᶜʰᵉˡˢᵒⁿ ( bleedingrcfitti )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#gun tw //
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“You’re safe now. I’ve got you.” / @manaborn
gwen doesn't know about the nightmares.
well , gwen knows — sort of. gwen knows that buttercup rarely sleeps more than a handful of hours even when she has the time to. gwen knows that buttercup will avoid sleeping for as long as she can. gwen knows that it took years for buttercup to fall asleep next to her , even for a few seconds. gwen knows that more often than not , buttercup will wake up screaming. gwen also knows that sometimes , even the screaming isn't enough to wake buttercup. gwen knows that when buttercup does wake up , she wakes up with ragged gasps , struggling for air her body doesn't use. gwen knows that if she touches buttercup before she's ready , buttercup will throw a punch without thinking about it , without wanting to. gwen knows that buttercup won't want to talk about it , no matter how horrific the dream or how harrowing the aftermath. gwen knows that buttercup will EAGERLY change the subject if gwen tries to bring it up. gwen knows that the best way to deal with buttercup after is to offer a hot drink , still boiling , and gently probe her to call a sibling. gwen knows that when buttercup calls , she won't be talking about the nightmare to them either.
gwen knows a lot of things.
but gwen doesn't know WHAT the nightmares are about.
buttercup has never told her. she's never wanted to. how do you admit to someone — to your closest friend — that your nightmares usually involve their death ? not just gwen's death — everyone's. everyone who matters. gwen , bubbles , blossom , jojo , the professor , mitch , robin , bellum . . . all dead in gruesome ways , whatever vile thing her imagination could come up with. and her imagination is truly ADEPT at coming up with torture. if that were all it were , maybe buttercup wouldn't have such a hard time talking about it. some of those people are going to die , after all. as far as they know , half her family is mortal. ( the jury's still out on her sisters and gwen. ) of course her brain is coming up with horrible ways they'll die. it's practice for when they do actually die , when she has to sit with the knowledge that they will never breathe again , never laugh , never exist. if it were just that , maybe she could talk about it.
it's never just that.
it's always HER fault.
however her family members die , buttercup is always the one pulling the strings in her dreams. she's always the one who makes the poor choices that lead to their death. sometimes she does it by accident , like some dream version of her couldn't logic out a scenario in which everyone lives. sometimes she does it on purpose , because their death is the lesser of two evils. sometimes she has to choose between them — the professor's death or her sisters' is the most frequent. she always , ALWAYS kills the professor. but sometimes she does nothing , and everyone dies anyway. everyone dies because she did nothing. because she was too stupid or too slow or too selfish or too weak or too trusting or —
or just not enough.
sometimes everyone dies because she is not enough.
not kind enough. not smart enough. not powerful enough.
gwen doesn't know about the nightmares. if she knew , she'd probably focus on working through it. how can buttercup possibly work through it when each and every nightmare could be real the next day ? there's never anything OUTLANDISH about them. nothing that couldn't actually happen. she can't pretend she has nothing to fear from them. all of them could one day be reality.
it's better to not talk about them. ignore them.
so that's what she does now. she blinks away unshed tears — because even in her sleep , she can never let herself cry — and tries to find her bearing in her own body. she finds herself in the world , reminding herself that she doesn't NEED air , no matter how desperately her chest rattles for it. she catalogues gwen in front of her — the bedhead messy red hair knotted in a bun atop her head , the dark bags of sleeplessness beneath her bottle green eyes , the leftover makeup from an fx look they did together last night under her neck , the unbroken bones , the bruises of yesterday's spars dotting her pale flesh and coloring her tattoos — and reminds herself that gwen is alive.
buttercup's throat is sore. she must have been screaming before. she doesn't know and she won't ask.
they're safe , like gwen said.
she's safe.
everything is fine.
she presses her lips together once she feels in control of her own body.
“ i'm fine , ” she says , ignoring gwen's comfort. the words sound hollow even to her. buttercup swallows. the air is thick. awkward. she's petty enough to hope that her nightmares kept that bitch natalie from sleeping. “ what's for breakfast ? ”
why not 400?
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“Stop taking pictures! I’m fucking stuck. Be useful and help me!!”
her blackmail folder of gwen is extensive and consistently well fed. buttercup snorts a laugh , taking in the image for all its worth — even though she's already taken three photos at different angles. the double chin from below is a work of art. maybe she'll send it to the louvre. “ i've never been useful in my goddamn LIFE , ” buttercup huffs between giggles , like it's a point of pride. still , she pulls apart the bars gwen's head is stuck in. the metal groans like a teenager asked to do the dishes. “ how the fuck did that happen ? ”
why not 400?
#[i can't explain it]#[but ben did it]#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#manaborn
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[text] You don’t need this shit. [text] I’ll be there in five minutes.
( sms : maneater ) if i handle it they're gonna call me an enemy of the state again ( sms : maneater ) it's worth it but fine i'll wait
texts.
#warender#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#[the plot twist is that yana is also going to handle it in a way that will make her an enemy of the state]#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )
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❛ running makes you look guilty. ❜ / @sxrgeant
that is the stupidest goddamn thing she's ever fucking heard , and the worst part is he's right.
it doesn't matter that the justice systems of the world have a horrible history of destroying innocent people. it doesn't matter that an accusation is often enough to doom someone. it doesn't matter that she's literally done nothing wrong outside of no longer baring her stomach to the world in the hopes that it might start treating her right. running — hiding — is all the evidence anyone needs to make her and her sisters look guilty. saying NO is enough.
they knew that.
this wasn't a decision made lightly , no matter what government propaganda is spewing. they've been fighting monsters created by cast-off nuclear waste the american government was too lazy to properly clean up for two decades. they've been battling aliens and demons before they knew how to spell. it's the only LIFE they've ever known. walking away from it was always going to be hard. devil you know , and all that. it was a conversation they had a million different times — at first just bitter comments on her end , building to irritated backlash from blossom , whispered what-ifs from bubbles , until it was finally months of conversation involving the whole utonium family.
( those conversations were the first time jojo had so much as looked at their father without spitting at his feet. )
it took a family of geniuses and superheroes to even start rolling out a plan.
the plan started with a more concentrated effort to get townsville to make CHANGE. petitions to pay the powerpuff girls for their work. presenting a schedule of working hours and vacation time. attempting to rebuild townsville's defunct monster fighting units. every single attempt ignored or laughed at in the townsville capital , sara bellum's shocked giggles the most painful sound. so they moved on to strike , refusing to answer the hotline for anything other than a rampaging monster — until the mayor , behind closed doors that his constituents would never know about , started asking�� for the things to come , dangling even more lives of shitty townsville citizens over their heads. bubbles and blossom almost cracked. the underdeveloped , overgrown townsville police lost a lot of lives , their own and civilian.
the federal government officially stepped in.
their little strike — a desperate attempt to get even a semblance of control over their lives — had quickly grown out of hand.
they would crack if they stayed. they would have gone back to weeks of sleepless nights , struggling to get by on the professor's meager guest lecturer salary because no one would hire three superpowered women who would have to leave their posts at any second for the greater good. women without college degrees because they couldn't dedicate enough hours to studying. one who doesn't even have a high school diploma. they'd go back to a life with NO future because playing second fiddle to someone who belongs more to the public than they ever will to themselves gets old quick. no future because anything they wanted to do would take a back seat to whatever the government wanted of them , like it had for two decades now. they'd go back on a tighter leash , because now they had proved they HAD tried to change things , and god forbid they'd ever get that bright idea again.
it was better to leave.
to run.
and they can hide for a while. everyone's always looking for color-coded , uniformed girls midflight. as long as they're in civvies , as long as they don't go out together , as long as they remember to keep their feet and their neon eyes on the ground , they can be NORMAL.
whatever normal means to them now.
being branded traitors and treasonous was a risk they knew they were taking. governments don't like being told no , whether that's a local city governance or the federal. more than that , they don't like having weapons out in the world , uncontrolled.
buttercup didn't think the government would involve other heroes , though blossom and jojo blatantly disagreed. what , tell them what happened and have them realize that they , too , could leave ? but more , some stupidly optimistic part of her — a piece she didn't even realize she still had — really thought heroes wouldn't bother hunting them down if the government DID tell them. who could understand this rebellion better than other heroes ? she thought they'd be on the powerpuff girls' side. at the very least , she thought they wouldn't care.
it was STUPID of her.
because here's another government-owned living weapon — just like them — staring at her dead in her dead-giveaway eyes , and she can't fucking tell what he's thinking. if he's going to fight her , try to use her as bait for her sisters.
her heart is THUNDERING in her ears. if there's no fight coming , she doesn't want to start it. an enormous battle will just make it that much easier to find them. she and her sisters can get away quicker than most — but not entirely unnoticed , since the faster they fly , the more color-coded lights they leave behind. buttercup doesn't move , doesn't even twitch , worried that the movement of her eyes would give away the direction her sisters went. they have to get away. have to sweep their little apartment clear of any evidence of them , just in case.
she has to give them time.
this whole damn thing was her idea. she has to give them a shot. she'll find them when this is over , however long it takes. buttercup rarely experiences fear , but it SLAMS into her at full speed.
“ they decided i was guilty before i ran , ” she argues , her voice thin from lack of air.
lmm brainrot (2024).
#sxrgeant#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#👊 ;; ʷʰᶤᵗᵉ ᶠˡᵃᵍ ( universe iii )#[verse where the girls go on strike because i said so]
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Sounds like Buttercup has a crush on Gwen.
“ our lives would be SO much easier if we swung that way. ”
#manaborn#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#👊 ;; ᶠᵃᶜᵉˡᵉˢˢ ʷʰᶤᵐᵖ ( anonymous )
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⚠ Sheldon. I'm curious lol
powerpoint night.
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i don’t know why i bother with you, honestly / from @kingofcrushing
“ i'm the only one who doesn't piss you off. ”
that's a lie. buttercup is SKILLED in annoying people ; it's an art and she is its master. she knows she crawls under brick's skin.
she doesn't understand him — not the way she understands butch or even boomer. his skull is harder to crack , a mindset so unlike her own that she has a hard time weaseling into it. he's like blossom , as much as he hates the comparison. meticulously planned with a temper people rarely see for what it is. that's probably why she doesn't get him. it's hard to get blossom , too. the two of them , brick and blossom , are so similar : always trying to be ten feet ahead of everyone else , their self-worth tied inextricably from their iq points , from how many people they leave in their dust. that's an uncharitable description. but she knows her sister , brick is just her sister with a greasy baseball cap on his head.
with other people , she can guess at what they're thinking. she can read them the way she doesn't read books. bubbles has an unending EMPATHY that forces her into another person's shoes too often , but buttercup doesn't have that. what she has is observation and STRATEGY. eyes flickering to a door or a window usually mean they want to leave ; if they move when she moves , they're being submissive , painting themselves as nonthreatening in the face of a predator. a million little things give away a person's thoughts. the more she knows them , the easier they are to guess at.
brick is hard to read.
she doesn't understand him , but she does know him. she knows that she bothers him LESS than her sisters because she's not a threat to his intellect the way they are. she isn't a beacon of everything he should be like blossom or a beacon of everything he was raised to HATE like bubbles. her methods of communication — violence and degradation — are so similar to what he was raised with that she might even be comforting.
she pisses him off in a way he knows how to deal with. bubbles and blossom piss him off in a way he runs from.
“ i'll grow on you like a fungus. ”
blood and darkness.
#[bc is more physically ''affectionate'' with brick to remind him of that time he was murdered by kisses]#[that's not applicable here but i needed you to know]#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#kingofcrushing#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )
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everyone looks better at a distance. / @burnlikeme
people like ideas. reality disappoints. reality has a thousand minute details that can't be ignored. ideas are perfect. people like the idea of stardom until they're slapped with it. until the public eye looms too large and escape is nearly impossible. until the PRICE of stardom is a pair of shackles slapped onto your limbs. she doesn't know stu very well , not really. she knows of him. she can piece together bits of his personality based on what he shows the world , what rumors fly about , what she sees on his own face.
she doesn't know if he ever wanted this. or if he was given the choice. either way , he's been trying very hard to get away from it.
“ i have microscopic vision , ” buttercup says. it's true , but it's also an extension of the metaphor. she rarely has the luxury of seeing things at a distance. she's not the idealist of her sisters.
disappearing earth.
#[i misread the meme as ''everything'' so ---]#👊 ;; ᶜʰᵉᵐᶤᶜᵃˡ ˣ ( universe default )#👊 ;; ᵠᵘᵉˢᵗᶤᵒᶰ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵃᶰˢʷᵉʳ ( ask )#burnlikeme
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