#3 stories

[puppppppppy]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[paintedcrows]

When asked why they still haven't kicked the bucket after decades: Ford insists he beat Death at chess. Stanley insists he kicked Death's ass in a Denny's parking lot

[platoapproved]

What was that you said about memory? "A monster," was it?

[hymnoeides]

'Cause I'm stuck with your stories

[sillyliddoclown]

[drgnflyteabox]

Fem!reader x 141

Honestly might be able to to something with the gross stuff I saw at the hardware store I used to work at (except make it hot and 141)

Imagine you're a cashier, the only one with early morning availability so you're there at 5:45am for the 6am start. It's always the worst kinds of contractors there: rude, tired, dirty, leering gazes and sexist comments

You're pretty sick of it, but you get paid a bit more than minimum wage and you're done by 11am so, you take it with a cheery smile and fast service

The 141 contracting company starts spending at your store. So much, in fact, that your manager personally takes you aside to mention just how much they do - nearly a million a year - and how no matter what, your job is to be nice and please them

Well, you can do that. You've dealt with crazy, awful old contractors screaming in your face about lumber prices at 6:30am more than once, heard them talking about your tit's or your ass right in front of you - you can handle it

Until the masked one comes in first and hes huge, dark hoodie and cargo pants hanging low on his hips. He hands you 3k in bills only there are bloodstains on them and he watches you closely the whole time you count them out

It's... not a first, but the look he gives you makes you shiver. Pale eyelashes, tall, intimidating

The second is nicer. Too nice, in fact. He charms you before you're even fully awake, and your shift goes by quickly thinking about that winning smile and the way he'd touched your fingers while he handed you a stack of bills... not to mention those soft brown eyes

The third is... intense, for 8am. He rolls on the balls of his feet, stares at you harder than the masked one. He offers to buy you a hot chocolate at the coffee shop next door and grins like you made a joke when you decline

Their boss is fucking dreamy. Even you have to admit it, trying not to look up at his mustached, frankly porno-esque face. He's huge, as tall as the others but thick, with a little pudge around his belly. He trudges in with thick workboots and a stained t shirt, pays for 24k worth of material with a lazy smile on his face like it's nothing

You might ask head cash to move you to the garden center after all...

[sploondaily]

Day 38

[Ref]

[magicicephoenix]

i finally finished reading I see you, Sundrop! by @shirajellyfish and IT'S SO GOOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT TOOK ME THIS LONG TO FINISH IT RAAAAAAA

i will be gushing about it in the tags but here's a lil animation i made based on the below paragraph in chapter 6 that gave me such a strong mental image that i had to make it real :)

[mercuryflan]

“Checkmate dance”

Just them walking around after one of their adventures.

[mischievous-thunder]

And then the two princes saved the world and moved in together to start a new family with their adopted daughter and a dog. The end.

[steelsuit]

Vampire Spawn 🩸🦇

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[marlowe1-blog]

"Three Stories" (The Stories of John Cheever)

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.

So these are barely stories. More like sketches. And in almost all of them you feel like Cheever is going "aren't I cute?" Two of the stories are "clever" in a way that just feels cloying while the middle story is mysterious in a way that can be intriguing or irritating depending on your bias.

I. The first story is told from the perspective of a stomach. It's basically a fat guy talking to himself. Only, it's the stomach trying to push its agenda. The stomach is happy to have grown but then went through an irritating time when the man try to get it to shrink.

Basically, you get older and you get fat and unless you want to be obsessive and insane about your weight loss, you might as well just give up and let your waist size get bigger. Sure, you have to buy new pants, but do you really want to NOT eat all the good food?

II. This one is mysterious since it's about a woman who is married to a man who dies in a car accident. A few years later, she marries another man who ALSO dies in a car accident. There's a great deal of scenes where the town is trying to expand the highway and then trying to save a woman's home.

And people keep dying on the highway. Only someone is shooting the truckers. So is it the woman? Or is it someone else? The woman seems to be pretty blase about the fact that she keeps getting married to guys who die on that highway, but there was no talk about bullets in the first couple of accidents. Either way, she moves away and gets married again and....I don't know?

III. This one has a twist ending. You think that it's going one place but it's going another place. From the beginning you think it's about an irritating guy who is trying to flirt with a woman who isn't interested. Like she's really not interested. Seriously dude, shut up.

He asks her what she's reading and she won't say. He's telling her pleasant dreams when she falls asleep but she rolls her eyes. Everything he says is a source of annoyance and yet he won't stop.

Twist ending - they are married. So what looks like a creepy dude trying to hit on a woman is actually a husband trying to talk to his wife. Only his wife is treating him like a stranger who won't shut up.

The twist would be more interesting if this wasn't another story in an endless series of stories about husbands and wives who hate each other. Like the entirety of 20th century marriage humor seemed to be "fuck my wife" (or take my wife...please) and there's a reason why fans felt so betrayed when John Mulaney left his wife. He wrote a lot of jokes about how much he loved her and was crazy about her so it was refreshing not to have the standard borscht belt jokes about shrew wives.

So here, our sympathy is to the woman who has to put up with this guy until Cheever outright tells us that she married him. Then we are supposed to think that she's a shrew and he's just a sad sack. Whatever.

[saltymarshmall0w]

Danny is "in denial" about the Waynes being vigilantes

Danny is really grateful for the Waynes taking him in and all but it’s just… it’s really obvious they’re vigilantes. Do they WANT him to find out? Why?? To join their battalion?

Hell nah. He’s already got enough going on trying to keep in check the many shades in the city.

Danny simply pretends to be oblivious about the Waynes being vigilantes. That's a future Danny problem.

It turns into Kyle levels of denial, where he ends up pretending he thinks the vigilantes are actors hired by the city to cover up all the ghosts haunting Gotham.

And obviously, the city bases them on the infamously growing Wayne family. It's so sweet of the Waynes to volunteer to dress up as their character for public appearances.

Meanwhile, Bruce has banned outright telling Danny even though it's been nearly a year of him living with them. So what if Danny glows sometimes and has full conversations with invisible people in dark alleyways, everyone has their quirks! so, the Batkids have resolved to just "accidentally" leave their mask on after patrol or make tactical plans loudly about taking down Penguin's latest scheme with Danny a room over.

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“Is Dick coming to the Gala?” Danny asked as his head swiveled between his phone and the mirror as he attempted to tie his own tie. How did his mom always make it look so easy?

“No, he is going out as Batman tonight, since Father is unable to.” Damian responded. He may as well be blasé about their identities, seeing as Fenton was obviously both completely aware of their identities and completely in denial.

“Oh, man. Does that mean one of the “rouges” are going to attack the gala?” Danny asked, “It’s probably going to be that Two-face guy, huh? He hasn’t made an appearance in a while and his character arc with “Brucie” hasn’t made any progress in a while.”

“Nonsense, there is no predicting the mindset of a criminal like Two-face.” Damian ignored Danny’s disbelieving scoff as he maneuvered his newest brother to face him so he could take over the task for him, else they would be standing there all night. “Besides, Drake is in charge of security for the gala and will do an adequate job securing the venue. If you are afraid remain by my side where I can protect you.”

Damian tightened the tie around Danny's neck and stepped back to let Fenton pull his own collar down.

"That's very sweet of you, Dami." Danny reached up a hand and mussed up Damian's newly-gelled hair, garnering a growl and a shove from the boy. "But you should do normal kid things during the gala, like accidentally saying rude things to old ladies, or complaining about how bored you are, and don't forget to prank all the evil billionaires."

...

The “I told you so.” Danny brazenly mouthed to Damian later in the evening from where Two-face held a gun to his head was as infuriating as it was distressing.

—

(Kyle Weston is the fanon brother of Wes Weston (also a fanon character) who’s whole thing is that he believes in conspiracy theories like Wes, but doesn’t believe in ghosts at all to Wes’s frustration.)

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.