#All Austin Everything

[welcometololaland]

I’m late and you might’ve already answered this, but All Austin Everything??

🚨POLL AND PICTURES BELOW🚨

very sorry in advance that you're going to get this response - thank you also to anon, @liminalmemories21 and @lemonlyman-dotcom for the asks on this fic. it's the crossover with rwrb that I've had like 1/4 finished for ages and shamefully haven't touched, but I did think about it the other day because I got STUCK on one of my characterisation points.

see, I actually managed to manifest lou 2 somehow by writing that TK and Alex (Claremont-Diaz) were discussing bearded dragons. BUT THEN I thought hang on...turkeys - Cornbread and Stuffing, our beloveds - had Alex fearing for his LIFE. so maybe he would not be a fan of lizards!? perhaps, like Carlos, he is determined not to be endeared by a creature descended from dinosaurs. I NEED HELP! someone tell me which pictoral representation is correct (yes I am unhinged for this and couldn't find an appropriate henry photo).

WHICH MASH UP IS CORRECT?!?!!

OR IS IT SIMPLY:

[ausssbutlershortstories]

Austin in all black will always be a top fave….🖤

[portraitofadumbassonfire]

W Magazine: Best Performances /2023 Covers by Jamie Hawkesworth

[vroomvroomsposts]

An update to this post.

Austin:

We ignore the disqualification bc we did get lestappen moments. And we do not talk about Qatar (for me it was not a sprint weekend)

Mexico:

Mexico wanted to fix what Qatar messed up so I am counting it as sprint weekend.

Brazil:

I made this post before the race 🫠🫠🫠 also all the sprint race weekends after the summer has been both good and bad except for Qatar. But we do get a lot of Lestappen moments.

[austinbutlermischief]

[humanmorph]

"They found each other in the wreckage of optimism, and it took them a decade to decide that hope was not enough to save the Golden Branch from itself. It was in a library, not an armoury, where the Apostolosian became the sword and shield of Integrity, a Divine who’d lost its Candidate. Some climb into their Divines, others deploy them across the battlefield, or fight under the blanket of their shadows. But Integrity demands intimacy. It digs into the flesh of the willing, all metal and promises and penetralia, desperate to create an unbreakable unity. It is afraid, and wounded, and it cannot know the power it gives without seeing it first in the reflection of a Candidate's eyes: the loft, the velocity, the violence. And for the first time in centuries, Integrity doesn’t fear its Candidate. It moves with confidence, in muscle and ambition. It believes in Sokrates Nikon Artemisios." (COUNTER/Weight 22: A Broken Branch)

Great episode to get to after recent palisade happenings. I obviously remember the "Integrity demands intimacy" but there's so much other great stuff here.... "They found each other in the wreckage of optimism" is just incredible.

Edit: Noting the wording of " [...] the Apostolosian became the sword and shield of Integrity" because Integrity literally is both those things - they are the armor Sokrates wears and the weapon they wield - but it positions them here both as a protector of Integrity and someone Integrity acts through (divines & candidates!).

And I love that this gives Integrity pre-Sokrates interiority I had honestly completely forgotten about. "For the first time in centuries, Integrity doesn't fear it's candidate" A divine afraid(!) of what it can do together with it's candidate, the power it gives. And then what Austin describes in pal29 comes to mind, which is like, "if there was a time when Integrity was like, you know, 'Finally someone has come to help me get out of this situation.' That is not what's happening here." It's interesting because that phrasing of if not the current but a past state("that time has come and gone ")... it still sounds like fear a little bit. And that obviously isn't the case anymore (I don't feel like typing out this Austin quote but he said something about the notion of immortality & change that made me real happy. I love that shit) & I'm curious to learn more about this hopefully.

I love Integrity & while I don't think of it as "the good one", it's fate is important to me because is still one of the sickest divines (which is really saying a lot with like, Perennial and Motion et al. around).

[rhiaemrys]

Tim Drake, to me personally, is a selective genius. More accurately, he’s just an insanely fast learner when something even mildly interests him (typically something mentioned by Batman and/or Robin). Unfortunately this leads to weird and inconsistent gaps in his knowledge.

Like, for example, and referencing a post about him being unable to work computers I’ve made in the past, Tim learned all about PC hardware because Batman mentioned upgrading the Batcomputers specs once, which was then plastered across forums with the title of like “BATMAN SEEMS TO HAVE THE BUDGET OF NASA, IS THIS WHERE OUR TAX PAYER DOLLARS ARE REALLY GOING?” and Tim wanted to harness the power of the sun to create something similar. This led him down a rabbit hole, and now he can create a super computer from someone’s spare junk drawer. However, when it comes to installing software and actually using the PC beyond its basic functions? Uninteresting. The only reason he learned later on in his Robin career was because Barbra found his lack of ability to hack deeply concerning and decided to remedy it. She provided the proper motivation.

Other weird ass conversations include:

- Was able to deduce the strain of fear toxin that Damian was under, synthesize an antidote, and track Crane down to his warehouse at the Docks district within a three hour time period. (Bruce offhandedly mentioned that they should start writing down the effects of different fear toxins so that they could eventually identify which was which to make antidote administration easier, knowing it’d be an insane and labor intensive task that no one would really do because they were doing just fine currently. Tim promptly created a spreadsheet, copped the cowl footage, and got to work. He learned advanced chemistry for this, promptly bringing his barely passing grade up to an A within two months.)

- Once was able to list the entirety of Haley’s Circus lineup over the years, correctly identifying which performers had been kidnapped by the Court of Owls, yet couldn’t name a single United States president before the year of 2012. (Got embarrassingly into circus performances because y’know, Dick is his hero and so he memorized the entire history of Haley’s Circus so he’d always know who/where/what Dick was talking about when he referenced his time there)

- Word for Word reciting an obscure peace treaty for an ALIEN NATION, but wasn’t able to tell Dick what the Fibonacci sequence was. (Starfire is Tamaranian and Tim assumed that she and Dick would get married one day and he didn’t want to be insensitive so he hacked into the Green Lantern files that all the Earth Lanterns update and got to work researching. Even the stuff that only tangentially mentioned the planet and people)

[cringelordofchaos]

Actually I have just now decided I really like Luke (I just gave him mommy issues ☠️ and it worked)

[milesworld96]

I just went on another rampage rewatching segments of The Way, I’m sobbing I miss them sm together

[burninlovebutler]

my boy, my boy 💗 i am so proud of you 💗 and i know Elvis & Lisa Marie are too 💗

of course i am disappointed at the oscar’s loss BUT at the end of the day, we still won in so many other ways & areas - we’ve come a long way & it’s been quite a journey & there is SO MUCH to celebrate outside of one award - our boy & this movie was winning awards left & right all season

golden globes & baftas are HUGE win’s especially for this stage in his career plus awards are bullshit anyway i never cared or paid attention to them until now

one award does not dictate or null the success, impact & love this movie has cultivated

art in any form is subjective

to paraphrase my other fav boy, Harry Styles’ grammy speech:

“I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music art. I don’t think any of us sit in the studio on set making decisions on what is going to get us one of these [awards],”

and Jon Batiste’s speech:

"I believe this to my core, there is no best musician, best artist, best dancer, best actor - the creative arts are subjective and they reach people at a point in their lives when they need it most. It's like a song or an album is made and it's almost like it has a radar to find the person when they need it the most."

and the movie, austin & elvis certainly found us when we needed it the most - i whole heartedly believe that 💗

it might be the end of an era, but there is a new beginning on the horizon & i can’t wait to be there with you all 🌅💕

i know that i will look back at this time with such happiness & fondness, i’ve made such great friends & memories - i cherish it all

i won all of you guys & that’s a pretty fucking good win in my book 💗

i love y’all so much 💗

-mel xx

[welcometololaland]

I know this wasn’t on the list (or maybe it was lol) but I wouldn’t be opposed if you wanted to share the RWRB/LS crossover fic I remember seeing a snippet from! 👀 (and I say this with absolutely no pressure if that is not something you were planning on continuing to write)

thank you, anon! you know what? @rmd-writes made me think of this the other day when we were having one of our ridiculous discussions, because she pointed out how awkward Carlos would be about meeting royalty 💀

like mans would be STRESSING over which appropriate title / salutation to use and we all know it.

(no reason for this gif I just think he's real fucking pretty)

[finelytaylored]

Ke Huy Quan running to Austin Butler & Baz Luhrmann to hug them + Michelle Yeoh hugs!?

I think this is shaping up to be my favorite awards season of all time.

[strangerhands]

mmmmm heyyy👁️. ive basically been gone from tumblr for over two days because ive been feeling like a shitty piece of shit. BUT. i finally saw dune part 2 and ohmygoddddd it was so so good. but yes. i was missing leto so bad the entire time. Father come back pls. i need you.

[luisamariatraumer]

The class photo for the 2023 Oscars

[hunterbloodknight]

They are so cute 🥰

[li-ionfish]

International Woman of Mystery