#Texas teen

[dailykhabhar]

यूएस के 4 जुलाई अवकाश से पहले तीन मास सूचना में दस मरे, 38 घायल | 10 dead, 38 wounded in three mass shootings ahead of US July 4 holiday

फिलाडेल्फिया, बाल्टीमोर और फोर्ट वर्थ में हुई तीन मास सूचना में हमलों में दस लोगों की मौत हुई है और 38 लोग घायल हुए हैं, अधिकारियों ने बताया, जिसने राष्ट्रपति जो बाइडेन को बंदूक नियंत्रण कानून पास करने के लिए एक नई आवाज दी। फोर्ट वर्थ में, पुलिस ने मंगलवार को अमेरिकी स्वतंत्रता दिवस के अवसर पर स्थानीय त्योहार के बाद हुई एक मास सूचना में तीन लोगों की मौत हुई और आठ घायल हुए, यह पुलिस ने…

[hello-sweetheart]

Wouldn’t it be so fucking funny if we finally get to meet Steve’s parents in s5 and they’re like…typical suburban parents

After making them mostly monsters in fanfic like guys fffff half the time we make them emotionally abusive and/or neglectful, the other half physically, and then like if you’re on the dark web then 3% of the time they work for the lab and Steve’s like a failed number…

For like, the vibes ya know

…But then we actually meet them and it’s a pudgy office dad with glasses married to an “I can be cool >:(‘ mom.

-“Steve, I thought you said your mom doesn’t trust your dad…looks like they love each other?”

Steve: “???wym, of course they love each other. But obviously she doesn’t trust dad on trips cuz he got lost in a Texas airport once, duh.”

-“ok, what about when you said he’d kill you if he found out you drink?”

Steve: “Yeah??? I’m literally underaged and if he found out I’ve been watering down his $200 liquor he’d be so pissed 🙄”

Like, TO BE FAIR Steve’s dad telling him to get a summer job to figure out the value of money or whatever is pretty typical like baby boy didn’t work in high school 😭 and he’s like pouting and huffing about in scoops

He has a fancy car that his parents trust him to drive and take care of

And him not wanting to work for his dad is valid of him like imagine his dad is trying to be supportive like “if you ever need a job son you can come work with me :)”

and steve would hate that cuz to him it would feel like he didn’t deserve it or work for it, working for his dad feels like it means he failed to make something of himself

And like Steve’s not a bad kid, he’s a teenager who just hates his first job cuz customer service sucks, does stupid kid shit like drink and go to parties, and feels like he missed his chance to makes something of himself that he and his parents can be proud of just because he’s a little behind than the rest of his peers

I relate to that so hard

Like bro said he was having a party at his house and it was just like…4 people he invited with a six pack. No music or anything just chillin on lawn chairs and shooting the shit

Even his home is in warm colors 💀

But we love the angst 🤌 the drama 🤌 and torturing our favorite character

[911ficrecs]

Finding You by Sabs - 16,750 words, teen+

Summary: Eddie leaves for Texas on a Tuesday and Buck feels it in his heart before he even exits the airport. He starts to feel it in his body on a Thursday.

Or

Soulbonds are rare, spontaneous bonds are practically unheard, but Buck and Eddie have always been anything but conventional.

[day-mark]

thinking about dreamnap and how when they were younger they had a fight and didnt talk to each other for months, but one of them reached out and now look :((( theyre best friends, they live with each other with their other best friend :(

[louis--wifey]

New York: I am not single. Uh... California and I are... dating.

Gov: Really?

Massachusetts: Really?

Texas: Really?

California: That's cool.

[a-jaded-mirage]

Blue Beetle and El Paso

I would be lying if I said that I was not disappointed by the canonical home of Jaime Reyes being changed both in the movie and in recent comics. However, I would also be lying if I said that I absolutely detested the movie for whatever reason. I enjoyed the movie for what it was and what it meant to the Hispanic and Latinx communities. It is a huge deal, and I think it was done well. Going back to my original point, it is hard to be disappointed when it feels as though I am not missing out on much when Blue Beetle's relationship with El Paso was never done true justice anyway.

The West Texan Mexican-American experience is hard to fully encapsulate into one solid thought or idea. I can confidently say that the approach DC had in most iterations of the comics, cartoons, recent movie, and other forms of media always toned the experience down and made it a duller aspect of his story. I can not recall even a single time when El Paso was brought up or portrayed in a way that was recognizable to an El Pasoan across any of the aforementioned media. It always felt disconnected and out of touch, but I still held it close to my heart because it was something alluding to home.

In a way, I am happy that Blue Beetle is now from the fictional (emphasis on that) Palmera City, because it reiterates that heroes can only be super in Hollywood when they are superficially placed in a cookie-cutter big and flashy city. All I really have to say to that is, good for them. They did what they needed to in order to reach a wider audience. I am sure that the payoff for the corporate powerhouses at the end was worth it even at the cost of individuality. Come to think of it, my mind cannot really conjure up any mainstream superheroes that operate in any desert long term. Any time spent in the less "glamorous" parts of the Southwest is almost always smaller plot-driving settings that act as a stepping stone for bigger heroes and not as a home.

Anyway, all of this is to say that I understand why they did what they did with the setting. I even still happen to think the entire production team did a great job, but that does not stop me from wondering what could have been at any point in Blue Beetle's recent history if someone had used the beauty, culture, and complexity found uniquely in Sun City far more productively. There was so much more potential than the oftentimes vague and noncommittal nods given to the setting. It just was not utilized to its fullest potential, and if that would have been a continuous theme, then I am glad that they are no longer working with it.

Shifting to something less ranty, I absolutely suck at drawing. I am a STEM person through and through, but that did not stop me from visualizing all of the things I would have loved to have seen portrayed in a Blue Beetle story while experiencing being a teenager in El Paso. He was my absolute favorite superhero because he was one that I saw every single day in my hometown, and there were several things I felt he would have enjoyed doing.

For example, we have a ton of high schools. If I had to narrow down the ones I think Jaime Reyes would have attended, I would probably say my top three picks would be: El Paso High School, Bowie High School, or Austin High School. An interesting custom that schools in El Paso have is placing the first initial of a myriad of our high schools on the mountains. They are huge and visible, as well as a testament to our school spirit and pride. The Top 10 percent of most of our graduating classes wear different colored gowns at graduation than the rest of their peers, which is something I was told was not a common occurrence in most other states.

Homecoming is a huge deal, and people will buy, make, or sell Mums and corsages. It is kind of difficult to explain to people from around the states who may not be entirely familiar with what it is, but it is an old Texan tradition that is typically shared between sweethearts (dates) on the last day of Homecoming spirit week. It is something that a lot of people go all out for, and plenty of pictures exist on the internet of the various ways that they can be customized. I always thought it would be cool to see what Jaime Reyes would do for his Mum.

Prom is pretty much Prom wherever you are in the States for the most part, and ours are held at some great venues in the city, so there is not much more to say about that part of the high school experience. As far as colleges go, some of the most popular for teenagers at El Paso high schools to apply to are UTEP, EPCC, TTU, Texas A&M, and any of the other UTs (UT Austin, UT Dallas, and UT San Antonio to name a few). There are even several private universities like Rice, Baylor, and Trinity to name a few more. Hell, a lot of us even go to schools like NMSU in what is essentially our sister city of Las Cruces, there is also UNM, ASU, U of A, and CU. There are so many different choices for universities that are realistic and in the general area that Jaime absolutely could have chosen to apply to and attend. I think that seeing him initially as a Junior or Senior in an El Paso high school, and subsequently watching his transition into a college student in the city or elsewhere while grappling with his powers and responsibilities as Blue Beetle would have been so fascinating.

As far as places that it would have been nice to see him interact with at some point, it would be easier to just give a general list of my favorites. I wish that the following places could have been incorporated into the Blue Beetle story at some point long past: Chico's Tacos, Franklin Mountains State Park, Transmountain Road, Downtown, The Plaza Theater, Cielo Vista, The Fountains at Farah, Sunland Park, the Outlet Shoppes, Rosa's Cantina, Southwest University Park, Don Haskins Center, Concordia Cemetery, Scenic Drive-Overlook, the El Paso Star, Hueco Tanks, San Jacinto Plaza, St. Patrick Cathedral, any farmer's market or swap meet, any of our museums (Art, History, Archeology, Border Patrol, Science, Chamizal), the Coliseum, Ardovino's, Orange Cow, Burrito House, Bowie Bakery, Lucy's Cafe, any of our dulcerias, as well as literally any of our regional and national recreational chains. Obviously, there is so much more, but all of what I listed could have definitely been used for something whether it be a fight with a villain of the week, or opportunities to flesh out Jaime's character more socially and individually. That, and it tickles my funny bone to imagine the Teen Titans trying something like Chico's Tacos for the first time.

Unrelated, Jaime would totally listen to Khalid.

Naturally, there are so many other locations in surrounding cities and states that easily could have been used as well for any plot points that would have added even more Southwestern charm. I mean, part of New Mexico's tourism schtick is literally aliens (Roswell), and the scarab is in fact an alien now. However, for the purposes of this, I focused on El Paso. That is really all I have to say about all of this, if you stayed for my entire rant I appreciate it. If not, I totally understand, and I really just wanted to put my thoughts out into the world and write this love letter to my home city.

I love that Blue Beetle is now further into the general public's eye, and that his character means something for the entire extended community. He now has room to change, grow, and evolve from what he was before in a way that is far more defined by the expectations for a mainstream hero. Even if the El Pasoan Jaime Reyes can only exist truly in my mind, it is an okay price to pay for a narrative that touches my heart specifically. I am most certainly not a writer, so I hope that the next time we have a hero from El Paso, some of my city's charm can truly be done justice. After all, the only person who can characterize an El Pasoan correctly is an El Pasoan.

[va-3]

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[liliz26]

FUCK DA POLICE

[bisexualastronaut]

truly don't understand the people who think eddie was popular in school because he would have no time for it!!!! he wouldn't be able to go to parties and hang out with his friends and be a kid because he was busy looking after his sisters and his mum and being the 'man of the house'. in fact he was probably quite lonely and isolated from his peers in a way that has continued to impact him later in life like he's textually shown to be less close to the other members of the 118 (apart from buck) than they are to each other and a large part of it is probably because he's never had enough time to form close friendships with the people around him because he's too focused on being there for his family

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

@thestuffedalligator got me thinking about those Ghoul School/Monster High cartoons about the daughters of classic 1930s movie monsters. They're always depicted as conventionally attractive humans with blue or green or purple skin, but I think it would be really funny to have a group of 1980s monster girls who look just as gruesome as their dear old dads.

Milly Blobby Brown, daughter of The Blob (1988). Raised by the one-eyed preacher in his traveling revival tent, this puddle of goo wants nothing more than to leave her small town behind and make a name for herself in the big city. When she's not goodging around on her own, her friends push her around in a 30 gallon garbage can on a dolly (she outgrew her baby jar a long time ago)

Veronica Brundle, daughter of The Fly (1986). She looks exactly like her twin brother Martin after his metamorphosis but she chose not to teleport her fly genes onto anyone else. She had a million dollar smile (I mean her dental bills cost a million dollars)

There's Frida Kruger (always falling asleep in class), Crystal Vorhees (captain of the swim team, pioneer of the Olympic Deadman Float), Michelle Myers (works at the local butcher shop, loves her knives), and Debby Lynn Sawyer (professional chainsaw carver, amateur taxedermist). Those girls perpetually smell like rotting meat, but they're the cool clique compared to the daughters of the critters or hobgoblins or CHUDs.

[lillambtotheslaughter]

She's so happy she lived guys can't you tell?!

She will now forever frog blink I fear.

"Well I just went through hell and somehow managed to survive with the most damage being on my back but at least we're still together!"

"Right Cin, right isn't that just great...!"

"....what.."

[bloodyguts2282]

Charlie came home after the war. Thomas changed a little..

[clowningaroundmars]

jacob givin chuckle wuckles a piggyback ride 🥺

[shipping-world1994]

Chris: Damn it

Peter: What

Chris: You're in bed already

Peter: So?

Chris: So I told you before watching you get undressed is the best part

Peter: The best part?!

Chris: Well not the best part but it's in the top two

[blueberryismilk18]

HEADCANON REQUESTS

Hi hi I’m Blue, and I’ll write headcanons for any of the fandoms that are in the hashtags, maybe more just ask. ———————————————————————————————————- Stuff I WONT write:

nsfw, sorry I don’t feel comfortable doing that

pedoph1l1a (gross mfs get off my page NOW)

zooph1l1a (^^^)

child/domestic/partner abuse, just abuse in gen

nothing extremely violent or gorey

incest

NO MORE BISTRO HUDDY (for now I do not have motivation to write for it)

I WILL write:

Fluff ofc

angst

polyamory (you incest MFS GET OFF MY PAGE)

Character that are minors will be platonic only (I’m not age-ing up characters you weirdos)

if you have any questions about what I will write for ask away

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just a quick thing to add, I apologize if I take long with headcanons I have other things too do but just know they will get done sooner or later.

[kit-middleton]

I randomly remembered the pure chaotic mess of Midnight, Texas and the found family of misfits who almost uniformly have the world’s most outlandish names.

Please talk me out of incorporating them into my Teen Wolf fic series. I never get any of it posted because I’m writing it out of order and now my brain wants to add a side-quest and half a dozen more characters?!?!

How big is the crossover between the Midnight, Texas and Teen Wolf fandoms?