#a little flashback

[ravishingesmerald]

[nuriaredgrave]

Prompt #15: Portentous

"Morbol, huh?"

Nuria looked over the flyer on the hunt board. Whoever put this up seemed desperate to deal with the thing, the gil reward was massive. Morbols were nasty beasts, sure, but Nuria had taken a few down without issue in the past. Surely this one would be no different, and it wasn't far from Nuria's new digs in The Goblet either! He could be there and back again in no time. Reading still wasn't Nuria's strong suit though, so the least he could do was check with the fellow who'd tacked this up just to get the details all clear.

The man was a Chocobo porter who'd been running a station in the area for years, but he'd unfortunately been shoved out by the snarling beast that had decided to make the spot its new den. After explaining, he seemed shocked that Nuria wanted to take the job alone and gave a concerned look, "Sir...you read the flyer, right? I think it'd be wise to have some help for this." Nuria shrugged, smiling. "Nah, I didn't need to read anything. These things are tough but I've got the hang of 'em." The porter seemed incredibly on edge, "Please, sir. I don't think you realize what you're getting into, this isn't a normal-" Nuria simply waved his hand dismissively.

The porter tried once more to convince him, but Nuria just couldn't be swayed. He shook the porter's hand and off he went to work. The closer he got to the Morbol's location though, the more anxious he began to feel. He started to replay the porter's words in his head and feel a little less sure of himself. He did his best to shrug it off, he was nearly there anyway.

"It's probably just the guy's nerves getting to me. Nothing to worry about."

[qiinamii]

we'll do fine.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The dog days are over.

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[egophiliac]

innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

i'm unwell!!! because in stede's eyes, ned low was right!! ned says "he [ed] only likes you because of your bumbling amateur status" and calls stede blackbeard's "pet" just like izzy did in series 1

so stede steps up as a captain, kills the man who harmed his crew, and suddenly, for once in stede's life, he isn't a joke! the gentleman pirate is taken seriously and welcomed into the pirate community!

and what happens less than 24 hours later? ed calls their night together a mistake, AND LEAVES.

yes, obviously the situation is more nuanced, and these old men are once again struggling to communicate, but i 100% understand why stede went a bit of the rails at the end of episode 7. stede's been so focused on trying to help ed, that he's completely ignored his own ongoing identity crisis and trauma, and after the incident at the academy in series 1, this meltdown was long overdue.

[ardentpoop]

he said "can't argue with that one"

[bugcatcherkit]

whyd they think marriage was a good idea

[lemonomelette]

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE DAY YOU CAN UNFOLLOW ME NOW

[nohmakesmecooler]

i feel like the deadpool and wolverine film was 90% poolverine having intense chemistry and 10% marvel putting vanessa flashbacks on the screen like hey! but wade has female love interest guys promise! please!

[avocadoraisin]

A vampire and a werewolf walk onto a crime scene...

[ask-spiderpool]

[youwerethedefeated]

The amount of times Hinata thinks about Kageyama during the Brazil arc is INSANE... like, dude, you're all the way across the world and everything reminds you of him 😭

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You made her cry, time to die.

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[spacedace]

DPxDC snippet/prompt:

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“John.”

Zantanna’s voice had that cadence to it. Faintly strangled. Forcibly calm. Her rising blood pressure and rapidly approaching limit for his special brand of excitement evident in every single letter of his name.

Felt like old times.

“Z.” He said, smoke curling out of his mouth and billowing towards the dreary grey sky above. The one nice thing about Gotham, it had the same gloomy dark ambience of ol’ London town. “Long time no see. How’s show biz been treating you?”

He saw the faintest of twitches at the corner of her eye. Could almost hear her counting to ten in her head. He smiled at her winningly, leaning back against the damp bricks of the alleyway as he waited. More smoke drifted upward from beside him in time with a bored sigh. Patience was running out on all sides it seemed.

“That’s a child.”

“Sharp as ever.” He said, taking another drag. He nudged the child in question beside him gently with his elbow, glancing down with a sly grin. “See this is why the Justice League pay her the big bucks. Nothing gets past our Zantanna Zatara.”

He got a cloud of smoke blown directly in his face for that, little shit.

“John.”

“Z.”

“Why do you have a child? Why is the child smoking?”

“Long story.” He said with a wave of his hand.

“I learned it from watching him.” The kid said, with the same cadence as that old American commercial. All dramatic and overwrought emotion. The gremlin swooned against John's side in an imitation of collapse, hand holding the lit bifter coming up to their forhead to really sell the melodrama. He nudged his ghostly companion off, grinning at Zantanna’s slipping patience as he did.

“Don’t worry about it. Kid's fine.”

“A child wandering around with you in a dark ally in Gotham smoking cigarettes is fine?”

“I mean, I’m already dead. And short. It’s not like smoking is gonna be able to do any worse to me.”

[dulcelem]

omg ivan's turn next? 😍