#and fighting fire with fire is not gonna help

[a-substantial-trash-pile]

Catalyst

so in my au which i'm totally not using to cope or anything haha, after realizing that curly isn't going to do anything about jimmy, anya confides in swansea and he goes Protective Dad Mode. i'm calling this the "Responsibility AU." ramble below cut.

swansea doesn't immediately go after jimmy with an axe or anything because 1. they're not in a high stress life/death crash situation and 2. anya specifically requests that swansea not enact violence upon jimmy after swansea says, and i quote, "i'm gonna beat his ass." anya just wants to feel safer and more supported on the ship—she doesn't want swansea to get in trouble even if jimmy does deserve to get destroyed by 10000 punches.

what swansea can do is watch out for anya and make sure she's never alone in a room with jimmy. if there's a situation where she has to be alone with jimmy (like the psych evals), she and swansea have a system where she can signal for help. with anya's permission, swansea asks daisuke to help look out for her too (without telling him the details as to why since that's anya's right to share or not). daisuke has already picked up at this point that something is wrong based on how much more hostile swansea's become towards jimmy, and he trusts his boss, so he agrees without much question.

anya, feeling less alone now that she has people watching her back, gains more confidence to stand up to jimmy. which makes him angry because his unwanted advances are being denied and swansea and daisuke keep getting in his way. he just can't understand why he's being treated as the bad guy here (this is because he is a delusional asshole).

meanwhile curly is slowly realizing that he needs to actually do something here because the tension in the crew is palpable and increasing by the day. also swansea is being mighty passive aggressive to him and talking about "responsibility" a lot. curly keeps trying to talk to jimmy about it but the guy just keeps downplaying it and blaming everyone else but himself. and curly is realizing that his friend isn't who he thought he was.

it all comes to a head one day when an angry jimmy tries to confront anya alone and swansea steps in. things get heated, people start yelling. curly show up to see swansea and jimmy on the verge of fighting with anya and daisuke trying to hold them back respectively. curly breaks up the fight. jimmy storms off. curly follows him and finds him trying to get the gun from the case in the cockpit. curly asks him why he's doing this and jimmy claims it's for his own protection because he feels "threatened by swansea." he tells curly to give him the code. curly, the sheer wrongness of the whole situation hitting him, finally calls jimmy out on all his bs. jimmy just laughs in his face, still believing that he's not in the wrong and curly doesn't have the guts to do anything anyway. so the captain fires him on the spot. jimmy snaps and he and curly get into a fight in the cockpit. jimmy is trying to crash the ship and curly is trying to stop him. then the rest of the crew show up and anya knocks jimmy's ass out with the gun case. swansea is so proud.

they throw jimmy in the cryopod so they don't have to worry about him pulling anything else and he can be properly dealt with once the stupid delivery is over. everyone's like, "wow that was a close one—could you imagine how messed up it would be if we ended up in a crash because of jimmy? thank god that didn't happen." curly makes swansea the copilot until they can get a replacement and swansea's like, "goddammit as if i don't already do enough shit around here."

anyway my whole goal here was to get rid of jimmy early so i can have beautiful Found Family shenanigans in space with the rest of the crew. apologies and healing and happy times will happen. no the whole getting laid off thing doesn't happen. no i don't have an explanation for it. sorry for the essay.

[the-silver-peahen-residence]

"Everyone! We have to help him!"

"Right!!"

Right away, seeing Sadow still trying to crush him he still stood his ground. Even with his body going deep into the ground he still kept getting deeper.

"Grrrrr you piece of shit! You are annoying! GET OUT OF MY FACE!" He said about to slam him down once more into the ground before suddenly......

A laser hits the mecha as he stumbled a bit. "WHAT!?" He looks seeing another hitting him.

"It's time for you to look over your evil deeds! You shall be stopped!" the Shining hero: Can't stop twinkling smirked firing more and more as he sees them hitting the mech.

"The fuck are you doing!? Stop that!" he said having one arm of the mech raised to fire something but he saw the others rushing over to stop him.

That's when acid hits the arm seeing it hiss and melt the metal. "Tch!"

"Not gonna let you do that!" Pinky (Mina) said while she was seeing some acid around her before sending out more while he was trying to swing her away.

"STOP THAT! GET AWAY FROM ME!" he shouted.

Everyone was trying to help Gerald with this jerk but Sugarman remains keeping Ping safe. She was speechless seeing all this. However, her eyes were still watching.

'........Their all fighting him...just to protect everyone.....I never knew they had this much strength..' she thought looking but Sugarman looks to Ping worried.

"But you have it to." he said that she blinks to look at him. "You must have forgot because of the hypnosis. Your a hero too Ping. Remember?"

'........'

"Your one of us but we are doing this to help all we can. Including the girls that's under that jerk's control even you." he hopes she understood but saw Deku wrap up all the girls who was shouting and kicking trying to break free watching the pro heroes fighting off the mech.

He looks ahead seeing the mech's arm get melted off thanks to Pinky before Ingenium was running around him trying to distract him as his classmates kept fighting him. Two of them even went to help Gerald from being crushed.

Everyone was shocked seeing Gerald holding the mech back like it's nothing but they do remember Ink and her team told them he was very strong. This proves it. Deku was worried but looks seeing him still holding it back.

"Hey! You want to die, you dumb brat?!" The speaker from the mecha is heard. Sadow is now pissed.

Gerald didn't respond, he kept on pushing back to the point where the mecha was about to lose his balance. Then Sadow goes to lift his arm to aim at Gerald. He fires upon him but Gerald growls as he doesn't budge. His eyes glow bright green within the gunsmoke.

"I won't let you win, villian! I won't let you hurt anyone else!"

Ping saw this but her eyes were wide seeing this. '........Ger...ald....' she thought feeling the breeze like everything was in slow motion. However, Sadow gets angry.

"Tch you damn little shit! When I get rid of you damn pro heroes I'm taking Bradley's wife back and delivering her to him! Now....GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!" he said trying to move.

[trashthatsred]

This is how I imagine their internal monologue was.

Sae: Hm, I wonder where Rin is I hope he’s in a better mood now and got over that phase of his…

In the corner of his eye he sees Rin standing besides him

Sae: Speak of the devil- ah wait why is he looking at me like that? Seriously? Is he really trying to pick a fight right now? Tch, annoying little brother. Fine then two can play at this game.

And with that Sae made up his mind to ignore Rin. He can fight fire with fire, if his little brother’s gonna be like that then fine! He nods his head of to the side and with a little hmph he just focuses his eyes on the pretty wallks

meanwhile Rin:

“Shitty ass good for nothing brother, oh you’re ignoring me? You’ve got the nerve to ignore me?! Me?! HEY! Look at me you asshole. Oh I see how it is... fine I gave you a chance to talk to me. I am going to beat. your. ass. in this game. I swear to god I'm gonna make you eat those words you said your so fucki...

And Rin proceeded to go on and on. Ranting in his head of why Sae won't look at him and that he's gonna beat him

I can't help but wonder, that maybe the reason Sae teamed up with shidou was because:

1. He's already played with Rin before why not try other things?

2. He's either petty or really just wanna experiment with other players that is not rin.

3. He purposely didn't choose Rin because he wanted to size Rin up, check on his little brother's progress and all. Because he can't do that when they're playing together, and what better way to know if Rin improved than facing off against each other.

4. He doesn't care (Personally I don't agree with this, I think the fandom mischaracterizes Sae by making it seem like he doesn't care about Rin or is purposely being an asshole to Rin. Will probably post my take on Sae's character soon acting like it's not gonna be the same as everyone else')

[untitledrockstar-if]

after you mention this potential ex of R, I was wondering….can we throw hands? 😭 I feel like we don’t get to throw hands in enough of these games. I’m talking tables turned, drinks thrown, weaves snatched, and windmill punches (the quintessential cat fight move) thrown and missed. I mean if MCs gonna be messy, might as well go crazy with it. (Sorry I watch too much reality TV). Would R find it funny if the MC did get into a fight over them? They seem like the type tbh, would probably start instigating.

help 😭 that's so messy I'm obsessed, but yes I've been thinking about allowing mc to fight people. they're in tabloids for a reason! R as well.

R would 100% be amused but root for mc and break it up if it got too intense. mc walking around with a blue eye or split lip would only fuel the fire of their reckless lifestyle.

[pain-is-too-tired]

Honestly, maybe they just don't cross my dash, but I don't think i see enough aus exploring things that truly were horrifyingly close in canon.

Like, even from TLT.

Grover almost gets dragged to Tartarus, which easily could've been Percy. If Ares wasn't dumb enough to fight the son of Poseidon NEAR WATER, would he have killed him? Heck, what if Percy didn't get to camp in time to be cured from the Scorpion? Like, just dead.

Could you imagine au where Percy dies, but cause of mix of how he died and such is kinda stuck as a ghost and when Bianca and Nico get to camp one or both see him? Like he becomes a semi mentor to them especially with them being next in line prophecy wise if Thaila is either never brought back or still joins the hunters?

And seems like Jason wasn't even considered for it(even though he been probably around Bianca's age or so when she got out) so Bianca likely be most likely next in line if she doesn't join the hunters..

And idea of her just going through everything with ghost Percy kinda stuck in a way helping as a ghost actually really fun to think about. Especially if no one else can see him or something.

Could you imagine first time they get caught by Luke and TA she's just trying so hard not to laugh because Percy's making rude hand gestures at Luke from the side lines or mocking his poses and such.

No one knowing at that point Bianca is daughter of Hades, so Luke's just like "what's funny??" And she's like "nothing :3" why trying so hard not to laugh, like this is a serious situation, but Percy making it a lot harder for her to be scared.

Which does actually help in long run cause she's able to use her abilities better when she's not scared to death, so helps her escape easier.

Bianca and Ghost!Percy duo would be hilarious all in saying.

That being said- another thing that was "very close call" in canon-

Nico easily could've ended up like Chris i feel like. He only survived so long because Minos found him useful. Could you imagine an au where Nico gets cursed like Chris and Percy and Co find him? Percy is gonna find a way to kill a ghost all I'm saying.

He's dragging that man down to Hades throne room himself if he has to. Like he's making sure Minos gets more than just being fired.

Honestly, Minos might prefer Hades wrath over Percy's at this point ydgddh

[raylazuko]

So when I accidentally see ships I don’t like even with blocked tags, I’ll just block the poster. No offense and don’t take it personally, idgaf what you do but I curate my feed to my own comfort. Also if you start drama or are an ahole about it.

Id say I’m neutral because making either pro or anti your whole personality is just weird. There are ships I don’t like but as long as it isn’t lolisha shit im not gonna fight over it. Ship what you like and be mindful of ones that make others uncomfortable and the language used and don’t be mad when people block or disengage with it. But also don’t harass people for what they ship the stupidity goes both ways.

[starlight---starbrights]

Undertale yellow flowey embroidery

This took about 40 hours, give or take a few

[tsuchinokoroyale]

[essektheylyss]

I changed my discord status to "Only YOU can create forest fires!" with the This Is Fine dog emoji during the Candela episode, and it is admittedly very funny with regards to my dnd games this weekend, in the first of which I was aggressively pushing for arson in the middle of the Colorado wilderness, and in the second of which I have been emphatically told not to further assault a tree.

[lianhuajing]

my manager is not my friend my manager is not my friend my manager is not my friend

[innytoes]

Willie Ship of your choice and Pokemon AU?

The problem with living in a town with a gym, Reggie thought, was that every passing by would-be Pokemon master thought literally everyone with a Pokemon wanted to battle. It was exhausting. Especially when they wouldn't take no for an answer.

Listen, was it stupid for Reggie to try and punch out a Geodude? Yes, but it was better than trying to punch out a twelve year old. Probably. The twelve year old probably wouldn't have given him what felt like a black eye. And he had to act fast, because the Pokemon had been rapidly approaching his cowering Jolteon.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Alex asked as he came to on what appeared to be a park bench. It wasn't very comfy, except for his head, which was pillowed on something.

"That Sparky is a rescue, and if she doesn't want to fight, she shouldn't have to," he said, gently petting the Jolteon who was nuzzling her nose under his hand anxiously. "It's okay baby, nobody's going to hurt you."

Both of Reggie's Pokemon were rescues. His very first, a Growlithe puppy he'd found out in the rain when he was fifteen, was a constant companion. Reggie wasn't sure what had happened to it before he got him, but Buddy didn't particularly like fighting. He shied away from battles, and it took Reggie ages to realise why he always cowered behind his legs in a certain part of town. The part near the gym.

They'd worked on that, and getting his confidence up in general. Buddy was a happy Pokemon now, though he still didn't like battles. The only time Reggie had ever seen him fight was to protect Reggie, and to help him kick Sparky's owner's ass. Anyone that would raise his hand against his own Pokemon didn't deserve them. They did, however, deserve a black eye, a stolen Jolteon, and singed pair of jeans.

With a groan, he sat up, laughing when Buddy hopped on the bench and started anxiously licking at his face. "I'm okay, Bud," he promised. "What happened? Did Whitney put them to sleep?" That was their usual strategy, when trainers wouldn't stop bothering them. You couldn't start a Pokemon fight if you were too asleep to grab your Pokeballs.

Alex' emotional support Jigglypuff chirped at him from Alex' backpack.

"I was going to, but..."

"Yeah, sorry, Ziggy and I stepped in first," a new voice said from behind him. Reggie turned and blinked. Apparently, the comfortable thing his head had been pillowed on was this gorgeous stranger's lap. He had beautiful long dark hair, killer cheekbones, and just about the cutest Zigzagoon Reggie had ever seen draped over his shoulders like a fancy stole.

"I- uh- that's..." Really hot, Reggie wanted to say.

Sparky nudged his hand again, pointy fur prickling under his fingers. "Thanks," Reggie managed. He looked up at Alex, who seemed equally flustered at this hot stranger who just rocked up and saved them both, and then waited with them until Reggie regained consciousness.

"Are you... a trainer?" Reggie asked, carefully. He didn't seem to have any Pokeballs on his belt, just the Zigzagoon wrapped around his neck. But if he defeated that kid's entire arsenal, that Zigzagoon was probably powerful as heck.

"No," the guy said quickly. Ziggy nuzzled his cheek gently. "I... not anymore. Ziggy and I are just... travelling."

"Thank you for saving us," Alex said sincerely.

"If you're new in town," Reggie said, not wanting the guy to leave now that he was awake again. "Maybe we could show you the best places to get food?"

The man's guarded look changed into a beautiful smile. "I'd like that, yeah," he agreed. "I'm Willie."

In the end, Willie decided to stick around a lot longer than he planned, and Reggie and Alex never had to worry about pushy Pokemon Trainers again. Their boyfriend and his badass Zigzagoon had them covered.

[keeps-ache]

oo the world..! such a questionable place

[hauntingblue]

Kaido lore?!

[snowyfrostshadows]

Third Act Breakup

[ragedagainst]

jyn is someone who absolutely needs therapy but will not go for a variety of reasons, mostly because she doesn't think she really needs it, she doesn't think she needs it right now in the middle of a war, and she believes ( perhaps not falsely ) that her paranoia has kept her alive so far.

all that being said, if someone has been hounding at her to get help and is being a hypocrite about it, she will use it as a bargaining chip. oh, your muse needs therapy, too but don't want to go ? well, jyn will go if that means your muses go. slacking on physical therapy ? she'll meet with a therapist if your muse keeps doing their stretches. though her mindset surrounding this isn't super healthy –– she's doing it for the other person's wellbeing and not because she cares much about her own –– it does have a good outcome for both parties involved.

[milimeters-morales]

Miles: i have to be within the older Spider-Man’s line of sight at all times when i’m in Queens

Civilian: and why’s that?

Miles: he doesn’t trust me to not start talking about my special interest to random people when i’m supposed to be helping around. while you’re here, lemme tell you about all the different fire alarms i saw in my field trip-