#and have some billionaire make his cool suit.

[sciderman]

any thoughts on the new spider-man series trailer? the style kind of reminds me of the 60s comics but a lot of it looks modernized too.

https://youtu.be/N3J2JRQg040?si=ze22he_zqB5LDDe6

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[moonlit-imagines]

Preferences: Being an Avenger and an ex-Widow

Avengers x reader

warnings:

a/n:

prompt: anon 🥀: “hcs for how avengers would react to reader being an ex widow like natasha”

when you defected from the red room, you rejected SHIELD

“why trade one corrupt organization for another?” -you (not aware shield was ACTUALLY corrupted by hydra)

you freelanced for a bit, avoiding recruitment at all turns and trying to keep control of your life

but nick fury wouldn’t let you drop from his radar

“y/n, meet natasha romanoff” -fury

“i know you…” -you

“red room, yes” -nat

“what are you two doing here?” -you

“trying to recruit you, actually” -nat

“like i told your boss a dozen times, i want no part in working for SHIELD, the notion bores me” -you

“well, what if i told you a new position opened up?” -fury, watching your brow raise “im assembling a team, one with the most skilled players in the game”

“spies?” -you

“not quite” -nat, smirking

thus started your induction into the avengers

and nat became probably your best friend

“i’ve never met another widow defector, it’s…nice” -you

“we killed him, you know…” -nat, hesitating “dreykov. barton and i got him”

it was the best news you’d gotten in a while

the rest of the avengers were a bit ragtag compared to the soldiers they recruited

the billionaire in a suit, scientist with anger issues, the asgardian god

then 3 assassins and a soldier from world war ii

but you all made nice eventually, especially after fighting side by side

being with the avengers instead of a lonely assassin gave you back some of that humanity you lost over the years

“y/n, want to go on a run?” -steve

“with you? what’s the point?” -you

“i’ll slow down for you” -steve

routine runs became a stress reliever for you

you traded war stories with nat and clint on late nights when you couldn’t sleep

and tony made you his “guinea pig” when it came to testing new technologies

���i didn’t mean it in a derogatory way! i know where you come from, bad choice of words. would you though? it’s a pretty cool gun…wouldn’t want it to go to waste…” -tony

and bruce, sweet bruce, bruce recluse….

i just wanted to say that actually

bruce and you didn’t have all that much in common but sometimes he’d sit with you and keep you company, maybe offer you some food

you’d have really meaningful conversations with the avengers, too

“so, what deterred you from joining SHIELD?” -steve

“a lifetime of being controlled by people with their own agendas and no regard for their soldiers’ lives” -you “sound familiar?”

“all too familiar” -steve

“then you understand that i was not going to work for the united states government, it was hard enough joining the avengers” -you

okay, okay. you might be wondering “wheres all the action scenes?” fine here they are

you and nat knew some pretty outdated moves pretty well. after all, you were taught the same

it was easy to fight with her, it was almost like you were telepathically communicating your next moves

“are we sure the red room didn’t give them some kind of mind reading chip?” -tony “hey, that should be my next project”

“absolutely not” -steve

clint got jealous of you and nat because the bond they had was similar to yours, but you suggested a group effort with him

so you and nat taught him some red room lessons (minus the horrendous abuse)

thor enjoyed your ruthlessness

“y/n, you never cease to amuse me!” -thor

“they just knocked a man out, thor” -clint

“yes! hilarious” -thor

“you don’t laugh when stark does it” -steve

“stark? well, he’s not too funny” -thor

“hey! im funny…” -tony

honestly getting really close with the team

and eventually welcoming wanda and vision

assuring wanda that coming from a less-than-friendly background didn’t make her any less than the avengers

“you know, i was pretty bad before i joined up. you’ll fit right in!” -you

the avengers went through a lot of ups and downs

and by the time they’d split, you already left

“i’m sorry, guys. i’m just not cut out for this line of work.” -you

“what do you mean?” -tony

“you know what i mean. i cant be an avenger anymore. i cant be idolized and i cant be associated with whatever mess is brewing here” -you

you wanted to go solo again, working for the group was never what you really wanted

it was nice for a while

and you watched as the drama between steve and tony unfolded, feeling grateful you didn’t have to pick a side

*pressing ignore on your phone for the fiftieth time*

freelance life just suited you better

until you found the red room was still operating

and for once you picked up the phone

“hey nat. are we freeing these widows or what?”

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[pomegranate-pen]

Daym sis !! It took you this long to finally do your reqs ? Better late than never ig, ok but fr tho I’m glad you’ve decided to do your reqs for lackadaisy. Cause I was starting to worry !! So I’m glad your ok <33

Anyways, may I req a Rocky Rickaby x rich (closer to a billionaire) Fem! or gn! reader headcannons? Who is kinda polar opposite to Rocky? They’re kind, social, friendly yet calm, reserved, secretive and kinda mysterious because of their status? And it’s not like they got this money from some distant cousin, they had to work hard.

I can also see them spoiling Rocky in little, subtle ways. Like when his violin is broken from his rumrunning, the reader gifts him with a new one, and despite having no note to specify who exactly gave it to him, he can probably guess who it is. Can this also be like a friends to lovers kind of thing? That’d be cool.

Btw u dont have to do this if u dont wanna, or u can do this later, No pressure ! Make sure to take care of yourself, take breaks and have a wonderful day !!!

Rocky Rickaby x rich!gn!Reader headcanons

A/n: what?? Pomegranate pen actually keeping her promise and releasing something at a weekend?? That's impossible!!! Nsjwjwjwjw anyway, hi dear anon!! Tysm for requesting, I will admit, this was very fun to write,especially since I really missed writing for lackadaisy these few days. Thanks for requesting!! I hope you enjoy this!!

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Maintaining a bountiful fortune costs your time, soul and trust and in the world where greed overtakes all morals people have, you always need to be careful on whom you let see your weakness, whom you let see your heart.

So safe to say, you weren’t so keen on trusting a place so deeply rumoured as the lackadaisy speakeasy, let alone become a sponsor of it.

Or at least, that was the case before you met the infamous bootlegger of the place, Rocky Rickaby when he suddenly crashed face first with your car in a farmer's field late in the night. You truly thought he was dead at that moment, you were certain you just accidentally killed someone late into the night because the exhaustion of your soul-consuming meetings finally caught up to you. but then as you got out of the car, as you tried to reevaluate the situation and tried to find any sort of farm or shelter that you could ask help from, a sudden groan of pain gets your attention. The grey cat looks at you with the wooziest eyes and the silliest of grins.

One of his hands shakily goes up to point at you. “…has the nightingale sent her prettiest angel to take me away?” His voice was anything but coherent. “…why I must be quite the lucky…poet..”

As relief washes over you to the fact that he’s breathing, at the very least, you notice a nasty wound opening up on his head, a bit of blood ready to gush out of it. then you notice the box of what seems to be bottles of moonshine that spilled with him as he was running away.

 Before you could think of anything else- you hear grunts, gunshots and yells from across the fields, and in that moment of flight or fight, you grab onto the concerningly lanky cat and drive away.

Through all your yells to yourself about literally taking an injured stranger into your car and running away, you also realized why you felt such an urge. Your brain has seemed to connect the dots.whoever this guy was, it was obvious his job was the unsavoury kind, a bootlegger. An occupation you remember having a long time ago, a job you remember being your worst. Perhaps,you’ve felt sympathy for the guy and decided to save him before things got deadly.

Nevertheless, with an abundance of self-deprecation and worry for what will be the outcome of your quick and on-pressure decision, you took him to your house.

Maids and servants alike gasped in horror when they saw their boss caryying a man who looks like he took a deep swim in the mud, blood trickling down his blue suit and staining your own clothing. You quickly ask for their aid and bring him to the fireplace, let the maids patch him up while you get a proper change of clothes and soothing tea as well.

 The servants urge you to go to bed, to be rest assured that when the mysterious lanky cat wakes up they’ll be there to explain everything to him. Yet, you could not let anyone face the burdens of your silly and perhaps bad decision (though some of your employees commented that you could be deemed heroic in a certain lens. “some might even say a tad romantic!” a certain person with a known interest for romance novels added. You dismissed it all.)

You decided to stay the night sitting by the arm-chair next to the couch he laid on, awaiting his clarity while taking a small nap yourself. With a grunt and roll of their eyes,some from amusement and others from worry, they brought a blanket and a pillow and left you be. Next to the lanky, drifted asleep and bad-shape cat that was covered in bandages.

You were expecting at least a decent night’s sleep, since there’d be no way he’d be able to wake up quickly after the day he’s been through.his body would definitely take its time in recovery. What you hadn’t expected, was hearing rustling and shifts in the night, ones you dismissed as servants just shifted around to finish up the last of their tasks, but then hearing creaks, stumbles and the sound of something clunking and shattering on the ground before finally, a creak of a window opening. That is when your eyes immediately opened, and you were met with the cat who was hit with your car tangled up in his own bandages trying to make an escape. You both froze for a moment. Him, being midway out with his escape, his hand still latched on the window, and you, still in your armchair with a frazzled expression.

 “uh…sorry about that….” His eyes trail to the ground.”statue?...” he gives a nervous grin while pointing at the shattered artifact.he then looks up and gives a nervous chuckle. “and the torn drapes.” He then looks around again and winces. “annnnd the shattered vase.”

 After that failed attempt to escape seemed futile, you brought him back in and briefly explained the situation. Rocky told you his side of the story- though, with a few skipped parts and avoiding to get into details about what specifically failed so spectacularly in his task to retrieve some booze.

You talk for a little while, giving some small brief summaries about who you are and what you do, and gleefully answering some silly questions Rocky had about your status. You found yourself enjoying your talk with Rocky, talking to someone who's so incredibly lively. You've been around soulless businessmen for so long that you almost forgot what it’s like to actually speak to a person, to forget about status and money, to not read between the lines of every sentence someone utters. You finally felt like yourself for a moment, like something about Rocky’s eccentricities and unhinged nature has rejuvenated your soul.

 Yet, as Rocky looks back at the clock, he quickly gets up to leave, needing to go back to his work before anyone assumes he’s dead. You tried to convince him to stay a while longer, to sleep for the night so he can heal up. yet he didn’t falter. He quickly put on his coat and hat, looking at you with a charming smile. He tilts his hat, giving a small bow before graciously saying goodbye.

What he hadn’t noticed, was that your eyes trailed his clothing for a moment and noticed something intriguing. Something that could hint at where he truly works at. A small pin, in the shape of a club.

  After that, a few weeks have passed by before you decide to finally visit. Your main reason was to just make sure he’s  okay and that his injury has finally healed up. yet a part of you knew that you were also deeply curious about him, and had felt the urge to know more about his life. Perhaps, he’ll rise the ranks like you did. Or maybe just like old co-workers of yours at the bootlegging game, he’ll get himself into deep trouble.

Nonetheless, you visited the Lackadaisy speakeasy. The place you heard a cacophony of rumours and chats about, yet never visited it yourself. The empty mine with dark lights engulfed in the room left a lot to be desired. something was missing, something crucial that was holding the whole place up together. The very few guests that were there however, were noneother than the wife of Atlas May and…

  “…Wick Sable?!”

Wick chokes on his drink, tail frizzing up in distress as his ears perk up and take a note of the familiarity of that voice. He coughs out the drink he was meaning to enjoy (even if it’s taste wasn’t really in the highest of tiers in terms of ‘enjoyable’), looking at you with a stressed smile. “ah…L/n..what an unexpected surprise.”

Depending on your relationship with Wick, this interaction could go in three ways. If you're good friends, he’d have to suffer a bit with both your teasing and Mitzi's about not telling you about his frequent trips here. If you're mere acquaintances, then though he’d have to suffer only  Mitzi's teasing about him being so secretive about his visits, he’d still be forced to explain his relationship with the place to you over a few drinks. If you’re known to be rivals or enemies, well, not only would he be utterly displeased by the idea of you finding his go-to bar, but what would irk him more would be how Mitzi will try to make you a regular patron around here. often shutting up any sort of jab or retort Wick has to your musings and letting you have control over the conversation.

 As you start getting accustomed to the ambiance of the mine and the piercing galre of the bartender, the man of the hour-well, your hour, at least, comes in. this time with his suit only a tiny bit ruined by dirt and tears, but still not as bad as his awful state when you first found him.

His eyes beam when he sees you, and he immediately starts flirting with lines of poetry and song while he shoves the cart of illicit beverages he found into a small orange cat;s hands and takes the abandoned violin that was on the bar counter to strum up a tune.

Everyone expected him to be flat out rejected, to be ignored and maybe even weird out the new patron. But low and behold, the new patron merely giggled and smiled, matching his playful energy and cheeky jokes.

Safe to say, everyone’s jaw was dropped, while Rocky himself was beaming with joy and pride.

After that, you’ve become a regular at the speakeasy.often visiting the place to mainly speak with Rocky and develop a nice friendship with him. 

Your conversations with him were always insightful, since he was the very clear opposite of you. While you were known in society for your calm demeanour in different matters (often preferring to panic in the inside rather than out.), Rocky was known to be loud and spontaneous. No one knew how on earth you two got along so well, but you somehow did. He was able to bring charm and joy to a conversation, something that you desperately missed from your old life. While you were able to become the reasonable one in the relationship, often convincing Rocky to avoid causing some disastrous chaos that would’ve left the speakeasy in shambles.

Rocky’s clumsiness and acts of chaos has left him with more injuries and broken things than he can count. It’s something that you took note of immediately, and whenever you’d see his clothes, your heart would often ache for him. But you knew Rocky. You knew he wouldn’t accept something you bought with your own money, that though he’d act grateful, he’d somehow make some gleeful excuse to try to avoid taking it. And so, you’ve decided with the help of a few delivery boys to send these gifts to him anonymously instead. 

Now, though in everyone else’s eyes, Rocky doesn’t look changed at all, the keen observer would notice his new and clean clothes, and his violin of fine-quality and craftsmanship.

You’d often rant about your job with Rocky. Especially when you had had enough drinks in your system to forget the poised and strong demeanour you must uphold. Ever since you reached the top of the board, you’ve become a fish out of water. You cannot relate nor have any sort of fun with the people you’re often forced to speak with. Especially since the people in question are known to be incredibly judgemental and gossip-obsessed.Rocky would always hear your whines and try to cheer you up with a song, or maybe a funny story he can tell about another dangerous and concerning adventure he had for the day. Since he noticed how you always smile when he rambles on and on, and though you often give him a concerned glance, you never stop listening to him with a smile.

Another way you try to help Rocky is by helping the speakeasy itself, since you know how much it means to him. You sponsor the place and try to help Mitzi when she’s in any sort of financial difficulty, and you try to strum up some business by making your clients and fellow businessmen have meetings in the speakeasy.

This has created a sort of conundrum for the guests you bring. Because unknown to their own knowledge, they're often the same people you rant about all the time to Rocky. And so, Rocky always has the urge to somehow scare and intimidate them with his insanity. He treats them just as he treats Wick, sometimes even worse. He jabs, he nudges and he pretty much freaks them out when you’re too distracted talking about the business at hand to even notice his actions. And the worst part is, whenever you do look up, Rocky immediately stops his actions and gives you a charmed smile and innocent wink. As if he’s been as innocent as an angel the entire time. 

After a while, it didn’t take long for your maids to realize that Rocky wasn’t just some simple friend to you, but in fact, someone you’re into. And they made this theory of theirs become known to you when they suddenly start asking for details about your day at the speakeasy, specifically your hangouts with Rocky. You try to deny it at first, but you couldn’t help but admit that something about Rocky was different from others. To you, your friendship with Rocky was an entirely new and incredible experience, an experience that you cherish deeply, and…you wouldn’t mind for it to become something more.

So,you start initiating the flirtations, ones that Rocky immediately answers back with equal amounts of enthusiasm. Slowly but surely, your hangouts have become dates, and your rants have become more personal.

soon enough, and in the other’s point of view, shockingly so, you two have become a couple. An incredibly cheesy one at that.

 For a moment, everyone thought perhaps this was a sugar baby type of situation. That was until they all wondered what on earth could their lackluster bootlegger and not-half-bad violinist Rocky Rickaby offer in the sugar baby aspect of it all? they all came out with an utterly empty answer. However, though the relationship was far from such a thing, it doesn’t mean you don’t like showering Rocky with gifts all the time. Especially since you firmly believe he deserves at least some sort of nice luxury in his life. You’d often try to do the same old trick of anonymously gifting them, but he has caught you once in the act, and with a bountiful amount of kisses has convinced you to drop the whole act.

Rocky may at first be in somewhat of a denial for such attention. Though he will gawk, be giddy and awe-struck about the amount of gifts he is receiving, a part of him would also somehow feel guilty for it. like he doesn’t deserve such nice things in life. it’s a guilt that you quickly scold him for, and as punishment by even more gifts for him than before.

Though you are of high-status, both you and Rocky still prefer dates in the dark streets of Mississippi rather than any luxurious restaurant. You once tried to go to one  of course, but the night has ended with the kitchen going on fire and Rocky somehow freeing all the lobsters from their tanks. Nevertheless, it was still a great night, one where you couldn’t help but laugh in pure freedom because you felt all the societal pressure in your shoulders wash away. It didn't matter who the guests were in that restaurant, it was of no importance what they whispered about you or your partner whom you wouldn’t trade for the world. All that mattered was you and Rocky, dancing under the stars as rain started to pour.

Teasing Wick has become a mutual activity for you two. An activity Mitzi even joins in from time to time. Lord knows how many jabs Wick has to put up with whenever you both are at the speakeasy at the same time (which unfortunately for him, is quite the common occurrence.) it’s gotten to the point where whenever he sees you two together he gives out an exhausted sigh and asks Viktor to give him a stronger drink.

There are times where Rocky wonders if he’s worth it. times where the stink eyes and glances of high society get in his head a bit and he wonders if he’s truly worth all the reputational risk you’re putting yourself through. Those are the times where you must quickly go against such negative thoughts, to grab his hands and tell him firmly that he’s worth more than anything to you. though it never truly diminishes his insecurity in the matter, it does help lower it down.

You’re absolutely horrified and livid when you realize he’s living in his car. It’s something your heart breaks at and you quickly urge him to just come live with you instead. You have plenty of room to spare and would absolutely adore having him around. It’s an offer you wouldn’t let him say no to, no matter how hard he tried. You even offer to buy a house for him, if he’s uncomfortable with the idea of living with you. He quickly denies having such a thought, and in the end, he moves into your mansion.

Some maids are weirded out by him while others are a bit fearful. But they quickly learn to accommodate him, especially since he’s always bringing you into a better and happier mood. Hell, you even renovated one of the rooms to be his own workshop of sorts where he can write his poems. He never really uses it, preferring to work on his ideas with you beside him instead, but he does put some sizable amount of things in there. things he has definitely brought from his cluttered car.

Even though everyone had their fair share of surprised reactions when they finally found out you were dating, it was Aunt Nina who was the most shocked of all. she never believed Rocky could find a normal partner..let alone one that’s known for their wealth and successful businesses such as yourself. She even once wondered if Rocky has used some sort of devil witchcraft to steal your heart.

There are often times where both of you tend to falter, tend to become incredibly silent after a conversation that went wrong. You both have so many secrets you can’t share, so many thoughts and feelings that are hard to describe, let alone explain where they came from.Rocky admires you, he truly does. Because he knows you’ve worked hard for your status in the world, and that it’s normal for wealthy people to have secrets of their own. You are the same, you respect him, and know that his life wasn’t the most simple nor easiest. Yet both of you cannot help but sometimes get frustrated by the other for keeping important things a secret. You more than him, you will admit. You can’t help it. You don't want him to be in danger. But knowing how strange and unhinged his luck is, you’re certain he’s bound to get into deep trouble if he doesn’t find someone to help him. And that’s when you ask him, why can’t that someone be you? Why can’t he rely on you when he needs it? You’re not a simple person, you have more than enough resources and money to protect both you and him from any problems.

and that is when he asks why can’t you be more open to him,yet ask him for such an act? He knows very little about your family life, and there are times you skip a few stories and relationships you had with certain people you rant about. He has noticed, he just never spoke about it.and then, a chilling silence takes over the room. And you both need time to collect your thoughts before you talk.

In the end, you both reach out for each other at the same time and talk things out, and though you both know talking about each other’s past will take a lot of time and trust, you’re willing to wait for it, and will never forget that you’re by each other’s side for when you’re in need of help.

Though you both are an unexpected match for sure, that doesn’t falter the endless love and admiration you have for each other.

[theamityelf]

Hey what monsters and other mythological beings do you think would suit the danganronpa cast

Ooh, in what way? To embody them/transform into? (Like, vampire, werewolf...?) Or like, to have as a familiar? And do you mean what creatures would suit them collectively, per cast, or individually, one each? I'm going with one each.

Okay, there are so many different ways to go with this, but I think I'm going to have some of them be the creature and some of them have the creature, just based on which I like most for them. Also, I might end up playing fast and loose with what counts as a "mythological being".

Oh boy, this is going to be long. 🤣

THH CAST

Makoto Naegi- Now, if I had to make him something, it would be a werewolf. We've discussed what a great werewolf he makes, lol. If I'm keeping to the thematic importance of him being "normal", though, I'd say he's a human with a familiar. And his familiar...Gosh, it's way too early to say "phoenix", but I'm just picturing him taking care of what he thinks is a normal bird, but then it turns out to be a phoenix. Kind of a "Hope keeps on going!" thing.

Kyoko Kirigiri- Kitsune? It feels pretty early to say that, too, but it was the first thing that came to mind. And I feel like it suits her.

Byakuya Togami- He's a vampire, because he's a billionaire.

Aoi Asahina- She deserves to either be a naiad or ride a hippocampus. Preferably the latter.

Yasuhiro Hagakure- Dryad. I just kind of like the idea of him being a tree. And his fire trauma would make sense. Imagine taking a long walk in the woods, you lean against a tree, and either Hiro steps out of the tree or his voice comes from it, like "Hey, while you're here, want me to tell you your future?" Or, "Hey, welcome! Leaning against the trunk? That's cool. I mean, there's a two thousand yen fee for leaning, but you can chill here as long as you want!"

Toko Fukawa- I'm picturing her with stitched-together skin covering a mass of insects, like Oogie Boogie. Or a gorgon.

Junko Enoshima- She gets a pet meenlock. I just read through the lore around those, and that just has her name on it, to me. Meenlocks attack people telephathically to corrupt all that's pure and good, and when their victims succumb they become meenlocks, too? There's something there, idk. I'm just imagining her singling out someone who she wants out of her way, opening her purse, and a meenlock scuttles out and starts stalking them.

Sayaka Maizono- I worry there's a kind of misogynistic connotation to saying she's a siren, but I also think it would be cool for her to have siren powers, and it makes sense for her. I like Siren Sayaka.

Mukuro Ikusaba- My first thought was just picturing her as that little nerd kid in Sky High who could turn into a rock monster. It can't be that. Maybe doppelganger. Like, instead of being Junko's twin, she's Junko's doppelganger.

Leon Kuwata- Vampire I guess?

Chihiro Fujisaki- Kinari. That's just Chihiro with wings. I like the idea of giving Chihiro wings. Maybe werebird instead. Somewhere in the ballpark of "Chihiro with wings".

Mondo Owada- Ngl, he's giving werewolf pack leader.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru- Werewolf without a pack. He's a werewolf who conforms to human society. Chains up on full moons; very traditional.

Hifumi Yamada- He'd be some kind of faerie or elf. Some creature with a lifestyle that allows him to just do his little things to the distant sounds of woodwind instruments.

Celestia Ludenberg- Should I give her vampire? Should I give it to her? Nahhh. Her cat is a werecat, though; that's a cool vibe for her.

Sakura Ogami- Can she just have a dragon? I want to give her a dragon. I want to respectfully and lovingly place a dragon egg in her hands, that she may raise it as her own.

SDR2 CAST

Hajime Hinata- Human who is turned into a vampire.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu- I'd be remiss if I didn't paste this line from Wikipedia: "Hitotsume-kozou – A Yōkai that takes on the appearance of a bald, one-eyed child." Now, that's not my answer, but it's interesting. Real answer is, he's a tiefling.

Sonia Nevermind- I have said, and maintain, that she would make a cool werewolf.

Kazuichi Soda- He's a high fantasy dwarf, in that he'd thrive forging stuff underground. Or he's part shark.

Akane Owari- This sounds bad, but I'm feeling gargoyle? Not in the "ugly" sense of the word; I just think she would enjoy perching on a high ledge and scaring away demons.

Ultimate Impostor- Shapeshifter of any kind.

Teruteru Hanamura- This is weird, but I just imagined him with a pet hydra, where, like...He can cut off its head and cook it, and the hydra keeps living, now with two heads in place of the one. And if you ever told him, "Stop using your pet for meat; that's way too many heads," he'd be like, "And speaking of head..." (Or "speaking of meat".) Another option is making him an incubus. I think a fitting answer is to say he has a kechibi, a ghostly fireball with a human face, since those are apparently told of in Kōchi Prefecture, which (based on his previous high school) might be where he's actually from. He would lie about that.

Mahiru Koizumi- I'm imagining she has a pet ghost dog. Like, the ghost of a dog. It shows up in some of her photos, but other than that it's invisible. Can bump into things and make noise, though.

Peko Pekoyama- ...Okay, so hear me out. Peko gives me big "secret mermaid" energy. Like, one of those movies where the main character is a teenager who discovers they're a mermaid. She was given up by her parents, right? Secretly, her parents were merfolk (or ningyo). And either her mermaid abilities start to become apparent as she grows up, or there's a Thing that happens that causes them to activate, like Fuyuhiko is drowning and she has to save him.

Hiyoko Saionji- I'm just imagining she has a bunch of haunted dolls. They move around and everything, when she's not looking. Alternately, kitsune.

Ibuki Mioda- Banshee! Easy. (dusts off hands) Very cool and on-brand for her.

Mikan Tsumiki- She's a lamia; she got a snake tail.

Nekomaru Nidai- He's a manticore or minotaur.

Gundham Tanaka- He takes care of werewolf Sonia when she's in wolf form, but he doesn't know it's her. Besides that, I can see him caring for all kinds of monsters, front-of-mind being a griffin. Imagine Gundham brushing a griffin. Riding a griffin. Trimming a griffin's claws. Roaring with a griffin.

Nagito Komaeda- Okay, he's a changeling. Or, more accurately, he's the inverse of a changeling. He's a human child who was replaced by some manner of fae folk, meaning his human parents raised a faerie in his place and he, in turn, was raised by faeries. He learned faerie ways without being subject to their actual qualities. Basically, he's a human and he talks and acts like a faerie (speaking in deceptive truths, very committed to obscure rules and principles, and possessing kind of an edge of whimsical cruelty) without actually having an inability to lie or an aversion to iron. (Alternatively he could be a puca, and actually that description matches him really well, but I don't wanna, lol.)

Chiaki Nanami- She's an enenra. They can only be seen by the pure of heart, which feels like it checks out. She's a ghostly apparition that appears out of bonfires, which feels fitting for her talent, in my opinion; video games, at their best, are a communal experience, much like bonfires. Bonfires were the video games of ancient times. (Yep, I'm making that a real opinion of mine. Why not?)

V3 CAST

Kaede Akamatsu- A dryad, partially because she has a tree name and partially because it was definitely going to be a kind of nature spirit and it was between a tree one and a star one. I went with tree.

Shuichi Saihara- Shuichi is Mothman. (turns off microphone)

Maki Harukawa- Tiefling? I'm gonna say she's a tiefling.

Himiko Yumeno- She has a jackalope. She pulls it out of a hat.

Tsumugi Shirogane- Giving her a phoenix would parallel how Danganronpa keeps coming back, but it doesn't match her vibe at all. I'm gonna say she has some little imps that she dresses up as meenlocks as a part of her Junko cosplay.

Kiibo- He doesn't get one unless you make me, lol. Nothing against him; he's just already a robot.

Rantaro Amami- He's a sleep paralysis demon, but he's very affable about it.

Ryoma Hoshi- He's also a sleep paralysis demon. He doesn't say much.

Kirumi Tojo- I see her as a high fantasy elf. Girlie was born to divine great insights from the wind through the trees and impart them cryptically to brash young heroes and be invited on adventures.

Angie Yonaga- Baku. I already made her a daughter of Morpheus in the PJO AU, so perhaps I'm having too much fun with this headcanon-y association of Angie with dreams, but I just like giving her a big creature that eats nightmares. Just to have. That, or she's a sylph. Or both. I would gladly give her both. She's a sylph with a baku. She lets it loose to keep her friends from having nightmares each night.

Tenko Chabashira- She's a valkyrie. She would absolutely thrive. And naturally, she's super biased.

Korekiyo Shinguji- My first thought is yokai, partially because he talked about the difference between ghosts and yokai in that one scene.

Miu Iruma- She has a bunch of little elves, but in the "Cobbler and the Elves" sense, not the Lord of the Rings sense. The closest single word for what I actually mean is "gremlins", since they, like the elves in that story, are directly associated with craftsmanship. She just has some handy little guys. Like, five or six of them, just crawling around fixing things or causing mischief or playing in her hair, depending on how she's feeling. If she's in a bad mood, they're breaking stuff; if she's in a good mood, they're fixing stuff.

Gonta Gokuhara- Pixies. I want him to have a bunch of little winged humanoid creatures flying around him or chilling on/in his insect carrier.

Kokichi Ouma- I almost want to say he's the faerie who was raised in Nagito's place. So, he can't lie, but he's really good at acting like he can. Oh man, I kind of want to make a whole AU on that idea alone; Nagito and Kokichi Changeling AU. Don't tempt me. Makoto is there as a normal human they're both in love with, Kokichi from being raised "human" alongside him, Nagito from meeting him later. No, I must stop. (Alternately, Kokichi is Celeste's werecat.)

Kaito Momota- Time Lord. He doesn't get to be a time lord, but I could see the Doctor (of Doctor Who fame) picking him up for a few trips. I find it deeply funny that I didn't put him in that AU to begin with.

[kandisheek]

FIC REC WEEK 52 – DAILY THEMES

WORKSKINS & FORMATTING

An Avengers Powerpoint Party by gogglor

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: T Words: 4,769 Tags: Avengers Tower, Humor, Team Bonding

Summary: The Avengers threw a Powerpoint Party. These are their slides.

Reasons why I love it: This is the best thing I've read in a long time, holy shit, it's so good! The whole fic is hilarious from start to finish and suits each character to a fucking T, but the last chapter with Steve's powerpoint really takes the cake, especially the beginning, oh my god, I was laughing so hard. Definitely check this one out, because it's my new favorite thing.

Sex v. Work Performance - A Self-Study by Tony Stark by FestiveFerret

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: M Words: 1,039 Tags: Spreadsheets as Foreplay, Crack, Tony Tracks Everything

Summary: Hmm... Looks like you've accidentally wandered into some of Tony's private files. Wonder what this one could be? Maybe you should give it a little click and find out...

Reasons why I love it: This is such a cool idea! I can practically hear Tony’s voice in my head with every line in the spreadsheet, it feels so TONY to want to gather data on anything and everything, even his sex life. Plus, the underlying romance is super sweet, and the ending made me laugh out loud. Definitely check this one out if you haven’t, and while you’re at it, also take a look at the other fics Ferret wrote for the Steve Tony Games, because they’re all amazing.

explosive by imaginestevetony

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: T Words: 0 (Images) Tags: Crashing Twitter, Daily Bugle, Social Media

Summary: One of the times that Tony and Steve broke Twitter.

Reasons why I love it: Steve and Tony absolutely WOULD crash the internet like this, and I am here for it. I love how the whole world is eating the information out of their palms to spread gossip, and Steve just drops the bomb of the century on them like it’s nothing. This fic is fantastic, and I really hope you go and check it out for yourself!

see it with the lights out by astrhae

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: G Words: 1,855 Tags: Established Relationship, Instagram, Married Life

Summary: Tony goes on a business trip, and he does not - not at all - get jealous of Dodger hogging his husband's chest, a territory otherwise known as Tony's pillow. (or, Steve goes on an Instagram spree and Tony misses home)

Reasons why I love it: I love all of the picture choices here, it really feels like a look into Steve and Tony's life. And the way Steve dispels Tony's jealousy and homesickness is so fricking sweet, it made my heart melt into a puddle of goo. Definitely check this one out, it's amazing!

Caught Up in Our Stories by gogglor

Pairing: Steve/Tony Rating: T Words: 41,203 (30-35k without formatting) Tags: Multiple Genres, Magic, Idiots in Love

Summary: “Tony, listen to me," said Steve. "This isn’t you. You’re not a PI, you’re a genius billionaire playboy philanthropist superhero. You and everyone else who lives in the tower have all been put under a spell, and you need to come with me to break it.” I suppose that’s what I get for saying I’ve heard it all before, thought Tony. -- Someone's cast a spell on Avengers Tower that has changed each floor into a different kind of story, and trapped the Avengers inside. Steve mounts a rescue mission, starting with Tony Stark, PI, a noir detective who's got a thing for blonde bombshells who bring trouble to his door.

Reasons why I love it: Okay, I am declaring this fic a must-read for everyone in this fandom right now, because this is the most creative thing I’ve ever seen on AO3. I’m serious, drop whatever you’re doing and go read this fic. I was dying laughing through most of it and just staring bug-eyed at all of the different types of formatting, like – god DAMN the amount of effort it must have taken to write this makes me literally speechless. Also, I will never get over the sentence, “Once upon a midday sucky, six great heroes were unlucky”, I probably laughed at that for ten minutes straight. Anyway, if you’re going to read just one of my recs, make it this one, because it’s just that fucking good.

[bimbo-writer]

《Kinktober Season》

I know I really suck at these every year but I'll get better I promise. :]

On the menu this year is...

Fresh out of college and in a new city where you didn't know the rules and who to avoid. Thankfully a kind stranger helped you when a guy at tried to steal your purse. However now he wants you to pay him back and in a really interesting way.

Bunny Suit: Pimp!Toji x innocent reader

Killing spree high: Ghostface!Choso x bimbo reader

A dumb college drop out living with your boyfriend that has a job but won't tell you what it is. You decide to have the bright idea of getting high with him before work. Problem is his work needs to be done sober, oh well.

Babys first spanking: CEO!Xiao x brat reader

Double the trouble Double the fun: Frat boy!SatoSugu x weird girl reader

Being the weird girl was cool bit it meant that getting laid was a little hard. Reading all those Tumblr stories and Ao3 fanfics wasn't helping your case. But it didn't matter you had yoir two friends Gojo and Geto by your side, unfortunately though thye found your fanfics. Now they wanna try ever position listed and there's a lot.

Being the girlfriend of a billionaire had kinda gone to your head. It wasn't your fault your loving boyfriend didn't do anything about your attitude problem. But today you went too far by almost costing him a important client.

Collar and Leash: Boss!Wrio x employee reader

You should have known better than to sign that paper, now this was your life. Stuck being the trophy wife of your worst enemy, and to make it worse you're actually falling for him.

1-800-hot-n-fun: Multi x Call girl!reader

Aww baby your white as a ghost: Playboy! Kaeya x nerd reader.

Getting invited to a Halloween party when you barely even know anyone was weird. But what was even weirder was some how playing spin the bottle and it landing on the schools play boy. The weirdness didn't end there though at the end of the party you found small little ghosts on his pants and now on your face?

After working a dead end job you decided that you would become a phone girl. Thinking that nothing could be worse, but oh boy the phone calls you had some how led to a gangbang with too many attractive men.

[godinvent]

TW // blood and talks about murder and stuff

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I CANNOT STAND THESE EDGY ASS “oh but what if Batman and Joker were fused” VILLAINS WHO DON’T EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO FUSE THE TWO

They just give these villains all of Joker’s traits and none of Batman’s traits besides being rich and having martial arts skills. Which is basically just traits Joker technically has already. All they do is make these villains focus on killing and doing over the top edgy things with no actual meaning behind it. All they focus on is “omg he would be so good at killing people” which…yeah BATMAN would be good at that. Mixing him with Joker wouldn’t add anything besides making him crazy, he wouldn’t be some insanely unstoppable force that not even the Justice League could handle. Yet they expect me to believe The Batman Who Laughs could stop ALL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE EASILY??

As for Nemesis himself the only actual unique things about him are his suit which I admit looks cool (same for The Batman Who Laughs) and his extremely cruel acts. His entire motive is just being rich and bored which could be a potential great commentary on the selfishness of the billionaire class but they do literally nothing with it. There’s no subtlety, he literally just tells you his motives like he’s reading out his character description.

An ACTUAL mix of Batman and Joker, or Batman as a villain, should be a powerful and terrifying figure using his power to control Gotham with fear under an iron fist. He should be a man who behind a calculating and cold facade is a deeply cruel person. Maybe actually use Batman’s no killing rule to instead make him break people in more subtle ways like Joker does

Making a fusion of the two into criminals like this doesn’t give them any aura at all. They might as well just be everyday crooks!

[johnny-cornd0g]

Personal Canonical Batman/Fam Timline (Part One)

Bruce Wayne has a lot of kids and a lot of character development. This post is gonna be my personal ideas about the timeline of him, his kids, and his villains. It'll start from when his parents get killed to the time Damien becomes Robin. This timeline is the first I am making on here and is therefore incredibly subject to change.

Pre- Dick Grayson Era

Bruce Wayne's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne, are murdered in Crime Alley. Something about Martha's pearl necklace.

Bruce is unofficially adopted by Alfred, the Wayne family butler, who used to be a British spy. I think Alfred is a pretty good dad, but Bruce is Bruce and will still end up messed up.

He is also 10 years old at this time. This will be a reoccurring theme. Keep it in mind.

As he grows up, he starts studying to fight crime. All the lessons. Maybe he meets Ted Grant, known as Wildcat, to learn fighting.

During all this, I think Lucius Fox is running Wayne Enterprises while Bruce is off doing sad orphan stuff.

Bruce falls into a cave beneath Wayne Manor. It's filled with bats. It scares him, but then he figures out "Hey I can maybe capitalize off of this".

So he becomes Batman. I don't have anything too specific to say. He's just Batman for a bit. Pretty flawed, but he gets the hang of it.

Bruce also has already come up with his morals at this point. No guns and no killing. Specifically no killing.

Alfred gets to keep his guns, though. It's Alfred. This isn't really important, but I'd still like to emphasize it.

Bruce also takes over Wayne Enterprises as the hot orphan bachelor billionaire playboy of Gotham.

Era Villain Roster

Joker: he's there from the beginning. I kinda like the idea that he was the first Red Hood, but he got shoved into chemicals by Batman and became the Joker.

Catwoman: I think she fits in this era. No other opinions about it. Maybe start her and Batman's romance in the earlier years.

Bane: I think he'd show up a bit before Dick enters the picture. You'll see why in a second.

Poison Ivy: Same with Catwoman, I think. But also, I like the idea of Bane and Poison Ivy teaming up, due to watching that Batman and Robin movie when I was younger. It stuck with me.

Two-Face: Oooorugghh Bruce's old lawyer buddy is like half insane and angry. Good for him. He'll go here for now.

Riddler: Same reasons for Catwoman. He's just here.

Scarecrow: I'd like it if he got progressively spookier as the story grew. Like- he's giving people panic attacks and spooky hallucinations NOW, but some years later, he's giving people psychological breakdowns.

Penguin: Same reasons for Catwoman and Riddler.

Dick Grayson Era

Carnival comes to town in Gotham. The Flying Graysons are a hoot, but the Mafia (???) doesn't think so.

The trapeze equipment is sabotaged, and Dick's parents fall to their deaths. Dick is 10 years old at this time.

Bruce happened to be watching this whole ordeal and sees himself in this newly made orphan. So he adopts him, naturally.

Dick finds out Bruce is Batman somehow, and Batman brings someone from the Mafia (??) who killed his parents to the Bat Cave. Dick has a choice: kill this guy or choose mercy.

Dick chooses mercy, and Bruce tells him, "Cool, you can be my sidekick now"

I like this one story of how Dick got the Robin name. He makes the classic Robin suit, but with a hood. He wants to call himself Robin Hood.

Bruce pulls the hood over Dicks face, because that is gonna be the easiest way to take him down. "Lose the hood, you're Robin."

So it's Batman and Robin for a good bit. Until Barbara Gordon is going around as her own vigilante, known as Batgirl.

Bruce is like, "Sure, why not?" and it's a team of three now.

At some point, during a big fight, Bane breaks Batman's back. Super humbling experience overall. Robin and Batgirl take care of Gotham while he recuperates.

I think this would also be the era when Bruce meets Superman and Wonderwoman. The inkling of the idea of the Justice League appears.

I don't really know why Dick stops being Robin and becomes Nightwing. Either he decides he's outgrown the title or Batman, or he's sick of Bruce giving criminals brain trauma.

But Dick becomes Nightwing at around 17 years. I think during this time, he makes and runs the first iteration of the Teen Titans. He moves into Blüdhaven and is the main vigilante there.

I like the idea that he got the name Nightwing from hanging out with Superman. Nightwing was apparently a super cool vigilante back in Krypton, and Dick got inspired.

Barbara stays back in Gotham to keep being Batgirl.

Era Villain Roster (adding onto previous)

Killer Croc: I don't really know where to put this guy. He doesn't have a lot of extreme plot relevance. He can go here.

Harley Quinn: I'm putting her here before Jason shows up. I'll explain why-ish in the Jason Todd Era.

Clay Face: Same thing as Killer Croc. He can go here.

Thanks for reading, if you've read this far! I've been wanting to write this down for a good while, and it feels good to have it all down.

Sorry if I sidelined your favorite Batman villain. I swear, most of these characters are going to get at least one post about them, especially if I receive more info on them. I have thoughts about all of them, I promise you.

This is all my opinion, a mix of what I have read or watched or heard about the characters so far. I am extremely open to new ideas, opinions, and thoughts. Everything I write in this blog is subject to change.

The next batch of Batman Eras will come out soon. Thanks for reading!

[eugenedebs1920]

In their last term, The Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS), mainly the men, but occasionally Barrett showed the American people how little we are worth to them. They made it blatantly obvious that we are nothing more than serfs, subjugated, whose purpose is to pay taxes and STFU.

This was also made apparent with the reversal of Roe. The 2023-24 term had its share of long term dire consequences yet to be felt. The overturning of the Chevron doctrine was a devastating blow to the middle class/working poor. Its reversal will, at one time or another, affect the lives of 98% of Americans (the middle class, upper middle and working poor).

The right wing apparatus will tell you that regulations, protections, and limitations prohibit productivity which leads to less profits and in turn, a cooling of economic prosperity. What they aren’t divulging is the massive amounts of wealth they have amassed over the past 4 decades.

As far back as the Nixon administration, one could go back as far as the New Deal but, it’s a post, not a novel, certain restrictions, limitations, protective measures, and practices have been imposed on major corporations and industries. These regulations range from environmental protection, labor practices, safety standards, hazardous substances, banking practices, equal pay, the list goes on.

These regulatory agencies specialize in the field in which suits their skill set. Some call it the bureaucratic state. These non partisan civil servants work throughout changing administrations in their various fields without being inhibited by the views held by the party in power.

What the overturning of Chevron did is lessen the power that these agencies have. Putting the rules and regulations they enforced in peril. Now regulations created to protect the health and safety of Americans and the environment we live in, as well as the financial institutions and practices in which they can engage in, are put in peril.

The effects of this won’t be immediately noticeable. We are the frog in a warm pot of water, slowly being boiled to death. What does this have to do with Helene and future natural disasters one may ask?

Some of those regulatory agencies impacted by this reversal are, the EPA, FEMA, NOAA, the Department of Labor, OSHA, The FCC, the SEC, and so many more. Pretty much any agency that limits the exploitation these massive conglomerates and giant corporations can impose on Americans and the world they reside in.

We live in a time where the Supreme Court is rogue. With an extreme right wing MAGA majority, dead set on revoking rights as opposed to instilling them. A Supreme Court who, when scandals arose of lavish gifts coming from billionaire benefactors, rather than enforce a code of ethics they simply legalized bribery (Snyder vs the United States). A Supreme Court, so lawless and void of standards, that justices refuse to recuse themselves from constitutional crises cases, where they flew flags in support of the defendant, where the wife of another was in direct contact with the cheif of staff of a man who, while watching from the dining room of the White House, while a mob, led by his incendiary rhetoric ramshacked our capital. All the while chants of “hang Mike Pence, Hang Mike Pence” rang through the the halls of that hallowed ground. When told the mob wanted to hurt the Vice President, the defendant said, “So what”.

I’ve had tacos more supreme than this court! This November 5th, it is not a choice between a vile demented old man and a lifetime protector and prosecutor for the people, it is the direction, the safety, the environment, the lending practices, the food we eat, the wages we make, the lives our children will have that is the choice because. If Trump is elected, Alito as well as Thomas WILL retire, giving the mandarin Mussolini FIVE SCOTUS appointments. This will dictate the next 30 plus years of our lives. So please! Get out and vote! Vote the Harris Walz ticket and blue down ballot. The freedoms of women, LGBTQ rights, labor rights, environmental protections, food and drug safety, fair banking/lending practices, our federal lands, clean water, green energy for the future, so much hangs in the balance and the effects will be felt for a majority of the rest of our lives. We are one nation, indivisible, we stand for liberty and justice for all! ☮️🇺🇸

[redfurrycat]

🤠🪅👨🐓Sugar Daddy Fic Recs🐓👨🪅🤠

Check the Top Gun Masterlist post for the latest updated version. 💕

Ao3 Authors: Chase_acow, Ginnydear, Hangmanbradshaw, LulaluzHazel, Mackwinnon, Renai_chan, Thegeckbros.

I'm a babygirl in a daddy's world > Daddy Klnk

leave me with some kind of proof it's not a dream by ginnydear {E}

“Getting old,” she replies, humming again. “I guess that means you’re entering a new era of hook-ups though.” “What on earth are you talking about?” Bradley asks, turning down the television. “Come on Bradley, you know you’re gonna find some hot twenty-something who wants you to fu-” “Okay!” Bradley says, laughing a bit as Natasha sputters and laughs too. “I get it. You don’t have to continue.” “Don’t be such a prude,” Natasha says primly. “I was going to say ‘fund their grad school dreams’ before you so rudely cut me off.”

The Only Exception by mackwinnon {E}

Organized crime AU. Escort Jake meets Bradley in a club while he's with another client. Bradley's instantly intrigued and makes Jake an offer he can't refuse. It's just business. Until it isn't.

nothing’s good until it hurts by thegeckbros {E}  

there's money for the taking (and the happiness we all deserve)

“So, what, one of the richest dudes in New York wants to be your sugar daddy?” “Kinda?” Jake sits back up, straightening up and turning his body towards Javy. “He doesn’t want like sex or anything. He just needs someone to pretend to date so his uncle and PR team get off his back about his reputation.” Or a sugar daddy au in which jake is a struggling law student, bradley's a billionaire, and they weave a tangled web

you do it all your life and you never get through it

The silver lining, if there is one to be had, about watching his dad die in front of him is that the worst thing to ever happen to Bradley is over before his life has really begun. Every shitty breakup or spectacular fuckup, every broken bone or missed flight. None of it will ever come close to even touching the worst day of Bradley’s life. And then, 15 years after the worst thing that’s ever happened to him, it all happens again. Or scenes from bradley's life, before and after jake

We're Crashing Like Waves by Renai_chan {M}

Jake is a movie star looking to get some surfing lessons and Bradley is a surfer living a quiet life in Hawaii. Like the land and the sea, they come together on the edges of O‘ahu.

Sugar Daddy Bradshaw by chase_acow {E}

Cutting to the Chase

“I’ll agree to pay for one semester if you make me look good and let me touch your ass. I suppose I’ll have to live with the disappointment of no blowjob,” Bradshaw sighed, his shoulders slumping as he adopted a hangdog expression, for exactly five seconds before he grinned again. “But think about it. I can’t be your sugar daddy if you don’t give me the sugar.” “You’d be interested in something long term?” Jake asked doubtfully, wondering if he’d somehow been involved in a terrible accident and this was all a hallucination from his desperate brain low on oxygen. “Based on what I’ve seen so far, you might be sweet enough to pay through to your doctorate,” Bradshaw said with a shrug of his shoulders as if he didn’t care one way or another about throwing a hundred thousand dollars at someone he just met.

Party Favor

Bradley needed him to go to New York on a business trip, but first Jake had to have a suit that wouldn’t make the people they were meeting laugh. So Jake spent a very uncomfortable afternoon at the tailor playing a life-sized Ken doll while Bradley and the old man with too many straight pins talked about him like he wasn’t there. The suits he ended up with each cost more than his car. The bruises he ended up with when Bradley pulled him into the changing room and lifted him up to wrap his legs around his waist had faded by the time Jake got on the private plane for the trip. Earning his membership to the mile high club was kinda cool, too.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Bradley had some work to finish, but he joined Jake in time to start the football game. As the Longhorns ran out on the field, Jake found himself sitting pretty in Bradley’s lap. His skin felt a hundred times more sensitive after staying naked and having Bradley prime him for so long. The mustache at the nape of his neck made him shiver. “Do you think you can come once for each quarter?” Bradley asked, hands on Jake’s knees to situate them to his liking. He licked his palm and then took Jake in hand, “I think you can do it.” * “Your team’s winning, baby. What do you have to cry about?” Bradley teased after they’d watched more of the game. One hand pet across Jake’s belly while the other twisted Jake’s head around so he could lick at Jake’s tears. “Is it too much?”

Know Better

“You can come, but I am not fucking you in my mom’s home,” Jake said, leaning into his stern voice. He’d learned enough about how to wrangle the older man in the last couple of months to know he had to start out solid and then stick to his guns. “And we don’t have time to fool around now. So repack, and you’d better pick at least one shirt that isn’t going to blind everyone with the print.” Bradley smirked, and Jake should have known better.

that little farm where every wish comes true by hangmanbradshaw {E}

Jake's only wish that holiday season was simple- to keep his family christmas tree farm. He never expected that wish would be granted via a man with deep pockets, an amused smile, and commitment issues a mile wide. He never expected to like him. He definitely never expected to love him. Hell, he never expected Bradley Bradshaw. Or Hallmark Christmas Movie but make it sugar (daddy) and spice and everything nice.

Serendipity by LulaluzHazel {E}

During his second year at university, Bradley found himself with no room or a place to live. Venting to his co-worker, a handsome customer overheard his problems and offered him a sweet deal: to stay at his flat in exchange for looking out for his cat. But why did his new landlord have to be a naval aviator of all things? Couldn't he just be a regular rich kid?

[disillusioneddanny]

There’s a Fine Line

Danny stared at his shoes, eyes unseeing as the adults bustled around him. They were just messing around. Just taking pictures in the lab. None of this was supposed to happen this way.

The adults whispered to one another, a miracle they said. Standing in the portal had somehow been the only thing that had saved him.

But it hadn’t. It definitely hadn’t saved him, that was for sure.

Just five hours before everything had been normal.

“Come on Danny, just step inside so I can take a picture!” Sam had insisted, holding her phone ready to take a picture of her friend.

“Yeah man, it just looks so cool, don’t you think it’d make a pretty cool picture?” Tucker said with a smile. Danny just gave them a nervous smile and shrugged the jumpsuit on. His parents were upstairs cooking dinner, Jazz was in her room in her bedroom doing homework. No one would notice if he just stepped in for just a second.

Once he had gotten the suit zipped up, Danny walked towards the portal and took a step in only for his foot to get caught on a cord on the ground. He felt his body propel forward and caught himself on the wall, his hand slammed into a button.

After that, it was just pain.

When he woke up, the house was gone, fire blazed around him, sirens rang through the air but there was no house. Just him and the portal. He slowly sat up and rubbed his eyes, trying to wake up from this nightmare. But the house was still burning and-and that was Sam’s boot on the ground but where was Sam? Where was Tucker? Or Jazz, or his mom or his dad?

“We found the youngest Fenton! He’s alive!” A fireman shouted, running towards Danny.

It had been some kind of nuclear explosion, they said. Something in the lab had exploded just as Danny had turned the portal on.

Now he was sitting in the Amity Park police department as the officers tried to figure out what they were going to do with the fourteen year old. Apparently someone that had been scheduled to meet with his parents about buying some of their weapons was coming to talk to him.

Danny wasn’t sure what exactly was going on but he didn’t really care. Everything in him was demanding that he run away, fast away and disappear forever.

His Aunt Alicia refused to foster him after learning he had come out as trans, no one could get a hold of his mysterious god father that he’d never met, he was basically completely and totally alone.

Everyone he knew and loved were gone and it was his fault. He should have never gone in the portal.

Bruce Wayne hadn’t expected this to happen when he came to Amity Park. The twenty-six year old had originally come to this sleepy town to talk to the Drs. Fenton about their inventions and studies. If there was any credence to their work, he was interested in purchasing at least a few of their weapons, just on the off chance that ghosts ever attacked Gotham. He had not expected to see a large mushroom shaped explosion from across town at the very place he was supposed to go to in just twenty four hours.

Then he had learned that the only survivor in the house had been the Fenton’s youngest child, Danielle Fenton. Something in him had screamed that he needed to go and meet the young girl to see if she was okay, to provide some kind of comfort. He knew what it was like to lose your parents at a young age, he had been even younger than the young girl when he had lost his own parents.

He raced to the police department, already prepared to take the girl in. Only, when he had gotten there, he just seen a teenage boy sitting with a shock blanket wrapped around his shoulders.

“Ah Mr. Wayne!” An officer said upon seeing the billionair. “My name is Officer Haddis, we spoke on the phone. It’s so kind of you to offer your home to Ms. Fenton here-”

“Mister,” Danielle said, glaring at the officer. “I’ve already told you, I go by Daniel. My parents just never got to change my information,” Daniel snapped, glaring at the officer. They looked at Bruce with a scrutinizing look, their brows furrowed. “Who’re you?”

Bruce smiled and crouched down to the teenager’s level where they sat in the creaky, plastic chair and held out his hand. “My name is Bruce Wayne, I use he/him pronouns. I was supposed to meet with your parents tomorrow about their inventions. I’m so sorry for what happened,” he said quietly, his chest aching at the dullness in Daniel’s eyes. “I lost my parents when I was really young too. I was thinking, maybe you could come stay with me?”

Daniel stared at him for a moment before they took his hand. “Danny, he/him. It’s better than getting thrown in fostercare, I guess,” he mumbled, shaking Bruce’s hand. “If you misgender me, though, I’m kicking your ass.”

The vigilante just chuckled and shook his head. “I wouldn’t dare to do something like that. Now, how about we get some paperwork finished and we can go back to my apartment and start figuring out what we’re going to do from here.”

The rest of this fic will be posted here if you want to read more

[sciderman]

I've tried reading sm/dp but I never got that far bc of CEO Peter Parker. Something about infamously poor, student dept ridden Peter Parker being the CEO of a large tech company just doesn't sit right with me

i think you're so valid to say that, because i hated it too - but the thing i hate about it the most isn't that it's a bad concept but because it's kind of totally entirely wasted.

i think giving peter "with great power comes great responsibility" all the power and responsibility of a billionaire CEO and seeing just how well he handles could've been SO fucking interesting if he wasn't, like, just being a child and making spider-mobiles and fancy new suits and being tony stark-lite again. i don't know why they keep turning peter into tony stark. peter is not tony stark. peter is like, the opposite of tony stark. why do they keep doing that.

wealth and fame, he's ignored (that's literally in his theme song) - peter parker is kind of never, ever angling for wealth or fame, at least not anymore. he did as a teenager. but as an adult he's kind of been humbled, and maybe a little apathetic. so i think it could be interesting to see a peter parker who's suddenly wealthy and famous.

i thought about how - if i wrote it, probably peter parker probably would panic and resign, he probably wouldn't want to have power over all that money because he wouldn't know how to use it responsibly, he'd be having a crisis every day from external pressure from stockholders and hey, because i'm a marxy babe, i think peter parker would probably realise that there is no way for anyone with that degree of power and wealth to be completely altruistic.

peter parker would realise that. peter parker would realise that spending his money on spider-mobiles and stupid gadgets and... what. being deadpool's sugar daddy?? buying him custom cars??

shut the fuck up peter. shuuuuuuut the fuck up. who the fuck are you.

peter parker would realise this is not using his power responsibly.

or, who knows, maybe CEO peter parker will regress back into the bratty kid he was in his ditko era.

maybe ceo peter parker returns to the self-absorbed little fucking gremlin he was before ben's death. the kid who only cared about wealth and fame.

and, i guess bratty, irresponsible CEO peter parker would need to be similarly humbled, like bratty teenage peter parker.

peter parker kind of has to learn a lesson, when it comes to wealth and fame. he's punished for having it, kind of. it always comes with a lesson, for him. and it could've been really good. really good, to see the "great power great responsibility" lesson reinterpreted at THIS scale, and it could've been a really. really pointed examination of the power disparity in this unjust world that's run by billionaires.

but you know what else is run by billionaires?

disney. and marvel.

so, you know, like, they can't do that. they can't be critical of billionaires or wealth disparity or capitalism or anything in any real meaningful way. being a billionaire has to be silly fun tony stark shenanigans with gadgets and cars and everyone can be batman and the nerd boys can live vicariously through peter and all his cool cars and gadgets and new suits. power fantasy.

most superheros have to be a power fantasy. it's what the boys want to see - but it's such a misunderstanding of peter parker. peter parker is the antithesis of the power fantasy. he embodies the cost of power. the whole point is that he doesn't want the power, actually, because it always comes at a cost to him. so to turn CEO peter parker into some stupid power fantasy is such a fundamental misunderstanding of peter parker and such a waste of a really really ripe concept.

spider-man and deadpool dipped it's toes into it, that there's evil under peter parker's nose coming from parker industries but it doesn't culminate into any meaningful lesson for peter, really, and he's absolved of all responsibility. literally to the point where they say his soul is SOOO pure.

okay. yeah. if he's so fucking pure and he is a billionaire also then why doesn't he like, pay my student debt then huh. that would be nice of him. come pay my student debt, peter parker.

[hrodvitnon]

Oh ok you’ve seen it cool.

We need to talk about this then. Obligatory spoiler warning.

(Ignore the dubious quality I took this on a phone )

Ok- like- what do you even do in this situation if you’re Kong? That thing needs four Titan-sized chain leashes to keep it down, charges up like Godzilla, and is half its size by virtue of being on four legs. It’s already double his size if proportions are accurate.

Insane. Titan among titans. Can’t wait to see her try to murder him ❤️

SCYLLA. SPIDER.

In Rome clearly, you can see statues. Wonder why they’re fighting? Scylla must’ve gotten peeved at something and Goji’s stopping her from stomping on his favorite sleepy place (the literal colosseum).

SHIMO FUCKEN BIIIIIIIG!

Regarding Scylla, there's actually a prequel comic – Godzilla X Kong: The Hunted – setting up the Goji-Scylla brawl, and I'll put details (or as many details I can recall) under the cut in case you want to track it down. If not, read away!

So the antagonist of The Hunted is this billionaire tech bro with a cybernetic arm who kidnaps superfauna from the Hollow Earth and uses them to test his Mecha up on the Topside. As for how he gets away with this with a Monarch outpost set up in the Hollow Earth, maybe he's got signal blocker tech, or his cyber arm can cause SIGNALIS-style feedback loops or something, who knows. What a cartoon character this guy is, dude decorates his island mansion with Titan statues, or stuffed displays or something. This dude's building himself up to bigger and stronger fights so he can one day fight Godzilla, because it turns out that oh no! He lost his family and also his arm in the events of 2014! I think his family was in Las Vegas at the time, which makes it darkly funny, because Tech Bro is on a revenge kick and Femuto was literally just going for an after lunch walk.

Godzilla knows some shit is happening, so Tech Bro throws the Big G off his trail by futzing with some signals which, if I recall correctly, ends up causing Scylla to go on a Nuclear Power Plant Feeding Frenzy. Bernie's keeping tabs on the situation and provides commentary/narration. One power plant goes full Elephant's Foot by the time she's done. Goji's chasing after her but can't catch up to make her cut the shit out... until Rome, which is where we get Godzilla vs Scylla. Also, JAYSUS WEPT, but did they amp up the spidery aesthetic for Scylla?! She's activating my arachnophobia, damn!

But what happens to Tech Bro? Lemme tell ya: Tech Bro suits up in his We Have Pacific Rim At Home-ass Mecha and goes fucking around in the Hollow Earth. One of the new critters introduced is this thorny tailed puma cat thing, and Tech Bro spots two cubs playing. Like a scumbag, he goes to kill them. Mama Thorn Cat intervenes to protect her babies but is killed, and Tech Bro (having gleefully become the same sadistic family-destroying monster he views the Titans as) chases down the cubs to brutally kill them...

But Kong shows up to save the day! Tech Bro puts up a fight and he's yammering all about how Kong's just a big dumb monkey and has nothing to him but his size (dude must have slept on the Hong Kong Fight, because only a Hubristic Dumbass would underestimate Kong), and that "I, as a cool big dick human man with money and a TRAGIC BACKSTORY am the REAL HUNTER AND NOT YOU" and long story short Kong drops his Mecha down a cliff and bricks it. Tech Bro escapes his busted ass mecha whining about the cost of his Mecha, and ends up killed by the same cubs he tried to kill. Circle of Life, you love to see it.

[goldenavenger02]

those eyes add insult to injury

But, as Peter was swinging back to the cabin, wincing at the sharp bite in his left shoulder that flared every time he extended the limb, he had a feeling that Tony wouldn't be happy with the current situation he had gotten himself into.

In hindsight, Peter should have listened to Tony when he told him to cool it with Spider-Man for the week; after all, his mentor kinda lived in the middle of nowhere, so not only would he have to change at Midtown, but he'd also have to swing back to the cabin that was in the middle of the woods.

An isolated cabin was great for a retired superhero raising his daughter; not so much for the teenage superhero who tended to stick around the place when May's work schedule grew hectic.

Which it had, given that there was still fallout from The Blip that they were feeling even now in terms of people losing their homes, so FEAST had once again grown hectic with hundreds of people flocking to get a hot meal and a place to sleep which meant that Peter had once again been sent to stay with Tony, Pepper and Morgan.

That wasn't as bad as it was in the beginning; he had been sent there for the first time just three weeks after Tony had woken up from his coma and he had practically been a shell of the mentor he had grown to know in the two years after he had first been recruited by the billionaire.

At least now, Tony was back to his old self aside from the fact that he actually went to bed at an hour that ended in P.M and lack of a right arm. All in all, it could have been way worse for everyone involved.

But, as Peter was swinging back to the cabin, wincing at the sharp bite in his left shoulder that flared every time he extended the limb, he had a feeling that Tony wouldn't be happy with the current situation he had gotten himself into.

After all, it involved a guy dressed up in a scorpion suit, at least a hundred thousand dollars in property damage, blood slowly dripping down into his left eye from a cut on his forehead and the more then likely dislocated shoulder he was swinging back to the cabin with.

He didn't know if it was a good or bad thing that his A.I, Karen, was still being repaired which meant that she couldn't report back to FRIDAY and subsequently, Tony; but given that he had been asked to give it a rest for a week and the stabbing pain in his shoulder that was growing worse and worse, he was leaning toward bad.

Regardless, he still managed to carefully and quietly ease himself through the unlocked window of the guest room while biting back the deep ache in his shoulder.

Peter removed the mask first, allowing him to start rummaging through his things in order to find some gauze to the sluggish flow of blood dripping from his eye; the slight blur of red wasn't helping to quell the slow building panic starting to arise.

'Focus, Peter' he told himself as he pulled open a drawer and grabbed the medical kit that he stored next to his socks, flipping the clasp open before grabbing the gauze and tape, 'you have to heal up before Mr. Stark realizes.'

It wasn't like he would do anything as drastic as taking the suit, Peter was fully aware of how much he regretted making that decision; but he was also fully aware of the fact that he was a parent with nearly six years of experience and had his aunt who always counteracted his explanation of people getting hurt with "and now who's the hurt one?" on speed dial.

It hadn't been easier when no one knew but now it had a different set of challenges that were harder to get around than feigning an attack from a bully at school.

He fastened the gauze on his forehead with a strip of tape just as a set of knocks on his bedroom door set a shiver of shock up his spine.

"Peter?"

"Just a sec, Morg!" He called out, trying to make his voice as cheery as possible while knowing that until he got his throbbing shoulder back into his socket before it healed, he was not leaving the room.

"Dad said that if you want any dinner, you need to hurry."

"Okay, okay, I'm on my way." He let out a second white lie as he grabbed his bicep, forcing himself to take a long, deep breath at the first click from maneuvering his arm back where it belonged.

"But he also ordered a lot of barbecue, so I don't think you need to wor-"

"Morgan! Just go already!" He snapped as tears built up in his eyes with every single snap of protest coming from the partially healed joint, his mouth growing acidic as he gritted his teeth.

But when he heard her run down the stairs, no doubt with the same amount of water coating her eyes, he let go of his shoulder and sunk to the floor; even if he hadn't become quickly overwhelmed with rushing guilt, he desperately needed some pain killers to finish relocating his shoulder.

And like clockwork, the stairwell was only quiet for a couple of heartbeats until a much stronger, calmer set made their way to his closed bedroom door followed by a knock.

"Alright, Pete, I know you probably have some sort of teen angst going on, but yelling at Morgan over Mongolian barbecue is a bit dramatic-" he cut himself off behind the wooden door for a few more heartbeats before, "okay, I'm coming in."

Peter couldn't even bring himself to care about Mr. Stark finding out when the door opened carefully, but instead of the expected lecture or panic, all he got was a sigh as the older man knelt down next to him on the floor with a couple of soft clicking in his joints before he finally spoke again, "yeah, this is on par with what I was expecting."

And yet it was those soft words, as the small kit was taken out of his palms and he felt the all too familiar sting of antiseptic above his eyebrow, that hurt Peter the most.

"I didn't mean to get hurt." His protest was weak against the choked out sob while his childhood hero gently prodded at his throbbing shoulder.

"You never mean to get hurt, Pete."

His head dropped in silence as he gripped onto the metal bed frame, squeezing his eyes shut as his shoulder was expertly but painfully relocated into its socket, the spike of pain making it impossible for him to shout.

"We're gonna need to get some ice on that," he muttered as he stood with his hands on his knees, "you got a sling in here?"

Peter managed a nod despite the ricochet of pain in his shoulder.

"Get changed and put it on, I'll bring the ice and some dinner up for you."

Even though dinner also meant painkillers, Peter couldn't bring himself to get excited as he changed into a pair of pajamas and slid the sling over his neck so he could gently maneuver his aching arm into it.

Because no matter how much he tried to twist or justify it, everything came out to one answer that killed any thought of moving on in his mind.

He had broken Mr. Stark's trust in him.

[silent-partner-412]

so, i just played through chapter 1 of project eden's garden again with a friend of mine, and of course we had a great fucking time, and it had us thinking about what would be a compelling future for this game. so i decided to outline a basic idea of what i think could be an interesting set of cases for the rest of the game, and what i think that would look like story-wise. naturally, we have no idea what plans they have for the characters that remain, and how they will develop, so i could be completely off base here. but i think we have enough info about them all that i could see all of this working somewhat well and being interesting. spoilers for chapter 1, of course.

ok, to start, chapter 2. i think this one doesn't need a whole lot of explanation motive wise; my biggest worry if anything would be that the communist killing the billionaire would be too predictable. but so far, we haven't seen a ton of outward animosity from cassidy towards wenona, and i think having cassidy be a killer and wenona be a victim would be interesting as their personalities would suggest the opposite based on danganronpa history. also, i hate to say it, but i think cassidy sort of needs to die early. she's got a pretty loud and sometimes abrasive personality and i think it would be ill-suited for the later chapters tonally. but also, what the fuck do i know?

chapter 3 is hard because i think this of all chapters will be crucial for this game's reputation, and yet, the two characters i put in here were both basically the remaining ones after i figured out the rest of the chapters. simply put, i think eloise would be a super boring victim because she just SCREAMS victim energy to me, and i also just don't really see ulysses making it super far. i also think ulysses' notebook has more potential to be interesting if he is the victim compared to the killer, but maybe i'm not thinking deeply enough about it.

so my friend actually was the one who gave me the idea for chapter 4 here. the idea is that, by this point in the story, stakes are high enough and the atmosphere is bleak enough that ingrid is willing to make a sacrificial play to get toshiko out alive. it would require some specific, extremely thoughtful writing to make this work, especially regarding the rules of a double murder where there are not only two victims but also two killers. but, i think if done well, this could be really fucking incredible. it would follow the chapter 4 trope of a muscular character dying, but i think that would be worth it. as for mark and jett being the victims, my main idea was that if the two killers here are seen as a "pair", it would be fitting for the victims to be as well. this is also about as far as i'd personally be willing to let jett live, since i think he sort of has to die before the late game similar to cassidy. i also think it would be good to bring whatever's going on between jett and mark to a head by this point, making it potentially relevant to the case. i don't know, either way my friend cooked with this idea and if it becomes reality i will probably lose my shit.

chapter 5 is also hard because so much of what makes these chapters good story-wise depends on which characters are given a lot of attention by the narrative, and by this point, i simply have no idea which characters that will apply to. but i think desmond and diana, as far as we know them now, would fit the bill as shocking and heartbreaking late game deaths. i'm not entirely sure how it would play out story-wise, but i could see diana being something of a parallel to wolfgang by this point in the story, being a uniting force of some kind whose death shakes people, with desmond being the cool and collected killer who maybe doesn't want to kill, but is forced to for some reason. i also think it could be a chance to subvert expectations by making desmond's method of killing have nothing to do with his talent, perhaps via something like poisoning or burning. once again, i think this will all depend on what the writers do with the plot and characters, but right now, i could see this being good.

our final idea was that instead of having chapter 6 be the "here's all the plot" chapter, which has never been particularly exciting to me, it's the final murder that decides which two characters get to leave. i think it would be hard to write this, but we had the idea that damon is the killer, and instead of it being a bait and switch like with kaede in v3, you're trying to convince the others with evidence that you are not the killer. i think this could be interesting in a couple ways: either you fail, and our last two survivors are jean and grace, or you succeed, and damon is the sole survivor of the game. as for why kai would be the victim, i think it would be fitting and heartbreaking based on the way they're setting up damon and kai's relationship early on. assuming that gets developed, i could only imagine how awful it would be for damon to choose kai as his victim at that point in the story. like chapter 4, i think this concept would be super tough to get right, especially since at this point, there would only be three people in the trial. but it sure would be exciting!

as for the survivors... well, of course, i could see chapter 6 killing both of them off, but if they survive, i think it would be existentially horrifying for jean to be one of the people to make it out alive. my friend offered the idea of "what if the captain didn't go down with the ship", which i personally thought was brilliant. he's also just smart and level headed; i think it's not hard to envision a guy like him making it to the end. as for grace, i could see her being like fuyuhiko, where she's absolutely awful and insufferable early on, but the events of the game soften her a bit and make her a lot more likable and easy to root for by the end. admittedly, right now, she's easily my least favorite character in the cast, but i see potential within her, and i think this would be a way to fulfill said potential.

would this all make for a good game and a good story? i have no idea. but it was a fun exercise for me, since i already enjoyed the shit out of chapter 1, and i like thinking about these characters.

[cartridgeconverter]

Don Ottavio* Modern Prod Jobs Tierlist

* and Ottavio-like characters in adaptations

As far as I remember (although my memory has heavy biases), Ottavio seems to be the Don G character with the most random jobs assigned to him when in a modern day setting. It makes sense; in the original he’s nobility, and they don’t really work at all, so in a modern prod, they’ll assign him something to give him more character traits than “guy who likes his gf, like, THIS MUCH”.

Some of these are really bad though.

F:

Parking inspector (#UncleJohn, Toronto, 2014) For some reason, this adaptation changed Anna and Ottavio to be significantly poorer than Zerlina and Masetto. Why? I have no idea. Anna and the Commendatore get an okay lot, being Zerlina and Masetto’s wedding planners, but Ottavio is a particularly low-ranking cop. This is pretty irreconcilable with the text and the actual character, although it does make him look extremely pathetic.

D:

Soldier (Don Giovanni, Chicago Lyric Opera, various) I just find it really hard to believe that a soldier is so squeamish about killing.

C:

Unspecified white collar profession (various) Sometimes you just gotta put him in a nonspecific grey suit. Practical, but boring. Words that could describe the man himself?

B:

Architect (Don Giovanni, La Monnaie, 2020) I'm not really sure what them specifying his profession is supposed to do for the production, considering in practice he ends up being just Anna's boytoy and hot tenor eye candy, but this is a solid choice and I could see it happening.

Whatever tf Poodle Ottavio is doing (Don Giovanni, Salzburg Festival, 2021) Is he an arctic explorer with a dog for some reason? Is he a military captain? Is he a guy in a toga with four arms? Romeo Castelluci I demand answers

A:

Artist/poet and professional sillyboy (Shaw’s Man and Superman) Okay, Tavy Robinson is not really Don Ottavio. He’s a lot more naive and adorably stupid, but I put him on the list anyway. Because Tavy is so romantic and idealistic, this works for him pretty well, although I would object if this was used for an actual Ottavio.

Just some rich guy who doesn’t work (various) Probably the most logical updated version of his original character, since noblemen don't work and billionaires don't either. He wears classy grey suits everywhere because he can and so he can look as stylish as possible constantly along with his equally stylish wife.

Undercover cop (Peter Sellars Don Giovanni) Similar to Man and Superman, I consider the Sellars prod to be a completely separate story, but this choice works very well in the story it's trying to tell, and textually, it's not the worst either. Ottavio is trying to catch and kill a criminal, and he also achieves absolutely nothing. Peak American police behavior.

S:

I had a joke here about the La Monnaie 2014 Ottavio but honestly that production portrays this relationship in such a rapey way that I really don't want to mention it as a punchline. So pretend there's something actually cool and insightful here.