#and it keeps ice well

[flameunquenched]

i dropped my favorite water bottle and now it has a little bulge on the bottom so it doesn't stand quite firm and has a wobble and idk why but my brain has decided that this is the worst possible thing that has ever happened to me.

[dementedspeedster]

Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13

Thad Thawne (Inertia) fighting Bart Allen (The Flash)

I know I bring up this panel every now and then, but I just love it (despite it being from FMA). Seeing speedsters really use their legs in a fight is such a treat to me. They really need to utilize their legs in fights more often.

[lobotomy-lady]

U have a lot of bravado on here. Is it to make up 4 the fact that when you tell ppl about ur beliefs irl they look at you like a maniac they hate and you're too much of a pussy to handle it?

a truly colossal crashout taking place in my inbox rn. all of these are from the same anon, sent one after another in the span of a few mins. i guess this is what rejecting ones true self & reality in general does to a person's psyche. sad!

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

Hc of the day is:

Maverick is always tired after Carol dies

He has to take care of Bradley and balance everything else in his life

He feels like everything is falling apart all the time

And he doesn’t ask for help because that would mean admitting that he’s not capable of keeping it together and if he’s not capable of keeping it together then Goose and Carole trusted him for nothing

So he breaks up with ice because he doesn’t think it’s fair to Ice to date someone that’s not really there

And Ice just says “nuh uh” and stops waiting for Mav to ask for help and just fucking walks in one day and joins Mav’s chaotic routine like he belongs there

And he does

Ice doesn’t allow any complaints, he’s there and he’s not leaving

And for the first time in months Mav feels like he’s not trying to stop a building from collapsing on him

[baalzebufo]

honestly the funniest gideon to me might be immediately post-show. where hes fresh out of jail on parole and trying to be a better person. my headcanon is they commuted his sentence to a mixture of therapy and community service (they uh. had no choice after the decision to both ignore weirdmageddon and also the prison got destroyed) and he accepted this in his attempt to Be Nicer

but also it means hes walking around town like this for a while

[whirlpool-blogs]

Q: Who do you think will score the first goal tonight? Jack: I’m gonna say… I’m gonna go: Matthew Tkachuk, or Jake Guentzel.

[cologona]

Sometimes I feel like maybe I’m being too hard on Bruce because he’s a grieving father and you don’t judge people for how they get by when the dead usually stay dead, but then I remember that the Waynes are the closest thing Gotham (maybe even the whole of America in the DC universe) has to royalty and Batman claimed the city for himself, so when Bruce turns abandons the responsibility he himself took on for getting Jason justice, it’s not a just a dead body he turns his back on, he’s betraying a member of the people he claimed. A citizen he was supposed to serve.

[avianii]

You'd think Ice would know better than to ask at this point lol

[the-physicality]

can i give a suggestion to the new york sirens marketing department? i know the topic of attendance has been beaten into the ground [and there are a lot of factors outside of the FO control], but have you considered, now that you are playing in an nhl arena, the premise of comp tickets/cross promotion?

start by giving all the local kids teams bogo tickets, specifically to weekend games

then start handing out comp tickets to *your demographics* at the nhl games or put a coupon on the back of the nhl ticket

go to the gotham games and cross promote there

go to the liberty games and cross promote there

go to exile games [the rugby team] and cross promote there

go to the USL Super league games and cross promote there

pull up to the wnba draft

when i say cross promote what i mean is give soccer/bball/rugby ticket holders a 15 or 20% discount on your tickets

not all of the seasons overlap all the way but there's a window for sure

get people who regularly travel to watch ny sports in jersey/ women's sports invested in the team

ads on the PATH?/busses/NJT?

tiktok microinfluencer ads? [is tiktok still a thing? i haven't used it since before the ban]

get on a touch more/ do a live event, maybe at build? [does build still exist? and everyone goes home with a free ticket]

do a sponsorship at a queer bar.... signature cocktail, let's say the ambulance [for siren, get it?] or hat trick [for hockey] or siren song [a little on the nose imo but still valid i'm sure] Do this specifically in preparation for the pride game??? do a coupon for a stamp? or a discount code?

ambulance would be probably a dirty shirley temple or some kind of sangria [come to think of it ambulance might not work bc it's kind of like shouting fire in a movie theater] [also it is red which is not a ny color]

hat trick - a triple long island iced tea [this is a lot but so is a hat trick] or maybe a flight of 3 shots? [tough in a club setting for sure]

siren song would be a frozen marg with triple sec [blue] and green liqueur swirled in [this might be called an earth marg but that's what it was called when i was in college] OR it would be a trash can [you know where they just mix a bunch of alcohol in and it's blue also they put a little mermaid charm in it to customize] [or the trash can could be the hat trick]

main point: get your target audience in the door by meeting them where they're at and then keep them with the product and experience [which will be better with more people]

i am convinced that people would go if they knew about it, they just don't know! and it's your job to let the people know!

[anony-lynn]

Do you ever think about the fact that Yuuri and the Katsuki family in general were the first ones who treated Viktor like an actual human being and not this unbeatable, figure skating god which everyone put on a pedestal. They treated him like family, immediately accepting him into their home and all of this knowing damn well how people perceived him, they knew how famous he was and how important he was to the ice skating industry, they knew that he was basically a celebrity, yet they didn't treat him like this god that everyone saw him as, they treated him like you would a human, and I think that meant so much to Viktor.

[fellow-fandom-fruitifier]

Meanwhile Dib in some abandoned building:

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

it already made since that Aizawa was going grey, but now knowing he is responsible for arguably the most famous people in the entire world and they won't stop making tik toks and backflipping in public I understand even more

See I actually really love this Aizawa because he’s sort of the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Had any other class pulled this shit, he would have expelled every single one of them, and it would have been the right call. Because had any other class pulled this shit, it would have just been arrogance driving them to Yokohama.

Every other class had the benefit of a world with all might. They all would have never been in the situation to be the only thing between a city and utter disaster. They never had been faced with a disaster where the heroes fucking announced that no one was coming.

But they could come. They could make it in time.

Every other class he’s ever taught lived in a world where the system had not completely broken down. If they all went AWOL and showed up to fight fucking S-Class villains, they wouldn’t have to worry about the villains killing them, because he would have done it himself. It would take absolutely suicidal levels of reckless arrogance to show up to a fight you’re not experienced enough to handle and then get in the way of the trained professionals who can actually do this. He would have expelled every single one of them for their own good and for society’s good.

But that’s not what happened here.

Those kids knew for a fact that no one else was going to respond. They knew for a fact that the choice was their own safety or everyone else’s.

And the thing is that they really were the Big Fucking Heroes of the day. Like. It can’t be understated how much good they did in that one night.

It wasn’t just saving the people immediately at risk. The entirety of Japan was terrified when the news broke. A lot of those villains ended up in Tartarus after their own little reigns of terror—and All Might put a lot of them in there. They were all liable to massacre a few people when they hit the mainland, ultimately escape, go to ground, and start all over. They’d all have to be hunted down and recaptured. The expectation was that it was going to be months if not years dealing with the ramifications of this.

The only villains that weren’t recaptured that same night were All for One and Stain. All for One, well. Was a hugely embarrassing failure considering they publicly threw all their resources into recapturing him and fucking failed at it.

Stain was the only one the kids didn’t contain to Yokohama, and it’s because they didn’t try to.

There’s this entire dramatic confrontation between Stain and Iida in my head that I love. Iida was the one who ultimately made the call not to devote any resources to Stain. He was the only one who wasn’t attacking civilians and wasn’t liable to down the line. Hell, he stepped in a few times to stop the villains. Stopping Stain took him, Todoroki, and Izuku all working in concert the first time around. And granted, they’ve all grown since then, but he hasn’t forgotten how close that fight was. He doesn’t think that just one of them alone could take down Stain (except for maybe Shinsou, but he was on the other side of the city handling crisis after crisis and there was no way to pull him out for Stain) and they did not have the fucking resources for more. Fuck, they didn’t have the resources for one person to go after stain.

Going after Stain meant taking resources from people actively attacking civilians to go after someone who had never attacked a civilian. Stain could wait. Everyone else couldn’t. It turned out to be a nonissue because all of his brother’s sidekicks got together and hunted him down like a wild boar in the immediate aftermath.

Class 2-A isn’t credited just with saving Yokohama—they’re credited with saving Japan from the bloodshed that would have been all those villains loose on the streets for months after. People were actually buying tickets out of the country before they realized that the villains had all been contained.

Part of the reason why Toshinori, as a teenager, wanted a symbol of peace was because of the fear the public had when they went about their day. This is a public who had been in peace for so long that they had forgotten what it was like to be afraid in the streets, and they were remembering it tenfold.

There’s all these dramatic high moments in my head of the fight that night. And one of the biggest is Izuku and Mirio going after a villain team that had been considered the worst before the League of Villains. They had like, a nine month reign of terror before All Might and Sir Nighteye tracked them down and put a stop to them. People were petrified of them getting out again, potentially joining with the League, and unleashing havoc like never before.

Like Stain, they weren’t attacking people. But that’s because they were focused on escaping, going to ground, and coming back worse than ever. Izuku and Mirio made the call that it would just be them who responded. They couldn’t afford to devote anyone else to it—they were massively outnumbered and overstretched as it was. That was the fight that the class was most terrified would end in one of them dying. They just barely managed the victory, and the world exploded when reports came through that this villain team had been contained. The first time around, their kill count had been in the high double digits, and everyone expected them to manage at least the same again if they got free.

On that vein, I don’t think it could be overstated just how much this fight did for public morale.

You know in canon, how society just sort of crumbled? Villains roamed the streets, people were in shelters, UA was full of refugees? Society isn’t there in pez because of this fight.

The LoV fully expected this to have crippled society. If the heroes took the bait and went after AfO without anyone left to defend Yokohama, there would have been a bloodbath. The public would have been completely disillusioned. There would have been riots in the street over this. And there would be a lot more villains out there to bring new terror.

This was such a dynamic story that people were ecstatic after it. They had more hope than they had before AfO escaped.

If AfO had escaped on his own, there would have been an upsurge of fear and unrest. But after this? The public was more emboldened and unified than they were before AfO had escaped. Fuck it, the villains hadn’t won yet. Fucking look at their funky little kids go. They’re so fucking proud of them. The worst villains on the planet losing to a bunch of high schoolers shouting “WEE WOO BITCH” while badly driving ambulances. They won Yokohama. They’ll win again.

So. There’s Aizawa. Who has never been so fucking afraid in his life. He’s got all of these brilliant fucking children who are so painfully young, and the entire world wants to eat them. The world doesn’t know that that’s what its doing, but it is.

He bitched them out in the aftermath, because he could have had to bury all of them, and it would have killed him too. He was so scared he couldn’t breathe and getting more scared, because even when it was only the morning after, he knew they had pulled off a kind of magic that wouldn’t be forgotten easily. It’d just keep getting harder to save them.

But he kind of wishes he didn’t bitch them out. He wishes he told them that he was sorry that they were ever put in that position, and that he’s so glad that they’re all alive, and he’s proud of them. He’s fucking proud of them, because they did something amazing.

[justaz]

I’m not trying to glorify or romanticize whats happening in this country right now and i hope it doesnt come across like that but I can’t help looking around at how fucking deplorable everything is quickly getting and then seeing how quickly humanity can babd together under the boot of our oppressor and help one another as best we can and its kind of…rewiring my brain a little bit? Like yeah humanity can be despicable - look at those in power - but it can also be so caring and empathetic - look everywhere else.

Anyways I’m rethinking how the purge happened in Camelot. Druids and magic were a natural part of every day life in Albion. Yeah, Uther probably spread propaganda against magic users but there had to be a portion of the population that saw through it and defended magic users against Uther’s raids and executions as best they could. Camelot citizens following the knights out as they head to a Druid camp, as they get close enough the citizens shout out to warn the Druids and give them a headstart while getting between the knights and the Druids to give them time to get away.

Uther probably had all those citizens killed or heavily suppressed and controlled by fear so he could properly eradicate magic users from Camelot. I don’t think Camelot citizens just let it happen. I think they put up a fight as well but Uther had them killed and then propagandized them as enchanted by the druids/sorcerers or something to further stoke fear of magic

[spaceandbones]

Not to arctic research au post on main but mance as a wildlife photographer for polar bears and qhorin as the guy who follows him with a gun so he doesnt get eaten is so funny to me. them doing these 6 months stints in the arctic with 0 women and qhorin has himself convinced that THIS TIME mance is going to realize hes gay and they can make out and then mance gets his helicopter shipment of titty mags in and beats off every morning before breakfast to playboy models and qhorin punches holes in their canvas yurt

[anghraine]

Speaking of "The City on the Edge of Forever," I've been thinking about how my femslash Spirk AU winds out through the canon TOS episodes, interacts with gender expectations of the show, etc, and am mentally organizing episodes by how drastically affected they'd be.

I'm also thinking of S'paak hiding her ears beneath a beanie in 1930 :P

[necrotic-nephilim]

in lieu of having posted any writing/headcanons/asks in the past few days because i have been *so* busy and unable to do anything fandom-related which is terrible and evil, i have a poll out of morbid curiosity and self-indulgence. i've been meaning to ramble here about how i feel about DC's lack fo Deaf representation and which Batfam members i would personally make Deaf, but i am mildly curious about the larger opinion and now i will subject you all to the question, i would love to hear thoughts/opinions/headcanons on any specific choices. (would love d/Deaf/HoH opinions esp but i'm mostly expecting this to reach the hearing crowd, so opinions from hearing ppl are ones i'm very curious about. if you've never given it thought before you are going to now or else /lh)