#apparently clown said this on a stream

[jazzzzzzhands]

Thinking about a time when Clown said that one of the first things Wally learned was how to hold things gently, carefully. So that he didn't break them

[fastandcarlos]

Soft Launch : ̗̀➛ Lando Norris

summary: follow the journey of lando’s soft launch to reveal your relationship

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landonorris: one shoulder up or two 🤔

67,505 comments

username1: anyone else notice the person who accidentally walked in midway through the stream tonight!?

username2: lando definitely had a girl over…

alex_albon: you must be desperate for content if this is what you’re posting 🙄

username3: why won’t you tell us who was round your apartment lando??

georgerussell63: how about neither of your elbows up you weird man

username4: I keep replaying it but I can’t work out anything about them…

username5: what if lando has a secret girlfriend or something

danielricciardo: you know it’s okay to look at a photo and change your mind about posting it

username6: not everyone rinsing lando in the comments 😂

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landonorris: life’s been pretty good recently ☀️

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username7: any particular reason why that might be mr lando norris

carlossainz55: care to elaborate? 🤔

landonorris: @/carlossainz55 zooming over to ferrari now to fill you in

username8: wonder if it’s pretty good because of someone??

georgerussell63: glad to see you with a smile on your face buddy 🫶🏻

username9: is he hinting that this new girl has made his life better??

maxverstappen1: I wanna know all of the gossip too 😂

username10: I’d love to be the reason for lando’s smile fyi

username11: I’m more interested to know who even took these photos

oscarpiastri: I’m fed up of this new version of you, you’re too smiley to have around the garage now

landonorris: @/oscarpiastri sorry not sorry 🙃

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landonorris: apparently if you find a girl who likes quadrant, she’s definitely a keeper ✨

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username12: this sounds like confirmation to me that lando has a girl

team_quadrant: girls who like quadrant = girls with good taste

username13: do you reckon that’s her in the photo ☺️

danielricciardo: ik a better brand of clothes that they could wear 😂

landonorris: @/danielricciardo quadrant > enchante 🤫

username14: really hoping this new girl likes quadrant so she can stick around forever

username15: I like quadrant…does that make me your girlfriend now??

charles_leclerc: I like quadrant but you’re not willing to date me…

username16: @/charles_leclerc also not a girl you clown

oscarpiastri: if I do a photo shoot with you do I get free merch too?

pierregasly: why am I so invested in being part of lando’s comment section lmao

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landonorris: thank you for bringing so much positivity into my life 🫶🏻🥺

89,394 comments

danielricciardo: you’re welcome honey 😇

landonorris: @/danielricciardo you wish that I was talking to you

username17: look how perfect they look together wow

username18: it’s official, he’s actually managed to get a girlfriend

georgerussell63: congrats on not being the single friend anymore 👏🏻

carlossainz55: little lando norris finally got himself a girlfriend 😂

username19: I want to be happy but I so wish that this was me

username20: the look on his face 😭 I’m so happy he’s happy

charles_leclerc: if you want some tips on how to be a good boyfriend just zoom back to ferrari again

username21: my heart is so full - cheering for these guys all the way!!

username22: constantly telling myself not to be bitter that my dreams now won’t come true

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landonorris: race weekend with a first timer, luckily for her she picked the best team to support 🧡🏎️

89,483 comments

maxverstappen1: did she get a choice or did you force her to do this??

landonorris: @/maxverstappen1 she said she wanted to support the team with the most handsome driver 💁🏻‍♂️

oscarpiastri: @/landonorris she thinks I’m handsome awh

landonorris: @/oscarpiastri 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

username23: how have we not got a face reveal when she was literally at the race

username24: I never had lando down for a soft launch kinda guy

danielricciardo: did you even introduce her to all the teams on the grid, you know, let her make her on mind up??

username25: whoever she is she knows how to rock papaya

username26: omg the height difference is the sweetest

logansargeant: I remember when I used to hug you and you’d rest against my chest like that 😂

alex_albon: look at you being all cute and charming

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landonorris: holidaying with my favourites 🌊☀️

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username27: eurgh lando you’re killing us with all these almost photos

maxfewtrell: I’m the number one out of the two of us though right??

landonorris: @/maxfewtrell whatever makes you feel better sweet cheeks

username28: my heart can’t cope with this for much longer

oscarpiastri: so you holidayed with your favourites and yet I’m here at home 🤔

username29: lando replacing oscar with his girlfriend is peak

username30: lando knows what he’s doing and this is so not fair

username31: I bet he’s laughing at all of us when he looks at his comments section

alex_albon: it’s alright for some 😂

username32: lando I’m on my knees pls just tell us more about who this lucky girl is

georgerussell63: I think your fans might turn on you soon if you don’t stop playing them 😂

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landonorris: another race weekend with my best human there to cheer me on 💕☺️

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username33: FINALLY HE GAVE US WHAT WE WANT

username34: omg she’s absolutely gorgeous lando

username35: we won at last woooooo

alex_albon: still can’t believe your girlfriend supports mclaren 😭

oscarpiastri: don’t forget who the most handsome mclaren driver is tho 😂

username36: they look so in love together 💞

username37: I want to be jealous but how can I be when they look so cute

lilymhe: we’re double dating asap btw

danielricciardo: they don’t prepare you for when the kids grow up 🤧

landonorris: @/danielricciardo sorry dad 😭

username38: my heart has officially exploded 😂

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landonorris: whoops they caught us 🥺

tagged: ynusername

138,849 comments

username39: these two are gonna be such a duo omg

username40: ah and he even tagged her 🤩🤩🤩

danielricciardo: my kids are the cutest things in the world

carlossainz55: smooooth operator 😂😂

landonorris: @/carlossainz55 high praise from you my friend 🫡

username41: thank goodness that the soft launch era is now over

username42: I’m already in love with them so much

username43: I don’t want to be yn anymore, I just want to be her best friend

charles_leclerc: congrats buddy 👏🏻👏🏻

alex_albon: stop making the rest of us feel single even though we’re also in relationships please

ynusername: ily 🥺🥺🥺

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[forzarma]

makeup disaster

pairing: lando norris x fem!reader

summary: lando Doing your makeup on stream what could possibly go wrong?

warnings:haven’t proofread 😞

You joined Lando while he was streaming last week, and both of you were playing a game. Well, you lost, which means you’re gonna let him do your makeup on his next stream.

Both of you sat, and you got your makeup essentials that you’re gonna have to use for this stream, hoping Lando wouldn’t freestyle your face considering the fact he doesn’t know anything about makeup.

“Hello chat,” he said while looking at the computer, “so apparently I’m doing your makeup,” giving a cheeky smile.

“I’m regretting this already, omg,” you said, laughing nervously.

“Anyways, first thing, I guess primer ’cause you have been nagging about killing me if I don’t put it first,” Lando said.

You rolled your eyes playfully at him.

He started tapping your face aggressively.

“Ouch, Lando,” you said, giving him a stern look.

“I’m trying, okay?” he said, looking at you innocently.

“Anyways, I think we need to use this,” he said while holding your foundation and your beauty blender.

He blended your foundation, and you were thanking god that he was doing good for now. Well, your happiness didn’t last long when you saw him taking your setting powder and putting it over your face.

“Wait, Lando—“ you were trying to tell him he should put concealer, but all you heard was “SHUSH.” You gave him a literal side-eye.

And then he had the audacity to put concealer after what the hell????

Looking at the mirror, all you could see is your cakey face.

He opened your eyeshadow palette and took a bright blue and started putting it over your eyes.

Then he picked your blush, PAINTED your face with it, making you look like a tomato.

Then he got the liquid eyeliner and hummed, “this is interesting,” and decided to literally act like your eyes are drawing papers.

He gave his attention to the chat, reading it, and people saying that’s not how he should put things, just for him to say, “nah, y’all are just wrong, I know what I’m doing.”

He took the lip liner, he put it on your lips, and gloss.

“Alright chat, that’s the finished look,” he said, looking proud as if he did an achievement.

“You did terrible, Lando,” you said, looking at him.

“You know, I did good, better than you do,” he muttered.

“Alright, I hope you guys enjoyed this stream and don’t fall in love with my makeup skills ’cause,” he said, smirking, then he ended the stream.

After ending the stream, Lando turned to you with a cheeky grin. "Alright love, let me help get that makeup off you. Can't have you walking around looking like a clown all night!" 

You playfully hit his arm. "Whose fault is that?" You retorted with a laugh. Lando gently took a makeup wipe and started dabbing at your face, his touches soft and caring as he removed the remains of his "artwork." 

"There we are, much better." He smiled, gazing into your eyes. You felt yourself getting lost in his stare, all thoughts of the disastrous makeup attempt melting away. 

Suddenly , you leaned in and pressed your lips to his in a sweet kiss. Lando made a small noise of surprise but quickly melted into the kiss, cupping your cheek tenderly as he kissed you back. The spark between you that had been building for so long was finally igniting. 

When you finally broke apart, Lando rested his forehead against yours, breathing heavily. "Well, I may not be able to do makeup but at least I know how to do that," he whispered with a wink. You giggled, feeling giddy and light. It seemed the stream had ended on a much sweeter note than anticipated. Your "punishment" had turned out to be quite the reward after all.

[bigmoon-is-bigwife]

Ros said the reason she thinks she become friends with Clown is because off stream she hit an enderman and almost died so she logged out and asked him to kill it and he did. This was after the first day where she had already lost 2/3 of her lives and that would have resulted in her permadeath had Clown not saved her. I think this was the moment it became very apparent to Clown that Ros was not very experienced in the game and could use some help. I think this is why Clown started checking in with her at the castle and gave her building blocks from the nether when she was too scared to go on one life.

Ros is a builder at heart and has openly admitted she has learned more about minecraft mechanics on The Realm than her entire time playing the game before. Clown has always seemed very careful to not be condescending with her but it is funny seeing some of that realization in real time that Ros is very new to playing survival minecraft with a risk of dying. I think he's so used to playing with more experienced players he forgot what an average player is like. I think one of the funniest moments was when he asked Ros "Are you eating rotten flesh???" and she responded with "No...it's raw chicken :(" and so he gave her some golden carrots because that is not good food. Soon after that Ros realized that golden carrots were way better and started making her own and now she's no longer starving all the time.

Ros has improved sooo much from the start of the server where she almost perma-died within like two days of the server and now she's more confident and less likely to die on own! And that is from learning from various players, including Clown. It's been so fun seeing their friendship grow from that chance encounter off stream. I think Ros's time on the server would have been very different had that not happened.

[porcelana-r0ta]

JOYRIDE

Fandoms: Batman, Danny Phantom

Relationship: Dan Phantom/Jason Todd

Word Count: 3,823

Ao3 Link: Available only to registered users

Summary:

Dan doesn't want to join his Habitudes group for their dumb community service project, which is why he lets two idiot goons kidnap him off the streets. When said goons turn out to work for The Joker, Dan decides to do something about him, maniac to maniac.

Or: The Joker tries to live stream a ransom, but ends up live streaming his own execution.

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When Dan Nightingale is grabbed off the streets of Gotham, he makes a half-hearted struggle, just so he can seem human. The kiddie hero business and the indiscriminate genocidal tendencies no longer call to him like they used to, and while he’s still an impatient person who is intolerant of disruptive bullshit, he needs a little excitement in his life. 

Plus, he wants an excuse to get out of his Habitudes community service project. His pretentious trust fund baby groupmates chose to volunteer at some fucking coffee shop instead of something normal, like a hospital or an animal shelter. (Dan didn’t even know a coffee shop was an option, but anything goes for wealthy elites who want to roleplay as an impoverished barista, apparently.) Well, Jay Peters wasn’t so bad, and he was just as irritated as Dan was about the others�� choice. Plus, the chill that settles into Dan’s unused lungs when the other student is around shows that he’s at least Death-touched like him, even if they’ve never acknowledged that to each other. 

So, yeah. He lets himself be kidnapped by two goons, even if he could easily break free and make their insides their outsides. It could be interesting! Enrichment in his pandimensional parole! Everyone’s got to have fun sometimes! It’s like a little joyride, as a treat! But he isn’t the one committing the crime! How quaint!

Dan is a very polite captive. He lets himself be pulled into a creeper van with minimal resistance. He lets the goons zip tie his hands. He lets them put a black bag over his head, even though it smells of weed. He doesn’t count the number of turns they take, nor does he try to talk them into letting him go. In fact, he doesn’t say anything. When they eventually park, he allows the men to pull him out of the creeper van and into some building—likely a warehouse, judging by the echo of their footsteps on the floor. And finally, he lets the goons cut off the zip ties around his wrists and then tie them to the metal arms of a chair. 

He’s a great captive. And he’s so going to be excused from that stupid Habitudes community service project!

He’s content to sit and wait. The Bats of Gotham City usually have a good response time for villain bullshit, and if they don’t, then it’s not like any Fear gas or sex pollen will affect him. Dan’s not really human anymore, even if he is capable of looking so. 

Dan does not have to wait long. The footsteps increase and then stop altogether, and then a cackle fills the air. “Camera man ready? Mics? Charges?” The voice is familiar, yet grating. Where has he heard it before? In his past future, maybe?

“Yes, sir,” comes the reply from several different people. 

A pleased cackle, “Then let’s get started!”

“We are live in three… two…” 

At the silent one, the cackle echoes through the room once again. “Hello, ladies and gentlemen of Gotham City and beyond! I’m your favorite Joker, LIVE! With one of your favorite Wayne children!” 

Dan, who has been relatively chill this whole time, tenses. The Joker. That’s why he recognizes that cackle and voice. He had killed the clown before in his original timeline. Ugh, clowns. He fucking hates clowns. Hates their stupid pale makeup and their stupid dumb wigs and their exaggerated eyes and he fucking hates how they make him feel like he’s not in control. 

And what was that about a Wayne? 

Dan doesn’t think killing someone like The Joker in his original timeline should be held against him. Honestly, the guy is a megalomaniacal terrorist who abuses the guise of mental illness to get away with crimes against humanity. Dan had at least owned up to his own sanity, and never tried to hide from the law or anything like that. He just kind of… killed the law. 

….ACAB? 

A hand suddenly grips at the bag on his head, grabbing hair with fabric. “That’s right, folks! Here’s Gotham’s beloved Dick Grayson!” The bag is yanked off his head, revealing Dan in all his scowling glory. And Dan is a lot of things, but an exact Dick Grayson copy he is not, so while the goons may have mistaken him as Grayson, The Joker does not. 

He pauses, studying Dan’s face. Dan raises a mocking eyebrow, then looks around the warehouse. 

It’s empty and dimly lit, but it’s not a problem for his superior vision. The metal walls are an ugly beige and the floor is a gray cement, its color only broken by mysterious brown stains, and now the discarded black bag. Dan is up against a wall, surrounded by filming equipment. The camera in question is just a fucking iPhone 12 attached to a ring light. There’s one goon behind the camera, moderating the live stream. There is another goon holding a boom mic above Dan and The Joker, and there are four others behind the camera. All of the goons who are not handling equipment are holding toy musket guns. It is probably safe to assume that there are similarly armed goons guarding the doors that Dan cannot see from his position tied to a chair. Likely two goons per exit. In a warehouse of this size, there have to be at least six more goons that Dan isn’t seeing. 

The Joker grits his teeth. “Who brought the Grayson kid here.” It’s not a question so much as it is a demand. 

“We did, boss,” two goons pipe up proudly from behind the camera. 

“Why don’t you two come up on camera so I can congratulate you for good work?” The Joker grins beseechingly. 

One of the two goons, the blond, shuffles nervously at this, whereas the other puffs out his chest. So only one has any brain cells. 

The prideful one grabs his comrade by the arm and drags him up to the camera with Dan and The Joker. They stand in front of Dan, blocking him from the camera’s view.

“I always reward good work, you see,” he says to his henchmen. “Now, you think this is good work?” 

“Yes, sir,” says Pride, while Blond frowns. 

“Take a good look at his face.” The villain gestures angrily to Dan’s unimpressed face. “What do you see?” 

“Dick Grayson, sir,” 

Blond shuffles, “He looks like he isn’t scared.” 

“No! Wrong! This isn’t Dick Grayson! This– This is some—” The Joker takes another glance at Dan, noting the black Gotham U hoodie that hides his muscles. “This is some fucking college twink!”

“Twink?” Dan mutters to himself, disgruntled. Sure, the hoodie is baggy and he’s seated instead of standing, but do those two things add up to him looking like a twink? 

The color has drained out of even Pride’s face at The Joker’s words. “Sir, please—”

But The Joker is already pulling out a comically large toy gun that probably has real bullets, and Dan sighs. It would probably be bad for his parole if he let a bunch of humans die in front of him. 

He phases out of the ropes binding him, safe from view with the two idiots in front of him. Then, he kicks The Joker down to the floor, sending the toy gun scattering across the cement floor of the warehouse. He stands and knocks Pride and Blond’s heads together, knocking them out as The Joker screeches with rage. 

The goons behind the camera aim their guns, but Dan is already moving behind the camera. He snags the guns out of their hands, snapping them in half with strength he doesn’t even have to think about. He moves so fast that at first they don’t even realize what’s happened. By the time they connect their missing firearms to the broken bits of metal on the floor, Dan has already clobbered them over the head, knocking them unconscious. 

He takes out the cameraman, too, and the goon holding the boom mic. Then, in mere seconds, he takes out all the goons at each exit, and he’s back at the filming station by the time The Joker has staggered to his feet. His original estimate had been off by two—there were eight other goons in total. 

Dan checks the iPhone—still live streaming. On TikTok, of all the goddamn apps. The comments are going wild on what’s going on: where’s the college student, how did he kick The Joker like that, do you guys think that those two goons have brain damage now, what was that metal scraping sound, where is The Joker? 

“Hey, brat!” snarls The Joker, clutching at his ribs. “That was not part of the script.”

Dan hates clowns, and he especially hates The Joker. Sure, Dan wiped out nearly all of humanity. Who doesn’t have a bad decade of villainous activity? But he did it quickly, and he didn’t do it under the guise of insanity. He owned up to it. And if Dan’s being honest, he’s… disgusted by it all now, even if it hurts himself to admit. 

If Dan isn’t human, then neither is The Joker. 

Still off camera, Dan moves so fast he basically teleports in front of The Joker. The other man stumbles back, but Dan reaches out and grabs him by the throat. He chokes and claws at Dan, but Dan isn’t human anymore, and so his nails catch on nothing but the cloth of his hoodie. He doesn’t even feel it.

He drags The Joker to the chair in front of the still live camera and shoves him into it. While he recovers from being choked, gasping and shuddering and so fucking human , Dan forces his hands behind him and uses the ropes he’d phased out of to tie The Joker up. When he ties the last knot, Dan stands tall, staring into the camera. 

“Hello, friends and family,” he greets the audience. He gives a small smile, and he makes sure that he is perfectly, utterly human with normal blue eyes and normal black hair and normal human skin. “As you can see, things have turned around for The Joker here. Now, I’m sure his original intent was to ransom out the Wayne kid, and it would be a shame to see that hard work and planning go to waste on a mistake, wouldn’t it? So why don’t we hold a… reverse ransom? Only, I don’t need funds. I’ll accept donations. My venmo is vladsucks03. My cashapp is dannight07.”

Dan’s smile grows into a wide grin. “Feel free to donate if you like. But even not a single person donates, The Joker dies today.” 

The Joker spits out a gasping laugh, “Ha! You think you can kill me? I gotta admit, that’s a good joke. But Batman—”

“Batman what?” Dan asks, stepping off camera to grab the black bag on the floor. He shoves it halfway into his pocket. He walks to The Joker’s toy gun, the only one he hadn’t broken, and he picks it up. 

“Batman is already on his way here,” The Joker says. “He always is by this point.”

“And Batman will save you?” Dan snorts. He moves to check the live stream, comments coming in so fast that the only reason he can read them is because he’s not human anymore. 

Is this for real

fuck yeah kill that guy

💥🔫🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

extremely common gotham uni W

im donating 50$ rn

Can we vote on how joker dies

Lol does he fr think that batman would help him

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Does anyone else find this incredibly attractive or is it just me 😳

guys my joker/batman fic update is gonna slap after this

Joker’s cooked

bro is about to have ao3 level donations

Hey what’s his cashapp again

Omg i think that guy is in my bio class

I’ll donate when hes acc dead

doin god's work 🥹👍

If bro doesnt do it he’s cooked

This guy is gonna have infinite rizz if he pulls this off

The Joker scoffs, “Of course he will. He’s done it before.”

Dan yanks his gaze from the comments to The Joker’s face, “What?”

The Joker nods his head up arrogantly. “Batsy can’t live without me. He saved me after fickle-ickle Nightwing killed me.” 

“Huh.” Dan blinks consideringly, switching his gaze back to the comments. They’re all freaking out about this new information. He steps back into the camera frame, pulling the hammer back on the toy gun. “Then I’ll just have to make sure it sticks.” 

He points the gun at The Joker’s face and fires. As expected, rainbow confetti is the only thing that flies out, dusting over The Joker in celebration of what is to come. 

The Joker laughs. 

“Cute,” says Dan. He walks around The Joker to stand behind him, directly in front of the camera. He removes the black bag from his pocket and puts it over The Joker’s face. 

He shoves the muzzle of the gun into the back of The Joker’s skull. Pulling back the hammer, he asks, “Any last words?” 

He pulls the trigger before The Joker can say anything. It’s funny. As expected, the second gunshot is a real bullet. The Joker’s head and body jerks forward. Blood splatters on Dan’s face, but it’s mostly on the floor and the unconscious Blond and Pride and on The Joker himself. 

For a moment, Dan can only stare. The Joker’s body is crumbled in on itself, held up only by the bindings on his arms to a chair nailed to the ground. 

He feels big. He feels good. 

He feels… dirty.

He clears his throat. He drops the gun. He lifts up the soaking black bag up just enough to check for a pulse. After thirty seconds of nothing, he says, “Well, that’s the end of The Joker.” 

He looks up, staring into the camera lens, and he chuckles. “I missed my community service project because of this bozo. You guys think my professor will accept this as community service?”

You guys think this will affect my ghost parole? he doesn’t ask. 

He bends down to check the pockets of Blond. He finds his phone and uses Blond’s thumbprint to bypass the password. His stomach curdles at the home screen—a picture of Blond and a little girl with his eyes and his nose. His eyes burn and he calls 911, trying not to blink.

“911 dispatch. What is your emergency?”

“Yeah, uh, I killed The Joker. But he kidnapped me first, so. Turnabout.” 

“You— sorry, you what?”

“I killed The Joker. He’s dead. I checked his pulse and everything.”

“O-oh.” The woman on dispatch sounds strangled. There are muffled sounds, frantic, that the receiver only barely picks up. Dan wonders what she’s doing, Asking for verification? Trying to triangulate his location? Celebrating the fucking good news? “Do you know where you are, sir?”

“Some warehouse, I guess. Probably at the docks. Do you want me to check?”

“No, sir, please stay where you are if there are no immediate threats.”

“Got it.” He clicks his tongue. 

“Can you tell me your name, sir? Are you injured somewhere?”

“I’m Dan. Uh, Dan Nightingale. I guess he thought I was the Grayson kid. Um. Dick Grayson, I mean. And no, I’m fine. His henchmen are injured and unconscious, though.” 

“Right. Okay. Hi, Dan. I’m Claire. First responders and patrol units are on their way to your location now.”

“Well, that’s good, I guess.” He almost wants to ask if she thinks that he’ll end up in Arkham for this, but he’s pretty sure that there’s no jury on Earth that would convict him. Well, maybe not. He did ask for donations for murdering The Joker, after all. That might put a damper on his defense. 

“Dan?” asks Claire. 

“Yeah?”

“Is– is he really dead?”

Dan looks at the body and kicks a limp leg, avoiding looking at the gory black bag. Nothing. “Yep. As a doornail.” And he knows death intimately. 

She breathes a shaky, staticky sigh into the receiver. “Thank you, Dan.”  

He blinks, “Can you get fired for saying that?”

She laughs, “Honey, everyone not on break right now is listening to this. My boss just broke a bottle of tequila out from his desk.” 

He barks out his own laugh. “Oh?”

“You’re about to be very popular, Dan.”

“Well, I—” 

And seventeen minutes late to the party, the windows at the top of the warehouse shatter open. In cascades of broken glass and grappling cables, the Bats drop down to the floor. 

“Away from the body,” commands Batman as soon as his feet hit the ground. His little birdies, Nightwing, Red Hood, Red Robin, and the newest Robin fall in line with him. Robin makes quick work of rounding up the unconscious goons and binding them. 

Dan obligingly puts the hand that isn’t holding the phone up in the air, but before moving away from the camera’s view, he says, “Just a reminder guys, my venmo is vladsucks03 and my cashapp is dannight07. Please remember that I might need a lawyer soon.”

“Okay, funny guy,” Nightwing says, entering into frame and pulling Dan away by the shoulder while Red Robin shuts down the live stream.

“It was self-defense and defense of another. A whole population, if you will,” Dan says. 

Red Hood snickers, “Only crime here was the kidnapping.” 

“Dan, are you okay?”

“Bats are here, Claire,” Dan tells her. He watches Batman lift the black bag off The Joker’s face, revealing the viscera and gray matter beneath. He’s not smiling anymore. Dan hasn’t seen that kind of gore in years. He’s the cause of it once more and he doesn’t regret that. It feels invigorating. It feels devastating. “I guess I’ll hang up now. If The Joker is mysteriously alive after this, it’s because Batman couldn’t handle not being the hero.” 

“Dan—” He hangs up as Batman’s shoulders go minutely tense at his words. The man stands fully, turning his head slightly to narrow his cowled eyes at Dan. 

“Problem, sir?” 

“You killed The Joker.” 

“I saved myself and his two idiots.” He shrugs. 

“You had him restrained.” 

He rests an offended hand against his chest. “I was frightened that he would escape, sir, just as he escapes from the very place you put him every eight to ten months.” The Bat doesn’t want to be judge, jury, and executioner. Fine. Whatever, he gets it. Dan hadn’t wanted to be that, neither as hero nor villain. He’d wanted to save, he wanted to be saved, and then he wanted everyone to feel like he did. But he’s not so prideful now to know that he wouldn’t have stopped then, not unless someone handled the job permanently. 

The Joker needed permanence. 

The Bat can play fucking judge all he wants. But he’d be just as villainous if he tried enforcing his own moral code on other people.

“You asked for donations,” Red Robin says dryly. “You were basically putting a hit out on him.”

“My art in life textbook is $300. How much do you think a lawyer is going to cost?”

“Hn.” 

“Stop giving the man a hard time for doing a public service, Batman.” Red Hood shoulder checked Nightwing away and held out a gloved hand for Dan to shake. He takes the other’s hand and firmly shakes it. The contact, while not to skin, gives Dan goosebumps and chills his lungs. 

Jay?

“Let’s hope my Habitudes professor agrees with you.”

“She will. Everyone with three brain cells to rub together will.” The man cuts a glare at Batman. 

Dan didn't say what pronouns his professor uses. 

The rumble in Red Hood’s voice is enticing. He looks at the other man, really looks, and notices his broad shoulders, how tall he is (though Dan towers over him even  disguised as a human), and his muscled arms. Arms that Dan’s pretty sure are normally hidden beneath a Gotham U hoodie, just like his own. 

He smirks as sirens sound in the distance. “Let’s hope the cops agree with you.”

“They will,” Hood says. It sounds like a promise for something entirely different. 

“Gag me,” Red Robin mutters.

Robin says, “For once I agree with you.”

Without looking away from Dan, Red Hood flips the two off, and yeah, maybe redemption can be more promising than he initially thought. 

xxXxx

A week later, Dan finally goes back to his regular schedule. His ghost parole is intact—he’d even been thanked by some Gothamite ghosts, and Danny begrudgingly told him that there were ghosts who said they’d riot if Dan was given any punishment. As for the mortal side of things, Vlad Masters had graciously sent his team of attorneys to Dan’s aid. While Dan still hates him, he has no issue about using a free team of lawyers to defend him. He’s guaranteed to walk.

Jazz had called him. It made his core unsettled and stony. She wasn’t disappointed, and he doesn’t know how that makes him feel. He doesn’t regret it—The Joker would never change. But what does that say about him and his progress? 

Jazz in general makes him uneasy now. She used to be his big sister, and now she’s younger than him, and he tried to kill her, and— she’s different from his Jazz, is all. But if she’d always known like she said, then his Jazz did, too, right? Could she still be his Jazz, a Jazz who got to grow up? Still be his sister? It would be stupid to hope so, right?

He feels bitter.

She said she’s considering Gotham University as her college of choice as she nears high school graduation. Apparently, their psych department is amazing. 

So maybe hope isn’t so bad. 

Dan sits down at his 10:00 am Habitudes class. Everyone already in the room stares at him. Before they can offer any congrats or thanks or swarm him, Jay sits down next to him. 

Dan looks at Jay’s mostly black hair and his tuft of white at his front bangs. He’s wearing his usual Gotham U hoodie, a hoodie that likely hides muscled arms. A chill builds in his lungs like it did when speaking with Red Hood, like it has every other time he’s talked with Jay Peters. 

…Hm. A hoodie that definitely hides muscled arms. 

“Hey,” says Jay with a grin. “Crazy week, I hear?”

“You’re a Gothamite. I’m sure you’re aware of exactly how crazy it’s been.” 

“You should tell me about it sometime.”

“Sure. After class? We can grab an early lunch. Make it a date, maybe.”

Jay smiles, cute and small. His eyes flash green—a baby Death-touched soul, still can’t control his spooky abilities, how adorable—and he says, “That sounds perfect.”

[gokuisahimbo]

Thoughts about the update! (Spoilers)

A ton of rambling below,

It seems that the Welcome Home show is trying to pitch a het relationship between Julie and Frank. Even before Sweet Briar Julie and Frank were portrayed as a couple, in the lost "Julie-rella" Segment Frank seems to be depicted as a prince still, whilst Julie remains the princess Cinderella. There might be something deeper here in the Sleeping Briar story, though i think that it was unintended from Sally, in the WH version of Sleeping Beauty is whisked away to a simpler life and barred from all that which princesshood should have afforded her. Princess Julie meeting, and falling in love with Prince Frank was sheer chance, though they will find later that they've been betrothed from the start, and in the end every wrong is rectified, Barnaby the wicked dies, and princess Julie and prince Frank marry within a garden a sweet briars. The cyclical, manufactured nature of Julie and Frank’s relationship really seems like an underlying context to me, they were always meant to meet and always meant to fall in love. Any act of “defiance” done by either of these characters was factitious, almost meaningless. I think that Frank and Julie were always meant to be a pair in the context of the show, another example of this would be Wally and Barnaby. In the November 15th 2022 - November 16th 2022/phone concept stream (gotten from this doc!) Clown said this:

So i don't think it would be too out there to assume that other characters were written in a similar way. Sweet Briar is merely enforcing the role of a couple on them once again. I think the tragedy here is the fact that even when they escape romantic connotations their initial relationship is still artificial, although their care for each other is genuine.

Other thoughts about Julie's character that ive been having a lot lately are about her and that tulip. The black tulip’s resistance to being opened is seen as straight up malicious by its apparent personhood. In innocenceconstancyaspell Frank says not to play a game in front of a “stranger”, which i think inherently implies personhood.

Not does Julie believe that this flower’s reluctance to bloom is a failure of her responsibilities as a rainbow monster, but a personal failure to not live up to how she sees herself. She claims that she is Home’s most joyful neighbor, and most bring to spread happiness to others, its not that this flower simply cant bloom, but it personally dislikes her, or at least has no interest in her antics Which is the reason why she becomes increasingly malicious to this tulip throughout the course of the tapes, Julie values how others perceive her quite a bit. Which is why i think she acts more genuine in temptationdreamshope.

But that also brings me to another interesting thing i wanna talk about with Julie.

Maybe through Julie's reluctance in portraying her authentic self has somehow gotten her closer to her “actor”, it's clear that in certain situations that WH characters can embody their actors, and vice versa. At the end of the first Looky-Loo storybook Poppy is heard in her newly darkened house, utterly isolated as bricks completely cover her window, she then hears knocking at her door. Panicked, she repeatedly screams “The Door’s open” whilst someone bangs and scratches at the door, in this moment I feel the fear from Poppy the character, bled into her actual actor, and for a second she forgot that she was not trapped inside of a barnhouse, but instead safely within a recording studio. But that's only realized once the door is open, and reality bluntly sets in with Sally and Frank’s actors' show of clear worry and frustration for her.

The connecting line between Julie and her actor is the fact that they are both constantly putting up a performance, both of them are always acting like “Julie”, and because of that they are always connected, if that makes any sense. This then leads her to be more “real” in a sense, as she hopes that being more genuine may make the flower respond better, she almost entirely drops her infallible bubbliness, and promises of a near-perfect home in lieu of portraying the world to the flower realistically. Like how she remarks on the Sweet Briar play;”If it was only that easy.” I feel like this implies that Julie understands that the world, even as fantastical as Welcome Home is, has its clear limitations and does not follow typical fairy tale logic. She says this almost with some bitterness as well, as though this pseudo Julie, one that exists between the scape of character and actor, finds her manufactured life to have similar limitations to a real one. Though these two’s connection is imperfect, for instance Julie can barely remember how she met Frank, which would be weird even if it were just Julie’s actor pointing this out, since the show only lasted 5 years.

anywaysss, i have a bit more to say but i cant really form thoughts rn lol

[unfamiliar-ghostly-system]

No longer just a screen [Pt. 1]

You and Schlatt have been online friends for months. Your friendship fueled by blurry pictures of Jambo and video calls that stretched into odd hours of the night. But now, for the first time, you're both in the same city.

Texting Schlatt always had a way of leading to something unpredictable.

He had a talent for leading conversations in directions you never expected. Sometimes, his replies left you breathless from laughter. Other times, he offered insight and advice you hadn’t thought of before. He could shift between absurdity and sincerity with ease. Whatever it was, hitting send left you anticipating his response.

It had been nearly a year since you first met. A chaotic Minecraft stream had thrown you together, and what was supposed to be a simple stream with a couple of YouTubers turned into hours of unscripted nonsense between you and Schlatt. He could stick to whatever ridiculous bit he had latched onto with ease, and with jokes that were perfectly in line with his character. It had almost been hard for you to keep up with the banter, but the chemistry was instant and effortless. The kind you couldn’t fake, and apparently, it didn’t stop when the cameras turned off. 

You had sent him a cheeky message after the stream ended, half expecting him to leave you on read. But he replied. And then he replied again. The occasional message turned into almost a daily habit. Schlatt, in all of his unfiltered and unhinged glory, found a place in your life so easily it was like he had been there all along.

Some days it was just a picture of Jambo, or you sent a picture of the fat raccoon in the yard with the caption “u.”. Other days it was long strings of messages on topics like what was objectively the best cereal on the market or if hotdogs were sandwiches. Through the memes and debates, he had woven himself into your life.

But there was one thing you struggled with. The way your heart reacted to him. The way it stuttered when he sent one of his rare selfies. The way it pounded when he said something genuinely kind or when he remembered something personal about you. You tried to avoid lingering on those personal messages. Surely, you figured he just saw you as one of the guys. Someone to joke around with. 

Now, you stood in your hotel room in New York, nervous as the time you first messaged him. Staring out the window, you clutched your phone in your hands. 

You had been in the city since noon, arriving the day before the play you came to see. Even though you had spent weeks planning the trip, you never told Schlatt. It wasn’t that you didn’t want to see him; you knew he lived in the state, and he could realistically make it work. It’s that you didn’t want to give him the impression that you expected him to make those plans. What if he was busy? You didn’t want to risk the awkward exchange where he’d say he wouldn’t be able to make it. Or what if he didn’t want to? Or somehow worse, what if he never addressed the proximity at all?

But now you were here, in the sprawling city, and felt it was safe to reveal your location without pesky unspoken expectations. You snapped a picture of the brightly lit city, sending it along with a message. 

You: Got any recommendations for good places to eat? 

You barely had time to lock your screen before he responded. 

Schlatt: No way. 

Schlatt: You’re in New York?

You blinked; that was not the sarcastic remark you expected. No proposal for the suspicious-looking pizza place tucked away in a dirty alley, or a suggestion to hit up the nearest McDonald's—just immediate and genuine surprise. 

You: Yep, here for a play tomorrow. 

Schlatt: You clown, I’m here too.

Your breath hitched. Schlatt was in New York City, meaning he was in the same city you were.

You: Shut up. 

Schlatt: Dead serious, where’s your hotel?

Your fingers danced over the keyboard for a minute. The thought of actually meeting him, of actually seeing him in person, sent a wave of excitement pulsing through you. You hadn’t ever actually expected this to happen. The reality glowed on your screen, and you bit your lip before replying with your location.

Schlatt: I’m like 20 minutes away. Are you free now?

You didn’t let yourself overthink it and replied with a quick yeah. His message came back almost immediately. 

Schlatt: Prepare yourself. I’m 6’3, and devastatingly handsome and rich. 

You couldn’t help but roll your eyes. A bit of tension faded away; this was definitely the Schlatt you’ve known for months.

You: Bold for someone built like you to say, big guy. 

Schlatt: Say that to my face, coward.

And for the first time, you’d be able to.

---

The next twenty minutes felt like a strange combination of time moving too slow and too fast.

You couldn’t stop your eyes from drifting to the digital clock on the nightstand. When you expected five minutes to have passed, it had only been one. Yet, the seconds managed to slip away when you weren’t looking.

Standing in front of the full-length mirror, you ran your hands over your outfit for what must have been the tenth time. It was nothing fancy, although you had only packed nice clothes for your trip, but suddenly nothing you packed felt right. You turned to check your reflection from the back and then faced forward again. You gathered your hair in your hands, debating whether it looked better up or down. At one point you swiped on some lipstick, only to wipe it off a minute later. 

This was not a date. 

You were only meeting a friend. A friend who made your heart pound and stomach twist in knots. Just a friend. 

You forced out a deep exhale and sat on the edge of the bed, trying to avoid driving yourself mad. You had spent nearly a year talking to this man. Texting, calling, and even FaceTiming. Conversations with him felt like second nature, easy in a way it wasn’t with others. But, despite all this, it felt like you were getting ready to truly talk to him for the first time.

It made you feel better to imagine that he would without a doubt be dressed like himself. Schlatt was not about to drop by your hotel dressed in a three-piece suit. He’d be in jeans, maybe even sweatpants, a T-shirt, and a basic jacket. His hair would be its usual fluffed-up mess unless he had it stuffed under a hat.

Your phone buzzed from its spot on the bed next to you. 

Schlatt: I’m downstairs. Try not to trip on your way down. 

You rolled your eyes and left him on read. You tucked your phone into your pocket, grabbed your hotel key, and took a breath before slipping out the door. 

The hallway was quiet; the only sound was your boots on the carpet. As you stepped into the elevator, the first thing you noticed was your reflection in the wide mirror. 

“Relax, dammit!” You muttered to yourself, forcing your shoulder back and your jaw to unclench. You barely noticed as the elevator slowly descended.

The doors slid open with a soft ding, and you stepped into the sparkling lobby. 

The warm and pleasant lobby was busy with people. The murmuring of well-dressed couples heading to the hotel's restaurant and of people checking in hummed over the soft music playing overhead. A massive chandelier hung in the centre, casting golden light throughout the room, highlighting the polished floors and leather furniture. Even at this hour there was the faintest smell of coffee in the air.

And there he was. 

Schlatt stood near the entrance, looking exactly how you thought he would. He had one hand stuffed in his jeans pocket, the other holding his phone, his shoulders relaxed and rounded. He had a brown jacket over his hoodie. In the dazzling lobby, he looked wonderfully out of place. 

He looked up as you approached. Only a beat passed before he opened his mouth.

“Oh shit,” he said. “You’re real.” 

[shoezuki]

An underrated aspect of this whole situation is that there are plenty of creators coming out of the woodwork to defend tommy and clowning on dream for his poor behavior, but I've yet to see even one person from dream's remaining sphere speak up in defense of his actions. To me that doesn't really help him look like a truthful person when more people can corroborate with tommy's account of dream's bad behavior than people can with dream's claim of tommy being a nasty liar lol.

oh Absolutely like. the only ppl i have seen defending dream in any way is ppl who r still his fans for some reason (genuinely been wondering. does he like. create or do anythin? idk i obviously dont see if he does) and some rightwing chuds who want to use slurs. straight up even dreams friends never come up to defend him like neither george or sapnap have replied or said anything, and idk any other ppl who r friends w him. i dont even know the last time badboyhalo interacted w dream and he is more around w tubbo and foolish n them. and even fucking mizkif apparently went on jack manifold's stream, allegedly apologized n said he dont like dream.

like. idk its jus so blatant how the popular perception of dream is that at best hes a fucking moron and at worst hes a bigoted piece of shit. its kinda expected for ppl within tommy's circle like sneeg and ranboo and tubbo to back him up but e clowns not really known to be in this circle have gotten at him too. like i saw kwite callin dream out for excusing himself n sayin that if hes gon say this shit he better say it w his whole chest. our beloved sophietexas made a tweet bout how he isnt reclaiming shit. the craziest one to me tho is A6D, who used to be friends w dream and was essentially 'cancelled' for his use of the r word and doubling down on it like 4 years ago, has called dream a hypocrite for how he previously got at A6D for using the r word and was ao against the use of it but now is slinging it around.

its jus. wild. its amazing. like hes both an asshole for just going full slur w this, and a spineless coward for not even holding himself to what he says. idk what the point has been cuz no one is in his corner except a select group of his fans who will stand with him regardless of anything. he cant even appeal to rightwing chuds because he is so floppy w this. he really got no one

[julieorwhat]

so listen. i have never watched an episode of 911 ever. it does genuinely look like a nice show but i actively refuse to watch it because of all the will-they-won't-they about buddie. i've been checking the tag for years when it's trending again but i have mostly been putting off the excitement about the two as viewers' clowning (trust me i know what i'm talking about, i watched and clowned sherlock in real time). but. it's not impossible to get an old dog like me excited. and since i last checked the tag i'm in. i'm ready to get hurt and disappointed again (eg stream the show from the beginning). like how unhinged could any show be to have a bi character say "he was a renter and he's straight" as a believable explanation as to why there could not possibly be feelings involved between two insanely attractive men who have been close for years and practically raise a child so that jealousy would be out of the question. how unhinged could a show be to have a guy who misses his "best friend" get drunk in a bar, yap about him being perfect all night to a apparently not close coworker and have him hook up with his ex again in said best friend's ex-house out of desperation. and omg i almost forgot about the most important part where the writers were so unhinged that they had buck "explain" that he is not ot, in fact, in love with Eddie because he doesn't have to sleep with everyone he has feeling for. a totally sane thing to say for your defense. right so really unhinged AND downright disrespect unless someone is brave enough to just go all the way with buck and eddie. i will cry if it doesn't happen. but the moment i see a glimpse of actual canon buddie in the trends or on my dash they can congratulate themselves on gaining a new paying viewer.

[draftsandchains]

Clown: Good I hope it kills you

Clown then immediately backtracks and says he’s sorry for saying that 😭

Clown apparently doesn’t know what /j means ???

Clown getting fucked after this to get forgiveness—

Someone in chat said yaoi angst in chat too… why is this stream so gay I can’t take it Ferre go edit your video instead of writing fanfiction in chat (actually please stay)

theyre so toxic i love it

[snowdropluck204]

Join The Digital Age - Spencer Reid x Streamer! Fem! Reader - Pt 2

So... I haven't been doing these for a while... Been a bit rough recently, been struggling... I know a lot of people wanted to see Spencer reacting to TLAU, as much as I would love to, I've never actually played it! I'm gonna watch some playthroughs and see what I can do! Until then, I'm gonna do some games the I personally have played! Enjoy! Xxx

Pt 2 - Pumpkin Panic

(y/n) pov

Since that first time Spencer had walked in on my stream, he had been more and more interested in technology and video games. Spencer bought a laptop after watching me playing Stardew Valley, after a huge amount of research into the best laptops that could run Stardew, not that he was going to use the laptop for anything else...

I thought it was super cute, and it was nice having something the both of us could do together! After a long stream, you'd think that the last thing I'd want to do is play video games, but more recently, I found myself enjoying my gaming time with Spence, more than when I was playing games for a stream. It was so sweet, trying to teach him the mechanics, the secrets, seeing him reacting to the characters (and trying to profile them), one of his first questions about the game was what the engagement ring in the crafting menu was for. I told him it was so you could marry other players, he blushed bright red.

About a week later, I came home to find that he had been binging the game without me, collecting the materials to make the ring and surprise me. He had enjoyed the game so much, he was questioning taking his laptop to use on the jet, on the way home from cases, so I went and bought him a Nintendo Switch, so he could bring it with him to work, apparently his entire team was shocked.

More recently though, I had been playing smaller indie games that I had found on itch.io, games like Pumpkin Panic. I set up the camera, sitting myself down comfortably in my chair, waving to everyone watching, "Hi everyone! How are we all?" I asked, waiting for people to join the stream, getting a bunch of messages in chat, telling me about people's day, I spent a good forty minutes just talking to people, before mentioning the game I would be playing.

"So, I found a game on itch.io, I think a lot of people have been playing it recently, called Pumpkin Panic." I told the stream, getting a bunch of messages, telling me whether or not my viewers had heard of it, or even played the game. "I'm probably going to be pretty bad at it from the get go, but bare with me, maybe those of you who have played the game can help me out?" I asked, opening the game file.

I smiled at the title menu, "Oh, this is cute! So apparently, this is kind of similar to Stardew, but with a bit more of a horror aspect, it kind of reminds me of Sleepy Hollow..." I mentioned offhandedly. I began playing, giggling at my cute lil character running around. I panicked a little at the random events of the monsters in the game, before one of them killed me.

"Aw! I wasn't doing great but hey!" I whined, "Those clown things are hard!" I leaned back against my chair, I had lasted about ten minutes, the timer taunting me. As I sat talking to my viewers, writing down any helpful tips and tricks, Spencer came through the front door, sighing tired. I turned around to look at him, "Hey baby!" I greeted softly, smiling at him.

Spencer gave me a tired grin, before seeing that I was streaming, "Oh, I'm sorry angel, I didn't know you'd be streaming..." Spencer mumbled. I smiled shaking my head, "It's okay, I'm sure nobody would mind if I wrapped it up early tonight." I told him.

Spencer waved off the comment, "No, you're good," He told me, dragging over a stool from the kitchen to sit behind me, "So what are you playing?" He asked.

I smiled, turning back to my game and explaining, grinning when he said it was like scary Stardew. I finished up the stream, finally managing to beat the game after many failed attempts, Spencer being incredibly helpful throughout, but decided that this wasn't a game he would play for himself...

I hope this was okay, I just wanted to write about this game! If you guys are interested, it's free on Itch.io! Hope you liked this! Xxx

[denamelesshuman]

Here's an embarrassing but pleasant story I had yesterday. I was in the staff break room after yet another long day, sitting on my desk with my lunch while finishing reports that day after my rounds when I got distracted and just mindlessly google'd Monster and looked at some anime screencaps when a senior colleague happened to pass by behind my chair and most likely (accidentally?) peeked at my screen. It was so embarrassing! But he instantly recognized it, to my utter shock. So I timidly asked him whether he had watched the anime and he said he hadn't, but he'd finished the manga back in med school, which would be over a decade ago I presume. I said that it was really surprising cz he didn't look like someone who would be into comics and his answer was simply "I was just like any boys that age, besides our school could really be tedious at times, no play time and reading comics was easy way out without having to move from my study."

Apparently he already knew there was an anime adaptation but back then didn't know where to access it. I told him netflix and other big streaming site added it and it's easy to access and that I was recommended to watch so I just asked whether it'd be worth the time cz it was a very long series and his answer next is even better. He said sth along the lines of:

it's a great choice. I'd say might as well better than Patch Adams, you would think our teachers back at ethics class then should've been branching out enough to present another type of fun media for our assignments, wouldn't you? rather than being outdated and using the same materials every semester. It would've been much more fun if our first encounter with the subject not always about being a good physician means being smiley all the time and act like a clown to your patients otherwise you're not kind or cool. What was the doc's name again?

I said: is it kenzo tenma?

He said: ah yeah, dr. Tenma. Well, if you're looking for that food-for-thought moral-coded lesson-learned perspectives of being an emergency doctor that is.

I just laughed and said that it's just fiction while Patch Adams wasn't and he just laughed back and said:

But that makes it more fun, no? I remembered him as so cool back then and easily relatable but maybe I too, should watch it now.

So I asked him what he thought was really good about it and again he answered that even if one is not an avid fiction consumer in general, this is the fiction work that needs to be experienced at least once in a lifetime and that anyone who likes it must have a good taste. (LOL) He said the villain was extraordinary as well. It's the psychological thriller that keeps him reading.

He also said that to date not many fictions cud leave an impression on him like this one did.

Just fyi, my senior colleague isn't a neurosurgeon tho, he's a cardiothoracic surgeon.

I respect him personally, he was the one who caught me red-handed crying at the back, just outside the icu after a long-time patient of mine died, and had a long talk with. Also one of those suggested me take a long break afterwards to piece myself back again. So his words kinda weighed on me since then

And surprisingly but not unexpectedly, when I got home that day and asked my man he knew about it as well! He read the manga back at high school he said tho never finished reading it cz it was his friend's and didn't remember how far he'd read. He only remembered it was different from other mangas he'd read and was a bit hard to digest for him back then. But he'd watch it with me now cz he said if he's confused about anything he cud just ask me lmfao that idiot 😂

So just to let ya know we're at ep 2 now. It's very interesting so far, regardless, I determine to ignore the cringe I felt with the hospital drama. Haha reminds me again why I never touched any medical series even before med school. But I keep reminding myself this is in the 80s so shits like that may still be common back then. it's quite believable. Grateful that the classic animation design keeps me grounded to that fact. That poshy bitch leaves a very bad taste in my mouth tho. The scene where Tenma burst out in anger beside kid Johan is so funny to me cz if I were the intensivist in-charge in that P-ICU I wud've dragged his sorry ass outta the room for screaming beside my sleeping patient, all but still ventilated like that, regardless he's the attending or not lmfao but I happened to see one of your reblogs and it seems to be a very important scene, so yeah. Still, like geez doc, myb go home and vent somewhere else? 😅 can't really blame him tho, he seems to not have any friends to vent to? All mere colleagues despite being easy going and whatnot. An Asian doc in a foreign (white) continent back in the 80s that takes guts and admirable on its own. Now I get why you pushed this to me so hard. It does 'hit' home too close :")

Anyway, I just wanna say that I'm definitely onboard with you with this one but I will be wayyy to slow. As you see I haven't been able to actually just sit down for a couple hours just to immerse myself in any fandom activities for over half a year now except for reading your gift fics and our lovely chats. And I keep telling you that I'm not sure how long more I can actually still be around here in the future. This year will be a big year for both of us. Last year of my fellowship and you'll finish your research and then go-on your clinical clerkship, on to the real world. By then, most of our time will be dedicated for others rather than our likes.

So if this is gonna be our last fandom together, it'd be an honor and pleasure for me to embark on a work that has the background and the protag we both can relate with so much like this. Hopefully a peaceful one this time, if ya know what I mean. And if this series, grounded well in reality, cud offer some positive perspectives then it's even better. And most of all, having been in more obscure fandoms than you before, I just know how frustrating it is when everything you wanna say just echoes back to you or worse, gone to the void *sobs*

I'm looking forward to discussing it with you as I go. Being all philosophical doesn't really suit me but still, looks like there's many lessons we can get from this series to relate/ compare it with our experiences and it'd be fun! It's cringey sending this long message to you so I figure ask is better hahah. You don't have to reply tho

I am shook! I thought you were writing a fic on my inbox Alva 🤣 omgggg I'm so touched by this 💕💕💕🫶🫶🫶 TYSM Loveee! Sorry for the late reply but Ofc I hafta answer it. It's a very pleasing anecdote ☺️ your senpai seems like a lovely and fun person! You've opened up to him before then? Myb you can also open up with him abt being a discreet otaku wwww who knows if he's still an otaku himself?

HAHAHAAH Patch Adams is still mandatory even now, you know! So I tote agree with him, man how cool is that if they showed clips of Tenma on the street and asked us to discuss it??

"Even if one is not an avid fiction consumer in general, this is the fiction work that needs to be experienced at least once in a lifetime and that anyone who likes it must have a good taste. He also said that to date not many fiction cud leave an impression on him like this one did."

Wooww just bcs of this, he also gains my respect, whoever you are, Alva's senpai! 😆

Yeaah many EN discussion forums for this that were once active are all dated abt 10 to 15 years ago so it's kind of amazing that we just found it now, right? But better late than never.

I once saw a comment from a Turkish doctor in a discussion forum that he decided to be a neurologist after finishing Monster that he watched during med school, so I think those who read this in high school is kinda cool. I think I wouldn't be able to understand or appreciate the extent of beauty of Monster storytelling if I read it when I was much younger though.

But ofc I'm also not surprised that Aniki had watched it back then, since your husband is a former otaku ahahahaha. That's a right move! Ask him to watch it with you. I also tote forced my bf to watch it with me at my 2nd rewatch but he paused a lot bcs he kept asking the terms so it was really annoying! I told him the anatomy doesn't have anything to with the plot so it could just be dismissed but he just wanted to know everything! So I left him behind for now and I'm not sure whether he wanted to pick it up again 😑 I'll ask him again when I wanna rewatch.

It's amazing, isn't it? How one's experience can change how we perceive the scenes ww I've nvr seen any fans commenting abt that Tenma's burst the way you do 😅 but now that you say it, yess, that's exactly right hahah. BUT IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT SCENE FOR THE STORY, FOR BOTH JOHAN AND TENMA SO I TAKE NO COMPLAINTS THERE.

Eva's gonna be around till the end, she's gonna grow even much bitchier later on before getting better so you'd better get used to her now. Abt Tenma's background, you'll find more when you read the light novel, and i'm telling you now, you'll relate to him even more!

Awwwwhh 🥹 that's so sweet of you hun, and I really reallyyy appreciate it! I talked a lot abt it with my friend who rec'd it for me but it'd be lovely to have more insight from you who are more experienced 🫶 dw abt being slow! I'm not going anywhere anytime soon~

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

The Final Eras Tour (Vancouver Night 3)

Live Updates from Swift Stream Reacts w Me:

p.s. thx Folkleric for the Stream ;-) & TStourtips for a journey

So far: Yes they are filming, yes the outfits are the same as the previous two nights, yes we’re all emotional! Nothing but clowns (as of TTPD)…

Quick Total Summary:

Lover:

Bodysuit: Gold & Blue

Let’s me see your hands🏳️‍🌈🙌🌈

PROVE IT!🌉

“The Man” Jacket: Black

Guitar: Blue

“Lover” Speech: Normal (+ final night😭)

Set: Usual (no Archer)

✅

Fearless (TV):

Dress: Silver & Black

🫶

👏👏

Set: Usual

✅

Red (TV):

Red Shirt: “This is NOT Taylor’s Version”

✌️🎩😍

Kam WANEGBT: “For the LAST time! No!”

🖕 the patriarchy ;-)

“ATW10” Speech: Usual, (perfect for the final night… & friendship bracelet Swifties🥹)

Set: Usual

✅

Speak Now (TV):

Dress: Champagne/“Bagel”

😉

Set: Usual (no Long Live)

sry Swiftbowl…

✅

Reputation:

Suit: Gold

☝️✌️3️⃣LGB!!!⚡️

🫨No way!😏

⛪️

Oh no! She can’t come to the☎️ right now☠️

Set: Usual

Clowns?.. Were the graphics different?

✅

Folkmore/Everlore:

Dress: Berry

“Betty” Speech: Usual (escape place in my mind… maybe Gardens? Lol seriously the “I’m normally the main character“ joke we love her)

PS The happy birthday plot is precious

“Champagne Problems” Speech: Usual (the day after I wrote folklore (genius)… now look here we are together one last time (that’s me thinking out loud here lol))

💖crowds 13 count starts*💖

Champagne Problems Cheer: 3.03.57

Fan project(s)? — it worked… I lost Swifties…

🔦🥹💡💫😭🕯️💛🧡🤎

Willow Cloak: Brown(?)

Set: Usual (cardigan, not note or song)

…was there accidental fireworks? August? Stream?… idk lol. Lights are either being super weird or totally normal lol…

✅

1989 (TV):

Top: Yellow

Skirt: Red

Sydney!

… some guy had great hair apparently😂

You forgive you forget but you never let it go, cause she wasn’t doing anything stop! And these flames seem high if you ask me lol.

Set: Usual

Was it a new combo? — No. We got book clowned lol. (But if was green we’d all go feral😭)…

✅

🥂😭What a shame she’s fucked on the head they said 🤷‍♀️😜😉

The Tortured Poets Department:

Dress: Ruining my life

Accessories?: White gloves, White necklace (no button problems today lol)

OH MY GOD SHES HAVING HER BABY—wait shes not!

How’s our Roomba? — perfect!

Hi, Jan Malone! (seriously how did it get me again lol)

Smallest Man outro/ICDIWABH intro?.. Yep!🫡👠

“ICDIWABH” Two-Piece: White

“ICDIWABH” Jacket: White

More!

Kam Count: “1,2,3,4!”

Set: Usual (no Florida, no Postie)

(No Travy)

✅

Acoustic Set:

Dress: Purple✨💜

Guitar: A Place In This World x New Romantics

Piano: Long Live x New Year’s Day x The Manuscript

Announcement/Guest/Mashup insanity? Clowns & perfect!

Total albums: 5

Total number of songs (4 the masterminds): 5

✅

Midnights:

“Anti-Hero-Tee” Dress: Multi

GET IT OFF MY DESK!!!

Taylor you’ll be fine! (I love when she says hi to both crowds)

“Midnight Rain” Bodysuit: Chevron

Midnight rain countdown (pose) 3 2 1️⃣ 👋

🔪💄🪑(her smile at the end!)

✨Nice!💃 (we’re going out tonight ;-)🤗 the Kam hug🥹😭💖

There using drones to film🤔

“Karma” Jacket: Maroon

Karma is the?… “guy on the CHIEFS”

Set: Usual (was it more orange lol?)

✅

✨Bow:👏

💐 And once this is filled this will have been the Best day, end of an Era & start of an age… THANK YOU TAYLOR🫶 We Will REMEMBER!!! Thank you Swifties, you made the friendship bracelets! Thank you dancers: Kam, Jan, all of yall! Band! Backup-singers! Designers! Crew! Tech! Gracie!!. just thanks everyone… THANKS EVERYONE!!!

[sol-rambles]

I will not even lie I feel like there are deff people that abyss could get to betray foundation if they wanted to.

Probably noone important to their plans, probably, but it seems like not impossible.

(I'm just insane about ls again)

But like hear me out, I know they probably don't like need someone to betray the foundation, but if it came to it they so could.

Foundation-

First off with the end of the Ro stream there's probably gonna be some people either fully kicked from foundation or just removed from the inner circle.

Which could lead to some inner team bickering or splits. And that could lead to some quote on quote betrayals which can't 100% be called betrayals.

But also I'll be real, I think they legit just kinda implied the majority of them.

Minute, Ro and Planet are 100% foundation.

Ash is pretty foundation but they don't fully trust him cause wildcard things.

I don't think Spoke and Squiddo are not foundation but ik that they aren't really trusted with the inner circle plans.

Apparently Clown and Leo are "flakey"? Which I think implies that they're not fully trusted. I think they also said Ash was flakey.

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Abyss/Void Ponies, (abyss is easier to type repeatedly though)-

Abyss wise, I feel like Mapic, Zam and Bacon are 100% for abyss.

I think Zam specifically has spent WAY too much time bedrock breaking to want to do anything and the team is quite close knit.

I think Jumper and Pentar are too I just feel like the other three are like a tiny bit more committed.

Jumper I don't think will betray, but she might do something like she did with minute to try get both worlds. But with Vitalasy this time maybe. Probably not, just cause she I think did talk to him after the Vi and Abyss meeting, and to my knowledge didn't tell Void Ponies she was going to.

But I think Abyss is a good team who, probably do enough together to trust eachother fully.

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Idk about them-

I think Pangi is Foundation? To my current knowledge he is. Deff not in the inner circle though. No way in hell he is, too close with Zam cause pirates. Though he doesn't like void.

Branzy???? Idk man. Hasn't logged on to void things, to my knowledge.

Spepticle is running around with 2 stacks of wither skulls and I don't think he likes Abyss. But Bacon gave him the skulls so maybe pro void.? (Not sure Spep's stance matters loads and loads though.)

Vitalasy, I literally have no clue. Teamed with Jumper. Helped Abyss in fights. But doesn't really like any other Void Ponies. Especially not Zam. Very confused about meeting unless Jumper filled him in.

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Probably forgot someone important, I'm legit just spitballing. It's one am.

[trashmuis]

Wait a minute, wait A MINUTE. Okay. So. I am working on my Chop Top costume. I am trying my best to look at the movie/props to make the outfit as realistic as possible (bc im a fucking dork). Now, not everything will be 100% accurate or anything. my vest needs to be distressed more and the shirt isnt right yet bc it needs to be dirty and bloody and i gotta do the pants patterns right which is tough- but ANYWAY. I bought a bag to wear that has his extra buttons on it. The "No Clowns" Button. The "Sit on a Happy Face" Button. I have some extra ones of my own that are just random since you can't see clearly in the movie. It'll look close.

But, just examining the movie to see what else I'd need/am missign at all I came across something I hadnt like fully noticed before? WHAT. IS. THIS

Ok so this image may not be the clearest and the streaming bar is in the way but, that is the strap of his bag. As I said before, I have a similar clown pin on the top here, i dont have the Texas (I think thats supposed to be the red white and blue with the star in it for Texas) button (apparently this button isnt accurate to the Texas flag anyway?? the red and white are swapped on this button compared to any i can find online).

MY POINT THOUGH. IS. WHAT IS THAT CHEVRONS PATTERN

At first i thought maybe it's part of the bag but it only is at the one part. Watching the scene, it also stops right where the clown button is, and stops where the other large button is, so it's like... a patch, it seems. It isn't on the back. So, looking closer...

IS... IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS??

DOES HE HAVE IT LIKE FOLDED ONTO THE STRAP OF HIS BAG?? AND WAS HE A FUCKING SARGEANT OR STAFF SARGEANT IN VIETNAM????

ALSO IS THIS A PATCH FOR THE V CORPS???

[adultswim2021]

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job #46: “Lucky” | April 5, 2010 - 12:30AM | S05E06

We start this one off with a Kids Break. This time the kids are fully gothed-out. Tim’s trouble is that his father lost his job and now he resorts to eating his boogers as a meal replacement. This is especially disgusting and off-putting, so much so that when I watched this episode in VLC I bolted out of my chair to turn it off when the episode looped and this played for a second time. There might be worse Kid Breaks, but there also might not be. Hard to say! 

This one is one of my least favorite wraparounds: Tim has a “Musky Tusk” Necklace, which supposedly gives him good luck. You have to rub dead animals on it to activate it’s charms. They sorta dash this one off, being very disrespectful to their viewers. Hell, I got high for this one and not even that made me do smiles. They did get Ron Lynch to do a voice-over for a Musky Tusk pitch, which is the strongest part of the whole wraparound. I have a mild respect for them cutting to the closing credits early, but Space Ghost already did that, son. I hate how this one ends! 

Okay, sketches now. A sketch about Pierre using “dream cream”, a topical ointment you apply to your torso so you can have wonderful dreams. Pierre dreams that he’s hanging out with a beautiful boy and his dad. They have a cookout, where Pierre is slightly flirty with both of them. He only vocalizes his attraction to the dad, though. In one fairly dicey scene, Pierre hand feeds the boy various meats, including a hot dog. He’s also really pleased with the internet situation while looking at “sites for dads”, murmuring “megabytes per second must be in the billions!” Pierre’s dream eventually turns out to be a nightmare after the cream gets into his mouth, which you’re not supposed to let happen. 

This sketch actually wound up being a headache for Tim & Eric. The suggestively creepy things going on between Pierre and the boy in particular are a little squirmy. I always took the humor to simply be about Pierre being mindlessly inappropriate, and I don’t think the joke is supposed to be that he’s definitely a pedophile. He’s attracted to boys because it means a dad is nearby. That’s my take, anyway. But having a child present during a pseudo-sexual encounter is pretty eyebrow-raising.

This episode was actually briefly withdrawn from repeats because, I believe, the child actor’s parents weren’t pleased with the final sketch. I remember I actually attended an Adult Swim comic-con panel after this aired and somebody asked Tim & Eric why this episode hadn’t been rerun yet. Tim said it had something to do with being sloppy with paperwork, like they didn’t get a release signed properly or something. I vaguely recall Tim being asked about it on Office Hours and him saying something closer to what I’m alleging had happened.

My personal theory is that Tim & Eric were legally in the clear for the sketch, but just didn’t wanna upset the kid’s family and decided the moral thing to do would be to alter the sketch. So, they animated a disgusting-looking cartoon boy over the real kid to erase all traces of the child actor in the sketch. This is the version that is currently in circulation. It appeared on the DVD, and is streaming on Max. I managed to dig up a version originally sourced from Amazon, which apparently had the original cut available in HD for a brief moment. Thank piracy that it still exists.

This came back to haunt them in recent years. Pedo-panic got ramped up with shit like QAnon, and a lot of it was bogus and was wielded as a political tool. Sam Hyde’s fans in particular went after Tim & Eric, pointing towards stuff like this, and Steve Mahanahan’s child clown outlet sketches in particular. I was a fairly regular viewer of Tim Heidecker’s Office Hours, and I actually remember people calling in and trying to put Tim’s feet to the fire about this sketch. At one point one of them accused Tim of molesting his young neighbor; the kid who stabbed him while on drugs during the Tom Goes to the Mayor days. Tim actually hosted a special evening edition of his show to address this, when some Barstool Sports guy tried to pile on Tim and Eric for their child-clown related comedy.

Another recurring sketch: Lucky Duck, where Tim plays a downtrodden simpleton who winds up, through luck, getting minor upgrades during customer service situations. He’s served a large orange juice when he ordered a small, and the waitress lets him keep it. His economy hotel room is unavailable, so he gets upgraded to a regular room which includes a continental breakfast and complimentary orange juice. A very brief, seconds-long snippet of a would-be full-fledged third sketch showing him walking directly into a pool while a glass or orange juice sits in the foreground plays after the credits. This actually was meant to be a full scene, and can be found on the DVD (or on this youtube playlist).

The Lucky Duck bit is hysterical, but, uh, Tim is basically just playing a guy with downs syndrome. It’s extremely evident from his look. I sorta buy into the possibility that it’s almost a mistake. So many of Tim & Eric’s characters bump right up to the definition of being mentally disabled, but rarely do they actually read that way during shallow observation. I can envision Tim concocting this look, being drunk on laughter as it comes together, and that overpowering his sense of decency to not do it (or even think not to do it). Lotta people have been there, bro. I vaguely recall Tim referring to this on Office Hours and kinda tugged his collar as if he got away with something. He’s off scot-free, and I respect it. 

Last but not lease, this episode has the fairly funny Cinco Bro-oche, which is acted by the same company of men who did the eye-tanning sketch from whatever season that was. This one’s a bit of a rehash, in that all the same convoluted procedures for that are also required for this. It also involves installing a screw hole directly into your torso to screw the Bro-oche into. I do think this is the maybe the strongest version of this sketch. Such a pleasingly dumb concept, and little touches like calling the peace sign “the peace signal” really make me smile. 

Aside from the too-gross Kids Break, and the very lame wraparounds, this one has a lotta good in it. Lucky Duck and the Bro-Oche in particular are well-crafted, with the Dream Cream bit being a little sloppy, but with a lotta funny moments. That wraparound though is a Musky Bust.

MAIL BAG

I have to respectfully but strongly disagree with you about the Space Ghost room half episode. I thought it was hilarious and a much needed step up from the Gametap schlock. I loved everyone understandably hating the movie

I forgive you for disagreeing with me. I think I oversold my dislike of those bumpers. I liked 'em fine, really, and I wasn't being very generous by saying they were merely a cut above the GameTap episodes. They just didn't match my memories of the first time seeing them. It's more like splitting the difference between Gametap and an average episode of Coast to Coast. Plenty to like!