#awkward? absolutely

[sun-spice]

The Batman is standing in shadows of Tucker's living room, the fucking Batman is in his living room.

"So, as I've described, while the materials, the safeguards, the slightly magical components, and the design of the computing hardware and interface all pose a challenge, the biggest problem that I've noticed is in people not understanding what the box even does. Yes, it's portal tech, but not like the other stuff the department studies."

"I've been seeing that people tend to assume that you've got point A, some kind of in-between state, and then point B. When in reality it's more like point A, B, C and with liminal states between each plane."

Tucker is lecturing the Batman in his living room at three in the morning. What is his life?

Tucker gestures to the hastily drawn diagram on his whiteboard, the caped crusader observing stoically.

"Here, you've got Apokolips." He points to the square on the right with the angry parademon-esque creature doodled with all the artistic skill of an average six-year-old child. "Here, you've got our dimension." For this square he had wisely given up and just labelled it 'us'. "And see this bit in between? That's the Realms. They make up the space between pretty much all other dimensions."

These sad squiggles probably aren't the best attempt at conveying multidimensional theory he could come up with, but Tucker is currently running on the Devil's Combo: sleep deprivation, adrenaline, and an invitation to infodump.

The posturing and thinly veiled threats were probably intended as coercion, but he was still riding on the high of figuring out alien tech. If he was a little too enthusiastic who was there to rib him about it? The Bat himself, who's been indulging him for going on an hour now? Pff.

"Now, the motherbox functions by punching across the realms to get to the target dimension. This why it has a function to generate a long protective tunnel to act as a bridge, a feature which is pretty unique to the box, and pretty ingenious actually. It's coded to follow the seams of the Realms and not enter them proper. Carving a path of the least environmental resistance."

If the Apokoliptions had tried to punch through the occupied spaces themselves they would've been blocked by more than just the environment, but he had decided to be purposefully vague about the Realms' denizens.

"Other existing portal tech tends to be more like windows or doorways. It's like jumping over a stream as opposed to trying to cross a river. You need much more than just a wooden plank for the latter."

Batman is silent for a long few moments, seemingly content to let Tucker stew in his own awkwardness. Rude.

"You are already familiar with other portal tech." Batman muses.

Well, it's not like the Justice League knew nothing about Amity Park's situation with all the communications they had tried at the beginning the the ghost attacks, right? And the Fenton portal hadn't been operational in years. Though, at this point the veil was thin and the town itself liminal enough that Amity was still very much haunted. Just much more subtly.

Tucker shrugs. "Not massively, but in the town I grew up there were these engineers, and don't get me they were freaking brilliant, but also absolutely batshit... Uh, no offense. Anyway, they managed to make a portal to the Realms, it was a whole mess for years."

"Elaborate."

On second thought, seeing the look on the Batman's face, perhaps Tucker Foley had fucked up.

Short DPXDC Prompts #557

Bruce is doing his damndest to figure out how a motherbox works. It’s simply too complex and far beyond current human technology for it to be understood. Wait- did someone just say that a new engineering hire just reverse engineered a motherbox?!

[shushmal]

Steve bites back a sigh when he sees a hand waving just out of the corner of his eye, trying to grab his attention from where Steve's gazing pitifully at his drink. The club is loud, music blasting, and maybe it's a little pathetic for Steve to be at his place of work on his day off, but Robin's behind the bar and he gets free drinks. Unfortunately, the kind of guys who frequent his workplace are usually the opposite of Steve's type.

So, he's prepared, for when he looks up, to gently let down whatever club boy who's decided to shoot their shot with him tonight. They all start to look the same to him: bleached hair, glitter, crop tops and low riding pants. Men who are too much like Steve to be what Steve's looking for.

When he looks up, however, his eyes go a little wide and his lips part from around the straw against his tongue.

"Hi!" yells the guy, long hair, long legs, long fingers. He's wearing way too much leather and denim for this place, and he must be boiling under that jacket. "W-would you like to dance?"

Steve takes a longer moment to take him in: his shoulders hunched up around his ears, fingers twisting his hair nervously, eyes big and brown and beautiful.

Straightening from where he's been hiding against the wall, Steve steps up into the guy's space, watches his eyes go bigger and his face go pink. He's perfect.

"I'm Steve," he says, leaning in so he can be heard over the music. "And you don't look like the kind of guy who dances."

"Oh, I'm not," the guy says, eyes flicking around Steve's face, dropping to Steve's chest, to his thighs and back up again. "Um, sorry. I'm Eddie."

Steve grins. "Nice to meet you, Eddie."

Eddie's mouth quirks up, an giddy, boyish smile. "P-pleasure's mine," he says. "And I may be terrible at it, but I'd love to dance with you. If you'd like."

"I would like," Steve tells him. He holds out his hand, feels his heart flutter when Eddie takes it. "I'd like that very much."

[demaparbat-hp]

Izumi (steambaby) sketches.

[drama-glob]

I guess we know why Uzi acts the way she does around N and I love that Khan was still into it, but it makes sense given that she's his wife. ;) XD

[twilightcitysky]

Hypothesis: Aziraphale HATES that Crowley is living in his car.

Supporting evidence:

The very first thing we see him do in the present is stop Maggie from moving out and making sure she feels welcome to stay as long as she likes.

He clearly knows Crowley’s unhappy before anything happens in the plot: “Does it calm you down?”. And also clearly feels helpless about it. Enter the conspicuous Eccles cakes: Aziraphale’s offer, which is rejected.

Crowley’s obviously, for all his hedging, spending a lot of time at the bookshop— so much that he has his own glasses perch and feels immediately comfortable removing them. See also: “Technically my bookshop but we both get plenty of use out of it”, “Why don’t you wait inside? You like waiting inside”.

It’s Crowley who immediately shoves the box of plants into Aziraphale’s arms after Aziraphale returns from Scotland.

Speaking of Scotland, why wouldn’t Aziraphale take the train? Why insist on driving the Bentley? Is it perhaps because he wants to get Crowley and his plants into the shop, and thinks if he creates a situation where Crowley has to stay there, maybe he won’t immediately leave again?

He’s got an empty bedroom and an apparently pathological need to make the person staying there very comfortable, creating cute little customized souvenirs like he’s an Air B&B host (displacement!).

He immediately jumps to having Gabriel stay with him— he didn’t have to. Arguably, both Gabriel and Aziraphale would be safer if Gabe stayed elsewhere.

That’s what I’ve got for now but I’m sure there’s more. Throughout the show, watch what Aziraphale gives to others and does for others, and it’ll tell you what he wants to do for Crowley. He’s living so deeply in displacement in makes him come across as manic and brittle.

(What probably happened is Aziraphale offered the spare bedroom and Crowley, who unconsciously didn’t want to be his roommate or sleep in a single bed with Aziraphale right downstairs because how could the poor lovesick boy cope with that, told him he wasn’t a “good deed” for Aziraphale to do and stormed off.)

Conclusion: Aziraphale asked Crowley to stay at his place, immediately and probably repeatedly. They had a row about it, and Crowley refused, and to this day Aziraphale doesn’t understand why.

And it hurts him.

[somegrumpynerd]

Cross has trouble getting to sleep alone in his room and goes looking for a distraction, but ends up finding a solution for both of them

[gunstellations]

confessions

[limonnitsa]

reciprocal gift | Ida's wand handle lore

Sebastian might not understand Ida's passion towards nature and it's aesthetic, but he is attentive enough to notice it.

And after Ida's gift - the music box that played the lullaby mother sang to Anne and Sebastian, he tried his best to make something equal despite the lack of money or time.

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every time i've been obsessed with drawing a gentle 40 something year old wizard man who would go to extreme lengths for love getting with a beautiful elf woman with red hair and a thing for skeletons, i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice

[sunrizef1]

Ah yes, look at those race cars

[lupinus-bicolor]

from a meta perspective deciding not to include romance options in red dead 2 was probably for the best (they had a story and they were damn well going to tell it) but the mechanics and the interactions they programmed in to avoid romance inadvertently made Arthur Morgan the best asexual rep ive ever seen. its kind of hilarious

[unclefathersantateddy]

Bob Belcher hyping up his own strip tease with "you won't even want it, you- you'll wanna leave" is on my mind tonight fellas

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Aang, you're really in it now...

This is Zu—I mean, Jian Li and Katara's second meeting in the Kyoshi Warriors AU. The first proper one, anyway.

Once they get through a minor difference of opinion or two (“I can carry my own basket!” “Never said you—” “I'm not weak!” “I didn't—” “Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean—” “Would you listen for once, woman?!” ) they'll become nearly inseparable.

For now Jian Li will carry Katara's basket all the way to the Kyoshi Warriors' dojo and, once there, they'll mercilessly tease Sokka when they see him in uniform.

[rokudaimeplease]

"Maybe... Next time... We can... Go get a bite to eat." "You mean a date?" "Huh?!"

[loadingbnha]

THE MOMENT NAOMASA REALIZED THE EXTENT OF WHO ALL MIGHT ACTUALLY IS

For refrence; a side by side comparison of how Naomasa knows All Might vs how Toshinori is when he actually lets loose

[youngpettyqueen]

I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for