#biting and ripping and killing

[guinevereslancelot]

not work from home ending 😭

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[wintergrofyuri]

[familyofpaladins]

I JUST SAW THE ACTUAL TRAILER FOR THR LIVE ACTION HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON MOVIE AND I NEED TO PHYSICALLY FIGHT SOMEONE

[creekfiend]

my lawyer did some research on the judge I was assigned for my disability hearing and apparently he's a 50/50 sort of judge who doesn't lean toward either granting or rejecting claims. which sounds on its face fine until you realize that by the time you make it to a hearing it's been 5+ years and you've already applied, been rejected, appealed, been rejected, like ten times

by the time cases make it to hearing 90% of them should be getting granted and those that don't get granted should be for like... technical reasons. tbqh

so if you're a disability claims judge and your rate is 50/50... You Are Evil

[meangreennunseen]

The more I think about poor Clonegrim, the more I realise Argus would hate him so much.

Like, not because this Fulgrim is a clone, but because of what real Fulgrim had done and that face reminds too much of the past as it's just too painful to remember for Argus.

Clonegrim, on other hand, would have it even more painful, because, he is aware what original had done, what he had done. Poor Clonegrim would blame himself so so much more, even so much more, because Argus was someone Fulgrim loved a lot, just as much as he did Ferrus. He adored his Gorgons and yet he destroyed them...

And now Clonegrim stares at Argus, at a man, he no longer recognises. At the man, whom hatered and time changed so much. While Argus stares at a man, who looks like the day they first met eachother. The man who still looks at him with the sight of love and yet memories dictate otherwise.

One too similiar to original stuck in the memories. Another too changed from original stuck in memories.

[h-doodles]

Minthara × Helene (My Durge)

FULL OF LOVE FOR ONE (1) PICREW RN!!!

[dailykugisaki]

138 | id in alt

Being delirious leads to mistakes, one of those mistakes is not noticing a curse on your back and attached to your neck. AND. it's ugly.

[spellsparkler]

writing elias is fun for, i expect, the same reason a lot of people find the dark urge fun: I know more or less what's going on with her and she's got no fucking clue. she's a very information-driven person, and as soon as she realises that there is some largely indefinable difference between her and the rest of them she immediately starts trying to catalogue it and narrow it down. it's interesting to write someone who is so deliberately aware of themself and observing themself all the time

[persephinae]

hehhhhh, this was suggest for my Wulf x Holly board

[trans-son-of-perdition]

I wish the Army recruitment officer posting qr codes for people to "get their medical bills paid off by the military" on every pole up and down the street of the hospital I work by a very die thanks

[babstheyaga]

i drew mc

you have any idea how much i love this? any idea? no? okay I'll just bite you until you understand. peace through violence is the only answer.

[entropic-saudade]

The Slaying of Abel in Apocryphal Tradition, Christopher Scheirer

SPN - 9x16 Blade Runners, 10x23 Brother's Keeper, 10x2 Reichenbach

Inspiration (see also: El vampiro de la Catedral de Toledo (o el mordisco de Caín) [Adolfo de Mingo] - hombre de palo)

[anachronistic-falsehood]

twirling my hair kicking my feet thinking about qbagi rn she’s so hot for threatening the federation <3

[starheirxero]

FUCK EVERYTHING FUCK EVERYTHING I CAN'T EVEN I CAN'T EVENNNNN!!!!!!!!! ECLIPSE ONLY BEING PROUD OF LUNAR ONCE THEY HANDLE THINGS HIS WAY. ECLIPSE THINKING LUNAR FINALLY "GOT IT" AND BEING DISAPPOINTED THEY AREN'T HANDLING THINGS THE "BITE FIRST THINK LATER" WAY ANYMORE. I'M GUNNA BE ILL

[veshialles]

jesus christ, first the spambots were flooding my inbox and my dms and now y'all are fucking tagging me in post comments??? PLEASE I AM SO FUCKING BROKE LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE RRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!