#bs 2000

[mcforwhatiam]

Some cool things from Matt Takei's collection

[hifreqblade]

It's unbelievable and unconceivable That you would say aloud if you feel you're beaten down Take a sec from your life, think what it's really like To have nothing at all and backs against the wall

[seymourmusicclub]

BS 2000 - N.Y Is Good

[watmalik]

AINT NOBODY LOOKING AT THOSE DAMN SUITS.

[whenloveand-deathembrace]

Bam margera being fruity to close off this wonderful pride month <3

[inknose]

GRRL SNAR: a fem!sasunaru fanmix

usually when I make fanmixes I do them pronoun and gender blind (bc who cares right?) but for SNS MONTH 2023: Day 27 FEM!SNS I have concocted a very special narusasu fanmix: GIRL VERSION!!! in which all songs have female vocalists and no mentions of dudes.* listen to sasuke and naruto's full epic journey, from angsty childhood to fanfiction happily ever after... as beautiful wonans *there is one 'boy' that slipped in... I didn't catch it... but I'm allowing it because Baby One More Time is irrefutably about snar

[158590]

[xiaojaan]

When it’s not there, you wish it is, when it’s there, you wish it’s not.

[ragnarokhound]

For the au ask game!

OKAY I wanted specifically to get to the pokemon au from the ask you sent, it's been cooking a bit so it's time to see what comes out of the oven, so... @azol-otl ty for the ask!

Crossover au's are all about the fused worldbuilding for me and speculating on how characters from universe A would fit into universe B heehee hoohoo - and for Batfam especially it's fun to think about the equivalent of their roles as vigilantes! What kind of people have the same level of celebrity, the same sideways seeking of justice?

Naturally this leads you to the gym leaders because a) it's the most fun and b) they are like. Quasi-law enforcement/educators/professional athletes depending on how you try to translate the innate child's perspective on the pokemon universe into something that makes sense as an adult lol ilu pokemon. [insert 'compels me though' gif here]

SO with this in mind, here's 5 fun facts (that are mostly backstory lmao) from a jaytim pokemon au I would write

I'm deeply ill about pokemon so this one goes under the cut lol:

Jason Todd used to be the Champion. He won the role after Dick Grayson quit a year or two before (Dick had been getting older and chafing under the League rules - meaning he'd been chafing under how Bruce ran the League) and was a fierce competitor who didn't believe in going easy on anyone. His Houndoom was a force to be reckoned with, and despite running a mostly Dark-type team, his Honchkrow cleaned up anyone thinking their Fighting-types could sweep. He looked after the League and Gotham with a cocky, self-assured attitude and the win record to back it up. .

Jason disappeared suddenly at the age of 15. Many assumed him dead, after a Rocket (Or whatever Gotham themed gang name we want to go with lol could be Team Joker) bombing in the area he'd last been seen, but he's officially declared missing. Bruce Wayne took back the duties of interim Champion as he once did for Dick Grayson, but he's not quite the mentor he once was. It's obvious he's grieving, and that he doesn't want to mentor any more twelve year olds. Dick signed up to be a Gym Leader shortly after this, returning from his trip about a year early to help out in the chaos following Jason's disappearance. .

Enter Tim Drake. Tim's gym challenge wasn't all that interesting in the circuit at first; he had a rocky start and had to retake a few gym challenges. He wasn't exactly sweeping on his first try every time like Jason had done. He didn't have the meteoric rise that caught the Champion's attention early, didn't get one-on-one mentorship or face-to-face meetings, cautionary advice and congratulations all rolled into one from Bruce Wayne himself - but Tim had patience and grit, and he paid attention. He was gunning for the Championship, and it wasn't just so he could prove himself. Team Rocket/Joker was still out there, and Bruce needed all the help he could get. He was always better for Gotham when he had a Robin. .

Dick had been nicknamed Robin for his all-Flying-type team and especially his Natu-then-Xatu; Jason followed up with his Murkrow-then-Honchkrow; Tim's Rookidee was one among many (Robin-esque pokemon were popularized by Dick and the trend remains through Tim's day) so he wasn't considered a possible Robin successor until it was a Corvisquire and he was about to face Dick Grayson himself, a badge away from Victory Road. By then, Tim and his team were a well-oiled machine (he runs mostly Steel-types lol but also Normal-types for the unexpected adaptability and the 'underestimate my rattata i dare you it's in the top peRCENTAGE--' of it all. FEAR.), and his loss-record had all but frozen while his win-record ticked higher and higher. .

Shit finally goes down about three years after Tim has become Champion and all but bullied Bruce into mentoring him (he basically said 'if you don't watch me, i'll go find Team Rocket/Joker on my own' and triggers all of Bruce's child endangerment traumas simultaneously) and the mysterious Rocket/Joker leader Red Hood shows up, bringing the gang out of the shadows in pursuit of a hidden agenda. Identity shenanigans and "wait is that a Houndoom? But he's only been using Ghost-types, it CAN'T be..." and heel-face turns abound. .

(BONUS FACT: Something something, Jason went into deep cover with Looker or whoever he is, that Interpol guy from X & Y (WAIT. LOOKER MIGHT ACTUALLY BE TALIA AL GHUL IN THIS AU HOHOHO), infiltrating the Rocket/Joker gang and going public as Red Hood is the first step in the last phase of the sting. Cue a million tense Jaytim interactions in which Tim is legitimately trying to take Red Hood down and Jason desperately tries to shake him so that he doesn't do anything that forces Jason to blow his cover. There is at least one 'tugged into a tight space to hide them both from the actual bad guys, "wait, did you just HELP me...?" "Think whatever you want, babybird"' interaction because I am a slut for the first sprinkles of a redemption arc that is rife with UST fufufu)

[lavendersartistry]

"DogDay?"

"Yeah Eve?"

"We're a team, right? We won't leave each other behind?"

"We're always a team, Angel."

Finally, the long awaited post of DogDay and Eve Ewe.

This scene is mainly from before the HOJ but after the experimentations. They're resting somewhere in Playcare under the "sun".

[whumpacabra]

29. Agent

Past captivity and trauma, past torture, past character deaths, guilt

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Merrick was writing the mother of all mission reports and trying to do it in one sitting was going to make him sick. Six months. Six months, three good men, and a hell of excruciating detail to comb through for anything that could bring their captors to justice.

The early days, when Orson and Thatch were still around, those were oddly fuzzy. Hazy, faces obscured by time. Back then, Harrison was the only one who knew Arabic, so he was translating demands and orders to them in urgent whispers. Merrick and Elias knew enough by the time Orson died it wasn’t a problem when they took Harrison away.

Away to the Box.

Harrison didn’t talk about it much, and neither Elias nor Merrick knew exactly what happened in that coffin shaped space. So Merrick could only report what he knew: Harrison’s screams.

(He always wondered if Harrison could hear their screams over his own in there.) 

Merrick knew the Red Room - the furnace room - intimately. It was where they were most often dragged to be tortured. Sometimes strung up by their wrists, sometimes bound to a chair, sometimes blindfolded with their hands bound behind their back.

He wasn’t sure they ever washed the floor - it was always sticky with old blood and gritty from broken glass. At least he assumed it was broken glass - he never remembered seeing any.

Merrick was trying to recount one of the last few sessions they had with Goldtooth (Smith, he knew now). He remembered Elias strung up and whipped, Goldtooth stalking around him with saccharine promises to treat him well if he just agreed to…something. Those demands got blurry and vague the harder Merrick tried to think about them.

But he could remember Goldtooth in crystal clear color. His blue eyes were hungry when they watched Elias flinch under the blows, a smile drinking in every sob and scream. And when he remembered Goldtooth cutting Elias down, cradling his bare, broken body with far too much tenderness, Merrick couldn’t write anymore for the day.

Knowing what Smith did to Wolf, he wondered if they ever came close to his monstrous bloodlust.

Merrick stepped out of his office (a cramped closet cubicle, his old office had been given to a different soldier after all this time). He made his way to the restroom to splash some cold water on his face. The bruise from the Wolf’s solid right hook was starting to show through his dark skin, even though the tenderness had faded to an occasional ache.

He glanced to the mirror as Agent Anders stepped out of a stall, scrubbing his hands with soap and water.

“Captain Merrick.” He nodded in acknowledgement, quirking a brow at the water droplets still damp on his face. “Rough report to write, I assume?”

“Rough is right.” He huffed before sighing. “I keep…thinking of what could have happened.”

“That’s a good way to go insane, Captain.” Anders’ smile was sympathetic. “I’ve seen it happen. You’ll drive yourself crazy. Best not to dwell on it and move on.”

“I just…we could have ended up like the Wolf.”

“You’re not the torturing type, if I may make a naive assessment.”

“Neither was he.” Merrick snagged a paper towel from the dispenser. “Broke some bones, burned some skin but at least he never…he could have done worse.”

“Careful Captain.” Anders voice still had a lilt of friendliness veiling his cold, calculating eyes. “A little close to Stockholm Syndrome to be sympathizing with your torturer.”

“He saved our lives.” Saved them from whatever horrors Smith would inflict when he came to the forefront again. “Puts things into perspective.”

Anders hummed, dark eyes sharp and narrowed in thought. 

“That it does. That it does…”

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[tha-wrecka-stow]

[hifreqblade]

You think that I don't know What is goin' down? It's time you let your goatee go And do the new dance in town

[fizzy0bloom]

class of 09 swap au part 3

still not sure about kelly's designs yet oof

karen's outfit is inspired by a random selfie from like 2008 i think i found on pinterest

part 1 &2 : https://www.tumblr.com/fizzy0bloom/751836249716932608/class-of-09-swap-au-part-3-still-not-sure-about?source=share

[milfbrainrot]

i am enjoying this show but i do think it's a good case study in how... not to worldbuild jlskdfklj.

i know it's not trying to be that deep, so it really is fine, but it's been kinda interesting to me picking up on things i don't think makes sense with the hidden connective tissue for what each society is supposed to be like and how they have developed from the present?

like everyone in most cultures thinks girls are fine and equal to men (ex. the moclan baby situation) and even if it's through an alien acceptance lens they're fine with gays (bortus and klyden) and even maybe chill with trans stuff ("ur kid can decide when she's old enough" in theory) etc.

but there are also so many jokes that stem from inequality that you wouldn't really think about unless you really considered it, like the Standard Straight Marriage Jokes you get with ed and kelly dependent on marital gender roles or alara having trouble with boyfriends who don't want a gf who's stronger than them (even though maybe the issue is her just being scary strong generally, it does come off like her super strength was almost created for the sake of "haha strong woman you would not expect it from" and to then make jokes that would hit with a modern non-introspective audience) etc.

if society has developed and done the work to actually get to a place of equality in these areas then those jokes and casual attitudes would be much less likely, and it makes sense to me that the guy behind family guy would not understand that or care because he is trying to appeal to a very standard modern audience the only way he knows how (uncreative jokes stuck in an outdated status quo).

[whenloveand-deathembrace]

Got bored and made this. Have fun.