#build up to a show down

[ajgrey9647]

Sneak preview of Build Up to a Show Down

@augment-techs @skyland2703 @lordkingsmith

“He tried to kick me in the fucking nuts!” Tommy’s snarl cut through the hushed front office, the closed door to Mr. Kaplan’s office doing little to muffle the confrontation.

“Mr. Oliver! Sit down!” the principal yelled, the forceful rap of the older man’s hands upon his desktop making the secretary jump from where she sat out in the front office. “Considering the chaos you’ve unleashed since August, I’m sure Mr. Skullovitch was somehow provoked by your actions!”

Mr. Kaplan looked to where Eugene huddled in the dated plastic chair, scrawny legs drawn up to his boney chest. It was clear the punk was still seething, shoulders rapidly rising and falling as he panted while he cut his eyes at Tommy. His shaky upper lip was lifted over his teeth in a very uncharacteristic aggressive manner.

Skull’s orange shirt boasted a blossom of vivid red that dripped down the front, his nostrils packed with rolled white gauze from the nurse’s office. Dried, crusted flakes of blood feathered around the dressing and dusted the flesh above his mouth. An ice pack dripping with condensation hung limply from one hand.

“He was acting like a dick! Like he always does, Mr. Kaplan!” Eugene managed to choke out, his voice nasally, and he coughed a few times when the blood slicking the back of his throat went down the wrong pipe. “He should be locked up in the loony bin!”

Tommy’s hazel eyes widened, and he almost looked as if he were about to launch himself again at the smaller teen.

“You’re not going to do anything to him, Mr. Oliver, so I don’t want to see one cheek lifted off that chair! I’m not kidding, young man! We discussed your colorful history prior to you starting here and I know I warned you that your past behavior wasn’t going to fly in this institution.”

The principal’s eyes went back to Eugene, his expression exasperated, yet also concerned.

“And Mr. Skullovitch…there’s no need for that kind of language. I have no doubt he did something that riled you into attacking him. You’ve been in my office for a lot of different reasons, but not for something like this. Farkas has been into see me quite often… Fighting is more his style, not yours, Eugene.”

He sighed, rubbing a hand over his wrinkled forehead.

“I won’t be surprised if I see him later today once he wakes up and decides to grace us with his presence. Your friends will trip over each other to tell him what happened this morning.”

Tommy rolled his eyes.

“I’m not afraid of that fat fuck…”

Mr. Kaplan shoved his chair away from his desk, his patience reaching its limit.

“Alright, Mr. Oliver, I’ve heard enough from you to last me the rest of the school year. Rather than reward your unruly behavior by sending you home, you can spend the rest of the day in the front office, doing your schoolwork and being silent. I don’t want to have to call the police as your parents never seem to pick up the phone…”

“Don’t threaten me with a good time, Mr. Kaplan…” the sullen teen hissed after his lips had briefly twitched in a vile smirk. “Besides my so-called parents probably won’t care.”

Skull caught the unconscious reaction, his stomach feeling like it had just knotted up in several greasy links. The Oliver house had been rather…quiet. No drunken ranting or yelling or swearing. No screeching… No cop cars in the driveway anymore.

“How the hell does no one else see what you are?” he yelled, chucking the ice pack in the asshole’s direction. “He’s evil….”

“Mr. Skullovitch!” the principal interrupted sternly.

“NO! You need to listen to us! He’s going to…” Eugene stubbornly barreled on, before another fit of blood-choked coughing stopped him.

Tommy smiled sweetly, yet his eyes had pooled that spooky black they always did when he was about to do something heinous.

“So dramatic, Eugene…” he cooed. “That hurts my feelings!”

Skull growled, swallowing the mouthful of coppery liquid.

“You don’t have feelings, prick! Except anger! You get your rocks off on hurting people! You’re a psychopath!”

Mr. Kaplan rounded his desk, trying to block the barbed banter.

“Stop this at once…”

But Tommy was obviously rankled by the mention of his questionable mental health.

“Hey! They never officially decided if its psychopathy or sociopathy, Eugene, swirling around in there. So, if you’re looking to weaponize my list of mental health, I’m going to insist on accuracy!”

[whumpluv]

people trying to talk through sobs is so good in whump. have you ever tried to talk while crying? it's not easy. quick, gasping breaths in-between desperate and incoherent stammering because you're sobbing too hard to get the words out. should be used in whump more tbh.

[dykedvonte]

I just realized some people are confused about events in the alluded to past in Mouthwashing, particularly about how long the crew has been working together.

The only person who is truly new is Daisuke and it’s why his dynamic with the crew and role in the story is very unique and somewhat distant. Curly didn’t just get Jimmy this job on the Tulpar, he got him the job with the Pony Express. He’s been his copilot for probably a couple of years but still not as long as they’ve been friends. None of them are new with the freight industry, Anya and Swansea especially have been doing this for years, together.

Jimmy is the newest on the regular crew, maybe just a few assignments, but it’s not his first time working with them. I think it’s just something important because this isn’t just one bad mistake that snowballed with giving Jimmy the job. None of them thought Jimmy would do anything, no matter how off-put by him they could’ve been, since he hadn’t done a thing since being there. Generally unpleasantness isn’t a crime and he’d be aware of that.

It was a festering thing and a sort of forced trust they had to give him that he knowingly took advantage of. He was the black sheep and still a wolf under the wool. He expected when he lashed out, that he had been there long enough for it to be looked over completely. Got too comfortable in the space he inserted into and did a lot of damage with his claws when he felt he was going to get shaken out.

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Happy new years… let’s stay hydrated together ✨

[eternalnat]

I rarely make tumblr posts, but I am so infuriated by this situation I need to say something about it.

Five Hargreeves, who spent 45 years alone in a post-apocalyptic world, and every single moment of his life since was spent trying to get back to his family. The Five who ran himself dry for 2 weeks straight trying to stop the end of the world, and reunite his family. The Five who slaughtered an entire board of directors just to ensure him family's safety. Who turned back time himself, while bleeding out on the floor, just to save his siblings. You're telling me, that the Five whose entire motivation for living was once saving his family, is the same Five, who in s4 has entirely given up, and in the Subway is the one trying to convince Lila to stop looking after 6 and a half years? The Five who never once stopped trying to return to his family in all 45 years of surviving alone, decides to settle down in a greenhouse and live out a cottagecore life?

Furthermore, the same Five who told Lila that Diego loved her, who reassured his brother that his wife wasn't cheating on him and loved him dearly, the same Five who got on with Lila only due to the fact that they both cared for and loved Diego, the person they had in common, is the same Five who stole his brother's wife, whom he had three children with, just because the writers were excited that Aidan Gallagher was finally legal?

Five who hated authority, who despised when people gave him commands, who wanted nothing more than to retire in s3, is now working for the CIA and willingly calling his boss, 'sir'?

Five who used to be so paranoid and suspicious of everyone and everything, who used to solve problems alone and came to epiphanies that saved the world, who didn't even trust a past version of himself, also didn't realise that his boss of many years had an umbrella tattooed on his wrist?

Everything that once stood out about his character is now gone, as if the writers themselves entirely forgot about his existence until the last moment, and added him in as an afterthought, without thinking of the effect he would have on the story.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - The World That Never Was

[luck-of-the-drawings]

EDYN TIDESTRIDER, CHALLENGER OF THE UNDERSEA, RIVAL OF THE DEEP. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR BROTHER WAS CHOSEN TO BE A WEAPON OF THE GODS? HOW WILL YOU UNDO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO HIM?

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Once I was scrolling thru naruto fics and saw the tag "buisnessman!Kakashi" and all I could think about was Kakashi being a child businessman, owning all the konoha adults at doing business while wearing an oversized suit and tie. That idea is so fucking funny to me.

[phoenixcatch7]

Man, I want shapeshifter cap SO BAD.

I want to see a Billy that really leans into the wonder of the world, the million paths a child could take in their life.

I want to see a Billy that wants to try everything, at least once.

A Billy that looks at all the people who spit at him, deride him, pity him, dismiss him, ignore him, because he has no future, no prospects, a child in the gutter and say no. I'm going to grow up to be whoever I want to be.

And a captain marvel that says you're going to be amazing.

Billy taking the premise of captain marvels form - his ideal self, a blank slate for Billy to paint his bright colours, the person he wants to be deep inside - and dialling that freedom up to eleven.

A dancer, a dinosaur, a train conductor, a tiger, an ice cream maker, a butterfly, an astronaut, a shark, a college student, a Tamaranean, a mouse, a scuba diver, an elephant, a doctor, a moose, a race car driver, a dog.

A child wanting to see the world.

If you want to find captain marvel, well first you've got to try his comm, probably a couple times.

Then you've got to go to fawcett, hope he's there and not saving the yetis from a salamander invasion in a different dimension.

You've got to ask around, because it often goes by word of mouth here, no matter what technology you bring. Don't worry, it'll spread very quickly, but if you're in a hurry you can find his commemorative statue and leave an offering. No one knows if it really works, but it's a good way to pass the time and feel productive.

Soon, a face will peel out of the crowd. It's always familiar, but it's never the same one.

Wait for the flash of lightning in a cloudless sky.

And then you will find captain marvel.

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[aflawedfashion]

Trevor & Pete | Ghosts 2x06

[aeoris4lovers]

i know travis guiding them was 100% travis and not in character as chet bc he didn’t even have the voice going, but i also would like to imagine that chet did exactly that.

i like it generally bc he has moments like that where he drops the chaos when things get serious (i’ll never forget watching him and orym talk about will and realizing that oh god, under all those layers of whatever the fuck is going on with him, he cares so much).

but i really like it in this specific situation too bc i’m pretty sure imogen was the one to step up after his confession and immediately say they weren’t going to leave him, and i can totally see him avoiding the conversation in the moment but then stepping up to guide her and taking it really seriously out of appreciation.

[lunarmoves]

Slcbsks its okay no worries I just wanted to know if there was a fic of it!! I’ve read your other works and gosh darn it they are so good!! Omg embarrassing that I also got the name of the bleeding wires au wrong km😭

Anyway, I hope you’re having a ✨fantastic✨ day!! I hope there will be another part to the drabble!! I wanna know what happens after ✨the kiss✨😩🤌

dw about getting the name wrong, ‘bloodied’ is basically the same as ‘bleeding’ LMAO. also thank you for reading my other works!! it means a lot that you enjoy them so much 💞💞 do u have a particular fav :3 (other than bleeding wires LOL)

im assuming youre talking about that suggestive obedience drabble that ended w a kiss. i wasn’t planning on writing a direct continuation for it tbh LMAO. buttttttt okay ill let you in on a secret on how i imagine it to go since ur so nice <3

sun kisses you and it’s like the entire world freezes. you don’t know how to react—don’t know how to process anything of what you’re feeling. the frigidity of the room along your bare skin. the way his hand grips at your side squeezing squeezing squeezing. the intensity with which he presses the lines of his static smile against your mouth.

it—you recognize faintly—is a bit like pressing your lips against a wall. immovable. there is no motion, no push and pull, give and take. there is only him, him him him. pressing down onto you. holding you. letting you feel the gentle vibrations in his chassis, the almost violent whirring of his fans. you feel like you’ve been coated in static, numb and distantly tingly. you have to suppress a shiver.

and beyond the buzzing emptiness of your brain, the shock and surprise of what is now happening—it clicks that sun is kissing you.

the same sun who makes jabs at humanity more often than is comfortable. who criticizes you from time or time or gives you backhanded compliments. who bothers you even if you don’t feel like talking. who tells you about all the nitty gritty thoughts he has. who looks down at all that you are and doesn’t really see you, you think, past your blood and flesh and bones. who has never shown an ounce of interest in you in this manner.

(you don’t realize that he has been showing interest, all this time. he just never realized it himself, never quite processed that certain actions he has taken is his way of showing he actually… likes you. more so than others.

and you were just too unused to his quirks and particulars to be able to properly read him.)

and you are so, so confused.

you’d just wanted to poke back at him, for his stupid experiment he said he was conducting. that’s what you tell yourself—incessantly in your mind, repeating it over and over until it seems less like a lie. you wanted to see if there was anything past that complex he wears like some kind of thick skin. you never.... you never imagined things would come to this. you are afraid of what it means, deep down.

and so, you reach your hands up to his chassis, and give him a gentle push back.

it's like he has to tear himself away, staring down at you with pupils that have dilated so much, it's like there are full moons in his eyes. your gaze flicks across his faceplate, analyzing.

"sun," you say quietly, your lips numb. that's all it takes.

he steps back—abrupt and sharp—the rays along his faceplate twitching and stuttering. his hand snaps away from your side like it has been burned, and you can see the way his gaze darts about. like he is a cornered animal, confused and startled.

"friend, i—" he starts, then forcefully stops. his hand clutches at the front of his chassis for a moment, scrambling for something you're not sure he has. he shakes his head, minute, then turns his back to you.

"your shift is over," he says, oddly stilted. something sinks, deep within your chest. "put your clothes back on and get out."

and then he leaves. you can only stand there, getting steadily colder and colder, your heart a jumbled mess.

[mayabishopgold]

Maya & Sullivan | Station 19 - 2x03 "Home to Hold Onto"

[muthaz-rapapa]

love how much of a shipper Mayu is 😂 while Yuki is like “Get over yourself 😑” 🤣

but as great as it is that they’re so supportive of him…

why the hell are y’all in the same space while the confession is about to happen?! can’t you give them some privacy and go hide behind the bushes or something? there are so many trees! 😂

oye, no wonder why Satoru couldn’t say it 😅

shame cuz this timing (on the bridge + 🍂 + 🌅) is like the PRIME moment for a romance scene

anyways, Mey Mey is on my hit list now 😊💢

JK! JK! I will forgive cuz the reactions are so meme-worthy ↗️ 😂

but yea, the status quo has been SHAKEN

Finally! 😤

when the main story is mid, you have to count on the subplots to carry you thru the rest of the show…but ain’t that true for pretty much almost all mahou shoujo 😅

RUN, IROHA! RUN!

run and stew over those feelings and reciprocate eventually but don’t take so friggin long cuz a date ep would actually be fun to watch BUT it cannot be like another Iona and Yuya scenario cuz unlike those two, you and Satoru are waywaywaaayyy past that stage already so get together cuz you’re perfect for each otherrrrrrr 🪭😫💕

[clowningaroundmars]

POM posted a sneaky peek from the production room of a younger chuck with shorter hair when living back in deluxe and i just........ had so many young muckles feels man.

SO MANY