#can't find the post actually but I remember there were flying fishes...

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Unbothered sea creatures ! You can find them as designs on my teespring :)

[moonyasnow]

Just some Octatrio thoughts, about another post

Ok I don't usually do this but this one take about the Octatrio I scrolled past on my dash the other day has invaded my brain like a parasite and latched on and absolutely refuses to let go, so I just need to get it out of my system or it's gonna drive me crazy

I don't remember the OP's name, but if I remember correctly the post was basically about how, apparently(apologies in advance if I got something wrong or misrepresented the OP's words):

People who have soft, fluffy headcanons for Azul, Jade and Floyd are kids who had the jokes the characters were based on, such as:

Jade likes mountains apparently not because he just thinks nature is fascinating but it's supposed to be a joke for mountains being good places to dump bodies

The Leeches are implied to be a literal fish mafia

The Octatrio are dressed like American prohibition-era mobsters

Jade and Floyd want to eat Azul

fly over their heads.

And I just—

The only word I can think of to explain what I feel every time I remember it is 'baffled'. I mean absolutely 0 disrespect in any way, shape or form to the OP, but I am genuinely fascinated by how they could have come to those conclusions.

My first thought was 'no actually I'm pretty sure people get it' And there are people over the age of 18 who have fluffy headcanons about them too, you know?

My second is 'why can't it be both?' Like, why can't Jade genuinely find mountains and nature fascinating while having it on a more meta level also be a small joke about how mountains are good places for dumping bodies?

Why can't Floyd like Takoyaki while also NOT wanting to eat his best friend?

Why can't the Leeches be a mafia family while still having Jade and Floyd, who are literally still teenagers, be multidimensional characters who have priorities and like other things than just 'haha murder'?

Sure, those jokes and influences are there, but they are not the end-all-be-all of the characters? This just feels like a very one-dimensional way of looking at these characters.

And isn't TWST's entire thing that appearances can be deceiving? In a way I feel like Jade's love of mountains being viewed as 'oh he dumps bodies there because he's a scary ocean monster and has thus probably killed people before so of course that's why' is a very surface-level reading and understanding of him as a character— it just sounds like something some random student who has only seen him from afar and doesn't actually know him as a person would think.

And it's a similar thing with the Takoyaki. The surface-level reading would be 'if he likes eating Takoyaki, which has octopus in it, that must mean he wants to eat Azul too! Because Floyd is big and scary and has probably killed people before' To me it also sounds like something Ace or Grim might think before Book 3.

And, while I'm not gonna deny the Tweels have almost certainly murdered (or at least gotten close to it) people before, in a way it just feels kinda...idk, mean-spirited? To say, for example, that Jade can't just have nature be a thing he enjoys for its own merits, that he's not allowed to have that as just a thing he genuinely likes and there has to be some deeper, meta reason for why. Or that Floyd can't just enjoy Takoyaki and probably tease Azul with it but also not actually want to eat him because he likes him and wants him around. To me that kinda feels like sucking all the joy and interesting nuance out of a character, in a way.

And implying that the people who don't ascribe to the same view as you are kids also feels somewhat infantilizing? Like, it just comes off as saying that the people who disagree haven't thought about it hard enough or just aren't smart enough to get it, and I just feel like that's not a great stance to take in any kind of discussion. Quite a flimsy way of trying to discredit the opinions of those who disagree, too.

I am NOT trying to start any kind of 'drama' or 'attack OP' or anything like that; I'm genuinely very confused— I just feel like one of us, either OP or me, is misunderstanding something here

[rubykgrant]

I can't remember if I posted about it already, or if I just can't find it (because searching for something on here is impossible), but I'm thinking about my Avatar story idea from when I was a teenager (literally right after the original series ended, and way before we had Korra or the comics as a continuation), so here it is again-

-Zuko realizes his dad will never tell him where Ursa is, and just keeps using it as a bargaining chip, so decides to ignore Ozai and focus on helping put the Earth Kingdom/Water Tribes back together, and get the Fire Nation out of "war-mode"

-He also tries to figure out how to help his sister; Azula isn't being violent now that she's fully accepted defeat, but she is SUPREMELY depressed (and seems to expect him to "execute" her, which he very much has no interest in doing). Iroh and some others from the White Lotus find a group of Healers, some Waterbenders, who also understand emotional/mental pain, who agree to help her (she does improve eventually, but it is painful for her to even go home to the Fire Nation... finally realizing how badly her father messed her up was a big deal). Eventually, Ty Lee and Mai visit her, sort of trying to have a "new" friendship

-A couple years go by. Things have mostly settled down, but every once in a while there is a problem (a group in the Fire Nation who think Zuko shouldn't be Fire Lord call themselves "Azula's Army". they aren't very powerful, but are definitely annoying, and sow discontent with other people). After an adventure helping a young Fire Sage who is training, Aang and Zuko find some old scrolls about strange "distant islands"

-Sokka recognizes some of the scrolls are from Wan Shi Tong's library (stolen however long ago). The satchel they were in belonged to Zhao; these were other things he found when looking into information about the Moon and Ocean Spirits. One scroll with a map has the island closest to the Fire Nation circled, with notes in the corner about this being a "Secret the Fire Lords keep". Zuko researches a little more, and finally has the answer...

-This island was where a once "disgraced" Fire Lord was sent, and since then, other Fire Lords have used it as a place for banishment. While it is more common to just banish people from the Fire Nation itself, when a Fire Lord wants to entirely erase somebody without actually "killing" them, they are sent to that island. More secrets imply that a few soldiers who were part of Sozin's army secretly saved infants from the Air Temples during attacks. They weren't strong enough to outright oppose the Fire Lord, and there wasn't enough of them to fight the other soldiers, but they wanted to at least save the children. The babies were smuggled away to the island. This is also where Ozai sent Ursa

-The group decides to make a big trip to the island; after all, they have the possibility of not only finding Zuko's mother, but Aang might NOT be the last Airbender! Aang, Zuko, Katara, Sokka, Toph, Mai, Ty Lee, Suki, and Hakoda are all going out on a ship with a few crew members (it would be too far for Appa to fly over the sea, but he and Momo are still along for the ride). Zuko is leaving behind Iroh as temporary Fire Lord, and Suki asked some of her Kyoshi Warriors to help

-At one point as they travel, they find a small, much newer island, formed by a volcano that has started to grow plant life. They all stay for the night to camp and gather some fresh fruit/do some fishing. Katara has figured out a way to "pull apart" salt water so it can be drinkable. Toph just REALLY needs a good dose of LAND before sailing again. In a small tide pool, Zuko teaches Toph how to swim (suddenly remembering how his older cousin Lu Ten taught him way back on Ember Island, before Azula was even born. she finally gets her own Zuka field-trip!)

-They finally arrive at the island; there are a LOT of people here. Some who's ancestors were banished by a Fire Lord generations ago, some who were sailors that got stranded out here after bad storms. A few people who had been Fire Nation soldiers back then decided to stay, not wanting to be part of the war anymore. They all have their own communities... and so many of them are Airbenders! Aang is very excited, and shows off some of his own abilities. The people are amazed, especially because they have never been taught any actual "techniques". Their history and heritage has been lost to them. As everybody walks around, Zuko eagerly looks for a familiar face... when he hears somebody suddenly call his name. He and his mother finally meet again, crying and embracing each other (she sees his scar, and when she touches it and sees his eyes glance down sadly, she knows Ozai did it)

-Lots of catching up, both happy and sad. Some of the people banished here were Waterbenders that had been captured by the Fire Army, in the attempt to have them control whirlpools/tidal waves (searching for some long-lost treasure). The Waterbenders would pretend to be swept away, and escape, eventually finding this island. Now that the restrictions that "banished" them are gone, everybody on the island is welcome to return to the outside world. The ship isn't big enough for everybody, but Ursa and several of the Airbenders make the return trip (more boats will be sent later, both so people on the island can see the other Nations, and so the island can be visited; they won't be alone out here anymore)

-Ursa and Hakoda talk a lot together while sailing back (wishing they could have protected their children better), and Aang shares stories of the Air Nomads with the Airbenders, also teaching some of them how to make an Air Scooter. When they arrive, Iroh is happy to see Ursa again. Zuko takes her to go visit Azula, who at first doesn't believe her mother could return, or EVER love her... but Ursa reassures her daughter; she is real, and so is her love

-Zuko makes one final visit to Ozai; his father has gotten a little "impatient", expecting that Zuko wouldn't be able to resist coming back to ask about his mother for so long... Iroh also walks in, and Ozai tries to mock his brother. Azula walks in as well, finally confronting her father. This throws him, because she looks different (short hair, no make-up), and also because she doesn't care about his approval anymore. He tries to bargain with her, but she refuses his offers. Then, Ursa walks in. Her son and his friends found her, WITHOUT him. Now, she is back with both of her children. Ozai is struck silent. Finally, Aang walks in, telling Ozai that his ancestor failed, the other Airbenders were NOT wiped-out. They will all walk out of here, and have happy lives. He will stay. Nobody wants anything from him anymore. Too late, after they leave, Ozai starts shouting, trying to beg or threaten, but nobody listens (nobody cares)

-In the years that follow, the other islands are eventually located and explored, with more people found there (new people who are Fire/Water/Earth/Air Benders, but with different cultures than the Four Nations. Sokka is sort of the official diplomat for making new friends, and eventually, all the new places are able to travel and communicate with each other). Hakoda and Ursa grow closer, but take a while to act on any romantic feelings (they're worried their children might find it awkward, and Hakoda especially didn't want Katara and Sokka to think he doesn't care about their mother's memory... but the kids are all very happy about it! this makes them all family). Aang helps the Airbenders who want to move back to the Air Temples adjust and recover. People from other nations who have made homes near the Temples are welcome to stay as well, and also help repair the buildings. Hakoda and Ursa live part of the year on Ember Island, and part in the Southern Water Tribe village that was his home (which has also been rebuilt). Azula eventually feels content enough to move on, and she lives on Kyoshi Island with Ty Lee (Azula avoids bending, finally realizing she has PTSD, but she can still help train people with hand-to-hand fighting techniques). Toph makes a home for herself outside of the swamp, where she also begins teaching Metalbending (haha, yes, ironic~). Now that Zuko is very at home being Fire Lord, Iroh stays in Ba Sing Se full time for his tea shop, but returns for special occasions (like when Zuka and Mai get married). Katara surprises Aang with a gift one day; a necklace~

[sarifel-corrisafid-ilxhel]

I posted 1,553 times in 2022

That's 477 more posts than 2021!

315 posts created (20%)

1,238 posts reblogged (80%)

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I tagged 300 of my posts in 2022

#animorphs - 201 posts

#andalite - 51 posts

#andalites - 33 posts

#not animorphs - 23 posts

#ax - 21 posts

#tobias - 19 posts

#visser three - 16 posts

#yeerks - 15 posts

#long post - 15 posts

#marco - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#guaranteed all 17000ish yeerks in that pool were taught to hate and dominate and they could have been different if they'd been raised better

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Had a dream where they tried again with the Animorphs TV show, and they made the following changes:

1.) Tobias is just never on screen in bird morph unless it's stock footage. When everyone is in the barn or outside talking, they just look up off screen/into the rafters/ into the conciently placed tree while the Tobias voiceover plays. The bits where Tobias attacks people from above are done with a muppet and fishing wire.

2.) Ax is actually a tiny puppet touched up with CGI and greenscreened in. Same goes for all the other Andalites.

3.) Rachel isn't tall. She's actually only a little taller than Cassie and Marco. She still complains about being too tall for Gymnastics to Melissa, who is an inch taller than her.

4.) Rather than age the characters up to fit the darker themes of the series, they cast a bunch of 14 year olds and then reduced the stakes and focus more on the kids hanging out. They just randomly run into Visser Three at the arcade and the amusement park and at school a lot.

5.) They have a real tiger, and try to find as many excuses to show it off as they can. When they can't figure out a reason for Jake to be in tiger morph, they come up with other ways to shoehorn it in, like the zoo thought it was okay to take a tiger to the mall for people to pet it.

6.) They finally have more than one Hork-Bajir costume to use, but they only have one Taxxon, which is played by two guys crouched under a long worm costume like a Chinese New Year parade dragon.

I think that's all I can remember.

208 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

#4

If you acquired every animal you have ever touched on purpose in your entire life, what would be the coolest thing you could morph into?

Mine would probably be a nurse shark or a boa constrictor. The snake was from when a reptile specialist brought it to my middle school and let us pet it. The shark would be from a Pet The Shark exhibit at an aquarium.

Not gonna lie though, my favorite one (not the coolest, but definitely the most sentimental value) would be the tiny stingray I was friends with when I was 6.

217 notes - Posted May 17, 2022

#3

Idea: The Animorphs get sent back in time because Ax was fiddling with the radio in Cassie’s barn and accidentally caused a Sario Rip. The Animorphs encounter their past selves. The past Animorphs are convinced the future Animorphs are actually Evil Animorphs (tm) from an alternate dimension. Except Cassie, who has a Timey Wimey sense, and Ax, who simply asks the other Ax <What happened this time?>

236 notes - Posted January 24, 2022

#2

I can't tell if I shared this here, but...

[SCENE: Somewhere. JAKE and TOBIAS are waiting for the other ANIMORPHS to arrive.]

Tobias, seeing an approaching osprey: <You've got incoming. It's an idiot.>

Cassie, playfully: <Thanks Tobias. I love you too.>

Tobias: <Oh shit! Sorry! I thought you were Marco.>

Marco, flying in from another direction in his osprey morph: <This is why I keep telling her she needs to get her own bird morph! Merchandising is never going to go for it if we share morphs.>

Tobias: <And there's the idiot.>

242 notes - Posted March 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Imagine going to a supermarket and finding a Taxxon with a shopping basket hanging off one arm and the Taxxon is weighing five different cantelopes with its other arms.

That is the world I want to live in.

266 notes - Posted February 8, 2022

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[elizabethrobertajones]

3: Honestly nothing; but the fact they say that Labyrinthos has a similar environment to Corvos is a tiny pin in my G'rerenville shipping by creating this weird ghost of a shared home neither of them actually know but one of them is from there and the other has spent a lot of his time at work in a place meant to mimic it. What a weird thing to share. They should go there, together. And hold hands.

4: things people say if they're brought up with Wuk Lamat:

Don't eat the hornbill, Erenville. I'm watching you.

5: On the subject of hornbills, I've been meaning to make this post forever on account of thinking I can't be the only person to think it but then never seeing it. Might as well use this week's random energy allowance to get around to it :P

We do know that Erenville and Hermes are direct mirrors of each other on account of having identical but opposite jobs, right? Like, we all read the two of them as supposed to be read together in their places and what they say about the worlds they occupy? I hope we were all doing that.

It's absolutely not a coincidence that the second task we do with Erenville is flying critters, and that we end up grabbing a green hornbill for him.

We're supposed to remember Erenville at this point in the story if we have not already made the very very obvious connection between Labyrinthos and Elpis as artificial laboratories for flora and fauna. One for Creation and the other simply for preserving, studying and cataloguing said Creation (and things from outside it... gulp. There's beavers down here...)

It's also important everything Erenville says about the specimens they're collecting and what Sharlayan is doing with them; we get just a few lines of dialogue in MSQ (vs doing side quests which fill in a lot of worldbuilding to back this all up) in Labyrinthos about the specimens versus in Elpis where the entire first half is pretty much just about Hermes drowning in grief from his job.

Erenville says they remove the specimens for not being needed for study or difficulty raising. The latter we specifically get in Elpis as what tips Hermes into crisis, because there they just desynthesize the mega carnivores like the WoL going through a stack of unwanted ocean fish. For Erenville, this all seems very natural, and doesn't bother him because gleaners have a much more sensible habit of returning the creatures to where they found them.

It's Alphinaud (oh lordy unless it was Alisaie, I logged out between cutscenes so I don't have the log and now I may be committing Estinien level crimes) who jumps to "they're doing EVIL EXPERIMENTS on them in the EVIL SCIENCE ZONE" because the other scions are primed to be highly suspicious of the Forum so that we the player at this point are being given really different vibes from different characters, and Erenville's innocence and "they don't tell me anything" while describing really odd behaviours that even he currently finds sort of weird for his job, are meant to make us a bit uncertain of if the Forum is up to something really suspicious or just being secretive. Anyway Erenville isn't worried about anyone making Allagan level chimeras or cutting things up while cackling in a dark room with bubbling lurid test tubes around the walls. Of course if you did the Thavnair side of the story first, you get the Amon reminder and a glimpse into HIS evil Allagan laboratory so we have a direct comparison there too, and the reminder that he uses animals and people indiscriminately in his horrible experiments if we forgot what happened to Scylla.

In any case, while Erenville isn't really the leader out here or anything, he ends up obviously being a highly ranked gleaner because he's the one trusted to make deliveries down below, to talk to the Forum on behalf of the Gleaners, and if you start doing your crafting leves immediately on arrival, you'll find leves from him rewarding the team, so he clearly is important even in a place which has very little hierarchy. Erenville doesn't need a job review because his competence is clear to see in every line he says and everything we can learn about him as a side character with 3 short but critical appearances in the opening of the story. The second quest with the hornbill, again you simply assist while he does the competent animal handling rolls and walk in on him basically ready to handle it alone, and you're simply saving him time and ensuring his success in something he did already feel competent to attempt alone.

This care is reversed in Hermes, where everyone else seems to love him and is really worried about him and we go around asking about him and find out how he gets a glowing job recommendation, but that his caring for the creations is a defining feature and also weakness as he's genuinely unsuited to their methods of working. It's interesting in comparison that Erenville's defining feature is his care for the other gleaners - exemplified in his conversation with the Forum members arguing everyone's overworked and exhausted and even making ultimatums for their conditions. He cares about the creatures around him but has the emotional resources even under this extreme duress we find Labyrinthos under, to focus on really important details. While Hermes crumbles and dithers on important decisions about mulching creations and generally seems to be overwhelmed by even simple tasks. If he was in a good headspace I think he could have got that axolotl out of the tree without getting stuck upside down in it, is what I'm saying :P He probably WAS like Erenville at the beginning of his tenure, and only got more and more wobbly in his footing as an animal wrangler (getting eaten by a proto morbol oh NO) as his corresponding faith in their mission failed.

In the nature of time travel we get Labyrinthos first and therefore get to see a sort of ideal version of what Hermes could have been and how he could have been doing his job; how Elpis could have been run with compassion and a place that, at least in how it is relating to the natural world (temporary worker crimes aside) has succeeded where Elpis failed (I would call it a failure not because Creation Bad but because the work practices and lack of mental health care for its employees DID lead to about 10 apocalypses.)

Similarly Elpis acts as a warning because Erenville is beginning to push back against the Forum, and unlike Hermes crumbling under the pressure and mortality that the Convocation represents, Erenville is highly focussed on the here and now, and that includes being far more dangerous to the Sharlayan Ark project simply by standing up for the Gleaners and threatening industrial action (I love him I lov ehim). But like, SAY we weren't meddling and saving the universe without any silly moon spaceship, and the teeny weeny boat was the only option, AND Erenville didn't know the stakes and convinced the gleaners to picket Labyrinthos... We could have all died of the apocalypse pfff.... I mean I fully support him, it's just very funny that this is a threat to the Forum on an existential level, and it's one guy with an absolutely unflappable demeanour bringing up calmly that everyone's rather tired and don't know what's going on. Versus Hermes being a darling of the Convocation but dithering and mourning and panicking ALSO as an existential threat to us all.

ANYWAY I could probably go on all day about these two different magical nature reserves and what they speak to for the story and the worldbuilding and so on, and the two characters who represent both to us. Unless Endwalker IS all just a metaphor that crunch is bad for the games industry. Who knows! Interpretation is in the eye of the beholder.

Oh! The headaches. Definitely the headaches :)

...

And I can teach him so much more.

[timeisacephalopod]

Post Averages pre everything else, Tony's having a bad day, 1st the team is crashing at his tower, the media is adding to the rumor mill and to top it off is Arc Reactor if shorting out in the middle of dinner and peppers not around to help him change it out really he just wants to bang his head against the table, knocked himself out and end this god-forsaken day but when the team goes into panic mode over him he can't help but laugh...What is his life, this is apparently.

I’ve got you lol. I threw in a little Tony/Rhodey in regards to the rumor mill part of this prompt mostly because I dislike pepperony (no hate to people who like them!), so there’s that. The team doesn’t really freak out so much as notice that Tony is a frazzeled boi, but there’s team bonding and whatnot! Movie Night cures all :)

*

Tony remembers all those horror stories people used to tell back when he was in college about terrible roommates and he thinks he really lucked out rooming with Rhodey given his situation now. Some of the Avengers, they’re clean, but Clint? The man is a fucking shit storm of mess and Thor isn’t much better. Natasha and Steve are, thankfully, very much sticklers for cleanliness and they mitigate the damage quite a lot but he still had to give his cleaning staff a good raise because he felt bad for them. Cleaning up after him is enough work, cleaning up after Clint should earn them a six figure annual income.

He pulls fuck knows what out of the sink of the shared Avengers floor, staring at it for a moment before he recognizes coffee grounds at least. “Who stuck coffee grounds in the sink? What, am I running a bed and breakfast for a biker gang?” he asks. No one seems to hear his comment and he rolls his eyes. He throws out the… whatever that was with the coffee grounds on it and decides hiding in his lab is a necessary thing for the day.

They’ve got a dinner event later, but for now he can hide with his machines and they don’t leave mess all over that require him to give workers raises and they also don’t leave coffee grounds and other mysteries in the sink. Time off is necessary so he makes his way down to the lab, smiling when Dummy rolls up, claw spinning happily. He’s three steps into the room when JARVIS speaks.

“Sir, there are rumors of you and Miss. Potts dating again,” he says and Tony rolls his eyes. Poor Pep, she deserves better than this.

“That’s not really new,” he points out.

“There’s a picture,” JARVIS tells him. “Doctored, obviously.”

Yeah, obviously, but Tony lets out a long sigh and throws himself in his desk chair. “Call Rhodey,” he tells the AI. Rhodey is off doing… something, Tony has a hard time keeping up given that Rhodey is constantly on the fly, literally, with the suit. He doesn’t think he’d believe any stupid tabloids anyways but its always good to check in.

When Rhodey answers the phone he’s laughing. “How the hell did you convince Pepper Potts to kiss your sorry ass?” he asks and Tony relaxes a little, pleased that Rhodey has maintained his sense of humor.

“I didn’t, obviously,” he tells Rhodey.

Rhodey lets out a small hum. “Well okay baby, but this looks pretty convincing. Does Pepper know yet?” he asks.

“She’s currently in Japan so probably not, no. She isn’t going to be happy,” he says. She’s forever annoyed that people can’t seem to accept that sometimes women can be good friends with men and have no desire to sleep with them. She claims that she’s spent too much time cleaning Tony’s messes to find wanting to become one of his messes appealing. Tony knows that doesn’t really matter if someone is interested thanks to Rhodey not that people really know about their relationship. Its been an on again off again thing for years, since they were kids really, but after Afghanistan something changed.

And really, the media deciding Rhodey was just a good friend after risking his entire career to spend three months tracking Tony down? That’s probably one of the biggest romantic gestures Tony has ever seen and somehow people managed to ‘no homo’ it. Pepper finds that annoying too but mostly only because people have made her the love interest. At first Tony thought it was kind of funny because he used to have a bit of a crush on Pepper. Now both he and Pepper find it annoying but Rhodey still keeps a sense of humor about it. Maybe its because of all that time spent in the military or something- Tony knows he’s had to deal with a lot of shit and he tends to use humor to do it. Not as much as Tony, but his endless optimism is one of his finer qualities.

“Well,” Rhodey says, “guess she will also be unhappy to hear about your summer wedding.”

Tony sits straight up and lets out an irritated noise. “People are fucking seriously saying we’re engaged? Are you fucking kidding me?” he asks. So much for his day getting better.

“Aw, don’t be like that baby. We can get married in the summer if you want to,” Rhodey jokes.

Neither of them would want to sweat their asses off in a suit in the damn summer so absolutely not.

*

After dealing with the social media mess on both his and Pepper’s end Tony figures maybe, maybe the food will cheer him up. Yeah, maybe Steve is being more annoying than usual and yeah, maybe Clint chews with his mouth open and it makes Tony want to crawl back into that worm hole his nerves are being grated so hard, but food is food. Its comfort and it tastes good, can’t go wrong there.

That lasts all of five god damn minutes when he feels that familiar loss of energy around his heart and fucking great. He’s got three hours before the reactor dies out completely and half that time would be spent getting back to the lab. And Pepper isn’t around to help him change it out either so… well fuck, he doesn’t know.

He excuses himself to the bathroom so he can try and figure something out or, hell, he has no idea. He’ll burn that bridge when he gets to it.

He’s there for five seconds when he turns around and jumps when he finds Natasha there. “Did you not notice the lack of a dress on the door’s stick figure?” he asks.

Natasha rolls her eyes, “I know where the women’s bathroom is, and I also happen to know you’re probably not likely to hang out in there so here I am. What’s going on?” she asks.

Like she cares. He bites back the snappy response though because its not really helpful right now. “The reactor is dying, I need to swap it out in the lab except I’m pretty far away obviously and I don’t have small enough hands to replace it anyways so I guess I’ll die,” he says. It’s over dramatic and ridiculous but he’s tired, okay. Its been a shitty day.

“I have small hands,” Natasha says, holding up hands that might actually be smaller than Pepper’s.

“No offense but I don’t want you near my heart. You might rip it out,” he says. There’s no real malice in his voice and sure, after the stunt she pulled he’s not overly trusting, but its Natasha’s general personality that drew him to that conclusion rather than their past.

“Please, Stark, I have bigger fish to fry. Lets go, you don’t have a whole lot of time to get that thing replaced,” she says.

He considers saying no but beggars can’t be choosers.

*

Natasha is subjecting him to some Russian shit when the rest of the team gets home. Clint looks a little sheepish, Steve has got that ‘aw shucks’ look on his face, and Bruce looks a little constipated. Basically, as far as Tony can gather, they look like they feel bad but he has no idea why. He decides to ignore them in favor of watching his heart for any signs that Natasha somehow tampered with the reactor for funsies.

“I’m not guaranteeing that stuff won’t end up in the sink,” Clint says, shuffling a little awkwardly. It takes a moment for Tony to realize he’s talking to him.

“Clint, what the fuck is this?” Steve asks, holding up what looks like an honest to god squirrel. Frankly the fact that Steve has resorted to swearing speaks volumes.

Clint examines the strange sink object and then shrugs. “Dunno.”

Steve throws the mystery object back in the sink. “No wonder Tony is pissed off at you,” he mumbles.

Tony frowns at this and Natasha lets out a soft laugh, “Stark, you’re not subtle. clearly something has been pissing you off all day and it wasn’t hard to look through the camera footage.”

When the hell had she done that? He’ll ask JARVIS later and make it harder for her to get into his systems. “I’m not pissed off at anyone,” he mumbles. Its mostly true, he’s just frustrated because he’s had a bad day. If they were mostly the ones to cause it, well. Okay so today it was mostly Clint but still.

“Are so,” Steve says, “you’ve been avoiding us all day.”

He has not. Which he tells them but even Bruce looks confused. “This morning you gave us all a bunch of dirty looks and then went and hid in your lab to call Pepper,” he says.

Tony squints, “why would I call Pepper?” he asks. Actually he has to call her to find out how her meetings went but she’s better at remembering these things than him so for all he knows she’ll call him before he gets around to contacting her.

Steve frowns, “well, you’re you know… together,” he says, turning a little red as he says it.

He opens his mouth to tell them all that no, he and Pepper are not together but Natasha speaks instead. “You two are horrible at reading romantic cues. He’s with Rhodes, not Pepper,” she says.

Tony narrows his eyes at her, wondering when the hell she figured that out because he damn well knows he hides it well. For Rhodey’s sake mostly- the military might be a lot less homophobic now but its hard to forget what that oppressive environment is like and also Tony doesn’t want to ruin Rhodey’s career over something so stupid.

‘What?” Bruce asks, frowning. “When did that happen?”

“Why are you looking at me, Bruce? I don’t know,” Natasha says.

Tony opens his mouth, shuts it, and then sighs. “Please stop leaving questionable objects in the sink, Steve clean the fucking work out equipment- you might be attractive sweaty but the damn equipment isn’t. Natasha, stop using all the coffee and not replacing it and Bruce, stop putting the milk back in the fridge empty. I have had people do literally everything for me my entire life, if I don’t have any of these bad habits you can all be broken of them,” he says. He doesn’t mention the fifteen years Rhodey’s mom spent breaking him of the same habits minus the work out equipment.

“I maintain no guarantees with the sink,” Clint says.

Steve gives him a look, “there will be no more road kill in the sink. Its unsanitary,” he says like that should be the primary concern.

*

Bruce and Steve are fighting over the empty milk carton when the elevator makes that irritating dinging noise that Tony, for some reason, thought it was a good idea. He turns and finds Rhodey standing there grinning at him. “Hey,” Tony says, walking over and, mostly out of habit, dragging him away from prying eyes.

“You know the easiest way to solve the Pepper Problem is to just… tell people we’re together,” Rhodey tells him and Tony stops.

“What?” he asks. “Wait, when did you get to America?” As far as he knew Rhodey was overseas. 

Rhodey snorts, “for a genius you’re always slow to pick up on things. I flew here, obviously. Suit’s faster than a plane,” he says.

Yeah, Tony knows. Neither of them have ever been fond of planes and travel time so he’d purposefully made the suits fast. Also he likes going fast. “I… you… what’s with the change in heart?” he asks and Rhodey frowns.

“What change in heart?” he asks.

Tony frowns, “you’ve never wanted to come out with our relationship,” he says and Rhodey gives him a funny look.

“Baby, I’ve always wanted to be out with it. I thought you didn’t.”

Tony rubs his temples because his day has been long and not good and apparently now its ending with a fucking twenty year long miscommunication. “And the military problem?” he asks.

Rhodey snorts, “we’re actual ass superheroes and if they want access to that suit, and they do, they need me. No idiot will fire me for being bisexual no matter how much I know a few will want to.”

Okay, good point. “Well, that’s the reason I thought you wanted to keep things quiet. You’ve worked hard, seems like a shame to ruin it all over a stupid relationship,” he says.

He knows he’s said something wrong when a few beats of silence go by. He sighs, guessing this is his day taking another turn for the worst. “Tony,” Rhodey says softly. “I don’t think this relationship is some kind of stupid fling and I know you don’t. I love you Tony, have for most of my life,” he murmurs.

Tony smiles and presses his face into Rhodey’s chest. Usually he resents being so short, but at times like this its kind of nice to be the small one. Rhodey wraps his arms around him and they remain like that for a moment. “You know what sounds a lot better than ‘we’re dating’? ‘This is my fiancee, stop acting like I’m dating my assistant’,” he says and Rhodey snorts.

“Is this a proposal, Stark?” he asks and Tony nods, pulling a ring out of his pocket and Rhodey’s eyebrows shoot up.

“How long have you have that on you?” he asks.

He grins a little and looks away. “Sine ‘98,” he admits. Thankfully Rhodey thinks its funny and takes the ring.

*

“No horror movies, I do not like those,” Steve tells Natasha, looking somewhat like a frightened golden retriever.

“I’m with Cap,” Rhodey says fast. Natasha looks at him and Tony wrinkles his nose.

“Not for me,” he says. Steve looks shocked that they’ve agreed on something but he doesn’t know about that time he and Rhodey thought dropping acid and watching Nightmare on Elm Street was a good plan. They might both be geniuses but they aren’t fucking smart, that’s for sure.

“All of you minus Tony a little bit have been in wars but you’re afraid of horror movies?” Clint asks, shaking his head.

“Wars don’t involve demonic possession, Clint,” Rhodey says, shaking his head.

“Well, some of those Nazi experiments… Horror movies are creepy,” Steve settles on, changing the subject before things got overly awkward. “We should watch Matilda! Sam says its good,” he says.

Rhodey wrinkles his nose, “no. We should watch James Bond, any Bond will do,” he says.

“We should watch The Sound of Music,” Clint says and Bruce gives him a look.

“No, we should watch Gravity. Sandra Bullock was good in that,” he says.

“We’re watching Sharknado,” Natasha says and Clint lets out a noise of excitement as the rest of them wrinkle their noses.

“Natasha, I forbid that,” Steve says, apparently throwing out a desperate bid for leadership over movie choices.

“Eat my ass,” Natasha tells him. “JARVIS, play the movie.”

Rhodey sighs, “I should have stayed in Egypt for the layover,” he mumbles.

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Too Far Gone

Description: I’m a fly that’s trapped in a web but I’m thinking that my spiders dead

Genre: Angst

Pairing:Kim Jongin x reader

Word Count:1.4k

A/N: I put so much effort into writing and being able to post this one, like this made me physically, mentally, and spiritually exhausted,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, but enjoy

Jongin handed the cashier a twenty and in return received a bouquet of roses and various bags of candy.

Tonight wasn’t a special occasion or anything. It was just that things between him and and his girlfriend were the worst they’d ever been. They rarely ever exchanged anything along of the lines of glances or words, but if they did it was only to pick a fight with the other. Here lately, he’d spent all his time, outside of work, at home drinking anything he could get his hands on. That also meant he was alone way into the early hours of the morning, not that he ever really stayed up past ten thirty, because “I can’t stand being around you when you’re like this.”

As the frequency of the occurrence rose, Jongin couldn’t ignore the ache that coursed through him every morning. On his bedside table always sat a bottle of pain pills and a small scrap of paper. The note on the paper was always the same, never failing to tug at his heartstrings. “One day we’ll be alright again, I love you Jongin” Although what hurts him most is that it’d been weeks since the last time he received one of those notes.

Jongin climbed into the driver’s seat of his car. In the back seat sat a pink gift bag, he moved the candy into that bag with the diamond necklace he had bought earlier that day. It was a certain necklace that Y/n had been wanting for years, but Jongin couldn’t afford it until now. He figured now was the perfect time to buy it for her. It wasn’t some elaborate scheme to make Y/n fall into his arms, however he wanted to start off with this.

When, he didn’t want to think ‘if’, things went back to normal between them, Jongin wanted Y/n to have reminders than yeah he messed up but he was willing to do anything to fix whatever he screwed up.

He pressed shuffle on his phone and dropped it back into his lap. He didn’t pay attention to not one song that played on his drive home. Jongin’s mind was racing beyond belief. He missed her, missed her more than he would ever admit to anyone. Not only that, but he missed coming home and knowing that he was living the best life he could with the person he loved the most. Although in complete honesty, the divide had been caused by Jongin’s inability to take responsibility for his actions.

Y/n wasn’t a saint, but anyone could tell you that they often argued because Jongin loved to point the blame to anyone but himself.

He hesitantly pulled the key from the ignition. Jongin was very nervous, especially now that he was a few minutes away from hopefully changing everything. With one more deep breath, he cautiously bundled all the items he’d just bought into his arms. Jongin tried the knob to the front door only to find it locked. He knew Y/n was home because he could hear music blaring from the sound system in their bedroom. Before he fished out his keys from his pocket, he took another deep breath. “Everything’ll be okay man, don’t worry so much.” He mumbled under his breath as he unlocked and swung open the door.

“Y/n I’m home.” He shouted, shutting the door behind him as he entered. No response. He assumed that she hadn’t heard him, so he made his way to the bedroom. Jongin adjusted the volume of the music. A small smile graced his lips as he crossed the room to find his girlfriend. The song that played was one that at one point or another, Y/n swore up and down she hated, but throughout their relationship Jongin would catch her listening to it.

“Hi.” She whispered, noticing Jongin in the doorway. Y/n sat on the toilet seat, towel coiled tightly around her wet body. Her dark colored hair fell against her skin in gentle waves. Seeing her in such a simple state left Jongin damn near speechless.

This was the first time in a long time Y/n and Jongin were together and they weren’t arguing or had no intent on arguing. And it was because of this moment, him being able to admire Y/n, that he finally gained the confidence to talk to her about fixing their relationship. “I got you a few of your favorites.” He began, slowly walking over and revealing what he’d hidden behind his back. Y/n wordlessly accepted the bag. She peeked inside while grasping the bunch of roses with her other hand. “There are a few things I need to say.”

He paused anxiously, temporarily letting his nerves get the best of him. “One of the worst mistakes I’ve ever made in my life was letting us drift like we did and still are. Another mistake was waiting months to do something about it. I’m difficult. I’m hard headed. I’m extremely stubborn and because of that I get into moods where I only care about myself and block everyone out, even the people I care about most. I’m so so so sorry baby.  You deserve to be treated like a fucking queen and I’ve been too much of a dick to remember that. I know that a few flowers, some necklace, and chocolate won’t fix everything but it’s a small start.”

Jongin waited for Y/n to say something, anything. He stared at her with hopeful eyes, ready for her to express just how much she desired everything to return back to normal. But she didn’t, and silence overtook the bathroom. Instead of speaking Y/n dug through the contents of the bag. Piece by piece she took everything out and sat it on the side of the bathtub. She finally got to the necklace, and gasped as well as dropping the bag on the floor. “Jongin,” Was all she could manage. Y/n sat dumbfounded, unable to form any sort of coherent language. “Jongin,” She tried again. “You got it. You actually got it.”

He nodded. “I promised you I would.” He stepped closer to her. “Turn around and I’ll put it on for you.” It took her a moment to register his words, but she slowly turned, letting the diamond necklace slip from her fingers and into Jongin’s.

Y/n walked over to the mirror. The necklace looked even better than she’d imagined all those years. She turned back around to face Jongin. The eagerness in his eyes were met with tears. “I… don’t think I can keep this.” His slight smile weakened and eventually melted away completely. “Why not? I bought this for you, because you deserve it along with much much more.” Y/n wiped at the few tears that had started to fall, without even looking at Jongin she continued to get dressed. “I just… I can't… I… ” She couldn’t quite find the words she was looking for. “I didn’t just sit around, moping and waiting for you to change, for everything to change.” She burst out suddenly. Her words shocked Jongin but it her Y/n more to finally admit what she’d been doing the past few months. “It obviously hurt seeing things so fucked up between us. It was like you had became a completely different person, someone different than the man I fell in love with and very different from the one person I thought cared about me more than anything else in the world.” Jongin couldn’t quite grasp what she say was on about. “Baby what are you saying?” Y/n sighed. “I’ve f-found someone that I know does care about me Jongin and not after months of him supposedly acting like he didn’t.”

Jongin’s chest tightened at her words, slowly putting the puzzle pieces in front of him together. “And you’re getting ready to go see him right now, aren’t you.” It wasn’t a question, it was more like a realization. She nodded. In that moment Jongin swore he felt his heart break, shattering into smaller bits and pieces as the seconds ticked by. He’d waited way too long to try and fix things. “So that’s it for us?” He deadpanned, trying to hold back his own rush of tears. “Can you promise me that what happened the last half year won’t happen again?” She asked, voice stern and unwavering despite how she actually felt. “I… don’t know if I can.”

“Then I guess this is the end.”

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[orionsangel86]

hello! i was wondering if you have any links to the fish meta about castiel? or if you wrote any yourself? i can't seem to find it

Hey! well I don’t remember reading anything specific recently, as I thought about it during my review for this episode after seeing this post cross my dash and having a good giggle. But when Cas was first called a fish by Rowena in 10x22 (Dabb episode) I think there was stuff floating around. I wasn’t actually active until season 11 started so I don’t have any archives of meta from around that time, however from my own memory about Cas and fish we have these lines from 6x20:

“I remember being at a shoreline, watching a little grey fish heave itself up on the beach and an older brother saying, "don't step on that fish, Castiel. Big plans for that fish.” 

“Those first weeks back in heaven were surprisingly difficult. Explaining freedom to angels is a bit like teaching poetry to fish.” 

and this line for 10x22

“You're just fascinating. An angel that rejected Heaven. That's like a fish that wants to fly, or a dog that thinks he's people.”

“I'd be happy to kill her, she just called me a fish.”

(obviously these callbacks to 6x20 just go hand in hand with season 12 as Dabb is clearly as big a fan of 6x20 as we are. 

I THINK these are the only two instances pre Season 12  but please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Interestingly there is conflicting symbolism here. In 6x20 BOTH humanity and angels are referred to as fish. Humanity at first as the whole “big plans for that fish” implies that it would evolve into humans, but Cas refers to angels as fish as well in terms of how they cannot understand freewill. 

In 10x22 Cas is really insulted at Rowena calling him a fish, (compared to humans? or Angels?) but Rowena had a point. Cas has been described (I think by Edlund) as the “fish out of water” by being the angel who rejects heaven and tries to be human. He doesn’t quite fit in, but he still tries. From 6x20s symbolically connecting fish to both Humans and Angels it makes sense that Cas is the “fish” in this respect. He is both Angel and Human in a way, or at least, he is the Angel of Humanity at this point.

I think 12x12 explored that imagery with Cas being the fisherman’s “catch” and I don’t think it was a random connection. 12x12 is FULL of references to 6x20 and therefore it just fits. Cas is the fish. Still desperately struggling to crawl onto the shoreline, to find his place in this new scary dry world full of new dangers. Just like humanity did long ago on that shoreline, Cas is finding his place. Thankfully by the end of 12x12 he had his place confirmed. There is no doubt anymore in his mind that he is a Winchester, and that he has a safe place to call home.

It just so happens that one episode prior to Cas being “the fish” Dean said this:

(gif source) 

Its just such a damn coincidence don’t ya think? :P