#coming to you because he doesnt know how to deal with these new urges

[sophiethewitch1]

Fuck it I AM going to write another Jason one shot. He's gonna have 3 now who cares. Dick soulmate au oneshot is rotting in the grave. Jay's just made for them idk

[themoonstarwarrior]

Well, I haven't seen the episode yet, but since it sounds like BloodMoon is refusing to be saved, imma go ahead and share the idea I mentioned to @twinanimatronics about how Sun could've possibly reached them.

Obviously BloodMoon wont sit still and listen so this scenario has Sun use star power to trap BM just like old moon did to him with Moon on standby to come in once the 5 minutes are up.

Basically, Sun asks them WHY they kill and hurt people and BM brings up the main three reasons: they enjoy it, they dont want to be a tool, and they hunger. Since literally none of the protags have actually asked, Sun would be surprised that theres more than the first reason and interrogate to get to the bottom of it. Cuz what Sun realizes is that BloodMoon doesnt have any deeper motives or desires because of their eternal hunger. Their ENTIRE existence has circled around violence to satisfy their hunger. They get used to satisfy their hunger. They enjoy the rip and tear because it stops the hunger.

They have always been a tool to the hunger.

So Sun offers the one thing that no one has: what if they get rid of the hunger?

BM is confused cuz all they've ever known is the hunger, and Sun has to dig the point home by explaining how they can keep killing but it'll come back, and probably stronger. They could kill everyone and everything but then the hunger will come back. And the only thing thatll be left to kill is each other.

And THAT freaks them out, because that is the only thing BloodMoon stands to lose is the brotherhood. (And while BM1 would probably race about lies and trickery, BM2 cant deny the logic)

So with BM actually realizing how their hunger endangers them, and Moon at this point just WAITING to finish them off, Sun lays down the ultimatum. Since no change of heart can happen if all they've ever known is hunger, Sun/Moon/Solar can try and remove it to and see if the twins can be rehabilitated, otherwise Moon ends them then and there.

And I love this idea so much!!! It addresses the REAL block that BM has that hasnt been brought up since that one episode where they kill the anime girl. We get to keep BloodMoon, since the creators went to the trouble of bringing them back and giving them a new model so it'd be a lil annoying if they just ended up killed again. It acknowledges how much BM has been used and brushed aside while admitting that there hasnt been much else to them. And you could have a whole rehabilitation arc, with everyone healing and BM given a real change and actual honesty, since god knows no one is gonna be mincing words. And I imagine their blood-hunger being removed ends up like the Ruin Virus a bit, where getting rid of it cuts down a LOT of the more sadistic urges. So the boys get a mostly-tamed but still-pretty-fucking-insane BloodMoon Twins that basically is just the feral crazy guy that hangs around Animal from Muppets lol and idk stays with Monty cuz hes more easygoing on the violent habits and they need to NOT be anywhere near the daycare.

And maybe I'll watch the episode and be alright with it, but it just sucks cuz this would work SO GOOD and I know the showrunners wouldn't do it. So now I've had to make this fucking long ass post and y'all hafta deal with it.

And maybe someday I'll write a drabble this and the other SAMS scenes I've imagined...

So yeah, sorry about the rambling and shit. I hate how emotionally involved I get with this show that I love. And I'll go ahead and tag @garbagechocolate out of obligation X)

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

@intertexts BEHOLD. NEW HAVEN WARDS: THE WIBBY AND DAVID DYNAMIC ESSAY. this got way too fucking long 2 put in ur inbox so im making a post about it. ENJOY THE STICK FIGURE VIOLENCE <3

okay im just gonna start from the beginnign here and try not to get too sidetracked as i go (<< me when i lie) um. so. still not entirely clear on what williams trigger event would be so that may change how some of this works out logistics wise. but just assuming it would be SOMEWHAT similar to pd- william dies/has his near death experience and is Changed By It. in obvious ways that are impossible to hide. his parents find out because he had been missing for days and presumed dead so when he came back home covered in mud and dried blood and Different, everyone kind of broke down. they know about his powers from the start. william hates them (the powers, not his parents) but his dad especially has always been very supportive of capes and urges william to use them for something good! his mom, who has always grieved the lack of a relationship between her two sons, brings up the suggestion "hey, you know what! yeah! your older brother just so happens to live in a city with a really good cape population, maybe you can go live with him for a bit while you go to school <3" (<< this is also going off the assumption that the general public doesnt really. understand. capes much. his parents dont know theyre signing him up to be a child soldier and die before 40. they love him so much and just want the best for him- if they knew about all that they wouldve never even made the suggestion. but they see how much his powers are hurting him and theyre grieving the death of their youngest son who is still. awake and sitting in his bedroom. and i dont think any of them know how to deal with that)

william, not really having a place to argue from or another option to even consider, reluctantly agrees. hes too caught up in the fear and worry and unpredictability of his powers to even imagine himself as one of the heroes. but he goes anyway. and lives with david. its just as painfully icy as you imagine- david never signed up to be a permanent babysitter, i imagine theres a lot of. phonecalls overheard through the walls of his apartment of david on the phone with their mom asking if this was some sort of punishment. david spends all his time at his office and never takes time to even get to know william. he still takes care of him- he has the money for a penthouse apartment and keeps groceries stocked- but its not like theyre having cozy family meals every night. this does wonderful things for williams mental health obviously. which im sure makes his powers feel so much better (<< this is sarcasm). they dont talk much. obviously. william knows david works for/runs a branch of some tech company but thats about the extent of his knowledge and he never cares to ask further details than that. theres a little bit of resentment there on williams side (william wisp, known jealous petty little bitch- "i thought you were the first good thing to come out of deadwood"). david is someone who's important and has his life together and william is. in his own mind. a freak.

after joining the wards program and meeting dakota and virion and such. william IMMEDIATELY decides he is going to spend less and less and less time at davids place. and so the fucking. chasm between them grows. mutual good riddance. (they dont hate each other. theres just. not a whole lot of care there. but theyre still family, yknow?) and its just like. the BARE MINIMUM amount of contact. william stops by davids place to like. get stuff from his bedroom. uses davids apartment as storage for things he can't keep at the wards base (are teen superheroes allowed to smoke? i imagine that cant be good for their public image). so its not like they totally cut contact theres just. even less of it than there was before.

and then william learns about the SIGNIFICANT importance of keeping your cape and civilian identities separate. any villain who learns who you are behind the mask can be a threat to not only you but also your family. william, who loves his parents very much and knows they love him back, wants to protect them at all costs. conveniently, he doesn't live with his parents anymore. his current guardian just so happened to keep their mom's maiden name. so what does he do! bam. easy fix, change your last name to match with your brother. satisfies the heroes a little bit because its that extra step harder to connect william with people outside the city, AND its not suspicious on the civilian side either because. i mean he still matches surnames with his family. surely this will not come back to bite him (foreshadowing). i think it would be PERFECTLY in character and slimy for david to get a kick out of this name change btw. its been weeks since theyve spoken full sentences to each other but the next time william goes back to the apartment david is there at the kitchen table and just kind of laughs at the paperwork like "aw, little brother, i didn't realize you liked living with me that much. im flattered" etc. etc. eugh

behold! i can call him wibby now. awesome. so cool. anyway.

blahblah whatever whatever. im saying for au convenience david lives in new haven even though in pd canon he technically lives in freedom city. don't worry about it. HOWEVER. this becomes important. new haven wards are like?? vaguely sometimes in contact with the wards of the nearest settlement with a significant cape population- freedom city! this is alan, x, cantrip. I think they probably have like. fun friendly sparring matches sometimes (like the cage matches where they first met but like... legal. and mario kart!) but aren't close enough to be Friend Friends. freedom city wards uncover some shady underground company using illegal research (nhw equivalent of harttawa? dying 2 link this back to mark somehow bc im always thinking abt him but i KNOW u have plans for him already and im dying 2 know them) to give people artificial powers (connected to cauldron in some way but not obvious about it. ill explain this more in a minute) and guess who this gets linked back to. our one and only lovely wicked david bell. freedom city wards don't know williams connection to him since they wouldn't know his civ name. I don't think he would tell them. i also don't think they would actually TALK to David here like they do in canon, i think the heist goes a little more successfully and he's not actually physically THERE so all that happens is that they sneak in and see a bunch of files/papers. and william makes the connection with David's name and maybe picture. but the whole. killing a bunch of guards still happens. "its okay they're villains" etc. i don't know who would run freedom city wards program but they're more. loose about the rules than in new haven. which is why xavier and cantrip are Like That.

anyway on the way back to new haven william is REALLY shaken and dakota and virion obv pick up on that right away (i think they'd also know OF williams brother but not a lot of details bc he never talks about him.) william tells them that that was David and doesn't know what to do etc etc . I think he avoids the apartment for a looooot longer than he usually does because he doesn't want to accidentally run into David there and have to confront this. I think he's probably shell shocked by the idea a little- david is VERY MUCH against the hero program and doesn't like capes at all and is very vocal about that fact (this is pd canon too)!! why the fuck would he be working with the company that gives people powers and Makes More Capes! even though his mystery solving brain is going into overdrive thinking about the reasons and details and minutae of this discovery, william is also chronically avoidant of all his personal problems so i don't think he does any digging into it yet. until. well. the freedom city wards go missing

they on the other hand DID do a lot more digging into this. and david caught on to them and we end up with the scene in the basement . this is where I'm gonna get sidetracked bc there's a lot of information I'm thinking about at the beginning of all this

when william/vyncent/tide get there it's a very similar scene to in pd. x and cantrip are chained up, david has allen cut open on a table. william is. HORRIFIED. maybe even moreso than in pd.

x is even more immediately hostile to william when he and cantrip wake up because part of the information they uncovered in doing their own digging was the fact that david and william are related. and this pisses x off SO BAD because william never told them. and I think he uses wills secret identity against him and that's part of the reason william is SO DESPERATE to stop him. Just imagining that scene in the hallway at the beginning where they're screaming at each other and x just goes "that's your fucking *brother?* you're related to that monster and you never thought to, yknow, share that little bit of information with us?! william bell?????" and as soon as x says his name william just SNAPS and swings the axe at him .

anyway. back to the basement scene. david does his whole manipulative villain monologue with a scalpel to Allen's heart and we learn David is the head of an offshoot branch of cauldron (thinking about like maybe where they sell the vials to people under the guise of experimental medical treatment? for their own research purposes on how the vials affect people. real unethical shit! I feel like I need 2 learn more about cauldrons motivations before I set this in stone though) . anyway. we also learn here that david Has Fucking Powers. I don't know exactly what those would be right now but I think they would be pretty... inconsequential and at a really low power rating, but just that fact alone is enough for him to almost lose william completely.

this whole time william is just full of this icy dread and betrayal, but as SOON as david reveals he has powers that all just snaps to rage. comparable to that feeling where you've been bullied for something for years and then one day everyone decides that same thing is cool now. ("how long. how *long*, david? did you have these powers while you shunned me, sat on the phone with mom in the other room complaining about how much of a freak your little brother is? how *painfully sad* it is for you to share an apartment with the corpse of your baby brother, trying to get mom to pity you enough to take me back and get me out of your hair?")

and ofc david being who he is has some sort of slimy manipulation that saves his ass and gets william back on his side. tide and virion being there they immediately see right the FUCK through it but I think william would be compromised enough at that point that he wouldn't be thinking clearly enough to listen to them. (also side note . like I said I'm VERY undecided on what davids powers would actually be but the two ideas I've been bouncing back and forth are a) some kind of medical Thinker which is how he knows how to put allen back together the right way or b) some kind of Master which makes the manipulation thing worse <3. so maybe wibby is compromised bc davids using his powers on him. if it's the second option. smile!)

anyway wibby goes on his nightmare arc. right. even more fucked up bc of what x says to him about his identity. I actually think a lot of this stays the same but just with the addition of context and also the thing I said yesterday about the guards radioing to each other to evacuate.

everything happens pretty much the same with cantrip and he and virion getting back to the office only to find everything totally wiped clean already. william still does the Nightmare Thing in davids apartment afterward. still undecided in whether or not their parents will be there? I guess it depends on what we do with the trickster. (oh god I haven't even thought about the trickster irt new haven wards. fuck!) . I think actually I'm leaning more toward having them NOT being there? because I think william reigned himself in because he didn't want to scare them too much. and this is worm world i don't WANT wibby to reign himself in at all. I want him to go fucking nightmare apeshit.

btw this whole time? virion stays with him and it scares the SHIT out of him. he's still going to stay because ... this is william. this is his best friend (gay) and he HAS to trust that he knows what he's doing. I think afterward william stands up, david still unconscious on the floor, and there are silent tears streaming down his face and there's this expression of rage and betrayal and grief on his face that virion has NEVER seen on another person. so he reaches out to put a hand on his shoulder or maybe offer a hug (which in my mind is HUGE for him bc I've been imagining virion being SUPER careful and sort of avoidant about physical touch bc of his powers) but then william goes to brush his hand away as he walks out of the room and there's just the briefest moment of skin to skin contact. and it only lasts for maybe a second but virion gets this BURST of williams powers and it's terrifying. he can see and feel and hear and know *exactly* what william just did. it goes away almost immediately but the force of it is enough to throw virion off balance for a second as he processes it and when he comes to again he is just. shaking. and he doesn't say anything to william but he *knows* now and he doesn't know what to do with that information. hes scared out of his fucking mind but he's also. sad. he's REALLY fucking sad his best friend (gay) just had to do something like that. and he's not good with words so he doesn't say anything but he stays there. he stays by williams side despite everything. ughahhvhh

uhhhh final note. pain and suffering. william gets a whole Fucking Complex about sharing a name with david after this. but he still doesn't change it back to wisp because he knows x knows his identity now. which means he doesn't know how many other people could know, how many other people x will tell out of spite as a way to get back at him (<< william wisp paranoia WIN) and it's. LEAGUES better that any potential enemies would come after david and hurt david. (in fact he probably privately wishes for something like that to happen. hed never say that out loud though). using his name as a kind of shield even though it hurts like hell to be connected to his brother like that.

anyway! yeah! wisp-bell brothers torment nexus or whatever!

[monratarot]

Hello its Brit here ! Sorry for that prev ask , i only encountered your new slot update just now so i thought of sending a request for reading but I didnt knew there will be rules 😅 i m extremely sorry for that .

My dob - 9 june , 2002

Any specific thing happening in past - idk whether this will count or not but there’s a sudden urge to be recognition invoked inside me since the fall - winter of 2023 , maybe bcoz there were some incidents which taught me recently if i dont make a name for myself , if i dont work hard then people will only look down on me . Idk whether this will count or not theres a sudden realisation that hit me recently since the end of 2023 and since then my entire mindset is kinda changing.

My question- i dont want this question to be future related as u have mentioned future can change and i also believe that so i just wanna know : in what field or theme of career does my abundance is most likely to lie in ? ( It doesnt has to be specific occupation )

Thanks for your time and energy❗️

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I can see that right now you are the type of person that does not show fear. You are not denying your power and you dare to listen and accept your inner shadow voices because you know that that's not what's defining you. Just be a little careful with the expressing yourself part because you can deal with some difficulties over there. If you want to start something new you must know that there will be some risks that need to be taken(and there needs some caution over here), but as long as you're determined and patient everything will be fine. I think that as a career you will shine in something that has to deal with creativity(drawing, music, painting, or whatever attracts you). Here you will take a raw idea and develop it without sacrificing your spirit and energy. This is pretty normal as you enjoy a lot what you do. You can deal with some tensions and arguments especially while you try to grow(you will deal with haters but this is pretty normal, it doesn't need to stop you from your road) and the resolution will come gently, without force. To get on this road there needs to be a stage of breakdown, after that, you will be able to expand your horizons. So if your situation changes all sudden don't be surprised. At this stage, you think that everything is lost but the reality is that there are some benefits that you aren't able to see right now. You might begin to sense how the future might evolve(just be careful with some migraines or pain inside the body). If you were working with someone there would be some restructuring in the business, a person in a position of power can be out from their post and you can do their job after. This will improve your goals and will help you gain hope. Yes, you can feel a little bad and afraid because it will be something new for you, but this is a road that you need to take alone. Be careful with messages and communication because it can happen that people don't understand what you want to say or the messages might not arrive. You will feel some temporary lack of progress(someone might try to keep you down) but just hold on tight to your plans and self-beliefs because everything will be fine in the end. So my dear the universe will force you to become better and to do things that you thought you wouldn't be capable of. Ignore other's influence and negativity, you have your road, and even if it's not going go be easy, you will succeed in the end. Angel message: Archangel Michael protects and strengthens you. He will increase your ability to deal with problems, so ask him to cut with his swords any emotional cords that bind you to people, stuck situations, or memories. Then ask him to fill you with strength and love. He will shield you from the destructive thoughts, emotions, and actions of others. Call him for help and visualize yourself wearing a deep-blue cloak, this will place you under his protection.

Affirmation: I am strong and protected by Archangel Michael. I wish you only the best!🍀

Moni🧚‍♀️

[writingforatwistedworld]

Phantom bride event-Player is their last option Pt. 4

Characters: Cater Diamond, Azul Ashengrotto, Rook Hunt

Self-aware au

I do not take any responsibility for you reading this no matter which age group you are from!

WARNINGS: Yandere themes, obsession, possessiveness, imprisonment, death, unhealthy mindset, unhealthy relationship

We know chatty Cater, always positive Cater, backstab ing-mood Cater but have you already met silent Cater?

Like, the scary kind of silent....

BUT there is one thing that is for certain

He is planning to get rid of her right now

I mean, my man is pretty obsessed and there is no way he would let some danger close to his person of obsession

It's a tough life as the overseer, I know I know.... always being the center of people who plot others demise as soon as they come too close, I know I know....

Cater wishes he could have his phone right now

Not because he wants to take a pic (ok maybe that as well...)

But rather because hello, can someone call some sort of protection agency??! LIKE THE MILITARY OF THE QUEENDOM???! MAYBE???!!!

Silent, brooding Cater... idk about what scares you but that is just dangerous

I mean, his dream is breaking in two right in front of his eyes and then you are also in danger

Mutates within a millisecond into Sebek 2.0 Heartslabyul version

You get why I'm so scared?

The only difference is that is that he doesnt know how to handle a sword but he also does labour by taking care of he garden so there has to be some strength in his arms

So yeah... I would recommend hiding behind Lilia because after this is over and you don't have a shield made of meat then he will 1. Pick you up, 2. Take you to his room and 3. Look you into there until he garduated

It's just for your protection! Don't you understand??!

His mood swings scare me (no, for real)

The moment you eternity full on crying the sea out of his eyes

And... why is no one entering after you??!

Are you seriously taking her on all on your own????!!!!!

Suddenly all that sadness is thrown from the ship into the sea (I know, bad comparison) and left is a angry, protective, obsessed, murderous octopus

He is screaming like Ursual when she was... uh... you know what

But oh no, not because he is also... that... but rather from rage (ok maybe a bit on the inside but that is a different kind of Sushi)

At first he is screaming profanities at the blue annoyance

And then he “sober up” and starts trying to make deals with the guards

“Make me move and you will have wonderful hair in no time” -Azul, Dorm leader of Octavinelle, desperate

Uh no... I would like to think that he knew that people won't agree to such a thing when you screamed just seconds ago...

He is just so scared that you might die!

Suddenly he has the urge to stuff that cake into his mouth...

Stress eating.....

But again, please hug the octopus afterwards! He needs it!!!

And also empty that bucket of water over there over his head... that body temperature of his can't be healthy.....

What am I supposed to say? The guy is ready to end their second stage of existence when you were just in wedding attire

Ok but let me think... uh... Panic! Yes, panic!

He was there, one of the last.... and then he got fresh-frozen

You ever wondered how a speechless Rook looked like? Now you know it

Madame over there just killed something in him

His heart rate is also way too fast to be considered healthy

Par ta perfection, tu es tellement en danger!!!

All that training, all that hpunting is for naught as soon as you face danger and he isn't able to do anything

But then again, does that mean that he is worthless? (No Rook you... and he doesn't listen....)

He is such a disappointment!

How could he ever dare to step close to you again??!

Usually I would say, run, don't turn back and start a new life after getting your face and name changed

But now... how about hugging him?

He really, really needs it

Bu after that take your distance again

We wouldn't want to find you imprisoned after all! Right, ma chère perfection?

[spaceless-vacuum]

Fandom‧˚｡ﾟ･° ｡✎ Legend of zelda

Pairing‧˚｡ﾟ･° ｡✎ Yandere!Ganon x reader

Word count‧˚｡ﾟ･° ｡✎ 746

Summery‧˚｡ﾟ･° ｡✎ You’re the heir to the throne of a small kingdom. Things start to become weird when Ganon asks for your hand in marriage, and doesnt take no for an answer.

Misc‧˚｡ﾟ･° ｡✎ third person pov, mentions of violence, obsessive behavior, implied stalking, marriage

Why? It’s one of the most difficult questions to try and find an answer to. Ganon wasn't cordial by nature. However he seemed to be trying his best to come off as such. It was strange. What he said could not be what he really meant, but no matter how much people tried to pry he just said he was being truthful. He only wanted your hand in marriage; and with it a right to rule. That had to have been it. With the marriage your power would in part become his. Yet that couldn't have been all of it.

Your kingdom was not the biggest, strongest, or even the best to propose the deal to if he just wanted power. There was something more at stake here. You just didn't know what yet. The letter proposing the plan asked if the two of you could meet in person to discuss matters further. Instead of politely declining you said yes. This isn't something you could turn down. If his pride was wounded, he might take stronger action to take what he wanted.

The meeting was you doing all of the talking. Ganon just danced around the question of what his intentions were. Either he would lay some threat at you or your people if you didn't comply, or he would say something that must have been sweet by his standards. It was bone chilling. The way he spoke about how you were already his and how he did love you, and had ways to prove it, left you with no chance. You turned down his proposition for now. Lying through your teeth a promise to consider the offer was said.

He just nodded and left. Not saying a word. Later that day the council was scared out of their mind. Asking how the private meeting went. They urged you to be careful and to genuinely consider the marriage. It would be good to avoid conflict. Even if this didn't lead to war, making enemies with this man was not an ideal situation to be in.

So you were true to your word, and you went to bed promising to stay true to what you said earlier. The next morning several gifts were waiting for you to open. Were these prepared for if you said no? Did he plan to give them to you because he figured you would say yes? It didn't matter. Over the next few weeks Ganon would have gifts delivered. They were never accompanied by a note or letter. From gold and jewels to trophies from monsters he had killed, the items ranged from standard gifts to more worrying items.

There had been reports of a lynel who was moving a bit too close to one of the villages in your territory. Like clockwork the moment you heard about the news three days later it’s head was left in front of your castle. Was this his way of saying he cared about you and your people, or something more threatening? A gift in disguise. The truth of the matter was he had spies who heard of these reports, and while unnoticed snuck into your land, and back out. All in the matter of a day or two. He was already back in his castle by the time you heard the news.

From what you heard this was just his way of showing affection and pride. He was showing you he was capable of defending you from outside threats. That didn't make it feel any more sincere though. It hardly seemed like a true act of kindness. Both Ganon’s past and present actions seemed to be his way of saying he will do what he wants. He would enter your country with your grace or without. It was up to you. By welcoming him with marriage rather than through a war it would give you more leverage. It was the smarter option. That didn't make it any easier. 

It was with a heavy heart you agreed to the marriage. For your people and his. The next time you spoke in person he seemed much happier. There was a grin stuck on his face. Like he couldn't be happier with the outcome. How couldn't he smile? You were a rabbit standing in front of a wolf. Both of you knew there was no way out. One could only watch in horror to see how long it takes before the wolf decides to take a bite.

[actualbird]

which of the nxx boys can haggle?

wc: 1k

TIER 1: people who are sane and knowledgeable about purchasing

artem wing: can haggle but doesnt

artem knows how to haggle. hes seen his mother do it as he grew up and then he saw neil do it later on in his life and artem is a fast enough learner to understand how to do it himself.

however, when he was a child, his mother started giving him an allowance so he could learn how to manage finances. one day, he saw a snack he really wanted to buy with his own money but then it was Way Too Expensive. and so in the way all children do, hes like "why's it cost so much!" to which mrs. wing replies with "because of The Economy, baby."

and so artem decides to learn about The Economy and ends up with a pretty solid understanding of supply and demand, market trends, and other factors that go into the final price. he learns this all at AGE 10 and he decides that as long as all of these processes are done justly, the price is nothing to complain about ever.

and so he just doesnt haggle!!! but also, hes not somebody people wanna scam because fully grown artem wing at the supermarket exudes SUCH an intense and focused aura that stepping into that range surely deals immense psychic damage to anybody who has ill intent

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luke pearce: can haggle and does

luke doesnt have to haggle. hes working so many fucking jobs (for fun?? for the benefit of satisfying his horrid urge to be a benefit for only other people???) and he does those jobs really damn well, so im sure hes got money!! but his personality just strikes me more as "if i can get it a lower price, i will, because it's a waste if you dont take that opportunity."

hes a pretty chill haggler tho. he'll smile and laugh and tease with the shop owner on how "i'll buy 3 more packs of these noodles if you bring the whole price down a bit, so technically, youre making more profit, yeah?" and honestly, his haggling works mostly because hes so earnest and charming and even if you do turn him down, he kinda just shrugs and goes "fair enough!" and buys what he was planning to buy anyway.

luke is unscammable tho. not bc of his vibes, mind you, cuz luke pearce's vibes (NOT agent raven's vibes, to be clear, thats a whole other animal) are vibes of a puppy that will apologize to YOU if you spill milk on his lap. hes got very kind vibes and that seems like a scammer's dream come true but nobody in stellis has the heart to scam him bc luke is often seen rummaging around trash cans or metal dumpsters

he is not dumpster diving for food. hes just curious if anybody threw out some cool appliances he can nab spare parts from or make into new gadgets. but stellis city doesnt know that. all they know is that the puppy boy who owns time's antiquities frequently sticks his head in the rubbish and theyre all collectively like "NOBODY SCAM HIM EVER, WE NEED TO PROTECT HIM"

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TIER 2: i mean, it's one banana, rosa. what could it cost? 10 dollars?

marius von hagen: cant haggle and doesnt

marius is self aware enough to know that hes obscenely rich and does NOT know jackshit about small money management. like, hes great with money in large amounts. he knows the best amount of money for investments and stocks and how to plan finances long term for businesses, so he knows how money works!!!

he just doesnt know how it works at a 7/11

which usually isnt a problem. marius isnt the one doing most of the purchasing, thats left to the house staff or vincent, buuuuut when hes hanging out with mc, just the two of them, hes atlas carrying the world on his shoulders in regards to purchases.

theres a 50/50 percent chance mc will save him when hes having trouble figuring out how much to pay. she mostly saves him when hes about to do something wayy too stupid (like trade his horrendously expensive watch for an ice cream cone, HE ALMOST DID THIS IN CANON in Marius SSR Fabulous Feast) but anything less than that and hes on his own

which tbh, marius doesnt mind. it seems to make her happy seeing him fumble and be out of his element and also this is never gonna affect his funds. so if hes getting overcharged, it's never a problem

this does however mean that marius von hagen, when hanging out with a certain lawyer, is PRIME SCAM MATERIAL.

all of stellis city is like "when u see rich boy with the girl, GET HIS ASS"

vyn richter: cant haggle but does

[spoilers] vyn is of a royal lineage. hes the son of a duke. im damn sure that for all of his early life when he was still living in svart, he never had to purchase a gosh dang thing because all of it was done by house staff.

however, once vyn leaves svart and goes to stellis, he does have to learn quickly, so now hes not COMPLETELY naive. still, i cant imagine vyn richter walking around in like, a wet market or a bodega/cornerstore. i think vyn gets all of his food purchases from very upscale farmer's markets and all his other purchases in similarly hoity toity establishments.

so he can buy things. but his reference for how much things cost is HORRIBLY SKEWED by his luxurious upscale tastes. bring him to a garage sale and he will not know the general price of anything. he cant haggle

yet he does anyway, so he can be IMPRESSIVE. which he wants to be so much to the point that self awareness briefly exits his brain.

he haggles only around mc so he can be impressive cool. and he succeeds at looking impressive cool!!! in contrast to luke who is the chillest haggler ever, vyn channels such unsettling haggling energy that sellers can do nothing but agree to his terms.

but his terms.

are bad.

because since he doesnt know what normal shit costs, he actually ends up haggling the price WAY FUCKING HIGHER THAN IT ORIGINALLY WAS

vyn, smugly presenting mc with a banana he had haggled to 5x the original price: for you, my lady :)

mc: //trying so hard to not burst into laughter

(nobody is scamming vyn, they wouldnt be brave enough to....vyn is just continually scamming HIMSELF.....)

[broomsticks]

BROOMSTICKS MY LOVE! It was so hard to choose but I'm going with 9, 25, 28, and/or 32, with 25 and 28 absolutely being inspired by our conversation just now XD

from this fic writer ask game (no time limit on this, feel free to ask anytime!) 

❤️❤️❤️ oooooo you picked some great ones!

9. Tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community.

oooooh so i don’t really quite know who’s unknown, but some new people i’ve loved following since the last time i posted shoutouts to hp/marauders/wolfstar & misc-fandom/pan-fandom blogs:

@leogichidaa! amazing regulus & black family meta (sirius and regulus and healing from enmeshment, the lost boys: sirius, percy, and BCJ) and fic

@tracingpatternswrites whose Sirius' first full moon in Azkaban fic murdered me

@everythingbutcoldfire -- lovely lovely valentine’s day aroace remus lupin fic, and excellent reblogs & thoughts on aroacespec stuff too

i refuse to stick to 3 haha it doesnt count if i rec people for things other than fic right???

@mkaugust writes wonderful poetry & also microfic may wolfstar!

@carlav-blogs so wholesome! those tattoos!!! the details are ENDLESS.

@remixloonylupin the tenderness. your style. oh my gosh. (pspspspss also writes incredible fic about transness and psychosis) 

25. Do you listen to music as you write? If possible, link your writing playlist.

hmmmm some of the time, maybe half? i definitely listen to music a lot BEFORE i start writing, to get me into the mood/ clear my head sorta — it’s also happened before, once or twice, that i’m poking around spotify without the intention of writing and i get randomly bitten by the urge to fling out some words. not necessarily good words, but — whatever, we take those XD

28. How do you deal with writing pressure (ie: pressure to update, negative comments, deadlines, etc)?

uhhhh BADLY. (also, my writing pressure is pretty much all internal rather than externally imposed, if that matters!)

1) sometimes i try to push through the bad, and — sometimes it works, honestly. sometimes brain is just being a dumb and cuts out the tantrum after a while.

2) trying to get my head in the right space — so, music, and — that’s mostly why i have these lying around tbh: self care tag / encouragement / overcoming perfectionism

3) venting to understanding people!!! one of the most important things i’ve found (am still learning) is that so many people—literally even the most amazing ‘why are you not writing original fiction you could be making a killing’ / ‘you??? reading MY TRASH?? why do you even BOTHER honestly’ writers—can relate to these writing struggles! & not just the struggle, but also that indescribable desire to do it anyway. it’s weird and wonderful and literally the only reason i even dared to start let alone am still going (ish) hahaha

32. Copy and paste your top three favorite lines/jokes/sentences you’ve ever written. What fics do they come from?

billie believe me when i tell you i agonized over these for A G E S, seriously considered skipping the question, etc etcetcetc

from my andromeda halloween/yule drabble series, star of wonder:

The tree itself was still as green as ever. It would look just at home bare out in the biting cold, or all dressed up beside the roaring hearth fire. Unchanged, steadfast, evergreen. Just the same in the cozy Hufflepuff common room filled with the aroma of baking bread and the elegant Slytherin one with its enchanting music, in the Black family manor or in the Tonks’s small Muggle cottage.

the summary of my peter drabble, Resolution:

Since he was eleven, Peter’s New Year’s Resolution had always been the same: this year I will be braver.

the last sentence to my RL fest remadora, the grace unasked for:

And he learns that, even at the furthest ends of the earth, you're always sheltered under the same sky, watched over by the same moon.

especially because it was pointed out to me by a lovely commenter that this is apparently really similar to a poem that i may have come across before but certainly don’t consciously remember!

thank youuu for the ask!

[cherrysha]

Trust

hey ya’ll! Ive decided to answer asks in a new post, instead of continuing off of the asks. this is mostly because i answered like two seperate Uvo asks in one go. ALSO wanted to mention that i refer to the reader as ‘small’ in this one, and i by no means am small myself, its just that Uvo is 8 feet tall. Everyone is small to him, and everyone is capable of being manhandled by him. (also im going to use this gif of Uvo until the day i die)

@nav-chamberlain asked:

when you’re ready girl feel free to reply but nsfw scenario with uvo that has a breeding kink. y/n working her everyday tiring job as a babysitter/daycare worker & uvo being the kind himbo he is offers her a night out at the bar with them ending up drunk. y/n expresses her interest in possibly wanting a kid & uvo doesnt seem to decline. periodt.

@sug4r-ru5h asked:

hii!! i just found ur account and i really like ur writing🥺🥺maybe we could get some Uvo with a really twitchy reader after getting absolutely pounded??? im unsure if you write aftercare but if you do that'd be litty titty B)

Word count: 1.9k

Warnings: Dubcon, drinking, breeding, overstimulation, a little blood, slight manipulation

“It’s not that I don’t want kids...I’m single, and younger.. ya know? I can’t think of trusting someone enough to have kids with them.” You pause, taking a sip of your drink before you whisper out a half hearted “if that makes sense.” Its not like you got to see your friend often, actually it was fairly uncommon to see him around. Whatever he did for a living, you still didn’t truly know, made him travel a lot. And you weren’t pressed on spending the majority of this evening debating about children. Uvo pushes the irritation simmering in his mind away. “You trust me, don’t you?” “That’s a dumb question Uvo” you finally peek up at his enormous figure, the scoff you had intended to let out, dying in your throat. Something Is brewing in his mind. He was never one to school his features, to hide the emotions he felt about truly anything. You're met with a glare, something akin to a smirk as well if it weren’t on Uvo’s menacing face. On him it looked more like a grimace “Then humor me.” His jaw is set tight as he lowers his head to speak directly into your ear “Do you trust me?” His lips brush against your neck, raising goosebumps in their wake and you can’t help the whimper that escapes you. This wasn't at all what you were expecting. You can’t help but to close your eyes and lean into his touch, and you can’t help but to acknowledge how warm his lips are when they finally press against your own. You know in part it’s the alcohol lowering your inhibitions and making you less inclined to think of the repercussions of kissing your long time friend. You know under normal circumstances you’d never be so brazen as to make out like a teenager in a packed bar full of scoundrels. But you know, without a shadow of a doubt, that you don’t care. You want this. His hands snake around your waist, a low chuckle rumbling his chest at the startled way you jump when he finally pulls you onto his lap. “You gunna answer me sweetheart?” Uvo whispers into your ear, sending a shiver down your spine and you instinctively try to wrap your arms up to loop around his neck, pouting when you realize he’s far too tall As if reading your mind, he pulls you up further along the expanse of his chest until your arms can finally settle around his neck, grinning at your content smile. “I do, Uvo, you know that.” There’s a pause, a beat in which he uses the silence in his favor to pull back and ask “Hm.. do I?” with a wry smirk on his face. Of course, You nod ‘yes’ and you're rewarded with his nose brushing against the hollow of your throat, taking a deep inhale there before asking “what do I know?” The edge of the bar is digging into your back as Uvo presses himself around you. The smell of pine and a hint of his sweat all-encompassing until it feels like you’re breathing him in. Breathily, you answer him “I trust you Uv-“ Before you can finish his mouth is on yours again, nudging against yours so excitedly that your head is forced backwards. ”Good girl” its grunted out in between kisses, and in no time his tongue is invading your mouth, clouding your senses in a way that could never compare to the alcohol in your veins. When you let out a whine at his praise, at his hands, his mouth, his scent surrounding you, the bartender finally decides he’s had enough “Hey! Hate to break it to you both, but people are paying for drinks not a show” Uvo only growls, eyes still closed he parts from you to growl out a “Fuck off” before moving to place open mouthed kisses along your jaw. “C-can we leave, Uvo? ” its whisper quiet, but he still understand the message loud and clear. “Sure, doll.” He smiles, easily lifting you up as he rises to leave.

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How easily he could break you. Hurt you in ways that are unthinkable, but the concept of that alone shakes him to his very core. He’s wanted this for so long, has had to deal with a deep ache in his chest at even the mere thought of you being so far away from him when he’d gone on missions with the troupe. When he rips your bottoms off, all you manage to do is whine and shyly try to cover yourself underneath him. With a gruff “stop” he pushes your hands to the side to finally see what he’s wanted for so long. You beneath him, desperate for him and him alone. His smile is almost manic as his hands roam your body. Uvos never had to have patience, has always taken what he wanted regardless of anything else. But your lust filled gaze, your body so warm underneath his wide palms is enough proof that this was worth waiting for. And god, does he want to take his time with you. Wants to taste and savor every little moan you give to him, but he’s a man on a mission. So, he hopes that he’s worked you up enough at the bar and the way back to make this go smoothly. with little effort he flips you onto your stomach, grabbing harshly at your hips before lining himself up and slowly pushing in. Soft and tight, he fucks into you like it’s his duty. Hips coming to slam against your ass with so much vigor, if it weren’t for his hands gripping your soft flesh he would’ve pounded you into the mattress a long time ago.

He lets out a low growl as he pictures you swollen, your hands rubbing over your pregnant stomach, it isn’t a want at this point. It’s a desperate need that punches the air out of his lungs with every mental image. Uvo lets out a groan as he takes time to truly think about it, to savor the idea of claiming you, even if it isn’t something you truly wanted. Even if it was never your intention to be with him, this rough coupling only sourced from your lowered inhibitions due to the alcohol. He pictures you being filled by someone other than him. Someone claiming you for the rest of your life when it was obvious that you belonged to him. The thought alone so maddening that he almost doesn’t hear the high-pitched yip that you let out. His grip on you had become a little too strong, a little too painful. Cooing, Uvo wraps an arm around your middle, slowing his pace down a bit as his other hand comes to pull you to his chest by your throat. Your body knocks against him a little harder than he intended, but the mewl that you reward him with at the change in position is enough to clear his mind from any troubled thoughts. It’s delicious, the sweat that beads down the column of your throat, so enticing that Uvo has half a mind to bite down. His only distraction being the little soft sighs and whimpers and chants of his name falling from your lips as he rubs against that spot inside of you. Its unintentional, the onslaught of stimulation he so dutifully sends you with every sharp press of his body to yours. His cock so big that he has no choice but to rub against every part of you. To fill you so completely that you can only think of him. “You trust me?” he asks again, teeth nipping the soft skin of your neck. He was trying to hold back, truly he was, but the prospect of marking up what was rightfully his was becoming a little too enticing. You release a series of whines, too fucked out to even begin to form a proper sentence. Uvo laughs at that. Something carefree and gentle, unlike the way he’s still holding you to his chest by the tight grip on your throat. “C’mon little one,” he urges, free hand coming down to settle on your clit. “Tell me you trust me so I can give you what you want, hm?” And with the words numbly falling from your spit slick lips Uvo gives in to the urge to breed your sopping pussy completely. To fuck and fill and keep until the day he fucking dies. With a euphoric laugh his hips once again move against you, your cries falling on deaf ears at the brutal new pace he’s set for you. Its dizzying, maddening, so fucking disorienting you don’t comprehend the sound of your own voice as the orgasm that rips from your body catches in your throat. You thrash against his iron hold, eyes rolled into the back of your skull as Uvo’s pace doesn’t falter. “You cryin for me sweetheart?” he asks incredulously. Surely you couldn’t be overwhelmed after cumming just once, right? In all honesty, he doesn’t know, but he hushes you with a kiss to the forehead, grunting out an “It’s alright” before slowly maneuvering your body down to the bed again, strong hands ensnaring your waist and holding your pliant body against his hips. Too tired to even pretend to hold yourself up any longer, he takes joy in the knowledge that this fuck will be the one that binds you to him forever. It should be downright infuriating how quickly he cums just after you. His hips stutter of their own accord, hulking body dropping to cover yours completely, he finally gives in to the urge to sink his teeth down. Your body jolts, a cry falling from your lips as Uvo mars the flesh of your shoulder, drawing blood that mixes with his spit to form a pink hue that drips down onto the bedsheets. Its enough to make his entire body tense in pleasure, wave after wave of pure bliss rocking through him as he releases inside of you. If he wasn't so drunk off of the feeling, he’d probably chuckle at the way your little body squirms beneath him, as if trying to simultaneously get away from the feeling and scoot your weakened form closer. But he can't. all he can do is focus on not crushing you as he ever so gently rolls onto his side, making sure to keep himself pressed snugly inside of you. His hand idly travels down your side, lost in the feeling of your soft skin underneath his coarse palm. The contrast is enough to make you shiver, whining his name as he gently fondles the plump flesh of your ass. Its enough to remind you of his cock still buried deep within you, its girth the only thing holding back the fluids that surely aren’t supposed to be inside. You try to scoot away, a slurred “Gotta clean up” ungracefully leaving your mouth, but Uvo doesn’t allow it. His arm is still wrapped snugly around your middle, and there’s no give as you try to wriggle out of his hold. he offers no reasoning, just a gruff “lay back down.” And you do. You do because the heat of his body curled around you is too enticing. The feeling of his lips pressed softly against the top of your head, and the even breaths that escape his throat are, ultimately, too comforting to leave. With a sigh you listen, relaxing into Uvo’s warm chest even further.

[galacticlamps]

dr who asks!! 2, 12, 16, 18? o:

2. what’s your favorite moment with your least-favorite doctor?

My least favorite Doctor is 4, so that’s frankly a lot of material to comb through looking for the brightspots, forgive me if I’m forgetting something that should be obvious

(The honest answer would be saying it’s something from the audios Deleted Scenes or Fate of Krelos/Return to Telos, but I’m resisting that urge because it feels like cheating, since the things I don't like about 4 are all on TV. In the EU I’ve only interacted with things of his that feature characters I do enjoy, so for all I know the majority of his audios might address those issues, and it’s only TV 4 specifically that I’ve got anything against)

I like a lot of his back-and-forth with Romana I, especially in The Ribos Operation, though I think it’s largely due to Romana more than him. Her presence - and her introduction in particular - give him someone to bounce off who it’s harder to effectively be superior towards, so his general attitude feels less bullying with her than it can be with some other companions, right from the start - but also, since he’s got every right to be a bit offended that he’s suddenly been handed an assistant by higher powers, his resistance towards her is not only justified but more compelling to watch than when he’s being down on someone like Harry or Leela, which in my opinion is the kind of Doctor-Companion tension that detracts and distracts from a story, and gets old pretty quickly. His later interactions with Adric could also be considered a favorite of mine - especially when they’re more or less traveling alone together in Keeper of Traken and Logopolis - because they similarly bring out a new side to the character that I appreciated, again putting him in a position he doesn’t quite know how to deal with - so I feel like we see a little more genuine-ness from him than usual, even if it’s just that he’s genuinely perplexed/at the end of his rope with this teenager.

12. what’s a headcanon that’s you forget isn’t actually canon?

I did answer this! (but I couldn't manage it without name-dropping you twice oops) Polly’s racer ex-gf seems to have sunk especially deep into my brain and is just there now, can’t get it out.

16. is there a character you feel is generally misunderstood by the fandom?

I hear the words ‘character fandom doesnt get’ and Rose Tyler will forever be the face that comes to mind. But I feel like that’s still a somewhat spicy topic, and while the things I have to say about her are definitely not hate & honestly not even negativity towards her as much as a rejection of the more popular interpretations of her character, it still feels safer not to get into it lol. “Let people enjoy things” & all that

I think One is hugely flattened out by the fandom, to the point that when I first started Classic, I was convinced I wouldn’t like Two at all because of how surprised I was by how much I liked One. Yes he’s older and stuffier than his immediate successor, and yes William Hartnell was playing a character inherently different from what the brief is these days, but even people who talk about One in a positive light can frequently skip over many of his complexities & the different sides he absolutely does show us over his time in the role, to focus on his significance as The First & the character who established the show. Like he only gets partial-credit as an incarnation.

Six too - people often say his audios redeemed his character, but from what I’ve heard of them so far, his character hasn’t really changed at all, even though the caliber of plots he’s handed does improve (though I also don’t think his TV plots are that bad, I can’t pretend the audios haven’t been on the whole more polished). I understand why Six is so often painted as one of the meaner Doctors, but in a way it couldn’t be further from the truth - he’s abrasive for sure, but he’s SO liable to be sarcastic, pretentious, and downright scathing that the show embraces that, and even his messier TV-plots tie it in so that any serials that feature him being particularly morally questionable in one place also make a point of proving him to be ultimately good-hearted later on, in a way that doesn’t get prioritized with other Doctors who are less overtly biting. When 6 says something mean and then does something that really shows how much he cares, he comes off as both a kinder and more complex character than 4 continually walking through the universe talking down to people, but doing it with enough ‘charm’ that it doesn’t jump out to the writers as requiring addressing or justification. With 6 it feels like a trait that’s actively utilized in his episodes.

And this one does stretch my definition of ‘fandom’ a bit but there’s hardly a classic companion, but especially the 60s and especially the women, who I wouldn’t argue falls into this category. It hardly even feels worth mentioning in this context, because in my experience it’s not a problem among fans of that era & therefore the bulk of people who tend to be discussing Barbara, Susan, Vicki, Sara, Katarina, Dodo, Polly, Victoria, or Zoe... but then again, it’s 2022, so I suppose if you know any of them well enough to even mention at all, you are a fan instead of a casual viewer, and I’ve certainly seen reductive takes that must then technically count as ‘fandom misunderstanding a character.’ And I get how that would happen - the 60s is the beginning of the show, and format-wise, the most distinct from what comes after it (black&white, missing episodes, really diverse serial lengths all spliced up into 20-minute mini-plots) - and as such, it’s likely to’ve been watched by fans of later eras who are curious to make a comparison, but not necessarily likely to appeal to them itself, so you’d get a fair number of people who are more “fans of Doctor Who who’ve watched the era” without being “fans of the era.” But let’s not reduce our assessment of female characters to whether or not they scream a lot and then pretend that’s a feminist perspective, shall we? Just say you didn’t pay enough attention to her episodes to actually speak on behalf of her character and move on, jeeze. Don’t pretend that’s all there is to her just because you went looking for some poor un-emancipated female character from the past to cite as a talking point in your pre-written & deeply unoriginal argument about how far television/Doctor Who has come over the years

(This answer is already way too long to get into another rant, but I think that last one has a lot in common with EU writers who have to invent a new Jamie for their book because they’re writing for 2, so Jamie’s gotta be there, but they clearly missed or never really enjoyed how he was actually characterized onscreen.)

18. what other piece of media would you recommend to fans of doctor who?

ugh that's so hard because I think it depends so much on what you think of as the defining/alluring feature of Doctor Who, and there are so many it must change person-to-person. Plus, a large part of it being my favorite show is that I don’t think there are many other things like it at all. But I’ll try:

Obvious answer, but Star Trek TOS for highly-episodic, stand-alone stories through space/time. TOS’s years perfectly overlap with the Second Doctor’s run, and that alone makes for a v interesting comparison, both in content & production values/approaches (someone write a book on this so I don’t have to)

Hitchhikers Guide & Dirk Gently - also obvious, but despite the 4th Doctor’s run being a low-point for me personally, I do think the combination of tone & literal randomness in Douglas Adams’ stuff is very DW-ish in general. The 2016 Dirk Gently series especially is quite different from the books, but absolutely weird enough (while still being interesting & plenty follow-able) to appeal to an audience that’s into NuWho/I might even say Torchwood tbh. Honestly even Adams’ nonfiction Last Chance to See (a book recounting his travels to witness endangered animals all over the globe) might also appeal to Dr Who fans, again for its unique voice/tone, but also its approach to humanity’s history w/our environment & what we both hope & fear for the planet’s future. It’s more memoir than science, so it’s very Important Science Topic Through The Lens of a Lay Person, which I feel is itself the approach Doctor Who takes in exposing companions/its audience to the crisis of the week & its real-world relevancy

I know there have been short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, Nikolai Gogol, and Ray Bradbury that have the vibe of Doctor Who stories, but obviously that varies from story to story & I’m unhelpfully blanking on many of the specific ones. Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles in particular feels like a very relevant choice though - it’s basically a series of independent short stories that all take place over the course of several decades chronicling humanity’s attempts to colonize Mars. It definitely has that Doctor Who-ish mix of the scifi and the mundane and I think you could see anyone from like, Barbara & Ian to Amy & Rory inhabiting the same world these events are taking place in - it’s got that very slight touch of fantasy about it in some ways, and also reminds me a bit of the prose Short Trips. (oh and I just remembered Big Finish adapted some of them for audio with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell!)

I haven’t read enough of H G Wells (including the literal Time Machine, I know, I know) but War of the Worlds might appeal to DW fans - I was surprised by how much the book focused on the impact an alien invasion had on everyday life, but really, that’s the whole point of it! So perspective/vibes-wise, I consider it Doctor-Who-like in that it’s scifi that’s not hugely about the complex lore or world of the aliens, but a couple of human people who are frankly shocked by suddenly having to handle life-threatening aliens in England. Donna in Turn Left could’ve been living in this book, if that makes sense.

The Road to Mars is a novel actually written by one of the Pythons (Eric Idle) and I don’t think it’s all that popular, since sketch comedy guys aren’t typically who you go to for scifi novels - but in that vein it’s sort of on its own, definitely not reliant upon a ton of high-concept/heavy scifi lore, it’s funny, and presents a universe that sounds compatible with some versions of the future that exist in Doctor Who. It’s about a comedy duo & their android who are just trying to make the rounds across the solar system as low-end performers & accidentally get caught up in a Big Scifi/Political Plot, so I’d say it has Doctor-Who-level antics & the wrong-place-wrong-time premise that has prompted many a serial

If 60s British television (at Limegrove Studios specifically!) and/or Peter Capaldi are enough to hold your interest in something that bears little resemblance to Doctor Who itself, I’ve been singing the praises of BBC’s The Hour for about a decade now, but it’s not at all scifi so that’s probably a weirder recommendation.

I’d also throw in The Umbrella Academy - I enjoy the comics but like Dirk Gently, the TV show probably has more in common with Dr Who - for time travel as a major plot element, characters forced to work/grow together in one of the weirder definitions of found family, and a world that’s allowed to be strange & interesting and sometimes unexplained (ie no dense lore behind its scifi parts, while still having plenty to think through w/paradoxes & foreshadowing to figure out & keep you engaged)

I’m not terribly far into it myself, but the Discworld series for that same anything-could-happen, sometimes it’s very stand-alone, sometimes it’s characters you’ll get very invested in, funny but poignant fantasy/scifi universe that doesn’t take itself too seriously but can make some Extremely Good Points through genre fiction

at this point it feels both redundant and necessary to say Gaiman

[isleofthequixotic]

Someone ask me questions about my aus for descendants cause i have no one in my life wanting to talk about it with me and have urges to talk about them

Options include;

My Hades Raised AU - Instead of Maleficent raising mal she is disgusted with the child and leaves her to rot on hades doorstep, mal is raised to hate her birthmother and to have a distain to auradon for thinking her and her father could ever be apart of their petty good vs evil battle, shes very resentful to all of the mortals who trapped her on the isle. Shes cocky and “above” everyone on the isle and they learn to just leave her alone. In this world without being exiled Evie has climed the ranks and the Evil Queen gained the title of Queen of the Isle with her little princess being the one to keep the younger generation in line.

Isle Ben AU (concept shared with @alice-on-elm-street ) - Beast sends the vks back to isle after parents day and it crushes ben after getting to know what the isle is like from the core four and purposely acts out to prove a point that the beast isnt willing to send even his own son to the isle until he steals the wand in retaliation so ben ends up sent to isle through pure force.

Split chip AU - (concept shared - alice) Audrey and Ben accidentally share the cookie with the love spell cause bens just that nice of a guy so audrey and ben both get spelled at the same time.

Super AU - very mha,sky high, and xmen vibes a school for supers good and bad alike

It didnt work AU - the love spell doesnt work and how that changed the plot of d1

Children of the lost - dark descendants au where the concept is that the isle wasnt left to roam and the children were instead from a young age raised in a sort of juvy like institute where they had guards watching them all the time not allowed to act out or use magic

Stolen AU - AKs where children of villains that were stolen from the island cause people like aurora and beast couldnt have children cause of their curse and they only find out when the VKs come to the kingdom cue pissed off my whole life was a lie vibes

Adopted AU (companion piece to Stolen AU) -system in place that kept the parents on the isle that only children can walk through the barrier where the kids know but they've been fed propaganda that auradon is their savior. Like when the isle has a child auradon takes them away to be adopted.So to start all the vks are well aware of their parentage but told that auradon has no magic and told for their safety they need to wear the bands ( the magic is stored in some medical bracelet )because they're bodies would suffer in a land with no magic or some shit. Like it's a similar lie that shiloh is told in repo man a genetic opera.

NSFW AUS!!! (18+ to interact about them!!)

Secrets and Little Liars - (co-concept with Alice-on-elm-street) instead of stealing the wand the first night the AKs invite the new vks for a good ol game of truth or dare which escalates untill mal dares ben to try to steal the wand as a big show of things only for them to get caught and have to all deal with the secret now that the kingdom is in panic for the fact the alarms went off with nothing missing (set in a college setting where bens crowning isnt fucking 16 cause that was nuts to start)

Flip the Script (sorta a cw esq storyline very little to do with actual canon) (concept shared with @alice-on-elm-street) really complex to explain borderline an original story, also not the ships you think main ships are ben/harry, and mal/jane. Very very tvd vibes

Escort AU - (shared with Alice) what it says on the tin, core four and AKs in a setting where multiple are strippers, and escorts and the aks are connected through the big privileged companies of the city, defo fifty shades vibes DEFO NSFW

[larrythefloridaman]

Y'all like your deities with or without the shell?

Under the readmore is aaaaaaaaall color god observations and musings based on them, because I am studying to become the world's Premiere Chromatheologian and RGB Understander so under the cut is pretty much Oops! All Spoilers! up to the most recent episode of season 3.

Apparently Universal Color God Attributes:

Damage to their domain hurts them, but fixing the issue, or lashing out by using their powers destructively, can help them to repair the damage.

If they sustain enough damage, it can temporarily paralyze them and send them into a strengthened but 'exposed' state (chartreuse's spirit activation in the last fight of 19) and further damage after that will activate a failsafe, which is unique by domain but seemingly designed to give them the chance to balance things, but can get… very out of hand or backfire depending on circumstances. (see: cobalt’s failsafe sending mark's universe into a never-ending apocalyptic war because word of the cure for death became too widespread for the killing urge failsafe to affectively balance anything because every side could simply revive their fallen.)

Chartreuse's failsafe is something of a stopped time bubble quarantine where processes that require the passing of time cannot complete, allowing her the time to wear down the offending party to beat them to death or plan around finishing them.

Cobalt's is inciting war, the casualties serving to balance the scale. I'm not sure we know Crimson's yet- he's never taken enough direct damage without doing damage to compensate in order to trigger it, although i dont remember season one well enough to recall if any of the universe stuff in it tracks with the pattern bc season one is a bit fucky

Connected in a fashion that allows them to simply Sense the overall status of the others to some extent, although they don't know Why theyre in the state theyre in without asking (chartreuse [and by extension, folk, presumably on her information] confronting crimson via crimsonaut for pretending to be dead, Cobalt confronting both his siblings about how they are handling their duties improperly but not knowing about Folk. He knew about the constants deaths because hes a death god, duh, but he didnt use their names like crimson did, possibly implying they're erased upon death so thoroughly that only crimson and the constants can really recall a shattered constants' existence, not even the other guardians.)

Abilities of the guardians can be replicated by mortals through three apparent methods- through machines (dimensional bus, the time machine, presumably J0hn's part in Sephiroth's resurrection,) simply through advanced enough individual skill (Home MD curing death, potentially Dantoinette's universe portal travel, maybe Genwun's sped up time bubble that evolved them into Genfour? although that could very well have just been an illusion and theyre just like, a fuckin theater kid that was doing pretend character development for the Bit or something given GenFive turned out to be a zoroark) or through stealing some of the power of the relevant god (Dr. Order stealing Chartreuse's power, Dani maybe having stolen some of Crimson's when she beat his ass. Dani's one woman universal travel is like, wicked ambiguous)

Cobalt:

Can seemingly perceive or act through any living material. (The Tree. Cobalt instructed Larry to slap his hand on that tree, that shit glowed and he had a new deal tattoo without Cobalt ever having been physically present)

Can influence the resurrected by giving them a killing urge. Represented by an aberrant brainwave and a ringing in the undead's heads. This doesnt appear to be direct control- as the Grunk could clearly restrain himself from killing people that genuinely didn't deserve it (like nightly and cha cha, who WERE grunk event targets but not fatally so. Nagito was a crimson thing so it really doesn't count here. God poor grunk his life really is just a constant plaything in the hands of the gods huh) and Sephiroth very much had personal motivation to want to kill Folk. failsafe activates this ability on the scale of war.

Deals. The extent of what Cobalt can do with these is unclear but Iggy's god powers were taken from him as his part in the deal so what he can take isn't limited to physical things or things obviously related to his domain.

Weaknesses:

Deals. While this ability is impressive his preference for making deals for those that offend against his domain is potentially very exploitable- Larry's knowledge of the cure for death is, if word of it were to ever get out beyond Larry, wildly dangerous for this dimension, so technically the safest thing for the iron-fisted cobalt to do would be to nip the problem in the bud and get rid of him. But, fascinatingly, that wasn't even put on the table, the first thing Cobalt does is threaten J0hn, prompting Larry to make a deal. While Cobalt enforces death, he also doesn't like unnecessary death, and Larry demonstrably knows how to keep a secret for the good of the world even at great cost to himself and Cobalt is aware of this- easily clarifying to Larry the aberrant thing endangering the universe wasn't his timeloop business. So while he's clearly not letting his resurrection fuckery go unpunished, he's being pretty merciful when he doesn't have to be and from a strictly, brutally pragmatic perspective probably shouldn't be.

His control over the undead manifests as a ringing and an aberrant brainwave trackable by J0hn's equipment, and could probably therefore be accounted for and circumvented? J0hn has, wisely, largely sworn off fucking with people's brains after the sephiroth fiasco went So Wrong, So Very Wrong, Oh God Oh Fuck Someone Cool Almost Died, but if he hadn't, and if J0hn let his dislike for authority and keeping Larry safe outweigh reason like he let safety, spite and comedic value outweigh good ethical sense when reprogramming sephiroth, in theory Mr. 'hacked a time machine for breakfast?' could. y'know. probably do it. what is a god's authority to an anarchist, what better to challenge life and death than the cold and eternal machine, you get the point its a fun scenario

Olive Garden Breadsticks and Small Cute Dogs, apparently

Chartreuse's:

Time Clones: taps into parallel timelines to retrieve alternate versions of herself to utilize.

Time Travel: what it says on the tin. Travel to the past creates painful splits in the prime timeline, but through careful action and traveling back into the past, these can be weaved into a time loop. A split from the timeline is a wound, and a successful timeloop is the surgical scar it can become with attentive care, to use a medical metaphor. Carefully closed and healing. Keeping Folk here is essentially akin to chartreuse pulling out her stitches on the initial incision.

Time Stopping: creates a space wherein things that take time to complete cannot complete, where things can move, but everything within is in a perfect unchanging stasis until the bubble drops. This is the form her failsafe takes.

Timeline Creation: can create timelines from scratch.

Can fuse alternate timeline versions of the same individual to allow them to coexist. (Ryan's confirmed in the discord that Dantoinette experienced both failures in 20, because Chartreuse fused the two instances of her to save the post-raid instance from fading. Could... theoretically do this to Folk and save herself the pain, but while Folk and Therapuppy are the same person, there's seven years and untold amounts of difference deriving from the time and circumstance between them and the inherent cognitive dissonances that would result from attempting that would be wicked fucked up to inflict, and that's assuming there isn't some reason that it wouldn't be possible anyway. while the two Danis had like. A day or so's difference between them, so she could be safely fused with the only dissonant thing being that she remembers both being too slow to prevent order's time escape and beginning to dissipate post-raid, AND losing that fight to her pre-raid. RIP Dani, that perfectionism must be kicking her ass)

Weaknesses:

Unwilling to use her powers destructively in her pursuit of domain repair and thereby much easier to damage to the point of paralyzing her, making her particularly vulnerable to Power Theft

Morally Optimistic. At one point in 19, she briefly justifies Crimson's shitty evil actions to herself after experiencing for herself how Wack the kerfuffleverse is firsthand, ("and all he did was kill a couple people!" Chartreuse. Honey.) and when she fights Crimsonaut she seems to actually believe for a second that he's actually worried about her when Crimson asks if she's okay after he beats her. Additionally, as D+, she concerns herself with trying to understand doctor order's motive, and after Larry defeats Order, he makes a point of confirming she feels no remorse before making his request for what Chartreuse does with her, and appeals to the idea of letting Order fulfill her desire to be a god in a way which isn't a problem for anyone and Chartreuse is more than happy to oblige under these conditions after what Larry's done for everybody. Then immediately threatens to evaporate him for playfully teasing her about having a crush on folk. Fucked up a little bit

Crimson's:

Universe Shifting: Travel between universes.

Universe Correction: appears to replace an aberrant individual with the 'correct' version of themselves for that universe, presumably sending them back to their own. (Mario from super mario was universe corrected, but still seemingly exists in wario form as evidenced by smashup kerfuffle, and was simply temporarily replaced with his corrected universe counterpart. But like. The dimensional bus system is still active crimbo doing the Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me routine aint gonna work if they can come back with a shrug and bus fare. you're fighting the symptoms without treating the problem)

Universal Constants:

Three individuals per universe that serve as the pillars which stabilize said universe, created by absorbing red orbs Crimson creates. Becoming a constant grants power, but also makes the constant fragile, and death wipes them from the face of the multiverse, only crimson, those he's possessed and the other constants seemingly able to recall they ever existed, although some physical evidence is still left behind (Larry's record of Nagito's death, which is just as redacted as everything else relating to him but still is very much something Larry has. Kind of a Voidfish adventurezone type beat ironically enough? Taako really has seen all this shit before no wonder he peaced tf out)

To counterbalance the weaknesses the constants have, they have a sort of spidey-sense to alert them to danger, and an intrinsic bonded connection to their fellow constants, and additionally, Crimson apparently doesn't suffer any pain from the death of constants or the structural instability of a universe.

Possession: what it says on the tin! Seemingly can only be done with permission to living things- none of crimson's direct hosts seem to have entered that agreement unwillingly, Valentine lost a bet, Hamburger and Crimsonaut have been by all evidence intentional allies to Crimson- but electronics are fair game, as seen with The Guy's suit. Kinda curious how that rule applies to bitches that are half and half, like J0hn or the clonebot gang, as its unclear whether The Guy's suit was yoinkable without permission because it was mechanical or because its not sentient. could go either way but if it's the former that's potentially very frightening

Fusion: Two individuals from alternate universes can be fused into one shared body which can take on aspects of either depending on which is currently in control. (possibly allows someone who traveled into a given universe to become a fixed resident there without it being an issue for Crimson, whose job is to prevent interdimensional travel?) Monday Mark and possibly T.O.M. are our main examples.

Corruption:

Unpleasant As Hell and can even kill you instead of changing you if you cant handle it.

turns the corrupted individual into a twisted exaggeration of themself, allows them supernatural control over their shape, and makes them very difficult- if not impossible by traditional means- to kill, based on Garfield.

Subjects them to control by Crimson, but can be exorcised of this influence just like crimson's direct hosts can, although the supernatural changes to their physiology are seemingly permanent, judging from Shantae.

Notable Weaknesses:

Exorcism can be performed to free a possessed or corrupted individual of Crimson's influence. Its unclear how exorcism works/is learned in CPUK, but confirmed exorcists: dantoinette and yung papaya's snake dad, confirmed non-exorcists: folk

The universal constant orbs are physical objects so they are Very Stealable and they grant a power boost so theres literally an Incentive to beat his ass for anybody who wants to be strong and either doesnt know or doesn't care about the whole 'getting erased when you die' part

Crimson has lots of tools to create pawns, but all of them have drawbacks. Corruption could kill a potential pawn, possession generally seems to require permission, and he has no control over the constants' choices and actions

Manipulative bitch's highest stat is charisma and it shows. This motherfucker is selling snake oil. If he was mortal rather than a Whole Entire God he'd make an excellent ineffectual saturday morning cartoon supervillain and i think everyone, including him, would be happier for it, ngl

Something interesting ive realized that likely wasnt fully intentional, is that a lot of Dr. Order's creations, considering her motive, can kind of be sorted by a color god it appears to be a crude attempt at mimicking the abilities of. My Grunk is a poorly executed resurrection, the clonebot gang vs chartreuse's timeclones (this one deserves special mention because Chartreuse used this shitty attempted mimicry to her advantage with D+, very smart and ironic play, excellent job Treusy,) spirits are somewhat similar to universal constant orbs (orbs which can be absorbed to grant power, but which have physical repercussions- key differences being that spirits require activation and grow stronger while attuning to a user without being used, and having far less severe drawbacks, taking a heavy toll on the body, but only once they've worn off and without the risk of wiping yourself from the face of existence,) and she also augmented Perfect Spriteman and Larry, which kind of track as crude imitations of Crimson's corruption!

Garfield was an acerbic cat who loved food and hated mondays, now its an actively malicious ever-hungry amorphous entity whose only weakness is monday and whose only consistency in form is 'cat-like.'

Shantae was (to my extremely limited understanding of shantae,) a friendly heroic type who had to introduce herself often, and she became something akin to a biblically accurate angel that can *only* introduce herself.

The Grunks a tough but sweet and supportive single dad with stage presence and a tendency to fly off the handle when he or his family are slighted, and now he gets so hype in the audience when his son does well that he bursts into flames and ascends and we get random grunk events along with the associated murder charges when he gets mad and the target sucks enough that he doesn't hold himself back from killing them.

Perfect Spriteman and Larry fit the trend of exaggeration of already present traits- Spriteman fucking loves sprite and became something that only thinks about sprite, and Larry the Florida Man, characterized from minute one by unpredictability and who spent his first matches in the series pre-shapeshifter transformation staying alive keeping stocks for Shockingly Long even despite getting seventh, became literally physically random as well as developing the ability to regenerate, albeit with the ability to feel pain normally very much intact, unlike Garfield just... Soaking up damage like its nothing in his pursuit of Jon. The fact that Arbuckle legit defeated Garfield, even temporarily, is terrifyingly impressive honestly that dude is fucking built different for being so chronically bland

i dont think they're actually corrupted in any meaningful way we have to worry about, to be fully clear, Spriteman was cured with fucking antacids, i simply think they could be a fucked up attempt at making something that kind of seems like it from a functional standpoint, from the wannabe god doctor that brought us green clones whose only fundamental association with time was accelerated aging and who thought an actively rotting corpse thats just reanimated enough that it can throw hands was as good as curing death

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Metallo!Lena AU Pt 25

"But why would Lena be attacking her own holdings?"

Alex stands next to Kara's sunlamp, hands on her hips. Having heard Kara's account, she has questions. So does Kara.

"Because it's not Lena anymore. Or at least, I don't think Lena is at the wheel. She called aherself Vengeance." Kara runs her hands over her face. "What I want to know is who did this to her?"

"There's only one person on Earth who could even hope to replicate Lena's kryptonite research."

Dread pools in Kara's stomach. Lex. Of course.

"He escaped shortly before Lena disappeared," Alex explains.

Kara closes her eyes. "The holdings that have a been attacked have all been acquired since Lena took over at L-Corp. He's dismantling all the progress she's made, and he's using her to do it."

It's sick. It turns Kara's stomach, even as her stomach breaks in two. When Lena comes back to herself, she's going to be devastated.

Kara looks at her sister. "How are we going to get her back?"

Alex can only shrug.

"I don't know."

---

The attacks continue. The media catches on to the fact that it's a single perpetrator, and starts trying to track down who this new villain is. Lex, in his cruelty, gives Lena a suit, but not a mask.

The slash of purple paint across her eyes does nothing to hide her identity. The whole of National City knows it's Lena, and to Kara's horror, not everyone is afraid.

"Finally those aliens can have a taste of how us humans have been feeling, with that girl of steel menace flying around all over the place..."

"I for one feel better knowing there's someone looking out for us humans who can go toe to toe with Supergirl--"

"It's about time someone stood up the Kryptonians!"

Never mind that Lena's powers made her no longer human, never mind that Lena's mind-- her very identity-- has been warped beyond recognition. Never mind that after Lena is finished dismantling the new L-Corp, she targets not Supergirl, but soft targets like the Luthor Childrens Hospital, known to accept alien patients, and the alien food bank across town.

Little by little, Vengeance whittles away at the alien resources in National City, until the mayor is forced to call a curfew for all citizens, not just aliens. Only then do the humans of National City begin to fear their champion.

Vengeance descends on the summer festival in Marigold Park, scattering humans and aliens alike as she uses her heat vision to destory tents and food trucks, wreaking mayhem and panic. By the time Supergirl swoops in Vengeance has flown off, as swiftly as she arrived.

The scene repeats itself over and over. Vengeance appears, deals her destruction, and vanishes as soon as Kara arrives. Soon, Kara realizes that Vengeance is playing with her, as cat toys with a mouse.

Truthfully, Kara is relieved. She doesn't know if she can fight Vengeance, knowing that Lena isn't to blame, knowing there's a chance Lena is still in there somewhere. But as the destruction and fear continues to mount, Kara knows she needs to end it.

Supergirl attends the grand re-opening of the first food bank destroyed by Vengeance. It's a demonstration of hope and peace-- there's no way Lex would allow it to go uninterrupted.

Sure enough, just as the ribbon is about to be cut, a dark figure swoops in. Kara hears her coming-- she doesn't wait for Vengeance to strike first.

Surging into the air, Kara catches Vengeance around the middle before she can get off a single blast of heat vision. She fires them both high into the atmosphere, and doesn't let her go until they're higher than any flight path, with no risk of collateral damage.

When they finally part, Kara squares her shoulders, ready to speed after Vengeance if the villain tried to make a beeline for food bank once more. But Vengeance simply hovers, a lazy smirk on her face, and Kara realizes that her opponent is finally ready to face off against her.

The thought chills Kara to the bone.

"I don't want to hurt you, Lena!" Kara calls.

Vengeance's smirk deepens into something dark.

"You won't."

Kara rockets towards her the moment Vengeance moves. They lock into an exchange of blows that seems endless. Vengeance doesnt tire, never falters. Kara's world narrows to the sole focus of staying alive. It's hours before she gets in a lucky shot, aided by feint to Lena's solarplexus before slamming her fist into the side of Lena's neck.

The blow connects hard, sending Lena tumbling through the air. Before she can right herself, Kara wraps her in a bear hug, locking her arms tight around her.

"LENA!"

To her shock, Vengeance doesn't struggle against the prison of Kara's arms. Instead, she blinks sluggishly, her eyes dazed. Slowly, her gaze comes into focus.

"Kara?"

"Lena? Oh, thank Rao-- Lena, is that you?"

"I... think so?" Lena's fingers dig deep into Kara's sides, making her grimace. Lena groans. "Not-- not for long."

Whatever has shaken Lena free, she can feel the dark pull of the black kryptonite, urging her towards violence, towards destruction. Towards hate. Tears fill her eyes.

"Kara, please, I don't have long--"

"No, Lena we can help--!"

Lena leans in, sealing their lips together in a desperate kiss. It lingers for long moments, until Lena finally pulls back with tears in her eyes.

"I love you, Kara," she says. "And I think you love me too, so...."

Kara nods. "I do," she murmurs softly. "I always have."

Lena rests their foreheads together in relief, accepting Kara's words without protest. She doesn't have time for disbelief, no time for doubt.

"I know we pinky promised, but--"

Kara's eyes widen. "Lena, no..."

"I need you to kill me, Kara." Lifting her head, she meets Kara's gaze. "Please."

"I-- I can't..."

"I don't--augh!" Lena cries out in pain as the kryptonite sends a surge of energy through her veins. She can feel the monster in her trying to get out, but she clings to Kara, willing herself to fight it as long as she can. "I don't want to hurt anyone else! Please, Kara!"

Kara shakes her head. "No, just hang on, we'll get you to the DEO, and then--"

Her voice breaks off as Lena's fear disappears. Like a switch has been flipped, her gaze darkens, and meets Kara's with predatory intent.

"...Lena?"

"You should have killed me when you had the chance."

Vengeance snaps her head forward, smashing the bony part of her forehead into Kara's nose. Pain explodes behind Kara's eyes, and her grip loosens. Vengeance spins away from Kara's grasping fingers-- Kara gets nothing but the fabric of her suit, which tears away under her fingertips.

"You are weak," Vengeance crows, facing Kara. "You deserve to die like the vermin you are."

Kara stares at her-- more specifically, at the dark purple stone seated in Lena's chest, exposed by the rip in her suit. Never would Kara have expected to miss the glare of green kryptonite, but the sight of the dark crystal in its place turns her stomach. This is what changed Lena so completely-- this is how Lex changed her.

But even as Kara begins to lose hope, and idea occurs to her. Lex may have replicated Lena's kryptonite research, but he hasn't replicated her armor.

"Time for a reboot," she mutters to herself.

With a yell, Kara launches towards Lena, releasing a stream of heat vision as she goes. She funnels every ounce of energy into the blast, directing all of it towards the exposed crystal in Lena's chest.

The shock of the blast locks Lena in place, leaving her unable to lift her hands in defense as Kara cocks back her fist and punches her square in the chest, her knuckles directly impacting the black kryptonite.

The force of the blow shoots Lena backwards in the air like a ragdoll. The kryptonite cracks, then shatters. Kara sees the moment Lena loses consciousness, limbs lifting in a macabre moment of weightlessness before she plummets.

Kara descends after her, scooping Lena into her arms just before they hit the ground. She stumbles to a landing, her exhaustion making itself known. But all she can see is Lena's lifeless body, her chest still of breath.

Mustering the last of her energy, Kara flies them to the DEO, cushioning their rough landing with her own body, cradling Lena against her front.

"Alex!" Kara screams for her sister, desperate for help.

"ALEX!!"

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[0nerd-at-heart0]

Can’t Stop Loving You

Aaron Hotchner x Reader (female)

Word count: 2k

Warning: angst with a happy ending, bold means flashback

 It's just like everything you dreamed it would be. The smell of freshly brewed coffee, the feeling of being able to do anything and everything at the same time. It’s all you work for and it feels great.

The BAU, sure you were just an intern, but being an intern is one step closer to being a true profiler.. 

It's your first day. The lady at the counter hands you some papers to file and with that you head to the bullpen. You walk in, a  stack of paper in your hand, fresh smile,  ready to take on today and then you see him. The papers all fall, time has stopped, your heart is pounding, your head is racing, you didn’t expect to see him.  You heard through the grapevine that he transferred , what is he doing here, what are you doing. You remind yourself to get a grip,  you need to compose yourself.

You quickly pick up the papers and give him a quick smile as you runoff to your office. He doesn’t get to see you fall apart now, not after  all you’ve been through, not after what he did to you. You don’t even give him a second glance fearing that if you look at him your fall apart you’ll have the urge to run back into the arms. As you are in your office filing our papers, the memory starts to hit you like a ton of bricks.

It was in October afternoon, you guys had just gotten back to his apartment after a lovely day including a picnic at the park alongside getting ice cream, even though he claimed he didn't want any but truly devoured it in seconds. 

At this moment in time you guys have been dating for five months. You have yet to meet his son but that’s because his son has been away to a soccer camp. And with the crazy schedule you guys had of you being still a grad student trying to finish up everything to start your career and him working cases all over the place it wasn’t with it in the stars for you to meet Jack.... yet. 

You guys were cuddling on the couch, he wanted to stay silent and enjoy this moment as you ran your hands through his hair but you really wanted to watch a new movie that came out. As you guys debat, your  heart starts to flutter. Everything is perfect, you tell yourself. How can this get any better. So in the spur of the moment you said those three words. I . Love. You.

He quickly stands up and his brows furrow. He tells you to take it back. He starts pacing saying that you can’t love him, that you need to leave right now.  He starts to ramble saying how all this was a mistake. How the only reason you guys were together was because he needed a distraction.

The tears started to fall. You wouldn't believe what you were hearing. You quickly said how dare you and left running. Five months with a man who could never love you, a man who just wanted a distraction from his life. Five months just done the drain. 

You hadn’t noticed you started to cry until teardrops started to hit the papers you’re holding. You got yourself together the best you could and went out back to the bullpen because you need to give Dr. Reid some papers to sign.  

Talking to Reid was an adventure in itself, and as the rest of the team started to surround you to get to know you, you could feel a pair of eyes staring at you. You quickly looked up and saw him looking at you through his window. You shook off the feeling of yearning for him and continued to talk to the group. 

That was until he came down stairs and approached the group.

‘ Everyone back to work, now!” he said in an angry tone.

Everyone scattered off in their own direction and his eyes beckoned on you. 

“ Y/N Y/L/N right? You're the new intern hired by Strauss” he asked like he had no clue who you were.

Two can play at this game.

“Yes, sir. I am new here, who are you?,” you stated, trying to stand your ground.

He let out a small chuckle.

‘ I am Agent Hotchner and here’s a word of advice, don’t distract my team. Thank you.” he glared and quickly left back to his office.

What was once sadness boiled into anger. How Dare He.

The work day went by pretty quickly after that. Dr. Reid and you got along pretty quickly. He understood the feeling of being new and the wrath of Hotch. If only he knew half of it. 

As you get ready to leave, Morgan tells you that everyone is going to this cool bar that just opened up and that would love for you to join them.

Prenitss tell you that it’s not everyday they invite a newbie let alone an intern join them. 

You take pride in that and agree to join them.

At the bar. all of you were laughing and drinking. The only one missing was he who shall not be named. 

You're not one to drink but if Rossii was buying suddenly you didn't mind. Prentiss, Morgan, Garcia and JJ were off dancing. Rossi was hitting a woman wayyy out of his league. And at the table you were trying to convince Reid to at least do one shot with you.

You were pretty much all up in Reid’s personal bubble but he didn;t seem to mind. Maybe it was because he had already had a couple sips of your drink and was easing up.

As you and Reid were bickering and laughing, he walked in.  Hotch quickly walked to Rossi, they had a quick chat and then came over to the table.

“ Look at you two, where’s everyone else,” he asked as he took at seat

‘Dance floor”, I say bitterly.

“ I thought you weren't coming,'' Reid questioned.

“ I just had to drop off Jack at a sleepover, sorry to burst your bubble.” he said.

The night went on and Reid and Hotch talked about god knows what. You were more focused on the fact that Hotch was looking at me every now and then. Like what's his deal. You had enough drinks  to decide to go dance.  

As you dance you could feel his eyes on you. You decided to give him a show, show him what he lost. Finally get your mojo back. It’s been 4 months since you broke up and you are ready to let it all go. After months of crying and pinning and eating ice cream. He has no power over you anymore.

After too much dancing, and the fact that the bar is closing everyone huddles up to go there separate ways. You are holding on to Spencer (finally in the mindset to call him Spencer). You all walk to the parking lot seeing who's going to give who a ride. When Hotch speaks up and says that you guys live close to each other and he can give you a ride. No one seems to question it since they are all too tired to even function. 

But you know that’s a lie. You live across town from him. What's the endgame?

Everyone says their goodbyes and you just submit to Hotch giving you a ride.. You want to see what;s going to happen. Screw the alcohol for making your brain go all wonky. What happened to your independence. It all flew out the window. 

You and Hotch were in his car. Sitting in the parking lot. 

No one dared say a word. He hadn't even started the engine. 

‘’So, Agent Hotchner, are you going to take me home anytime soon?”, you sort of slurred.

“ Agent Hotchner,” he laughed, ‘ so formal, I guess I deserve that”

“ You deserve a lot worse’, you mumble.

‘’Y/N, please let me explain” he pleads with you, finally looking at you.

You look away, cross you arms and pout as you say, “ oh so now you know who I am”

“ I am not having this conversation in the car”, he says as he turns on the engine and begins to drive.

You stare out the window, the drive is silent. You don’t even realize he led you back to his house.

“ What are we doing here”, you ask as he opens the door for you.

“ I want to talk, and after I will call and pay for an uber back to your place if it makes you happy.” he says with puppy dog eyes that are hard to resist

You nod and he leads you into the house. You guys sit across from each other on the couch. He places water in front of you and you mumble a thanks.

“ Y/N, I can't ask you to forgive me because what I did was horrible. But I was scared. Everyone I love gets hurt when they are with me. And when you said you loved me, something in me told me that I had to call it off. You were getting too close to me and I couldn't let you in. I couldn't let you see the dark side of me. All the bad, I was scared that the moment I said that I too loved you, you would rather get hurt or regret being with me. And as strong as I seem, you have my whole heart and with that you have the power to break m..”, he pleads.

“ So because you were scared, I had to get hurt. No matter what, I still came out hurt above it all. The pain you caused me was astronomical.” You yell

Then he does something you didn't expect.

He gets on his knees in front of you.

‘ I don't expect you to forgive me. When I saw you walk into the bullpen my heart dropped. I felt like a teenager in love. You took my breath away all over again. Y/N, I can't let you go again. Seeing how you were with the team. The world I tried to protect you from. I am sorry. I am deeply, deeply sorry. I will spend the rest of my life trying to make things right, even if it means you won't take me back, I will do it because I still want you in my life. Even if we are just friends.” he cries.

“ You have been this new found light in my life, this last 4 months without you have been horrible. I am an idiot., please Y/N.”

His tears are running down his cheek and you realize this man has gone through so much loss in his life.  Nothing will truly justify what he did. But you can't lie and say the 5 months you were together were not the best months of your life. 

You gently lift his chin up to meet your eyes. “ I can't forgive you just yet, but that doesnt mean I ever stopped loving you, I am willing to try again because I will be darned if I too let you go. Hotch- I mean Aaron I mean it when I say you are one of the best things to happen to me.

He starts to smile and stands up. As he stands he pulls you into and embraces and gives you the most passionate kiss. Pouring his heart and soul into it. As you break for air he whispers, “ You, Y/N are the love of my life and I can say that I am no longer afraid to say that out loud. Let the future come, I will take it as it goes. But you Y/N, you are it for me, if you will have me”

That all you ever wanted to hear. And again you kiss. A kiss so magical, it feels like the beginning of what's to be finally a happily ever after for you two.

[pespillo]

Conversation with James Hull

Transcription:

James Hull

“Hi, it’s not Mary. My name is James. My mother is…under the weather. I just wanted to know if you’re really not like us. She wouldn’t stop talking about it while she was repenting. I’m curious, do you not get the urge to feed the beast? Anyway, I just thought I should ask. I’m just curious. I’ve actually never talked to anyone outside of my family before. But I know you’ve been talking to my family.“

Me

“I am an outsider in this, but its been harder and harder not to get sucked into the rabbit hole. or pig hole, if you will, i do not get urges to feed the beast, at least, not yet that im aware, ive dealt with worse urges in my youth.  but ive been trying to study this.......thing, ill be careful if i feel anything.you shouldnt be afraid, theres lots of people who wanna help you and your family out, we want you to be safe, put an end to this “

James

“I’m not afraid. And no one wants to leave. They’re happy where they are and they’ll be happy until they die. You could be happy too Micha. You could live on the estate and be baptized. You could help us.”

Me

“im sorry James thank you for the offer , im already under the church of my own head, and the demon leading it? well she doesnt mess around with competition, with all this said, where´s Mary now? and where is Smiley? seen em around recently?”

James

“You got my mother and sister punished you know. You claim you don’t want to feed the beast but yet I’m sensing you’re in the same situation we’re all in. You’re doing things because you feel like you have to? That’s the beast. Smiley explained it to me. You carry out these tasks to feed it. And not the Word. The Beast. It’s all encompassing.”

  Me

“Listen, your mother and sister reached out on their own, that says more about their situation than mine, you can get as mad as you want, itll probably feed it as well, you can blame ME as much as you desire, but how much will it help, when you been living in the same situation for years? who is the one punishing them for reaching out. but Mr Hull. He´s been feeding you that since you were born into the bubble right? If they are so happy, then why are they in such pain. Why did you reach out to me, if you weren't looking for an answer as well. PS: do you got alcohol in your house? or has that been disappearing as well, like the bandages.”

James

“They’re not in pain. It’s just hard for them because they’re girls. Girl Hulls never get used to the Word. You’re not helping them by making them confused. Isopropyl alcohol? I’ve got plenty. We do have to bandage after punishments. Suburbia is safe. I reached out to you because I see the Beast inside you too. If you don’t join us, you’ll get stuck in someone else’s domain. And they’re much much worse than ours. We keep people safe. We only punish those who rebel. “

Me

“What makes you think you wont be punished for talking to me right now James? , Mr hull couldnt even handle a picture of flipping him the bird, dont worry about me , my domain is much further away than you think (im a foreigner) , i think you should watch out, i dont know if Henry is coming home. but he got "Jesus" in his office right now and i dont think hes gonna be happy about what happened today. He´s in for the surprise. The domain you live in is erratic and unstable.”

James

“I don’t get punished. I’m perfect. As for its instability…yes. It is. But that’s my fathers fault.”

Me

“if you're so perfect, why aren't you the heir?”

James

“Because I’m choosing not to be. Smiley deserves it more than I do. And I’m letting her have it because I love her. That’s something you could never understand. We Hulls love each other more than you could understand.”

Me

“Do you even love your mom that much even when you see her and your siblings suffer, or do you love the idea of being a Hull much more, look at yourself, you arent perfect, youve just conformed to the misery, good news from the Beast, youre "next" in line now. Have fun or something. I'm gonna stock on alcohol , my mother is real good at it already.”

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He was quite the “golden child”, i cant stand stubborn people because i am just as stubborn!  i have no idea how is he gonna deal with feeding the beast himself. or how will Henry deal with his own body. Maybe its time for him to be... consumed.

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How come you didn’t like no way home? Tell us your opinions

okay!!! warning: I did type out a very long rant. I don’t think it has any specific spoilers from No Way Home, but it does imply/allude to a couple things. I am very open to counterpoints or discussion in general, this is just my take!

Issue 1) It feels like it’s grabbing after the success of Into the Spiderverse a bit too much. In fact, since Into the Spiderverse, ALL marvel products seem like they’re trying to lean into the multiverse far past the point of originality. Wandavision, Loki, Spider-man, the upcoming Dr Strange??? They ALL deal with the multiverse. This leads into the problem of continuously raising stakes but I’ll get to THAT later.

Issue 2) The reboot of itself. Things that at first seemed like a cute nod towards the comics like the inclusion of The Daily Bugle suddenly are intrinsic to the plot. Marvel created a Spider-man franchise that fit into their expanded universe and even though some people had legitimate qualms with the way they handled it, it was doing something different with the character and owning it. That doesn’t work if, three movies in, they suddenly backpedal on everything they’ve done so far to make all the movies before and way too elevated stakes his ORIGIN STORY??? Marvel started out Homecoming (which is a good movie) AFTER his origin with references to Uncle Ben. Homecoming was for the most part his origin. They rebooted THEIR OWN CHARACTER in the SAME STORY ARC. You can’t just do that! They quite literally erased everything different about this spider-man so they could restart his character arc to be something else AS IF HE DOESNT ALREADY HAVE AN ESTABLISHED SPOT IN THE UNIVERSE AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA

Issue 3) It was a fanfic. It was literally like watching a fanfic. Throughout it, there were regularly beats where all action would come to a standstill, even in highly charged scenes, for the characters to have SEVERAL minutes of witty banter. It was usually pretty funny (marvel is good at being funny), but it didn’t fit in with the rest of the emotional movie. It had the same problem as Far From Home with overly idiotic characters providing comic relief, and cashed in on the tropes without providing the feel-good ending fans would expect from a fanfic. So much of it was fan-service. just so much. They kept having Dr Strange show up and do father figure moments with Peter because they can’t seem to reconcile their decision to move past Iron Man. They did it with Mysterio and Happy in Far From Home, and they did it with Dr Strange in this movie, which leads to the next problem.

Issue 4) They think they’re making a tv show. The thing about all aforementioned father figures is that none of them stuck! They all were tossed aside. THIS is because of a bigger problem that is a result of the Marvel Phases. Phase 1 worked because, while all the movies were leading up towards the big battle with Thanos, each of them also stood on its own. You get the urge to go back and rewatch movies like Iron Man 2 or Thor: Ragnarok because they stand well individually! But more recent movies have fallen into the trap of each movie being just the next installment, rather than a story in its own right with nods to a more overarching plot. These installments have a sense of being episodic, while also having the pressure of expectation on them to be a big blockbuster. So, instead of doing what the older movies did, each movie now essentially becomes a filler episode for the new “main” plot where none of the stakes seem to matter because this story by itself doesn’t stand. But I have to stop myself again because the stakes will come later!!

Issue 5) It couldn’t decide what the main conflict of the movie was. Was it adjusting to life where everyone knew his identity? Was it trying to reverse a spell? Was it the moral dilemma of whether to help the villains or send them back to die? I don’t know and neither does this movie. My sister pointed out that the beginning and end are very thematically a big superhero movie, while the middle filler is clearly “monster of the week” so it feels jarring and in-genuine. Overall very thematically inconsistent.

Issue 6) the stakes. YOU SHOULDNT HAVE TO KEEP RAISING THE STAKES FOR A STORY TO KEEP THE AUDIENCE’S INTEREST. the first movie was about him wanting to move beyond smaller crime to criminal organizations but eventually deciding that neighborhood crime was better for him. then he got roped into saving the universe. uh oh! now those are pretty high stakes! we’d best raise them to sAVING THE MULTIVERSE. but people said that that wasn’t true to the vision of spider-man which hurt our feelings so we’ll put him back in his small neighborhood again at the end.

Issue 7) an emotional reaction does not equal a good movie. I laughed in the movie, and I teared up in the movie. This is because these characters were in good movies earlier and the actors are very good at selling their characters, so I am emotionally invested in the characters. This doesn’t mean that what this movie did with them was good writing, and I KNOW it’s not because I can think critically and also as soon as I left the theater I no longer felt emotional about it.

I’m just tired, because these problems keep showing up in recent Marvel movies. Therefore, to conclude, I reject modernity and all Marvel/Disney movies post-Infinity War (or mayyyybe Endgame).