#do the things you never showed nobody

[dontcallmebree]

Royalty is about Loyalty by dontcallmebree

Major Tags: Established Relationship, Mob AU, Shrunkyclunks

Summary: They’re coming up on Rita’s 78th when she calls Steve in for one of their private meetings. What those two could possibly get up to, Bucky’s got no clue; Steve and Rita could very well be shooting the shit over some tea and a couple smokes every time they tuck themselves away for an hour or two. Six years into being married in and nearly twice as long at Steve’s side, and Bucky still isn’t quite privy to all of the Brooklyn Irish’s many secrets.

In this installment of Do The Things You Never Showed Nobody, a couple of (not-so-old) marrieds try to deal with change and face the music. Read now on AO3!

[doctorsiren]

I loved your headcannons about inukawa, reigen and reigens sister and I would really like to see what you think would happen if mob and reigens sister met and I was wondering if you could possibly draw them :D

hello yes I accidentally made a comic after seeing this ask yesterday 😁 bro psychoanalyzed her 😨

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[cecoeur]

it's hell on earth to be heavenly them's the breaks, they don't come gently

[hydrachea]

I think if Blade ever does send a text directly it should be a single sentence of the most basic kind, and then it never happens again.

[howtodisappearcompletelyand]

20/10 stars little guy

[hellinhawkins]

hey! sometimes it’s not necessary to share your opinion <3

[itsafternoonpast5]

thinking about their friendship so hard

[dukeofthomas]

I need people to realize how horrible 'stalking/constant surveillance/breaking into each other's homes is how the Batfamily show love' is. Like i really need someone to just acknowledge how horrific saying this bullshit is.

Like even fics where they're shown as happy and healthy and with good ties, you've always got this thing where none of them have privacy or any boundaries with each other. Which is directly antithetical to actually having good relationships. And this invasion via hacking and stalking and breaking into homes is portrayed as a positive, good thing; it's just how they show love and care to each other, after all. But for some reason I just personally don't find stalking, lack of privacy or boundaries, and emotional manipulation funny, endearing, or healthy, and just end up disgusted at the attempt to sweep it all under the rug.

[codacheetah]

It's deeply important to me that Loop kind of sucks

[dontcallmebree]

aaah Bri I’m PROFOUNDLY enjoying all of the insight into the WIPs so far! Can’t wait to see where you go with any of them.

I’m a little late to the game, but if you haven’t yet done this one - may I have DTTYNSN 15? 👀 (I’ve been mulling it around in my head for like an hour now trying to figure out what it could be short for lol)

Hi Max! Hope you're having a good weekend <3

Hahaha oh no Do The Things You Never Showed Nobody is a series I started in 2020. Up Close and Personal, the original fic, is a shrunkyclunks mob au. It's since grown into a 14-part series (soon to be 15 I guess) and I just always have the next installment floating around my wips.

Honestly I have no clue how to describe this series hahaha. Steve and Bucky bumble around Brooklyn and explore a myriad of things. Identities and their place in the world. Family ties and what they mean. The politics of a self-contained borough and the occasional Avenger.

Part 15 has some shakeups to the status quo of the series, though in this au pivotal turning points are pretty quiet. Two characters talking over pie is usually as dramatic and tension filled as it gets. Which I do enjoy playing around with, I have to admit!

Here's a very out of context snippet but it's also in very early stages so it's rough!

And he does need it, because as much as he’s made peace with never knowing everything about Steve’s past, there are times like this when the reality catches him off guard. “I didn’t know that.” “Well,” Steve murmurs, soft and careful like he can suddenly tell Bucky needs his voice to be just as gentle as his hands, “it was a long time ago.” “Yeah.” Bucky looks around at the mess they made, boxes and boxes of things he’s realizing not only chronicles Rita’s life but Rachel’s. Steve’s. Sarah Rogers', he’s starting to gather. “Do you still want to—to get everything out of here?” Steve does look at him with worry then, eyes searching. “Of course. Like I said, it was a long time ago."

[starlooove]

No one is asking you to like cops IRL, not even the show. If you look at Arcane and what you see is copaganda, if you look at Cait and only see PoLiCe OfFiCeR and not the character, the problem is YOU.

1. I never said anyone asked me to like cops irl

2. I know that’s what I said.

[black-and-yellow]

Stupid doodles I did because I couldn't get them out of my head

[frogs-in3-hills]

watched a popular video about berserk this morning., regretted it

[arctic-reptile]

sent my fanzine pieces to some friends and most didn't acknowledge them at all and the only one who did just went "nice" and nothing else :(((

[bearenjoyers]

sorry im just thinking about bcs but like. why not add a few smaller scenes of gus interacting with his own men? why does it seem like, in comparison, mike is almost immediately elevated to a higher status than those two in bcs purely because we actually get to see him having normal conversations with gus? like i understand they might not keep the plot moving as well because of the fact obviously if victor is currently doing something it’s because gus told him to etc. but for the most part all of the smaller interactions gus does have with those two ends up being in a somewhat high stress situation where it feels very tense between everyone. and it’s just like damn! is it always like that?? why do those two even care that much about their jobs if their boss is a bit of a dick? etc. i think even an additional scene or two with those guys (either alone or the both of them) talking with gus in a more normal situation could’ve both added a bit more depth into how gus treats his employees (we got a lot with how he treats lyle and co., but not a whole lot with the illegal side of things), how comfortable vic and tyrus feel around him in a calmer setting, and exactly why they both feel the need to be as loyal as they are to the guy.

and also on the other side of this i don't think it'd hurt to maybe elaborate on their pay just a bit..? i'm not saying to randomly put a number out into the atmosphere but i just mean some smaller things like. do they buy nicer things for themselves? what's their housing situation? what's their car situation? are the escalade / yukon their own vehicles or does gus just use those two for business situations? do they use them when they're doing their own stuff off the clock or do they have their own cars? etc. that can also help with understanding their motivations a bit. don't get me wrong i don't think they should be visibly rich or something because that's not what gus would want but just smaller things! cause it's easy to write their loyalty off as Well they probably get paid super well, which i'm sure is true, but if they don't show a single hint of that then what's the point. even something as simple as giving tyrus a nice watch, or maybe victor having a nicer looking gun, etc. something small like that. because as it stands right now the average 41 year old viewer who watched the show once only knows and will only ever know victor and tyrus as those two guys in the background who do random stuff for gus with no clear motivation. just the personification of "On it boss (salute emoji)". and to be honest this is true for a whole lot of fans who do watch the show multiple times and enjoy thinking about it more in depth, because on screen we barely have anything about the two.

and to be clear i'm not trying to say we should have an episode just for them or something like no i understand they're side characters. i understand we don't need all that. and i understand this is also primarily Jimmy's show. but it's not like these two are on the same level as like, arlo or paige and kevin etc. these guys have been around since brba. victor was literally introduced in the same episode gus was. and they are a huge part of gus's story, especially in brba. s4 wouldn't have been what it was without victor and tyrus. and in bcs, ignacio's situation wouldn't have been the same if it weren't for victor and tyrus as well. and i just personally believe that if their goal with gus in bcs was to go back and elaborate on how everything came to be and show what he was like a few years younger, they could've dragged victor and tyrus into that. and i think his character would've benefited from taking that extra step with those two.