#downtime’s up

[numptypylon]

Chapter 25 (S5E7)

“Does that answer your question?” Callum glared at Nyx, gesturing pointedly at Rayla, currently bent over the railing, heaving. There was a bloody time and place for everything Nyx, and this time, when Rayla was so miserable, was decidedly not it.

“I mean… kinda, yeah, that’s what I was saying! It is a mighty cute little piece of ass. And she’s 18 now, huh?”

“What?!”

“Relax. Not interested. No ass in the world can make up for the whole-ass mess you’ve got on your hands there. I’m not in the market for anything so…” Nyx made a face. “-emotionally high maintenance. You… do know that there are cute asses in the world that aren’t attached to so much-”

“I know. I’m not interested.”

“Oh honey, I wasn’t talking about me.”

“Neither was I. Honey.”

“Careful now. Don’t want your other lovebug hearing that, do ya?”

“It would be fine; Rayla is very capable in the art of sarcasm and also… not my lovebug.”

“Oh ho, now? Have you told her that?”

“She told me,” Callum scoffed, suddenly angry all over again that she actually hadn’t told him that, and yet they weren’t- “So I’m tentatively assuming that she knows.”

“Oh ho? So she broke up with you and you’re still adventuring together, risking your lives for each other, making moon eyes at each other at every opportunity… ah, to be young and in love and a dysfunctional garbage fire of collective awkwardness of such radiance as to light up the heavens!”

Read more of the twentyfifth chapter of Downtime's Up on Ao3, the last fluff before the wake... (chapters of this fic are between-scenes oneshots that can be read on their own, even if you haven’t followed the rest of the story)

[burquillos]

Day 24: Class 3A Christmas Gifts

[stark-lord]

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES 1.04 - The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers

Exhibit A for the fact that he really would let her get away with just about anything.

[techfan450]

Rex: *wakes up on a good mood*

Rex: Good morning! We have a very chill day ahead!

Fives: *opens his mouth*

Echo: *shoves an entire muffin into Fives's mouth*

[numptypylon]

I have that exact scene planned for my between-canon-scene fic, Downtime’s Up!

I haven’t written it yet, since it’ll be chapter 30 (story is currently only at chapter 9 so… it’ll be several months, sorry 😅), but I have a title and header illustration:

someone please write the missing scene of Soren and Rayla's conversation in the boat on the Sea of the Castout before she goes back down because they know the worst the boys will encounter down there is Claudia, and Rayla is the one who can protect them because Soren knows he'll hesitate and Rayla won't

[sleepymccoy]

Please feel free to add your own ideas

[creakingcreek]

More 3 months AU art because I'm going crazy /pos

@hatekawa explodes you with my mind

Quote that inspired the art under the cut ^^

Colour palette

[milkbreadtoast]

guys i started reading this recently and let me tell you. You have to read this one.... ITS SO GODDAMN FUNNY. im having the time of my life... wholeheartedly rec

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

what's yalls most "oh you did not lie about your kitchen experience" question at a new job? Mine's usually "what's the heat distribution on the grill" or "what side of the grill is fucked up" (depending on the vibes of the restaurant)

[storfulsten]

hhhm

[inchidentally]

I dw to go too deep into it bc the emotions are too high and the extremes are not fun places to stir up etc etc etc

but the way post Monza felt like a joint experience in misery for Lando and Oscar that they then took a joint approach to with the media, followed by a joint sense of relief and exuberance following this race...

and I always bang on about their joint decision to not do the whole joint content/bromance PR stuff or post when they have down time/social time together and asked to have both their drivers rooms accessible to only each other behind a door barring everyone else - this is exactly why. the job they have to do individually and together is far easier when they can keep fans and media - and Netflix - on the outside and just get on with it in private.

bc there have been drivers in their thirties with 10+ years of experience who haven't kept things as mature and balanced as these two and while the extremes of fandoms and media are projecting melodramas and hatred and conspiracy theories onto them, they deserve way more credit than they're given for maintaining such consistent unity and calm considering they've been thrown into the hottest oil fire situations with a team still struggling to get used to being front runners again, all while only having been teammates a season and a half and both under 25.

like I always say, I keep fully expecting them to at some point be normal and take swipes at each other sometimes and be in a funk w each other for a week or so before being buddies again etc etc the usual stuff for teammates who like each other but are also close rivals on track in a front runner team. and that may still happen and it still won't be cause for alarm for me! but goddamn they've faced some hellish situations and held their composure and traveled home laughing and smiling together each time and showing up for work at the races or MTC beaming into each other's faces. all while never once having a typical PR bromance to uphold/maintain for fans or therefore benefit from. they're just... wanting and choosing to respect and like each other when they literally don't need to do any more than tolerate each other - and could've stuck with rooms opposite management's offices like they used to. with the amount of people desperate for them to hate each other and the fact that teammate rivalries actually generate more engagement and headlines than friendly teammates like, they're (currently) choosing to huddle together and discuss and reach agreement so they can get back out and do the best they can with a team that's still strategically trying to learn how to be at the front again.

[numptypylon]

Illustration from last chapter of Downtime’s Up, my between-canon-scenes fic, where it’s inn o’ clock in rayllum land 💖 Chapters of this fic can be read independently, without reading the whole fic, since it closely follows the canon episodes.

[demodraws0606]

People complaining about Tsukasa5 already are pissing me off, because like, it's so unbelievably obvious what this event is trying to do and the fact that people are so hung up on "urgh dur tsukasa strong why can't he do a wall climb".

Like, first of all, a lot of Tsukasa's strength has been used as comedy before and also it's never been said that Tsukasa could specifically do a wall climb before so people calling this a retcon or a stretch is really dumb to me.

Sure we can make jokes about it, but this is not like a serious writing problem or anything.

Also are we just gonna ignore the fact this event is literally just a reference to his 3rd event in a silly trenchcoat. Or the fact that this is obviously meant to be WxS's downtime and training arc to prepare them to face the loose plotpoints in the future?

His inner dialogue when chasing the ninja is very clearly a reference to the whole Pheonix thing, how he can't reach it no matter how hard he tries.

The wall climb is like an extremely fucking on the nose metaphor to him climbing over his issues as an actor.

THERE IS ALSO THE WHOLE THING THAT HINTS THAT TSUKASA CAN ONLY OVERCOME HIS PROBLEMS IF HE HAS HELP FROM OTHERS (AKA tsukasa would've literally BEEN INJURED, if it wasn't for the fact the troupe's leader was there).

In fact this literally followed an event aka Tsukasa 4 where he FAILED to do his role correctly.

It's almost like this event is meant to be a transition point between Tsukasa 4 and 6, where Tsukasa builds up the knwoledge on how to face his problems.

But no this is just mid event because it's very silly and "wow plot is stupid why can't tsukasa wall climb".

WxS fans are slowly just turning into VBS fans in terms of how whiney they're being i swear

[masschase]

i've been thinking about SR1 a lot recently

[cahootings]

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I’m home from spending a week at a conference with some of my best friends in the world who I only get to see once a year and I averaged 4.5 hours of sleep each night and kicked ass at my presentations and got so many questions and hugged and cried every day and I’m not the same person anymore.

[all-my-crap]