#everyone is just like 'wtf?????'

[atiyasnake]

Danny had really tried to live a normal life that any normal mortal human would have. 

Probably a mistake to choose a city with a few curses and actual living shadows, but hey Sam really go him into Gothic architecture and he thought that the heroes would have it handled. He underestimated just how often citizens going on about their days were taken hostage. Along with how his luck made him one of the lucky few and of course, the first hostage brought up to be at the end of a gun. 

Danny thought he’d just wait it out. 

He didn’t think the guy pointing the gun would shoot him just as the heroes showed up.

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The sound of the gunshot was deafening as Batman and the others entered the warehouse. 

The sight of a body going limp and hitting the floor in a morbid mockery of a puppet with cut strings even more so. 

The gun still trailed smoke as it was being waved around by the rogue who taunted them at another life lost as blood was pooling into a puddle by the body. Meanwhile, the masked heroes had to ignore it. They had to push it aside to come up with a plan, they couldn’t let another die that night. 

Batman and Nightwing played the audience to the typical monologue of the rogue as Robin and Red Robin snuck around to untie the hostages while Black Bat led them outside where Batgirl tended to any wounds and waited for the authorities to arrive. 

“-nd you just run around. Hiding in the shadows trying to save everyone, but you can’t!” the rogue said, he had yet to even share his name underneath his mask. All too excited to share his thoughts with little thought to his surroundings. “I mean everyone acts so afraid of you but you’re just a man in a suit. You’re human and you failed.” They paced around still keeping their focus on Nightwing and Batman while the last few hostages snuck out. 

The rogue laughed gesturing to the dead hostage with his gun. “Look at this guy! Dead because you were late. Probably won’t even make the news.” He nudged a limp arm with his foot and both Nightwing and Batman fought the urge to just shut him up. But he still had a gun and Black Bat was still sneaking hostages out. 

“So many people will die just like him and all you can do is clean up the me-”

“Ancients, will you shut up.”

The rogue froze and Batman looked to see who had spoken. There was groaning and the rogue looked in the direction of it too. 

He looked down. 

The corpse’s hand was latched around his ankle. The sound was coming from it and Batman watched as a bloody head lifted from the puddle of blood, some dripping down. Hair covered its face while the other hand came to where a hole was in the middle. 

The rogue looked pale and shook, the gun fell from his hands, and soon enough so did he. His breaths were frantic as he tried to crawl back and kept looking at the dead body whose hand had not let go of his ankle. He couldn’t get further away.  

The bloody head looked to the side, letting some hair fall away and revealing a face. Icy blue eyes stuck out amidst the red. They stared right at the rogue, narrowing and the rogue opened his mouth but nothing came out. 

The corpse had enough words for all of them. 

“Everyone always has some shit they have to say, don’t they? Doesn’t matter if people just trying to live.  No no no. Just gotta wave a gun in their face, is that right?” They leaned closer to the rogue who was scrambling to get back but the grip on their ankle was unrelenting. “Hmmm. But what if I wanted to say something? What if” - they now were above the rogue like a monster looking down at prey - “I wanted to make you bleed too?”

Batman and Nightwing saw the rogue go unconscious at the whispered words that made their blood freeze and breath caught in their lungs. They waited for this undead creature to do something. But then all of a sudden, the pressure disappeared and the corpse didn’t look so frightening anymore as they backed away from the rogue and made their way to stand up. 

It was human in the way it stretched and groaned like someone sore trying to move. Even more so as a hand came to wipe at their head while they could hear it mumble “So not gonna deal with this shit today,” before they started to walk where the other hostages had exited. Barely even giving Batman or Nightwing a glance or any of the other masked heroes who had come inside the moment something had seemed amiss. 

“Hey wait!” Nightwing called out and the previously unmoving hostage turned around. He looked alive, breathing, his head bloody but no gunshot wound in sight. 

“Yes?” they asked.

Nightwing found it hard to figure out what to say and was beaten to it by Robin who said bluntly, “You were dead.”

The bloody hostage shrugged. “And?”

“Now you are alive.”

They kept looking at him as if expecting more. Robin scowled and looked at Batman for him to say something. 

Batman stepped forward. “Are you alright?” he asked. 

The question made them smile “Could have done without it but c’est la vie et al mort.”

“That so not how the saying goes,” Red Robin said.

“Mmm, maybe not for you.”

“Hood would like him,” came in over the comms from Batgirl. Batman couldn’t help but share the sentiment. He looked back to where Robin was trying to get the meaning out of that comment. It was odd how lively and fine the hostage looked, only a few head rubs and winces showed discomfort. 

He wanted to ask what had happened when suddenly there was the sound of a crash and Batgirl on the comms saying there was trouble outside. Nightwing and Black Bat already headed outside. He turned to tell Robin to stay with the hostage. But when he did, they were nowhere in sight. 

Robin had a scowl on his face. “Father, we will be looking for them correct?” his voice made it clear what decision he thought Bruce should make. Bruce nodded in agreement but also sighed. 

The hostage had been black haired with blue eyes. He could already hear the accusations. 

Prompt three!

Immortal danny in Gotham!!

Danny moves to Gotham (for college, cuz jazz moved there, for fun, whatever you want) it’s pretty cool! The architecture is awesome and there’s already heroes so he doesn’t have to worry!! He’s got an apartment in the Narrows and all is good.

Until he gets taken hostage during a rouge attack.

Mother Fucker- he was having fun living a relatively normal life!! Now there’s some hoe in a holloween costume pointing a gun at his head. Now- Danny knows he can’t be killed by normal means (the Guys in White showed him that) but this’ll still be a pain in the ass.

The Bats arrive on the seen just in time to see A Hostage get killed. The Rogue is ranting and raving about their plans, mocking the bats for letting a citizen die. The bats are trying to focus on making a plan to get the other hostages out safe, but it’s like a stab in the gut seeing someone die because -they were to late-

The bats were about to put their plan into action when The Hostage started tO GET UP??groaning like he’s waking up with a hangover and and very much NOT like he just got SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD 5 MINUTES AGO

He stumbles to his feet and murmurs something about “not dealing with this shit today” unties the other hostages and WALKS OUT THE FRONT DOOR while everyone is processing what the hell happened…

They need to find that guy.

Danny meanwhile, is having a Day. His head hurts like a bitch and he’s been avoiding tons of vigilantes since this mornings… Events. They just keep coming! HOW MANY BATS ARE THERE IN THIS CITY!?!? Spoiler, Nightwing and Batman keep trying to ask him questions, he’s pretty sure Red Robin is STALKING him and the Red Hood tracked him down just to give him a high five RED HOOD WASNT EVEN THERE??? WHY???

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[psyche-reads]

At first, Hua Cheng mostly gives off the impression of a normal over-protective broody love interest in a romance novel, overly paranoid over anything that might potentially hurt Xie Lian, but then you get to the White Clothed Calamity arc and realize, oh god, oh fuck, that’s actually a completely reasonable response to having to watch someone go through that, he’s actually showing remarkable restraint by allowing Xie Lian to go off and do his own thing as much as he does

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[kingkatsuki]

Do your blorbos ever look at each other inside your blorbo mansion and wonder “what the fuck is that guy doing here?”

[repmet]

Take my hand Take my whole life, too

[xxplastic-cubexx]

me Omw to annoy you about more Francesca content 😼😼

you and my entire inbox my friend strap in everyone this is gonna be The Francesca Mega Collection. part one The Bed Collection ft You HAVE To Click/Tap To Read Anything ESPECIALLY The Asks

thank you for joining me for the Francesca Bed Collection im going to pass out

[fairsweetlonging]

thinking about crowyuan saving liu qingge from his qi deviation and disappearing before he can fully wake up so he won't be recognized (him being a demon and all), but it causes liu qingge to accidentally mistake him for shen qingqiu.

there is a massive fight during the next peak lord meeting, with liu qingge accusing shen qingqiu of saving his life and not taking responsibility for it as if it's a war crime, while shen qingqiu keeps denying he had anything to do with it and if he had saved liu qingge, he'd be rubbing it in his face every chance he got.

it escalates and escalates until liu qingge, red with embarrassment and anger, points at shen qingqiu and says "you were cradling me in your arms!" and shen qingqiu explodes.

mu qingfang tries to calm them down by saying that perhaps liu qingge hallucinated, which is not uncommon for a qi deviation, but that sets off some of the other peak lords who now start teasing him for "dreaming of shen qingqiu coming to rescue him", and of course that only makes it worse.

liu qingge refuses to let it go and starts bringing shen qingqiu his victories to try and pay off his debt, because he is an honorable man and he will not let shen qingqiu get away with this!!

meanwhile shen yuan is watching it from a distance wondering whether he made it better or worse by stepping in.

[little-hermit-crab56]

WHY IS THE NINJAGO FANDOM OUTSIDE OF TUMBLR SO FUCKING TOXIC

[ashpkat]

i can’t believe octavian died like… that. of all things in a middle grade kids books series. and everyone was chill about it. literally no one gaf octavian died so horrifically even if it was ‘just’ —and as the readers… we were chill with it too

[nite-puff]

this was what their dr:s interaction was originally gonna be. trust me. i’m mr. danganronpa

(no cuz seriously. how are you gonna have them interact and then forget that hiroko canonically has a bit of a thing for takaaki?) (i say this like the dr:s writers even knew who the other captives were)

[bu99erfly]

LOOSSEMBLE One of a Kind (Dawn Ver. Concept), 2024

[weaponizedducks]

another arthur returns au. merlin is sad and In Love so everyone he meets hears about this blond guy who insulted him for ten years and makes merlin sob everytime he talks about him and hears about how he 'left him' and how he's 'waiting for him' and they assume arthurs a really shitty ex boyfriend and merlin is delusional, traumatized, and whipped.

when arthur returns he has to deal with various verbal attacks form people who think he's merlin's ex and is just so confused.

[hijinxinprogress]

Billy definitely thinks about random things during fights and decides the internet needs to know immediately

[tippenfunkaport]

That viral post that's going around about how people who write "book quality" mlm fic are too "normal" to publish and have real jobs so only "weird" people publish their "shitty" fanfic is so completely out of touch with reality and I am giving a massive side eye to everyone reblogging it.

Not only is it completely, easily verifiably untrue (you cannot enter any professional writing space without tripping over a dozen grizzled scifi writers who got their start by filing off the serial numbers and publishing their Star Trek fanfic even going back decades ago??? it's a whole thing?? plus how can you look at the mlm category on Amazon right now and say with a straight face that people aren't publishing shitty Spirk and Stucky fanfic??? Oh, honey...) it's also the perfect example of this kind of sneering elitism that true artists would never sully themselves by seeking profit, they do it only for the purity of the thing that always somehow leads back to, "no one should be paid to make art, actually."

The only reason you're seeing more published fanfic right now has nothing to do with the idealistic purity of your hypothetical government employee written smut of the past vs the debased scribbles of those awful straights of today and everything to do with the fact that a) self-publishing has created a voracious readership that wants a ton of content so it's become a viable, flexible income stream for many, especially disabled people b) anyone can publish now with self-publishing tools so there are less gatekeepers and c) lockdown got a lot of people into fandom and therefore writing who never tried it before.

And if you really think there's no "shitty" published mlm and no "book-quality" m/f writing out there that started as fanfic, then you are clearly not a reader so why are you even talking about this?

[thetimelordbatgirl]

If this video thumbmail isn't the perfect summay of Lily Orchard: whenever she's being called out and exposed for being a shitty person and a predeator whose into incest and has sexually abused their sibling, she still tries to find a way to make herself into the victim of it all, portraying herself here as some poor innocent victim whose been hurt by all these people, when we know in reality its the opposite.