#gerryrigged

[vellaphoria]

for the New Year Fanfic meme, 6 and 13? c:

Thank you so much for the ask! <3 <3 <3 (questions come from this ask meme) 6. Which yet-to-be-started fic is first on your list?

The vast majority of the fics on my list are wips, though one that I haven't started yet but really want to is a DickTim Witcher AU that I cooked up with my beta reader. Contrary to expectation, they're both mages within the setting rather than witchers. I consider this one not started yet, but I do have a tiny bit of it written, which is here as an excerpt:

Tim didn't cry when his parents gave him up.  How could he, when it was all but expected? Ending up on the wrong side of a succession crisis had thrown his parents’ political position into disarray. They’d been scrambling for any shred of influence, desperate to stay just one step ahead of the assassin’s blade. What is one life weighed against the legacy of a family and its ability to survive another day?  The first lesson that Tim learns at Ban Ard is that his life is worth several thousand crowns, a promise of political protection from the Brotherhood of Sorcerers, and the look of relief on his parents’ faces when they turn away from him for what he will eventually know to be the final time. The heavy hand that rests on his shoulder is little comfort in the face of this revelation. A handful of confusing, blurred-together days later, the second thing that Tim learns at Ban Ard is that Dick Grayson is the most beautiful person he’s ever seen

My beta reader knows way more about the witcher universe than I do, so I'm relying on them pretty heavily for details here lol 13. Aside from fanfic, are there any other fan works you’d like to try creating? Fanart, or fanvids, gifsets, or podfic?  Possibly podfic? Though it's not a skillset I possess, outside of at one point attempting to audio record the first chapter of Red in Tooth and Claw while drunk lol

[marirah]

for the New Year Fanfic meme, 5 and 11?

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

i am absolutely determined to finish my year of the otp/year of jason and slade series before the end of the month. a snippet from the dicktim i've been working on:

Sneaking in to run Dick a nice bath after a long day with Bruce is the least he can do, really. And, probably more importantly, he wants to. Wants to make Dick feel good in any way that he can. He can tell that Dick wants the same thing - he brings Tim coffee to the Bunker or the office, makes him stop working when he can and makes sure Tim eats when he can’t. Actions speak louder than words for both of them, and they’re putting in the work to make it work. Tim’s never had a relationship like this, really. He’s pretty sure he’s never been happier.

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year?

i don't know about new tropes, but i do want to get that DickTim trope fill thing off the ground today...

[vellaphoria]

Me: 😍YOU'RE SO RIGHT, ANGEL 🥰

[bi-bats]

for the ask game - JayTim obviously!! or, if that's been asked already, maybe JayRoy?

YESSSSSSSS okay I'm gonna do both ships, because neither has been asked yet!

We're going to start with Jaytim though, because obviously I ship it 😂

What made you ship it?

There was a fic by Timmyjaybird that I read that had unrequited Jaytim (different main pairing with Tim), and their dynamic piqued my interest. I decided to click into the ship page, read strange fear I ain't felt for years by sister, and then it was over for me. If you know me, you'll know I always say that all it takes is reading one good fic for a ship and I'll start shipping it. Plus I'm a Tim kinnie and Jason is so so hot, so theres definitely a projection character/attraction character thing going on

What are your favorite things about the ship?

All the ways I can play with them. They can be fucked up, unstable, unwell, obsessive (on both sides). They can be bitter and angry and fall into each other (which I tend to favor in longer works). They can be soft and sweet and gentle and forgiving. They can be blushing and nervous and uncertain. They can be petty and annoyed and really into riling each other up. It ALWAYS works. And also, there's something I find so fascinating about the way they accidentally helped create each other. Tim as Robin happened mostly because of Jason, and Jason becoming Red Hood and going after Bruce gets set into motion because he finds out about Tim. They're a feedback loop and neither of them is happy with the results. Okay, I have to stop here before this turns into a dissertation. Or before I spoil a future fic which I already had to erase a spoiler for so next question

Is there an unpopular opinion you have about the ship?

A little bit? I think my only opinion that some people disagree with (but isn't necessarily unpopular) is that I don't like the whole Pit Madness thing. When Jason came back he had a fucked up plan, and he wasn't entirely in his right mind, but he justified it. He was doing the wrong thing for the right reasons when it came to Tim (being mad at Bruce because he's going to get Tim killed and then he almost kills Tim to prove the point). It's something I explore in my fics at almost every opportunity, because I think it's too easy to let Jason off the hook by blaming it on the pit. It also frustrates me because it doesn't really matter whether or not he meant to hurt Tim, because he did. And I like watching him take responsibility for the knowledge that he wanted to hurt Tim, and being forced to confront the realization that his logic at the time involved a lot of mental gymnastics, and grapple with the idea that it might not be a thing he can fix and that even if it is, Tim probably shouldn't forgive him, and definitely shouldn't get involved with him. Okay, halfway through writing this I realized that I definitely have an unpopular opinion about them, but I'm not erasing all that, so you get both. I hate the nickname babybird. I know. I know! I hear you all disagreeing with me. I see you all throwing tomatoes at me. I just don't like it! I don't think it's cute. I like little red or little bird much better, personally.

Okay I'm also gonna do JayRoy but this is getting long, so I'm gonna put the rest under the cut.

JayRoy: I ship it!!!

What made you ship it?

I think one of my friends told me they knew it was a ship and they thought it was cute sometimes and I checked it out? I've actually been reading Jayroy since before I read Jaytim. And as previously stated, all it takes is one good fic.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

Honestly I just love their relationship so much. Roy is one of the few people Jason ever really allows to get close to him after becoming Red Hood (if we're ignoring the whole being brought back into the batfamily thing which I have a Lot of Opinions about, but that's a story for another time, anyone reading this can feel free to send me an ask if you want the rant), and I really just love the way they understand each other and are there for each other. I also love that they're assholes to each other. Roy is so irritating and Jason should hate it but he can't and he doesn't because Roy is too endearing and genuine. It's sweet. It's the angry one and the sunshine one.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have about the ship?

I guess? I think they work better as friends who also sleep together. Like, I don't necessarily think they should date. I think that if they ever ended up in a long-term relationship, it would be because Jason realizes he hasn't slept with anyone else in years and they've been partners for even longer than that. But when it comes to things that healthy relationships should have, I don't really see them having it. It's not healthy to start dating someone because you realize you already are after not talking about it for years. I think too much of the responsibility and emotional labor would fall on Roy, and I think he deserves better.

okay, if you're still reading at this point then thank you for reading!!! and thanks for the ask!! I had so much fun answering this 💚💚💚

[sugarandice3]

Me: *does the simpest bit of problem solving*

Me: I am a genius. Someone hand me an engineering degree right now cause my brilliance knows no bounds.

[olden-towne]

My girlfriend gerryrigged an antenna out of a pipe cleaner and scotch tape so that she can watch the world series. If the Yankees lose she's going to end up on the news.

[get-back-homeward]

Here’s the sound from an Elpico AC-52, a close cousin to Paul’s:

It sounds way better than I would have expected. You wouldn’t want to gig with it, but it’s got a nice 50s sound for recording.

I wonder how many amps made today would still work in 65 years!

Paul pictured with his Elpico AC-55 Amplifier in Hamburg in August 1960 (top  photo). Then in 1985 at Hog Hill Studios (middle photo). Then again at Hog Hill Studios in 1996 (bottom photo). It was his first ever amplifier (he bought it at age 14) and the same amp that was used in the “Taxman” solo in 1966 and on his latest album “McCartney III” in 2020.

[godpokes]

godpoke, do you,, mayhaps,, have a capacity for violence

mayhaps. every now and then. but i aint mean about it or nothin i just think pissin capochin off is REALLY really funny. it's like tommy and gerryrig.

[mikeepoos-mechanical-mix]

It's 9/17 and what better way to celebrate than with one of my all time favourite racecars, the Porsche 917K. I've always loved the mix of beauty, and brutality of this car. While say the Ford GT40 is timeless, the 917 defined the time. I was really interested in this stuff as a kid, not as interested now, especially as I find the cars now pretty ugly. I have a number of books on the 917's and the gulf racing efforts, that go into the most minute details, and there were details a plenty. While there are many variants of the 917, many with appeal, and amazing success, the kurz, or short configuration, appealed to me the most. Not the intended look, but finding the long slippery shape of the intended 917 unstable at times John Wyer cut off the back end and gerryrigged what would become the short K version, which would dominate.

[sjura]

Thanks for tagging me @gerryrigged 😘

Looking mildly concerned 🤨🎁

Anyone else wanna make an ugly holiday jumper? @deestracted @alternis @cleromancy @ragnarokhound

[vellaphoria]

Can I ask about "truth serum or dare" from you WIP list? 👀

it was originally my February YOTP entry which I am very late on lol

Basically: every year, Bruce makes everyone go through something akin to exposure therapy with truth serum. Tim, Dick, Jason, Steph, and Damian have instead turned it into a modified game of truth or dare where you challenge someone to a dare and if they decline, you get to ask them a question, prompting a forced response via truth serum.

Tim usually wins the game with his lying to Batman skills, but Steph is trying to pull of a surprise victory that year by exploiting Tim's crush on Dick.

Long excerpt is below the cut:

Steph glares down at the aerosol canister like it personally broke her dad out of Blackgate, once upon a time.

"I just don't get why we have to do this every six months," she says, tossing the canister from one hand to the other.  

Tim shrugs. "Could be worse. Could be every two months. Like the Gotham sewer escape drill."

"Ugh, don't remind me," She grumbles.

"At least it isn't shots anymore. That's one good thing."

There's a knock at the door frame.

"Hey, are you two ready?" Dick asks, poking his head in. He looks a bit… dressed down.

Steph almost laughs at that. While comfortable clothes are probably a good idea for tonight, he's the only vigilante she knows who consistently wears his own merch. Though she’d be lying if she said that he didn’t make the too-tight t-shirt and Nightwing sweatpants look good…

"One sec," Tim says. He holds up the aerosol and promptly sprays himself in the face with it.

“Alright. I think it’s working, but…” He raises an eyebrow at Dick. "You get one free shot. Ask me something."

"Why can't I ask you something?" Steph asks, trying not to sound whiny.

Tim makes a face. "Because you know too much," he says. Which is honest, if uninformative. "Also, that was a question."

She sticks her tongue out at him.

Dick, on the other hand, looks like he's really thinking about it. After a moment, he grins. Wide enough that it can’t mean anything but trouble.

"Who's your favorite vigilante in Gotham?"

"You are," Tim says, apparently before he can think better of it. 

Steph gasps in faux-offense. "Rude."

"Hey, he calls it like he sees it." Dick waggles his eyebrows in a way that's exaggerated enough to make Steph laugh.

"Jerk," Tim mutters. Though he smiles as he says it, so he can't be too mad.

He stands up from his seat, putting the aerosol canister back on the counter.

"I think there's an extra one back there if you haven't gotten yours yet," he says.

"Nope, not yet. Thanks for not asking."

It's the tradition, of course, to only ask questions within the game itself or by specific request. Anything other than that counts as cheating, and generally results in automatic disqualification and the offender being made to pick up extra chores from Alfred.

Usually the worst ones. Like scraping bat guano off of various things in the Cave.

“Well, don’t take too long,” Tim says. 

Dick doesn't make any particular effort to move out of the way as Tim walks past him, but he does glance down, his eyes tracking him as he leaves.

Is he… staring at Tim's ass?

When he looks back at Steph, he startles like he'd forgotten she was there. Then his expression turns a little guilty. It's confirmation enough that yes, he absolutely was.

Steph feels herself smirking. Because this? This gives her an idea.

This is how she’s going to finally be the one to finally beat Tim at his own game. And there's nothing he's going to be able to do about it. 

Apparently her thought process is showing, since Dick raises an eyebrow at her.

"Okay…" he says, "that's a mildly terrifying expression. Do I even want to know what you're thinking?"

"Nope!"

He shakes his head. Then he goes for one of the leftover aerosol containers.

"Well, better get ready. This game isn’t going to lose itself…"

[marirah]

For the WIP ask game - "friend" 👀

dicktim fake their deaths and run away together, an absolute top trope for me :chefkiss:

“He was our friend, too, Bart!” Cassie shouts. She’s crying, she thinks. She’s been crying a lot recently. “You aren’t the only one that misses him!”

“We should be out there! Looking for him!” Bart answers, just as loud. “Kon said he thought he heard him! Both of them!”

“I was wrong.” Kon whispers. “I asked Superman. Neither of us heard anything.”

“Then why-?” Cassie breaks off.

“I thought… I don’t know. I thought I heard it.”

Cassie watches as he blinks back a tear.

“It’s not your fault, Kon. We all wanted you to hear him.” She says, dropping heavily onto the couch next to him.

“Yeah.” Bart says. “Sorry.”

“Me too.” Kon says, joining them. “Me too.”

[lukkydukky]

Hehehehhehejehejeheheh

dicktim, jaytim - the girls are fightinggg

Dick: look I just think, what with your history with Tim, it would be better if you backed off a little

Jason:

Dick: or like, all the way

Jason:

Dick: to Siberia maybe

Jason: oh, to make it easier for you to slide in with your 'come sit on big brother's lap' routine?

Dick: wh- I don't have a- fuck you, Jay, that's not what this is about

Jason: right, right, you're circling Timbit like you want to piss on him because you just care so much

Dick: classy, Jay. I don't need to have some kind of ulterior motive to think you and Tim are a bad idea.

Dick: You beat him up, cut his throat, stabbed him-

Jason: you think I've forgotten? or that he has? hell, he gave as good as he got.

Jason: and fuck you, at least I know he can make his own damn decisions about who to fucking flirt with-

Dick: that's rich when you're chasing him around, pressuring him-

Jason: oh please, if he didn't like it, he'd kick me in the balls. he's done it before - you were there.

Dick (gritting his teeth): you're not good for him

Jason:

Jason (dangerous): not good enough for him, you mean

Dick: don't put words in my mouth-

Jason: at least I'm practically his age!

Dick: fucking excuse me?

Jason: you heard me. go pant after your gaggle of redheads and stop sniffing around a kid 8 years younger than you-

Dick: right. okay.

Dick: I'm gonna knock you off this fucking rooftop.

Dick and Jay: *BRAWL*

Tim (literally standing on the next rooftop over): *buries his face in his hands and sighhhhhs*

[pitymisskitty]

TASK 001: Be Careful of the Curse - A Kitty Hensley Playlist

As someone who was road tripping across the country for several months, Kitty has spent a lot of time cultivating different road trip playlists. Most of them are kept on her phone that she has an AUX cord gerryrigged for, though she likes Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill enough to keep the cassette in the player. Kitty listens to anything and everything, and every playlist she’s ever made for herself or another person captures the elements of chaos in her personality.

The typical kind of mixtape that you make for your friend is, for the most part, equal parts songs that you like and songs that remind you of them. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense, and that’s okay; there’s always some element of cohesion, if it’s only the fact that it was compiled by you. Kitty’s “mixtape” is equal parts a collection of songs that she’d pick for the hell of it (humor, enjoyment, vibes) and songs that are about her in some way. Sometimes upbeat, sometimes silly, sometimes moody, this playlists is truly a mix of who Kitty is as a person, and perhaps a look at what’s to come.

Listen here. Songs detailed more below the cut.

A Kitty Pryde Hensley Mixtape 

Mama Tried by Merle Haggard | Not knowin' where I'm bound / And no one could change my mind but Mama tried / One and only rebel child / From a family, meek and mild.

It Will Come Back by Hozier | Honey, don't feed me, I will come back / It can't be unlearned / I've known the warmth of your doorways / Through the cold, I'll find my way back to you.

Ironic by Alanis Morissette | Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you / When you think everything's okay and everything's going right / And life has a funny way of helping you out when / You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up / In your face.

Howl by Florence and the Machine | Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers / Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters / A man who is pure at heart and says his prayers by night / May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright.

Trouble Finds You by Juliet Simms | Tonight darkness finds you / Right behind you / Say your prayers / Tonight trouble finds you / It's inside you.

Meet Me in the Woods by Lord Huron | Follow me into the endless night / I can bring your fears to life / Show me yours and I'll show you mine / Meet me in the woods tonight.

Pit Stop

Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran | In touch with the ground / I'm on the hunt, I'm after you / Smell like I sound, I'm lost in a crowd / And I'm hungry like the wolf.

Press Play

Rivers and Roads by The Head and The Heart | And I guess it's just as well / But I miss your face like hell / Been talkin' 'bout the way things change / And my family lives in a different state.

Wolf Song by Caamp | Pack the bags / This time I am heading North / Left the racks / Won't need those where I'm going.

Ain’t It Fun by Paramore | Ain't it fun, ain't it fun? / Baby, now you're one of us / Ain't it fun, ain't it fun? / Ain't it fun?

Raise Hell by Dorothy | Young blood, came to start a riot / Don't care what your old man say / Young blood, heaven hate a sinner / But we gonna raise hell anyway.

Neon Moon (with Kacey Musgraves) by Brooks & Dun | Come watch your broken dreams / Dance in and out of the beams / Of a neon moon.

The One That Got Away by The Civil Wars | Oh, if I could go back in time / When you only held me in my mind / Just a longing, gone without a trace / Oh, I wish I never ever seen your face.

For Parker

seven by Taylor Swift | Please picture me / In the weeds / Before I learned civility / I used to scream ferociously / Any time I wanted.

[didyouknowbot]

did you know? because of the gerryrigging (borders of counties being changed to sway the votes) in wisconsin, a purple state, always ends up being mostly red in elections!

[rametarin]

Also, this assassination attempt won't cinch the election for Trump

I stand by my position that Trump is just on the wrong side of too many core principles of voters. Namely, Ukraine.

His vote base are older and dying, and IF the last election showed us, even a lame, charismaless, demented duck like Biden that is effectively just a scarecrow for Kamala Harris to be president if he dies, was more popular (objectively) than Trump. They've spent the last four years unfucking gerryrigged districts that were red areas to be purple or blue wholesale. There is ZERO reason why Trump would have a popular surge.

UNLESS, of course, Trump would've won the popular vote and electoral college votes to follow, and shenanigans happened to rewrite that. Using the populism of an attempted assassination to go, "well the voting public reacted with support" is just bullpucky to cover that shit up. Theodore Roosevelt was also shot in his re-election campaign, and that didn't do shit for him, despite what TDR did.